Suggested Reading List

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English-Language Novels


1984 by George Oswell
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
The Adventure of Augie March by Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durell
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

The Ambassadors by Henry James

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

Animal Farm by George Oswell

Anthem by Ayn Rand

Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
As I lay Dying by William Faulkner

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