Methodology:
This list will only include works that are considered significant. When multiple dates of publication are offered, the later is preferred. If the exact day or month of publication is unknown, January 1 is acceptable. Each entry links to the most relevant Wikipedia page.
- Iliad by Homer (-800) View
- Odyssey by Homer (-800) View
- Aesop\'s Fables by Aesop (-564) View
- Beowulf by Beowulf poet (1025) View
- Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1321) View
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1400) View
- First Folio by William Shakespeare (1623) View
- Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667) View
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726) View
- Candide by Voltaire (1759) View
- Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson (1785) View
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1811) View
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813) View
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818) View
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (1820) View
- Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving (1820) View
- Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1832) View
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (1838) View
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843) View
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847) View
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850) View
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1850) View
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851) View
- Uncle Tom\'s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852) View
- Grimms\' Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm (1858) View
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1861) View
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868) View
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1869) View
- Short Stories by Hans Christian Andersen (1875) View
- Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1876) View
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1878) View
- Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott (1884) View
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1885) View
- Sherlock Holmes - A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (1887) View
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890) View
- Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897) View
- The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells (1897) View
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1900) View
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1903) View
- White Fang by Jack London (1906) View
- Dubliners by James Joyce (1914) View
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916) View
- Ulysses by James Joyce (1922) View
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) View
- Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925) View
- The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft (1928) View
- Steamboat Willie by Walt Disney (1928) View
- The Little Shop of Horrors by Roger Corman (1960) View
- Charade by Stanley Donen (1963) View
- Night of the Living Dead by George A. Romero (1968) View