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Classics for the College-Bound and Beyond: Fiction, 20th Century

The titles on our classics list are live links which take you to our catalog; but in many cases the library owns other editions and other translations of these novels and story collections, which will usually be shelved by the author's last name, alongside the editions to which we are linking. You can do a catalog search to find alternative editions.

Things fall apart
by: Achebe, Chinua
death in the family
by: Agee, James, 1909-1955
Fahrenheit 451
by: Bradbury, Ray, 1920-
good earth
by: Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973
stranger
by: Camus, Albert, 1913-1960
My Antonia
by: Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.
Ox bow incident
by: Clark, Walter Van Tilburg, 1909-1971.
Heart of darkness
by: Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.
Lord Jim
by: Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.
American tragedy
by: Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945
Sister Carrie
by: Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945
Rebecca
by: Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989
Drums along the Mohawk
by: Edmonds, Walter Dumaux, 1903-1988
Invisible man
by: Ellison, Ralph.
Collected stories of William Faulkner
by: Faulkner, William, 1897-1962
sound and the fury the corrected text
by: Faulkner, William, 1897-1962
great Gatsby
by: Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940
passage to India
by: Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970
autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
by: Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-
One hundred years of solitude
by: GarcÔi MÔaquez, Gabriel, 1928-
Lord of the flies a novel
by: Golding, William, 1911-1993
Triple pursuit a Graham Greene omnibus
by: Greene, Graham, 1904-1991
Roots
by: Haley, Alex
Catch 22 a novel
by: Heller, Joseph.
farewell to arms
by: Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961
For whom the bell tolls
by: Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961
old man and the sea
by: Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961
sun also rises
by: Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961
Their eyes were watching God a novel
by: Hurston, Zora Neale
Brave new world
by: Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963.
portrait of the artist as a young man
by: Joyce, James, 1882-1941
One flew over the cuckoos nest
by: Kesey, Ken.
separate peace
by: Knowles, John, 1926-2001
Sons and lovers
by: Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930.
To kill a mockingbird
by: Lee, Harper.
Main street
by: Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951.
call of the wild
by: London, Jack, 1876-1916.
Of human bondage
by: Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965.
Collected stories including The member of the wedding and The ballad of the sad Café
by: McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967.
Beloved a novel
by: Morrison, Toni.
bluest eye
by: Morrison, Toni.
Mutiny on the Bounty
by: Nordhoff, Charles, 1887-1947
Animal farm a fairy story
by: Orwell, George, 1903-1950
1984
by: Orwell, George, 1903-1950
Doctor Zhivago
by: Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960.
Cry the beloved country
by: Paton, Alan
Tales of O Henry
by: Porter, William Sydney, 1862-1910
chosen a novel
by: Potok, Chaim.
Atlas shrugged
by: Rand, Ayn
fountainhead
by: Rand, Ayn
yearling
by: Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 1896-1953
All quiet on the western front
by: Remarque, Erich Maria, 1898-1970.
light in the forest
by: Richter, Conrad, 1890-1968.
little prince
by: Saint-ExupÔey, Antoine de, 1900-1944.
catcher in the rye
by: Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-
jungle
by: Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968
One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
by: SolzheniÙtýsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008
Of mice and men
by: Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
grapes of wrath
by: Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
confessions of Nat Turner
by: Styron, William, 1925-2006
hobbit or There and back again
by: Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973
fellowship of the ring being the first part of The Lord of the rings
by: Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973
two towers being the second part of the Lord of the Rings
by: Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973
return of the king being the third part of The lord of the rings
by: Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973
Slaughterhouse five or The childrens crusade a duty dance with death
by: Vonnegut, Kurt
color purple
by: Walker, Alice, 1944-
All the kings men
by: Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989
Brideshead revisited
by: Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966
time machine
by: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
war of the worlds
by: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
optimists daughter
by: Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001
Ethan Frome With an introduction by Mrs Wharton
by: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
once and future king
by: White, T. H. (Terence Hanbury), 1906-1964
bridge of San Luis Rey
by: Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975.
You cant go home again
by: Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938.
To the lighthouse
by: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Native son and How Bigger was born
by: Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.