• A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
• Animal Farm George Orwell
• Bright Lights, Big City Jay McIerny
• Frankenstein Mary Shelley
• Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell
• Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
• Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
• Little Women Louisa May Alcott
• Moby Dick Herman Melville
• Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
• Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
• Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
• Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
• The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
• The Catcher In the Rye J.D. Salinger
• The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
• The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Scarlett Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
• To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
• Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
• Utopia Thomas More
• War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
• Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte

Poetry ( At least get a good taste of each )

• Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Dylan Thomas
• e.e. cummings
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Emily Dickinson
• Ezra Pound
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• William Blake
• William Wordsworth

Shakespeare plays

• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• As You Like It
• Comedy of Errors
• Hamlet
• Julius Casesar
• Macbeth
• Othello
• Romeo and Juliet
• Taming of the Shrew