| A | B |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1880, Novel) | The Brothers Karamazov |
| Dante (c.1310-1314, Poem) | Inferno |
| Albert Camus (1946, Novel) | The Stranger |
| Joseph Heller (1961, Novel) | Catch-22 |
| Lorraine Hansberry (1959, Drama) | A Raisin in the Sun |
| William Faulkner (1929, Novel) | The Sound and the Fury |
| Aeschylus (c. 458 BC, Series) | Oresteia |
| Giovanni Boccaccio (1353, Poem) | Decameron |
| Edgar Allen Poe (1845, Poem) | The Raven |
| Sir Walter Scott (1820, Novel) | Ivanhoe |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851, Novel) | The House of the Seven Gables |
| Willa Cather (1918, Novel) | My Antonia |