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) Time's Arrow, or The Nature of the Offense (1992) - Martin Amis (8/25/1949 -) (Grade:C) Night Train (1997) - Martin Amis (8/25/1949 -) (Grade:D) 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+)Life with Bingo (2021) - Jim Black (1953 -) (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 Road to Wellville (1993) - T. Coraghessan Boyle (1948-) (Grade:B+) The Tortilla Curtain (1995) - T. Coraghessan Boyle (1948-) (Grade:C-) 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 (2/25.1917 -11/22/1993) (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 (11/07/1913 -1/04/1960) (Grade:C+) The First Man (1995) - Albert Camus (11/07/1913
-1/04/1960) (Grade:A+)The Myth of Sisyphus (1955) - Albert Camus (11/07/1913 -1/04/1960) (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) Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (1904) - Joseph Conrad (12/03/1857 -8/03/1924) (Grade:D+) Heart of Darkness (1902) - Joseph Conrad (12/03/1857 -8/03/1924) (Grade:A) Lord Jim (1900) - Joseph Conrad (12/03/1857 -8/03/1924) (Grade:B) 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) Underworld () - Don DeLillo (11/20/1936 -) (Grade:C+) White Noise (1985) - 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) Light in August (1932) - William Faulkner (09/25/1897 -07/06/1962) (Grade:B-) 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) 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 (8/17/1959 -) (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 (6/17/1914 -3/24/1993) (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+) Brave New World (1932) - Aldous Huxley (1894 -1963) (Grade:A) Ape and Essence (1948) - Aldous Huxley (1894 -1963) (Grade:B) Point Counter Point (1928) - Aldous Huxley (1894 -1963) (Grade:D) A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989) - John Irving (1942-) (Grade:C) A Pale View of Hills (1982) - Kazuo Ishiguro (11/08/1954 -) (Grade:C) The Remains of the Day (1988) - Kazuo Ishiguro (11/08/1954 -) (Grade:B+) 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 (4/15/1843 -2/28/1916) (Grade:D) Washington Square (1880) - Henry James (4/15/1843 -2/28/1916) (Grade:C-) The Golden Bowl, or actually,The Turn of the Screw (in lieu of The Golden Bowl) () - Henry James (4/15/1843 -2/28/1916) (Grade:B) The Ambassadors (1903) - Henry James (4/15/1843 -2/28/1916) (Grade:D) Heat and Dust (1975) - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1923-) (Grade:C) From Here to Eternity (1951) - James Jones (1921
-1977) (Grade:A+)Finnegan's Wake (1939) - James Joyce (2/02/1882 -1/13/1941) (Grade:F) 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) 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 (3/12/1922 -10/21/1969) (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-) Sons and Lovers (1913) - D.H. Lawrence (9/11/1885 -3/02/1930) (Grade:D) Women in Love (1920) - D.H. Lawrence (9/11/1885 -3/02/1930) (Grade:F) The Rainbow (1915) - D.H. Lawrence (9/11/1885 -3/02/1930) (Grade:F) 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 (6/06/1875 -8/12/1955) (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) So Long, See You Tomorrow (1979) - William Maxwell (08/16/1908-07/31/2000) (Grade:A-) 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+)Tropic of Cancer (1934) - Henry Miller (1891 -1980) (Grade:F) While I Was Gone (1999) - Sue Miller (-) (Grade:D) 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 (8/17/1932 -8/11/2018) (Grade:C) A House for Mr. Biswas (1961) - V.S. Naipaul (8/17/1932 -8/11/2018) (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 Last Gentleman (1966) - Walker Percy (05/28/1916 -05/10/1990) (Grade:B) The Moviegoer (1961) - Walker Percy (05/28/1916 -05/10/1990) (Grade:C+) 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 (9/26/1961 -) (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+)Brideshead Revisited (1945) - Evelyn Waugh (10/28/1903 -04/10/1966) (Grade:C) A Handful of Dust (1934) - Evelyn Waugh (10/28/1903 -04/10/1966) (Grade:B) 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 Graduate (1963) - Charles Richard Webb (6/09/1939 -6/16/2020) (Grade:C-) The Optimist's Daughter (1972) - Eudora Welty (1909-2001) (Grade:D) The Friendly Persuasion (1945) - Jessamyn West (1902-1984) (Grade:B+) The Day of the Locust (1939) - Nathanael West (1902-1940) (Grade:C-) Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) - Nathanael West (1902-1940) (Grade:B) The House of Mirth (1905) - Edith Wharton (1/24/1862 -8/11/1937) (Grade:C+) The Age of Innocence (1920) - Edith Wharton (1/24/1862 -8/11/1937) (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 (1/25/1882 -3/28/1941) (Grade:F) The Easter Parade (1976) - Richard Yates (02/03/1926-11/07/1992) (Grade:A) |
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