Master of Fine Arts

Novel Recommendations for Students

 

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