Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck | 
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens | 
Room
by Emma Donoghue | 
Sophie's World
by Jostein Gaarder | 
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner | 
Breakfast at Tiffany's
by Truman Capote | 
As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner | 
Revolutionary Road
by Richard Yates | 
The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton | 
Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner | 
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf | 
The Crying of Lot 49
by Thomas Pynchon | 
Light In August
by William Faulkner | 
Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy | 
Crossing to Safety
by Wallace Stegner | 
The Pearl
by John Steinbeck | 
Housekeeping
by Marilynne Robinson | 
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster | 
The Bone People
by Keri Hulme | 
The Winter of Our Discontent
by John Steinbeck |
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner's harrowing account of the Bundren family's odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Told in turns by each of the family members - including Addie herself - the novel ranges in mood from dark comedy to the deepest pathos.