Fiction
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped or Treasure Island
- Edward E. Hale, “The Man without a Country”
- Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
- Arthur Conan Doyle, any of the Sherlock Holmes stories or The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
- H. G. Wells, The Time Machine or The War of the Worlds
- Jack London, The Call of the Wild
- G. K. Chesterton, any of the Father Brown stories
- Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel
- O. Henry, any of the short stories
- Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
- Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express
- Dorothy Sayers, Strong Poison
- Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling
Poetry
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Song of Hiawatha”
- Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken” and other poems
- E. E. Cummings, collected poems
- Walter de la Mare, Poems 1919–1934, any selections
- Langston Hughes, The Dream Keeper and Other Poems or The Block: Poems
Drama
- Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
- George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
- Arthur Miller, The Crucible
- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons
Writers and Thinkers
- Beatrix Potter
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- K. D. Wyss
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Alexandre Dumas
- Willa Cather
- Wilfred Owen
- Thomas Hardy
- Carl Sandburg
- A. A. Milne
- W. Somerset Maugham
- T. S. Eliot
- Ezra Pound
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Sinclair Lewis
- Amy Lowell
- Ernest Hemingway
- W. B. Yeats
- Pearl S. Buck
- Robert Lowell
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Toni Morrison