| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | 1877 | |
| Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel | Truman Capote | 1986 | |
| The Book of Leviathan | Peter Blegvad | 2001 | |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger | 1951 | |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | 1605 and 1615 | |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | 1899 | |
| Ill Seen Ill Said | Samuel Beckett | 1981 | |
| In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust | 1913–1927 | |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | 1952 | |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | 1955 | |
| Love Medicine | Louise Erdrich | 1984 | |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | 1856 | |
| Middlemarch | George Eliot | 1871–72 | |
| Notes from Underground | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1864 | |
| Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov | 1962 | |
| Persuasion | Jane Austen | 1817/18 | |
| The Pilgrim's Progress | John Bunyan | 1678 | |
| The Screwtape Letters | C. S. Lewis | 1942 | |
| The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | 1929 | |
| Ulysses | James Joyce | 1922 | |