| The Tortoise and the Hare |
Aesop |
Fable |
English |
Ancient Greece |
600 BC |
| Little Red Riding Hood |
Charles Perrault |
Fairy Tale |
French |
France |
1697 |
| The Boy Who Cried Wolf |
Aesop |
Fable |
English |
Ancient Greece |
600 BC |
| Cinderella |
Charles Perrault |
Fairy Tale |
French |
France |
1697 |
| Snow White |
The Brothers Grimm |
Fairy Tale |
German |
Germany |
1812 |
| Goldilocks and the Three Bears |
Robert Southey |
Fairy Tale |
English |
England |
1837 |
| The Three Little Pigs |
Traditional |
Fairy Tale |
English |
England |
Unknown |
| Jack and the Beanstalk |
Traditional |
Fairy Tale |
English |
England |
Unknown |
| The Ugly Duckling |
Hans Christian Andersen |
Fairy Tale |
Danish |
Denmark |
1843 |
| The Princess and the Pea |
Hans Christian Andersen |
Fairy Tale |
Danish |
Denmark |
1835 |
| Beauty and the Beast |
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve |
Fairy Tale |
French |
France |
1740 |
| The Fisherman and His Wife |
Brothers Grimm |
Fairy Tale |
German |
Germany |
1812 |
| The Gingerbread Man |
Traditional |
Fable |
English |
England |
Unknown |
| Rumpelstiltskin |
The Brothers Grimm |
Fairy Tale |
German |
Germany |
1812 |
| The Elves and the Shoemaker |
The Brothers Grimm |
Fairy Tale |
German |
Germany |
1812 |
| The Emperor's New Clothes |
Hans Christian Andersen |
Fairy Tale |
Danish |
Denmark |
1837 |
| The Velveteen Rabbit |
Margery Williams |
Children's Literature |
English |
United Kingdom |
1922 |
| The Tale of Peter Rabbit |
Beatrix Potter |
Children's Literature |
English |
United Kingdom |
1902 |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
Mark Twain |
Novel |
English |
United States |
1876 |
| The Little Engine That Could |
Watty Piper |
Children's Literature |
English |
United States |
1930 |
| The Wind in the Willows |
Kenneth Grahame |
Children's Literature |
English |
United Kingdom |
1908 |
| Peter Pan |
J.M. Barrie |
Children's Literature |
English |
United Kingdom |
1911 |
| Charlotte's Web |
E.B. White |
Children's Literature |
English |
United States |
1952 |
| Where the Wild Things Are |
Maurice Sendak |
Children's Literature |
English |
United States |
1963 |
| Stuart Little |
E.B. White |
Children's Literature |
English |
United States |
1945 |
| Anne of Green Gables |
L.M. Montgomery |
Children's Literature |
English |
Canada |
1908 |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
Lewis Carroll |
Children's Literature |
English |
United Kingdom |
1865 |
| The Secret Garden |
Frances Hodgson Burnett |
Children's Literature |
English |
United Kingdom |
1911 |
| The Tale of Despereaux |
Kate DiCamillo |
Children's Literature |
English |
United States |
2003 |
| The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
C.S. Lewis |
Fantasy |
English |
United Kingdom |
1950 |
| The Hobbit |
J.R.R. Tolkien |
Fantasy |
English |
United Kingdom |
1937 |
| The Chronicles of Narnia |
C.S. Lewis |
Fantasy |
English |
United Kingdom |
1950 |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone |
J.K. Rowling |
Fantasy |
English |
United Kingdom |
1997 |
| The Gruffalo |
Julia Donaldson |
Children's Literature |
English |
United Kingdom |
1999 |
| Matilda |
Roald Dahl |
Children's Literature |
English |
United Kingdom |
1988 |
| Winnie the Pooh |
A.A. Milne |
Children's Literature |
English |
United Kingdom |
1926 |
| Goodnight Moon |
Margaret Wise Brown |
Children's Literature |
English |
United States |
1947 |
| The Cat in the Hat |
Dr. Seuss |
Children's Literature |
English |
United States |
1957 |
| Charlotte's Web |
E.B. White |
Children's Literature |
English |
United States |
1952 |
| Grimm's Fairy Tales |
The Brothers Grimm |
Fairy Tales |
German |
Germany |
1812 |
| Arabian Nights |
Anonymous |
Folklore |
Arabic |
Middle East |
Unknown |
| The Tale of Genji |
Murasaki Shikibu |
Novel |
Japanese |
Japan |
11th century |
| The Ramayana |
Valmiki |
Epic Poetry |
Sanskrit |
India |
Unknown |
| The Mahabharata |
Vyasa |
Epic Poetry |
Sanskrit |
India |
Unknown |
| The Aeneid |
Virgil |
Epic Poetry |
Latin |
Ancient Rome |
19 BC |
| Dharma Bums |
Jack Kerouac |
Novel |
English |
United States |
1958 |
| The Alchemist |
Paulo Coelho |
Novel |
Portuguese |
Brazil |
1988 |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude |
Gabriel García Márquez |
Novel |
Spanish |
Colombia |
1967 |
| To Kill a Mockingbird |
Harper Lee |
Novel |
English |
United States |
1960 |
| 1984 |
George Orwell |
Dystopian |
English |
United Kingdom |
1949 |
| The Catcher in the Rye |
J.D. Salinger |
Novel |
English |
United States |
1951 |
| Pride and Prejudice |
Jane Austen |
Novel |
English |
United Kingdom |
1813 |
| War and Peace |
Leo Tolstoy |
Novel |
Russian |
Russia |
1869 |
| Moby-Dick |
Herman Melville |
Novel |
English |
United States |
1851 |
| The Great Gatsby |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Novel |
English |
United States |
1925 |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Oscar Wilde |
Novel |
English |
United Kingdom |
1890 |
| Brave New World |
Aldous Huxley |
Novel |
English |
United Kingdom |
1932 |
| The Road |
Cormac McCarthy |
Novel |
English |
United States |
2006 |
| Beloved |
Toni Morrison |
Novel |
English |
United States |
1987 |
| The Grapes of Wrath |
John Steinbeck |
Novel |
English |
United States |
1939 |
| Little Women |
Louisa May Alcott |
Novel |
English |
United States |
1868 |
| Frankenstein |
Mary Shelley |
Novel |
English |
United Kingdom |
1818 |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Oscar Wilde |
Novel |
English |
United Kingdom |
1890 |
| The Scarlet Letter |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Novel |
English |
United States |
1850 |
| Fahrenheit 451 |
Ray Bradbury |
Dystopian |
English |
United States |
1953 |
| The Fault in Our Stars |
John Green |
Young Adult |
English |
United States |
2012 |
| Looking for Alaska |
John Green |
Young Adult |
English |
United States |
2005 |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |
J.K. Rowling |
Fantasy |
English |
United Kingdom |
1998 |
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
J.K. Rowling |
Fantasy |
English |
United Kingdom |
1999 |
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
J.K. Rowling |
Fantasy |
English |
United Kingdom |
2000 |
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix |
J.K. Rowling |
Fantasy |
English |
United Kingdom |
2003 |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows |
J.K. Rowling |
Fantasy |
English |
United Kingdom |
2007 |
| Twilight |
Stephenie Meyer |
Fantasy |
English |
United States |
2005 |
| The Hunger Games |
Suzanne Collins |
Dystopian |
English |
United States |
2008 |
| The Maze Runner |
James Dashner |
Dystopian |
English |
United States |
2009 |
| Ender's Game |
Orson Scott Card |
Science Fiction |
English |
United States |
1985 |
| The Martian |
Andy Weir |
Science Fiction |
English |
United States |
2011 |
| Dune |
Frank Herbert |
Science Fiction |
English |
United States |
1965 |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
Douglas Adams |
Science Fiction |
English |
United Kingdom |
1979 |
| Brave New World |
Aldous Huxley |
Dystopian |
English |
United Kingdom |
1932 |
| Slaughterhouse-Five |
Kurt Vonnegut |
Science Fiction |
English |
United States |
1969 |
| Station Eleven |
Emily St. John Mandel |
Science Fiction |
English |
Canada |
2014 |
| The Handmaid's Tale |
Margaret Atwood |
Dystopian |
English |
Canada |
1985 |
| Never Let Me Go |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
Science Fiction |
English |
United Kingdom |
2005 |
| The Time Machine |
H.G. Wells |
Science Fiction |
English |
United Kingdom |
1895 |
| Robinson Crusoe |
Daniel Defoe |
Adventure |
English |
United Kingdom |
1719 |
| Tales of the Unexpected |
Roald Dahl |
Short Stories |
English |
United Kingdom |
1979 |
| Short Stories by Anton Chekhov |
Anton Chekhov |
Short Stories |
Russian |
Russia |
1890 |
| The Lottery |
Shirley Jackson |
Short Story |
English |
United States |
1948 |
| The Tell-Tale Heart |
Edgar Allan Poe |
Short Story |
English |
United States |
1843 |
| The Metamorphosis |
Franz Kafka |
Novella |
German |
Austria |
1915 |
| The Yellow Wallpaper |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
Short Story |
English |
United States |
1892 |
| An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
Ambrose Bierce |
Short Story |
English |
United States |
1890 |
| Miss Brill |
Katherine Mansfield |
Short Story |
English |
New Zealand |
1920 |
| A Good Man is Hard to Find |
Flannery O'Connor |
Short Story |
English |
United States |
1955 |
| The Story of an Hour |
Kate Chopin |
Short Story |
English |
United States |
1894 |
| The Dead |
James Joyce |
Short Story |
English |
Ireland |
1914 |
| Cathedral |
Ray Carver |
Short Story |
English |
United States |
1983 |
| Everything That Rises Must Converge |
Flannery O'Connor |
Short Story |
English |
United States |
1965 |
| Girl |
Jamaica Kincaid |
Short Story |
English |
Antigua |
1978 |
| The Divine Comedy |
Dante Alighieri |
Epic Poetry |
Italian |
Italy |
1320 |
| Beowulf |
Anonymous |
Epic Poetry |
Old English |
England |
Unknown |
| The Odyssey |
Homer |
Epic Poetry |
Ancient Greek |
Greece |
Unknown |
| The Iliad |
Homer |
Epic Poetry |
Ancient Greek |
Greece |
Unknown |
| The Faerie Queene |
Edmund Spenser |
Epic Poetry |
English |
United Kingdom |
1590 |
| The Canterbury Tales |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
Epic Poetry |
Middle English |
United Kingdom |
1400 |
| Paradise Lost |
John Milton |
Epic Poetry |
English |
United Kingdom |
1667 |