Quizbowl Literature

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot

H.G. Wells

The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man

Henrik Ibsen

A Doll's House, When We Dead Awaken, A Public Enemy, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts

Anton Chekhov

The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Bet

John Keats

Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode To Psyche, To Autumn, Adonais

Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms, The Snows of Kilimanjaro

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tender is the Night, The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise

Sophocles

Oedipus Rex, Antigone

William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair

Johann William van Goethe

Faust, "Wanderer's Nightsong II"

Tennessee Williams

A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof glass menagerie

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary, "A Simple Heart"

Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lady Windermere's Fan

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

Guy de Maupassant

The Necklace, Boule de Suif

Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court

Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe, A Journal of the Plague Year

Joseph Heller

Catch-22

Murasaki Shikibu

The Tale of Genji

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World, Point Counter Point

Charles Dickens

Hard Times, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickelby, David Copperfield, Bleak House

Gunter Grass

The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Dog Years = Danzig Trilogy

Albert Camus

The Stranger

Jean-Paul Sartre

No Exit, Nausea

Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim

Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage, The Open Boat, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, The Blue Hotel

Agatha Christie

The Mousetrap, And Then There Were None

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ulysses, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Crossing the Bar

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men

J.D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, A Perfect Day for Bananafish

John Milton

Paradise Lost, Lycidas

Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken, Fire and Ice, Birches, Out, Out, Nothing Gold Can Stay, The Gift Outright, The Mending Wall

Marvell

To His Coy Mistress

Jack London

The Call of the Wild, White Fang

Alexander Pushkin

The Bronze Horseman, The Stone Guest

Sir Walter Scott

Ivanhoe, rob roy

Boris Pasternak

Doctor Zhivago

Washington Irving

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle

Virgil

Aeneid

Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

William Faulkner

As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, The Bear

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Frost at Midnight, Kubla Khan

Akira Kurosawa

Seven Samurai

Proust

In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, "Innocent Erendira"

Franz Kafka

The Trial, The Metamorphosis

Aristophanes

The Wasps, The Birds, The Frogs, The Clouds, Lysistrata

Euripides

Medea, Bacchae

William Shakespeare

Othello, King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet

Garcia Lorca

Impressions and Landscapes, "Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter", Gypsy Ballads, The House of Bernarda Alba, "Rural Trilogy"

Christopher Marlowe

Tamburlaine, Doctor Faustus

Thornton Wilder

Our Town, The Ides of March

T.S. Eliot

The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, Murder in the Cathedral, The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock, Gertantion

Chinese Authors

San Guo Yan Yi, Xi You Ji, Hong Lou Meng

Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451

Eugene O'Neill

Long Day's Journey Into Night, Ah Wilderness!

George Bernard Shaw

Pygmalion, Man and Superman

Walt Whitman

O'Captain! My Captain!, Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself

e.e. cummings

tulips and chimneys

Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse, A Room of One's Own, Mrs. Dalloway

Thomas Hardy

Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Return of the Native, Jude the Obscure, Hap, The Darkling Thrush

Edward Albee

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

James Fenimore Cooper

The Last of the Mohicans, The Spy, The Pilot

Anthony Burgess

A Clockwork Orange

Matsuo Basho

Haikus, Narrow Road to the Deep North, The Seashell Game

Kenzaburo Oe

A Personal Matter, Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, The Silent Cry

Isabel Allende

The House of the Spirits, Of Love and Shadows, Eva Luna

Umberto Eco

Foucault's Pendulum, The Name of the Rose

Charles Baudelaire

The Flowers of Evil ("Spleen","Ideal"), To the Reader, "The Albatross", "Litanies of Satan"

Erich Maria Remarque

All Quiet on the Western Front

Sylvia Plath

Daddy, Ariel, The Colossus, The Bell Jar

Louisa May Alcott

Little Women

Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, "All the King's Horses", "Welcome to the Monkey House"

Voltaire

Candide

Pablo Neruda

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, Elemental Odes ("A Large Tuna in the Market", "My Socks", etc), Canto General ("The Heights of Macchu Picchu")

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nihilism, The Birth of a Tragedy, Beyond Good and Evil

Nikolai Gogol

"Petersburg Tales" ("The Overcoat", "Nevsky Prospect"), "The Nose", The Government Inspector

Herman Melville

Moby Dick

Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita, Pale Fire

Puccini

Madame Butterfly, La Bohème

George Orwell

Animal Farm, 1984

Arthur Miller

Death of a Salesman, The Crucible

Herman Hesse

Der Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, The Glass Bead Game, Demian

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Art of the Novel, Slowness, Identity, Ignorance

Henry James

Daisy Miller, The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw

Rudyard Kipling

Rikki Tikki Tavi, Kim, Just So Stories, The Jungle Book, "If--", "The White Man's Burden"

Allen Ginsberg

Howl

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels

Unknown Author

Beowulf

Petrarch

Il Canzoniere (The Song Book), Triumphs, Africa, Epistolae Familiares, Illustrious Men

Alexander Pope

The Rape of the Lock, Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady

Robert Browning

My Last Duchess

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, Rappaccini's Daughter, twice told tales

Alan Paton

Cry, the Beloved Country

Alice Walker

The Color Purple

Samuel Beckett

Waiting for Godot, Endgame, happy days