| Novel/Play | Poet | Poem |
| Ulysses - James Joyce | |
| The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold | |
| The Crimson Petal and the White - Michael Faber | |
| Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe | |
| A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh | |
| Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck | |
| No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy | |
| A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry | |
| | Novel/Play | Poet | Poem |
| Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck | |
| Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust | |
| Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger | |
| The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger | |
| The Mirror Crack'd - Agatha Christie | |
| The Golden Compass - Phillip Pullman | |
| Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy | |
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