Classical
Homer: The Iliad, The Odyssey, Virgil: The Aenead, Plato: The Republic, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Cicero, Euripides
Medieval (470-1350)
Beowolf, Tristan and Iseult
Renaissance (1350-1600)
Dante: Inferno, The Divine Comedy, Boccaccio: The Decameron, Machiavelli: The Prince, Cervantes: Don Quixote, Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, Thomas Malory: Le Mort D'Arthur(The Story of King Arthur and The Round Table)
Elizabethan (1558-1603)
Prose
Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus, Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queen, Thomas More: Utopia, William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Othello, Hamlet, MacbethPoetry
Thomas Lodge, Philip Sidney, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, John Davies, William Shakespeare, Alexander Scott
Restoration (1603-1670)
Prose
Moliere: Le Tartuffe, John Milton: Paradise LostPoetry
John Donne, Ben Johnson, Robert Herrick, George Herbert, Richard Lovelace, Thomas Carew, Abraham Cowley, Andrew Marvell, William Drummond, Thomas Hobbes
Neo-Classical (1660-1798)
Prose
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels, Voltaire: Candide, Henry Fielding: Tom Jones, Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Moll FlandersPoetry
John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson, John Dryden, William Cowper, Anna Seward, Thomas Traherne, James MacPherson, Henry Vaughn, Thomas Gray
Romantic (1798-1870)
Prose
Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe, The Lady of the Lake Herman Melville: Moby Dick, Victor Hugo: Les Miserables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers, Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter, Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Bram Stoker: Dracula, Robert louis Stevenson: Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Mary Shelly: Frankenstein, Lewis Carrol: Through the Looking Glass, Alice in Wonderland, Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature(Transcendetalism), Henry David Thoreau: Walden(Transcendetalism), James Fenimore Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans(Naturalism), Thomas Hardy: Tess of D'Urbevilles(Naturalism), Jack London: White Fang(Naturalism)Poetry
Percy Bysche Shelley, George Gordon Lord Byron, Edgar Allen Poe, William Blake, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Mary Sewell, Robert Burns, Emily Dickinson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Woodsworth, John Keats, Walt WhitmanVictorian (1832 - 1870)
Prose
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility, Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights, Charles Dickens: Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, William Makepiece Thackeray: Vanity Fair, Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorion Gray, The Importance of Being Ernest, Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone, The Woman in White, Goerge Eliot: Silas Marner, MiddlemarchPoetry
Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Mathew Arnold, Christina Rossetti, Charles Lamb, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Modern (1870 - 1940)
Prose
Joseph Conrad: Heart of darkness, The Secret Agent, Herman Hesse: Sidhatha, Steppenwolfe, Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, W. Faulkner: As I Lay Dying, A Light in August, Sanctuary, F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatzby, Tender is the Night, Eugene O'Neill: Long Day's Journey Into Night, The Iceman Cometh, Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, James Joyce: Ulysses, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath, The Moon is Down, Of Mice and Men, Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind, Samuel Beckett: Waiting for GodotEdwardian (1901-1914)
Prose
E.M. Forster: A Room with a View, A Passage to India, Somerset Maugham: Of Human Bondage, The Razor's Edge, D. H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterly's Lover, Son's and Lovers, Women in Love, Aldous Huxley: Brave New World, Rudyard Kipling: Jungle Book, Kim, Captian Courageous, H.G. Wells: War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, Jules Verne: 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Frank L. Baum: The Wizard of OzPoetry
T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra pound, W.H. Auden, William Butler Yeats, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Carl Sanburg, e.e. cummings, Stephen Vincent Benet, Ogden Nash, Archibald MacLeish, Dorothy Parker, earle Birney, rainier M. Rilke, Stevie Smith, Wallace stevens, Edith Sitwell, James Dickey, Virginia WoolfRealistic (1870 -1914) - Impressionism
Prose
Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Henry James: Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Wings of a Dove, Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome, The Age of Innocence, Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary, Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage, Pearl S. Buck: The Good EarthPoetry
Wilfred Owen, Archibald Lampman, A.E. Houseman, Amy lowell, John MacCrae, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Louis MacNeice, Robert Service, Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Post Modern (1940-1970)
Prose
Isak Dinesen: Out of Africa, Arthur Miller: The Crucible, Death of a Salesman, William Golding: Lord of the Flies, Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five, Player Piano, Alistair MacLean: H.M.S. Ulysses, The Guns of Navarone, Arthur C. Clarke: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Harler Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird, James Michener: The Bridges at Toko-Ri, Hawaii, Tales of the South Pacific, Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead, Atlas ShruggedPoetry
William Carlos Williams, Dylan Thomas, Langston Hughes, Eudora Welty, SylviaPlath, Bob Dylan, Kingsley Amis, Pablo Neruda, P.K. Page, Irving Layton, John Berryman, Cecil Day LewisAnti-Realism or Surrealism - Expressionism
Prose
Joseph Heller: Catch 22, Nathaniel West: Day of the Locust, Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, William Burroughs: The Naked LunchBeatnik
Prose
Graham Greene: Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, The End of the Affair, Jack Kerouac: On the Road, J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the RyePoetry
Allan Ginsberg, Leonard Cohen, M. Brown, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, F. O'Hara, Charles BukowskiExistentialist:
Prose
Norman Mailer: The Naked and the Dead, The Deer Park, A. Camus: The Plague, The Stranger, George Orwell: 1984, Animal Farm, Franz Kafka: Metamorphoses
