The works on the following list, in chronological order of publication, are but a drop in the vast ocean of literature.  May they not only educate and delight, but also inspire.  Enjoy!

 The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
 Complete Works of Shakespeare - William Shakespeare
 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
 The Seraphim and Other Poems – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 The Raven and Other Poems – Edgar Allan Poe
 The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
 Walden – Henry David Thoreau
 Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
 Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
 Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
 The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
 Dracula – Bram Stoker
 The War of the Worlds – H. G. Wells
 Cabbages and Kings – O. Henry
 Sons and Lovers – D. H. Lawrence
 My Man Jeeves – P. G. Wodehouse
 The Mysterious Affair at Styles – Dame Agatha Christie
 The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
 Ulysses – James Joyce
 The Garden Party and Other Stories – Katherine Mansfield
 Poems – Edna St. Vincent Millay
 The Complete Poems – Emily Dickinson
 So Big – Edna Ferber
 An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
 The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
 The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
 The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Thornton Wilder
 Private Lives – Noel Coward
 Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
 The Good Earth – Pearl Buck
 Save Me the Waltz – Zelda Fitzgerald
 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
 The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
 The Children's Hour – Lillian Hellman
 Butterfield 8 – John O'Hara
 Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
 Our Town – Thornton Wilder
 Pale Horse, Pale Rider – Katherine Porter
 The Time of Your Life – William Saroyan
 The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
 The Skin of Our Teeth – Thornton Wilder
 The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams
 Black Boy – Richard Wright
 A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
 In the Absence of Angels – Hortense Calisher
 Cantos – Ezra Pound
 Come Back Little Sheba – William Inge
 Mortgage of a Dream Deferred – Langston Hughes
 The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger
 The Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
 The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
 The Crucible – Arthur Miller
 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof  -- Tennessee Williams
 Giovanni's Room – James Baldwin
 Long Day's Journey into Night – Eugene O'Neill
 Look Back in Anger – John Osborne
 A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry
 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
 In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences –  Truman Capote
 The Fixer – Barnard Malamud
 A Garden of Earthly Delights – Joyce Carol Oates
 Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
 Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou