1. The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer (Ancient Greece)
2. The Aeneid by Virgil (Ancient Rome)
3. The Mahabharata and The Ramayana (Ancient India)
4. Gilgamesh (Ancient Mesopotamia)
5. Beowulf (Anglo-Saxon England)
6. Paradise Lost by John Milton (England)
7. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Italy)
8. The Song of Roland (Medieval France)
9. The Song of the Nibelungs (Medieval Germany)
10. Kalevala (Finland)
11. El Cid (Medieval Spain)
12. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (England)
13. The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser (England)
14. Paradise Regained by John Milton (England)
15. Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden (England)
16. The Lusiads by Luís Vaz de Camões (Portugal)
17. Metamorphoses by Ovid (Ancient Rome)
18. The Metamorphoses (Ancient Greece)
19. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (England)
20. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (United States)