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Paperback Classics
The following fiction classics may be found in the classic paperback collections of the Houston Public Library branches.
Paperback Classics by AuthorPlease call (832) 393-1313 for assistance.
Paperback Classics -- Title | |
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Clarke, Arthur C. | 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| Faulkner, William | Absalom, Absalom |
| Twain, Mark | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Doyle, Arthur Conan | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
| Twain, Mark | Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| Wharton, Edith | Age of Innocence |
| Frank, Pat | Alas, Babylon |
| Carroll, Lewis | Alice's Adventure in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass |
| Remarque, Erich Marie | All Quiet on the Western Front |
| Warren, Robert Penn | All the King's Men |
| McCarthy, Cormac | All the Pretty Horses |
| Dreiser, Theodore | American Tragedy |
| Christie, Agatha | And Then There Were None |
| Stegner, Wallace | Angle of Repose |
| Orwell, George | Animal Farm |
| Tolstoy, Leo | Anna Karenina |
| Rand, Ayn | Anthem |
| Verne, Jules | Around the World in Eighty days |
| Faulkner, William | As I Lay Dying |
| Rand, Ayn | Atlas Shrugged |
| Gaines, Ernest J. | Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman |
| Chopin, Kate | Awakening & Selected Stories |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | Bean Trees |
| Plath, Sylvia | Bell Jar |
| Morrison, Toni | Beloved |
| Isherwood, Christopher | Berlin Stories |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Hughes, Langston | Best of Simple |
| Chandler, Raymond | Big Sleep |
| Melville, Herman | Billy Budd and Other Tales |
| Thurman, Wallace | Blacker the Berry |
| Anaya, Rudolfo | Bless Me, Ultima |
| Gaines, Ernest J. | Bloodline |
| Morrison, Toni | Bluest Eye |
| Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World |
| Capote, Truman | Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| Waugh, Evelyn | Brideshead Revisited |
| Wilder, Thornton | Bridge of San Luis Rey |
| Dostoevsky, Fyodor | Brothers Karamazov |
| London, Jack | Call of the Wild |
| Voltaire | Candide, Zadig, and Other Stories |
| Steinbeck, John | Cannery Row |
| Miller, Walter M. | Canticle for Liebowitz |
| Kafka, Franz | Castle |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Cat's Cradle |
| Heller. Joseph | Catch-22 |
| Salinger, J.D. | Catcher in the Rye |
| Chekhov, Anton | Chekhov Selected Stories |
| Lee, Gus | China Boy |
| Potok, Chaim | Chosen |
| Dickens, Charles | Christmas Carol & Other Stories |
| Graves, Robert | Claudius the God |
| Burgess, Anthony | Clockwork Orange |
| Burns, Olive Ann | Cold Sassy Tree |
| Garcia Marquez, Gabriel | Collected Stories |
| McCullers, Carson | Collected Stories of Carson McCullers |
| Welty, Eudora | Collected Stories of Eudora Welty |
| Porter, Katherine Anne | Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter |
| Faulkner, William | Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
| Walker, Alice | Color Purple |
| Twain, Mark | Complete Short Stories |
| Hemingway, Ernest | Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Complete Stories |
| Kafka, Franz | Complete Stories |
| O'Connor, Flannery | Complete Stories |
| Poe, Edgar Allan | Complete Tales and Poems |
| Toole, John Kennedy | Confederacy of Dunces |
| Styron, William | Confessions of Nat Turner |
| Chesnutt, Charles W. | Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales |
| Twain, Mark | Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| Dumas, Alexandre | Count of Monte Cristo |
| Balzac, Honor‚ de | Cousin Bette |
| Dostoevsky, Fyodor | Crime and Punishment |
| Paton, Alan | Cry, the Beloved Country |
| Pynchon, Thomas | Crying of Lot 49 |
| Stewart, Mary | Crystal Cave |
| Haddon, Mark | Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Tim |
| James, Henry | Daisy Miller |
| Dickens, Charles | David Copperfield |
| Cather, Willa | Death Comes for the Archbishop |
| Mann, Thomas | Death in Venice and Other Stories |
| Agee, James | Death in the Family |
| Tolstoy, Leo | Death of Ivan Ilyitch |
| Dick, Philip K. | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? |
| Cervantes, Miguel de | Don Quixote (unabridged) |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
| Stoker, Bram | Dracula |
| Joyce, James | Dubliners |
| Herbert, Frank | Dune |
| Steinbeck, John | East of Eden |
| Lewis, Sinclair | Elmer Gantry |
| Austen, Jane | Emma |
| Card, Orson Scott | Ender's Game |
| Wharton, Edith | Ethan Frome |
| Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451 |
| Poe, Edgar Allan | Fall of the House of Usher & Other Tales |
| Cooper, J. California | Family |
| Hardy, Thomas | Far from the Madding Crowd |
| Hemingway, Ernest | Farewell to Arms |
| Turgenev, Ivan | Fathers and Sons |
| Thompson, Hunter S. | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | Fellowship of the Ring |
| Keyes, Daniel | Flowers for Algernon |
| Hemingway, Ernest | For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| Asimov, Isaac | Foundation |
| Rand, Ayn | Fountainhead |
| Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein |
| Salinger, J.D. | Franny and Zooey |
| Flagg, Fannie | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Caf‚ |
| Gaines, Ernest J. | Gathering of Old Men |
| Faulkner, William | Go Down Moses |
| Baldwin, James | Go Tell it on the Mountain |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | God Bless You, Mrs. Rosewater |
| Mitchell, Margaret | Gone With the Wind |
| Buck, Pearl S. | Good Earth |
| O'Connor, Flannery | Good Man is Hard to Find |
| Ford, Ford Maddox | Good Soldier |
| Hilton, James | Good-Bye Mr. Chips |
| Steinbeck, John | Grapes of Wrath |
| Dickens, Charles | Great Expectations |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Great Gatsby |
| Gardner, John | Grendel |
| Swift, Jonathan | Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings |
| Lardner, Ring | Haircut and Other Stories |
| Atwood, Margaret | Handmaid's Tale |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Hawthorne's Short Stories |
| McCullers, Carson | Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
| Conrad, Joseph | Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer |
| Childress, Alice | Hero Ain't Nothing But a Sandwich |
| Bellow, Saul | Herzog |
| Adams, Douglas | Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | Hobbit or There and Back Again |
| Doyle, Arthur Conan | Hound of the Baskervilles |
| Momaday, N. Scott | House Made of Dawn |
| Wharton, Edith | House of Mirth |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | House of the Seven Gables |
| Allende, Isabele | House of the Spirits |
| Cisneros, Sandra | House on Mango Street |
| Alvarez, Julia | How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents |
| Forster, E.M. | Howard's End |
| Hugo, Victor | Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| Graves, Robert | I, Claudius |
| Asimov, Isaac | I, Robot |
| Bradbury, Ray | Illustrated Man |
| Capote, Truman | In Cold Blood |
| Gaines, Ernest J. | In My Father's House |
| Ellison, Ralph | Invisible Man |
| Wells, H.G. | Invisible Man |
| Scott, Sir Walter | Ivanhoe |
| Bronte, Charlotte | Jane Eyre |
| Morrison, Toni | Jazz |
| Trumbo, Dalton | Johnny Got His Gun |
| Verne, Jules | Journey to the Center of the Earth |
| Tan, Amy | Joy Luck Club |
| Walker, Margaret | Jubilee |
| Hardy, Thomas | Jude the Obscure |
| Sinclair, Upton | Jungle |
| Kipling, Rudyard | Jungle Books |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Kidnapped |
| Shaara, Michael | Killer Angels |
| Kipling, Rudyard | Kim |
| Tan, Amy | Kitchen God's Wife |
| Hosseini, Khaled | Kite Runner |
| Lawrence, D.H. | Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| Cooper, James Fenimore | Last of the Mohicans |
| Irving, Washington | Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories |
| Hugo, Victor | Les Miserables |
| Gaines, Ernest J. | Lesson Before Dying |
| Twain, Mark | Life on the Mississippi |
| Adams, Douglas | Life, the Universe and Everything |
| Saint-Exupery, Antoine | Little Prince |
| Nabokov, Vladimir | Lolita |
| Sillitoe, Alan | Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner |
| Wolfe, Thomas | Look Homeward, Angel |
| Conrad, Joseph | Lord Jim |
| Golding, William | Lord of the Flies |
| Hilton, James | Lost Horizon |
| Jackson, Shirley | Lottery and Other Stories |
| Garcia Marquez, Gabriel | Love in the Time of Cholera |
| Sebold, Alice | Lovely Bones |
| Flaubert, Gustave | Madame Bovary |
| Crane, Stephen | Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Short Fiction |
| Mann, Thomas | Magic Mountain |
| Lewis, Sinclair | Main Street |
| Dumas, Alexandre | Man in the Iron Mask |
| Austen, Jane | Mansfield Park |
| Bradbury, Ray | Martian Chronicles |
| Hardy, Thomas | Mayor of Casterbridge |
| McCullers, Carson | Member of the Wedding |
| Kafka, Franz | Metamorphosis |
| Bradley, Marion Zimmer | Mists of Avalon |
| Melville, Herman | Moby Dick |
| Defoe, Daniel | Moll Flanders |
| Percy, Walker | Moviegoer |
| Woolf, Virginia | Mrs. Dalloway |
| Christie, Agatha | Murder on the Orient Express |
| Nordhoff, Charles | Mutiny on the Bounty |
| Cather, Willa | My Antonia |
| Verne, Jules | Mysterious Island |
| Burroughs, William S. | Naked Lunch |
| Zola, Emile | Nana |
| Wright, Richard | Native Son |
| Markandaya, Kamala | Nectar in a Sieve |
| Salinger, J.D. | Nine Stories |
| Orwell, George | Nineteen Eighty-Four |
| Austen, Jane | Northanger Abbey |
| Hughes, Langston | Not Without Laughter |
| Cather, Willa | O Pioneers |
| Maugham, W. Somerset | Of Human Bondage |
| Steinbeck, John | Of Mice and Men |
| Fuentes, Carlos | Old Gringo |
| Hemingway, Ernest | Old Man and the Sea |
| Dickens, Charles | Oliver Twist |
| Kerouac, Jack | On the Road |
| White, T.H. | Once and Future King |
| Solzhenistyn, Aleksander | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |
| Kesey, Ken | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| Garcia Marquez, Gabriel | One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| Guest, Judith | Ordinary People |
| Woolf, Virginia | Orlando |
| Hinton, S.E. | Outsiders |
| Forster, E.M. | Passage to India |
| Steinbeck, John | Pearl |
| Austen, Jane | Persuasion |
| Leroux, Gaston | Phantom of the Opera |
| Dickens, Charles | Pickwick Papers |
| Wilde, Oscar | Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Camus, Albert | Plague |
| Villarreal, Jose Antonio | Pocho |
| James, Henry | Portrait of a Lady |
| Joyce, James | Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| Greene, Graham | Power and the Glory |
| Austen, Jane | Pride and Prejudice |
| Spark, Muriel | Prime of Miss Jean Brody |
| Twain, Mark | Prince and the Pauper |
| Twain, Mark | Pudd'nhead Wilson |
| Larsen, Nella | Quicksand and Passing |
| Updike, John | Rabbit, Run |
| Maugham, W. Somerset | Razor's Edge |
| Du Maurier, Daphne | Rebecca |
| Crane, Stephen | Red Badge of Courage and Four Short Stories |
| Steinbeck, John | Red Pony |
| Bradford, Richard | Red Sky at Morning |
| Stendhal | Red and the Black |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | Return of the King |
| Hardy, Thomas | Return of the Native |
| Defoe, Daniel | Robinson Crusoe |
| Forster, E.M. | Room with a View |
| Forster, E.M. | Room with a View and Howard's End |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Scarlet Letter |
| Orczy, Baroness | Scarlet Pimpernel |
| London, Jack | Sea Wolf |
| Austen, Jane | Sense and Sensibility |
| Knowles, John | Separate Peace |
| Schaefer, Jack | Shane |
| Porter, Katherine Anne | Ship of Fools |
| Kinsella, W.P. | Shoeless Joe |
| Hughes, Langston | Short Stories |
| Hesse, Herman | Siddhartha |
| Eliot, George | Silas Marner |
| Dreiser, Theodore | Sister Carrie |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Slaughterhouse Five |
| Hemingway, Ernest | Snows of Kilimanjaro |
| Bradbury, Ray | Something Wicked This Way Comes |
| Morrison, Toni | Song of Solomon |
| Lawrence, D.H. | Sons and Lovers |
| Styron, William | Sophie's Choice |
| Gaarder, Jostein | Sophie's World |
| Faulkner, William | Sound and the Fury |
| Hesse, Herman | Steppenwolf |
| Mansfield, Katherine | Stories |
| Cheever, John | Stories of John Cheever |
| Garcia Marquez, Gabriel | Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor |
| Camus, Albert | Stranger |
| Heinlein, Robert | Stranger in a Strange Land |
| Petry, Ann | Street |
| Doyle, Arthur Conan | Study in Scarlet and the Sign of Four |
| Morrison, Toni | Sula |
| Hemingway, Ernest | Sun Also Rises |
| Dickens, Charles | Tale of Two Cities |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Tender is the Night |
| Hardy, Thomas | Tess of the D'Ubervilles |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| Achebe, Chinua | Things Fall Apart |
| Dumas, Alexandre | Three Musketeers |
| Wells, H.G. | Time Machine |
| Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Woolf, Virginia | To the Lighthouse |
| Caldwell, Erskine | Tobacco Road |
| Fielding, Henry | Tom Jones |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Treasure Island |
| Smith, Betty | Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| Kafka, Franz | Trial |
| Miller, Henry | Tropic of Cancer |
| Miller, Henry | Tropic of Capricorn |
| James, Henry | Turn of the Screw and Other Short Novels |
| Verne, Jules | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | Two Towers |
| Joyce, James | Ulysses |
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Wright, Richard | Uncle Tom's Children |
| Thackeray, William | Vanity Fair |
| Tolstoy, Leo | War and Peace |
| Wells, H.G. | War of the Worlds |
| James, Henry | Washington Square |
| Hughes, Langston | Ways of White Folks |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Welcome to the Monkey House |
| Borland, Hal | When the Legends Die |
| Forster, E.M. | Where Angels Fear to Tread |
| London, Jack | White Fang |
| Rhys, Jean | Wide Sargasso Sea |
| O'Connor, Flannery | Wise Blood |
| Cisneros, Sandra | Woman Hollering Creek |
| Collins, Wilkie | Woman in White |
| Naylor, Gloria | Women of Brewster Place |
| Bronte, Emily | Wuthering Heights |
| Dorris, Michael | Yellow Raft in Blue Water |
| Gilman, Charlotte Perkins | Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings |
| Wolfe, Thomas | You Can't Go Home Again |
| Walker, Alice | You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down |