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Literature 4 A-Team
List of famous authors and their just as famous works.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Achebe, Chinua | Things Fall Apart |
| Aeschylus | Prometheus Bound |
| Aeschylus | The Eumenides |
| Aeschylus | The Oresteia |
| Agee, James | A Death in the Family |
| Albee, Edward | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| Albee, Edward | The Sandbox |
| Albee, Edward | The Zoo Story |
| Alcott, Louisa May | Little Women |
| Alexie, Sherman | Reservation Blues |
| Alvarez, Julia | In the Time of the Butterflies |
| Amis, Kingsley | Lucky Jim |
| Amis, Martin | Time's Arrow |
| Anaya, Rudolfo | Serafina's Stories |
| Anaya, Rudolfo | Bless Me, Ultima |
| Aristophanes | Lysistrata |
| Arnow, Harriette | The Dollmaker |
| Atwood, Margaret | The Handmaid's Tale |
| Atwood, Margaret | Alias Grace |
| Atwood, Margaret | Surfacing |
| Atwood, Margaret | The Blind Assassin |
| Atwood, Margaret | Cat's Eye |
| Austen, Jane | Persuasion |
| Austen, Jane | Pride and Prejudice |
| Austen, Jane | Sense and Sensibility |
| Austen, Jane | Emma |
| Austen, Jane | Mansfield Park |
| Bakara, Amiri | Dutchman |
| Baldwin, James | Go Tell It on the Mountain |
| Baldwin, James | Another Country |
| Beckett, Samuel | Waiting for Godot |
| Bellow, Saul | The Adventures of Augie March |
| Brecht, Berthold | Mother Courage and Her Children |
| Brontë, Charlotte | Jane Eyre |
| Brontë, Emily | Wuthering Heights |
| Browning, Robert | "My Last Duchess" |
| Bulosan, Carlos | America is in the Heart |
| Calvino, Italo | Invisible Cities |
| Calvino, Italo | The Baron in the Trees |
| Camus, Albert | The Stranger |
| Camus, Albert | The Plague |
| Camus, Albert | The Fall |
| Cao, Lan | Monkey Bridge |
| Capote, Truman | In Cold Blood |
| Carver, Raymond | Cathedral |
| Cather, Willa | Death Comes for the Archbishop |
| Cather, Willa | O Pioneers! |
| Cather, Willa | My Antonia |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey | The Canterbury Tales |
| Cheever, John | The Wapshot Scandal |
| Chekhov, Anton | The Cherry Orchard |
| Chopin, Kate | The Awakening |
| Cisneros, Sandra | The House on Mango Street |
| Congreve, William | The Way of the World |
| Conrad, Joseph | Heart of Darkness |
| Conrad, Joseph | Lord Jim |
| Conrad, Joseph | Victory |
| Cooper, James Fenimore | The Last of the Mohicans |
| Crane, Stephen | The Red Badge of Courage |
| Dante Alighieri | Inferno |
| Dante Alighieri | The Divine Comedy |
| Davies, Robertson | Fifth Business |
| de Balzac, Honore | Pere Goriot |
| de Cervantes, Miguel | Don Quixote |
| de Crevecoeur, J. Hector | Letters from an American Farmer |
| DeBernieres, Louis | Corelli's Mandolin |
| Defoe, Daniel | Robinson Crusoe |
| Defoe, Daniel | Moll Flanders |
| DeLillo, Don | Libra |
| Desai, Anita | Clear Light of Day |
| Desai, Kiran | The Inheritance of Loss |
| Dickens, Charles | A Tale of Two Cities |
| Dickens, Charles | Great Expectations |
| Dickens, Charles | Bleak House |
| Dickens, Charles | David Copperfield |
| Dickens, Charles | Hard Times |
| Dickens, Charles | Oliver Twist |
| Dickens, Charles | Our Mutual Friend |
| Dinesen, Isak | Out of Africa |
| Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee | Sister of My Heart |
| Doctorow, E.L. | Ragtime |
| Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | Crime and Punishment |
| Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | Notes from Underground |
| Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | The Idiot |
| Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | The Brothers Karamazov |
| Douglass, Frederick | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass |
| Dreiser, Theodore | An American Tragedy |
| Dreiser, Theodore | Sister Carrie |
| Dumas, Alexandre | The Three Musketeers |
| Edwards, Kim | The Memory Keeper's Daughter |
| Eliot, George | The Mill on the Floss |
| Eliot, George | Middlemarch |
| Eliot, George | Adam Bede |
| Eliot, George | Silas Marner |
| Eliot, T.S. | "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| Eliot, T.S. | Murder in the Cathedral |
| Eliot, T.S. | "The Wasteland" |
| Ellison, Ralph | The Invisible Man |
| Erdrich, Louise | Antelope Wife |
| Erdrich, Louise | Love Medicine |
| Erdrich, Louise | Tracks |
| Euripides | Medea |
| Faulkner, William | As I Lay Dying |
| Faulkner, William | The Sound and the Fury |
| Faulkner, William | Absalom, Absalom |
| Faulkner, William | "The Bear" |
| Faulkner, William | Light in August |
| Fielding, Henry | Joseph Andrews |
| Fielding, Henry | Tom Jones |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The Great Gatsby |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Babylon Revisited |
| Flaubert, Gustave | Madame Bovary |
| Ford, Ford Madox | The Good Soldier |
| Forster, E.M. | A Passage to India |
| Forster, E.M. | A Room With a View |
| Fowles, John | The French Lieutenant's Woman |
| Fowles, John | The Magus |
| Frayn, Michael | Copenhagen |
| Frazier, Charles | Cold Mountain |
| Friel, Brian | Dancing at Lughnasa |
| Fugard, Athol | "Master Harold"…and the Boys |
| Gaines, Ernest | A Gathering of Old Men |
| Gaines, Ernest | A Lesson Before Dying |
| Garcia, Cristina | Deaming in Cuban |
| Glaspell, Susan | Trifles |
| Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von | Faust |
| Goldberg, Myla | Bee Season |
| Golding, William | Lord of the Flies |
| Goldsmith, Oliver | She Stoops to Conquer |
| Goldsmith, Oliver | The Vicar of Wakefield |
| Greene, Graham | The Heart of the Matter |
| Greene, Graham | Brighton Rock |
| Greene, Graham | The Power and the Glory |
| Guterson, David | Snow Falling on Ceders |
| Hamilton, Alexander | The Federalist |
| Hamilton, Jane | A Map of the World |
| Hamilton, Jane | The Book of Ruth |
| Hansberry, Lorraine | A Raisin in the Sun |
| Hardy, Thomas | Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| Hardy, Thomas | Jude the Obscure |
| Hardy, Thomas | The Mayor of Casterbridge |
| Hardy, Thomas | The Return of the Native |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The Scarlet Letter |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The House of the Seven Gables |
| Heller, Joseph | Catch-22 |
| Hellman, Lillian | The Children's Hour |
| Hellman, Lillian | The Little Foxes |
| Hellman, Lillian | Watch on the Rhine |
| Hemingway, Ernest | A Farewell to Arms |
| Hemingway, Ernest | The Sun Also Rises |
| Hemingway, Ernest | Islands in the Stream |
| Hemingway, Ernest | For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| Hesse, Herman | Siddhartha |
| Hogan, Linda | Solar Storms |
| Homer | The Iliad |
| Homer | The Odyssey |
| Hosseini, Khaled | The Kite Runner |
| Hughes, Richard | A High Wind in Jamaica |
| Hugo, Victor | The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World |
| Hwang, David Henry | M. Butterfly |
| Ibsen, Henrik | Hedda Gabler |
| Ibsen, Henrik | A Doll's House |
| Ibsen, Henrik | The Wild Duck |
| Ibsen, Henrik | An Enemy of the People |
| Ibsen, Henrik | Ghosts |
| Ibsen, Henrik | Peer Gynt |
| Ionesco, Eugene | Rhinoceros |
| Irving, John | A Prayer for Owen Meany |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo | Remains of the Day |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo | Never Let Me Go |
| James, Henry | Daisy Miller |
| James, Henry | The Portrait of a Lady |
| James, Henry | The Turn of the Screw |
| James, Henry | The Aspern Papers |
| James, Henry | The American |
| James, Henry | The Golden Bowl |
| James, Henry | Washington Square |
| Jen, Gish | Typical American |
| Jewett, Sarah Orne | The Country of the Pointed Firs |
| Jin, Ha | Waiting |
| Jin, Ha | A Free Life |
| Johnson, James Weldon | Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man |
| Jonson, Ben | Volpone |
| Joyce, James | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| Joyce, James | Dubliners |
| Joyce, James | "The Dead" |
| Kafka, Franz | The Metamorphosis |
| Kafka, Franz | The Trial |
| Kallos, Stephanie | Broken for You |
| Kesey, Ken | One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | The Poisonwood Bible |
| Kingston, Maxine Hong | The Woman Warrior |
| Knowles, John | A Separate Peace |
| Kogawa, Joy | Obasan |
| Kundera, Milan | The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
| Kushner, Tony | Angels in America |
| Kyd, Thomas | The Spanish Tragedy |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa | The Namesake |
| Laurence, Margaret | The Stone Angel |
| Laurence, Margaret | The Diviners |
| Lawrence, D.H. | Sons and Lovers |
| Lee, Chang-Rae | A Gesture Life |
| Lee, Chang-Rae | Native Speaker |
| Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Lewis, Sinclair | Babbitt |
| Lewis, Sinclair | Main Street |
| London, Jack | The Call of the Wild |
| Maclean, Norman | A River Runs Through It |
| MacLeish, Archibald | J.B. |
| Mailer, Norman | The Armies of the Night |
| Malamud, Bernard | The Fixer |
| Malamud, Bernard | The Natural |
| Mann, Thomas | The Magic Mountain |
| Mansfield, Katherine | "The Garden Party" |
| Marlowe, Christopher | The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus |
| Garcia Marquez, Gabriel | Chronicle of a Death Foretold |
| Garcia Marquez, Gabriel | One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| Marshall, Paule | Praisesong for the Widow |
| Mason, Bobbie Ann | In Country |
| McCarthy, Cormac | Blood Meridian |
| McCarthy, Cormac | All the Pretty Horses |
| McCarthy, Cormac | The Crossing |
| McCarthy, Cormac | The Road |
| McCullers, Carson | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
| McCullers, Carson | The Member of the Wedding |
| McEwan, Ian | Atonement |
| McKay, Claude | Home to Harlem |
| Melville, Herman | Bartleby the Scrivener |
| Melville, Herman | Moby Dick |
| Melville, Herman | Billy Budd |
| Melville, Herman | Benito Cereno |
| Melville, Herman | Redburn |
| Miller, Arthur | The Crucible |
| Miller, Arthur | Death of a Salesman |
| Miller, Arthur | All My Sons |
| Milton, John | Samson Agonistes |
| Milton, John | Paradise Lost |
| Mistry, Rohinton | A Fine Balance |
| Moliere | The Misanthrope |
| Moliere | Tartuffe |
| Momaday, N. Scott | House Made of Dawn |
| Morrison, Toni | Beloved |
| Morrison, Toni | Jazz |
| Morrison, Toni | Song of Solomon |
| Morrison, Toni | The Bluest Eye |
| Morrison, Toni | Sula |
| Mukherjee, Bharati | Desireable Daughters |
| Mukherjee, Bharati | Tree Bride |
| Mukherjee, Bharati | Jasmine |
| Murakami, Haruki | Kafka on the Shore |
| Nabokov, Vladimir | Lolita |
| Nabokov, Vladimir | Pale Fire |
| Nabokov, Vladimir | Pnin |
| Naipaul, V.S. | A Bend in the River |
| Naipaul, V.S. | A House for Mr. Biswas |
| Naipaul, V.S. | The Middle Passage |
| Naylor, Gloria | The Women of Brewster Place |
| Ng, Fae M. | Bone |
| Norris, Frank | The Octopus |
| Oates, Joyce Carol | We Were the Mulvaneys |
| O'Brien, Tim | Going After Cacciato |
| O'Brien, Tim | In the Lake of the Woods |
| O'Brien, Tim | The Things They Carried |
| O'Casey, Sean | The Harvest Festival |
| O'Connor, Flannery | A Good Man is Hard to Find |
| O'Connor, Flannery | Wise Blood |
| Okada, John | No-No Boy |
| Ondaatje, Michael | Coming Through Slaughter |
| O'Neill, Eugene | Long Day's Journey into Night |
| O'Neill, Eugene | The Iceman Cometh |
| O'Neill, Eugene | Desire Under the Elms |
| O'Neill, Eugene | The Hairy Ape |
| Orwell, George | 1984 |
| Orwell, George | Animal Farm |
| Osborne, John | Look Back in Anger |
| Ozick, Cynthia | Heir to the Glimmering World |
| Paine, Thomas | "The American Crisis" |
| Pamuk, Orhan | Snow |
| Dos Passos, John | The 42nd Parallel (USA Trilogy) |
| Dos Passos, John | 1919 (USA Trilogy) |
| Dos Passos, John | The Big Money (USA Trilogy) |
| Pasternak, Boris | Doctor Zhivago |
| Paton, Alan | Cry, the Beloved Country |
| Pears, Iain | An Instance of the Fingerpost |
| Petry, Ann | The Street |
| Pielmeier, John | Agnes of God |
| Pinter, Harold | The Homecoming |
| Pinter, Harold | The Birthday Party |
| Pinter, Harold | The Caretaker |
| Pirandello, Luigi | Six Characters in Search of an Author |
| Plath, Sylvia | The Bell Jar |
| Pope, Alexander | The Rape of the Lock |
| Porter, Katherine Anne | Ship of Fools |
| Potok, Chaim | The Chosen |
| Potok, Chaim | My Name is Asher Lev |
| Proulx, Annie | The Shipping News |
| Proust, Marcel | Swann's Way |
| Pynchon, Thomas | The Crying of Lot 49 |
| Racine, Jean | Phedre |
| Remarque, Erich Maria | All Quiet on the Western Front |
| Rhys, Jean | Wide Sargasso Sea |
| Rhys, Jean | Voyage in the Dark |
| Richardson, Samuel | Pamela |
| Richler, Mordecai | The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz |
| Rostand, Edmond | Cyrano de Bergerac |
| Roth, Henry | Call It Sleep |
| Roth, Philip | American Pastoral |
| Roy, Arundhati | The God of Small Things |
| Rushdie, Salman | The Moor's Last Sigh |
| Salinger, J.D. | The Catcher in the Rye |
| Salinger, J.D. | Franny and Zooey |
| Sapphire | Push |
| Sartre, Jean Paul | No Exit |
| Shaffer, Peter | Equus |
| Shakespeare, William | As You Like It |
| Shakespeare, William | King Lear |
| Shakespeare, William | Much Ado About Nothing |
| Shakespeare, William | Othello |
| Shakespeare, William | The Taming of the Shrew |
| Shakespeare, William | The Tempest |
| Shakespeare, William | Twelfth Night |
| Shakespeare, William | Hamlet |
| Shakespeare, William | Macbeth |
| Shakespeare, William | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Shakespeare, William | Romeo and Juliet |
| Shakespeare, William | Anthony and Cleopatra |
| Shakespeare, William | Henry IV |
| Shakespeare, William | Henry V |
| Shakespeare, William | Julius Caesar |
| Shakespeare, William | Merchant of Venice |
| Shakespeare, William | Richard III |
| Shakespeare, William | Winter's Tale |
| Shaw, George Bernard | Pygmalion |
| Shaw, George Bernard | Candida |
| Shaw, George Bernard | Major Barbara |
| Shaw, George Bernard | Man and Superman |
| Shaw, George Bernard | Mrs. Warren's Profession |
| Shaw, George Bernard | Saint Joan |
| Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein |
| Silko, Leslie | Ceremony |
| Sinclair, Upton | The Jungle |
| Smiley, Jane | A Thousand Acres |
| Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |
| Sophocles | Antigone |
| Sophocles | Oedipus Rex |
| Spark, Muriel | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
| Stegner, Wallace | Angle of Repose |
| Steinbeck, John | Of Mice and Men |
| Steinbeck, John | The Grapes of Wrath |
| Steinbeck, John | East of Eden |
| Sterne, Laurence | Tristram Shandy |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Treasure Island |
| Stoppard, Tom | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead |
| Stoppard, Tom | Arcadia |
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Strindberg, August | Miss Julie |
| Strindberg, August | The Father |
| Styron, William | Sophie's Choice |
| Swift, Jonathan | Gulliver's Travels |
| Synge, J.M. | The Playboy of the Western World |
| Tan, Amy | The Bonesetter's Daughter |
| Tan, Amy | The Joy Luck Club |
| Thackeray, William | Vanity Fair |
| Thoreau, Henry David | Walden |
| Thoreau, Henry David | "Civil Disobedience" |
| Tolstoy, Leo | The Death of Ivan Ilych |
| Tolstoy, Leo | War and Peace |
| Tolstoy, Leo | Anna Karenina |
| Toomer, Jean | Cane |
| Trollope, Anthony | The Warden |
| Trollope, Anthony | The Way We Live Now |
| Tryon, Thomas | The Other |
| Turgenev, Ivan | Fathers and Sons |
| Twain, Mark | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Twain, Mark | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| Tyler, Anne | Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant |
| Updike, John | Gertrude and Claudius |
| Updike, John | The Centaur |
| Updike, John | Rabbit |
| Valdez, Luis | Zoot Suit |
| Valenzuela, Luisa | Clara |
| Villarreal, Jose Antonio | Pocho |
| Virgil | The Aeneid |
| Voltaire | Candide |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Slaughterhouse Five |
| Walker, Alice | The Color Purple |
| Walker, Alice | The Temple of My Familiar |
| Warren, Robert Penn | All the King's Men |
| Waugh, Evelyn | Brideshead Revisited |
| Waugh, Evelyn | The Loved One |
| Welch, James | Winter in the Blood |
| Welty, Eudora | The Optimist's Daughter |
| Welty, Eudora | Delta Wedding |
| West, Nathanael | Miss Lonelyhearts |
| Wharton, Edith | The House of Mirth |
| Wharton, Edith | The Age of Innocence |
| Wharton, Edith | Ethan Frome |
| Whitman, Walt | Leaves of Grass |
| Wideman, John Edgar | Brothers and Keepers |
| Wideman, John Edgar | Sent for you Yesterday |
| Wilde, Oscar | The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Wilde, Oscar | The Importance of Being Earnest |
| Wilde, Oscar | Lady Windermere's Fan |
| Wilder, Thorton | Our Town |
| Williams, Tennessee | The Glass Menagerie |
| Williams, Tennessee | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| Williams, Tennessee | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| Wilson, August | Fences |
| Wilson, August | Joe Turner's Come and Gone |
| Wilson, August | The Piano Lesson |
| Wolfe, Thomas | Look Homeward, Angel |
| Wolff, Tobia | Old School |
| Woolf, Virginia | Mrs. Dalloway |
| Woolf, Virginia | To the Lighthouse |
| Woolf, Virginia | Orlando: A Biography |
| Woolf, Virginia | A Room of One's Own |
| Wright, Richard | Native Son |
| Wright, Richard | Black Boy |
| Zola, Emile | Germinal |
| Hardy, Thomas | Far From the Maddening Crowd |
| Bauby, Jean-Dominique | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly |
| McCarthy, Cormac | No Country for Old Men |
| Morrison, Toni | A Mercy |
| Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451 |