1984 George Orwell | The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams | Paradise Lost John Milton |
The Accidental Tourist Anne Tyler | The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck | Petrified Man Eudora Welty |
Ada or Ardor : A Family Chronicle Vladimir Nabokov | Great Expectations Charles Dickens | Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde |
The Aeneid Virgil | Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald | Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen |
Agamemnon Aeschylus | Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift | Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope |
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton | Hamlet William Shakespeare | A Rose for Emily William Faulkner |
The Agony and the Ecstasy Irving Stone | The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood | A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry |
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque | Haroun and the Sea of Stories Salman Rushdie | The Rape of Lucrece William Shakespeare |
Alias Grace Margaret Atwood | Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad | Rappaccini's Daughter Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Antigone Sophocles | The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien | Resurrection Leo Tolstoy |
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain | The House of Mirth Edith Wharton | The Revolt of the Cockroach People Oscar Zeta Acosta |
Antony and Cleopatra William Shakespeare | House of the Spirits Isabel Allende | Richard III William Shakespeare |
The Autobiography of My Mother Jamaica Kincaid | The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde | Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving |
Animal Farm George Orwell | The Iliad Homer | Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe |
As You Like It William Shakespeare | The Intuitionist Colson Whitehead | Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare |
The Awakening Kate Chopin | Invisible Man Ralph Ellison | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Anonymous |
Bartleby the Scrivener Herman Melville | The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan | Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser |
The Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver | The Lady With the Dog Anton Chekhov | Song of Solomon Toni Morrison |
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath | Like One of the Family Alice Childress | Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence |
Beloved Toni Morrison | Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel | Souls Belated Edith Wharton |
Beowulf Anonymous | The Little Prince Antoine de Saint Exupéry | The Souls of Black Folk W.E.B. DuBois |
The Blue Hotel Stephen Crane | Little Women Louisa May Alcott | The Stone Angel Margaret Laurence |
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison | Long Day's Journey into Night Eugene O'Neill | The Storm Kate Chopin |
The Birthmark Nathaniel Hawthorne | Lord of the Flies William Golding | The Story of an Hour Kate Chopin |
Brave New World Aldous Huxley | The Lottery Shirley Jackson | The Stranger Albert Camus |
The Call of the Wild Jack London | The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold | |
Candide Voltaire | Macbeth William Shakespeare | A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams |
The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer | The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury | Sula Toni Morrison |
Cannery Row John Steinbeck | Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare | Sweat Zora Neale Hurston |
The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole | The Merry Wives of Windsor William Shakespeare | The Swimmer John Cheever |
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger | Measure for Measure William Shakespeare | Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare |
Cathedral Raymond Carver | The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka | Titus Andronicus William Shakespeare |
The Color Purple Alice Walker | Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie | Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston |
Comedy of Errors William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare | Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe |
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Minister's Black Veil Nathaniel Hawthorne | Thus Spoke Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzche |
The Crucible Arthur Miller | Moby Dick Herman Melville | Tortilla Flat John Steinbeck |
Daisy Miller Henry James | My Name is Red Orhan Pamuk | The Tragedy of Coriolanus William Shakespeare |
Desiree's Baby Kate Chopin | Narrative of the Life Frederick Douglass | Travels with Charley John Steinbeck |
Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller | Native Son Richard Wright | To Kill a Mocking bird Harper Lee |
Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe | Night Elie Wiese | Trifles Susan Glaspell |
Dracula Bram Stoker | The Nun Denis Diderot | Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stow |
The Dubliners James Joyce | An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce | Walden Henry David Thoreau |
Everyday Use Alice Walker | The Odyssey Homer | Wicked Gregory Maguire |
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury | Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck | Winesburg Ohio Sherwood Anderson |
Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey | Women in Love D.H. Lawrence |
Frankenstein Mary Shelley | One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez | The Women of Brewster Place Gloria Naylor |
| Oroonoko Aphra Behn | Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte |
| Othello William Shakespeare | The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| | Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne |