MOST FREQUENTLY CITED WORKS (1970–2008)
(This list was also compiled by Sandra Effinger.)
Frequency of
Appearance Title, author
22 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
18 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
15
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
14 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
13
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
King Lear by William Shakespeare
11
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
10
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Light in August by William Faulkner
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
9
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
