English—Chaucer, Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, John Milton, Bunyan, Dryden, Dr. Johnson, Alexander Pope, Henry Fielding, Oliver Goldsmith, Sheridan, Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, Lord Byron, P.B. Shelley, John Keats, Robert Browning, Charles Lamb, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, W.M. Thackeray, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Bridges, George Bernard Shaw, Galsworthy, D.H. Lawrence, Somerset Maugham, T.S. Eliot, Cecil Dlay Lewis, Alduous Huxley, W.B. Yeats, Harold Pinter (Recipient of Nobel Prize for Literature for 2005). Doris Lessing (Recipient of Nobel Prize for Literature for 2007).

Greek—Homer, Aesop, Herodotus, Hesoid, Theocritus, Xenophon, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Euripedes.

Latin—Virgil, Dante, Boccacio, Ovid, Horace, Seneca, Terence.

French—Moliere, Proudhon, Alexander Dumas, Victor Hugo, Jean Paul Sartre, Le Sage, Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, Imile Zola.

German—Schelling, Goethe, Schaupenhuer, Heinrich Heine, Hoffman, Lessing, Guenter Grass (winner of 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature).

Norwegian—Ibsen, John Bojer.

Russian—Tolstoy, Boris Pasternak, Dostoevsky, Maxim Gorky, Techov, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Mikhail Solokhov, Turgenev.

Persian—Abul Fazal, Amir Khusro, Faiz, Firdausi, Ghalib, Mohd. Iqbal Saddi, Umar Khyyam.

Hindus — Four Vedas, The Bhagwad Gita, The Ramayan, The Puranas, The Mahabharat, The Upnishads, The Ramcharitmanas

Muslims — The Holy Quran

Sikhs — Guru Granth Sahib

Christians — The Bible

Parsis — Zend Avesta