wilder's library of good books to teach

Love Medicine—Louise Erdrich

Stop-Time—Frank Conroy

What Narcissism Means to Me, Donkey Gospel—Tony Hoagland

Hamlet—William Shakespeare

The Great Gatsby—F. Scott Fitzgerald

Snows of Kilimanjaro—Ernest Hemingway

The Grapes of Wrath—John Steinbeck

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest—Ken Kesey

A Streetcar Named Desire—Tennessee Williams

Song of Solomon—Toni Morrison

Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing—Ted Conover

Self-Reliance—R.W. Emerson

Walden—H.D. Thoreau

The Awakening—Kate Chopin

Selected Short Stories—Flannery O'Connor

As I Lay Dying—William Faulkner

The Crucible—Arthur Miller

Nobody's Girl—Antonya Nelson

Living to be 100—Robert Boswell

Election, Bad Haircut, Little Children—Tom Perrotta

The Complete History of New Mexico—Kevin McIlvoy

Jesus' Son—Denis Johnson

The House on Mango Street—Sandra Cisneros

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—Mark Twain

The Catcher in the Rye—J. D. Salinger

Bartleby the Scrivener—Herman Melville

Catch 22—Joseph Heller

Selected Stories—Nathaniel Hawthorne

Waiting—Ha Jin

Bel Canto—Ann Patchett

Drown—Junot Diaz

Remote—David Shields

The Fixer—Bernard Malamud

Selected Stories—John Cheever

The Paperboy—Pete Dexter

Montana 1948—Larry Watson

So Long, See You Tomorrow—William Maxwell