Commonly Taught Literary Works

Introduction: The literary works/ authors below are commonly taught in Advanced Placement (AP) Literature classes and college-level Literature courses.

Poets: Matthew Arnold John Keats W.H. Auden Maxine Kumin Elizabeth Bishop Philip Larkin William Blake Robert Lowell Anne Bradstreet Andrew Marvell Gwendolyn Brooks Claude McKay Robert Burns John Milton George Gordon, Lord Byron Marianne Moore Lorna Dee Cervantes Howard Nemerov Geoffrey Chaucer Pablo Neruda Lucille Clifton Sharon Olds Samuel Taylor Coleridge Linda Pastan Billy Collins Sylvia Plath Countee Cullen Edgar Allan Poe e.e. cummings Alexander Pope Emily Dickinson Adrianne Rich John Donne Edna St. Vincent Millay Rita Dove Anne Sexton Paul Laurence Dunbar William Shakespeare T.S. Eliot Percy Bysshe Shelley Lawrence Ferlinghetti Cathy Song Robert Frost Wallace Stevens Robert Graves May Swenson Donald Hall Alfred, Lord Tennyson Joy Harjo Dylan Thomas Seamus Heaney Derek Walcott George Herbert Walt Whitman Garrett Hongo Richard Wilbur Gerard Manley Hopkins William Carlos Williams Langston Hughes William Wordsworth Ben Jonson William Butler Yeats 1 | P a g e

Dramatists: Aeschylus Edward Albee Marsha Norman Amiri Baraka Sean O’Casey Pedro Calderon de la Barca Eugene O’Neill Samuel Beckett Suzan-Lori Parks Anton Chekhov Harold Pinter Caryl Churchill Luigi Pirandello William Congreve Jean Paul Sartre Euripides William Shakespeare Athol Fugard George Bernard Shaw Susan Glaspell Sam Shepard Lorraine Hansberry Sophocles Lillian Hellman Tom Stoppard David Henry Hwang Luis Valdez Henrik Ibsen Oscar Wilde Ben Jonson Thornton Wilder David Mamet Tennessee Williams Arthur Miller August Wilson Moliere

Fiction (Novels and Short Stories): Chinua Achebe: “Vengeful Creditor,” Things Fall Apart Sherman Alexie: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian Isabel Allende: The House of the Spirits Rudolfo Anaya: Bless Me, Ultima Margaret Atwood: “Happy Endings,” The Handmaid’s Tale Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma James Baldwin: Go Tell It on the Mountain Saul Bellow: The Adventures of Augie March Jorge Luis Borges: “The Garden of Forking Paths” Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights Albert Camus: The Stranger Willa Cather: My Antonia, One of Ours, Death Comes to the Archbishop 2 | P a g e

Tutor.com Confidential and Proprietary – Do not distribute © 2017 Tutor.com, Inc. Unpublished – rights reserved under the Copyright Laws of the United States Kate Chopin: “Story of an Hour,” The Awakening Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Sharer Stephen Crane: “The Open Boat,” The Red Badge of Courage Edwidge Danticat: Breath, Eyes, Memory, The Farming of Bones Charles Defoe: Robinson Crusoe Anita Desai: The Village by the Sea Charles Dickens: Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities Isak Denisen: Out of Africa Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment Theodore Dreiser: An American Tragedy, Sister Carrie George Eliot: Silas Marner, Middlemarch Ralph Ellison: “Battle Royal,” Invisible Man Louise Erdrich: Love Medecine William Faulkner: “A Rose for Emily,” “Barn Burning,” The Sound and the Fury F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary E.M. Forster: A Room with a View Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure N. Hawthorne: “Young Goodman Brown,” The Scarlet Letter Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises, Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day Shirley Jackson: “The Lottery” Henry James: The Turn of the Screw, The American Sarah Orne Jewett: “A White Heron” James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, “Araby,” “The Dead” Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis, “A Hunger Artist” Maxine H. Kingston: The Woman Warrior Joy Kogawa: Obasan Jhumpa Lahiri: “Interpreter of Maladies” D.H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers Chang-rae Lee: Native Speaker Ursula K. LeGuin: “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” Jack London: “To Build a Fire” Bernard Malamud: The Natural 3 | P a g e

Tutor.com Confidential and Proprietary – Do not distribute © 2017 Tutor.com, Inc. Unpublished – rights reserved under the Copyright Laws of the United States Gabriel Garcia Marquez: “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” Herman Melville: Moby Dick, Billy Budd Toni Morrison: Beloved, Song of Solomon Bharati Mukherjee: “The Management of Grief” Tim O’Brien: The Things They Carried Flannery O’Connor: “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” “Good Country People” George Orwell: 1984, Animal Farm Alan Paton: Cry, the Beloved Country Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Paul Sartre: Nausea Mary Shelley: Frankenstein John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels Amy Tan: “Two Kinds,” “A Pair of Tickets” Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Voltaire: Candide Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five Alice Walker: “Everyday Use,” The Color Purple Eudora Welty: “A Worn Path” Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse Richard Wright: Native Son

Expository Prose: Joseph Addison Charles Lamb Gloria Anzaldua Thomas Macaulay Matthew Arnold Mary McCarthy James Baldwin John Stuart Mill James Boswell George Orwell Joan Didion Michael Pollan Frederick Doublass Richard Rodriguez W.E.B. Du Bois Edward Said Ralph Waldo Emerson Lewis Thomas William Hazlitt Henry David Thoreau Bell hooks E.B. White Samuel Johnson Virginia Woolf

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