English Literature Reading Club

This group is for those interested in reading aloud together – in a social, relaxed, friendly environment – texts and authors significant for the History of the English Literature, focusing on major classics which were originally composed in English.

The main goal of our meetings is the appreciation of the best that English can offer, in terms of the ability to express meaning, thoughts, ideas, emotions, feelings.

The aim is to establish a small group of social readers regularly meeting on a weekly basis.

Each meeting will require, other than a specific interest in the text(s) being read, a commitment to focus a bit for just a couple of hours.

We read by taking multiple short turns. After the reading, we may briefly explain/discuss the text, and share impressions, views, opinions. We usually read more than talk, as this is a reading club more than a book club.

While ideally the reading load will be shared as equally as possible, each member is free to choose their level of participation.

Tentatively, an ideal number of participants for each meeting may be between four and eight.

Meetings are open to everyone, provided they are fluent in English and interested in the Literature in English.

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We also organise Multilingual Reading meetings, dedicated to reading classic texts from a variety of different literatures, in their original languages, e.g. French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Latin etc. During Multilingual Readings, we may read the same text translated in different languages or different short texts in their original languages.

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Joining and attending are free and costless: “free” means that there are no fees; “costless” means there are no hidden costs. Gold coin donations are welcome to cover meetup account costs.

This is not strictly a literature circle or a book discussion club: time allotted for comments, analyses or discussions are kept to a minimum, where essential for comprehension, or when a reader is so overwhelmingly inspired by a text that the compulsion to share an idea or emotion is irresistible, irrepressible, uncontainable… It can happen, it will happen, it is bound to happen – we will be reading very beautiful and inspiring texts – but most of all we will try to let the author speak.

Although our readings may be a good opportunity to learn more about the English language or for socialising – the main goal will be the actual experience of co-reading and co-listening to the words that great authors had the urge to convey to the posterity.

All members are required to be active in the group. Members who do not attend events are likely to be removed from the group unless they contribute to fees for the current six-month period: this is to ensure that everyone has a chance to join and that meetup costs are met.

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Here is a lengthy if very incomplete list of suitable candidates for our reading meetings (“☑” means “already read”; “♦” means “to be read”):

☑ Il Novellino. The hundred ancient tales. LXXXII. The Lady of Shalott (XIII century)
♦ Pearl/Gawain Poet: Pearl (late XIV century), translated in modern English in 1906 by George Coulton (1858–1947)
♦ Pearl/Gawain Poet: Pearl (late XIV century), translated in modern English in 1908 by Sophie Jewett (1861–1909)
☑ Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400): The Canterbury Tales (1387/1400) [Prologue 1-42]
☑ Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593): The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus (1592)
☑ William Shakespeare (1564–1616): Venus and Adonis (1593)
☑ William Shakespeare (1564–1616): The Rape of Lucrece (1594)
♦ William Shakespeare (1564–1616): The Comedy of Errors (1594)
☑ William Shakespeare (1564–1616): Romeo and Juliet (1594/1595)
♦ William Shakespeare (1564–1616): A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1595)
♦ William Shakespeare (1564–1616): The Merry Wives of Windsor (1597)
♦ William Shakespeare (1564–1616): Much Ado About Nothing (1598/1599)
☑ William Shakespeare (1564–1616): As You Like It (1599)
☑ William Shakespeare (1564–1616): Julius Caesar (1599)
☑ William Shakespeare (1564–1616): Hamlet (1600/1601)
☑ William Shakespeare (1564–1616): Othello (1603/1604)
☑ William Shakespeare (1564–1616): King Lear (1605/1606)
☑ William Shakespeare (1564–1616): Macbeth (1606)
♦ William Shakespeare (1564–1616): Antony and Cleopatra (1606)
☑ William Shakespeare (1564–1616): Timon of Athens (1606)
♦ William Shakespeare (1564–1616): Coriolanus (1608)
♦ William Shakespeare (1564–1616): Sonnets (1609)
♦ Ben Jonson (1572–1637): The Alchemist (1610)
♦ William Shakespeare (1564–1616): The Winter's Tale (1611)
☑ George Chapman (1559–1634): Iliad, by Homer (1615) [Translation of Book 1]
☑ John Milton (1608–1674): Paradise Lost (1667) [First Book]
☑ Alexander Pope (1688–1744): Iliad, by Homer (1715) [Translation of Book 1]
♦ Jonathan Swift (1667–1745): A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick (1729)
☑ Robert Burns (1759–1796): To a Mouse (1785)
♦ William Blake (1757–1827): Songs of Experience (1794)
♦ William Blake (1757–1827): Songs of Innocence (1789)
☑ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834): The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798)
☑ William Cowper (1731–1800): Iliad, by Homer (1800) [Translation of Book 1]
☑ Jane Austen (1775–1817): Pride and Prejudice (1813)
♦ Jane Austen (1775–1817): Persuasion (1818)
♦ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851): Frankenstein (1818)
☑ John William Polidori (1795–1821): The Vampyre (1819)
☑ Washington Irving (1783–1859): Rip Van Winkle (1819)
☑ Washington Irving (1783–1859): The Spectre Bridegroom (1819)
☑ Washington Irving (1783–1859): The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820)
☑ Washington Irving (1783–1859): The Devil and Tom Walker (1824)
☑ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864): An Old Woman’s Tale (1830)
☑ Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892): The Kraken (1830)
☑ Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892): Claribel (1830)
☑ Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892): Mariana (1830)
☑ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1805–1864): My Kinsman, Major Molineux (1832)
☑ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1805–1864): The Minister’s Black Veil (1832)
☑ Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892): The Lotos-Eaters (1832)
☑ Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892): Ulysses (1833)
☑ Edgar Allan Poe (1808–1849): The Assignation (1834)
♦ Edgar Allan Poe (1808–1849): Berenice (1835)
♦ Edgar Allan Poe (1808–1849): Morella (1835)
♦ Edgar Allan Poe (1808–1849): Shadow—A Parable (1835)
☑ Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892): Break, Break, Break (1835)
☑ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1805–1864): The Haunted Mind (1835)
☑ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1805–1864): Young Goodman Brown (1835)
♦ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1805–1864): The Great Carbuncle (1837)
☑ Edgar Allan Poe (1808–1849): Ligeia (1838)
♦ Edgar Allan Poe (1808–1849): Silence—A Fable (1838)
♦ Edgar Allan Poe (1808 1849): The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)
☑ Edgar Allan Poe (1808–1849): William Wilson (1839)
☑ Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892): Godiva (1840)
♦ Edgar Allan Poe (1808–1849): The Man of the Crowd (1840)
♦ Edgar Allan Poe (1808–1849): A Descent into the Maelström (1841)
☑ Edgar Allan Poe (1808–1849): The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)
☑ Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892): The Lady of Shalott (1842)
☑ Edgar Allan Poe (1808–1849): The Gold-Bug (1843)
♦ Edgar Allan Poe (1808–1849): The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (1843)
♦ Edgar Allan Poe (1808 – 1849): The Black Cat (1843)
♦ Edgar Allan Poe (1808–1849): The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
☑ Charles Dickens (1812–1870): A Christmas Carol (1843)
☑ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1805–1864): The Birthmark (1843)
☑ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1805–1864): The Artist of the Beautiful (1844)
☑ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1805–1864): Rappaccini’s Daughter (1844)
♦ Edgar Allan Poe (1808–1849): The Oblong Box (1844)
♦ Edgar Allan Poe (1808–1849): The Premature Burial (1844)
♦ Edgar Allan Poe (1808–1849): The Purloined Letter (1845)
☑ Edgar Allan Poe (1808–1849): The Imp of the Perverse (1845)
☑ Edgar Allan Poe (1808–1849): The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (1845)
♦ Edgar Allan Poe (1808 – 1849): The Raven (1845)
♦ Edgar Allan Poe (1808–1849): The Philosophy of Composition (1846)
☑ Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892): Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal (1847)
☑ Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892): Tears, Idle Tears (1847)
♦ Edgar Allan Poe (1808–1849): The Poetic Principle (1848)
♦ Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865): Christmas Storms and Sunshine (1848)
♦ Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862): Civil Disobedience (1849)
♦ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1805–1864): The Scarlet Letter (1850)
☑ Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892): The Eagle (1851)
☑ Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865): The Old Nurse’s Story (1852)
☑ Charles Dickens (1812–1870): To Be Read at Dusk (1852)
☑ Herman Melville (1819–1891): Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (1853)
☑ Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892): The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)
♦ Herman Melville (1819–1891): Benito Cereno (1855)
♦ Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865): An Accursed Race (1855)
♦ Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865): The Squire’s Story (1855)
♦ Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865): The Poor Clare (1856)
♦ Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865): The Half-Brothers (1858)
♦ Charles Dickens (1812–1870): A House to Let (1858)
♦ Charles Dickens (1812–1870): The Haunted House (1859)
☑ Emily Dickinson (1830–1886): Success is counted sweetest (1859)
☑ Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892): Tithonus (1859)
☑ George Eliot (1819–1880): The Lifted Veil (1859)
☑ Emily Dickinson (1830–1886): “Hope” is the thing with feathers (1861)
♦ Emily Dickinson (1830–1886): I taste a liquor never brewed (1861)
☑ Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865): The Grey Woman (1861)
☑ Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862): Walking (1862)
☑ Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892): The Brook (1864)
☑ Mark Twain (1835–1910): The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865)
☑ Lewis Carroll (1832–1898): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
♦ Charles Dickens (1812–1870): The Trial For Murder (1865)
♦ Charles Dickens (1812–1870): The Signal-Man (1866)
☑ Henry James (1843–1916): The Romance of Certain Old Clothes (1868)
☑ Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892): Flower in the Crannied Wall (1869)
♦ Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888): Lost in a Pyramid; or, The Mummy’s Curse (1869)
♦ Bayard Taylor (1825–1878): Faust (1872–1831), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1871) [Translation]
♦ Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888): Transcendental Wild Oats (1873)
☑ Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888): A Christmas Dream, and How It Came to be True
☑ Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888): Cousin Tribulation’s Story
☑ Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888): What the Bell Saw and Said
☑ Henry James (1843–1916): Daisy Miller (1878)
♦ Anna Swanwick (1813–1899): Faust (1872–1831), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1850, 1878) [Translation]
☑ Oscar Wilde (1854–1900): Requiescat (1881)
☑ Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892): To Virgil (1882)
♦ O. Henry (1862–1910): The Cactus (1882)
☑ Frank Stockton (1834–1902): The Lady, or the Tiger? (1882)
♦ Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838–1926): Flatland (1884)
♦ Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894): The Body Snatcher (1884)
♦ Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894): Markheim (1885)
☑ Oscar Wilde (1854–1900): The Harlot's House (1885)
☑ Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894): Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
♦ Emily Dickinson (1830–1886): Because I could not stop for Death (1886)
♦ Emily Dickinson (1830–1886): “Faith” is a fine invention (1886)
♦ Emily Dickinson (1830–1886): I heard a Fly buzz – when I died (1886)
☑ Emily Dickinson (1830–1886): I’m Nobody! Who are you? (1886)
♦ Emily Dickinson (1830–1886): Wild nights, wild nights (1886)
☑ Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930): A Study in Scarlet (1887)
♦ Oscar Wilde (1854–1900): The Canterville Ghost (1887)
☑ Oscar Wilde (1854–1900): The Happy Prince (1888)
♦ Oscar Wilde (1854–1900): The Selfish Giant (1888)
♦ Edith Wharton (1862–1937): A Journey (1889)
☑ Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892): Crossing the Bar (1889)
☑ Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892): The Higher Pantheism (?)
☑ Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914): A Horseman in the Sky (1889)
☑ Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914): An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890)
♦ Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930): The Sign of the Four (1890)
♦ Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936): The Mark of the Beast (1890)
☑ Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935): The Yellow Wallpaper (1890)
☑ Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935): The Giant Wistaria (1891)
☑ Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894): The Bottle Imp (1891)
♦ Oscar Wilde (1854–1900): The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
☑ Oscar Wilde (1854–1900): Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime (1891)
♦ Oscar Wilde (1854–1900): The Sphinx Without a Secret (1891)
♦ Oscar Wilde (1854–1900): The Model Millionaire (1891)
♦ Oscar Wilde (1854–1900): A House of Pomegranates: The Birthday of the Infanta (1891)
☑ Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930): A Scandal in Bohemia (1891)
♦ Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930): The Red-Headed League (1891)
☑ Abraham Stoker (1847–1912): The Judge's House (1891)
☑ Gertrude Atherton (1857–1948): Death and the Woman (1892)
♦ Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930): The Adventure of the Speckled Band (1892)
☑ Henry James (1843–1916): The Real Thing (1892)
♦ Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930): The Adventure of the Final Problem (1893)
♦ Mark Twain (1835–1910): The Million Pound Bank Note (1893)
☑ Stephen Crane (1871–1900): A Dark Brown Dog (1893)
☑ Kate Chopin (1850–1904): Désirée’s Baby (1893)
☑ Kate Chopin (1850–1904): Story of an Hour (1894)
☑ Oscar Wilde (1854–1900): The Sphinx (1894)
♦ Arthur Machen (1863–1947): The Great God Pan (1894)
♦ Gertrude Atherton (1857–1948): Crowned with One Crest (1895)
♦ Herbert George Wells (1866–1946): The Time Machine (1895)
☑ Oscar Wilde (1854–1900): The Importance Of Being Earnest (1895)
☑ Willa Cather (1873–1947): A Burglar’s Christmas (1896)
☑ Oscar Wilde (1854–1900): The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1897)
♦ Joseph Conrad (1857–1924): An Outpost of Progress (1897)
♦ William Butler Yeats (1865–1939): The Secret Rose: The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows (1897)
☑ H. G. Wells (1866–1946): The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1898)
☑ Henry James (1843–1916): The Turn of the Screw (1898)
☑ Joseph Conrad (1857–1924): Heart of Darkness (1899)
♦ Kate Chopin (1850–1904): The Awakening (1899)
♦ Mark Twain (1835–1910): The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1899)
☑ Sigmund Freud (1856–1939): The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) [Ch. 2-3]
☑ Edith Wharton (1862–1937): The Duchess At Prayer (1900)
☑ Jack London (1876–1916): The Law of Life (1901)
♦ Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930): The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901–1902)
☑ William Wymark Jacobs (1863–1943): The Monkey’s Paw (1902)
☑ O. Henry (1862–1910): The Duplicity of Hargraves (1902)
♦ Edith Wharton (1862–1937): The Descent of Man (1903)
♦ Herbert George Wells (1866–1946): The Magic Shop (1903)
☑ Mark Twain (1835–1910): A Dog’s Tale (1903)
♦ Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930): The Adventure of the Dancing Men (1903)
♦ Henry James (1843–1916): Maud-Evelyn (1903)
♦ Henry James (1843–1916): The Beast in the Jungle (1903)
☑ O. Henry (1862–1910): A Retrieved Reformation (1903)
☑ O. Henry (1862–1910): The Cop and the Anthem (1904)
☑ Montague Rhodes James (1862–1936): Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad (1904)
♦ Herbert George Wells (1866–1946): The Country of the Blind (1904)
♦ Montague Rhodes James (1862–1936): The Ash-tree (1904)
♦ Gertrude Atherton (1857–1948): The Striding Place (1905)
♦ Robert Frost (1874–1963): The Death of the Hired Man (1905)
☑ O. Henry (1862–1910): The Gift of the Magi (1905)
☑ Mark Twain (1835–1910): The War Prayer (1905)
♦ Willa Cather (1873–1947): Paul’s Case: A Study in Temperament (1905, 1920)
☑ Willa Cather (1873–1947): A Wagner Matinee (1905, 1920)
♦ Willa Cather (1873–1947): The Sculptor’s Funeral (1905, 1920)
♦ Willa Cather (1873–1947): A Death in the Desert (1905, 1920)
☑ Alfred Noyes (1880–1958): The Highwayman (1906)
♦ Mark Twain (1835–1910): Eve’s Diary (1906)
♦ O. Henry (1862–1910): The Skylight Room (1906)
☑ O. Henry (1862–1910): After Twenty Years (1906)
♦ Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951): The Willows (1907)
☑ O. Henry (1862–1910): The Ransom of Red Chief (1907)
♦ O. Henry (1862–1910): The Caballero’s Way (1907)
☑ Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914): The Moonlit Road (1907)
♦ Jack London (1876–1916): To Build a Fire (1908)
☑ Joseph Conrad (1857–1924): The Secret Sharer (1909)
♦ Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951): The Wendigo (1910)
☑ Edith Wharton (1862–1937): The Eyes (1910)
☑ Edith Wharton (1862–1937): Afterward (1910)
☑ Edith Wharton (1862–1937): Ethan Frome (1911)
♦ George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950): Pygmalion (1912)
☑ Walter de la Mare (1873–1956): The Listeners (1912)
♦ Robert Frost (1874–1963): Mowing (1913)
☑ Hector Hugh Munro ‘Saki’ (1870–1916): The Lumber Room (1913)
♦ Robert Frost (1874–1963): Mending Wall (1914)
♦ Robert Frost (1874–1963): Home Burial (1914)
♦ Robert Frost (1874–1963): After Apple-Picking (1914)
♦ James Joyce (1882–1941): Dubliners: The Sisters (1914)
☑ James Joyce (1882–1941): Dubliners: Eveline (1914)
♦ James Joyce (1882–1941): Dubliners: Araby (1914)
♦ James Joyce (1882–1941): Dubliners: A Painful Case(1914)
☑ James Joyce (1882–1941): Dubliners: The Dead (1914)
♦ Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930): The Valley of Fear (1914/1915)
☑ Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888–1965): The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
♦ Robert Frost (1874–1963): The Road Not Taken (1916)
♦ Robert Frost (1874–1963): Christmas Trees (1916)
♦ Robert Frost (1874–1963): Birches (1916)
♦ Robert Frost (1874–1963): Out, out (1916)
♦ Edith Wharton (1862–1937): Bunner Sisters (1916)
☑ Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941): Hands (1916)
☑ Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937): The Tomb (1917)
☑ Virginia Woolf (1882–1941): The Mark on the Wall (1917)
☑ Virginia Woolf (1882–1941): Solid Objects (1918)
☑ Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923): Prelude (1918)
☑ Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923): Bliss (1918)
☑ Virginia Woolf (1882–1941): Kew Gardens (1919)
☑ Virginia Woolf (1882–1941): An Unwritten Novel (1920)
☑ Virginia Woolf (1882–1941): A Haunted House (1920)
☑ F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940): Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1920)
☑ F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940): The Ice Palace (1920)
♦ F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940): The Jelly-Bean (1920)
♦ Robert Frost (1874–1963): Fire and Ice (1920)
☑ Edward Vivian “Vance” Palmer (1885–1959): Song of the Old Boundary Rider (1920)
☑ Edward Vivian “Vance” Palmer (1885–1959): The Dandenongs (1920)
☑ Edward Vivian “Vance” Palmer (1885–1959): The Snake (1920)
☑ Edward Vivian “Vance” Palmer (1885–1959): The Scrub Pool (1920)
☑ Edward Vivian “Vance” Palmer (1885–1959): The Avatar (1920)
♦ Edward Vivian “Vance” Palmer (1885–1959): The Valley (1920)
♦ Edward Vivian “Vance” Palmer (1885–1959): Drought (1920)
♦ Edward Vivian “Vance” Palmer (1885–1959): Life (1920)
♦ Edward Vivian “Vance” Palmer (1885–1959): Homecoming (1920)
♦ Edward Vivian “Vance” Palmer (1885–1959): The Farmer Remembers The Somme (1920)
♦ Edward Vivian “Vance” Palmer (1885–1959): The Harvest (1920)
♦ Edward Vivian “Vance” Palmer (1885–1959): These Are My People (1920)
♦ Edward Vivian “Vance” Palmer (1885–1959): Visitant (1920)
☑ Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923): The Garden Party (1920)
☑ Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923): Miss Brill (1920)
♦ Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923): The Stranger (1921)
♦ Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923): The Voyage (1921)
☑ Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923): At the Bay (1922)
♦ Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923): The Daughters of the Late Colonel (1922)
☑ Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923): The Doll’s House (1922)
☑ Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923): The Fly (1922)
☑ Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888–1965): The Waste Land (1922)
☑ F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940): The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (1922)
☑ F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940): The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (1922)
♦ Robert Frost (1874–1963): Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1922)
♦ Robert Frost (1874–1963): The Need of Being Versed in Country Things (1923)
♦ Robert Frost (1874–1963): Nothing Gold Can Stay (1923)
☑ E.M. Forster (1879–1970): A Passage to India (1924)
☑ Robert von Ranke Graves (1895–1985): The Shout (1924)
☑ Virginia Woolf (1882–1941): Mrs Dalloway (1925)
☑ F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940): The Great Gatsby (1925)
♦ Ernest Hemingway (1898–1961): Big Two-Hearted River (1925)
☑ Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960): Sweat (1926)
☑ David Herbert Lawrence (1885–1930): The Rocking Horse Winner (1926)
☑ David Herbert Lawrence (1885–1930): The Virgin and the Gipsy (1926)
☑ Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937): The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
♦ Virginia Woolf (1882–1941): To the Lighthouse (1927)
♦ Robert Frost (1874–1963): Acquainted with the Night (1927)
♦ Robert Frost (1874–1963): Tree at my Window (1928)
♦ Virginia Woolf (1882–1941): Orlando (1928)
♦ Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937): Dunwich Horror (1928)
☑ Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980): Flowering Judas (1930)
☑ William Faulkner (1897–1962): A Rose for Emily (1930)
☑ William Faulkner (1897–1962): That Evening Sun (1931)
☑ Aldous Huxley (1894–1963): Brave New World (1932)
♦ Gertrude Atherton (1857–1948): The Foghorn (1933)
♦ Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960): The Gilded Six-Bits (1933)
♦ John Ernst Steinbeck (1902–1968): The Red Pony (1933)
♦ Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888–1965): Murder in the Cathedral (1935)
♦ Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937): The Haunter of the Dark (1936)
☑ George Orwell (1903–1950): Shooting an Elephant (1936)
♦ Ernest Hemingway (1898–1961): The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1936)
♦ Ernest Hemingway (1898–1961): The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber (1936)
♦ Robert Frost (1874–1963): Desert Places (1937)
☑ John Ernst Steinbeck (1902–1968): Of Mice and Men (1937)
☑ John Ernst Steinbeck (1902–1968): The Chrysanthemums (1937)
☑ Virginia Woolf (1882–1941): The Duchess and the Jeweller (1938)
♦ Robert E. Howard (1906–1936): Pigeons from Hell (1938)
☑ Eudora Alice Welty (1909–2001): The Whistle (1938)
♦ Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980): Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939)
☑ Eudora Alice Welty (1909–2001): Petrified Man (1939)
☑ William Faulkner (1897–1962): Barn Burning (1939)
♦ George Orwell (1903–1950): Charles Dickens (1940)
☑ Eudora Alice Welty (1909–2001): A Worn Path (1940)
☑ Isaac Asimov (1920–1992): Nightfall (1941)
♦ Robert Frost (1874–1963): The Gift Outright (1941)
☑ Eudora Alice Welty (1909–2001): Why I Live at the P.O. (1941)
☑ William Faulkner (1897–1962): The Bear (1942) [short version]
♦ Isaac Asimov (1920–1992): Runaround (1942)
♦ Agatha Christie (1890–1976): And Then There Were None [play] (1943)
☑ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944): Le Petit Prince (1943) [FR, EN, ES]
☑ George Orwell (1903–1950): You and the Atom Bomb (1945)
♦ George Orwell (1903–1950): The Freedom of the Press (1945)
☑ George Orwell (1903–1950): Animal Farm (1945)
☑ George Orwell (1903–1950): Politics and the English Language (1946)
☑ George Orwell (1903–1950): Why I Write (1946)
☑ John Ernst Steinbeck (1902–1968): The Pearl (1947)
☑ Shirley Jackson (1916–1965): The Lottery (1948)
☑ George Orwell (1903–1950): Reflections on Gandhi (1949)
☑ Arthur Miller (1915–2005): Death of a Salesman (1949)
☑ Ray Bradbury (1920–2012): There Will Come Soft Rains (1950)
♦ Doris Lessing (1919–2013): The Grass Is Singing (1950)
♦ Shirley Jackson (1916–1965): The Lovely House (1950)
♦ Carson McCullers (1917–1967): The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951)
♦ Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000): Maud Martha (1951)
☑ Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961): The Old Man and the Sea (1951)
☑ Ray Bradbury (1920–2012): A Sound of Thunder (1952)
♦ Agatha Christie (1890–1976): The Mousetrap [play] (1952)
♦ Agatha Christie (1890–1976): The Witness for the Prosecution [play] (1953)
☑ Arthur Miller (1915–2005): The Crucible (1953)
☑ Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964): A Good Man is Hard to Find (1953)
☑ Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008): The Nine Billion Names of God (1953)
☑ Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007): Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1953)
♦ William Golding (1911–1993): Lord of the Flies (1954)
♦ Eudora Alice Welty (1909–2001): The Ponder Heart (1954)
♦ Samuel Beckett (1906–1989): Waiting for Godot (1955)
☑ Philip K. Dick (1928–1982): Human Is (1955)
☑ Isaac Asimov (1920–1992): The Last Question (1956)
♦ Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014): Six Feet of the Country (1956)
☑ Daniel Keyes (1927–2014): Flowers for Algernon (1958)
♦ Tillie Lerner Olsen (1912–2007): Tell Me a Riddle (1960)
☑ Tillie Lerner Olsen (1912–2007): I Stand Here Ironing (1961)
☑ Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007): Harrison Bergeron (1961)
☑ Patrick White (1912–1990): Dead Roses [from The Burnt Ones ] (1964)
☑ John Cheever (1912–1982): The Swimmer (1964)
♦ Shirley Jackson (1916–1965): The Possibility of Evil (1965)
☑ Raymond Carver (1938–1988): Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1981)
♦ Stephen King (1947–): Here There Be Tygers (1968)
☑ Jean Rhys (1890–1979): Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
☑ Toni Morrison (1931–2019): Sula (1973)
♦ Stephen King (1947–): The Last Rung on the Ladder (1978)
☑ Raymond Carver (1938–1988): What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)
☑ Raymond Carver (1938–1988): So Much Water So Close to Home (1981)
☑ Raymond Carver (1938–1988): Cathedral (1981)
☑ Robert Fagles (1933–2008): Iliad, by Homer (1990) [Translation of Book 1]
☑ Salman Rushdie (1947–): East, West: Good Advice Is Rarer Than Rubies (1994)
☑ Salman Rushdie (1947–): East, West: Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella of Spain Consummate Their Relationship (Santa Fé, AD 1492) (1994)
☑ Salman Rushdie (1947–): East, West: The Harmony of the Spheres (1994)
☑ Stephen King (1947–): The Man in the Black Suit (1994)
♦ Stephen King (1947–): Autopsy Room Four (1997)
♦ Stephen King (1947–): Everything's Eventual (1997)
☑ Alice Munro (1931–): The Love of a Good Woman (1998)
☑ Alice Munro (1931–): The Bear Came Over the Mountain (1999)
♦ Stephen King (1947–): The Road Virus Heads North (1999)
♦ Doris Lessing (1919–2013): The Grandmothers (2003)
♦ Yiyun Li (1972—): Extra (2003)
☑ Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014): Mother Tongue (2005)
♦ Alice Munro (1931–): The View from Castle Rock (2005)
☑ Carys Davies: The Quiet (2010)
☑ Carys Davies: The Redemption of Galen Pike (2011)
♦ Toni Morrison (1931–2019): God Help the Child (2015)
☑ Teju Cole (1975–): Seven short stories about drones (2013)
☑ Yiyun Li (1972—): A Sheltered Woman (2014)
☑ Shashi Tharoor (1956–): An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India (2016), also published under the title "Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India" [First Chapter]
☑ Helen Oyeyemi (1984–): If A Book Is Locked There’s Probably A Good Reason For That Don’t You Think (2016)
☑ NoViolet Bulawayo (1981–): His Middle Name Was Not Jesus (2016)
☑ Magogodi Makhene: The Virus (2017)
☑ Meron Hadero: The Wall (2019)
☑ Ngwah-Mbo Nana Nkweti: It Takes A Village Some Say (2019)