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NAQT Literature Frequency List

The entire thing.

...Odds are Jimmy will never finish making this, considering there are 49 pages of works/authors, and there are at least 45 works per page.

Years will be given in parentheses next to the work, because you really ought to know those also. They come in handy! Like when Jimmy randomly guesses Twice Told Tales because it was in the 1830s and gets it right, even though KURTIS DROGE didn't know it!

If it doesn't say BC, then it's AD. CE and BCE are for lamewads.

If the NAQT-required name for an author is anything other than their last name (or, in the case of authors like Sophocles, their only name) the required name/initial combination will be denoted by underscores, like in that crazy World Leaders game Jimmy made.

In cases where multiple authors have the same last name (ie. the Bronte sisters) then you will need to give the first initial in addition to the last name. In such cases only the first initial will be denoted with underscores, but in a match you will have to give their last name too.

AB
Hamlet (1601)William Shakespeare
Oedipus Rex (430 BC)Sophocles
Macbeth (1606)William Shakespeare
King Lear (1605)William Shakespeare
Othello (1622)William Shakespeare
The Tempest (1611)William Shakespeare
Moby-Dick (1851)Herman Melville
Don Quixote (1605)Miguel de _Cervantes_ Saavedra
The Great Gatsby (1925)Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Jane Eyre (1847)_C_harlotte Bronte
Iliad (8th century BC)Homer
Pride and Prejudice (1813)Jane Austen
1984 (1948)George Orwell
Ulysses (1922)James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
Romeo and Juliet (1594)William Shakespeare
Paradise Lost (1667)John Milton
The Merchant of Venice (1596)William Shakespeare
The Canterbury Tales (1387)Geoffrey Chaucer
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)Mark Twain
A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)Tennessee Williams
The Scarlet Letter (1850)Nathaniel Hawthorne
Our Town (1938)Thornton Niven Wilder
The Divine Comedy (1314)_Dante_ Alighieri
Crime and Punishment (1866)Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)Mark Twain
Candide (1759)Voltaire
The Red Badge of Courage (1895)Stephen Crane
Billy Budd: Foretopman (1891)Herman Melville
Les Miserables (1862)Victor-Marie Hugo
Anna Karenina (1877)Leo Tolstoy
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar (1599)William Shakespeare
Pygmalion (1912)George Bernard Shaw
War and Peace (1865)Leo Tolstoy
A Farewell to Arms (1929)Ernest Miller Hemingway
Vanity Fair (1848)William Makepeace Thackeray
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)Nelle Harper Lee
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)Ernest Miller Hemingway
The Three Musketeers (1844)Alexandre _Dumas_ pere
The Grapes of Wrath (1939)John Ernst Steinbeck
Lolita (1955)Vladimir Nabokov
A Tale of Two Cities (1859)Charles John Huffam Dickens
Little Women (1868)Louisa May Alcott
As You Like It (1599)William Shakespeare
The Waste Land (1922)Thomas Stearns Eliot
Aeneid (19 BC)Virgil
Odyssey (8th century BC)Homer
Heart of Darkness (1902)Joseph Conrad
David Copperfield (1850)Charles John Huffam Dickens
Pilgrim's Progress (1678)John Bunyan
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)Gabriel _Garcia Marquez_
Antigone (441 BC)Sophocles
Faust (1808)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (pronounced Gurr-tuh)
A Doll's House (1879)Henrik Johan Ibsen
The Count of Monte Cristo (1845)Alexandre _Dumas_ pere
Robinson Crusoe (1719)Daniel Defoe
Animal Farm (1945)George Orwell
The Call of the Wild (1903)Jack London
Much Ado about Nothing (1598)William Shakespeare
The Glass Menagerie (1945)Tennessee Williams
The Crucible (1953)Arthur Miller
Brave New World (1932)Aldous Leonard Huxley
Beowulf (8th century)unknown
The Jungle (1906)Upton Beall Sinclair
Twelfth Night (1623)William Shakespeare
Great Expectations (1861)Charles John Huffam Dickens
The Sun Also Rises (1926)Ernest Miller Hemingway
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)Harriet Beecher Stowe
Oliver Twist (1838)Charles John Huffam Dickens
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1797)Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Rip van Winkle (1818)Washington Irving
The Catcher in the Rye (1951)Jerome David Salinger
Waiting for Godot (1952)Samuel Barclay Beckett
Death of a Salesman (1949)Arthur Miller
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)Lewis Carroll
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1956)Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
The Merry Wives of Windsor (1600)William Shakespeare
All the King's Men (1946)Robert Penn Warren
Things Fall Apart (1958)Albert Chinualumogu Achebe
Slaughterhouse Five (1969)Kurt _Vonnegut_ Jr.
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)Alfred, Lord _Tennyson_
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
The Taming of the Shrew (1593)William Shakespeare
Invisible Man (1952)Ralph Waldo Ellison
The Magic Mountain (1924)Paul Thomas Mann
Eugene Onegin (1833)Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin
Sense and Sensibility (1811)Jane Austen
The Brothers Karamazov (1880)Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky
Inferno (1310-1314)_Dante_ Alighieri
The Stranger (1946)Albert Camus (KAY-moo)
Catch-22 (1961)Joseph Heller
A Raisin in the Sun (1959)Lorraine Hansberry
Wuthering Heights (1847)_E_mily Bronte
The Sound and the Fury (1929)William Cuthbert Faulkner
Oresteia (458 BC)Aeschylus
Decameron (1353)Giovanni Boccaccio
The Raven (1845)Edgar Allen Poe
Ivanhoe (1820)Sir Walter Scott
The House of the Seven Gables (1851)Nathaniel Hawthorne
My Antonia (1918)Willa Sibert Cather
Main Street (1920)Harry Sinclair Lewis
All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)Erich Maria Remarque
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893)Stephen Crane
Frankenstein (1818)Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Last of the Mohicans (1826)James Fenimore Cooper
Lord of the Flies (1954)William Gerald Golding
Song of Myself (1855)Walt Whitman
The Tyger (1794)William Blake
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)Thomas Hardy
Of Mice and Men (1937)John Ernst Steinbeck
The Color Purple (1982)Alice Walker
Madame Bovary (1857)Gustave Flaubert
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1830)Victor Hugo
Finnegans Wake (1939)James Joyce
The Thousand and One Nights (9th century)Sir Richard Francis Burton (translator)
Leaves of Grass (1855)Walt Whitman
Ode on a Grecian Urn (1819)John Keats
Ode to Joy (1786)Friedrich von Schiller
The Old Man and the Sea (1952)Ernest Hemingway
Bhagavadgita (200 BC to 200 AD)unknown
Remembrance of Things Past (1913)Marcel Proust
Treasure Island (1883)Robert Louis Stevenson
Fathers and Sons (1862)Ivan Turgenev
Ethan Frome (1911)Edith Wharton
East of Eden (1952)John Steinbeck
The Idiot (1868)Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Tin Drum (1959)Gunter Grass
Absalom, Absalom! (1936)William Faulkner
The Tragedy of Richard III (1593)William Shakespeare
The Turn of the Screw (1898)Henry James
On the Road (1957)Jack Kerouac (KEER-ooh-ack)
The Age of Innocence (1920)Edith Wharton
Kubla Khan (1798) [NOT Kublai Khan, though it is about him]Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Cantos (1930)Ezra Pound
Mahabharata (200 BC)Vyasa
The Metamorphosis (1915)Franz Kafka
Native Son (1940)Richard Wright
An American Tragedy (1925)Theodore Dreiser
Hedda Gabler (1890)Henrik Ibsen
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)Tennessee Williams
Doctor Faustus (1947)Thomas Mann
Utopia (1516)Sir Thomas More
Beloved (1987)Toni Morrison
The Faerie Queene (1589)Edmund Spenser
The Gift of the Magi (1906)O. Henry
The Seagull (1896)Anton Chekhov
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1961)Edward Albee
The Cherry Orchard (1904)Anton Chekhov
The Rape of the Lock (1714)Alexander Pope
My Last Duchess (1842)Robert Browning
Antony and Cleopatra (1606)William Shakespeare
King John (1596)William Shakespeare
O Pioneers! (1913)Willa Cather
The Good Earth (1931)Pearl Buck
Richard Cory (1897)Edwin Arlington Robinson
Steppenwolf (1927)Hermann Hesse
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870)Jules Verne
Tom Jones (1749)Henry Fielding
Lord Jim (1900)Joseph Conrad
Far From the Madding Crowd (1874)Thomas Hardy
No Exit (1944)Jean-Paul Sartre
Lyrical Ballads (1798)William _Wordsworth_ and Samuel Taylor _Coleridge_
Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)Alan Paton
Gone with the Wind (1936)Margaret Mitchell
Death in Venice (1911)Thomas Mann
The Jew of Malta (1592)Christopher Marlowe
Henry V (1599)William Shakespeare
The Song of Hiawatha (1855)Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Lord of the Rings (1954)J. R. R. Tolkien
Jude the Obscure (1894)Thomas Hardy
The Trial (1925)Franz Kafka
Three Sisters (1900)Anton Chekhov
Tartuffe (1664)Moliere (MOHL-ee-air)
U.S.A. Trilogy (1937)John _Dos Passos_
Mending Wall (1914)Robert Frost
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1911)T. S. Eliot
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1915)James Joyce
The Red and the Black (1830)Stendhal
Kidnapped (1886)Robert Louis Stevenson
Don Juan (1819)Lord Byron (George Gordon)
Atlas Shrugged (1957)Ayn Rand
Gulliver's Travels (1726)Jonathan Swift
Middlemarch (1872)George Eliot
Sister Carrie (1900)Theodore Dreiser
Emma (1816)Jane Austen
The Comedy of Errors (1592)William Shakespeare
Peter Pan (1904)James M. Barrie
Leatherstocking Tales (1841)James Fenimore Cooper
Howl (1956)Allen Ginsberg
The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Name of the Rose (1983)Umberto Eco
The Handmaid's Tale (1985)Margaret Atwood
Northanger Abbey (1818)Jane Austen
Dune (1965)Frank Herbert
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)Oscar Wilde
Mourning Becomes Electra (1931)Eugene O'Neill
Ozymandias (1818)Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Road Not Taken (1916)Robert Frost
The Human Comedy (1898)Honore de Balzac
Henry VIII (1612)William Shakespeare
Daisy Miller (1878)Henry James
The Hobbit (1937)J. R. R. Tolkien
Dead Souls (1842)Nikolai Gogol
The Bell Jar (1963)Sylvia Plath
A Christmas Carol (1843)Charles Dickens
Major Barbara (1905)George Bernard Shaw
The Iceman Cometh (1946)Eugene O'Neill
Spoon River Anthology (1915)Edgar Lee Masters
To His Coy Mistress (1652)Andrew Marvell
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751)Thomas Gray
Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)Jules Verne
Siddhartha (1922)Herman Hesse
Chicago (1916)Carl Sandburg
Annabel Lee (1849)Edgar Allen Poe
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey (1798)William Wordsworth
Dubliners (1914)James Joyce
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1594)William Shakespeare
Babbitt (1922)Sinclair Lewis
The House of Mirth (1905)Edith Wharton
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)Willa Cather
As I Lay Dying (1930)William Faulkner
Uncle Vanya (1897)Anton Chekhov
Medea (431 BC)Euripides
Henry IV (1599)William Shakespeare
The Prince and the Pauper (1882)Mark Twain
The Tale of Genji (1010)Lady _Murasaki_ ("Shikibu" is also accepted)
Arrowsmith (1925)Sinclair Lewis
The Plague (1947)Albert Camus
Midnight's Children (1981)Salman Rushdie
The Second Coming (1921)William Butler Yeats
The Fall of the House of Usher (1840)Edgar Allen Poe
Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953)James Baldwin
To Have and Have Not (1937)Ernest Hemingway
The Misanthrope (1666)Moliere (MOHL-ee-air)
Through the Looking-Glass (1871)Lewis Carroll
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)_E_lizabeth Barret Browning
Les Fleurs du Mal (1857)Charles Baudelaire
Anne of Green Gables (1908)L. M. Montgomery
The Master Builder (1892)Henrik Ibsen
The Maltese Falcon (1930)Dashiell Hammett
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)Zora Neale Hurston
Mrs. Dalloway (1925)Virginia Woolf
In Cold Blood (1966)Truman Capote
A Passage to India (1924)E. M. Forster
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820)Washington Irving
Dulce Et Decorum Est (1920)Wilfred Owen
Doctor Zhivago (1958)Boris Pasternak
The Time Machine (1895)H. G. Wells
Man and Superman (1903)George Bernard Shaw
An Enemy of the People (1882)Henrik Ibsen
The Frogs (405 BC)Aristophanes
Tender is the Night (1934)F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)Thomas Hardy
A Room With a View (1908)E. M. Forster
Howards End (1910)E. M. Forster
The Portrait of a Lady (1881)Henry James
Nostromo (1904)Joseph Conrad
The Da Vinci Code (2003)Dan Brown
Evangeline (1847)Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Because I could not stop for Death (1890)Emily Dickinson
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (11th century)Omar Khayyam
Kaddish (1961)Allen Ginsberg
Ulysses [The Poem] (1842)Alfred, Lord _Tennyson_
To the Lighthouse (1927)Virginia Woolf
The Satanic Verses (1989)Salman Rushdie
Persuasion (1818)Jane Austen
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)Mark Twain
The Little Foxes (1939)Lillian Hellman
Inherit the Wind (1955)Jerome _Lawrence_ and Robert E. _Lee_
Troilus and Cressida (1602)William Shakespeare
Volpone (1605)Ben Jonson
Lysistrata (411 BC)Aristophanes
Cyrano de Bergerac (1897)Edmond Rostand
The Jungle Book (1894)Rudyard Kipling
The Little Prince (1943)Antoine de _Saint-Exupery_
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1820)Washington Irving
Silas Marner (1861)George Eliot
Joseph Andrews (1742)Henry Fielding
Moll Flanders (1722)Daniel Defoe
The Gold Bug (1843)Edgar Allan Poe
Dover Beach (1867)Matthew Arnold
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812)George Gordon, or Lord _Byron_
Adonais (1821)Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Kalevala (1835)Elias Lonnrot (compiler of oral traditions)
Endymion (1818)John Keats
The Last Tycoon (1941)F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)Ray Bradbury
Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Kim (1901)Rudyard Kipling
The Glass Bead Game (1943)Hermann Hesse
The Return of the Native (1878)Thomas Hardy
Rebecca (1938)Daphne du Maurier
Dracula (1897)Bram Stoker
Agamemnon (458 BC)Aeschylus
Hippolytus (428 BC)Euripides
Titus Andronicus (1593)William Shakespeare
Fences (1986)August Wilson
Desire Under the Elms (1924)Eugene O'Neill
The Clouds (423 BC)Aristophanes
Adam Bede (1859)George Eliot
Nausea (1938)Jean-Paul Sartre
Cannery Row (1945)John Steinbeck
Paterson (1946)William Carlos Williams
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923)Robert Frost
Thanatopsis (1817)William Cullen Bryant
The Purloined Letter (1845)Edgar Allan Poe
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)Edgar Allan Poe
Young Goodman Brown (1835)Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Queen of Spades (1834)Aleksandr Pushkin
Ode to a Nightingale (1819)John Keats
Mansfield Park (1814)Jane Austen
Ramayana (3rd century BC)Valmiki
A Clockwork Orange (1962)Anthony Burgess
Elmer Gantry (1927)Sinclair Lewis
The Castle (1926)Franz Kafka
Gravity's Rainbow (1973)Thomas Pynchon
Pamela (1740)Samuel Richardson
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)D H Lawrence
The Ambassadors (1903)Henry James
This Side of Paradise (1920)F Scott Fitzgerald
Buddenbrooks (1901)Thomas Mann
The Winter's Tale (1611)William Shakespeare
The Alchemist (1610)Ben Jonson
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921)Luigi Pirandello
Seven Against Thebes (467 BC)Aeschylus
The Imaginary Invalid (1673)Moliere
Arms and the Man (1894)George Bernard Shaw
The Persians (472 BC)Aeschylus
Prometheus Bound (478 BC)Aeschylus
The Charterhouse of Parma (1839)Stendhal
Out of Africa (1938)Isak Dinesen
Tobacco Road (1933)Erskine Caldwell
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Germinal (1883)Emile Zola
The Blithedale Romance (1852)Nathaniel Hawthorne
Song of Solomon (1973)Toni Morrison
Le Morte d'Arthur (1470)Thomas Malory
Battle Hymn of the Republic (1862)Julia Ward Howe
O Captain! My Captain! (1865)Walt Whitman
Ode to the West Wind (1819)Percy Bysshe Shelley
Chronicles of Narnia (1950)C S Lewis
Danzig Trilogy (1959-1963)Gunter Grass
Barbara Frietchie (1863)John Whittier
The Four Quartets (1936)T S Eliot
Metamorphoses (8 AD)Ovid
The Fountainhead (1943)Ayn Rand
The Natural (1952)Bernard Malamud
Naked Lunch (1959)William S Burroughs
Cat's Cradle (1963)Kurt Vonnegut
Measure for Measure (1604)William Shakespeare
Mrs. Warren's Profession (1898)George Bernard Shaw
Rhinoceros (1959)Eugene Ionesco
La Vita Nuova (1293)Dante Alighieri
Typee (1846)Herman Melville
In Memoriam (1833)Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Fog (1916)Carl Sandburg
Dies Irae (13th century)Thomas of Celano
The Song of Roland (around 1100)Turold (probable)
The Overcoat (1842)Nikolai Gogol
The Open Boat (1898)Stephen Crane
Bleak House (1852)Charles Dickens
The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)Thomas Pynchon
Juneteenth (1999)Ralph Ellison
Pale Fire (1962)Vladimir Nabokov
Rappaccini's Daughter (1844)Nathaniel Hawthorne
Holy Sonnet 10 (1633)John Donne (pronounced Dunn)
Gunga Din (1892)Rudyard Kipling
The Hollow Men (1925)T S Eliot
Miniver Cheevy (1910)E A Robinson
Of Human Bondage (1915)W Somerset Maugham
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)Ambrose Bierce
Light in August (1932)William Faulkner
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)C S Lewis
The Ugly Duckling (1835)Hans Christian Andersen
All's Well That Ends Well (1602)William Shakespeare
Ghosts (1881)Henrik Ibsen
The Lower Depths (1902)Maksim Gorky
Charlotte's Web (1952)E B White
Winesburg, Ohio (1919)Sherwood Anderson
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966)Tom Stoppard
Cairo Trilogy (1956)Naguib Mahfouz
The Awakening (1899)Kate Chopin
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)Thornton Wilder
A Study in Scarlet (1887)Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of Four (1890)Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
From Here to Eternity (1951)James Jones
The Naked and the Dead (1948)Norman Mailer
The Golden Bowl (1904)Henry James
Hesperides (1648)Robert Herrick
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (1865)Walt Whitman
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time (1648)Robert Herrick
The Dead (1914)James Joyce
Equality (1897)Edward Bellamy
White Fang (1905)Jack London
The Bronze Horseman (1833)Aleksandr Pushkin
Le Pere Goriot (1835)Honore de Balzac
Nicholas Nickleby (1838)Charles Dickens
The Sea Wolf (1904)Jack London
The Cask of Amontillado (1846)Edgar Allan Poe
The Gift Outright (1942)Robert Frost
Lycidas (1637)John Milton
An Essay on Criticism (1711)Alexander Pope
1919 (1933)John Dos Passos
Lucky Jim (1954)Kingsley Amis
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)Ken Kesey
A Shropshire Lad (1896)A E Housman
The Birds (414 BC)Aristophanes
Mary Poppins (1934)P L Travers
The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America (1650)Anne Bradstreet
The Bald Soprano (1948)Eugene Ionesco
R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (1921)Karel Capek
The Troublesome Reign and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second (1591)Christopher Marlowe
Cymbeline (1609)William Shakespeare
Seascape (1974)Edward Albee
The Skin of Our Teeth (1942)Thornton Wilder
The Wild Duck (1884)Henrik Ibsen
Amadeus (1980)Peter Shaffer
The Mousetrap (1952)Agatha Christie
Strange Interlude (1928)Eugene O'Neill
Songs of Innocence (1789)William Blake
Watership Down (1972)Richard Adams
A Wrinkle in Time (1962)Madeleine L'Engle
The War of the Worlds (1894)H G Wells
A Separate Peace (1959)John Knowles
The Marble Faun (1860)Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)Baroness Orczy
The Big Money (1936)John Dos Passos
The Pioneers (1823)James Fenimore Cooper
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)Oscar Wilde
The Star-Spangled Banner (1814)Francis Scott Key
The Dunciad (1728)Alexander Pope
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (1856)Walt Whitman
The Bridge (1930)Hart Crane
Batleby the Scrivener (1856)Herman Melville
The Wheel of Time (1990-2007)Robert Jordan
Foundation (1951)Isaac Asimov


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