| Lucius Annaeus Seneca | De Brevitate Vitae | 49 | Rome |
| Marcel Proust | La Fin de la jalousie | 1896 | 🇫🇷 France |
| Charles Baudelaire | Les Fleurs du mal | 1857 | 🇫🇷 France |
| Simone de Beauvoir | Mémoires d’une jeune fille rangée | 1958 | 🇫🇷 France |
| Italo Calvino | Perché leggere i classici | 1991 | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Elena Ferrante | La figlia oscura | 2006 | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Domenico Starnone | Lacci | 2014 | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Franz Kafka | Die Verwandlung | 1915 | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Solvej Balle | Ifølge loven | 1993 | 🇩🇰 Denmark |
| Jenny Hval | Paradise Rot (Perlebryggeriet) | 2009 | 🇳🇴 Norway |
| Tove Jansson | Trollkarlens hatt | 1948 | 🇫🇮 Finland |
| Tove Jansson | Muminpappans memoarer | 1950 | 🇫🇮 Finland |
| Tove Jansson | Sommarboken | 1972 | 🇫🇮 Finland |
| Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita | 1955 | 🇷🇺 Russia |
| Mikhail Bulgakov | The Master and Margarita (Мастер и Маргарита) | 1967 | 🇷🇺 Russia |
| Julio Cortázar | Final del juego | 1956 | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| Chinua Achebe | Things Fall Apart | 1958 | 🇳🇬 Nigeria |
| Olga Tokarczuk | Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead | 2009 | 🇵🇱 Poland |
| J.M. Coetzee | The Childhood of Jesus | 2013 | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| Orhan Pamuk | The Red-Haired Woman | 2016 | 🇹🇷 Turkey |
| Min Jin Lee | Pachinko (파친코) | 2017 | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities | 1859 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure | 1895 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| George Orwell | Down and Out in Paris and London | 1933 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| George Orwell | Cigarettes and Books | 1946 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Ted Hughes | Birthday Letters | 1998 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Seamus Heaney | Beowulf | 1999 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Ian McEwan | Atonement | 2001 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Zadie Smith | On Beauty | 2005 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | Never Let Me Go | 2005 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Sylvia Plath | Ariel | 1965 | 🇺🇸 USA |
| Toni Morrison | Beloved | 1987 | 🇺🇸 USA |
| Cormac McCarthy | The Road | 2006 | 🇺🇸 USA |
| André Aciman | Call Me By Your Name | 2007 | 🇺🇸 USA |
| ———— | | | |
| Homer | Iliad (Ἰλιάς) | 8th century BC | Ancient Greece |
| Homer | Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια) | 8th century BC | Ancient Greece |
| Homer | Homeric Hymns (Ὁμηρικοὶ ὕμνοι) | 8th century BC | Ancient Greece |
| Theocritus | Idylls (Εἰδύλλια) | 3rd century BC | Ancient Greece |
| Caesar | De Bello Gallico | 58-49 BC | Rome |
| Virgil | Georgics | 36-29 BC | Rome |
| Virgil | Aeneid | 19 BC | Rome |
| Ovid | Metamorphoses | 8 | Rome |
| Marcus Aurelius | Meditations (Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν) | 170-180 | Rome |
| Han Kang | We Do Not Part (작별하지 않는다) | 2024 | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| José de Alencar | Iracema | 1865 | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| Aluísio Azevedo | O Cortiço | 1890 | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| Machado de Assis | Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas | 1881 | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| Machado de Assis | Quincas Borba | 1891 | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| Machado de Assis | Dom Casmurro | 1899 | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| Jorge Amado | Capitães da Areia | 1937 | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| Luís Vaz de Camões | Os Lusíadas | 1572 | 🇵🇹 Portugal |
| Fernando Pessoa | Livro do Desassossego | 1982 | 🇵🇹 Portugal |
| Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | 1605 | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| Mercè Rodoreda | La plaça del Diamant | 1962 | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| Molière | Tartuffe | 1664 | 🇫🇷 France |
| Voltaire | Candide | 1759 | 🇫🇷 France |
| Honoré de Balzac | | | 🇫🇷 France |
| Victor Hugo | | | 🇫🇷 France |
| Émile Zola | | | 🇫🇷 France |
| Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | 1857 | 🇫🇷 France |
| Frédéric Mistral | Mirèio | 1859 | 🇫🇷 France |
| Marcel Proust | | | 🇫🇷 France |
| Albert Camus | La Chute | 1956 | 🇫🇷 France |
| Dante Alighieri | La Vita Nuova | 1294 | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Dante Alighieri | Divina Commedia | 1320 | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | Decameron | 1348 | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | 1516 | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Italo Calvino | Marcovaldo ovvero le stagioni in città | 1963 | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Italo Calvino | Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore | 1979 | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Anonymous | Nibelungenlied | 1200 | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Die Leiden des jungen Werthers | 1774 | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Reiner Maria Rilke | | | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Thomas Mann | Der Tod in Venedig | 1912 | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Franz Kafka | Brief an den Vater | 1919 | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Hermann Hesse | Demian | 1919 | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Hermann Hesse | Siddhartha | 1922 | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Hermann Hesse | Steppenwolf | 1927 | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Stefan Zweig | Schachnovelle | 1942 | 🇦🇹 Austria |
| 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 |
| Ivan Turgenev | First Love and Other Stories | 1881 | 🇷🇺 Russia |
| Boris Pasternak | Doctor Zhivago (Доктор Живаго) | 1957 | 🇷🇺 Russia |
| Snorri Sturluson | Prose Edda | 1220 | 🇮🇸 Iceland |
| Anonymous | Poetic Edda | 1270 | 🇮🇸 Iceland |
| Knut Hamsun | Sult | 1890 | 🇳🇴 Norway |
| Henrik Ibsen | | | 🇳🇴 Norway |
| Tove Ditlevsen | Childhood Youth Dependency | 1967 | 🇩🇰 Denmark |
| August Strindberg | Röda Rummet | 1879 | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
| Victoria Benedictsson | Pengar | 1885 | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
| Hjalmar Söderberg | Doctor Glas | 1905 | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
| 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 | 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 | Rent Spel | 1989 | 🇫🇮 Finland |
| W.B. Yeats | | | 🇮🇪 Ireland |
| James Joyce | Ulysses | 1922 | 🇮🇪 Ireland |
| Seamus Heaney | North | 1975 | 🇮🇪 Ireland |
| Claire Keegan | Antarctica | 1999 | 🇮🇪 Ireland |
| Claire Keegan | Walk the Blue Fields | 2007 | 🇮🇪 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 | Romeo and Juliet | 1597 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| William Shakespeare | Hamlet | 1600 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| William Shakespeare | Macbeth | 1606 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| William Shakespeare | The Sonnets | 1609 | 🇬🇧 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 |
| Elizabeth Gaskell | North and South | 1847 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| William Wordsworth | | | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | | | 🇬🇧 UK |
| John Clare | | | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Lord Byron | | | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | | | 🇬🇧 UK |
| John Keats | | | 🇬🇧 UK |
| George Eliot | Scenes of Clerical Life | 1857 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| George Eliot | Middlemarch | 1872 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Rudyard Kipling | The Jungle Book | 1894 | 🇬🇧 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 |
| Evelyn Waugh | Decline and Fall | 1928 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| George Orwell | 1984 | 1949 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| J.R.R. Tolkien | The Hobbit | 1937 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Ted Hughes | Lupercal | 1960 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Richard Adams | Watership Down | 1972 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Simon Armitage | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | 2007 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Zadie Smith | The Wife of Willesden | 2021 | 🇬🇧 UK |
| Emily Dickinson | | | 🇺🇸 USA |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter | 1850 | 🇺🇸 USA |
| Walt Whitman | Leaves of Grass | 1855 | 🇺🇸 USA |
| Mark Twain | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | 1876 | 🇺🇸 USA |
| Henry James | The Europeans | 1878 | 🇺🇸 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 | East of Eden | 1952 | 🇺🇸 USA |
| Ernest Hemingway | The Sun Also Rises | 1926 | 🇺🇸 USA |
| Ernest Hemingway | The Old Man and the Sea | 1952 | 🇺🇸 USA |
| J. D. Salinger | The Catcher in the Rye | 1951 | 🇺🇸 USA |
| Harper Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1960 | 🇺🇸 USA |
| Alice Walker | The Color Purple | 1982 | 🇺🇸 USA |
| Elizabeth Strout | Olive Kitteridge | 2008 | 🇺🇸 USA |