Literature Quiz / Lifetime Reading Plan, 4th edition

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Can you name the authors included in Fadiman and Major's Lifetime Reading Plan?

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WorkAuthorLived
Iliad800 BCE
Analects551-479 BCE
Oresteia525-456/5 BCE
Oedipus Rex496-406 BCE
Alcestis; Medea484-406 BCE
Histories484-425 BCE
History of the Peloponnesian War470/460-ca. 400 BCE
The Art of Warca. 450-380 BCE
Lysistrata; The Clouds448-388 BCE
Republic; Symposium428-348 BCE
Ethics; Poetics; Politics384-322 BCE
The Book of Mencius400-320 BCE
Ramayanaca. 300 BCE
Mahabharataca. 200 BCE
Records of the Grand Historian145-86 BCE
De Rerum Naturaca. 100-50 BCE
Aeneid70-19 BCE
Meditations121-180
Confessions; City of God354-430
The Cloud Messenger; Sakuntalaca. 400
Qur'anca. 650
Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch638-713
Shah Namehca. 940-1020
The Pillow Bookca. 965-1035
The Tale of Genjica. 976-1015
The Rubaiyat1048-1123
The Divine Comedy1265-1321
Romance of the Three Kingdomsca. 1330-1400
The Canterbury Tales1342-1400
The Prince1469-1527
Gargantua and Pantagruel1483-1553
Journey to the West1500-1582
Essais; Apology for Raymond Sebond1533-1592
Don Quixote1547-1616
Hamlet; Romeo and Juliet1564-1616
Holy Sonnets; Devotions1573-1631
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems1574-1642
Leviathan1588-1679
Discourse on Method1596-1650
Paradise Lost; Lycidas1608-1674
Tartuffe; The Miser1622-1673
Pensees1623-1662
Pilgrim's Progress1628-1688
WorkAuthorLived
Second Treatise of Civil Government1632-1688
The Narrow Road of the Interior1644-1694
Robinson Crusoe1660-1731
Gulliver's Travels1667-1745
Candide1694-1778
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding1711-1776
Tom Jones1707-1754
Dream of the Red Chamber1715-1763
Confessions; The Social Contract1712-1778
Tristram Shandy1713-1768
The Life of Samuel Johnson1740-1795
The Federalist Papersfl. 1787-1788
Faust1749-1832
Songs of Innocence; The Four Zoas1757-1827
The Prelude; Daffodils1770-1850
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Christabel1772-1834
Pride and Prejudce; Emma1775-1817
The Red and the Black1783-1842
Pere Goriot; Eugenie Grandet1799-1850
Self-Reliance; The American Scholar; Nature1803-1882
The Scarlet Letter1804-1864
Democracy in America1805-1859
On Liberty; The Subjection of Women1806-1873
Voyage of the Beagle; The Origin of Species1809-1882
Dead Souls1809-1852
The Raven; The Cask of Amontillado1809-1849
Vanity Fair1811-1863
Pickwick Papers; David Copperfield1812-1870
The Warden; The Eustace Diamonds1815-1882
Jane Eyre1816-1855
Wuthering Heights1818-1848
Walden; Civil Disobedience1817-1862
Fathers and Sons1818-1883
Communist Manifesto1818-1883
Moby Dick; Bartleby the Scrivener1819-1891
The Mill on the Floss; Middlemarch1819-1880
Leaves of Grass; Democratic Vistas1819-1892
Madame Bovary1821-1880
Crime and Punishment; Brothers Karamazov1821-1881
War and Peace; Anna Karenina1828-1910
A Doll's House; Hedda Gabler1828-1906
A narrow Fellow in the Grass; other poems1830-1886
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland1832-1898
WorkAuthorLived
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn1835-1910
The Education of Henry Adams1838-1918
The Mayor of Casterbridge1840-1928
The Principles of Psychology; Pragmatism1842-1910
The Ambassadors1843-1916
Thus Spake Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil1844-1900
The Interpretation of Dreams1865-1939
Saint Joan; Pygmalion1856-1950
Nostromo1857-1924
Uncle Vanya; The Cherry Orchard1860-1904
The Age of Innocence; The House of Mirth1862-1937
The Second Coming; Easter 19161865-1939
Kokoro1867-1916
Remembrance of Things Past1871-1922
The Road Not Taken; Birches1874-1963
The Magic Mountain1875-1955
A Passage to India1879-1970
A Madman's Diary; The True Story of Ah Q1881-1936
Ulysses1882-1941
Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse1882-1941
The Trial; The Castle1883-1924
Sons and Lovers; Women in Love1885-1930
The Makioka Sisters1886-1965
Long Day's Journey into Night1888-1953
The Waste Land; Murder in the Cathedral1888-1965
Brave New World1894-1963
The Sound and the Fury1897-1962
The Sun Also Rises; The Snows of Kilimanjaro1899-1962
Beauty and Sadness; Snow Country1899-1972
Labyrinths; Dreamtigers1899-1986
Lolita; Pale Fire1899-1977
Animal Farm; 19841903-1950
The English Teacher; The Vendor of Sweets1906-2001
Waiting for Godot; Endgame1906-1989
The Shield of Achilles; Musee des Beaux Arts1907-1973
The Plague; The Stranger1913-1960
The Adventures of Augie March; Herzog1915-2005
Cancer Ward; The Gulag Archipelago1918-2008
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions1922-1996
Confessions of a Mask; The Sound of Waves1925-1970
One Hundred Years of Solitude1927-
Things Fall Apart1930-
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