The Ultimate Reading List
Eat, Sleep, Read
S,T,U
Title - Author (#of books on list), Awards/Lists
Number in parenthesis beside author’s name indicates number of author's books on list.
An asterisk* beside the author’s name indicates Nobel Prize winner.
Sabbath's Theater - Phillip Roth(8) 2
Sacred Hunger - Barry Unsworth 7
Satanic Verses, The - Salman Rushdie(3) 9
Saturday - Ian McEwan 13
Savage Detectives, The - Robert Belaño 13
Savage Inequalities - Jonathan Kozol 12
Saville - David Storey 7
Scarlet Sister Mary - Julia Peterkin 1
Schindler's List - Thomas Keneally 5, 7, 9
Scoop - Evelyn Waugh(3) 8
Sea, The - John Banville - 7
Seaview - Toby Olson 3
Second Coming, The - Walker Percy(2) 5
Second Sex, The - Simone de Beauvoir 12
Selected Stories - Alice Munro(3) 12, 13
Sent for You Yesterday - John Edgar Wideman(2) 3
Sheltering Sky, The - Paul Bowles 8
Ship Fever and Other Stories - Andrea Barrett 2
Shipping News, The - E. Annie Proulx(3) 1, 2
Siege of Krishnapur - J.G. Farrell 7
Silent Spring - Rachel Carson 12
Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser(2) 8, 10
Sister Wolf - Ann Arensberg 2
Six Characters in Search of an Author - Luigi Pirandello 11
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut(2) 8, 9, 10
Snow_Orhan Pamuk* 13
Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson 3, 6
So Big - Edna Ferber 1
Soldiers in Hiding - Richard Wiley 3
Something to Answer For - P.H. Newby 7
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison*(4) 4, 9, 10, 11, 12
Sons and Lovers - DH Lawrence(4) 8, 9
Sophie's Choice - William Styron(2) 2, 8, 9, 10
Souls of Black Folk, The - W.E.B. DuBois 12
Sound and the Fury, The - William Faulkner(8) 8, 9, 10, 12
Spartina - John Casey 2
Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Maisha Pessl 13
Spectator Bird , The - Wallace Stegner(2) 2
Star Called Henry, The - Roddy Doyle(2) 13
Staying On - Paul Scott 7
Steps - Jerzy Kosinski 2
Stone Diaries, The - Carol Shields 1, 4, 10
Stones for Ibarra - Harriet Doerr 2
Store, The - T.S. Stribling 1
Stories of John Cheever, The - John Cheever(2)1, 4
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein 10
Stranger, The - Albert Camus(3) 10, 12
Studs Lonigan Trilogy, The - James T. Farrell 8, 10
Sun Also Rises, The - Ernest Hemingway(4) 8, 9, 10, 12
Tales of the South Pacific - James A. Michener 1
Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs 10
Ten North Frederick - John O'Hara(2) 2
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald(4) 8, 9
Tenders Buttons - Gertrude Stein(2) 11
The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch(2) 7
The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad(4) 8
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston 9, 10, 12
Them - Joyce Carol Oates 2
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe 9, 10, 12
Things They Carried, The - Tim O’Brien(2) 12
This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald(4) 9
Three Junes - Julia Glass 2
Three Sisters, The - Anton Chekhov(2) 11
Tin Drum, The - Gunter Grass 10
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 1, 9, 10, 12
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf(3) 8, 9, 10, 11
Tobacco Road - Erskine Caldwell 8
Toward the End of Time - John Updike(6) 13
Town, The - Conrad Richter(2) 1
Train - Pete Dexter 5
Transit of Venus, The - Shirley Hazzard 4
Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, The - Robert Lewis Taylor 1
Tree of Smoke - Dennis Johnson 2,13
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller 8, 9, 10
True History of The Kelly Gang - Peter Carey(2) 7
U.S.A. (trilogy) - John Dos Passos 8, 10
Ulysses - James Joyce(4) 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Unbearable Lightness of Being, The - Milan Kundera 5, 10
Under the Net - Iris Murdoch(2) 8
Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry 8, 10
Underworld - Don DeLillo(3) 13
1-Pulitzer Prize
2-National Book Award
3-Pen/Faulkner Award
4-National Book Critic’s Circle Award for Fiction
5-Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction
6-Book Sense Book Award
7-Man Booker Prize
8-American Library’s Top 100 Novels
9-Modern Library 100 Best Books
10-Library Journal’s Most Influential Fiction of the 20th Century
11-New York Library’s Books of the Century
12-Harvard Bookstore’s 100 Best Books
13-New York Times Editor’s Choice
