Fiction

Novels and story collections categorized loosely by genre and listed alphabetically by author in order of publication.

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Realism or History

Charles Bukowski

  1. Factotum

  2. Ham on Rye

Albert Camus

  1. The Stranger – Matthew Ward, Translator

  2. Exile and the Kingdom – Carol Cosman, Translator

Raymond Carver

  1. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

  2. Where I’m Calling From

Anton Chekhov

  1. The Complete Stories of Anton Chekhov, Vol. 1: 1882-1885 – Constance Garnett, Translator

  2. The Complete Stories of Anton Chekhov, Vol. 2: 1886 – Constance Garnett, Translator

Sandra Cisneros

  1. The House on Mango Street

Tom Clancy

  1. The Hunt for Eed October

Junot Diaz

  1. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Joan Didion

  1. Play It as It Lays

Fyodor Dostoevsky

  1. Notes From [the]Underground – Constance Garnett, Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky, Translators

Alexandre Dumas

  1. The Count of Monte Cristo – Anonymous Translation From Chapman and Hall

Bret Easton Ellis

  1. Less Than Zero

Mary Ann Evans, or George Eliot

  1. Silas Marner: The Weaver of Ravenloe

William Faulkner

  1. As I Lay Dying

F. Scott Fitzgerald

  1. The Great Gatsby

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  1. The Yellow Wallpaper

Vasily Grossman

  1. Life and Fate – Robert Chandler, Translator

Tina May Hall

  1. The Physics of Imaginary Objects

Khaled Hosseini

  1. The Kite Runner

Denis Johnson

  1. Jesus’ Son

  2. Train Dreams

  3. The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

Minka Kent

  1. The Thinnest Air

Jerzy Kosinski

  1. The Painted Bird

Harper Lee

  1. To Kill a Mockingbird

Jack London

  1. To Build a Fire

Cormac McCarthy

  1. The Orchard Keeper

  2. Child of God

  3. Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West

  4. No Country for Old Men

Ian McEwan

  1. On Chesil Beach

Friedrich Nietzsche

  1. Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Walter Kaufmann, Translator

Viet Thanh Nguyen

  1. The Refugees

Tim O’Brien

  1. The Things They Carried

Luane Rice

  1. The Shadow Box

Erich Maria Remarque

  1. All Quiet on the Western Front

J. D. Salinger

  1. The Catcher in the Rye

Elizabeth Strout

  1. Olive Kitteridge

Hunter S. Thompson

  1. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Nathanael West

  1. The Day of the Locust

Richard Yates

  1. Revolutionary Road

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Speculative or Science Fiction

Douglass Adams

  1. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Isaac Asimov

  1. The Last Question

Jorge Luis Borges

  1. Labyrinths – John M. Fein, James Irby, Harriet de Onís, Julian Palley, and Donald A. Yates, Translators

William S. Burroughs

  1. Naked Lunch

Ray Bradbury

  1. The Martian Chronicles

  2. The Illustrated Man

  3. Fahrenheit 451

Octavia E. Butler

  1. Bloodchild and Other Stories

  2. Unexpected Stories: Two Novellas

Orson Scott Card

  1. Ender’s Game

  2. Speaker for the Dead

Ted Chiang

  1. Stories of Your Life and Others

  2. Exhalation

Arthur C. Clark

  1. 2001: A Space Odyssey

Michael Crichton

  1. Sphere

  2. Jurassic Park

Philip K. Dick

  1. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

  2. A Scanner Darkly

  3. Electric Dreams

Harlan Ellison

  1. Paingod and Other Delusions

  2. .I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

  3. From the Land of Fear

  4. A Boy and His Dog

  5. The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World

  6. Approaching Oblivion

E. M. Forster

  1. The Machine Stops

Dmitry Glukhovsky

  1. Metro 2033 – Natasha Randall, Translator

Joe Haldeman

  1. The Forever War

Aldous Huxley

  1. Brave New World

  2. Island

Kazuo Ishiguro

  1. Klara and the Sun

Stanislaw Lem

  1. The Futurological Congress – Michael Kandel, Translator

Ursula K. Le Guin

  1. The Left Hand of Darkness

Ken Liu

  1. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

Franz Kafka

  1. Collected Works

  2. The Metamorphosis and Other Stories – Joachim Neugroschel, Translator

  3. The Metamorphosis and Other Stories – Michael Hofmann, Translator

  4. The Metamorphosis – Susan Beenofsky, Translator

Emily St. John Mandel

  1. Station Eleven

Cormac McCarthy

  1. The Road

Richard K. Morgan

  1. Altered Carbon

Haruki Murakami

  1. First Person Singular – Philip Gabriel, Translator

Phong Nguyen

  1. Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History

Jenny Offill

  1. Dept. of Speculation

George Orwell

  1. Animal Farm

  2. 1984

Chuck Palahniuk

  1. Fight Club

Karen Rusell

  1. Vampires in the Lemon Grove

  2. Orange World and Other Stories

George Saunders

  1. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline

  2. Pastoralia

  3. Tenth of December

Jeff Vandermeer

  1. Annihilation

  2. Wonderbook

Kurt Vonnegut

  1. Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death

  2. Harrison Bergeron

H. G. Wells

  1. The Time Machine

  2. The Island of Doctor Moreau

  3. The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance

  4. The War of the Worlds

  5. The First Men in the Moon

Yevgeny Zamyatin

  1. We – Clarence Brown, Translator

Various Authors

  1. Forward: Stories of Tomorrow – Blake Crouch, Curator

  2. Not Normal, Illinois: Peculiar Fictions From the Flyover – Michael Martone, Editor

  3. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume 1, 1929-1964 – Robert Silverberg, Editor 1

  4. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume 2-A – Ben Bova, Editor

Parody or Satire

Mikhail Bulgakov

  1. The Master and Margarita

Anthony Burgess

  1. A Clockwork Orange

Bret Easton Ellis

  1. American Psycho

Nikolai Gogol

  1. The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories – Constance Garnett, Translator

Joseph Heller

  1. Catch-22

B. J. Novak

  1. One More Thing

Jason Pargin, or David Wong

  1. John Dies at the End

Jonathan Swift

  1. A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick

  2. Gulliver’s Travels

Mark Twain

  1. Letters From the Earth

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Horror or Fantasy

Laird Barron

  1. The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

Algernon Blackwood

  1. The Wendigo

Susanna Clarke

  1. Piranesi

Neil Gaiman

  1. The Neil Gaiman Reader

William Peter Blatty

  1. The Exorcist

Susanna Clarke

  1. Piranesi

Robert W. Chambers

  1. The King in Yellow

William Hope Hodgson

  1. The House on the Borderland

John Langan

  1. The Wide Carniverous Sky and Other monstrous Geographies

Thomas Ligotti

  1. Songs of a Dead Dreamer

  2. Grimscribe: His Lives and Works

  3. The Nightmare Factory

  4. Teatro Grotessco

  5. The Spectral Link

H.P. Lovecraft

  1. The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft

Arthur Machen

  1. The White People

Edgar Allan Poe

  1. The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories

Iain Reid

  1. I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Alvin Schwartz

  1. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

  2. More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

  3. Scary Stories 3

J. R. R. Tolkien

  1. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

  3. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

  4. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

  5. The Silmarillion

Gene Wolfe

  1. The Shadow of the Torturer

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Drama or Poetry

Dante Alighieri

  1. The Divine Comedy – Clive James, Translator

Matsuo Bashō

  1. The Narrow Road to the Interior – Sam Hamill, Translator

Samuel Beckett

  1. Waiting for Godot

Kamo no Chomei

  1. Hojoki – Matthew Stavros, Translator

Homer

  1. Illiad – W. H. D. Rouse, Translator

  2. Odyssey – W. H. D. Rouse, Translator

Adam Mansbach

  1. Go the Fuck to Sleep

Cormac McCarthy

  1. The Sunset Limited

John Milton

  1. Paradise Lost

Rumi

  1. Rumi’s Little Book of Life –Maryam Mafi & Azima Melita Kolin, Translators

William Shakespeare

  1. Hamlet

  2. Macbeth

  3. Romeo and Juliet

Virgil

  1. Aeneid – Robert Fagles, Translator

Walt Whitman

  1. Leaves of Grass

Unknown or Multiple Author(s)

  1. Beowulf – Seamus Heaney, Translator

  2. Good Poems

  3. The Saga of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald – William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson, Translators

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Children’s or Young Adult

Suzanne Collins

  1. The Hunger Games

Roald Dahl

  1. James and the Giant Peach

  2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

  3. Fantastic Mr. Fox

  4. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

  5. Danny, the Champion of the World

  6. The Twits

  7. The BFG

  8. The Witches

  9. Matilda

Gary Paulsen

  1. Hatchet

  2. The River

Norton Juster

  1. The Phantom Tollbooth

Jack London

  1. The Call of the Wild

Lois Lowry

  1. The Giver

  2. Gathering Blue

  3. Messenger

Linda Sue Park

  1. A Single Shard