Reading List for the General Public
Classic Works of Fiction
Contemporary Works of Fiction
Works of World Drama
Works of Children's Literature
READING LIST FOR THE PUBLIC:
CLASSIC LITERATURE
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A
Acevedo Diaz, Eduardo, The
Cry of Glory (Uruguayan, 1894)
Alegria, Ciro, Broad and Alien Is the World (Peruvian,
1941)
Anderson, Sherwood, Winesburg, Ohio (American, 1919)
Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice (British, 1813)
Austin, Mary, Land of Little Rain (American, 1903)
B
Balzac, Honoré de, Père
Goriot (French, 1834)
Baroja, Pio, The Restlessness of Shanti Andia (Spanish,
1911)
Bennett, Arnold, The Old Wives' Tale (British, 1908)
Bernanos, Georges, The Diary of a Country Priest (French,
1936)
Bierce, Ambrose, In the Midst of Life (American, 1891)
Bowen, Elizabeth, The Death of the Heart (Anglo-lrish, 1939)
Bromfield, Louis, The Rains Came (American, 1937)
Brontë, Charlotte, Jane Eyre (British, 1847)
Brontë, Emily, Wuthering Heights (British, 1848)
Buck, Pearl, The Good Earth (American, 1931)
Bulgakov, Mikhail, The Master and Margarita (Russian,
1940)
Bunyan, John, The Pilgrim's Progress (British, 1678)
Burney, Fanny, Evelina (British, 1778)
Butler, Samuel, The Way of All Flesh (British, 1903)
C
Cable, George Washington, The
Grandissimes (American, 1880)
Caldwell, Erskine, God's Little Acre (American, 1933)
Camus, Albert, The Stranger (French, 1942)
Canetti, Elias, Auto-da-fe (Bulgarian, 1935)
Carroll, Lewis, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (British,
1865)
Cary, Joyce, The Horse's Mouth (Anglo-lrish, 1944)
Cather, Willa, Death Comes for the Archbishop (American,
1927)
Cela, Camilo José, The Family of Pascual Duarte (Spanish,
1942)
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, Journey to the End of the Night
(French, 1932)
Cervantes, Miguel de, Don Quixote (Spanish, 1606)
Chandler, Raymond, The Big Sleep (American, 1939)
Chekhov, Anton, Short Stories (Russian, 1880s and 90s)Chopin,
Kate, The Awakening (American, 1899)
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg, The Ox-Bow Incident (American,
1940)
Collins, Wilkie, The Moonstone (British, 1868)
Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
(British, 1891)
Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness (British, 1902)
Cooper, James Fenimore, The Prairie (American, 1827)
Crane, Stephen, The Red Badge of Courage (American, 1895)
cummings, e. e., The Enormous Room (American, 1922)
D
Defoe, Daniel, Robinson
Crusoe (British, 1719)
Dickens, Charles, Great Expectations (British, 1860-61)
Dinesen, Isak, Seven Gothic Tales (Danish, 1934)
Dos Passos, John, U.S.A. (American, 1919-36)
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, Crime and Punishment (Russian, 1866)
Dreiser, Theodore, Sister Carrie (American, 1900)
Dunbar, Paul. Laurence, Sport of the Gods (American, 1902)
E
Eliot, George, Middlemarch (British, 1872)
F
Farrell, James T., Studs
Lonigan (American, 1932-34)
Faulkner, William, The Sound and the Fury (American, 1932)
Fielding, Henry, Tom Jones (British, 1749)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The Great Gatsby (American, 1925)
Flaubert, Gustave, Madame Bovary (French, 1857)
Ford, Ford Madox, The Good Soldier (British, 1915)
Forster, E. M., Howards End (British, 1910)
Frederic, Harold, The Damnation of Theron Ware (American,
1896)
G
Gallegos, Rómulo, Doña
Bárbara (Venezuelan, 1939)
Galsworthy, John, A Man of Property (British, 1906)
Garland, Hamlin, Main-Travelled Roads (American, 1891)
Gaskell, Elizabeth, Cranford (British, 1853)
Gide, André, The Immoralist (French, 1902)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, The Sorrows of Young Werther
(German, 1774)
Gògol, Nicolai, Dead Souls (Russian, 1842)
Gold, Michael, Jews Without Money (American, 1930)
Goldsmith, Oliver, The Vicar of Wakefield (British, 1766)
Goncharov, Ivan, Oblomov (Russian, 1855)
Gorky, Maxim, Mother (Russian, 1907)
Graves, Robert, I, Claudius (British, 1934)
Güiraldes, Ricardo, Don Segundo Sombra (Argentine,
1926)
H
Hammett, Dashiell, The Maltese
Falcon (American, 1930)
Hardy, Thomas, The Return of the Native (British, 1878)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The Scarlet Letter (American, 1850)
Hemingway, Ernest, A Farewell to Arms (American, 1929)
Hémon, Louis, Maria Chapdelaine (Canadian, 1914)
Hesse, Herman, Demian (German, 1919)
Howells, William Dean, The Rise of Silas Lapham (American,
1885)
Hughes, Richard, A High Wind in Jamaica (British, 1929)
Hugo, Victor, Les Misérables (French, 1862)
Hurston, Zora Neale, Their Eyes Were Watching God (American,
1937)
Huxley, Aldous, Brave New World (British, 1932)
I
Irving, Washington, Short Stories (American, 1820s and 1830s)
J
James, Henry, The Portrait
of a Lady (American, 1881)
Johnson, Samuel, Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (British,
1759)
Joyce, James, Dubliners (Irish, 1914)
K
Kafka, Franz, The Trial
(German-Czech, 1925)
Kleist, Heinrich von, Michael Kohlhaas (German, 1810)
Koestler, Arthur, Darkness at Noon (Hungarian, 1940)
L
Lawrence, D. H., Sons and
Lovers (British, 1913)
LeSueur, Meridel, The Girl (American, 1939)
Lewis, Sinclair, Babbitt (American, 1922)
London, Jack, The Call of the Wild (American, 1903)
M
Malraux, André, Man's
Fate (French, 1934)
Mann, Thomas, Death in Venice (German, 1913)
Mansfield, Katherine, Collected Stories (New Zealander,
1945)
Marquand, John P., The Late George Apley (American, 1937)
Maugham, Somerset, Of Human Bondage (British, 1915)
Maupassant, Guy de, Short Stories (French, 1880s)
Mauriac, Francois, The Nest of Vipers (French, 1932)
McCullers, Carson, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (American,
1940)
Melville, Herman, Moby Dick (American, 1851)
Meredith, George, The Egoist (British, 1879)
Moore, George, Esther Waters (British, 1894)
Murasaki, Shikibu, The Tale of Genji-One (Japanese, About
1000)
N
Norris, Frank, The Octopus (American, 1901)
O
O'Hara, John, Appointment in Samarra (American, 1934)
P
Poe, Edgar Allan, Short
Stories (American, 1840s)
Proust, Marcel, Swann's Way (French, 1913-17)
Pushkin, Alexander, Short Stories (Russian, 1820s and 1830s)
R
Rabelais, François, Gargantua
and Pantagruel (French, 1532-64)
Remarque, Erich Maria, All Quiet on the Western Front (German,
1928)
Richardson, Samuel, Clarissa (British, 1747-48)
Rivera, José Eustasio, The Vortex (Colombian, 1924)
Rölvaag, O. E., Giants in the Earth (Norwegian-American,
1927)
Roth, Henry, Call it Sleep (American, 1934)
S
Scott, Sir Walter, Ivanhoe
(British, 1819)
Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein (British, 1818)
Silone, lgnazio, Bread and Wine (Italian, 1937)
Sinclair, Upton, The Jungle (American, 1901)
Smollett, Tobias, Humphry Clinker (British, 1771)
Steinbeck, John, The Grapes of Wrath (American, 1940)
Stegner, Wallace, The Big Rock Candy Mountain (American,
1938)
Stendhal, The Red and the Black (French, 1830)
Sterne, Laurence, Tristram Shandy (British, 1760-67)
Stevenson, Robert Louis, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (British,
1886)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom's Cabin (American, 1852)
Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver's Travels (British, 1726)
T
Tate, Allen, The Fathers
(American, 1938)
Thackeray, William Makepeace, Vanity Fair (British, 1847-48)
Tolstoy, Leo, Anna Karenina (Russian, 1873-76)
Toomer, Jean, Cane (American, 1923)
Trollope, Anthony, Barchester Towers (British, 1857)
Turgenev, Ivan, Fathers and Sons (Russian, 1892)
Twain, Mark, Huckleberry Finn (American, 1885)
U
Unamuno, Miquel de, Abel
Sanchez and Other Stories (Spanish, 1931)
Undset, Sigrid, Kristin Lavransdatter
(Norwegian, 1920-22)
V
Voltaire, Candide (French, 1759)
W
Walpole, Horace, The Castle
of Otranto (British, 1764)
Waugh, Evelyn, Brideshead Revisited
(British, 1944)
Webb, Mary, Precious Bane
(British, 1924)
Wells, H. G., The Time Machine
(British, 1895)
West, Nathanael, The Day of the
Locust (American, 1939)
Wharton, Edith, The Age of Innocence
(American, 1920)
Wilde, Oscar, The Picture of Dorian
Gray (British, 1891)
Wilder, Thornton, The Bridge of
San Luis Rey (American, 1927)
Wister, Owen, The Virginian
(American, 1902)
Wolfe, Thomas, Look Homeward,
Angel (American, 1929)
Woolf, Virginia, To the Lighthouse
(British, 1927)
Wright, Richard, Native Son
(American, 1940)
Z
Zola, Émile, Germinal (French, 1885)