Works and authors referenced by this trilogy include:
- Aida
- Alan Paton
- Brideshead Revisited
- Calvin and Hobbes
- The Canterbury Tales
- Catch-22
- Chiquita's Cheese
- Damn Yankees
- Damon Runyon
- Father Brown
- Francis Thompson
- Gunga Din
- John Donne
- Hamlet
- Julius Caesar
- Lepanto
- Don Juan
- Lord Peter Wimsey
- Nero Wolfe
- On the Waterfront
- Othello
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- My Last Duchess
- Romeo and Juliet
- Sherlock Holmes
- Shoeless Joe
- The ABC Murders
- The Bible
- The Bottle Imp
- The Blue Cross
- The Citadel
- The Cremation of Sam McGee
- The Diary of Samuel Pepys
- Lord of the Flies
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- The Power and the Glory
- The Sword of Damocles
- Thomas More
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- 12 Angry Men
- William Tell
