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Future Classics
Novels written since 1950 that we think will still be read in the future
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December 2007
Compiled by Mary Wilkes Towner,
of the Urbana (IL) Free Library, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.
(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)
NON-FICTION
Angelou, Maya I know why the caged bird sings
Bragg, Rick All over but the shoutin'
FICTION
Allende, Isabel House of the spirits
Allison, Dorothy Bastard out of Carolina
Anderson, Laurie Halse Speak
Atwood, Margaret The handmaid's tale
Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451
Burgess, Anthony A clockwork orange
Capote, Truman In cold blood
Chabon, Michael The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Chbosky, Stephen Perks of being a wallflower
Chevalier, Tracy Girl with a pearl earring
Cisneros, Sandra The house on Mango Street
Cunningham, Michael The hours
Diamant, Anita The red tent
Dubus, Andre The house of sand and fog
Eugenides, Jeffrey Middlesex
Foer, Jonathan Safran Extremely loud & incredibly close
Frazier, Charles Cold mountain
Gaines, Ernest Lesson before dying
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel 100 years of solitude
Golden, Arthur Memoirs of a geisha
Greenberg, Joanne I never promised you a rose garden
Guterson, David Snow falling on cedars
Haruf, Kent Eventide
Hegi, Ursula Stones from the river
Heller, Joseph Catch 22
Hosseini, Khalid The kite runner A thousand splendid suns
Kerouac, Jack On the road
Kesey, Ken One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Kidd, Sue Monk The secret life of bees
Kingsolver, Barbara The poisonwood bible
Kostova, Elizabeth The historian
Lee, Harper To kill a mockingbird
LeGuin, Ursula The left hand of darkenss
Lessing, Doris The golden notebook
McCarthy, Cormac The road Blood meridian All the pretty horses
McEwan, Ian Atonement
McLarty, Ron Memory of running
McMurtry, Larry Leaving Cheyenne
McMurtry, Larry Lonesome dove
Mistry, Rohinton A fine balance
Morrison, Toni The bluest eye Beloved
Munro, Alice Lives of girls and women
Niffenegger, Audrey The time traveler's wife
O'Brien, Tim The things they carried
O'Nan, Stewart Circus fire
Packer, Ann Dive from Clausen's pier
Patchett, Ann Bel canto
Proulx The shipping news
Puzo, Mario The godfather
Ruiz Zafon, Carlos Shadow of the wind
Russell, Mary Doria The sparrow
Salinger, J.D. Catcher in the rye
Schaefer, Jack Shane
Sebold, Alice The lovely bones
Shaara, Michael Killer angels
Smiley, Jane A thousand acres
Smith, Zadie On beauty
Stegner, Wallace Crossing to safety
Tan, Amy Joy luck club
Tyler, Anne Dinner at the Homesick restaurant
Updike, John Rabbit tetralogy
Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse five
Walker, Alice The color purple
Webb, Charles The graduate
Yann, Martel Life of Pi
Zindel, Paul The pigman
Zusak, Markus Book thief
AUTHORS
Asimov, Isaac
Borges, Jorge Luis
Calvino, Italo
Davies, Robertson
Heinlein, Robert
Pynchon, Thomas
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