The document lists notable novels, autobiographies, histories, dramas, and poetry from various time periods and authors. Some of the major works mentioned include Don Quixote, Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, 1984, Hamlet, The Communist Manifesto, and works by Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, and T.S. Eliot among many others spanning from ancient times to the modern era.
The document lists notable novels, autobiographies, histories, dramas, and poetry from various time periods and authors. Some of the major works mentioned include Don Quixote, Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, 1984, Hamlet, The Communist Manifesto, and works by Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, and T.S. Eliot among many others spanning from ancient times to the modern era.
The document lists notable novels, autobiographies, histories, dramas, and poetry from various time periods and authors. Some of the major works mentioned include Don Quixote, Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, 1984, Hamlet, The Communist Manifesto, and works by Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, and T.S. Eliot among many others spanning from ancient times to the modern era.
The Pilgrimʼs Progress- John Bunyan (1679) Gulliverʼs Travels- Jonathan Swift (1726) Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen (1815) Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens (1838) Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte (1847) The Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850) Moby-Dick- Herman Melville (1851) Uncle Tomʼs Cabin- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1851) Madame Bovary- Gustave Flaubert (1857) Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866) Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy (1877) The Return of the Native- Thomas Hardy (1878) The Portrait of a Lady- Henry James (1881) Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain (1884) The Red Badge of Courage- Stephen Crane (1895) Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad (1902) The House of Mirth- Edith Wharton (1905) The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) Mrs. Dalloway- Virginia Woolf (1925) The Trial- Franz Kafka (1925) Native Son- Richard Wright (1940) The Stranger- Albert Camus (1942) 1984- George Orwell (1949) Invisible Man- Ralph Ellison (1952) Seize the Day- Saul Bellow (1956) One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1967) If on a winterʼs night a traveler- Italo Calvino (1972) Song of Solomon- Toni Morrison (1977) White Noise- Don Delillo Possession- A.S. Byatt (1990)
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
The Confessions- Augustine (A.D. c. 400)
The Book of Margery Kempe- Margery Kempe (c. 1430) Essays- Michel de Montaigne (1580) The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself- Teresa of Avila (1588) Meditations- Rene Descartes (1641) Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners- John Bunyan (1666) The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration- Mary Rowlandson (1682) Confessions- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1781) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin- Benjamin Franklin (1791) Walden- Henry David Thoreau (1854) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself- Harriet Jacobs (1861) Life and Times of Frederick Douglass- Frederick Douglass (1881) Up from Slavery- Booker T. Washington (1901) Ecce Homo- Friedrich Nietzsche (1908) Mein Kampf- Adolf Hitler (1925) An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth- Mohandas Gandhi (1929) The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas- Gertrude Stein (1933) The Seven Storey Mountain- Thomas Merton (1948) Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life- C.S. Lewis (1955) The Autobiography of Malcolm X- Malcolm X (1965) Journal of a Solitude- May Sarton (1973) The Gulag Archipelago- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Born Again- Charles W. Colson (1977) Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez- Richard Rodriguez (1982) All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs- Elie Wiesel (1995)
HISTORIES
The Histories- Herodotus (441 B.C.)
The Peloponnesian War- Thucydides (c. 400 B.C.) The Republic- Plato (c. 375 B.C.) Lives- Plutarch (A.D. 100-125) The City of God- Augustine (Completed 426) The Ecclesiastical History of the English People- Bede (731) The Prince- Niccolo Machiavelli (1513) Utopia- Sire Thomas More (1516) The True End of Civil Government- John Locke (1690) The History of England, Volume V- David Hume (1754) The Social Contract- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762) Common Sense- Thomas Paine (1776) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire- Edward Gibbon (1776-1788) The Vindication of the Rights of Women- Mary Wollstonecraft (1792) Democracy in America- Alexis de Tocqueville (1835-40) The Communist Manifesto- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1848) The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy- Jacob Burckhardt (1860) The Souls of Black Folk- W.E.B. Du Bois (1903) The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism- Max Weber (1904) Queen Victoria- Lytton Strachey (1921) The Road to Wigan Pier- George Orwell (1937) The New England Mind- Perry Miller (1939) The Great Crash 1929- John Kenneth Galbraith (1955) The Longest Day- Cornelius Ryan (1959) The Feminine Mystique- Betty Friedan (1963) Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made- Eugene D. Genovese (1974) A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century- Barbara Tuchman (1978) All the Presidentʼs Men- Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (1987) Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era- James M. McPherson (1988) A Midwifeʼs Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary- Laura Thatcher Ulrich (1990) The End of History and the Last Man- Francis Fukuyama (1992)
DRAMAS
Agamemnon- Aeschylus (c. 458 B.C.)
Oedipus the King- Sophocles (c. 450 B.C.) Medea- Euripides (c. 431 B.C.) The Birds- Aristophanes (c. 400 B.C.) Poetics- Aristotle (c. 330 B.C.) Doctor Faustus- Christopher Marlowe (1588) Richard III- William Shakespeare (1592-93) A Midsummer Nightʼs Dream- William Shakespeare (1594-95) Hamlet- William Shakespeare (1600) Tartuffe- Moliere (1669) The Way of the World- William Congreve (1700) She Stoops to Conquer- Oliver Goldsmith (1773) The School for Scandal- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1777) A Dollʼs House- Henrik Ibsen (1879) The Importance of Being Earnest-Oscar Wilde (1899) The Cherry Orchard- Anton Chekhov (1904) Saint Joan- George Bernard Shaw (1924) Murder in the Cathedral- T.S. Eliot (1935) Our Town- Thornton Wilder (1938) Long Dayʼs Journey Into Night- Eugene OʼNeill (1940) No Exit- Jean Paul Sartre (1944) A Streetcar Named Desire- Tennessee Williams (1947) Death of a Salesman- Arthur Miller (1949) A Man for All Seasons- Robert Bolt (1960) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead- Tom Stoppard (1967) Equus- Peter Shaffer (1974)
POETRY
The Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2000 B.C.)
The Iliad and the Odyssey- Homer (c. 800 B.C.) Greek Lyricists (c. 600 B.C.) Odes- Horace (65-8 B.C.) Beowulf (c. 1000) Inferno- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (c. 1350) The Canterbury Tales- Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400) Sonnets- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) John Donne (1572-1631) Psalms- King James Bible (1611) Paradise Lost- John Milton (1608-1674) Songs of Innocence and Experience- William Blake (1757-1827) William Wordsworth (1770-1850) John Keats (1795- 1821) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1883) Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) Robert Frost (1874-1963) Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) Ezra Pound (1885-1972) T.S. Eliot (1888-1954) Langston Hughes (1902-1967) W. H. Auden (1907-1973) Philip Larkin (1922-1985) Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) Mark Strand (1934-) Adrienne Rich (1929-) Seamus Heaney (1939-) Robert Pinsky (1940-) Jane Kenyon (1947-1995) Rita Dove (1952-)