READING LIST SUGGESTIONS

Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
Dorothy Allison - Bastard Out of Carolina
Sherwood Anderson - Winesburg, Ohio
Carol Anshaw - Aquamarine
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Margaret Atwood - Cat's Eye
Paul Auster - The Music of Chance
Nicholson Baker - Room Temperature
James Baldwin - Another Country
Russell Banks - Affliction
Djuna Barnes - Nightwood
Charles Baxter - First Light
Ann Beattie - Stories
Madison Smartt Bell - Soldier's Joy
Saul Bellow - Herzog
Kate Braverman - Lithium for Medea
Ed Bunker - No Beast so Fierce
Frederick Busch - Girls
Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities
Albert Camus - The Stranger
Ethan Canin - The Palace Thief
Raymond Carver - Where I'm Calling From
John Casey - Spartina
Willa Cather - My Ántonia
Cervantes - Don Quixote
Michael Chabon - The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Anton Chekhov - The Essential Tales
John Cheever - The Stories of John Cheever
Evan S. Connell - Mrs. Bridge
Frank Conroy - Stop-Time
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Bernard Cooper - A Year of Rhymes
Michael Cunningham - The Hours
Charles D'Ambrosio - The Point
Don Delillo - White Noise
Junot Diaz - Drown
Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie
Andre Dubus - Selected Stories
Deborah Eisenberg - Stories
George Eliot - Middlemarch
Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
Jeffery Eugenides - Virgin Suicides
Euripides - Medea, Electra
William Faulkner - Light in August
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night
Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
Richard Ford - Independence Day
E.M. Forster - A Passage to India
John Fowles - The French Lieutenant's Woman
Paula Fox - Desperate Characters
E.L. Doctorow - Billy Bathgate
Ernest Gaines - A Lesson Before Dying
Mary Gaitskill - Two Girls Fat and Thin
William Golding - Lord of the Flies
Robert Graves - I, Claudius
Graham Greene - The Heart of the Matter
Allan Gurganus - White People
Barry Hannah - Airships
Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
Amy Hempel - Reasons to Live
Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
Peter Hoeg - Smilla's Sense of Snow
Homer - The Iliad
John Irving - The World According to Garp
Kazuo Ishiguro - Remains of the Day
Denis Johnson - Jesus' Son
Thom Jones ­ The Pugilist at Rest
James Joyce - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis & Other Stories
Richard E. Kim - Lost Names, The Martyred
Maxine Hong Kingston - Tripmaster Monkey
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Jonathan Lethem - Motherless Brooklyn
Bernard Malamud - The Assistant
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera
Yann Martel - The Life of Pi
Dan McCall - Triphammer
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Alice McDermott - That Night
Ian McEwan - The Cement Garden
Dennis McFarland - The Music Room
Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove
Herman Melville - Moby Dick
John Milton - Paradise Lost
Susan Minot - Monkeys
Rick Moody - Purple America
Lorrie Moore - Anagrams
Toni Morrison - Beloved
Alice Munro - Selected Stories
Vladimir Nabokov -; Lolita
Howard Norman - The Bird Artist
Tim O'Brien - The Things They Carried
Flanner O'Connor - Stories
Tillie Olsen - Stories
Cynthia Ozick - The Shawl
Alan Paton - Too Late the Phalarope
Katherine Anne Porter - Stories
Walker Percy - The Moviegoer
Jayne Anne Phillips - Black Tickets
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
Marcel Proust - Swann's Way
Philip Roth - Portnoy's Complaint
Norman Rush - Mating
Richard Russo - The Risk Pool
J.D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
Jane Smiley - Age of Grief
Martin Cruz Smith - Rose
Sophocles - Oedipus the King
Wallace Stegner - Angle of Repose
Gertrude Stein - Three Lives
John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
Robert Stone - Outerbridge Reach
William Styron - Lie Down in Darkness
Patrick Suskind - Perfume
Peter Taylor - The Old Forest
Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
Jean Toomer - Cane
Anne Tyler - Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Barry Unsworth - Sacred Hunger
John Updike - The Rabbit Angstrom Tetralogy
Stephanie Vaughn - Sweet Talk
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
David Foster Wallace - Girl with Curious Hair
Robert Penn Warren - All the King's Men
Eudora Welty - Collected Stories
Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth
Tobias Wolff - Stories
Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway
Richard Wright - Native Son
Richard Yates - Easter Parade

Short Story Anthologies:

American Short Story Masterpieces, Ed. Carver and Jenks
The Granta Book of the American Short Story, Ed. Ford
You've Got to Read This, Ed. Hansen and Shepard
I Know Some Things, Ed. Moore
Best American Short Stories of the Century, Ed. Updike
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, Ed. Williford and Martone
The Vintage Book of Contemporary Short Stories, Ed. Wolff

Books on Craft:

John Braine - Writing a Novel
Janet Burroway - Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft
Ansen Dibell - Plot
Dianne Doubtfire - The Craft of Novel-Writing
E.M. Forster - Aspects of the Novel
John Gardner - The Art of Fiction
John Gardner - On Becoming a Novelist
Oakley Hall - The Art and Craft of Novel Writing
Robert Ray - The Weekend Novelist
William E Buckler - Novels in the Making
John Hersey - The Writer's Craft
Literary Conversation Series - University Press of Mississippi.
Paris Review/Writers at Work - Ed. George Plimpton