| Abbott, Edwin A. | Flatland | European | 19th Century | Novels | |
| Achebe, Chinua | Marriage is a Private Affair | Non-Western | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Achebe, Chinua | Dead Men's Path | Non-Western | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Achebe, Chinua | The Madman | Non-Western | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Achebe, Chinua | The Voter | Non-Western | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Achebe, Chinua | The Sacrificial Egg | Non-Western | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Aeschylus | Agamemnon | Western | Ancient (pre-450AD) | Plays | |
| Aeschylus | Libation Bearers | Western | Ancient (pre-450AD) | Plays | |
| Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke | Rashōmon | Non-Western | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke | In a Grove | Non-Western | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Alcott, Louisa May | Transcendental Wild Oats | American, Women | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Alighieri, Dante | Paradiso, Cantos 25-27 | European | Medieval (450-1400) | Poetry | |
| Alighieri, Dante | Purgatorio, Cantos 8-9 | European | Medieval (450-1400) | Poetry | |
| Alighieri, Dante | Inferno, Cantos 1-5 | European | Medieval (450-1400) | Poetry | |
| Anderson, Sherwood | The Egg | American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Anonymous | The Epic of Gilgamesh | Non-Western | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Novels | |
| Aristopahnes | Lysistrata | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Plays | |
| Aristophanes | Lysistrata | European | Ancient | Plays | |
| Aristophanes | Lysistrata | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Plays | |
| Arnold, Matthew | Dover Beach | European | 19th Century | Poetry | |
| Arnold, Matthew | Morality | European | 19th Century | Poetry | |
| Arnold, Matthew | The Buried Life | European | 19th Century | Poetry | |
| Ashbery, John | The Fear of Death | American | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Ashbery, John | Myrtle | American | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Ashbery, John | The Problem of Anxiety | American | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Auden, W. H. | In Praise of Limestone | European/American | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Auden, W. H. | The Fall of Rome | European/American | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Augustine of Hippo | Ambrose and the Confession of Augustine | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Documents | Memoir, Non-Fiction |
| Aurelius, Marcus | The Meditations, Books One-Three | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Austen, Jane | Lady Susan | European/American, Women | 1650-1799 | Novellas | |
| Bacon, Francis | First Ten "Essays" | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Baldwin, James | Sonny's Blues | American, African American | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Balzac, Honoré de | Le Grande Bretèche | European | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Balzac, Honoré de | The Atheist's Mass | European | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Balzac, Honoré de | The Red Inn | European | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Barnes, Djuna | A Night Among the Horses | American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Barnes, Djuna | How it Feels to Be Forcibly Fed | American | 1900-1945 | Essays and Speeches | Non-Fiction |
| Barth, Karl | Is Man Immortal? | European | Post 1945 | Essays and Speeches | Religion, Non-Fiction |
| Benjamin, Walter | The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction | European | 1900-1945 | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Berkeley, George | A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Sections 1-33 | European | 1650-1799 | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Bible | Ecclesiastes | Non-Western | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Documents | Religion, Non-Fiction |
| Bible | Genesis 11.26-35.29,The Abraham--Isaac--Jacob Cycles | Non-Western | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Documents | Religion, Non-Fiction |
| Bible | Genesis 37-50,The Joseph Cycle | Non-Western | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Documents | Religion, Non-Fiction |
| Bible | Job | Non-Western | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Documents | Religion, Non-Fiction |
| Bible | Jonah | Non-Western | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Documents | Religion, Non-Fiction |
| Bible | The Epistle of Paul to the Galatians | Non-Western | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Documents | Religion, Non-Fiction |
| Bible | Lamentations | Non-Western | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Documents | Religion, Non-Fiction |
| Bible | The Last Days of Jesus as described in the four canonical gospels | Non-Western | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Documents | Religion, Non-Fiction |
| Bible | and the so-called Gospel of Peter | Non-Western | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Documents | Religion, Non-Fiction |
| Bible | Genesis 1-11, Creation to the Descendants of Shem | Non-Western | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Documents | Religion, Non-Fiction |
| Bible | Song of Songs | Non-Western | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Documents | Religion, Non-Fiction |
| Bible | The Epistle of James | Non-Western | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Documents | Religion, Non-Fiction |
| Bible | Esther | Non-Western | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Documents | Religion, Non-Fiction |
| Bible | Exodus (Selections) | Non-Western | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Documents | Religion, Non-Fiction |
| Bible | Judges, chapters 2-15 | Non-Western | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Documents | Religion, Non-Fiction |
| Bible | Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5-7 | Non-Western | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Documents | Religion, Non-Fiction |
| Bishop, Elizabeth | What Is in His Hand? | American, Women | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Bishop, Elizabeth | In the Village | American, Women | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Blake, William | Songs of Experience | European | 1650-1799 | Poetry | |
| Boccaccio, Giovanni | The Decameron, Introduction and Day One | European | Medieval (450-1400) | Novellas | |
| Boethius | The Consolation of Philosophy, Books 1-3 | European | Medieval (450-1400) | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy |
| Bohr, Niels | Atoms and Human Knowledge, address to the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences | European | Post 1945 | Essays and Speeches | Science, Non-Fiction |
| Böll, Heinrich | Christmas Every Day | European | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Borge, Jorge Luis | Book of Sand | Latin American | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Borges, Jorge Luis | Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius | Latin American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Borges, Jorge Luis | The Garden of Forking Paths | Latin American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Borges, Jorge Luis | The Circular Ruins | Latin American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Borges, Jorge Luis | The Lottery in Babylon | Latin American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Borges, Jorge Luis | The Aleph | Latin American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Borges, Jorge Luis | Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote | Latin American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Borges, Jorge Luis | The Library of Babel | Latin American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Borges, Jorge Luis | Death and the Compass | Latin American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Borges, Jorge Luis | The Zahir | Latin American | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Borges, Jorge Luis | The Golem/El Golem | Latin American | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Borges, Jorge Luis | The Sect of the Phoenix | Latin American | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Borges, Jorge Luis | The South | Latin American | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Borges, Jorge Luis | “El Otro Tigre" / "The Other Tiger” | Latin American | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Borges, Jorge Luis | “Un Lobo" / "A Wolf” | Latin American | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Brooks, Gwendolyn | Negro Hero | American, African American, Women | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Brooks, Gwendolyn | First Fight, Then Fiddle | American, African American, Women | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Burns, Robert | Green Grow The Rashes, O | European | 1650-1799 | Poetry | |
| Burns, Robert | To a Mouse | European | 1650-1799 | Poetry | |
| Burns, Robert | Is There for Honest Poverty,( A Man's a Man for a' That) | European | 1650-1799 | Poetry | |
| Burns, Robert | A Red, Red Rose | European | 1650-1799 | Poetry | |
| Burns, Robert | Comin Thro The Rye | European | 1650-1799 | Poetry | |
| Calderon de la Barca, Pedro | Life is a Dream | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Plays | |
| Carr, Marina | By the Bog of Cats (a 1998 retelling of Euripides's Medea) | European | Post 1945 | Plays | |
| Cather, Willa | A Wagner Matinee | American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Cather, Willa | Paul's Case | American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Cervantes, Miguel de | The Tale of the Ill-Advised Curiosity, Chapters 33-35 from Don Quixote | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Novels | |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey | The Wife of Bath's Tale | European | Medieval (450-1400) | Poetry | |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey | The Pardoner's Tale | European | Medieval (450-1400) | Poetry | |
| Cheever, John | The Five-Forty-Eight | American | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Cheever, John | The Swimmer | American | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Cheever, John | The Enormous Radio | American | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Chekhov, Anton | The Seagull | European | 19th Century | Plays | |
| Chekov, Anton | Three Sisters | European | 1900-1945 | Plays | |
| Chopin, Kate | At the 'Cadian Ball | American, Women | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Chopin, Kate | The Story of an Hour | American, Women | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Chopin, Kate | The Storm | American, Women | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Christie, Agatha | The Tuesday Night Club | European, Women | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Christie, Agatha | The Kidnapped Prime Minister | European, Women | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Christie, Agatha | The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb | European, Women | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Collins, Wilkie | The Ghost in the Cupboard Room | European | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Collins, Wilkie (with Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Adelaide Anne Procter) | House to Let | European | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Conrad, Joseph | The Heart of Darkness | European | 19th Century | Novella | |
| Copernicus, Nicholas | First nine chapters of On the Revolutions | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Essays and Speeches | Science, Non-Fiction |
| Coward, Noel | Hay Fever | European | 1900-1945 | Plays | |
| Crane, Hart | To Brooklyn Bridge | American | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Crane, Stephen | In the Desert | American | 19th Century | Poetry | |
| Crane, Stephen | I Explain the Silvered Passing of a Ship at Night | American | 19th Century | Poetry | |
| cummings, e. e. | O sweet spontaneous | American | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| cummings, e. e. | the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls | American | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Darwin, Charles | An Historical Sketch | European | 19th Century | Essays and Speeches | Science, Non-Fiction |
| Darwin, Charles | Chapter VII: Miscellaneous Objections | European | 19th Century | Essays and Speeches | Science, Non-Fiction |
| Darwin, Charles | to the Theory of Natural Selection | European | 19th Century | Essays and Speeches | Science, Non-Fiction |
| Darwin, Charles | Summary from Chapter XI | European | 19th Century | Essays and Speeches | Science, Non-Fiction |
| Darwin, Charles | Chapter XV: Recapitulation and Conclusion | European | 19th Century | Essays and Speeches | Science, Non-Fiction |
| Darwin, Charles | Chapter VI: Difficulties of the Theory | European | 19th Century | Essays and Speeches | Science, Non-Fiction |
| Darwin, Charles | Introduction | European | 19th Century | Essays and Speeches | Science, Non-Fiction |
| Darwin, Charles | Selections from The Origin of Species | European | 19th Century | Essays and Speeches | Science, Non-Fiction |
| Declaration of Independence | | American | 1650-1799 | Documents | Politics, Non-Fiction |
| Descartes, Rene | Meditation 2 | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Dhammapada | (Sayings of the Buddha) | Non-Western | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Documents | |
| Dickens, Charles | The Lawyer and the Ghost | European | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Dickens, Charles | A Trial for Murder | European | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Dickens, Charles | The Signal-Man | European | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Dirksen, Everett M. | Congressional speech to end the Senate filibuster on the Civil Rights bill, June 10, 1964 | American | Post 1945 | Essays and Speeches | Politics, Non-Fiction |
| Donne, John | The Flea | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Poetry | |
| Donne, John | Death Be Not Proud (Holy Sonnet X) | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Poetry | |
| Donne, John | The Canonization | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Poetry | |
| Dostoevsky, Fyodor | The Life and Sayings of the Elder Zosima | European | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Dostoevsky, Fyodor | The Grand Inquisitor | European | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Dostoevsky, Fyodor | The Crocodile | European | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Douglass, Frederick | May 11, 1857 Speech on the Dred Scott Decision | European | 19th Century | Essays and Speeches | Politics, Non-Fiction |
| Du Bois, W. E. B. | Selected Chapters from The Souls of Black Folk | American, African American | 1900-1945 | Essays and Speeches | |
| Einstein, Albert | Foreword to Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems | European | Post 1945 | Essays and Speeches | Science, Non-Fiction |
| Einstein, Albert, Poldosky, Boris, and Rosen, Nathan | EPR Paradox: "Can quantum-mechanical description of physical reality be considered complete?" | European | 1900-1945 | Essays and Speeches | Science, Non-Fiction |
| Eliot, T.S. | Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | European | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Eliot, T.S. | The Hollow Men | European | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Ellison, Ralph | Flying Home | American, African American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Ellison, Ralph | In a Strange Country | American, African American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | The Transcendentalist | American | 19th Century | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | The Lord's Supper | American | 19th Century | Essays and Speeches | Religion, Non-Fiction |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Self-Reliance | American | 19th Century | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | The Over-Soul | American | 19th Century | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Epictetus | Enchiridion | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Erasmus, Desiderius | A Pilgrimage for the Sake of Religion | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Colloquies | Philosophy, Religion |
| Euripides | Media | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Plays | |
| Euripides | Bacchae | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Plays | |
| Euripides | Trojan Women | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Plays | |
| Fainlight, Ruth | To See the Matter Clearly | American, Women | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Fainlight, Ruth | The Wild Hunt | American, Women | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Fainlight, Ruth | Friend's Photos | American, Women | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Faulkner, James | Barn Burning | American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Faulkner, James | A Rose for Emily | American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Faulkner, William | Dry September | American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Faulkner, William | The Bear | American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Faulkner, William | That Evening Sun | American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Ferber, Edna | The Maternal Feminine | American, Women | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Ferber, Edna | The Woman Who Tried to be Good | American, Women | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Feynman, Richard | There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom | American | Post 1945 | Essays and Speeches | Physics |
| Feynman, Richard | Time and Distance | American | Post 1945 | Essays and Speeches | Physics |
| Feynman, Richard | Cargo Cult Science | American | Post 1945 | Essays and Speeches | Physics |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Winter Dreams | American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Babylon Revisited | American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Afternoon of an Author | American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Flaubert, Gustave | A Simple Heart | European | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Flaubert, Gustave | Dance of Death | European | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Forster, E. M. | The Machine Stops | European | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Freud, Sigmund | The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis | European | 1900-1945 | Documents | |
| Friel, Brian | Translations | European, Irish | Post 1945 | Plays | |
| Frost, Robert | Mending Wall | American | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Frost, Robert | The Road Not Taken | American | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Frost, Robert | Desert Places | American | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Gale, Zona | The Cobweb | American, Women | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Galilei, Galileo | Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Essays and Speeches | Science, Non-Fiction |
| Garcia Lorca, Federico | Blood Wedding | European | 1900-1945 | Plays | |
| Gilman, Charlotte Perkins | The Yellow Wallpaper | American, Women | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Ginsberg, Allen | Howl | American | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Glasgow, Ellen | A Point in Morals | American | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Glasgow, Ellen | A Point in Morals | American, Women | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Glasgow, Ellen | The Shadowy Third | American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Glasgow, Ellen | The Shadowy Third | American, Women | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Glaspell, Susan | A Jury of Her Peers | American, Women | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Gogol, Nikolai | The Nose | European | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Goldman, Alvin | A Causal Theory of Knowing | American | Post 1945 | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Gooch, Steve | Female Transport | European | Post 1945 | Plays | |
| Gordimer, Nadine | The Defeated | Non-Western, Women | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Greene, Graham | The Destructors | European | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Guirgis, Stephen Adly | The Last Days of Judas | American | Post 1945 | Plays | |
| Gurney, A. R. | What I Did Last Summer | American | Post 1945 | Plays | |
| Hafez (Hafiz) | If it is not too dark | Non-Western | Medieval (450-1400) | Poetry | |
| Hafez (Hafiz) | Saints bowing in the mountains | Non-Western | Medieval (450-1400) | Poetry | |
| Hafez (Hafiz) | And Applaud | Non-Western | Medieval (450-1400) | Poetry | |
| Hafez (Hafiz) | My sweet, crushed angel | Non-Western | Medieval (450-1400) | Poetry | |
| Hafez (Hafiz) | I know the way you can get | Non-Western | Medieval (450-1400) | Poetry | |
| Hamilton, Alexander; Jay, John; Madison, James | Selections from the Federalist Papers | American | 1650-1799 | Documents | Politics, Non-Fiction |
| Hampton, Christopher | Les liaisons dangereuses [Dangerous Liaisons] (1985 stage adaptation of the 1972 epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos) | European | Post 1945 | Plays | |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Rappacini's Daughter | American | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The Great Stone Face | American | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure | American | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Ethan Brand | American | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Young Goodman Brown | American | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Heaney, Seamus | The Cure at Troy | European | Post 1945 | Plays | |
| Heidegger, Martin | What Calls for Thinking | European | Post 1945 | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy |
| Heisenberg, Werner | Remarks on the Origin of the Relations of Uncertainty | European | Post 1945 | Essays and Speeches | Science, Non-Fiction |
| Hellman, Lillian | Little Foxes | American, Women | 1900-1945 | Plays | |
| Hellman, Lillian | The Children's Hour | American | 1900-1945 | Plays | |
| Heloise and Abelard | Letters 1-7 | European, Women | Medieval (450-1400) | Documents | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Hemingway, Ernest | The Snows of Kilimanjaro | American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Hemingway, Ernest | A Clean, Well-lighted Place | American | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Hemingway, Ernest | The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber | American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Hemingway, Ernest | The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife | American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Hemingway, Ernest | The Killers | American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Hemingway, Ernest | Fathers and Sons | American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Herodotus | Tales from Herodotus including Solon and Croesus, The Rise of Cyrus, and Rhampsinitis and the Thief | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Essays and Speeches | History, Non-Fiction |
| Herodotus | Battle of Thermopylae, History, Book 7, sections 198 thru 239 | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Essays and Speeches | History, Non-Fiction |
| Homer | The Odyssey, Books 9 & 12 | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Poetry | |
| Homer | Iliad, Books 6 & 22 | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Poetry | |
| Homer | Iliad, Books 6 & 22 | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Poetry | |
| Homer | Iliad, Books 3 and 4 | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Poetry | |
| Homer | The Odyssey, Books 21-24 | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Poetry | |
| Hopkins, Gerard Manley | The Sea and the Skylark | European | 19th Century | Poetry | |
| Hopkins, Gerard Manley | Inversnaid | European | 19th Century | Poetry | |
| Hopkins, Gerard Manley | The Candle Indoors | European | 19th Century | Poetry | |
| Hopkins, Gerard Manley | Andromeda | European | 19th Century | Poetry | |
| Hughes, Langston | Red-Headed Baby | American, African American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Hughes, Langston | Little Dog | American, African American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Hughes, Langston | Slave on the Block | American, African American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Hughes, Langston | Cora Unashamed | American, African American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Hume, David | Miracles | European | 1650-1799 | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Hume, David | On the Immortality of the Soul | European | 1650-1799 | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Magnolia | American, African American, Women | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Spunk | American, African American, Women | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Ibsen, Henrik | Peer Gynt | European | 19th Century | Plays | |
| Jackson, Shirley | The Lottery | American, Women | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| James, Henry | The Altar of the Dead | American | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| James, Henry | Glasses | American | 19th Century
| Short Stories | |
| James, Henry | The Tree of Knowledge | American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Jewett, Sarah Orne | Poor Joanna Todd, Chapters 13-15 from The Country of the Pointed Firs | American | 1900-1945 | Novellas | |
| Jewett, Sarah Orne | Poor Joanna Todd | American, Women | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Joyce, James | Clay | European | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Joyce, James | The Dead | European | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Joyce, James | After the Race | European | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Joyce, James | Ivy Day in the Committee Room | European | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Juvenal | Satire I: It Is Hard Not to Write Satire | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Essays and Speeches | Non-Fiction, Satire |
| Juvenal | Satire V: Patronizing Patronage | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Essays and Speeches | Non-Fiction, Satire |
| Juvenal | Satire VIII: Ture Nobility | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Essays and Speeches | Non-Fiction, Satire |
| Kafka, Franz | A Hunger Artist | European | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Kafka, Franz | The Burrow | European | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Kafka, Franz | The Great Wall of China | European | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Kennedy, John F. | Report to the People on Civil Rights, June 11, 1963 | American | Post 1945 | Essays and Speeches | Politics, Non-Fiction |
| Kensaku, Shimaki | Black Cat | Non-Western | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Kensaku, Shimaki | Wasps | Non-Western | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Kensaku, Shimaki | Centipede | Non-Western | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Kensaku, Shimaki | Red Frog | Non-Western | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| King Jr., Martin Luther | I Have a Dream speech, August 28, 1963 | American | Post 1945 | Essays and Speeches | Politics, Non-Fiction |
| Koethe, John | In Italy | American | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Koethe, John | (Milwaukee Port Laureate, 2000-2002) | American | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Koethe, John | Theories of Prayer | American | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Kumin, Maxine | Morning Swim | American, Women | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Kumin, Maxine | How It Is | American, Women | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Kumin, Maxine | The Archaeology of a Marriage | American, Women | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Lao Tzu | Tao Te Ching | Non-Western | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Documents | Religion, Non-Fiction |
| Lawrence, D. H. | Odour of Chrysanthemums | European | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Leopold, Aldo | The Land Ethic, from A Sand County Almanac | American | Post 1945 | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Lessing, Doris | Our Friend Judith | European, Women | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Lessing, Doris | The Day Stalin Died | European, Women | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Lessing, Doris | Through the Tunnel | European, Women | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Lewis, C.S. | The Screwtape Letters | European | 1900-1945 | Novel | |
| Lispector, Clarice | The Hen | Latin American, Women | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Lispector, Clarice | The Smallest Woman in the World | Latin American, Women | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Lowell, Robert | Skunk Hour | American | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Lowell, Robert | For the Union Dead | American | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Lu Xun | Kong Yiji | Non-Western | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Lu Xun | The True Story of Ah Q | Non-Western | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Lu Xun | A Madman’s Diary | Non-Western | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Lucretius | Book I of De Rerum Natura | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| MacDiarmid, Hugh | The Eemis Stane | European | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| MacDiarmid, Hugh | Stony Limits | European | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| MacDiarmid, Hugh | The Little White Rose | European | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| MacDiarmid, Hugh | Facing the Chair | European | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Machiavelli, Nicolo | Selections from The Prince | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Essays and Speeches | Politics, Non-Fiction |
| MacLeish, Archibald | The End of the World | American | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| MacLeish, Archibald | You, Andrew Marvell | American | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Mann, Thomas | Disorder and Early Sorrow | European | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Mann, Thomas | Mario and the Magician | European | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Mansfield, Katherine | The Child-Who-Was-Tired | European, Women | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Mansfield, Katherine | Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding | European, Women | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Mansfield, Katherine | This Flower | European, Women | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Márquez, Gabriel García | One of These Days | Latin American | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Márquez, Gabriel García | Eva is Inside Her Cat | Latin American | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Márquez, Gabriel García | A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings | Latin American | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Márquez, Gabriel García | The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World | Latin American | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Márquez, Gabriel García | Eyes of a Blue Dog | Latin American | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Marx, Karl | Wage Labour and Capital | European | 19th Century | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Maupassant, Guy de | The Devil | European | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Maupassant, Guy de | Diary of a Madman | European | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Maupassant, Guy de | The Necklace | European | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Maupassant, Guy de | Apparition | European | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| McCullers, Carson | The Sojourner | American, Women | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Meireles, Cecília | “Cantarão os Galos" / "The Roosters Will Crow” | Latin American | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Meireles, Cecília | “O Cavalo Morto" / "The Dead Horse” | Latin American | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Melville, Herman | Bartleby the Scrivener | American | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Melville, Herman | The Happy Failure | American | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Melville, Herman | Benito Cereno | American | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Mill, John Stuart | Utilitarianism | European | 19th Century | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Mill, John Stuart | Chapter 1: "General Remarks" | European | 19th Century | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Mill, John Stuart | Chapter 2: "What Utilitarianism Is" | European | 19th Century | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Miller, Arthur | The Crucible | American | Post 1945 | Plays | |
| Miller, Arthur | All My Sons | American | Post 1945 | Plays | |
| Milton, John | Paradise Lost: Book I | European | 1650-1799 | Poetry | |
| Mina Loy | Religious Instruction | European | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Mina Loy | Brancusi's Golden Bird | European | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Mistral, Gabriela | The Sad Mother | Latin American, Women | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Mistral, Gabriela | What You Loved | Latin American, Women | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Molière | The Misanthrope | European | 1650-1799 | Plays | |
| Molière | Lovers' Quarrels (translated into English verse by Richard Wilbur, 2005) | European | 1650-1799 | Plays | |
| Montaigne, Michel de | On Cannibals | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Montaigne, Michel de | On Presumption | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Moore, Marianne | What are Years? | American, Women | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Moore, Marianne | To a Steam Roller | American, Women | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Muir, John | My First Summer in The Sierra, Chapter 1: Through the Foothills with a Flock of Sheep | American | 1900-1945 | Essays and Speeches | Nature, Non-Fiction |
| Muir, John | My First Summer in the Sierra, Chapter 5: The Yosemite | American | 1900-1945 | Essays and Speeches | Nature, Non-Fiction |
| Nabokov, Vladimir | Colette [First Love] | European | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Nabokov, Vladimir | Signs and Symbols | European | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Nabokov, Vladimir | The Vane Sisters | European | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Nagel, Thomas | What is it Like to Be a Bat? | American | Post 1945 | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Neruda, Pablo | The Word and Past | Latin American | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Neruda, Pablo | “Pájaro" / "Bird” | Latin American | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Neruda, Pablo | “Un Perro Ha Muerto" / "A Dog Has Died” | Latin American | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Neruda, Pablo | “Sueño de Gatos" / "Cat’s Dream“ | Latin American | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Nottage, Lynn | Ruined | American, African American, Women | Post 1945 | Plays | |
| Nottage, Lynn | Sweat | American, Women | Post 1945 | Plays | |
| O'Connor, Flannery | Everything That Rises Must Converge | American, Women | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| O'Connor, Flannery | The River | American, Women | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| O'Connor, Flannery | Greenleaf | American, Women | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| O'Connor, Flannery | Revelation | American, Women | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| O'Connor, Flannery | A Good Man Is Hard to Find | American, Women | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| O'Connor, Flannery | The Artificial Nigger | American, Women | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| O'Connor, Flannery | The Life You Save May Be Your Own | American, Women | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| O'Connor, Flannery | A Temple of the Holy Ghost | American | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| O'Connor, Flannery | Good Country People | American | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Oates, Joyce Carol | Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? | American, Women | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Olsen, Tillie | I Stand Here Ironing | American, Women | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| One Thousand and One Nights | 12 short tales | Non-Western | Medieval (450-1400) | Short Stories | |
| Ortega y Gasset, José | Selection from Revolt of the Masses | European | 1900-1945 | Essays and Speeches | |
| Orwell, George | Politics and the English Language | European | 1900-1945 | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Orwell, George | Shooting an Elephant | European | 1900-1945 | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Paley, Grace | Goodbye and Good Luck | American, Women | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Parker, Dorothy | Big Blond | American, Women | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Parker, Dorothy | Here We Are | American, Women | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Pascal, Blaise | The Misery of Man without God (Section II, Pensées 60-183) | European | 1650-1799 | Non-fiction | Philosophy |
| Pascal, Blaise | Of the Necessity of the Wager (Section III, Pensée 233) | European | 1650-1799 | Non-fiction | Philosophy |
| Paz, Octavio | Between Going And Coming | Latin American | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Paz, Octavio | Brotherhood | Latin American | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Pirandello, Luigi | Six Characters in Search of an Author | European | 1900-1945 | Plays | |
| Plath, Sylvia | Elm | American, Women | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Plath, Sylvia | Morning Song | American, Women | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Plato | Phaedrus | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Plato | The Death of Socrates | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Plato | Euthyphro | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Plato | Hippias Major | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Plato | Crito | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Plato | Hipparchus | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Plato | Meno | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Plato | Theages | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Plato | The Apology | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Plato | The Myth of Er | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy |
| Pliny the Younger | Letters | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Documents | History, Non-Fiction |
| Pliny the Younger | Book 9, Letter 33 To his friend Caninius on a boy and his dolphin | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Documents | History, Non-Fiction |
| Pliny the Younger | Book 3, Letter 16 To his friend Nepos on a woman's heroism | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Documents | History, Non-Fiction |
| Pliny the Younger | Book 4, Letter 11 To his friend Cornelius Minicianus on the death of a Vestal | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Documents | History, Non-Fiction |
| Pliny the Younger | Book 5, Letter 16 To his friend Aefulanus Marcellinus on a father's grief | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Documents | History, Non-Fiction |
| Pliny the Younger | Book 6, Letters 16 and 20 Letters on Vesuvius to his friend Tacitus | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Documents | History, Non-Fiction |
| Pliny the Younger | Book 3, Letter 14 To his friend Acilius on a murdered magistrate | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Documents | History, Non-Fiction |
| Poe, Edgar Allen | Cask of the Amontillado | American | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Poe, Edgar Allen | The Murders in the Rue Morgue | American | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Poe, Edgar Allen | Imp of the Perverse | American | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Poe, Edgar Allen | A Descent into the Maelstrom | American | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Polo, Marco | The Court of Kublai Khan, Book II, Chapters 1-12 of The Travels | European | Medieval (450-1400) | Non-Fiction | |
| Porter, Katherine Anne | He | American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Porter, Katherine Anne | Theft | American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Porter, Katherine Anne | The Grave | American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Porter, Katherine Anne | Flowering Judas | American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Porter, Katherine Anne | The Jilting of Granny Weatherall | American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Pound, Ezra | The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter | American | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Pound, Ezra | Canto I | American | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Proust, Marcel | Within a Budding Grove, v.2 of In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past) | European | 1900-1945 | Novels | |
| Proust. Marcel | Swann's Way, v.1 of In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past) | European | 1900-1945 | Novels | |
| Pushkin, Aleksandr | The Blizzard (aka The Snowstorm) | European | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Pushkin, Aleksandr | Queen of Spades | European | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Pynchon, Thomas | The Crying of Lot 49 | American | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Qu'ran | Sura 4, The Women | Non-Western | Medieval (450-1400) | Documents | Religion, Non-Fiction |
| Qu'ran | Sura 6, The Cattle | Non-Western | Medieval (450-1400) | Documents | Religion, Non-Fiction |
| Ramayana, Selections from | | Non-Western | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Documents | |
| Rand, Ayn | Anthem | American, Women | 1900-1945 | Essays and Speeches | |
| Rand, Ayn | The Objectivist Ethics | American, Women | Post 1945 | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria | Duino Elegies | European | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Roth, Philip | The Conversion of the Jews | American | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Roth, Philip | Eli the Fanatic | American | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Rousseau, Jean-Jacques | The Origin and Foundation of the Inequality of Mankind | European | 1650-1799 | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Rumi, Jalaluddin | Advice is never useful to lovers | Non-Western | Medieval (450-1400) | Poetry | |
| Rumi, Jalaluddin | Rise up from me-ness and mix with all | Non-Western | Medieval (450-1400) | Poetry | |
| Rumi, Jalaluddin | Kisses but no lips were visable | Non-Western | Medieval (450-1400) | Poetry | |
| Rumi, Jalaluddin | Be drunk in love since love is all that exists | Non-Western | Medieval (450-1400) | Poetry | |
| Russell, Bertrand | Why I Am Not A Christian | European | 1900-1945 | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Religion, Non-Fiction |
| Saint-Exupery, Antoine de | The Little Prince | European | 1900-1945 | Novella | |
| Salinger, J.D. | Down at the Dinghy | American | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Salinger, J.D. | Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut | American | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Salinger, J.D. | A Perfect Day for Bananafish | American | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Sartre, Jean-Paul | Intimacy | European | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Sartre, Jean-Paul | Herostratus | European | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Sartre, Jean-Paul | The Wall | European | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Schopenhauer, Arthur | The World as Will and Idea, Book One (also titled The World as Will and Representation) | European | 19th Century | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Schrödinger, Erwin | Schrödinger's Cat, Sections 5 and 6 from The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics from the original 1935 paper in Die Naturwissenschaften. | European | 1900-1945 | Essays and Speeches | Science, Non-Fiction |
| Seneca the Younger | Thyestes | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Plays | |
| Sexton, Anne | Consorting with Angels | American, Women | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Sexton, Anne | Crossing the Atlantic | American, Women | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Sexton, Anne | 45 Mercy Street | American, Women | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Shakespeare, William | Love's Labour's Lost | European | Early Modern | Plays | |
| Shakespeare, William | Coriolanus | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Plays | |
| Shakespeare, William | Cymbeline | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Plays | |
| Shakespeare, William | Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Plays | |
| Shakespeare, William | King Lear | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Plays | |
| Shakespeare, William | Macbeth | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Plays | |
| Shakespeare, William | The Merchant of Venice | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Plays | |
| Shakespeare, William | A Midsummer Night's Dream | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Plays | |
| Shakespeare, William | Much Ado About Nothing | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Plays | |
| Shakespeare, William | Romeo and Juliet | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Plays | |
| Shakespeare, William | The Taming of the Shrew | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Plays | |
| Shakespeare, William | The Tempest | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Plays | |
| Shakespeare, William | As You Like It | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Plays | |
| Shakespeare, William | Othello | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Plays | |
| Shakespeare, William | Cymbeline | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Plays | |
| Shakespeare, William | Richard II | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Plays | |
| Shakespeare, William | Henry IV, Part I | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Plays | |
| Shakespeare, William | Henry IV, Part II | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Plays | |
| Shakespeare, William | Henry V | European | Early Modern (1400-1650) | Plays | |
| Shaw, George Barnard | Major Barbara | European | 1900-1945 | Plays | |
| Shaw, George Bernard | Arms and the Man | European | 19th Century | Plays | |
| Shen Fu | The Delights of Roaming Afar | Non-Western | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Shen Fu | The Joys of the Wedding Chamber | Non-Western | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Shen Fu | The Sorrows of Misfortune | Non-Western | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Shen Fu | The Pleaures of Leisure | Non-Western | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Shen Fu | Selections from Six Records of a Floating Life | Non-Western | 19th Century | Novels | |
| Shi Nai'an | Water Margin: Chapters 1-7 | Non-Western | Medieval (450-1400) | Novels | |
| Shikibu, Murasaki | The Tale of Genji, Chapters 1 & 2 | Non-Western | Medieval (450-1400) | Novels | |
| Sitwell, Edith | Still Falls the Rain | European, Women | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Sitwell, Edith | The Lady with the Sewing-Machine | European, Women | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Sophocles | Trachiniae, or The Woman of Trachis | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Plays | |
| Sophocles | Antigone, translation by David Mulroy (2013) | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Plays | |
| Sophocles | Oedipus Rex, translation by David Mulroy (2011) | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Plays | |
| Sophocles | Antigone | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Plays | |
| Soyinka, Wole | The Swamp Dwellers | Non-Western | 1900-1945 | Plays | |
| St. Vincent Millay, Edna | If I should learn, in some quite casual way (Sonnet V) | American, Women | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| St. Vincent Millay, Edna | Time does not bring relief; you all have lied (Sonnet II) | American, Women | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Steele, Shelby | The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America, chapts.1, 2, and 7 | American, African American | Post 1945 | Essays and Speeches | Politics, Non-Fiction |
| Sterne, Laurence | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Book 1 | European | 1650-1799 | Novels | |
| Stevens, Wallace | The Idea of Order at Key West | American | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Stevens, Wallace | The Snow Man | American | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Stevens, Wallace | Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird | American | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Stoppard, Tom | Arcadia | American | Post 1945 | Plays | |
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chapters 1-8 | American | 19th Century | Novels | |
| Sun Tzu | Selections from The Art of War | Non-Western | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Svich, Caridad | 12 Ophelias (a play with broken songs) | American, Women | Post 1945 | Plays | |
| Swift, Jonathan | A Modest Proposal | European | 1650-1799 | Essays and Speeches | Politics, Non-Fiction |
| Swift, Jonathan | A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding | European | 1650-1799 | Essays and Speeches | Politics, Non-Fiction |
| Tagore, Rabindranath | The Postmaster | Non-Western | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Tagore, Rabindranath | Cabuliwallah (The Fruitseller from Kabul) | Non-Western | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Tagore, Rabindranath | The Hungry Stones | Non-Western | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Taylor, Marilyn (Milwaukee Poet Laureate, 2004-2006) | To Lucy, Who Came First | American, Women | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Taylor, Marilyn (Milwaukee Poet Laureate, 2004-2006) | The Blue Water Buffalo | American, Women | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Taylor, Marilyn (Milwaukee Poet Laureate, 2004-2006) | Notes from the Good-Girl Chronicles | American, Women | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Tennyson, Alfred | The Lotus-Eaters | European | 19th Century | Poetry | |
| Thomas, Dylan | The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower | European | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Thomas, Dylan | A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London | European | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Thomas, Dylan | Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night | European | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Thoreau, Henry David | A Winter Walk | American | 19th Century | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Thucydides | Pericles' Funeral Oration and the Plague at Athens | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Essays and Speeches | History, Non-Fiction |
| Thucydides | History of the Peloponnesian War: "The Melian Dialogue" | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Documents | History, Non-Fiction |
| Thucydides | The Peloponnesian War, Book 2: | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Essays and Speeches | History, Non-Fiction |
| Thurber, James | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Thurber, James | The Night the Bed Fell | American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Thurber, James | The Greatest Man in the World | American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Thurber, James | There's an Owl in My Room | American | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Tolstoy, Leo | Death of Ivan Ilych | European | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Turganev, Ivan | A Month in the Country | European | 19th Century | Plays | |
| Turganev, Ivan | Bezhin Meadow | European | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Turganev, Ivan | The Dog | European | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Twain, Mark | Diary of Adam and Eve | American | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Unamuno, Miguel de | Saint Emmanuel the Good, Martyr | European | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| United States Constitution, The | | American | 1650-1799 | Documents | Politics, Non-Fiction |
| United States Supreme Court, The | The Dred Scott Decision | American | 19th Century | Documents | Politics, Non-Fiction |
| United States Supreme Court, The | Roe versus Wade (Opinions of Justices Blackmun and Renquist) | American | Post 1945 | Documents | Politics, Non-Fiction |
| Updike, John | A & P | American | Post 1945 | Short Stories | |
| Virgil | Aeneid, Book 6 | European | Ancient (to 450 AD) | Poetry | |
| Voltaire | Candide (First twelve chapters) | European | 1650-1799 | Novellas | |
| Walch, John | The Nature of Mutation | American | Post 1945 | Plays | |
| Wallace, George C. | 4th of July speech (1964) against Civil Rights legislation | American | Post 1945 | Essays and Speeches | |
| Wells, H. G. | The Star | European | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Wharton, Edith | Ethan Frome | American, Women | 1900-1945 | Novels | |
| Whitman, Walt | I Sing the Body Electric | American | 19th Century | Poetry | |
| Whitman, Walt | One's-Self I Sing | American | 19th Century | Poetry | |
| Whitman, Walt | A Woman Waits for Me | American | 19th Century | Poetry | |
| Whitman, Walt | I Saw in Louisinana a Live-Oak Growing | American | 19th Century | Poetry | |
| Whitman, Walt | Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd | American | 19th Century | Poetry | |
| Whitman, Walt | A Noiseless Patient Spider | American | 19th Century | Poetry | |
| Whitman, Walt | When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer | American | 19th Century | Poetry | |
| Whitman, Walt | O Captain! My Captain! | American | 19th Century | Poetry | |
| Wilde, Oscar | The Decay of Lying | European | 19th Century | Short Stories | |
| Wilder, Thornton | Our Town | American | 1900-1945 | Plays | |
| Williams, William Carlos | The Red Wheelbarrow | American | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Williams, William Carlos | This Is Just to Say | American | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Williams, William Carlos | To Elsie | American | Post 1945 | Poetry | |
| Wilson, August | Fences | American | Post 1945 | Plays | |
| Wilson, Lanford | Hot l Baltimore | American | Post 1945 | Plays | |
| Wittgenstein, Ludwig | Selections from Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations | European | 1900-1945 | Documents | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Wollstonecraft, Mary | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, introduction and chapter 12 | European, Women | 1650-1799 | Essays and Speeches | Philosophy, Non-Fiction |
| Woolf, Virginia | The Duchess and the Jeweller | European, Women | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Woolf, Virginia | A Society | European, Women | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Woolf, Virginia | The Mark on the Wall | European, Women | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Woolf, Virginia | A Haunted House | European, Women | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Woolf, Virginia | An Unwritten Novel | European, Women | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Wordsworth, William | Ode: Intimations of Immortality | European | 19th Century | Poetry | |
| Xun, Lu | Diary of a Madman | Non-Western | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Xun, Lu | New Year's Sacrifice | Non-Western | 1900-1945 | Short Stories | |
| Yeats, William Butler | Sailing to Byzantium | European | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Yeats, William Butler | When You Are Old | European | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Yeats, William Butler | Vacillation | European | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Yeats, William Butler | Among School Children | European | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Yeats, William Butler | Politics | European | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Yeats, William Butler | The Second Coming | European | 1900-1945 | Poetry | |
| Zacarias | The Sins of Sor Juana | Latin American, Women | Post 1945 | Plays | |
| Zola, Emile | J'accuse | European | 19th Century | Essays and Speeches | Politics, Non-Fiction |
| Zola, Emile | The Attack on the Mill | European | 19th Century | Essays and Speeches | Politics, Non-Fiction |
