Dead Scholars Club

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20th-21st American

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1984

Blood and Guts in High School

Kathy Acker

1919

Winesburg, Ohio

Sherwood Anderson

1951

Foundation

Isaac Asimov

1987Latinx

Borderlands

Gloria Anzaldua

1985

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

1953African American

Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin

1964African American

The Dutchman

Amiri Baraka

2015African American

The Sellout

Paul Beatty

1946Asian American

America Is in the Heart

Carlos Bulosan

1959

Naked Lunch

William S. Burroughs

1979African American

Kindred

Octavia Butler

1918

My Antonia

Willa Cather

1982Asian American

Dictee

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

2000

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Michael Chabon

1984Latinx

The House on Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros

1966

Beautiful Losers

Leonard Cohen

1975

Dhalgren

Samuel R. Delany

1985

White Noise

Don DeLillo

1997

Underworld

Don DeLillo

2007Latinx

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Diaz

1936

The Big Money

John Dos Passos

1903African American

The Souls of Black Folk

W. E. B. DuBois

2010

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan

1991

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis

1952African American

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

1988Native American

Tracks

Louise Erdrich

1942

Go Down, Moses

William Faulkner

1925

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

2001

The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen

2010

Freedom

Jonathan Franzen

1984

Neuromancer

William Gibson

2003

Pattern Recognition

William Gibson

1924

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

1965

Dune

Frank Herbert

2010

How Should a Person Be?

Sheila Heti

1952

The Price of Salt

Patricia Highsmith

1937African American

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

1890-1907

Selected Lectures & Essays

William James

1912African American

Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

James Weldon Johnson

1957

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

1972

Visions of Cody

Jack Kerouac

1962

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey

1976Asian American

The Woman Warrior

Maxine Hong Kingston

1992

Angels in America

Tony Kushner

1929African American

Passing

Nella Larsen

1928African American

Quicksand

Nella Larsen

1995Asian American

Native Speaker

Chang-Rae Lee

2014

10:04

Ben Lerner

2021

No One Is Talking About This

Patricia Lockwood

1982African American

Zami

Audre Lorde

2014

Station Eleven

Emily St-John Mandel

1985

Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy

1928/1929African American

Home to Harlem + Banjo

Claude McKay

1949

Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller

1934/1961

Tropic of Cancer

Henry Miller

1945

The Air-Conditioned Nightmare

Henry Miller

1968Native American

House Made of Dawn

N. Scott Momaday

1983/2000Latinx

Loving in the War Years

Cherrie Moraga

1987African American

Beloved

Toni Morrison

1955

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

2015

The Argonauts

Maggie Nelson

1990

The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien

1955

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

Flannery O'Connor

1979Asian American

No-No Boy

John Okada

1956

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Eugene O'Neill

1946African American

The Street

Ann Petry

1995

Galatea 2.2

Richard Powers

2019

The Overstory

Richard Powers

1966

The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

1972African American

Mumbo Jumbo

Ishmael Reed

2005

Gilead

Marilynne Robinson

1995

The Human Stain

Philip Roth

2017

Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders

1977Native American

Ceremony

Leslie Marmon Silko

1912Asian American

Mrs. Spring Fragrance

Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton)

1986-91

Maus I & II

Art Spiegelman

1909

Three Lives

Gertrude Stein

1939

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

1971

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson

1980

A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole

1923African American

Cane

Jean Toomer

1995Latinx

The Moths and Other Stories

Helena Maria Viramontes

1996

Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

1986Native American

Fools Crow

James Welch

1939

The Day of the Locust

Nathanael West

1905

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton

1999

The Intuitionist

Colson Whitehead

2016

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

1947

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

1990African American

Piano Lesson

August Wilson

1940African American

Native Son

Richard Wright

1971Latinx

...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him

Tomas Rivera

2011Asian American

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Charles Yu

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