Category: General Literature (Sorted by Author's last name)
A Death in the Family (1957) - James Agee (1909-1955) (Grade:C)
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and a Last Great Lesson (1997) - Mitch Albom (-) (Grade:C-)
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993) - Sherman Alexie (-) (Grade:B-)
A Walk on the Wild Side (1956) - Nelson Algren (1909-1981) (Grade:A)
The Man with the Golden Arm (1949) - Nelson Algren (1909-1981) (Grade:C)
Night Train (1997) - Martin Amis (8/25/1949
-) (Grade:D)
Time's Arrow, or The Nature of the Offense (1992) - Martin Amis (8/25/1949
-) (Grade:C)
Winesburg, Ohio (1919) - Sherwood Anderson (9/13/1876
-3/08/1941) (Grade:C-)
Vox (1991) - Nicholson Baker (-) (Grade:C)
Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953) - James Baldwin (1922-1987) (Grade:B)
Affliction (1989) - Russell Banks (1940-) (Grade:B-)
 The Lilies of the Field (1962) - William Edmund Barrett (1900-1986) (Grade:A+)
Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story (1911) - Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) (Grade:A)
Ravelstein (2000) - Saul Bellow (06/10/1915-04/05/2005) (Grade:C)
Henderson the Rain King (1959) - Saul Bellow (06/10/1915-04/05/2005) (Grade:D)
The Adventures of Augie March (1953) - Saul Bellow (06/10/1915-04/05/2005) (Grade:F)
The Old Wives' Tale (1908) - Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) (Grade:C)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: a Savannah Story (1994) - John Berendt (-) (Grade:C-)
The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History (1951) - Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) (Grade:A+)
Tracks (2007) - Jim Black (1953
-) (Grade:A-)
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum : Or How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead (1974) - Heinrich Boll (1917-1985) (Grade:C+)
The Death of the Heart (1938) - Elizabeth Bowen (6/07/1899
-2/22/1973) (Grade:D)
The Sheltering Sky (1949) - Paul Bowles (1910-1999) (Grade:D)
Brazzaville Beach (1990) - William Boyd (1952
-) (Grade:A)
The Tortilla Curtain (1995) - T. Coraghessan Boyle (1948-) (Grade:C-)
The Road to Wellville (1993) - T. Coraghessan Boyle (1948-) (Grade:B+)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) - Ray Bradbury (08/22/1920
-06/05/2012) (Grade:A)
Red Sky at Morning (1968) - Richard Bradford (1932-) (Grade:A)
Hotel Du Lac (1984) - Anita Brookner (1928-) (Grade:C+)
Bobos in Paradise : The New Upper Class and How They Got There (2000) - David Brooks (-) (Grade:C)
The Storm (1998) - Frederick Buechner (1926-) (Grade:A)
A Clockwork Orange (1962) - Anthony Burgess (1917
-1993) (Grade:A)
The Way of All Flesh (1903) - Samuel Butler (1835-1902) (Grade:D)
Tobacco Road (1932) - Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987) (Grade:C+)
The Stranger (1946) - Albert Camus (1913
-1960) (Grade:C+)
The First Man (1995) - Albert Camus (1913
-1960) (Grade:A+)
The Myth of Sisyphus (1955) - Albert Camus (1913
-1960) (Grade:B-)
Blue River (1991) - Ethan Canin (-) (Grade:D)
Emperor of the Air: Stories (1988) - Ethan Canin (-) (Grade:C)
The Palace Thief (1994) - Ethan Canin (-) (Grade:F)
The Horses Mouth (1944) - Joyce Cary (1888-1957) (Grade:D)
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) - Willa Cather (1873
-1947) (Grade:C)
The Family of Pacual Duarte (1942) - Camilo Jose Cela (1916-2002) (Grade:A-)
Witness (1952) - Whittaker Chambers (1901
-1961) (Grade:A+)
The Wapshot Chronicle (1957) - John Cheever (1912-1982) (Grade:D)
Mrs. Bridge (1959) - Evan S. Connell (1924
-) (Grade:A-)
Reflections on a Ravaged Century (2000) - Robert Conquest (07/15/1917
-08/03/2015) (Grade:B)
Heart of Darkness (1902) - Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) (Grade:A)
Lord Jim (1900) - Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) (Grade:B)
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (1904) - Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) (Grade:D+)
Quarantine (1997) - Jim Crace (03/01/1946-) (Grade:C)
The Hours (1998) - Michael Cunningham (1952-) (Grade:F)
The Muse Asylum (2001) - David Czuchlewski (-) (Grade:A)
Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994) - Edwidge Danticat (1969-) (Grade:C-)
Corelli's Mandolin (1994) - Louis De Bernieres (1954-) (Grade:C)
White Noise (1985) - Don DeLillo (11/20/1936
-) (Grade:C)
Underworld () - Don DeLillo (11/20/1936
-) (Grade:C+)
Brotherly Love (1991) - Pete Dexter (-) (Grade:B-)
Deliverance (1970) - James Dickey (1923
-1997) (Grade:A+)
Play It As It Lays: A Novel (1970) - Joan Didion (12/05/1934
-) (Grade:B)
Billy Bathgate (1989) - E.L. Doctorow (1931-) (Grade:C)
Ragtime (1975) - E.L. Doctorow (1931-) (Grade:A)
Fup (1983) - Jim Dodge (-) (Grade:A-)
The Ginger Man (1955) - JP Donleavy (-) (Grade:D)
Strip Cuts (2000) - David Drayer (-) (Grade:B+)
Sister Carrie (1900) - Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) (Grade:F)
An American Tragedy (1925) - Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) (Grade:F)
House of Sand and Fog (1999) - Andre Dubus III (1959-) (Grade:A-)
The Three Musketeers (1844) - Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) (Grade:A+)
The Alexandria Quartet: Justine/Balthazar/Mountolive/Clea (1957-1960) - Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) (Grade:F)
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page () - G.B. Edwards (-) (Grade:A+)
The Virgin Suicides (1993) - Jeffrey Eugenides (-) (Grade:D)
Studs Lonigan [Young Lonigan (1932), The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (1934),and Judgement Day (1935)] () - James T. Farrell (1904-1979) (Grade:D)
Absalom, Absalom! (1936) - William Faulkner (09/25/1897
-07/06/1962) (Grade:D)
The Sound and the Fury (1929) - William Faulkner (09/25/1897
-07/06/1962) (Grade:F)
As I Lay Dying (1930) - William Faulkner (09/25/1897
-07/06/1962) (Grade:F)
Light in August (1932) - William Faulkner (09/25/1897
-07/06/1962) (Grade:B-)
White Oleander (1999) - Janet Fitch (-) (Grade:C+)
Tender is the Night (1934) - F. Scott Fitzgerald (9/24/1896
-12/21/1940) (Grade:C-)
Offshore (1979) - Penelope Fitzgerald (12/17/1916-2000) (Grade:C-)
The Great Gatsby (1925) - F. Scott Fitzgerald (9/24/1896
-12/21/1940) (Grade:B)
Parade's End [Some Do Not (1924), No More Parades (1925), A Man Could Stand Up (1926), and The Last Post (1928)] (1924-1928) - Ford Maddox Ford (12/17/1873-1939) (Grade:D+)
The Sportswriter (1986) - Richard Ford (2/16/1944
-) (Grade:C)
The Good Soldier (1915) - Ford Maddox Ford (12/17/1873-1939) (Grade:B-)
Howards End (1910) - E.M. Forster (1879-1970) (Grade:D)
A Room with a View (1908) - E.M. Forster (1879-1970) (Grade:D)
A Passage to India (1924) - E.M. Forster (1879-1970) (Grade:B)
The Magus (1965) - John Fowles (03/31/1926
-11/05/2005) (Grade:C)
The Corrections (2001) - Jonathan Franzen (1959-) (Grade:B)
A Lesson Before Dying (1993) - Ernest J. Gaines (1933-) (Grade:A)
Memoirs of a Geisha (1997) - Arthur Golden (-) (Grade:C)
Lord of the Flies (1954) - William Golding (1911-1993) (Grade:C)
Loving (1945) - Henry Green (1905-1974) (Grade:D)
Ordinary People (1976) - Judith Guest (-) (Grade:A+)
Snow Falling on Cedars (1994) - David Guterson (1956-) (Grade:C-)
Hunger (1890) - Knut Hamsun (1859
-1952) (Grade:C)
Mariette in Ecstasy (1991) - Ron Hansen (1947-) (Grade:A+)
Stones from the River (1994) - Ursula Hegi (1946-) (Grade:D)
Paco's Story (1986) - Larry Heinemann (1944-) (Grade:C+)
Memoir from Antproof Case (1995) - Mark Helprin (06/28/1947-) (Grade:B-)
The Sun Also Rises (1926) - Ernest Hemingway (7/21/1899
-7/02/1961) (Grade:C-)
A Farewell to Arms (1929) - Ernest Hemingway (7/21/1899
-7/02/1961) (Grade:D)
A Bell for Adano (1944) - John Hersey (1914
-1993) (Grade:B+)
The Journey to the East (1956) - Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) (Grade:C)
Good-Bye, Mr. Chips (1934) - James Hilton (1900
-1954) (Grade:A+)
Turtle Diary (1975) - Russell Conwell Hoban (02/04/1925-) (Grade:B+)
Ape and Essence (1948) - Aldous Huxley (1894
-1963) (Grade:B)
Point Counter Point (1928) - Aldous Huxley (1894
-1963) (Grade:D)
Brave New World (1932) - Aldous Huxley (1894
-1963) (Grade:A)
A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989) - John Irving (1942-) (Grade:C)
The Remains of the Day (1988) - Kazuo Ishiguro (11/08/1954
-) (Grade:B+)
A Pale View of Hills (1982) - Kazuo Ishiguro (11/08/1954
-) (Grade:C)
The Lost Weekend (1944) - Charles Jackson (1902-1968) (Grade:A)
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) - Jane Jacobs (05/14/1916-04/26/2006) (Grade:A-)
The Unseen [De Usynlige] (2013) - Roy Jacobsen (12/26/1954-) (Grade:A)
The Wings of the Dove (1902) - Henry James (1843-1916) (Grade:D)
The Golden Bowl, or actually,The Turn of the Screw (in lieu of The Golden Bowl) () - Henry James (1843-1916) (Grade:B)
The Ambassadors (1903) - Henry James (1843-1916) (Grade:D)
Heat and Dust (1975) - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1923-) (Grade:C)
From Here to Eternity (1951) - James Jones (1921-1977) (Grade:A+)
Ulysses (1922) - James Joyce (2/02/1882
-1/13/1941) (Grade:F)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) - James Joyce (2/02/1882
-1/13/1941) (Grade:F)
Finnegan's Wake (1939) - James Joyce (2/02/1882
-1/13/1941) (Grade:F)
How Late It Was, How Late (1994) - James Kelman (1946-) (Grade:B)
Ironweed (1983) - William Kennedy (01/16/1928-) (Grade:A)
On the Road (1957) - Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) (Grade:F)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) - Ken Kesey (1935-) (Grade:A+)
The Poisonwood Bible (1999) - Barbara Kingsolver (-) (Grade:F)
Kim (1901) - Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) (Grade:A)
Darkness at Noon (1941) - Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) (Grade:A+)
Steps (1968) - Jerzy Kosinski (1933-1991) (Grade:D+)
Red Pill (2020) - Hari Kunzru (1969
-) (Grade:C)
The Grand Complication (2001) - Allen Kurzweil (1960-) (Grade:C)
A Case of Curiosities (1992) - Allen Kurzweil (1960-) (Grade:B+)
I Know This Much is True (1998) - Wally Lamb (-) (Grade:F)
The Debt to Pleasure (1996) - John Lanchester (1962-) (Grade:A-)
Women in Love (1920) - D.H. Lawrence (1885
-1930) (Grade:F)
The Rainbow (1915) - D.H. Lawrence (1885
-1930) (Grade:F)
Sons and Lovers (1913) - D.H. Lawrence (1885
-1930) (Grade:D)
Independent People: An Epic (1946) - Halldor Laxness (1902
-1998) (Grade:A+)
The Golden Notebook (1962) - Doris Lessing (-) (Grade:F)
Babbitt (1922) - Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) (Grade:A)
Surprised by Joy : The Shape of My Early Life (1955) - C.S. Lewis (11/29/1898
-11/22/1963) (Grade:A)
The Screwtape Letters (1943) - C.S. Lewis (11/29/1898
-11/22/1963) (Grade:A+)
The Abolition of Man: Reflections on Education with Special Reference to the Teaching of English in the Upper Forms of Schools (1943) - C.S. Lewis (11/29/1898
-11/22/1963) (Grade:A+)
Main Street (1920) - Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) (Grade:C)
A Grief Observed (1961) - C.S. Lewis (11/29/1898
-11/22/1963) (Grade:A)
Moon Tiger (1987) - Penelope Lively (1933-) (Grade:B-)
How Green Was My Valley (1939) - Richard Llewellyn (1906-1983) (Grade:A+)
Under the Volcano (1947) - Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957) (Grade:C-)
The Executioner's Song (1979) - Norman Mailer (01/31/1923-) (Grade:B-)
The Fixer (1966) - Bernard Malamud (04/26/1914-03/18/1986) (Grade:A+)
Death in Venice (1913) - Thomas Mann (1875-1955) (Grade:C)
The Late George Apley: a Novel in the Form of a Memoir (1937) - John P. Marquand (11/10/1893-7/16/1960) (Grade:B)
Life of Pi: A Novel (2001) - Yann Martel (1963-) (Grade:A)
Shopgirl: A Novella (2000) - Steve Martin (1945-) (Grade:C)
Of Human Bondage (1915) - W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) (Grade:F)
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (1996) - James McBride (
-) (Grade:B)
No Country for Old Men (2005) - Cormac McCarthy (07/20/1933
-) (Grade:A)
The Giant's House: A Romance (1996) - Elizabeth McCracken (1966-) (Grade:C-)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) - Carson McCullers (1917-1967) (Grade:D)
Charming Billy (1998) - Alice McDermott (1953-) (Grade:C-)
The Innocent (1990) - Ian McEwan (06/21/1948
-) (Grade:C)
Bright Lights, Big City (1984) - Jay McInerney (1955-) (Grade:A)
The Sand Pebbles (1962) - Richard McKenna (1913-1964) (Grade:A+)
While I Was Gone (1999) - Sue Miller (-) (Grade:D)
Tropic of Cancer (1934) - Henry Miller (1891
-1980) (Grade:F)
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (1996) - Steven Millhauser (1943
-) (Grade:A+)
The Restraint of Beasts (1998) - Magnus Mills (-) (Grade:B)
The Deep End of the Ocean (1996) - Jacquelyn Mitchard (-) (Grade:C-)
In the Night of Time (2009) - Antonio Munoz Molina (01/10/1956-) (Grade:C)
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? (1994) - Lorrie Moore (-) (Grade:B+)
The Statement (1996) - Brian Moore (8/25/1921
-1/11/1999) (Grade:A)
Lies of Silence (1990) - Brian Moore (8/25/1921
-1/11/1999) (Grade:A)
Hopeful Monsters (1990) - Nicholas Mosley (1923-) (Grade:A)
Under the Net (1954) - Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) (Grade:D+)
Pale Fire (1962) - Vladimir Nabokov (4/22/1899
-7/02/1977) (Grade:B)
Lolita (1955) - Vladimir Nabokov (4/22/1899
-7/02/1977) (Grade:A)
A Bend in the River (1979) - V.S. Naipaul (1932-) (Grade:C)
A House for Mr. Biswas (1961) - V.S. Naipaul (1932-) (Grade:B-)
Bone (1993) - Fae Myenne Ng (1957-) (Grade:B+)
Appointment in Samarra (1934) - John O'Hara (1/31/1905
-4/11/1970) (Grade:A)
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936) - George Orwell (06/25/1903
-1/21/1949) (Grade:A)
Coming Up for Air (1939) - George Orwell (06/25/1903
-1/21/1949) (Grade:A+)
The Gormenghast Novels : Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950), Titus Alone (1959) (1959) - Mervyn Laurence Peake (1911
-1968) (Grade:B+)
Cool Hand Luke (1965) - Donn Pearce (-) (Grade:A+)
The Moviegoer (1961) - Walker Percy (1916
-1990) (Grade:C+)
The Last Gentleman (1966) - Walker Percy (1916
-1990) (Grade:B)
Out Stealing Horses (2003) - Per Petterson (07/18/1952
-) (Grade:A+)
Centesimus Annus (1991) - Pope John Paul II Pope (1920-4/2/2005) (Grade:)
The Dog of the South (1979) - Charles McColl Portis (12/28/1933
-2/17/2020) (Grade:B-)
The Chosen (1967) - Chaim Potok (1929-) (Grade:A+)
A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-1975) - Anthony Powell (1905-2000) (Grade:B-)
The Shipping News (1993) - E. Annie Proulx (1935-) (Grade:C-)
The Unkindest Cut: How a Hatchet-Man Critic Made His Own $7,000 Movie and Put It All on His Credit Card (1996) - Joe Queenan (1950-) (Grade:B)
Black and Blue (1998) - Anna Quindlen (1952-) (Grade:D+)
The Rapture of Canaan (1995) - Sheri Reynolds (-) (Grade:D)
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) - Jean Rhys (1890-1979) (Grade:F-)
American Pastoral (1997) - Phillip Roth (3/19/1933
-5/22/2018) (Grade:B+)
Portnoy's Complaint (1969) - Phillip Roth (3/19/1933
-5/22/2018) (Grade:F)
The God of Small Things (1997) - Arundhati Roy (1961-) (Grade:C)
Midnight's Children (1980) - Salman Rushdie (1947-) (Grade:C-)
The Moor's Last Sigh (1995) - Salman Rushdie (1947-) (Grade:D)
Nobody's Fool (1994) - Richard Russo (-) (Grade:B)
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) - J. D. Salinger (1/01/1919
-1/27/2010) (Grade:A+)
The Stone Raft (1986) - Jose Saramago (1922-) (Grade:D+)
The Reader (1999) - Bernhard Schlink (1944-) (Grade:F)
Staying On (1977) - Paul Scott (1920-1978) (Grade:A-)
The Sweet Smell of Psychosis : A Novella (1996) - Will Self (
-) (Grade:B)
The Weight of Water (1996) - Anita Shreve (-) (Grade:C+)
Fontamara (1933) - Ignazio Silone (5/01/1900
-8/22/1978) (Grade:A+)
A Thousand Acres (1991) - Jane Smiley (9/26/1949
-) (Grade:C-)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) - Muriel Spark (1918-) (Grade:D)
The Notebook (1996) - Nicholas Sparks (1965-) (Grade:D)
Men in Black (1995) - Scott Spencer (-) (Grade:C+)
Angle of Repose (1971) - Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) (Grade:C)
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961) - John Steinbeck (2/27/1902
-12/20/1968) (Grade:B)
The Grapes of Wrath (1939) - John Steinbeck (2/27/1902
-12/20/1968) (Grade:A-)
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759) - Laurence Sterne (11/24/1713
-03/18/1768) (Grade:B+)
Sophie's Choice (1979) - William Styron (1925-) (Grade:C)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) - Newton Booth Tarkington (07/29/1869
-05/19/1946) (Grade:A)
The Fathers (1938) - Allen Tate (1899-1979) (Grade:C+)
A Summons to Memphis (1986) - Peter Taylor (1917-1994) (Grade:D+)
A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) - John Kennedy Toole (1937-1969) (Grade:B-)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1935) - B. Traven (?-1969) (Grade:B+)
The Duke's Children (1879) - Anthony Trollope (04/24/1815-12/06/1882) (Grade:B+)
Breathing Lessons (1988) - Anne Tyler (1941-) (Grade:C)
The Sands of Karakorum (1953) - James Ramsey Ullman (-) (Grade:A+)
Rabbit, Run (1960) - John Updike (March 18, 1932
-01/27/2009) (Grade:C)
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) - Kurt Vonnegut (11/111922
-4/11/2007) (Grade:C)
The Aerodrome : A Love Story (1941) - Rex [Ernest] Warner (1905-1986) (Grade:A+)
Archangel (1995) - Paul Watkins (1964-) (Grade:B-)
The Promise of Light (1992) - Paul Watkins (1964-) (Grade:A+)
A Handful of Dust (1934) - Evelyn Waugh (10/28/1903
-04/10/1966) (Grade:B)
Brideshead Revisited (1945) - Evelyn Waugh (10/28/1903
-04/10/1966) (Grade:C)
The Loved One (1948) - Evelyn Waugh (10/28/1903
-04/10/1966) (Grade:A)
Scoop (1937) - Evelyn Waugh (10/28/1903
-04/10/1966) (Grade:B+)
The Optimist's Daughter (1972) - Eudora Welty (1909-2001) (Grade:D)
The Day of the Locust (1939) - Nathanael West (1902-1940) (Grade:C-)
Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) - Nathanael West (1902-1940) (Grade:B)
The Friendly Persuasion (1945) - Jessamyn West (1902-1984) (Grade:B+)
The House of Mirth (1905) - Edith Wharton (1862
-1937) (Grade:C+)
The Age of Innocence (1920) - Edith Wharton (1862
-1937) (Grade:A)
The Mouse That Roared (1955) - Leonard Wibberley (1915-1983) (Grade:A)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) - Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) (Grade:C)
Illuminated Prayers (1997) - Marianne Williamson (1952-) (Grade:F)
A Man In Full (1998) - Tom Wolfe (3/02/1931
-5/14/2018) (Grade:A-)
Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1971) - Tom Wolfe (3/02/1931
-5/14/2018) (Grade:A+)
To the Lighthouse (1927) - Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) (Grade:F)
The Easter Parade (1976) - Richard Yates (02/03/1926-11/07/1992) (Grade:A)
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