• Wiliam Shakespeare, Hamlet
• Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
• Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
• Charles Dickens, David Copperfield / Oliver Twist
• Robert Louis Stevenson, The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
• Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
• Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gasby
• Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
• Bram Stoker, Dracula
• John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men / The pearl
• Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
• George Orwell, 1984
• Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
• André Brink, A dry white season
• Cormac McCarthy, The Road
• Ian McEwan, On chesil beach
• Dan Chason, Among the Missing

Poetry :

• Seamus Heaney, Digging (death of a naturalist)
• Emily Dickinson
• William Blake, Songs of Innocence
• John Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci + Odes