Here is a list of books, plays and stories that I have found compelling (not exhaustive and in no particular order):
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry.
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
The Odyssey by Homer
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Yellow Raft on Blue Water by Michael Dorris
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Fried Green Tomatoes by Fannie Flagg
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
The Narnian Tales by C.S. Lewis
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe
Miss Piggle Wiggle series
The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
Beowolf
Oedipus
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
Loving Eleanor by Susan Albert
The Swimmer by John Cheever
The Women’s Room by Marilyn French
Sherlock Holmes series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Cider House Rules by John Irving
Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
City of Night by John Rechy
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
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