101 masterpieces of literature in English
- Beowulf (anon, abt. 8th century)
- Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales (bef. 1400)
- Christopher Marlowe - Doctor Faustus (abt.1589)
- Edmund Spenser - The Faerie Queene (1590)
- Philip Sidney - Astrophil and Stella (bef. 1591)
- William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream (abt. 1596)
- William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet (abt. 1597)
- William Shakespeare - Hamlet (abt. 1602)
- William Shakespeare - Othello (abt. 1604)
- Ben Jonson - Volpone (1605)
- Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan (1651)
- Samuel Pepys - The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1660-1669)
- John Milton - Paradise Lost (1667)
- John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress (1678)
- Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe (1719)
- Daniel Defoe - Moll Flanders (1722)
- Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels (1726)
- Alexander Pope - Essay on Man (1734)
- Laurence Sterne - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy,
Gentleman (1759-1767)
- Oliver Goldsmith - The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)
- Laurence Sterne - A Sentimental Journey Through France and
Italy (1768)
- William Blake - Songs of Innocence and of Experience
(1789-1794)
- William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Lyrical
Ballads (1798)
- Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility (1811)
- Lord Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-1818)
- Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Mary Shelley - Frankenstein (1818)
- James Fenimore Cooper - The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
- Edgar Allan Poe - The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)
- Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre (1847)
- Emily Brontë - Wuthering heights (1847)
- William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair (1848)
- Herman Melville - Moby-Dick (1851)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
- Anthony Trollope - Barchester Towers (1857)
- Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
- Edward FitzGerald - The Rubáiyát of Omar
Khayyám (1859)
- Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White (1860)
- Charles Dickens - Great Expectations (1860-1861)
- George Eliot - Silas Marner (1861)
- Anthony Trollope - Framley Parsonage (1861)
- Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
- George Eliot - Middlemarch (1871-1872)
- Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
- Thomas Hardy - The Return of the Native (1878)
- Henry James - Daisy Miller (1878)
- Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island (1883)
- Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
- Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)
- Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde (1886)
- Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
- Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)
- Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
- Bram Stoker - Dracula (1897)
- Oscar Wilde - The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
- Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness (1899)
- Rudyard Kipling - Kim (1901)
- Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
- Henry James - The Ambassadors (1903)
- J.M. Barrie - Peter Pan (1904)
- E. M. Forster - Howards End (1910)
- G.K. Chesterton - The Innocence Of Father Brown (1911)
- George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion (1912)
- James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
- Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence (1920)
- T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land (1922)
- James Joyce - Ulysses (1922)
- E. M. Forster - A Passage to India (1924)
- Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby (1925)
- A. A. Milne - Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)
- D.H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)
- Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own (1929)
- Aldous Huxley - Brave New World (1932)
- Robert Graves - I, Claudius (1934)
- Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer (1934)
- William Faulkner - Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
- J. R. R. Tolkien - The Hobbit or There and Back Again (1937)
- Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
- John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
- George Orwell - Animal Farm (1945)
- Alan Paton - Cry, The Beloved Country (1948)
- Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman (1949)
- George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
- Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
- Saul Bellow - The Adventures of Augie March (1953)
- Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot (1954)
- William Golding - Lord of the Flies (1954)
- J. R. R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955)
- Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita (1955)
- Jack Kerouac - On the Road (1957)
- Harper Lee- To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
- Joseph Heller - Catch-22 (1961)
- Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar (1963)
- Truman Capote - In Cold Blood (1965)
- Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
- Charles Bukowski - Post Office (1971)
- Raymond Carver - Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976)
- Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
(1979-1992)
- Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
- Vikram Seth - A Suitable Boy (1993)
