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3 weeks per book
400 pages or less
Selections from
The Modern Library Top 100
Pulitzer and National award winners
and other contemporary and classic works
2015
DARKNESS AT NOON ARTHUR KOESTLER 1940
LOLITA VLADIMIR NABOKOV 1955
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY THORTON WILDER 1927
WIDE SARGASSO SEA JEAN RHYS 1966
THE SUN ALSO RISES ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1926
PALE FIRE VLADIMIR NABOKOV 1962
WINESBURG, OHIO SHERWOOD ANDERSON 1919
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE MURIEL SPARK 1961
AMERICAN SALVAGE BONNIE JO CAMPBELL 2008
THE DAY OF THE LOCUST NATHANAEL WEST 1939
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE JAMES M CAIN 1934
2016
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN JAMES JOYCE 1916
TOBACCO ROAD ERSKINE CALDWELL 1932
HAMLET WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 1603
A ROOM WITH A VIEW E M FORSTER 1908
ANNA KARENINA LEO TOLSTOY 1877
PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT PHILIP ROTH 1969
GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN JAMES BALDWIN 1953
THE SYMPATHIZER VIET THANH NGUYEN 2015
THE HEART OF THE MATTER GRAHAM GREENE 1948
ONCE YOU BREAK A KNUCKLE D W WILSON 2011
NOSTROMO [PART] JOSEPH CONRAD 1904
2017
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE VIRGINIA WOOLF 1927
MRS. DALLOWAY VIRGINIA WOOLF 1925
DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP WILLA CATHERS 1927
AS I LAY DYING WILLIAM FAULKNER 1930
INTERPRETER OF MALADIES JHUMPA LAHIRI 1999
ZULEIKA DOBSON MAX BEERBOHM 1911
LABYRINTHS JORGE LUIS BORGES 1962
SCOOP EVELYN WAUGH 1938
CIVILWARLAND IN BAD DECLINE GEORGE SAUNDERS 1996
APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA JOHN O'HARA 1934
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD COLSON WHITEHEAD 2016
HOWARDS END E M FORSTER 1910
THE SPECTATOR BIRD WALLACE STEGNER 1976
A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA RICHARD HUGHES 1929
A COUNTRY DOCTOR'S NOTEBOOK MIKHAIL BULGAKOV 1920s, 1962 (PH)
HEART OF A DOG MIKHAIL BULGAKOV 1925
2018
LOVING HENRY GREEN 1945
WE YEVGENY ZAMYATIN 1924
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE EDITH WHARTON 1920
THE APPRENTICESHIP OF DUDDY KRAVITZ MORDECAI RICHLER 1959
THE MOVIEGOER WALKER PERCY 1961
A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD JENNIFER EGAN 2011
UNDER THE NET IRIS MURDOCH 1954
THE TRIAL FRANZ KAFKA 1914-1915, 1925 (PH)
OBLIVION [SELECTIONS] DAVID FOSTER WALLACE 2004
THE END OF THE AFFAIR GRAHAM GREENE 1951
THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS ROBERT A HEINLEIN 1966
FATHERS AND SONS IVAN TURGENEV 1862
LESS ANDREW SEAN GREER 2017
INVISIBLE CITIES ITALO CALVINO 1972
SNOW COUNTRY YASUNARI KAWABATA 1935-37
RAGTIME E L DOCTOROW 1975
FORTUNE SMILES ADAM JOHNSON 2015
THE SHELTERING SKY PAUL BOWLES 1949
2019
NORWEGIAN WOOD HARUKI MURAKAMI 1987
ON THE ROAD JACK KEROUAC 1957
THE CALL OF THE WILD JACK LONDON 1903
SOLARIS STANISLAW LEM 1961
TENDER IS THE NIGHT F SCOTT FITZGERALD 1934
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING MILAN KUNDERA 1984
HENDERSON THE RAIN KING SAUL BELLOW 1959
DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP PHILIP K DICK 1968
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT TIME MARK HADDON 2004
MAUS ART SPIEGELMAN 1980-91
THE OPPOSING SHORE JULIEN GRACQ 1951
ROADSIDE PICNIC ARKADY & BORIS STRUGATSKY 1972
FRANKENSTEIN MARY SHELLEY 1818
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY DOUGLAS ADAMS 1979
THE HANDMAID'S TALE MARGARET ATWOOD 1985
2020
NEUROMANCER WILLIAM GIBSON 1984
THE CALL OF CTHULHU, AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS, THE DREAM CYCLE H P LOVECRAFT 1918-32
KITCHEN BANANA YOSHIMOTO 1988
WATCHMEN ALAN MOORE 1986-87
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE KURT VONNEGUT 1969
INVISIBLE MONSTERS CHUCK PALAHNIUK 1999
THE COLOR OF MAGIC TERRY PRATCHETT 1983
DODSWORTH SINCLAIR LEWIS 1929
LOLITA VLADIMIR NABOKOV 1955
THE BOOK OF FIVE RINGS MIYAMOTO MUSASHI 1643
THE ROAD CORMAC MCCARTHY 2006
SEASON OF CRIMSON BLOSSOMS ABUBAKAR ADAM IBRAHIM 2015
NAKED LUNCH WILLIAM BURROUGHS 1959
DUNE FRANK HERBERT 1965
THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM CIXIN LIU 2008
ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN 1962
THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS ARUNDHATI ROY 1997
STEPPENWOLF HERMANN HESSE 1927
2021
STORIES OF ANTON CHEKHOV [SELECTIONS] ANTON CHEKHOV 1932
THE BROOKLYN FOLLIES PAUL ASTER 2005
THE LEOPARD GIUSEPPE TOMASI DI LAMPEDUSA 1958
THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS URSULA K LE GUIN 1969
THE BELL JAR SYLVIA PLATH 1963
THE GAMBLER FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY 1866
THE AETHIOPICA: THEAGENES AND CHARICLEA HELIODORUS OF EMESA c. 220 - 370 AD
STONER JOHN WILLIAMS 1965
KILLER ANGELS MICHAEL SHAARA 1975
POSTCOLONIAL LOVE POEM NATALIE DIAZ 2020
EUGENE ONEGIN ALEXANDER PUSHKIN 1833
IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER ITALO CALVINO 1979
MEMOIRS OF MONTPARNASSE JOHN GLASSCO 1969
THE GOOD SOLDIER FORD MADOX FORD 1915
PERFUME PATRICK SUSKIND 1985
TROPIC OF CANCER HENRY MILLER 1934
WUTHERING HEIGHTS EMILY BRONTE 1847
THE WASTE LAND T S ELLIOT 1922
A BEND IN THE RIVER V S NAIPAUL 1979
2022
THE MASTER AND MARGARITA MIKHAIL BULGAKOV 1928 - 1940
THE CRYING OF LOT 49 THOMAS PYNCHON 1965
CRYING IN H MART MICHELLE ZAUNER 2021
WASHINGTON SQUARE HENRY JAMES 1880
THE WHITE CASTLE ORHAN PAMUK 1985
NO LONGER HUMAN OSAMU DAZAI 1948
THE IDIOT [SAMPLE] FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY 1869
WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE RAYMOND CARVER 1981
THE ROMANCE OF A SHOP AMY LEVY 1888
A HANDFUL OF DUST EVELYN WAUGH 1934
THE FOREVER WAR JOE HALDERMAN 1974
THE LOST DAUGHTER ELENA FERRANTE 2006
STAY TRUE HUA HSU 2022
THE SOUND AND THE FURY WILLIAM FAULKNER 1929
CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ 1981
WHITE NOISE DON DELILLO 1985
SLEEPWALKER IN A FOG TATYANA TOLSTAYA 1992
2023
SPHINX ANNE GARRETA 1986
THE REMAINS OF THE DAY KAZUO ISHIGURO 1989
LESS THAN ZERO BRET EASTON ELLIS 1985
FIREFOX CRAIG THOMAS 1977
THE SENSE OF AN ENDING JULIAN BARNES 2011
SEA OF TRANQUILITY EMILY ST JOHN MANDEL 2022
THE PLAGUE ALBERT CAMUS 1947
THE ILLUSTRATED MAN RAY BRADBURY 1951
WISE BLOOD FLANNERY OCONNOR 1952
THE BAKERY ATTACKS, LANDSCAPE WITH FLATIRON, A SHINAGAWA MONKEY HARUKI MURAKAMI 1981-2020
THE NOSE, THE OVERCOAT NIKOLAI GOGOL 1836, 1842
BOULE DE SUIF, MOTHER SAVAGE, THE NECKLACE, THE HORLA GUY DE MAUPASSANT 1880-1887
A HAUNTED HOUSE VIRGINIA WOOLF 1921
A SLANDER ANTON CHEKHOV 1883
HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1927
THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS RAY BRADBURY 1950
THE STORY OF AN HOUR KATE CHOPIN 1894
BLOOD MERIDIAN CORMAC MCCARTHY 1985
KOKORO NATSUME SOSEKI 1914
SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN 2021
THE EYE VLADIMIR NABOKOV 1930
THE AWAKENING KATE CHOPIN 1899
THE EMISSARY YOKO TAWADA 2018
DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD OLGA TOKARCZUK 2009
2024
LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE LAURA ESQUIVEL 1989
PLAYER PIANO KURT VONNEGUT 1952
ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD TOM STOPPARD 1966
I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN JACQUELINE HARPMAN 1995
PERMUTATION CITY GREG EGAN 1994
FIFTH BUSINESS ROBERTSON DAVIES 1970
PALE FIRE VLADIMIR NABOKOV 1962
THE WIFE OF WILLESDEN ZADIE SMITH 2023
THE WIFE OF BATH GEOFFREY CHAUCER 1405-1410
ULYSSES [SAMPLE] JAMES JOYCE 1922
NO MAMA NO VERITY BARGATE 1978
ORLANDO VIRGINIA WOOLF 1928
HOW THE TWO IVANS QUARRELLED NIKOLAI GOGOL 1834
LINCOLN IN THE BARDO GEORGE SAUNDERS 2017
MARTYR KAVEH AKBAR 2024
SCATTERED ALL OVER THE EARTH YOKO TAWADA 2018
MINOR DETAIL ADANIA SHIBLI 2017
CURSED BUNNY BORA CHUNG 2017
HUMAN ACTS HAN KANG 2014
CITIZEN 13660 MINE OKUBO 1946
2025
THE TURN OF THE SCREW HENRY JAMES 1898
WHEN WE CEASE TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD BENJAMIN LABATUT 2020
ORBITAL SAMANTHA HARVEY 2023
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