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LIT Masterlist
The literatue master studylist
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Things Fall Apart, Anthills of the Savannah | Chinua Achebe |
| The Plague Dogs, Watership Down | Richard Adams |
| The Seven Against Thebes, Prometheus Bound, Oresteia | Aeschylus |
| A Death In The Family | James Agee |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Edward Albee |
| Little Women, Little Men | Louisa May Alcott |
| Winesburg Ohio, Dark Laughter | Sherwood Anderson |
| The Birds, The Frogs, Lysistrata, The Clouds | Aristophanes |
| Sounder, Sour Land | William Armstrong |
| The Age of Anxiety | W.H. Auden |
| Northanger Abbey, Emma, Mansfield Park | Jane Austen |
| Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Richard Bach |
| If Beale Street Could Talk, Go Tell It on the Mountain | James Baldwin |
| The Human Comedy | Honore De Balzac |
| Peter Pan | Sir James M. Barrie |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum |
| Waiting for Godot, Endgame | Samuel Beckett |
| Looking Backward | Edward Bellamy |
| Henderson the Rain King, Humboldt's Gift, Herzog, The Adventures of Augie March | Saul Bellow |
| Jaws | Peter Benchley |
| Western Star, John Brown's Body, The Devil and Daniel Webster | Stephen Vincent Benet |
| The House Without a Key | Earl Biggers |
| The Tiger, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Songs of Experience, Songs of Innocence | William Blake |
| Life of Johnson | James Boswell |
| The October Country, Dandelion Wine, The Illustrated Man, I Sing the Body Electric | Ray Bradbury |
| Agnes Gray, Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Anne Bronte |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte |
| We Real Cool, A Street in Bronzeville, Annie Allen | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| Sonnets from the Portuguese | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| Bells and Pomegranates, Men and Women, Fra Lippo Lippi, My Last Duchess | Robert Browning |
| The Good Earth | Pearl S. Buck |
| Rienzi, The Last Days of Pompeii | Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
| Pilgrim's Progress | John Bunyan |
| Tam O' Shanter, To a Mouse, Auld Lang Syne | Robert Burns |
| The Way of All Flesh, Erewhon | Samuel Butler |
| Child Harold's Pilgrimage, Don Juan | Lord Byron (George Gordon) |
| Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice | James M. Cain |
| God's Little Acre, Tobacco Road | Erskine Caldwell |
| The Plague, The Stranger | Albert Camus |
| In Cold Blood, Other Voices Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany's | Truman Capote |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass | Lewis Carroll |
| The Professor's House, One of Ours, Death Comes for the Archbishop | Willa Cather |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes |
| Troilus and Criseyde, Book of the Duchess, Roman de la Rose | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| The Seagull, The Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard | Anton Chekov |
| The Awakening, The Story of an Hour | Kate Chopin |
| Tai-Pan, Noble House, Shogun | James Clavell |
| Biographia Literaria, Christabel, The Rime of Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| The Manchurian Candidate | Richard Condon |
| The Way of the World | William Congreve |
| The Secret Sharer, Nostromo, The Nigger of Narcissus, Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad |
| The Pioneers, The Deerslayer, The Pathfinder, the Praire, The Last of the Mohicans, the Pilot | James Fenimore Cooper |
| The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, The Open Boat and Other Stories, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets | Stephen Crane |
| Mommie Dearest | Christina Crawford |
| The Enormous Room, Pity This Busy Monster Manunkind, In Just Spring | E.E. Cummings |
| The Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise) | Dante Alighieri |
| Journal of the Plague Year, Moll Flanders, Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Little Dorrit, The Pickwick Papers, Martin Chuzzlewit, Bleak House, The Old Curiosity Shop | Charles Dickens |
| Deliverance | James Dickey |
| Apparently with No Suprise, Because I Could Not Stop For Death, I heard a Fly Buzz When I Died | Emily Dickinson |
| Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God | Jonathan Edwards |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| Seven Gothic Tales, Out of Africa | Isak Dinesen |
| The 42nd Parallel, 1919, Big Money, Manhattan Transfer | John Dos Passos |
| Notes from the Underground, The Possessed, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamozov, Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| A Study in Scarlet, The Hound of the Baskervilles | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| An American Tragedy, Sister Carrie | Theodore Dreiser |
| The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas (the elder) |
| Camille | Alexandre Dumas (the younger) |
| Rebecca | Daphne Du Maurier |
| Trillby, Peter Ibbetson | George Du Maurier |
| The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco |
| Middlemarch, Silas Marner, The Mill on the Floss, Adam Bede | George Elliot |
| Four Quartets, Murder in the Cathedral, The Hollow Men | T.S. Elliot |
| Concord Hymm, The Divinity School Address, The American Scholar, Nature | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Orestes, Alcestis, Medea, Electra | Euripides |
| Barn Burning, The Bear, Requiem for a Nun, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Sanctuary | William Faulkner |
| Giant, So Big, Snowboat | Edna Ferber |
| Flappers and Philosophers, The Beautiful and the Damned, The Last Tycoon, Tender Is the Night, This Side of Paradise | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert |
| Johnny Tremain | Esther Forbes |
| The African Queen, Horatio Hornblower | C.S. Forester |
| Aspects of the Novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread, Howards End, A Room With a View, A Passage to India | E.M. Forster |
| Poor Richard's Almanack | Benjamin Franklin |
| Death of a Hired Man, Birches, Mending Wall, The Gift Outright | Robert Frost |
| End of the Chapter, A Modern Comedy, The Forsyte Saga | John Galsworthy |
| Love in the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| The Prophet | Kahlil Gibran |
| Reality Sandwiches, Howl and Other Poems, Kaddish and Other Poems | Allen Ginsberg |
| The Sorrows of Young Werther, Faust | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Inspector General, Taras Bulba, Dead Souls | Nikolai Gogol |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding |
| The Vicar of Wakefield, She Stoops to Conquer | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Mother | Maxim Gorky |
| The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame |
| The White Goddess, I Claudius | Robert Graves |
| Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | Thomas Gray |
| Hotel | Arthur Hailey |
| The Man Without a Country | Edward Everett Hale |
| The Thin Man, The Maltese Falcon | Dashiell Hammett |
| Jude the Obscure, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Return of the Native | Thomas Hardy |
| Uncle Remus | Joel Chandler Harris |
| The Birth-Mark, Young Goodman Brown, Tanglewood Tales, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Good as Gold, Something Happened | Joseph Heller |
| Watch on the Rhine, The Little Foxes, Toys in the Attic, The Children's Hour | Lillian Hellman |
| Hills Like White Elephants, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, Big Two-Hearted River, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, In Our Time | Ernest Hemingway |
| The Chambered Nautilus, Deacon's Masterpiece, Old Ironsides, The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. |
| Illiad, Odyssey | Homer |
| The Rise of Silas Lapham | William Dean Howells |
| Green Mansions | William Henry Hudson |
| Simple Speaks His Mind, Theme for English B, The Negro Speaks of Rivers | Langston Hughes |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables | Victor Hugo |
| Antic Hay, Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
| When We Dead Awaken, The Master Builder, Wild Duck, An Enemy of the People, Peer Gynt, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler | Henrik Ibsen |
| The Bald Soprano, Rhinoceros | Eugene Ionesco |
| A History of New York, The Legends of Alhambra | Washington Irving |
| The Bostonians, The American, The Ambassadors, The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove, Washington Square, Art of the Novel | Henry James |
| From Here to Eternity | James Jones |
| The Alchemist, Volpone | Ben Johnson |
| Dubliners, Finnegan's Wake | James Joyce |
| The Trial, The Castle, Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka |
| Zorba the Greek | Nikos Kazantzakis |
| Hyperion, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, Endymion, Ode to a Nightingale | John Keats |
| Ironweed | William Kennedy |
| Mexico City Blues, The Dharma Blues | Jack Kerouac |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey |
| The Rubaiyat | Omar Khayyam |
| Westward Ho!, The Water Babies | Charles Kingsley |
| Mandalay, Gunga Din, Captains Courageous, Kim, The Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling |
| Darkness at Noon | Arthur Koestler |
| Being There, The Painted Bird | Jerzy Kosinski |
| Angels in America | Tony Kushner |
| The Spanish Tragedy | Thomas Kyd |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera |
| The Wonderful Adeventures of Nils, The Ring of Lowenskolds, The Story of Gosta Berling | Selma Lagerlöf |
| The Rocking-Horse Winner, The Rainbow, Women in Love | D.H. Lawerence |
| A Book of Nonsense, Laughable Lyrics | Edward Lear |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth, Babbit, Main Street, Arrowsmith | Sinclair Lewis |
| White Fang, the Sea Wolf | Jack London |
| Tales of a Wayside Inn, The Village Blacksmith, Paul Rever's Ride, Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| The Prince | Niccolo Machiavelli |
| The Blue Bird | Maurice Maeterlinck |
| An American Dream, The Armies of the Night, The Naked and the Dead, The Executioner's Song | Norman Mailer |
| The Fixer, The Assistant, The Natural | Bernard Malamud |
| Le Morte D'Arthur | Sir Thomas Malory |
| The Magic Mountain, Joseph and His Brothers, Buddenbrooks, Death in Venice | Thomas Mann |
| Come Live with me and be my love, Tamburlaine the Great, Edward the II, Dr. Faustus | Christopher Marlowe |
| Spoon River Anthology | Edgar Lee Masters |
| The Moon and the Sixpence, Cakes and Ale, Of Human Bondage, The Razor's Edge | Somerset Maugham |
| The Ballad of Sad Cafe, The Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers |
| Terms of Endearment, The Last Picture Show, Lonesome Dove | Larry McMurtry |
| Benito Cereno, Bartleby the Scrivener, Omoo, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life | Herman Melville |
| The Ordeal of Richard Feveral, The Egoist, Modern Love | George Meredith |
| My Candle Burns at Both Ends, The Harp Weaver and Other Poems, Renascence and Other Poems, A Few Figs from Thistles | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| The Crucible, Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
| When I Consider How My Light is Spent, On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, Il Penseroso, L'Allegro, Comus, Lycidas | John Milton |
| Gone With the Wind | Margaret Mitchell |
| The School for Wives, The School for Husbands, The Imaginary Invalid, The Miser, Tartuffe, The Bourgeois Gentleman, The Misanthrope | Moliere |
| Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Green Gables | Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| Tale of the Genji | Shikibu Murasaki |
| Sula, The Bluest Eye, Tar Baby | Toni Morrison |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Mutiny on the Bounty | Charles Nordoff and James Hall |
| McTeague, The Octopus | Frank Norris |
| Good Country People, A Good Man is Hard to Find, Everything that Rises Must Converge, The Violent Bear it Away, Wise Blood | Flannery O'Conner |
| Beyond the Horizon, Anna Christe, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Mourning Bevomes Electra, The Emperor Jones, Desire Under the Elms | Eugene O'Neil |
| Shooting an Elephant | George Orwell |
| The Greatest Story Ever Told | Fulton Oursler |
| Age of Reason, Rights of Man | Thomas Paine |
| The Godwulf Manuscript | Robert Parker |
| Doctor Zhivago | Pasternak |
| Marius the Epicurean | Walter Pater |
| Cry the Beloved Country | Alan Paton |
| Six Characters in Search of an Author | Luigi Pirandello |
| The Bell Jar, The Colossus | Sylvia Plath |
| Symposium, Phaedrus | Plato |
| The Bells, The Cask of Amontillado, The Masque of Red Death | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Pollyanna | Eleanor Hodgeman Porter |
| Ship of Fools, Flowering Judas | Katherine Anne Porter |
| True Grit | Charles Portis |
| The Bronze Horseman, Boris Godunov, Eugene Onegin, The Captain's Daughter | Alexandr Pushkin |
| The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, V | Thomas Pynchon |
| Phedre | Jean Racine |
| The Yearling | Marjorie Rawlings |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque |
| Aunt Jennifer's Rigers, Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law | Adrienne Rich |
| Pamela, Clarissa | Samuel Richardson |
| Arundel, Northwest Passage | Kenneth Roberts |
| The Man Against the Sky, Lucinda Matlock, Richard Cory, Miniver Cheevy | Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| Giants in the Earth | O.E. Rolvaag |
| Cyrano de Bergerac | Edmond Rostand |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger |
| Bambi | Felix Salten |
| Rootabaga Stories, The American Songbag, Abraham Lincoln, Chicago Poems, Smoke and Steel | Carl Sandburg |
| The Last Puritan | George Santayana |
| The Human Comedy, The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, The Time of Your Life | William Saroyan |
| William Tell | Johann Christoph Von Schiller |
| Heart of Midlothian, Waverly, Rob Roy | Sir Walter Scott |
| Black Beauty | Anna Sewell |
| Shane | Jack Shaffer |
| The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Equus | Peter Shaffer |
| King John, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare |
| Androcles and the Lion, Caesar and Cleopatra, The Devil's Disciple, Major Barbara, Arms and the Man, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Saint Joan, Man and Superman | George Bernard Shaw |
| Frankenstein | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
| The Cenci, Queen Mab, Defence of Poetry, Ozymandias, Adonais, Ode to the West Wind, Prometheus Unbound | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| The Tooth of Crime, Buried Child, Mad Dog Blues, Paris Texas | Sam Shepard |
| School for Scandal, The Rivals | Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
| Idiot's Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, The Petrified Forest | Robert Sherwood |
| The Quiet Don | Mikhail Sholokhov |
| I Ought to Be in Pictures, Broadway Bound, Lost in Yonkers, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, The Sunshine Boys, The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park | Neil Simon |
| The Jungle | Upton Sinclair |
| The First Circle, Cancer Ward, Gulag Archipelago, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
| Oedipus Rex, Antigone | Sophocles |
| The Faerie Queen | Edmund Spenser |
| Heidi | Johanna Spyri |
| The Shame of the Cities | Lincoln Steffans |
| A rose is a rose is a rose, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas | Gertrude Stein |
| Travels With Charley, East of Eden, Cannery Row, The Winter of Our Discontent, Tortilla Flat | John Steinbeck |
| The Charterhouse of Parma, The Red and the Black | Stendhal |
| Sermons of Mr. Yorick, Journal to Eliza, A Sentimental Journey, Tristram Shandy | Laurence Sterne |
| The Monocle de Mon Oncle, Sunday Morning, The Emperor of Ice Cream | Wallace Stevens |
| A Child's Garden of Verses, Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Father of the Cride | Ed Streeter |
| Miss Julie | August Strindberg |
| The Confessions of Nat Turner, Lie Down in Darkness, Sophie's Choice | William Styron |
| The Mysteries of Paris, The Wandering Jew | Eugene Sue |
| A Modest Proposal, Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| Riders to the Sea, Playboy of the Western World | John Millington Synge |
| Gitanjali | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Penrod, Seventeen, Alice Adams, the Magnificent Ambersons | Booth Tarkington |
| Crossing the Bar, The Lady of Shalott, Idylls of the King, The Princess, Charge of the Light Brigade, The Lotus-Eaters, In Memorian A.H.H | Lord Alfred Tennyson |
| The Book of Snobs, The Virginians, Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| Fern Hill, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night | Dylan Thomas |
| Civil Disobedience, Walden | Henry David Thoreau |
| The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | James Thurber |
| The Simarillion | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Death of Ivan Ilyich, Anna Karenina, War And Peace | Count Leo Tolstoy |
| Innocents Abroad, The Gilded Age, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg | Mark Twain |
| The Witches of Eastwick, Rabbit Run, Rabbit is Rich | John Updike |
| Mila 18, Battlecry, QB VII, Exodus, Armageddon | Leon Uris |
| Bucolics, Georgics, The Aeneid | Virgil |
| Five Weeks in a Balloon, From the Earth of the Moon | Jules Verne |
| Burr, Lincoln | Gore Vidal |
| The Age of Louis XIV, Brutus, Zaire, Candide | Voltaire |
| Deadeye Dick, Player Piano, Cat's Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut |
| In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, The Color Purple | Alice Walker |
| Ben Hur | Lew Wallace |
| The Castle of Otranto | Horace Walpole |
| World Enough and Time, All The King's Men | Robert Penn Warren |
| Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh |
| The White Devil, The Duchess of Malfi | John Webster |
| A Short History of the World, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Invisible Man | H.G. Wells |
| The Wide Net, Losing Battles, The Ponder Heart, Delta Wedding, The Optimist's Daughter | Eudora Welty |
| The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome | Edith Wharton |
| Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, Song of Myself, Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman |
| Barbara Frietchie, Snow-bound | John Greenleaf Whittier |
| De Profundis, Ballad of Reading Gaol, A Woman of No Importance, Salome, Lady Windermere's Fan, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde |
| The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker, Our Town, The Bridge of San Luis Ray | Thornton Wilder |
| Summer and Smoke, Suddenly Last Summer, Camino Real, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie | Tennessee Williams |
| Paterson | William Carlos Williams |
| The Piano Lesson, Fences | August Wilson |
| You Can't Go Home Again, The Web and the Rock, Of Time and the River, Look Homeward Angel | Thomas Wolfe |
| Marjorie Morningstar, War and Rememberance, The Winds of the War, The Caine Mutiny | Herman Wouk |
| Eight men, Black Boy, Native Son, Uncle Tom's Children | Richard Wright |
| Sailing to Byzantium, The Second Coming, Easter 1916, Leda and the Swan | William Butler Yeats |