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The Adventures Of Augie March
by Bellow, SaulA penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching on to a wild succession of occupations, including butler, thief, dog-washer, sailor and salesman. He is a 'born recruit', easily influenced by others who try to mould his destiny.
All The King's Men
by Warren, Robert PennThis classic novel of American modernist literature centers on the assassination of a governor of a southern state during the 1930's.
American Pastoral
by Roth, PhilipA classic masterpiece by Roth, about Swede Levov whose beautiful American luck deserts him one day in 1968.
An American Tragedy
by Dreiser, Theodorethe story follows Clyde Griffiths from his childhood as the son of a street preacher, through his various jobs and sexual encounters until his final encounter and conviction for murder.
Animal Farm
by Orwell, GeorgeThe animals on a farm overthrow their master and live a utopian life, until the intelligent pigs take over and one establishes himself as Dictator.
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
by Blume, JudyMargaret is becoming a young woman and is having a hard time with the transition between childhood and young womanhood
The Assistant
by Malamud, BernardA story of crime and punishment, of love and redemption, that is startling and timeless, by the Pulitzer Prize winning author
At Swim-Two-Birds
by O'Brien, Flann"Along with one or two books by James Joyce, Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds is the most famous (and infamous) of Irish novels published in the twentieth century."
Atonement: A Novel
by Mcewan, IanIn 1935, Briony Tallis witnesses a moment's flirtation between her older sister Cecilia and the son of a servant but misunderstands it, setting up a crime that will change all their lives.
Beloved
by Morrison, ToniStaring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby.
The Berlin Stories
by Isherwood, ChristopherTwo stories, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, that showcase 1931 Berlin, the period when Hitler was beginning his move to power.
The Big Sleep
by Chandler, RaymondWhen a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion.
The Blind Assassin
by Atwood, MargaretThree wonderfully rich stories weave together, gradually revealing their interplay through secrets surrounding the Chase family, a rich and influential Ontario family.
Blood Meridian, Or The Evening Redness In The West
by Mccarthy, CormacAn epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the 'Wild West'
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred And Profane Memories Of Captain Charles Ryder: A Novel
by Waugh, EvelynThe loves of a young, then middle-aged man, in England between the 2 world wars.
The Bridge Of San Luis Rey
by Wilder, ThorntonThe breaking of a bridge causes the death of five people. Brother Juniper investigates their past lives to shed light on the reasons of their deaths.
Call It Sleep
by Roth, HenryA sensitive boy's growing up is one strand in a complex web of his parent's tense life, their immigrant strangeness in a new land.
Catch-22
by Heller, JosephSet during World War II, this grotesque, comic novel recounts the amazing adventures of a bomber squadron.
The Catcher In The Rye
by Salinger, J. D.Holden Caulfield, a native New Yorker, is expelled from his Pennsylvania prep school. He travels back to his family's New York apartment, but spends time underground in the city before returning there. This is a classic coming of age story of an angst-ridden youngster, misunderstood by the adults around him.
A Clockwork Orange
by Burgess, AnthonyA Britain where Russia is more influential than the Queen; youth gone mad; freer drug access with mixed values; serious aversion therapy; a moralistic tale - all in this perceptive novel.
The Corrections
by Franzen, JonathanNovel about the old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibition colliding with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, and globalized greed.
The Crying Of Lot 49
by Pynchon, ThomasPynchon's grim version of the Holy Grail ... the work of a virtuoso with prose ... his intricate symbolic order is akin to that of James Joyce...
A Dance To The Music Of Time (The First Movement)
by Powell, Anthony"A Dance to the Music of Time", Nick Jenkins describes a world of ambition, intrigue, and dissolution. England has won the war, but now the losses, physical and moral, must be counted. These are the first three books in Powell's 12 book series: A Question of Upbringing, A Buyer's Market, and The Acceptance World.
