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 |
1770 |
Tristram Shandy |
Laurence Sterne |
1773 |
She Stoops to Conquer |
Oliver Goldsmith |
1778 |
Eveline |
Fanny Burney |
1784 |
Elegiac Sonnets |
Charlotte Turner |
1786 |
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect |
Robert Burns |
1786 |
Poems |
William Freneau |
1788 |
Emmeline |
Charlotte Turner |
1790 |
Poems |
Sarah Wentworth Morton |
1791 |
Charlotte Temple |
Susanna Rowlandson |
1794 |
Book of Urizen |
William Blake |
1798 |
Lyrical Ballads |
Wordsworth and Coleridge |
1813 |
Poems |
William Cullen Bryant |
1818 |
The Heart of Midlothian |
Sir Walter Scott |
1818 |
Childe Harolde |
Lord Byron |
1818 |
The Fall of Hyperion |
John Keats |
1819 |
Rip Van Winkle |
Washington Irving |
1819 |
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
Washington Irving |
1820 |
Prometheus Unbound |
Percy Bysse Shelley |
1824 |
Don Juan |
Lord Byron |
1826 |
Last of the Mohicans |
James Fenimoore Cooper |
1827 |
Hope Leslie |
Catharine Maria Sedgwick |
1830 |
Poems |
John Greenleaf Whittier |
1836 |
Nature |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
1841 |
The Big Bear of Arkansas |
TB Thorpe |
1847 |
Wuthering Heights |
Emily Bronte |
1847 |
Evangeline |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
1849 |
Stories |
Edgar Allan Poe |
1850 |
David Copperfield |
Charles Dickens |
1851 |
House of Seven Gables |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
1851 |
Moby Dick |
Herman Melville |
1852 |
Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
1854 |
Ruth Hall |
Fanny Fern |
1855 |
Fra Lippo Lippi |
Robert Browning |
1855 |
A Gramarian’s Funeral |
Robert Browning |
1855 |
Leaves of Grass |
Walt Whitman |
1859 |
A Tale of Two Cities |
Charles Dickens |
1860 |
Poems |
Emily Dickenson |
1860 |
Circumstance |
Harriet Prescott Spofford |
1861 |
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl |
Harriet Anne Jacobs |
1865 |
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland |
Lewis Carroll |
1866 |
Wives and Daughters |
Elizabeth Gaskell |
1866 |
A Long Fatal Love Chase |
Louisa May Alcott |
1870 |
Daniel Deronda |
George Eliot |
1871 |
Through the Looking Glass |
Lewis Carroll |
1871 |
Desperate Remedies |
Thomas Hardy |
1872 |
Under the Greenwood Tree |
Thomas Hardy |
1876 |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
Mark Twain |
1878 |
The Return of the Native |
Thomas Hardy |
1883 |
For the Major |
Constance Fennimore Cooper |
1883 |
Life Among the Paiutes |
Sarah Winnemucca |
1884 |
A Country Doctor |
Sarah Orne Jewett |
1885 |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
Mark Twain |
1885 |
The Squater and the Don |
Maria Ruiz de Burton |
1855 |
Song of Hiawatha |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
1885 |
The Rise of Silas Lapham |
William Dean Howells |
1886 |
The Mayor of Casterbridge |
Thomas Hardy |
1887 |
The Woodlanders |
Thomas Hardy |
1889 |
The Awakening |
Kate Chopin |
1889 |
The Conjure Woman |
Charles W. Chesnutt |
1889 |
The Marrow of Tradition |
Charles W. Chesnutt |
1890 |
Stories |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
1891 |
Stories |
Ambrose Pierce |
1893 |
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets |
Stephen Crane |
1896 |
George’s Mother |
Stephen Crane |
1896 |
Ode to Ethiopia |
Paul Laurence Dunbar |
1896 |
Jude the Obscure |
Thomas Hardy |
1897 |
Poems |
Edwin Arlington Robinson |
1900 |
Sister Carrie |
Theodore Dreiser |
1901 |
Lord Jim |
Joseph Conrad |
1901 |
Kim |
Rudyard Kipling |
1903 |
The Land of the Little Rain |
Mary Austin |
1903 |
The Souls of Black Folk |
W.E.B. DuBois |
1906 |
The Jungle |
Upton Sinclair |
1906 |
Peter Pan |
J. M. Barrie |
1910 |
Howards End |
E.M. Forster |
1910 |
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
T.S. Eliot |
1912 |
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man |
James Weldon Johnson |
1913 |
Sons and Lovers |
D.H. Lawrence |
1913 |
O’Pioneers |
Willa Cather |
1914 |
Dubliners |
James Joyce |
1916 |
Poems |
Amy Lowell |
1916 |
A Jury of Her Peers |
Susan Glaspell |
1916 |
A Trifle |
Susan Glaspell |
1920 |
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 |
1922 |
Ulysses |
James Joyce |
192- |
Poems |
ee cummings |
1922 |
Rootabago Stories |
Carl Sandburg |
1923 |
Spring and All |
William Carlos Williams |
1923 |
The Great American Novel |
William Carlos Williams |
1923 |
Poems |
Wallace Stevens |
1923 |
Cane |
Jane Toomer |
1925 |
The Great Gatsby |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
1926 |
The Sun Also Rises |
Ernest Hemingway |
1928 |
Orlando |
Virginia Woolf |
1928 |
Lady Chatterly’s Lover |
D.H. Lawrence |
1928 |
Quicksand |
Nella Larsen |
1929 |
The Sound and the Fury |
William Faulkner |
1929 |
A Farewell to Arms |
Ernest Hemingway |
193- |
Poems |
Langston Hughes |
1930 |
Memories of an Infantry Officer |
Seigfried Sassoon |
1930 |
Alison’s House |
Susan Glaspell |
1931 |
Good Earth |
Pearl S. Buck |
1931 |
Mourning Becomes Electra |
Eugene O’Neil |
1932 |
Black Elk Speaks |
Black Elk |
1933 |
Southern Road |
Sterling Brown |
1934 |
Tender Is the Night |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
1936 |
Absalom, Absalom! |
William Faulkner |
1939 |
The Grapes of Wrath |
John Steinbeck |
194- |
Poems |
Carlos Bolosan |
194- |
Poems |
HD |
194- |
Poems |
Marriane Moore |
1940 |
For Whom the Bell Tolls |
Ernest Hemingway |
1940 |
You Can’t Go Home Again |
Thomas Wolfe |
1941 |
A Curtain of Greene |
Eudora Welty |
1942 |
Dust Tracks on a Road |
Zora Neal Hurston |
1944 |
Collected Stories |
Katherine Anne Porter |
1945 |
Black Boy |
Richard Wright |
1946 |
The Iceman Cometh |
Eugene O’Neil |
1946 |
All the King’s Men |
Robert Penn Warren |
1946 |
Poems |
Robert Penn Warren |
195- |
Poems |
Charles Olson |
1951 |
The Old Man and the Sea |
Ernest Hemingway |
1952 |
Wise Blood |
Flannery O’Connor |
1952 |
East of Eden |
John Steinbeck |
1953 |
The Waking |
Theodore Roethke |
1953 |
The Long Goodbye |
Raymond Chandler |
1954 |
Poems |
Randall Jarell |
1955 |
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 |
1956 |
Poems |
Elizabeth Bishop |
1957 |
Poems |
Richard Wilbur |
1960 |
The Country Girls |
Edna O’Brien |
1960 |
Poems |
Robert Lowell |
1962 |
The Golden Notebook |
Doris Lessing |
1962 |
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest |
Ken Kesey |
1962 |
Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems |
William Carlos Williams |
1963 |
Paterson |
William Carlos Williams |
1963 |
Poems |
Robert Creeley |
1963 |
Poems |
Sylvia Plath |
1964 |
Sometimes a Great Notion |
Ken Kesey |
1964 |
Herzog |
Saul Bellow |
1964 |
Dream Songs |
John Berryman |
1965 |
Everything that Rises Must Converge |
Flannery O’Connor |
1966 |
Wide Sargasso Sea |
Jean Rhys |
1967 |
Poems |
Anne Sexton |
1968 |
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 |
197- |
Poems |
Denise Levertov |
1970 |
Poems |
Robert Hayden |
1970 |
Poems |
Michael S. Harper |
1971 |
Old Times |
Harold Pinter |
1971 |
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek |
Annie Dillard |
1971 |
The Lives of Women and Girls |
Alice Munroe |
1972 |
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 |
1973 |
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 |
1974 |
High Windows |
Philip Larkin |
1974 |
Poems |
Adrienne Rich |
1974 |
The Woman Warrior |
Maxine |
1975 |
Turtle Island |
Gary Snyder |
1975 |
The Changing Light at Sandover |
James Merrill |
1976 |
Poems |
John Ashberry |
1976 |
Love Story |
Erich Segal |
1977 |
Song of Solomon |
Toni Morrison |
1977 |
Ceremony |
Leslie Mormon Silko |
1979 |
The Stories of |
John Cheever |
1980 |
Waiting for the Barbarians |
J. M. Coetzee |
1981 |
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love |
Raymond Carver |
1981 |
Midnight’s Children |
Salman Rushdie |
1981 |
Poems |
Simon J Ortiz |
1982 |
The Color Purple |
Alice Walker |
1982 |
The Real Thing |
Tom Stoppard |
1982 |
Poems |
Cathy Song |
1984 |
Love Medicine |
Louise Erdich |
1984 |
Cathedral |
Raymond Carver |
1987 |
Beloved |
Toni Morrison |
1987 |
Where I’m Calling From |
Raymond Carver |
1988 |
Speed-the-Plow |
David Mamet |
1988 |
Bad Behavior |
Mary Gaitskill |
1990 |
The Things They Carried |
Tim O’Brien |
1991 |
Woman Hollering Creek |
Sandra Cisneros |
1993 |
Poems |
Louise Gluck |
1993 |
Arcadia |
Tom Stoppard |
1994 |
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven |
Sherman Alexie |
1995 |
Billy Collins |
Poems |
1995 |
Poems |
Li-Young |
1996 |
Infinite Jest |
David Foster Wallace |
1997 |
Underworld |
Don DeLillo |
1999 |
Interpreter of Maladies |
Jhumpa Lahi |
2000 |
City of God |
E. L. Doctorow |
2000 |
Fasting, Feasting |
Anita Desai |
2002 |
Coast of Ethiopia |
Tom Stoppard |
2006 |
The Beet Queen |
Louise Erdich |
2008 |
Lavinia |
Ursula K Le Guin |
2008 |
A Mercy |
Toni Morrison |
2009 |
A Gate at the Stairs |
Lorrie Moore |
2009 |
The Plague of Doves |
Louise Erdich |