01. Ovid, S. Lombardo [Tr.], ‘Metamorphoses’ (8 CE)
02. S. Heaney [Tr.], ‘Beowulf’ (700-1025)
03. Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Canterbury Tales’ (c.1400)
04. A. Holton & T. MacFaul [Eds.], ‘Tottel’s Miscellany’ (1557)
05. William Shakespeare, ‘Hamlet’ (1599–1601)
06. Miguel De Cervantes, B. Raffel [Tr.], ‘Don Quijote’ (1612)
07. John Milton, ‘Paradise Lost’ (1667)
08. Jonathan Swift, ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ (1726)
09. William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘Lyrical Ballads’ (1802)
10. Mary Shelley, ‘Frankenstein’ (1818)
11. Charlotte Brontë, ‘Jane Eyre’ (1847)
12. Charles Dickens, ‘Hard Times’ (1854)
13. Lewis Carroll, D. Gray [Ed.], ‘Alice in Wonderland’ (1865/1871)
14. Thomas Hardy, ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’ (1874)
15. Oscar Wilde, ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ (1895)
16. Joseph Conrad, ‘Heart of Darkness’ (1902)
17. T. S. Eliot, ‘The Waste Land’ (1922)
18. E. M. Forster, ‘A Passage to India’ (1924)
19. J. B. Priestley, ‘An Inspector Calls’ (1945)
20. Chinua Achebe, ‘Things Fall Apart’ (1958)
21. Jean Rhys, ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ (1966)
22. Wole Soyinka, ‘Death and the King’s Horseman’ (1975)
23. Angela Carter, ‘Nights at the Circus’ (1984)
24. Arundhati Roy, ‘The God of Small Things’ (1996)
25. Mark Haddon, ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ (2003)