| Ancient Writers |
| Aeschylus | Agamemnon |
| Aesop | Fables |
| Aristophanes | Lysistrata |
| Aristotle | Poetics |
| Confucius | The Analects |
| Euripides | Hippolytus |
| Homer | The Iliad, The Odyssey |
| Lao-Tzu | The Way and Its Power |
| Lucretius | On the Nature of Things |
| Plato | The Republic, Phaedo (The Death of Socrates) |
| Sophocles | Oedipus Tyrannus, Antigone |
| Saint Augustine | Confessions |
| Thucydides | The Peloponnesian War |
| Vergil | The Aeneid |
| Middle Ages |
| | The Arabian Nights |
| Dante Alighieri | The Divine Comedy |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | Decameron |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | The Canterbury Tales
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| Renaissance |
| Miguel De Cervantes | Don Quixote |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | The Prince |
| Christopher Marlowe | The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus |
| John Milton | Paradise Lost |
| Francois Rabelais | Gargantua and Patagruel |
| Shakespeare | All major works |
| Neoclassicism and Romanticism |
| Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere | Tartuffe |
| William Blake | Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
| Robert Browning | The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed's Church |
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Faust |
| George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan Canto II |
| Herman Melville | Moby Dick |
| Jean Racine | Phaedra |
| Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels |
| Francois-Marie Arouet De Voltaire | Candide |
| Walt Whitman | Leaves of Grass |
| Realism, Naturalism (18th Century and Beyond) |
| Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice |
| Darwin | The Origin of Species |
| Defoe | Robinson Crusoe |
| Charles Dickens | David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed |
| Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary |
| Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| Hamilton | Federalist Papers |
| Hardy | Tess of the D'Ubervilles |
| Nathanial Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter |
| Victor Hugo | Les Miserables |
| Franz Kafka | The Metamorphosis |
| D. H. Lawrence | Odour of Chrysanthemums |
| Thomas Paine | The Rights of Man |
| Edgar Allen Poe | The Raven |
| William Thackery | Vanity Fair |
| Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace, Anna Karenina |
| Mark Twain | Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Tom Sawyer, |
| 20th Century |
| Anthony Burgess | A Clockwork Orange |
| Albert Camus | The Stranger |
| Truman Capote | In Cold Blood |
| Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness |
| Einstein | The Meaning of Relativity |
| Ellison | The Invisible Man |
| William Faulkner | As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Sanctuary |
| Mark Helprin | A Soldier of the Great War, Winter's Tale |
| Ernest Hemingway | For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea |
| Abraham Lincoln | A House Divided, Dedication at Gettysburg |
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez | One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera |
| Erich Marla Remarque | All Quiet on the Western Front |
| Cormac McCarthy | Suttree, All the Pretty Horses, Blood Meridian |
| J. D. Salinger | The Catcher in the Rye |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | The Wall |
| John Steinbeck | Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Of Mice and Men, My Travels with Charlie |
| John Kennedy Toole | A Confederacy of Dunces |
| Kurt Vonnegut | Panio Player, Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle
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