NAQT Literature Frequency list 1-300

Hamlet

(William) Shakespeare

The Tempest

(William) Shakespeare

Macbeth

(William) Shakespeare

Iliad

Homer

Pride and Prejudice

(Jane) Austen

Moby-Dick

(Herman) Melville

The Great Gatsby

(F. Scott) Fitzgerald

Paradise Lost

(John) Milton

Faust

(Johann Wolfgang von) Goethe

King Lear

(William) Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice

(William) Shakespeare

1984

(George) Orwell

A Midsummer Night's Dream

(William) Shakespeare

The Scarlet Letter

(Nathaniel) Hawthorne

Crime and Punishment

(Fyodor) Dostoyevsky

Romeo and Juliet

(William) Shakespeare

As You Like It

(William) Shakespeare

Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

Jane Eyre

(Charlotte) Bronte

The Divine Comedy

Dante (Alighieri)

The Canterbury Tales

(Geoffrey) Chaucer

Othello

(William) Shakespeare

Candide

Voltaire

Little Women

(Louisa May) Alcott

Vanity Fair

(William Makepeace) Thackeray

Billy Budd: Foretopman

(Herman) Melville

Julius Caesar

(William) Shakespeare

Our Town

(Thorton) Wilder

Aeneid

Virgil

To Kill a Mockingbird

(Harper) Lee

A Streetcar Named Desire

("Tennessee") Williams

War and Peace

("Leo") Tolstoy

Les Miserables

(Victor) Hugo

The Grapes of Wrath

(John) Steinbeck

A Farewell to Arms

(Ernest) Hemingway

A Tale of Two Cities

(Charles) Dickens

Odyssey

Homer

Chicago

(Carl) Sandburg

Heart of Darkness

(Joseph) Conrad

The Call of the Wild

(Jack) London

Much Ado About Nothing

(William) Shakespeare

For Whom the Bell Tolls

(Ernest) Hemingway

Anna Karenina

("Leo") Tolstoy

Uncle Tom's Cabin

(Harriet Beecher) Stowe

The Waste Land

(T.S.) Eliot

Pilgrim's Progress

(John) Bunyan

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

(Mark) Twain

The Red Badge of Courage

(Stephen) Crane

Pygmalion

(George Bernard) Shaw

Twelfth Night

(William) Shakespeare

The Jungle

(Upton) Sinclair

Ulysses

(James) Joyce

Lolita

(Vladimir) Nabokov

Long Day's Journey Into Night

(Eugene) O'Neill

The Catcher in the Rye

(J.D.) Salinger

A Doll's House

(Henrik) Ibsen

The Taming of the Shrew

(William) Shakespeare

Don Quixote

(Miguel de) Cervantes

Great Expectations

(Charles) Dickens

Wuthering Heights

(Emily) Bronte

Animal Farm

(George) Orwell

Brave New World

(Aldous) Huxley

Things Fall Apart

(Chinua) Achebe

The Three Musketeers

(Alexandre) Dumas

The Sun Also Rises

(Ernest) Hemingway

Oliver Twist

(Charles) Dickens

The Count of Monte Cristo

(Alexandre) Dumas

David Copperfield

(Charles) Dickens

One Hundred Years of Solitude

(Gabriel) Garcia Marquez

The Crucible

(Arthur) Miller

A Raisin in the Sun

(Lorraine) Hansberry

The Tyger

(William) Blake

Beowulf

Anonymous

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

(Samuel Taylor) Coleridge

Catch-22

(Joseph) Heller

Ivanhoe

(Sir Walter) Scott

All the King's Men

(Robert Penn) Warren

The House of the Seven Gables

(Nathaniel) Hawthorne

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

(Thomas) Hardy

Death of a Salesman

(Arthur) Miller

The Merry Wives of Windsor

(William) Shakespeare

Antigone

Sophocles

Lord of the Flies

(William) Golding

Ode on a Grecian Urn

(John) Keats

Inferno

Dante (Alighieri)

Decameron

(Giovanni) Boccaccio

The Rape of the Lock

(Alexander) Pope

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

(Mark) Twain

Main Street

(Sinclair) Lewis

Sense and Sensibility

(Jane) Austen

Slaughterhouse Five

(Kurt) Vonnegut

All Quiet on the Western Front

(Erich Maria) Remarque

The Color Purple

(Alice) Walker

The Sound and the Fury

(William) Faulkner

Richard III

(William) Shakespeare

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

(Edward) Albee

Lyrical Ballads

Wordsworth and Coleridge

The Glass Menagerie

("Tennessee") Williams

Absalom, Absalom!

(William) Faulkner

The Turn of the Screw

(Henry) James