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Classic Literature
A collection of the most widely known works in classical literature.
| Decline and Fall A Handful of Dust Brideshead Revisited Sword of Honour Trilogy (Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, Unconditional Surrender) | Evelyn Waugh |
| O Pioneers! Death Comes for the Archbishop The Song of the Lark My Antonia | Willa Cather |
| East of Eden Grapes of Wrath Of Mice and Men The Winter of our Discontent | John Steinbeck |
| The Old Man and the Sea The Sun Also Rises A Farewell to Arms For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway |
| The Conservationist Burger's Daughter July's People A World of Strangers | Nadine Gordimer |
| Things Fall Apart No Longer at Ease Arrow of God Anthills of the Savannah | Chinua Achebe |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Life on the Mississippi A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Mark Twain |
| A Room of One's Own To the Lighthouse Mrs. Dalloway The Voyage Out | Virginia Woolf |
| The Color Purple You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down Meridian In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens | Alice Walker |
| The Bluest Eye Beloved Sula Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison |
| Great Expectations The Pickwick Papers David Copperfield Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens |
| Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility Persuasion Emma | Jane Austen |
| Jane Eyre Villette The Professor Emma | Charlotte Bronte |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte |
| The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Agnes Grey | Anne Bronte |
| The Awakening The Story of an Hour Desiree's Baby A Pair of Silk Stockings | Kate Chopin |
| Rip Van Winkle The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Devil and Tom Walker Tales of the Alhambra | Washington Irving |
| Ficciones The Aleph The Garden of Forking Paths The Library of Babel | Jorge Luis Borges |
| Anna Karenina War and Peace The Kreutzer Sonata The Death of Ivan Ilyich | Leo Tolstoy |
| The Sorrows of Young Werther Faust Hermann and Dorothea Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| The Scarlet Letter Young Goodman Brown The Minister's Black Veil The House of the Seven Gables | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Crime and Punishment The Brothers Karamazov Notes From the Underground The House of the Dead | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude Love in the Time of Cholera Chronicle of a Death Foretold The Autumn of the Patriarch | Gabriel García Márquez |
| The Jungle Book Kim Captain Courageous The Man Who Would be King | Rudyard Kipling |
| The Red Badge of Courage The Open Boat Maggie: A Girl of the Streets The Blue Hotel | Stephen Crane |
| Dubliners Ulysses A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Finnegans Wake | James Joyce |
| Works and Days Theogony Catalogue of Women | Hesiod |
| Siddhartha The Glass Bead Game Steppenwolf Narcissus and Goldmund | Herman Hesse |
| The Lord of the Flies The Spire Rites of Passage The Inheritors | William Golding |
| Cry, the Beloved Country Tales From a Troubled Land Too Late the Phalarope Ah, but Your Land is Beautiful | Alan Paton |
| The Canterbury Tales Troilus and Criseyde The Legend of Good Women The Book of the Duchess | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Lycidas Areopagitica | John Milton |
| Treasure Island Kidnapped The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Body Snatcher | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Heart of Darkness Lord Jim The Secret Agent Nostromo | Joseph Conrad |
| The Last Leaf The Gift of the Magi Cabbages and Kings The Furnished Room | O. Henry |
| Catch-22 Good as Gold Something Happened Closing Time | Joseph Heller |
| Don Quixote La Galatea The Siege of Numantia The Dialogue of the Dogs | Miguel De Cervantes |
| Bartleby The Scrivener Moby Dick Billy Budd The Confidence-Man | Herman Melville |
| Madame Bovary A Simple Heart Sentimental Education Memoirs of a Madman | Gustave Flaubert |
| The Tin Drum The Flounder Cat and Mouse Dog Years | Gunter Grass |
| As I Lay Dying The Sound and the Fury Light in August A Rose for Emily | William Faulkner |
| A Good Man is Hard to Find Everything That Rises Must Converge Wise Blood The Violent Bear it Away | Flannery O'Connor |
| A Streetcar Named Desire Cat on a Hot Tin Roof The Glass Menagerie Night of the Iguana | Tennessee Williams |
| I'm Nobody! Who Are You? I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed Success is Counted Sweetest | Emily Dickinson |
| The Fall of the House of Usher The Pit and the Pendulum The Masque of the Red Death The Premature Burial | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Animal Farm 1984 A Clergyman's Daughter Shooting an Elephant | George Orwell |
| Fahrenheit 451 Something Wicked This Way Comes The Illustrated Man Death is a Lonely Business | Ray Bradbury |
| The Catcher in the Rye Franny and Zooey A Perfect Day for Bananafish The Laughing Man | J.D. Salinger |
| The Road Not Taken Nothing Gold Can Stay Mending Wall Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | Robert Frost |
| Peer Gynt An Enemy of the People Emperor and Galilean The Master Builder | Henrik Ibsen |
| The Cherry Orchard Uncle Vanya The Three Sisters The Seagull | Anton Chekov |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin The Minister's Wooing Oldtown Folks Palmetto Leaves | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Lysistrata The Frogs The Clouds The Birds | Aristophanes |
| The Negro Speaks of Rivers Harlem The Weary Blues I, Too, Sing America | Langston Hughes |
| Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair The Captain's Verses The Book of Questions Canto General | Pablo Neruda |
| The Lotos-eaters In Memoriam A.H.H. The Charge of the Light Brigade Tears, Idle Tears | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| Ode to a Nightingale Ode on a Grecian Urn To Autumn Endymion | John Keats |
| The Bell Jar Daddy Lady Lazarus Mad Girl's Love Song | Sylvia Plath |
| The Stranger The Plague The Myth of Sisyphus The Fall | Albert Camus |
| Songs of Innocence and of Experience Adam Naming the Beasts The Tyger The Garden of Love | William Blake |
| Song of Myself When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd I Sing the Body Electric O Captain! My Captain! | Walt Whitman |
| After the Fall All my Sons A View From the Bridge The Misfits | Arthur Miller |
| The Labyrinth of Solitude Freedom Under Word The Arch and the Lyre Eagle or Sun | Octavio Paz |
| The Death of Artemio Cruz The Old Gringo Aura Terra Nostra | Carlos Fuentes |
| The Stone Raft Blindness The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis The Gospel According to Jesus Christ | Jose Saramago |
| Lament for a Bullfighter Blood Wedding The House of Bernarda Alba Yerma | Federico García Lorca |
| The Time of the Hero Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter A Discreet Hero The War of the End of the World | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| Antigone King Oedipus Electra Ajax | Sophocles |
| The Oresteia Agamemnon Prometheus Bound Seven Against Thebes | Aeschylus |
| Medea Hippolytus Heracles Bacchae | Euripides |
| The Metamorphosis The Trial The Castle The Penal Colony | Franz Kafka |
| Diary of a Madman Dead Souls The Government Inspector The Nose | Nikolai Gogol |
| The Ring and the Book Home Thoughts, from Abroad My Last Duchess The Pied Piper of Hamelin | Robert Browning |
| How do I Love Thee If Thou Must Love Me, Let It Be for Naught The Cry of the Children The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| The Time Machine The Island of Doctor Moreau The Invisible Man The War of the Worlds | H.G. Wells |
| The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Les Misérables The Man Who Laughs The Last Day of a Condemned Man | Victor Hugo |
| The Three Musketeers The Count of Monte Cristo The Man in the Iron Mask The Queen's Necklace | Alexander Dumas |
| Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Journey to the Center of the Earth Around the World in Eighty Days The Purchase of the North Pole | Jules Verne |
| All Quite on the Western Front The Night in Lisbon Arch of Triumph Heaven Has no Favorites | Erich Maria Remarque |
| Ethan Frome The Age of Innocence The House of Mirth The Custom of the Country | Edith Wharton |
| The House of the Spirits Of Love and Shadows In the Midst of Winter Island Beneath the Sea | Isabel Allende |
| Do Not go Gentle Into That Good Night And Death Shall Have No Dominion Under Milk Wood Fern Hill | Dylan Thomas |
| The Tragical History of D. Faustus Tamburlaine the Great The Jew of Malta Dido | Christopher Marlowe |
| To My Dear and Loving Husband Upon the Burning of our House The Prologue The Flesh and the Spirit | Anne Bradstreet |
| Goblin Market Up-Hill The Convent Threshold Maude Clare | Christina Rossetti |
| In Search of Lost Time Swann's Way The Captive Within a Budding Grove | Marcel Proust |
| The Magic Mountain Death in Venice Doktor Faustus Buddenbrooks | Thomas Mann |
| Kaddish Howl A Supermarket in California Plutonian Ode | Allen Ginsberg |
| The Brief and Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao Drown How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie) | Junto Diaz |
| Hopscotch Bestiario A Manual for Manuel | Julio Cortazar |
| Numbered poems, mostly about Lesbia | Catullus |
| Desolation Sonnets of Death Tala | Gabriela Mistral |
| The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay The Yiddish Policeman's Union Wonder Boys | Michael Chabon |
| 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird The Emperor of Ice Cream Peter Quince at the Clavier | Wallace Stevens |
| In a Grove The Spider's Thread Kappa | Ryunosuke Akutagawa |
| The Temple of the Golden Pavilion Confessions of a Mask Spring Snow | Yukio Mishima |
| A Personal Matter The Silent Cry Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids Death by Water | Kenzaburo Oe |
| IQ84 Norwegian Wood Kafka on the Shore The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle | Haruki Murakami |
| Snow Country Thousand Cranes Palm-of-the-Hand Stories The Sound of the Mountain | Yasunari Kawabata |
| The Tale of Genji | Lady Murasaki |
| The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches Back Roads to Far Towns Haiku | Matsuo Basho |
| The Pillow Book A Lady in Kyoto | Sei Shonagon |
| Death and the King's Horsemen Ake: The Years of Childhood The Lion and the Jewel Kongi's Harvest | Wole Soyinka |
| Blood Knot Master Harold and the Boys The Road to Mecca | Athol Fugard |
| Journey to the West | Wu Cheng'en |
| Romance of the Three Kingdoms | Luo Guanzhong |
| Water Margin (Outlaws of the Marsh) All Men are Brothers | Shi Naian |
| Dream of Red the Chamber (Story of the Stone) | Cao Xueqin |
| The Plum in the Golden Vase (The Golden Lotus) | Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng |
| The Joy Luck Club The Backyard Bird Chronicles The Kitchen God's Wife | Amy Tan |
| The Good Earth East Wind: West Wind Sons A House Divided House of Earth trilogy | Pearl Buck |
| Peter Pan Margaret Ogilvy The Little White Bird | J.M. Barrie |
| A Wrinkle in Time A Wind in the Door A Swiftly Tilting Planet Many Waters An Acceptable Time | Madeleine L'Engle |
| Quiet Night Thought The River Merchant's Wife | Li Bai |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf The Zoo Story Three Tall Women A Delicate Balance | Edward Albee |
| Waiting for Godot Endgame Krapp's Last Tape | Samuel Beckett |
| Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Leopoldstadt Arcadia | Tom Stoppard |
| Peter Rabbit | Beatrix Potter |
| Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby The Romance of Rockville | Joel Chandler Harris |
| The Red Wheelbarrow This is Just to Say Landscape with the Fall of Icarus | William Carlos Williams |
| Native Son Uncle Tom's Children Rite of Passage The Man Who Lived Underground | Richard Wright |
| Giovanni's Room Go Tell it on the Mountain The Fire Next Time | James Baldwin |
| We Real Cool Maud Martha The Bean Eaters | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| Billiards at Half-Past Nine The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum The Clown | Heinrich Böll |
| The Lottery The Haunting of Hill House Hangsaman | Shirley Jackson |
| The Necklace The String Boule de Suif Bel-Ami | Guy de Maupassant |
| Six Characters in Search of an Author Right You Are Each in His Own Way | Luigi Pirandello |
| If on a Winter's Night a Traveler Invisible Cities The Baron in the Trees | Italo Calvino |
| The Flowers of Evil The Albatross A Carcass | Charles Baudelaire |
| Our Town The Skin of Our Teeth The Matchmaker | Thornton Wilder |
| The Iceman Cometh Long Day's Journey Into Night The Hairy Ape Mourning Becomes Electra | Eugene O'Neill |
| A Raisin in the Sun The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window The Drinking Gourd | Lorraine Hansberry |
| Lady Windemere's Fan The Importance of Being Earnest The Picture of Dorian Gray De Profundis An Ideal Husband | Oscar Wilde |
| A Passage to India A Room With a View Howards End | E.M. Forster |
| Lady Chatterley's Lover Sons and Lovers Women in Love | D.H. Lawrence |
| Fathers and Sons A Sportsman's Sketches A Month in the Country A Provincial Lady | Ivan Turgenev |
| The Bronze Horseman Eugene Onegin Ruslan and Ludmilla | Alexander Pushkin |
| Doctor Zhivago My Sister, Life | Boris Pasternak |
| Zorba the Greek The Last Temptation of Christ The Fratricides | Nikos Kazantzakis |
| Middlemarch Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe The Mill on the Floss | George Eliot |
| Tintern Abbey I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Lyrical Ballads (w/ Coleridge) | William Wordsworth |
| Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard The Bard Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College | Thomas Gray |
| Dulce et Decorum Est Anthem for Doomed Youth Arms and the Boy | Wilfred Owens |
| A Grain of Wheat Petals of Blood Weep Not, Child The River Between | James Ngugi |
| Life & Times of Michael K Waiting for the Barbarians Disgrace The Lives of Animals | John Maxwell Coetzee |
| Americanah Purple Hibiscus Half of a Yellow Sun We Should all be Feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| The Power and the Glory Our Man in Havana The Quiet American | Graham Greene |
| Children of Gebelawi Palace Walk Palace of Desire The Thief and the Dogs Midaq Alley | Naguib Mahfouz |
| The Kite Runner A Thousand Splendid Suns And the Mountains Echoed | Khaled Hosseini |
| Night Dawn Day | Eli Wiesel |
| Anthem The Fountainhead Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand |
| The Gulag Archipelago Cancer Ward One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
| The Giver Number the Stars Gathering Blue | Lois Lowry |
| The Maltese Falcon Red Harvest The Dain Curse | Samuel Hammett |
| The Chosen My Name is Asher Lev Davita's Harp | Chaim Potok |
| The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Reservation Blues | Sherman Alexie |
| An American Tragedy Sister Carrie The Financier | Theodore Dreiser |
| The Cantos In a Station of the Metro A Lume Spento | Ezra Pound |
| The Little Prince Wind, Sand, and Stars Night Flight | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
| The Threepenny opera Mouther Courage and Her Children The Caucasian Chalk Circle | Bertolt Brecht |
| Lucky Jim The Old Devils The Alterations One Fat Englishman | Kingsley Amis |
| The Yellow Wallpaper Herland Moving the Mountain Women and Economics | Charlotte Gilman |
| The Things They Carried Going After Cacciato If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home | Tim O'Brien |
| The Bonfire of the Vanities The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby The Last American Hero | Tom Wolfe |
| A House for Mr Biswas A Bend in the River Miguel Street | V.S. Naipaul |
| Gitanjali Jana Gana Mana The Home and the World | Rabindranath Tagore |
| A Suitable Boy The Golden Gate The Frog and the Nightingale | Vikram Seth |
| Rabbit, run A&P The Witches of Eastwick | John Updike |
| American Pastoral Portnoy's Complaint The Human Stain | Phillip Roth |
| A Shropshire Lad When I Was One-and-Twenty To an Athlete Dying Young | A.E. Housman |
| Oscar and Lucinda True History of the Kelly Gang Illywhacker | Peter Carey |
| Schindler's List The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith The Place at Whitton | Thomas Keneally |
| Voss The Tree of Man Riders in the Chariot | Patrick White |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Life, the Universe, and Everything The Salmon of Doubt | Douglas Adams |
| Grass A Father to His Son Chicago | Carl Sandburg |
| The Piano Lesson Fences Ma Rainey's Black Bottom The Pittsburgh Cycle | August Wilson |
| Miss Julie The Ghost Sonata The Father | August Strindberg |
| The Dumb Waiter The Birthday Party The Betrayal | Harold Pinter |
| Vowels The Drunken Boat A Season in Hell | Arthur Rimbaud |
| On Being Brought from Africa to America His Excellency General Washington A Farewell to America | Phillis Wheatley |
| Tithonus Poem Ode to Anactoria Ode to Aphrodite | Sappho |
| The Name of the Rose Foucault's Pendulum Travels in Hyperreality | Umberto Eco |
| Angels in America A Bright Room Called Day Caroline, or Change | Tony Kushner |
| Pinocchio | Carlo Collodi |
| The Playboy of the Western World Riders to the Sea In the Shadow of the Glen The Well of the Saints | John Millington Synge |
| Il Canzoniere (Laura) | Petrarch |
| Rossum's Universal Robots The Makropulos Affair Pictures From the Insects' Life | Karel Capek |
| Walden Civil Disobedience Where I Lived and What I Lived For | Henry David Thoreau |
| Self Reliance Concord Hymn The Rhodora | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| The Monkey's Paw The Ghost of Jerry Bundler The Lady of the Barge | W.W. Jacobs |
| Slouching Towards Bethlehem The Year of Magical Thinking Play it as it Lays | Joan Didion |
| My Name is Red Snow The Museum of Innocence | Orhan Pamuk |
| Robinson Crusoe Moll Flanders Roxana, the Fortunate Mistress | Daniel Defoe |
| Song of Hiawatha The Children's Hour Paul Revere's Ride Evangeline | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| The Mysterious Affair at Styles Murder on the Orient Express Death on the Nile And Then there Were None | Agatha Christie |
| The Call of Cthulhu The Cats of Ulthar At the Mountains of Madness | H.P. Lovecraft |
| The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Catbird Seat The Night the Ghost Got In | James Thurber |
| Bleak House The Old Curiosity Shop Hard Times Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens |
| Simple Verses Our America The Gold Age Guantanamera | Jose Marti |
| El Senor Presidente Weekend in Guatemala The Green Pope | Miguel Asturias |
| A Taste of Honey The Lion in Love Charlie Bubbles Dance With a Stranger | Shelagh Delaney |
| CivilWarLand in Bad Decline Pastoralia Lincoln in the Bardo Tenth of December | George Saunders |
| Notebook of a Return to the Native Land A Tempest Discourse on Colonialism | Aimé Césaire |
| The Destruction of Sennacherib She Walks in Beauty Don Juan Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Lord Byron |
| Giants in the Earth Peder Victorious Their Fathers' God | Ole Rolvaag |
| Of Human Bondage Mr. Know-All Cakes and Ale The Razor's Edge | William Somerset Maugham |
| A Confederacy of Dunces The Neon Bible | John Kennedy Toole |
| The Lower Depths Twenty-Six Men and a Girl The Song of the Stormy Petrel My Childhood Trilogy | Maxim Gorky |
| William Tell Don Carlos The Robbers Ode to Joy | Friedrich Schiller |
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