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Title l'ype Creator Date Freq.Hamlet Drama William Shakespeare 1601 84The Tempest Drama William Shakespeare 1611 65Macbeth Drama William Shakespeare 1606 54Moby-Dick Novel Herman Melville 1851 54Iliad Poem Homer 8th century BC 51Pride and Prejudice Novel Jane Austen 1813 49The Great Gatsby Novel F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald 1925 48Othello Drama William Shakespeare 1622 47The Scarlet Letter Novel Nathaniel Hawthorne 1850 47Faust Poem Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1808 45A Midsummer Night's Dream Drama William Shakespeare 1595 45King Lear Drama William Shakespeare 1605 44Romeo and Juliet Drama William Shakespeare 1594 41Julius Caesar Drama William Shakespeare 1599 41The Merchant of Venice Drama William Shakespeare 1596 41Paradise Lost Poem John Milton 1667 40Vanity Fair Novel William Makepeace Thackeray 1848 40Billy Budd: Foretopman Novel Herman Melville 1891 401984 Novel George Orwell 1948 39JaneEyre Novel Charlotte Bronte 1847 39Candide Novel Voltaire 1759 39The Canterbury Tales Poem Geoffrey Chaucer 1387 39Oedipus Tyrannus Drama Sophocles 430BC 39The Divine Comedy Poem Dante Alighieri 1314 38A Streetcar Named Desire Drama (Thomas Lanier) "Tennessee" Williams 1947 38Much Ado about Nothing Drama William Shakespeare 1598 38OurTown Drama Thornton (Niven) Wilder 1938 38Little Women Novel Louisa May Alcott 1868 37Odyssey Poem Homer 8th century BC 37Aeneid Poem Virgil' 19BC 36Pilgrim's Progress Religious John Bunyan 1678 35A Tale of Two Cities Novel Charles (John Huffam) Dickens 1859 34

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Title Type Creator Date Freq.A Farewell to Arms Novel Ernest (Miller) Hemingway 1929 34For Whom the Bell Tolls Novel Ernest (Miller) Hemingway 1940 34Long Day's Journey Into Night Drama Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill 1956 34A Raisin in the Sun Drama Lorraine Hansberry

/1959 33

To Kill a Mockingbird Novel Harper Lee 1960 33The Jungle Novel Upton (Beall) Sinclair 1906 33Crime and Punishment Novel Fyodor (Mikhaylovich) Dostoyevsky 1866 33The Grapes of Wrath Novel John (Ernst) Steinbeck 1939 33Les Miserables Novel Victor(-Marie) Hugo 1862 33Twelfth Night Drama William Shakespeare 1623 33War and Peace Novel (Lev Nikolayevich) "Leo" Tolstoy 1865 33Ulysses Novel James (Augustine Aloysius) Toyce 1922 32Heart of Darkness Short Story Joseph Conrad 1902 32Catch-22 Novel Joseph Heller 1961 32Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Drama Edward (Franklin) Albee 1961 32Anna Karenina Novel (Lev Nikolayevich) "Leo" Tolstoy 1877 31Uncle Tom's Cabin Novel Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 31A Doll's House Drama Henrik (Johan) Ibsen 1879 31Wuthering Heights Novel Emily Bronte 1847 30Great Expectations Novel Charles (Jolm Huffam) Dickens 1861 30Oliver Twist Novel Charles (John Huffam) Dickens 1838 30The Catcher in the Rye Novel J(erome) D(avid) Salinger 1951 30The Taming of the Shrew Drama William Shakespeare 1593 30Pericles, Prince of Tyre Drama William Shakespeare 1608 30All the King's Men Novel Robert Penn Warren 1946 29The Sun Also Rises Novel Ernest (Miller) Hemingway 1926 29Don Quixote Novel Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1605 29The Waste Land Poem T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot 1922 29Beowulf Poem Anonymous 8th century 29The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Poem Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1797 29The Crucible Drama Arthur Miller 1953 29The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Novel Mark Twain 1884 29As You Like It Drama William Shakespeare 1599 28The Merry Wives of Windsor Drama William Shakespeare 1600 28David Copperfield Novel Charles (John Huffam) Dickens 1850 28Ode on a Grecian Urn Poem John Keats 1819 27Death of a Salesman Drama Arthur Miller 1949 27Slaughterhouse Five Novel Kurt Vonnegut. Jr. 1969 27On the Road Novel (Jean-Louis) "Jack" Kerouac 1957 26Pygmalion Drama George Bernard Shaw 1912 26

William Wordsworth and Samuel TaylorLyrical Ballads Poem Coleridge 1798 26Lolita Novel Vladimir (Vladimirovich) Nabokov 1955 26Of Mice and Men Novel John (Ernst) Steinbeck 1937 25Finnegans Wake Novel James (Augustine Aloysius) Toyce 1939 25Ivanhoe Novel Walter Scott 1820 25The Turn of the Screw Novel Henry Tames 1898 25My Antonia Novel Willa (Sibert) Cather 1918 25

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Title Type Creator Date Freq.The Rape of the Lock Poem Alexander Pope 1714 25Treasure Island Novel Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson 1883 25Bhagavadgita Religious Unknown 200 BC - AD 200 25Gulliver's Travels Novel Jonathan Swift 1726 25Richard III Drama William Shakespeare 1593 25The Call of the Wild Novel Jack Gohn Griffith Chaney) London 1903 25The Last of the Mohicans Novel James Fenimore Cooper 1826 24The Faerie Queene Poem Edmund Spenser 1589 24Fathers and Sons Novel Ivan (Sergeyevich) Turgenev 1862 24One Hundred Years of Solitude Novel Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1967 24The Count of Monte Cristo Novel Alexandre Dumas (pere) 1845 24Brave New World Novel Aldous (Leonard) Huxley 1932 24Things Fall Apart Novel Chinua Achebe 1958 24The Red Badge of Courage Novel Stephen Crane 1895 24Sense and Sensibility Novel Jane Austen 1811 23Lord of the Flies Novel William (Gerald) Golding 1954 23KublaKhan Poem Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1798 23Eugene Onegin Poem Aleksandr (Sergeyevich) Pushkin 1833 23An American Tragedy Novel Theodore (Herman Albert) Dreiser 1925 23The Glass Menagerie Drama (Thomas Lanier) "Temlessee" Williams 1945 22Mending Wall Poem Robert (Lee) Frost 1914 22Howl Poem Allen Ginsberg 1956 22Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Children's Lewis Carroll 1865 22Rebecca Novel Daphne du Maurier 1938 22The Sound and the Fury Novel William (Cuthbert) Faulkner 1929 22Antigone Drama Sophocles 441 BC 22The Handmaid's Tale Novel Margaret (Eleanor) Atwood 1985 22TheSeagull Drama Anton (Pavlovich) Chekhov 1896 22All Quiet on the Westem Front Novel Erich Maria Remarque 1929 22Mourning Becomes Electra Drama Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill 1931 22Measure for Measure Drama William Shakespeare 1604 22

DonJuan Poem George Gordon Noel Byron 1819 21Robinson Crusoe Novel Daniel Defoe 1719 21Main Street Novel (Harry) Sinclair Lewis 1920 21The House of the Seven Gables Novel Nathaniel Hawthorne 1851 21LordJim Novel Joseph Conrad 1900 21The Color Purple Novel Alice (Malsenior) Walker 1982 21To Have and Have Not Novel Ernest M(iller) Hemingway 1937 21The Sorrows of Young Werther Novel JohalID Wolfgang von Goethe 1774 21HenryV Drama William Shakespeare 1599 20The Three Musketeers Novel Alexandre Dumas (pere) 1844 20The Old Man and the Sea Novel Ernest (Miller) Hemingway 1952 20East of Eden Novel John (Ernst) Steinbeck 1952 20The Cantos Poem Ezra (Loomis) Pound 1930 20Remembrance of Things Past Novel Marcel Proust 1913 20The Retum of the Native Novel Thomas Hardy 1878 20To His Coy Mistress Poem Andrew Marvell 1652 20Tess of the d'Urbervilles Novel Thomas Hardy 1891 20

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Title Type Creator Date Freq.The Age of hmocence Novel Edith (Newbold Jones) Wharton 1920 20Animal Farm Novel George Orwell 1945 19Evangeline Poem Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1847 19Leaves of Grass Poem Walt(er)Whitman 1855 19The Winter's Tale Drama William Shakespeare 1611 19The Cherry Orchard Drama Anton (Pavlovich) Chekhov 1904 19Frankenstein Novel Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1818 19Waiting for Godot Drama Samuel (Barclay) Beckett 1952 19Antony and Cleopatra Drama William Shakespeare 1606 19Henry IV Drama William Shakespeare 1599 19The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Poem T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot 1911 19The Charge of the Light Brigade Poem Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1854 19Decameron Poem Giovanni Boccaccio 1353 18Dulce Et Decorum Est Poem Wilfred Owen 1920 18Rip van Winkle Short Story Washington Irving 1818 18The Good Earth Novel Pearl S(ydenstricker) Buck 1931 18Jude the Obscure Novel Thomas Hardy 1894 18Peer Gynt Drama Henrik (Johan) Ibsen 1867 18The Hunchback of Notre Dame Novel Victor(-Marie) Hugo 1830 18Through the Looking Glass Children's Lewis Carroll 1871 18Atlas Shrugged Novel AynRand 1957 18The Iceman Cometh Drama Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill 1946 18

~ Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Religious Jonathan Edwards 1741 18Richard Cory Poem Edwin Arlington Robinson 1897 18Song of Myself Poem Wa1t(er)Whitman 1855 18Rig Veda Religious Unknown c.1500 BC 18Far From the Madding Crowd Novel Thomas Hardy 1874 18Invisible Man Novel Ralph (Waldo) Ellison 1952 18The Stranger Novel Albert Camus 1946 18Northanger Abbey Novel Jane Austen 1818 18Inferno Poem Dante Alighieri c.1310-1314 18A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Novel James (Augustine Aloysius) Ioyce 1915 17A Passage to India Novel E(dward) M(organ) Forster 1924 17Babbitt Novel (Harry) Sinclair Lewis 1922 17Utopia Novel Thomas More 1516 17Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Drama (Thomas Lanier) "Tennessee" Williams 1955 17The Idiot Novel Fyodor (Mikhaylovich) Dostoyevsky 1868 17Nostromo Novel Joseph Conrad 1904 17Absalom, Absalom! Novel William (Cuthbert) Faulkner 1936 17The Tin Drum Novel Gunter (Wilhelm) Grass 1959 17Hedda Gabler Drama Henrik (Johan) Ibsen 1890 17Tom Jones Novel Henry Fielding 1749 17o Pioneers! Novel Willa (Sibert) Cather 1913 17DeSire Under the Elms Drama Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill 1924 17Tender is the Night Novel F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald 1934 17The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Short Story Washington Irving 1820 17The Magic Mountain Novel (Paul) Thomas Mann 1924 17Ode to Joy Poem Friedrich (Johalm Christoph) von Schiller 1786 17

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The Song of Hiawatha Poem Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1855 17

The Second Coming Poem William Butler Yeats 1921 17

The Trial Novel Franz Kafka 1925 17

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Poem Omar Khayyam l1c 16

Annabel Lee Poem Edgar Allan Poe 1849 16Titus Andronicus Drama William Shakespeare 1593 16

Emma Novel Jane Austen 1816 16

The Frogs Drama Aristophanes 405 BC 16

Medea Drama Euripides c. 431 BC 16

The Clouds Drama Aristophanes 423 BC 16

Ode to a Nightingale Poem John Keats 1819 16

The Raven Poem Edgar Allan Poe 1845 16

Chronicles of Narnia Children's C(live) S(taples) Lewis 1950 16

Death Comes for the Archbishop Novel Willa (Sibert) Cather 1927 16

Persuasion Novel Jane Austen 1818 16

Pamela Novel Samuel Richardson 1740 16

Man and Superman Drama George Bernard Shaw 1903 16

Ulysses Poem Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1842 15

Middlemarch Novel George (Mary Ann Evans) Eliot 1872 15

Dracula Novel (Abraham) "Bram" Stoker 1897 15Beloved Novel Toni Morrison 1987 15

Adam Bede Novel George (Mary Ann Evans) Eliot 1859 15

Breakfast at Tiffany's Novel Truman Capote 1958 15

Le Morte d'Arthur Poem Thomas Malory 1470 15

Ozymandias Poem Percy Bysshe Shelley 1818 15

Spoon River Anthology Collection Edgar Lee Masters 1915 15

Ramayana Poem Valmiki 3cBC 15

A Clockwork Orange Novel Gohn) Anthony Burgess (Wilson) 1962 15

Vedas Religious Anonymous 1500 to 1000 BC 15

Mahabharata Religious Vyasa (attributed) 200BC 15

The Prince and the Pauper Novel Mark Twain 1882 15

The Little Foxes Drama Lillian Hellmann 1939 15

Dead Souls Novel Nikolai (Vasilyevich) Gogol 1842 15

Charlotte's Web Children's E(lwyn) B(rooks) White 1952 15

Germinal Novel Emile(-Edouard-Charles- Antoine) Zola 1883 15

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Poem Robert (Lee) Frost 1923 15Lines Composed a Few Miles Above TinternAbbey Poem William Wordsworth 1798 15

Death in Venice Novel (Paul) Thomas Mann 1911 15

Arms and the Man Drama George Bernard Shaw 1894 14

Cannery Row Novel John (Ernst) Steinbeck 1945 14

Metamorphoses Poem Ovid 8 14

Dover Beach Poem Matthew Arnold 1867 14

The Road Not Taken Poem Robert (Lee) Frost 1916 14

GungaDin Poem Goseph) Rudyard Kipling 1892 14

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Poem George Gordon, Lord Byron 1812 14The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up inAmerica Poem Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet 1650 14Thanatopsis Poem William Cullen Bryant 1817 14

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Title Type Creator Date Freq.The Little Prince Children's Antoine(-Marie-Roger) de Saint-Exupery 1943 14Ethan Frome Novel Edith (Newbold Jones) Wharton 1911 14Doctor Faustus Novel (Paul) Thomas Mann 1947 14Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Novel Jules Verne 1870 14NativeSon Novel Richard Wright 1940 14One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Novel Ken (Elton) Kesey 1962 14Elmer Gantry Novel (Harry) Sinclair Lewis 1927 14The Fountainhead Novel AynRand 1943 14Songs of Innocence Poem William Blake 1789 14The Murders in the Rue Morgue Short Story Edgar Allan Poe 1841 14Qur'an Religious Muhammad 652 14Gravity's Rainbow Novel Thomas (Ruggles) Pynchon, Jr. 1973 14Cry, the Beloved Country Novel Alan (Stewart) Paton 1948 14Arrowsmith Novel (Harry) Sinclair Lewis 1925 14The Brothers Karamazov Novel Fyodor (Mikhaylovich) Dostoyevsky 1880 14The Master Builder Drama Henrik Gohan) Ibsen 1892 14The Satanic Verses Novel (Ahmed) Salman Rushdie 1989 14Mansfield Park Novel Jane Austen 1814 14Around the World in Eighty Days Novel Jules Verne 1873 14Major Barbara Drama George Bernard Shaw 1905 14The Red and the Black Novel Stendhal 1830 14Midnight's Children Novel (Ahmed) Salman Rushdie 1981 13White Fang Novel Jack London 1905 13The Old Curiosity Shop Novel Charles Gohn HuHam) Dickens 1840 13Resurrection Novel (Lev Nikolayevich) "Leo" Tolstoy 1899 13Look Homeward, Angel Novel Thomas Wolfe 1929 13The Playboy of the Western World Drama John Millington Synge 1907 13Young Goodman Brown Short Story Nathaniel Hawthorne 1835 13Silas Marner Novel George Eliot 1861 13The Picture of Dorian Gray Novel Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde 1891 13Daisy Miller Novel Henry Tames 1878 13Dune Novel Frank (Patrick) Herbert 1965 13The Bostonians Novel Henry Tames 1886 13The Fall of the House of Usher Short Story Edgar Allan Poe 1840 13The Hobbit Novel J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) Tolkien 1937 13Adonais Poem Percy Bysshe Shelley 1821 13Crossing the Bar Poem Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1889 13Gone with the Wind Novel Margaret Mitchell 1936 13UncleVanya Drama Anton (Pavlovich) Chekhov 1897 13The Alchemist Drama Ben(jamin) Tonson 1610 13Steppenwolf Novel Hermaml Hesse 1927 13The Children's Hour Drama Lillian Hellmann 1934 13Ghosts Drama Henrik Gohan) Ibsen 1881 13HenryVIII Drama William Shakespeare 1612 13The Bridge of San Luis Rey Novel Thornton (Niven) Wilder 1927 13A Separate Peace Novel John Knowles 1959 13Sonnets from the Portuguese Poem Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1850 13Because I could not stop for Death Poem Emily (Elizabeth) Dickinson 1890 13

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Title Type Creator Date Freq.Les Fleurs du Mal Poem Charles (Pierre) Baudelaire 1857 13Endymion Poem John Keats 1818 13John Brown's Body Poem Stephen Vincent Benet 1928 13The Castle of Otranto Novel Horace Walpole 1764 12The Four Quartets Poem T(homas) S(teams) Eliot 1936 12The Tiger Poem William Blake 1794 12All My Sons Drama Arthur Miller 1947 12Inherit the Wind Drama Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee 1955 12Joseph Andrews Novel Henry Fielding 1742 12Three Sisters Drama Anton (Pavlovich) Chekhov 1900 12Endgame Drama Samuel (Barclay) Beckett 1957 12The Last Tycoon Novel F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald 1941 12Bacchae Drama Euripides 405 BC 12Peter Pan Children's James M(atthew) Barrie 1904 12The Jew of Malta Drama Christopher Marlowe 1592 12Kim Novel Goseph) Rudyard Kipling 1901 12Chicago Poem Carl (August) Sandburg 1916 12A Man for All Seasons Drama Robert (Oxton) Bolt 1960 12The Bell Jar Novel Sylvia Plath 1963 12The Bridge Poem (Harold) Hart Crane 1930 12To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time Poem Robert Herrick 1648 12My Last Duchess Poem Robert Browning 1842 12The Purloined Letter Short Story Edgar Allan Poe 1845 12The Gift of the Magi Short Story O.Henry 1906 12The Bronze Horseman Poem Aleksandr (Sergeyevich) Pushkin 1833 12LuckyJim Novel Kingsley Amis 1954 12Winesburg, Ohio Novel Sherwood Anderson 1919 12A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur'sCourt Novel Mark Twain 1889 12Cat'sCradle Novel KurtVonnegut. Jr. 1963 12Watership Down Children's Richard Adams 1972 12The Natural Novel Bernard Malamud 1952 12Out of Africa Novel Isak Dinesen 1938 12This Side of Paradise Novel F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald 1920 12The Glass Bead Game Novel Hermann Hesse 1943 12J.B. Drama Archibald Macleish 1958 12An Enemy of the People Drama Henrik Gohan) Ibsen 1882 12Tartuffe Drama Moliere Gean Baptiste Poquelin) 1664 12The Lower Depths Drama Maksim Gorky 1902 12The Misanthrope Drama Moliere Gean Baptiste Poquelin) 1666 12Exodus Religious Moses (attributed) c. 900 - 500 BC 11The Way of the World Drama William Congreve 1700 111919 Novel John (Roderigo) Dos Passos 1933 11The Portrait of a Lady Novel Henry lames 1881 11The Golden Bowl Novel Henry lames 1904 11Kenilworth Novel Walter Scott 1821 11Lysistrata Drama Aristophanes 411 BC 11The Pioneers Novel James FenbIlore Cooper 1823 11

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Title Type Creator Date Freq.A Christmas Carol Novel Charles (Jolm Huffam) Dickens 1843 11The Octopus Novel (Benjamin Franklin) "Frank" Norris 1901 11From Here to Eternity Novel James Jones 1951 11The Time Machine Novel H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells 1895 11Fahrenheit 451 Novel Ray (Douglas) Bradbury 1953 11Stranger in a Strange Land Novel Robert A(nson) Heinlein 1961 11

Saint (Aurelius Augustinus) Augustine ofCity of God Religious Hippo 412 11Talmud Religious Unknown c. 300 to 600 11The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Children's C(live) S(taples) Lewis 1950 11No Exit Drama Jean-Paul Sartre 1944 11Erewhon Novel Samuel Butler (II) 1872 11Upanishads Religious Anonymous 600 BC 11Wise Blood Novel (Mary) Flannery O'ColUlor 1952 11Volpone Drama Ben(jamin) Jonson 1605 11Troilus and Cressida Drama William Shakespeare 1954 11Death in the Afternoon Novel Ernest (Miller) Hemin~ay 1932 11Song of the Lark Novel Willa (Sibert) Cather 1915 11The Mayor of Casterbridge Novel Thomas Hardy 1886 11As I Lay Dying Novel William (Cuthbert) Faulkner 1930 11The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Short Story James (Grover) Thurber 1932 11Sister Carrie Novel Theodore (Herman Albert) Dreiser 1900 11Strange Interlude Drama Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill 1928 11The Tale of Genji Novel Lady Murasaki Shikibu 1010 11The Death of Ivan Uyich Novella (Lev Nikolayevich) "Leo" Tolstoy 1886 11In Memoriam Poem Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1833 11Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Poem Thomas Gray 1751 11Essay on Criticism Poem Alexander Pope 1711 11Kaddish Poem Allen Ginsberg 1961 11The Enormous Room Poem E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings 1922 11Prometheus Unbound Poem Percy Bysshe Shelley 1820 11Tobacco Road Novel Erskine (Preston) Caldwell 1933 11In Cold Blood Novel Truman Capote 1966 11The Age of Anxiety Poem W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden 1947 11A Man in Full Novel (Thomas Kennerly) "Tom" Wolfe(, Jr.) 1998 10A Shropshire Lad Poem A(lfred) E(dward) Housman 1896 10Death, be not proud Poem JolmDonne 1633 10To A Waterfowl Poem William Cullen Bryant 1815 10Prometheus Bound Drama Aeschylus 478BC 10Jabberwocky Poem Lewis Carroll 1871 10The Hollow Men Poem T(homas) S(teams) Eliot 1925 10Areopagitica Poem JolmMilton 1644 10oCaptain! My Captain! Poem Walt(er)Whitman 1865 10Beyond the Horizon Drama Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill 1919 10The Skin of Our Teeth Drama Thornton (Niven) Wilder 1942 10The Man Who Would Be King Novel Goseph) Rudyard Kipling 1889 10The Jungle Book Children's Goseph) Rudyard Kipling 1894 10Two Gentlemen of Verona Drama William Shakespeare 1594 10

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Title Type Creator Date Freq.The Rivals Drama Richard Brinsley (Butler) Sheridan 1775 10The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon Collection Washington Irving 1820 10The Open Boat Short Story Stephen Crane 1898 10The Celebrated Jumping Frog of CalaverasCounty Short Story Mark Twain 1867 10Siddhartha Novel Hermann Hesse 1922 10Cinderella Children's Anonymous 1729 10The Cask of Amontillado Short Story Edgar Allan Poe 1846 10MissJulie Drama (Johan) August Strindberg 1888 10Dubliners Novel James (Augustine Aloysius) Toyce 1914 10IChing Religious Confucius (supposed editor) 470BC 10Their Eyes Were Watching God Novel Zora Neale Hurston 1937 10Looking Backward Novel Edward Bellamy 1888 10The Emperor Jones Drama Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill 1920 10The Name of the Rose Novel UmbertoEco 1983 10The Screwtape Letters Novel C(live) S(taples) Lewis 1943 10The Book of Daniel Religious Daniel (traditionally) 600 to 200 BC 10A Study in Scarlet Novel Arthur Conan Doyle 1887 10

The Tyger Poem William Blake 1794 10General William Booth Enters into Heaven Poem (Nicholas) Vachel Lindsay 1913 10Rob Roy Novel Walter Scott 1818 10The Masque of the Red Death Short Story Edgar Allan Poe 1840 10The House of Mirth Novel Edith (Newbold Jones) Wharton 1905 10The Flies Drama Jean-Paul Sartre 1943 10Richard II Drama William Shakespeare 1596 10The Ballad of the Sad Cafe Drama Carson McCullers 1951 10

Typee Novel Herman Melville 1846 10

HowardsEnd Novel E(dward) M(organ) Forster 1910 10The Ambassadors Novel Henry Tames 1903 10Lady Chatterley's Lover Novel D(avid) H(erbert Richards) Lawrence 1928 10

The Mystery of Edwin Drood Novel Charles (John HuHam) Dickens 1870 10Rappaccini's Daughter Short Story Nathaniel Hawthorne 1844 10

John ~ (music collected and arranged byThe Beggar's Opera Drama Pepusch) 1728 10R.D.R. Drama Karel Capek 1921 10The Bald Soprano Drama Eugene Ionesco 1948 10

Juneteenth Novel Ralph Ellison 1999 10

The Threepenny Opera Drama Kurt Weill (libr: Bertolt Brecht) 1928 10

Tropic of Cancer Novel Hemy (Valentine) Miller 1931 10The Devil and Daniel Webster Short Story Stephen Vincent Benet 1936 10

Mosses from an Old Manse Collection Nathaniel Hawthorne 1846 10

ShowBoat Novel Edna Ferber 1926 9The Man Who Came to Dinner Drama George S(imon) Kaufman and Moss Hart 1939 9No Longer At Ease Novel Chinua Achebe 1960 9Mrs. Warren's Profession Drama George Bernard Shaw 1898 9

Washington Square Novel HemyTames 1880 9The Iron Heel Novel Jack London 1907 9The Web and the Rock Novel Thomas (Clayton) Wolfe 1939 9The Seven Pillars of Wisdom Novel T(homas) E(dward) Lawrence 1926 9

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Title Type Creator Date Freq.Brideshead Revisited Novel Evelyn (Arthur St. John) Waugh 1945 9Isaiah Religious Isaiah (partially) Unknown 9The Imaginary Invalid Drama Moliere 1673 9All's Well That Ends Well Drama William Shakespeare 1602 9The Moon and Sixpence Novel W(illiam) Somerset Maugham 1919 9Go Tell it on the Mountain Novel James (Arthur) Baldwin 1953 9The Fixer Novel Bernard Malamud 1966 9A Room with a View Novel E(dward) M(organ) Forster 1908 9The Naked and the Dead Novel Norman Mailer 1948 9Pierre, or the Ambiguities Novel Herman Melville 1852 9White-Jacket Novel Herman Melville 1850 9The Charterhouse of Parma Novel Stendhal 1839 9Sons and Lovers Novel D(avid) H(erbert Richards) Lawrence 1913 9The Vicar of Wakefield Novel Oliver Goldsmith 1766 9Sanctuary Novel William (Cuthbert) Faulkner 1931 9The English Patient Novel (Philip) Michael Ondaatje 1992 9The Four Million Novel O.Henry 1906 9The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Novel Mark Twain 1876 9The Trojan Women Drama Euripides 415 BC 9

Jazz Novel Toni Morrison 1992 9Homage to Catalonia Novel George Orwell 1939 9Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Poem Walt(er)Whitman 1856 9Paul Revere's Ride Poem Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1863 9TheThinMan Novel (Samuel) Dashiell Hammett 1934 9psalms Religious David (attributed) 600BC (7) 9Ecclesiastes Religious Solomon (attributed) 3rd century BC 9Mishna Religious Unknown 3rd century AD 9You Can't Take It with You Drama George S(imon) Kaufman and Moss Hart 1936 9The Dunciad Poem Alexander Pope 1728 9Acts of the Apostles Religious Luke (attributed) 1st century AD 9TomSawyer Novel Mark Twain 1981 9Leviticus Religious Moses (attributed) 900 to 600 BC 9

Winterset Drama Maxwell Anderson 1935 9The Odd Couple Drama (Marvin) Neil Simon 1966 9The Heiress Drama John Burgoyne 1786 9Ragtime Novel E(dgar) L(awrence) Doctorow 1998 9

Kalevala Poem Anonymous 1835 9Mrs. Dalloway Novel (Adeline) Virginia (Stephen) Woolf 1925 9

The Persians Drama Aeschylus 472 BC 9The Gold Bug Short Story Edgar Allan Poe 1843 9Song of Solomon Novel Toni Morrison 1973 9Brand Drama Henrik (Johan) Ibsen 1866 9Madame Bovary Novel Gustave Haubert 1857 9The Mill on the Floss Novel George (Mary Ann Evans) Eliot 1860 9An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Short Story Ambrose (Gwinnett) Bierce 1891 9The Alhambra Short Story Washington Irving 1851 9Rhinoceros Drama Eugene Ionesco 1959 9The Importance of Being Earnest Drama Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde 1895 9

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Title Type Creator Date Freq.Sons Novel Pearl S(ydenstricker) Buck 1932 9You Can't Go Home Again Novel Thomas (Clayton) Wolfe 1940 9The Blithedale Romance Novel Nathaniel Hawthorne 1852 9After the Fall Drama Arthur Miller 1964 9Tristram Shandy Novel Laurence Stenle 1759 9The Marble Faun Novel Nathaniel Hawthorne 1860 9Hard Times Novel Charles (John Huffam) Dickens 1854 9The Courtship of Miles Standish Poem Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1858 9On First Looking into Chapman's Homer Poem John Keats 1816 9Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Poem Dylan (Marlais) Thomas 1952 9Songs of Experience Poem William Blake 1794 9The Castle Novel Franz Kafka 1926 9Paterson Poem William Carlos Williams 1946 9The Bells Poem Edgar Allan Poe 1849 9Miniver Cheevy Poem Edwin Arlington Robinson 1910 9The Lady of the Lake Poem Walter Scott 1810 9Every Man In His Humour Drama BenGamin) Tonson 1598 9Absalom and Achitophel Poem John Dryden 1681 8Samson Agonistes Poem John Milton 1671 8Heartbreak House Drama George Bernard Shaw 1919 8The Death of the Hired Man Poem Robert (Lee) Frost 1914 8ToaMouse Poem Robert Burns 1785 8Theogony Poem Hesiod 750BC 8Works and Days Poem Hesiod 750BC 8The Gift Outright Poem Robert (Lee) Frost 1942 8Ode to the West Wind Poem Percy Bysshe Shelley 1819 8Barbara Frietchie Poem John Greenleaf Whittier 1863 8The Comedy of Errors Drama William Shakespeare 1592 8The Wild Duck Drama Henrik (Johan) Ibsen 1884 8Fences Drama August Wilson 1986 8Light in August Novel William (Cuthbert) Faulkner 1932 8Twice-Told Tales Collection Nathaniel Hawthorne 1837 8Anne of Green Gables Children's L(ucy) M(aud) Montgomery 1908 8The Wind in the Willows Children's Kenneth Grahame 1908 8The New Colossus Poem Emma Lazarus 1883 8Our American Cousin Drama Tom Taylor 1858 8The Time of Your Life Novel William Saroyan 1939 8Battle Hymn of the Republic Poem Julia Ward Howe 1862 8The Secret Garden Children's Frances Hodgson Burnett 1911 8Book of Mormon Religious Joseph Smifu (Jr.) 1830 8The Moonstone Novel (William) Wilkie Collins 1868 8The Mysterious Affair at Styles Novel Agatha Christie 1920 8DreamSongs Poem John Berryman 1964 8ToASkylark Poem Percy Bysshe Shelley 1820 8The Lady of Shalott Poem Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1832 8A Death in the Family Novel James Agee 1957 8A Bell for Adano Novel John (Richard) Hersey 1944 8Go Down, Moses Novel William (Cuthbert) Faulkner 1942 8

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November 1, 2002 NAQT Frequency Lists Literature

Title Type Creator Date Freq.Daniel Deronda Novel George (Mary Ann Evans) Eliot 1874 8Naked Lunch Novel William S(eward) Burroughs 1959 8Foucault's Pendulum Novel UmbertoEco 1989 8The Member of the Wedding Novel Carson McCullers 1946 8The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Novel Carson McCullers 1995 8The Lottery Short Story Shirley (Hardie) Iackson 1948 8Omoo Novel Herman Melville 1846 8The Invisible Man Novel H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells 1897 8The Plumed Serpent Novel D(avid) H(erbert Richards) Lawrence 1926 8The 42nd Parallel Novel John (Roderigo) Dos Passos 1930 8Cymbeline Drama William Shakespeare 1609 8The Zoo Story Drama Edward (Franklin) Albee 1960 8Seascape Drama Edward (Franklin) Albee 1974 8Three Tall Women Drama Edward (Franklin) Albee 1994 8The Wasps Drama Aristophanes 421 BC 8The Two Gentlemen of Verona Drama William Shakespeare 1595 8Agamemnon Drama Aeschylus 458 BC 8The Sea Wolf Novel Jack London 1904 8Look Back in Anger Drama John (James) Osborne 1956 8Moll Flanders Novel Daniel Defoe 1722 8

William Shakespeare possibly with JolmThe Two Noble Kinsmen Drama Fletcher 1612 8A Delicate Balance Drama Edward (Franklin) Albee 1966 8Glengarry Glen Ross Drama David (Alan) Mamet 1983 8The Titan Novel Theodore (Herman Albert) Dreiser 1914 8The Joy Luck Club Novel Amy (Ruth) Tan 1989 8Golden Boy Drama Clifford Odets 1937 8The Cider House Rules Novel John (Winslow) Irving 1985 8Lady Windermere's Fan Drama Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde 1892 7The Caine Mutiny Novel HermanWouk 1951 7To the Lighthouse Novel (Adeline) Virginia (Stephen) Woolf 1927 7TheMansion Novel William (Cuthbert) Faulkner 1959 7The Crying of Lot 49 Novel Thomas (Ruggles) Pynchon (Jr.) 1966 7Twenty Years After Novel Alexandre Dumas (pere) 1845 7Abe Lincoln in Illinois Drama Robert E(mmet) Sherwood 1938 7Sybil Novel Benjamin Disraeli 1846 7Soldier's Pay Novel William (Cuthbert) Faulkner 1926 7Pale Fire Novel Vladimir (Vladimirovich) Nabokov 1962 7A View from the Bridge Drama Arthur Miller 1955 7TheDead Short Story James (Augustine Aloysius) Ioyce 1914 7Mother Courage and her Children Drama (Eugen) Berthold (Friedrich) Brecht 1939 7The Magnificent Ambersons Novel (Newton) Booth Tarkington 1918 7Humboldt's Gift Novel Saul Bellow 1975 7Electra Drama Sophocles 5cBC 7Ariel Poem Sylvia Plath 1968 7The Fifth Column Drama Ernest (Miller) Hemingway 1938 7Saint Joan Drama George Bernard Shaw 1923 7Seven Against Thebes Drama Aeschylus 467BC 7

November 1,2002 NAQT Frequency Lists Literature

Title Type Creator Date Freq.The Troublesome Reign and LamentableDeath of Edward the Second Drama Christopher Marlowe 1594 7The American Novel Henry James 1877 7The House of the Dead Novel Fyodor (Mikhaylovich) Dostoyevsky 1862 7The Big Money Novel John (Roderigo) Dos Passos 1936 7Buddenbrooks Novel (Paul) Thomas Mann 1901 7Almayer's Folly Novel Joseph Conrad 1895 7Cakes and Ale Novel W(illiam) Somerset Maugham 1930 7The Man with the Golden Arm Novel Nelson Algren 1949 7The World According to Garp Novel John (Winslow) Irving 1978 7The Swiss Family Robinson Novel Johann (Rudolf) Wyss 1813 7The Country of the Pointed Firs Novel Sarah Orne Jewett 1896 7

Sartor Resartus Novel Thomas Carlyle 1833 7The Bear Children's Anton (Pavlovich) Chekhov 1888 7Waverley Novel Walter Scott 1814 7Dragon's Teeth Novel Upton (Beall) Sinclair 1942 7Odes Poem Horace 24BC 7To Althea from Prison Poem Richard Lovelace 1649 7The Mousetrap Drama Agatha Christie 1952 7Renascence Poem Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917 7The Matchmaker Drama Thornton (Niven) Wilder 1954 7The Day of the Locust Novel Nathanael West 1939 7

The Star-Spangled Banner Poem Francis Scott ~ 1814 7Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Drama Tom Stoppard 1966 7

EssayonMan Poem Alexander Pope 1734 7

The Inspector General Drama Nikolai (Vasilyevich) Gogol 1834 7Tamburlaine the Great Drama Christopher Marlowe 1587 7A Wrinkle in Time Children's Madeleine (Camp) L'Engle 1962 7LittleMen Novel Louisa May Alcott 1871 7

Ragged Dick Children's Horatio Alger (Jr.) 1867 7

Coriolanus Drama William Shakespeare 1606 7

Eumenides Drama Aeschylus 458 BC 7

Andromache Drama Euripides 426 BC 7

The Red Pony Novel John (Ernst) Steinbeck 1937 7

The Prisoner of Zenda Novel Anthony (Anthony Hope Hawkins) Hope 1894 7

Snow Country Novel Kawabata Yasunari 1948 7

A House Divided Novel Pearl S(ydenstricker) Buck 1935 7

Demian Novel Hermann Hesse 1919 7BleakHouse Novel Charles (John Huffam) Dickens 1852 7

The Book of the Duchess Poem Geoffrey Chaucer 1369 7Lincoln Biography Gore Vidal 1988 7Cabbages and Kings Novel O. Henry 1904 7AFable Novel William (Cuthbert) Faulkner 1954 7

The Snows of Kilimanjaro Short Story Ernest (Miller) Hemingway 1927 7

Stuart Little Children's E(lwyn) B(rooks) White 1945 7One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Novel Aleksandr (Isayevich) Solzhenitsyn 1962 7Hospital Sketches Novel Louisa May Alcott 1863 7The Dumbwaiter Drama Harold Pinter 1957 7

November 1,2002 NAQT Frequency Lists Literature

Title Type Creator Date Freq.Birches Poem Robert (Lee) Frost 1916 7To An Athlete Dying Young Poem A(l£red) E(dward) Housman 1896 7On the Pulse of Morning Poem Maya Angelou 1993 7The Ballad of Reading Gaol Poem Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde 1898 7The Parliament of Fowls Poem Geoffrey Chaucer 1375 7Aurora Leigh Poem Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1856 7Idylls of the King Poem Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1885 7Sailing to Byzantium Poem William Butler Yeats 1928 7The Right Stuff Novel (Thomas Kennerly) "Tom" Wolfe (Jr.) 1975 7Love in the Time of Cholera Poem Gabriel Garda Marquez 1985 7Song of Roland Poem Anonymous 1100 7Little Gidding Poem T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot 1942 7The Heart of Midlothian Novel Walter Scott 1818 7The Queen of Spades Poem Aleksandr (Sergeyevich) Pushkin 1834 7Lamia Poem John Keats 1820 7Invictus Poem William Ernest Henley 1875 7Lycidas Poem John Milton 1637 6The Prophet Poem Kahlil Gibran 1923 6The Prisoner of the Caucasus Poem Aleksandr (Sergeyevich) Pushkin 1883 6The Drunken Boat Poem (Jean-Nicolas-)Arthur Rimbaud 1871 6A Visit from St. Nicholas Poem Clement Clarke Moore 1823 6The Moon is Down Novel John (Ernst) Steinbeck 1942 6Blood Wedding Poem Federico Garda Lorca 1933 6The Birthday Party Drama Harold Pinter 1958 6The School for Scandal Drama Richard Brinsley (Butler) Sheridan 1777 6Hero and Leander Poem Christopher Marlowe and George Chapman 1598 6Under Milk Wood Poem Dylan (Marlais) Thomas 1954 6The Deserted Village Poem Oliver Goldsmith 1770 6Ars Poetica Poem Archibald Macleish 1926 6AmlieAllen Poem Gwendolyn (Elizabeth) Brooks 1949 6Hyperion Poem (Johann Christian) Friedrich Hi:ilderlin 1797 6Tales of a Wayside Inn Poem Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1863 6

North of Boston Poem Robert (Lee) Frost 1914 6Orlando Furioso Poem Lodovico Ariosto 1516 6La Vita Nuova Poem Dante Alighieri 1293 6When I Was One-and- Twenty Poem A(lfred) E(dward) Housman 1896 6The Weary Blues Poem (James Mercer) Langston Hughes 1926 6The Caretaker Drama Harold Pinter 1960 6A Boy's Will Poem Robert (Lee) Frost 1913 6Everyman Drama Anonymous 1495 6The Piano Lesson Drama August Wilson 1989 6Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Novel Stephen Crane 1893 6Darkness at Noon Novel Arthur Koestler 1941 6Roughing It Novel Mark Twain 1872 6Amadeus Drama Peter (Levin) Shaffer 1980 6Orlando Novel (Adeline) Virginia (Stephen) Woolf 1928 6Philoctetes Drama Sophocles 409BC 6Nana Novel Emile( -Edouard-Charles- Antoine) 201a 1880 6

November 1, 2002 NAQT Frequency Lists Literature

Title Type Creator Date Freq.Ship of Fools Novel Katherine Anne Porter 1962 6The Overcoat Novel Nikolai (Vasilyevich) Gogol 1842 6When We Dead Awaken Drama Henrik (Johan) Ibsen 1900 6TheSpy Novel James Fenimore Cooper 1821 6Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Novel Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson 1886 6The First Circle Novel Aleksandr (Isayevich) Solzhenitsyn 1968 6The Deerslayer Novel James Fenimore Cooper 1841 6The Awakening Novel Kate Chopin 1899 6Sartoris Novel William (Cuthbert) Faulkner 1929 6Villette Novel Charlotte Bronte 1853 6The Tell-Tale Heart Short Story Edgar Allan Poe 1843 6The Pearl Short Story John (Ernst) Steinbeck 1948 6The Battle of the Books Novel Jonathan Swift 1704 6Point Counter Point Novel Aldous (Leonard) Huxley 1928 6A Good Man is Hard to Find Short Story (Mary) Flannery O'Connor 1955 6The Pit and the Pendulum Short Story Edgar Allan Poe 1843 6Delta Wedding Novel Eudora Welty 1946 6Tar Baby Novel Toni Morrison 1981 6Where the Sidewalk Ends Children's Shel(by) Silverstein 1974 6Bartleby the Scrivener Short Story Herman Melville 1853 6Alcestis Drama Euripides 435 BC 6The Last Battle Children's C(live) S(taples) Lewis 1956 6Gemara Religious Anonymous Various 6The Last Picture Show Novel Larry (Jeff) McMurtry 1966 6Oil! Novel Upton (Beall) Sinclair 1927 6V Novel Thomas (Ruggles) Pynchon (Jr.) 1963 6Ghost Novel Indigo Girls 1992 6Tom Thumb Novel Charles Perrault 1697 6Institutes of the Christian Religion Religious John Calvin 1536 6The Professor Novel Charlotte Bronte 1846 6Waiting to Exhale Novel Terry McMillan 1992 6Equus Drama Peter (Levin) Shaffer 1973 6Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Children's Roald Dahl 1964 6Closing Time Novel Joseph Heller 1993 6AdiGranth Religious Arjun (compiler) 1604 6Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Children's J(oanne) K(athleen) Rawling 1997 6A Few Figs From Thistles Poem Edna St. Vincent Millay 1920 6Genesis Religious Moses (attributed) 900 to 600 BC 6BurntNorton Poem T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot 1936 6The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Novel Douglas (Noel) Adams 1979 6The Valley of Fear Novel Arthur Conan Doyle 1915 6The Chambered Nautilus Poem Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 1858 6Fog Poem Carl Sandburg 1916 6The Possessed Novel Fyodor (Mikhaylovich) Dostoyevsky 1867 6Kiss of the Spider Woman Novel ManuelPuig 1976 6Barnaby Rudge Novel Charles (John HuHam) Dickens 1841 6Scenes of Clerical Life Novel George (Mary Ann Evans) Eliot 1858 6Little Dorrit Novel Charles (John Huffam) Dickens 1855 6

November 1,2002 NAQT Frequency Lists Literature

Title Type Creator Date Freq.Kangaroo Novel D(avid) H(erbert Richards) Lawrence 1923 6The Angelic Avengers Novel Isak Dinesen 1946 6A Perfect Day for Bananafish Short Story J(erome) D(avid) Salinger 1953 6The Minister's Black Veil Short Story Nathaniel Hawthorne 1837 6All the Pretty Horses Novel Cormac McCarthy 1992 6Porgy Novel (Edwin) DuBose Heyward 1925 6Dodsworth Novel (Harry) Sinclair Lewis 1929 6The Secret Agent Novel Joseph Conrad 1907 6TheCenci Poem Percy Bysshe Shelley 1819 6The Scarlet Pimpernel Novel Baroness (Emmuska) Clrczy 1905 6Life on the Mississippi Novel Mark Twain 1883 6Private Lives Drama Noel (Peirce) Coward 1930 6The Caucasian Chalk Circle Drama (Eugen) Berthold (Friedrich) Brecht 1947 6Six Characters in Search of an Author Drama Luigi Pirandello 1921 6Henry VI Drama William Shakespeare 1591 6Riders to the Sea Drama John Millington Synge 1904 6The Spanish Tragedy Drama ThomasKyd 1592 6Love's Labour's Lost Drama William Shakespeare 1595 6Amerika Novel Franz Kafka 1927 6The Hamlet Novel William (Cuthbert) Faulkner 1940 6A Tale of a Tub Novel Jonathan Swift 1704 6It Can't Happen Here Novel (Harry) Sinclair Lewis 1935 6Nicholas Nickleby Novel Charles Golm Huffam) Dickens 1838 6So Big Novel Edna Ferber 1924 6Ben-Hur Novel (Lewis) "Lew"Wallace 1880 6Portrait of a Lady Novel T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot 1917 6Coningsby Novel Benjamin Disraeli 1844 6Anthem Novel AynRand 1938 6The Music Man Drama Meredith Willson (lyr/libr: self) 1957 6The Miser Drama Moliere 1668 6The Town Novel William (Cuthbert) Faulkner 1957 6The Mysterious Island Novel Jules Verne 1875 6The Accidental Tourist Novel Anne Tyler 1985 6ThePlague Novel Albert Camus 1947 6In Dubious Battle Novel Jolm (Ernst) Steinbeck 1936 6The Grandissimes Novel George Washington Cable 1880 6The Power and the Glory Novel (Henry) Graham Greene 1940 6The Stoic Novel Theodore (Herman Albert) Dreiser 1947 6The Financier Novel Theodore (Herman Albert) Dreiser 1912 6Iberia Novel James (Albert) Michener 1968 6Anthills of the Savamlah Novel Chinua Achebe 1980 6The Naked Lunch Novel William (Seward) Burroughs 1959 6The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky Short Story Stephen Crane 1898 6A Moon for the Misbegotten Drama Eugene (Gladstone) Cl'Neill 1943 6Kidnapped Novel Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson 1886 6Fanshawe Novel Nathaniel Hawthorne 1829 6The End of the Affair Novel (Henry) Graham Greene 1951 5Leaf Storm Short Story Gabriel Garda Marquez 1955 5

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November 1, 2002 NAQT Frequency Lists Literature

Title Type Creator Date Freq.The Ground Beneath Her Feet Novel (Ahmed) Salman Rushdie 1999 5Libra Novel Don DeLillo 1988 5Giants in the Earth Novel Ole (Edvart) Rolvaag 1924 5Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter Novel (Jorge) Mario (Pedro) Vargas Llosa 1977 5Centennial Novel James (Albert) Michener 1974 5Le roi s'amuse Drama Victor(-Marie) Hugo 1832 5Hawaii Novel James (Albert) Michener 1959 5Texas Novel James (Albert) Michener 1985 5The Gilded Age Novel Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner 1873 5God's Little Acre Novel Erskine (Preston) Caldwell 1934 5Alice Adams Novel (Newton) Booth Tarkington 1921 5The Unvanquished Novel William (Cuthbert) Faulkner 1938 5Dangling Man Novel Saul Bellow 1944 5Under the Volcano Novel Malcolm Lowry 1947 5The Virginian Novel Owen Wister 1902 5Vivian Grey Novel Benjamin Disraeli 1826 5Dr. Heidegger's Experiment Short Story Nathaniel Hawthorne 1837 5Poor Folk Novel Fyodor (Mikhaylovich) Dostoyevsky 1846 5A Thousand Acres Novel Jane (Graves) Smiley 1991 5Underworld Novel Don DeLillo 1997 5The Blue Hotel Novel Stephen Crane 1899 5Typhoon Novel Joseph Conrad 1902 5Wilhelm Meister Novel Johaml Wolfgang van Goethe 1829 5The Moor's Last Sigh Novel (Ahmed) Salman Rushdie 1995 5Alexander's Bridge Novel Willa (Sibert) Cather 1912 5The Prairie Novel James Fenimore Cooper 1827 5To Build a Fire Short Story Jack London 1908 5Androcles and the Lion Drama George Bernard Shaw 1912 5Where Angels Fear to Tread Novel E(dward) M(organ) Forster 1905 5The Night of the Iguana Drama (Thomas Lanier) "Tennessee" Williams 1963 5Something Wicked This Way Comes Drama Ray (Douglas) Bradbury 1962 5Waiting for Lefty Drama Clifford Odets 1935 5The Nine Tailors Novel Dorothy (Leigh) Sayers 1934 5Soul Mountain Novel Gao Xingjian 5WhoseBody? Novel Dorothy (Leigh) Sayers 1924 5The Plough and the Stars Drama Sean Gohn Casey) O'Casey 1926 5Anna Christie Drama Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill 1921 5The Robbers Drama Friedrich Gohann Christoph) van Schiller 1781 5Wallenstein Drama Friedrich Gohann Christoph) van Schiller 1799 5The Mourning Bride Drama William Congreve 1697 5The American Dream Drama Edward (Franklin) Albee 1961 5Blithe Spirit Drama Noel (Peirce) Coward 1941 5Hay Fever Drama Noel (Peirce) Coward 1925 5Le'Cid Drama Pierre Corneille 1885 5American Buffalo Drama David (Alan) Mamet 1976 5Goodbye, Mr. Chips Novel James Hilton 1934 5The Razor's Edge Novel W(illiam) Somerset Maugham 1944 5Wide Sargasso Sea Novel Jean (Ella Gwendolen Rees William) Rhys 1966 5

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November 1, 2002 NAQT Frequency Lists Literature

Title Type Creator Date Freq.The Assistant Novel Bernard Malamud 1957 5Herzog Novel Saul Bellow 1964 5Mutiny on the Bounty Novel Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall 1932 5The Pit Novel (Benjamin Franklin) "Frank" Norris 1903 5Other Voices, Other Rooms Novel Truman Capote 1948 5The Mysterious Stranger Novel Mark Twain 1916 5When We Were Very Young Children's A(lan) A(lexander) Milne 1924 5Zorba the Greek Novel Nfkos Kazantzakis 1946 5Black Beauty Children's AlUla Sewell 1877 5The Monk Novel Matthew Gregory Lewis 1796 5The Rise of Silas Lapham Novel William Dean Howells 1885 5The Bluest Eye Novel Toni Morrison 1970 5The African Queen Novel C(ecil) S(cott) Forester 1935 5The Captain's Daughter Poem Aleksandr (Sergeyevich) Pushkin 1836 5The Luck of Roaring Camp Short Story (Francis Brett) "Bret" Harte 1868 5Chicago Poems Collection Carl Sandburg 1916 5La Belle Dame sans Merci Poem John Keats 1820 5The Ring and the Book Poem Robert Browning 1869 5Old Ironsides Poem Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 1830 5The Sign of Four Novel Arthur Conan Doyle 1890 5The Eye of the World Novel Robert Jordan 1990 5

Pablo (Neftali Ricardo Reyes y Basualto)Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair Poem Neruda 1924 5Judges Religious Unknown Unknown 5The Gospel According to Matthew Religious Matthew 1st century AD 5Spiritual Exercises Religious St. Ignatius of Loyola 1548 5Deuteronomy Religious Moses (attributed) Unknown 5Ezra Religious Ezra (traditonally) Unknown 5The Once and Future King Novel T(erence) H(anbury) White 1958 5Fiddler on the Roof Drama Jerry Bock 1964 5The Immoralist Novel Andre(-Paul-Guillaume) Gide 1902 5Surfacing Novel Margaret (Eleanor) Atwood 1972 5White Nights Short Story Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1848 5The Third Man Novel (Henry) Graham Greene 1950 5Epic of Gilgamesh Poem Anonymous 2000 BC 5The Dragons of Eden Novel Carl Sagan 1977 5The Book of Common Prayer Religious Thomas Cranmer (and others) 1549 5The Birds Drama Aristophanes 414 BC 5The Silver Chair Children's C(live) S(taples) Lewis 1953 5The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber Short Story Ernest (Miller) Hemingway 1938 5Ficciones Collection Jorge Luis Borges 1944 5The Walrus and the Carpenter Poem Lewis Carroll 1871 5Green Eggs and Ham Children's Dr. (Theodore) Seuss (Geisel) 1960 5Pandora's Box Drama (Benjamin Franklin) "Frank" Wedekind 1903 5Jonathan Wild Novel Henry Fielding 1743 5Nine Stories Collection Herome) D(avid) Salinger 1953 5The Red Rover Novel James Fenimore Cooper 1827 5She Stoops to Conquer Drama Oliver Goldsmith 1773 5

November 1, 2002 NAQT Frequency Lists Literature

Title Type Creator Date Freq.

The Birthmark Short Story Nathaniel Hawthorne 1846 5Damn Yankees Drama George Abbott 1956 5Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter Drama Federico Garda Lorca 1935 5The Last Temptation of Christ Novel Nikos Kazantzakis 1951 5

Ramona Novel Helen Hunt Iackson 1884 5The Prince of Tides Novel Pat Conroy 1986 5

The Hawk in the Rain Poem (Edward J.) "Ted" Hughes 1957 5Fire and Ice Poem Robert (Lee) Frost 1923 5A Season in Hell Poem Gean-Nicolas-)Arthur Rimbaud 1873 5

Teseida Novel Giovanni Boccaccio 1340 5Manfred Poem George Gordon, Lord Byron 1817 5

Pippa Passes Poem Robert Browning 1841 5How They Brought the Good News FromGhenttoAix Poem Robert Browning 1845 5Rabbi Ben Ezra Poem Robert Browning 1864 5

Sonnets to Orpheus Poem Rainer Maria Rilke 1923 5Georgics Poem Virgil 37BC 5

A Dream Deferred Poem Games Mercer) Langston Hughes 1951 5On His Blindness Poem John Milton 1652 5Eclogues Poem Vergil 37BC 5Snow-Bound Poem John Greenleaf Whittier 1866 5A Hero of Our Time Poem Mikhail (Yuryevich) Lermontov 1840 5

Leda and the Swan Poem William Butler Yeats 1928 5

Tithonus Poem Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1860 5

Live or Die Poem Anne (Harvey) Sexton 1966 5

The Lamb Poem William Blake 1789 5

MacFlecknoe Poem John Dryden 1682 5

The Windhover Poem Gerard Manley Hopkins 1877 5

Paradise Regained Poem John Milton 1671 5

The Cocktail Party Drama T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot 1949 5

The God of Small Things Novel Arundhati fu2y 1997 5

The House of Bernarda Alba Poem Federico Garda Lorca 1936 5

Comus Drama John Milton 1634 5

All for Love Drama John Dryden 1678 5

The Vision of Sir Launfal Poem James Russell Lowell 1848 5

Goblin Market Poem Christina (Georgina) Rossetti 1862 5

If Poem (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling 1910 5

The Eve of St. Agnes Poem John Keats 1819 5

Essays of Elia Poem Charles Lamb 1823 5

The Bride of Lammermoor Poem Walter Scott 1819 5

Torquato Tasso Poem Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790 5

Abou Ben Adhem Poem Games Henry) Leigh Hunt 1838 5

The Wreck of the Deutschland Poem Gerard Manley Hopkins 1876 5

The Flea Poem John Donne 1633 5

Just So Stories Poem (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling 1902 4

The Emperor of Ice Cream Poem Wallace Stevens 1923 4

A Coney Island of the Mind Poem Lawrence (Monsanto) Ferlinghetti 1958 4

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd Poem Walt(er) Whitman 1865 4

November 1, 2002 NAQT Frequency Lists Literature

Title Type Creator Date Freq.Grass Poem Carl Sandburg 1918 4The Convergence of the Twain Poem Thomas Hardy 1914 4White Buildings Poem (Harold) Hart Crane 1926 4The Children of the Night Poem Edwin Arlington Robinson 1897 4The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Poem William Blake 1793 4The Hind and the Panther Poem John Dryden 1687 4Tam O'Shanter Poem Robert Bums 1790 4Jerusalem Delivered Poem Torquato Tasso 1575 4Thomas and Beulah Poem Rita (Frances) Dove 1986 4The Red Wheelbarrow Poem William Carlos Williams 1923 4A Fable for Critics Poem James Russell Lowell 1848 4Murder in the Cathedral Drama T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot 1935 4Birthday Letters Poem (Edward J.) "Ted" Hughes 1998 4The Darkling Thrush Poem Thomas Hardy 1901 4A History of New York from the BegiImingof the World to the End of the DutchDynasty Novel Washington Irving 1809 4The Inheritors Poem William (Gerald) Golding 1955 4Hiroshima Novel John (Richard) Hersey 1946 4Pied Beauty Poem Gerard Manley Hopkins 1877 4Under Ben Bulben Poem William Butler Yeats 1938 4Amoretti Poem Edmund Spenser 1595 4Piers Plowman Poem William Langland 14th century 4Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog Poem Dylan (Marlais) Thomas 1940 4Hudibras Poem Samuel Butler (I) 1663 4Venus and Adonis Drama William Shakespeare 1593 4The Death Notebooks Poem Anne (Harvey) Sexton 1974 4Sea Fever Poem John Masefield 1902 4A Street in Bronzeville Poem Gwendolyn (Elizabeth) Brooks 1945 4The Lusiads Poem LUISde Camoens 1572 4Fra Lippo Lippi Poem Robert Browning 1855 4Maud Muller Poem John Greenleaf Whittier 1856 4Harlem Poem (James Mercer) Langston Hughes 1951 4The American Songbag Poem Carl Sandburg 1927 4Sunday Morning Poem Wallace Stevens 1923 4MaudMartha Poem Gwendolyn (Elizabeth) Brooks 1953 4Andrea del Sarto Poem Robert Browning 1855 4Ruslan and Ludmila Poem Aleksandr (Sergeyevich) Pushkin 1820 4The Wreck of the Hesperus Poem Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1841 4TheCongo Poem (Nicholas) Vachel Lindsay 1914 4Locksley Hall Poem Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1842 4The Way of All Flesh Novel Samuel Butler (1835-1902) 1903 4Suddenly Last Summer Drama (Thomas Lanier) "Tennessee" Williams 1958 4Chronicle of a Death Foretold Novel Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1981 4Decline and Fall Novel Evelyn (Arthur St. John) Waugh 1928 4The Day of Doom Poem Michael Wigglesworth 1662 4Down and Out in Paris and London Novel George Orwell 1933 4The Muses are Heard Novel Truman Capote 1956 4The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Children's L(yman) Frank Baum 1900 4

November 1,2002 NAQT Frequency Lists Literature

Title Type Creator Date Freq.The Rose Tattoo Drama (Thomas Lanier) "Telmessee" Williams 1951 4The Ransom of Red Chief Short Story O. Henry 1910 4Hippolytus Drama Euripides 428 BC 4A Sentimental Journey Novel Laurence Stern 1768 4The Nose Novel Nikolai (Vasilyevich) Gogol 1836 4Going to the Territory Novel Ralph (Waldo) Ellison 1986 4G6tz von Berlichingen Novel Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1773 4The Wings of the Dove Novel Henry lames 1902 4Burr Novel (Eugene Luther) Gore Vidal 1973 41876 Novel (Eugene Luther) Gore Vidal 1976 4A Confederacy of Dunces Novel John Kennedy Toole 1980 4Trilby Novel George (Louis Palmella Busson) du Maurier 1894 4Precaution Novel James Fenimore Cooper 1820 4News Item Poem Dorothy (Rothschild) Parker Unknown 4Hernani Novel Victor(-Marie) Hugo 1830 4Junkie Novel William S(eward) Burroughs 1953 4The Autunm of the Patriarch Novel Gabriel Garda Marquez 1975 4The General in His Labyrinth Novel Gabriel Garda Marquez 1989 4Cancer Ward Novel Aleksandr (Isayevich) Solzhenitsyn 1968 4Swann'sWay Novel Marcel Proust 1913 4Thousand Cranes Novel Kawabata Yasunari 1959 4

Guy de (Henry-Rene-Albert-Guy deThe Necklace Short Story Maupassant) Maupassant 1884 4Franny and Zooey Novel Herome) D(avid) Salinger 1961 4In the Penal Colony Novel Franz Kafka 1920 4Benito Cereno Novel Herman Melville 1856 4The Heart of the Matter Novel (Henry) Graham Greene 1948 4A Pair of Blue Eyes Novel Thomas Hardy 1873 4Laughing Boy Novel Oliver (Hazzard Perry) La Farge 1929 4V6luspa Poem Unknown 13th century 4The Golden Ass Novel Lucius Apuleius 124 4Pincher Martin Novel William (Gerald) Golding 1956 4Prose Edda Mythology Snurri Sturluson 1222-3 4The View from Saturday Children's E(laine) L(obl) Konigsburg 1996 4And to Think that I Saw It on MulberryStreet Children's Dr. (Theodore) Seuss (Geisel) . 1937 4Luck and Pluck Children's Horatio Alger. Jr. 1869 4Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Children's Roald Dahl 1968 4Sketch Book Children's Washington Irving 1820 4National Velvet Children's Enid Bagnold 1935 4The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Poem Christopher Marlowe 1589 4Lonesome Dove Novel Larry Gef£)McMurtry 1985 4Women in Love Novel D(avid) H(erbert Richards) Lawrence 1920 4Metamorphosis Drama M(aurits) C(ornelius) Escher 4Imitation of Christ Religious Thomas a Kempis (traditional ascription) 1415 4Fear of Flying Novel Erica (Mann) Tong 1974 4Avesta Religious Anonymous Varies 4Tao-te-ching Religious Lao-tzu 2nd century BC 4Of Time and the River Novel Thomas (Clayton) Wolfe 1935 4

November 1, 2002 NAQT Frequency Lists Literature

Title Type Creator Date Freq.Iphigenia in Tauris Drama Euripides 414 BC 4I Sing the Body Electric Poem Walt(er)Whitman 1855 4A Boy Named Sue Children's Shel(by) Silverstein 1969 4Where the Wild Things Are Children's Maurice (Bernard) Sendak 1963 4Sophie's Choice Novel William Styron 1979 4Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats Poem T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot 1939 4Bambi Children's Felix (orig. Sigmund Salzmann) Salten 1923 4Lost in Yonkers Drama (Marvin) Neil Simon 1991 4The Thin Red Line Novel James Jones 1962 4Nephi Religious Joseph Smith 1830 4Obadiah Religious Obadiah (traditionally) Unknown 4Revelation Religious John 1st century AD 4Pale Horse, Pale Rider Novel Katherine Anne Porter 1939 4Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners Religious John Bunyan 1666 4Malachi Religious Malachi Unknown 4Neuromancer Novel William (Ford) Gibson 1984 4Haroun and the Sea of Stories Novel (Ahmed) Salman Rushdie 1990 4The Martian Chronicles Novel Ray (Douglas) Bradbury 1950 4Heimskringla Poem Snorri Sturluson 1240 4The Art of Love Poem Ovid 2BC 4The People, Yes Poem Carl Sandburg 1936 4DogYears Novel Gunter (Wilhelm) Grass 1963 4Cat and Mouse Novel Gunter (Wilhelm) Grass 1961 4The Gambler Novel Fyodor (Mikhaylovich) Dostoyevsky 1866 4Lon1a Doone Novel Richard D(oddridge) Blackmore 1869 4Cat'sEye Novel Margaret (Eleanor) Atwood 1988 4Hands Novel Sherwood Anderson 1919 4The Biglow Papers Poem James Russell Lowell 1848 4Maurice Novel E(dward) M(organ) Forster 1971 4Requiem for a Nun Novel William (Cuthbert) Faulkner 1951 4The Dynasts Novel Thomas Hardy 1904 4Shadows on the Rock Novel Willa (Sibert) Cather 1931 4American Pastoral Novel Philip (Milton) Roth 1997 4Mason & Dixon Novel Thomas (Ruggles) Pynchon Gr.) 1997 4Time's Arrow Novel Martin Amis 1991 4The Shipping News Novel E(dna) Annie Proulx 4

George (Amandine- Aurore- Lucile DupinIndiana Novel Dudevant) Sand 1832 4First Folio Collection William Shakespeare 1623 4Beat Novel Jack Kerouac 1982 4The Haunting of Hill House Short Story Shirley (Hardie) Jackson 1959 4Interview with the Vampire Novel Anne Rice 1976 4Youth Short Story Joseph Conrad 1902 4The Remains of the Day Novel Kazuo Ishiguro 1989 4An Outcast of the Islands Novel Joseph Conrad 1896 4Riders of the Purple Sage Novel Zane Grey 1912 4Idiot's Delight Drama Robert E(mmet) Sherwood 1935 4The Bourgeois Gentleman Drama Moliere 1670 4

November 1, 2002 NAQT Frequency Lists Literature

Title Type Creator Date Freq.The School for Wives Drama Moliere 1662 4Angels In America Drama Tony Kushner 1991 4

Juno and the Paycock Drama Sean (John Casey) O'Casey 1924 4

The Father Drama (Johan) August Strindberg 1887 4

TheSandbox Drama Edward (Franklin) Albee 1960 4

Love for Love Drama William Congreve 1695 4Krapp's Last Tape Drama Samuel (Barclay) Beckett 1958 4Widowers' Houses Drama George Bernard Shaw 1892 4Cinna Drama Pierre Corneille 1641 4The Cat in the Hat Children's Dr. (Theodore) Seuss (Geisel) 1957 4The Ox-Bow Incident Novel Walter Van Tilburg Clark 1940 4Black Boy Novel Richard Wright 1945 4

Cole (Albert) (lyr: self; libr: Bella & SamKiss me, Kate Drama Spewack) Porter 1948 4Pelleas et Melisande Drama Maurice (Polydore-Marie-Bernard) Maeterlinck 1892 4The Lark Drama Jean(-Marie- Lucien-Pierre) Anouilh 1953 4Daddy Drama Jewel (Jewel Kilcher) 4La Pucelle Drama Voltaire (Fran<;ois-Marie Arouet) 1762 4

Cover Her Face Novel P(hyllis) D(orothy) Tames 1962 4Le Pere Goriot Novel Honore (de) Balzac 1835 4Ship of Fools Poem Sebastian Brant 1494 4London Poem William Blake 1794 4The Dream of Gerontius Poem John Henry Newman 1865 4Quentin Durward Novel Walter Scott 1823 4

Ivy Day in the Committee Room Short Story James (Augustine Aloysius) Toyce 1914 4

The Sisters Short Story James (Augustine Aloysius) Toyce 1914 4

The Viscount of Bragelonne Novel Alexandre Dumas (pere) 1850 4

Cimarron Novel Edna Ferber 1930 4Paris in the Twentieth Century Novel Jules Verne 1863 4

Whistle Novel James Tones (completed by Willie Morris) 1978 4

The Pickwick Papers Novel Charles (John Huffam) Dickens 1836 4

The Beautiful and Damned Novel F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald 1922 4

The Man in the Iron Mask Novel Alexandre Dumas (pere) 1850 4

Lost Horizon Novel James (Glen Trevor) Hilton 1933 4

The Last Man Novel Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley 1826 4

Men Without Women Novel Ernest (Miller) Hemingway 1927 4

Butterfield 8 Novel John (Henry) O'Hara 1935 4

The Well of Loneliness Novel Radclyffe Hall 1928 4

From the Earth to the Moon Novel Jules Verne 1865 4

Sapphira and the Slave Girl Novel Willa (Sibert) Cather 1940 4

The Rover Drama Aphra Behn 1677 4

Exiles Drama James (Augustine Aloysius) Toyce 1918 4

Little Lord Fauntleroy Children's Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886 4

Advise and Consent Novel Allen Drury 1959 4Paul Clifford Novel Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1840 4

Araby Short Story James (Augustine Aloysius) Toyce 1914 4

War is Kind Novel Stephen Crane 1899 4The Black Monk Drama Anton (Pavlovich) Chekhov 1917 4

November 1, 2002 NAQT Frequency Lists Literature

Title Type Creator Date Freq.Rabbit,Run Novel John (Hoyer) Updike 1960 4Islands in the Stream Novel Ernest M(iller) Hemingway 1970 4Picnic Drama William (Motter) ~ 1953 4The Heidi Chronicles Drama Wendy Wasserstein 1988 4ColonelSun Novel Kingsley Amis 1968 4Old Creole Days Novel George Washington Cable 1879 4Tortilla Flat Novel John (Ernst) Steinbeck 1935 4The Road Back Novel Erich Maria Remarque 1931 4The Adventures of Augie March Novel Saul Bellow 1953 4Jo's Boys Novel Louisa May Alcott 1886 4Jennie Gerhardt Novel Theodore (Herman Albert) Dreiser 1911 4Save Me the Waltz Novel Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald 1932 4Poland Novel James (Albert) Michener 1983 4The French Lieutenant's Woman Novel John Fowles 1969 4Chesapeake Novel James (Albert) Michener 1978 4Timequake Novel KurtVonnegut. Jr. 1997 4A Journal of the Plague Year Novel Daniel Defoe 1722 4WhiteNoise Novel Don DeLillo 1985 4The Temple of My Familiar Novel Alice (Malsenior) Walker 1989 4The Last Leaf Short Story O.Henry 1907 4Alaska Novel James (Albert) Michener 1988 4A Child's Garden of Verses Novel Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson 1885 4The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Novel Anne Bronte 1848 4Portnoy's Complaint Novel Philip (Milton) Roth 1969 4The Dharma Bums Novel (Jean-Louis) "Jack" Kerouac 1958 4Ward No. 6 Short Story Anton (Pavlovich) Chekhov 1892 4Jonathan Livingston Seagull Novel Richard Bach 1972 3The Quiet Don Novel Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov 1934 3Clarissa Novel Samuel Richardson 1748 3Breakfast of Champions Novel Kurt,Jr. Vonnegut 1973 3The Dream of the Red Chamber Novel Cao Xueqin (or Cao Zhan or Ts'ao Chan) 1792 3Cities of the Plain Novel Cormac McCarthy 1998 3The Exile Drama Pearl S(ydenstricker) Buck 1936 3Henry Esmond Novel William Makepeace Thackeray 1852 3The Floating Opera Novel John (Simmons) Barth 1956 3The Unbearable Lightness of Being Novel Milan Kundera 1984 3The Temple of the Golden Pavilion Novel Mishima Yukio 1956 3Giovanni's Room Novel James (Arthur) Baldwin 1956 3The Conservationist Novel Nadine Gordimer 1974 3Eugenie Grandet Novel Honore (de) Balzac 1833 3A Guest of Honor Novel Nadine Gordimer 1970 3Equality Novel Edward Bellamy 1897 3Space Novel James (Albert) Michener 1982 3The Poisonwood Bible Novel Barbara Kingsolver 1998 3The Bean Trees Novel Barbara Kingsolver 1988 3TheSource Novel James (Albert) Michener 1965 3Amelia Novel Henry Fielding 1751 3The Great American Novel Novel Philip (Milton) Roth 3

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Title Type Creator Date Freq.A Modem Mephistopheles Novel Louisa May Alcott 1877 3The Bonesetter's Daughter Novel Amy (Ruth) Tan 2001 3Watch and Ward Novel Henry Tames 1871 3Red Badge of Courage Novel Stephen Crane 1895 3The Eye of the Storm Novel Patrick (Victor Martindale) White 1973 3The Sea of Fertility Novel Mishima Yukio 1969 3Spring Snow Novel Mishima Yukio 1969 3Georgia Boy Novel Erskine (Preston) Caldwell 1943 3Saint Maybe Novel Anne Tyler 1991 3The Return of the King Novel Hahn) R(onald) R(euel) Tolkien 1955 3Sometimes a Great Notion Novel Ken (Elton) Kesey 1964 3Mila 18 Novel Leon (Marcus) Uris 1961 3Madame Delphine Novel George Washington Cable 1881 3Justine Novel Marquis de Sade 1791 3The Lords of Discipline Novel Pat Conroy 1980 3The Waves Novel (Adeline) Virginia (Stephen) Woolf 1931 3Dreaming Emmett Novel Toni Morrison 1986 3The Tragic Muse Novel Henry Tames 1890 3The Island Drama (Harald) Athol (Lannigan) Fugard 1973 3A Hazard of New Fortunes Novel William Dean Howells 1890 3The Good Soldier Novel Ford Madox Ford 1915 3The Man Who Was Thursday Novel G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton 1908 3The Celestial Railroad Short Story Nathaniel Hawthorne 1843 3Andersonville Novel (Benjamin) McKinlay Kantor 1955 3Zadig Novel Voltaire 1747 3The House of the Spirits Novel Isabel Allende 1982 3The Genius Novel Theodore (Herman Albert) Dreiser 1915 3The Yearling Novel Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 1938 3Shogun Novel James (duMaresq) Clavell 1975 3King Rat Novel James (duMaresq) Clavell 1962 3Windy McPherson's Son Novel Sherwood Anderson 1916 3Five Weeks in a Balloon Novel Jules Verne 1862 3Tales from Shakespeare Novel Charles and Mary Lamb 1807 3Eyeless in Gaza Novel Aldous (Leonard) Huxley 1936 3A Month in the Country Novel Ivan (Sergeyevich) Turgenev 1850 3Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp Novel Harriet Beecher Stowe 1856 3The Optimist's Daughter Novel Eudora Welty 1972 3The Minister's Wooing Novel Harriet (Elizabeth) Beecher Stowe 1859 3TheChairs Drama Eugene Ionesco 1952 3House Made of Dawn Novel N(avarre) Scott Momaday 1968 3Catriona Novel Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson 1893 3A Moveable Feast Novel Ernest (Miller) Hemingway 1965 3Redburn Novel Herman Melville 1849 3A Handful of Dust Novel Evelyn (Arthur St. John) Waugh 1934 3Out of the Silent Planet Novel C(live) S(taples) Lewis 1938 3The Golden Notebook Novel Doris Lessing 1962 3The Real Life of Sebastian Knight Novel Vladimir (Vladimirovich) Nabokov 1938 3The Son of the Wolf Novel Jack London 1900 3

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Title Type Creator Date Freq.John Barleycorn Novel Jack London 1913 3Betrayed by Rita Hayworth Novel ManuelPuig 1968 3Cold Comfort Farm Novel Stella Gibbons 1932 3Barchester Towers Novel Anthony Trollope 1857 3The Violent Bear It Away Novel (Mary) Flannery O'Connor 1960 3My World and Welcome to It Novel James (Grover) Thurber 1942 3Giant Novel Edna Ferber 1952 3Hapworth 16, 1924 Novella J(erome) D(avid) Salinger 1965 3The Thirty-Nine Steps Novel John Buchan 1915 3The Talisman Novel Walter Scott 1825 3A History of New York Novel Washington Irving 1809 3The Lost World Novel 3

Woodstock Novel Walter Scott 1826 3KingUbu Drama Alfred J:m:nc 1896 3Peter Grimes Poem George Crabbe 1810 3The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg Novel Mark Twain 1890 3Journal to Stella Collection Jonathan Swift 1710 3The Weavers Drama Gerhart Gohann Robert) Hauptmann 1892 3A Dreary Story Short Story Anton (Pavlovich) Chekhov 1889 3Peace Drama Aristophanes 421 BC 3The Old Bachelor Drama William Congreve 1693 3Earth Spirit Drama (Benjamin Franklin) "Frank" Wedekind 1895 3The Lady with the Dog Drama Anton (Pavlovich) Chekhov 1899 3

George S(imon) Kaufman. Morrie Ryskind, andOf Thee I Sing Drama Ira Gershwin 1931 3Both Your Houses Drama Maxwell Anderson 1933 3Lost in the Stars Drama Maxwell Anderson 1949 3Moralia Collection Plutarch 1st century AD 3Kojiki Religious Unknown (compiled from oral tradition) 712 3NihonShoki Religious Unknown (compiled from oral tradition) 7th century 3The Gentleman from San Francisco Short Story Ivan (Alekseyevich) Bunin 1916 3

The Pilot Novel James Fenimore Cooper 1823 3

Timon of Athens Drama William Shakespeare 1607 3The Phoenician Women Drama Euripides 409BC 3Don Carlos Drama Friedrich Gohann Christoph) von Schiller 1787 3The Redhunter Novel William F. Buckley Jr. 1999 3

Another Part of the Forest Drama Lillian Hellman 1947 3Watch on the Rhine Novel Lillian Hellman 1941 3The Knights Drama Aristophanes 424 BC 3The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus Drama 3

The Searching Wind Novel Lillian Hellman 1944 3Barefoot in the Park Drama (Marvin) Neil Simon 1964 3The Double Dealer Drama William Congreve 1693 3A Slight Ache Drama Harold Pinter 1959 3

BusStop Drama William (Motter) Inge 1955 3The Maid of Orleans Drama Friedrich Schiller 1881 3An Ideal Husband Drama Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde 1895 3Travesties Drama Tom Stoppard 1972 3

November 1, 2002 NAQT Frequency Lists Literature

Title Type Creator Date Freq.

The Suppliant Women Drama Euripedes c. 423 BC 3

Shadow of a Gunman Drama Sean O'Casey 1923 3

The Dance of Death Drama (Johan) August Strindberg 1901 3Lorraine Hansberry (completed by husband

Les Blancs Drama Robert Nemiroff) 1970 3The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window Drama Lorraine Hansberry 1964 3

The Adding Machine Drama Elmer Rice 1923 3

The Massacre at Paris Drama Christopher Marlowe 1593 3

More Stately Mansions Drama Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill 1941 3

Trojan Women Drama (Lucius Annaeus) Seneca (the Younger) 50 3

The Misfits Drama Arthur Miller 1961 3

Focus Novel Arthur Miller 1945 3

Ashenden Novel W(illiam) Somerset Maugham 1928 3

Jacob's Room Novel (Adeline) Virginia (Stephen) Woolf 1922 3

Under Western Eyes Novel Joseph Conrad 1911 3

The Manchurian Candidate Novel Richard Condon 1959 3

Seven Gothic Tales Novel Isak (Karen Blixen) Dinesen 1934 3

The Wall Novel John Hersey 1979 3

Goodbye Columbus Novel Philip (Milton) Roth 1959 3

Ironweed Novel William Kennedy 1983 3

Burmese Days Novel George Orwell 1934 3

Of Human Bondage Novel W(illiam) Somerset Maugham 1915 3

Israel Potter Novel Herman Melville 1856 3Mr. Pim Passes By Children's A(lan) A(lexander) Milne 1928 3

The Lay of the Last Minstrel Poem Walter Scott 1805 3

Sir Charles Grandison Novel Samuel Richardson 1754 3

The Mysteries of Udolpho Novel Ann (Ward) Radcliffe 1794 3

The Red House Mystery Children's A(lan) A(lexander) Milne 1922 3

McTeague Novel Frank (Benjamin Franklin Norris) Norris 1899 3

Number One Novel John (Roderigo) Dos Passos 1943 3

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War Novel Herman Melville 1866 3

BigSur Poem (Jean-Louis) "Jack" Kerouac 1962 3

TheWolf Novel (Benjamin Franklin) "Frank" Norris 1902 3

Men Against the Sea Novel Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall 1934 3

Mother Novel Maksim Gorky 1906 3

Possession: A Romance Novel A(ntonia) S(usan) Byatt 1989 3

The Buccaneers Novel Edith (Newbold Jones) Wharton 1938 3

Schindler's Ark Novel Thomas Keneally 1982 3

Glass Novel Mikhail Larionov 1909 3

Tom Brown's School Days Novel Thomas Hughes 1857 3

Between The Acts Novel (Adeline) Virginia (Stephen) Woolf 1941 3

Romola Novel George (Mary Ann Evans) Eliot 1862 3

Godliness Novel Sherwood Anderson 3

Oedipus at Colonus Drama Sophocles 401 BC 3

A Garden of Earthly Delights Novel Joyce Carol Oates 1967 3

TheRainbow Novel D(avid) H(erbert Richards) Lawrence 1915 3

Porphyria's Lover Poem Robert Browning 1842 3

Europe, a Prophecy Poem William Blake 1794 3

November 1, 2002 NAQT Frequency Lists Literature

Title Type Creator Date Freq.

Wonder Boys Novel Michael Chabon 1993 3

The Sentinel Short Story Arthur C(harles) Clarke 1951 3

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Novel Agatha Christie 1926 3

The Five Orange Pips Short Story Arthur Conan Doyle 1891 3

Ender's Game Novel Orson Scott Card 1977 3

The Cremation of Sam McGee Poem Robert W(illiam) Service 1916 3

Pentateuch Religious Anonymous Varies 3

Curtain Novel Agatha Christie 1974 3

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Novel John (David John Moore Cornwell) Le Carre 1974 3

Farewell, My Lovely Novel Raymond (Thornton) Chandler 1940 3

The Woman in White Novel (William) Wilkie Collins 1860 3

Ulster Cycle Collection Unknown 1150 3

Apologia pro Vita sua Religious John Henry Newman 1864 3

Atharva Religious Unknown 1500 to 1000 BC 3

Yajur Religious Unknown 1500 to 1000 BC 3

Sarna Religious Unknown 1500 to 1000 BC 3

The Black Stallion Children's Walter Farley 1941 3

Player Piano Novel Kurt Vonnegut (Jr.) 1952 3

Come Blow Your Horn Drama (Marvin) Neil Simon 1961 3

The Clansman Novel Thomas Dixon 1905 3

Man's Fate Novel Andre(-Georges) Malraux 1933 3

Born on the Fourth of July Novel Ron Kovik 1989 3

death and taxes Poem Dorothy (Rothschild) Parker 1931 3

Bound East for Cardiff Drama Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill 1916 3

Mysterium fidei Religious Pope Paul VI 1965 3

Acaranga Religious Anonymous Unknown 3

Flower Fables Children's Louisa May Alcott 1854 3

Plutus Drama Aristophanes 388 BC 3

Hugh Selwyn Mauberly Poem Ezra (Loomis) Pound 1920 3

101 Dalmatians Children's DodieSmith 1956 3

The Jungle Books Children's 3

Pollymma Children's Eleanor Hodgman Porter 1913 3

TheWitches Children's Roald Dahl 1983 3

The Red Shoes Children's Hans Christian Andersen 1835 3

Tattered Tom Children's Horatio Alger, Jr. 1871 3

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Short Story Ernest (Miller) Hemingway 1932 3

Enuma elish Poem Unknown Unknown 3

The Great God Brown Drama Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill 1925 3

II Filostrato Poem Giovanni Boccaccio 1338 3

Main-Travelled Roads Novel (Hannibal) Hamlin Garland 1891 3

Myra Breckinridge Novel (Eugene Luther) Gore Vidal 1968 3

Mary Had a Little Lamb Children's Sarah Josepha Hale 1830 3

Penrod Novel (Newton) Booth Tarkington 1914 3

Seventeen Novel (Newton) Booth Tarkington 1916 3

To the Man on the Trail Short Story Jack London 1899 3

A Daughter of the Snows Novel Jack London 1902 3

A Country Doctor Collection Franz Kafka 1919 3

The Monster Short Story Stephen Crane 1899 3

November 1, 2002 NAQT Frequency Lists Literature

Title Type Creator Date Freq.In the Midst of Life Collection Ambrose (Gwinnett) Bierce 1891 3A Hunger Artist Novel Franz Kafka 1924 3The Family Moskat Novel Isaac Bashevis Singer 1950 3The Garden Party Drama Vaclav Havel 1963 3The Diamond as Big as the Ritz Novel F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald 1922 3Tales of the Jazz Age Novel F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald 1922 3Gargantua and Pantagruel Novel Fran<;oisRabelais 1532 3Moods Novel Louisa May Alcott 1864 3Nexus Novel Henry (Valentine) Miller 1960 3Sexus Novel Henry (Valentine) Miller 1949 3Plexus Novel Henry (Valentine) Miller 1953 3

Resume Poem Dorothy (Rothschild) Parker 1925 3The Flame of Life Poem Gabriele D'Annunzio 3Blues for Mister Charlie Drama James (Arthur) Baldwin 1964 3Hunger Novel Knut (Pederson) Hamsun 1890 3American Names Novel Stephen Vincent Benet 1931 3Johnny Tremain Novel Esther Forbes 1943 3What Price Glory? Novel Maxwell Anderson and Lawrence Stallings 1924 3Miss Lonelyhearts Novel Nathanael West 1933 3The Kreutzer Sonata Novel (Lev Nikolayevich) "Leo" Tolstoy 1884 3Little House on the Prairie Children's Laura Ingalls Wilder 1935 3Vile Bodies Novel Evelyn (Arthur St. John) Waugh 1930 3LaGalatea Novel (Miguel de) Cervantes (Saavedra) 1585 3

The Apes of God Novel (Percy) Wyndham Lewis 1930 3

Phormio Drama Terence (Publius Terentius Afer) 161 Be 3Adelphi Drama Terence (Publius Terentius Afer) 3

W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden and ChristopherThe Dog Beneath the Skin Novel Isherwood 1935 3EnochArden Poem Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1864 3

Seize the day Poem Saul Bellow 1956 3

The Iron Giant Children's Ted (Edward James) Hughes 1968 3

The Philosophy of Composition Poem Edgar Allan Poe 1846 3A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning Poem John Donne 1611 3

Mabinogion Poem Miscellaneous Varies 3The Owl and the Pussycat Poem Edward Lear 1871 3

The Highwayman Poem Alfred Noyes 1906 3

Aria de Capo Poem Edna St. Vincent Millay 1920 3The Wild Swans at Coole Poem William Butler Yeats 1924 3

I heard a fly buzz when I died Poem Emily (Elizabeth) Dickinson 1896 3Peter Grimes Poem George Crabbe 1830 3

The Legend of Good Women Poem Geoffrey Chaucer 1384 3Holy Sonnets Collection John Donne 1613 3Trees Poem (Alfred) Joyce Kilmer 1913 3Fern Hill Poem Dylan (Marlais) Thomas 1946 3

The British Prison-Ship Poem Philip (Morin) Freneau 1781 3To Bedlam and Part Way Back Poem Anne (Harvey) Sexton 1960 3The Village Poem George Crabbe 1783 3Our Man in Havana Poem (Henry) Graham Greene 1959 3

November 1, 2002 NAQT Frequency Lists Literature

~ Title Type Creator Date Freq.Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience Collection William Blake 1789 and 1794 3The Blessed Damozel Poem Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1850 3I Hear America Singing Poem Walt(er)Whitman 1855 3The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Poem Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. 1858 3In a Station of the Metro Poem Ezra (Loomis) Pound 3A Vision Poem William Butler Yeats 1925 3Peter Quince at the Clavier Poem Wallace Stevens 1923 3Lady Lazarus Poem Sylvia Plath 1962 3Jenny Kissed Me Poem Leigh Games Henry Leight Hunt) Hunt 1844 3L'Allegro Poem John Milton 1645 3II Penseroso Poem John Milton 1632 3Among School Children Poem William Butler Yeats 1928 3To Anacreon in Heaven Poem John Stafford Smith 1780 3John Bull's Other Island Drama George Bernard Shaw 1904 3Candida Drama George Bernard Shaw 1897 3Chamlel Firing Poem Thomas Hardy 1914 3o Captain, My Captain Poem 3A Message to Garcia Poem Elbert Hubbard 1899 3The Breasts of Tiresias Poem Guillaume Apollinaire 1917 3Gitanjali Poem Rabindranath Tagore 1910 3The True-Born Englishman Poem Daniel Defoe 1700 3Less than One Poem (Iosif Alexandrovitch) "Joseph" Brodsky 1986 3

~'_ ..~- Arcadia Poem Tom Stoppard 1993 3Eddas Collection Snurri Sturluson 13th century 3Barrack-Room Ballads Collection Goseph) Rudyard Kipling 1892 3Mandalay Poem Goseph) Rudyard Kipling 1892 3Flush Novel (Adeline) Virginia (Stephen) Woolf 1933 3Art of Love Poem Ovid AD8 3The Dry Salvages Poem T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot 1941 3Amores Poem Ovid 15BC 3Luke Havergal Poem Edwin Arlington Robinson 1896 3White Man's Burden Poem (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling 1899 3Cynara Poem Ernest Dowson 1896 3Democratic Vistas Poem Walt(er)Whitman 1871 3Marmion Poem Walter Scott 1808 3the Pied Piper of Hamelin Poem Robert Browning 1842 3

Guillaume de Loris and Jean de Meune (attrib.The Romance of the Rose Poem to) 1250 3Die Lorelei Poem (Christian Johann) Heinrich Heine 1824 3My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close Poem Emily (Elizabeth) Dickinson Unknown 3His Toy, His Dream, His Rest Poem John Berryman 1968 3Thyrsis Poem Matthew Arnold 1864 3

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Title Type Creator Date Freq.

Aida Opera Giuseppe Verdi 1871 44

Carmen Opera Georges Bizet 1845 41

The Marriage of Figaro Opera Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1784 35Appalachian Spring Ballet Aaron Copland 1944 35Messiah Oratorio George Frideric Handel 1741 30The Barber of Seville Opera Gioacchino Rossini 1775 30London Symphonies Symphony Franz Josef Haydn 1791 29

William Tell Opera Gioacchino Rossini 1804 28

Don Giovam1i Opera Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1787 28

The Rite of Spring Ballet Igor (Fyodorovich) Stravinsky 1913 28

Salome Opera Richard (Georg) Strauss 1905 26

Boris Godunov Opera Modest (Petrovich) Mussorgsky 1869 26Giacomo (Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo

La Boheme Opera Maria) Puccini 1896 26Giacomo (Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo

Madama Butterfly Opera Maria) Puccini 1904 26

Rigoletto Opera Giuseppe Verdi 1851 25

Symphonie fantastique Symphony (Louis- )Hector Berlioz 1830 25

The Magic Flute Opera Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1791 23

The Planets Suite Gustav(us Theodore von) Holst 1918 21

Fidelio Opera Ludwig van Beethoven 1805 21

Pastoral Symphony Symphony Ludwig van Beethoven 1808 21

The Flying Dutchman Opera (Wilhelm) Richard Wagner 1843 21

The Four Seasons Concerto Antonio Vivaldi 1725 21

Bolero composition Goseph) Maurice Ravel 1928 19

La Traviata Opera Giuseppe Verdi 1853 19

The Song of the Earth Symphony Gustav Mahler 1909 19

Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun Ballet (Achille- )Claude Debussy 1894 19Carmina Burana Cantata Carl Orff 1936 18

Cosi fan tutte Opera Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1790 18

Symphony No.6, "Pathetique" Symphony Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1893 18

Symphony No.3, "Eroica" Symphony Ludwig van Beethoven 1804 18Symphony No.9, "From the New World" Symphony Antonin (Leopold) Dvorak 1893 17