| Hamlet | William Shakespeare |
| The Tempest | William Shakespeare |
| Iliad | Homer |
| Moby-Dick | Herman Melville |
| Macbeth | William Shakespeare |
| Candide | Voltaire |
| Faust | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Othello | William Shakespeare |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare |
| The Great Gatsby | F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Pilgrim's Progress | John Bunyan |
| King Lear | William Shakespeare |
| Odyssey | Homer |
| The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri |
| Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare |
| Billy Budd: Foretopman | Herman Melville |
| Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| Paradise Lost | John Milton |
| Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare |
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott |
| Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare |
| A Doll's House | Henrik (Johan) Ibsen |
| Aeneid | Virgil |
| Our Town | Thornton (Niven) Wilder |
| Much Ado about Nothing | William Shakespeare |
| War and Peace | Leo (or Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoi) Tolstoy |
| Long Day's Journey Into Night | Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest (Miller) Hemingway |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë |
| Anna Karenina | Leo (or Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoi) Tolstoy |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
| Les Misérables | Victor(-Marie) Hugo |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Edward (Franklin) Albee |
| The Jungle | Upton (Beall) Sinclair |
| 1984 | George (Eric Arthur Blair) Orwell |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor (Mikhaylovich) Dostoyevsky |
| Medea | Euripides |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles (John Huffam) Dickens |
| Ulysses | James (Augustine Aloysius) Joyce |
| A Raisin in the Sun | Lorraine Hansberry |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë |
| A Farewell to Arms | Ernest (Miller) Hemingway |
| A Streetcar Named Desire | (Thomas Lanier) "Tennessee" Williams |
| The Taming of the Shrew | William Shakespeare |
| Chicago | Carl Sandburg |
| The Rape of the Lock | Alexander Pope |
| The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| The Waste Land | T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot |
| Lolita | Vladimir (Vladimirovich) Nabokov |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J(erome) D(avid) Salinger |
| On the Road | Jack Kerouac |
| Beowulf | Anonymous |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | William Shakespeare |
| The Turn of the Screw | Henry James |
| Of Mice and Men | John (Ernst) Steinbeck |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest (Miller) Hemingway |
| Lyrical Ballads | William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Ode on a Grecian Urn | John Keats |
| Ivanhoe | Walter Scott |
| David Copperfield | Charles (John Huffam) Dickens |
| Great Expectations | Charles (John Huffam) Dickens |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Kim | (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling |
| A Clockwork Orange | Anthony (John Anthony Burgess Wilson) Burgess |
| The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
| Measure for Measure | William Shakespeare |
| Oliver Twist | Charles (John Huffam) Dickens |
| The Seagull | Anton (Pavlovich) Chekhov |
| Oresteia | Aeschylus |
| Bhagavadgita | Unknown |
| Howl | Allen Ginsberg |
| Eugene Onegin | Aleksandr (Sergeyevich) Pushkin |
| Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| Slaughterhouse Five | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
| Brave New World | Aldous (Leonard) Huxley |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John (Ernst) Steinbeck |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson |
| Fathers and Sons | Ivan (Sergeyevich) Turgenev |
| Pygmalion | George Bernard Shaw |
| The Sorrows of Young Werther | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas (père) |
| My Antonia | Willa (Sibert) Cather |
| Finnegans Wake | James (Augustine Aloysius) Joyce |
| Remembrance of Things Past | Marcel Proust |
| Peer Gynt | Henrik (Johan) Ibsen |
| As You Like It | William Shakespeare |
| An American Tragedy | Theodore (Herman Albert) Dreiser |
| Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen |
| Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier |
| Mourning Becomes Electra | Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill |
| All the King's Men | Robert Penn Warren |
| The Cherry Orchard | Anton (Pavlovich) Chekhov |