The LitCrits

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Plays

 * The Crucible
 * Death of a Salesman
 * Hamlet by William Shakespeare
 * Hedda Gabler
 * Macbeth by William Shakespeare
 * Medea by Eurypedes
 * A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
 * Oedipus Rex
 * Othello by William Shakespeare
 * Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
 * Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Novels

 * 1984 by George Orwell
 * Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll
 * All the King's Men
 * Beloved by Toni Morrison
 * Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
 * Candide by Voltaire
 * The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
 * Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
 * Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
 * Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara
 * The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
 * Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
 * Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
 * A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
 * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
 * The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
 * Island by Aldous Huxley
 * Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
 * Lord of the Flies by William Golding
 * Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
 * Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
 * Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
 * Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
 * Native Son by Richard A. Wright
 * Night by Elie Weisel
 * The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
 * A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
 * Post Office by Charles Bukowski
 * The Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
 * The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
 * Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
 * The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
 * Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
 * A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickins
 * Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
 * Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
 * Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Caroll
 * The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
 * To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
 * Treasure Island by Robert Lewis Stevenson
 * Walden by Henry David Thoreau
 * Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Poems (including epics)

 * The Cantebury Tales by Chaucer
 * The Death of a Toad by Richard Wilbur
 * The Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron
 * Elegy for Alfred Hubbard by Tony Connor
 * Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
 * The Hollow Men by T. S. Elliot
 * The Illiad by Homer
 * Kublah Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 * The Odyssey by Homer
 * Reluctance by Robert Frost
 * The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 * The Road Less Taken by Robert Frost
 * Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown
 * To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell

Short stories, etc.

 * The Allegory of the Cave by Glaucon and Socrates
 * Animal Farm by George Orwell
 * Anthem by Ayn Rand
 * Hills like White Elephants
 * A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
 * The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
 * The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway
 * Where are You Going, Where have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates
 * Young Goodman Brown