World Literature

• Epic of Gilgamesh, 2100-1200 BCE
• Homer's Iliad, 8th C BCE
• Homer's Odyssey, 8th C BCE
• Sappho’s poems, 7th and 6th C BCE (“Come, goddess” “Love shakes my heart,” “Honestly, I wish I were dead”)
• The Ramayana of Valmiki, 6th C BCE
• Sophocles's Oedipus the King, 5th BCE
• Euripides's Medea, 5th C BCE
• Laozi Daodejing, 300 BCE
• Confucius's The Analects, 2nd C BCE
• Virgil's Aeneid, 1st C BCE
• Ovid's Metamorphoses,1st C BCE (Rape of Philomela, Echo and Narcissus, Proserpina, Pygmalion)
• Beowulf, 8th C CE
• The Thousand and One Nights, 9-14th C CE
• Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji, 11th C CE
• Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy, 13th C CE
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 13th C CE
• The Tales of the Heike, 14th C CE
• Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales,14th C CE
• Francis Petrarch’s Il Canzoniere, 14th C CE
• Thomas More's Utopia, 16th C CE
• Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince 16th C CE
• Michel de Montaigne Essais, 16th C CE
• Popul Vuh: The Mayan Council Book, 16th C CE
• Wu Cheng'en's The Journey to the West, 16th C CE
• William Shakespeare's Hamlet, 17th C CE
• Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote, 17th C CE
• John Milton Paradise Lost, 17th C
• Moliere's Tartuffe, 17th C CE 
• Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, 18th C CE
• Francois-Marie Arouet's (Voltaire) Candide 18th C CE
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, 18th C CE
• Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal, 19th C CE
• Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary, 19th C CE
• Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 19th C CE
• Henrik Ibsen's A Doll’s House, 19th C CE
• Higuchi Ichiyō's Child's Play, 19th C CE
• Rabindranath Tagore's “Punishment,” 19th C CE
• Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, 19th C CE
• Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, 20th C CE
• Franz Kafka's The Trial, 20th C CE
• T.S. Eliot's poems, 20th C CE
• Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, 20th C CE
• Jorge Luis Borges “The Aleph” 20th C
• Chinua Achebe's A Man of the People, 20th C CE