| A | B |
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| "Civil Disobedience" | arguemtn for individual resistance to civilt government in moral opposition to an unjust state |
| 1984 | Orwell, Big Brother |
| The Aeneid | Story of the Trojan War by Virgil |
| Camus | French author who wrote The Stranger |
| Alexandar Pope | English Poet--HEROIC COUPLET |
| Tennyson | English Poet--Idylls of the King |
| Alice in Wonderland | Carrol--children's novel |
| Alace Walker | The Color Purple--American |
| Amy Tan | The Joy Luck Club--American/Chinese author |
| Animal Farm | Dystopian novel by Orwell |
| Anna Karenina | Tolstory--woman kills herself on train tracks |
| Anne Bradstreet | Puritan poet--first American woman published |
| Anne Frank | The Diary of a Young Girl |
| Arthur Miller | American--Death of a Salesman and The Crucible |
| The Awakening | Chopin--woman kills herself in the sea |
| Beloved | Morrison--slave kills daughter, slaves soon freed. Haunted by baby |
| Beowulf | Viking epic--Beowulf kills Grendal, Grendal's mom and a dragon |
| Brave New World | Rand--dystopia |
| Chronicals of Narnia | C.S.Lewis--veiled Christianity |
| The Call of the Wild | Jack London--dog's perspective |
| The Canterbury Tales | Chaucer--pilgrams go to Canterbury and share tales on the way |
| Carl Hiaason | Wrote Hoot |
| Cavilier Poets | 17th century English poets light in style |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens--Victorian |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens--Victorian |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens--Victorian |
| Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre--Victorian |
| Christopher Marlow | Wrote Dr. Faustus |
| Countee Cullen | Harlem Renaissance--poet |
| Crime and Punishment | Dostyevsky-- man kill evil woman and her invalid sister. Atones |
| The Crucible | Miller--witchcraft in Salem |
| David Copperfield | Dickens--poor child finds success |
| Death of a Salesman | Miller--Biff, Happy and Willy Loman |
| Don Juan | Byron--source of the Byronic Hero (kinda like Tony Stark) |
| Dylan Thomas | "Do not go gentle into that good night." |
| EB White | Charlotte's Web |
| Edgar Allan Poe | "The Raven" "The Fall of the House of Usher" American--Romantic |
| Edmund Spenser | Renaissance--The Faerie Queen (epic) |
| Edward Albee | American playwright--Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? |
| Elie Wiesel | Jew in concentration camp survival--wrote NIGHT |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Victorian--Songs from the Portuguese (love poems written to husband Robert Browning) |
| Emily Bronte | Victorian--Wuthering Heights |
| Emily Dickenson | American--End of Romantic--"I heard a fly buzz when I died" |
| Ernest Hemingway | American--Contemporary |
| A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway |
| The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway |
| Eudora Welty | American --Southern writer |
| Eugene O'Neill | American--Modern |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | American--Contemporary--The Jazz Age--The Great Gatsby |
| Farenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury--American--Sci-fi |
| Flannery O'Connor | American--Southern Gothic |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelly--Gothic |
| Franz Kafka | The Metamorphosis |
| Fredrick Douglass | Life and Times of Fredrick Douglass-- |
| Fydor Dostyevsky | Pshycological Realism |
| Gary Paulson | Hatchet |
| George Bernard Shaw | Irish Playwright--wrote Pygmalion |
| George Eliot | British WOMAN--Romantic |
| The Glass Menagerie | Tennessee Williams--American Playwright |
| H.G. Wells | British Contemporary--Sci-fi |
| Harper Lee | American Contemporary--To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | American Romantic--Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Heart of Darkness | Conrad--Gothic--story of English colonization of the Congo |
| Henry David Thoreau | "Civil Disobedience" American Transcendentalist (subset of Romantics) |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | American Romantic--Very loved poet |
| Herman Melville | American Romantic--Moby Dick |
| Homer | Greek Classical--Illiad and the Odyssey |
| I know why the caged bird sings | Maya Angelou--American Contemperary |
| Invisible Man | Ellison--American Harlem Renaissance |
| Jack London | American Contemporary |
| James Fenimore Cooper | American Romantic The Last of the Mochicans |
| James Joyce | Irish writer/poet Modern Ulysses |
| Jane Austen | English Romantic--Pride and Prejudice |
| Jane Eyre | Gothic novel--rags to riches--"Reader, I married him" |
| John Donne | British Renaissance--"Ask not for whom the bell tolls" |
| John Milton | British Renaissance--Paradise Lost |
| John Paul Sarte | French Existentialist--No Exit |
| John Steinbeck | American Modern--Grapes of Wrath |
| Johnathan Swift | Irish Neoclassical satirist--"A Modest Proposal" |
| J.R.R. Tolkein | The Hobbitt--British Contemporary |
| Jules Verne | French Contemporary "Father of Modern Science" |
| Langston Hughes | American Contemporary Harlem Renaissance |
| Leo Tolstoy | Russian Realist--War and Peace Anna Karenina |
| Lois Lowry | American Contemporary--The Giver and Number the Stars |
| The Lottery | Shirley Jackson |
| Louisa May Alcott | American Romantic (Transcendentalist)--wrote Little Women |
| Macbeth | Shakespeare--Renaissance |
| Madeline L'Engle | American Contemporary--wrote A Wrinkle in Time |
| The Yearling | Marjorie Rawling |
| Mark Twain | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; American Realist |
| Mary Shelley | British Romantic Gothic; Frankenstein |
| Mildred Taylor | Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry |
| Moby Dick | Melville American Contemporary |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | 19th Century American Arthur; Romantic; The Scarlet Letter |
| The Odyssey | Homer; Greek Epic of Ulysses return from the Trojan war |
| The Old Man and the Sea | Hemingway; American Contemporary |
| Oscar Wilde | British Victorian; The Pictor of Dorian Gray; The Importance of Being Earnest |
| Our Town | Thornton Wilder; American; Contemporary play |
| The Outsider | S.E. Hinton--American Contemporary; group of boys (greasers) hold their own against a group of rich kids |
| Paradise Lost | Milton; British; Reformation/restoration--story of Satan's fall from heavan |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | British Romantic wrote "Prometheus Unbound;" "Ode to the West Wind;" and "To a Skylark" |
| The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath--British Modernism |
