| Term | Definition |
| Chinua Achebe | Things Fall Apart |
| James Agee | A Death in the Family |
| Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice |
| James Baldwin | Go Tell It on the Mountain |
| Samuel Beckett | Waiting for Godot |
| Saul Bellow | The Adventures of Augie March |
| Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre |
| Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights |
| Albert Camus | The Stranger |
| Willa Cather | Death Comes for the Archbishop |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | The Canterbury Tales |
| Anton Chekhov | The Cherry Orchard |
| Kate Chopin | The Awakening |
| Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness |
| James Fenimore Cooper | The Last of the Mohicans |
| Stephen Crane | The Red Badge of Courage |
| Dante | Inferno |
| Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote |
| Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe |
| Charles Dickens | A Tales of Two Cities |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Crime and Punishment |
| Frederick Douglass | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass |
| Theodore Dreiser | An American Tragedy |
| Alexandre Dumas | The Three Muskateers |
| George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss |
| Ralph Ellison | Invisible Man |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Selected Essays |
| William Faulkner | As I Lay Dying |
| William Faulkner | The Sound and the Fury |
| Henry Fielding | Tom Jones |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby |
| Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary |
| Ford Madox Ford | The Good Soldier |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust |
| William Golding | Lord of the Flies |
| Thomas Hardy | Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Sacrlet Letter |
| Joseph Heller | Catch-22 |
| Ernest Hemingway | A Farewell to Arms |
| Homer | The Iliad |
| Homer | The Odyssey |
| Victor Hugo | The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| Zora Neale Hurston | Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| Aldous Huxley | Brave New World |
| Henrik Ibsen | A Doll's House |
| Henry James | The Portrait of a Lady |
| Henry James | The Turn of the Screw |
| James Joyce | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| Franz Kafka | The Metamorphosis |
| Maxine Hong Kingston | The Woman Warrior |
| Harper Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Sinclair Lewis | Babbitt |
| Jack London | The Call of the Wild |
| Thomas Mann | The Magic Mountain |
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez | One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| Herman Melville | Bartleby the Scrivener |
| Herman Melville | Moby Dick |
| Arthur Miller | The Crucible |
| Toni Morrison | Beloved |
| Flannery O'Connor | A Good Man is Hard to Find |
| Eugene O'Neill | A Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| George Orwell | Animal Farm |
| Boris Pasternak | Doctor Zhivago |
| Sylvia Plath | The Bell Jar |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Selected Tales |
| Marcel Proust | Swann's Way |
| Thomas Pynchon | The Crying of Lot 49 |
| Erich Remarque | All Quiet on the Western Front |
| Edmond Rostand | Cyrano de Bergerac |
| Henry Roth | Call It Sleep |
| J. D. Salinger | The Catcher in the Rye |
| Scop | Beowulf |
| William Shakespeare | Macbeth |
| William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet |
| William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| William Shakespeare | Hamlet |
| George Bernard Shaw | Pygmalion |
| Mary Shelley | Frankenstein |
| Leslie Silko | Ceremony |
| Alexander Solzhenitsyn | A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch |
| Sophocles | Antigone |
| Sophocles | Oedipus Rex |
| John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels |
| William Thackeray | Vanity Fair |
| Henry David Thoreau | Walden |
| Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace |
| Ivan Turgenev | Fathers and Sons |
| Mark Twain | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Voltaire | Candide |
| Kurt Vonnegut | Slaughterhouse-Five |
| Alice Walker | The Color Purple |
| Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth |
| Eudora Welty | Collected Stories |
| Walt Whitman | Leaves of Grass |
| Oscar Wilde | The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Tennessee Williams | The Glass Menagerie |
| Virginia Woolf | To the Lighthouse |
| Richard Wright | Native Son |