...in no particular order:
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
- Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner
- Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov
- The Hours by Michael Cunningham
- A Room of One's Own by Virginia Wolfe
- Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
- Blindness by Jose Saramago
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
- Rabbit, Run by John Updike
- All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- The Odyssey by Homer
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Mythology by Edith Hamilton
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots by Susan Straight
