Authors and Major Works
American Authors
Anaya, Rudolpho – Bless Me, Ultima
Bradbury, Ray – Fahrenheit 451; The Martian Chronicles; Something Wicked This Way Comes
Buck, Pearl S. – The Good Earth
Capote, Truman – In Cold Blood
Cather, Willa – My Antonia; O, Pioneers
Cooper, James Fennimore – The Deerslayer; The Last of the Mohicans; The Pathfinder
Crane, Stephen – Maggie: A Girl of the Streets; The Red Badge of Courage
Drieser, Theodore – An American Tragedy; Sister Carrie
Faulkner, William – Absalom, Absalom; As I Lay Dying; The Sound and the Fury
Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Great Gatsby; This Side of Paradise
Gaines, Ernest – A Lesson Before Dying
Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The House of Seven Gables; The Scarlet Letter
Hemingway, Ernest – A Farewell to Arms; For Whom the Bell Tolls; The Sun Also Rises
James, Henry – The Ambassadors
Kingsolver, Barbara – Animal Dreams; The Bean Trees
McCarthy, Cormac – All the Pretty Horses; Blood Meridian
Plath, Sylvia – The Bell Jar
Pynchon, Thomas – Gravity’s Rainbow; Mason & Dixon
Roth, Phillip – American Pastoral; Goodbye Columbus; I Married a Communist
Salinger, J. D. – A Catcher in the Rye
Steinbeck, John – East of Eden; The Grapes of Wrath
Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court; The Prince and
the Pauper
Updike, John – Gertrude and Claudius; Rabbit, Run
Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt – Cat’s Cradle; Slaughterhouse Five
Wharton, Edith – Ethan Frome; House of Mirth
Wilder, Thornton – The Bridge at San Luis Rey
Wolfe, Thomas – Look Homeward, Angel
Wright, Richard – Native Son
British, Irish, & Canadian Authors
Atwood, Margaret – The Blind Assassin; The Handmaid’s Tale; Oryx and Crake
Austen, Jane – Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility
Brontë, Charlotte – Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily – Wuthering Heights
Chaucer, Geoffrey – The Canterbury Tales
Conrad, Joseph – Lord Jim
Defoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles – David Copperfield; Great Expectations; Oliver Twist
Du Maurier, Daphne – Rebecca
Eliot, George – Middlemarch
Forster, E. M. – A Passage to India; A Room with a View
Hardy, Thomas – Far from the Madding Crowd; Tess of the D’Ubervilles
Huxley, Aldous – Brave New World
Joyce, James – Dubliners
Lawrence, D. H. – The Rainbow
Marlowe, Christopher – Edward II; Doctor Faustus; Tamburlaine the Great
Maugham, Somerset – Of Human Bondage
Milton, John – Paradise Lost
Orwell, George – 1984
Scott, Sir Walter – Ivanhoe
Shakespeare, William
Thackeray, William M. – Vanity Fair
Wilde, Oscar – The Portrait of Dorian Gray
Woolf, Virginia – Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse
Non-Anglo Authors
Achebe, Chinua (Nigeria) – Things Fall Apart
Camus, Albert (France) – The Fall; The Plague
Coetzee, J. M. (South Africa) – The Life and Times of Michael K; The Master of Petersburg
Dinesen, Isak (Kenya) – Out of Africa
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (Russia) – The Brothers Karamazov; The Idiot
Flaubert, Gustave (France) – Madame Bovary
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel (Colombia) – One Hundred Years of Solitude
Hesse, Hermann (Germany) – Damien; Narcissus and Goldmund; Siddhartha; Steppenwolf
Kafka, Franz (Czechoslovakia) – The Castle; The Metamorphosis; The Trial
Mahfouz, Naguib (Egypt) – The Palace Walk
Paton, Alan (South Africa) – Cry, the Beloved Country
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander (Russia) – A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Tolstoy, Leo (Russia) – War and Peace
American Authors
Anaya, Rudolpho – Bless Me, Ultima
Bradbury, Ray – Fahrenheit 451; The Martian Chronicles; Something Wicked This Way Comes
Buck, Pearl S. – The Good Earth
Capote, Truman – In Cold Blood
Cather, Willa – My Antonia; O, Pioneers
Cooper, James Fennimore – The Deerslayer; The Last of the Mohicans; The Pathfinder
Crane, Stephen – Maggie: A Girl of the Streets; The Red Badge of Courage
Drieser, Theodore – An American Tragedy; Sister Carrie
Faulkner, William – Absalom, Absalom; As I Lay Dying; The Sound and the Fury
Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Great Gatsby; This Side of Paradise
Gaines, Ernest – A Lesson Before Dying
Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The House of Seven Gables; The Scarlet Letter
Hemingway, Ernest – A Farewell to Arms; For Whom the Bell Tolls; The Sun Also Rises
James, Henry – The Ambassadors
Kingsolver, Barbara – Animal Dreams; The Bean Trees
McCarthy, Cormac – All the Pretty Horses; Blood Meridian
Plath, Sylvia – The Bell Jar
Pynchon, Thomas – Gravity’s Rainbow; Mason & Dixon
Roth, Phillip – American Pastoral; Goodbye Columbus; I Married a Communist
Salinger, J. D. – A Catcher in the Rye
Steinbeck, John – East of Eden; The Grapes of Wrath
Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court; The Prince and
the Pauper
Updike, John – Gertrude and Claudius; Rabbit, Run
Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt – Cat’s Cradle; Slaughterhouse Five
Wharton, Edith – Ethan Frome; House of Mirth
Wilder, Thornton – The Bridge at San Luis Rey
Wolfe, Thomas – Look Homeward, Angel
Wright, Richard – Native Son
British, Irish, & Canadian Authors
Atwood, Margaret – The Blind Assassin; The Handmaid’s Tale; Oryx and Crake
Austen, Jane – Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility
Brontë, Charlotte – Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily – Wuthering Heights
Chaucer, Geoffrey – The Canterbury Tales
Conrad, Joseph – Lord Jim
Defoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles – David Copperfield; Great Expectations; Oliver Twist
Du Maurier, Daphne – Rebecca
Eliot, George – Middlemarch
Forster, E. M. – A Passage to India; A Room with a View
Hardy, Thomas – Far from the Madding Crowd; Tess of the D’Ubervilles
Huxley, Aldous – Brave New World
Joyce, James – Dubliners
Lawrence, D. H. – The Rainbow
Marlowe, Christopher – Edward II; Doctor Faustus; Tamburlaine the Great
Maugham, Somerset – Of Human Bondage
Milton, John – Paradise Lost
Orwell, George – 1984
Scott, Sir Walter – Ivanhoe
Shakespeare, William
Thackeray, William M. – Vanity Fair
Wilde, Oscar – The Portrait of Dorian Gray
Woolf, Virginia – Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse
Non-Anglo Authors
Achebe, Chinua (Nigeria) – Things Fall Apart
Camus, Albert (France) – The Fall; The Plague
Coetzee, J. M. (South Africa) – The Life and Times of Michael K; The Master of Petersburg
Dinesen, Isak (Kenya) – Out of Africa
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (Russia) – The Brothers Karamazov; The Idiot
Flaubert, Gustave (France) – Madame Bovary
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel (Colombia) – One Hundred Years of Solitude
Hesse, Hermann (Germany) – Damien; Narcissus and Goldmund; Siddhartha; Steppenwolf
Kafka, Franz (Czechoslovakia) – The Castle; The Metamorphosis; The Trial
Mahfouz, Naguib (Egypt) – The Palace Walk
Paton, Alan (South Africa) – Cry, the Beloved Country
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander (Russia) – A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Tolstoy, Leo (Russia) – War and Peace
