| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Hamlet | (William) Shakespeare |
| The Tempest | (William) Shakespeare |
| Macbeth | (William) Shakespeare |
| Iliad | Homer |
| Pride and Prejudice | (Jane) Austen |
| Moby-Dick | (Herman) Melville |
| The Great Gatsby | (F. Scott) Fitzgerald |
| Paradise Lost | (John) Milton |
| Faust | (Johann Wolfgang von) Goethe |
| King Lear | (William) Shakespeare |
| The Merchant of Venice | (William) Shakespeare |
| 1984 | (George) Orwell |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | (William) Shakespeare |
| The Scarlet Letter | (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| Crime and Punishment | (Fyodor) Dostoyevsky |
| Romeo and Juliet | (William) Shakespeare |
| As You Like It | (William) Shakespeare |
| Oedipus Tyrannus | Sophocles |
| Jane Eyre | (Charlotte) Bronte |
| The Divine Comedy | Dante (Alighieri) |
| The Canterbury Tales | (Geoffrey) Chaucer |
| Othello | (William) Shakespeare |
| Candide | Voltaire |
| Little Women | (Louisa May) Alcott |
| Vanity Fair | (William Makepeace) Thackeray |
| Billy Budd: Foretopman | (Herman) Melville |
| Julius Caesar | (William) Shakespeare |
| Our Town | (Thorton) Wilder |
| Aeneid | Virgil |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | (Harper) Lee |
| A Streetcar Named Desire | ("Tennessee") Williams |
| War and Peace | ("Leo") Tolstoy |
| Les Miserables | (Victor) Hugo |
| The Grapes of Wrath | (John) Steinbeck |
| A Farewell to Arms | (Ernest) Hemingway |
| A Tale of Two Cities | (Charles) Dickens |
| Odyssey | Homer |
| Chicago | (Carl) Sandburg |
| Heart of Darkness | (Joseph) Conrad |
| The Call of the Wild | (Jack) London |
| Much Ado About Nothing | (William) Shakespeare |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | (Ernest) Hemingway |
| Anna Karenina | ("Leo") Tolstoy |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | (Harriet Beecher) Stowe |
| The Waste Land | (T.S.) Eliot |
| Pilgrim's Progress | (John) Bunyan |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | (Mark) Twain |
| The Red Badge of Courage | (Stephen) Crane |
| Pygmalion | (George Bernard) Shaw |
| Twelfth Night | (William) Shakespeare |
| The Jungle | (Upton) Sinclair |
| Ulysses | (James) Joyce |
| Lolita | (Vladimir) Nabokov |
| Long Day's Journey Into Night | (Eugene) O'Neill |
| The Catcher in the Rye | (J.D.) Salinger |
| A Doll's House | (Henrik) Ibsen |
| The Taming of the Shrew | (William) Shakespeare |
| Don Quixote | (Miguel de) Cervantes |
| Great Expectations | (Charles) Dickens |
| Wuthering Heights | (Emily) Bronte |
| Animal Farm | (George) Orwell |
| Brave New World | (Aldous) Huxley |
| Things Fall Apart | (Chinua) Achebe |
| The Three Musketeers | (Alexandre) Dumas |
| The Sun Also Rises | (Ernest) Hemingway |
| Oliver Twist | (Charles) Dickens |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | (Alexandre) Dumas |
| David Copperfield | (Charles) Dickens |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | (Gabriel) Garcia Marquez |
| The Crucible | (Arthur) Miller |
| A Raisin in the Sun | (Lorraine) Hansberry |
| The Tyger | (William) Blake |
| Beowulf | Anonymous |
| The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | (Samuel Taylor) Coleridge |
| Catch-22 | (Joseph) Heller |
| Ivanhoe | (Sir Walter) Scott |
| All the King's Men | (Robert Penn) Warren |
| The House of the Seven Gables | (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| Tess of the d'Urbervilles | (Thomas) Hardy |
| Death of a Salesman | (Arthur) Miller |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | (William) Shakespeare |
| Antigone | Sophocles |
| Lord of the Flies | (William) Golding |
| Ode on a Grecian Urn | (John) Keats |
| Inferno | Dante (Alighieri) |
| Decameron | (Giovanni) Boccaccio |
| The Rape of the Lock | (Alexander) Pope |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | (Mark) Twain |
| Main Street | (Sinclair) Lewis |
| Sense and Sensibility | (Jane) Austen |
| Slaughterhouse Five | (Kurt) Vonnegut |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | (Erich Maria) Remarque |
| The Color Purple | (Alice) Walker |
| The Sound and the Fury | (William) Faulkner |
| Richard III | (William) Shakespeare |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | (Edward) Albee |
| Lyrical Ballads | Wordsworth and Coleridge |
| The Glass Menagerie | ("Tennessee") Williams |
| Absalom, Absalom! | (William) Faulkner |
| The Turn of the Screw | (Henry) James |
| The Old Man and the Sea | (Ernest) Hemingway |
| Kubla Khan | (Samuel Taylor) Coleridge |
| Song of Myself | (Walt) Whitman |
| Rip van Winkle | (Washington) Irving |
| My Antonia | (Willa) Cather |
| Waiting for Godot | (Samuel) Beckett |
| Leaves of Grass | (Walt) Whitman |
| Treasure Island | (Robert Louis) Stevenson |
| The Last of the Mohicans | (James Fenimore) Cooper |
| The Age of Innocence | (Edith) Wharton |
| Of Mice and Men | (John) Steinbeck |
| Robinson Crusoe | (Daniel) Defoe |
| Ethan Frome | (Edith) Wharton |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | (Lewiss) Carroll |
| Lord Jim | (Joseph) Conrad |
| Pericles, Prince of Tyre | (William) Shakespeare |
| The Faerie Queene | (Edmund) Spenser |
| The Raven | (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| The Brothers Karamazov | (Fyodor) Dostoyevsky |
| Doctor Faustus | (Thomas) Mann |
| On the Road | ("Jack") Kerouac |
| Finnegans Wake | (James) Joyce |
| Gulliver's Travels | (Jonathan) Swift |
| Remembrance of Things Past | (Marcel) Proust |
| Fathers and Sons | (Ivan) Turgenev |
| East of Eden | (John) Steinbeck |
| The Stranger | (Albert) Camus |
| The Seagull | (Anton) Chekhov |
| Mourning Becomes Electra | (Eugene) O'Neill |
| Bhagavadgita | Unknown |
| The Charge of the Light Brigade | (Alfred, Lord) Tennyson |
| The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | (T.S.) Eliot |
| Ode to Joy | (Friedrich von) Schiller |
| Henry V | (William) Shakespeare |
| Invisible Man | (Ralph) Ellison |
| Far From the Madding Crowd | (Thomas) Hardy |
| Northanger Abbey | (Jane) Austen |
| Frankenstein | (Mary) Shelley |
| The Good Earth | (Pearl) Buck |
| Jude the Obscure | (Thomas) Hardy |
| An American Tragedy | (Theodore) Dreiser |
| O Pioneers! | (Willa) Cather |
| The Thousand and One Nights | Various (Famously trans. by Sir Richard Francis Burton) |
| The Handmaid's Tale | (Margaret) Atwood |
| (Fyodor) Dostoyevsky | The Idiot |
| The Cantos | (Ezra) Pound |
| Eugene Onegin | (Aleksandr) Pushkin |
| The Tin Drum | (Gunter) Grass |
| Rebecca | (Daphne) du Maurier |
| Tom Jones | (Henry) Fielding |
| Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | (Jules) Verne |
| Atlas Shrugged | (Ayn) Rand |
| Death in Venice | (Thomas) Mann |
| To Have and Have Not | (Ernest) Hemingway |
| Native Son | (Richard) Wright |
| The Magic Mountain | (Thomas) Mann |
| Henry IV | (William) Shakespeare |
| The Cherry Orchard | (Anton) Chekhov |
| Howl | (Allen) Ginsberg |
| Don Juan | (George Gordon,) Lord Byron |
| Mending Wall | (Robert) Frost |
| Emma | (Jane) Austen |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame | (Victor) Hugo |
| Gone with the Wind | (Margaret) Mitchell |
| Antony and Cleopatra | (William) Shakespeare |
| No Exit | (Jean-Paul) Sartre |
| Beloved | (Toni) Morrison |
| Measure for Measure | (William) Shakespeare |
| Dulce Et Decorum Est | (Wilfred) Owen |
| Richard Cory | (Edwin Arlington) Robinson |
| Annabel Lee | (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| Man and Superman | (George Bernard) Shaw |
| The Two Gentleman of Verona | (William) Shakespeare |
| Dracula | ("Bram") Stoker |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | (Oscar) Wilde |
| The Winter's Tale | (William) Shakespeare |
| The Sorrows of Young Werther | (Johann Wolfgang von) Goethe |
| Steppenwolf | (Hermann) Hesse |
| The Prince and the Pauper | (Mark) Twain |
| The Trial | (Franz) Kafka |
| The Return of the Native | (Thomas) Hardy |
| Utopia | (Sir Thomas) More |
| Hedda Gabler | (Henrik) Ibsen |
| The Jew of Malta | (Christopher) Marlowe |
| Spoon River Anthology | (Edgar Lee) Masters |
| The Comedy of Errors | (William) Shakespeare |
| To His Coy Mistress | (Andrew) Marvell |
| Ozymandias | (Percy Bysshe) Shelley |
| The Song of Hiawatha | (Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow |
| Le Morte d'Arthur | (Thomas) Malory |
| Mahabharata | Vyasa (attributed) |
| Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | (Thomas) Gray |
| Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey | (William) Wordsworth |
| The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | (Omar)Khayyam |
| Cry, the Beloved Country | (Alan) Paton |
| Salome | (Oscar) Wilde |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | ("Tennessee") Williams |
| Dune | (Frank) Herbert |
| The Name of the Rose | (Umberto) Eco |
| Sister Carrie | (Theodore) Dreiser |
| Breakfast at Tiffany's | (Truman) Capote |
| Madame Bovary | (Gustave) Flaubert |
| Dead Souls | (Nikolai) Gogol |
| Tender is the Night | (F. Scott) Fitzgerald |
| The Tale of Genji | Murasaki (Shikibu) |
| Kidnapped | (Robert Louis) Stevenson |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | (James) Joyce |
| Three Sisters | (Anton) Chekhov |
| Nostromo | (Joseph) Conrad |
| The Master Builder | (Henrik) Ibsen |
| The Second Coming | (William Butler) Yeats |
| Adonais | (Percy Bysshe) Shelley |
| Ode to a Nightingale | (John) Keats |
| Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | (George Gordon,) Lord Byron |
| Rappaccini's Daughter | (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| Desire under the Elms | (Eugene) O'Neill |
| A Christmas Carol | (Charles) Dickens |
| Persuasion | (Jane) Austen |
| Through the Looking Glass | (Lewis) Carroll |
| Charlotte's Web | (E.B.) White |
| A Clockwork Orange | (Anthony) Burgess |
| Death Comes for the Archbishop | (Willa) Cather |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | (Oscar) Wilde |
| 1919 | (John Dos) Passos |
| The Natural | (Bernard) Malamud |
| Daisy Miller | (Henry) James |
| Pamela | (Samuel) Richardson |
| Babbitt | (Sinclair) Lewis |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | (Jules) Verne |
| Joseph Andrews | (Henry) Fielding |
| Germinal | (Emile) Zola |
| As I Lay Dying | (William) Faulkner |
| Song of Solomon | (Toni) Morrison |
| The Jungle Book | (Rudyard) Kipling |
| Les Fleurs du Mal | (Charles) Baudelaire |
| The Alchemist | (Ben) Jonson |
| The Little Foxes | (Lillian) Hellmann |
| Titus Andronicus | (William) Shakespeare |
| An Enemy of the People | (Henrik) Ibsen |
| The Misanthrope | Moliere |
| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | (Washington) Irving |
| Because I could not stop for Death | (Emily) Dickinson |
| The Road Not Taken | (Robert) Frost |
| Gunga Din | (Rudyard) Kipling |
| Dover Beach | (Matthew) Arnold |
| O Captain! My Captain! | (Walt) Whitman |
| Evangeline | (Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow |
| The Gift of the Magi | O. Henry |
| All's Well That Ends Well | (William) Shakespeare |
| Tartuffe | Moliere |
| Inherit the Wind | Lawrence and Lee |
| Lucky Jim | (Kingsley) Amis |
| Uncle Vanya | (Anton) Chekhov |
| Arms and the Man | (George Bernard) Shaw |
| The Iceman Cometh | (Eugene) O'Neill |
| Medea | Euripides |
| Midnight's Children | (Salman) Rushdie |
| Mansfield Park | (Jane) Austen |
| The Red and the Black | Stendhal |
| The Ambassadors | (Henry) James |
| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | (Mark) Twain |
| Naked Lunch | (William) Burroughs |
| The House of Mirth | (Edith) Wharton |
| Kim | (Rudyard) Kipling |
| The Fountainhead | (Ayn) Rand |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | (Zora Neale) Hurston |
| The Time Machine | (H.G.) Wells |
| The Hobbitt | (J.R.R.) Tolkien |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | (Ken) Kesey |
| Mrs. Dalloway | (Virginia) Woolf |
| The Bell Jar | (Sylvia) Plath |
| Middlemarch | (George) Eliot |
| The Glass Bead Game | (Hermann) Hesse |
| Arrowsmith | (Sinclair) Lewis |
| The Satanic Verses | (Salman) Rushdie |
| Volpone | (Ben) Jonson |
| The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe | (C.S.) Lewis |
| Chronicles of Narnia | (C.S.) Lewis |
| The Little Prince | (Antoine de) Saint-Exupery |
| From Here to Eternity | (James) Jones |
| Gravity's Rainbow | (Thomas) Pynchon |
| Young Goodman Brown | (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| Thanatopsis | (William Cullen) Bryant |
| My Last Duchess | (Robert) Browning |
| Endymion | (John) Keats |
| The Four Quartets | (T.S.) Eliot |
| Kaddish | (Allen) Ginsberg |
| Metamorphoses | Ovid |
| The Song of Roland | Turold |
| Ramayana | Valmiki |
| The Bronze Horseman | (Aleksandr) Pushkin |
| Major Barbara | (George Bernard) Shaw |
| The Imaginary Invalid | Moliere |
| Watership Down | (Richard) Adams |
| The Frogs | Aristophanes |
| The Clouds | Aristophanes |
| Peer Gynt | (Henrik) Ibsen |
| Siddhartha | (Hermann) Hesse |
| A Separate Peace | (John) Knowles |
| The Blithedale Romance | (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| Lady Chatterley's Lover | (D.H.) Lawrence |
| Out of Africa | (Isak) Dinesen |
| A Passage to India | (E.M.) Forster |
| This Side of Paradise | (F. Scott) Fitzgerald |
| Elmer Gantry | (Sinclair) Lewis |
| In Cold Blood | (Truman) Capote |
| Fahrenheit 451 | (Ray) Bradbury |
| Jurassic Park | (Michael) Crichton |
| Go Tell it on the Mountain | (James) Baldwin |
| Cat's Cradle | (Kurt) Vonnegut |
| The Invisible Man | (H.G) Wells |
| The Last Tycoon | (F. Scott) Fitzgerald |
| The Mayor of Casterbridge | (Thomas) Hardy |
| Peter Pan | (James) Barrie |
| Songs of Innocence | (William) Blake |
| The Lower Depths | (Maksim) Gorky |
| Troilus and Cressida | (William) Shakespeare |
| Nausea | (Jean-Paul) Sartre |
| Look Homeward, Angel | (Thomas) Wolfe |
| An Essay on Criticism | (Alexander) Pope |
| Ode to the West Wind | (Percy Bysshe) Shelley |
| John Brown's Body | (Stephen Vincent) Benet |
| Crossing the Bar | (Alfred, Lord) Tennyson |
| To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time | (Robert) Herrick |
| The Purloined Letter | (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| The Cask of Amontillado | (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| The Gold Bug | (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| The Murders in the Rue Morgue | (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| The Fall of the House of Usher | (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening | (Robert) Frost |
| The Ballad of Reading Gaol | (Oscar) Wilde |
| When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd | (Walt) Whitman |
| Ulysses | (Alfred, Lord) Tennyson |
| The Bells | (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| Rob Roy | (Sir Walter) Scott |
| Adam Bede | (George) Eliot |
| Bacchae | Euripides |
| The Children's Hour | (Lillian) Hellmann |
| The Playboy of the Western World | (John Millington) Synge |
| The Tenth Muse Lately Spring Up in America | (Anne) Bradstreet |
| Sonnets from the Portuguese | (Elizabeth Barrett) Browning |
| Prometheus Bound | Aeschylus |
| Light in August | (William) Faulkner |
| The Awakening | (Kate) Chopin |
| The Bridge of San Luis Rey | (Thorton) Wilder |
| Orlando | (Virginia) Woolf |
| The Crying of Lot 49 | (Thomas) Pynchon |
| The Golden Bowl | (Henry) James |
| The Pioneers | (James Fenimore) Cooper |
| Silas Marner | (George) Eliot |
| Erewhon | (Samuel) Butler |
| Ragtime | (E.L.) Doctorow |
| Tobacco Road | (Erksine) Caldwell |
| Cannery Row | (John) Steinbeck |
| The Castle of Otranto | (Horace) Walpole |
| The Castle | (Franz) Kafka |
| A Study in Scarlet | (Sir Arthur Conan) Doyle |
| Stranger in a Strange Land | (Robert A.) Heinlein |
| Sons and Lovers | (D.H.) Lawrence |
| To the Lighthouse | (Virginia) Woolf |
| The Old Curiosity Shop | (Charles) Dickens |
| Resurrection | ("Leo") Tolstoy |
| White Fang | (Jack) London |
| Bleak House | (Charles) Dickens |
| Rhinoceros | (Eugene) Ionesco |
| Strange Interlude | (Eugene) O'Neill |
| The Inspector General | (Nikolai) Gogol |
| A Shropshire Lad | (A.E.) Housman |
| Anne of Green Gables | (L.M.) Montgomery |
| The Wind in the Willows | (Kenneth) Grahame |
| Henry VIII | (William) Shakespeare |
| The Wild Duck | (Henrik) Ibsen |
| The Bostonians | (Henry) James |
| The Octopus | ("Frank") Norris |
| Winesburg, Ohio | (Sherwood) Anderson |
| Dies Irae | Thomas of Celano |
| The Emperor of Ice-cream | (Wallace) Stevens |
| Barbara Fritchie | (John Greenleaf) Whittier |
| To A Skylark | (Percy Bysshe) Shelley |
| The Bridge | (Hart) Crane |
| Juneteenth | (Ralph) Ellison |
| Pale Fire | (Vladimir) Nabokov |
| Moll Flanders | (Daniel) Defoe |
| The Dunciad | (Alexander) Pope |
| The Kalevala | (Elias) Lonnrot |
| The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County | (Mark) Twain |
| Battle Hymn of the Republic | (Julia Ward) Howe |
| Humboldt's Gift | (Saul) Bellow |
| The Hollow Men | (T.S.) Eliot |
| On First Looking into Chapman's Homer | (John) Keats |
| In Memoriam | (Alfred, Lord) Tennyson |
| To An Athlete Dying Young | (A.E.) Housman |
| Absalom and Achitophel | (John) Dryden |
| The Devil's Dictionary | (Ambrose) Bierce |
| R.U.R. | (Karel) Capek |
| Ghosts | (Henrik) Ibsen |
| Mother Courage and her Children | (Berthold) Brecht |
| The Bald Soprano | (Eugene) Ionesco |
| Six Characters in Search of an Author | (Luigi) Pirandello |
| A Wrinkle in Time | (Madeleine) L'Engle |
| The Idylls of the King | (Alfred, Lord) Tennyson |
| Prometheus Unbound | (Percy Bysshe) Shelley |
| The Mousetrap | (Agatha) Christie |
| One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | (Aleksandr) Solzhenitsyn |
| Tristram Shandy | (Laurence) Sterne |
| The Joy Luck Club | (Amy) Tan |
| The Plague | (Albert) Camus |
| No Longer At Ease | (Chinua) Achebe |
| Show Boat | (Edna) Ferber |
| The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | (Carson) McCullers |
| Typee | (Herman) Melville |
| The Naked and the Dead | (Norman) Mailer |
| A Man in Full | ("Tom") Wolfe |
| Maggie: A Girl of the Streets | (Stephen) Crane |
| Love in the Time of Cholera | (Gabriel) Garcia Marquez |
| V | (Thomas) Pynchon |
| Looking Backward | (Edward) Bellamy |
| Howards End | (E.M.) Forster |
| The Portrait of a Lady | (Henry) James |
| Kenilworth | (Sir Walter) Scott |
| The Moon and Sixpence | (W. Somerset) Maugham |
| Buddenbrooks | (Thomas) Mann |
| The Emperor Jones | (Eugene) O'Neill |
| Lysistrata | Aristophanes |
| The Ballad of the Sad Cafe | (Carson) McCullers |
| Twice-Told Tales | (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon | (Washington) Irving |
| Songs of Experience | (William) Blake |
| The Secret Garden | (Frances Hodgson) Burnett |
| Seascape | (Edward) Albee |
| Cymbeline | (William) Shakespeare |
| Fences | (August) Wilson |
| J.B. | (Archibald) MacLeish |
| The Vicar of Wakefield | (Oliver) Goldsmith |
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