Canon

Books

A Bloom-style literary canon of 3000 works widened beyond the West (novels, epics, poems, plays, scripture and mythic texts treated as literature), with works marked read from my Books log.

Pyramid Texts (Old Kingdom Egypt)

Ancient Egyptian priestly and scribal tradition

The Instructions of Ptahhotep (c. 24th century BCE; later manuscript tradition)

Ancient Egyptian wisdom tradition

Temple Hymns (23rd century BCE attribution)

Enheduanna tradition

The Exaltation of Inanna (23rd century BCE attribution; Old Babylonian manuscripts)

Enheduanna tradition

Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2100-1200 BCE)

Mesopotamian scribal tradition

Lament for Ur (c. 2000 BCE)

Sumerian lamentation tradition

Coffin Texts (Middle Kingdom Egypt)

Ancient Egyptian funerary and scribal tradition

The Shipwrecked Sailor (Middle Kingdom)

Ancient Egyptian literary tradition

The Tale of Sinuhe (c. 20th-19th century BCE)

Middle Egyptian literary tradition

Atrahasis (c. 18th century BCE)

Akkadian scribal tradition

The Debate Between a Man and His Soul (c. 20th-18th century BCE)

Middle Egyptian literary tradition

Rig Veda (c. 1500-1200 BCE)

Vedic tradition

Enuma Elish (2nd millennium BCE)

Babylonian scribal tradition

Adapa Myth (second-first millennium BCE)

Akkadian mythological-literary tradition

Anzu Myth (second-first millennium BCE)

Akkadian scribal tradition

Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta (early 2nd millennium BCE)

Sumerian epic tradition

Etana Epic (second-first millennium BCE)

Akkadian epic tradition

Inanna and Enki (early 2nd millennium BCE)

Sumerian mythological-literary tradition

Instructions of Shuruppak (early 2nd millennium BCE)

Sumerian wisdom-literary tradition

Kumarbi Cycle (second millennium BCE)

Hurrian and Hittite mythological tradition

Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave (early 2nd millennium BCE)

Sumerian literary tradition

The Curse of Agade (early 2nd millennium BCE)

Sumerian literary tradition

The Descent of Inanna (c. 2nd millennium BCE)

Sumerian scribal tradition

Debate Between Sheep and Grain (early 2nd millennium BCE)

Sumerian disputation tradition

Egyptian Book of the Dead (New Kingdom Egypt and later)

Ancient Egyptian funerary and scribal tradition

Baal Cycle (c. 14th-13th century BCE)

Ugaritic literary tradition

Kirta Epic (c. 14th-13th century BCE)

Ugaritic literary tradition

The Epic of Aqhat (c. 14th-13th century BCE)

Ugaritic literary tradition

Ugaritic Baal Cycle (c. 14th-13th century BCE)

Ugaritic scribal tradition

Instruction of Amenemope (late New Kingdom)

Ancient Egyptian wisdom tradition

The Report of Wenamun (c. 11th century BCE)

Ancient Egyptian literary tradition

Avesta (ancient Iranian; transmitted in later manuscripts)

Zoroastrian priestly and liturgical tradition

Gathas (ancient Iranian)

Zarathustra; Zoroastrian liturgical tradition

Upanishads (c. 800-300 BCE)

Vedic and early Hindu philosophical traditions

Iliad (c. 8th century BCE)

Homeric epic tradition

Odyssey (c. 8th century BCE)

Homeric epic tradition

Book of Isaiah (ancient Israelite; composite text)

Hebrew Bible / Tanakh prophetic tradition

Book of Job (ancient Israelite; final form debated)

Hebrew Bible / Tanakh wisdom-poetic tradition

Book of Ruth (ancient Israelite; final form debated)

Hebrew Bible / Tanakh narrative tradition

Ecclesiastes (ancient Israelite; final form debated)

Hebrew Bible / Tanakh wisdom tradition

Exodus (ancient Israelite; composite text)

Hebrew Bible / Tanakh narrative tradition

Genesis (ancient Israelite; composite text)

Hebrew Bible / Tanakh narrative tradition

Psalms (ancient Israelite; anthology formation)

Hebrew Bible / Tanakh poetic tradition

Song of Songs (ancient Israelite; final form debated)

Hebrew Bible / Tanakh poetic tradition

Theogony (c. 700 BCE)

Hesiod

Works and Days (c. 700 BCE)

Hesiod

Book of Songs / Shijing (c. 11th-7th century BCE)

Classical Chinese poetic tradition

Shijing / Classic of Poetry (c. 11th-7th century BCE)

Classical Chinese poetic tradition

Selected Poems (7th century BCE)

Archilochus

Aesop's Fables: Selected Fables (ancient Greek and later transmission)

Aesopic beast-fable tradition

Selected Poems (late 7th-early 6th century BCE)

Sappho

Sappho: Fragments (c. 7th-6th century BCE)

Sappho

Poems (6th-5th century BCE)

Alcman

Ramayana (c. 500 BCE-100 BCE, with later recensions)

Sanskrit epic tradition

Babylonian Theodicy (first millennium BCE)

Akkadian wisdom-dialogue tradition

Dialogue of Pessimism (first millennium BCE)

Akkadian wisdom-literary tradition

Erra Epic (first millennium BCE)

Akkadian scribal tradition

Ludlul Bel Nemeqi (2nd-first millennium BCE)

Akkadian wisdom-poetic tradition

Analects (c. 5th-3rd century BCE)

Confucius and early Confucian tradition

The Persians (472 BCE)

Aeschylus

The Suppliants (c. 470 BCE)

Aeschylus

Seven Against Thebes (467 BCE)

Aeschylus

Oresteia (458 BCE)

Aeschylus

Ajax (5th century BCE)

Sophocles

Cyclops (late 5th century BCE)

Euripides

Odes (5th century BCE)

Pindar

Prometheus Bound (5th century BCE)

Aeschylus

Women of Trachis (5th century BCE)

Sophocles

Antigone (c. 442 BCE)

Sophocles

Alcestis (438 BCE)

Euripides

History of the Peloponnesian War (late 5th century BCE)

Thucydides

Medea (431 BCE)

Euripides

Histories (c. 430 BCE)

Herodotus

Oedipus Tyrannus (c. 429 BCE)

Sophocles

Hippolytus (428 BCE)

Euripides

Andromache (c. 425 BCE)

Euripides

Hecuba (c. 424 BCE)

Euripides

The Knights (424 BCE)

Aristophanes

The Clouds (423 BCE)

Aristophanes

The Wasps (422 BCE)

Aristophanes

Heracles (416 BCE)

Euripides

Ion (c. 414-412 BCE)

Euripides

The Birds (414 BCE)

Aristophanes

Helen (412 BCE)

Euripides

Lysistrata (411 BCE)

Aristophanes

Electra (c. 410 BCE)

Sophocles

Philoctetes (409 BCE)

Sophocles

Orestes (408 BCE)

Euripides

The Bacchae (405 BCE)

Euripides

Iphigenia at Aulis (c. 405 BCE)

Euripides

The Frogs (405 BCE)

Aristophanes

Oedipus at Colonus (401 BCE)

Sophocles

Mahabharata (c. 400 BCE-400 CE)

Sanskrit epic tradition

The Assemblywomen (391 BCE)

Aristophanes

Dao De Jing (c. 4th century BCE)

Daoist textual tradition

The Girl from Samos (late 4th century BCE)

Menander

Poetics (c. 335 BCE)

Aristotle

Zhuangzi (4th-3rd century BCE)

Zhuangzi and Daoist textual tradition

Dyskolos (316 BCE)

Menander

Dhammapada (Pali canon; ancient strata)

Theravada Buddhist canonical tradition

Acaranga Sutra (early Jain canonical strata)

Jain canonical tradition

Book of Esther (ancient Jewish narrative; final form debated)

Hebrew Bible / Tanakh narrative tradition

Book of Jonah (ancient Jewish narrative; final form debated)

Hebrew Bible / Tanakh narrative tradition

Kalpa Sutra (early Jain tradition; transmitted in later manuscripts)

Jain canonical and ritual tradition

Samayasara (early Jain scholastic tradition)

Kundakunda; Digambara Jain tradition

Uttaradhyayana Sutra (early Jain strata)

Jain Prakrit tradition

Vessantara Jataka (ancient oral strata; written canon)

Pali Buddhist narrative tradition

Panchatantra (c. 3rd century BCE-5th century CE)

Sanskrit fable tradition

Argonautica (3rd century BCE)

Apollonius of Rhodes

Hymns and Epigrams (3rd century BCE)

Callimachus

Idylls (3rd century BCE)

Theocritus

Therigatha (c. 6th-3rd century BCE oral strata)

Early Buddhist women poets

Bhagavad Gita (c. 2nd century BCE-2nd century CE)

Mahabharata and Hindu philosophical tradition

Greek Anthology (Hellenistic to Byzantine strata)

Greek epigram anthology tradition

Pseudolus (191 BCE)

Plautus

Amphitryon (c. 190 BCE)

Plautus

Andria (166 BCE)

Terence

Hecyra (165 BCE)

Terence

The Eunuch (161 BCE)

Terence

Chu Ci / Songs of Chu (c. 4th-2nd century BCE)

Classical Chinese poetic tradition

Ben Sira / Sirach (2nd century BCE)

Jesus ben Sira

Book of Daniel (2nd century BCE final form)

Jewish apocalyptic and court-tale tradition

Miles Gloriosus (3rd-2nd century BCE)

Plautus

Rudens (3rd-2nd century BCE)

Plautus

Selected Yuefu Songs (2nd century BCE-6th century CE)

Han and post-Han poetic tradition

Attis (1st century BCE)

Catallus

On the Nature of Things (1st century BCE)

Titus Lucretius Carus

Records of the Grand Historian (c. 1st century BCE)

Sima Qian

Tirukkural (c. 1st century BCE-5th century CE)

Tiruvalluvar

1 Enoch (3rd-1st century BCE)

Jewish apocalyptic literary tradition

Epistles (1st century BCE)

Horace

Poems (1st century BCE)

Catullus

Satires (1st century BCE)

Horace

The Way Things Are (1st century BCE)

Lucretius

Wisdom of Solomon (1st century BCE-1st century CE)

Hellenistic Jewish literary tradition

Eclogues (c. 39-38 BCE)

Virgil

Georgics (29 BCE)

Virgil

Odes (23-13 BCE)

Horace

Aeneid (c. 30-19 BCE)

Virgil

Amores (c. 16 BCE)

Ovid

Heroides (c. 15 BCE-8 CE)

Ovid

Ars Amatoria / The Art of Love (1 BCE-2 CE)

Ovid

Metamorphoses (c. 8 CE)

Ovid

Sundiata (13th-century tradition; recorded modern performances)

Mande oral epic tradition

Poetic Edda (13th-century manuscripts; older oral material)

Old Norse poetic and manuscript tradition

New Testament (1st-2nd century CE)

Early Christian textual tradition

Epigrams (late 1st century CE)

Martial

Hercules Furens (1st century CE)

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Pharsalia (1st century CE)

Lucan

Satires (1st century CE)

Persius

Satyricon (1st century CE)

Petronius

Thebaid (c. 92 CE)

Statius

Gospel of Thomas (early Christian; date debated)

Early Christian sayings tradition

The Story of Ahiqar (ancient and late antique strata)

Aramaic and Syriac wisdom-story tradition

Avadanasataka (early centuries CE)

Buddhist Sanskrit narrative tradition

Buddhacarita (c. 2nd century)

Ashvaghosha

Gaha Sattasai (c. 1st-2nd century)

Prakrit lyric tradition

Lotus Sutra (c. 1st-2nd century CE)

Mahayana Buddhist textual tradition

Nineteen Old Poems (c. 1st-2nd century)

Han poetic tradition

Odes of Solomon (1st-2nd century)

Early Syriac Christian poetic tradition

Satires (late 1st-early 2nd century CE)

Juvenal

Saundarananda (c. 2nd century)

Ashvaghosha

The Golden Ass (2nd century CE)

Apuleius

Daphnis and Chloe (2nd-3rd century CE)

Longus

Ainkurunuru (c. 1st-3rd century)

Classical Tamil Sangam poets

Akananuru (c. 1st-3rd century)

Classical Tamil Sangam poets

Hymn of the Pearl (3rd century)

Syriac Christian poetic tradition

Kalittokai (c. 1st-3rd century)

Classical Tamil Sangam poets

Kuruntokai (c. 1st-3rd century)

Classical Tamil Sangam poets

Lalitavistara Sutra (c. 3rd century CE)

Buddhist Sanskrit tradition

Natrinai (c. 1st-3rd century)

Classical Tamil Sangam poets

Pathitrupathu (c. 1st-3rd century)

Classical Tamil Sangam poets

Pirkei Avot (c. 3rd century)

Rabbinic tradition

Purananuru (c. 1st-3rd century)

Classical Tamil Sangam poets

Selected Poems (late 2nd-early 3rd century)

Cao Cao

Selected Poems (3rd century)

Cao Zhi

Selected Poems (3rd century)

Ruan Ji

Mricchakatika (classical Sanskrit tradition)

Sudraka

Svapnavasavadatta (early Sanskrit drama tradition)

Bhasa

Aethiopica (3rd-4th century CE)

Heliodorus of Emesa

Hymns on Paradise (4th century)

Ephrem the Syrian

In Search of the Supernatural / Soushen Ji (4th century)

Gan Bao; Chinese anomaly-tale tradition

Jatakamala (c. 4th century)

Arya Shura

Confessions (c. 397-400)

Augustine of Hippo

Kalidasa: The Recognition of Shakuntala (c. 4th-5th century)

Kalidasa

Peach Blossom Spring (421)

Tao Yuanming

Meghaduta (c. 4th-5th century)

Kalidasa

Genesis Rabbah (5th century)

Rabbinic aggadic tradition

Kumarasambhava (c. 4th-5th century)

Kalidasa

Naladiyar (post-Sangam period)

Tamil didactic poetic tradition

Pattuppattu (c. 1st-5th century)

Classical Tamil poets

Paumacariya (c. 3rd-5th century)

Vimalasuri

Raghuvamsa (c. 4th-5th century)

Kalidasa

Selected Poems (5th century)

Bao Zhao

Selected Poems (4th-5th century)

Tao Yuanming

Selected Poems (5th century)

Xie Lingyun

Setubandha (c. 5th century)

Pravarasena II

Julian Romance (late antique)

Syriac Christian literary tradition

Kiratarjuniya (c. 6th century)

Bharavi

Manimekalai (c. 6th century)

Sattanar; Tamil literary tradition

New Songs from a Jade Terrace (6th century)

Xu Ling and Six Dynasties anthology tradition

Paripadal (c. 3rd-6th century)

Classical Tamil Sangam poets

Selected Poems (6th century)

Imru' al-Qays

Selected Poems (6th century)

Yu Xin

Silappatikaram (c. 5th-6th century)

Ilango Adigal; Tamil literary tradition

Wen Xuan (6th century)

Xiao Tong and Liang anthology tradition

Qur'an (7th century CE)

Islamic scripture

The Mu'allaqat (6th-7th century)

Pre-Islamic Arabic poetic tradition

Amarushataka (c. 7th century)

Amaru

Harshacharita (7th century)

Banabhatta

Kadambari (7th century)

Banabhatta

Ratnavali (7th century)

Harsha

Satakatraya (c. 5th-7th century)

Bhartrihari

Shishupala Vadha (c. 7th century)

Magha

Bhattikavya (c. 7th century)

Bhatti

Vasavadatta (c. 6th-7th century)

Subandhu

Devi Mahatmya (early medieval)

Shakta Hindu tradition

Diamond Sutra (early medieval; translated into Chinese 5th century)

Mahayana Buddhist Prajnaparamita tradition

Heart Sutra (early medieval; textual history debated)

Mahayana Buddhist Prajnaparamita tradition

Vimalakirti Sutra (early medieval)

Mahayana Buddhist tradition

Muttollayiram (early medieval)

Tamil poetic tradition

Nihon Shoki: Mythic Books (720)

Japanese court historiographic and mythological tradition

Al-Mufaddaliyat (8th century)

al-Mufaddal al-Dabbi and Arabic anthology tradition

Cold Mountain Poems (Tang period)

Hanshan

Dasakumaracarita (c. 7th-8th century)

Dandin

Kalila wa Dimna (8th century Arabic version)

Ibn al-Muqaffa and fable tradition

Malatimadhava (8th century)

Bhavabhuti

Mudrarakshasa (c. 4th-8th century)

Vishakhadatta

Selected Poems (8th century)

Wang Wei

Selected Poems (8th century)

Du Fu

Selected Poems (8th century)

Li Bai

Tevaram (7th-8th century)

Tamil Shaiva bhakti poets

Tevaram Hymns: Selected Poems (7th-8th century)

Tamil Shaiva Nayanmar devotional tradition

Uttararama-charita (8th century)

Bhavabhuti

Lilavai (c. 8th century)

Kouhala

Man'yoshu (compiled c. 759)

Classical Japanese poetic tradition

Beowulf (c. 8th-11th century)

Old English poetic tradition

Song of Everlasting Sorrow (806)

Bai Juyi

Nihon Ryoiki (c. 822)

Kyokai

Sahih al-Bukhari: Selected Hadith (9th century)

Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari; Sunni hadith tradition

Hamasa (9th century)

Abu Tammam and Arabic anthology tradition

Nalayira Divya Prabandham (6th-9th century)

Tamil Alvar poets

Sahih Muslim: Selected Hadith (9th century)

Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj; Sunni hadith tradition

Selected Poems (8th-9th century)

Andal

Selected Poems (8th-9th century)

Abu Nuwas

Selected Poems (9th century)

al-Buhturi

Selected Poems (9th century)

Abu Tammam

Selected Poems (9th century)

Manikkavacakar

Selected Poems (9th century)

Bai Juyi

Selected Poems (9th century)

Du Mu

Selected Poems (9th century)

Li Shangyin

Tang Tales (8th-9th century)

Tang chuanqi tradition

The Book of Misers (9th century)

al-Jahiz

The Story of Yingying (9th century)

Yuan Zhen

The Tale of Li Wa (8th-9th century)

Bai Xingjian

Tiruvacakam (c. 9th century)

Manikkavacakar; Tamil Shaiva devotional tradition

Tiruvasagam (9th century)

Manikkavacakar

Kavirajamarga (c. 850)

Amoghavarsha and Srivijaya

Kokinshu (905)

Japanese imperial anthology tradition

Kokinshu / Collection of Japanese Poems Ancient and Modern (905)

Ki no Tsurayuki and Japanese court compilers

The Tosa Diary (935)

Ki no Tsurayuki

Vikramarjuna Vijaya (941)

Pampa

Selected Poems (10th century)

al-Mutanabbi

The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (c. 9th-10th century)

Anonymous

Bhagavata Purana (c. 9th-10th century)

Sanskrit Puranic tradition

Deliverance Follows Adversity (10th century)

al-Tanukhi

Kakawin Ramayana (c. 9th-10th century)

Old Javanese literary tradition

Maqamat (10th century)

Al-Hamadhani

Maqamat of al-Hamadhani (10th century)

Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani

Selected Poems (10th century)

Rudaki

The Kagero Diary (10th century)

Michitsuna's Mother

The Tales of Ise (10th century)

Heian court narrative tradition

Vaddaradhane (c. 10th century)

Shivakotiacharya

Gushtasp-nama Fragment (10th century)

Daqiqi

The Pillow Book (c. 1000)

Sei Shonagon

Book of Lamentations (1002)

Gregory of Narek

The Tale of Genji (early 11th century)

Murasaki Shikibu

Shahnameh (c. 1010)

Ferdowsi

The Ring of the Dove (1022)

Ibn Hazm

The Song of Roland (c. 11th century)

Old French epic tradition

Eiga Monogatari (11th century)

Heian court narrative tradition

Garshaspnama (11th century)

Asadi Tusi

Kathasaritsagara (11th century)

Somadeva

Keter Malkhut / The Royal Crown (11th century)

Solomon ibn Gabirol

Luzumiyat (11th century)

al-Ma'arri

Quatrains (11th century)

Baba Taher

Risalat al-Ghufran (11th century)

al-Ma'arri

Risalat al-Ghufran / The Epistle of Forgiveness (11th century)

Abu al-Ala al-Maarri

Safarnama (11th century)

Nasir Khusraw

Selected Poems (11th century)

Su Shi

Selected Poems (11th century)

Nasir Khusraw

Selected Poems (11th century)

Ibn Zaydun

Selected Poems (11th century)

Samuel ha-Nagid

Selected Poems (11th century)

Solomon ibn Gabirol

Vis and Ramin (11th century)

Fakhr al-Din Gurgani

Chaurapanchasika (11th century)

Bilhana

Hamamatsu Chunagon Monogatari (11th century)

Sugawara no Takasue's Daughter attribution

The Sarashina Diary (c. 1060)

Sugawara no Takasue's Daughter

Kutadgu Bilig / Wisdom of Royal Glory (1069-1070)

Yusuf Khass Hajib

Khamsa (12th century)

Nizami Ganjavi

The Conference of the Birds (12th century)

Farid ud-Din Attar

The Knight in the Panther's Skin (12th century)

Shota Rustaveli

Charyapada (c. 8th-12th century)

Buddhist tantric poets

Eskandarnameh (12th century)

Nizami Ganjavi

Gita Govinda (12th century)

Jayadeva

Hayy ibn Yaqzan (12th century)

Ibn Tufayl

Ilahi-nama (12th century)

Farid ud-Din Attar

Khosrow and Shirin (12th century)

Nizami Ganjavi

Konjaku Monogatari (12th century)

Japanese setsuwa compilation tradition

Lais (late 12th century)

Marie de France

Layla and Majnun (12th century)

Nizami Ganjavi

Makhzan al-Asrar (12th century)

Nizami Ganjavi

Maqamat (12th century)

Al-Hariri

Maqamat of al-Hariri (12th century)

al-Hariri of Basra

Naishadhiyacharita (12th century)

Sriharsha

Periyapuranam (12th century)

Sekkizhar

Rajatarangini (12th century)

Kalhana

Ramavataram / Kamba Ramayanam (12th century)

Kamban

Rubaiyat (11th-12th century; later attribution tradition)

Omar Khayyam

Selected Ci Poems (12th century)

Xin Qiji

Selected Ci Poems (12th century)

Li Qingzhao

Selected Poems (12th century)

Lu You

Selected Poems (11th-12th century)

Yehuda Halevi

The Book of Contemplation (12th century)

Usama ibn Munqidh

The Travels of Ibn Jubayr (12th century)

Ibn Jubayr

The Walled Garden of Truth (early 12th century)

Sanai

Torikaebaya Monogatari (12th century)

Heian court tale tradition

Vachanas (12th century)

Basavanna, Akka Mahadevi, Allama Prabhu, and Virashaiva poets

Yvain, the Knight of the Lion (c. 1180)

Chretien de Troyes

Haft Paykar / Seven Beauties (1197)

Nizami Ganjavi

Epic of King Gesar (medieval oral layers)

Tibetan oral epic tradition

Mabinogion (medieval Welsh manuscript tradition)

Medieval Welsh narrative tradition

Tain Bo Cuailnge (medieval Irish manuscript tradition)

Medieval Irish heroic narrative tradition

One Thousand and One Nights (medieval compilation, with earlier sources)

Arabic and transregional story-cycle tradition

Alpamysh (medieval oral strata; recorded 19th-20th century)

Turkic oral epic tradition

Book of Dede Korkut (medieval; manuscript witnesses later)

Oghuz Turkic oral and manuscript tradition

Cantar de mio Cid (c. 1200)

Anonymous

Daredevils of Sassoun (medieval oral tradition; recorded 19th century)

Armenian oral epic tradition

Divyavadana (ancient and medieval compilation)

Buddhist Sanskrit narrative tradition

Jangar Epic (medieval and later oral tradition)

Oirat oral epic tradition

Jataka Tales (ancient and medieval compilation)

Buddhist narrative tradition

Manas (medieval oral tradition; recorded modern performances)

Kyrgyz oral epic tradition

Nibelungenlied (c. 1200)

Anonymous

Parzival (c. 1200-1210)

Wolfram von Eschenbach

Sirat al-Zahir Baybars (medieval and early modern oral-written tradition)

Arabic popular epic tradition

Sirat Antar (medieval and early modern oral-written tradition)

Arabic popular epic tradition

Sirat Bani Hilal (medieval oral tradition; recorded modern performances)

Arabic oral epic tradition

The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa (medieval Tibetan compilation)

Milarepa tradition

Vetala Panchavimshati (medieval compilation)

Sanskrit story-cycle tradition

Shinkokinshu (1205)

Japanese imperial anthology tradition

Hojoki (1212)

Kamo no Chomei

Tarjuman al-Ashwaq (1215)

Ibn Arabi

The Prose Edda (c. 1220)

Snorri Sturluson

Masnavi (13th century)

Jalal al-Din Rumi

Njal's Saga (c. late 13th century)

Icelandic saga tradition

Sunjata Epic (13th century onward)

Mande oral epic tradition

The Secret History of the Mongols (13th century)

Mongolian court literary tradition

Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi (13th century)

Jalal al-Din Rumi

Egil's Saga (13th century)

Icelandic saga tradition

Gisli Sursson's Saga (13th century)

Icelandic saga tradition

Heimskringla: Ynglinga Saga (13th century)

Snorri Sturluson; Old Norse historiographic tradition

Hyakunin Isshu (13th century)

Fujiwara no Teika and waka anthology tradition

Kavsilumina (13th century)

Parakramabahu II attribution

Laxdaela Saga (13th century)

Icelandic saga tradition

Memorial of the Saints (12th-13th century)

Farid ud-Din Attar

Orkneyinga Saga (13th century)

Icelandic saga tradition

Roman de la Rose (13th century)

Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun

Romance of the Western Chamber (13th century)

Wang Shifu

Selected Poems (13th century)

Ibn al-Farid

The Injustice to Dou E (13th century)

Guan Hanqing

The Orphan of Zhao (13th century)

Ji Junxiang

The Quest of the Holy Grail (13th century)

Old French Arthurian prose tradition

The Story of the Western Wing (13th century)

Wang Shifu

Troubadour Poems (12th-13th century)

Occitan troubadour poets

Volsunga Saga (13th century manuscript tradition)

Old Norse legendary saga tradition

Zohar (13th century)

Medieval Jewish mystical-literary tradition

Bustan (1257)

Saadi

Gulistan (1258)

Saadi

Jnaneshwari (1290)

Jnaneshwar

Vita Nuova (1295)

Dante Alighieri

Divine Comedy (c. 1308-1321)

Dante Alighieri

The Book of Good Love (c. 1330-1343)

Juan Ruiz

Tsurezuregusa / Essays in Idleness (c. 1330-1332)

Yoshida Kenko

Count Lucanor (1335)

Don Juan Manuel

The Decameron (c. 1349-1353)

Giovanni Boccaccio

Canzoniere (14th century)

Francesco Petrarca

Divan (14th century)

Hafez

Divan of Hafez (14th century)

Hafez

Romance of the Three Kingdoms (14th century)

Luo Guanzhong; Chinese historical fiction tradition

The Tale of the Heike (13th-14th century)

Japanese medieval narrative tradition

Water Margin (14th century)

Shi Nai'an; Chinese vernacular fiction tradition

Bardo Thodol / Tibetan Book of the Dead (14th century compilation)

Tibetan Buddhist literary tradition

Grettir's Saga (14th century)

Icelandic saga tradition

Kebra Nagast (compiled c. 14th century)

Ethiopian Ge'ez literary tradition

Mouse and Cat (14th century)

Obeyd Zakani

Pearl (late 14th century)

Pearl poet

Selected Poems (13th-14th century)

Yunus Emre

Soga Monogatari (14th century)

Japanese medieval warrior-tale tradition

Taiheiki (14th century)

Japanese medieval war chronicle tradition

The Rihla (14th century)

Ibn Battuta

The Story of the Pipa (14th century)

Gao Ming

Mahberot Immanuel (14th century)

Immanuel of Rome

Trai Phum Phra Ruang (14th century)

Thai Buddhist courtly tradition

Nagarakretagama (1365)

Mpu Prapanca

Piers Plowman (c. 1370-1390)

William Langland

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (late 14th century)

Anonymous Pearl Poet

Troilus and Criseyde (c. 1380s)

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales (1387-1400)

Geoffrey Chaucer

Revelations of Divine Love (c. 1390s)

Julian of Norwich

The Book of the City of Ladies (1405)

Christine de Pizan

Mevlid (1409)

Suleyman Celebi

The Book of Margery Kempe (c. 1430s)

Margery Kempe

Songs of Flying Dragons (1445-1447)

Early Joseon court poetic tradition

Rabinal Achi (15th century; recorded 19th century)

Achi Maya dramatic tradition

Dojoji (medieval Noh repertoire)

Noh theater tradition

Everyman (late 15th century)

English morality play tradition

Guttila Kavya (15th century)

Classical Sinhala poetic tradition

Haft Awrang (15th century)

Jami

Izutsu (15th century)

Zeami tradition

Sarala Mahabharata (15th century)

Sarala Dasa

Selected Ghazals (15th century)

Ali-Shir Nava'i

Selected Poems (15th century)

Francois Villon

Sotoba Komachi (medieval Noh repertoire)

Noh theater tradition

Srikrishnakirtana (c. 14th-15th century)

Boru Chandidas

Subhashitavali (15th century anthology of earlier verse)

Vallabhadeva and Sanskrit anthology tradition

Sumida River (15th century)

Noh theater tradition

The Life of Milarepa (15th century version)

Tibetan Buddhist literary tradition

Khamsa (1483-1485)

Ali-Shir Nava'i

Orlando Innamorato (1483-1495)

Matteo Maria Boiardo

Yusuf and Zulaikha (1483)

Jami

Le Morte d'Arthur (1485)

Thomas Malory

Baharistan (1487)

Jami

Tirant lo Blanc (1490)

Joanot Martorell

Carcel de Amor (1492)

Diego de San Pedro

La Celestina (1499)

Fernando de Rojas

Epic of Manas (premodern onward)

Kyrgyz oral epic tradition

The Song of Liongo (precolonial strata)

Swahili oral and written epic tradition

Amadis of Gaul (1508 printed recension)

Iberian romance tradition

Orlando Furioso (1516; revised 1532)

Ludovico Ariosto

Utopia (1516)

Thomas More

La Mandragola (1518)

Niccolo Machiavelli

The Mandrake (1518)

Niccolo Machiavelli

Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532-1564)

Francois Rabelais

Layla and Majnun (1535)

Fuzuli

Leyli and Mejnun (1536)

Fuzuli

Padmavat (1540)

Malik Muhammad Jayasi

Naufragios (1542)

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

Delie (1544)

Maurice Sceve

Book of Common Prayer (1549; 1662)

Church of England liturgical tradition, Thomas Cranmer

Journey to the West (16th century)

Wu Cheng'en attribution; Chinese vernacular mythic tradition

Ramcharitmanas (16th century)

Tulsidas

Amuktamalyada (16th century)

Krishnadevaraya

Annals of the Cakchiquels (16th century)

Kaqchikel Maya manuscript tradition

Arcadia (late 16th century)

Philip Sidney

Baburnama (16th century)

Babur

Cantares Mexicanos (16th century)

Nahua song-poetry manuscript tradition

Florentine Codex Literary Selections (16th century)

Nahua oral and manuscript tradition

Jin Ping Mei / The Plum in the Golden Vase (late 16th century)

Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng

Kirtan Ghoxa (16th century)

Sankardev

Manu Charitra (16th century)

Allasani Peddana

Romances de los Senores de Nueva Espana (16th century)

Nahua song-poetry manuscript tradition

Selected Poems (16th century)

Baki

Selected Poems (15th-16th century)

Mihri Hatun

Selected Sijo (16th century)

Hwang Jini

Sur Sagar (16th century)

Surdas

Beware of the Cat (1553)

William Baldwin

Lazarillo de Tormes (1554)

Anonymous

Popol Vuh (16th century transcription of older traditions)

K'iche' Maya textual tradition

Les Regrets (1558)

Joachim du Bellay

The Heptameron (1558-1559)

Marguerite de Navarre

"Elegies" (16th century)

Pierre de Ronsard

Autobiography (16th century)

Benvenuto Cellini

Delie, Objet de Plus Haulte Vertu (16th century)

Maurice Sceve

Les Odes (16th century)

Pierre de Ronsard

The Muse Reborn: The Poetry of Antonio Ferreira (16th century)

Antonio Ferreira

La Araucana (1569-1589)

Alonso de Ercilla

The Lusiads (1572)

Luis de Camoes

Essays (1580-1595)

Michel de Montaigne

Jerusalem Delivered (1581)

Torquato Tasso

Tamburlaine (1587-1588)

Christopher Marlowe

The Spanish Tragedy (c. 1587)

Thomas Kyd

The Faerie Queene (1590-1596)

Edmund Spenser

The Jew of Malta (c. 1590)

Christopher Marlowe

Astrophil and Stella (1591)

Philip Sidney

Doctor Faustus (c. 1592)

Christopher Marlowe

A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595-1596)

William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part 1 (c. 1596-1597)

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice (c. 1596-1598)

William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part 2 (c. 1597-1598)

William Shakespeare

The Peony Pavilion (1598)

Tang Xianzu

As You Like It (c. 1599)

William Shakespeare

Hamlet (c. 1599-1601)

William Shakespeare

Chunhyangjeon / The Tale of Chunhyang (early modern Korean)

Korean pansori and fiction tradition

Dreams (16th-17th century)

Francisco de Quevedo

Hikayat Hang Tuah (early modern Malay)

Malay court and manuscript tradition

Koroghlu / Gorogly (early modern oral-written tradition)

Turkic oral epic tradition

Ramakien (early modern redactions)

Thai royal and literary tradition

Reamker (early modern and later redactions)

Khmer literary and performance tradition

Sejarah Melayu / Malay Annals (compiled early modern period)

Malay court chronicle tradition

The Tragedy of the Death of Atahualpa (colonial-era oral and manuscript layers)

Quechua dramatic tradition

The Unfortunate Traveller: or, The Life of Jacke Wilton (late 16th-early 17th century)

Thomas Nashe

"Songs" (late 16th-early 17th century)

Thomas Campion

"Sonnets" (16th-17th century)

Luis de Gongora

Janamsakhis: Selected Guru Nanak Narratives (early modern and later)

Sikh narrative and hagiographic tradition

The Poems of St. John of the Cross (16th-17th century)

San Juan de la Cruz (Saint John of the Cross)

The Unknown Light: The Poems of Fray Luis de Leon (16th-17th century)

Fray Luis de Leon

Usca Paucar (colonial-era manuscript tradition)

Quechua dramatic tradition

Twelfth Night (c. 1601-1602)

William Shakespeare

Othello (c. 1603-1604)

William Shakespeare

Guru Granth Sahib (1604; final recension 1708)

Sikh Gurus and Sikh scriptural tradition

Measure for Measure (1604)

William Shakespeare

The Malcontent (1604)

John Marston

Don Quixote (1605 and 1615)

Miguel de Cervantes

King Lear (1605-1606)

William Shakespeare

Macbeth (1606)

William Shakespeare

Antony and Cleopatra (1606-1607)

William Shakespeare

Volpone (1606)

Ben Jonson

Sonnets (1609)

William Shakespeare

Comentarios Reales de los Incas (1609)

Inca Garcilaso de la Vega

The Alchemist (1610)

Ben Jonson

The Plum in the Golden Vase (c. 1610)

Ming novel tradition

Holy Bible (King James Version) (1611 English version; ancient source texts)

Hebrew Bible and Christian biblical traditions

The Apocrypha (ancient texts; 1611 English version)

Jewish and Christian scriptural traditions

The Tempest (c. 1611)

William Shakespeare

Fuente Ovejuna (c. 1612-1614)

Lope de Vega

The Duchess of Malfi (c. 1612-1613)

John Webster

Exemplary Stories (1613)

Miguel de Cervantes

Soledades (1613)

Luis de Gongora

Bartholomew Fair (1614)

Ben Jonson

Les Tragiques (1616)

Agrippa d'Aubigne

The Trickster of Seville (c. 1616-1630)

Tirso de Molina

'Tis Pity She's a Whore (17th century)

John Ford

The Revenger's Tragedy (17th century)

Cyril Tourneur

The White Devil (17th century)

John Webster

A New Way to Pay Old Debts (17th century)

Philip Massinger

The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)

Robert Burton

The Changeling (1622)

Thomas Middleton and William Rowley

La Dorotea (17th century)

Lope de Vega

The Temple (1633)

George Herbert

Life Is a Dream (1635)

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Le Cid (1637)

Pierre Corneille

"Masques" (17th century)

Ben Jonson

Huarochiri Manuscript (early 17th century)

Quechua Andean religious narrative tradition; colonial-era compilation

Selected Haiku (17th century)

Matsuo Basho

Book of Travels (17th century)

Evliya Celebi

Erotokritos (early 17th century)

Vitsentzos Kornaros

Poems (17th century)

Andrew Marvell

Selected Abhangas (17th century)

Tukaram

Selected Abhangs (17th century)

Tukaram

Selected Poems (17th century)

John Donne

Selected Poems (17th century)

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

The Cloud Dream of the Nine (17th century)

Kim Man-jung

The Tale of Hong Gildong (early 17th century)

Heo Gyun; Korean fiction tradition

"The minor poems" (early modern; exact date pending review)

Edmund Spenser

Cinna ou la Clemence d'Auguste (17th century)

Pierre Corneille

Horace (17th century)

Pierre Corneille

Les Juives (17th century)

Robert Garnier

Marc Antoine (17th century)

Robert Garnier

Nicomede (17th century)

Pierre Corneille

Polyeucte (17th century)

Pierre Corneille

'Comus' (17th century)

John Milton

'Lycidas' (17th century)

John Milton

Hudibras (17th century)

Samuel Butler

The School for Wives (1662)

Moliere

Tartuffe (1664; revised 1669)

Moliere

Dom Juan (1665)

Moliere

The Blazing World (1666)

Margaret Cavendish

The Misanthrope (1666)

Moliere

Paradise Lost (1667; revised 1674)

John Milton

Andromaque (1667)

Jean Racine

Fables (1668-1694)

Jean de La Fontaine

Simplicius Simplicissimus (1668)

Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

Britannicus (1669)

Jean Racine

Berenice (1670)

Jean Racine

Pensees: Selected Fragments (1670)

Blaise Pascal

Paradise Regained (1671)

John Milton

Samson Agonistes (1671)

John Milton

Phedre (1677)

Jean Racine

The Rover (1677)

Aphra Behn

The Pilgrim's Progress (1678; 1684)

John Bunyan

The Princess of Cleves (1678)

Madame de La Fayette

Los empenos de una casa (1683)

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

Five Women Who Loved Love (1686)

Ihara Saikaku

The Life of an Amorous Woman (1686)

Ihara Saikaku

The Nine Cloud Dream (1687)

Kim Man-jung

Oroonoko (1688)

Aphra Behn

The Narrow Road to the Deep North (1689; published 1702)

Matsuo Basho

Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez (1690)

Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora

Athalie (1691)

Jean Racine

Respuesta a Sor Filotea (1691)

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

First Dream (1692)

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

Mem and Zin (1692)

Ahmad Khani

Mem u Zin (1692)

Ahmad Khani

The Peach Blossom Fan (1699)

Kong Shangren

The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (1703)

Chikamatsu Monzaemon

A Tale of a Tub (1704)

Jonathan Swift

The Beggar's Opera (late 17th-18th century)

John Gay

The Way of the World (late 17th-18th century)

William Congreve

Venice Preserv'd (late 17th-18th century)

Thomas Otway

Love for Love (late 17th-18th century)

William Congreve

The Man of Mode, or, Sr. Fopling Flutter (late 17th-18th century)

George Etherege

Gil Blas (1715-1735)

Alain-Rene Lesage

Robinson Crusoe (1719)

Daniel Defoe

The Love Suicides at Amijima (1721)

Chikamatsu Monzaemon

Moll Flanders (1722)

Daniel Defoe

Gulliver's Travels (1726)

Jonathan Swift

Utendi wa Tambuka (1728)

Swahili epic tradition

Utendi wa Tambuka / The Story of Tambuka (1728)

Swahili poetic tradition

Manon Lescaut (1731)

Abbe Prevost

Pamela (1740)

Samuel Richardson

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (c. 1740)

Pu Songling

Joseph Andrews (1742)

Henry Fielding

The Servant of Two Masters (1746)

Carlo Goldoni

Clarissa (1747-1748)

Samuel Richardson

Zadig (1747)

Voltaire

Chushingura (1748)

Takeda Izumo II, Miyoshi Shoraku, and Namiki Senryu

Kanadehon Chushingura (1748)

Takeda Izumo II, Miyoshi Shoraku, Namiki Senryu

Tom Jones (1749)

Henry Fielding

Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel (17th-18th century)

Yucatec Maya manuscript tradition

Kulliyat-e-Mir (18th century)

Mir Taqi Mir

Lament of the Soldier's Wife (18th century)

Dang Tran Con and Doan Thi Diem tradition

Selected Haiku (18th century)

Yosa Buson

Selected Kafis (18th century)

Bulleh Shah

Selected Poems (18th century)

Alexander Pope

Selected Poems (18th century)

Sayat-Nova

Selected Poems (18th century)

Nedim

Selected Tales from Liaozhai (17th-18th century)

Pu Songling

Shah Jo Risalo (18th century)

Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai

Songs of Dzitbalche (18th century manuscript; older song traditions)

Yucatec Maya poetic manuscript tradition

The Adventures of Roderick Random (18th century)

Tobias Smollett

The Book of Wisdom and Lies (17th-18th century)

Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani

The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker (18th century)

Tobias Smollett

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (18th century)

Laurence Sterne

The Scholars (18th century)

Wu Jingzi

The Seasons (18th century)

Kristijonas Donelaitis

The Tale of the Incomparable Prince (18th century)

Tibetan literary tradition

Maya Testimony: Selected Public Colonial Texts (16th-18th century)

Maya manuscript and testimony traditions

Poem on the Lisbon Disaster (1756)

Voltaire

Candide (1759)

Voltaire

Rasselas (1759)

Samuel Johnson

Tristram Shandy (1759-1767)

Laurence Sterne

School for Scandal (18th century)

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

She Stoops to Conquer (18th century)

Oliver Goldsmith

The Beaux' Strategem (18th century)

George Farquhar

The Country Wife (18th century)

William Wycherley

The Plain Dealer (18th century)

William Wycherley

The Recruiting Officer (18th century)

George Farquhar

The Rivals (18th century)

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The Vicar of Wakefield (18th century)

Oliver Goldsmith

"Poetical Works" (18th century)

George Crabbe

A Song to David (18th century)

Christopher Smart

Jubilate Agno (18th century)

Christopher Smart

The Deserted Village (18th century)

Oliver Goldsmith

The Traveller (18th century)

Oliver Goldsmith

Julie, or the New Heloise (1761)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Rameau's Nephew (c. 1761-1774)

Denis Diderot

Three Hundred Tang Poems (1763 anthology of earlier poetry)

Tang poetry anthology tradition

The Castle of Otranto (1764)

Horace Walpole

Heer (1766)

Waris Shah

A Sentimental Journey (1768)

Laurence Sterne

The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ugetsu Monogatari (1776)

Ueda Akinari

Evelina (1778)

Frances Burney

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779)

David Hume

Nathan the Wise (1779)

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The Robbers (1781)

Friedrich Schiller

Cecilia (1782)

Frances Burney

Confessions (1782-1789)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Dangerous Liaisons (1782)

Choderlos de Laclos

Saul (18th century)

Vittorio Alfieri

Husn u Ashk (1783)

Sheikh Galib

Don Carlos (1787)

Friedrich Schiller

Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789-1794)

William Blake

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

William Blake

Dream of the Red Chamber (18th century; complete 120-chapter edition 1791)

Cao Xueqin, Gao E

The Book of Urizen (1794)

William Blake

The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)

Ann Radcliffe

The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyeong (1795-1805)

Lady Hyegyeong

The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong (1795-1805)

Lady Hyegyong

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795-1796)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Monk (1796)

Matthew Lewis

Hermann and Dorothea (1797)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hyperion (1797-1799)

Friedrich Holderlin

Wallenstein (1798-1799)

Friedrich Schiller

Odu Ifa: Selected Public Verses (living oral and ritual tradition)

Yoruba Ifa divination and priestly tradition

Alpamish (oral epic strata; 19th century recordings)

Turkic oral epic tradition

Anansi Stories: Selected Narratives (oral tradition; documented in multiple collections)

Akan, Asante, Caribbean, and African diasporic storytelling traditions

Castle Rackrent (1800)

Maria Edgeworth

Dausi (oral tradition; recorded modern performances)

Soninke oral epic tradition

Dine Bahane': Public Creation Narrative Accounts (living oral tradition)

Navajo (Dine) oral and ceremonial traditions

Epic of Askia Mohammed (oral tradition; recorded modern performances)

Songhay oral epic tradition

Epic of Gesar: Selected Episodes (oral tradition; documented in multiple recensions)

Tibetan and Inner Asian oral epic traditions

Epic of Samba Gueladio (oral tradition; recorded 20th century)

Pulaar oral epic tradition

Gassire's Lute (oral tradition; recorded 20th century)

Soninke/Wagadu oral epic tradition

Haudenosaunee Great Law Narratives: Public Accounts (living oral and political tradition)

Haudenosaunee oral, political, and ceremonial traditions

Ijala: Selected Hunter Poetry (living oral tradition)

Yoruba oral poetic tradition

Jeki la Njambe (oral tradition; recorded 20th century)

Duala oral epic tradition

Kumulipo (Hawaiian oral and manuscript tradition)

Kanaka Maoli chant and genealogical tradition

Lianja Epic (oral tradition; recorded 20th century)

Mongo oral epic tradition

Mary Stuart (1800)

Friedrich Schiller

Miorita (oral tradition; 19th century publication)

Romanian pastoral ballad tradition

Mvet Epic: Selected Narratives (living oral tradition)

Fang-Beti oral epic tradition

Mwindo Epic (20th-century recorded oral tradition)

Nyanga oral epic tradition

Oriki Praise Poetry: Selected Performances (living oral tradition)

Yoruba praise-poetry traditions

Tatsuniyoyi: Selected Hausa Tales (oral tradition; documented collections)

Hausa storytelling tradition

Ultime Lettere di Jacopo Ortis (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Ugo Foscolo

"Odes" (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Ugo Foscolo

Dei Sepolcri (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Ugo Foscolo

Ryangombe Epic: Selected Narratives (living oral tradition)

Great Lakes oral epic tradition

Sedna / Sea-Woman Narratives: Selected Public Accounts (living oral tradition; documented variants)

Inuit and Arctic oral traditions

Le Grazie (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Ugo Foscolo

Heinrich von Ofterdingen (1802)

Novalis

'Inno a Satana' (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Giosue Carducci

The Roman Sonnets of G G Belli (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli

Bagh-o-Bahar (1803)

Mir Amman

Little Novels of Sicily (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Giovanni Verga

"Rhymes and Rhythms" (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Giosue Carducci

Odi Barbare (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Giosue Carducci

Jerusalem (1804-1820)

William Blake

Milton (1804-1810)

William Blake

The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (1804-1815)

Jan Potocki

Fortunato and Jacinto (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Benito Perez Galdos

Os Maias: Episodios da Vida Romantica (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Jose Maria de Eca de Queiros

Adolphe, Anecdote Trouvee dans les Papiers d'un Inconnu (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Benjamin Constant

Le Cahier Rouge (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Benjamin Constant

Chatterton (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Alfred de Vigny

Meditations Poetiques (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Alphonse de Lamartine

The Distance, the Shadows: Selected Poems (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Victor Hugo

La Fin de Satan (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Victor Hugo

Les Travailleurs de la Mer (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Victor Hugo

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Victor Hugo

Faust (1808; 1832)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lorenzaccio (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Alfred de Musset

Penthesilea (1808)

Heinrich von Kleist

Six Records of a Floating Life (1808)

Shen Fu

The Broken Jug (1808)

Heinrich von Kleist

Dieu (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Victor Hugo

Elective Affinities (1809)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Aurelia ou le Reve et la Vie (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Gerard de Nerval

Enamels and Cameos (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Theophile Gautier

Mademoiselle de Maupin (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Theophile Gautier

The Girl With the Golden Eyes (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Honore de Balzac

Father Goriot (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Honore de Balzac

Michael Kohlhaas (1810)

Heinrich von Kleist

Prince Friedrich of Homburg (1810)

Heinrich von Kleist

Selected Poems (1810s-1820s)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Stories (1810-1811)

Heinrich von Kleist

La Cousine Bette (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Honore de Balzac

Louise Lambert (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Honore de Balzac

The Wild Ass's Skin (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Honore de Balzac

The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Honore de Balzac

Ursule Mirouet (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Honore de Balzac

Grimm Fairy Tales: Selected Tales (1812-1857 editions)

Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm; German folktale informants and editors

L'Education Sentimentale (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Gustave Flaubert

Salammbo (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Gustave Flaubert

Pride and Prejudice (1813)

Jane Austen

'Un Coeur Simple' (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Gustave Flaubert

La Mare au Diable (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

George Sand

Le Spleen de Paris (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Charles Baudelaire

Mansfield Park (1814)

Jane Austen

Waverley (1814)

Walter Scott

Les Illuminations (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Arthur Rimbaud

Selected Poems (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Paul Verlaine

Emma (1815)

Jane Austen

The Devil's Elixirs (1815-1816)

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Les Amours Jaunes (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Tristan Corbiere

Selected Poems (1816-1820)

John Keats

Adolphe (1816)

Benjamin Constant

El Periquillo Sarniento (1816)

Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi

Old Mortality (1816)

Walter Scott

The Sandman (1816)

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Persuasion (1817)

Jane Austen

Emperor and Galilean (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Henrik Ibsen

Northanger Abbey (1817)

Jane Austen

Frankenstein (1818; revised 1831)

Mary Shelley

Poems (1818-1836)

Giacomo Leopardi

The Heart of Midlothian (1818)

Walter Scott

Dodsdansen (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

August Strindberg

Fadren (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

August Strindberg

Nightmare Abbey (1818)

Thomas Love Peacock

Till Damaskus (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

August Strindberg

Don Juan (1819-1824)

Lord Byron

West-Eastern Divan (1819)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ett Dromspel (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

August Strindberg

Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)

Charles Maturin

Poetical Sketches (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

William Blake

Songs of Innocence and Experience Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

William Blake

Tiriel (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

William Blake

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821)

Thomas De Quincey

Visions of the Daughters of Albion (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

William Blake

The Book of Thel (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

William Blake

The French Revolution (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

William Blake

Phra Aphai Mani (1822-1844)

Sunthorn Phu

The Song of Los (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

William Blake

America, a Prophecy (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

William Blake

Europe, a Prophecy (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

William Blake

For Children: The Gates of Paradise (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

William Blake

Forefathers' Eve (1823-1832)

Adam Mickiewicz

Milton, a Poem in 2 Books (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

William Blake

The Book of Ahania (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

William Blake

The Book of Los (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

William Blake

Vala, or The Four Zoas (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

William Blake

Redgauntlet (1824)

Walter Scott

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824)

James Hogg

The Everlasting Gospel (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

William Blake

The Ghost of Abel (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

William Blake

Boris Godunov (1825)

Alexander Pushkin

The Tale of Old Mortality (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Walter Scott

Book of Songs (1827)

Heinrich Heine

Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision in a Dream; The Pains of Sleep (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Flowers in the Mirror (1827)

Li Ruzhen

Operette Morali (1827)

Giacomo Leopardi

The Betrothed (1827)

Alessandro Manzoni

Poems and Prose (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Imaginary Conversations (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Walter Savage Landor

The Glass Palace Chronicle (1829)

Burmese court chronicle tradition

The Entail (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

John Galt

Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Elizabeth Gaskell

Tales (1830s-1840s)

Edgar Allan Poe

The Red and the Black (1830)

Stendhal

Notre-Dame de Paris (1831)

Victor Hugo

The Tales of Belkin (1831)

Alexander Pushkin

Death's Jest-Book (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Eugene Onegin (1825-1832; book 1833)

Alexander Pushkin

Eugenie Grandet (1833)

Honore de Balzac

The Bronze Horseman (1833)

Alexander Pushkin

Nepenthe (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

George Darley

Pan Tadeusz (1834)

Adam Mickiewicz

The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account) (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Charles Dickens

The Queen of Spades (1834)

Alexander Pushkin

The Pickwick Papers (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Charles Dickens

Kalevala (compiled 1835; expanded 1849)

Elias Lonnrot; Finnish-Karelian oral poetry tradition

Danton's Death (1835)

Georg Buchner

Pere Goriot (1835)

Honore de Balzac

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Charles Dickens

Dealings With the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Charles Dickens

Maj (1836)

Karel Hynek Macha

The Captain's Daughter (1836)

Alexander Pushkin

The Government Inspector (1836)

Nikolai Gogol

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Charles Dickens

Woyzeck (written 1836-1837)

Georg Buchner

The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Charles Dickens

Lost Illusions (1837-1843)

Honore de Balzac

Oliver Twist (1837-1839)

Charles Dickens

The Battle of Life: A Love Story (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Charles Dickens

The Haunted Men and the Ghost's Bargain, A Fancy for Christmas-Time (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Charles Dickens

The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Charles Dickens

Florante at Laura (1838)

Francisco Balagtas

The Mystery of Edwin Drood (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Charles Dickens

Lenz (1839)

Georg Buchner

The Charterhouse of Parma (1839)

Stendhal

A Hero of Our Time (1840)

Mikhail Lermontov

Kobzar (1840 and later editions)

Taras Shevchenko

Gryll Grange (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Thomas Love Peacock

Sab (1841)

Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda

The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)

Edgar Allan Poe

Sartor Resartus (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Thomas Carlyle

Dead Souls (1842)

Nikolai Gogol

The Overcoat (1842)

Nikolai Gogol

Imaginary Portraits (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Walter Pater

Marius the Epicurean (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Walter Pater

A Christmas Carol (1843)

Charles Dickens

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Omar Khayyam

Barchester Towers (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Anthony Trollope

Doctor Thorne (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Anthony Trollope

The Warden (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Anthony Trollope

Facundo (1845)

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

Framley Parsonage (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Anthony Trollope

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)

Frederick Douglass

The Small House at Allington (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Anthony Trollope

Can You Forgive Her? (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Anthony Trollope

The Last Chronicle of Barset (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Anthony Trollope

A Book of Nonsense (1846)

Edward Lear

Cousin Bette (1846)

Honore de Balzac

The Double (1846)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Phineas Finn (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Anthony Trollope

Phineas Redux (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Anthony Trollope

The Eustace Diamonds (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Anthony Trollope

The Prime Minister (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Anthony Trollope

Jane Eyre (1847)

Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights (1847)

Emily Bronte

The Mountain Wreath (1847)

Petar II Petrovic-Njegos

Vanity Fair (1847-1848)

William Makepeace Thackeray

Orley Farm (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Anthony Trollope

The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Lewis Carroll

The Duke's Children (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Anthony Trollope

The Way We Live Now (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Anthony Trollope

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

Anne Bronte

A Tangled Tale (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Lewis Carroll

Phantasmagoria and Other Poems (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Lewis Carroll

David Copperfield (1849-1850)

Charles Dickens

More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes Botany &c. (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Edward Lear

Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Edward Lear

Sylvie and Bruno (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Lewis Carroll

Three Sunsets and Other Poems (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Lewis Carroll

Complete Poems (19th century)

Emily Dickinson

Complete Poetry and Prose (late 18th-early 19th century)

William Blake

Khun Chang Khun Phaen (18th-19th century compilation)

Thai oral and court literary tradition

Selected Ghazals (19th century)

Mirza Ghalib

The Prelude (1850)

William Wordsworth

The Tales (late 19th century)

Anton Chekhov

Al-Inkishafi (19th century)

Sayyid Abdallah bin Ali bin Nasir

Chunhyangjeon (18th-19th century)

Korean pansori and novel tradition

Complete Works (19th century)

Arthur Rimbaud

Fairy Tales (19th century)

Hans Christian Andersen

Heungbujeon (18th-19th century)

Korean pansori and prose tradition

Luc Van Tien (19th century)

Nguyen Dinh Chieu

Memoirs (19th century)

Ioannis Makriyannis

New Grub Street (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

George Gissing

Poems (19th century)

Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

Selected Haiku (18th-19th century)

Kobayashi Issa

Selected Haiku (late 19th century)

Masaoka Shiki

Selected Poems (19th century)

Juliusz Slowacki

Selected Poems (19th century)

Cyprian Norwid

Selected Poems (19th century)

Robert Browning

Selected Poems (19th century)

Mihai Eminescu

Selected Poems (19th century)

Alfred Tennyson

Selected Poems (late 18th-early 19th century)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Selected Poems (late 18th-early 19th century)

Friedrich Holderlin

Selected Poems (19th century)

Heinrich Heine

Selected Poems (19th century)

Abai Qunanbaiuly

Selected Poetry and Prose (19th century)

Stephane Mallarme

Selected Short Stories (late 19th century)

Guy de Maupassant

Simcheongjeon (18th-19th century)

Korean pansori and prose tradition

Spring Essence (late 18th-early 19th century)

Ho Xuan Huong

The Life of Shabkar (19th century)

Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdrol

The Roman Sonnets (19th century)

Giuseppe Gioachino Belli

The Scarlet Letter (1850)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The She-Wolf and Other Stories (19th century)

Giovanni Verga

The Tale of Kieu (early 19th century)

Nguyen Du

Tum Teav (19th century written versions)

Khmer narrative tradition

Laughable Lyrics. A Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music, &c. (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Edward Lear

Moby-Dick (1851)

Herman Melville

Amalia (1851-1855)

Jose Marmol

Cranford (1851-1853)

Elizabeth Gaskell

Bleak House (1852-1853)

Charles Dickens

A Sportsman's Sketches (1852)

Ivan Turgenev

Henry Esmond (1852)

William Makepeace Thackeray

The Egoist (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

George Meredith

Sylvie (1853)

Gerard de Nerval

Villette (1853)

Charlotte Bronte

The Collected Poems of G K Chesteron (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

G K Chesterton

Hard Times (1854)

Charles Dickens

Les Chimeres (1854)

Gerard de Nerval

North and South (1854-1855)

Elizabeth Gaskell

Leaves of Grass (1855-1892)

Walt Whitman

A Month in the Country (1855)

Ivan Turgenev

Aurelia (1855)

Gerard de Nerval

Leg over Leg (1855)

Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq

Little Dorrit (1855-1857)

Charles Dickens

Madame Bovary (1856-1857)

Gustave Flaubert

The Piazza Tales (1856)

Herman Melville

Les Fleurs du mal (1857; expanded 1861)

Charles Baudelaire

The Flowers of Evil (1857)

Charles Baudelaire

Kalevipoeg (1857-1861)

Estonian epic tradition

Ollantay (oral and colonial layers; published 1857)

Quechua dramatic tradition

The Guarani (1857)

Jose de Alencar

The "Bab" BalladsMuch Sound and Little Sense (The Democratic Age; approximate chronological placement pending review)

W S Gilbert

Utendi wa Mwana Kupona (1858)

Mwana Kupona binti Msham

Oblomov (1859)

Ivan Goncharov

A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

Charles Dickens

The Woman in White (1859-1860)

Wilkie Collins

The Mill on the Floss (1860)

George Eliot

First Love (1860)

Ivan Turgenev

Great Expectations (1860-1861)

Charles Dickens

Max Havelaar (1860)

Multatuli

Meghnad Badh Kavya (1861)

Michael Madhusudan Dutt

Silas Marner (1861)

George Eliot

The Tragedy of Man (1861)

Imre Madach

Les Miserables (1862)

Victor Hugo

Fathers and Sons (1862)

Ivan Turgenev

Cantares gallegos (1863)

Rosalia de Castro

The Cossacks (1863)

Leo Tolstoy

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)

Jules Verne

Notes from Underground (1864)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865)

Charles Dickens

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

Lewis Carroll

War and Peace (1865-1869)

Leo Tolstoy

Iracema (1865)

Jose de Alencar

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1865)

Nikolai Leskov

From the Earth to the Moon (1865)

Jules Verne

Crime and Punishment (1866)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Brand (1866)

Henrik Ibsen

Kapalkundala (1866)

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

The Gambler (1866)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Toilers of the Sea (1866)

Victor Hugo

Maria (1867)

Jorge Isaacs

Peer Gynt (1867)

Henrik Ibsen

Little Women (1868-1869)

Louisa May Alcott

The Moonstone (1868)

Wilkie Collins

The Ring and the Book (1868-1869)

Robert Browning

Mirat-ul-Uroos (1869)

Deputy Nazir Ahmad

Paris Spleen (1869)

Charles Baudelaire

Sentimental Education (1869)

Gustave Flaubert

The Idiot (1869)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Seven Brothers (1870)

Aleksis Kivi

The Eternal Husband (1870)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870)

Jules Verne

Middlemarch (1871-1872)

George Eliot

At the Back of the North Wind (1871)

George MacDonald

The Drunken Boat (1871)

Arthur Rimbaud

Through the Looking-Glass (1871)

Lewis Carroll

Carmilla (1872)

Sheridan Le Fanu

Demons (1872)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Erewhon (1872)

Samuel Butler

Martin Fierro (1872 and 1879)

Jose Hernandez

Tradiciones peruanas (1872-1910)

Ricardo Palma

Inocencia (1872)

Visconde de Taunay

A Season in Hell (1873)

Arthur Rimbaud

Bishabriksha (1873)

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

Pepita Jimenez (1874)

Juan Valera

Anna Karenina (1875-1877)

Leo Tolstoy

The Crime of Father Amaro (1875)

Eca de Queiros

Clarel (1876)

Herman Melville

Daniel Deronda (1876)

George Eliot

The Hunting of the Snark (1876)

Lewis Carroll

A Simple Heart (1877)

Gustave Flaubert

Black Beauty (1877)

Anna Sewell

L'Assommoir (1877)

Emile Zola

Cousin Bazilio (1878)

Eca de Queiros

Fasana-e-Azad (1878-1883)

Ratan Nath Sarshar

The Travels of Benjamin the Third (1878)

Mendele Mocher Sforim

A Doll's House (1879)

Henrik Ibsen

The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Prathapa Mudaliar Charithram (1879)

Mayuram Vedanayagam Pillai

Nana (1880)

Emile Zola

Niels Lyhne (1880)

Jens Peter Jacobsen

The Fool (1880)

Raffi

The Golovlyov Family (1880)

Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

Bouvard and Pecuchet (1881)

Gustave Flaubert

Heidi (1881)

Johanna Spyri

I Malavoglia (1881)

Giovanni Verga

The Portrait of a Lady (1881)

Henry James

The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (1881)

Machado de Assis

Anandamath (1882)

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

Cecilia Valdes (1882)

Cirilo Villaverde

Ismaelillo (1882)

Jose Marti

The Alienist (1882)

Machado de Assis

Life Among the Piutes (1883)

Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins

Novelle Rusticane (1883)

Giovanni Verga

The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883)

Carlo Collodi

Treasure Island (1883)

Robert Louis Stevenson

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884-1885)

Mark Twain

Devi Chaudhurani (1884)

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

Flatland (1884)

Edwin A. Abbott

La Regenta (1884-1885)

Leopoldo Alas

Germinal (1885)

Emile Zola

King Solomon's Mines (1885)

H. Rider Haggard

Fortunata and Jacinta (1886-1887)

Benito Perez Galdos

Illuminations (1886)

Arthur Rimbaud

Kidnapped (1886)

Robert Louis Stevenson

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886)

Leo Tolstoy

Ivanov (1887)

Anton Chekhov

Noli Me Tangere (1887)

Jose Rizal

Saraswatichandra (1887-1901)

Govardhanram Tripathi

The Drifting Cloud (1887-1889)

Futabatei Shimei

The Father (1887)

August Strindberg

Aluda Ketelauri (1888)

Vazha-Pshavela

Azul... (1888)

Ruben Dario

Chandrakanta (1888)

Devaki Nandan Khatri

Lacplesis / Bearslayer (1888)

Andrejs Pumpurs

Looking Backward (1888)

Edward Bellamy

Miss Julie (1888)

August Strindberg

The Lady from the Sea (1888)

Henrik Ibsen

The Maias (1888)

Eca de Queiros

Aves sin nido (1889)

Clorinda Matto de Turner

Indulekha (1889)

O. Chandu Menon

Mastro-don Gesualdo (1889)

Giovanni Verga

The Kreutzer Sonata (1889)

Leo Tolstoy

The Master of Ballantrae (1889)

Robert Louis Stevenson

Tine (1889)

Herman Bang

Hunger (1890)

Knut Hamsun

News from Nowhere (1890)

William Morris

The Book of Words (1890s)

Abai Qunanbaiuly

The Dancing Girl (1890)

Mori Ogai

The Doll (1890)

Boleslaw Prus

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890-1891)

Oscar Wilde

The Slum (1890)

Aluisio Azevedo

Billy Budd (written 1891; published 1924)

Herman Melville

El Filibusterismo (1891)

Jose Rizal

Gosta Berling's Saga (1891)

Selma Lagerlof

Hedda Gabler (1891)

Henrik Ibsen

Quincas Borba (1891)

Machado de Assis

Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)

Thomas Hardy

Versos sencillos (1891)

Jose Marti

Wynema: A Child of the Forest (1891)

Sophia Alice Callahan

Kanyasulkam (1892)

Gurajada Apparao

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Master Builder (1892)

Henrik Ibsen

The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai (1892)

Han Bangqing

The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Sarada (1892)

O. Chandu Menon

Host and Guest (1893)

Vazha-Pshavela

Kamalambal Charitram (1893)

B. R. Rajam Iyer

The Life and Traditions of the Red Man (1893)

Joseph Nicolar

Miri Jiyori (1894)

Rajanikanta Bordoloi

Pan (1894)

Knut Hamsun

Tevye the Dairyman (1894-1914)

Sholem Aleichem

The Jungle Book (1894)

Rudyard Kipling

Under the Yoke (1894)

Ivan Vazov

The Prisoner of Zenda (1894)

Anthony Hope

The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

Oscar Wilde

Bai Ganyo (1895)

Aleko Konstantinov

Bom-Crioulo (1895)

Adolfo Caminha

Effi Briest (1895)

Theodor Fontane

Growing Up (1895-1896)

Higuchi Ichiyo

Jude the Obscure (1895)

Thomas Hardy

Lilith (1895)

George MacDonald

Takekurabe (1895-1896)

Higuchi Ichiyo

The King in Yellow (1895)

Robert W. Chambers

The Red Badge of Courage (1895)

Stephen Crane

The Time Machine (1895)

H. G. Wells

The Seagull (1896)

Anton Chekhov

Hadji Murad (written 1896-1904; published 1912)

Leo Tolstoy

Prosas profanas (1896)

Ruben Dario

The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)

Sarah Orne Jewett

The Major Plays (1896-1904)

Anton Chekhov

Ubu Roi (1896)

Alfred Jarry

Weir of Hermiston (1896)

Robert Louis Stevenson

Dracula (1897)

Bram Stoker

Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician (written 1898; published 1911)

Alfred Jarry

Rebati (1898)

Fakir Mohan Senapati

Senilita (1898)

Italo Svevo

The Turn of the Screw (1898)

Henry James

The War of the Worlds (1898)

H. G. Wells

To Damascus (1898-1904)

August Strindberg

Heart of Darkness (1899)

Joseph Conrad

Uncle Vanya (1899)

Anton Chekhov

Dom Casmurro (1899)

Machado de Assis

The Awakening (1899)

Kate Chopin

Umrao Jaan Ada (1899)

Mirza Hadi Ruswa

When We Dead Awaken (1899)

Henrik Ibsen

Queen of the Woods (1899)

Simon Pokagon

Ariel (1900)

Jose Enrique Rodo

Liola: Commedia Campestre in Tre Atti (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Luigi Pirandello

Lord Jim (1900)

Joseph Conrad

Sister Carrie (1900)

Theodore Dreiser

The Dance of Death (1900)

August Strindberg

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)

L. Frank Baum

Canto Am&agrave (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Each in His Own way (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Luigi Pirandello

It Is So! (If You Think So) (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Luigi Pirandello

Naked Masks (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Luigi Pirandello

Three Sisters (1901)

Anton Chekhov

A Dream Play (1901)

August Strindberg

Buddenbrooks (1901)

Thomas Mann

Canti Orfici: Die Tragodie des Letzten Germanen in Italien (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Dino Campana

Gogol's Wife and Other Stories (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Tommaso Landolfi

Jerusalem (1901-1902)

Selma Lagerlof

Old Indian Legends (1901)

Zitkala-Sa

The Stories and Recollections of Umberto Saba (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Umberto Saba

Cuttlefish Bones (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Eugenio Montale

L'Opera in Versi (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Eugenio Montale

Selected Poems (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Giuseppe Ungaretti

The Buried Harbour (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Giuseppe Ungaretti

The City and the Mountains (1901)

Eca de Queiros

The Occasions (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Eugenio Montale

The Storm and Other Things (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Eugenio Montale

As a Man Grows Older (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Italo Svevo

Chha Mana Atha Guntha (1902)

Fakir Mohan Senapati

Os Sertoes / Rebellion in the Backlands (1902)

Euclides da Cunha

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Wine-Dark Sea (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Leonardo Sciascia

Ad Ora Certa (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Primo Levi

Collected Poems (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Primo Levi

Dialoghi con Leuco (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Cesare Parese

Five Children and It (1902)

E. Nesbit

Hard Labor (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Cesare Parese

Il Contesto (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Leonardo Sciascia

Il Giorno Della Civetta (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Leonardo Sciascia

Il Sistema Periodico (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Primo Levi

Se Non Ora, Quando? (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Primo Levi

Shema (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Primo Levi

The Souls of Black Folk (1903)

W. E. B. Du Bois

Chokher Bali (1903)

Rabindranath Tagore

The Ambassadors (1903)

Henry James

The Murderess (1903)

Alexandros Papadiamantis

The Travels of Lao Can (1903-1907)

Liu E

The Way of All Flesh (1903)

Samuel Butler

Tres Novelas Ejemplares y un Prologo (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Miguel de Unamuno

1934 (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Alberto Moravia

Famiglia (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Natalia Ginzburg

Kisses From Another Dream: Poems (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Antonio Porta

Le Donne di Messina (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Elio Vittorini

Our Lord Don Quixote (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Miguel de Unamuno

Selected Poetry of Andrea Zanzotto (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Andrea Zanzotto

t zero (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Italo Calvino

The Heron (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Giorgio Bassani

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904)

M. R. James

Maung Yin Maung Ma Me Ma (1904)

James Hla Kyaw

Nostromo (1904)

Joseph Conrad

Peter Pan (1904 play; 1911 novel)

J. M. Barrie

Riders to the Sea (1904)

J. M. Synge

The Cherry Orchard (1904)

Anton Chekhov

The Late Mattia Pascal (1904)

Luigi Pirandello

A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Vicente Aleixandre

Esau and Jacob (1904)

Machado de Assis

La Colmena (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Camilo Jose Cela

La Realidad Invisible (1917-1920, 1924): Libro Inedito (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Juan Ramon Jimenez

Lament for Ignacio S&aacute (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Federico Garcia Lorca

My Voice Because of You (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Pedro Salinas

Selected Poems of Luis Cernuda (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Luis Cernuda

The Owl's Insomnia: Poems (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Rafael Alberti

The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Federico Garcia Lorca

Cantos de vida y esperanza (1905)

Ruben Dario

I Am a Cat (1905-1906)

Natsume Soseki

Solitude (1905)

Victor Catala

The Epic Tale of Hiiakaikapoliopele (oral cycle; serialized 1905-1906)

Hawaiian Pele and Hiiaka tradition

The House of Mirth (1905)

Edith Wharton

Always Astonished: Selected Prose (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Fernando Pessoa

La Pell de Brau: Poems (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Salvador Espriu

O Guardador de Rebanhos (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Fernando Pessoa

Poems of Fernando Pessoa (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Fernando Pessoa

Space in Motion (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Juan Goytisolo

When I Sleep, Then I See Clearly: Selected Poems of J V Foix (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

J V Foix

Banaag at Sikat (1906)

Lope K. Santos

Botchan (1906)

Natsume Soseki

The Broken Commandment (1906)

Shimazaki Toson

The Collected Stories of Colette (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Colette

The Railway Children (1906)

E. Nesbit

Young Torless (1906)

Robert Musil

Ballad of Dogs' Beach: Dossier of a Crime (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Jose Cardoso Pires

Corydon (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Andre Gide

L'Île des Pingouins (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Anatole France

L'Immoraliste (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Andre Gide

Lafcadio's Adventures (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Andre Gide

Le Grand Meaulnes (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Alain-Fournier

Les Faux-Monnayeurs (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Andre Gide

Thais (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Anatole France

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1906-1907)

Selma Lagerlof

Four Plays (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Jean Giraudoux

La Retraite Sentimentale (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Colette

Motl, the Cantor's Son (1907-1916)

Sholem Aleichem

Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Rene Daumal

The Ghost Sonata (1907)

August Strindberg

The Madwoman of Chaillot (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Jean Giraudoux

The Playboy of the Western World (1907)

J. M. Synge

The Secret Agent (1907)

Joseph Conrad

The Willows (1907)

Algernon Blackwood

Blue of Noon (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Georges Bataille

Ondine (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Jean Giraudoux

Our Lady of the Flowers (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Jean Genet

Selected Works of Alfred Jarry (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Alfred Jarry

The Apollo of Bellac (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Jean Giraudoux

The Enchanted (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Jean Giraudoux

Anne of Green Gables (1908)

L. M. Montgomery

Le Manifeste du Surrealisme (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Andre Breton

Sanshiro (1908)

Natsume Soseki

The House on the Borderland (1908)

William Hope Hodgson

The Infernal Machine and Other Plays (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Jean Cocteau

The Man Who Was Thursday (1908)

G. K. Chesterton

The Wind in the Willows (1908)

Kenneth Grahame

Counselor Ayres' Memorial (1908)

Machado de Assis

Fata Morgana (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Andre Breton

Gestes et Opinions du Docteur Faustroll, Pataphyscien (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Alfred Jarry

L'Union Libre (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Andre Breton

La Machine Infernale (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Jean Cocteau

Poems of Andre Breton: A Bilingual Anthology (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Andre Breton

Poems of Rene Char (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Rene Char

Ubu Cocu, ou l'Archeopteryz (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Alfred Jarry

The Dead (1909)

Jalil Mammadguluzadeh

The Horseman on the Roof (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Jean Giono

Three Lives (1909)

Gertrude Stein

Count of d'Orgel's Ball (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Raymond Radiguet

L'Âge d'Homme (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Michel Leiris

L'Idiot de la Famille: Gustave Flaubert de 1821 a 1857 (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Jean-Paul Sartre

Les Mots (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Jean-Paul Sartre

Saint Genet, Comedien et Martyr (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Jean-Paul Sartre

The Book of Disquiet (written 1910s-1930s; published 1982)

Fernando Pessoa

Gitanjali (1910; English version 1912)

Rabindranath Tagore

Gora (1910)

Rabindranath Tagore

Howards End (1910)

E. M. Forster

Oiseaux (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Saint-John Perse

Rashomon and Other Stories (1910s-1920s)

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

The Gate (1910)

Natsume Soseki

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910)

Rainer Maria Rilke

Anabase (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Saint-John Perse

Exil (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Saint-John Perse

Exile and Other Poems (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Saint-John Perse

The Book of Questions (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Edmond Jabes

The Rebel (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Albert Camus

Ethan Frome (1911)

Edith Wharton

In the Ruins (1911)

Zabel Yessayan

Man's Fate (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Andre Malraux

Man's Hope (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Andre Malraux

The Forest Song (1911)

Lesya Ukrainka

The Secret Garden (1911)

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Wild Geese (1911-1913)

Mori Ogai

Eurydice (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Jean Anouilh

La Pharisienne (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Francois Mauriac

La Voie Royale (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Andre Malraux

Le Mystere de la Charite de Jeanne d'Arc (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Charles Peguy

Les Conquerants (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Andre Malraux

Les Voix du silence (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Andre Malraux

Paroles (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Jacques Prevert

Therese Desqueyroux (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Francois Mauriac

A Princess of Mars (1912)

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Death in Venice (1912)

Thomas Mann

Victimes du Devoir (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Eugene Ionesco

Amedee ou Comment s'en Debarrasser (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Eugene Ionesco

Becket ou l'Honneur de Dieu (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Jean Anouilh

La Cantatrice Chauve (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Eugene Ionesco

La Repetition (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Jean Anouilh

La Revocation de l'Edit de Nantes (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Pierre Klossowski

Le Lecon (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Eugene Ionesco

Le Souffleur (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Pierre Klossowski

Les Chaises (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Eugene Ionesco

Roberte ce Soir (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Pierre Klossowski

Thomas the Obscure (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Maurice Blanchot

In Search of Lost Time (1913-1927)

Marcel Proust

Maurice (written 1913-1914; published 1971)

E. M. Forster

Petersburg (1913)

Andrey Bely

Pour un Nouveau Roman (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Alain Robbe-Grillet

radio play (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Antonin Artaud

Sons and Lovers (1913)

D. H. Lawrence

The Custom of the Country (1913)

Edith Wharton

Zaynab (1913)

Muhammad Husayn Haykal

Ci-git, Precede de la Culture Indienne (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Antonin Artaud

Dans le Labyrinthe (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Alain Robbe-Grillet

La Jalousie (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Alain Robbe-Grillet

Le Baphomet (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Pierre Klossowski

Le Voyeur (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Alain Robbe-Grillet

Les Gommes (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Alain Robbe-Grillet

Locus Solus (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Raymond Roussel

The Umbilicus of Limbo (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Antonin Artaud

Tristes Tropiques (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Claude Levi-Strauss

Van Gogh le Suicide de la Societe (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Antonin Artaud

Dubliners (1914)

James Joyce

Four Novels by Marguerite Duras (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Marguerite Duras

Kokoro (1914)

Natsume Soseki

L'Amant (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Marguerite Duras

Niebla (1914)

Miguel de Unamuno

Tender Buttons (1914)

Gertrude Stein

The Keeper of Sheep (1914)

Fernando Pessoa

Dix Heures et Demie du Soir en Ete (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Marguerite Duras

Fable (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Robert Pinget

L'Apres-Midi de M. Andesmas (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Marguerite Duras

L'Herbe (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Claude Simon

L'Usage de la Parole (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Nathalie Sarraute

La Route des Flandres (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Claude Simon

Le Planetarium (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Nathalie Sarraute

Le Square (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Marguerite Duras

Le Vent: Tentative de Restitution d'un Retable Baroque (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Claude Simon

Moderato Cantabile (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Marguerite Duras

Projet pour une Revolution a New York (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Alain Robbe-Grillet

The Good Soldier (1915)

Ford Madox Ford

The Metamorphosis (1915)

Franz Kafka

A Cloud in Trousers (1915)

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Herland (1915)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Spoon River Anthology (1915)

Edgar Lee Masters

The Blinkards (1915)

Kobina Sekyi

The Cantos (1915-1962)

Ezra Pound

The Rainbow (1915)

D. H. Lawrence

The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma (1915)

Lima Barreto

The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915)

John Buchan

The Underdogs (1915)

Mariano Azuela

Cette Voix (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Robert Pinget

Friday (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Michel Tournier

Le Coup de Grace (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Marguerite Yourcenar

Le Libera (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Robert Pinget

Michael Robartes and the Dancer (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

William Butler Yeats

The Ogre (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Michel Tournier

The Shadowy Waters (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

William Butler Yeats

The Tower (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

William Butler Yeats

The Wind Among the Reeds (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

William Butler Yeats

The Winding Stair (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

William Butler Yeats

Transparence of the World: Poems (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Jean Follain

Words in Stone (A Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy; approximate chronological placement pending review)

Yves Bonnefoy

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

James Joyce

The Home and the World (1916)

Rabindranath Tagore

Growth of the Soil (1917)

Knut Hamsun

Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)

T. S. Eliot

The Heartless (1917)

Yi Kwang-su

My Antonia (1918)

Willa Cather

Selected Poems (1918-1939)

Cesar Vallejo

The Twelve (1918)

Alexander Blok

Winesburg, Ohio (1919)

Sherwood Anderson

In the Penal Colony (1919)

Franz Kafka

Los heraldos negros (1919)

Cesar Vallejo

Raza de bronce (1919)

Alcides Arguedas

Sevasadan (1919)

Premchand

The Age of Innocence (1920)

Edith Wharton

A Voyage to Arcturus (1920)

David Lindsay

Ion (1920)

Liviu Rebreanu

Kristin Lavransdatter (1920-1922)

Sigrid Undset

Main Street (1920)

Sinclair Lewis

R.U.R. (1920)

Karel Capek

Women in Love (1920)

D. H. Lawrence

The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920)

Hugh Lofting

Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921)

Luigi Pirandello

The Good Soldier Svejk (1921-1923)

Jaroslav Hasek

A Dark Night's Passing (1921-1937)

Shiga Naoya

American Indian Stories (1921)

Zitkala-Sa

The True Story of Ah Q (1921-1922)

Lu Xun

We (1921)

Yevgeny Zamyatin

The Waste Land (1922)

T. S. Eliot

Trilce (1922)

Cesar Vallejo

Ulysses (1922)

James Joyce

Babbitt (1922)

Sinclair Lewis

Desolation (1922)

Gabriela Mistral

Forest of the Hanged (1922)

Liviu Rebreanu

Henry IV (1922)

Luigi Pirandello

Pauliceia Desvairada (1922)

Mario de Andrade

Siti Nurbaya (1922)

Marah Rusli

Sitti Nurbaya (1922)

Marah Rusli

Sonnets to Orpheus (1922)

Rainer Maria Rilke

The Velveteen Rabbit (1922)

Margery Williams

The Worm Ouroboros (1922)

E. R. Eddison

Call to Arms (1923)

Lu Xun

Cane (1923)

Jean Toomer

Duino Elegies (1923)

Rainer Maria Rilke

Zeno's Conscience (1923)

Italo Svevo

New Land (1923)

Yakub Kolas

Spring and All (1923)

William Carlos Williams

Crepusculario (1923)

Pablo Neruda

The Magic Mountain (1924)

Thomas Mann

A Passage to India (1924)

E. M. Forster

Juno and the Paycock (1924)

Sean O'Casey

Naomi (1924)

Tanizaki Junichiro

Parade's End (1924-1928)

Ford Madox Ford

Raktakarabi / Red Oleanders (1924)

Rabindranath Tagore

Rangbhoomi (1924)

Premchand

The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924)

Lord Dunsany

The Vortex (1924)

Jose Eustasio Rivera

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924)

Pablo Neruda

Mrs Dalloway (1925)

Virginia Woolf

The Trial (written 1914-1915; published 1925)

Franz Kafka

An American Tragedy (1925)

Theodore Dreiser

Chaka (1925)

Thomas Mofolo

In Our Time (1925)

Ernest Hemingway

Manhattan Transfer (1925)

John Dos Passos

Ossi di Seppia (1925)

Eugenio Montale

Pau-Brasil (1925)

Oswald de Andrade

Potato (1925)

Kim Dong-in

The Counterfeiters (1925)

Andre Gide

The Great Gatsby (1925)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Master of Hestviken (1925-1927)

Sigrid Undset

The Professor's House (1925)

Willa Cather

Crashing Thunder (1926)

Sam Blowsnake and Paul Radin

Days Gone By (1926)

Abdulla Qodiriy

Red Cavalry (1926)

Isaac Babel

The Castle (1926)

Franz Kafka

The Days (1926-1927)

Taha Hussein

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)

Agatha Christie

The Sun Also Rises (1926)

Ernest Hemingway

Truth and Justice (1926-1933)

A. H. Tammsaare

Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)

A. A. Milne

To the Lighthouse (1927)

Virginia Woolf

Amerika (1927)

Franz Kafka

Cogewea, the Half-Blood (1927)

Mourning Dove

Envy (1927)

Yuri Olesha

Nirmala (1927)

Premchand

Steppenwolf (1927)

Hermann Hesse

The Conscript (1927)

Gebreyesus Hailu

Wild Grass (1927)

Lu Xun

Gypsy Ballads (1928)

Federico Garcia Lorca

Home to Harlem (1928)

Claude McKay

Macunaima (1928)

Mario de Andrade

Quicksand (1928)

Nella Larsen

Some Prefer Nettles (1928-1929)

Tanizaki Junichiro

The Call of Cthulhu (1928)

H. P. Lovecraft

The City (1928)

Valerian Pidmohylny

The Master and Margarita (written 1928-1940; published 1966-1967)

Mikhail Bulgakov

The Silent Don (1928-1940)

Mikhail Sholokhov

The Threepenny Opera (1928)

Bertolt Brecht

A Room of One's Own (1929)

Virginia Woolf

The Sound and the Fury (1929)

William Faulkner

A Farewell to Arms (1929)

Ernest Hemingway

Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929)

Alfred Doblin

Dona Barbara (1929)

Romulo Gallegos

Passing (1929)

Nella Larsen

Sesher Kabita (1929)

Rabindranath Tagore

The Glembays (1929)

Miroslav Krleza

As I Lay Dying (1930)

William Faulkner

Ash-Wednesday (1930)

T. S. Eliot

Last and First Men (1930)

Olaf Stapledon

Mhudi (1930)

Sol Plaatje

The Bridge (1930)

Hart Crane

The Fifteen (1930)

Rachel de Queiroz

The Foundation Pit (written 1930; published 1987)

Andrei Platonov

The Maltese Falcon (1930)

Dashiell Hammett

The Man Without Qualities (1930-1943)

Robert Musil

U.S.A. Trilogy (1930-1936)

John Dos Passos

Altazor (1931)

Vicente Huidobro

Family (1931)

Ba Jin

Gaban (1931)

Premchand

Matira Manisha (1931)

Kalindi Charan Panigrahi

San Manuel Bueno, martir (1931)

Miguel de Unamuno

Songoro cosongo (1931)

Nicolas Guillen

The Bridal Canopy (1931)

S. Y. Agnon

The Sleepwalkers (1931-1932)

Hermann Broch

The Waves (1931)

Virginia Woolf

Three Generations (1931)

Yom Sang-seop

The Radetzky March (1932)

Joseph Roth

Angarey (1932)

Sajjad Zaheer, Rashid Jahan, Ahmed Ali, and Mahmuduzzafar

Aparajito (1932)

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

Black Elk Speaks (1932)

Black Elk and John G. Neihardt

Brave New World (1932)

Aldous Huxley

Journey to the End of the Night (1932)

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Light in August (1932)

William Faulkner

Sunset Song (1932)

Lewis Grassic Gibbon

The Return of Philip Latinowicz (1932)

Miroslav Krleza

The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (1932-1936 stories)

Robert E. Howard

Blood Wedding (1933)

Federico Garcia Lorca

Banana Bottom (1933)

Claude McKay

Cheese (1933)

Willem Elsschot

Chomana Dudi (1933)

K. Shivaram Karanth

Coyote Stories (1933)

Mourning Dove

Joseph and His Brothers (1933-1943)

Thomas Mann

Midnight (1933)

Mao Dun

Miss Lonelyhearts (1933)

Nathanael West

Residence on Earth (1933-1935)

Pablo Neruda

Return of the Spirit (1933)

Tawfiq al-Hakim

Serafim Ponte Grande (1933)

Oswald de Andrade

The People of the Cave (1933)

Tawfiq al-Hakim

Border Town (1934)

Shen Congwen

Burmese Days (1934)

George Orwell

Huasipungo (1934)

Jorge Icaza

Independent People (1934-1935)

Halldor Laxness

Mary Poppins (1934)

P. L. Travers

Seven Gothic Tales (1934)

Karen Blixen

Shaihu Umar (1934)

Abubakar Tafawa Balewa

Smritichitre (1934-1937)

Lakshmibai Tilak

Sundown (1934)

John Joseph Mathews

Tender Is the Night (1934)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The House of Mist (1934)

Maria Luisa Bombal

The Street of Crocodiles (1934)

Bruno Schulz

Veyi Padagalu (1934)

Viswanatha Satyanarayana

Voyage in the Dark (1934)

Jean Rhys

Yerma (1934)

Federico Garcia Lorca

Char Adhyay (1934)

Rabindranath Tagore

The Nine Tailors (1934)

Dorothy L. Sayers

Auto-da-Fe (1935)

Elias Canetti

Gaudy Night (1935)

Dorothy L. Sayers

Madhushala (1935)

Harivansh Rai Bachchan

Mother and a Guest (1935)

Chu Yo-sup

Murder in the Cathedral (1935)

T. S. Eliot

Satan in Goray (1935)

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Snow Country (1935-1947)

Kawabata Yasunari

Swami and Friends (1935)

R. K. Narayan

The Field of Life and Death (1935)

Xiao Hong

The Gardens of Silihdar (1935)

Zabel Yessayan

Untouchable (1935)

Mulk Raj Anand

The House of Bernarda Alba (1936)

Federico Garcia Lorca

Absalom, Absalom! (1936)

William Faulkner

Anguish (1936)

Graciliano Ramos

At the Mountains of Madness (1936)

H. P. Lovecraft

Dumb Luck (1936)

Vu Trong Phung

Godaan (1936)

Premchand

Muna Madan (1936)

Laxmi Prasad Devkota

Nightwood (1936)

Djuna Barnes

Padma Nadir Majhi (1936)

Manik Bandopadhyay

Putul Nacher Itikatha (1936)

Manik Bandopadhyay

The Shaman Sorceress (1936)

Kim Tongni

The Surrounded (1936)

D'Arcy McNickle

War with the Newts (1936)

Karel Capek

Wings (1936)

Yi Sang

Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

Zora Neale Hurston

Ali and Nino (1937)

Kurban Said

Captains of the Sands (1937)

Jorge Amado

Ferdydurke (1937)

Witold Gombrowicz

Journey by Moonlight (1937)

Antal Szerb

Magana Jari Ce (1937-1949)

Abubakar Imam

Rickshaw Boy (1937)

Lao She

Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (1937)

Bruno Schulz

Star Maker (1937)

Olaf Stapledon

The Blind Owl (1937)

Sadegh Hedayat

The Hobbit (1937)

J. R. R. Tolkien

World Light (1937-1940)

Halldor Laxness

Alamut (1938)

Vladimir Bartol

Barren Lives (1938)

Graciliano Ramos

Kanthapura (1938)

Raja Rao

Life of Galileo (1938-1939)

Bertolt Brecht

Nausea (1938)

Jean-Paul Sartre

On the Edge of Reason (1938)

Miroslav Krleza

Our Town (1938)

Thornton Wilder

Peace Under Heaven (1938)

Chae Man-sik

Tala (1938)

Gabriela Mistral

The Forest of a Thousand Daemons (1938)

D. O. Fagunwa

The Shrouded Woman (1938)

Maria Luisa Bombal

Son of Old Man Hat (1938)

Left Handed and Walter Dyk

Spring (1938)

Ba Jin

Mother Courage and Her Children (1939)

Bertolt Brecht, Margarete Steffin

A Guest for the Night (1939)

S. Y. Agnon

Aranyak (1939)

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)

Flann O'Brien

Finnegans Wake (1939)

James Joyce

Good Morning, Midnight (1939)

Jean Rhys

Le Occasioni (1939)

Eugenio Montale

Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (1939)

Aime Cesaire

Spain, Take This Cup from Me (1939)

Cesar Vallejo

The Big Sleep (1939)

Raymond Chandler

The Day of the Locust (1939)

Nathanael West

The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

John Steinbeck

The Third Policeman (written 1939-1940; published 1967)

Flann O'Brien

Barbara (1939)

Jorgen-Frantz Jacobsen

Schoolgirl (1939)

Dazai Osamu

The Pit (1939)

Juan Carlos Onetti

Kallocain (1940)

Karin Boye

Native Son (1940)

Richard Wright

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940)

Carson McCullers

The Invention of Morel (1940)

Adolfo Bioy Casares

The Power and the Glory (1940)

Graham Greene

Autumn (1940)

Ba Jin

Between the Acts (1941)

Virginia Woolf

Broad and Alien Is the World (1941)

Ciro Alegria

Chess Story (1941)

Stefan Zweig

Long Day's Journey into Night (written 1941-1942; published 1956)

Eugene O'Neill

Embers (1942)

Sandor Marai

Lihaaf / The Quilt (1942)

Ismat Chughtai

Poems from Prison (1942-1943)

Ho Chi Minh

The Family of Pascual Duarte (1942)

Camilo Jose Cela

The Path of Abai (1942-1956)

Mukhtar Auezov

The Stranger (1942)

Albert Camus

Winter's Tales (1942)

Karen Blixen

The Little Prince (1943)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Four Quartets (1943)

T. S. Eliot

Love in a Fallen City (1943)

Eileen Chang

Madonna in a Fur Coat (1943)

Sabahattin Ali

Malgudi Days (1943)

R. K. Narayan

Near to the Wild Heart (1943)

Clarice Lispector

The Glass Bead Game (1943)

Hermann Hesse

The Golden Cangue (1943)

Eileen Chang

The Good Person of Szechwan (1943)

Bertolt Brecht

The Makioka Sisters (1943-1948)

Tanizaki Junichiro

Ficciones (1944; revised 1956)

Jorge Luis Borges

Balyakalasakhi (1944)

Vaikom Muhammad Basheer

Gamperaliya (1944)

Martin Wickramasinghe

Masters of the Dew (1944)

Jacques Roumain

No Exit (1944)

Jean-Paul Sartre

The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1944)

Bertolt Brecht

The Dwarf (1944)

Par Lagerkvist

The Glass Menagerie (1944)

Tennessee Williams

Transit (1944)

Anna Seghers

The Hundred Dresses (1944)

Eleanor Estes

Tiger Trappers (1944)

Ivan Bahrianyi

Black Boy (1945)

Richard Wright

Bwana Myombekere na Bibi Bugonoka (1945 manuscript; published 1980)

Aniceti Kitereza

Christ Stopped at Eboli (1945)

Carlo Levi

Nada (1945)

Carmen Laforet

Only Yesterday (1945)

S. Y. Agnon

Pippi Longstocking (1945)

Astrid Lindgren

The Bridge on the Drina (1945)

Ivo Andric

The Death of Virgil (1945)

Hermann Broch

The English Teacher (1945)

R. K. Narayan

All the King's Men (1946)

Robert Penn Warren

Chivaraku Migiledi (1946)

Buchi Babu

Mine Boy (1946)

Peter Abrahams

Paterson (1946-1958)

William Carlos Williams

The Iceman Cometh (1946)

Eugene O'Neill

The President (1946)

Miguel Angel Asturias

The Street (1946)

Ann Petry

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (1946)

Tadeusz Borowski

Titus Groan (1946)

Mervyn Peake

Zorba the Greek (1946)

Nikos Kazantzakis

A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)

Tennessee Williams

Chiquinho (1947)

Baltasar Lopes

Doctor Faustus (1947)

Thomas Mann

Fortress Besieged (1947)

Qian Zhongshu

Hansuli Banker Upakatha (1947)

Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay

If This Is a Man (1947)

Primo Levi

Madol Duwa (1947)

Martin Wickramasinghe

Midaq Alley (1947)

Naguib Mahfouz

The Evenings (1947)

Gerard Reve

The Plague (1947)

Albert Camus

The Setting Sun (1947)

Dazai Osamu

Under the Volcano (1947)

Malcolm Lowry

Adam Buenosayres (1948)

Leopoldo Marechal

Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu (1948)

Amrita Pritam

Ashes and Diamonds (1948)

Jerzy Andrzejewski

Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)

Alan Paton

Khol Do (1948)

Saadat Hasan Manto

Lalsalu (1948)

Syed Waliullah

No Longer Human (1948)

Dazai Osamu

The Path of Thunder (1948)

Peter Abrahams

Christ Recrucified (1948)

Nikos Kazantzakis

Death of a Salesman (1949)

Arthur Miller

The Aleph and Other Stories (1949)

Jorge Luis Borges

A Mind at Peace (1949)

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar

Confessions of a Mask (1949)

Mishima Yukio

Igbo Olodumare (1949)

D. O. Fagunwa

Ireke Onibudo (1949)

D. O. Fagunwa

Khirbet Khizeh (1949)

S. Yizhar

Men of Maize (1949)

Miguel Angel Asturias

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

George Orwell

The Kingdom of This World (1949)

Alejo Carpentier

The Lottery and Other Stories (1949)

Shirley Jackson

The Sound of the Mountain (1949-1954)

Kawabata Yasunari

Canto General (1950)

Pablo Neruda

Selected Poems (20th century)

Fernando Pessoa

Selected Poems (late 19th-20th century)

W. B. Yeats

Stories (early 20th century)

Franz Kafka

A Brief Life (1950)

Juan Carlos Onetti

Barabbas (1950)

Par Lagerkvist

Collected Poems (20th century)

C. P. Cavafy

Complete Stories (20th century)

Flannery O'Connor

Ewi: Selected Yoruba Performance Poetry (20th century)

Yoruba performance-poetry tradition

Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories (20th century)

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Gormenghast (1950)

Mervyn Peake

Mahaprasthanam (1950)

Sri Sri

Pinjar (1950)

Amrita Pritam

Poems (20th century)

Osip Mandelstam

Poems (20th century)

Paul Celan

Poems (20th century)

Anna Akhmatova

Ponniyin Selvan (1950-1954)

Kalki Krishnamurthy

Selected Poems (late 19th-early 20th century)

Sayyid Mohammed Abdullah Hassan

Selected Poems (20th century)

Leopold Sedar Senghor

Selected Poems (20th century)

Tomas Transtromer

Selected Poems (late 19th-early 20th century)

Hayim Nahman Bialik

Selected Poems (20th century)

Galaktion Tabidze

Selected Poems (20th century)

Hadrawi

Selected Poems (20th century)

Cigerxwin

Selected Poems (20th century)

Robert Hayden

Selected Poems (20th century)

Elizabeth Bishop

Selected Poems (20th century)

Langston Hughes

Selected Poems (20th century)

Mehdi Akhavan Sales

Selected Poems (20th century)

John Ashbery

Selected Poems (20th century)

Ahmad Shamlu

Selected Poems (20th century)

Nima Yushij

Selected Poems (20th century)

Gabriela Mistral

Selected Poems (20th century)

Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Selected Poems (20th century)

Noemia de Sousa

Selected Poems (20th century)

Jose Craveirinha

Selected Poems (20th century)

Giorgos Seferis

Selected Poems (20th century)

Czeslaw Milosz

Selected Poems (20th century)

Wislawa Szymborska

Selected Poems (20th century)

Dennis Brutus

Selected Poems (20th century)

Ingrid Jonker

Selected Poems (20th century)

Mongane Wally Serote

Selected Poems (20th century)

Keorapetse Kgositsile

Selected Poems (20th century)

Waldo Williams

Selected Poems (late 19th-early 20th century)

Rainis

Selected Poems (20th century)

David Diop

Selected Poems (20th century)

Sorley MacLean

Selected Poems (20th century)

Avrom Sutzkever

Selected Poems (20th century)

Nazim Hikmet

Selected Poems (20th century)

Marina Tsvetaeva

Selected Poems (20th century)

Seamus Heaney

Selected Poems (20th century)

Mahmoud Darwish

Selected Poems (early 20th century)

Siamanto

Selected Poems (early 20th century)

Daniel Varoujan

Selected Poems (20th century)

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Selected Stories (late 19th-early 20th century)

I. L. Peretz

Selected Stories (20th century)

Saadat Hasan Manto

Selected Stories (20th century)

Silvina Ocampo

Selected Stories (20th century)

Eudora Welty

Selected Stories (20th century)

Pudhumaipithan

Selected Stories (20th century)

Felisberto Hernandez

Selected Stories (20th century)

Julio Cortazar

Strangers on a Train (1950)

Patricia Highsmith

The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-1956)

C. S. Lewis

The Collected Poems (20th century)

Octavio Paz

The Family Moskat (1950)

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The Fugitive (1950)

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)

C. S. Lewis

The Martian Chronicles (1950)

Ray Bradbury

The Ozidi Saga (recorded 20th century)

Ijaw oral epic tradition

The Short Fiction (late 19th-early 20th century)

Charles W. Chesnutt

The Tiger Trilogy (20th century)

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Foundation (1951)

Isaac Asimov

Kusadikika (1951)

Shaaban Robert

Memoirs of Hadrian (1951)

Marguerite Yourcenar

The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

J. D. Salinger

The Daughter of Time (1951)

Josephine Tey

The Hive (1951)

Camilo Jose Cela

The Trilogy (1951-1953)

Samuel Beckett

Invisible Man (1952)

Ralph Ellison

Adili na Nduguze (1952)

Shaaban Robert

Charlotte's Web (1952)

E. B. White

City (1952)

Clifford D. Simak

The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952)

Amos Tutuola

Thousand Cranes (1952)

Kawabata Yasunari

Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

Ray Bradbury

Waiting for Godot (1953)

Samuel Beckett

Childhood's End (1953)

Arthur C. Clarke

Cranes (1953)

Hwang Sun-won

Four Reigns (1953)

Kukrit Pramoj

Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953)

James Baldwin

In the Castle of My Skin (1953)

George Lamming

More Than Human (1953)

Theodore Sturgeon

The Adventures of Augie March (1953)

Saul Bellow

The Burning Plain (1953)

Juan Rulfo

The Dark Child (1953)

Camara Laye

The Demolished Man (1953)

Alfred Bester

The Long Goodbye (1953)

Raymond Chandler

The Lost Steps (1953)

Alejo Carpentier

The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955)

J. R. R. Tolkien

I Am Legend (1954)

Richard Matheson

Lord of the Flies (1954)

William Golding

Maila Anchal (1954)

Phanishwar Nath Renu

The Descendants of Cain (1954)

Hwang Sun-won

The Radiance of the King (1954)

Camara Laye

The Simple Past (1954)

Driss Chraibi

The Time Regulation Institute (serialized 1954; book 1961)

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar

Lagar (1954)

Gabriela Mistral

Lolita (1955)

Vladimir Nabokov

Pedro Paramo (1955)

Juan Rulfo

Death and Life of Severino (1955)

Joao Cabral de Melo Neto

Memed, My Hawk (1955)

Yashar Kemal

Not Out of Hate (1955)

Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay

The Chrysalids (1955)

John Wyndham

The Forbidden Forest (1955)

Mircea Eliade

The Recognitions (1955)

William Gaddis

The Rice-Sprout Song (1955)

Eileen Chang

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955)

Patricia Highsmith

Toba Tek Singh (1955)

Saadat Hasan Manto

The Cairo Trilogy (1956-1957)

Naguib Mahfouz

The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (1956)

Joao Guimaraes Rosa

Aniara (1956)

Harry Martinson

Chemmeen (1956)

Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai

Five Modern Noh Plays (1956)

Mishima Yukio

Giovanni's Room (1956)

James Baldwin

Houseboy (1956)

Ferdinand Oyono

Howl and Other Poems (1956)

Allen Ginsberg

Moonlight Sonata (1956)

Yannis Ritsos

Nedjma (1956)

Kateb Yacine

Palace Walk (1956)

Naguib Mahfouz

The Fall (1956)

Albert Camus

The Lonely Londoners (1956)

Sam Selvon

The Old Man and the Medal (1956)

Ferdinand Oyono

The Poor Christ of Bomba (1956)

Mongo Beti

The Stars My Destination (1956)

Alfred Bester

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1956)

Mishima Yukio

The Visit (1956)

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Train to Pakistan (1956)

Khushwant Singh

Viragaya (1956)

Martin Wickramasinghe

Zama (1956)

Antonio Di Benedetto

Climbie (1956)

Bernard Dadie

Balun Canan (1957)

Rosario Castellanos

Basain (1957)

Lil Bahadur Chettri

Doctor Zhivago (1957)

Boris Pasternak

Endgame (1957)

Samuel Beckett

Forest of the Gods (1957)

Balys Sruoga

Mission to Kala (1957)

Mongo Beti

Teahouse (1957)

Lao She

That Awful Mess on Via Merulana (1957)

Carlo Emilio Gadda

The Balcony (1957)

Jean Genet

The Baron in the Trees (1957)

Italo Calvino

The Birds (1957)

Tarjei Vesaas

The Waiting Years (1957)

Enchi Fumiko

Moominland Midwinter (1957)

Tove Jansson

The Fish Can Sing (1957)

Halldor Laxness

Things Fall Apart (1958)

Chinua Achebe

Ashadh Ka Ek Din (1958)

Mohan Rakesh

Deep Rivers (1958)

Jose Maria Arguedas

Extravagaria (1958)

Pablo Neruda

Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (1958)

Jorge Amado

Khuda Ki Basti (1958)

Shaukat Siddiqui

Masks (1958)

Enchi Fumiko

Naalukettu (1958)

M. T. Vasudevan Nair

Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (1958)

Oe Kenzaburo

The Darkroom of Damocles (1958)

Willem Frederik Hermans

The Guide (1958)

R. K. Narayan

The Leopard (1958)

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

The Once and Future King (1958)

T. H. White

Where the Air Is Clear (1958)

Carlos Fuentes

White Shroud (1958)

Antanas Skema

A Raisin in the Sun (1959)

Lorraine Hansberry

Life and Fate (written 1959; published 1980)

Vasily Grossman

A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)

Walter M. Miller Jr.

Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959)

Paule Marshall

Children of Gebelawi (1959)

Naguib Mahfouz

Down Second Avenue (1959)

Ezekiel Mphahlele

Miguel Street (1959)

V. S. Naipaul

Pathummayude Aadu (1959)

Vaikom Muhammad Basheer

Rhinoceros (1959)

Eugene Ionesco

River of Fire (1959)

Qurratulain Hyder

School at the Frontier (1959)

Geza Ottlik

The Axion Esti (1959)

Odysseas Elytis

The Haunting of Hill House (1959)

Shirley Jackson

The Lion and the Jewel (1959)

Wole Soyinka

The River Ki (1959)

Ariyoshi Sawako

The Tin Drum (1959)

Gunter Grass

Under the North Star (1959-1962)

Vaino Linna

Yayati (1959)

V. S. Khandekar

An African in Paris (1959)

Bernard Dadie

A Dance of the Forests (1960)

Wole Soyinka

Child of the Dark (1960)

Carolina Maria de Jesus

Dreamtigers (1960)

Jorge Luis Borges

Family Ties (1960)

Clarice Lispector

God's Bits of Wood (1960)

Ousmane Sembene

No Longer at Ease (1960)

Chinua Achebe

Palace of the Peacock (1960)

Wilson Harris

The Country Girls (1960)

Edna O'Brien

The Open Door (1960)

Latifa al-Zayyat

The Serpent and the Rope (1960)

Raja Rao

The Sot-Weed Factor (1960)

John Barth

The Square (1960)

Choi In-hun

The Sultan's Dilemma (1960)

Tawfiq al-Hakim

Border Country (1960)

Raymond Williams

A House for Mr Biswas (1961)

V. S. Naipaul

Ambiguous Adventure (1961)

Cheikh Hamidou Kane

Memorias dun neno labrego (1961)

Xose Neira Vilas

No One Writes to the Colonel (1961)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Solaris (1961)

Stanislaw Lem

The Moviegoer (1961)

Walker Percy

The Phantom Tollbooth (1961)

Norton Juster

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

Muriel Spark

The Shipyard (1961)

Juan Carlos Onetti

The Thief and the Dogs (1961)

Naguib Mahfouz

The Woman Who Had Two Navels (1961)

Nick Joaquin

Ali Pur ka Aili (1961)

Mumtaz Mufti

A Walk in the Night (1962)

Alex La Guma

A Wrinkle in Time (1962)

Madeleine L'Engle

Aangan (1962)

Khadija Mastur

Another Country (1962)

James Baldwin

Aura (1962)

Carlos Fuentes

Explosion in a Cathedral (1962)

Alejo Carpentier

Men in the Sun (1962)

Ghassan Kanafani

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Pale Fire (1962)

Vladimir Nabokov

Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962)

Ray Bradbury

The Crystal Clear Tamir River (1962)

Chadraabalyn Lodoidamba

The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962)

Carlos Fuentes

The Drowned World (1962)

J. G. Ballard

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962)

Giorgio Bassani

The Golden Notebook (1962)

Doris Lessing

The Man in the High Castle (1962)

Philip K. Dick

The Old Capital (1962)

Kawabata Yasunari

The Time of the Doves (1962)

Merce Rodoreda

The Woman in the Dunes (1962)

Abe Kobo

Time of Silence (1962)

Luis Martin-Santos

We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962)

Shirley Jackson

Cat's Cradle (1963)

Kurt Vonnegut

Hopscotch (1963)

Julio Cortazar

Kosala (1963)

Bhalchandra Nemade

Luuanda (1963)

Jose Luandino Vieira

Recollections of Things to Come (1963)

Elena Garro

The Clown (1963)

Heinrich Boll

The Garden Party (1963)

Vaclav Havel

The General of the Dead Army (1963)

Ismail Kadare

The Ice Palace (1963)

Tarjei Vesaas

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1963)

Mishima Yukio

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963)

John le Carre

The Time of the Hero (1963)

Mario Vargas Llosa

Udaas Naslain (1963)

Abdullah Hussein

Where the Wild Things Are (1963)

Maurice Sendak

A Personal Matter (1964)

Oe Kenzaburo

Another Birth (1964)

Forugh Farrokhzad

Arrow of God (1964)

Chinua Achebe

Beer in the Snooker Club (1964)

Waguih Ghali

Dutchman (1964)

Amiri Baraka

Harriet the Spy (1964)

Louise Fitzhugh

Lunch Poems (1964)

Frank O'Hara

Marhi Da Deeva (1964)

Gurdial Singh

No Ordinary Sun (1964)

Hone Tuwhare

Shirishko Phool (1964)

Parijat

The Dream Songs (1964-1968)

John Berryman

The Face of Another (1964)

Abe Kobo

The Passion According to G.H. (1964)

Clarice Lispector

The Voice (1964)

Gabriel Okara

The Week of Colors (1964)

Elena Garro

The Whitsun Weddings (1964)

Philip Larkin

We Are Going (1964)

Oodgeroo Noonuccal

Weep Not, Child (1964)

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Time of Parting (1964)

Anton Donchev

Ariel (1965)

Sylvia Plath

Black Rain (1965)

Ibuse Masuji

Closely Watched Trains (1965)

Bohumil Hrabal

Cosmos (1965)

Witold Gombrowicz

Cyclops (1965)

Ranko Marinkovic

Dune (1965)

Frank Herbert

Garden, Ashes (1965)

Danilo Kis

Samskara (1965)

U. R. Ananthamurthy

The Homecoming (1965)

Harold Pinter

The Interpreters (1965)

Wole Soyinka

The River Between (1965)

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

The Road (1965)

Wole Soyinka

The Sea of Fertility (1965-1970)

Mishima Yukio

The Vampire of Curitiba (1965)

Dalton Trevisan

Water's Footfall (1965)

Sohrab Sepehri

Season of Migration to the North (1966)

Tayeb Salih

Song of Lawino (1966)

Okot p'Bitek

The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)

Thomas Pynchon

A Man of the People (1966)

Chinua Achebe

Aadha Gaon (1966)

Rahi Masoom Raza

All Fires the Fire (1966)

Julio Cortazar

Cancer Ward (1966)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Death and the Dervish (1966)

Mesa Selimovic

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1966)

Jorge Amado

Efuru (1966)

Flora Nwapa

Five Hours with Mario (1966)

Miguel Delibes

In Cold Blood (1966)

Truman Capote

Mitro Marjani (1966)

Krishna Sobti

Paradiso (1966)

Jose Lezama Lima

Silence (1966)

Endo Shusaku

The Concubine (1966)

Elechi Amadi

The Fixer (1966)

Bernard Malamud

The Green House (1966)

Mario Vargas Llosa

The Late Bourgeois World (1966)

Nadine Gordimer

The Money-Order (1966)

Ousmane Sembene

The Promised Land (1966)

Grace Ogot

The Wedding of Zein (1966)

Tayeb Salih

Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)

Jean Rhys

A Grain of Wheat (1967)

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Blow-Up and Other Stories (1967 English selection)

Julio Cortazar

Miramar (1967)

Naguib Mahfouz

Mrityunjay (1967)

Shivaji Sawant

Necropolis (1967)

Boris Pahor

Rosemary's Baby (1967)

Ira Levin

Subarnalata (1967)

Ashapurna Devi

The Arrivants (1967-1969)

Kamau Brathwaite

The Mimic Men (1967)

V. S. Naipaul

The Silent Cry (1967)

Oe Kenzaburo

Three Trapped Tigers (1967)

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Kufikirika (1967)

Shaaban Robert

Yakshi (1967)

Malayattoor Ramakrishnan

A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)

Ursula K. Le Guin

Bound to Violence (1968)

Yambo Ouologuem

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)

Philip K. Dick

Fikir Eske Mekabir (1968)

Haddis Alemayehu

House Made of Dawn (1968)

N. Scott Momaday

Land Without Thunder (1968)

Grace Ogot

Mookajjiya Kanasugalu (1968)

K. Shivaram Karanth

My Michael (1968)

Amos Oz

Raag Darbari (1968)

Shrilal Shukla

Stand on Zanzibar (1968)

John Brunner

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968)

Ayi Kwei Armah

The Last Unicorn (1968)

Peter S. Beagle

The Suns of Independence (1968)

Ahmadou Kourouma

When Rain Clouds Gather (1968)

Bessie Head

62: A Model Kit (1968)

Julio Cortazar

The Land (1969-1994)

Park Kyong-ni

Aadhe Adhure (1969)

Mohan Rakesh

Boesman and Lena (1969)

Athol Fugard

Conversation in the Cathedral (1969)

Mario Vargas Llosa

Here's to You, Jesusa! (1969)

Elena Poniatowska

Khasakkinte Itihasam (1969)

O. V. Vijayan

Les Guerilleres (1969)

Monique Wittig

Portnoy's Complaint (1969)

Philip Roth

Prince Ehtejab (1969)

Hushang Golshiri

Returning to Haifa (1969)

Ghassan Kanafani

Savushun (1969)

Simin Daneshvar

The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)

Ursula K. Le Guin

The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969)

N. Scott Momaday and Kiowa tradition

Ubik (1969)

Philip K. Dick

Ampasayya (1969)

Naveen

Crick Crack, Monkey (1970)

Merle Hodge

Dream on Monkey Mountain (1970)

Derek Walcott

Fragments (1970)

Ayi Kwei Armah

From a Crooked Rib (1970)

Nuruddin Farah

Harpoon of the Hunter (1970)

Markoosie Patsauq

Idu (1970)

Flora Nwapa

Madmen and Specialists (1970)

Wole Soyinka

Mrityunjay (1970)

Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya

Sila Nerangalil Sila Manithargal (1970)

Jayakanthan

Song of Ocol (1970)

Okot p'Bitek

The Bluest Eye (1970)

Toni Morrison

The Crocodile (1970)

Vincent Eri

The Fortress (1970)

Mesa Selimovic

The Naked Tree (1970)

Park Wan-suh

The Obscene Bird of Night (1970)

Jose Donoso

Abigail (1970)

Magda Szabo

The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1970)

George V. Higgins

Bandarshah (1971)

Tayeb Salih

Chronicle in Stone (1971)

Ismail Kadare

Grendel (1971)

John Gardner

I Served the King of England (1971)

Bohumil Hrabal

Labyrinths (1971)

Christopher Okigbo

Maru (1971)

Bessie Head

Massacre in Mexico (1971)

Elena Poniatowska

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (1971)

Robert C. O'Brien

Rosa Mistika (1971)

Euphrase Kezilahabi

Taipei People (1971)

Pai Hsien-yung

The Book of Daniel (1971)

E. L. Doctorow

The Disconnected (1971-1972)

Oguz Atay

The Exorcist (1971)

William Peter Blatty

The Lathe of Heaven (1971)

Ursula K. Le Guin

The Legend of the Thousand Bulls (1971)

Yashar Kemal

The Tombs of Atuan (1971)

Ursula K. Le Guin

This Earth, My Brother (1971)

Kofi Awoonor

The Wanderers (1971)

Ezekiel Mphahlele

Invisible Cities (1972)

Italo Calvino

A Man Was Going Down the Road (1972)

Otar Chiladze

Hourglass (1972)

Danilo Kis

In the Fog of the Seasons' End (1972)

Alex La Guma

Kiu (1972)

Mohamed Said Abdulla

Mumbo Jumbo (1972)

Ishmael Reed

Pounamu Pounamu (1972)

Witi Ihimaera

Roadside Picnic (1972)

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Sizwe Banzi Is Dead (1972)

Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona

The Burdens (1972)

John Ruganda

The Summer Book (1972)

Tove Jansson

Watership Down (1972)

Richard Adams

Elric of Melnibone (1972)

Michael Moorcock

The Man Died (1972)

Wole Soyinka

The Sheep Look Up (1972)

John Brunner

Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

Thomas Pynchon

A Question of Power (1973)

Bessie Head

Agua Viva (1973)

Clarice Lispector

Bharathipura (1973)

U. R. Ananthamurthy

Crash (1973)

J. G. Ballard

Diving into the Wreck (1973)

Adrienne Rich

For Bread Alone (1973)

Mohamed Choukri

Halfbreed (1973)

Maria Campbell

Kill Me Quick (1973)

Meja Mwangi

Motherland Hotel (1973)

Yusuf Atilgan

My Uncle Napoleon (1973)

Iraj Pezeshkzad

Rendezvous with Rama (1973)

Arthur C. Clarke

Seto Bagh (1973)

Diamond Shumsher Rana

Sons for the Return Home (1973)

Albert Wendt

Sula (1973)

Toni Morrison

Tangi (1973)

Witi Ihimaera

The Dark Is Rising (1973)

Susan Cooper

The Fortunes of Wangrin (1973)

Amadou Hampate Ba

The Girl in the Photograph (1973)

Lygia Fagundes Telles

The Island (1973)

Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona

The Lesbian Body (1973)

Monique Wittig

The Thirteenth Sun (1973)

Daniachew Worku

The Dispossessed (1974)

Ursula K. Le Guin

Broken Mirror (1974)

Merce Rodoreda

Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree (1974)

Albert Wendt

Hajar Churashir Maa (1974)

Mahasweta Devi

I the Supreme (1974)

Augusto Roa Bastos

Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season (1974)

Forugh Farrokhzad

Perpetua and the Habit of Unhappiness (1974)

Mongo Beti

Remember Ruben (1974)

Mongo Beti

Tamas (1974)

Bhisham Sahni

The Conservationist (1974)

Nadine Gordimer

The Forever War (1974)

Joe Haldeman

The Hearing Trumpet (1974)

Leonora Carrington

The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist (1974)

Emile Habibi

Winter in the Blood (1974)

James Welch

Carrie (1974)

Stephen King

American Buffalo (1975)

David Mamet

Ancient Tillage (1975)

Raduan Nassar

Death and the King's Horseman (1975)

Wole Soyinka

Dhalgren (1975)

Samuel R. Delany

Dunia Uwanja wa Fujo (1975)

Euphrase Kezilahabi

Fatelessness (1975)

Imre Kertesz

JR (1975)

William Gaddis

North (1975)

Seamus Heaney

Terra Nostra (1975)

Carlos Fuentes

The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Book of Sand (1975)

Jorge Luis Borges

The Cake Man (1975)

Robert J. Merritt

The Female Man (1975)

Joanna Russ

The Marriage of Anansewa (1975)

Efua Sutherland

The Periodic Table (1975)

Primo Levi

Tuck Everlasting (1975)

Natalie Babbitt

Woman at Point Zero (1975)

Nawal El Saadawi

The Year of the Hare (1975)

Arto Paasilinna

Agnisakshi (1976)

Lalithambika Antharjanam

Anhe Ghore Da Daan (1976)

Gurdial Singh

Beirut Nightmares (1976)

Ghada al-Samman

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf (1976)

Ntozake Shange

Going Down River Road (1976)

Meja Mwangi

Interview with the Vampire (1976)

Anne Rice

Kiss of the Spider Woman (1976)

Manuel Puig

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976)

Mildred D. Taylor

The Woman Warrior (1976)

Maxine Hong Kingston

Too Loud a Solitude (1976)

Bohumil Hrabal

Trouble on Triton (1976)

Samuel R. Delany

Wild Thorns (1976)

Sahar Khalifeh

Woman on the Edge of Time (1976)

Marge Piercy

Coming Through Slaughter (1976)

Michael Ondaatje

Song of Solomon (1977)

Toni Morrison

The Hour of the Star (1977)

Clarice Lispector

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977)

Mario Vargas Llosa

Basai Tudu (1977)

Mahasweta Devi

Bridge to Terabithia (1977)

Katherine Paterson

Ceremony (1977)

Leslie Marmon Silko

Gateway (1977)

Frederik Pohl

I Will Marry When I Want (1977)

Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Ngugi wa Mirii

Let Me Speak! (1977)

Domitila Barrios de Chungara and Moema Viezzer

Our Sister Killjoy (1977)

Ama Ata Aidoo

Petals of Blood (1977)

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Pouliuli (1977)

Albert Wendt

The Public Burning (1977)

Robert Coover

The Shining (1977)

Stephen King

The Silmarillion (1977)

J. R. R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien

The New Net Goes Fishing (1977)

Witi Ihimaera

A Contract with God (1978)

Will Eisner

A Cup of Rage (1978)

Raduan Nassar

Baluta (1978)

Daya Pawar

Bearheart (1978)

Gerald Vizenor

Broken April (1978)

Ismail Kadare

Buried Child (1978)

Sam Shepard

Draupadi (1978)

Mahasweta Devi

In Search of Walid Masoud (1978)

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

Kelidar (1978-1984)

Mahmoud Dowlatabadi

Life Among the Qallunaat (1978)

Mini Aodla Freeman

Mutuwhenua (1978)

Patricia Grace

Sitt Marie Rose (1978)

Etel Adnan

The Czar's Madman (1978)

Jaan Kross

The Dwarf (1978)

Cho Se-hui

The House of Hunger (1978)

Dambudzo Marechera

The Sea, The Sea (1978)

Iris Murdoch

The Stories of John Cheever (1978)

John Cheever

The Westing Game (1978)

Ellen Raskin

Kindred (1979)

Octavia E. Butler

A Bend in the River (1979)

V. S. Naipaul

Basti (1979)

Intizar Husain

Burger's Daughter (1979)

Nadine Gordimer

Cloud Nine (1979)

Caryl Churchill

If on a winter's night a traveler (1979)

Italo Calvino

Leaves of the Banyan Tree (1979)

Albert Wendt

Life and a Half (1979)

Sony Labou Tansi

Lust, Caution (1979)

Eileen Chang

Missing Soluch (1979)

Mahmoud Dowlatabadi

Parva (1979)

S. L. Bhyrappa

So Long a Letter (1979)

Mariama Ba

Suttree (1979)

Cormac McCarthy

Sweet and Sour Milk (1979)

Nuruddin Farah

The Beggars' Strike (1979)

Aminata Sow Fall

The Bloody Chamber (1979)

Angela Carter

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)

Milan Kundera

The Death of Jim Loney (1979)

James Welch

The Dragon Can't Dance (1979)

Earl Lovelace

The Joys of Motherhood (1979)

Buchi Emecheta

The Neverending Story (1979)

Michael Ende

The Taker and Other Stories (1979 English selection)

Rubem Fonseca

Zindaginama (1979)

Krishna Sobti

Field Work (1979)

Seamus Heaney

Black Sunlight (1980)

Dambudzo Marechera

China Men (1980)

Maxine Hong Kingston

Clear Light of Day (1980)

Anita Desai

Devil on the Cross (1980)

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Housekeeping (1980)

Marilynne Robinson

Lali: A Pacific Anthology (1980)

Pacific writing anthology tradition

Maus (1980-1991)

Art Spiegelman

Mayombe (1980)

Pepetela

The Book of the New Sun (1980-1983)

Gene Wolfe

The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years (1980)

Chingiz Aitmatov

The Floods (1980)

John Ruganda

The Name of the Rose (1980)

Umberto Eco

The Shadow of the Torturer (1980)

Gene Wolfe

The Story of Zahra (1980)

Hanan al-Shaykh

This Earth of Mankind (1980)

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Upara (1980)

Laxman Mane

Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)

J. M. Coetzee

Women of Algiers in Their Apartment (1980)

Assia Djebar

The Centaur in the Garden (1980)

Moacyr Scliar

Midnight's Children (1981)

Salman Rushdie

Alphabet (1981)

Inger Christensen

Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

From Sand Creek (1981)

Simon J. Ortiz

July's People (1981)

Nadine Gordimer

Love and Rockets (1981-present)

Gilbert Hernandez and Jaime Hernandez

Sardines (1981)

Nuruddin Farah

Scarlet Song (1981)

Mariama Ba

Sixty Stories (1981)

Donald Barthelme

The Committee (1981)

Sonallah Ibrahim

The Palace of Dreams (1981)

Ismail Kadare

The Shameful State (1981)

Sony Labou Tansi

The War of the End of the World (1981)

Mario Vargas Llosa

The Weaverbirds (1981)

Y. B. Mangunwijaya

Baltasar and Blimunda (1982)

Jose Saramago

Dictee (1982)

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Master Harold...and the boys (1982)

Athol Fugard

The Abandoned Baobab (1982)

Ken Bugul

The Assault (1982)

Harry Mulisch

The Color Purple (1982)

Alice Walker

The Dancer (1982)

Ahmad Tohari

The Dreamers (1982)

Jack Davis

The House of the Spirits (1982)

Isabel Allende

The Obscene Madam D (1982)

Hilda Hilst

The Wine of Astonishment (1982)

Earl Lovelace

The Women of Brewster Place (1982)

Gloria Naylor

Top Girls (1982)

Caryl Churchill

V for Vendetta (1982-1989)

Alan Moore and David Lloyd

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982)

Audre Lorde

The Call of the Arena (1982)

Aminata Sow Fall

Close Sesame (1983)

Nuruddin Farah

Crystal Boys (1983)

Pai Hsien-yung

Dear Shameless Death (1983)

Latife Tekin

Dekada '70 (1983)

Lualhati Bautista

Discworld: Selected Novels (1983-2015)

Terry Pratchett

E. Luminata (1983)

Diamela Eltit

In Search of April Raintree (1983)

Beatrice Culleton Mosionier

Life and Times of Michael K (1983)

J. M. Coetzee

Lumperica (1983)

Diamela Eltit

Oromay (1983)

Baalu Girma

Shame (1983)

Salman Rushdie

She Had Some Horses (1983)

Joy Harjo

Tales of the Tikongs (1983)

Epeli Hau'ofa

The Cave and the Shadows (1983)

Nick Joaquin

The Encyclopedia of the Dead (1983)

Danilo Kis

The Lizard's Tail (1983)

Luisa Valenzuela

The Sorrow of Belgium (1983)

Hugo Claus

The Woman in Black (1983)

Susan Hill

The Woman Who Owned the Shadows (1983)

Paula Gunn Allen

I, Rigoberta Menchu (1983)

Rigoberta Menchu; Elisabeth Burgos-Debray

Abeng (1984)

Michelle Cliff

Akkarmashi (1984)

Sharankumar Limbale

Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills (1984)

Latife Tekin

Cities of Salt (1984)

Abdul Rahman Munif

In Custody (1984)

Anita Desai

Love Medicine (1984)

Louise Erdrich

Mindblast (1984)

Dambudzo Marechera

Neuromancer (1984)

William Gibson

Nights at the Circus (1984)

Angela Carter

Randamoozham (1984)

M. T. Vasudevan Nair

Sanaaq (1984)

Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk

Segu (1984-1985)

Maryse Conde

Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (1984)

Samuel R. Delany

The Bone People (1984)

Keri Hulme

The Chess King (1984)

Ah Cheng

The House on Mango Street (1984)

Sandra Cisneros

The Lover (1984)

Marguerite Duras

The Republic of Dreams (1984)

Nelida Pinon

The Ship of Fools (1984)

Cristina Peri Rossi

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)

Milan Kundera

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984)

Jose Saramago

Yajnaseni (1984)

Pratibha Ray

Yaka (1984)

Pepetela

Dictionary of the Khazars (1984)

Milorad Pavic

Of Love and Shadows (1984)

Isabel Allende

Blood Meridian (1985)

Cormac McCarthy

Fences (1985)

August Wilson

Annie John (1985)

Jamaica Kincaid

Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade (1985)

Assia Djebar

Footsteps (1985)

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Half of Man Is Woman (1985)

Zhang Xianliang

Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

No Sugar (1985)

Jack Davis

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)

Jeanette Winterson

Satantango (1985)

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

The Handmaid's Tale (1985)

Margaret Atwood

The Sand Child (1985)

Tahar Ben Jelloun

The Seven Solitudes of Lorsa Lopez (1985)

Sony Labou Tansi

White Noise (1985)

Don DeLillo

The Final Passage (1985)

Caryl Phillips

The Old Gringo (1985)

Carlos Fuentes

An Artist of the Floating World (1986)

Kazuo Ishiguro

Collected Poems 1948-1984 (1986)

Derek Walcott

Foe (1986)

J. M. Coetzee

Fools Crow (1986)

James Welch

I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem (1986)

Maryse Conde

Maps (1986)

Nuruddin Farah

Matigari (1986)

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Potiki (1986)

Patricia Grace

Red Sorghum (1986)

Mo Yan

Search Sweet Country (1986)

B. Kojo Laing

See Under: Love (1986)

David Grossman

Summer Lightning (1986)

Olive Senior

The Dark Knight Returns (1986)

Frank Miller and Klaus Janson

The Golden Gate (1986)

Vikram Seth

The Little School (1986)

Alicia Partnoy

The Matriarch (1986)

Witi Ihimaera

The Rez Sisters (1986)

Tomson Highway

Thomas and Beulah (1986)

Rita Dove

Voices Made Night (1986)

Mia Couto

Watchmen (1986-1987)

Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

With My Dog-Eyes (1986)

Hilda Hilst

Beloved (1987)

Toni Morrison

A Woman's Story (1987)

Annie Ernaux

Anthills of the Savannah (1987)

Chinua Achebe

Borderlands / La Frontera (1987)

Gloria Anzaldua

Dawn (1987)

Octavia E. Butler

Eva Luna (1987)

Isabel Allende

In the Skin of a Lion (1987)

Michael Ondaatje

Kisses in the Nederends (1987)

Epeli Hau'ofa

Lilith's Brood (1987-1989)

Octavia E. Butler

My Place (1987)

Sally Morgan

No Telephone to Heaven (1987)

Michelle Cliff

Norwegian Wood (1987)

Haruki Murakami

Our Twisted Hero (1987)

Yi Mun-yol

The Black Dahlia (1987)

James Ellroy

The Door (1987)

Magda Szabo

The General Retires (1987)

Nguyen Huy Thiep

The Piano Lesson (1987)

August Wilson

The Sacred Night (1987)

Tahar Ben Jelloun

The Whale Rider (1987)

Witi Ihimaera

You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town (1987)

Zoe Wicomb

Griever: An American Monkey King in China (1987)

Gerald Vizenor

A Small Place (1988)

Jamaica Kincaid

Barungin (1988)

Jack Davis

Bones (1988)

Chenjerai Hove

Cat's Eye (1988)

Margaret Atwood

Cracking India (1988)

Bapsi Sidhwa

Don't Take Your Love to Town (1988)

Ruby Langford Ginibi

House of Glass (1988)

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Ice-Candy-Man (1988)

Bapsi Sidhwa

Kitchen (1988)

Banana Yoshimoto

Kusumabale (1988)

Devanur Mahadeva

Libra (1988)

Don DeLillo

Nervous Conditions (1988)

Tsitsi Dangarembga

Obabakoak (1988)

Bernardo Atxaga

Paradise of the Blind (1988)

Duong Thu Huong

Solibo Magnificent (1988)

Patrick Chamoiseau

The Satanic Verses (1988)

Salman Rushdie

The Shadow Lines (1988)

Amitav Ghosh

The Sun, My Father (1988)

Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa

Tracks (1988)

Louise Erdrich

Where I'm Calling From (1988)

Raymond Carver

The Fantasy Eaters (1988)

Subramani

Woman of the Aeroplanes (1988)

B. Kojo Laing

Crossing the Mangrove (1989)

Maryse Conde

Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing (1989)

Tomson Highway

From Hell (1989-1998)

Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell

Hyperion (1989)

Dan Simmons

Medicine River (1989)

Thomas King

Nostalgia (1989)

Mircea Cartarescu

Sweet Days of Discipline (1989)

Fleur Jaeggy

The Bird Has Awakened in My Heart (1989)

Leonel Lienlaf

The Grip of Change (1989)

P. Sivakami

The Joy Luck Club (1989)

Amy Tan

The Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva Araujo (1989)

Germano Almeida

The Melancholy of Resistance (1989)

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

The Remains of the Day (1989)

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Sandman (1989-1996)

Neil Gaiman and collaborators

The Tale of a Certain Orient (1989)

Milton Hatoum

Touba and the Meaning of Night (1989)

Shahrnush Parsipur

Women of Sand and Myrrh (1989)

Hanan al-Shaykh

Women Without Men (1989)

Shahrnush Parsipur

Ghost in the Shell (1989-1990)

Masamune Shirow

The General in His Labyrinth (1989)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Tripmaster Monkey (1989)

Maxine Hong Kingston

Omeros (1990)

Derek Walcott

And They Didn't Die (1990)

Lauretta Ngcobo

Balada de Amor ao Vento (1990)

Paulina Chiziane

Devil in a Blue Dress (1990)

Walter Mosley

Dogeaters (1990)

Jessica Hagedorn

Lucy (1990)

Jamaica Kincaid

Mean Spirit (1990)

Linda Hogan

Monnew (1990)

Ahmadou Kourouma

Mr. Mani (1990)

A. B. Yehoshua

Nagona (1990)

Euphrase Kezilahabi

Once Were Warriors (1990)

Alan Duff

Possession (1990)

A. S. Byatt

Soul Mountain (1990)

Gao Xingjian

Tehanu (1990)

Ursula K. Le Guin

The Black Book (1990)

Orhan Pamuk

The Buddha of Suburbia (1990)

Hanif Kureishi

The Sorrow of War (1990)

Bao Ninh

The Stone of Laughter (1990)

Hoda Barakat

Toronto at Dreamer's Rock (1990)

Drew Hayden Taylor

Immortality (1990)

Milan Kundera

The Indian Lawyer (1990)

James Welch

Angels in America (1991-1992)

Tony Kushner

Almanac of the Dead (1991)

Leslie Marmon Silko

Bone (1991-2004)

Jeff Smith

Butterfly Valley (1991)

Inger Christensen

Changes (1991)

Ama Ata Aidoo

Mzingile (1991)

Euphrase Kezilahabi

Novel Without a Name (1991)

Duong Thu Huong

Ola (1991)

Albert Wendt

Regeneration (1991)

Pat Barker

Such a Long Journey (1991)

Rohinton Mistry

The Famished Road (1991)

Ben Okri

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991)

Jose Saramago

The Heirs of Columbus (1991)

Gerald Vizenor

The Poet (1991)

Yi Mun-yol

Caprice: A Stockman's Daughter (1991)

Doris Pilkington Garimara

Rivers of Babylon (1991)

Peter Pist'anek

Simple Passion (1991)

Annie Ernaux

The Cipher (1991)

Kathe Koja

Sleepwalking Land (1992)

Mia Couto

A Heart So White (1992)

Javier Marias

Black Rainbow (1992)

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Green Grass, Running Water (1993)

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Palestine (1993-1995)

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Octavia E. Butler

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Lee Maracle

Stone Butch Blues (1993)

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Lois Lowry

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Sherman Alexie

To Live (1993)

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Memory in the Flesh (1993)

Ahlam Mosteghanemi

Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994)

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Blasted (1995)

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Yu Hua

His Dark Materials (1995-2000)

Philip Pullman

Krik? Krak! (1995)

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Blinding (1996-2007)

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Roberto Bolano

Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex (1996)

Oksana Zabuzhko

Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996)

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Richard Van Camp

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Mary Doria Russell

Under the Frangipani (1996)

Mia Couto

Where We Once Belonged (1996)

Sia Figiel

Admiring Silence (1996)

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Primeval and Other Times (1996)

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All the Names (1997)

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City of God (1997)

Paulo Lins

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Land to Light On (1997)

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Last Evenings on Earth (1997)

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Plains of Promise (1997)

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Baby No-Eyes (1998)

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Gate of the Sun (1998)

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The Tiller of Waters (1998)

Hoda Barakat

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Ahmadou Kourouma

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Matamua (1998)

Sia Figiel

The Antelope Wife (1998)

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Yo-Yo Boing! (1998)

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A Gesture Life (1999)

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At the Full and Change of the Moon (1999)

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Fasting, Feasting (1999)

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Natural Novel (1999)

Georgi Gospodinov

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Ken Bugul

Speak (1999)

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Star Waka (1999)

Robert Sullivan

The Last Summer of Reason (1999)

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The Translator (1999)

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They Who Do Not Grieve (1999)

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A Mayan Testament (1999)

Gaspar Pedro Gonzalez

Allah Is Not Obliged (2000)

Ahmadou Kourouma

Anil's Ghost (2000)

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By Night in Chile (2000)

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Celestial Harmonies (2000)

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First They Killed My Father (2000)

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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (2000)

Chris Ware

Kitne Pakistan (2000)

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Monkey Beach (2000)

Eden Robinson

Morning and Evening (2000)

Jon Fosse

Moth Smoke (2000)

Mohsin Hamid

Murambi, the Book of Bones (2000)

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Persepolis (2000-2003)

Marjane Satrapi

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