Cool Reads

Recommended Reading List

“The man who does not read good books

has no advantage over the man who cant read them.”

-- Mark Twain

*The best of the best authors' names are bold...check them out first!

Achebe, Chinua. A Man of the People. Arrow of

Kinsella, W. P. Shoeless Joe.

Knowles, John. A Separate Peace.

Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of

God. Things Fall Apart.

Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird

Sings.

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Persuasion.

Auster, Paul. The New York Trilogy.

Baldwin, James. Go Tell It on the Mountain. The Fire Next Time.

Barth, John. Lost in the Funhouse.

Barthelme, Donald. Snow White. The Dead Father. Sixty Stories. Forty Stories.

Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot.

Bellow, Saul. Henderson the Rain King.

Bolt, Robert. A Man for All Seasons.

Borges, Jorge Luis. Labyrinths. Ficciones. Collected Poetry.

Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked This Way

Being.

Lawrence, D. H. Sons and Lovers. St. Mawr. The

Rainbow.

Lawrence, Jerome and R. L. Lee. Inherit the Wind.

Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird.

Machiavelli, Niccolo. The Prince.

Mahfouz, Naguib. The Cairo Trilogy.

Malamud, Bernard. The Natural. Collected Stories.

Malory, Sir Thomas. Le Morte d'Arthur.

Marlowe, Christopher. Doctor Faustus. The Jew of

Malta. Tamburlaine the Great.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. Chronicle of a Death

Foretold. One Hundred Years of Solitude. Love in the Time of Cholera. Memoirs of my Melancholy Whores.

McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian. The Border Trilogy. Outer Dark. Suttree. No County for Old Men.

McCullers, Carson. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.

Melville, Herman. Moby Dick. Billy Budd. Bartleby the Scrivener.

Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman. The Crucible.

Milton, John. Paradise Lost.

More, Sir Thomas. Utopia.

Morrison, Toni. Beloved. The Bluest Eye. The Song

Comes. Collected Short Stories.

Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre.

Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights.

Buck, Pearl. The Good Earth.

Bunyan, John. Pilgrim's Progress.

Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange.

Camus, Albert. The Stranger. The Plague. The Myth of Sisiphys.

Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood.

Cather, Willa. My Antonia. The Professor.

Chopin, Kate. The Awakening.

Clark, Walter Van Tilburg. The Ox-Bow Incident.

Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim. The Heart of Darkness.

Cooper, James Fenimore. The Last of the

of Solomon. Sula.

Naylor, Gloria. The Women of Brewster Place.

Neruda, Pablo. Memoirs.

Orwell, George. 1984. Animal Farm.

Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country. Too Late

Mohicans.

Dick, Philip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep?

Defoe, Daniel. Moll Flanders. Robinson Crusoe.

Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. David

the Phalarope.

Plath, Sylvia. The Bell-Jar.

Plato. The Republic. Phaedrus. Symposium. Death of Socrates.

Pynchon, Thomas. The Crying of Lot 49. V. Gravity's Rainbow.

Rand, Ayn. Anthem. The Fountainhead.

Reed, Ishmael. The Last Days of Louisiana Red.

Copperfield. Hard Times. Nicholas Nickleby.

Oliver Twist.

Dillard, Annie. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. For the Time Being.

Dinesen, Isak. Out of Africa.

Dostoevsky, Feodor. Crime and Punishment. The Brothers Karamazov. Notes from Underground.

Dumas, Alexander. The Count of Monte Cristo.

Eco, Umberto. The Name of the Rose. Foucault's Pendulum.

Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. Juneteenth.

Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down.

Remarque, Eric Maria. All Quiet on the Western

Front.

Renault, Mary. The King Must Die.

Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea.

Rose, Reginald. Twelve Angry Men.

Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye.

Saramago, Jose. Blindness. Seeing. Baltasar and Blimunda. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis. The History of the Seige of Lisbon. The Cave.

Saroyan, William. The Human Comedy.

Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe.

Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. King Lear.

Shadow and Act.

Faulkner, William. Absalom, Absalom! As I Lay

Dying. The Light in August. The Sound and

the Fury.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender Is the Night. The

Great Gatsby. This Side of Paradise.

Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary.

Forster, E. M. A Passage to India. Howard's End.

Gaines, Ernest. A Lesson Before Dying.

Gardner, John. Grendel.

Golding, William. The Lord of the Flies.

Greene, Graham. Brighton Rock. The Heart of the

Macbeth. Merchant of Venice. Othello.

Taming of the Shrew. The Tempest. Midsummer Night's Dream.

Shaw, George Bernard. Pygmalion. Saint Joan.

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein.

Shute, Nevil. A Town Like Alice. On the Beach.

Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony.

Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis. Shosha. The Penitent.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander. One Day in the Life of

Matter.

Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun.

Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure. The Mayor of

Casterbridge. The Return of the Native. Tess of

the D'Urbervilles.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of Seven Gables.

Ivan Denisovich.

Sophocles. Antigone. Oedipus Rex.

Steinbeck, John. East of Eden. The Grapes of Wrath. Of Mice and Men. Travels with Charley. The Pearl.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels.

Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club.

Thoreau, Henry David. Walden.

Toffler, Alvin. Future Shock.

Tolstoy, Leo. The Death of Ivan Ilych. Anna Karennia. War and Peace.

Toomer, Jean. Cane.

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry

The Scarlet Letter. Collected Stories.

Heller, Joseph. Catch-22.

Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. The

Old Man and the Sea. The Sun Also Rises.

Herriot, James. All Creatures Great and Small.

Hersey, John. Hiroshima.

Hesse, Herman. Demian. Siddhartha.

Hilton, James. The Lost Horizon.

Homer. The Iliad.

Hugo, Victor. The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Hurston, Zora Neale. Mules and Men. Their Eyes

Were Watching God.

Huxley, Aldous. After Many a Summer Dies the

Swan. Brave New World. Brave New World

Finn. Life on the Mississippi. Pudd'head

Revisited.

James, Henry. Daisy Miller. The Turn of the

Wilson. Roughin' It. Prince and Pauper. A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

Voltaire. Candide.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Sirens of Titan. Breakfast of Champions. Slaughter-house Five. Man without a Country. Armaggedon in Retrospect.

Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. In Search of Our

Screw.

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young

Man. Ulysses. Dubliners.

Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis. The Castle.

Kerouac, Jack. On the Road. Dharma Bums.

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Sometimes a Great Notion.

Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon.

Kincaid, Jamaica. Lucy.

Kingston, Maxine Hong. China Men. The Woman

Mother's Gardens. Meridian.

Waters, Frank. The Man Who Killed the Deer.

Waugh, Evelyn. Black Mischief. The Loved One.

Scoop.

Wharton, Edith. Age of Innocence. Ethan Frome.

Warrior.

Summer.

White, T. H. The Once and Future King.

Wiesel, Elie. The Fifth Son. Night. Dawn. Day.

Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest.

The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey.

Our Town.

Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire.

The Glass Menagerie.

Wright, Richard. Black Boy. Native Son.