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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
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