| A | B |
| The Great Gatsby | F Scott Fitzgerald |
| Tender is the Night | F Scott Fitzgerald |
| The Last Tycoon | F Scott Fitzgerald |
| The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane |
| Maggie: A Girl of the Streets | Stephen Crane |
| Active Service | Stephen Crane |
| The Call of the Wild | Jack London |
| White Fang | Jack London |
| The Iron Heel | Jack London |
| The Martian Chronicles | Ray Bradbury |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury |
| The Illustrated Man | Ray Bradbury |
| The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner |
| As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner |
| Absalom, Absalom! | William Faulkner |
| Moby Dick | Herman Melville |
| Bartleby the Scrivener | Herman Melville |
| Billy Budd: Foretopman | Herman Melville |
| The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon | Washington Irving |
| Rip Van Winkle | Washington Irving |
| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Washington Irving |
| Winesburg, Ohio | Sherwood Anderson |
| Poor White | Sherwood Anderson |
| Many Marriages | Sherwood Anderson |
| The Adventures of Augie March | Saul Bellow |
| Herzog | Saul Bellow |
| Humboldt's Gift | Saul Bellow |
| Main Street | Sinclair Lewis |
| Babbitt | Sinclair Lewis |
| Elmer Gantry | Sinclair Lewis |
| The Good Earth | Pearl Buck |
| Sons | Pearl Buck |
| A House Divided | Pearl Buck |
| Long Day's Journey into Night | Eugene O'Neill |
| The Iceman Cometh | Eugene O'Neill |
| Mourning Becomes Electra | Eugene O'Neill |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| The House of the Seven Gables | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Twice-Told Tales | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway |
| The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| East of Eden | John Steinbeck |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck |
| Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
| The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
| After the Fall | Arthur Miller |
| Fall of the House of Usher | Edgar Allan Poe |
| The Tell-Tale Heart | Edgar Allan Poe |
| The Pit and the Pendulum | Edgar Allan Poe |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| The Innocents Abroad | Mark Twain |
| The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County | Mark Twain |
| Abraham Lincoln | Carl Sandburg |
| Chicago | Carl Sandburg |
| The Family of Man | Carl Sandburg |
| The Pathfinder | James Fenimore Cooper |
| The Last of the Mohicans | James Fenimore Cooper |
| The Deerslayer | James Fenimore Cooper |
| Foundation Series | Isaac Asimov |
| Robot Series | Isaac Asimov |
| Galactic Empire Series | Isaac Asimov |
| The Jungle | Upton Sinclair |
| Roman Holiday | Upton Sinclair |
| Oil! (the recent movie "There Will Be Blood" was based on this) | Upton Sinclair |
| Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card |
| Xenocide | Orson Scott Card |
| Lost Boys | Orson Scott Card |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou |
| Gather Together in My Name | Maya Angelou |
| The Heart of a Woman | Maya Angelou |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| Something Happened | Joseph Heller |
| Closing Time | Joseph Heller |
| O Pioneers! | Willa Cather |
| My Antonia | Willa Cather |
| Death Comes for the Archbishop | Willa Cather |
| A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Tennessee Williams |
| The Glass Menagerie | Tennessee Williams |
| Dune | Frank Herbert |
| The Green Brain | Frank Herbert |
| The Lazarus Effect | Frank Herbert |
| Native Son | Richard Wright |
| Black Boy | Richard Wright |
| Uncle Tom's Children | Richard Wright |
| Our Town | Thornton Wilder |
| The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Thornton Wilder |
| The Skin of Our Teeth | Thornton Wilder |
| The Pelican Brief | John Grisham |
| The Runaway Jury | John Grisham |
| A Time to Kill | John Grisham |
| Go Tell it on the Mountain | James Baldwin |
| Notes of a Native Son | James Baldwin |
| The Fire Next Time | James Baldwin |
| Silent Spring | Rachel Carson |
| The Sea Around Us | Rachel Carson |
| The Edge of the Sea | Rachel Carson |
| The Hunt for Red October | Tom Clancy |
| Rainbow Six | Tom Clancy |
| Clear and Present Danger | Tom Clancy |