Medieval
1	Gawain Poet	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
2	Pearl Poet	Pearl
3	Chaucer	CT: General Prologue
4	Chaucer	Wife of Bath’s Tale
5	Chaucer	The Miller’s Tale
6	Chaucer	The Knight’s Tale
7	Chaucer	The Pardoner’s Tale
8	Norwich	The Cloud of Unknowing
9	Kempe	The Book of Margery Kempe
10	Langland	Piers Plowman
11	Malory	Le Morte D’Arthur
12	Anon	Everyman
13	Wakefield	Second Shepherd’s Pageant
14	Wakefield	Noah
Early Modern
1	Behn	Oronooko
2	Behn	The Rover
3	Donne	John Donne’s Poetry (Norton Critical)
4	Dryden	MacFlecknoe
5	Dryden	Absalom and Achitophel
6	Dryden	All for Love
7	Jonson	Volpone
8	Johnson	The Alchemist
9	Marlowe	Dr. Faustus
10	Marlowe	Edward II
11	Middleton	The Changeling
12	More	Utopia
13	Milton	Paradise Lost
14	Shakespeare	Othello
15	Shakespeare	Henry IV part One
16	Shakespeare	Henry IV part Two
17	Shakespeare	Twelfth Night
18	Shakespeare	Antony and Cleopatra
19	Shakespeare	The Tempest
20	Shakespeare	Sonnets
21	Sidney	Astrophil and Stella
22	Spenser	The Faerie Queene (Books 1-3)
23	Spenser	Epithalamion
24	Lanyer	The Description of Cooke-Ham
25	Jonson	To Penthurst
26	Marvelle	Upon Appleton House
Eighteenth Century
1	Defoe	Robinson Crusoe
2	Fielding	Tom Jones
3	Pope	Rape of the Lock
4	Pope	Dunciad (Book Four)
5	Pope	Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
6	Sterne	Tristram Shandy
7	Swift	Gulliver’s Travels
8	Goldsmith	The Deserted Village
9	Gray	Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
10	Johnson	The Vanity of Human Wishes
Nineteenth Century
1	Austen	Mansfield Park
2	Austen	Northhanger Abbey
3	Byron	Vision of Judgment
4	Shelley	Ode to the West Wind
5	Shelley	Adonais
6	Keats	Odes
7	Fenimore Cooper	Last of the Mohicans
8	Dickens	Bleak House
9	Dickinson	Poems
10	Douglass	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
11	Jacobs	Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
12	Eliot	Middlemarch
13	Hardy	Tess of the D’urbervilles
14	James	Portrait of a Lady
15	Melville	Moby Dick
16	Shaw	Heartbreak House
17	Wilde	The Importance of Being Earnest
18	Stowe	Uncle Tom’s Cabin
19	Tennyson	In Memoriam
20	Whitman	Leaves of Grass
21	Wordsworth and Coleridge	Lyrical Ballads
Twentieth Century
1	Auden	Poems
2	Beckett	Endgame
3	Beckett	Waiting for Godot
4	Bellow	Humboldt’s Gift
5	Eliot	Complete Poems
6	Eliot	Tradition and the Individual Talent
7	Eliot	The Metaphysical Poets
8	Elison	The Invisible Man
9	Faulkner	Absalom, Absalom!
10	Howels	Indian Summer
11	Hughes	Poems
12	Hughes	The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
13	Hurston	Their Eyes were Watching God
14	Joyce	Ulysses
15	Kingston	China Men
16	Kingston	The Woman Warrior
17	Lawrence	Women in Love
18	Miller	Death of a Salesman
19	O’Neill	Long Day’s Journey into Night
20	Williams	Streetcar Named Desire
21	Morrison	Beloved
22	Nabakov	Lolita
23	Pynchon	Crying of Lot 49
24	DeLillo	White Noise
25	Rushdie	Midnight’s Children
26	Stevens	Palm at the End of the Mind
27	Stoppard	Travesties
28	Churchill	Cloud Nine
29	Woolf	Mrs. Dalloway
30	Woolf	To the Lighthouse
31	Yeats	Collected Poems