Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart

Aeschylus. Oresteia

Akhmatova, Anna. Her poetry

Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing; The Handmaid's Tale; Oryx and Crake, her poetry

St. Augustine. Confessions

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice; Emma

Auster, Paul. The Music of Chance

Barrett Browning, Elizabeth. Her poetry

Baudelaire, Charles. The Flowers of Evil

Bely, Andrei. Petersburg

Beowulf (Frederick Rebsamen's translation preferred)

Blake, William. Songs of Innocence; Songs of Experience

Brandt, Di. Questions I Asked My Mother

Breytenbach, Breyten. Mouroir: Mirrornotes of a Novel

Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre

Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights

Browning, Robert. his poetry, especially "A Death in the Desert"

Bulgakov, Mikhail. The Master and Margarita

Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim's Progress; Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

Byron, George Gordon. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Carlyle, Thomas. Sartor Resartus

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales

Chekhov, Anton. his short stories

Chopin, Kate. The Awakening

Coetzee, J.M. Foe

Coleridge, Samuel T. his poetry

Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness

Cooper, James Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans

Coupland, Douglas. Generation X: tales for an accelerated culture; Life after God

Dante, Alighieri. The Divine Comedy

Davies, Robertson. Fifth Business

Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe; Moll Flanders; Roxana

Dickens, Charles. Bleak House; David Copperfield; Oliver Twist; Little Dorrit

Döblin, Alfred. Berlin Alexanderplatz

Donne, John. his sonnets

Dostoevsky, F.M. Notes from Underground; Crime and Punishment; The Brothers Karamazov; The Idiot

Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Duras, Marguerite. The Lover

Eliot, George. Middlemarch; The Mill on the Floss; Adam Bede

Eliot, T.S. The Waste Land; The Four Quartets and other poetry

Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Complete Works

Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury; As I Lay Dying; Go Down Moses

Fielding, Henry. Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones

Findley, Timothy. Not Wanted on the Voyage; The Wars; Pilgrim

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby

Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary

Fontane, Theodor. Effie Briest

Ford, Ford Madox. The Good Soldier

Forster, E.M. Howards End

Friesen, Patrick. The Shunning; You Don't Get to Be a Saint

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust

Grass, Günter. The Tin Drum

Handke, Peter. his poetry

Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D'Urbervilles; Jude the Obscure; his poetry

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter

Head, Bessie. A Question of Power

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle). her poetry, especially Trilogy

Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms; The Sun Also Rises; his short stories

Hesse, Hermann. Steppenwolf; Siddhartha

Hollingshead, Greg. The Roaring Girl

Homer. The Iliad; The Odyssey

Huysmans, Joris-Karl. Against the Grain (Against Nature)

Irving, John. The Cider House Rules; A Prayer for Owen Meaney

Ishuguro, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day; The Unconsoled

James, Henry. Portrait of a Lady; The Ambassadors; The Turn of the Screw

Jennings, William Dale. The Ronin

Joyce, James. Dubliners; Ulysses; Finnegans Wake

Kafka, Franz. The Trial; The Metamorphosis

Kawabata, Yasunari. Snow Country

Keats, John. his poetry

Kennedy, William. Ironweed

Kerouac, Jack. On the Road

King, Stephen. The Shining; Carrie

Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Lampman, Archibald. his poetry

Laurence, Margaret. The Stone Angel; The Diviners

Lawrence, D.H. Sons and Lovers; Women in Love; Lady Chatterley's Lover; The Rainbow

Lewis, C.S. Surprised by Joy; The Great Divorce

McKay, Don. Birding, or Desire; his poetry

Machiavelli, Niccolò. The Prince

Mann, Thomas. Death in Venice; The Magic Mountain

Mansfield, Katherine. Bliss, and Other Stories

Marlowe, Christopher. Dr Faustus

Martel, Yann. Life of Pi

Mayakovsky, Vladimir. A Cloud in Trousers

Melville, Herman. Moby Dick, or, the Whale

Miller, Arthur. The Crucible

Milton, John. Paradise Lost; Samson Agonistes and his sonnets

More, Thomas. Utopia

Morrison, Toni. Beloved

Munro, Alice. Lives of Girls and Women; Who Do You Think You Are; The Progress of Love

O'Connor, Flannery. her short stories

Orwell, George. 1984; Why I Write; "Shooting an Elephant"

Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago

Petrarch, Francesco. Canzoniere

Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar

Poe, Edgar Allan. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque; The Raven and Other Poems

Potok, Chaim. My Name is Asher Lev; Tbe Chosen

Pound, Ezra. Cantos

Proulx, E. Annie. The Shipping News

Proust, Marcel. Remembrance of Things Past

Purdy, Al. The Cariboo Horses and other poetry

Pushkin, A.S. Eugene Onegin

Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Duino Elegies

Rimbaud, Arthur. his poetry

Rossetti, Christina. her poetry

Roy, Gabrielle. The Tin Flute

Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye

Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe; Waverley

Shakespeare, William. his plays and sonnets

Shelley, Persy Bysshe. Prometheus Unbound

Shields, Carol. A Celibate Season; The Stone Diaries; Unless

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Sophocles. Oedipus Rex

Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath

Sterne, Lawrence. Tristram Shandy

Stoker, Bram. Dracula

Stevens, Wallace. Collected Poems

Suknaski, Andrew. Wood Mountain Poems

Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels

Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair

Thoreau, Henry. Walden, or Life in the Woods

Tolkien J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings

Tolstoy, Count L.N. Anna Karenina; War and Peace; The Kreutzer Sonata

Trollope, Anthony. Barchester Towers; The Way We Live Now

Turgenev, Ivan. Rudin; Fathers and Sons

Updike, John. Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit at Rest

Vanderhaeghe, Guy. Man Descending; The Englishman's Boy

Verlaine, Paul. Sagesse

Villon, François. Le Lais; Le Testament

Virgil. The Aeneid

Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. Breakfast of Champions

Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence; The House of Mirth; Ethan Frome

Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass

Wiebe, Rudy. My Lovely Enemy; The Scorched-Wood People; A Discovery of Strangers

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray; De Profundis; Salomé; The Happy Prince and Other Tales

Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse; Orlando; A Room of One's Own

Yeats, William Butler. Collected Poems

Zamyatin, Eugene. We