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Classic Literature
| Title(s) | Author |
|---|---|
| Medea | Euripides |
| The Odyssey The Iliad | Homer |
| The Aeneid | Virgil |
| Metamorphoses | Ovid |
| Hymn to Aphrodite | Sappho |
| Lysistrata | Aristophanes |
| Antigone (pronounced Ant-ih-gon- ee) Oedipus Rex | Sophocles |
| Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Beowulf | Unknown |
| Le Morte d'Arthur | Sir Thomas Mallory |
| The Faerie Queene | Edmund Spencer |
| Paradise Lost | John Milton |
| Hamlet Romeo and Juliet Macbeth Othello Julius Caesar King Henry IV (part I & II) King Richard III As You Like It A Midsummer Night's Dream The Taming of the Shrew The Merchant of Venice The Tempest Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare |
| Dr. Faustus | Christopher Marlow |
| Gulliver's Travels A Modest Proposal | Jonathan Swift |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| Common Sense The American Crisis | Thomas Paine |
| Poor Richard's Almanac | Benjamin Franklin |
| Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God | Jonathan Edwards |
| Moby Dick | Herman Melville |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte |
| Tess of the D'urbervilles Far from the Madding Crowd Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy |
| A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations Oliver Twist David Copperfield A Christmas Carol The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens |
| Middlemarch Silas Marner | George Eliot |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Life on the Mississippi | Mark Twain |
| Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman |
| The Awakening The Story of an Hour | Kate Chopin |
| The Scarlet Letter The House of the Seven Gables | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility Emma Northanger Abbey Persuasion | Jane Austen |
| Mrs. Dalloway To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf |
| The Color Purple | Alice Walker |
| The Catcher in the Rye Franny and Zooey | J.D. Salinger |
| Ulysses A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Finnegan's Wake | James Joyce |
| The Sound and the Fury As I lay Dying Light in August | William Faulkner |
| The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath |
| The Grapes of Wrath Of Mice and Men East of Eden The Pearl Cannery Row | John Steinbeck |
| The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| A farewell to Arms The Old Man and the Sea The Sun Also Rises For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway |
| Slaughterhouse-five Cat's Cradle The Sirens of Titan | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Beloved The Song of Solomon The Bluest Eye Sula Tar Baby | Toni Morrison |
| The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood |
| The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka |
| Candide | Voltaire |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame Les Miserables | Victor Hugo |
| The Three Musketeers The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas |
| Around the World in 80 Days 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Journey to the Center of the Earth | Jules Verne |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque |
| The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri |
| The Prince | Machiavelli |
| War and Peace Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy |
| Crime and Punishment The Brothers Karamazov The Idiot Notes from the Underground | Fyodor Dostoevsky/Dostoyevsky |
| The Cherry Orchard | Anton Checkov |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes |
| The Pilgrim's Progress | John Bunyan |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll |
| Treasure Island The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| The Jungle Book Kim | Rudyard Kipling |
| Heart of Darkness Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad |
| The War of the Worlds The Invisible Man (*NOT Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison) The Time Machine | H.G. Wells |
| Pygmalion | George Bernard Shaw |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker |
| The Importance of Being Earnest The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
| Sherlock Holmes The Hound of the Baskervilles | Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle |
| 1984 Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding |
| Lord of the Rings The Hobbit The Silmarillion | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett |
| The Federalist Papers | John Jay, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton |
| The Tell Tale Heart The Masque of the Red Death The Black Cat The Cask of Amontillado The Fall of the House of Usher The Murders in the Rue Morgue | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott |
| The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane |
| The Call of the Wild White Fang | Jack London |
| The Jungle | Upton Sinclair |
| My Antonia Death Comes for the Archbishop O Pioneers! | Willa Cather |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| Fahrenheit 451 The Martian Chronicles The Illustrated Man | Ray Bradbury |
| The Fountainhead Atlas Shrugged | Ayn (pronounced 'ine') Rand |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou |
| In Cold Blood Breakfast at Tiffany's | Truman Capote |
| Roots: the Saga of an American Family | Alex Haley |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey |
| Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell |
| To Kill a Mockingbird Go Set a Watchman | Harper Lee |
| The Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan |
| Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh |
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe |
| The Tenant at Wildfell Hall | Anne Bronte |
| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle | Washington Irving |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude Love in the Time of Cholera Chronicle of a Death Foretold The Autumn of the Patriarch | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| The Stranger The Myth of Sisyphus | Albert Camus |
| Siddhartha Steppenwolf | Herman Hesse |
| Cry, the Beloved Country | Alan Paton |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert |
| A Streetcar Named Desire Cat on a Hot Tin Roof The Glass Menagerie | Tennessee Williams |
| The Age of Innocence Ethan Frome | Edith Wharton |
| In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust |
| Midnight's Children The Satanic Verses | Salman Rushdie |
| Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess |
| The Outsiders | S.E. Hinton |
| Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier |
| The Maltese Falcon | Dashiell Hammet |
| Bonfire of the Vanities | Tom Wolfe |