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 |