1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
2. Being Dead: A Novel by Jim Crace
   
3. Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
   
4. Cathedral by Raymond Carver
   
5. Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories by Thomas Mann
   
6. Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
   
7. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
   
8. Dubliners by James Joyce
   
9. Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
   
10. Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
    
11. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler
    
12. Glass, Irony and God by Anne Carson
    
13. Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
    
14. I Lost It at the Movies: Film Writings 1954-1965 by Pauline Kael
    
15. In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories by Delmore Schwartz
    
16. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
    
17. Laws for Creations by Walt Whitman
    
18. Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov
    
19. Light Years by James Salter
    
20. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
    
21. Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
    
22. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
    
23. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
    
24. Open Secrets by Alice Munro
    
25. Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
    
26. Pastoralia by George Saunders
    
27. Peaceable Kingdom by Francine Prose
    
28. Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
    
29. Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstacy and Longing by Jalaluddin Rumi
    
30. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery
    
31. Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death by Kurt Vonnegut
    
32. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
    
33. Stories in an Almost Classical Mode by Harold Brodkey
    
34. The Child, the Family, and the Outside World by D.W. Winnicott
    
35. The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
    
36. The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
    
37. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    
38. The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O'Connor
    
39. The Kingdom of Ordinary Time by Marie Howe
    
40. The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley
    
41. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
    
42. The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
    
43. The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
    
44. The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers by Henry James
    
45. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim
    
46. The White Album by Joan Didion
    
47. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
    
48. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
    
49. Two Lives : Reading Turgenev and My House In Umbria by William Trevor
    
50. Ulysses by James Joyce
    
51. White Noise by Don DeLillo
    
52. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Michael Cunningham is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. Cunningham is a senior lecturer of creative writing at Yale University.​

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. The Hours
2. A Home at the End of the World
3. Flesh and Blood
4. Home at the End of the World
5. By Nightfall
6. A Wild Swan

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