Fiction Writers

• Abbott, Flatland
• Achebe, Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God
• Agee, A Death in the Family
• Akutagawa, “In a Grave”
• Alcott, Little Women, Little Men
• Amis, Lucky Jim
• Anaya
• Anderson, S. Winesburg, Ohio, “The Egg”
• Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale, “You Begin,” Wilderness Tips, Surfacing
• Austen, Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Emma
• Baldwin, Another Country, “Sonny’s Blues,” Go Tell It On the Mountain
• Balzac, Pere Goriot
• Barth, “Life Story,” Sot-weed Factor
• Barthelme
• Bellow, Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, Seize the Day
• Bierce, Devil’s Dictionary
• Boccacio, Decameron
• Bolt, A Man for All Seasons
• Borges
• Bradbury, Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes, “August 2002”
• Bronte, A. Tenant of Wildfell Hall
• Bronte, C. Jane Eyre, Villette
• Bronte, E. Wuthering Heights
• Buck, Good Earth
• Butler, The Way of All Flesh
• Camus, The Stranger, The Plague
• Capote, In Cold Blood, Other Voices, Other Rooms
• Carver
• Cather, My Antonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop
• Cervantes, Don Quixote
• Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
• Cheever
• Chopin, Awakening, “Story of an Hour”
• Cisneros, House on Mango Street
• Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey, “The Star,” “Nine Billion Names of God”
• Colette, Gigi, Sido
• Collins, Moonstone
• Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, Lord Jim, Nigger of the Narcissus, Secret Sharer, Victory
• Crane, “Experiment in Misery,” “Open Boat,” “Blue Hotel” Red Badge of Courage
• Danticot, Krick? Krak!
• Davies, Fifth Business
• Dazai, No Longer Human
• Defoe, Moll Flanders
• Desai, In Custody
• Dickens, Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Tale of Two Cities, Bleak House, Hard Times, Oliver Twist
• Dinesen, Out of Africa
• Doctorow, Ragtime, City of God
• Dostoevski, Crime and Punishment, The Possessed, Notes from the Underground, Brothers Karamazov, “Grand Inquisitor”
• Doyle
• Dreiser, American Tragedy
• Eliot, T. S. “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (essay), Murder in the Cathedral
• Eliot, George, Adam Bede, Middlemarch, Mill on the Floss, Silas Mariner
• Ellison, H. “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream,” “’Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman”
• Ellison, R. Invisible Man, Juneteenth, Shadow and Act
• Erdrich, Love Medicine, Tracks, Beet Queen
• Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Intruder in the Dust, Sound and the Fury, A Light in August, “Barn Burning,” “The Bear,” “Rose for Emily,” Absalom, Absalom
• Fielding, Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews
• Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night
• Flaubert, Madame Bovary
• Ford, F.M., Good Soldier
• Forster, Passage to India, Room With a View
• Fowles, French Lieutenant’s Woman, The Magus
• Fuentes, Death of Artemio Cruz, Change of Skin, “Aura”
• Galsworthy, Forsyte Saga
• Gardner, Grendel
• Golding, The Spire, Lord of the Flies
• Gogol, “The Overcoat,” Diary of a Madman
• Greene, Power and the Glory, Heart of the Matter
• Hardy, Madding Crowd, Return of the Native, Jude the Obscure, Tess of the D’Uberbervilles, Mayor of Casterbridge
• Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter, “Young Goodman Brown,” House of Seven Gables
• Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
• Heller, Catch-22, Something Happened
• Hemingway, Sun Also Rises, Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Old Man and the Sea
• Henry, O.
• Hersey, A Single Pebble
• Hesse, Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, Demian
• Hugo, Les Miserables
• Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
• Huxley, Brave New World
• Irving, Legends of the Alhambra, Ciderhouse Rules
• Ishiguro, Remains of the Day
• Jackson, S.
• James, Turn of the Screw, Daisy Miller, Portrait of a Lady, “Birthplace,” “Beast in the Jungle,” The American
• Jewett, Country of the Painted Firs
• Joyce, Dubliners, “Araby,” “The Dead,” Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• Kafka, “Hunger Artist,” Metamorphosis, The Trial, Amerika, Castle
• Kawabata, Master of Go, etc.
• Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• Kingsolver, Poisonwood Bible
• Kingston, M.H., Woman Warrior, “No Name Woman”
• Kipling, Gunga Din, Kim, “They,” “Man Who Would Be King”
• Koestler, Darkness at Noon
• Kogawa
• Lawrence, D.H., Sons and Lovers, “Rocking Horse Winner”
• LeGuin, Dispossessed, Left Hand of Darkness
• Lessing, Martha Quest
• Lewis, Babbitt, Main Street, Arrowsmith
• Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
• London, Call of the Wild
• Mailer, Naked and the Dead
• Malamud, The Natural, The Fixer, The Pawnbroker
• Mann, Doktor Faustus, Magic Mountain, “Death in Venice,” Buddenbrooks
• Mansfield, “Garden Party”
• Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
• Marquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Love in the Time of Cholera
• Mason, Four Feathers
• Matheisson, The Snow Leopard
• Maugham, Of Human Bondage
• Maupassant
• McCullers, Heart is a Lonely Hunter
• Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” Moby Dick, Billy Budd, Typee
• Michener, The Source
• Miller, H. Tropic of Cancer
• Momaday
• Monsarrat, Cruel Sea
• Morrison, Beloved, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Sula, Bluest Eye, Jazz, Paradise
• Mukherjee
• Murakami, Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore, Hard-Boiled Wonderland, Norwegian Wood
• Nabokov, “Signs and Symbols,” Pale Fire
• O’Brien, T. Things They Carried
• O’Connor, Frank, “Guests of the Nation”
• Olson, Yonnondio
• Ondaatge, In the Skin of a Lion
• Orwell, 1984, Animal Farm
• Ozida, Cannibal Galaxy
• Paley, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, “Conversation With My Father”
• Parker, D.
• Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
• Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country
• Piercey, Woman on the Edge of Time
• Porter, K.A., Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Ship of Fools
• Potok, Chosen, My Name is Asher Lev
• Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
• Rand, Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, Anthem
• Reed, Mumbo Jumbo
• Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
• Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight, Wild Sargasso Sea
• Robbe-Grillet
• Rolvaag, Giants in the Earth
• Rushdie, Shame, Midnight’s Children
• Salinger, Franny and Zooey, Catcher in the Rye, Nine Stories
• Saroyan, Human Comedy, Time of Your Life
• Sayers, Nine Tailors
• Shelley, Frankenstein
• Sheridan, School for Scandal
• Shute, On the Beach
• Silko, Ceremony
• Sinclair, Jungle
• Singer, “Gimpel the Fool”
• Smiley, All-Time True Adventures of Lidie Newton, A Thousand Acres
• Stafford, J.
• Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Tortilla Flat, Pearl
• Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Styron, Sophie’s Choice
• Swift, Guliver’s Travels, “A Modest Proposal” (essay)
• Thackeray, Vanity Fair
• Thomas, D.
• Thurber
• Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Death of Ivan Ilych
• Trollope, Barchester Towers
• Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
• Twain, Huck Finn, Pudd’nhead Wilson
• Tyler, A. Accident Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
• Unamuno, Mist, “St. Emmanuel, Martyr”
• Updike, Rabbit, Run, “A&P”
• Uris, Trinity, Exodus
• Valenzuela
• Voltaire, Candide
• Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
• Walker, Color Purple
• Warren, All the King’s Men
• Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Handful of Dust
• Welty, Thirteen Stories, Optimist’s Daughter
• Wharton, Ethan Frome, Age of Innocence
• White, E.B.
• White, T.H. Once and Future King, Sword in the Stone
• Wideman
• Wilde, Importance of Being Earnest, Picture of Dorian Gray
• Wilkie, W. Woman in White
• Wilson, A. Jitney
• Wolfe, Look Homeward Angel
• Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, Mrs. Dalloway, “Shakespeare’s Sister,” To the Lighthouse
• Wouk, The Caine Mutiny
• Wright, Native Son, Black Boy

Essayists and Philosophers

• Addison
• Anzaldoc
• Aristotle
• Arnold, M.
• Augustine
• Bacon
• Baldwin
• Beerbohm
• Benedict, Patterns of Culture
• Boswell
• Camus
• Carlysle
• Cather
• Churchill
• Colin
• Darwin
• Descartes
• Dewey
• Dillard
• Douglass, F.
• Eliot
• Emerson
• Freud
• Hazlitt
• Hegel
• Heidegger
• Hobbes
• Hume
• James, W.
• Johnson
• Kant
• Kierkegaard
• King, Jr. M.L.
• Lamb
• Locke
• Mailer
• Marx
• McCarthy, M.
• Mencken
• Mill
• Montaigne
• Nietzsche
• Orwell
• Plato
• Rousseau
• Russell
• Santayana
• Sartre
• Schopenhauer
• Skinner
• Spinoza
• Steele
• Thomas, D.
• Thoreau
• Walker, A.
• Whitehead
• Wittgenstein
• Wollstonecraft
• Woolf

Dramatists

• Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound
• Albee, The Zoo, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Tiny Alive
• Anouilh, Antigone, The Lark
• Baraka, Dutchman, “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note” (poem)
• Beckett, Waiting for Godot, Endgame
• Checkhov, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, “Medved”
• Congreve, Way of the World
• Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral
• Euripides, Medea
• Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer
• Hansberry, Raisin in the Sun
• Hellman, The Little Foxes
• Huang, Madame Butterfly
• Ibsen, Peer Gynt, Enemy of the People, Doll’s House, Ghosts, Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, Master Builder
• Ionesco, The Rhinoceros
• Jonson, Every Man in His Humour, “To Celia” (poem)
• Miller, Death of a Salesman, Crucible
• Moliere, Les Precieuses Ridicules, The Misanthrope, Le Tartuffe
• O’Casey, June and the Paycock
• O’Neill, Hairy Ape, Desire Under the Elms, Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Electra, Iceman Cometh, Long Day’s Journey Into Night
• Pinter, Dumb Waiter, Birthday Party
• Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
• Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac
• Sartre, No Exit
• Schiller, Mary Stuart
• Shakespeare, Hamlet, Othello, Tempest, King Lear, Henry IV, Julius Caesar, MacBeth, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard II, Richard III, “Rape of Lucrece”
• Shaw, Major Barbara, Arms and the Man, Man and Superman, Pygmalion, St. Joan
• Shepard, Curse of the Starving Class, Buried Child
• Sheridan, School for Scandal
• Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Electra
• Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead, Real Thing
• Valdez
• Wilde, Importance of Being Earnest, Picture of Dorian Gray (novel)
• Williams, T. Glass Menagerie, Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Wilson, Hot l Baltimore, Talley’s Folly

Poets

• Ai
• Auden
• Baraka
• Bible (Old and New Testaments)
• Bishop
• Blake
• Bradstreet
• Brathwaite
• Brooks
• Browning
• Byron
• Cervantes
• Chaucer
• Coleridge
• Collins
• Dante
• Dickinson
• Donne
• Eliot
• Frost
• Ginsberg
• H.D.
• Hanjo
• Heaney
• Herbert
• Homer
• Hongo
• Hopkins
• Hughes
• Jonson
• Keats
• Kerouac
• Koznesensky
• Larkin
• Lowell
• Marvell
• Milton
• Moore
• Nemerov
• Petrarch
• Plath
• Poe
• Pope
• Reed
• Rich
• Shakespeare
• Shelley
• Silko
• Spenser
• Stevens
• Sung
• Tennyson
• Walcott
• Whitman
• Wilbur
• Williams, W.C.
• Wordsworth
• Yeats