Hungry Minds Best 20th Century Fiction and Nonfiction
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans.
Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison.
Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya.
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa.
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin.
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction by James Baldwin
Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball.
Herzog by Saul Bellow
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles.
Naked Lunch by William Burroughs.
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.
Cathedral by Raymond Carver.
O Pioneers! By Willa Cather.
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather.
Collected Stories by John Cheever.
House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros.
White Noise by Don DeLillo.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion.
Custer Died for Your Sins by Vine Deloria Jr..
U.S.A. by John Dos Passos.
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser.
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois.
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.
Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The Art of Eating by M.F.K. Fisher.
The Ordinary Seaman by Francisco Goldman.
Roots by Alex Haley.
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
Fiesta by Ernest Hemingway.
The Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway.
Dispatches by Michael Herr.
My Life of Absurdity: The Autobiography by Chester Himes.
Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan.
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks.
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James.
Blues People: Negro Music in White America by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka).
On the Road by Jack Kerouac.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid.
Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston.
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
The Winged Seed by Li-Young Lee.
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis.
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers.
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer.
The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley.
Love and Will by Rollo May.
The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton.
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller.
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday.
Field of Vision by Wright Morris.
Sula by Toni Morrison.
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison.
Beloved by Toni Morrison.
Jazz by Toni Morrison.
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt.
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor.
Call Me Ishmael by Charles Olson.
Tell Me a Riddle by Tillie Olson.
No-No Boy by Jon Okada.
Collected Stories by Grace Paley.
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy.
Flowering Judas and Other Stories by Katherine Anne Porter.
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.
On Lies, Secrets and Silence by Adrienne Rich.
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth.
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.
At Seventy by May Sarton.
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko.
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer by Isaac B. Singer.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein.
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
Sophie's Choice by William Styron.
A Thurber Carnival by James Thurber.
Cane by Jean Toomer.
Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain.
Rabbit, Run by John Updike.
The United States: Essays 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal.
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
The Color Purple by Alice Walker.
All the Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren.
The Day of the Locust by Nathaneal West.
Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman.
In the American Grain by William Carlos Williams.
To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson.
You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe.
Native Son by Richard Wright.
Songs My Mother Taught Me by Wakako Yamauchi.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans.
Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison.
Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya.
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa.
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin.
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction by James Baldwin
Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball.
Herzog by Saul Bellow
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles.
Naked Lunch by William Burroughs.
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.
Cathedral by Raymond Carver.
O Pioneers! By Willa Cather.
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather.
Collected Stories by John Cheever.
House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros.
White Noise by Don DeLillo.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion.
Custer Died for Your Sins by Vine Deloria Jr..
U.S.A. by John Dos Passos.
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser.
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois.
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.
Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The Art of Eating by M.F.K. Fisher.
The Ordinary Seaman by Francisco Goldman.
Roots by Alex Haley.
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
Fiesta by Ernest Hemingway.
The Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway.
Dispatches by Michael Herr.
My Life of Absurdity: The Autobiography by Chester Himes.
Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan.
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks.
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James.
Blues People: Negro Music in White America by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka).
On the Road by Jack Kerouac.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid.
Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston.
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
The Winged Seed by Li-Young Lee.
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis.
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers.
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer.
The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley.
Love and Will by Rollo May.
The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton.
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller.
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday.
Field of Vision by Wright Morris.
Sula by Toni Morrison.
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison.
Beloved by Toni Morrison.
Jazz by Toni Morrison.
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt.
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor.
Call Me Ishmael by Charles Olson.
Tell Me a Riddle by Tillie Olson.
No-No Boy by Jon Okada.
Collected Stories by Grace Paley.
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy.
Flowering Judas and Other Stories by Katherine Anne Porter.
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.
On Lies, Secrets and Silence by Adrienne Rich.
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth.
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.
At Seventy by May Sarton.
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko.
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer by Isaac B. Singer.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein.
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
Sophie's Choice by William Styron.
A Thurber Carnival by James Thurber.
Cane by Jean Toomer.
Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain.
Rabbit, Run by John Updike.
The United States: Essays 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal.
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
The Color Purple by Alice Walker.
All the Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren.
The Day of the Locust by Nathaneal West.
Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman.
In the American Grain by William Carlos Williams.
To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson.
You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe.
Native Son by Richard Wright.
Songs My Mother Taught Me by Wakako Yamauchi.