| Douglas Adams | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Life, the Universe and Everything So Long and Thanks for All The Fish Mostly Harmless Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency The Long, Dark Tea Time of the Soul Last Chance to See Salmon of Doubt | |
| Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice Emma Sense and Sensibility | |
| Karen Blocher | Heirs of Mavarin Mages of Mavarin |
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| Walter R. Brooks | Freddy Goes to Florida Freddy the Detective Freddy and the Ignormus |
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| Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | |
| Peter Carey | Oscar and Lucinda | |
| Marcus Clarke | His Natural Life | |
| Roald Dahl | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory James and the Giant Peach | |
| Shusaku Endo | Silence | |
| Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | |
| Arthur Golden | Memoirs of a Geisha | |
| Robert Heinlein | Stranger in a Strange Land | |
| Victor Hugo | Les Miserables Notre Dame de Paris (aka the Hunchback of Notre Dame) | |
| Zora Neale Hurston | Their Eyes Were Watching God | |
| Henry James | The Bostonians Washington Square Daisy Miller The Turn of the Screw The Portrait of a Lady The American | |
| Norton Juster | The Phantom Tollbooth | |
| Harper Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird | |
| Steve Martin | Picasso at the Lapin Agile Shopgirl The Pleasure of My Company | |
| Lucy Maud Montgomery | Anne of Green Gables Anne of Avonlea Anne of the Island Anne's House of Dreams Emily of New Moon Emily Climbs Emily's Quest | |
| Toni Morrison | Song of Solomon | |
| J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | |
| Mary Doria Russell | The Sparrow Children of God | |
| William Shakespeare | Hamlet Macbeth The Merchant of Venice Romeo and Juliet The Tempest King Lear Othello Antony and Cleopatra Much Ado About Nothing Julius Caesar | |
| John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath East of Eden Cannery Row Of Mice and Men Travels with Charley The Short Reign of Pippin IV | |
| Amy Tan | The Joy Luck Club The Kitchen God's Wife The Hundred Secret Senses The Bonesetter's Daughter | |
| J.R.R. Tolkien | The Hobbit The Fellowship of the Ring The Two Towers The Return of the King | |
| Mark Twain | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | |
| Kurt Vonnegut | Cat's Cradle Slaughterhouse Five Sirens of Titan Breakfast of Champions | |
| Alice Walker | The Color Purple By the Light of My Father's Smile | |
| Evelyn Waugh | Brideshead Revisited | |
| Tad Williams | Tailchaser's Song | |
| P.G. Wodehouse | Aunts Aren't Gentlemen Note: this is the only Wodehouse book I've read so far. | |
| Virginia Woolf | Orlando A Room of One's Own |