Novels, 17th-19th Century

• Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women
• Austen, Jane
• Balzac, Honore de. Old Man Goriot
• Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre
• Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights
• Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quixote
• Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness
• Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage
• Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe
• Dickens, Charles
• Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
• Dumas, Alexandre
• Eliot, George. Middlemarch
• Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones
• Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary
• Hardy, Thomas
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel
• Hugo, Victor
• James, Henry
• Melville, Herman
• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein
• Sterne, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
• Stevenson, Robert Louis
• Stoker, Bram. Dracula
• Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels
• Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair
• Tolstoy, Leo
• Twain, Mark
• Wells, H. G.. The Time Machine
• Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray

Novels, Contemporary

• Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
• Atwood, Margaret
• Auster, Paul
• Bennett, Brit
• Bolano, Roberto
• Boyle, T.C.
• Chabon, Michael
• Chee, Alexander . The Queen of the Night
• Cline, Emma. The Girls
• Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me
• Coetzee, J. M.
• Cunningham, Michael. The Hours
• Cusk, Rachel
• DeLillo, Don
• Díaz, Junot. The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao
• Doerr, Anthony . All the Light We Cannot See
• Dubus III, Andre. House of Sand and Fog
• Egan, Jennifer
• Eggers, Dave
• Emezi, Akwaeke
• Erdrich, Louise
• Eugenides, Jeffrey
• Everett, Percival
• Ferrante, Elena
• Fielding, Helen. Bridget Jones's Diary
• Fitch, Janet. White Oleander
• Foer, Jonathan Safran
• Franzen, Jonathan
• Frazier, Charles. Cold Mountain
• Gaiman, Neil
• Glass, Julia. Three Junes
• Groff, Lauren
• Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
• Hamsun, Knut. Hunger
• Heti, Sheila
• Hoover, Colleen
• Hornby, Nick
• Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner
• Ishiguro, Kazuo
• James, Marlon
• Jin, Ha. Waiting
• Jones, Tayari . An American Marriage
• Jones, Edward P.. The Known World
• Kang, Han . The Vegetarian
• King, Stephen
• Kingsolver, Barbara. The Poisonwood Bible
• LaValle, Victor
• Lee, Min Jin
• Lethem, Jonathan
• Lockwood, Patricia . No One Is Talking About This
• Mantel, Hilary. Thomas Cromwell Trilogy
• Martel, Yann. Life of Pi
• McCann, Colum. Let the Great World Spin
• McCarthy, Cormac
• McEwan, Ian
• Miller, Madeline
• Mitchell, David. Cloud Atlas
• Moody, Rick. The Ice Storm
• Morrison, Toni
• Moshfegh, Ottessa
• Murakami, Haruki
• Ng, Celeste
• Niffenegger, Audrey. The Time Traveler's Wife
• Oates, Joyce Carol
• Orange, Tommy . There There
• Palahniuk, Chuck
• Pamuk, Orhan
• Patchett, Ann
• Pessl, Marisha. Special Topics in Calamity Physics
• Picoult, Jodi
• Powers, Kevin. The Yellow Birds
• Price, Richard
• Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea
• Robinson, Marilynne
• Rooney, Sally
• Rushdie, Salman
• Russell, Karen . Swamplandia
• Russo, Richard
• Saunders, George . Lincoln in the Bardo
• Sebold, Alice. The Lovely Bones
• Smiley, Jane. A Thousand Acres
• Smith, Zadie
• St. John Mandel, Emily
• Strout, Elizabeth. Olive Kitteridge
• Stuart, Douglas. Shuggie Bain
• Tartt, Donna
• Tyler, Anne
• Vuong, Ocean . On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
• Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest
• Ward, Jesmyn
• Whitehead, Colson
• Yanagihara, Hanya . A Little Life
• Zevin, Gabrielle. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Novels, Early/Mid 20th Century

• Algren, Nelson. The Man With the Golden Arm
• Amis, Kingsley. Lucky Jim
• Baldwin, James
• Bellow, Saul
• Bowles, Paul. The Sheltering Sky
• Bulgakov, Mikhail. The Master and Margarita
• Burroughs, Williams S. Naked Lunch
• Cain, James M.
• Camus, Albert. The Stranger
• Capote, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Cather, Willa
• Chandler, Raymond. The Big Sleep
• Dos Passos, John. The 42nd Parallel
• Dreiser, Theodore
• Duras, Marguerite. The Lover
• Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man
• Faulkner, William
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott
• Ford, Ford Madox. The Good Soldier
• Forster, E.M.. A Passage to India
• Golding, William. Lord of the Flies
• Graves, Robert. I Claudius
• Hammett, Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon
• Hemingway, Ernest
• Hilton, James. Lost Horizon
• Hughes, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica
• Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World
• Joyce, James
• Kafka, Franz
• Kazantzakis, Nikos. Zorba the Greek
• Kerouac, Jack. On the Road
• Lawrence, D.H.. Sons and Lovers
• Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird
• Lessing, Doris. The Golden Notebook
• Lewis, Sinclair. Main Street
• London, Jack. The Call of the Wild
• Lowry, Malcolm. Under the Volcano
• Mailer, Norman
• Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain
• Maugham, W. Somerset. Of Human Bondage
• Maxwell, William. So Long, See You Tomorrow
• McCullers, Carson
• Miller, Henry. Tropic of Cancer
• Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita
• O'Hara, John. Appointment in Samarra
• Orwell, George
• Percy, Walker. The Moviegoer
• Proust, Marcel. In Search of Lost Time
• Rand, Ayn
• Robert, Graves. I, Claudius
• Salinger, J.D.. The Catcher in the Rye
• Schulberg, Budd. What Makes Sammy Run?
• Shute, Nevil. On the Beach
• Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle
• Smith, Betty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• Stein, Gertrude. Three Lives
• Steinbeck, John
• Tolkien, J.R.R.. The Lord of the Rings
• Warren, Robert Penn. All the King's Men
• Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited
• West, Nathanael. Miss Lonelyhearts
• Wharton, Edith
• Wilder, Thorton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
• Wolfe, Thomas. Look Homeward, Angel
• Woolf, Virginia
• Wouk, Herman

Novels, Late 20th Century

• Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart
• Amis, Martin. Money
• Baker, Nicholson
• Ballard, J. G.
• Banks, Russell
• Brown, Rita Mae. Rubyfruit Jungle
• Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange
• Byatt, A.S.. Possession
• Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street
• Coelho, Paul. The Alchemist
• Connell, Evan. Mrs. Bridge
• Conroy, Pat
• Dexter, Pete. Paris Trout
• Dickey, James. Deliverance
• Didion, Joan. Play It As It Lays
• Doctorow, E.L.. Ragtime
• Dunn, Katherine. Geek Love
• Ellis, Bret Easton. American Psycho
• Finney, Jack. Time and Again
• Fitzgerald, Penelope
• Ford, Richard
• Fowles, John
• Grass, Gunter. The Tin Drum
• Guterson, David. Snow Falling on Cedars
• Hannah, Barry. Ray
• Harrison, Jim. Legends of the Fall
• Heller, Joseph. Catch-22
• Helprin, Mark. Winter's Tale
• Irving, John
• Kennedy, William. Ironweed
• Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Kincaid, Jamaica. Annie John
• Knowles, John. A Separate Peace
• Kosinski, Jerzy. Being There
• Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• Lamb, Wally. She's Come Undone
• Maclean, Norman. A River Runs Through It
• Márquez, Gabriel García
• McInerney, Jay. Bright Lights, Big City
• McMurtry, Larry
• Mishima, Yukio
• Naipaul, V.S.. A Bend in the River
• Naylor, Gloria. The Women of Brewster Place
• O'Brien, Patrick
• O'Brien, Edna. The Country Girls
• Ondaatje, Michael. The English Patient
• Portis, Charles
• Potok, Chaim. The Chosen
• Proulx, Annie. The Shipping News
• Pynchon, Thomas
• Robbins, Tom
• Roth, Philip
• Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things
• Salter, James. Light Years
• Sebald, W.G.. Austerlitz
• Selby, Jr., Hubert. Last Exit to Brooklyn
• Sontag, Susan. The Volcano Lover
• Spark, Muriel. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
• Styron, William. Sophie's Choice
• Suskind, Patrick. Perfume
• Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club
• Theroux, Paul. The Mosquito Coast
• Toole, John Kennedy. A Confederacy of Dunces
• Updike, John
• Vonnegut Jr., Kurt
• Walker, Alice. The Color Purple
• Winterson, Jeanette. The Passion
• Wolfe, Tom. Bonfire of the Vanities
• Yates, Richard. Revolutionary Road

Short Story - Anthologies

• 12 Short Stories and Their Making
• American Short Story Masterpieces
• Anchor Book of New American Short Stories
• Art of the Tale
• Best American Short Stories
• Best American Short Stories of the Century
• Fiction Gallery
• Granta Book of the African Short Story
• Granta Book of the American Short Story
• McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales
• Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
• O. Henry Prize Stories
• Points of View
• Pushcart Prize
• Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
• Sudden Fiction
• The Story and Its Writer
• Vintage Book of Contemporary Short Stories
• You've Got to Read This

Short Story - Collections

• Achebe, Chinua. Girls at War
• Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi . The Thing Around Your Neck
• Alexie, Sherman. Blasphemy
• Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg, Ohio
• Atwood, Margaret. Wilderness Tips
• Babel, Isaac. The Collected Stories
• Bambara, Toni Cade. Gorilla, My Love
• Barthelme, Donald. Sixty Stories
• Bass, Rick. The Watch
• Baxter, Charles
• Berlin, Lucia
• Blasim, Hassan . The Corpse Exhibition
• Bloom, Amy. A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You
• Bolano, Roberto. Last Evenings on Earth
• Borges, Jorge Luis. Collected Fictions
• Boyle, T.C.. T.C. Boyle Stories
• Budnitz, Judy. Flying Leap
• Butler, Robert Olen. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
• Canin, Ethan. The Palace Thief
• Carver, Raymond
• Cheever, John. The Stories of John Cheever
• Chekhov, Anton. The Essential Tales of Chekhov
• Cline, Emma. Daddy
• Coover, Robert. A Night at the Movies
• Danticat, Edwidge. Krik? Krak!
• Davis, Lydia
• Díaz, Junot. Drown
• Dubus, Andre. Selected Stories
• Dybek, Stuart. The Coast of Chicago
• Eisenberg, Deborah
• Englander, Nathan. For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
• Enríquez, Mariana. The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
• Evans, Danielle. The Office of Historical Corrections
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Flappers and Philosophers
• Ford, Richard. Rock Springs
• Gaitskill, Mary. Bad Behavior
• Gass, William H.. In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
• Gilchrist, Ellen. Victory Over Japan
• Gogol, Nikolai. The Overcoat
• Hannah, Barry
• Haslett, Adam. You Are Not a Stranger Here
• Hemingway, Ernest. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
• Hempel, Amy. Reasons To Live
• Homes, A.M.. The Safety of Objects
• Houston, Pam. Cowboys Are My Weakness
• Isherwood, Christopher. The Berlin Stories
• James, Baldwin. Going to Meet the Man
• Johnson, Denis. Jesus' Son
• Jones, Thom. The Pugilist at Rest
• Joyce, James. Dubliners
• July, Miranda. No One Belongs Here More Than You
• Keret, Etgar
• Klay, Phil . Redeployment
• Lahiri, Jhumpa. Interpreter of Maladies
• Lawrence, D. H.. The Prussian Officer
• Link, Kelly
• Machado, Carmen Maria
• Márquez, Gabriel García. Strange Pilgrims
• Maupassant, Guy de. The Necklace
• Moore, Lorrie
• Mukherjee, Bharati. The Middleman
• Munro, Alice
• Nelson, Antonya. The Expendables
• Nkweti , Nana. Walking on Cowrie Shells
• O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried
• Oates, Joyce Carol
• Oyeyemi, Helen. What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
• Packer, ZZ. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
• Paley, Grace
• Powell, Padgett. Cries For Help
• Proulx, Annie. Close Range
• Russell, Karen . Orange World
• Salinger, J.D.. Franny and Zooey
• Salinger, J.D.. Nine Stories
• Saunders, George
• Sestanovich, Clare. Objects of Desire
• Singer, Isaac Bashevis. A Crown of Feathers
• Taylor, Brandon . Filthy Animals
• Trevor, William. Collected Stories
• Twain, Mark. The Portable Mark Twain
• Veasna So, Anthony. Afterparties
• Wallace, David Foster. Girl With Curious Hair
• Welty, Eudora
• Wideman, John Edgar
• Williams, Joy
• Wolff, Tobias. In the Garden of the North American Martyrs