Res Ipsa Loquitur

Beowulf Loved it.
Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Agee, James - A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert - The Stranger Only b/c I had to
Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales Most but not all
Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard I only vaguely remember this one.
Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness Read in high school, then later spent half of college semester dissecting it & the movie Apocalypse Now. I would've preferred to, I don't know, plucked out my eyes with cocktail forks. Hated it.
Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans Boring.
Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
Dante - Inferno Loved it.
de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays I don't know which essays, but I've read a slew of them.
Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies I thought of this book often when I did juvenile court.
Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
Homer - The Iliad Loved it.
Homer - The Odyssey Loved it.
Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame What Disney did to this was a crying shame.
Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House
James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis One of my favorites.
Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird Another of my favorites. I've read this about a zillion times.
Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel García - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener God I love this one. It doesn't seem to be that well known though. I've used that great line "Because I would prefer not to" countless times and I've yet to meet anyone who recognized it.
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
Morrison, Toni - Beloved
O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar Seriously depressing. I wanted to stick my head in the oven after reading it.
Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales Poe's great, isn't he?
Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles - Antigone Another required reading.
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden There's actually a copy of this in the trunk of my car. Which is where it belongs.
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace I keep meaning to read this one, but I don't share Mike's passion for Russian authors.
Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire - Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple One of the rare cases where the movie's better than the book.
Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray Haven't read it but saw the movie. Does that count?
Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie I've read some Williams, but don't remember which ones.
Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard - Native Son