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There are 546 books in the list below. My goal is to read 500; the other 46 will account for books I have already read and do not feel the need to read again and, of course, some much-needed wiggle room for this ambitious project.

At an average rate of one book per month, it will take me approximately 45 years to complete this! As I finish each book, I will move it to a list directly below for easy visual comparison.

This list was compiled by Project Gutenberg Australia, and many of these texts can be found online for free at www.gutenberg.org.

Henry Adams (1838-1918) The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
Aeschylus (525bc-456bc) Oresteia (-458)
Aeschylus (525bc-456bc) Prometheus Bound (-460)
Aesop (c620bc-560bc) Aesop’s Fables (1475)
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) Little Women (1868)
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) The Divine Comedy (1320)
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) Winesburg, Ohio (1919)
Anonymous (-) The Thousand and One nights (850)
Lucius Apuleius (c123-170) The Golden Ass (1469)
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) Summa Theologica (1265)
Aristophanes (c446bc-c385bc) Lysistrata (-411)
Aristophanes (c446bc-c385bc) The Birds (-414)
Aristotle (384bc-322bc) Ethica Nicomachea (-384)
Aristotle (384bc-322bc) The Poetics (-334)
Saint Augustine (354-430) Confessions (400)
Jane Austen (1775-1817) Emma (1816)
Jane Austen (1775-1817) Mansfield Park (1814)
Jane Austen (1775-1817) Northanger Abbey (1818)
Jane Austen (1775-1817) Persuasion (1818)
Jane Austen (1775-1817) Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Jane Austen (1775-1817) Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Various Authors (-) The Bible (-2000)
Henri Barbusse (1873-1935) The Inferno (1908)
Henri Barbusse (1873-1935) Under Fire (1916)
James M Barrie (1860-1937) Peter Pan (1904)
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) The Flowers of Evil (1847)
William Beckford (1760-1844) Vathek (1786)
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) Oroonoko (1688)
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) The Old Wives’ Tale (1908)
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1891)
William Blake (1757-1827) Songs of Innocence and Experience (1789)
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) The Decameron (1353)
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480-c524) The Consolation of Philosophy (523)
James Boswell (1740-1795) Boswell’s London Journal: 1762-1763 (1762)
James Boswell (1740-1795) The Life of Samuel Johnson, LLD (191)
Anne Brontë (1820-1849) Agnes Grey (1847)
Anne Brontë (1820-1849) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) Jane Eyre (1847)
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) Shirley (1849)
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) Villette (1853)
Emily Brontë (1818-1848) Wuthering Heights (1847)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
Robert Browning (1812-1889) The Ring and the Book (1868)
John Buchan (1875-1940) The Thirty-Nine Steps (1913)
John Bunyan (1647-1688) The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678)
Fanny Burney (1752-1840) Camilla (1796)
Fanny Burney (1752-1840) Cecilia (1782)
Fanny Burney (1752-1840) Evelina (1778)
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) Tarzan of the Apes (1914)
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) Erewhon (1872)
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) The Way of All Flesh (1903)
Lord Byron (1788-1824) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812)
Lord Byron (1788-1824) Don Juan (1819)
Lord Byron (1788-1824) Manfred (1817)
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871)
Willa Cather (1873-1947) Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
Willa Cather (1873-1947) My Antonia (1918)
Willa Cather (1873-1947) O Pioneers! (1913)
Willa Cather (1873-1947) Paul’s Case (1905)
Willa Cather (1873-1947) The Professor’s House (1925)
Chariton (c50-) Chaireas and Kallirhoe (1750)
Geoffrey Chaucer (c1343-1400) The Canterbury Tales (1380)
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) The Kiss (1887)
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) The Seagull (1896)
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) The Three Sisters (1901)
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) Uncle Vanya (1899)
Robert Erskine Childers (1870-1922) The Riddle of the Sands (1903)
Kate Chopin (1851-1904) The Awakening (1899)
John Cleland (1709-1789) Fanny Hill (1749)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) Biographia Literaria (1817)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) Kubla Khan (1816)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798)
Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) The Moonstone (1868)
Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) The Woman in White (1860)
Comte de Lautréamont (1846-1870) Maldoror (1868)
William Congreve (1670-1729) The Way of the World (1700)
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Heart of Darkness (1902)
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Lord Jim (1900)
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Nostromo (1904)
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) The Secret Agent (1906)
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) The Secret Sharer (1912)
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) The Shadow Line (1917)
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) The Deerslayer (1841)
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) The Cid (El Cid) (1636)
Stephen Crane (1871-1900) Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893)
Stephen Crane (1871-1900) The Blue Hotel (1898)
Stephen Crane (1871-1900) The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky (1898)
Stephen Crane (1871-1900) The Open Boat (1898)
Stephen Crane (1871-1900) The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
Richard Henry Dana (1815-1882) Two Years Before the Mast (1840)
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871)
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) Eugénie Grandet (1834)
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) Le Père Goriot (Father Goriot) (1834)
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) Lost Illusions (1843)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605)
Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681) Life Is a Dream (1635)
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741-1803) Dangerous Liaisons (1782)
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) A Woman’s Life (1883)
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) Bel-Ami (1885)
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) Pierre and Jean (1888)
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) Essays (1580)
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) Democracy in America (1835)
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) Moll Flanders (1722)
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) Robinsoe Crusoe (1719)
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) Roxana (1724)
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) A Christmas Carol (1843)
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Bleak House (1852)
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) David Copperfield (1850)
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Great Expectations (1861)
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Hard Times (1854)
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Martin Chuzzlewit (1844)
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Nicholas Nickleby (1839)
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Oliver Twist (1838)
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Our Mutual Friend (1865)
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Pickwick Papers (1836)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Poetry of Emily Dickinson (1890)
Denis Diderot (1713-1784) Jacques the Fatalist (1796)
Denis Diderot (1713-1784) Rameau’s Nephew (1805)
Denis Diderot (1713-1784) The Nun (1796)
John Donne (1572-1631) A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning (1633)
Fyodor Dostoevski (1821-1881) The Possessed (1871)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) Crime and Punishment (1866)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) Notes from the Underground (1864)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) The Devils (1872)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) The Idiot (1868)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) An American Tragedy (1903)
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) Sister Carrie (1900)
John Dryden (1631-1700) Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) Le Reine Margot (1845)
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) The Count of Monte-Cristo (1845)
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) The Three Musketeers (1844)
Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849) Castle Rackrent (1800)
Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849) Ormond (1817)
Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849) The Absentee (1812)
George Eliot (1819-1880) Adam Bede (1859)
George Eliot (1819-1880) Daniel Deronda (1876)
George Eliot (1819-1880) Middlemarch (1871)
George Eliot (1819-1880) Silas Marner (1861)
George Eliot (1819-1880) The Mill on the Floss (1860)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Representative Men (1850)
Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797) The Interesting Narrative (1794)
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) The Praise of Folly (1511)
Euripides (480bc-406bc) Andromache (-426)
Euripides (480bc-406bc) Electra (-413)
Euripides (480bc-406bc) Hippolytus (-428)
Euripides (480bc-406bc) The Bacchae (-405)
Euripides (480bc-406bc) The Trojan Women (-415)
Henry Fielding (1707-1754) Amelia (1751)
Henry Fielding (1707-1754) Joseph Andrews (1742)
Henry Fielding (1707-1754) Tom Jones (1749)
Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859)
F Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) Tender is the Night (1934)
F Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) The Great Gatsby (1925)
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) A Sentimental Education (1869)
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) A Simple Heart (a.k.a. A Simple Soul) (1877)
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) Bouvard and Pécuchet (1881)
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) Madame Bovary (1857)
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) The Temptation of saint Anthony (1874)
Theodor Fontane (1819-1898) Effi Briest (1895)
Theodor Fontane (1819-1898) The Stechlin (1899)
Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) Parade’s End (1928)
Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) The Good Soldier (1915)
Anne Frank (1929-1945) The Diary of Anne Frank (1952)
Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) Fortunata and Jacinta (1887)
John Galsworthy (1867-1933) The Forsyte Saga (1906)
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) Cranford (1853)
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) Mary Barton (1848)
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) North and South (1855)
John Gay (1685-1732) The Beggar’s Opera (1728)
Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1901-1935) A Scot’s Quair (Sunset Song) (1932)
André Gide (1869-1951) Fruits of the Earth (1897)
André Gide (1869-1951) Strait is the Gate (1909)
André Gide (1869-1951) The Counterfeiters (1925)
André Gide (1869-1951) The Immoralist (1902)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)
George Gissing (1857-1903) Born in Exile (1892)
George Gissing (1857-1903) New Grub Street (1891)
Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945) Barren Ground (1925)
William Godwin (1756-1836) The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794)
Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) Dead Souls (1842)
Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) The Diary of a Madman (1835)
Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) The Nose (1836)
Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) The Overcoat (1842)
Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) She Stoops to Conquer (1773)
Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)
Ivan Goncharov (1812-1891) Oblomovka (1859)
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) Mother (1907)
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) The Artamonov Business (1925)
Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) The Wind in the Willows (1908)
George and Weedon Grossmith (1847/1852-1912/1919) Diary of a Nobody (1892)
H Rider Haggard (1856-1925) King Solomon’s Mines (1885)
H Rider Haggard (1856-1925) She (1887)
Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943) The Well of Loneliness (1928)
Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) Growth of the Soil (1917)
Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) Hunger (1890)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Jude the Obscure (1895)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Tess of the D’Ubervilles (1891)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) The Hand of Ethelberta (1876)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) The Return of the Native (1878)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) The Woodlanders (1887)
Bret Harte (1836-1902) The Luck of Roaring Camp (1870)
Bret Harte (1836-1902) The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1869)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) The Blithedale Romance (1852)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) The House of Seven Gables (1851)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) The Marble Faun (1860)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) The Scarlet Letter (1850)
Eliza Haywood (1693-1756) Love in Excess (1719)
Heliodorus (c3rdcentury-) Aethiopika (1534)
O Henry (1862-1910) The Gift of the Magi (1906)
William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) The House on the Borderland (1908)
James Hogg (1770-1835) The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824)
Friedrich Holderlin (1779-1843) Hyperion (1797)
Homer (c700bc-) The Iliad (-500)
Homer (c700bc-) The Odyssey (-800)
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885)
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Les Misérables (1862)
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831)
Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907) Against the Grain (1884)
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) A Doll’s House (1879)
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) An Enemy of the People (1883)
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) Ghosts (1881)
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) Hedda Gabler (1890)
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) Peer Gynt (1867)
Washington Irving (1783-1859) Rip Van Winkle (1819)
Washington Irving (1783-1859) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820)
Henry James (1843-1916) Daisy Miller (1878)
Henry James (1843-1916) The Ambassadors (1903)
Henry James (1843-1916) The Bostonians (1886)
Henry James (1843-1916) The Golden Bowl (1904)
Henry James (1843-1916) The Portrait of a Lady (1881)
Henry James (1843-1916) The Turn of the Screw (1898)
Henry James (1843-1916) The Wings of the Dove (1902)
Henry James (1843-1916) Washington Square (1861)
Henry James (1843-1916) What Maisie Knew (1897)
William James (1842-1910) Pragmatism (1907)
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Lives of the Poets (1779)
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Rasselas (1759)
Ben Jonson (1572-1637) Bartholomew Fair (1614)
Ben Jonson (1572-1637) The Alchemist (1610)
Ben Jonson (1572-1637) Volpone (1605)
James Joyce (1882-1941) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
James Joyce (1882-1941) Dubliners (1914)
James Joyce (1882-1941) Finnegan’s Wake (1939)
James Joyce (1882-1941) Ulysses (1922)
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Amerika (1927)
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Metamorphosis (1915)
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) The Castle (1926)
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) The Trial (1925)
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) Critique of Pure Reason (1781)
John Keats (1795-1821) Hyperion (1856)
John Keats (1795-1821) Ode on a Grecian Urn (1820)
John Keats (1795-1821) Ode to a Nightingale (1819)
John Keats (1795-1821) The Eve of St Agnes (1820)
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Fear and Trembling (1843)
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) The Sickness unto Death (1849)
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) The Water Babies (1863)
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) Captains Courageous (1897)
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) Kim (1901)
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) The Jungle Books (2 titles) (1894)
Karl Kraus (1874-1936) The Last Days of Humanity (1922)
Thomas Kyd (1558-1594) The Spanish Tragedy (1586)
Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940) Gösta Berlin’s Saga (1891)
Lao-tzu (Laozi) (c600bc-) Tao Te Ching (-300)
D H Lawrence (1885-1930) Aaron’s Rod (1922)
D H Lawrence (1885-1930) Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928)
D H Lawrence (1885-1930) Sons and Lovers (1913)
D H Lawrence (1885-1930) The Fox (1922)
D H Lawrence (1885-1930) The Plumed Serpent (1926)
D H Lawrence (1885-1930) The Prussian Officer (1914)
D H Lawrence (1885-1930) The Rainbow (1915)
D H Lawrence (1885-1930) The Rocking-Horse Winner (1933)
D H Lawrence (1885-1930) Women in Love (1920)
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) In a Glass Darkly (5 stories) (1872)
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) Uncle Silas (1864)
Charlotte Lennox (1727-1804) The Female Quixote (or, The Adventures of Arabella) (1752)
Nicolai Leskov (1831-1895) The Enchanted Wanderer (1873)
M G Lewis (1755-1818) The Monk (1796)
Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) Arrowsmith (1925)
Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) Babbitt (1922)
Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) Main Street (1920)
Jack London (1876-1916) Martin Eden (1909)
Jack London (1876-1916) The Call of the Wild (1903)
Jack London (1876-1916) The Iron Heel (1908)
Jack London (1876-1916) The Sea Wolf (1904)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) The Song of Hiawatha (1855)
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) In Memoriam (1850)
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) The Idylls of the King (1859)
H P Lovecraft (1890-1937) At the Mountains of Madness (1936)
Lucretius (c94bc-c49bc) On the Nature of Things (-55)
John Lyly (1553-1606) Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) The Prince (1532)
Henry Mackenzie (1745-1831) The Man of Feeling (1771)
Ian Macpherson (1905-1944) Wild Harbour (1936)
Sir Thomas Malory (1405-1471) Le Morte d’Arthur (1485)
Frederic Manning (1882-1935) Her Privates We (1930)
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) The Garden Party (1922)
Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873) The Betrothed (1827)
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) Doctor Faustus (1588)
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) Tamburlaine the Great (1587)
Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) Justine (1791)
Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) The 120 Days of Sodom (1785)
Charles Robert Maturin (1782-1824) Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)
Charles Robert Maturin (1782-1824) The Albigenses (1824)
Herman Melville (1819-1891) Bartleby the Scrivener (1853)
Herman Melville (1819-1891) Billy Budd, Foretopman (1924)
Herman Melville (1819-1891) Moby Dick (1851)
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) On Liberty (1859)
John Milton (1608-1674) Areopagitica (1644)
John Milton (1608-1674) Paradise Lost (1667)
John Milton (1608-1674) Paradise Regained (1671)
John Milton (1608-1674) Samson Agonistes (1671)
Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949) Gone With the Wind (1936)
Molière (1622-1673) The Misanthrope (1666)
Mollère (1622-1673) Tartuffe (1669)
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) Utopia (1516)
William Morris (1834-1896) News from Nowhere (1891)
Multatuli (1820-1887) Max Havelaar (1860)
Robert Musil (1880-1942) The Man Without Qualities (1933)
Robert Musil (1880-1942) Young Törless (1906)
Thomas Nashe (1567-1601) The Unfortunate Traveller (1594)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883)
Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953) Anna Christie (1921)
Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953) Desire Under the Elms (1924)
Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953) Strange Interlude (1928)
Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953) The Iceman Cometh (1946)
George Orwell (1903-1950) Animal Farm (1945)
George Orwell (1903-1950) Burmese Days (1934)
George Orwell (1903-1950) Coming Up for Air (1939)
George Orwell (1903-1950) Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)
George Orwell (1903-1950) Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
Ovid (43bc-17) Metamorhoses (8)
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) Rights of Man (1791)
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) Pensees (1670)
Walter Pater (1839-1894) Marius the Epicurean (1885)
Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne (1634-1693) The Princess of Cleves (1678)
Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) One, None and a Hundred Thousand (1926)
Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921)
Plato (c427bc-c347bc) The Dialogues of Plato (-387)
Plato (c427bc-c347bc) The Republic (-400)
Plutarch (46-127) The Lives of the Noble Romans (100)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Ligeia (1840)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) The Cask of Amontillado (1846)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) The Masque of the Red Death (1842)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1845)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) The Pit and the Pendulum (1843)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) The Purloined Letter (1844)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Essay on Man (1733)
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) The Dunciad (1728)
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) The Rape of the Lock (1712)
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) Remembrance of Things Past (1913)
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) Eugene Onegin (1833)
Francois Rabelais (c1494-1553) Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Jean Racine (1639-1699) Andromache (1667)
Jean Racine (1639-1699) Phedra (Phaedra, Phedre) (1677)
Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)
Raymond Radiguet (1903-1923) The Devil in the Flesh (1923)
John Reed (1887-1920) Ten Days That Shook the World (1919)
Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) Clarissa (1749)
Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) Pamela (1742)
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Sonnets to Orpheus (1923)
Frederick Rolfe (1860-1913) Hadrian the Seventh (1904)
Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) Cyrano de Bergerac (1897)
Joseph Roth (1894-1939) The Radetzky March (1932)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Confessions (1782)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Emile; or, On Education (1762)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Julie; or the New Eloise (1760)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Reveries of a Solitary Walker (1782)
Raymond Roussel (1877-1933) Impressions of Africa (1910)
Raymond Roussel (1877-1933) Locus Solus (1914)
Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927) Rashomon (1915)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) The little Prince (1943)
Saki (1870-1916) The Open Window (1914)
Sappho (c620bc-c570bc) Ode to Aphrodite (-600)
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Ivanhoe (1820)
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Rob Roy (1817)
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) The Monastery (1820)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1595)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) All’s Well That Ends Well (1602)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Antony and Cleopatra (1606)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) As You Like It (1600)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1602)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Henry the Fifth (1600)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Henry the Fourth, Part One (1596)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Henry the Fourth, Part Two (1597)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Julius Caesar (1601)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) King Lear (1605)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Macbeth (1606)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Measure for Measure (1603)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Much Ado About Nothing (1598)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Othello (1604)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Richard the Second (1595)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Richard the Third (1593)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Romeo and Juliet (1595)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Sonnets (1609)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) The Comedy of Errors (1592)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) The Merchant of Venice (1596)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) The Taming of the Shrew (1593)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) The Tempest (1610)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) The Winter’s Tale (1611)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Twelfth Night (1600)
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Candida (1897)
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Major Barbara (1905)
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Man and Superman (1905)
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Pygmalion (1913)
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Saint Joan (1923)
Mary Shelley (1797-1851) Frankenstein (1818)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Adonais (1821)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Ozymandias (1819)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Prometheus Unbound (1820)
Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) Quo Vadis (1896)
May Sinclair (1862-1946) Life and Death of Harriett Frean (1922)
Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771) Humphrey Clinker (1771)
Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771) Peregrine Pickle (1751)
Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771) Roderick Random (1749)
Somerville/Ross (1858/1862-1949/1915) Some Experiences of an Irish R M (1899)
Somerville/Ross (1858/1862-1949/1915) The Real Charlotte (1894)
Sophocles (497bc-406bc) Antigone (-441)
Sophocles (497bc-406bc) Oedipus at Colonus (-401)
Sophocles (497bc-406bc) Oedipus Tyrannus (-429)
Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) Kokoro (1914)
Edmund Spenser (c1552-1599) The Faerie Queene (1590)
Benedictus de Spinoza (1633-1677) Ethics (1677)
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas (1933)
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) The Making of Americans (1925)
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) Three Lives (1909)
Stendahl (1783-1842) The Charterhouse of Parma (1839)
Stendahl (1783-1842) The Red and the Black (1831)
James Stephens (1880-1950) The Charwoman’s Daughter (1912)
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) A Sentimental Journey (1768)
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) Tristram Shandy (1759)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Kidnapped (1886)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) The Master of Ballantrae (1889)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) The Strange Case of Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Treasure Island (1883)
Bram Stoker (1847-1912) Dracula (1897)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
August Strindberg (1849-1912) By the Open Sea (1890)
August Strindberg (1849-1912) Miss Julie (1888)
August Strindberg (1849-1912) The People of Hemsö (1887)
August Strindberg (1849-1912) The Red Room (1879)
Italo Svevo (1861-1928) Zeno’s Conscience (1923)
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) A Modest Proposal (1729)
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) A Tale of a Tub (1704)
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
John Millington Synge (1871-1909) The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) Vanity Fair (1847)
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) Under Milk Wood (1954)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Civil Disobedience (1849)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Walden (1854)
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1884)
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Anna Karenina (1875)
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) The Kreutzer Sonata (1890)
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) War and Peace (1865)
Robert Tressell (1870-1911) The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist (1914)
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) Barchester Towers (1857)
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) Castle Richmond (1860)
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) He Knew He Was Right (1869)
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) Phineas Finn (1869)
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867)
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) Fathers and Sons (1862)
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) King Lear of the Steppes (1870)
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) On the Eve (1860)
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) The Torrents of Spring (1872)
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) Virgin Soil (1877)
Mark Twain (1835-1910) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889)
Mark Twain (1835-1910) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
Mark Twain (1835-1910) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
Mark Twain (1835-1910) The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1867)
Mark Twain (1835-1910) The Prince and the Pauper (1882)
Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) Kristin Lavransdatter (1922)
Unknown (-) Beowulf (700)
Unknown (-) Everyman (1508)
Unknown (-) Pearl (1375)
Unknown (-) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1300)
Unknown (-) The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments (1400)
Unknown (-) The Epic of Gilgamesh (-2000)
Unknown (-) The Seafarer (970)
Unknown (-) The Wanderer (900)
Various (-) Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus (1714)
Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) The House by the Medlar Tree (1881)
Jules Verne (1828-1905) Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)
Jules Verne (1828-1905) Journey to the Center of the Earth (1866)
Jules Verne (1828-1905) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870)
Virgil (70bc-19bc) The Aeneid (-19)
Voltaire (1694-1778) Candide (1759)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Elective Affinities (1809)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Faust (1790)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (1795)
Lew Wallace (1827-1905) Ben-Hur (1880)
Horace Walpole (1717-1797) The Castle of Otranto (1765)
H G Wells (1866-1946) The Invisible Man (1897)
H G Wells (1866-1946) The Island of Dr Moreau (1896)
H G Wells (1866-1946) The Time Machine (1895)
H G Wells (1866-1946) The War of the Worlds (1898)
H G Wells (1866-1946) Tono-Bungay (1908)
Nathanael West (1903-1940) Miss Lonelyhearts (1933)
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Bunner Sisters (1916)
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Ethan Frome (1911)
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Summer (1917)
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) The Age of Innocence (1920)
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) The Glimpses of the Moon (1922)
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) The House of Mirth (1905)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Leaves of Grass (1855)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) Look Homeward Angel (1929)
Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) You Can’t Go Home Again (1940)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Between the Acts (1941)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Jacob’s Room (1922)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Mrs Dalloway (1925)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Night and Day (1941)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Orlando (1928)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) The Voyage Out (1915)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) The Waves (1931)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) The Years (1937)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) To the Lighthouse (1927)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Lines: Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey (1798)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (1807)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) The Prelude (1850)
William Wycherley (c1640-1716) The Country Wife (1673)
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Easter 1916 (1916)
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Leda and the Swan (1923)
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Sailing to Byzantium (1928)
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) The Wild Swans at Coole (1917)
Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937) We (1924)
Émile Zola (1840-1902) Drunkard (1877)
Émile Zola (1840-1902) Germinal (1885)
Émile Zola (1840-1902) La Bête Humaine (1890)
Émile Zola (1840-1902) Nana (1880)
Émile Zola (1840-1902) Thérèse Raquin (1867)
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) Amok (1922)