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Authors and Works
| Question | Answer | |
|---|---|---|
| Follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood. | Little Women | Louisa may Alcott |
| Follows the turbulent relationship between Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a country gentleman, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rich aristocratic landowner. | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| Set in the fictional country village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls and Donwell Abbey, and involves the relationships among people from a small number of families. | Emma | Jane Austen |
| The novel follows the three Dashwood sisters as they must move with their widowed mother from the estate on which they grew up, Norland Park. | Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen |
| Young Kansas farm girl Dorothy Gale is taken by a tornado to the marvelous Land of Oz. | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum |
| The story of Guy Montag and his transformation from a book-burning fireman to a book-reading rebel. | Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury |
| The novel follows the story of Jane, a seemingly plain and simple girl as she battles through life's struggles. | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte |
| It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with Earnshaw's foster son, Heathcliff. | Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte |
| Satire of chivalric fiction, an old man goes crazy from reading books, becomes a knight and fights a windmill. Classic Spanish novel | Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes |
| A man is miraculously enabled to undertake an ultramundane journey, which leads him to visit the souls in Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. Includes Inferno. | Divine Comedy | Dante |
| A man is shipwrecked on an island while on the way to Africa to buy slaves for his plantation. | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas, then he doesn't. | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens |
| An orphan meets Jack (the Artful Dodger) and asks for some more. | Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens |
| Depicts the education of an orphan named Pip. | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| The story of Manette, his imprisonment in the Bastille, and the conditions that led up to the French Revolution. | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
| A middle aged man looks back on his life. | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens |
| A famous detective solves mysteries in and around London | Sherlock Holmes stories | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Athos, Porthos and Aramis have adventures during the reigns of Kings Louis XIII and XIV | The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas |
| Dantes escapes from imprisonment and transorms into a wealthy count as a plan to exact revent | The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas |
| Colonial collections of weather predictions, recipes, measurement charts, puzzles, etc. | Poor Richard's Almanac | Benjamin Franklin |
| The story of Robert Jordan, a young American fighting with a republican guerilla unit during the Spanish Civil War | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway |
| Follows a group of young American and British expatriates as they wander through Europe in the mid-1920s. Made the Running of the Bulls famous. | The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway |
| Jean Valjean's quest for redemptions after release from jail for stealing a loaf of bread for his sister's starving child | Les Miserables | Victor Hugo |
| Quasimodo falls in love with the beautiful Esmeralda | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Victor Hugo |
| Chronicles the childhood of Scout and Jem Finch as their father Atticus defends a Black man falsely accused of rape. | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| Captain Ahab, captain of the Pequod, seeks revenge against a whale | Moby Dick | Herman Melville |
| Allegory for the Soviet Union | Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| Winston Smith wrestles with oppression in Oceania, a place where the Party scrutinizes human actions with ever-watchful Big Brother. | 1984 | George Orwell |
| Details the life of 16-year-old Holden Cauldfield after he has been expelled from prep school | The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Sallinger |
| The story of gifted scientist Victor Frankenstein who succeeds in giving life to a being of his own creation. | Frankenstein | Mary Shelley |
| Story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in California in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in the United States. | Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck |
| Story of the Joad family, famers who lost everything in the Oklahoma dust bowl | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| The impulsive and adventurous Jim Hawkins comes across a treasure map | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| A practical-minded Englishman trained as a surgeon takes to the seas when his business fails | Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| Satirical essay in which it it suggested that Irish children could be eaten to ease poverty in Ireland | A Modest Proposal | Jonathan Swift |
| Novel on the French invasion of Russia and the effects of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist Russia | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| The story of the affair between Anna and cavalry officer Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy |
| Phileas Fogg circumnavigates the world on a bet | Around the World in 80 Days | Jules Verne |
| The submarine Nautilus travels through the world's oceans | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne |
| Professor Otto Lidenbrock, his nephew Axel and their guide Hans explore a volcano in Iceland | Journey to the Center of the Earth | Jules Verne |
| Martians invade Earth | War of the World | H.G. Wells |
| Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Portrays the meat packing industry and harsh conditions experienced by immigrants in Chicago and similarly industrialized cities | The Jungle | Upton Sinclair |
| An account of Billy Pilgrim's capture and incarceration by the Germans during the last years of World War II | Slaughterhouse Five | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect | Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka |
| The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son to avenge his murder by killing the new king."To be, or not to be ..." | Hamlet | William Shakespeare |
| A Greek tragedy in which the king of Thebes unwittingly kills his father and marries his mother | Oedipus Rex | Sophocles |
| A brave Scottish general receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. | Macbeth | William Shakespeare |
| Star-cross lovers from the Montague and Capulet families die | Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare |
| A collection of 24 stores written in Middle English between 1387 and 1400 | The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Epic poem about the fall of mankind | Paradise Lost | John Milton |
| Prospero uses magic to conjure a storm and torment the survivors of a shipwreck, including the King of Naples and Prospero's treacherous brother, Antonio. | The Tempest | William Shakespeare |
| The aging king of Britain, decides to step down from the throne and divide his kingdom evenly among his three daughters. | King Lear | William Shakespeare |
| Follows the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in Saint Petersburg who plans to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker, an old woman who stores money and valuable objects in her flat. | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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