Book Library

Pick your assigned reading and get clear on plot, themes, characters, and exam-ready context.

novel

1984

by George Orwell

novel

Animal Farm

by George Orwell

novel

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

novel

Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

novel

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

novel

The Catcher in the Rye

by J.D. Salinger

novel

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

novel

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

novel

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

novella

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

novel

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

novel

East of Eden

by John Steinbeck

novella

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

novel

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

novel

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

novel

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

novel

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

novel

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

novel

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

novel

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

novel

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

by Mark Twain

novel

Moby-Dick

by Herman Melville

novella

Billy Budd

by Herman Melville

novel

The Call of the Wild

by Jack London

novel

White Fang

by Jack London

novel

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

novel

The Awakening

by Kate Chopin

novel

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

novel

Native Son

by Richard Wright

memoir

Black Boy

by Richard Wright

novel

Invisible Man

by Ralph Ellison

novel

Beloved

by Toni Morrison

novel

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

novel

The Bluest Eye

by Toni Morrison

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The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

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The House on Mango Street

by Sandra Cisneros

novel

The Joy Luck Club

by Amy Tan

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The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

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A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini

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The Book Thief

by Markus Zusak

novel

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

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Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

novel

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

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Cat's Cradle

by Kurt Vonnegut

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The Sirens of Titan

by Kurt Vonnegut

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

by Ken Kesey

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A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

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The Road

by Cormac McCarthy

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No Country for Old Men

by Cormac McCarthy

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The Giver

by Lois Lowry

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Gathering Blue

by Lois Lowry

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The Outsiders

by S.E. Hinton

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The Pigman

by Paul Zindel

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Speak

by Laurie Halse Anderson

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The Hate U Give

by Angie Thomas

novel

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

by Sherman Alexie

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The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

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Catching Fire

by Suzanne Collins

novel

Mockingjay

by Suzanne Collins

novel

Ender's Game

by Orson Scott Card

novel

The Hobbit

by J.R.R. Tolkien

novel

The Fellowship of the Ring

by J.R.R. Tolkien

novel

The Two Towers

by J.R.R. Tolkien

novel

The Return of the King

by J.R.R. Tolkien

novel

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

by C.S. Lewis

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Prince Caspian

by C.S. Lewis

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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

by C.S. Lewis

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The Silver Chair

by C.S. Lewis

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A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

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Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley

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Dracula

by Bram Stoker

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

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Wuthering Heights

by Emily Bronte

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Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Bronte

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Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

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Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

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Emma

by Jane Austen

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Persuasion

by Jane Austen

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Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

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Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

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A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

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Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

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David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

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Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

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Bleak House

by Charles Dickens

novel

Les Miserables

by Victor Hugo

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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

by Victor Hugo

novel

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy

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Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

novel

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

novel

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

novel

The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

novella

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

novel

The Stranger

by Albert Camus

novel

The Plague

by Albert Camus

novella

The Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

novel

The Trial

by Franz Kafka

novel

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

novel

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

novel

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

novel

As I Lay Dying

by William Faulkner

novel

Light in August

by William Faulkner

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Absalom, Absalom!

by William Faulkner

novel

The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

novel

The Alchemist

by Paulo Coelho

novella

The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

novel

Life of Pi

by Yann Martel

novel

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

by Mark Haddon

novel

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

by Stephen Chbosky

novel

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

novel

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

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No Longer at Ease

by Chinua Achebe

novel

Arrow of God

by Chinua Achebe

novel

Purple Hibiscus

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

novel

Half of a Yellow Sun

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

novel

Americanah

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

novel

The God of Small Things

by Arundhati Roy

novel

The Namesake

by Jhumpa Lahiri

short_story_collection

The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor

by Flannery O'Connor

novel

The House of the Spirits

by Isabel Allende

novel

A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

novel

The Secret Life of Bees

by Sue Monk Kidd

play

The Crucible

by Arthur Miller

play

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

play

All My Sons

by Arthur Miller

play

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

play

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

play

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

by Tennessee Williams

play

Our Town

by Thornton Wilder

play

A Raisin in the Sun

by Lorraine Hansberry

play

Fences

by August Wilson

play

The Piano Lesson

by August Wilson

play

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

by August Wilson

play

Waiting for Godot

by Samuel Beckett

play

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

by Tom Stoppard

play

The Importance of Being Earnest

by Oscar Wilde

play

A Doll's House

by Henrik Ibsen

play

Hedda Gabler

by Henrik Ibsen

play

An Enemy of the People

by Henrik Ibsen

play

The Cherry Orchard

by Anton Chekhov

play

The Seagull

by Anton Chekhov

play

Uncle Vanya

by Anton Chekhov

play

The Three Sisters

by Anton Chekhov

play

Oedipus Rex

by Sophocles

play

Antigone

by Sophocles

play

Electra

by Sophocles

play

Medea

by Euripides

play

The Bacchae

by Euripides

play

Agamemnon

by Aeschylus

play

The Libation Bearers

by Aeschylus

play

The Eumenides

by Aeschylus

play

Lysistrata

by Aristophanes

play

The Clouds

by Aristophanes

play

The Birds

by Aristophanes

play

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

play

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

play

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

play

Othello

by William Shakespeare

play

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

play

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

play

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

play

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

play

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

play

Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare

play

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

play

Henry V

by William Shakespeare

play

Richard III

by William Shakespeare

play

The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

play

Coriolanus

by William Shakespeare

play

Measure for Measure

by William Shakespeare

epic

The Odyssey

by Homer

epic

The Iliad

by Homer

epic

The Aeneid

by Virgil

epic

The Epic of Gilgamesh

by Unknown

epic

Beowulf

by Unknown

epic_poem

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

epic_poem

Paradise Lost

by John Milton

poetry

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

novel

Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes

novel

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

novel

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

novel

The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas

novel

The Red and the Black

by Stendhal

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The Charterhouse of Parma

by Stendhal

novel

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

novel

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

novel

Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

novella

Candide

by Voltaire

novel

The Sorrows of Young Werther

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

play

Faust

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

play

Doctor Faustus

by Christopher Marlowe

nonfiction

The Prince

by Niccolo Machiavelli

nonfiction

The Art of War

by Sun Tzu

philosophy

The Republic

by Plato

philosophy

Apology

by Plato

nonfiction

Poetics

by Aristotle

nonfiction

Nicomachean Ethics

by Aristotle

novel

Utopia

by Thomas More

novel

Le Morte d'Arthur

by Thomas Malory

novel

The Prince and the Pauper

by Mark Twain

novel

The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair

short_story_collection

The Jungle Book

by Rudyard Kipling

novel

Kim

by Rudyard Kipling

novella

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

novel

Lord Jim

by Joseph Conrad

novel

A Passage to India

by E.M. Forster

novel

A Room with a View

by E.M. Forster

novel

Howards End

by E.M. Forster

novel

The Time Machine

by H.G. Wells

novel

The War of the Worlds

by H.G. Wells

novel

The Invisible Man

by H.G. Wells

novel

The Island of Doctor Moreau

by H.G. Wells

novel

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

novel

Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson

novella

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

novel

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

novel

A Little Princess

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

novel

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

novel

Little Men

by Louisa May Alcott

novel

The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Baroness Orczy

short_story_collection

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

novel

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

novel

A Study in Scarlet

by Arthur Conan Doyle

novel

The Sign of the Four

by Arthur Conan Doyle

memoir

The Diary of a Young Girl

by Anne Frank

memoir

Night

by Elie Wiesel

nonfiction

Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor Frankl

memoir

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass

memoir

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

by Malcolm X and Alex Haley

nonfiction

The Souls of Black Folk

by W.E.B. Du Bois

memoir

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

memoir

The Glass Castle

by Jeannette Walls

memoir

Educated

by Tara Westover

nonfiction

Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

nonfiction

In Cold Blood

by Truman Capote

nonfiction

Into the Wild

by Jon Krakauer

nonfiction

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot

short_story

The Tell-Tale Heart

by Edgar Allan Poe

short_story

The Cask of Amontillado

by Edgar Allan Poe

short_story

The Fall of the House of Usher

by Edgar Allan Poe

short_story

The Masque of the Red Death

by Edgar Allan Poe

short_story

The Pit and the Pendulum

by Edgar Allan Poe

poetry

The Raven

by Edgar Allan Poe

short_story

A Rose for Emily

by William Faulkner

short_story

The Lottery

by Shirley Jackson

short_story

The Yellow Wallpaper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

short_story

The Most Dangerous Game

by Richard Connell

short_story

The Gift of the Magi

by O. Henry

short_story_collection

Dubliners

by James Joyce

short_story_collection

Nine Stories

by J.D. Salinger

short_story_collection

Interpreter of Maladies

by Jhumpa Lahiri

short_story_collection

The Things They Carried

by Tim O'Brien

short_story_collection

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

by Raymond Carver

short_story_collection

Cathedral

by Raymond Carver

short_story_collection

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

by Flannery O'Connor

short_story_collection

Everything That Rises Must Converge

by Flannery O'Connor

short_story_collection

Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood Anderson

short_story_collection

The Illustrated Man

by Ray Bradbury

short_story_collection

The Martian Chronicles

by Ray Bradbury

short_story_collection

In Our Time

by Ernest Hemingway

short_story_collection

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

by Ernest Hemingway

short_story_collection

The Best of O. Henry

by O. Henry

short_story_collection

The Complete Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

short_story_collection

The Lottery and Other Stories

by Shirley Jackson

short_story_collection

The Long Valley

by John Steinbeck

short_story_collection

The Red Pony

by John Steinbeck

short_story_collection

The Best of Saki

by Saki

short_story_collection

The Stories of Anton Chekhov

by Anton Chekhov

short_story_collection

Dance of the Happy Shades

by Alice Munro

short_story_collection

Runaway

by Alice Munro

short_story_collection

The Bloody Chamber

by Angela Carter

short_story_collection

A Manual for Cleaning Women

by Lucia Berlin

short_story_collection

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

by Sherman Alexie

short_story_collection

Jesus' Son

by Denis Johnson

short_story_collection

Olive Kitteridge

by Elizabeth Strout

short_story_collection

The Stories of John Cheever

by John Cheever

short_story_collection

The Complete Stories of Katherine Mansfield

by Katherine Mansfield

short_story_collection

A Curtain of Green

by Eudora Welty

short_story_collection

The Open Boat and Other Stories

by Stephen Crane

short_story_collection

The Story of Your Life and Others

by Ted Chiang

short_story_collection

Exhalation

by Ted Chiang

short_story_collection

The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer

by Isaac Bashevis Singer

short_story_collection

Men Without Women

by Ernest Hemingway

short_story_collection

The Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker

by Dorothy Parker

short_story_collection

The Pastures of Heaven

by John Steinbeck

short_story_collection

The Unvanquished

by William Faulkner

short_story_collection

The Street of Crocodiles

by Bruno Schulz

short_story_collection

The Magic Barrel

by Bernard Malamud

short_story

Hills Like White Elephants

by Ernest Hemingway

short_story

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

by Ernest Hemingway

short_story

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

by Ernest Hemingway

short_story

The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

by Ernest Hemingway

short_story

Indian Camp

by Ernest Hemingway

short_story

The Garden Party

by Katherine Mansfield

short_story

Miss Brill

by Katherine Mansfield

short_story

The Fly

by Katherine Mansfield

short_story

The Rocking-Horse Winner

by D.H. Lawrence

short_story

The Horse Dealer's Daughter

by D.H. Lawrence

short_story

Araby

by James Joyce

short_story

Eveline

by James Joyce

short_story

The Dead

by James Joyce

short_story

The Boarding House

by James Joyce

short_story

A Little Cloud

by James Joyce

short_story

The Swimmer

by John Cheever

short_story

The Life You Save May Be Your Own

by Flannery O'Connor

short_story

Revelation

by Flannery O'Connor

short_story

Barn Burning

by William Faulkner

short_story

The Bear

by William Faulkner

short_story

Dry September

by William Faulkner

short_story

Young Goodman Brown

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

short_story

The Minister's Black Veil

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

short_story

Rappaccini's Daughter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

short_story

The Birth-Mark

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

short_story

The Open Boat

by Stephen Crane

short_story

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

by Ambrose Bierce

short_story

The Story of an Hour

by Kate Chopin

short_story

Desiree's Baby

by Kate Chopin

short_story

The Storm

by Kate Chopin

short_story

To Build a Fire

by Jack London

short_story

The Scarlet Ibis

by James Hurst

short_story

The Chrysanthemums

by John Steinbeck

short_story

The Leader of the People

by John Steinbeck

short_story

The White Heron

by Sarah Orne Jewett

short_story

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

by Mark Twain

short_story

The Man Who Was Almost a Man

by Richard Wright

short_story

Battle Royal

by Ralph Ellison

short_story

Sonny's Blues

by James Baldwin

short_story

The Rockpile

by James Baldwin

short_story

A&P

by John Updike

short_story

The School

by Donald Barthelme

short_story

The Lesson

by Toni Cade Bambara

short_story

Everyday Use

by Alice Walker

short_story

The Flowers

by Alice Walker

short_story

The Sky Is Gray

by Ernest J. Gaines

short_story

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

short_story

The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

short_story

The Lottery Ticket

by Anton Chekhov

short_story

The Lady with the Dog

by Anton Chekhov

short_story

The Bet

by Anton Chekhov

short_story

The Necklace

by Guy de Maupassant

short_story

The Monkey's Paw

by W.W. Jacobs

short_story

The Ransom of Red Chief

by O. Henry

short_story

After Twenty Years

by O. Henry

short_story

The Open Window

by Saki

short_story

The Interlopers

by Saki

short_story

The Lady, or the Tiger?

by Frank R. Stockton

short_story

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

by Bret Harte

short_story

The Devil and Tom Walker

by Washington Irving

short_story

Rip Van Winkle

by Washington Irving

short_story

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

by Washington Irving

short_story

The Door in the Wall

by H.G. Wells

short_story

The Star

by H.G. Wells

short_story

The Red-Headed League

by Arthur Conan Doyle

short_story

The Speckled Band

by Arthur Conan Doyle

short_story

The Adventure of the Final Problem

by Arthur Conan Doyle

short_story

The Adventure of the Empty House

by Arthur Conan Doyle

short_story

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

by Arthur Conan Doyle

short_story

The Veldt

by Ray Bradbury

short_story

All Summer in a Day

by Ray Bradbury

short_story

There Will Come Soft Rains

by Ray Bradbury

short_story

The Pedestrian

by Ray Bradbury

short_story

A Sound of Thunder

by Ray Bradbury

short_story

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

by Ursula K. Le Guin

short_story

The Wife's Story

by Ursula K. Le Guin

short_story

The Paper Menagerie

by Ken Liu

short_story

A Worn Path

by Eudora Welty

short_story

Why I Live at the P.O.

by Eudora Welty

short_story

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

by Katherine Anne Porter

short_story

The Grave

by Katherine Anne Porter

short_story

A Hunger Artist

by Franz Kafka

short_story

The Judgment

by Franz Kafka

short_story

The Guest

by Albert Camus

short_story

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

by James Thurber

short_story

A Small, Good Thing

by Raymond Carver

short_story

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

by Joyce Carol Oates

short_story

Girl

by Jamaica Kincaid

short_story

A Temporary Matter

by Jhumpa Lahiri

short_story

A Real Durwan

by Jhumpa Lahiri

poetry_collection

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

poetry_collection

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

by William Blake

poetry_collection

Four Quartets

by T.S. Eliot

poetry_collection

The Cantos

by Ezra Pound

poetry_collection

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

by Emily Dickinson

poetry_collection

The Collected Poems of Robert Frost

by Robert Frost

poetry_collection

North of Boston

by Robert Frost

poetry_collection

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

by Langston Hughes

poetry_collection

The Weary Blues

by Langston Hughes

poetry_collection

The Dream Keeper and Other Poems

by Langston Hughes

poetry_collection

Ariel

by Sylvia Plath

poetry_collection

The Colossus

by Sylvia Plath

poetry_collection

The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

by W.B. Yeats

poetry_collection

The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

by Wallace Stevens

poetry_collection

The Collected Poems of Elizabeth Bishop

by Elizabeth Bishop

poetry_collection

The Collected Poems of Marianne Moore

by Marianne Moore

poetry_collection

The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

by Audre Lorde

poetry_collection

The Black Unicorn

by Audre Lorde

poetry_collection

A Street in Bronzeville

by Gwendolyn Brooks

poetry_collection

The Collected Poems of Gwendolyn Brooks

by Gwendolyn Brooks

poetry_collection

Citizen

by Claudia Rankine

poetry_collection

The Collected Poems of Seamus Heaney

by Seamus Heaney

poetry_collection

Death of a Naturalist

by Seamus Heaney

poetry_collection

The Complete Poems of William Blake

by William Blake

poetry_collection

The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

poetry_collection

The Collected Poems of Emily Bronte

by Emily Bronte

poetry_collection

The Complete Poems of Anne Bradstreet

by Anne Bradstreet

poetry_collection

The Complete Poems of Phillis Wheatley

by Phillis Wheatley

poetry_collection

The Collected Poems of Carl Sandburg

by Carl Sandburg

poetry_collection

The Collected Poems of Louise Bogan

by Louise Bogan

poetry

The Waste Land

by T.S. Eliot

poetry

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

by T.S. Eliot

poetry

The Hollow Men

by T.S. Eliot

poetry

Song of Myself

by Walt Whitman

poetry

O Captain! My Captain!

by Walt Whitman

poetry

Because I could not stop for Death

by Emily Dickinson

poetry

Hope is the thing with feathers

by Emily Dickinson

poetry

I'm Nobody! Who are you?

by Emily Dickinson

poetry

The Road Not Taken

by Robert Frost

poetry

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

by Robert Frost

poetry

Mending Wall

by Robert Frost

poetry

Birches

by Robert Frost

poetry

Fire and Ice

by Robert Frost

poetry

Nothing Gold Can Stay

by Robert Frost

poetry

If

by Rudyard Kipling

poetry

Invictus

by William Ernest Henley

poetry

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

by Dylan Thomas

poetry

Fern Hill

by Dylan Thomas

poetry

The Second Coming

by W.B. Yeats

poetry

Sailing to Byzantium

by W.B. Yeats

poetry

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

by W.B. Yeats

poetry

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

by Langston Hughes

poetry

Harlem

by Langston Hughes

poetry

Mother to Son

by Langston Hughes

poetry

We Wear the Mask

by Paul Laurence Dunbar

poetry

Still I Rise

by Maya Angelou

poetry

Phenomenal Woman

by Maya Angelou

poetry

The Fish

by Elizabeth Bishop

poetry

One Art

by Elizabeth Bishop

poetry

Ode to a Nightingale

by John Keats

poetry

Ode on a Grecian Urn

by John Keats

poetry

Ode to the West Wind

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

poetry

Ozymandias

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

poetry

The Tyger

by William Blake

poetry

The Lamb

by William Blake

poetry

A Poison Tree

by William Blake

poetry

Dulce et Decorum Est

by Wilfred Owen

poetry

In Flanders Fields

by John McCrae

poetry

Sonnet 18

by William Shakespeare

poetry

Sonnet 130

by William Shakespeare

short_story_collection

The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

by Amy Hempel

short_story_collection

The Unreal and the Real

by Ursula K. Le Guin

novel

Middlemarch

by George Eliot

short_story_collection

Lost in the Funhouse

by John Barth

short_story_collection

The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake

by Breece D'J Pancake

short_story_collection

Welcome to the Monkey House

by Kurt Vonnegut

short_story_collection

Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

novella

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

short_story_collection

The Elephant Vanishes

by Haruki Murakami

short_story_collection

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

by Katherine Anne Porter

short_story_collection

The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

by Eudora Welty

short_story

The Overcoat

by Nikolai Gogol

short_story

The Nose

by Nikolai Gogol

short_story

A Jury of Her Peers

by Susan Glaspell

short_story

The Garden of Forking Paths

by Jorge Luis Borges

short_story

The Library of Babel

by Jorge Luis Borges

short_story

The Aleph

by Jorge Luis Borges

novel

Number the Stars

by Lois Lowry

short_story

The Cold Equations

by Tom Godwin

short_story

The Last Question

by Isaac Asimov

poetry

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

poetry

She Walks in Beauty

by Lord Byron

poetry

To a Skylark

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

novel

The Poisonwood Bible

by Barbara Kingsolver

novel

The Bean Trees

by Barbara Kingsolver

poetry

Dover Beach

by Matthew Arnold

poetry

The Darkling Thrush

by Thomas Hardy

poetry

The Charge of the Light Brigade

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

memoir

Persepolis

by Marjane Satrapi

memoir

Maus

by Art Spiegelman

poetry

Ulysses

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

novel

The Lord of the Rings

by J.R.R. Tolkien

novel

The Once and Future King

by T.H. White

novel

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

poetry

The Lady of Shalott

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

novel

The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

novel

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

poetry

Kubla Khan

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

poetry

Annabel Lee

by Edgar Allan Poe

poetry

The Bells

by Edgar Allan Poe

memoir

The Color of Water

by James McBride

nonfiction

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

by Stephen King

nonfiction

Letter from Birmingham Jail

by Martin Luther King Jr.

nonfiction

Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau

nonfiction

Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

nonfiction

Self-Reliance

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

nonfiction

Common Sense

by Thomas Paine

nonfiction

The Federalist Papers

by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay

poetry

My Last Duchess

by Robert Browning

poetry

Porphyria's Lover

by Robert Browning