NOVELS

Don Quixote- Miguel de Cervantes (1605)

The Pilgrimʼs Progress- John Bunyan (1679)
Gulliverʼs Travels- Jonathan Swift (1726)
Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen (1815)
Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens (1838)
Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte (1847)
The Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
Moby-Dick- Herman Melville (1851)
Uncle Tomʼs Cabin- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1851)
Madame Bovary- Gustave Flaubert (1857)
Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866)
Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy (1877)
The Return of the Native- Thomas Hardy (1878)
The Portrait of a Lady- Henry James (1881)
Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain (1884)
The Red Badge of Courage- Stephen Crane (1895)
Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad (1902)
The House of Mirth- Edith Wharton (1905)
The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
Mrs. Dalloway- Virginia Woolf (1925)
The Trial- Franz Kafka (1925)
Native Son- Richard Wright (1940)
The Stranger- Albert Camus (1942)
1984- George Orwell (1949)
Invisible Man- Ralph Ellison (1952)
Seize the Day- Saul Bellow (1956)
One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1967)
If on a winterʼs night a traveler- Italo Calvino (1972)
Song of Solomon- Toni Morrison (1977)
White Noise- Don Delillo
Possession- A.S. Byatt (1990)

AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

The Confessions- Augustine (A.D. c. 400)

The Book of Margery Kempe- Margery Kempe (c. 1430)
Essays- Michel de Montaigne (1580)
The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself- Teresa of Avila (1588)
Meditations- Rene Descartes (1641)
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners- John Bunyan (1666)
The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration- Mary Rowlandson (1682)
Confessions- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1781)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin- Benjamin Franklin (1791)
Walden- Henry David Thoreau (1854)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself- Harriet Jacobs (1861)
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass- Frederick Douglass (1881)
Up from Slavery- Booker T. Washington (1901)
Ecce Homo- Friedrich Nietzsche (1908)
Mein Kampf- Adolf Hitler (1925)
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth- Mohandas Gandhi (1929)
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas- Gertrude Stein (1933)
The Seven Storey Mountain- Thomas Merton (1948)
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life- C.S. Lewis (1955)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X- Malcolm X (1965)
Journal of a Solitude- May Sarton (1973)
The Gulag Archipelago- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Born Again- Charles W. Colson (1977)
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez- Richard Rodriguez (1982)
All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs- Elie Wiesel (1995)

HISTORIES

The Histories- Herodotus (441 B.C.)

The Peloponnesian War- Thucydides (c. 400 B.C.)
The Republic- Plato (c. 375 B.C.)
Lives- Plutarch (A.D. 100-125)
The City of God- Augustine (Completed 426)
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People- Bede (731)
The Prince- Niccolo Machiavelli (1513)
Utopia- Sire Thomas More (1516)
The True End of Civil Government- John Locke (1690)
The History of England, Volume V- David Hume (1754)
The Social Contract- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762)
Common Sense- Thomas Paine (1776)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire- Edward Gibbon (1776-1788)
The Vindication of the Rights of Women- Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)
Democracy in America- Alexis de Tocqueville (1835-40)
The Communist Manifesto- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1848)
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy- Jacob Burckhardt (1860)
The Souls of Black Folk- W.E.B. Du Bois (1903)
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism- Max Weber (1904)
Queen Victoria- Lytton Strachey (1921)
The Road to Wigan Pier- George Orwell (1937)
The New England Mind- Perry Miller (1939)
The Great Crash 1929- John Kenneth Galbraith (1955)
The Longest Day- Cornelius Ryan (1959)
The Feminine Mystique- Betty Friedan (1963)
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made- Eugene D. Genovese (1974)
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century- Barbara Tuchman (1978)
All the Presidentʼs Men- Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (1987)
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era- James M. McPherson (1988)
A Midwifeʼs Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary- Laura Thatcher Ulrich (1990)
The End of History and the Last Man- Francis Fukuyama (1992)

DRAMAS

Agamemnon- Aeschylus (c. 458 B.C.)

Oedipus the King- Sophocles (c. 450 B.C.)
Medea- Euripides (c. 431 B.C.)
The Birds- Aristophanes (c. 400 B.C.)
Poetics- Aristotle (c. 330 B.C.)
Doctor Faustus- Christopher Marlowe (1588)
Richard III- William Shakespeare (1592-93)
A Midsummer Nightʼs Dream- William Shakespeare (1594-95)
Hamlet- William Shakespeare (1600)
Tartuffe- Moliere (1669)
The Way of the World- William Congreve (1700)
She Stoops to Conquer- Oliver Goldsmith (1773)
The School for Scandal- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1777)
A Dollʼs House- Henrik Ibsen (1879)
The Importance of Being Earnest-Oscar Wilde (1899)
The Cherry Orchard- Anton Chekhov (1904)
Saint Joan- George Bernard Shaw (1924)
Murder in the Cathedral- T.S. Eliot (1935)
Our Town- Thornton Wilder (1938)
Long Dayʼs Journey Into Night- Eugene OʼNeill (1940)
No Exit- Jean Paul Sartre (1944)
A Streetcar Named Desire- Tennessee Williams (1947)
Death of a Salesman- Arthur Miller (1949)
A Man for All Seasons- Robert Bolt (1960)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead- Tom Stoppard (1967)
Equus- Peter Shaffer (1974)

POETRY

The Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2000 B.C.)

The Iliad and the Odyssey- Homer (c. 800 B.C.)
Greek Lyricists (c. 600 B.C.)
Odes- Horace (65-8 B.C.)
Beowulf (c. 1000)
Inferno- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (c. 1350)
The Canterbury Tales- Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400)
Sonnets- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
John Donne (1572-1631)
Psalms- King James Bible (1611)
Paradise Lost- John Milton (1608-1674)
Songs of Innocence and Experience- William Blake (1757-1827)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
John Keats (1795- 1821)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1883)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
T.S. Eliot (1888-1954)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Mark Strand (1934-)
Adrienne Rich (1929-)
Seamus Heaney (1939-)
Robert Pinsky (1940-)
Jane Kenyon (1947-1995)
Rita Dove (1952-)