| Term | Definition |
| Agatha Christie | Ten Little Indians |
| Agatha Christie | Murder on the Orient Express |
| Alexandre Dumas | The Count of Monte Cristo |
| Alexandre Dumas | The Three Muskateers |
| Alexandre Dumas | The Man in the Iron Mask |
| Bram Stoker | Dracula |
| Anton Chekhov | The Cherry Orchard |
| Arthur Miller | The Crucible |
| Arthur Miller | All My Sons |
| Arthur Miller | Death of a Salesman |
| C. S. Lewis | The Chronicles of Narnia |
| Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote |
| Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist |
| Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol |
| Charles Dickens | David Copperfield |
| Charles Dickens | Bleak House |
| Charles Dickens | Great Expectations |
| Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities |
| Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby |
| Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre |
| Anne Bronte | Agnes Grey |
| Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Crime and Punishment |
| Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe |
| Daniel Defoe | Moll Flanders |
| Dante Alighieri | The Inferno |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Murders in the Rue Morgue |
| Ernest Hemingway | A Farewell to Arms |
| Ernest Hemingway | The Old Man and the Sea |
| Ernest Hemingway | The Sun Also Rises |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Tender is the Night |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | This Side of Paradise |
| Frances Hodgson Burnett | The Secret Garden |
| Franz Kafka | The Metamorphosis |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | The Canterbury Tales |
| George Bernard Shaw | Pygmalion |
| George Eliot | Adam Bede |
| George Eliot | Middlemarch |
| George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss |
| George Eliot | Silas Marner |
| Kate Chopin | The Awakening |
| Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary |
| H. G. Wells | The War of the Worlds |
| H. G. Wells | The Time Machine |
| H. G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau |
| Harper Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Henry James | The Turn of the Screw |
| Henry James | Daisy Miller |
| Henry James | Portrait of a Lady |
| Herman Melville | Bartleby the Scrivener |
| Herman Melville | Billy Budd |
| Herman Melville | Moby Dick |
| Hermann Hesse | Siddhartha |
| Hermann Hesse | Steppenwolf |
| Homer | The Iliad |
| Homer | The Odyssey |
| J. D. Salinger | The Catcher in the Rye |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | The Hobbit |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | The Lord of the Rings Trilogy |
| John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath |
| John Steinbeck | The Pearl |
| John Steinbeck | Of Mice and Men |
| John Steinbeck | Cannery Row |
| John Steinbeck | Winter of Our Discontent |
| John Steinbeck | East of Eden |
| Jack London | The Call of the Wild |
| Jack London | White Fang |
| Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels |
| Joseph Heller | Catch-22 |
| Jack Schaefer | Shane |
| James Fenimore Cooper | The Last of the Mohicans |
| Jules Verne | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
| Jules Verne | Journey to the Center of the Earth |
| Jules Verne | Around the World in 80 Days |
| James Joyce | Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| James Joyce | Ulysses |
| Jane Austen | Mansfield Park |
| Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey |
| Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice |
| Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility |
| Jane Austen | Persuasion |
| Jane Austen | Emma |
| Louisa May Alcott | Little Women |
| L. M. Montgomery | Anne of Green Gables |
| Ken Kesey | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The House of Seven Gables |
| Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the Wind |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust |
| John Milton | Paradise Lost |
| Mark Twain | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| Mark Twain | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Mark Twain | The Prince and the Pauper |
| Mark Twain | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| Mark Twain | Innocents Abroad |
| Mark Twain | Pudd'nhead Wilson |
| Mary Shelley | Frankenstein |
| Oscar Wilde | The Importance of Being Earnest |
| Oscar Wilde | The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina |
| Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace |
| Ralph Ellison | Invisible Man |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Hound of the Baskervilles |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World |
| Frank Baum | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
| Lewis Carroll | Alice in Wonderland |
| Stephen Crane | The Red Badge of Courage |
| Sun Tzu | The Art of War |
| Victor Hugo | The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| Victor Hugo | Les Miserables |
| T. S. Eliot | The Wasteland |
| T. S. Eliot | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats |
| Upton Sinclair | The Jungle |
| Willa Cather | Death Comes to the Archbishop |
| Willa Cather | O Pioneers! |
| Willa Cather | My Antonia |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| Ray Bradbury | Fahrenheit 451 |
| Kurt Vonnegut | Slaughterhouse-Five |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
| William Golding | Lord of the Flies |
| William Goldman | The Princess Bride |
| William Faulkner | Absalom, Absalom |
| William Faulkner | The Sound and the Fury |
| William Faulkner | As I Lay Dying |
| William Faulkner | Light in August |
| William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet |
| William Shakespeare | Hamlet |
| William Shakespeare | Macbeth |
| William Shakespeare | The Taming of the Shrew |
| William Shakespeare | Othello |
| William Shakespeare | The Tempest |
| William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar |
| William Shakespeare | King Lear |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky | The Brothers Karamazov |
| T. S. Eliot | Murder in the Cathedral |
| Joseph Conrad | Lord Jim |
| Rudyard Kipling | The Man Who Would Be King |
| Henry Fielding | Tom Jones |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nature |
| Thomas Hardy | Far From the Madding Crowd |
| Thomas Hardy | Return of the Native |
| Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure |
| Thomas Hardy | The Mayor of Caterbridge |
| Christopher Marlowe | The Jew of Malta |
| Christopher Marlowe | Doctor Fautus |
| Ben Jonson | Volpone |
| Voltaire | Candide |
| Sophocles | Antigone |
| Sophocles | Oedipus Rex |
| Samuel Beckett | End Game |
| Samuel Beckett | Waiting for Godot |
| Aristophanes | Lysistrata |
| Aeschylus | Eumenides |
| Saul Bellow | Seize the Day |
| Saul Bellow | The Adventures of Augie March |
| Owen Wister | The Virginian |
| Louis L'Amour | Hondo |
| Larry McMurtry | Lonesome Dove |
| Bernard Malamud | The Natural |
| Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid's Tale |
| Theodore Dreiser | Sister Carrie |
| Theodore Dreiser | An American Tragedy |
| Johnston McCulley | The Mark of Zorro |
| Lillian Hellman | The Little Foxes |
| Lillian Hellman | Watch on the Rhine |
| Dashielle Hammett | The Maltese Falcon |
| Raymond Chandler | The Big Sleep |
| John Henry | Washington Square |
| Hamilton, Madison, Jay | The Federalist Papers |
| Thomas Jefferson | The Declaration of Independence |
| James Madison | The Constitution |
| Eugene Ionesco | The Bald Soprano |
| Lord Byron | Don Juan |
| Aldous Huxley | Brave New World |
| George Orwell | 1984 |
| George Orwell | Animal Farm |
| D. H. Lawrence | Sons and Lovers |
| D. H. Lawrence | Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| John Knowles | A Separate Peace |
| Sinclair Lewis | Babbitt |
| Sinclair Lewis | Main Street |
| Archibald MacLeish | JB |
| Norman Mailer | The Naked and the Dead |
| Thomas Paine | The Crisis |
| Thomas Paine | Common Sense |
| Sir Walter Scott | Ivanhoe |
| Sir Walter Scott | Lady of the Lake |
| Herman Melville | Benito Cereno |
| Toni Morrison | Beloved |
| Toni Morrison | Song of Solomon |
| Alice Walker | The Color Purple |
| Peter Shaffer | Equus |
| Tom Stoppard | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead |
| George Bernard Shaw | Man and Superman |
| George Bernard Shaw | Saint Joan |
| George Bernard Shaw | Major Barbara |
| William Shakespeare | Henry V |
| William Shakespeare | Merchant of Venice |
| Sylvia Plath | The Bell Jar |
| Harold Pinter | The French Lieutenant's Woman |
| Anne Bronte | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
| Oscar Wilde | Lady Windemere's Fan |
| Walt Whitman | Leaves of Grass |
| Edith Wharton | Age of Innocence |
| Tennessee Williams | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| Tennessee Williams | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| Tennessee Williams | Desire Under the Elms |
| Thomas Wolfe | You Can't Go Home Again |
| Thomas Wolfe | Look Homeward, Angel |
| Richard Wright | Native Son |
| Evelyn Waugh | Brideshead Revisited |
| Herman Wouk | The Caine Mutiny |
| Herman Wouk | The Winds of War |
| Robert Penn Warren | All the King's Men |
| William Thackeray | Vanity Fair |
| Richard Sheridan | A School for Scandal |
| Richard Sheridan | Rivals |
| Leo Tolstoy | Death of Ivan Ilyich |
| Virginia Woolf | To the Lighthouse |
| Virginia Woolf | Mrs. Dalloway |
| Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness |
| James Baldwin | Go Tell it On the Mountain |
| Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth |
| Edmond Rostand | Cyrano de Bergerac |
| Chinua Achebe | Things Fall Apart |
| Scop | Beowulf |
| Erich Remarque | All Quiet on the Western Front |
| Eugene O'Neill | A Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| Henrik Ibsen | A Doll's House |
| Henrik Ibsen | Hedda Gabler |
| Thomas Hardy | Tess of the D'Urbervilles |
| Samuel Beckett | Waiting for Godot |
| Edward Albee | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| Edward Albee | The Zoo Story |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Cask of the Amontillado |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Masque of the Red Death |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Pit and the Pendulum |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Tell-Tale Heart |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Fall of the House of Usher |
| R. D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone |
| Sir Walter Scott | The Talisman |
| Sir Walter Scott | Rob Roy |
| Alexandre Dumas | The Man in the Iron Mask |
| Daphne DuMaurier | Rebecca |
| Daphne DuMaurier | Jamaica Inn |
| Daphne DuMaurier | Frenchman's Creek |
| Daphne DuMaurier | My Cousin, Rachel |
| Oliver Goldsmith | She Stoops to Conquer |
| Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield |
| Moliere | The Misanthrope |
| Moliere | Tartuffe |
| Moliere | The Doctor in Spite of Himself |
| Moliere | The Imaginary Invalid |
| Washington Irving | Rip Van Winkle |
| Washington Irving | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Blithedale Romance |
| Kate Chopin | Desiree's Baby |
| Kate Chopin | The Story of an Hour |
| Virgil | The Aeneid |
| Baroness Orczy | The Scarlet Pimpernel |