| Homer | Iliad (Ἰλιάς) | 8th century BC | 🏛️ Greece |
| Homer | Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια) | 8th century BC | 🏛️ Greece |
| Theocritus | Idylls (Εἰδύλλια) | 3rd century BC | 🏛️ Greece |
| Caesar | De Bello Gallico | 58-49 BC | 🏛️ Rome |
| Virgil | Georgics | 36-29 BC | 🏛️ Rome |
| Virgil | Aeneid | 19 BC | 🏛️ Rome |
| Ovid | Metamorphoses | 8 | 🏛️ Rome |
| Seneca | De Brevitate Vitae | 49 | 🏛️ Rome |
| Marcus Aurelius | Meditations (Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν) | 170-180 | 🏛️ Rome |
| Snorri Sturluson | Prose Edda | 1220 | 🇮🇸 Iceland |
| Anonymous | Poetic Edda | 1270 | 🇮🇸 Iceland |
| Julio Cortázar | Final del juego | 1956 | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez | En Agosto Nos Vemos | 2024 | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
| Olga Tokarczuk | Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead | 2009 | 🇵🇱 Poland |
| Orhan Pamuk | The Red-Haired Woman | 2016 | 🇹🇷 Turkey |
| Chinua Achebe | Things Fall Apart | 1958 | 🇳🇬 Nigeria |
| J.M. Coetzee | The Childhood of Jesus | 2013 | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | 1857 | 🇫🇷 France |
| Charles Baudelaire | Les Fleurs du mal | 1857 | 🇫🇷 France |
| Marcel Proust | La Fin de la jalousie | 1896 | 🇫🇷 France |
| Albert Camus | La Chute | 1956 | 🇫🇷 France |
| Simone de Beauvoir | Mémoires d’une jeune fille rangée | 1958 | 🇫🇷 France |
| Annie Ernaux | Une femme | 1988 | 🇫🇷 France |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Die Leiden des jungen Werthers | 1774 | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Thomas Mann | Der Tod in Venedig | 1912 | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Franz Kafka | Die Verwandlung | 1915 | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Hermann Hesse | Siddhartha | 1922 | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Stefan Zweig | Schachnovelle | 1942 | 🇦🇹 Austria |
| Dante Alighieri | La Vita Nuova | 1294 | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Dante Alighieri | Divina Commedia | 1320 | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Natalia Ginzburg | È stato così | 1947 | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Elena Ferrante | La figlia oscura | 2006 | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Domenico Starnone | Lacci | 2014 | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Alexander Pushkin | Eugene Onegin (Евгений Онегин) | 1833 | 🇷🇺 Russia |
| Nikolai Gogol | Dead Souls (Мёртвые души) | 1842 | 🇷🇺 Russia |
| Ivan Turgenev | Fathers and Sons (Отцы и дети) | 1862 | 🇷🇺 Russia |
| Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita | 1955 | 🇷🇺 Russia |
| Boris Pasternak | Doctor Zhivago (Доктор Живаго) | 1957 | 🇷🇺 Russia |
| Mikhail Bulgakov | The Master and Margarita (Мастер и Маргарита) | 1967 | 🇷🇺 Russia |
| Tove Ditlevsen | Childhood Youth Dependency | 1967 | 🇩🇰 Denmark |
| Selma Lagerlöf | Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige | 1906 | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
| Tomas Tranströmer | The Half-Finished Heaven | 1962 | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
| Elias Lönnrot | The Kalevala | 1835 | 🇫🇮 Finland |
| Tove Jansson | Småtrollen och den stora översvämningen | 1945 | 🇫🇮 Finland |
| Tove Jansson | Trollkarlens hatt | 1948 | 🇫🇮 Finland |
| Tove Jansson | Muminpappans bravader | 1950 | 🇫🇮 Finland |
| Tove Jansson | Muminpappans memoarer | 1968 | 🇫🇮 Finland |
| Tove Jansson | Farlig midsommar | 1954 | 🇫🇮 Finland |
| Tove Jansson | Trollvinter | 1957 | 🇫🇮 Finland |
| Tove Jansson | Pappan och havet | 1965 | 🇫🇮 Finland |
| Tove Jansson | Sent i november | 1970 | 🇫🇮 Finland |
| Tove Jansson | Sommarboken | 1972 | 🇫🇮 Finland |
| Tove Jansson | Rent Spel | 1989 | 🇫🇮 Finland |
| W.B. Yeats | | | 🇮🇪 Ireland |
| James Joyce | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | 1916 | 🇮🇪 Ireland |
| James Joyce | Ulysses | 1922 | 🇮🇪 Ireland |
| Seamus Heaney | | | 🇮🇪 Ireland |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | The Canterbury Tales | 1387 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | 1590 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | 1595 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| William Shakespeare | Hamlet | 1600 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| William Shakespeare | Macbeth | 1606 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| William Shakespeare | The Sonnets | 1609 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| John Milton | Paradise Lost | 1667 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | 1811 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | 1813 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | 1814 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Jane Austen | Emma | 1816 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Anne Brontë | Agnes Grey | 1847 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Charlotte Brontë | Jane Eyre | 1847 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| William Blake | | | 🇬🇧 UK |
| William Wordsworth | | | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | | | 🇬🇧 UK |
| John Clare | | | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Lord Byron | | | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | | | 🇬🇧 UK |
| John Keats | | | 🇬🇧 UK |
| George Eliot | Middlemarch | 1872 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Virginia Woolf | Mrs. Dalloway | 1925 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Virginia Woolf | To the Lighthouse | 1927 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Virginia Woolf | Orlando | 1927 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Virginia Woolf | The Waves | 1931 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| George Orwell | Down and Out in Paris and London | 1933 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| George Orwell | Cigarettes and Books | 1946 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| George Orwell | 1984 | 1949 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| J.R.R. Tolkien | The Hobbit | 1937 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Evelyn Waugh | The Loved One | 1948 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Ted Hughes | Lupercal | 1960 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Ted Hughes | Birthday Letters | 1998 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Zadie Smith | White Teeth | 2000 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Zadie Smith | On Beauty | 2005 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Ian McEwan | Atonement | 2001 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | Never Let Me Go | 2005 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Simon Armitage | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | 2007 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Simon Armitage | Beowulf | 2020 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Emily Dickinson | | | 🇺🇸 USA |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter | 1850 | 🇺🇸 USA |
| Walt Whitman | Leaves of Grass | 1855 | 🇺🇸 USA |
| Henry James | Washington Square | 1880 | 🇺🇸 USA |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | This Side of Paradise | 1920 | 🇺🇸 USA |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby | 1925 | 🇺🇸 USA |
| Robert Frost | | | 🇺🇸 USA |
| Ezra Pound | | | 🇺🇸 USA |
| T.S. Elliot | The Waste Land | 1922 | 🇺🇸 USA |
| John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath | 1939 | 🇺🇸 USA |
| John Steinbeck | Cannery Row | 1945 | 🇺🇸 USA |
| John Steinbeck | East of Eden | 1952 | 🇺🇸 USA |
| Sylvia Plath | Ariel | 1965 | 🇺🇸 USA |
| Alice Walker | The Color Purple | 1982 | 🇺🇸 USA |
| Toni Morrison | Beloved | 1987 | 🇺🇸 USA |
| André Aciman | Call Me By Your Name | 2007 | 🇺🇸 USA |
| Elizabeth Strout | Olive Kitteridge | 2008 | 🇺🇸 USA |
| Donna Tartt | The Goldfinch | 2013 | 🇺🇸 USA |