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Category: Classics (Sorted by Author's last name)

Prometheus Bound (460 BC) - Aeschylus (525-456 BC) (Grade:A+)

The Inferno (1314) - Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) (Grade:A+)

Poem of the Cid (1140) - Anonymous (-) (Grade:A)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (14th Century) - Anonymous (-) (Grade:A+)

Beowulf (8th Century?) - Anonymous (-) (Grade:A+)

A Christmas Carol (1843) - Charles Dickens (2/07/1812 -6/09/1870) (Grade:A+)

Great Expectations (1860-61) - Charles Dickens (2/07/1812 -6/09/1870) (Grade:A+)

David Copperfield (1850) - Charles Dickens (2/07/1812 -6/09/1870) (Grade:A)

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) - Charles Dickens (2/07/1812 -6/09/1870) (Grade:A+)

Crime and Punishment (1866) - Fyodor Dostoevsky (11/11/1821 -02/09/1881) (Grade:C)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (5/22/1859 -7/07/1930) (Grade:A+)

The Three Musketeers (1844) - Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)    (Grade:A+)

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861) - George Eliot (1819-1880)    (Grade:A)

Orestes (408 BC) - Euripides (485-406 BC)    (Grade:A-)

The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews (and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams) (1742) - Henry Fielding (1707-1754)    (Grade:B+)

How to Grow Old: Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life (44 BC) - Philip Freeman (1961 -)    (Grade:A)

Lord of the Flies (1954) - William Golding (1911 -1993)    (Grade:C)

The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) - Thomas Hardy (1840 -1928)    (Grade:B)

The Old Man and the Sea (1952) - Ernest Hemingway (7/21/1899 -7/02/1961)    (Grade:A+)

The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) - William Dean Howells (1837-1920)    (Grade:B+)

Tales of the Alhambra (1832) - Washington Irving (1783 -1859)    (Grade:A)

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759) - Samuel Johnson (09/18/1709 -12/13/1784)    (Grade:A)

The Jungle Books (1894) - Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)    (Grade:A)

The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) (1958) - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (12/23/1896 -07/23/1957)    (Grade:B+)

To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) - Harper Lee (4/28/1926 -2/19/2016) (Grade:A+)

The Sea Wolf (1904) - Jack London (1876-1916) (Grade:A-)

The Prince (1513) - Niccolo Machiavelli (5/03/1469 -6/21/1527)    (Grade:A+)

Billy Budd, Foretopman (1891) - Herman Melville (1819 -1891)    (Grade:A-)

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (1853) - Herman Melville (1819 -1891)    (Grade:A-)

Moby Dick, or The Whale (1851) - Herman Melville (1819 -1891)    (Grade:A)

Animal Farm (1945) - George Orwell (06/25/1903 -1/21/1949) (Grade:A+)

1984 (1949) - George Orwell (06/25/1903 -1/21/1949) (Grade:A+)

Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) - Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) (Grade:A+)

Pygmalion (1912) - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) (Grade:A)

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818) - Mary Shelley (1797 -1851) (Grade:A+)

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1963) - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn (12/11/1918 -8/03/2008)    (Grade:A+)

Oedipus Rex (430 BC) - Sophocles (496-406 BC)    (Grade:A-)

The Grapes of Wrath (1939) - John Steinbeck (2/27/1902 -12/20/1968)    (Grade:A-)

Of Mice and Men (1937) - John Steinbeck (2/27/1902 -12/20/1968) (Grade:A+)

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) - Robert Louis Stevenson (11/13/1850 -12/03/1894) (Grade:A)

Treasure Island (1881) - Robert Louis Stevenson (11/13/1850 -12/03/1894)    (Grade:A+)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) - Mark Twain (1835-1910)    (Grade:A-)

The Aeneid (19 B.C.) - Virgil (70 B.C. -19 B.C.)    (Grade:A)

All the King's Men (1946) - Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) (Grade:A+)

Revolutionary Road (1961) - Richard Yates (02/03/1926-11/07/1992) (Grade:A-)