| (anon) | Beowulf |
| (anon) | The Bible |
| Aesop | Aesop's Fables |
| Alexie, Sherman | The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven |
| Austen, Jane | Pride and Prejudice or Emma or Sense and Sensibility |
| Beckett, Samuel | Waiting for Godot or Endgame |
| Borges, Jorge Luis | Ficciones |
| Bronte, Charlotte | Jane Eyre |
| Bronte, Emily | Wuthering Heights |
| Burton, Sir Richard | Arabian Nights |
| Carroll, Lewis | Alice in Wonderland |
| Cather, Willa | My Antonia or O Pioneers! |
| Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de | Don Quixote de la Mancha |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey | Canterbury Tales |
| Christie, Agatha | Murder on the Orient Express and Then There Were None |
| Coleridge, Samuel | "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" |
| Conrad, Joseph | Heart of Darkness |
| Cooper, James Fenimore | Last of the Mohicans |
| Crane, Stephen | Red Badge of Courage |
| Cummings, e.e. | some poetry |
| Defoe, Daniel | Moll Flanders or Robinson Crusoe |
| Dickens, Charles | Great Expectations or A Tale of Two Cities and A Christmas Carol |
| Dickinson, Emily | some poetry |
| DiLillo, Don | White Noise |
| Dostoevsky, Fyodor | Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment |
| Douglass, Frederick | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass |
| Doyle, Arthur Conan | Hound of the Baskervilles |
| Dreiser, Theodore | Sister Carrie |
| Dumas, Alexandre (Pere) | Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeer |
| Eliot, TS | "The Lovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock" |
| Ellison, Ralph Waldo | Invisible Man |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | "An American Scholar" |
| Faulkner, William | "A Rose for Emily" and "The Bear" or The Sound and the Fury |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The Great Gatsby |
| Flaubert, Gustave | Madam Bovary |
| Frank, Anne | The Diary of Anne Frank |
| Frost, Robert | some poetry |
| Garcia Marquez, Gabriel | Love in the Time of Cholera |
| Ginsberg, Allen | Howl |
| Golding, William | Lord of the Flies |
| Grimm, Jacob & Wilhelm | Grimm's Fairytales |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The Scarlet Letter |
| Heller, Joseph | Catch-22 |
| Hemingway, Ernest | The Sun Also Rises or For Whom The Bell Tolls |
| Hesse, Hermann | Siddhartha |
| Homer | Iliad and The Odyssey |
| Hughes, Lanston | "A Dream Deferred" and "Theme for English B" |
| Hugo, Victor | Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World |
| James, Henry | Portrait of a Lady |
| Joyce, James | Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man or Dubliners |
| Kafka, Franz | "Metamorphoses" |
| Keroac, Jack | On the Road |
| Kesey, Ken | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| Kipling, Rudyard | The Jungle Book |
| Kundera, Milan | The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
| Larsen, Nella | Passing |
| Lewis, C.S. | Narnia series |
| London, Jack | Call of the Wild |
| Melville, Herman | Moby Dick or, The Whale |
| Miller, Arthur | Death of a Salesman and The Crucible |
| Miller, Henry | Tropic of Cancer or Tropic of Capricorn |
| Morrison, Toni | Beloved |
| Milton, John | Paradise Lost |
| Nabokov, Vladimir | Lolita |
| O'Neil, Eugene | The Ice Man Cometh or Long Day's Journey into Night |
| Orwell, George | Animal Farm and 1984 |
| Plath, Sylvia | The Bell Jar |
| Plato | Allegory of the Cave |
| Poe, Edgar Allan | "The Raven" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" |
| Pound, Ezra | "In a Station of the Metro" |
| Pynchon, Thomas | The Crying of Lot 49 |
| Rushdie, Salman | Satanic Verses |
| Salinger, JD | Catcher in the Rye |
| Sartre, Jean Paul | No Exit |
| Scott, Walter | Ivanhoe |
| Shakespeare, William | Hamlet or Macbeth, As You Like It or Twelfth Night, & Henry V |
| Shaw, George Bernard | Pygmalion |
| Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein |
| Sinclair, Upton | The Jungle |
| Sophocles | Oedipus Rex |
| Steinbeck. John | Of Mice and Men or Grapes of Wrath or The Pearl |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
| Stoker, Bram | Dracula |
| Stowe, Mary Beecher | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Swift, Jonathan | Gulliver's Travels or "A Modest Proposal" |
| Tolstoy, Leon | Anna Karenenia and War and Peace |
| Twain, Mark | Huckleberry Finn |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Slaughterhouse Five and Welcome to the Monkey House |
| Wells, HG | The Invisible Man or The Time Machine or The War of the Worlds or The Island of Dr. Moreau |
| Wharton, Edith | Age of Innocence |
| Welty, Eudora | A Curtain of Green and Other Stories |
| Whitman, Walt | some poetry |
| Wilde, Oscar | The Importance of Being Ernest or An Ideal Husband |
| Williams, Tennessee | A Street Car Named Desire and Glass Menagerie |
| Winterson, Jeanette | Written on the Body |
| Woolf, Virginia | A Room of One's Own or To the Lighthouse or Mrs. Dalloway |
| Wordsworth, William | some poetry |
| Wright, Richard | "Big Boy Leaves Home" |
