| A | B |
| Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness |
| Joseph Heller | Catch 22 |
| Charles Dickens | Great Expectations, Oliver twist, A tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield |
| Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace, Anna Karenina |
| Ernest Hemingway | The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewll to arms, The Sun also Rises |
| John Steinback | Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row, Of Mice and Men |
| Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibilty, Mansfield Park, Emma |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot |
| Mark Twain | The adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, A connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| Edgar Allen Poe | The raven, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Cask of Amontillado, Fall of the House of Usher, Tell-Tale Heart |
| Victor Hugo | LEs Miserables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night |
| Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights |
| Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre |
| Dante Aligheiri | The Divine Comedy, (The Inferno, part of the Divine Comedy) |
| William Faulkner | The Sound and the Fury, Absalom Absalom, As I lay Dying |
| Vladimir Nabakov | Lolita |
| James Joyce | Finnegan's Wake, A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysseys |
| Jack Kerouac | On the Road |
| Anton Chekov | The Cherry Orchard, 3 sisters, Seagull (all are plays) |
| Ralph Ellison | Invisible Man (NOT THE invisible man) |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | the Canterbury Tales |
| Giovanni Bocaccio | The Decameron (The 100 days) |
| John Milton | Paradise Lost |
| Franz Kafka | The Metamorphosis |
| Alexander Dumas | The Count of Monte Cristo, the 3 musketeers |
| Herman Hesse | Siddhartha, Steppenwolf |
| JD Salinger | Catcher in the Rye |
| Miguel Cervantes | Don Quixote |
| Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe |
| Samuel Beckett | Waiting for Godot |
| Robert Frost | Poems: The Road Not Taken, The Mending Wall, Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening |
| Lord Tennyson | Poems: Ulysseys, The Charge of the Light Brigade, All things will die |
| T.S. Eliot | poems: The Hollow Men, The Wasteland |
| Dylan Thomas | poem: "Do not go gentle into that good night" play: Under Milk Wood |
| Chinua Achebe | Things Fall Apart |
| Arthur Miller | The Crucible, Death of a Salesman |
| Tennessee Williams | A streetcar named desire, The glass menagerie |
| Thornton Wilder | Our Town |
| Steven Crane | The Red Badge of Courage, Maggie: A girl of the Streets |
| George Bernard Shaw | Pygmalion |
| William Thakeray | Vanity Fair |
| Voltaire | Candide |
| Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary |
| Virgil | The Aeneid |
| George Orwell | 1984, Animal Farm |
| Sophocles | Oedipus Rex, Antigone |
| Herman Melville | Moby Dick, Billy Budd |
| Alexandre Dumas | The 3 musketeers, The Coun of Monte Cristo |
| Gabriel Marquez | 100 years of Solitude |
| Louisa May Alcott | Little Women |
| Harper Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Goethe (Grr-tuh) | Faust |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| James Fenimore Cooper | Last of the Mohicans |
| John Keats | Ode to a Grecian Urn (various other "odes") |
| Willa Cather | My Antonia |
| Oscar Wilde | The Importance of being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray |