Great Books
- Emily Dickinson, Final Harvest (1830–1886)
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835)
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1851)
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1855)
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment (1856)
- Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1861)
- Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written By Herself (1861)
- Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863)
- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877)
- Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native (1878)
- Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House (1879)
- Frederick Douglass, The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881)
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883)
- Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn (1884)
- W. B. Yeats, Selected Poems (1895)
- Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
- Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (1899)
- Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1900)
- Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery (1901)
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1902)
- W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
- Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth (1905)
- G. K. Chesterton, “The Innocence of Father Brown” (1911)
- Wilfrid Owen, Selected Poems (1918)
- Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria (1921)
- Robert Frost, “A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes” (Pulitzer, 1924)
- Franz Kafka, The Trial (1925)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)
- T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral (1935)
- Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (c. 1937)
- George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)
- Thornton Wilder, Our Town (1938)
- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (1939)
- George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945)
- Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
- Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)
- C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (1952)
- Arthur Miller, The Crucible (1953)
- Saul Bellow, Seize the Day (1956)
- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons (1962)
- Martin Luther King, Jr., “Why We Can’t Wait” (1964)
- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967)
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago (1974)
- Toni Morrison, Beloved (1988)
- Philip Larkin, Collected Poems (1991)
- Elie Wiesel, All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs (1995)