The Aeneid (Virgil) -- The awakening (Katherine Chopin) -- Beloved (Toni Morrison) -- Beowulf -- Canterbury tales (Geoffrey Chaucer) -- Crime and punishment (Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky) -- Divine comedy (Dante Alighieri) -- Doctor Faustus (Christopher Marlowe) -- The great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) -- Heart of darkness (Joseph Conrad) -- Holy sonnets (John Donne) -- I know why the caged bird sings (Maya Angelou) -- King Lear (William Shakespeare) -- "Little Gidding" from Four quartets (Thomas Stearns Eliot) -- The metamorphosis (Kafka) -- Orlando (Virginia Woolf) -- The scarlet letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) -- A tale of two cities (Charles Dickens) -- The tempest (William Shakespeare) -- Their eyes were watching God (Zora Neale Hurston).