Current Throw-Down Book is The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon.
- Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
- Agee, James - A Death in the Family
- Amis, Kingsley - Lucky Jim
- Amis, Martin - Money
- Atwood, Margaret - The Blind Assassin
- Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Barth, John - The Sot-Weed Factor
- Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
- Bellow, Saul - Herzog
- Blume, Judy - Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
- Bowen, Elizabeth - The Death of the Heart
- Bowles, Paul - The Sheltering Sky
- Burgess, Anthony - A Clockwork Orange
- Burroughs, William - Naked Lunch
- Byatt, A.S. - Possession
- Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Chandler, Raymond - The Big Sleep
- Cheever, John - Falconer
- DeLillo, Don - White Noise
- Dick, Philip K. - Ubik
- Dickey, James - Deliverance
- Didion, Joan - Play It As It Lays
- Doctorow, E.L. - Ragtime
- Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
- Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
- Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
- Faulkner, William - Light in August
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
- Ford, Richard - The Sportswriter
- Forster, E.M. - A Passage to India
- Fowles, John - The French Lieutenant's Woman
- Franzen, Jonathan - The Corrections
- Gaddis, William - The Recognitions
- Gibson, William - Neuromancer
- Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
- Graves, Robert- I, Claudius
- Green, Henry - Loving
- Greene, Graham - The Heart of the Matter
- Greene, Graham - The Power and the Glory
- Hammett, Dashiell - Red Harvest
- Heller, Joseph - Catch-22
- Hemingway, Ernest - The Sun Also Rises
- Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Isherwood, Christopher - The Berlin Stories
- Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never Let Me Go
- Kerouac, Jack - On the Road
- Kesey, Ken - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Kosinski, Jerzy - The Painted Bird
- le Carre, John - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
- Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
- Lessing, Doris - The Golden Notebook
- Lewis, C.S. - The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
- Lowry, Malcolm - Under the Volcano
- Malamud, Bernard - The Assistant
- McCarthy, Cormac - Blood Meridian
- McCullers, Carson - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
- McEwan, Ian - Atonement
- Miller, Henry - Tropic of Cancer
- Mitchell, Margaret - Gone With the Wind
- Moore, Alan & Gibbons, Dave - Watchmen
- Morrison, Toni - Beloved
- Murdoch, Iris - Under the Net
- Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita
- Nabokov, Vladimir - Pale Fire
- Naipaul, V.S. - A House for Mr. Biswas
- O'Brien, Flann - At Swim - Two Birds
- O'Hara, John - Appointment in Samarra
- Orwell, George - 1984
- Orwell, George - Animal Farm
- Percy, Walker - The Moviegoer
- Powell, Anthony - A Dance to the Music of Time
- Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
- Pynchon, Thomas - Gravity's Rainbow
- Rhys, Jean - Wide Sargasso Sea
- Robinson, Marilynne - Housekeeping
- Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
- Roth, Philip - American Pastoral
- Roth, Philip - Portnoy's Complaint
- Rushdie, Salman - Midnight's Children
- Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
- Smith, Zadie - White Teeth
- Spark, Muriel - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Stead, Christian - The Man Who Loved Children
- Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
- Stephenson, Neal - Snow Crash
- Stone, Robert - Dog Soldiers
- Styron, William - The Confessions of Nat Turner
- Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Lord of the Rings
- Updike, John - Rabbit, Run
- Vonnegut, Kurt - Slaughterhouse-Five
- Wallace, David Foster - Infinite Jest
- Warren, Robert Penn - All the King's Men
- Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisited
- Waugh, Evelyn - A Handful of Dust
- West, Nathanael - The Day of the Locust
- Wilder, Thorton - The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
- Woolf, Virginia - Mrs. Dalloway
- Wright, Richard - Native Son
- Yates, Richard - Revolutionary Road
