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1984
by George Orwell
novelAnimal Farm
by George Orwell
novelBrave New World
by Aldous Huxley
novelFahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
novelThe Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
novelThe Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
novelTo Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
novelThe Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
novelLord of the Flies
by William Golding
novellaOf Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
novelThe Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
novelEast of Eden
by John Steinbeck
novellaThe Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
novelA Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
novelFor Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
novelThe Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
novelThe Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
novelThe House of the Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
novelThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
novelThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
novelA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Mark Twain
novelMoby-Dick
by Herman Melville
novellaBilly Budd
by Herman Melville
novelThe Call of the Wild
by Jack London
novelWhite Fang
by Jack London
novelThe Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
novelThe Awakening
by Kate Chopin
novelTheir Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
novelNative Son
by Richard Wright
memoirBlack Boy
by Richard Wright
novelInvisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
novelBeloved
by Toni Morrison
novelSong of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
novelThe Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
novelThe Color Purple
by Alice Walker
novelThe House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
novelThe Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
novelThe Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
novelA Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
novelThe Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
novelAll Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
novelCatch-22
by Joseph Heller
novelSlaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
novelCat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
novelThe Sirens of Titan
by Kurt Vonnegut
novelOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
novelA Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
novelThe Road
by Cormac McCarthy
novelNo Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy
novelThe Giver
by Lois Lowry
novelGathering Blue
by Lois Lowry
novelThe Outsiders
by S.E. Hinton
novelThe Pigman
by Paul Zindel
novelSpeak
by Laurie Halse Anderson
novelThe Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
novelThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
novelThe Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
novelCatching Fire
by Suzanne Collins
novelMockingjay
by Suzanne Collins
novelEnder's Game
by Orson Scott Card
novelThe Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien
novelThe Fellowship of the Ring
by J.R.R. Tolkien
novelThe Two Towers
by J.R.R. Tolkien
novelThe Return of the King
by J.R.R. Tolkien
novelThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C.S. Lewis
novelPrince Caspian
by C.S. Lewis
novelThe Voyage of the Dawn Treader
by C.S. Lewis
novelThe Silver Chair
by C.S. Lewis
novelA Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
novelFrankenstein
by Mary Shelley
novelDracula
by Bram Stoker
novelThe Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
novelWuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte
novelJane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte
novelPride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
novelSense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
novelEmma
by Jane Austen
novelPersuasion
by Jane Austen
novelNorthanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
novelGreat Expectations
by Charles Dickens
novelA Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
novelOliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
novelDavid Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
novelHard Times
by Charles Dickens
novelBleak House
by Charles Dickens
novelLes Miserables
by Victor Hugo
novelThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor Hugo
novelWar and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
novelAnna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
novelCrime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
novelThe Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
novelThe Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
novellaNotes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
novelThe Stranger
by Albert Camus
novelThe Plague
by Albert Camus
novellaThe Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
novelThe Trial
by Franz Kafka
novelOne Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
novelLove in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
novelChronicle of a Death Foretold
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
novelThe Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
novelAs I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
novelLight in August
by William Faulkner
novelAbsalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
novelThe Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
novelThe Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
novellaThe Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
novelLife of Pi
by Yann Martel
novelThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
novelThe Perks of Being a Wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky
novelNever Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
novelThe Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
novelThings Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
novelNo Longer at Ease
by Chinua Achebe
novelArrow of God
by Chinua Achebe
novelPurple Hibiscus
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
novelHalf of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
novelAmericanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
novelThe God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
novelThe Namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri
short_story_collectionThe Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
by Flannery O'Connor
novelThe House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
novelA Separate Peace
by John Knowles
novelThe Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
playThe Crucible
by Arthur Miller
playDeath of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
playAll My Sons
by Arthur Miller
playA Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
playThe Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
playCat on a Hot Tin Roof
by Tennessee Williams
playOur Town
by Thornton Wilder
playA Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry
playFences
by August Wilson
playThe Piano Lesson
by August Wilson
playMa Rainey's Black Bottom
by August Wilson
playWaiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
playRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
by Tom Stoppard
playThe Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
playA Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen
playHedda Gabler
by Henrik Ibsen
playAn Enemy of the People
by Henrik Ibsen
playThe Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekhov
playThe Seagull
by Anton Chekhov
playUncle Vanya
by Anton Chekhov
playThe Three Sisters
by Anton Chekhov
playOedipus Rex
by Sophocles
playAntigone
by Sophocles
playElectra
by Sophocles
playMedea
by Euripides
playThe Bacchae
by Euripides
playAgamemnon
by Aeschylus
playThe Libation Bearers
by Aeschylus
playThe Eumenides
by Aeschylus
playLysistrata
by Aristophanes
playThe Clouds
by Aristophanes
playThe Birds
by Aristophanes
playHamlet
by William Shakespeare
playMacbeth
by William Shakespeare
playRomeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
playOthello
by William Shakespeare
playKing Lear
by William Shakespeare
playA Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
playJulius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
playThe Tempest
by William Shakespeare
playMuch Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare
playTwelfth Night
by William Shakespeare
playThe Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare
playHenry V
by William Shakespeare
playRichard III
by William Shakespeare
playThe Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare
playCoriolanus
by William Shakespeare
playMeasure for Measure
by William Shakespeare
epicThe Odyssey
by Homer
epicThe Iliad
by Homer
epicThe Aeneid
by Virgil
epicThe Epic of Gilgamesh
by Unknown
epicBeowulf
by Unknown
epic_poemThe Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
epic_poemParadise Lost
by John Milton
poetryThe Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
novelDon Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
novelMadame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
novelThe Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
novelThe Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
novelThe Red and the Black
by Stendhal
novelThe Charterhouse of Parma
by Stendhal
novelGulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
novelRobinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
novelPilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
novellaCandide
by Voltaire
novelThe Sorrows of Young Werther
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
playFaust
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
playDoctor Faustus
by Christopher Marlowe
nonfictionThe Prince
by Niccolo Machiavelli
nonfictionThe Art of War
by Sun Tzu
philosophyThe Republic
by Plato
philosophyApology
by Plato
nonfictionPoetics
by Aristotle
nonfictionNicomachean Ethics
by Aristotle
novelUtopia
by Thomas More
novelLe Morte d'Arthur
by Thomas Malory
novelThe Prince and the Pauper
by Mark Twain
novelThe Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
short_story_collectionThe Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
novelKim
by Rudyard Kipling
novellaHeart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
novelLord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
novelA Passage to India
by E.M. Forster
novelA Room with a View
by E.M. Forster
novelHowards End
by E.M. Forster
novelThe Time Machine
by H.G. Wells
novelThe War of the Worlds
by H.G. Wells
novelThe Invisible Man
by H.G. Wells
novelThe Island of Doctor Moreau
by H.G. Wells
novelTreasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
novelKidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson
novellaStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
novelThe Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
novelA Little Princess
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
novelLittle Women
by Louisa May Alcott
novelLittle Men
by Louisa May Alcott
novelThe Scarlet Pimpernel
by Baroness Orczy
short_story_collectionThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
novelThe Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle
novelA Study in Scarlet
by Arthur Conan Doyle
novelThe Sign of the Four
by Arthur Conan Doyle
memoirThe Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
memoirNight
by Elie Wiesel
nonfictionMan's Search for Meaning
by Viktor Frankl
memoirThe Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass
memoirThe Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
nonfictionThe Souls of Black Folk
by W.E.B. Du Bois
memoirI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
memoirThe Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls
memoirEducated
by Tara Westover
nonfictionBetween the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
nonfictionIn Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
nonfictionInto the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
nonfictionThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
short_storyThe Tell-Tale Heart
by Edgar Allan Poe
short_storyThe Cask of Amontillado
by Edgar Allan Poe
short_storyThe Fall of the House of Usher
by Edgar Allan Poe
short_storyThe Masque of the Red Death
by Edgar Allan Poe
short_storyThe Pit and the Pendulum
by Edgar Allan Poe
poetryThe Raven
by Edgar Allan Poe
short_storyA Rose for Emily
by William Faulkner
short_storyThe Lottery
by Shirley Jackson
short_storyThe Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
short_storyThe Most Dangerous Game
by Richard Connell
short_storyThe Gift of the Magi
by O. Henry
short_story_collectionDubliners
by James Joyce
short_story_collectionNine Stories
by J.D. Salinger
short_story_collectionInterpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
short_story_collectionThe Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
short_story_collectionWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Love
by Raymond Carver
short_story_collectionCathedral
by Raymond Carver
short_story_collectionA Good Man Is Hard to Find
by Flannery O'Connor
short_story_collectionEverything That Rises Must Converge
by Flannery O'Connor
short_story_collectionWinesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
short_story_collectionThe Illustrated Man
by Ray Bradbury
short_story_collectionThe Martian Chronicles
by Ray Bradbury
short_story_collectionIn Our Time
by Ernest Hemingway
short_story_collectionThe Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
by Ernest Hemingway
short_story_collectionThe Best of O. Henry
by O. Henry
short_story_collectionThe Complete Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe
short_story_collectionThe Lottery and Other Stories
by Shirley Jackson
short_story_collectionThe Long Valley
by John Steinbeck
short_story_collectionThe Red Pony
by John Steinbeck
short_story_collectionThe Best of Saki
by Saki
short_story_collectionThe Stories of Anton Chekhov
by Anton Chekhov
short_story_collectionDance of the Happy Shades
by Alice Munro
short_story_collectionRunaway
by Alice Munro
short_story_collectionThe Bloody Chamber
by Angela Carter
short_story_collectionA Manual for Cleaning Women
by Lucia Berlin
short_story_collectionThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
by Sherman Alexie
short_story_collectionJesus' Son
by Denis Johnson
short_story_collectionOlive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
short_story_collectionThe Stories of John Cheever
by John Cheever
short_story_collectionThe Complete Stories of Katherine Mansfield
by Katherine Mansfield
short_story_collectionA Curtain of Green
by Eudora Welty
short_story_collectionThe Open Boat and Other Stories
by Stephen Crane
short_story_collectionThe Story of Your Life and Others
by Ted Chiang
short_story_collectionExhalation
by Ted Chiang
short_story_collectionThe Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
short_story_collectionMen Without Women
by Ernest Hemingway
short_story_collectionThe Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker
by Dorothy Parker
short_story_collectionThe Pastures of Heaven
by John Steinbeck
short_story_collectionThe Unvanquished
by William Faulkner
short_story_collectionThe Street of Crocodiles
by Bruno Schulz
short_story_collectionThe Magic Barrel
by Bernard Malamud
short_storyHills Like White Elephants
by Ernest Hemingway
short_storyA Clean, Well-Lighted Place
by Ernest Hemingway
short_storyThe Snows of Kilimanjaro
by Ernest Hemingway
short_storyThe Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
by Ernest Hemingway
short_storyIndian Camp
by Ernest Hemingway
short_storyThe Garden Party
by Katherine Mansfield
short_storyMiss Brill
by Katherine Mansfield
short_storyThe Fly
by Katherine Mansfield
short_storyThe Rocking-Horse Winner
by D.H. Lawrence
short_storyThe Horse Dealer's Daughter
by D.H. Lawrence
short_storyAraby
by James Joyce
short_storyEveline
by James Joyce
short_storyThe Dead
by James Joyce
short_storyThe Boarding House
by James Joyce
short_storyA Little Cloud
by James Joyce
short_storyThe Swimmer
by John Cheever
short_storyThe Life You Save May Be Your Own
by Flannery O'Connor
short_storyRevelation
by Flannery O'Connor
short_storyBarn Burning
by William Faulkner
short_storyThe Bear
by William Faulkner
short_storyDry September
by William Faulkner
short_storyYoung Goodman Brown
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
short_storyThe Minister's Black Veil
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
short_storyRappaccini's Daughter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
short_storyThe Birth-Mark
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
short_storyThe Open Boat
by Stephen Crane
short_storyAn Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
by Ambrose Bierce
short_storyThe Story of an Hour
by Kate Chopin
short_storyDesiree's Baby
by Kate Chopin
short_storyThe Storm
by Kate Chopin
short_storyTo Build a Fire
by Jack London
short_storyThe Scarlet Ibis
by James Hurst
short_storyThe Chrysanthemums
by John Steinbeck
short_storyThe Leader of the People
by John Steinbeck
short_storyThe White Heron
by Sarah Orne Jewett
short_storyThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
by Mark Twain
short_storyThe Man Who Was Almost a Man
by Richard Wright
short_storyBattle Royal
by Ralph Ellison
short_storySonny's Blues
by James Baldwin
short_storyThe Rockpile
by James Baldwin
short_storyA&P
by John Updike
short_storyThe School
by Donald Barthelme
short_storyThe Lesson
by Toni Cade Bambara
short_storyEveryday Use
by Alice Walker
short_storyThe Flowers
by Alice Walker
short_storyThe Sky Is Gray
by Ernest J. Gaines
short_storyA Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
short_storyThe Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
short_storyThe Lottery Ticket
by Anton Chekhov
short_storyThe Lady with the Dog
by Anton Chekhov
short_storyThe Bet
by Anton Chekhov
short_storyThe Necklace
by Guy de Maupassant
short_storyThe Monkey's Paw
by W.W. Jacobs
short_storyThe Ransom of Red Chief
by O. Henry
short_storyAfter Twenty Years
by O. Henry
short_storyThe Open Window
by Saki
short_storyThe Interlopers
by Saki
short_storyThe Lady, or the Tiger?
by Frank R. Stockton
short_storyThe Outcasts of Poker Flat
by Bret Harte
short_storyThe Devil and Tom Walker
by Washington Irving
short_storyRip Van Winkle
by Washington Irving
short_storyThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving
short_storyThe Door in the Wall
by H.G. Wells
short_storyThe Star
by H.G. Wells
short_storyThe Red-Headed League
by Arthur Conan Doyle
short_storyThe Speckled Band
by Arthur Conan Doyle
short_storyThe Adventure of the Final Problem
by Arthur Conan Doyle
short_storyThe Adventure of the Empty House
by Arthur Conan Doyle
short_storyThe Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
by Arthur Conan Doyle
short_storyThe Veldt
by Ray Bradbury
short_storyAll Summer in a Day
by Ray Bradbury
short_storyThere Will Come Soft Rains
by Ray Bradbury
short_storyThe Pedestrian
by Ray Bradbury
short_storyA Sound of Thunder
by Ray Bradbury
short_storyThe Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
by Ursula K. Le Guin
short_storyThe Wife's Story
by Ursula K. Le Guin
short_storyThe Paper Menagerie
by Ken Liu
short_storyA Worn Path
by Eudora Welty
short_storyWhy I Live at the P.O.
by Eudora Welty
short_storyThe Jilting of Granny Weatherall
by Katherine Anne Porter
short_storyThe Grave
by Katherine Anne Porter
short_storyA Hunger Artist
by Franz Kafka
short_storyThe Judgment
by Franz Kafka
short_storyThe Guest
by Albert Camus
short_storyThe Secret Life of Walter Mitty
by James Thurber
short_storyA Small, Good Thing
by Raymond Carver
short_storyWhere Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
by Joyce Carol Oates
short_storyGirl
by Jamaica Kincaid
short_storyA Temporary Matter
by Jhumpa Lahiri
short_storyA Real Durwan
by Jhumpa Lahiri
poetry_collectionLeaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman
poetry_collectionSongs of Innocence and of Experience
by William Blake
poetry_collectionFour Quartets
by T.S. Eliot
poetry_collectionThe Cantos
by Ezra Pound
poetry_collectionThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson
poetry_collectionThe Collected Poems of Robert Frost
by Robert Frost
poetry_collectionNorth of Boston
by Robert Frost
poetry_collectionThe Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
by Langston Hughes
poetry_collectionThe Weary Blues
by Langston Hughes
poetry_collectionThe Dream Keeper and Other Poems
by Langston Hughes
poetry_collectionAriel
by Sylvia Plath
poetry_collectionThe Colossus
by Sylvia Plath
poetry_collectionThe Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
by W.B. Yeats
poetry_collectionThe Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
by Wallace Stevens
poetry_collectionThe Collected Poems of Elizabeth Bishop
by Elizabeth Bishop
poetry_collectionThe Collected Poems of Marianne Moore
by Marianne Moore
poetry_collectionThe Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
by Audre Lorde
poetry_collectionThe Black Unicorn
by Audre Lorde
poetry_collectionA Street in Bronzeville
by Gwendolyn Brooks
poetry_collectionThe Collected Poems of Gwendolyn Brooks
by Gwendolyn Brooks
poetry_collectionCitizen
by Claudia Rankine
poetry_collectionThe Collected Poems of Seamus Heaney
by Seamus Heaney
poetry_collectionDeath of a Naturalist
by Seamus Heaney
poetry_collectionThe Complete Poems of William Blake
by William Blake
poetry_collectionThe Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe
poetry_collectionThe Collected Poems of Emily Bronte
by Emily Bronte
poetry_collectionThe Complete Poems of Anne Bradstreet
by Anne Bradstreet
poetry_collectionThe Complete Poems of Phillis Wheatley
by Phillis Wheatley
poetry_collectionThe Collected Poems of Carl Sandburg
by Carl Sandburg
poetry_collectionThe Collected Poems of Louise Bogan
by Louise Bogan
poetryThe Waste Land
by T.S. Eliot
poetryThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
by T.S. Eliot
poetryThe Hollow Men
by T.S. Eliot
poetrySong of Myself
by Walt Whitman
poetryO Captain! My Captain!
by Walt Whitman
poetryBecause I could not stop for Death
by Emily Dickinson
poetryHope is the thing with feathers
by Emily Dickinson
poetryI'm Nobody! Who are you?
by Emily Dickinson
poetryThe Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
poetryStopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost
poetryMending Wall
by Robert Frost
poetryBirches
by Robert Frost
poetryFire and Ice
by Robert Frost
poetryNothing Gold Can Stay
by Robert Frost
poetryIf
by Rudyard Kipling
poetryInvictus
by William Ernest Henley
poetryDo Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
by Dylan Thomas
poetryFern Hill
by Dylan Thomas
poetryThe Second Coming
by W.B. Yeats
poetrySailing to Byzantium
by W.B. Yeats
poetryThe Lake Isle of Innisfree
by W.B. Yeats
poetryThe Negro Speaks of Rivers
by Langston Hughes
poetryHarlem
by Langston Hughes
poetryMother to Son
by Langston Hughes
poetryWe Wear the Mask
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
poetryStill I Rise
by Maya Angelou
poetryPhenomenal Woman
by Maya Angelou
poetryThe Fish
by Elizabeth Bishop
poetryOne Art
by Elizabeth Bishop
poetryOde to a Nightingale
by John Keats
poetryOde on a Grecian Urn
by John Keats
poetryOde to the West Wind
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
poetryOzymandias
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
poetryThe Tyger
by William Blake
poetryThe Lamb
by William Blake
poetryA Poison Tree
by William Blake
poetryDulce et Decorum Est
by Wilfred Owen
poetryIn Flanders Fields
by John McCrae
poetrySonnet 18
by William Shakespeare
poetrySonnet 130
by William Shakespeare
short_story_collectionThe Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
by Amy Hempel
short_story_collectionThe Unreal and the Real
by Ursula K. Le Guin
novelMiddlemarch
by George Eliot
short_story_collectionLost in the Funhouse
by John Barth
short_story_collectionThe Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
by Breece D'J Pancake
short_story_collectionWelcome to the Monkey House
by Kurt Vonnegut
short_story_collectionRashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
novellaA Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
short_story_collectionThe Elephant Vanishes
by Haruki Murakami
short_story_collectionThe Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
by Katherine Anne Porter
short_story_collectionThe Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
by Eudora Welty
short_storyThe Overcoat
by Nikolai Gogol
short_storyThe Nose
by Nikolai Gogol
short_storyA Jury of Her Peers
by Susan Glaspell
short_storyThe Garden of Forking Paths
by Jorge Luis Borges
short_storyThe Library of Babel
by Jorge Luis Borges
short_storyThe Aleph
by Jorge Luis Borges
novelNumber the Stars
by Lois Lowry
short_storyThe Cold Equations
by Tom Godwin
short_storyThe Last Question
by Isaac Asimov
poetryThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
poetryShe Walks in Beauty
by Lord Byron
poetryTo a Skylark
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
novelThe Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
novelThe Bean Trees
by Barbara Kingsolver
poetryDover Beach
by Matthew Arnold
poetryThe Darkling Thrush
by Thomas Hardy
poetryThe Charge of the Light Brigade
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
memoirPersepolis
by Marjane Satrapi
memoirMaus
by Art Spiegelman
poetryUlysses
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
novelThe Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
novelThe Once and Future King
by T.H. White
novelThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
poetryThe Lady of Shalott
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
novelThe Dispossessed
by Ursula K. Le Guin
novelThe Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin
poetryKubla Khan
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
poetryAnnabel Lee
by Edgar Allan Poe
poetryThe Bells
by Edgar Allan Poe
memoirThe Color of Water
by James McBride
nonfictionOn Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
by Stephen King
nonfictionLetter from Birmingham Jail
by Martin Luther King Jr.
nonfictionCivil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau
nonfictionWalden
by Henry David Thoreau
nonfictionSelf-Reliance
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
nonfictionCommon Sense
by Thomas Paine
nonfictionThe Federalist Papers
by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
poetryMy Last Duchess
by Robert Browning
poetryPorphyria's Lover
by Robert Browning
