V. 20th and 21st Centuries

• Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim; Heart of Darkness
• Rudyard Kipling, Kim
• Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie; An American Tragedy
• Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome; The House of Mirth; The Age of Innocence
• E.M. Forster, A Room with a View; Howard's End; A Passage to India, Maurice
• D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers; Women in Love; Lady Chatterley's Lover
• John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga
• Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier
• Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives' Tale
• Katherine Mansfield, Selected Stories
• Elizabeth Bowen, The Last September; To the North; The Heat of the Day
• William Butler Yeats, Selected Poetry
• Willa Cather, O Pioneers; My Antonia
• Julia Peterkin, Scarlet Sister Mary; Green Thursday
• Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage; Cakes and Ale; Mrs. Craddock, The Painted Veil
• Sinclair Lewis, Main Street; Babbitt
• Thornton Wilder, Bridge of San Luis Rey; Our Town
• Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
• Gertrude Stein, Three Lives
• Proust, In Search of Lost Time
• James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist; Ulysses
• Thomas Mann, Magic Mountain 
• Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway; Orlando; To the Lighthouse; The Waves
• Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows
• Pearl Buck, The Good Earth
• Nella Larsen, Quicksand; Passing
• Kafka, The Metamorphosis
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby; Tender is the Night
• Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises; A Farewell to Arms; For Whom the Bell Tolls; The Old Man and the Sea, Islands in the Stream
• John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men; The Grapes of Wrath; East of Eden
• Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm
• P.G. Wodehouse
• Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, The Loved One
• Anthony Powell, Dance to the Music of Time
• Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward. Angel
• William Faulkner
• Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
• Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
• Richard Wright, Native Son
• Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
• James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain; Giovanni's Room
• Katherine Anne Porter, Selected Stories
• Flannery O'Connor, Selected Stories including "Good Country People"
• Eudora Welty, Selected Stories including "Why I Live at the PO"
• May Sarton
• Barbara Pym
• Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
• Winifred Watson, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
• Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love; Love in a Cold Climate
• John Dos Passos, USA
• Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
• George Orwell, 1984; Animal Farm
• Joseph Heller, Catch-22
• Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
• Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
• J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye; Selected Stories
• William Golding, Lord of the Flies
• Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita; Pnin; Pale Fire
• Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
• Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice
• Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
• Dorris Lessing
• Edna O'Brien
• Iris Murdoch
• Alice Munro
• Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
• Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar; Selected Poetry
  
• Anne Sexton, Selected Poetry
• Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
• Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
• Alice Walker, The Color Purple and selected stories, including "Everyday Use"
  
• Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved
• Tove Jannson, The Summer Book
• Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye; Alias Grace
• John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
• John Crowley, Little, Big
• Salmon Rushdie, Midnight's Children; Satanic Verses
• Thomas Pynchon, V.; The Crying of Lot 49; Gravity's Rainbow, Mason and Dixon
• Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
• Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit; Passion; Sexing the Cherry
• A.S. Byatt, Possession; The Children's Book
• Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
• Barbara Kingsolver
• Sarah Waters
• Edward P. Jones, The Known World