Sometimes a Great Notion
by Ken Kesey | 
Tender Is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald | 
Rabbit, Run
by John Updike | 
The Winter of Our Discontent
by John Steinbeck | 
The Professor's House
by Willa Cather | 
The Custom of the Country
by Edith Wharton | 
Main Street
by Sinclair Lewis | 
Cannery Row
by John Steinbeck | 
Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis | 
You Can't Go Home Again
by Thomas Wolfe | 
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath | 
A Lost Lady
by Willa Cather | 
This Side of Paradise
by F. Scott Fitzgerald | 
Summer
by Edith Wharton | 
Franny and Zooey
by J. D. Salinger | 
An American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser | 
Boredom
by Alberto Moravia | 
Faces in the Water
by Janet Frame | 
Last Go Round
by Ken Kesey | 
Kesey's Garage Sale
by Ken Kesey |
In this classic of the 1960s, Ken Kesey's hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched. He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women, and openly defies the rules at every turn. But this defiance, which starts as a sport, soon develops into a grim struggle, an all-out war between two relentless opponents: Nurse Ratched, back by the full power of authority, and McMurphy, who has only his own indomitable will. What happens when Nurse Ratched uses her ultimate weapon against McMurphy provides the story's shocking climax.