| Term | Definition |
| Lysistrata | Aristophanes |
| The Birds | Aristophanes |
| Oedipus Rex | Sophocles |
| Oedipus at Colonnus | Sophocles |
| Antigone | Sophocles |
| Agamemnon | Aeschylus |
| Prometheus Bound | Aeschylus |
| Medea | Euripides |
| The Trojan Women | Euripides |
| The Republic | Plato |
| The Physics | Aristotle |
| The Metaphysics | Aristotle |
| Metamorphosis | Ovid |
| History of the Persian Wars | Herodotus |
| history of the Peloponnesian War | Thucydides |
| Commentaries on the Gallic Wrs | (Julius) Caesar |
| The Canterbury Tales | (Geoffrey) Chaucer |
| Le Morte D'Arthur | (Thomas) Mallory |
| Hamlet | (William) Shakespeare |
| Othello | (William) Shakespeare |
| King Lear | (William) Shakespeare |
| Macbeth | (William) Shakespeare |
| Romeo and Juliet | (William) Shakespeare |
| Twelfth Night | (William) Shakespeare |
| The Merchant of Venice | (William) Shakespeare |
| Doctor Faustus | (Christopher) Marlowe |
| The Fairie Queen | (Edmund) Spenser |
| Utopia | (Thomas) More |
| Pilgrim's Progress | (John) Bunyan |
| Leviathan | (Thomas) Hobbes |
| An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | (John) Locke |
| Paradise Lost | (John) Milton |
| Paradise Regained | (John) Milton |
| The Compleat Angler | (Izaak) Walton |
| Hudibras | (Samuel) Butler |
| The Life of Samuel Johnson | (James) Boswell |
| Robinson Crusoe | (Daniel) Defoe |
| The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | (Edward) Gibbon |
| The Rape of the Lock | (Alexander) Pope |
| The Vicar of Wakefield | (Oliver) Goldsmith |
| A Dictionary of the English Language | (Samuel) Johnson |
| The School for Scandal | (Richard Brinsley) Sheridan |
| Gulliver's Travels | (Johnathan) Swift |
| A Modest Proposal | (Johnathan) Swift |
| Pride and Prejudice | (Jane) Austen |
| Don Juan | (Lord) Byron |
| Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | (Lord) Byron |
| Lyrical Ballads | Wordsworth and Coleridge |
| Prometheus Unbound | (Percy) Shelley |
| Frankenstein | (Mary) Shelley |
| Ivanhoe | (Walter) Scott |
| The Lady of the Lake | (Sir Walter) Scott |
| Sonnets from the Portuguese | (Elizabeth Barrett) Browning |
| The Ring and the Book | (Robert) Browning |
| Jane Eyre | (Charlotte) Bronte |
| Wuthering Heights | (Emily) Bronte |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | (Lewis) Carroll |
| Great Expectations | (Charles) Dickens |
| Oliver Twist | (Charles) Dickens |
| A Christmas Carol | (Charles) Dickens |
| David Copperfield | (Charles) Dickens |
| A Tale of Two Cities | (Charles) Dickens |
| A Study in Scarlet | (Arthur Conan) Doyle |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | (Arthur Conan) Doyle |
| Silas Marner | (George) Eliot |
| Tess of the D'Urbervilles | (Thomas) Hardy |
| Vanity Fair | (William Makepeace) Thackeray |
| Just So Stories | (Rudyard) Kipling |
| Pygmalion | (George Bernard) Shaw |
| Major Barbara | (George Bernard) Shaw |
| Idylls of the King | (Alfred, Lord) Tennyson |
| Treasure Island | (Robert Louis) Stevenson |
| Kidnapped | (Robert Louis) Stevenson |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | (Robert Louis) Stevenson |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | (Oscar) Wilde |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | (Oscar) Wilde |
| Waiting for Godot | (Samuel) Beckett |
| Lord Jim | (Joseph) Conrad |
| Heart of Darkness | (Joseph) Conrad |
| The Forsythe Saga | (John) Galsworthy |
| A Passage to India | (E.M.) Forster |
| Howard's End | (E.M.) Forster |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | (James) Joyce |
| Brave New World | (Aldous) Huxley |
| 1984 | (George) Orwell |
| Animal Farm | (George) Orwell |
| Sons and Lovers | (D.H.) Lawrence |
| Lost Horizon | (James) Hilton |
| The War of the Worlds | (H.G.) Wells |
| The Time Machine | (H.G.) Wells |
| Of Human Bondage | (William Somerset) Maughm |
| Don Quixote | (Miguel de) Cervantes |
| The Divine Comedy | Dante (Alhegheri) |
| Candide | Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) |
| Les Miserables | (Victor) Hugo |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame | (Victor) Hugo |
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | (Jules) Verne |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | (Erich Maria) Remarque |
| The Parliament of Fowles | (Geoffrey) Chaucer |
| The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd | (Sir Walter) Raleigh |
| Colin Clout | (John) Skelton |
| Hero and Leander | (Christopher) Marlowe |
| Tamburlaine | (Christopher) Marlowe |
| The Jew of Malta | (Christopher) Marlowe |
| The Flea | (John) Donne |
| Holy Sonnet 10 (Death be not Proud) | (John) Donne |
| The Comedy of Errors | (William) Shakespeare |
| Henry IV, Part I | (William) Shakespeare |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | (William) Shakespeare |
| Richard II | (William) Shakespeare |
| Richard III | (William) Shakespeare |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | (William) Shakespeare |
| Troilus and Cressida | (William) Shakespeare |
| Song: To Celia | (Ben) Jonson |
| Volpone | (Ben) Jonson |
| Every Man and his Humour | (Ben) Jonson |
| The Alchemist | (Ben) Jonson |
| The Duchess of Malfi | (John) Webster |
| To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time | (Robert) Herrick |
| To His Coy Mistress | (Andrew) Marvell |
| Lycidas | (John) Milton |
| Areopagetica | (John) Milton |
| Samson Agonistes | (John) Milton |
| To Althea, from Prison | (Richard) Lovelace |
| To Lucasta, Going to the Wars | (Richard) Lovelace |
| A Song for St. Cecilia's Day | (John) Dryden |
| The Way of the World | (William) Congreve |
| An Essay on Criticism | (Alexander) Pope |
| An Essay on Man | (Alexander) Pope |
| The Vanity of Human Wishes | (Samuel) Johnson |
| The Seasons | (James) Thomson |
| Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | (Thomas) Gray |
| The Deserted Village | (Oliver) Goldsmith |
| She Stoops to Conquer | (Oliver) Goldsmith |
| A Red, Red Rose | (Robert) Burns |
| To a Mouse | (Robert) Burns |
| Auld Lang Syne | (Robert) Burns |
| Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience | (William) Blake |
| The Tyger | (William) Blake |
| The Chimney Sweeper | (William) Blake |
| Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tinturn Abbey | (William) Wordsworth |
| I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud | (William) Wordsworth |
| The World is Too Much With Us | (William) Wordsworth |
| The Prelude | (William) Wordsworth |
| Kublai Khan | (Samuel Taylor) Coleridge |
| The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | (Samuel Taylor) Coleridge |
| Christobel | (Samuel Taylor) Coleridge |
| Dejection: An Ode | (Samuel Taylor) Coleridge |
| Ode on a Grecian Urn | (John) Keats |
| Ode to a Nightingale | (John) Keats |
| The Eve of Saint Agnes | (John) Keats |
| On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer | (John) Keats |
| Endymion | (John) Keats |
| To Autumn | (John) Keats |
| La Belle Dame Sans Merci | (John) Keats |
| Ode to the West Wind | (Percy) Shelley |
| To a Skylark | (Percy) Shelley |
| Ozymandias | (Percy) Shelley |
| Adonais | (Percy) Shelley |
| Dover Beach | (Matthew) Arnold |
| The Lady of Shalott | (Alfred, Lord) Tennyson |
| The Lotos Eaters | (Alfred, Lord) Tennyson |
| Ulysses | (Alfred, Lord) Tennyson |
| Crossing the Bar | (Alfred, Lord) Tennyson |
| In Memorium A. H. H | (Alfred, Lord) Tennyson |
| The Charge of the Light Brigade | (Alfred, Lord) Tennyson |
| Porphyria's Lover | (Robert) Browning |
| My Last Duchess | (Robert) Browning |
| Fra Lippo Lippi | (Robert) Browning |
| The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | (translated by Edward) Fitzgerald |
| Jabberwocky | (Lewis) Carroll |
| The Walrus and the Carpenter | (Lewis) Carroll |
| The Hunting of the Snark | (Lewis) Carroll |
| Hap | (Thomas) Hardy |
| Ah, Are You Digging My Grave? | (Thomas) Hardy |
| God's Grandeur | (Gerald Manley) Hopkins |
| The Windhover | (Gerald Manley) Hopkins |
| Pied Beauty | (Gerald Manley) Hopkins |
| When I was One and Twenty | (A.E.) Housman |
| To an Athlete Dying Young | (A.E.) Housman |
| The Lake Isle of Innisfree | (William Butler) Yeats |
| Easter 1916 | (William Butler) Yeats |
| Sailing to Byzantium | (William Butler) Yeats |
| Leda and the Swan | (William Butler) Yeats |
| The Second Coming | (William Butler) Yeats |
| The Circus Animals' Desertion | (William Butler) Yeats |
| Sweeny Among the Nightingales | (T.S.) Eliot |
| Four Quartets | (T.S.) Eliot |
| Gunga Din | (Rudyard) Kipling |
| If | (Rudyard) Kipling |
| Danny Deever | (Rudyard) Kipling |
| Dulce et Decorum Est | (Wilfred) Owen |
| The Unknown Citizen | (W.H.) Auden |
| Musee Des Beaux Arts | (W.H.) Auden |
| Under Milkwood | (Dylan) Thomas |
| Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night | (Dylan) Thomas |
| The Analects | Confucius |
| Tao-te-Ching | Lao Tse |
| The Frogs | Aristophanes |
| The Flies | Aristophanes |
| The Eumenides | Aeschylus |
| Ajax | Sophocles |
| The Bacchae | Euripides |
| Hippolytus | Euripides |
| The Poetics | Aristotle |
| The Rhetoric | Aristotle |
| The Nicomachean Ethics | Aristotle |
| The New Atlantis | (Francis) Bacon |
| The Spanish Tragedy | (Thomas) Kyd |
| Moll Flanders | (Daniel) Defoe |
| A Journal of the Plague Year | (Daniel) Defoe |
| The Beggar's Opera | (John) Gay |
| Tom Jones | (Henry) Fielding |
| An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding | (David) Hume |
| The Wealth of Nations | (Adam) Smith |
| An Essay on the Principle of Population | (Thomas) Malthus |
| A Tale of the Tub | (Jonathan) Swift |
| The Rivals | (Richard Brinsley) Sheridan |
| Sense and Sensibility | (Jane) Austen |
| Northanger Abbey | (Jane) Austen |
| Mansfield Park | (Jane) Austen |
| Essays from Elia | (Charles) Lamb |
| The Castle of Otranto | (Horace) Walpole |
| Biographia Literaria | (Samuel Taylor) Coleridge |
| Agnes Gray | (Anne) Bronte |
| The Last Days of Pompeii | (Edward) Bulwar-Lytton |
| The Way of All Flesh | (Samuel) Butler |
| Erewhon | (Samuel) Butler |
| The Moonstone | (Wilkie) Collins |
| The Pickwick Papers | (Charles) Dickens |
| Nicholas Nickleby | (Charles) Dickens |
| Martin Chuzzlewit | (Charles) Dickens |
| Bleak House | (Charles) Dickens |
| Vivian Grey | (Benjamin) Disreali |
| Conigsby | (Benjamin) Disraeli |
| The Return of the Native | (Thomas) Hardy |
| The Mayor of Casterbridge | (Thomas) Hardy |
| The Ballad of Reading Gaol | (Oscar) Wilde |
| Lady Windemere's Fan | (Oscar) Wilde |
| The Jungle Book | (Rudyard) Kipling |
| The Mill on the Floss | (George) Eliot |
| Adam Bede | (George) Eliot |
| Bary Lyndon | (William Makepeace) Thackeray |
| Saint Joan | (George Bernard) Shaw |
| Man and Superman | (George Bernard) Shaw |
| A Child's Garden of Verse | (Robert Louis) Stevenson |
| The Lady's Not for Burning | (Christopher) Fry |
| Private Lives | (Noel) Coward |
| The Power and the Glory | (Graham) Greene |
| I Claudius | (Robert) Graves |
| The Lord of the Flies | (William) Golding |
| Point Counter Point | (Aldous) Huxley |
| The Moon and Sixpence | (William Somerset) Maughm |
| Seven Pillars of Wisdom | (T. E.) Lawrence |
| Brideshead Revisited | (Evelyn) Waugh |
| Rebecca | (Daphne) DuMaurier |
| The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | (Agatha) Christie |
| The Mousetrap | (Agatha) Christie |
| The Spy Who Came in From the Cold | (John) LeCarre |
| Eye of the Needle | (Ken) Follett |
| Kane and Abel | (Jeffrey) Archer |
| Shogun | (James) Clavell |
| Nobel House | (James) Clavell |
| Gargantua | Rabelais |
| Pantagruel | Rabelais |
| The Social Contract | (Jean Jacques) Rousseau |
| The Human Comedy | (Honore de) Balzac |
| Madame Bovary | (Gustav) Flaubert |
| The Red and the Black | Stendhal |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | (Alexander) Dumas |
| The Three Musketeers | (Alexander) Dumas |
| Discourse on Method | (Rene) Descartes |
| Penguin Island | (Anatole) France |
| Cyrano de Bergerac | (Edmond) Rostand |
| No Exit | (Jean Paul) Sartre |
| The Plague | (Albert) Camus |
| The Stranger | (Albert) Camus |
| The Little Prince | (Antoine de) Saint-Exupery |
| The Cherry Orchard | (Anton) Chekhov |
| Three Sisters | (Anton) Chekhov |
| Doctor Zhivago | (Boris) Pasternak |
| Crime and Punishment | (Fyodor) Dostoyevsky |
| The Brothers Karamazov | (Fyodor) Dostoyevsky |
| War and Peace | (Leo) Tolstoy |
| Anna Karenina | (Leo) Tolstoy |
| The Gulag Archipeligo | (Alexander) Solzhenitsyn |
| Cancer Ward | (Alexander) Solzhenitsyn |
| Eugene Onegin | (Alexander) Pushkin |
| And Quietly Flows the Don | (Mikhail) Sholokov |
| The Sorrows of Young Werther | (Johann Wolfgang von) Goethe |
| The Threepenny Opera | (Bertholdt) Brecht |
| The Magic Mountain | (Thomas) Mann |
| The Metamorphosis | (Franz) Kafka |
| The Trial | (Franz) Kafka |
| Steppenwolf | (Herman) Hesse |