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Literature Study Packet

(updated 12-14-09)

Novels

Kobo Abe – The Woman in the Dunes

Chinua Achebe [Nigeria] – Things Fall Apart; No Longer at Ease [sequel to Things Fall Apart]; Anthills of the Savannah; Arrow of God

Douglas Adams – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Richard Adams – Watership Down

James Agee – A Death in the Family

Louisa May Alcott – Moods; Flower Fables; Eight Cousins; Jo’s Boys

Horatio Alger [“rags-to-riches” stories] – Ragged Dick; Luck and Pluck; Tattered Tom

Nelson Algren – The Man with the Golden Arm

Isabel Allende [Chile] – The House of the Spirits

Sherwood Anderson – Winesburg, Ohio; Windy McPherson’s Son; Poor White

Ivo Andric – The Bridge on the Drina

Apuleius – The Golden Ass [the only completely preserved novel in ancient Latin]

Asimov – I, Robot; Foundation series

Margaret Atwood [Canada] – The Handmaid’s Tale; Cat’s Eye; Alias Grace; The Blind Assassin

Jane Austen – Persuasion; Northanger Abbey; Mansfield Park; Sanditon [unfinished]; Emma; Pride and Prejudice

James Baldwin – Giovanni’s Room; Another Country; Go Tell it on the Mountain

Balzac – The Human Comedy [series of novels, plays, essays]; Cousin Bette; Pere Goriot; Eugenie Grandet

Samuel Beckett – Malone Dies; Molloy

Edward Bellamy – Looking Backward

Saul Bellow – The Adventures of Augie March; Seize the Day; Herzog; Henderson the Rain King; Humboldt’s Gift; Dangling Man; The Victim

Richard Blackmore – Lorna Doone

Heinrich Boll [German] – Billiards at Half-Past Nine; The Clown

Pierre Boulle – Planet of the Apes; Bridge on the River Kwai

Ray Bradbury – Something Wicked this Way Comes; Dandelion Wine; The Martian Chronicles; Fahrenheit 451

Anne Bronte – Agnes Grey; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights

Charlotte Bronte – Shirley; Villette; The Professor; Jane Eyre

Gwendolyn Brooks – Maud Marth

Pearl Buck – “House of Earth” trilogy: The Good Earth, Sons, A House Divided;

East Wind: West Wind

Mikhail Bulgakov – The Master and Margarita; Heart of a Dog

Edward Bulwer-Lytton – The Last Days of Pompeii; Paul Clifford

Anthony Burgess – A Clockwork Orange; Enderby novels [series of 4 comic novels]

Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan of the Apes

William S. Burroughs – Naked Lunch

Samuel Butler – Erewhon; The Way of all Flesh

Erskine Caldwell – God’s Little Acre; Tobacco Road

Italo Calvino – If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

Albert Camus [born in Algeria] – The Stranger; The Plague; The Fall

Cao Xuegin (Chinese, 1700s) – Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as Story of the Stone)

Truman Capote – Breakfast at Tiffany’s; The Grass Harp; Other Voices, Other Rooms; Answered Prayers [unfinished]

Orson Scott Card – Ender’s Game

Lewis Carroll – Through the Looking Glass [sequel to Alice in Wonderland]

Jimmy Carter – The Hornet’s Nest

Willa Cather – One of Ours; The Song of the Lark; O Pioneers; My Antonia; Alexander’s Bridge; Sapphira and the Slave Girl

Cervantes – La Galatea; Don Quixote

Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay; Wonder Boys

Raymond Chandler – The Big Sleep; The Long Goodbye

Kate Chopin – The Awakening

Agatha Christie – Murder on the Orient Express; Death on the Nile; The Mysterious Affair at Styles; The Murder of Roger Ackroyd; And Then There Were None

Winston Churchill -- Savrola

Sandra Cisneros – The House on Mango Street

Walter Van Tilburg Clark – The Ox-Bow Incident

Arthur C. Clarke – 2001: A Space Odyssey

James Clavell -- Shogun

J.M. Coetzee [South Africa] – Disgrace; The Life and Times of Michael K; Waiting for the Barbarians; The Master of Petersburg

Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone; The Woman in White

Joseph Conrad – Almayer’s Folly [his first novel]; Lord Jim; Typhoon; Nostromo; The Secret Agent; The Secret Sharer; The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’; Victory; Typhoon; Under Western Eyes

Pat Conroy – The Prince of Tides

James Fenimore Cooper – Precaution [his first novel]; The Pilot; The Spy; Leatherstocking Tales: The Deerslayer; The Last of the Mohicans; The Pathfinder; The Pioneers; The Prairie

Stephen Crane – Maggie: A Girl of the Streets; The Red Badge of Courage

Michael Crichton – Jurassic Park; The Andromeda Strain

Michael Cunningham – The Hours [based on life of Virginia Woolf]

Simone de Beauvoir – The Mandarins

Daniel DeFoe – Robinson Crusoe; Moll Flanders; Roxana

Philip K. Dick – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? [science fiction novel that is the basis of the movie “Blade Runner”]

Charles Dickens – Bleak House; Hard Times; The Pickwick Papers; Oliver Twist; Nicholas Nickleby; The Old Curiosity Shop; Barnaby Rudge; Dombey and Son; Little Dorrit; Martin Chuzzlewit; Our Mutual Friend; The Mystery of Edwin Drood

James Dickey -- Deliverance

Benjamin Disraeli -- Sybil

E.L. Doctorow – Ragtime; Billy Bathgate; The Book of Daniel [fictionalized account of Rosenberg trial]

John Dos Passos – USA Trilogy [The Big Money; 1919; The 42nd Parallel]; Three Soldiers; Manhattan Transfer

Dostoevsky – Poor Folk [his first novel]; The Double; The House of the Dead; Notes from the Underground; The Idiot; The Possessed; The Gambler; The Brothers Karamazov; Crime and Punishment

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The White Company [historical novel]; The Lost World [fantasy]; The Hound of the Baskervilles; A Study in Scarlet; The Sign of the Four

Theodore Dreiser – Jennie Gerhardt; Sister Carrie; An American Tragedy; The Financier; The Titan

Daphne Du Maurier -- Rebecca

Alexander Dumas [pere] – The Three Musketeers; The Count of Monte Cristo; Twenty Years After; The Black Tulip

Umberto Eco [Italy] – The Name of the Rose; Foucault’s Pendulum

George Eliot – Adam Bede; Daniel Deronda; Felix Holt; Romola; The Mill on the Floss; Middlemarch; Scenes of Clerical Life; Silas Marner

Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man; Juneteenth

Laura Esquivel – Like Water for Chocolate

James T. Farrell – Studs Lonigan [trilogy of novels]

Faulkner – The Reivers; A Fable; Sanctuary; The Snopes Trilogy [The Town; The Hamlet; The Mansion]; Soldier’s Pay; Requiem for a Nun; Absalom, Absalom; Intruders in the Dust; Light in August; The Sound and the Fury; As I Lay Dying

Edna Ferber -- So Big; Show Boat; Giant

Henry Fielding – Tom Jones; Joseph Andrews; Shamela

F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Last Tycoon [unfinished when he died]; The Beautiful and Damned; The Great Gatsby; Tender is the Night; This Side of Paradise

Flaubert – Madame Bovary; Salammbo; Sentimental Education; The Temptation of Saint Anthony

Ford Madox Ford – The Good Soldier

C.S. Forester – The African Queen; “Horatio Hornblower” series

E.M. Forster – Howard’s End; A Room with a View; A Passage to India; Where Angels Fear to Tread; Maurice

Anatole France – The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard; Penguin Island

Carlos Fuentes [Mexico] – The Old Gringo; The Death of Artemio Cruz

John Galsworthy – The Forsyte Saga

Gao Xingjian [Chinese; winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature] – Soul Mountain

Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Colombia] – Love in the Time of Cholera; Memories of My Melancholy Whores; One Hundred Years of Solitude; Chronicle of a Death Foretold

John Gardner – Grendel

Andre Gide – The Counterfeiters; The Immoralist

Goethe – The Sorrows of Young Werther; Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship

Nikolai Gogol – Dead Souls; Taras Bulba

William Golding – Lord of the Flies; The Inheritors; Pincher Martin; Free Fall; The Spire

Oliver Goldsmith – The Vicar of Wakefield; The Deserted Village

Nadine Gordimer [South Africa] – Burger’s Daughter; July’s People; Get a Life

Maxim Gorky -- Mother

Robert Graves – I, Claudius

Gunther Grass – “Danzig” Trilogy: The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Dog Years; Crabwalk

Graham Greene – The Power and the Glory; The Heart of the Matter; The End of the Affair; The Quiet American

Zane Grey – Riders of the Purple Sage

H. Rider Haggard – King Solomon’s Mines

Alex Haley -- Roots

Dashiell Hammett – The Maltese Falcon; The Thin Man

Knut Hamsun [Norway] -- Hunger

Thomas Hardy – Under a Greenwood Tree; Far From the Madding Crowd; The Mayor of Casterbridge; Jude the Obscure; Tess of the D’Urbervilles; The Return of the Native; A Pair of Blue Eyes

Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Blithedale Romance; The Marble Faun; Fanshawe; The Scarlet Letter; The House of the Seven Gables

Robert Heinlein – Stranger in a Strange Land

Joseph Heller – God Knows; Good as Gold; Closing Time [sequel to Catch-22]; Catch-22; Something Happened; Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man

Ernest Hemingway – To Have and Have Not; Islands in the Stream; Across the River and Into the Trees; A Farewell to Arms; The Sun Also Rises; For Whom the Bell Tolls; The Old Man and the Sea

Frank Herbert -- Dune

John Hersey – A Bell for Adano

Herman Hesse – Steppenwolf; Siddhartha; The Glass Bead Game; Demian; Beneath the Wheel

DuBose Heyward – Porgy [novel that was the basis for Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess]

James Hilton – Lost Horizon; Goodbye, Mr. Chips

William Dean Howells – A Hazard of New Fortunes; The Rise of Silas Lapham

Victor Hugo – Les Miserables; The Hunchback of Notre Dame; Hans of Iceland; Toilers of the Sea

Zora Neale Hurston – Their Eyes Were Watching God; Moses, Man of the Mountain; Jonah’s Gourd Vine; Seraph on the Suwanee

Aldous Huxley – Antic Hay; Point Counter Point; Eyeless in Gaza; After Many a Summer Dies the Swan; Brave New World; Crome Yellow

John Irving – The World According to Garp; The Cider House Rules

Kazuo Ishiguro – The Remains of the Day

Helen Hunt Jackson -- Ramona

Henry James – The Ambassadors; Washington Square; Daisy Miller; The Wings of the Dove; Roderick Hudson; The Turn of the Screw; The Portrait of a Lady; The American; The Golden Bowl; The Europeans; The Bostonians

Sarah Orne Jewett [from Maine] – The Country of the Pointed Firs

James Weldon Johnson – The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

James Jones – From Here to Eternity; The Thin Red Line

Robert Jordan – The Wheel of Time [fantasy series]

James Joyce – Finnegan’s Wake; Ulysses; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Stephen Hero [precursor to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]

Franz Kafka [Czech; wrote in German] – Amerika; The Castle; The Trial; The Metamorphosis

Kawabata – A Thousand Cranes; Snow Country; The Master of Go

Kazantzakis – Zorba the Greek; The Last Temptation of Christ

Thomas Keneally – Schindler’s List

William Kennedy -- Ironweed

Jack Kerouac – The Dharma Bums; The Town and the City; On the Road

Imre Kertesz [Hungarian – Jewish, writes about the Holocaust] – Kaddish for a Child Unborn; Fateless (also known as Fatelessness)

Ken Kesey – Sometimes a Great Notion; One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Daniel Keyes – Flowers for Algernon

Rudyard Kipling – Captains Courageous; Kim; The Light that Failed; The Naulakha

John Knowles – A Separate Peace; Peace Breaks Out [sequel]

Arthur Koestler – Darkness at Noon

Milan Kundera [Czech] -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being; The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

D.H. Lawrence – Sons and Lovers; Women in Love; Kangaroo; The Plumed Serpent; The White Peacock; The Rainbow; Lady Chatterley’s Lover

John Le Carre [spy novels] – The Spy Who Came in From the Cold; The Little Drummer Girl

Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird

Mikhail Lermontov – A Hero of our Time

Gaston Leroux – The Phantom of the Opera

Doris Lessing – The Golden Notebook

C.S. Lewis – Out of the Silent Planet [science fiction]

Sinclair Lewis – Dodsworth; It Can’t Happen Here; Arrowsmith; Main Street; Elmer Gantry; Babbitt

Jack London – The Iron Heel; The Sea Wolf; Martin Eden; John Barleycorn; The Cruise of the Snark; The Call of the Wild; White Fang; The Star Rover

Longfellow -- Hyperion

Naguib Mahfouz [Egyptian] – Palace Walk (part of “Cairo Trilogy”); Midaq Alley

Norman Mailer – The Naked and the Dead; The Executioner’s Song; Ancient Evenings

Bernard Malamud – The Assistant; The Fixer; The Natural

Sir Thomas Malory – Le Morte d’Arthur

Thomas Mann – Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man; Joseph and His Brothers; Doktor Faustus; Death in Venice; The Magic Mountain; Mario and the Magician; Tonio Kroger; Buddenbrooks; Lotte in Weimar

Maugham – Of Human Bondage; The Razor’s Edge; Cakes and Ale; TheMoon and Sixpence [fictionalizes the life of Paul Gauguin]

Cormac McCarthy – All the Pretty Horses; No Country for Old Men

Carson McCullers – The Heart is a Lonely Hunter; The Member of the Wedding; The Ballad of the Sad Café; Reflections in a Golden Eye

Larry McMurtry – Lonesome Dove

Herman Melville – Typee; Omoo; White-Jacket; Benito Cereno; Billy Budd; Moby Dick

George Meredith – The Egoist

Prosper Merimee – Carmen [novella that was the basis for the Bizet opera]

James Michener – Tales of the South Pacific; Hawaii; Centennial; The Source

Henry Miller – Tropic of Cancer

Yukio Mishima [Japanese] – Sea of Fertility [4-volume epic novel]; Confessions of a Mask; The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea; After the Banquet

Margaret Mitchell – Gone with the Wind

Montesquieu – The Persian Letters [epistolary novel]

Toni Morrison – Jazz; Sula; Beloved; The Bluest Eye; Song of Solomon; Tar Baby

Vladimir Nabokov [pseudonym: V. Sirin] – Invitation to a Beheading; Ada; Pale Fire; Pnin; Look at the Harlequins; Lolita; The Real Life of Sebastian Knight; King, Queen, Knave

V.S. Naipaul [Trinidad] – A Bend in the River; A House for Mr. Biswas

Frank Norris – The Octopus; The Pit (these are the first two parts of the unfinished “Epic of the Wheat” trilogy); McTeague

Flannery O’Connor – Wise Blood; The Violent Bear it Away

Kenzaburo Oe – A Personal Matter; The Silent Cry; Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids

Ben Okri [Nigeria] – The Famished Road

Baroness Orczy – The Scarlet Pimpernel

George Orwell – Burmese Days; Coming Up for Air; 1984; Animal Farm

Chuck Palahniuk – Fight Club

Orhan Pamuk [Turkey; winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize] – Snow; My Name is Red

Alan Paton [South Africa] – Cry, the Beloved Country; Too Late the Phalarope; Ah, But Your Land is Beautiful

Petronius -- Satyricon

Sylvia Plath – The Bell Jar [written under the name “Victoria Lucas”]

Poe – The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym [Poe’s only complete novel]

Katherine Anne Porter – Ship of Fools

Chaim Potok – The Chosen

Annie Proulx – Brokeback Mountain

Marcel Proust – Remembrance of Things Past [semi-autobiographical novel in seven volumes – also called In Search of Lost Time]; Swann’s Way [first volume]

Manuel Puig [Argentina] – Kiss of the Spider Woman; Betrayed by Rita Hayworth

Alexander Pushkin – Boris Godunov [basis for a Mussorgsky opera]; Eugene Onegin [novel in verse form; basis for a Tchaikovsky opera]; The Captain’s Daughter

Mario Puzo – The Godfather

Thomas Pynchon – Gravity’s Rainbow; V; The Crying of Lot 49; Mason & Dixon

Rabelais – Gargantua and Pantagruel

Ann Radcliffe – The Mysteries of Udolpho

Ayn Rand [created a philosophy called “Objectivism”] – The Fountainhead; Atlas Shrugged; Anthem; We the Living

Alice Randall – The Wind Done Gone [“reinterpretation” of Gone with the Wind]

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings – The Yearling

Remarque – All Quiet on the Western Front; The Road Back [sequel]

Jean Rhys – Wide Sargasso Sea [a prequel to Jane Eyre; it is the story of the first Mrs Rochester]

Samuel Richardson – Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded; Clarissa

Ole Rolvaag [Norwegian-American] – Giants in the Earth

Philip Roth – Portnoy’s Complaint; The Plot Against America

Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Julie, or the New Heloise

Arundhati Roy [Indian] – The God of Small Things

Salman Rushdie – The Satanic Verses; Midnight’s Children; Shalimar the Clown; Shame

Marquis de Sade -- Justine

Carl Sagan [American astronomer] -- Contact

J.D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye; Franny and Zooey

William Saroyan [Armenian-American] – The Human Comedy [novel]

Sartre -- Nausea

Dorothy Sayers – The Nine Tailors

Sir Walter Scott – Ivanhoe; The Heart of Midlothian; Rob Roy; Waverley; The Bride of Lammermoor; Guy Mannering; Kenilworth

Nevil Shute – On the Beach

Alan Sillitoe – The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Upton Sinclair – “Lanny Budd” novels; Dragon’s Teeth; Oil!; Boston [about the Sacco and Vanzetti trial]; The Jungle

Isaac Bashevis Singer [wrote in Yiddish] – The Family Moskat

Jane Smiley – A Thousand Acres

Betty Smith – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Solzhenitsyn – The Gulag Archipelago; One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; August 1914; Cancer Ward; The First Circle

Gertrude Stein – Three Lives

John Steinbeck – Cup of Gold [his first novel]; Cannery Row; Tortilla Flat; The Winter of Our Discontent; The Red Pony; The Moon is Down; The Pearl; East of Eden;

The Grapes of Wrath; In Dubious Battle; Of Mice and Men

Stendhal [French] – The Red and the Black; The Charterhouse of Parma

Laurence Sterne – Tristram Shandy

Robert Louis Stevenson [Scottish] – Kidnapped; Catriona [sequel to Kidnapped]; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Treasure Island; The Master of Ballantrae

Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

William Styron – Confessions of Nat Turner; Lie Down in Darkness; Sophie’s Choice

Amy Tan – The Joy Luck Club; The Kitchen God’s Wife; The Hundred Secret Senses; Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat

Jun’ichiro Tanizaki – The Makioka Sisters

Booth Tarkington – Alice Adams; The Magnificent Ambersons

Thackeray – Vanity Fair; Barry Lyndon

John Kennedy Toole – A Confederacy of Dunces

Leo Tolstoy – The Cossacks; Resurrection; The Death of Ivan Ilych; Childhood; Boyhood; Youth

Anthony Trollope – Barchester Towers; “Barsetshire Novels” series

Dalton Trumbo – Johnny Got His Gun [anti-war novel set during World War I]

Ivan Turgenev – Rudin; Fathers and Sons

Mark Twain – Puddn’head Wilson; The Prince and the Pauper; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

Anne Tyler – The Accidental Tourist; Breathing Lessons

John Updike – Rabbit, Run [and other “Rabbit novels]; The Witches of Eastwick; The Poorhouse Fair; The Centaur

Leon Uris -- Exodus

Maria Vargas Llosa [Peru] – Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

Jules Verne – The Mysterious Island; Five Weeks in a Balloon; A Journey to the Center of the Earth; From the Earth to the Moon

Voltaire [real name: Francois-Marie Arouet] – Candide; Zadig

Kurt Vonnegut – Cat’s Cradle; Timequake; Breakfast of Champions; Player Piano; Slapstick; Jailbird; Mother Night; God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; Slaughterhouse-Five

Alice Walker – Meridian; The Third Life of Grange Copeland; The Temple of My Familiar; The Color Purple

Lew Wallace – Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Horace Walpole – The Castle of Otranto [considered the first Gothic novel]

Robert Penn Warren – All the King’s Men

Evelyn Waugh – Brideshead Revisited; Scoop

H.G. Wells – Island of Dr. Moreau; Kipps; Tono-Bungay; The History of Mr. Polly; The Chronic Argonauts [a precursor to The Time Machine]; The First Men in the Moon

Eudora Welty – Delta Wedding; The Optimist’s Daughter

Nathanael West [real name: Nathan Weinstein] – Miss Lonelyhearts; The Day of the Locust

Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence; The House of Mirth; The Custom of the Country; Ethan Frome; The Buccaneers; Summer; The Reef

T.H. White – The Once and Future King

Walt Whitman – Franklin Evans [his only novel, a “temperance” or anti-drinking novel]

Elie Wiesel – Night; Dawn; Day

Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray

Thornton Wilder – The Bridge of San Luis Rey; Ides of March; The Eighth Day; Theophilus North; The Cabala

Owen Wister – The Virginian [early western published in 1902]

Thomas Wolfe – Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and the River [sequel]; The Web and the Rock; You Can’t Go Home Again

Tom Wolfe – Bonfire of the Vanities; A Man in Full; I am Charlotte Simmons

Virginia Woolf – The Voyage Out; Mrs. Dalloway; The Waves; To the Lighthouse; Jacob’s Room; Orlando; Between the Acts [her final novel]

Herman Wouk – The Caine Mutiny

Richard Wright – The Outsider; Native Son

Johann Wyss – Swiss Family Robinson

Emile Zola – Nana; Germinal; Les Rougon-Macquart [set of 20 novels]

Children’s Literature

L. Frank Baum – The Wizard of Oz

Barry – Peter Pan

Brunhoff -- Babar

Frances Hodgson Burnett – The Secret Garden; The Little Princess; Little Lord Fauntleroy

Carlo Collodi – Pinocchio

Mary Mapes Dodge – Hans Brinker, or, The Silver Skates

Kenneth Grahame – The Wind in the Willows

S.E. Hinton – The Outsiders

Madeline L’Engle – A Wrinkle in Time

Ursula LeGuin – The Wizard of Earthsea

Hugh Lofting – Dr. Doolittle

A.A. Milne – Winnie the Pooh

L.M. Montgomery – Anne of Green Gables [set in Prince Edward Island]

Charles Perrault [French] – Tales of Mother Goose

Beatrix Potter – The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Margret and H.A. Rey – Curious George

Maurice Sendak – Where the Wild Things Are

Anna Sewell – Black Beauty

St. Exupery – The Little Prince

Chris Van Allsburg – Jumanji; The Polar Express

E.B. White – Charlotte’s Web; Stuart Little; The Trumpet of the Swan

Laura Ingalls Wilder – Little House on the Prairie

Paul Zindel – The Pigman

Plays

Aeschylus – Oresteia [trilogy: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides]; Seven Against Thebes; The Persians; Prometheus Bound

Edward Albee – The Zoo Story; The American Dream; The Sandbox; Tiny Alice; A Delicate Balance; Seascape; Three Tall Women; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf;

The Death of Bessie Smith [one-act play]

Maxwell Anderson – Winterset [based on the Sacco and Vanzetti case]

Aristophanes – Lysistrata; The Wasps; The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs

James Baldwin – Blues for Mister Charlie [inspired by the murder of Medgar Evers];

The Amen Corner

Beaumarchais – The Barber of Seville; The Marriage of Figaro [basis for the Rossini and Mozart operas]

Samuel Beckett – Endgame; Krapp’s Last Tape; Waiting for Godot; Happy Days

Robert Bolt – A Man for All Seasons [based on the true story of Sir Thomas More]

Bertolt Brecht – The Three Penny Opera; Mother Courage and Her Children;

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Robert Browning – Pippa Passes

Karel Capek [Czech] – R.U.R. [science fiction play that introduced the term “robot”]

Anton Chekhov – Uncle Vanya; The Cherry Orchard; The Seagull; The Three Sisters; The Wood Demon [comedic precursor to Uncle Vanya]

Agatha Christie – The Mousetrap

Pierre Corneille – Le Cid

Noel Coward – Blithe Spirit; Hay Fever; Private Lives

Theodore Dreiser – The Hand of the Potter

Alexander Dumas [fils] – The Lady of the Camellias [often called Camille, it is the basis for the Verdi opera La Traviata]

T.S. Eliot – Murder in the Cathedral; The Cocktail Party; Sweeney Agonistes

Euripides – Medea; Alcestis; The Trojan Women; The Bacchae; Orestes; Hecuba

Athol Fugard [South Africa] – Master Harold… and the Boys; Blood Knot

Federico Garcia Lorca [Spain] – Blood Wedding; The House of Bernarda Alba

John Gay – The Beggar’s Opera

Jean Genet – The Balcony

William Gibson – The Miracle Worker [about Helen Keller]

Goethe – Egmont; Faust

Nikolai Gogol – The Inspector General

Oliver Goldsmith – She Stoops to Conquer

Maxim Gorky [Russian] – The Lower Depths

Lorraine Hansberry – A Raisin in the Sun; The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window

Thomas Hardy – The Dynasts

Vaclav Havel [Czech; in addition to being a playwright, he was the first president of the Czech Republic] – The Garden Party

Joseph Heller – We Bombed in New Haven [delivered an anti-war message while discussing the Vietnam War]

Lillian Hellman – The Children’s Hour; The Little Foxes; Watch on the Rhine; Toys in the Attic; Another Part of the Forest

Ernest Hemingway – The Fifth Column [his only full-length play]

Victor Hugo – Hernani; Le Roi S’Amuse [The King Amuses Himself] – basis for Verdi’s opera Rigoletto; Cromwell

Henrik Ibsen – Brand; The Burial Mound; Catilina [also known as Catiline]; Ghosts; When We Dead Awaken; The Master Builder; Peer Gynt; Hedda Gabler; A Doll’s House; An Enemy of the People; John Gabriel Borkman; The Wild Duck

William Inge – Picnic; Bus Stop; Come Back, Little Sheba

Ionesco [French; member of the “Theater of the Absurd”] – Rhinoceros; The Bald Soprano; The Lesson; The Killer; The Chairs

Ben Jonson – Volpone; The Alchemist; Bartholomew Fair; Every Man in His Humour

James Joyce – Exiles [his only published play]

Tony Kushner – Angels in America [play about AIDS]

Thomas Kyd – The Spanish Tragedy

Jonathan Larson -- Rent

Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee – Inherit the Wind [fictionalized account of the Scopes Monkey Trial]

Machiavelli – The Mandrake [La Mandragola in Italian]

Archibald MacLeish – J.B. [play in verse based on the book of Job]

David Mamet – Glengarry Glen Ross; American Buffalo; Speed-the Plow

Christopher Marlowe – Edward II; Tamburlaine; Doctor Faustus; The Jew of Malta; The Massacre at Paris [about the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre]

Arthur Miller – All My Sons; After the Fall; The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; A View from the Bridge; The Price

Moliere [real name: Jean-Baptiste Poquelin] – Tartuffe; The Misanthrope; The Miser; The School for Wives; The Imaginary Invalid

Marsha Norman – ‘night Mother

Sean O’Casey – Juno and the Paycock; The Plough and the Stars

Eugene O’Neill – Bound East for Cardiff [his first play]; More Stately Mansions;

A Moon for the Misbegotten; Desire Under the Elms; Anna Christie; The Emperor Jones; The Hairy Ape; Mourning Becomes Electra; Ah, Wilderness; The Iceman Cometh; Long Day’s Journey Into Night; Beyond the Horizon; Strange Interlude

Clifford Odets – Golden Boy; Awake and Sing; Waiting for Lefty

Pirandello – Six Characters in Search of an Author; Right You Are (If You Think You Are); Tonight We Improvise

Harold Pinter – The Birthday Party; The Caretaker; The Homecoming; The Dumb Waiter

Alexander Pushkin – Mozart and Salieri

Jean Racine – Phaedra; Andromaque [Andromache]; Britannicus

Edmund Rostand – Cyrano de Bergerac

William Saroyan – The Time of Your Life

Sartre – The Flies; No Exit

Schiller – William Tell

Peter Shaffer -- Equus

George Bernard Shaw – Man and Superman [famous section called “Don Juan in Hell”]; Saint Joan; Arms and the Man; Major Barbara; Heartbreak House; Mrs. Warren’s Profession; Pygmalion

Sam Shephard – Buried Child; Fool for Love

Richard Sheridan – The School for Scandal; TheRivals

Robert Sherwood – Idiot’s Delight; Abe Lincoln in Illinois; The Petrified Forest

Neil Simon – The Odd Couple; Barefoot in the Park; Brighton Beach Memoirs; Lost in Yonkers

Sophocles – “Theban plays”: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone; Ajax; Electra

Wole Soyinka [Nigeria] – Death and the King’s Horseman; Kongi’s Harvest

Tom Stoppard – Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; Arcadia; The Coast of Utopia; The Real Thing

August Strindberg [Swedish] – Miss Julie; The Dance of Death; The Ghost Sonata; The Father

Synge – Riders to the Sea; Playboy of the Western World

Dylan Thomas – Under Milk Wood [radio play]

Ivan Turgenev – A Month in the Country

Alfred Uhry – Driving Miss Daisy

Wendy Wasserstein – The Sisters Rosensweig; The Heidi Chronicles

Peter Weiss [German] – Marat/Sade

Oscar Wilde – Lady Windermere’s Fan; Salome; An Ideal Husband; A Woman of No Importance; Importance of Being Ernest

Thornton Wilder – The Skin of our Teeth; The Matchmaker [basis for the musical “Hello, Dolly”]; Our Town; Pullman Car Hiawatha [one-act play]; The Long Christmas Dinner [one-act play]

Tennessee Williams – The Rose Tattoo; Suddenly Last Summer; Cairo, Shanghai, Bombay; Summer and Smoke; Sweet Bird of Youth; The Night of the Iguana;

A Streetcar Named Desire; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; The Glass Menagerie

August Wilson – “Pittsburgh Cycle” [cycle of 10 plays]: Joe Turner's Come and Gone; Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; The Piano Lesson; Seven Guitars; Fences; Two Trains Running; Jitney; King Hedley II; Radio Golf

Paul Zindel – The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

Nonfiction

Peter Abelard [11th century philosopher] – Sic et Non [“Yes and No”]

Louisa May Alcott – Hospital Sketches

Hannah Arendt – Eichmann in Jerusalem

Aristotle – Nichomachean Ethics; Poetics

John James Audubon [Haitian-born American] – Birds of America

Augustine of Hippo [Saint Augustine] – Confessions; The City of God

Francis Bacon – Novum Organum; The New Atlantis

James Baldwin – Notes of a Native Son [essay]; The Fire Next Time; The Evidence of Things Not Seen [about Wayne Williams and the Atlanta child murders]

Ruth Benedict – The Chrysanthemum and the Sword; Patterns of Culture

George Berkeley [empiricism] – Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous

Jakob Bernoulli – Ars Conjectandi

Ambrose Bierce – The Devil’s Dictionary [also known as The Cynic’s Word Book]

Franz Boas -- The Mind of Primitive Man; Race, Language, and Culture

James Boswell – The Life of Samuel Johnson; Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

William Bradford – History of Plymouth Plantation

Matthew Brady – Gallery of Illustrious Americans

Martin Buber [Jewish philosopher] – I and Thou

Edmund Burke – Reflections on the Revolution in France

Julius Caesar – The Gallic Wars

John Calvin – Institutes of the Christian Religion

Camus – The Myth of Sisyphus; The Rebel

Truman Capote – In Cold Blood

Thomas Carlyle – Sartor Resartus

Andrew Carnegie – The Gospel of Wealth [essay]

Rachel Carson – The Sea Around Us; Silent Spring

Castiglione – The Courtier

Geoffrey Chaucer – Treatise on the Astrolabe

Winston Churchill – A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

Cicero – De oratore; De republica

Eldridge Cleaver – Soul on Ice

Copernicus – On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

Jacques Cousteau – The Silent World

E.E. Cummings – The Enormous Room

John Dalton – New System of Chemical Philosophy

Richard Henry Dana – Two Years Before the Mast

Dante – On Monarchy

Charles Darwin – The Origin of Species; The Descent of Man

Richard Dawkins – The Selfish Gene; The God Delusion

Simone de Beauvoir – The Second Sex

Daniel Defoe – A Journal of the Plague Year; The Shortest Way with the Dissenters [essay]

Thomas De Quincey – Confessions of an English Opium Eater

Jacques Derrida – Of Grammatology

Rene Descartes – Discourse on Method; Meditations on First Philosophy; Principles of Philosophy

John Dewey – Democracy and Education; Experience and Nature; The Quest for Certainty

Denis Diderot -- Encyclopedie

Isak Dinesen [Danish; real name: Karen Blixen] – Out of Africa

Frederick Douglass – My Bondage and My Freedom

John Dryden – The Hind and the Panther [a defense of Catholicism]

Emile Durkheim – Suicide; The Division of Labor in Society; The Rules of Sociological Method

Emerson – The American Scholar [speech given in 1837 to the Phi Beta Kappa Society in Cambridge, Massachusetts]; Nature; Self-Reliance; The Over-Soul; The Conduct of Life

Erasmus – In Praise of Folly

Friedrich Engels – Condition of the Working Class in England

Erik Erikson – Young Man Luther; Gandhi’s Truth [subtitled -- The Origins of Militant Nonviolence

Euclid -- Elements

Michael Faraday – The Chemical History of a Candle [originally a series of lectures]

F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Crack-Up

Dian Fossey – Gorillas in the Mist

James Frazer – The Golden Bough

Sigmund Freud – Interpretation of Dreams; Totem and Taboo; Beyond the Pleasure Principle; On Aphasia [his first published work]; Moses and Monotheism

Betty Friedan – The Feminine Mystique

Milton Friedman – A Monetary History of the United States; Capitalism and Freedom

John Kenneth Galbraith [Canadian-American] – The Affluent Society; The New Industrial State

Galileo – Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

Edward Gibbon – Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Kahlil Gibran – The Prophet

Goethe – Metamorphosis of Plants; Theory of Colours

Gunther Grass – Peeling the Onion [autobiography]

Robert Graves – Goodbye to All That [memoir of World War I]

Alex Haley – The Autobiography of Malcolm X [written in collaboration with

Malcolm X]

Lorraine Hansberry – To Be Young, Gifted and Black

Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time; The Universe in a Nutshell

Friedrich Hayek – The Road to Serfdom

Hegel – Phenomenology of Spirit; The Science of Logic

Heidegger – Being and Time

Lillian Hellman – Pentimento [memoir]

Ernest Hemingway – A Moveable Feast; Death in the Afternoon; The Green Hills of Africa

Henry VIII – Defence of the Seven Sacraments

James Herriott – All Things Bright and Beautiful; All Creatures Great and Small [about his experiences as a veterinarian in Yorkshire, England]

John Hersey -- Hiroshima

Thor Heyerdahl – Kon-Tiki

Oliver Wendell Holmes – The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table [collection of essays]

Robert Hooke -- Micrographia

Horace – Ars Poetica [“The Art of Poetry” – a treatise on poetics]

David Hume [Scottish; he was associated with philosophical movement called Empiricism] -- A Treatise of Human Nature; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Zora Neale Hurston – Dust Tracks on a Road [autobiography]; Mules and Men

Aldous Huxley – The Doors of Perception [details his experiences when taking mescaline]

William James – Pragmatism; The Principles of Psychology; The Varieties of Religious Experience; The Meaning of Truth; The Will to Believe

Samuel Johnson – A Dictionary of the English Language; Lives of the English Poets

Kant – Critique of Pure Reason; Critique of Practical Reason

Helen Keller – The Story of My Life

Thomas a Kempis [late medieval Christian spiritual writer] – Imitation of Christ

John F. Kennedy – Profiles in Courage

Kepler – Astronomia Nova

John Maynard Keynes [British economist] – The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money; The Economic Consequences of the Peace [denouncing the Versailles Treaty]

Kierkegaard [Danish] – Either/Or [a famous part is called “Diary of a Seducer”]; Fear and Trembling

Martin Luther King, Jr. – Letter from Birmingham Jail

John Knox – History of the Reformation in Scotland

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross – On Death and Dying

Lamarck – Animals without Backbones

T.E. Lawrence [Lawrence of Arabia] – Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Vladimir Lenin – What is to be Done? [political pamphlet]

Claude Levi-Strauss [structural anthropologist] – The Raw and the Cooked

C.S. Lewis – Mere Christianity; The Screwtape Letters

Carolus Linnaeus – Systema Naturae

John Locke – Two Treatises of Government; An Essay Concerning Human Understanding; The Reasonableness of Christianity; A Letter Concerning Toleration

Saint Ignatius Loyola – Spiritual Exercises [manual of self discipline and prayer]

Lucretius -- De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things) – philosophical and scientific poem

Martin Luther – On the Bondage of the Will

Charles Lyell – Principles of Geology

Machiavelli – Discourses on Livy

Norman Mailer – The Armies of the Night

Bronislaw Malinowski – Argonauts of the Western Pacific

Thomas Malthus – [An Essay on] The Principle of Population

Abraham Maslow – Toward a Psychology of Being

Marco Polo – Il Milione (The Million) – about his travels to the court of Kublai Khan

Marcus Aurelius -- Meditations

Karl Marx – Das Kapital; The Poverty of Philosophy; On the Jewish Question; The German Ideology

Cotton Mather – Wonders of the Invisible World

Frank McCourt – Angela’s Ashes

Margaret Mead – Coming of Age in Samoa; Blackberry Winter

Stanley Milgram – Obedience to Authority

John Stuart Mill – Utilitarianism; A System of Logic; The Subjection of Women; On Liberty

John Milton -- Areopagitica

Montesquieu – The Spirit of the Laws; The Persian Letters

Audie Murphy – To Hell and Back [memoir]

Vladimir Nabokov – Speak, Memory [autobiography]

Ralph Nader [consumer advocate] – Unsafe at Any Speed

Newton – Optics; Principia Mathematica [3-volume work]

Nietzsche – Thus Spake Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; The Twilight of the Idols; The Antichrist; Ecce Homo; Birth of Tragedy; The Gay Science; Human, All Too Human

Charles Nordhoff and James Hall – Mutiny on the Bounty

George Orwell – Shooting an Elephant [essay]; Down and Out in Paris and London; Homage to Catalonia; The Road to Wigan Pier

Thomas Paine – Common Sense; The American Crisis [series of pamphlets]; Age of Reason; Rights of Man [response to Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France]

Blaise Pascal – Pensees [“thoughts”]

Linus Pauling – The Nature of the Chemical Bond

Octavio Paz – The Labyrinth of Solitude [essay]; The Monkey Grammarian

Charles Peirce [pragmatism] – How to Make Our Ideas Clear

Plato – Crito; Phaedo; Apology; Symposium

Ptolemy -- Almagest

Ayn Rand – The Virtue of Selfishness; Philosophy: Who Needs It

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings – Cross Creek [autobiography]

David Ricardo – Principles of Political Economy and Taxation

Jacob Riis – How the Other Half Lives

Jean-Jacques Rousseau – The Social Contract; Emile; Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men

Bertrand Russell – The Principles of Mathematics

Carl Sagan -- Cosmos

Saint-Exupery – Wind, Sand and Stars [memoir]

Carl Sandburg -- Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years; Abraham Lincoln: The War Years

Sartre – Being and Nothingness

Schopenhauer – The World as Will and Representation

Shelley – The Necessity of Atheism [pamphlet]

Skinner – Beyond Freedom and Dignity; Walden Two

Adam Smith – The Theory of Moral Sentiments; The Wealth of Nations

Spinoza [17th century Dutch Jewish philosopher] -- Ethics

Dr. Benjamin Spock – Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care

Lincoln Steffens – The Shame of the Cities

Gertrude Stein – The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

John Steinbeck – Travels with Charley; The Sea of Cortez [guide to marine biology]

Robert Louis Stevenson – Travels with a Donkey [travel book]

Suetonius [Roman biographer and historian] – Lives of the Caesars

Jonathan Swift – Tale of a Tub; A Modest Proposal

Tacitus [ancient Roman historian] – Agricola; Germania

Ida Tarbell – A History of the Standard Oil Company

Thoreau – Walden; Civil Disobedience; A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Thucydides – History of the Peloponnesian War

Alexis de Tocqueville – Democracy in America

Leo Tolstoy – What is Art? [essay]

Barbara Tuchman – The Guns of August [about World War I]

Mark Twain – The Innocents Abroad; Life on the Mississippi; Roughing It

Thorstein Veblen – Theory of the Leisure Class

Vesalius – On the Structure of the Human Body [also called Fabrica]

Virgil – Aeneid; Bucolics [also called the Eclogues]; Georgics

Izaak Walton – The Compleat Angler [published in the 17th century]

Robert Penn Warren – Who Speaks for the Negro [collection of interviews]

Booker T. Washington – Up from Slavery [autobiography]

James Watson – The Double Helix

Max Weber – The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Alfred Wegener – The Origin of Continents and Oceans

Edith Wharton – The Decoration of Houses

E.B. White – The Elements of Style [written with William Strunk]; One Man’s Meat; Is Sex Necessary? [written with James Thurber]

Albert North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell – Principia Mathematica

Wittgenstein – Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Tom Wolfe – The Right Stuff; The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

Mary Wollstonecraft – A Vindication of the Rights of Women

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein – All the President’s Men [about Watergate]

Virginia Woolf – A Room of One’s Own; Three Guineas

Richard Wright – Black Boy

Xenophon – Anabasis

Philip Zimbardo – The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

Short Stories

Ryunosuke Akutagawa – “Rashomon”; “In a Grove” [basis for movies by Kurosawa]

Sherwood Anderson – “Sophistication”; “I’m a Fool”

Samuel Beckett – More Pricks than Kicks [collection]

Stephen Vincent Benet – “The Devil and Daniel Webster”

Ambrose Bierce – Cobwebs from an Empty Skull [originally published under the pseudonym “Dod Grile”]; “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”; “Chickamauga”

Jorge Luis Borges [Argentina] – Ficciones; Dreamtigers; “The Garden of the Forking Paths”; “The Aleph”; “The Library of Babel”

Erskine Caldwell – “Country Full of Swedes”

Willa Cather – “Paul’s Case”; “A Wagner Matinee”

Chekhov – “The Bet”; “Gooseberries”; “The Lady with the Dog”; “A Boring Story”

Kate Chopin – Bayou Folk; A Night in Acadie; “The Story of an Hour”; “Desiree’s Baby”

Stephen Crane – “The Open Boat”; “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky”; “The Blue Hotel”

Charles Dickens – Sketches by Boz

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – “The Five Orange Pips”; “A Scandal in Bohemia”; “The Red-Headed League”

Faulkner – “The Bear”’; “A Rose for Emily”; “Barn Burning”; “Spotted Horses”; Go Down, Moses

Fitzgerald – “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz”; “Winter Dreams”;”Babylon Revisited”; “Bernice Bobs Her Hair”; The Pat Hobby Stories; Tales of the Jazz Age

E.M. Forster – “The Celestial Omnibus”

Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Leaf Storm [collection]

Charlotte Perkins Gilman – The Yellow Wallpaper

Nikolai Gogol – The Overcoat; The Nose; Diary of a Madman; Arabesques [collection]

Nadine Gordimer – Beethoven was 1/16th Black [collection]

Edward Everett Hale – “The Man Without a Country” [character: Philip Nolan]

Dashiell Hammett – The Big Knockover; The Continental Op

Bret Harte – “The Luck of Roaring Camp”; “The Outcasts of Poker Flat”

Nathaniel Hawthorne – Twice-Told Tales; Mosses from an Old Manse; “Young Goodman Brown”; “Rapaccini’s Daughter”; “The Minister’s Black Veil”; “The Birthmark”; “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”; “The Birthmark”; “My Kinsman, Major Molineux”

Ernest Hemingway – In Our Time; Men without Women; The Nick Adams Stories; The Fifth Column; “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”; “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”; “Hills Like White Elephants”; “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”

O. Henry [real name: William Sydney Porter] -- Cabbages and Kings [collection]; The Four Million [collection]; “The Gift of the Magi”; “The Ransom of Red Chief”; “The Last Leaf”

Langston Hughes – The Ways of White Folks [collection]

Washington Irving – “The Devil and Tom Walker”; “Rip Van Winkle”; “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”; Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon; Tales of the Alhambra

Christopher Isherwood – Goodbye to Berlin [basis for the musical “Cabaret”]

Shirley Jackson – “The Lottery”

Henry James – “The Jolly Corner”; “Paste” [short story based on Maupassant’s “The Necklace”]

James Joyce – Dubliners; “The Dead”; “Araby”

Franz Kafka – “The Hunger Artist”; “In the Penal Colony”

Kipling – Just So Stories; The Jungle Book; Plain Tales from the Hills; Puck of Pook’s Hill [children’s stories]; “The Man Who Would Be King”

D.H. Lawrence – “The Rocking Horse Winner”

Jack London – “To Build a Fire”

Bernard Malamud – The Magic Barrel [collection]

Katherine Mansfield [New Zealand] – The Garden Party

Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Colombia] – Leaf Storm [collection]

Guy de Maupassant – “The Necklace”; “Boule de Suif” [“Butterball” or “Ball of Fat”]

Herman Melville – “Bartleby, the Scrivener” [famous line repeated: “I prefer not to”]; Piazza Tales [collection of stories]

Haruki Murakami --

Flannery O’Connor – A Good Man is Hard to Find; The Life You Save May Be Your Own

Poe – Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

Edgar Allan Poe – “The Purloined Letter”; “The Mystery of Marie Roget”; “The Fall of the House of Usher”; “The Tell Tale Heart”; “The Pit and the Pendulum”; “The Black Cat”; “The Gold Bug”; “The Masque of the Red Death”; “The Cask of Amontillado”

Katherine Anne Porter – “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”

William Sydney Porter [O. Henry] – “The Last Leaf”; “The Gift of the Magi”; “The Ransom of Red Chief”

Alexander Pushkin – The Queen of Spades [basis for a Tchaikovsky opera]

Saki [real name: H.H. Munro] – “Tobermory”; “The Open Window”

J.D. Salinger -- Nine Stories; Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Seymour: An Introduction [collections]; “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”

Carl Sandburg – The American Songbag; Rootabaga Stories [stories for children]

Gertrude Stein – Three Lives [collection]

John Steinbeck – “Flight”; “The Chrysanthemums”

Dylan Thomas [Welsh] – Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog [collection]; Adventures in the Skin Trade [collection]

James Thurber – “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”

Leo Tolstoy – Sevastopol Sketches; “The Kreutzer Sonata”; “How Much Land Does a Man Need?”

Ivan Turgenev – A Sportsman’s Sketches [collection]

Twain – “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg”

John Updike – “A & P”

Voltaire – “Micromegas”

Eudora Welty – “A Worn Path”; “Why I Live at the P.O.”

Richard Wright – Uncle Tom’s Children [collection]

Poetry

Maya Angelou – “Still I Rise”; “On the Pulse of Morning”

Ludovico Ariosto – Orlando Furioso [long narrative poem written during the Italian Renaissance]

Matthew Arnold – “Dover Beach”

Auden – Age of Anxiety; “Musee des Beaux Arts”

Basho [master of haiku] – The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Baudelaire – Flowers of Evil [Les Fleurs du Mal]

Stephen Vincent Benet – “John Brown’s Body”

William Blake – Songs of Innocence and Experience; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; “The Tiger”; “The Lamb”

Anne Bradstreet – “Verses Upon the Burning of Our House”; “To My Dear and Loving Husband”; The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America

Gwendolyn Brooks – Annie Allen; A Street in Bronzeville; We Real Cool; Bronzeville Boys and Girls; The Bean Eaters; In the Mecca

Elizabeth Barrett Browning – “Sonnets from the Portugese”

Robert Browning – “The Ring and the Book” [long narrative poem]; “My Last Duchess”; “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”; “Fra Lippo Lippi”

William Cullen Bryant – “To a Waterfowl”; “Thanatopsis”

Robert Burns [Scotland] – “Auld Lang Syne”; “To a Mouse”; “To a Louse”; “A Red, Red Rose”; “Tam O’Shanter”; Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect

Lord Byron – Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage; Don Juan; Hours of Idleness; English Bards and Scotch Reviewers; “She Walks in Beauty”; “The Corsair”; “The Prisoner of Chillon”; “The Destruction of Sennacherib”; “The Bride of Abydos”

Lewis Carroll – “The Hunting of the Snark”; “The Walrus and the Carpenter”; “Jabberwocky”

Geoffrey Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales; The Legend of Good Women; Troilus and Criseyde; The Book of the Duchess; Parlement of Foules; “The House of Fame”

Coleridge – “Dejection: An Ode”; “Kubla Khan”;” Frost at Midnight”; “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

E.E. Cummings – Tulips and Chimneys; “anyone lived in a pretty how town”

Dante – La Vita Nuova

Paul Laurence Dunbar – Lyrics of Lowly Life

John Dryden – Absalom and Achitophel; Annus Mirabilis

T.S. Eliot – Four Quartets; Ash Wednesday; “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”; “The Wasteland”; “The Hollow Men”; “Sweeney Among the Nightingales”; Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats

Ralph Waldo Emerson – “Concord Hymn”

Lawrence Ferlinghetti – “A Coney Island of the Mind”

Philip Freneau [known as the “Poet of the American Revolution] – “The Indian Burying Ground”

Frost – A Boy’s Will; North of Boston; “Fire and Ice”; “Nothing Gold Can Stay”; “The Death of the Hired Man”; “After Apple-Picking”; “Mending Wall”; “The Road Not Taken”; “Birches”; “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”; “The Gift Outright”

Allen Ginsberg – “Kaddish”; “Howl”; “A Supermarket in California”; “Sunflower Sutra”; Reality Sandwiches

Kalil Gibran – The Prophet

Oliver Goldsmith – “The Deserted Village”

Thomas Gray – “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”; “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College”; “Ode (On the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes”

Thomas Hardy – “The Darkling Thrush”

Bret Harte – “Plain Language from Truthful James”

Seamus Heaney [Irish] – “Sweeney Astray”; new translation of Beowulf

Heinrich Heine – “Die Lorelei”

William Ernest Henley – “Invictus”

Robert Herrick – Hesperides [collection]; “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”

Hesiod – Theogony [poem that describes the origins of the gods of the ancient Greeks]

Oliver Wendell Holmes – “The Chambered Nautilus”; “Old Ironsides”

Gerard Manley Hopkins – “Pied Beauty”; “The Wreck of the Deutschland”; “The Windhover”

A.E. Housman – A Shropshire Lad; “To an Athlete Dying Young”; “Terence, This is Stupid Stuff”; “When I Was One-and-Twenty”

Langston Hughes – “Dreams”; “Dream Variations”; “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”; “Harlem”; “The Weary Blues”

Randall Jarrell – “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”

James Weldon Johnson – “Lift Every Voice and Sing”; God’s Trombone [book of poems]

Ben Jonson – “Song: To Celia”

Samuel Johnson – “The Vanity of Human Wishes”

Keats – “Ode to a Nightingale”; “Ode on a Grecian Urn”; “La Belle Dame sans Merci”; “Endymion”; “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer”; “Ode on Melancholy”; “Lamia”

Omar Khayyam – Rubaiyat [translated by Edward FitzGerald in the 19th century]

Joyce Kilmer – “Trees”

Kipling – Barrack Room Ballads [collection]; “Mandalay”; “If”; “Gunga Din”; “Danny Deever”; “White Man’s Burden”; “The Sons of Martha”

Sidney Lanier – “Song of the Chattahoochee”; “The Marshes of Glynn”

Emma Lazarus – “The New Colossus”

Edward Lear – limericks; “The Owl and the Pussycat”

Vachel Lindsay – General William Booth Enters Into Heaven

Longfellow – Tales of a Wayside Inn [collection]; “The Wreck of the Hesperus”; “Song of Hiawatha”; “Evangeline”; “The Courtship of Miles Standish”; “The Village Blacksmith”; “The Children’s Hour”; “Paul Revere’s Ride”

Richard Lovelace – “To Althea, from Prison”; “To Lucasta, Going to the Wars”

Amy Lowell [she led a movement called Imagism] – “Patterns”; What’s O’ Clock [collection]

Archibald MacLeish – “Ars Poetica”

Christopher Marlowe – “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”

Andrew Marvell – “To His Coy Mistress”

Edgar Lee Masters – Spoon River Anthology

John McCrae – “In Flanders Field”

Edna St. Vincent Millay – “First Fig”; Renascence

John Milton – “Lycidas”; “On His Blindness”; “Samson Agonistes”; “Paradise Lost”; “Paradise Regained”; Comus

Clement Moore – “A Visit from St. Nicholas”

Pablo Neruda [Chile] – Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair; Canto General

Alfred Noyes – “The Highwayman”

Ovid -- Metamorphoses

Wilfred Owen – Dulce et Decorum Est; Anthem for Doomed Youth

Octavio Paz [Mexico] – Luna Silvestre [his first poetry collection]; “Sun Stone”

Petrarch – Canzoniere [its central theme is the poet’s love for Laura]

Sylvia Plath – “Daddy”; Ariel; The Colossus and Other Poems; “Lady Lazarus”

Edgar Allan Poe – Tamerlane and Other Poems; “The Bells”; “The Conqueror Worm”; “Lenore”; “Annabel Lee”; “The Raven”; “Ulalume”; “To Helen”

Alexander Pope- The Dunciad [literary satire]; “An Essay on Criticism”; “An Essay on Man”; The Rape of the Lock

Ezra Pound – Cantos; The Pisan Cantos

Alexander Pushkin – The Bronze Horseman; Ruslan and Ludmila; The Tale of Tsar Saltan

Sir Walter Raleigh – “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” [written in response to Marlowe’s "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”]

Arthur Rimbaud [French] – Illuminations; A Season in Hell

Edwin Arlington Robinson – “Miniver Cheevy”; “Richard Cory”

Carl Sandburg – Cornhuskers; Smoke and Steel; “Fog”; “Chicago”; “Grass”

Sir Walter Scott – The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Robert Service [Canada; wrote about the Yukon] -- "The Shooting of Dan McGrew"; "The Cremation of Sam McGee."

Shelley – “Ode to Liberty”; “Ode to the West Wind”; “Ode to a Skylark”; Queen Mab; “Prometheus Unbound”; “Adonais” [elegy on the death of Keats]; “Ozymandias”

Sir Philip Sidney – “Astrophel and Stella”

Robert Southey – “The Battle of Blenheim”

Spenser – The Faerie Queen [written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I]; The Shepheardes Calender; Astrophel [an elegy on the death of Philip Sidney]; Epithalamion; Amoretti

Wallace Stevens – “Anecdote of the Jar”; “The Emperor of Ice Cream”; “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”; “The Idea of Order at Key West”

Robert Louis Stevenson – A Child’s Garden of Verses

Allen Tate – “Ode to the Confederate Dead”

Tennyson – “Charge of the Light Brigade”; “Ulysses”; “Idylls of the King”; “The Lotus-Eaters”; “In Memoriam”; “Crossing the Bar”; “Locksley Hall”; “The Lady of Shalott”

Ernest Thayer – “Casey at the Bat”

Dylan Thomas [Welsh] – “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”

Walt Whitman -- Leaves of Grass; Drum Taps [collection]; “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking”; “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”; “I Sing the Body Electric”; “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”; “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” “O Captain, My Captain”, “A Noiseless Patient Spider”

John Greenleaf Whittier [“Quaker poet”] – “Snowbound”; “Barbara Frietchie”

Oscar Wilde – The Ballad of Reading Gaol

William Carlos Williams – Paterson; Pictures from Brueghel; “The Red Wheelbarrow”

William Wordsworth – “The Prelude”; “The World is Too Much with Us”; “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”; “Daffodils”; “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”; “Ode: Intimations of Immortality”

William Butler Yeats – “Easter, 1916”; “The Wild Swans at Coole”; “Leda and the Swan”; “The Second Coming”; “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”; “Sailing to Byzantium”; “Under Ben Bulben”

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