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Book List
You must choose form this list. If you have a suggestion for a novel, I will consider it but it must be considered a classic and it must be from a author outside the United States.
Achebe, Chinua
Things Fall Apart
Okonkwo, a proud village leader, is driven to murder and suicide by European changes to his traditional Ibo society.
Allende, Isabel
House of the Spirits
The story of the Trueba family in Chile, from the turn of the century to the violent days of the overthrow of the Salvador Allende government in 1973.
Austen, Jane
Pride and Prejudice
Love and marriage among the English country gentry of Austen's day.
Balzac, Honore de
Pere Goriot
A father is reduced to poverty after giving money to his daughters.
Borges, Jorge Luis
Labyrinths
An anthology of literary fireworks based on Borges' favorite symbol.
Bronte, Charlotte
Jane Eyre
An intelligent and passionate governess falls in love with a strange, moody man tormented by dark secrets.
Bronte, Emily
Wuthering Heights
One of the masterpieces of English romanticism, this is a novel of Heathcliff and Catherine, love and revenge.
Flaubert, Gustave
Madame Bovary
In her extramarital affairs, a bored young wife seeks unsuccessfully to find the emotional experiences she craves.
Forster, E.M.
A Passage to India
A young English woman in British-ruled India accuses an Indian doctor of sexual assault.
Fuentes, Carlos
The Death of Artemio Cruz
A powerful Mexican newspaper publisher recalls his life as he lies dying at age 71.
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
One Hundred Years of Solitude
A technique called magical realism is used in this portrait of seven generations in the lives of the Buendia family.
Gogol, Nikolai
The Overcoat
Russian tales of good and evil.
Golding, William
Lord of the Flies
English schoolboys marooned on an uninhabited island test the values of civilization when they attempt to set up a society of their own.
Grass, Gunter
The Tin Drum
Oskar describes the amoral conditions through which he has lived in Germany, both during and after the Hitler regime.
Hardy, Thomas
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
The happiness of Tess and her husband is destroyed when she confesses that she bore a child as the result of a forced sexual relationship with her employer's son.
Hesse, Hermann
Siddhartha
Emerging from a kaleidoscope of experiences and pleasures, a young Brahmin ascends to a state of peace and mystic holiness.
Remarque, Erich Maria
All Quiet on the Western Front
A young German soldier in World War I experiences pounding shellfire, hunger, sickness, and death.
Scott, Sir Walter
Ivanhoe
Tale of Ivanhoe, the disinherited knight, Lady Rowena, Richard the Lion-Hearted, and Robin Hood at the time of the Crusades.
Shelley, Mary W.
Frankenstein
A gothic tale of terror in which Franken-stein creates a monster from corpses.
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Ivan Denisovich Shukhov endures one more day in a Siberian prison camp and finds joy in survival.
Henry Fielding
Tom Jones
The adventures of a high- spirited orphan boy.
Charles Dickens
David Copperfield
This highly autobiographical novel
is one of the author's best works.
Robert Louis Stephenson
Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde
A brilliant suggestive, resonant
study of human duality.
Franz Kafka
The Trial
The enigmatic story of Joseph K.
Camus, Albert
The Stranger
A man who is virtually unknown to both himself and others commits a pointless murder for which he has no explanation.
Carroll, Lewis
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
A fantasy in which Alice follows the White Rabbit to a dream world.
Cervantes, Miguel de
Don Quixote
An eccentric old gentleman sets out as a knight "tilting at windmills" to right the wrongs of the world.
Conrad, Joseph
Heart of Darkness
The novel's narrator journeys into the Congo where he discovers the extent to which greed can corrupt a good man.
Defoe, Daniel
Robinson Crusoe
The adventures of a man who spends 24 years on an isolated island.
Dickens, Charles
Great Expectations
The moving story of the rise, fall, and rise again of a humbly-born young orphan.
Dostoevski, Feodor
Crime and Punishment
A psychological novel about a poor student who murders an old woman pawnbroker and her sister.
Eliot, George
The Mill on the Floss
Maggie is miserable because her brother disapproves of her choices of romances.
Esquivel, Laura
Like Water for Chocolate
As the youngest of three daughters in a turn-of-the-century Mexican family, Tita may not marry but must remain at home to care for her mother.
Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World
A bitter satire of the future, in which the world is controlled by advances in science and social changes.
Joyce, James
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A novel about a young man growing up in Ireland and rebelling against family, country, and religion.
Kafka, Franz
The Trial
A man is tried for a crime he knows nothing about, yet for which he feels guilt.
Lawrence, D.H.
Sons and Lovers
An autobiographical novel about a youth torn between a dominant working-class father and a possessive genteel mother.
Mann, Thomas
Death in Venice
In this novella, an author becomes aware of a darker side of himself when he visits Venice.
Orwell, George
Animal Farm
Animals turn the tables on their masters.
Pasternak, Boris
Doctor Zhivago
An epic novel of Russia before and after the Bolshevik revolution.
Paton, Alan
Cry, the Beloved Country
A country Zulu pastor searches for his sick sister in Johannesburg, and discovers that she has become a prostitute and his son a murderer.
Swift, Jonathan
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver encounters dwarfs and giants and has other strange adventures when his ship is wrecked in distant lands.
Tolstoy, Leo
Anna Karenina
Anna forsakes her husband for the dashing Count Vronsky and brief happiness.
Weisel, Elie
Night
A searing account of the Holocaust as experienced by a 15-year-old boy.
Wells, H.G.
The Time Machine
A scientist invents a machine that transports him into the future.
Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
A revenge thriller set in france after
Bonaparte.
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
The novel of a married woman's
passion for life.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
Mystical tragedy of crime and
punishment.
George Orwell
1984
The dystopic story of the search for
individuality in a totalitarian state.
