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- Bernard Malamud
- The Natural, The First Seven Years, The Fixer
- Mary Anne Evans (George Eliot)
- Middlemarch, Silas Marner, Adam Bede, Mill on the Floss
- Herman Melville
- Moby Dick, Billy Budd, Typee
- Franz Kafka
- The Metamorphosis, The Trial, The Castle
- Rudyard Kipling
- The Jungle Book
- William Shakespeare
- 1564-1616 Greatest playwrite who ever lived, prolific poet, known for sonnets; wrote Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, and King Lear (tragedies)
- S.E. Hinton
- The Outsiders, That was then This is Now, Rumble Fish, Tex
- The Bronte Sisters (Charlotte, Emily)
- Wuthering Heights; Jane Eyre
- Friedrich von Schiller
- William Tell
- Alfred Lloyd Tennyson
- Idylls of the King
- Alexandre Dumas
- The Three Musketeers; The Man in the Iron Mask
- Walt Whitman
- Leaves of Grass--celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
- Sir Edmund Spenser
- wrote The Frairie Queen; he created the nine-line stanza--eight lines iambic pentameter and an extra-footed ninth line called 'alexandrine'
- Maya Angelou
- I know why the caged bird sings, A song flew up to heaven
- Thomas Malory
- wrote L'morte D'arthur which is the story of King Arthur and his court
- Helen Keller
- The Story of my Life 1902 became The miracle worker, The World I live in, Out of the Dark
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Transcedentalist poet, essayist, speaker wrote "Self-Reliance"
- George Orwell
- Animal Farm, 1984, Down and Out in Paris and London--dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
- Homer
- The Iliad; The Odyssey
- Mark Mathabane
- Kaffir Boy
- Robert Browning
- My Last Duchess
- John Keats
- Ode to a nightingale, Endymion, The Eve of St. Agnes -Brit 19th Cent. poet
- J.D Salinger
- The Catcher in the Rye
- Jack London
- Call of the Wild, Sea-Wolf, White Fang
- H.G. Wells
- The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine
- Alice Walker
- The Color Purple, Meridian, In Love and Trouble --Pulitzer-prize winning author writes about southern Blacks/ hardships
- John Bunyan
- wrote 'Pilgrims Progress'
- Jonathan Swift
- Gulliver's Travels
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Lord of the Rings, a trilogy in which he details the life, history, and cosmology of the mythological Middle Earth, and for which he invented several languages, most notably Elvish, and the Hobbitt
- John Milton
- Paradise Lost
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Prometheus Unbound, Ode to the West Wind, To A Skylark
- Katai Tayama
- The Quilt
- Louisa May Alcott
- Little Women
- Amy Tan
- The JoyLuck Club, --widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese-American experience of the late 20th century.
- C.S. Lewis
- allegorical novels, The chronicles of Narnia, The Lion, the witch, and the Wardrobe
- Harper Lee
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Lois Lowry
- The Giver, Number the Stars
- Johann Wyss
- The Swiss Family Robinson
- John Donne
- A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning; Meditations
- Madeline L'Engle
- A Wrinkle in Time, The Small Rain, 24 Days before Christmas
- Mark Twain
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper,--master of humor and sarcasm
- Yasunari Kawabata
- The Sound of the Mountain; The Snow Country
- Virgil
- The Aeneid
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night
- Alan Paton
- Cry, the Beloved Country
- Henrik Ibsen
- The Doll's House
- Stephen Crane
- Red Badge of Courage; an episode of the Civil War
- Robert Frost
- The Road Not Taken, The Gift Outright --won Pulitzer for poetry 4X
- Emily Dickinson
- Come slowly Eden, I felt a funeral in my brain, I'm nobody who are you (19th century poet, irregular capitalization, use of dashes & emjambant, took liberty w/ meter
- Fredrick Douglass
- Editor of The North Star, abolitionist, was self-taught slave, My Bondage and My Freedom
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Canterbury Tales (written in the street vernacular, or street language, of England rather than in Latin)
- Mary Shelley
- Frankenstein --English author
- Ray Bradbury
- Fahrenheit 451, Dandelion Wine
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Don Quixote; El Cid
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Their Eyes were watching God, Jona's Gourd Vine
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Crime and Punishment
- Edgar Allan Poe
- The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Raven and Other Poems --short story writer
- Daniel Defoe
- (father of the English novel) Robinson Crusoe
- Anne Frank
- 1st published in 1952 Diary of a Young Girl, chronicles her life in Nazi Germany from 1942-1944
- Dr. Samuel Johnson
- compiled the first comprehensive English dictionary in 1775.
- Leo Tolstoy
- War and Peace
- Victor Hugo
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame