Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston: a love story
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving: a unique fictional story about young boy and his influential powers over a town
The Awakening by Kate Chopin: a feminist story
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou: a childhood memoir
1984 by George Orwell: a science-fiction/fantasy story that depicts a totalitarian government
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DeFoe: a castaway fiction tale about life on a deserted island
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: a fantasy fiction story about encounters with infinitesimal people, giants and other unique inhabitants from lands far and wide
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett: a philosophical play that hides deeper meanings about human existence, religion and the meaning of life
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: a love story with a focus on wealth, status and the American Dream; this novel is considered one of the "Great American Novels"
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway: a love story during World War I; one of Hemingway's best novels and most captivating
Walden by Henry Thoreau: a true philosophical story about Thoreau's experiences in the woods, away from society in a primitive lifestyle
