| c 8-1100 | Beowulf | |
| c 13– | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | |
| 1485 | Morte D’Arthur | Sir Thomas Mallory |
| 1588 | Tamburlaine | Christopher Marlowe |
| 1590 | The Faerie Queen | Edmund Spenser |
| 1599 | Much Ado About Nothing | William Shakespeare |
| 1606 | Volpone | Ben Johnson |
| 1606 | King Lear | William Shakespeare |
| 1607 | Macbeth | William Shakespeare |
| 1611 | The Tempest | William Shakespeare |
| 1623 | As You Like It | William Shakespeare |
| 1637 | New English Canaan | Thomas Morton |
| 1647 | Of Plymouth Plantation | William Bradford |
| 1662 | The Day of Doom | Michael Wigglesworth |
| 1667 | Pardise Lost | John Milton |
| 1679 | Pilgrim’s Progress | John Bunyan |
| 1682 | Narrative of Captivity | Mary Rolandson |
| 1693 | The Old Bachelor | William Congreve |
| 1694 | The Double Dealer | William Congreve |
| 1695 | Love For Love | William Congreve |
| 1700 | The Way of the World | William Congreve |
| 1719 | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| 1722 | A Journal of the Plague Year | Daniel Defoe |
| 1729 | A Modest Proposal | Jonathon Swift |
| 1748 | Clarissa | Samuel Richardson |
| 1749 | Tom Jones | Henry Fielding |
| 1764 | The Castle of Otranto | Horace Walpole |
| 1766 | The Vicar of Wakefield | Oliver Goldsmith |
| 1773 | She Stoops to Conquer | Oliver Goldsmith |
| 1778 | Evelina | Fanny Burney |
| 1784 | Elegiac Sonnets | Charlotte Turner Smith |
| 1786 | Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect | Robert Burns |
| 1786 | Poems | Phillip Freneau |
| 1790 | Poems | Sarah Wentworth Morton |
| 1791 | Charlotte Temple | Susanna Rowson |
| 1795 | The Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Radcliffe |
| 1798 | Lyrical Ballads | Wordsworth and Coleridge |
| 1800 | Castle Rackrent | Maria Edgeworth |
| 1801 | Belinda | Maria Edgeworth |
| 1810 | Curse of Kehama | Robert Southey |
| 1810 | Lady of the Lake | Sir Walter Scott |
| 1811 | Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen |
| 1813 | Queen Mab | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| 1813 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| 1814 | Waverley | Sir Walter Scott |
| 1814 | The Corsair | Lord Byron |
| 1814 | Mansfield Park | Jane Austen |
| 1815 | Emma | Jane Austen |
| 1817 | Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen |
| 1818 | Rip Van Winkle | Washington Irving |
| 1818 | Persuasion | Jane Austen |
| 1818 | Frankenstein | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
| 1819 | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Washington Irving |
| 1819 | Vampyre | John William Polidori |
| 1820 | Don Juan | Lord Byron |
| 1820 | The Witch of the Atlas | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| 1820 | Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems | John Keats |
| 1824 | Last of the Mohicans | James Fenimoore Cooper |
| 1826 | Hope Leslie | Catharine Maria Sedgwick |
| 1828 | The Mummy | Jane C Loudon |
| 1830 | Paul Clifford | Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
| 1830 | Poems, Chiefly Lyrical | Lord Alfred Tennyson |
| 1834 | A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett | David Crockett |
| 1836 | The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens |
| 1836 | The Big Bear of Arkansas | TB Thorpe |
| 1837 | Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens |
| 1838 | Voyage of the Beagle | Charles Darwin |
| 1841 | Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte |
| 1842 | Poems Including Lockley Hall | Lord Alfred Tennyson |
| 1842 | Dramatic Lyrics | Robert Browning |
| 1845 | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | Frederick Douglass |
| 1846 | Book of Nonsense | Edward Lear |
| 1847 | Evangeline | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| 1847 | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte |
| 1847 | Agnes Grey | Anne Bronte |
| 1848 | Vanity Fair | William Makepiece Thackeray |
| 1848 | The Tenant of Wildfeld Hall | Anne Bronte |
| 1849 | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens |
| 1850 | The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 1850 | House of Seven Gables | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 1850 | Sonnets from the Portuguese | Elizabeth Barret Browning |
| 1851 | Moby Dick | Herman Melville |
| 1851 | Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| 1852 | Ruth Hall | Fanny Fern |
| 1852 | Roughing it in the Bush | Susanna Moodie |
| 1852 | Poems | Matthew Arnold |
| 1853 | Bleak House | Charles Dickens |
| 1853 | Bartleby the Scrivener | Herman Melville |
| 1853 | Villete | Charlotte Bronte |
| 1853 | The Heir of Redclyffe | Charlotte M Yonge |
| 1853 | Cranford | Elizabeth Gaskell |
| 1854 | North And South | Elizabeth Gaskell |
| 1854 | The Angel in the House | Coventry Patmore |
| 1854 | Tempest and Sunshine | Mary Jane Holmes |
| 1855 | The Warden | Anthony Trollope |
| 1855 | Men and Women | Robert Browning |
| 1855 | Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman |
| 1855 | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
| 1855 | On the Law of the Introduction of New Species | Wallace |
| 1856 | Aurora Leigh | Elizabeth Barret Browning |
| 1858 | Phantastes | George MacDonald |
| 1858 | Our American Cousin | Tom Taylor |
| 1857 | Barestshire Towers | Anthony Trollope |
| 1859 | The Woman in White | Wilkie Collins |
| 1859 | Poems | Emily Dickenson |
| 1859 | Adam Bede | George Eliot |
| 1860 | Circumstance | Harriet Prescott Spofford |
| 1860 | Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl | Harriet Anne Jacobs |
| 1860 | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| 1861 | Lois the Witch | Elizabeth Gaskell |
| 1861 | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll |
| 1862 | Goblin’s Market and Other Poems | Christina Rosetti |
| 1862 | The Morgesons | Elizabeth Stoddard |
| 1863 | Short Stories | Elizabeth Gaskell |
| 1865 | Wives and Daughters | Elizabeth Gaskell |
| 1865 | Hans Brinker, of the Silver Skates | Mary Mapes Dodge |
| 1866 | A Long Fatal Love Chase | Louisa May Alcott |
| 1866 | Poems | John Greenleaf Whittier |
| 1866 | Daniel Deronda | George Eliot |
| 1867 | Miss Ravenel’s Conversion from Secession to Loyalty | John William DeForest |
| 1867 | The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County | Mark Twain |
| 1867 | New Poems Including Dover Beach | Matthew Arnold |
| 1868 | Little Women | Louisa May Alcott |
| 1868 | The Moonstone | Wilkie Collins |
| 1869 | Good Wives | Louisa May Alcott |
| 1869 | The Ring and the Book | Robert Browning |
| 1869 | Lorna Doone | Richard Doddridge Blackmore |
| 1870 | Poems | Dante Gabriel Rosetti |
| 1870 | Through the Looking Glass | Lewis Carroll |
| 1871 | Little Men | Louisa May Alcott |
| 1871 | Desperate Remedies | Thomas Hardy |
| 1871 | Under the Greenwood Tree | Thomas Hardy |
| 1872 | The Princess and the Goblin | George MacDonald |
| 1872 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain |
| 1872 | Erewhon | Samuel Butler |
| 1872 | Camilla | Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu |
| 1872 | What Katy Did | Susan Coolidge |
| 1873 | A Pair of Blue Eyes | Thomas Hardy |
| 1873 | Charity | W. S. Gilbert |
| 1873 | Song of the Southern Seas | John Boyle O’Reilly |
| 1874 | Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy |
| 1874 | Middlemarch | George Eliot |
| 1875 | The Way We Live Now | Anthony Trollope |
| 1875 | Our Boys | Henry James Byron |
| 1876 | Helen’s Babies | John Habberton |
| 1876 | The Return of the Native | Thomas Hardy |
| 1876 | The Hunting of the Snark | Lewis Carroll |
| 1876 | The Hand of Ethelberta | Thomas Hardy |
| 1877 | Black Beauty | Anna Sewell |
| 1878 | The Leavenworth Case | Anna Katherine Green |
| 1878 | For the Major | Constance Fennimore Cooper |
| 1880 | Washington Square | Henry James |
| 1880 | The Netherworld | George Gissing |
| 1880 | The Trumpet-Major | Thomas Hardy |
| 1880 | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Lew Wallace |
| 1880 | Across the Zodiac | Percy Greg |
| 1881 | Portrait of a Lady | Henry James |
| 1881 | Laodicean | Thomas Hardy |
| 1881 | The Sins of the Cities of the Plain | Jack Saul |
| 1883 | The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood | Howard Pyle |
| 1883 | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 1883 | Life Among the Paiutes | Sarah Winnemucca |
| 1883 | Life on the Mississippi | Mark Twain |
| 1883 | A Country Doctor | Sarah Orne Jewett |
| 1884 | Flatland | Ewin Abbott Abbott |
| 1884 | Ramona | Helen Hunt Jackson |
| 1884 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| 1885 | The Squater and the Don | Maria Ruiz de Burton |
| 1885 | Song of Hiawatha | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| 1885 | The Rise of Silas Lapham | William Dean Howells |
| 1885 | After London | Richard Jeffries |
| 1885 | Idylls of the King | Lord Alfred Tennyson |
| 1885 | The Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy |
| 1886 | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 1886 | The Bostonians | Henry James |
| 1886 | Jo’s Boys | Louisa May Alcott |
| 1886 | The Woodlanders | Thomas Hardy |
| 1886 | The Princess Casamassina | Henry James |
| 1886 | Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 1887 | Saracinesca | F. Marion Crawford |
| 1887 | The Awakening | Kate Chopin |
| 1888 | Wessex Tales | Thomas Hardy |
| 1889 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court | Mark Twain |
| 1889 | The Conjure Woman | Charles W. Chesnutt |
| 1889 | The Turn of the Screw | Henry James |
| 1889 | Anno Domini 2000-A Woman’s Destiny | Julius Vogel |
| 1889 | The Marrow of Tradition | Charles W. Chesnutt |
| 1889 | Stories | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| 1890 | The Picture of Dorian Grey | Oscar Wilde |
| 1890 | Stories | Ambrose Pierce |
| 1891 | Maggie: A Girl of the Streets | Stephen Crane |
| 1891 | Khaled: A Tale of Arabia | F. Marion Crawford |
| 1891 | Tess of the D’Urberbvilles | Thomas Hardy |
| 1891 | A New England Nun | Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman |
| 1892 | The Fate of Fenella | Everybody |
| 1892 | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 1892 | Lady Windermere’s Fan | Oscar Wilde |
| 1893 | George’s Mother | Stephen Crane |
| 1893 | The Odd Women | George Gissing |
| 1894 | The Green Carnation | Robert Hichens |
| 1894 | Esther Waters | George Moore |
| 1894 | The Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling |
| 1894 | New Woman | Ella Hepworth Dixon |
| 1895 | The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane |
| 1895 | Time Machine | H. G. Wells |
| 1895 | The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde |
| 1896 | Ode to Ethiopia | Paul Laurence Dunbar |
| 1896 | Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy |
| 1896 | Poems | Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| 1897 | The Invisible Man | H. G. Wells |
| 1897 | The Well-Beloved | Thomas Hardy |
| 1897 | Sister Carrie | Theodore Dreiser |
| 1897 | Dracula | Bram Stoker |
| 1898 | The Open Boat and Other Tales | Stephen Crane |
| 1898 | Wessex Poems and Other Verses | Thomas Hardy |
| 1898 | Arms and the Man | George Bernard Shaw |
| 1900 | Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad |
| 1902 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 1901 | Kim | Rudyard Kipling |
| 1901 | The Land of the Little Rain | Mary Austin |
| 1903 | The Souls of Black Folk | W.E.B. DuBois |
| 1903 | The Jungle | Upton Sinclair |
| 1904 | Green Mansions | William Henry Hudson |
| 1906 | Peter Pan | J. M. Barrie |
| 1906 | Howards End | E.M. Forster |
| 1910 | The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | T.S. Eliot |
| 1910 | The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man | James Weldon Johnson |
| 1912 | Sons and Lovers | D.H. Lawrence |
| 1913 | O’Pioneers | Willa Cather |
| 1913 | Dubliners | James Joyce |
| 1914 | Poems | Amy Lowell |
| 1916 | A Jury of Her Peers | Susan Glaspell |
| 1916 | A Trifle | Susan Glaspell |
| 1916 | A Few Figs From Thistles | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| 1920 | Kora in Hell | William Carlos Williams |
| 1920 | Beyond the Horizon | Eugene O’Neil |
| 1920 | This Side of Paradise | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 1920 | Ulysses | James Joyce |
| 1922 | Poems | ee cummings |
| 192- | Rootabago Stories | Carl Sandburg |
| 1922 | Spring and All | William Carlos Williams |
| 1923 | The Great American Novel | William Carlos Williams |
| 1923 | Poems | Wallace Stevens |
| 1923 | Cane | Jane Toomer |
| 1923 | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 1925 | The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway |
| 1926 | Orlando | Virginia Woolf |
| 1928 | Lady Chatterly’s Lover | D.H. Lawrence |
| 1928 | Quicksand | Nella Larsen |
| 1928 | The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner |
| 1929 | A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway |
| 1929 | Poems | Langston Hughes |
| 193- | Memories of an Infantry Officer | Seigfried Sassoon |
| 1930 | Alison’s House | Susan Glaspell |
| 1930 | Good Earth | Pearl S. Buck |
| 1931 | Mourning Becomes Electra | Eugene O’Neil |
| 1931 | Black Elk Speaks | Black Elk |
| 1932 | Southern Road | Sterling Brown |
| 1933 | Tender Is the Night | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 1934 | Absalom, Absalom! | William Faulkner |
| 1936 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| 1939 | Poems | Carlos Bolosan |
| 194- | Poems | HD |
| 194- | Poems | Marriane Moore |
| 194- | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway |
| 1940 | You Can’t Go Home Again | Thomas Wolfe |
| 1940 | A Curtain of Greene | Eudora Welty |
| 1941 | Dust Tracks on a Road | Zora Neal Hurston |
| 1942 | Collected Stories | Katherine Anne Porter |
| 1944 | Black Boy | Richard Wright |
| 1945 | The Iceman Cometh | Eugene O’Neil |
| 1946 | All the King’s Men | Robert Penn Warren |
| 1946 | Poems | Robert Penn Warren |
| 1946 | Poems | Charles Olson |
| 195- | The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway |
| 1951 | Wise Blood | Flannery O’Connor |
| 1952 | East of Eden | John Steinbeck |
| 1952 | The Waking | Theodore Roethke |
| 1953 | The Long Goodbye | Raymond Chandler |
| 1953 | Poems | Randall Jarell |
| 1954 | A Good Man Is Hard to Find | Flannery O’Connor |
| 1955 | A Journey to Love | William Carlos Williams |
| 1955 | The Quiet American | Graham Greene |
| 1955 | Howl | Allen Ginsberg |
| 1955 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Tennessee Williams |
| 1955 | Poems | Elizabeth Bishop |
| 1956 | Poems | Richard Wilbur |
| 1957 | The Country Girls | Edna O’Brien |
| 1960 | Poems | Robert Lowell |
| 1960 | The Golden Notebook | Doris Lessing |
| 1962 | One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest | Ken Kesey |
| 1962 | Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems | William Carlos Williams |
| 1962 | Paterson | William Carlos Williams |
| 1963 | Poems | Robert Creeley |
| 1963 | Poems | Sylvia Plath |
| 1963 | Sometimes a Great Notion | Ken Kesey |
| 1964 | Herzog | Saul Bellow |
| 1964 | Dream Songs | John Berryman |
| 1964 | Everything that Rises Must Converge | Flannery O’Connor |
| 1965 | Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys |
| 1966 | Poems | Anne Sexton |
| 1967 | King, Queen, Knave | Vladimir Nabokov |
| 1968 | The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test | Tom Wolfe |
| 1968 | Stories | Donald Barthelme |
| 1968 | Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone | James Baldwin |
| 1968 | Poems | Denise Levertov |
| 197- | Poems | Robert Hayden |
| 1970 | Poems | Michael S. Harper |
| 1970 | Old Times | Harold Pinter |
| 1971 | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | Annie Dillard |
| 1971 | The Lives of Women and Girls | Alice Munroe |
| 1971 | Gorilla My Love | Toni Cade Bambera |
| 1972 | Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 | Hunter S. Thompson |
| 1972 | The Optimist’s Daughter | Eudora Welty |
| 1972 | Gravity’s Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon |
| 1973 | Poems | A. R. Ammons |
| 1973 | Poems | Gallway Kinnel |
| 1973 | Collected Works | Grace Paley |
| 1973 | Breakfast of Champions | Kurt Vonnegut |
| 1973 | High Windows | Philip Larkin |
| 1974 | Poems | Adrienne Rich |
| 1974 | The Woman Warrior | Maxine |
| 1974 | Turtle Island | Gary Snyder |
| 1975 | The Changing Light at Sandover | James Merrill |
| 1975 | Poems | John Ashberry |
| 1976 | Love Story | Erich Segal |
| 1976 | Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison |
| 1977 | Ceremony | Leslie Mormon Silko |
| 1977 | The Stories of | John Cheever |
| 1979 | Waiting for the Barbarians | J. M. Coetzee |
| 1980 | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love | Raymond Carver |
| 1981 | Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie |
| 1981 | Poems | Simon J Ortiz |
| 1981 | The Color Purple | Alice Walker |
| 1982 | The Real Thing | Tom Stoppard |
| 1982 | Poems | Cathy Song |
| 1982 | Love Medicine | Louise Erdich |
| 1984 | Cathedral | Raymond Carver |
| 1984 | Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| 1987 | Where I’m Calling From | Raymond Carver |
| 1987 | Speed-the-Plow | David Mamet |
| 1988 | Bad Behavior | Mary Gaitskill |
| 1988 | The Things They Carried | Tim O’Brien |
| 1990 | Woman Hollering Creek | Sandra Cisneros |
| 1991 | Poems | Louise Gluck |
| 1993 | Arcadia | Tom Stoppard |
| 1993 | The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven | Sherman Alexie |
| 1994 | Billy Collins | Poems |
| 1995 | Poems | Li-Young |
| 1995 | Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace |
| 1996 | Underworld | Don DeLillo |
| 1997 | Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahi |
| 1999 | City of God | E. L. Doctorow |
| 2000 | Fasting, Feasting | Anita Desai |
| 2000 | Coast of Ethiopia | Tom Stoppard |
| 2002 | The Beet Queen | Louise Erdich |
| 2006 | Lavinia | Ursula K Le Guin |
| 2008 | A Mercy | Toni Morrison |
| 2008 | A Gate at the Stairs | Lorrie Moore |
| 2009 | The Plague of Doves | Louise Erdich |
sydneyreadseverything 
Note to self: add Song of Hiawatha and Peter Pan.
Mary Maclane
Brilliant!
absurd. rediculous. wonderful.
Hi Sydney,
I absolutely love your blog! Like love love love love love how you review. Taking pictures is so cool! If possible, I need to know how to get on the list. Granted, I’m not a 19th century author, but if there’s a way for you to review my book, I would love to know it!
– Dan