Mahogany L. Browne
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (1983)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
Sula by Toni Morrison (1973)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (2011)
Amina Cain
Event Factory by Renee Gladman (2010)
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (1972)
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (1977)
That Time of Year by Marie NDiaye (1994)
Alexander Chee
Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks (1953)
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (1984)
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg (1993)
Maurice by E. M. Forster (1971)
East Goes West by Younghill Kang (1937)
Kia Corthron
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (1979)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brönte (1847)
The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith (1952)
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
Native Son by Richard Wright (1940)
Michael Cunningham
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (1860)
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (1961)
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (1982)
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (2017)
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (1927)
Alvaro Enrigue
The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (1966)
Cartucho by Nellie Campobello (1931)
The Nine Guardians by Rosario Castellanos (1959)
The Trial by Franz Kafka (1925)
Eyes of a Blue Dog (Ojos de Perro Azul) by Gabriel García Márquez (1972)
Neil Gaiman
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton (1908)
Bleak House by Charles Dickens (1853)
Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984)
The Outsider and Others by H. P. Lovecraft (1939)
Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees (1926)
Rigoberto González
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (2007)
Obasan by Joy Kogawa (1981)
The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector (1964)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo (1955)
Kaitlyn Greenidge
The Claudine Novels by Collette (1900-1904)
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (1966)
Our Nig, or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black by Harriet E. Wilson (1859)
Stephen King
Ulysses by James Joyce (1920)
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy (1985)
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch (1978)
1984 by George Orwell (1949)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)
Maaza Mengiste
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (1956)
The Book of Daniel by E. L. Doctorow (1971)
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977)
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (1905)
Claire Messud
Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert (1856)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (1981)
The Emigrants by W. G. Sebald (1992)
Jason Reynolds
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
The Street by Ann Petry (1946)
Cane by Jean Toomer (1923)
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (2011)
Salman Rushdie
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1832)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (1913)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
Esmeralda Santiago
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (1982)
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1965)
Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)
Jonathan Santlofer
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1861)
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles (1969)
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977)
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (2004)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
V. E. Schwab
Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie (1911)
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1845)
The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992)
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (2002)
The Once and Future King by T. H. White (1958)
Gary Shteyngart
Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert (1856)
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877)
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf(1927)
Jane Smiley
Clotel: or, The President's Daughter by Williams Wells Brown (1853)
Felix Holt, the Radical by George Eliot (1866)
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (1877)
Love Among the Chickens by P. G. Wodehouse (1906)
L'Argent by Émile Zola (1891)
Monique Truong
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1869)
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (1956)
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume (1970)
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (1970)
De'Shawn Charles Winslow
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977)
Sula by Toni Morrison (1973)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)