CORE 3540 / MOLG 3321:

List of novels from which to choose to write your final paper:

Toni Morrison, Solomon’s Song

Amy Tan, The Joy Luck House

Atticus Lish, Preparation for the Next Life

Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red

Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

James McBride, The Good Lord Bird

Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine or The Round House

Philip Roth, An American Pastoral

John Updike, Rabbit is Rich or Rabbit at Rest

Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses or The Road

Don Delillo, any

Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman

Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn

Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping or Gilead

Edward P. Jones, The Known World

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore, or The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

You can also browse these lists for fiction finalists for prestigious prizes:

www.nationalbook.org

http://bookcritics.org/awards/past_awards/

http://www.goodreads.com/award/show/4245-independent-foreign-fiction-prize

http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/219

http://www.goodreads.com/award/show/13-man-booker-prize

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7.Best_Books_of_the_21st_Century