The Art of Fiction:
A Ten Year Reading List
A Ten Year Reading List
"You get nothing with a college degree." FRANK ZAPPA
But a reading list? Ah, that is something else entirely . . .
Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart
Henry Adams Democracy
Kingsley Amis Lucky Jim
Martin Amis Money
Sherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio
Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale
Jane Austen Emma
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
Honoré de Balzac Eugénie Grandet
Honoré de Balzac Le Pére Goriot
Julian Barnes Flaubert's Parrot
Saul Bellow The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow Seize the Day
Saul Bellow Herzog
Roberto Bolaño The Savage Detectives
Jorge Luis Borges Ficciones
Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451
Hermann Broch The Sleepwalkers
Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
Edgar Rice Burroughs A Princess of Mars
Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh
Albert Camus The Stranger
Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland
Joyce Cary The Horse's Mouth
Truman Capote In Cold Blood
John Cheever Falconer
Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage
Willa Cather Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather My Antonía
Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote
Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep
G.K Chesterton The Man Who Was Thursday
Agatha Christie The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad Nostromo
Joseph Conrad The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad Under Western Eyes
James Fenimore Cooper The Last of the Mohicans
Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe
Don DeLillo White Noise
Don DeLillo Underworld
Philip K. Dick The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick Valis
Charles Dickens Bleak House
Charles Dickens David Copperfield
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
Charles Dickens Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoevsky The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky Notes from the Undergound
Fyodor Dostoevsky The Possessed
Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles
Lawrence Durrell Justine
Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose
George Eliot Middlemarch
George Eliot The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot Silas Marner
Ralph Ellison Invisible Man
Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex
William Faulkner Abasalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner Go Down, Moses
William Faulkner A Light in August
William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury
Henry Fielding Tom Jones
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert Bouvard and Pécuchet
Ian Fleming From Russia With Love
Ford Maddox Ford The Good Soldier
E.M. Forster Howards End
E.M. Forster A Passage to India
John Fowles The French Lieutenant's Woman
Jonathan Franzen The Corrections
William Gibson Neuromancer
Andre Gide The Immoralist
William Golding The Lord of the Flies
Zane Grey Riders of the Purple Sage
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Sorrows of Young Werther
Graham Greene Brighton Rock
Graham Greene The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene The Power and the Glory
Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Nathaniel Hawthorne The House of Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
Robert Heinlein The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Robert Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land
Joseph Heller Catch 22
Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway The Nick Adams Stories
Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea
Frank Herbert Dune
Hermann Hesse Demian
Hermann Hesse Steppenwolf
Victor Hugo Les Misérables
Aldous Huxley Brave New World
Henry James The Ambassadors
Henry James The American
Henry James Daisy Miller
Henry James The Golden Bowl
Henry James The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James The Spoils of Poynton
Henry James The Turn of the Screw
Henry James Washington Square
Henry James The Wings of the Dove
Franz Kafka The Trial
Jack Kerouac The Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac On the Road
Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Rudyard Kipling Kim
Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa The Leopard
D. H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers
John le Carré The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Stanislaw Lem His Master's Voice
Stanislaw Lem Solaris
Jonathan Lethem The Fortress of Solitude
C.S. Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia
Mario Vargas Llosa The Feast of the Goat
Mario Vargas Llosa The Storyteller
Jack London The Call of the Wild
Thomas Mann The Black Swan
Thomas Mann Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann Death in Venice
Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude
Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy The Road
Ian McEwan Atonement
Herman Melville Billy Budd
Herman Melville Moby Dick
Toni Morrison Beloved
Robert Musil The Man Without Qualities
Vladimir Nabokov Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire
V.S. Naipaul A Bend in the River
V.S. Naipaul Guerrillas
Michael Ondaatje The English Patient
George Orwell Animal Farm
George Orwell 1984
Walker Percy The Moviegoer
Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar
Edgar Allan Poe The Narrative of Arthur Gordom Pym
Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past
Aleksandr Pushkin Eugene Onegin
Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow
Marilynne Robinson Gilead
Marilynne Robinson Housekeeping
Philip Roth American Pastoral
Philip Roth The Human Stain
J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
Zadie Smith White Teeth
Alexander Solzhenitsyn Cancer Ward
Alexander Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men
Stendhal The Charterhouse of Parma
Stendhal The Red and the Black
Neal Stephenson Snow Crash
Laurence Sterne A Sentimental Journey
Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy
Robert Louis Stevenson Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island
Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels
Donna Tartt The Secret History
William Thackeray Vanity Fair
J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy The Kreutzer Sonata
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace
John Kennedy Tooles A Confederacy of Dunces
Ivan Turgenev Fathers and Sons
Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain Tom Sawyer
Miguel de Unamuno Three Exemplary Novels
John Updike Rabbit Run
Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five
Alice Walker The Color Purple
David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace Oblivion
Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited
Nathanael West The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West Miss Lonelyhearts
Edith Wharton Ethan Frome
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
Owen Wister The Virginian
Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse
Richard Wright Native Son
But a reading list? Ah, that is something else entirely . . .
Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart
Henry Adams Democracy
Kingsley Amis Lucky Jim
Martin Amis Money
Sherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio
Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale
Jane Austen Emma
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
Honoré de Balzac Eugénie Grandet
Honoré de Balzac Le Pére Goriot
Julian Barnes Flaubert's Parrot
Saul Bellow The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow Seize the Day
Saul Bellow Herzog
Roberto Bolaño The Savage Detectives
Jorge Luis Borges Ficciones
Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451
Hermann Broch The Sleepwalkers
Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
Edgar Rice Burroughs A Princess of Mars
Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh
Albert Camus The Stranger
Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland
Joyce Cary The Horse's Mouth
Truman Capote In Cold Blood
John Cheever Falconer
Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage
Willa Cather Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather My Antonía
Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote
Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep
G.K Chesterton The Man Who Was Thursday
Agatha Christie The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad Nostromo
Joseph Conrad The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad Under Western Eyes
James Fenimore Cooper The Last of the Mohicans
Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe
Don DeLillo White Noise
Don DeLillo Underworld
Philip K. Dick The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick Valis
Charles Dickens Bleak House
Charles Dickens David Copperfield
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
Charles Dickens Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoevsky The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky Notes from the Undergound
Fyodor Dostoevsky The Possessed
Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles
Lawrence Durrell Justine
Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose
George Eliot Middlemarch
George Eliot The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot Silas Marner
Ralph Ellison Invisible Man
Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex
William Faulkner Abasalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner Go Down, Moses
William Faulkner A Light in August
William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury
Henry Fielding Tom Jones
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert Bouvard and Pécuchet
Ian Fleming From Russia With Love
Ford Maddox Ford The Good Soldier
E.M. Forster Howards End
E.M. Forster A Passage to India
John Fowles The French Lieutenant's Woman
Jonathan Franzen The Corrections
William Gibson Neuromancer
Andre Gide The Immoralist
William Golding The Lord of the Flies
Zane Grey Riders of the Purple Sage
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Sorrows of Young Werther
Graham Greene Brighton Rock
Graham Greene The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene The Power and the Glory
Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Nathaniel Hawthorne The House of Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
Robert Heinlein The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Robert Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land
Joseph Heller Catch 22
Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway The Nick Adams Stories
Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea
Frank Herbert Dune
Hermann Hesse Demian
Hermann Hesse Steppenwolf
Victor Hugo Les Misérables
Aldous Huxley Brave New World
Henry James The Ambassadors
Henry James The American
Henry James Daisy Miller
Henry James The Golden Bowl
Henry James The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James The Spoils of Poynton
Henry James The Turn of the Screw
Henry James Washington Square
Henry James The Wings of the Dove
Franz Kafka The Trial
Jack Kerouac The Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac On the Road
Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Rudyard Kipling Kim
Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa The Leopard
D. H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers
John le Carré The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Stanislaw Lem His Master's Voice
Stanislaw Lem Solaris
Jonathan Lethem The Fortress of Solitude
C.S. Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia
Mario Vargas Llosa The Feast of the Goat
Mario Vargas Llosa The Storyteller
Jack London The Call of the Wild
Thomas Mann The Black Swan
Thomas Mann Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann Death in Venice
Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude
Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy The Road
Ian McEwan Atonement
Herman Melville Billy Budd
Herman Melville Moby Dick
Toni Morrison Beloved
Robert Musil The Man Without Qualities
Vladimir Nabokov Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire
V.S. Naipaul A Bend in the River
V.S. Naipaul Guerrillas
Michael Ondaatje The English Patient
George Orwell Animal Farm
George Orwell 1984
Walker Percy The Moviegoer
Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar
Edgar Allan Poe The Narrative of Arthur Gordom Pym
Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past
Aleksandr Pushkin Eugene Onegin
Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow
Marilynne Robinson Gilead
Marilynne Robinson Housekeeping
Philip Roth American Pastoral
Philip Roth The Human Stain
J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
Zadie Smith White Teeth
Alexander Solzhenitsyn Cancer Ward
Alexander Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men
Stendhal The Charterhouse of Parma
Stendhal The Red and the Black
Neal Stephenson Snow Crash
Laurence Sterne A Sentimental Journey
Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy
Robert Louis Stevenson Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island
Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels
Donna Tartt The Secret History
William Thackeray Vanity Fair
J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy The Kreutzer Sonata
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace
John Kennedy Tooles A Confederacy of Dunces
Ivan Turgenev Fathers and Sons
Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain Tom Sawyer
Miguel de Unamuno Three Exemplary Novels
John Updike Rabbit Run
Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five
Alice Walker The Color Purple
David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace Oblivion
Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited
Nathanael West The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West Miss Lonelyhearts
Edith Wharton Ethan Frome
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
Owen Wister The Virginian
Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse
Richard Wright Native Son
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