While it is inevitable that I have left a few titles out, this list contains the bulk of classic literature I have read up to this point. Note that I have included the texts of plays I find equally culturally significant;
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
- Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
- Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
- Persuasion, Jane Austen
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
- The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
- 1984, George Orwell
- Animal Farm, George Orwell
- Lord of the Flies, William Golding
- The Scarlett Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
- Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
- Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
- The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
- Little Men, Louisa May Alcott
- Peter Pan, JM Barrie
- Anne of Green Gables series, LM Montgomery
- The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
- A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Swiss Family Robinson, Johann David Wyss
- The Iliad, Homer
- The Odyssey, Homer
- The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
- Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
- Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexander Dumas
- The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
- Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
- Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
- Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens
- Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
- Saint Joan, George Bernard Shaw
- Walden, Henry David Thoreau
- The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank
- The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
- The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
- The Chronicles of Narnia, CS Lewis
- A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams
- Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
- Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
- The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
- Le Morte d'Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory
- Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
- Alice Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
- Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
- The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
- The Call of the Wild, Jack London
- White Fang, Jack London
- The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
- A Long Day's Journey into Night, Eugene O'Neill
- Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
- Complete works of Henrik Ibsen
- Complete works of Anton Chekov
- Mrs Dalloway, Virgina Woolf
- A Room with a View, EM Forster
- Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
- Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Kate Douglas Wiggin
- To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
- No Exit, John Paul Sartre
- One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
- Heidi, Johanna Spyri
- The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
- Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Color Purple, Alice Walker
- Antigone, Sophocles