Awards search:The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books

The Outward Room

by Millen Brand
Paperback, 2010
Tags
NYRB Classics, mental illness, American literature, fiction, Great Depression, {e2}
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.52

A Death in the Family

by James Agee
Paperback, 2009
Tags
American literature, fiction, autobiographical fiction, Penguin Classics, Penguin black 3, {je}, non-PC
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.52

Phineas Finn: The Irish Member

by Anthony Trollope
Paperback, 2008
Tags
Oxford World's Classics, Oxford WC 4, English literature
Collection
Your library
Series
The Palliser Novels (2)
Status
Available
Call number
823.8

Sunset Song

by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Paperback, 2007
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 3, English literature, fiction, Scottish literature, World War I
Collection
Your library
Series
A Scots Quair (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823.912

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
American literature, fiction, African-American, magical realism, speculative fiction, {check this}
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Drinking Den

by Emile Zola
Paperback, 2004
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 3, French literature, fiction
Collection
Your library
Series
Les Rougon-Macquart (7)
Status
Available
Call number
843.8

The Fountain Overflows

by Rebecca West
Paperback, 2002
Tags
NYRB Classics, English literature, fiction, music
Collection
Your library
Series
Cousin Rosamund Trilogy (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823.912

Embers

by Sándor Márai
Paperback, 2002
Tags
Hungarian literature, fiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
894.511334

The Ten Thousand Things

by Maria Dermout
Paperback, 2002
Tags
NYRB Classics, Dutch literature, fiction, Indonesia, magical realism, speculative fiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
839.31364

Scaramouche

by Rafael Sabatini
Paperback, 2001
Tags
Signet Classics 2, Signet Classics, English literature, fiction, adventure, historical fiction, French Revolution, swashbuckling
Collection
Your library
Series
Scaramouche (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823.912

Disgrace

by J. M. Coetzee
Paperback, 2000
Tags
South African literature, fiction, apartheid
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

Wheat that Springeth Green

by J. F. Powers
Paperback, 2000
Tags
NYRB Classics, American literature, fiction, satire
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Decameron

by Giovanni Boccaccio
Paperback, 1999
Tags
Italian literature, fiction, Black Death, plague, Oxford World's Classics, Oxford WC 4
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
853.1

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers
Paperback, 1999
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, American literature, fiction, coming of age, American South, suicide
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.52

Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem

by Arthur Miller
Paperback, 1998
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 3, American literature, drama
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
812.52

Divine Comedy

by Dante Aligheiri
Paperback, 1998
Tags
Oxford World's Classics, Oxford WC 4, Italian literature, fiction, allegory, epic, trilogy, cosmology, afterlife
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
851.1

Tom Jones

by Henry Fielding
Paperback, 1998
Tags
Oxford World's Classics, Oxford WC 4, English literature, fiction, humor, coming of age, picaresque
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813

Our Mutual Friend

by Charles Dickens
Paperback, 1998
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 2, English literature, fiction, satire
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.8

The Trial

by Franz Kafka
Paperback, 1998
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, German literature, fiction, surrealism, allegory, Czech literature, existentialism
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
833.912

Independent People

by Halldor Laxness
Paperback, 1997
Tags
Scandinavian literature, fiction, Icelandic literature, rural life
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
839.6934

Middlemarch

by George Eliot
Paperback, 1997
Tags
Oxford World's Classics, Oxford WC 3, English literature, fiction, coming of age
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.8

Virgil's Aeneid

by Virgil
Paperback, 1997
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 2, epic, Latin literature
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
873.01

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Hardcover, 1997
Tags
Everyman's Library, Latin American literature, fiction, magical realism, speculative fiction, Columbian literature
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813

Great Books of the Western World 22: Rabelais

by Francois Rabelais
Hardcover, 1996
Tags
Britannica, Great Books, French literature, fiction, Renaissance, fantasy, speculative fiction, satire
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
843.8

Great Books of the Western World 51: Tolstoy

by Leo Tolstoy
Hardcover, 1996
Tags
Britannica, Russian literature, fiction, historical fiction, Great Books, epic, Napoleonic Wars
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
891.733

Bleak House

by Charles Dickens
Paperback, 1996
Tags
Oxford World's Classics, Oxford WC 3, English literature, fiction, coming of age
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.8

The Iliad of Homer

by Homer
Paperback, 1996
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 2, Greek literature, epic, poetry, mythology
Collection
Your library
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (1)
Status
Available
Call number
883.01

Babel: Collected Stories

by Isaac Babel
Paperback, 1995
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin 20th-century Classics, Russian literature, fiction, short stories, Cossacks
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
891.7342

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott
Paperback, 1995
Tags
Oxford World's Classics, Oxford WC 3, American literature, fiction, juvenile literature, women, coming of age, American Civil War, autobiographical fiction, historical fiction, family saga
Collection
Your library
Series
Little Women (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.4

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison
Hardcover, 1995
Tags
Everyman's Library, American literature, fiction, magical realism, speculative fiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Ulysses

by James Joyce
Paperback, 1995
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, English literature, fiction, Irish literature, epic, Ireland, modernism
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.912

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole
Paperback, 1995
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, American literature, absurdism, alienation, satire, humor, picaresque, American South
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Things Fall Apart: A Novel

by Chinua Achebe
Paperback, 1994
Tags
African literature, fiction, Nigerian literature, historical fiction, postcolonialism, colonialism
Collection
Your library
Series
African Trilogy (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823

My Antonia

by Willa Cather
Paperback, 1994
Tags
American literature, fiction, Bantam Classics, immigrants, frontier & pioneer, historical fiction
Collection
Your library
Series
The Prairie Trilogy (3)
Status
Available
Call number
813.52

Native Son: And How Bigger Was Born

by Richard Wright
Paperback, 1993
Tags
American literature, fiction, African-American, crime, racism, Chicago, Harlem Renaissance
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.52

Answered Prayers: The Partial Manuscript

by Truman Capote
Paperback, 1993
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, American literature, fiction, roman à clef
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

JR

by William Gaddis
Paperback, 1993
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, American literature, fiction, humor, satire, capitalism, postmodernism
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster
Paperback, 1992
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin 20th-century Classics, English literature, fiction, colonialism, India
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.912

East of Eden

by John Steinbeck
Paperback, 1992
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, American literature, fiction, California, {check this}
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.52

Mrs. Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf
Paperback, 1992
Tags
Oxford World's Classics, Oxford WC 3, English literature, fiction, coming of age, feminism, World War I, modernism
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.912

The Power and the Glory

by Graham Greene
Paperback, 1991
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin 20th-century Classics, English literature, fiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.912

Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance With Death

by Kurt Jr. Vonnegut
Paperback, 1991
Tags
American literature, fiction, science fiction, speculative fiction, time travel, satire, World War II, history, dark humor, aliens
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Aeneid: A New Prose Translation

by Virgil
Paperback, 1991
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 2, Latin literature, epic
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
873.01

Nine Stories

by J. D. Salinger
Paperback, 1991
Tags
American literature, fiction, short stories
Collection
Your library
Series
Glass Family (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Comedians

by Graham Greene
Paperback, 1991
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, English literature, fiction, Caribbean
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.912

Sheltering Sky

by Paul Bowles
Paperback, 1990
Tags
American literature, fiction, North Africa, Vintage International
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro
Paperback, 1990
Tags
English literature, fiction, historical fiction, unreliable narrator, Vintage International
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

The Grapes of Wrath (Facsimile edition)

by John Steinbeck
Hardcover, 1990
Tags
American literature, fiction, agriculture, historical fiction, poverty, California, Great Depression
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.52

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman
Paperback, 1990
Tags
Oxford World's Classics, Oxford WC 3, American literature, LGBT, poetry, transcendentalism
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
811.3

The Confidence-Man

by Herman Melville
Paperback, 1989
Tags
Oxford World's Classics, Oxford WC 3, American literature, fiction, allegory, satire
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.4
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