My favorites include:
1. Edgar Allen Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher
2. Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
3. Toni Morrison: Beloved
4. Theodore Dreiser: An American Tragedy
5. Richard Wright: Native Son
6. Joseph Heller: Catch-22
7. JD Salinger: Catcher in the Rye
8. WW Jacobs: The Monkey's Paw (short story)
9-10. George Orwell: 1984 and Animal Farm
11. Ayn Rand: Anthem
12. TS Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (poetry)
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