MFA Reading List Novels

Isabel Allende, Eva Luna
Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim
Martin Amis, Time's Arrow
A. Manette Ansay, Midnight Champagne
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
James Baldwin, Go Tell It on The Mountain
Russell Banks, The Sweet Hereafter or Affliction
John Barth, The Floating Opera
Richard Bausch, The Last Good Time
Ann Beattie, Chilly Scenes of Winter
Saul Bellow, Seize the Day
Sandra Benitez, The Weight of All Things
T. Coraghesan Boyle, Drop City
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange or Nothing Like the Sun
Joan Chase, During the Reign of the Queen of Persia
John Cheever, Falconer
J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Evan S. Connell, Mrs. Bridge
Robert Coover, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
Louis De Bernieres, Corelli’s Mandolin
Susan Dodd, The Mourner’s Bench
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
William Faulkner, The Hamlet, The Town, or The Mansion
Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Nadine Gordimer, The Pick Up
Ellen Hunnicut, Suite for Calliope
Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
Oscar Hijuelos, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
John Clellon Holmes, Go
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
John Irving, A Prayer For Owen Meaney or Cider House Rules
William Kennedy, Ironweed
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
W. P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
Jerzy Kosinski, Being There
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
Beth Lordan, But Come Ye Back
Bernard MacLaverty, Cal
Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
Bernard Malamud, The Assistant or The Natural
Alice McDermott, Charming Billy
Larry McMurtry, Duane’s Depressed
Toni Morrison, Sula or Jazz
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita or Pale Fire
V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River
Joyce Carol Oates, We Were the Mulvaneys
Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
Ann Patchett, The Patron Saint of Liars or Belle Canto
E. Annie Proulx, Postcards
Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint or Good-bye Columbus
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
Jane Smiley, Moo
John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
Elizabeth Strout, Amy and Isabelle
Peter Taylor, A Summons to Memphis
Paul Theroux, Hotel Honolulu
Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
John Updike, Rabbit, Run
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men
Eudora Welty, Delta Wedding
Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
John Yount, Hardcastle

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last updated: August 11,2005

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