| Book of Jonah |
Unknown |
8th BC |
| The Iliad |
Homer |
8th BC |
| Odyssey |
Homer |
8th BC |
| Olympian Odes |
Pindar |
5th BC |
| Pythian Odes |
Pindar |
5th BC |
| Fragments |
Pindar |
5th BC |
| The Eumenides |
Aeschylus |
5th BC |
| Oedipus Rex |
Sophocles |
429 BC |
| Poetics |
Aristotle |
335 BC |
| The Georgics |
Virgil |
29 BC |
| The Aeneid* |
Virgil |
29-19 BC |
| Vera Historia |
Lucian |
2nd Cen |
| Epistle to the Corinthians |
Clement of Rome |
2nd Cen |
| Metamorphoses/The Golden Ass |
Apuleius |
2nd Cen |
| The Confessions |
Augustine |
4th Cen |
| Beowulf |
Unknown |
8th-11th Cen |
| The Song of Roland |
Unknown |
11th-12th Cen |
| Aquinas' Shorter Summa |
St Thomas Aquinas |
12th Cen |
| Brut |
Laȝamon |
1190-1215 |
| Huon of Bordeaux |
Unknown |
1216-1268 |
| The Prose Edda |
Snorri Sturluson |
13th Cen |
| Divine Comedy |
Dante |
1308-1320 |
| The Canterbury Tales |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
14th Cen |
| Troilus and Criseyde |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
1380 |
| The Consolation of Philosophy* |
Boethius |
14th Cen |
| Revelations of Divine Love |
Julian of Norwich |
14th Cen |
| The Cloud of Unknowing |
Unknown |
14th Cen |
| Sir Gawain & the Green Knight |
Unknown |
14th Cen |
| Le Morte Darthur |
Sir Thomas Malory |
1485 |
| Orlando Furioso |
Ludovico Ariosto |
1516 |
| Tragical History of Romeus & Juliet |
Arthur Brooke |
1562 |
| Arcadia |
Sir Philip Sidney |
16th Cen |
| The Faerie Queene |
Edmund Spenser |
1590 |
| Romeo & Juliet |
William Shakespeare |
1591-1595 |
| Twelfth Night |
William Shakespeare |
1601-1602 |
| The Winter's Tale |
William Shakespeare |
1611 |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream |
William Shakespeare |
1590-1597 |
| Henry V |
William Shakespeare |
1599 |
| The Apparition |
John Donne |
17th Cen |
| The Shepherds Sirens |
Michael Drayton |
1627 |
| The Temple* |
George Herbert |
1633 |
| Urn Burial |
Thomas Browne |
1658 |
| Andromaque |
Jean Racine |
1667 |
| Phedre |
Jean Racine |
1677 |
| Paradise Lost |
John Milton |
1667-74 |
| Samson Agonistes |
John Milton |
1671 |
| The Rape of the Lock |
Alexander Pope |
1712-1714 |
| Gulliver's Travels |
Jonathan Swift |
1726-1735 |
| Micromegas |
Voltaire |
1752 |
| Candide |
Voltaire |
1759 |
| History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia |
Samuel Johnson |
1759 |
| Vathek, an Arabian Tale |
William Beckford |
1782 |
| Life of Johnson* |
James Boswell |
1791 |
| The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
1798 |
| The Prelude* |
William Wordsworth |
1798 |
| Selected Poems |
William Wordsworth |
1800 |
| Michael |
William Wordsworth |
1800 |
| The Excursion |
William Wordsworth |
1814 |
| Pride & Prejudice |
Jane Austen |
1813 |
| Guy Mannering |
Walter Scott |
1815 |
| Adolphe |
Benjamin Constant |
1816 |
| Ode on a Grecian Urn |
John Keats |
1819 |
| Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Justified Sinner |
James Hogg |
1824 |
| Witch of Atlas |
Percy Bysshe Shelley |
1824 |
| The Kalevala |
Elias Lonnrot |
1835-49 |
| Count of Monte Cristo |
Alexandre Dumas |
1844 |
| The Pickwick Papers |
Charles Dickens |
1836 |
| Great Expectations |
Charles Dickens |
1861 |
| Vanity Fair |
William Makepeace Thackeray |
1848 |
| Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyan |
Edward Fitzgerald |
1859-89 |
| Barchester Towers |
Anthony Trollope |
1857 |
| Phantases* |
George Macdonald |
1858 |
| War and Peace |
Leo Tolstoy |
1869 |
| Middlemarch, A Study in Provincial Life |
George Eliot |
1871-72 |
| Erewhon |
Samuel Butler |
1872 |
| The Hunting of the Snark |
Lewis Carroll |
1874-76 |
| The Brothers Karamazov |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
1880 |
| Treasure Island |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
1883 |
| Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
1886 |
| Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions |
Edwin Abbott |
1884 |
| Praeterita |
John Ruskin |
1885 |
| The Turn of the Screw |
Henry James |
1898 |
| First Men in the Moon |
H.G. Wells |
1901 |
| The Door in the Wall |
H.G. Wells |
1911 |
| Tales |
Beatrix Potter |
1902-1930 |
| Nostromo |
Joseph Conrad |
1904 |
| Tarzan |
E.R. Burroughs |
1912-1965 |
| The Wind in the Willows |
Kenneth Grahame |
1908 |
| The Old Wives' Tale |
Arnold Bennett |
1908 |
| The Crock of Gold |
James Stephens |
1912 |
| Sons and Lovers |
D.H Lawrence |
1913 |
| Sacred Emily |
Gertrude Stein |
1913 |
| The Idea of the Holy* |
Rudolf Otto |
1917 |
| Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice |
James Branch Cabell |
1919 |
| Everlasting Man* |
G.K. Chesterton |
1925 |
| The Castle |
Kafka |
1926 |
| Descent into Hell* |
Charles Williams |
1937 |
| Titus Groan |
Mervyn Peake |
1946 |
| The Catcher in the Rye |
J.D. Salinger |
1951 |
| Lord of the Rings |
J.R.R. Tolkien |
1954-55 |
| The Mind of the Maker |
Dorothy L. Sayers |
1956 |
| An Experiment in Criticism |
C.S. Lewis |
1961 |
| Theism and Humanism* |
Balfour |
1962 |
| What We Can't Not Know |
J. Budziszewski |
2001 |