British
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility
- Charles Dickens, Hard Times; Great Expectations
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
- Lawrence Sterne, Tristram Shandy
- Johnathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
- Virginia Wolf, Mrs. Dalloway
French
- Gustav Flaubert, Madame Bovary
- Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Marcel Proust, Swan’s Way
- Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
Russian
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov; Notes from Underground
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago; One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
- Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace; Anna Karenina
- Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
German
- Erich Auerbach, Mimesis
- Franz Kafka, The Castle; The Trial
- Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
- W.G. Sebald, Vertigo
American
- Stephen Crane, The Blue Hotel
- Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man
- William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying; Absalom; Absalom!
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
- Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man And The Sea
- Herman Melville, Moby Dick; Benito Cereno
- Tony Morrison, Beloved
- John Steinbeck, Cannery Row; Of Mice and Men
- Nathaniel West, The Day Of The Locust
Spanish
- L. Borges, Collected Fictions
- Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote
- Carlos Fuentes, Terra Nostra; The Old Gringo
- Gabriel Marquez, 100 Years Of Solitude
Irish
- James Joyce, Ulysses; Portrait of an Artist
- Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes
Tragedy
- Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
- Euripides, The Bacchae
- Sophocles, Oedipus Rex; Antigone
- Shakespeare, Halmet; Julius Caesar
Comedy
- Aristophanes, The Clouds; The Birds; The Frogs; Lysistrata
- Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Tempest
- Moliere, Tartuffe; The Misanthrope
Contemporary
- Samuel Beckett, End Game; Waiting for Godot
- Bertolt Brecht, Three Penny Opera
- Anton Chekov, The Sisters; The Cherry Orchard
- Henrik Ibsen, The Doll’s House; The Wild Duck
- Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman; The Crucible
- Eugene O’Niell, The Iceman Cometh; A Long Days Journey Into Night
- George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
- Sam Shepard, True West
- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
- Tenesee Williams, Streetcar Named Desire; The Glass Menagerie
