- 1984 - George Orwell
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) - Mark Twain
- Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
- Age of Reason - Thomas Paine
- Andersonville (1955) - MacKinlay Kantor
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- Arabian Nights
- As I Lay Dying (1932) - William Faulkner
- Beloved - Toni Morrison
- Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
- Bless Me, Ultima - Rudolfo A. Anaya
- Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- Call of the Wild - Jack London
- Can Such Things Be? - Ambrose Bierce
- Candide - Voltaire
- Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
- Catcher in the Rye (1951) - J. D. Salinger
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
- Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
- Color Purple - Alice Walker
- Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
- Decameron - Boccaccio
- Dubliners - James Joyce
- Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
- Fanny Hill - John Cleland
- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
- Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
- Grapes of Wrath (1939) - John Steinbeck
- Hamlet - William Shakespeare
- Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
- House of Spirits - Isabel Allende
- Howl - Allen Ginsberg
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
- Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
- King Lear - William Shakespeare
- Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
- Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
- Lolita (1955) - Vladimir Nabokov
- Lord of the Flies - William Golding
- Lysistrata - Aristophanes
- Macbeth - William Shakespeare
- Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
- Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
- Monk - Matthew Lewis
- Native Son - Richard Wright
- Nigger of the Narcissus - Joseph Conrad
- Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
- Origin of the Species - Charles Darwin
- Portnoy's Complaint (1969) - Philip Roth
- Rights of Man - Thomas Paine
- Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
- Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Separate Peace - John Knowles
- Silas Marner - George Eliot
- Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
- Sons & Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
- Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
- Ulysses - James Joyce
- Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
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