| 1750-1799 |
Realism was not popular: N/A |
"The Moon and the Sun" by Vonda Mcintyre |
"The Rivals" by Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
"The Sorrows of Young Werther" by Johann Goethe |
"The Task" by William Cowper |
"The Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole |
"Tom Jones" by Henry Feilding |
| 1800-1849 |
"Tess of the d'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy |
"Dracula" by Bram Stoker |
"Arms and the Man" by George Bernard Shaw |
"A History of the American Theatre" by William Dunlap |
"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen |
"Bright Star" by John Keats |
"The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe |
| 1850-1899 |
"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain |
"The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling |
"A Legend of Florence" by Leigh Hunt |
"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte |
"Le Bateau Ivre" by Arthur Rimbaud |
"Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley |
"The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde |
| 1900-1949 |
"Sister Carrie" by Theodore Dreiser |
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum |
"Our Town" by Thorton Wilder |
"Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell |
"The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime" by Emily Dickinson |
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Gilman |
"The Man Who Was Thursday" by G.K. Chesterton |
| 1950-1999 |
"The Old Wives' Tale" by Arnold Bennett |
"Peter Pan" by J.M. Barrie |
"The Iceman Cometh" by Eugene O'Neill |
"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
"From Snow to Snow" by Robert Frost |
"The Body" Stephen King |
"A Room with a View" by E.M. Forster |
