ANCIENT WORKS
TITLE |
AUTHOR |
GENRE |
DATE |
Medea
Euripides
play
431 BC
The Odyssey
Homer
epic poem
(no date)
Antigone
Sophocles
play
441 BC
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles
play
429 BC
1500-1799Title
Author
Genre
Date
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
novel
1605
Tom Jones
Henry Fielding
novel
1749
As You Like It
Shakespeare
play
1623
Julius Caesar
Shakespeare
play
1599
King Lear
Shakespeare
play
1606
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare
play
1605
The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare
play
1605
Othello
Shakespeare
play
1604
The Tempest
Shakespeare
play
1611
Candide
Voltaire
novel
1759
1800-1899Title
Author
Genre
Date
Emma
Jane Austen
novel
1815
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
novel
1814
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
novel
1813
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
novel
1847
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
novel
1847
The Awakening
Kate Chopin
novel
1899
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
novel
1895
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
novel
1853
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
novel
1850
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
novel
1861
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
novel
1837
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
novel
1859
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
novel
1866
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
novel
1856
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
novel
1895
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy
novel
1886
Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
novel
1891
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
novel
1850
A Doll’s House
Henrik Ibsen
play
1879
The American
Henry James
novel
1877
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James
novel
1881
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
novel
1851
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
novel
1818
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
novel
1877
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
novel
1885
1900-1939Title
Author
Genre
Date
My Ántonia
Willa Cather
novel
1918
The Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekhov
play
1904
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
novel
1902
Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser
novel
1900
Murder in the Cathedral
T.S. Eliot
play
1935
Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner
novel
1936
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
novel
1930
Light in August
William Faulkner
novel
1932
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
novel
1929
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
novel
1925
A Passage to India
E.M. Forster
novel
1924
The Little Foxes
Lillian Hellman
play
1939
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
novel
1937
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
novel
1931
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
novel
1916
Billy Budd
Herman Melville
novel
1924
Major Barbara
George Bernard Shaw
play
1905
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
novel
1939
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
novel
1920
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
novel
1911
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton
novel
1905
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
novel
1925
1940-1969Title
Author
Genre
Date
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
novel
1958
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee
play
1962
Another Country
James Baldwin
novel
1962
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
play
1953
The Plague
Albert Camus
novel
1947
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
novel
1952
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
novel
1954
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
play
1959
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
novel
1961
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’ s Nest
Ken Kesey
novel
1962
A Separate Peace
John Knowles
novel
1959
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
novel
1960
The Crucible
Arthur Miller
play
1953
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
play
1949
House Made of Dawn
N. Scott Momaday
novel
1968
Wise Blood
Flannery O’Connor
novel
1952
1984
George Orwell
novel
1949
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton
novel
1948
All the King’s Men
Robert Penn Warren
novel
1946
The Chosen
Chaim Potok
novel
1967
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys
novel
1966
The Catcher in the Rye
JD Salinger
novel
1951
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Tom Stoppard
play
1966
Cat’s Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
novel
1963
The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams
play
1945
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
play
1947
Black Boy
Richard Wright
memoir
1945
Native Son
Richard Wright
novel
1940
1990-Present
1970-1989
TITLE |
AUTHOR |
GENRE |
DATE |
Bless Me, Ultima |
Rudolfo Anay |
novel |
1972 |
The House on Mango Street |
Sandra Cisneros |
novel |
1984 |
“Master Harold” . . . and the boys |
Athol Fugard |
play |
1982 |
M. Butterfly |
David Henry Hwang |
play |
1988 |
A Prayer for Owen Meany |
John Irving |
novel |
1989 |
The Woman Warrior |
Maxine Hong Kingston |
memoir |
1976 |
Obasan |
Joy Kogawa |
novel |
1981 |
A Thousand Splendid Suns |
Khaled Hosseini |
novel |
1987 |
Beloved |
Toni Morrison |
novel |
1987 |
The Bluest Eye |
Toni Morrison |
novel |
1970 |
Song of Soloman |
Toni Morrison |
novel |
1977 |
Sulu |
Toni Morrison |
novel |
1973 |
Jasmine |
Bharati Mukherjee |
novel |
1989 |
The Women of Brewster Place |
Gloria Naylor |
novel |
1982 |
Going After Cacciato |
Tim O’Brien |
novel |
1978 |
Equus |
Peter Shaffer |
play |
1973 |
Ceremony |
Leslie Marmon Silko |
novel |
1977 |
Sophie’s Choice |
William Styron |
novel |
1979 |
The Color Purple |
Alice Walker |
novel |
Value |
Fences |
August Wilson |
novel |
1983 |
The Piano Lesson |
August Wilson |
play |
1987 |
1990-Present
TITLE |
AUTHOR |
GENRE |
DATE |
Reservation Blues |
Sherman Alexie |
novel |
1995 |
The Blind Assassin |
Margaret Atwood |
novel |
2000 |
Oryx and Crake |
Margaret Atwood |
novel |
2003 |
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter |
Kim Edward |
novel |
2005 |
Cold Mountain |
Charles Frazier |
novel |
1997 |
Snow Falling on Cedar |
David Guterson |
novel |
1994 |
The Kite Runner |
Khaled Hosseini |
novel |
2003 |
A Thousand Splendid Suns |
Khaled Hosseini |
novel |
2007 |
Never Let Me Go |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
novel |
2005 |
The Poisonwood Bible |
Barbara Kingsolver |
novel |
1998 |
The Namesake |
Jumpa Lahiri |
novel |
2004 |
All the Pretty Horses |
Cormac McCarthy |
novel |
1992 |
Atonement |
Ian McEwan |
novel |
2001 |
Native Speaker |
Chang Rae-Lee |
novel |
1995 |
The God of Small Things |
Arundhati Roy |
novel |
1997 |
A Thousand Acres |
Jane Smiley |
novel |
1991 |
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle |
David Rowblewski |
novel |
2008 |
