The Classical Reader: about

The Novel

Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes (1605)
The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan (1679)
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift (1726)
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (1815)
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (1838)
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (1847)
The Scarlet Letter - Nathanial Hawthorne (1850)
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville (1851)
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe (1851)
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (1857)
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866)
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (1877)
The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy (1878)
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James (1881)
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (1884)
The Red Badge of Courage - Stephan Crane (1895)
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (1902)
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton (1905)
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf (1925)
The Trial - Franz Kafka (1925)
Native Son - Richard Wright (1940)
The Stranger - Albert Camus (1942)
1984 - George Orwell (1949)
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison (1952)
Seize the Day - Saul Bellow (1956)
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1967)
If on a winter's night a traveler - Italo Calvino (1972)
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison (1977)
White Noise - Don Delillo (1985)
Possession - A.S. Byatt (1990)

Autobiography and Memoir

The Confessions - Augustine (A.D. c. 400)
The Book of Margery Kempe - Margery Kempe (c. 1430)
Essays - Michel De Montaigne (1580)
The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself - Teresa of Avila (1588)
Meditations - Rene Descartes (1641)
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners - John Bunyan (1666)
The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration - Mary Rowlandson (1682)
Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1781)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin (1791)
Walden - Henry David Thoreau (1854)
Incidents in the LIfe of a Slave Girl, Written By Herself - Harriet Jacobs (1861)
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass (1881)
Up from Slavery - Booker T. Washington (1901)
Ecce Homo - Friedrich Nietsche (1908)
Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler (1925)
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth - Mohandas Ghandi (1929)
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein (1933)
The Seven Storey Mountain - Thomas Merton (1948)
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life - C.S. Lewis (1955)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X (1965)
Journal of Solitude - May Sarton (1973)
The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1973)
Born Again - Charles W. Colson (1977)
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982)
The Road from Coorain - Jill Ker Conway (1989)
All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs - Elie Wiesl (1995)

Poetry

The Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2000 B.C.)
The Iliad and the Odyssey (c. 800 B.C.)
Greek Lyricists (c. 600 B.C.)
Odes - Horace (65-8 B.C.)
Beowulf (c. 1000)
Inferno - Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (c. 1350)
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400)
Sonnets - William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
John Donne (1572-1631
Psalms - King James Bible (1611)
Paradise Lost - John Milton (1608-1674)
Songs of INnocence and of Experience - William Blake (1757-1827)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
John Keats (1795-1821)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1883)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Emily Dickenson (1830-1886)
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Carl Sanburg (1878-1967)
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
W.H. Auden (1907-1973)
Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Mark Strand (1934-)
Adrienne Rich (1929-)
Seamus Heaney (1939-)
Robert Pinsky (1940-)
Jane Kenyon (1947-)
Rita Dove (1952-)