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Lit. Frequency List
Authors and Works on the NAQT Literature Frequency List
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Hamlet (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| The Tempest (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| Macbeth (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| Moby-Dick (Novel) | Herman Melville |
| Iliad (Poetry) | Homer |
| Pride and Prejudice (Novel) | Jane Austen |
| The Great Gatsby (Novel) | F Scott Fitzgerald |
| Othello (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| The Scarlet Letter (Novel) | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Faust (Poetry) | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| King Lear (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| Romeo and Juliet (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| Julius Caesar (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| The Merchant of Venice (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| Paradise Lost (Poetry) | John Milton |
| Vanity Fair (Novel) | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| Billy Budd (Novel) | Herman Melville |
| 1984 (Novel) | George Orwell |
| Jane Eyre (Novel) | Charlotte Bronte |
| Candide (Novel) | Voltaire |
| The Canterbury Tales (Poetry) | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Oedipus Tyrannus (Drama) | Sophocles |
| The Divine Comedy (Poetry) | Dante Alighieri |
| A Streetcar Named Desire (Drama) | Tennessee Williams |
| Much Ado About Nothing (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| Our Town (Drama) | Thornton Wilder |
| Little Women (Novel) | Louisa May Alcott |
| Odyssey (Poetry) | Homer |
| Aeneid (Poetry) | Virgil |
| Pilgrim's Progress (Religious) | John Bunyan |
| A Tale of Two Cities (Novel) | Charles Dickens |
| A Farewell to Arms (Novel) | Ernest Hemingway |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls (Novel) | Ernest Hemingway |
| Long Day's Journey Into Night (Drama) | Eugene O'Neill |
| A Raisin in the Sun (Drama) | Lorraine Hansberry |
| To Kill a Mockingbird (Novel) | Harper Lee |
| The Jungle (Novel) | Upton Sinclair |
| Crime and Punishment (Novel) | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| The Grapes of Wrath (Novel) | John Steinbeck |
| Les Misérables (Novel) | Victor Hugo |
| Twelfth Night (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| War and Peace (Novel) | Leo Tolstoy |
| Ulysses (Novel) | James Joyce |
| Heart of Darkness (Novel) | Joseph Conrad |
| Catch-22 (Novel) | Joseph Heller |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Drama) | Edward Albee |
| Anna Karenina (Novel) | Leo Tolstoy |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin (Novel) | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| A Doll's House (Drama) | Henrik Ibsen |
| Wuthering Heights (Novel) | Emily Bronte |
| Great Expectations (Novel) | Charles Dickens |
| Oliver Twist (Novel) | Charles Dickens |
| The Catcher in the Rye (Novel) | JD Salinger |
| The Taming of the Shrew (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| All the King's Men (Novel) | Robert Penn Warren |
| The Sun Also Rises (Novel) | Ernest Hemingway |
| Don Quixote (Novel) | Miguel de Cervantes |
| The Waste Land (Poetry) | TS Eliot |
| Beowulf (Poetry) | Anonymous (England, Middle Ages) |
| The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Poetry) | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| The Crucible (Drama) | Arthur Miller |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Novel) | Mark Twain |
| As You Like It (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| David Copperfield (Novel) | Charles Dickens |
| Ode on a Grecian Urn (Poetry) | John Keats |
| Death of a Salesman (Drama) | Arthur Miller |
| Slaughterhouse Five (Novel) | Kurt Vonnegut |
| On the Road (Novel) | Jack Kerouac |
| Pygmalion (Drama) | George Bernard Shaw |
| Lyrical Ballads (Poetry) | William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Lolita (Novel) | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Of Mice and Men (Novel) | John Steinbeck |
| Finnegan's Wake (Novel) | James Joyce |
| Ivanhoe (Novel) | Walter Scott |
| The Turn of the Screw (Novel) | Henry James |
| My Antonia (Novel) | Willa Cather |
| The Rape of the Lock (Poetry) | Alexander Pope |
| Treasure Island (Novel) | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Bhagavad-Gita (Religious) | Anonymous (Early AD, India) |
| Gulliver's Travels (Novel) | Jonathan Swift |
| Richard III (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| The Call of the Wild (Novel) | Jack London |
| The Last of the Mohicans (Novel) | James Fenimore Cooper |
| The Faerie Queen (Poetry) | Edmund Spenser |
| Fathers and Sons (Novel) | Ivan Turgenev |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude (Novel) | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| The Count of Monte Cristo (Novel) | Alexandre Dumas |
| Brave New World (Novel) | Aldous Huxley |
| Things Fall Apart (Novel) | Chinua Achebe |
| The Red Badge of Courage (Novel) | Stephen Crane |
| Sense and Sensibility (Novel) | Jane Austen |
| Lord of the Flies (Novel) | William Golding |
| Kubla Khan (Poetry) | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Eugene Onegin (Poetry) | Aleksandr Pushkin |
| An American Tragedy (Novel) | Theodore Dreiser |
| The Glass Menagerie (Drama) | Tennessee Williams |
| Mending Wall (Poetry) | Robert Frost |
| Howl (Poetry) | Allen Ginsberg |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Children's) | Lewis Carroll |
| Rebecca (Novel) | Daphne du Maurier |
| The Sound and the Fury (Novel) | William Faulkner |
| Antigone (Drama) | Sophocles |
| The Handmaid's Tale (Novel) | Margaret Atwood |
| The Seagull (Drama) | Anton Chekhov |
| All Quiet on the Western Front (Novel) | Erich Maria Remarque |
| Mourning Becomes Electra (Drama) | Eugene O'Neill |
| Measure for Measure (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| Don Juan (Poetry) | Lord Byron |
| Robinson Crusoe (Novel) | Daniel Defoe |
| Main Street (Novel) | Sinclair Lewis |
| The House of the Seven Gables (Novel) | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Lord Jim (Novel) | Joseph Conrad |
| The Color Purple (Novel) | Alice Walker |
| To Have and Have Not (Novel) | Ernest Hemingway |
| The Sorrows of Young Werther (Novel) | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Henry V (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| The Three Musketeers (Novel) | Alexandre Dumas |
| The Old Man and the Sea (Novel) | Ernest Hemingway |
| East of Eden (Novel) | John Steinbeck |
| The Cantos (Poetry) | Ezra Pound |
| Remembrance of Things Past (Novel) | Marcel Proust |
| The Return of the Native (Novel) | Thomas Hardy |
| To His Coy Mistress (Poetry) | Andrew Marvell |
| Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Novel) | Thomas Hardy |
| The Age of Innocence (Novel) | Edith Wharton |
| Animal Farm (Novel) | George Orwell |
| Evangeline (Poetry) | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Leaves of Grass (Poetry) | Walt Whitman |
| The Winter's Tale (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| The Cherry Orchard (Drama) | Anton Chekhov |
| Frankenstein (Novel) | Mary Shelley |
| Waiting for Godot (Drama) | Samuel Beckett |
| Antony and Cleopatra (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| Henry IV (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock (Poetry) | TS Eliot |
| The Charge of the Light Brigade (Poetry) | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| Decameron (Poetry) | Giovanni Boccaccio |
| Dulce Et Decorum Est (Poetry) | Wilfred Owen |
| Rip van Winkle (Short Story) | Washington Irving |
| The Good Earth (Novel) | Pearl S Buck |
| Jude the Obscure (Novel) | Thomas Hardy |
| Peer Gynt (Drama) | Henrik Ibsen |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Novel) | Victor Hugo |
| Through the Looking Glass (Children's) | Lewis Carroll |
| Atlas Shrugged (Novel) | Ayn Rand |
| The Iceman Cometh (Drama) | Eugene O'Neill |
| Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Religious) | Jonathan Edwards |
| Richard Cory (Poetry) | Edwin Robinson |
| Song of Myself (Poetry) | Walt Whitman |
| Far From the Madding Crowd (Novel) | Thomas Hardy |
| Invisible Man (Novel) | Ralph Ellison |
| The Stranger (Novel) | Albert Camus |
| Northanger Abbey (Novel) | Jane Austen |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Novel) | James Joyce |
| A Passage to India (Novel) | EM Forster |
| Babbitt (Novel) | Sinclair Lewis |
| Utopia (Novel) | Thomas More |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Drama) | Tennessee Williams |
| The Idiot (Novel) | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Nostromo (Novel) | Joseph Conrad |
| Absalom, Absalom! (Novel) | William Faulkner |
| The Tin Drum (Novel) | Gunter Grass |
| Hedda Gabler (Drama) | Henrik Ibsen |
| Tom Jones (Novel) | Henry Fielding |
| O Pioneers! (Novel) | Willa Cather |
| Desire Under the Elms (Drama) | Eugene O'Neill |
| Tender is the Night (Novel) | F Scott Fitzgerald |
| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Short Story) | Washington Irving |
| The Magic Mountain (Novel) | Thomas Mann |
| Ode to Joy (Poetry) | Friedrich von Schiller |
| The Song of Hiawatha (Poetry) | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| The Second Coming (Poetry) | William Butler Yeats |
| The Trial (Novel) | Franz Kafka |
| The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Poetry) | Omar Khayyam |
| Annabel Lee (Poetry) | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Titus Andronicus (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| Emma (Novel) | Jane Austen |
| The Frogs (Drama) | Aristophanes |
| Medea (Drama) | Euripides |
| The Clouds (Drama) | Aristophanes |
| Ode to a Nightingale (Poetry) | John Keats |
| The Raven (Poetry) | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Chronicles of Narnia (Children's) | CS Lewis |
| Death Comes for the Archbishop (Novel) | Willa Cather |
| Persuasion (Novel) | Jane Austen |
| Pamela (Novel) | Samuel Richardson |
| Man and Superman (Drama) | George Bernard Shaw |
| Ulysses (Poetry) | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| Middlemarch (Novel) | George Eliot |
| Dracula (Novel) | Bram Stoker |
| Beloved (Novel) | Toni Morrison |
| Adam Bede (Novel) | George Eliot |
| Breakfast at Tiffany's (Novel) | Truman Capote |
| Le Morte d'Arthur (Poetry) | Thomas Malory |
| Ozymandias (Poetry) | Percy Shelley |
| Spoon River Anthology (Poetry) | Edgar Lee Masters |
| Ramayana (Poetry) | Valmiki |
| A Clockwork Orange (Novel) | Anthony Burgess |
| The Prince and the Pauper (Novel) | Mark Twain |
| The Little Foxes (Drama) | Lillian Hellmann |
| Dead Souls (Novel) | Nikolai Gogol |
| Charlotte's Web (Children's) | EB White |
| Germinal (Novel) | Emile Zola |
| Stopping by Woods on a Snowing Evening (Poetry) | Robert Frost |
| Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey (Poetry) | William Wordsworth |
| Death in Venice (Novel) | Thomas Mann |
| Arms and the Man (Drama) | George Bernard Shaw |
| Cannery Row (Novel) | John Steinbeck |
| Metamorphoses (Poetry) | Ovid |
| Dover Beach (Poetry) | Matthew Arnold |
| The Road Not Taken (Poetry) | Robert Frost |
| Gunga Din (Poetry) | Rudyard Kipling |
| Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Poetry) | Lord Byron |
| The Tenth Muse lately Sprung Up in America (Poetry) | Anne Bradstreet |
| Thanatopsis (Poetry) | William Cullen Bryant |
| The Little Prince (Children's) | Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
| Ethan Frome (Novel) | Edith Wharton |
| Doctor Faustus (Novel) | Thomas Mann |
| Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Novel) | Jules Verne |
| Native Son (Novel) | Richard Wright |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Novel) | Ken Kesey |
| Elmer Gantry (Novel) | Sinclair Lewis |
| The Fountainhead (Novel) | Ayn Rand |
| Songs of Innocence (Poetry) | William Blake |
| The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Short Story) | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Qur'an (Religious) | Muhammad |
| Gravity's Rainbow (Novel) | Thomas Pynchon |
| Cry, the Beloved Country (Novel) | Alan Paton |
| Arrowsmith (Novel) | Sinclair Lewis |
| The Brothers Karamazov (Novel) | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| The Master Builder (Drama) | Henrik Ibsen |
| The Satanic Verses (Novel) | Salman Rushdie |
| Mansfield Park (Novel) | Jane Austen |
| Around the World in Eighty Days (Novel) | Jules Verne |
| Major Barbara (Drama) | George Bernard Shaw |
| The Red and the Black (Novel) | Stendhal |
| Midnight's Children (Novel) | Salman Rushdie |
| White Fang (Novel) | Jack London |
| The Old Curiosity Shop (Novel) | Charles Dickens |
| Resurrection (Novel) | Leo Tolstoy |
| Look Homeward, Angel (Novel) | Thomas Wolfe |
| The Playboy of the Western World (Drama) | John Millington Synge |
| Young Goodman Brown (Short Story) | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Silas Marner (Novel) | George Eliot |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray (Novel) | Oscar Wilde |
| Daisy Miller (Novel) | Henry James |
| Dune (Novel) | Frank Herbert |
| The Bostonians (Novel) | Henry James |
| The Fall of the House of Usher (Short Story) | Edgar Allan Poe |
| The Hobbit (Novel) | JRR Tolkien |
| Adonais (Poetry) | Percy Shelley |
| Crossing the Bar (Poetry) | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| Gone with the Wind (Novel) | Margaret Mitchell |
| Uncle Vanya (Drama) | Anton Chekhov |
| The Alchemist (Drama) | Ben Jonson |
| Steppenwolf (Novel) | Herman Hesse |
| The Children's Hour (Drama) | Lillian Hellmann |
| Ghosts (Drama) | Henrik Ibsen |
| Henry VIII (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| The Bridge at San Luis Rey (Novel) | Thornton Wilder |
| A Separate Peace (Novel) | John Knowles |
| Sonnets from the Portuguese (Poetry) | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| Because I Could Not Stop For Death (Poetry) | Emily Dickinson |
| Les Fleurs du Mal (Poetry) | Charles Baudelaire |
| Endymion (Poetry) | John Keats |
| John Brown's Body (Poetry) | Stephen Vincent Benet |
| The Castle of Otranto (Novel) | Horace Walpole |
| The Four Quartets (Poetry) | TS Eliot |
| The Tiger (Poetry) | William Blake |
| All My Sons (Drama) | Arthur Miller |
| Inherit the Wind (Drama) | Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee |
| Joseph Andrews (Novel) | Henry Fielding |
| Three Sisters (Drama) | Anton Chekhov |
| Endgame (Drama) | Samuel Beckett |
| The Last Tycoon (Novel) | F Scott Fitzgerald |
| Bacchae (Drama) | Euripides |
| Peter Pan (Children's) | James M Barrie |
| The Jew of Malta (Drama) | Christopher Marlowe |
| Kim (Novel) | Rudyard Kipling |
| Chicago (Poetry) | Carl Sandburg |
| A Man for All Seasons (Drama) | Robert Bolt |
| The Bell Jar (Novel) | Sylvia Plath |
| The Bridge (Poetry) | Hart Crane |
| To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time (Poetry) | Robert Herrick |
| My Last Duchess (Poetry) | Robert Browning |
| The Purloined Letter (Short Story) | Edgar Allan Poe |
| The Gift of the Magi (Short Story) | O Henry |
| The Bronze Horseman (Poetry) | Aleksandr Pushkin |
| Lucky Jim (Novel) | Kingsley Amis |
| Winesburg, Ohio (Novel) | Sherwood Anderson |
| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Novel) | Mark Twain |
| Cat's Cradle (Novel) | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Watership Down (Children's) | Richard Adams |
| The Natural (Novel) | Bernard Malamud |
| Out of Africa (Novel) | Isak Dinesen |
| This Side of Paradise (Novel) | F Scott Fitzgerald |
| The Glass Bead Game (Novel) | Herman Hesse |
| JB (Drama) | Archibald MacLeish |
| An Enemy of the People (Drama) | Henrik Ibsen |
| Tartuffe (Drama) | Moliere |
| The Lower Depths (Drama) | Maxim Gorky |
| The Misanthrope (Drama) | Moliere |
| Exodus (Novel) | Leon Uris |
| The Way of the World (Drama) | William Congreve |
| 1919 (Novel) | John Dos Passos |
| The Portrait of a Lady (Novel) | Henry James |
| The Golden Bowl (Novel) | Henry James |
| Kenilworth (Novel) | Walter Scott |
| Lysistrata (Drama) | Aristophanes |
| The Pioneers (Novel) | James Fenimore Cooper |
| A Christmas Carol (Novel) | Charles Dickens |
| The Octopus (Novel) | Frank Norris |
| From Here to Eternity (Novel) | James Jones |
| The Time Machine (Novel) | HG Wells |
| Fahrenheit 451 (Novel) | Ray Bradbury |
| Stranger in a Strange Land (Novel) | Robert A Heinlein |
| City of God (Religious) | Augustine of Hippo |
| No Exit (Drama) | Jean Paul Sartre |
| Erewhon (Novel) | Samuel Butler |
| Wise Blood (Novel) | Flannery O'Connor |
| Volpone (Drama) | Ben Jonson |
| Troilus and Cressida (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| Death in the Afternoon (Novel) | Ernest Hemingway |
| Song of the Lark (Novel) | Willa Cather |
| The Mayor of Casterbridge (Novel) | Thomas Hardy |
| As I Lay Dying (Novel) | William Faulkner |
| The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Short Story) | James Thurber |
| Sister Carrie (Novel) | Theodore Dreiser |
| Strange Interlude (Drama) | Eugene O'Neill |
| The Tale of Genji (Novel) | Lady Murasaki Shikibu |
| The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Novel) | Leo Tolstoy |
| In Memoriam (Poem) | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (Poetry) | Thomas Gray |
| Essay on Criticism (Poetry) | Alexander Pope |
| Kaddish (Poetry) | Allen Ginsberg |
| The Enormous Room (Poetry) | EE Cummings |
| Prometheus Unbound (Poetry) | Percy Shelley |
| Tobacco Road (Novel) | Erskine Caldwell |
| In Cold Blood (Novel) | Truman Capote |
| The Age of Anxiety (Poetry) | WH Auden |
| A Man in Full (Novel) | Tom Wolfe |
| A Shropshire Lad (Poetry) | AE Housman |
| Death, Be Not Proud (Poetry) | John Donne |
| To A Waterfowl (Poetry) | William Cullen Bryant |
| Prometheus Bound (Drama) | Aeschylus |
| Jabberwocky (Poetry) | Lewis Carroll |
| The Hollow Men (Poetry) | TS Eliot |
| Areopagitica (Poetry) | John Milton |
| O Captain! My Captain! (Poetry) | Walt Whitman |
| Beyond the Horizon (Drama) | Eugene O'Neill |
| The Skin of Our Teeth (Drama) | Thornton Wilder |
| The Man Who Would Be King (Novel) | Rudyard Kipling |
| Jungle Book (Children's) | Rudyard Kipling |
| Two Gentlemen of Verona (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| The Rivals (Drama) | Richard Sheridan |
| The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (Collection) | Washington Irving |
| The Open Boat (Short Story) | Stephen Crane |
| The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (Short Story) | Mark Twain |
| Siddhartha (Novel) | Herman Hesse |
| The Cask of Amontillado (Short Story) | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Miss Julie (Drama) | August Strindberg |
| Dubliners (Collection) | James Joyce |
| I Ching (Religious) | Confucius (supposed) |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God (Novel) | Zora Neale Hurston |
| Looking Backward (Novel) | Edward Bellamy |
| The Emperor Jones (Drama) | Eugene O'Neill |
| The Name of the Rose (Novel) | Umberto Eco |
| The Screwtape Letters (Novel) | CS Lewis |
| A Study in Scarlet (Novel) | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| General William Booth Enters Into Heaven (Poetry) | Vachel Lindsay |
| Rob Roy (Novel) | Walter Scott |
| The Masque of Red Death (Short Story) | Edgar Allan Poe |
| The House of Mirth (Novel) | Edith Wharton |
| The Flies (Drama) | Jean Paul Sartre |
| Richard II (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| The Ballad of the Sad Café (Drama) | Carson McCullers |
| Typee (Novel) | Herman Melville |
| Howards End (Novel) | EM Forster |
| The Ambassadors (Novel) | Henry James |
| Lady Chatterley's Lover (Novel) | DH Lawrence |
| The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Novel) | Charles Dickens |
| Rappaccini's Daughter (Short Story) | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| The Beggar's Opera (Drama) | John Gay |
| RUR - Rossum's Universal Robots (Drama) | Karel Capek |
| The Bald Soprano (Drama) | Eugene Ionesco |
| Juneteenth (Novel) | Ralph Ellison |
| The Threepenny Opera (Drama) | Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht |
| Tropic of Cancer (Novel) | Henry Miller |
| The Devil and Daniel Webster (Short Story) | Stephen Vincent Benet |
| Mosses from an Old Manse (Collection) | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Show Boat (Novel) | Edna Ferber |
| The Man Who Came To Dinner (Drama) | George S Kaufman and Moss Hart |
| No Longer At Ease (Novel) | Chinua Achebe |
| Mrs Warren's Profession (Drama) | George Bernard Shaw |
| Washington Square (Novel) | Henry James |
| The Iron Heel (Novel) | Jack London |
| The Web and the Rock (Novel) | Thomas Wolfe |
| The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Novel) | TE Lawrence |
| Brideshead Revisited (Novel) | Evelyn Waugh |
| The Imaginary Invalid (Drama) | Moliere |
| All's Well That Ends Well (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| The Moon and Sixpence (Novel) | W Somerset Maugham |
| Go Tell It On the Mountain (Novel) | James Baldwin |
| The Fixer (Novel) | Bernard Malamud |
| A Room with a View (Novel) | EM Forster |
| The Naked and the Dead (Novel) | Norman Mailer |
| Pierre, or the Ambiguities (Novel) | Herman Melville |
| White-Jacket (Novel) | Herman Melville |
| The Charterhouse of Parma (Novel) | Stendhal |
| Sons and Lovers (Novel) | DH Lawrence |
| The Vicar of Wakefield (Novel) | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Sanctuary (Novel) | William Faulkner |
| The English Patient (Novel) | Michael Ondattje |
| The Four Million (Novel) | O Henry |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Novel) | Mark Twain |
| The Trojan Women (Drama) | Euripides |
| Jazz (Novel) | Toni Morrison |
| Homage to Catalonia (Novel) | George Orwell |
| Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (Poetry) | Walt Whitman |
| Paul Revere's Ride (Poetry) | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| The Thin Man (Novel) | Dashiell Hammett |
| The Maltese Falcon (Novel) | Dashiell Hammett |
| You Can't Take It with You (Drama) | George S Kaufman and Moss Hart |
| The Dunciad (Poetry) | Alexander Pope |
| Winterset (Drama) | Maxwell Anderson |
| The Odd Couple (Drama) | Neil Simon |
| The Heiress (Drama) | john Burgoyne |
| Ragtime (Novel) | El Doctorow |
| Mrs Dalloway (Novel) | Virginia Woolf |
| The Persians (Drama) | Aeschylus |
| The Gold Bug (Short Story) | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Song of Solomon (Novel) | Toni Morrison |
| Brand (Drama) | Henrik Ibsen |
| Madame Bovary (Novel) | Gustave Flaubert |
| The Mill on the Floss (Novel) | George Eliot |
| An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Short Story) | Ambrose Bierce |
| The Alhambra (Short Story) | Washington Irving |
| Rhinoceros (Drama) | Eugene Ionesco |
| The Importance of Being Earnest (Drama) | Oscar Wilde |
| Sons (Novel) | Pearl S Buck |
| You Can't Go Home Again (Novel) | Thomas Wolfe |
| The Blithedale Romance (Novel) | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| After the Fall (Drama) | Arthur Miller |
| Tristram Shandy (Novel) | Laurence Sterne |
| The Marble Faun (Novel) | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Hard Times (Novel) | Charles Dickens |
| The Courtship of Miles Standish (Poetry) | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer (Poetry) | John Keats |
| Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (Poetry) | Dylan Thomas |
| Songs of Experience (Poetry) | William Blake |
| The Castle (Novel) | Franz Kafka |
| Paterson (Poetry) | William Carlos Williams |
| The Bells (Poetry) | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Miniver Cheevy (Poetry) | Edwin Robinson |
| The Lady of the Lake (Poetry) | Walter Scott |
| Every Man In His Humour (Drama) | Ben Jonson |
| Absalom and Achitophel (Poetry) | John Dryden |
| Samson Agonistes (Poetry) | John Milton |
| Heartbreak House (Drama) | George Bernard Shaw |
| The Death of the Hired Man (Poetry) | Robert Frost |
| To a Mouse (Poetry) | Robert Burns |
| Theogony (Poetry) | Hesiod |
| Works and Days (Poetry) | Hesiod |
| The Gift Outright (Poetry) | Robert Frost |
| Ode to the West Wind (Poetry) | Percy Shelley |
| Barbara Frietchie (Poetry) | John Greenleaf Whittier |
| The Comedy of Errors (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| The Wild Duck (Drama) | Henrik Ibsen |
| Fences (Drama) | August Wilson |
| Light in August (Novel) | William Faulkner |
| Twice-Told Tales (Collection) | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Anne of Green Gables (Children's) | LM Montgomery |
| The Wind in the Willows (Children's) | Kenneth Grahame |
| The New Colossus (Poetry) | Emma Lazarus |
| Our American Cousin (Drama) | Tom Taylor |
| The Time of Your Life (Novel) | William Saroyan |
| Battle Hymn of the Republic (Poetry) | Julia Ward Howe |
| The Secret Garden (Children's) | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| Book of Mormon (Religious) | Joseph Smith |
| The Moonstone (Novel) | Wilkie Collins |
| The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Novel) | Agatha Christie |
| Murder on the Orient Express (Novel) | Agatha Christie |
| And Then There Were None (Novel) | Agatha Christie |
| Dream Songs (Poetry) | John Berryman |
| To a Skylark (Poetry) | Percy Shelley |
| The Lady of Shalott (Poetry) | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| A Death in the Family (Novel) | James Agee |
| A Bell for Adano (Novel) | John Hersey |
| Go Down, Moses (Novel) | William Faulkner |
| Daniel Deronda (Novel) | George Eliot |
| Naked Lunch (Novel) | William S Burroughs |
| Foucault's Pendulum (Novel) | Umberto Eco |
| The Member of the Wedding (Novel) | Carson McCullers |
| The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Novel) | Carson McCullers |
| The Lottery (Short Story) | Shirley Jackson |
| Omoo (Novel) | Herman Melville |
| The Invisible Man (Novel) | HG Wells |
| The Plumed Serpent (Novel) | DH Lawrence |
| The 42nd Parallel (Novel) | John Dos Passos |
| Cymbeline (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| The Zoo Story (Drama) | Edward Albee |
| Seascape (Drama) | Edward Albee |
| Three Tall Women (Drama) | Edward Albee |
| The Wasps (Drama) | Aristophanes |
| Agamemnon (Drama) | Aeschylus |
| The Sea Wolf (Novel) | Jack London |
| Look Back in Anger (Drama) | John Osborne |
| Moll Flanders (Novel) | Daniel Defoe |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | William Shakespeare |
| A Delicate Balance (Drama) | Edward Albee |
| Glengarry Glen Ross (Drama) | David Mamet |
| The Titan (Novel) | Theodore Dreiser |
| The Joy Luck Club (Novel) | Amy Tan |
| Golden Boy (Drama) | Clifford Odets |
| The Cider House Rules (Novel) | John Irving |
| Lady Windermere's Fan (Drama) | Oscar Wilde |
| The Caine Mutiny (Novel) | Herman Wouk |
| To the Lighthouse (Novel) | Virginia Woolf |
| The Mansion (Novel) | William Faulkner |
| The Crying of Lot 49 (Novel) | Thomas Pynchon |
| Twenty Years After (Novel) | Alexandre Dumas |
| Abe Lincoln in Illinois (Drama) | Robert Sherwood |
| Sybil (Novel) | Benjamin Disraeli |
| Soldier's Pay (Novel) | William Faulkner |
| Pale Fire (Novel) | Vladimir Nabokov |
| A View from the Bridge (Drama) | Arthur Miller |
| Mother Courage and Her Children (Drama) | Bertolt Brecht |
| The Magnificent Ambersons (Novel) | Booth Tarkington |
| Humboldt's Gift (Novel) | Saul Bellow |
| Electra (Drama) | Sophocles |
| Ariel (Poetry) | Sylvia Plath |
| The Fifth Column (Drama) | Ernest Hemingway |
| Saint Joan (Drama) | George Bernard Shaw |
| Seven Against Thebes (Drama) | Aeschylus |
| The Troublesome Reign and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second (Drama) | Christopher Marlowe |
| The American (Novel) | Henry James |
| The House of the Dead (Novel) | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| The Big Money (Novel) | John Dos Passos |
| Buddenbrooks (Novel) | Thomas Mann |
| Almayer's Folly (Novel) | Joseph Conrad |
| Cakes and Ale (Novel) | W Somerset Maugham |
| The Man with the Golden Arm (Novel) | Nelson Algren |
| The World According to Garp (Novel) | John Irving |
| The Swiss Family Robinson (Novel) | Johann Wyss |
| The Country of the Pointed First (Novel) | Sarah Orne Jewett |
| Sartor Resartus (Novel) | Thomas Carlyle |
| The Bear (Children's) | Anton Chekhov |
| Waverley (Novel) | Walter Scott |
| Dragon's Teeth (Novel) | Upton Sinclair |
| Odes (Poetry) | Horace |
| To Althea from Prison (Poetry) | Richard Lovelace |
| The Mousetrap (Drama) | Agatha Christie |
| Renascence (Poetry) | Edna St Vincent Millay |
| The Matchmaker (Drama) | Thornton Wilder |
| The Day of the Locust (Novel) | Nathanael West |
| The Star-Spangled Banner (Poetry) | Francis Scott Key |
| Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Drama) | Tom Stoppard |
| Essay on Man (Poetry) | Alexander Pope |
| The Inspector General (Drama) | Nikolai Gogol |
| Tamburlaine the Great (Drama) | Christopher Marlowe |
| A Wrinkle in Time (Children's) | Madeleine L'Engle |
| Little Men (Novel) | Louisa May Alcott |
| Ragged Dick (Children's) | Horatio Alger |
| Coriolanus (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| Eumenides (Drama) | Aeschylus |
| Andromache (Drama) | Euripides |
| The Red Pony (Novel) | John Steinbeck |
| The Prisoner of Zenda (Novel) | Anthony Hope |
| Snow Country (Novel) | Kawabata Yasunari |
| A House Divided (Novel) | Pearl S Buck |
| Demian (Novel) | Herman Hesse |
| Bleak House (Novel) | Charles Dickens |
| The Book of the Duchess (Poetry) | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Lincoln (Biography) | Gore Vidal |
| Cabbages and Kings (Novel) | O Henry |
| A Fable (Novel) | William Faulkner |
| The Snows of Kilimanjaro (Short Story) | Ernest Hemingway |
| Stuart Little (Children's) | EB White |
| One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Novel) | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
| Hospital Sketches (Novel) | Louisa May Alcott |
| The Dumbwaiter (Drama) | Harold Pinter |
| Birches (Poetry) | Robert Frost |
| To An Athlete Dying Young (Poetry) | AE Housman |
| On the Pulse of Morning (Poetry) | Maya Angelou |
| The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Poetry) | Oscar Wilde |
| The Parliament of Fowls (Poetry) | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Aurora Leigh (Poetry) | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| Idylls of the King (Poetry) | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| Sailing to Byzantium (Poetry) | William Butler Yeats |
| Easter, 1916 (Poetry) | William Butler Yeats |
| The Right Stuff (Novel) | Tom Wolfe |
| Love in the Time of Cholera (Novel) | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| Song of Roland (Poetry) | Anonymous (France, 1100) |
| Little Gidding (Poetry) | TS Eliot |
| The Heart of Midlothian (Novel) | Walter Scott |
| The Queen of Spades (Poetry) | Aleksandr Pushkin |
| Lamia (Poetry) | John Keats |
| Invictus (Poetry) | William Ernest Henley |
| Lycidas (Poetry) | John Milton |
| The Prophet (Poetry) | Kahlil Gibran |
| The Prisoner of the Caucasus (Poetry) | Aleksandr Pushkin |
| The Drunken Boat (Poetry) | Arthur Rimbaud |
| A Visit from St Nicholas (Poetry) | Clement Clarke Moore |
| The Moon is Down (Novel) | John Steinbeck |
| Blood Wedding (Poetry) | Federico Garcia Lorca |
| The Birthday Party (Drama) | Harold Pinter |
| The School for Scandal (Drama) | Richard Sheridan |
| Hero and Leander (Poetry) | Christopher Marlowe and George Chapman |
| Under Milk Wood (Poetry) | Dylan Thomas |
| The Deserted Village (Poetry) | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Ars Poetica (Poetry) | Archibald MacLeish |
| Annie Allen (Poetry) | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| Hyperion (Poetry) | Friedrich Holderlin |
| Tales of a Wayside Inn (Poetry) | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| North of Boston (Poetry) | Robert Frost |
| Orlando Furioso (Poetry) | Lodovico Ariosto |
| La Vita Nuova (Poetry) | Dante Alighieri |
| When I Was One-and-Twenty (Poetry) | AE Housman |
| The Weary Blues (Poetry) | Langston Hughes |
| Harlem (Poetry) | Langston Hughes |
| The Caretaker (Drama) | Harold Pinter |
| A Boy's Will (Poetry) | Robert Frost |
| Everyman (Drama) | Anonymous (England, Late 1400s) |
| The Piano Lesson (Drama) | August Wilson |
| Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (Novel) | Stephen Crane |
| Darkness at Noon (Novel) | Arthur Koestler |
| Roughing It (Novel) | Mark Twain |
| Amadeus (Drama) | Peter Shaffer |
| Orlando (Novel) | Virginia Woolf |
| Philoctetes (Drama) | Sophocles |
| Nana (Novel) | Emile Zola |
| Ship of Fools (Novel) | Katherine Anne Porter |
| The Overcoat (Novel) | Nikolai Gogol |
| When We Dead Awaken (Drama) | Henrik Ibsen |
| The Spy (Novel) | James Fenimore Cooper |
| Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Novel) | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| The First Circle (Novel) | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
| The Gulag Archipelago (Nonfiction) | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
| The Deerslayer (Novel) | James Fenimore Cooper |
| The Awakening (Novel) | Kate Chopin |
| Sartoris (Novel) | William Faulkner |
| Villette (Novel) | Charlotte Bronte |
| The Tell-Tale Heart (Short Story) | Edgar Allan Poe |
| The Pearl (Short Story) | John Steinbeck |
| The Battle of the Books (Novel) | Jonathan Swift |
| Point Counter Point (Novel) | Aldous Huxley |
| A Good Man is Hard to Find (Short Story) | Flannery O'Connor |
| The Pit and the Pendulum (Short Story) | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Delta Wedding (Novel) | Eudora Welty |
| Why I Live at the PO (Short Story) | Eudora Welty |
| The Optimist's Daughter (Novel) | Eudora Welty |
| Music from Spain (Short Story) | Eudora Welty |
| A Worn Path (Short Story) | Eudora Welty |
| Tar Baby (Novel) | Toni Morrison |
| Where the Sidewalk Ends (Children's) | Shel Silverstein |
| Bartleby the Scrivener (Short Story) | Herman Melville |
| Alcestis (Drama) | Euripides |
| The Last Picture Show (Novel) | Larry McMurtry |
| Lonesome Dove (Novel) | Larry McMurtry |
| Terms of Endearment (Novel) | Larry McMurtry |
| Horseman, Pass By (Novel) | Larry McMurtry |
| Oil! (Novel) | Upton Sinclair |
| V. (Novel) | Thomas Pynchon |
| Institutes of the Christian Religion (Religious) | John Calvin |
| The Professor (Novel) | Charlotte Bronte |
| Waiting to Exhale (Novel) | Terry McMillan |
| Equus (Drama) | Peter Shaffer |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Children's) | Roald Dahl |
| Closing Time (Novel) | Joseph Heller |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Novel) | JK Rowling |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Novel) | JK Rowling |
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Novel) | JK Rowling |
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Novel) | JK Rowling |
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Novel) | JK Rowling |
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Novel) | JK Rowling |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Novel) | JK Rowling |
| A Few Figs From Thistles (Poetry) | Edna St Vincent Millay |
| Burnt Norton (Poetry) | TS Eliot |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Novel) | Douglas Adams |
| The Valley of Fear (Novel) | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| The Sign of the Four (Novel) | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles (Novel) | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| The Chambered Nautilus (Poetry) | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Old Ironsides (Poetry) | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Fog (Poetry) | Carl Sandburg |
| The Possessed (Novel) | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| Kiss of the Spider Woman (Novel) | Manuel Puig |
| Barnaby Rudge (Novel) | Charles Dickens |
| Scenes of Clerical Life (Novel) | George Eliot |
| Little Dorrit (Novel) | Charles Dickens |
| Cathedral (Short Story) | Raymond Carver |
| Kangaroo (Novel) | DH Lawrence |
| The Angelic Avengers (Novel) | Isak Dinesen |
| A Perfect Day for Bananafish (Short Story) | JD Salinger |
| The Minister's Black Veil (Short Story) | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| All the Pretty Horses (Novel) | Cormac McCarthy |
| No Country for Old Men (Novel) | Cormac McCarthy |
| The Road (Novel) | Cormac McCarthy |
| Porgy (Novel) | DuBose Heyward |
| Dodsworth (Novel) | Sinclair Lewis |
| The Secret Agent (Novel) | Joseph Conrad |
| The Cenci (Poetry) | Percy Shelley |
| The Scarlet Pimpernel (Novel) | Baroness Orczy |
| Life on the Mississippi (Novel) | Mark Twain |
| Private Lives (Drama) | Noel Coward |
| The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Drama) | Bertolt Brecht |
| Six Characters in Search of an Author (Drama) | Luigi Pirandello |
| Henry VI (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| Riders to the Sea (Drama) | John Millington Synge |
| The Spanish Tragedy (Drama) | Thomas Kyd |
| Love's Labour's Lost (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| Amerika (Novel) | Franz Kafka |
| The Hamlet (Novel) | William Faulkner |
| A Tale of a Tub (Novel) | Jonathan Swift |
| It Can't Happen Here (Novel) | Sinclair Lewis |
| Nicholas Nickleby (Novel) | Charles Dickens |
| So Big (Novel) | Edna Ferber |
| Ben-Hur (Novel) | Lew Wallace |
| Portrait of a Lady (Novel) | Henry James |
| Coningsby (Novel) | Benjamin Disraeli |
| Anthem (Novel) | Ayn Rand |
| The Music Man (Drama) | Meredith Wilson |
| The Miser (Drama) | Moliere |
| The Town (Novel) | William Faulkner |
| The Mysterious Island (Novel) | Jules Verne |
| The Accidental Tourist (Novel) | Anne Tyler |
| The Plague (Novel) | Albert Camus |
| In Dubious Battle (Novel) | John Steinbeck |
| The Grandissimes (Novel) | George Washington Cable |
| The Power and the Glory (Novel) | Graham Greene |
| The Stoic (Novel) | Theodore Dreiser |
| The Financier (Novel) | Theodore Dreiser |
| Iberia (Novel) | James Michener |
| Anthills of the Savannah (Novel) | Chinua Achebe |
| Junkie (Novel) | William S Burroughs |
| The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky (Short Story) | Stephen Crane |
| A Moon for the Misbegotten (Drama) | Eugene O'Neill |
| Kidnapped (Novel) | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Fanshawe (Novel) | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| The End of the Affair (Novel) | Graham Greene |
| Leaf Storm (Short Story) | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| The Ground Beneath Her Feet (Novel) | Salman Rushdie |
| Libra (Novel) | Don DeLillo |
| White Noise (Novel) | Don DeLillo |
| Giants in the Earth (Novel) | Ole Rolvaag |
| Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (Novel) | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| Centennial (Novel) | James Michener |
| Le Roi S'amuse (Drama) | Victor Hugo |
| Hawaii (Novel) | James Michener |
| Texas (Novel) | James Michener |
| The Gilded Age (Novel) | Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner |
| God's Little Acre (Novel) | Erskine Caldwell |
| Alice Adams (Novel) | Booth Tarkington |
| The Unvanquished (Novel) | William Faulkner |
| Dangling Man (Novel) | Saul Bellow) |
| Under the Volcano (Novel) | Malcolm Lowry) |
| The Virginian (Novel) | Owen Wister |
| Vivian Grey (Novel) | Benjamin Disraeli |
| Dr Heidegger's Experiment (Short Story) | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Poor Folk (Novel) | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| A Thousand Acres (Novel) | Jane Smiley |
| Underworld (Novel) | Don DeLillo |
| The Blue Hotel (Novel) | Stephen Crane |
| Typhoon (Novel) | Joseph Conrad |
| Wilhelm Meister (Novel) | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| The Moor's Last Sigh (Novel) | Salman Rushdie |
| Alexander's Bridge (Novel) | Willa Cather |
| The Prairie (Novel) | James Fenimore Cooper |
| To Build a Fire (Short Story) | Jack London |
| Androcles and the Lion (Drama) | George Bernard SHaw |
| Where Angels Fear to Tread (Novel) | EM Forster |
| The Night of the Iguana (Drama) | Tennessee Williams |
| Something Wicked This Way Comes (Novel) | Ray Bradbury |
| Waiting for Lefty (Drama) | Clifford Odets |
| The Nine Tailors (Novel) | Dorothy Sayers |
| Soul Mountain (Novel) | Gao Xingjian |
| Whose Body? (Novel) | Dorothy Sayers |
| The Plough and the Stars (Drama) | Sean O'Casey |
| Anna Christie (Drama) | Eugene O'Neill |
| The Robbers (Drama) | Friedrich von Schiller |
| Wallenstein (Drama) | Friedrich von Schiller |
| The Mourning Bride (Drama) | William Congreve |
| The American Dream (Drama) | Edward Albee |
| Blithe Spirit (Drama) | Noel Coward |
| Hay Fever (Drama) | Noel Coward |
| Le Cid (Drama) | Pierre Corneille |
| American Buffalo (Drama) | David Mamet |
| Goodbye, Mr Chips (Novel) | James Hilton |
| The Razor's Edge (Novel) | W Somerset Maugham |
| Wide Sargasso Sea (Novel) | Jean Rhys |
| The Assistant (Novel) | Bernard Malamud |
| Herzog (Novel) | Saul Bellow |
| Mutiny on the Bounty (Novel) | Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall |
| The Pit (Novel) | Frank Norris |
| Other Voices, Other Rooms (Novel) | Truman Capote |
| The Mysterious Stranger (Novel) | Mark Twain |
| Zorba the Greek (Novel) | Nikos Kazantzakis |
| Black Beauty (Children's) | Anna Sewell |
| The Monk (Novel) | Matthew Gregory Lewis |
| The Rise of Silas Lapham (Novel) | William Dean Howells |
| The Bluest Eye (Novel) | Toni Mossiron |
| The African Queen (Novel) | CS Forester |
| The Captain's Daughter (Poetry) | Aleksandr Pushkin |
| The Luck of Roaring Camp (Short Story) | Bret Harte |
| The Ring and the Book (Poetry) | Robert Browning |
| Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Poetry) | Pablo Neruda |
| Spiritual Exercises (Religious) | St Ignatius of Loyola |
| The Once and Future King (Novel) | TH White |
| Fiddler on the Roof (Drama) | Jerry Bock |
| The Immoralist (Novel) | Andre Gide |
| Surfacing (Novel) | Margaret Atwood |
| White Nights (Short Story) | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| The Third Man (Novel) | Graham Greene |
| Epic of Gilgamesh (Poetry) | Anonymous (Mesopotamia, 2000 BC) |
| The Dragons of Eden (Nonfiction) | Carl Sagan |
| The Book of Common Prayer (Religious) | Thomas Cranmer |
| The Birds (Drama) | Aristophanes |
| The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber (Short Story) | Ernest Hemingway |
| Ficciones (Collection) | Jorge Luis Borges |
| The Walrus and the Carpenter (Poetry) | Lewis Carroll |
| Green Eggs and Ham (Children's) | Dr Seuss |
| Pandora's Box (Drama) | Frank Wedekind |
| Jonathan Wild (Novel) | Henry Fielding |
| She Stoops to Conquer (Drama) | Oliver Goldsmith |
| The Red Rover (Novel) | James Fenimore Cooper |
| The Birthmark (Short Story) | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter (Drama) | Federico Garcia Lorca |
| The Last Temptation of Christ (Novel) | Nikos Kazantzakis |
| Ramona (Novel) | Helen Hunt Jackson |
| The Prince of Tides (Novel) | Pat Conroy |
| Fire and Ice (Poetry) | Robert Frost |
| A Season in Hell (Poetry) | Arthur Rimbaud |
| Sonnets to Orpheus (Poetry) | Rainer Maria Rilke |
| On His Blindness (Poetry) | John Milton |
| Georgics (Poetry) | Virgil |
| Eclogues (Poetry) | Virgil |
| Snow-Bound (Poetry) | John Greenleaf Whittier |
| A Hero of Our Time (Poetry) | Mikhail Lermontov |
| Leda and the Swan (Poetry) | William Butler Yeats |
| The Lamb (Poetry) | William Blake |
| Paradise Regained (Poetry) | John Milton |
| The Cocktail Party (Drama) | TS Eliot |
| All for Love (Drama) | john Dryden |
| Goblin Market (Poetry) | Christina Rossetti |
| If - (Poetry) | Rudyard Kipling |
| The Bride of Lammermoor (Poetry) | Walter Scott |
| The Flea (Poetry) | John Donne |
| A Coney Island of the Mind (Poetry) | Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
| When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (Poetry) | Walt Whitman |
| The Convergence of the Twain (Poetry) | Thomas Hardy |
| The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Poetry) | Blake |
| The Red Wheelbarrow (Poetry) | William Carlos Williams |
| Murder in the Cathedral (Drama) | TS Eliot |
| The Darkling Thrush (Poetry) | Thomas hardy |
| Hiroshima (Nonfiction) | John Hersey |
| Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (Poetry) | Dylan Thomas |
| A Street in Bronzeville (Poetry) | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| Fra Lippo Lippi (Poetry) | Robert Browning |
| Maud Martha (Novel) | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| Andrea del Sarto (Poetry) | Robert Browning |
| The Wreck of the Hesperus (Poetry) | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Novel) | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| Decline and Fall (Novel) | Evelyn Waugh |
| Down and Out in Paris and London (Novel) | George Orwell |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Children's) | L Frank Baum |
| The Rose Tattoo (Drama) | Tennessee Williams |
| Suddenly Last Summer (Drama) | Tennessee Williams |
| The Ransom of Red Chief (Short Story) | O Henry |
| Hippolytus (Drama) | Euripides |
| The Nose (Short Story) | Nikolai Gogol |
| The Wings of the Dove (Novel) | Henry James |
| Burr (Novel) | Gore Vidal |
| 1876 (Novel) | Gore Vidal |
| Cancer Ward (Novel) | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
| In Search of Lost Time (Novel) | Marcel Proust |
| Thousand Cranes (Novel) | Kawabata Yasunari |
| The Necklace (Short Story) | Guy de Maupassant |
| Franny and Zooey (Novel) | JD Salinger |
| In the Penal Colony (Short Story) | Franz Kafka |
| Benito Cereno (Novel) | Herman Melville |
| Women in Love (Novel) | DH Lawrence |
| The Metamorphosis (Short Story) | Franz Kafka |
| Tao te Ching (Religious) | Laozi |
| Of Time and the River (Novel) | Thomas Wolfe |
| I Sing the Body Electric (Poetry) | Walt Whitman |
| Iphigenia in Tauris (Drama) | Euripides |
| Where the Wild Things Are (Children's) | Maurice Sendak |
| Lost in Yonkers (Drama) | Neil Simon |
| The Thin Red Line (Novel) | James Jones |
| Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Novel) | Katherine Anne Porter |
| Neuromancer (Novel) | William Gibson |
| The Martian Chronicles (Collection) | Ray Bradbury |
| The Art of Love (Poetry) | Ovid |
| The Gambler (Novel) | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Cat's Eye (Novel) | Margaret Atwood |
| Dog Years (Novel) | Gunter Grass |
| Cat and Mouse (Novel) | Gunter Grass |
| American Pastoral (Novel) | Philip Roth |
| Shadows on the Rock (Novel) | Willa Cather |
| The Dynasts (Novel) | Thomas Hardy |
| Time's Arrow (Novel) | Martin Amis |
| Beat (Novel) | Jack Kerouac |
| The Haunting of Hill House (Novel) | Shirley Jackson |
| Interview with the Vampire (Novel) | Anne Rice |
| The Remains of the Day (Novel) | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Riders of the Purple Sage (Novel) | Zane Grey |
| The School for Wives (Drama) | Moliere |
| Angels in America (Drama) | Tony Kushner |
| The Sandbox (Drama) | Edward Albee |
| Love for Love (Drama) | William Congreve |
| Krapp's Last Tape (Drama) | Samuel Beckett |
| Cinna (Drama) | Pierre Corneille |
| The Ox-Bow Incident (Novel) | Walter Van Tilburg Clark |
| Black Boy (Novel) | Richard Wright |
| Le Pere Goirot (Novel) | Honore de Balzac |
| The Viscount of Bragelonne (Novel) | Alexandre Dumas |
| The Pickwick Papers (Novel) | Charles Dickens |
| The Beautiful and the Damned (Novel) | F Scott Fitzgerald |
| The Man in the Iron Mask (Novel) | Alexandre Dumas |
| The Last Man (Nvoel) | Mary Shelley |
| The Killers (Short Story) | Ernest Hemingway |
| In Another Country (Short Story) | Ernest Hemingway |
| Hills Like White Elephants (Short Story) | Ernest Hemingway |
| Men Without Women (Collection) | Ernest Hemingway |
| From the Earth to the Moon (Novel) | Jules Verne |
| Exiles (Drama) | James Joyce |
| Advise and Consent (Novel) | Allen Drury |
| The Sisters (Short Story) | James Joyce |
| An Encounter (Short Story) | James Joyce |
| Araby (Short Story) | James Joyce |
| Eveline (Short Story) | James Joyce |
| After the Race (Short Story) | James Joyce |
| Two Gallants (Short Story) | James Joyce |
| The Boarding House (Short Story) | James Joyce |
| A Little Cloud (Short Story) | James Joyce |
| Counterparts (Short Story) | James Joyce |
| Clay (Short Story) | James Joyce |
| A Painful Case (Short Story) | James Joyce |
| Ivy Day in the Committee Room (Short Story) | James Joyce |
| A Mother (Short Story) | James Joyce |
| Grace (Short Story) | James Joyce |
| The Dead (Short Story) | James Joyce |
| War is Kind (Poetry) | Stephen Crane |
| The Black Monk (Drama) | Anton Chekhov |
| Rabbit, Run (Novel) | John Updike |
| Islands in the Stream (Novel) | Ernest Hemingway |
| Tortilla Flat (Novel) | John Steinbeck |
| The Adventures of Augie March (Novel) | Saul Bellow |
| Jo's Boys (Novel) | Louisa May Alcott |
| Timequake (Novel) | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Alaska (Novel) | James Michener |
| The Last Leaf (Short Story) | O Henry |
| The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Novel) | Anne Bronte |
| The Dharma Bums (Novel) | Jack Kerouac |
| Ward No. 6 (Short Story) | Anton Chekhov |
| Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Novel) | Richard Bach |
| Clarissa (Novel) | Samuel Richardson |
| Breakfast of Champions (Novel) | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Harrison Bergeron | Kurt Vonnegut |
| The Dreams of the Red Chamber (Novel) | Cao Xueqin |
| The Floating Opera (Novel) | John Barth |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Novel) | Milan Kundera |
| The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Novel) | Yukio Mishima |
| Giovanni's Room (Novel) | James Baldwin |
| The Poisonwood Bible (Novel) | Barbara Kingsolver |
| The Bean Trees (Novel) | Barbara Kingsolver |
| The Bonesetter's Daughter (Novel) | Amy Tan |
| Sometimes a Great Notion (Novel) | Ken kesey |
| Spring Snow (Novel) | Yukio Mishima |
| Runaway Horses (Novel) | Yukio Mishima |
| The Temple of Dawn (Novel) | Yukio Mishima |
| The Decay of the Angel (Novel) | Yukio Mishima |
| Justine (Novel) | Marquis de Sade |
| 120 Days of Sodom (Novel) | Marquis de Sade |
| The Waves (Novel) | Virginia Woolf |
| Dreaming Emmett (Novel) | Toni Morrison |
| The Tragic Muse (Novel) | Henry James |
| The Good Soldier (Novel) | Ford Maddox Ford |
| The Man Who Was Thursday (Short Story) | GK Chesterton |
| The Celestial Railroad (Short Story) | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| The House of the Spirits (Novel) | Isabel Allende |
| Five Weeks in a Balloon (Novel) | Jules Verne |
| Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (Novel) | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| The Chairs (Drama) | Eugene Ionesco |
| House Made of Dawn (Novel) | N Scott Momaday |
| A Moveable Feast (Memoir) | Ernest Hemingway |
| The Violent Bear It Away (Novel) | Flannery O'Connor |
| Giant (Novel) | Edna Feber |
| Hapworth 16, 1924 (Novel) | JD Salinger |
| The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (Novel) | Mark Twain |
| A Dreary Story (Short Story) | Anton Chekhov |
| The Lady with the Dog (Drama) | Anton Chekhov |
| Timon of Athens (Drama) | William Shakespeare |
| Watch on the Rhine (Drama) | Lillian Hellman |
| The Knights (Drama) | Aristophanes |
| Barefoot in the Park (Drama) | Neil Simon |
| An Ideal Husband (Drama) | Oscar Wilde |
| The Suppliant Women (Drama) | Euripides |
| Trojan Women (Drama) | Seneca |
| Jacob's Room (Novel) | Virginia Woolf |
| Under Western Eyes (Novel) | Joseph Conrad |
| Seven Gothic Tales (Novel) | Isak Dinesen |
| Of Human Bondage (Novel) | W Somerset Maugham |
| Oedipus at Colonus (Drama) | Sophocles |
| The Sentinel (Short Story) | Arthur C Clarke |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey (Novel) | Arthur C Clarke |
| The Cremation of Sam McGee (Poetry) | Robert Service |
| The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Novel) | Agatha Christie |
| Ender's Game (Novel) | Orson Scott Card |
| Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Novel) | John Le Carre |
| The Woman in White (Novel) | Wilkie Collins |
| Player Piano (Novel) | Kurt Vonnegut |
| A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (Short Story) | Ernest Hemingway |
| A Country Doctor (Short Story) | Franz Kafka |
| A Hunger Artist (Short Story) | Franz Kafka |
| The Garden Party (Drama) | Vaclav Havel |
| Gargantua and Pantagruel (Novel) | Francois Rabelais |
| Nexus (Novel) | Henry Miller |
| Sexus (Novel) | Henry Miller |
| Plexus (Novel) | Henry Miller |
| Hunger (Novel) | Knut Hamsun |
| What Price Glory? (Drama) | Maxwell Anderson |
| The Kreutzer Sonata (Novel) | Leo Tolstoy |
| Little House on the Prairie (Children's) | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| Seize the Day (Novel) | Saul Bellow |
| A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning (Poetry) | John Donne |
| The Owl and the Pussycat (Poetry) | Edward lear |
| The Wild Swans at Coole (Poetry) | William Butler Yeats |
| I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died (Poetry) | Emily Dickinson |
| Trees (Poetry) | Joyce Kilmer |
| Our Man in Havana (Novel) | Graham Greene |
| I Hear America Singing (Poetry) | Walt Whitman |
| Lady Lazarus (Poetry) | Sylvia Plath |
| John Bull's Other Island (Drama) | George Bernard Shaw |
| Arcadia (Drama) | Tom Stoppard |
| Mandalay (Poetry) | Rudyard Kipling |
| White Man's Burden (Poetry) | Rudyard Kipling |