Literature

American Literature

  • PBS, The American Novel
  • Willa Cather
  • Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain)
  • Stephen Crane
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Theodore Dreiser
  • T.S. Eliot
  • Ralph Ellison
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Ken Kesey
  • Daniel Keyes
  • Harper Lee
  • Sinclair Lewis
  • Jack London
  • Herman Melville
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Sylvia Plath
  • J.D. Salinger
  • John Steinbeck
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Henry David Thoreau

British Literature

  • Beowulf
  • The Bronte sisters
  • Lewis Carroll
  • Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Daniel Defoe
  • Charles Dickens
  • Aldous Huxley
  • James Joyce
  • Rudyard Kipling
  • Sir Thomas Malory
  • George Orwell
  • William Shakespeare
  • Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Jonathan Swift
  • Virginia Woolf
  • William Wordsworth

Contemporary Literature

  • Douglas Adams
  • Margaret Atwood
  • Anthony Burgess
  • Albert Camus
  • Sir William Golding
  • Jack Kerouac
  • Sue Monk Kidd
  • Ursula K. LeGuin
  • Elmore Leonard
  • Toni Morrison
  • Tom Robbins
  • Amy Tan
  • J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Kurt Vonnegut
  • Alice Walker
  • Eudora Welty

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity. ~Bernard Berenson