Amelia
by Henry Fielding | 
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck | 
Nine Stories
by J. D. Salinger | 
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens | 
Stoner
by John Williams | 
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf | 
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers | 
White Noise
by Don DeLillo | 
The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy | 
Hard Times
by Charles Dickens | 
Embers
by Sandor Marai | 
Sometimes a Great Notion
by Ken Kesey |
The Tunnel
by Ernesto Sabato | 
Suttree
by Cormac McCarthy | 
Barren Lives
by Graciliano Ramos |
The Life Before Us
by Romain Gary |
Against Nature
by Joris-Karl Huysmans |
They Were Sisters
by Dorothy Whipple | 
To Have and Have Not
by Ernest Hemingway | 
The Easter Parade
by Richard Yates |
The foundling Tom Jones is found on the property of a benevolent, wealthy landowner. Tom grows up to be a vigorous, kind-hearted young man, whose love of his neighbor's well-born daughter brings class friction to the fore. The presence of prostitution and promiscuity in Tom Jones caused a sensation at the time it was published, as such themes were uncommon. It is divided into 18 shorter books, and is considered one of the first English-language novels.