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Novels 1700-1799
Swift, Jonathan, Gullivers Travels (1726) (Penguin Classics 978-0141439495)
Sterne, Laurence, A Sentimental Journey (1768) (Oxford University Press, 9780199537181)
Novels 1800-1899
Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein (1818) (Penguin, 978-0141439471)
Poe, Edgar Allen, The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe (1827-1849) (Norton,
978-0393972856)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Toms Cabin
(1852) (Penguin Classics, 9780140390032)
Twain, Mark, Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches (1835-1910) (short stories,
nonfiction) (Penguin Classic, 978-0140434170)
Twain, Mark, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1867) (one short
story) (Perfection Learning, 978-0895986627)
Twain, Mark, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)(Penguin Classic, 9780143039563)
Twain, Mark, The Prince and the Pauper (1881) (Penguin Classic, 9780140436693)
Twain, Mark, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) (Penguin Classic, 9780142437179)
Stevenson, Robert Louis, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) (Penguin Classics, 9780141439730)
Twain, Mark, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court (1889) (Penguin Classic,
978-0140430646)
Wilde, Oscar, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) (Oxford World Classics,
9780199535989)
Twain, Mark, The Tragedy of Puddnhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins
(1894) (Norton Critical, 978-0393925357)
Wells, H. G., The Time Machine (1895) (Penguin Classics 978-0141439976)
Wells, H. G., The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896) (Penguin Classics 978-0141441023)
Stoker, Bram, Dracula (1897) (Norton Critical, 978-0393970128)
Wells, H. G., The Invisible Man (1897) (Penguin Classics 978-0141439983)
Wells, H. G., The War of the Worlds (1898) (Penguin Classics 978-0141441030)
Novels 1900-1999
1900s
Wharton, Edith, The House of Mirth (1905) (Penguin Classics, 978-0140187298)
Sinclair, Upton, The Jungle (1906) (Penguin Classics, 978-0140390315)
1910s
Wharton, Edith, Ethan Frome (1911) (Penguin Classics, 978-0142437803)
1920s

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Wharton, Edith, The Age of Innocence (1920) (Penguin Classics, 978-0140189704)
Woolf, Virginia, Mrs. Dalloway (Annotated) (1925) (Harvest Books, 9780156030359)
Woolf, Virginia, To The Lighthouse (Annotated) (1927) (Harvest Books, 9780156030472)
Woolf, Virginia, Orlando (Annotated) (1928) (Harvest Books, 978-0156031516)
Woolf, Virginia, A Room of Ones Own (Annotated) (1929) (Harvest Books, 9780156030410)
1930s
Stein, Gertrude, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) (Vintage, 9780679724636)
Steinbeck, John, Of Mice and Men (1937) (Penguin 978-0142000670)
Tolkien, J. R. R., The Hobbit (1937) (Del Ray 978-0345339683)
Steinbeck, John, The Grapes of Wrath (1939) (Penguin, 978-0143039433)
West, Nathanael, The Day of the Locust (1939) (Signet, 978-0451523488)
1940s
Wright, Richard, Native Son (1940) (Chelsea House, 978-0791096253)
Steinbeck, John, Cannery Row (1945) (Penguin, 978-0142000687)
Waugh, Evelyn, Brideshead Revisited (1945) (Back Bay Books 978-0316926348)
Wright, Richard, Black Boy (1945) (Harper Perennial, 978-0061443084)
Okada, John, No-No Boy (1946) (University of Washington Press, 9780295955254)
Warren, Robert Penn, All the Kings Men (1946) (Mariner Books, 978-0156004800)
1950s
Salinger, J. D., The Catcher in the Rye (1951) (Back Bay Books, 978-0316769174)
OConnor, Flannery, Wise Blood (1952) (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 9780374530631)
Vonnegut, Kurt, Player Piano (1952) (Dial, 978-0385333788)
Salinger, J.D, Nine Stories (1953) (short stories) (Back Bay Books, 9780316767729)
Oe, Kenzaburo, Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (1958) (Grove, 978-0802134639)
1960s
Updike, John, Rabbit, Run (1960) (Random House 978-0449911655)
Salinger, J.D, Franny and Zooey (1961) (two novellas) (Back Bay Books, 9780316769020)
Vonnegut, Kurt, Mother Night (1961) (Dial, 978-0385334143)
Plath, Sylvia, The Bell Jar (1963) (Harper Perennial 978-0060837020)

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Salinger, J.D, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An
Introduction (1963) (two novellas) (Back Bay Books, 978-0316766944)
Vonnegut, Kurt, Cats Cradle (1963) (Dell, 978-0385333481)
Pynchon, Thomas, The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) (Harper, 9780060913076)
Rhys, Jean, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) (Norton, 978-0393960129)
Potok, Chaim, The Chosen (1967) (Ballantine Books, 978-0449911549)
Potok, Chaim, The Promise (1969) (Anchor, 978-1400095414)
Roth, Philip, Portnoys Complaint (1969) (Vintage 978-0679756453)
Vonnegut, Kurt, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) (Dell, 9780440180296)
1970s
Potok, Chaim, My Name is Asher Lev (1972) (Anchor, 978-1400031047)
Reed, Ishmael, Mumbo Jumbo (1972) (Scribner, 978-0684824772)
Vonnegut, Kurt, Breakfast of Champions (1973) (Dial, 978-0385334204)
Paley, Grace, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1974) (short stories) (Farrar
Straus & Giroux, 978-0374515249)
Welch, James, Winter in the Blood (1974) (Penguin Classics, 978-0143105220)
Russ, Joanna, The Female Man (1975) (Beacon, 978-0807062999)
Silko, Leslie Marmon, Ceremony (1977) (Penguin, 978-0143104919)
Roth, Philip, The Ghost Writer (1979) (Vintage 978-0679748984)
Welch, James, The Death of Jim Loney (1979) (Penguin, 978-0140102918)
1980s
Robinson, Marilynne, Housekeeping (1980) (Picador, 978-0312424091)
Toole, John Kennedy, A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) (Grove Weidenfeld 9780802130204)
Rushdie, Salman, Midnights Children (1981) (Random House, 978-0812976533)
Walker, Alice, The Color Purple (1982) (Harvest, 978-0156031820)
Viramontes, Helena Maria, The Moths and Other Stories (1985) (short stories)
(Arte Publico Press, 978-1558851382)
Vonnegut, Kurt, Galapagos (1985) (Dial, 978-0385333870)

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Seth, Vikram, The Golden Gate (1986) (novel in verse) (Vintage, 9780679734574)
Yoshimoto, Banana, Kitchen / Moonlight Shadow (1986/1988) (two novellas)
(Grove Press, 978-0802142443)
Tan, Amy, The Joy Luck Club (1989) (Putnam, 978-0399134203)
Walker, Alice, The Temple of My Familiar (1989) (Pocket, 978-0671683993)
1990s
OBrien, Tim, The Things They Carried (1990) (Mariner Books 978-0618706419)
Rushdie, Salman, Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) (Penguin, 9780140157376)
Smiley, Jane, A Thousand Acres (1991) (Anchor, 978-1400033836)
Wallace, David Foster, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1993) (short stories)
(Back Bay Books 978-0316925198)
Welsh, Irvine, Trainspotting (1993) (W. W. Norton 978-0393314809)
Power, Susan, The Grass Dancer (1994) (Berkley Trade, 978-0425159538)
Wright, Stephen, Going Native (1994) (Vintage, 978-1400079421)
Saramago, Jose, Blindness (1995) (Mariner Books, 978-0156035583)
Viramontes, Helena Maria, Under the Feet of Jesus (1995) (Plume, 9780452273870)
Schlink, Bernhard, The Reader (1995) (Vintage Reissue, 978-0307454898)
Palahniuk, Chuck, Fight Club (1996) (W.W. Norton, 978-0393327342)
Roth, Philip, American Pastoral (1997) (Vintage 978-0375701429)
Roy, Arundhati, The God of Small Things (1997) (Random House, 9780812979657)
Self, Will, Great Apes (1997) (Grove, 978-0802135766)
Novels 2000-present
Roth, Philip, The Human Stain (2000) (Vintage 978-0375726347)
Smith, Zadie, White Teeth (2000) (Vintage, 978-0375703867)
Rushdie, Salman, Fury (2001) (Random House, 978-0679783503)
Whitehead, Colson, John Henry Days (2001) (Anchor, 978-0385498203)
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Robinson, Marilynne, Gilead (2004) (Picador, 978-0312424404)
Roth, Philip, Everyman (2006) (Vintage 978-0307277718)
Updike, John, Terrorist (2006) (Ballantine 978-0345493910)
Viramontes, Helena Maria, Their Dogs Came with Them (2007) (Washington
Square Press, 978-1416588344)
Robinson, Marilynne, Home (2008) (Picador, 0312428545)
Pynchon, Thomas, Inherent Vice (2009) (Penguin 978-0143117568)
Russell, Karen, Swamplandia! (2011) (Vintage, 978-0307276681)
Whitehead, Colson, Zone One (2011) (Anchor / Doubleday, 978-0307455178)
Fiction Collections and Anthologies
Evans, Arthur B et al, eds. The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (Wesleyan
University Press, 978-0819569554)
Geyh, Paula, Fred G. Leebron, and Andrew Levy, eds., Postmodern American
Fiction: A Norton Anthology (Norton, 978-0393316988)
Hemley, Robin and Michael Martone, eds., Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and
Formalists (Pearson Longman, 978-0321179722)
Lawn, Beverly, ed., 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology, Fourth Edition
(Bedford/St. Martins, 978-1457604751)
Le Guin, Ursula K. and Brian Attebery, eds., The Norton Book of Science Fiction
(Norton, 978-0393972412)
Graphic Novels/Comic Books
First parenthetical date denotes serialized publication; second
parenthetical date denotes publication of first collected edition
Fiction
Miller, Frank, The Dark Knight Returns (1986) (1986) (DC Comics, 9781563893421)
Moore, Alan and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen (1986-1987) (1987) (DC Comics, 9780930289232)
Gaiman, Neil, The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes (1988-1989) (1991)
(Vertigo, 978-1401225759)
Morrison, Grant, Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth (1989) (DC
Comics, 978-1401204259)
Clowes, Daniel, Ghost World (1993-1997) (1997) (Fantagraphics Books, 9781560974277)
Gaiman, Neil, The Sandman Vol. 8: Worlds End (1993) (1994) (Vertigo, 9781563891717)
Busiek, Kurt and Alex Ross, Marvels (1994) (Marvel, 978-0785142867)
Burns, Charles, Black Hole (1995-2005) (2005) (Pantheon, 978-0375714726)
Ware, Chris, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (1995-2000) (2000)
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Waid, Mark and Alex Ross, Kingdom Come (1996) (1997) (DC Comics, 9781401220341)
Darnall, Steve and Alex Ross, Uncle Sam (1997) (1998) (Vertigo, 9781401223489)
Moore, Alan, The League of Extraordinary Gentleman (1999-2000) (2002)
(Americas Best Comics, 978-1563898587)
Campbell, Eddie, The Fate of the Artist (2006) (First Second, 978-1596431331)
Vaughan, Brian, Pride of Baghdad (2006) (Vertigo, 978-1401203153)
Wilson, G. Willow and M.K. Perker, Cairo (2007) (Vertigo, 978-1401217341)
Doxiadis, Apostolos and Christos Papadimitriou, Logicomix (2009) (Bloomsbury,
978-1596914520)
Nonfiction
Spiegelman, Art, Maus: A Survivors Tale, Volume 1: My Father Bleeds History
(1980-1986) (1986) (Pantheon, 978-0394747231)
Spiegelman, Art, The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale, Volume 1 & 2 combined
(1980-1991) (1991) (Pantheon, 978-0679406419) (hard cover)
B., David, Epileptic (1996-2003) (2005) (Pantheon, 978-0375714689) (auto)
Satrapi, Marjane, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (2000-2001) (2003)
(Pantheon, 978-0375714573)
Satrapi, Marjane, The Complete Persepolis (2000-2003) (2007) (Pantheon, 9780375714832)
Thompson, Craig, Blankets (2003) (Top Shelf Productions, 978-1891830433)
Bechdel, Alison, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006) (Mariner, 9780618871711) (auto)
Lockpez, Inverna, Dean Haspeil and Jose Villarrubia, Cuba: My Revolution (2010)
(Vertigo, 978-1401222178) (auto)
Creative Nonfiction
Prince, Mary. The History of Mary Prince. (1831) (Penguin 978-0140437492)
Seacole, Mary, The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857)
(Penguin, 978-0140439021)
Twain, Mark, Life on the Mississippi (1883) (Penguin Classic, 978-0140390506)
Capote, Truman, In Cold Blood (1966) (Random House, 978-0679745587)
Conroy, Frank, Stop Time (1967) (Penguin, 978-0140044461)
Didion, Joan, Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 9780374531386)
Wolfe, Tom, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968) (Picador, 978-0312427597)
Thompson, Hunter, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) (Random, 9780679785897)
Kingston, Maxine Hong, Woman Warrior (1975) (Vintage, 978-0679721888)
Momaday, N. Scott, The Names (1976) (University of Arizona Press, 9780816510467)

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Oe, Kenzaburo, ed., The Crazy Iris: And Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath
(1985) (Grove, 978-0802151841)
Kincaid, Jamaica, A Small Place (1988) (Farrar Straus &Giroux, 978-0374527075)
Krakauer, Jon, Into The Wild (1996) (Anchor 978-0307387172)
Murakami, Haruki, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
(1997) (Vintage, 978-0375725807)
Sedaris, David, Naked (1997) (Little Brown, 978-0316777735)
Wallace, David Foster. A Supposedly Fun Thing Ill Never Do Again (1997) (Back
Bay Books 978-0316925280)
Beard, Jo Ann, The Boys of My Youth (1998) (Back Bay Books, 978-0316085250)
Eggers, Dave, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000) (Vintage, 9780375725784)
Sedaris, David, Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000) (Little Brown, 978-0316776967)
Arana, Marie, American Chica (2001) (Dial Press, 978-0385319638)
Didion, Joan, Political Fictions (2001) (Vintage, 978-0375718908)
DAgata, John ed., The Next American Essay (2003) (Graywolf Press, 9781555973759)
Palahniuk, Chuck, Stranger Than Fiction (2004) (Anchor 978-0385722223)
Vega, Marta Morena, When the Spirits Dance Mambo (2004) (Three Rivers, 9781400049240)
Didion, Joan, The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) (Vintage, 978-1400078431)
Wallace, David Foster. Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (2005) (Back Bay
Books 978-0316013321)
Solnit, Rebecca, A Field Guide to Getting Lost (2006) (Penguin, 978-0143037248)
Elizando-Griest, Stephanie,* Mexican Enough (2008) (Washington Square Press,
978-1416540175) *NWP Graduate
Chabon, Michael, Manhood for Amateurs (2009) (Harper 978-0061490194)
Harjo, Joy, Crazy Brave (2012) (Norton, 978-0393345438)