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c.1200–100 BCE
The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament)
Various
Israel
Prose, poetry
c.600 BCE–200 CE
Ramayana
Valmiki
India
Poetry
c.610–580 BCE
Sappho's Poems
Sappho
Greece
Poetry
c.600–500 BCE
Fables
Aesop
Greece
Stories
c.500–440 BCE
Epinician Odes
Pindar
Greece
Poetry
458 BCE
The Oresteia
Aeschylus
Greece
Plays
c.450–425 BCE
Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus
Greece
Play
442–441 BCE
Antigone
Sophocles
Greece
Play
431 BCE
Medea
Euripides
Greece
Play
430 BCE
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles
Greece
Play
428 BCE
Hippolytus
Euripides
Greece
Play
423 BCE
The Clouds
Aristophanes
Greece
Play
c.420–410 BCE
Electra
Sophocles
Greece
Play
418 BCE
Electra
Euripides
Greece
Play
414 BCE
The Birds
Aristophanes
Greece
Play
411 BCE
Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Greece
Play
406 BCE
The Bacchae
Euripides
Greece
Play
Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles
Greece
Play
c.400 BCE–400CE
Mahabharata
Anonymous
India
Poetry
c.270 BCE
Idylls
Theocritus
Greece
Poetry
c.250 BCE
Argonautica
Appollonius of Rhodes
Greece
Epic poetry
c.200 BCE
Menaechmi (The Twin Brothers)
Plautus
Rome
Play
c.50 BCE
On the Nature of Things
Lucretius
Rome
Poetry
c.41–37 BCE
Eclogues
Virgil
Rome
Poetry
c.35–30 BCE
Satires
Horace
Rome
Poetry
c.29–16 BCE
Elegies
Sextus Propertius
Rome
Poetry
c.29–19 BCE
Aeneid
Virgil
Rome
Poetry
19 BCE
Odes
Horace
Rome
Poetry
c.50 CE
Media
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Rome
Play
Hercules Furens
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Rome
Play
c.60-70 CE
Satyricon
Arbiter Petronius
Rome
Prose, poetry
c.65–100 CE
The New Testament
Various
Israel
Prose, poetry
c.100 CE
Parallel Lives
Plutarch
Greece
Biography
c.100–127 CE
Satires
Juvenal
Rome
Poetry series
c.150 CE
The Golden Ass
Lucius Apuleius
Rome
Prose
c.300 CE
The Vision of Vasavadatta
Bhāsa
India
Play
c.400 CE
The Recognition of Sakuntala
Kalidasa
India
Play
c.759
Anthology of a Myriad Leaves
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro et al
Japan
Poetry
c.800–1200
Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor
Anonymous
Persia
Stories
c.800–1400
One Thousand and One Nights
Anonymous
Persia
Stories
c.1000
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon
Sei Shonagon
Japan
Diary
c.1000–1300
The Poetic Edda
Anonymous
Iceland
Poetry
c.1010
The Book of Kings
Abolgasem
Persia
Stories
c.1100
Rubaiyat
Omar Khayyám
Persia
Poetry
Song of Roland
Anonymous
France
Poetry
c.1100–1250
Volsungsaga
Anonymous
Iceland
Poetry
c.1140
The Poem of the Cid
Anonymous
Spain
Poetry
c.1145
King Rother
Anonymous
Germany
Poetry
c.1177–1181
Launcelot
Chrétien de Troyes
France
Poetry
c.1180
Lais
Marie de France
France
Poetry
1181–1190
Perceval
Chrétien de Troyes
France
Poetry
c.1190
The Conference of the Birds
Farid od-Din Attar
Persia
Poetry
c.1200
The Nibelungenlied
Anonymous
Germany
Poetry
The Prose Edda
Snorri Sturlson
Iceland
Prose
c.1200–1210
Parzival
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Germany
Poetry
1210
Tristan und Isolde
Gottfied von Strassburg
Germany
Poetry
c.1220
The Tale of the Heike
Anonymous
Japan
Prose
1230–1275
Romance of the Rose
Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meun
France
Poetry
c.1250
The Saga of Burnt Njal
Anonymous
Iceland
Poetry
1258–1273
Masnavi
Rumi
Persia
Poetry
c.1270
The Garden of Roses
Musharrif od-Din Sadi
Persia
Poetry
1294
The New Life
Alighieri Dante
Italy
Poetry, prose
1307
The Divine Comedy
Alighieri Dante
Italy
Poetry
1327–1368
Il Canzoniere / Le Rime Sparse
Francesco Petrarch
Italy
Poetry
1348
Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio
Italy
Stories
c.1350
Diwan
Mohammad Shams od-Din Hafiz
Persia
Poetry
1352
The Triumphs
Giovanni Boccaccio
Italy
Poetry
c.1360–1400
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Luo Guanzhong
China
Novel
c.1360–1589
Water Margin
Shi Nai'an, Luo Guanzhong
China
Novel
1362
The Vision of Piers the Ploughman
William Langland
England
Poetry
c.1380
Pearl
Anonymous
England
Poetry
c.1382–1386
Troilus and Cressida
Geoffrey Chaucer
England
Poetry
1387
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Anonymous
England
Poetry
c.1387–1400
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
England
Poetry, prose
c.1400
Atsumori
Zeami Motokiyo
Japan
Play
c.1405
The Book of the City of Ladies
Christine de Pizan
Italy
Prose narrative
1461
The Great Testament
François Villon
France
Poetry
1485
Everyman
Anonymous
England
Drama
Le Morte Darthur
Thomas Malory
England
Poetry
1486
Orlando Innamorato
Matteo Maria Boiardo
Italy
Poetry
1492
Prison of Love
Diego de San Pedro
Spain
Novel
1494
Narrenschiff
Sebastian Brant
Germany
Poetry
1499
La Celestina
Fernando de Rojas
Spain
Novel
1509
The Ship of Fools
Alexander Barclay
England
Poetry
1516
Orlando Furioso
Ludovico Ariosto
Italy
Poetry
Utopia
Thomas More
England
Novel
1517
The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng
John Skelton
England
Poetry
1528
The Book of the Courtier
Baldasarre Castiglione
Italy
Dialogue
1532–1564
The Life of Gargantua and Pantagruel
Francois Rabelais
France
Novels
1558
The Heptaméron
Marguerite de Navarre
France
Stories
1572
The Lusiads
Luis de Camoëns
Portugal
Poetry
1575
Jerusalem Delivered
Torquato Tasso
Italy
Poetry
1580–1581
Arcadia
Philip Sidney
England
Prose narrrative
1586
The Spanish Tragedy
Thomas Kyd
England
Play
1587
Tamburlaine the Great
Christopher Marlowe
England
Play
Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
England
Play
1589
The Faerie Queen
Edmund Spenser
England
Poetry
c.1590
The Golden Lotus
Anonymous
China
Novel
c.1590–1599
Satires
John Donne
England
Poetry
Elegies
John Donne
England
Poetry
1591
Richard III
William Shakespeare
England
Play
Astrophel and Stella
Philip Sidney
England
Poetry
1598
The Peony Pavilion
Tang Xianzu
China
Play
1599
The Passionate Shepherd
to His Love
Christopher Marlowe
England
Poem
1603
A Woman Killed with Kindness
Thomas Heywood
England
Play
1604–1605
The Honest Whore
Thomas Dekker
England
Play
1606
Volpone
Ben Jonson
England
Play
1610
The Alchemist
Ben Jonson
England
Play
1613
The Duchess of Malfi
John Webster
England
Play
1622
The Changeling
Thomas Middleton, William Rowley
England
Play
The Temple
George Herbert
England
Poetry
1635
Life Is a Dream
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Spain
Play
1637
Le Cid
Pierre Corneille
France
Play
1643
The Mayor of Zalamea
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Spain
Play
1648
Hesperides
Robert Herrick
England
Poetry
1667
Paradise Lost
John Milton
England
Poetry
Andromaque
Jean Racine
France
Play
1668–1694
Fables
Jean de La Fontaine
France
Poetry
1671
Samson Agonistes
John Milton
England
Poetry
1675
The Country Wife
William Wycherley
England
Play
1676
The Plain Dealer
William Wycherley
England
Play
1677
All for Love
John Dryden
England
Play
Phèdre
Jean Racine
France
Play
1678
The Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan
England
Poetry
La Princesse de Clèves
Madame de La Fayette
France
Novel
1681
To His Coy Mistress
Andrew Marvell
England
Poem
Absalom and Achitophel
John Dryden
England
Poetry
1682
The Life of an Amorous Man
Ihara Saikaku
Japan
Novel
1692
Dream
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Mexico
Poem
1699
The Adventures of Telemachus
François de Salignac de
la Mothe Fénelon
France
Novel
1700
The Way of the World
William Congreve
England
Play
1722
Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe
England
Novel
1726
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
England
Novel
1728
The Beggar's Opera
John Gay
England
Play
1731
Manon Lescaut
Antoine François Prévost
France
Novel
1731–1741
The Life of Marianne
Pierre Marivaux
France
Novel
1740
Pamela
Samuel Richardson
England
Novel
1742
Joseph Andrews
Henry Fielding
England
Novel
1748
Clarissa
Samuel Richardson
England
Novel
1749
Tom Jones
Henry Fielding
England
Novel
Elegy Written in a Churchyard
Thomas Gray
England
Poem
1751
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
Tobias Smollett
England
Novel
1753
The Mistress of the Inn
Carlo Goldoni
Italy
Play
1759
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
Samuel Johnson
France
Novel
Candide
François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
England
Novella
1764
The Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole
England
Novel
1771
Humphrey Clinker
Tobias Smollett
England
Novel
1775
The Rivals
Richard Sheridan
England
Play
The Barber of Seville
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
France
Play
1777
The School for Scandal
Richard Sheridan
England
Play
1778
Evelina
Fanny Burney
England
Novel
1779
Nathan the Wise
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Germany
Play
1782
Dangerous Liaisons
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
France
Novel
1784
The Marriage of Figaro
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
France
Play
1785
The Task
William
Cowper
Play
1788
Emmeline
Charlotte Turner Smith
England
Novel
1789–1794
Songs of Innocence and Experience
William Blake
England
Poetry
1791–1792
Dream of the Red Chamber
Cao Zhan
China
Novel
Life of Samuel Johnson
James Boswell
England
Biography
1794
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Radcliff
England
Novel
1795
Ode to Joy
Friedrich Schiller
Germany
Poem
1795–1796
William Meister's Apprenticeship
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Germany
Novel
1796
The Monk
Matthew Lewis
England
Novel
Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
Denis Diderot
France
Novel
1797
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
England
Poem
1797–1799
Hyperion
Friedrich Hölderlin
Germany
Novel
1797–1806
Hymns and Fragments
Friedrich Hölderlin
Germany
Poetry
1798
Speed the Plough
Thomas Morton
England
Play
Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge
England
Poetry
Wieland
Charles Brockden Brown
USA
Novel
1799
Ormond
Charles Brockden Brown
USA
Novel
1800
Castle Rackrent
Maria Edgeworth
Ireland
Novel
1802
Delphine
Madame de Stael
France
Novel
1804
William Tell
Friedrich Schiller
Germany
Play
1805
René
François René
de Chateaubriand
France
Novel
1807
Poems
William Wordsworth
England
Poetry
1808–1832
Faust
Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe
Germany
Play
1810
The Lady of the Lake
Walter Scott
Scotland
Poetry
Michael Kohlhaas
Heinrich von Kleist
Germany
Novella
1812
Poems
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Germany
Poetry
Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss
Switzer.
Novel
Waverly
Walter Scott
Scotland
Novel
1815–1816
The Devil's Elixir
E.T.A. Hoffmann
Germany
Novel
1816
Kubla Khan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
England
Poem
1818
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
George Gordon Byron
England
Poetry
Endymion
John Keats
England
Poetry
Nightmare Abbey
Thomas Love Peacock
England
Novel
Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley
England
Poem
1819
Ivanhoe
Walter Scott
Scotland
Novel
1819–1824
Don Juan
George Gordon
Byron
England
Poetry
1820
Odes
John Keats
England
Poetry
Prometheus Unbound
Percy Byssche Shelley
England
Poetry
Melmoth the Wanderer
Charles Maturin
Ireland
Novel
1821
The Prince of Homburg
Heinrich von Kleist
Germany
Play
Poems
William Cullen Bryant
USA
Poetry
1825
Boris Godunov
Alexander Pushkin
Russia
Poetry
Eugene Onegin
Alexander Pushkin
Russia
Poetry
The Talisman
Walter Scott
Scotland
Novel
1825–1842
The Betrothed
Alessandro Manzoni
Italy
Novel
1826
The Last of the Mohicans
James Fennimore Cooper
USA
Novel
1827
Book of Songs
Heinrich Heine
Germany
Poetry
1831
Queen Margot
Alexandre Dumas
France
Play
The Red and the Black
Stendhal
France
Novel
1831–1835
Canti
Giacomo Leopardi
Italy
Poetry
1833
Eugénie Grandet
Honoré de Balzac
France
Novel
Lélia
George Sand
France
Novel
1834
Old Goriot
Honoré de Balzac
France
Novel
1835
Young Goodman Brown
Nathaniel Hawthorne
USA
Story
1836
The Government Inspector
Nikolai Gogol
Ukraine
Play
1837
Twice-Told Tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne
USA
Stories
1839
The Charterhouse of Parma
Stendhal
France
Novel
1840
A Hero of Our Time
Mikhail Lermontov
Russia
Novel
The Deerslayer
James Fennimore Cooper
USA
Novel
1842
My Last Duchess
Robert Browning
England
Poem
The Nursery Rhymes of England
James Orchard Halliwell
England
Poetry
The Demon
Mikhail Lermontov
Russia
Poem
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol
Ukraine
Novel
The Demon
Mikhail Lermontov
Russia
Poem
1843–1847
A Harlot High and Low
Honoré de Balzac
France
Novel
1844
Poems
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
England
Poetry
The Luck of Barry Lyndon
William Makepeace
Thackeray
England
Novel
The Count of
Monte-Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
France
Novel
1845
The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas
France
Novel
Carmen
Prosper Mérimée
France
Novella
1846
Cousin Bette
Honoré de Balzac
France
Novel
The Devil's Pool
George Sand
France
Novel
The Man in
the Iron Mask
Alexandre Dumas
France
Novel
1846–1863
The Book of Nonsense
Edward Lear
England
Novel
Evangeline
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
USA
Poetry
1848
Mary Barton
Elizabeth Gaskell
England
Novel
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace
Thackeray
England
Novel
1850
Poems
Elizabeth Barrett
Browning
England
Poetry
In Memoriam
Alfred Lord Tennyson
England
Poetry
The Prelude
William Woodsworth
England
Poetry
The Black Tulip
Alexandre Dumas
France
Novel
The Scarlet
Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
USA
Novel
1851
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
USA
Novel
The House of Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
USA
Novel
1852
Camille
Alexandre Dumas (fils)
France
Play
Enamels and Cameos
Théophile Gautier
France
Poetry
A Sportsman's
Sketches
Ivan Turgenev
Russia
Stories
Uncle Tom's
Cabin
Harriet Beecher
Stowe
USA
Novel
1853
Les Chatiments
Victor-Marie
Hugo
France
Poetry
Bartleby the Scrivener
Herman Melville
USA
Story
1855
Men and Women
Robert Browning
England
Poetry
North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell
England
Novel
The Warden
Anthony Trollope
England
Novel
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
USA
Poetry
The Flowers
of Evil
Charles Baudelaire
France
Poetry
Barchester
Towers
Anthony Trollope
England
Novel
Idylls of the
King
Alfred Lord
Tennyson
England
Poetry
The Virginians
William Makepeace
Thackeray
England
Novel
Oblomov
Ivan Alexandrovich
Goncharov
Russia
Novel
1860
The Storm
Alexander Ostrovsky
Russia
Play
1862
Goblin Market
and Other Poems
Christina Rossetti
England
Poetry
Les Misérables
Victor-Marie
Hugo
France
Novel
Fathers and
Sons
Ivan Turgenev
Russia
Novel
1864
A Journey to
the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne
France
Novel
1865
Alice's Adventures
in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
England
Novel
1865–1869
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
Russia
Novel
1866
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevski
Russia
Novel
Poems and Ballads
Algernon Swinburne
England
Poetry
1867
Peer Gynt
Henrik Ibsen
Norway
Play
1868–1869
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
USA
Novel
1869
Lorna Doone
Richard Blackmore
England
Novel
Phineas Finn
Anthony Trollope
England
Novel
A Sentimental
Education
Gustave Flaubert
France
Novel
Collected Poems
Matthew Arnold
England
Poetry
1870
Twenty Thousand
Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
France
Novel
1870–1881
The House of
Life
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
England
Poetry
1871
Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll
England
Novel
1872
Fairy Tales and Stories
Hans Christian Andersen
Denmark
Stories
The Possessed
Fyodor Dostoyevski
Russia
Novel
1873
Around the
World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
France
Novel
A Season in
Hell
Arthur Rimbaud
France
Poetry
1874
L'Après-midi
d'un faune
Stéphane Mallarmé
France
Poetry
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevski
Russia
Novel
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Russia
Novel
1875
The Way We Live Now
Anthony Trollope
England
Novel
1879
The Egoist
George Meredith
England
Novel
Jacques Vingtras
Jules Valles
France
Novel
A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen
Norway
Play
The Red Room
August Strindberg
Sweden
Novel
1880
Nana
Émile Zola
France
Novel
The Brothers
Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevski
Russia
Novel
Ben-Hur
Lew Wallace
USA
Novel
1881
Sagesse
Paul Verlaine
France
Poetry
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James
USA
Novel
1882
Ismaelillo
José Marti
Cuba
Poetry
1884
Cavalleria
Rusticana
Giovanni Verga
Italy
Novel
1985
King Solomon's Mines
H. Rider Haggard
England
Novel
Bel Ami
Guy de Maupassant
France
Novel
Germinal
Émile Zola
France
Novel
The Death of
Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy
Russia
Novella
1887
Poésies
Stéphane Mallarmé
France
Poetry
At Dusk
Anton Chekhov
Russia
Stories
The Father
August Strindberg
Sweden
Play
1888
The Man Who Would Be King
Rudyard Kipling
England
Novel
1889
Three Men in a Boat
Jerome K. Jerome
England
Novel
Miss Julie
August Strindberg
Sweden
Play
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain
USA
Novel
1890
Poems
Emily Dickinson
USA
Poetry
News from Nowhere
William Morris
England
Novel
Hedda Gabler
Henrik Ibsen
Norway
Play
1892
Pelleas and
Melisande
Maurice Maeterlinck
Belgium
Play
The Diary of a Nobody
George and Weedon
Grossmith
England
Novel
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
USA
Story
1893
The Master Builder
Henrik Ibsen
Norway
Play
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray
Arthur Wing
Pinero
England
Play
1894
Arms and the
Man
George Bernard
Shaw
Ireland
Play
Esther Waters
George Moore
Ireland
Novel
The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling
England
Stories
Tevye Stories
Sholom Aleichem
Ukraine
Stories
1895
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
Ireland
Play
The Time Machine
H.G. Wells
England
Novel
Effi Briest
Theodor Fontane
Germany
Novel
Lilith
George MacDonald
Scotland
Novel
1895–1899
Poems
W.B. Yeats
Ireland
Poetry
1896
The Sea Gull
Anton Chekhov
Russia
Play
The Bostonians
Henry James
England
Novel
A Shropshire Lad
Alfred E. Housman
England
Poetry
The Island of Doctor Moreau
H.G. Wells
England
Novel
The War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells
England
Novel
Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand
France
Play
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
USA
Novella
1899
Hunger
Knut Hamsun
Norway
Novel
Ward Number Six
Anton Chekhov
Russia
Story
The Awakening
Kate Chopin
USA
Novel
Uncle Vanya
Anton Chekhov
Russia
Play
Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser
USA
Novel
Monsieur Beaucaire
Booth Tarkington
USA
Novel
1901
The Broken Nest
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengal
Novella
The Three Sisters
Anton Chekhov
Russia
Play
Resurrection
Leo Tolstoy
Russia
Novel
The Wings of the Dove
Henry James
USA
Novel
1903
The Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekhov
Russia
Play
Man and Superman
George Bernard Shaw
Ireland
Play
The Riddle of the Sands
Erskine Childers
England
Novel
The Ambassadors
Henry James
USA
Novel
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
USA
Novella
1904
Riders to the Sea
John Millington Synge
Ireland
Play
The Golden Bowl
Henry James
USA
Novel
The Sea Wolfe
Jack London
USA
Novel
Cabbages and Kings
O. Henry
USA
Stories
1905
Songs of Life and Hope
Rubén Darío
Nicaragua
Poetry
Major Barbara
George Bernard Shaw
Ireland
Play
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton
USA
Novel
1906
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
USA
Novel
1907
Songs of a Sourdough
Robert Service
Canada
Poetry
Mother
Maxim Gorky
Russia
Novel
The Playboy of the Western World
John Millington Synge
Ireland
Play
1908
The Old Wives' Tale
Arnold Bennett
England
Novel
A Room With a View
E.M. Forster
England
Novel
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
England
Novel
Tono Bungay
H.G. Wells
England
Novel
1909
Penguin Island
Anatole France
France
Novel
1910
Howards End
E.M. Forster
England
Novel
Jean-Christophe
Romain Rolland
France
Novel
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
USA
Novella
1912
Gitanjali: Song Offerings
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengal
Poetry
The Gods are Athirst
Anatole France
France
Novel
Zuleika Dobson
Max Beerbohm
England
Novel
Poetical Works
Robert Bridges
England
Poetry
Riders of the Purple Sage
Zane Grey
USA
Novel
1913
Le Grand Meaulnes
Alain-Fournier
France
Novel
My Childhood
Maxim Gorky
Russia
Memoir
Sons and Lovers
D.H. Lawrence
England
Novel
1913–1927
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust
France
Novel
1914
Platero and I
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Spain
Poetry
Tarzan of the Apes
Edgar Rice Burroughs
USA
Novel
1914–1917
Golpoguchchho (Bunch of Stories)
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengal
Stories
The Good Soldier
Ford Maddox Ford
England
Novel
The Rainbow
D.H. Lawrence
England
Novel
Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham
England
Novel
Spoon River Anthology
Edgar Lee Masters
USA
Poetry
The Underdogs
Mariano Azuela
Mexico
Novel
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
Czech.
Novella
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
Ireland
Play
Chicago Poems
Carl Sandburg
USA
Poetry
1917
La Jeune Parque
Paul Valéry
France
Poetry
A Cloud in Trousers
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Russia
Poetry
1918
The Breasts of Tiresias
Guillaume Apollinaire
France
Play
The Twelve
Alexander Blok
Russia
Poetry
Poems
Gerard Manley Hopkins
England
Poetry
The Moon and Sixpence
W. Somerset Maugham
England
Novel
Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson
USA
Novel
1920
Poems
Wilfred Owen
England
Poetry
Main Street
Sinclair Lewis
USA
Novel
A Few Figs from Thistles
Edna St. Vincent Millay
USA
Poetry
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
USA
Novel
1920–1923
The Good Soldier Schweik
Jaroslav Hasek
Czech.
Novel
1921
Six Characters in Search
of an Author
Luigi Pirandello
Italy
Play
Women in Love
D.H. Lawrence
England
Novel
Poems
Marianne Moore
USA
Poetry
1922
The Kiss of the Leper
Francois Mauriac
France
Novel
The Worm Ouroboros
E.R. Eddison
England
Novel
Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis
USA
Novel
The Facade
Edith Sitwell
USA
Novel
1923
Duino Elegies
Rainer Maria Rilke
Germany
Poetry
The Confessions of Zeno
Italo Svevo
Italy
Novel
Chapayev
Dmitry Furmanov
Russia
Novel
Saint Joan
George Bernard Shaw
Ireland
Play
New Hampshire
Robert Frost
USA
Poetry
Tulips and Chimneys
e.e. cummings
USA
Poetry
Harmonium
Wallace Stevens
USA
Poetry
1924
Juno and the Paycock
Sean O'Casey
Ireland
Play
A Passage to India
E.M. Forster
England
Novel
The Most Dangerous Game
Richard Connell
USA
Story
So Big
Edna Ferber
USA
Novel
Billy Budd, Foretopman
Herman Melville
USA
Novel
1925
The Trial
Franz Kafka
Czech.
Novel
Residence on Earth and
Other Poems
Pablo Neruda
Chile
Poetry
Parade's End
Ford Maddox Ford
England
Novel
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser
USA
Novel
1925–1970
The Cantos
Ezra Pound
USA
Poetry
1926
The Castle
Franz Kafka
Czech.
Novel
Orpheus
Jean Cocteau
France
Play
The Counterfeiters
André Gide
France
Novel
The Plough and the Stars
Sean O'Casey
Ireland
Play
Winnie-the-Pooh
A.A. Milne
England
Stories
1927
Jalna
Mazo de la Roche
Canada
Novel
Steppenwolf
Herman Hesse
Germany
Novel
Elmer Gantry
Sinclair Lewis
USA
Novel
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
USA
Novella
1928
The Three-Penny Opera
Bertolt Brecht
Germany
Play
Nadja
André Breton
France
Novel
And Quiet Flows the Don
Mikhail Sholokov
Russia
Novel
Lady Chatterley's Lover
D.H. Lawrence
England
Novel
The Tower
W.B. Yeats
Ireland
Poetry
1928–1935
Gypsy Ballads
Federico Garcia Lorca
Spain
Poetry
1929
A High Wind in Jamaica
Richard Hughes
England
Novel
Children of the Game
Jean Cocteau
France
Novel
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Alfred Döblin
Germany
Novel
The Time of Indifference
Alberto Moravia
Italy
Novel
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
USA
Novel
Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas Wolfe
USA
Novel
1929–1943
Peter the Great
Alexy Tolstoy
Russia
Novel
1930
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
USA
Novel
The Bridge
Hart Crane
USA
Poetry
1930–1936
The U.S.A. Trilogy
John Dos Passos
USA
Novels
1930–1943
The Man Without Qualities
Robert Musil
Austria
Novel
1931
The Family
Pa Chin
China
Novel
Night Flight
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
France
Novel
These 13
William Faulkner
USA
Story
At the Mountains of Madness
H.P. Lovecraft
USA
Novel
Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
France
Novel
Viper's Tangle
Francois Mauriac
France
Novel
The Crime of Inspector Maigret
Georges Simenon
Belgium
Novel
Tobacco Road
Erskine Caldwell
USA
Novel
Light in August
William Faulkner
USA
Novel
Guys and Dolls
Damon Runyan
USA
Stories
1932–1935
The Studs Lonigan Trilogy
James T. Farrell
USA
Novels
1933
Blood Wedding
Federico Garcia Lorca
Spain
Play
Man's Fate
André Malraux
France
Novel
The Autobiography of Alice
B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein
USA
Novel
Miss Lonelyhearts
Nathaniel West
USA
Novella
The Nine Tailors
Dorothy L. Sayers
England
Novel
A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh
England
Novel
Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
USA
Novel
1934–1935
Independent People
Halldór Laxness
Iceland
Novel
1935
Auto-da-Fé
Elias Canetti
Austria
Novel
The Treasure of the Sierra
Madre
B. Traven
Mexico
Novel
Call It Sleep
Henry Roth
USA
Novel
Awake and Sing!
Clifford Odets
USA
Play
1936
Rickshaw Boy
Lao She
China
Novel
Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner
USA
Novel
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
USA
Novel
1937
Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen
Denmark
Memoir
The Hobbitt
J.R.R. Tolkien
England
Novel
Bread and Wine
Ignazio Silone
Italy
Novel
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
USA
Novel
1938
Falling of Trees
Gabriela Mistral
Chile
Poetry
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
England
Novel
Brighton Rock
Graham Greene
England
Novel
Scoop
Evelyn Waugh
England
Novel
Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre
France
Novel
The Death of the Heart
Elizabeth Bowen
Ireland
Novel
Human Poems
Cesar Vallejo
Peru
Poetry
The Fathers
Allen Tate
USA
Novel
Our Town
Thornton Wilder
USA
Play
1939
Mother Courage and Her Children
Bertolt Brecht
Germany
Play
At Swim-Two-Birds
Flann O'Brien
Ireland
Novel
The Day of the Locust
Nathaniel West
USA
Novel
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Katherine Anne Porter
USA
Stories
1940
The Don Flows Home to the
Sea
Mikhail Sholokov
Russia
Novel
The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene
England
Novel
Another Time
W.H. Auden
England
Poetry
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
USA
Novel
Native Son
Richard Wright
USA
Novel
1941
Blithe Spirit
Noel Coward
England
Play
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
James Thurber
USA
Story
A Curtain of Green
Eudora Welty
USA
Stories
The Outsider
Albert Camus
Algeria
Novel
1941–1956
Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentina
Stories
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
USA
Novel
1944
Antigone
Jean Anouilh
France
Play
Our Lady of the Flowers
Jean Genet
France
Novel
No Exit
Jean-Paul Sartre
France
Play
The Horse's Mouth
Joyce Cary
England
Novel
1945
The Tin Flute
Gabrielle Roy
Canada
Novel
Loving
Henry Green
England
Novel
The Madwoman of Chaillot
Jean Giraudoux
France
Play
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Bertolt Brecht
Germany
Play
The Glass Bead Game
Herman Hesse
Germany
Novel
The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams
USA
Play
Black Boy
Richard Wright
USA
Novel
1945–1949
The Roads to Freedom
Jean-Paul Sartre
France
Novels
1946
Zorba the Greek
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greece
Novel
Mr. President
Miguel Angel Asturias
Guatemala
Novel
Lord Weary's Castle
Robert Lowell
USA
Poetry
The Iceman Cometh
Eugene O'Neill
USA
Play
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren
USA
Novel
Fern Hill
Dylan Thomas
Wales
Poem
Bridge on the Drina
Ivo Andric
Yugoslavia
Novel
1946–1958
Paterson
William Carlos Williams
USA
Poetry
1946–1959
Gormenghast
Mervyn Peake
England
Novels
1947
The Age of Anxiety
W.H. Auden
England
Poetry
Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry
England
Novel
Eustace and Hilda
L.P. Hartley
England
Novel
The Maids
Jean Genet
France
Play
Snow Country
Yasunari Kawabata
Japan
Novel
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
USA
Play
1948
Ring Round the Moon
Jean Anouilh
France
Play
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton
South Africa
Novel
The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene
England
Novel
Death Fugue
Paul Célan
Romania
Poem
1949
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
France
Novel
Men of Maize
Miguel Angel Asturias
Guatemala
Novel
The Third Man
Graham Greene
England
Novel
The Man With the Golden Arm
Nelson Algren
USA
Novel
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
USA
Play
The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
USA
Novel
Shane
Jack Schaefer
USA
Novel
1950
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis
England
Novel
Come Back, Little Sheba
William Inge
USA
Play
1951
Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar
Belgium
Novel
The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham
England
Novel
The End of the Affair
Graham Greene
England
Novel
Spartacus
Howard Fast
USA
Novel
The Autumn Garden
Lillian Hellman
USA
Novel
From Here to Eternity
James Jones
USA
Novel
Lie Down in Darkness
William Styron
USA
Novel
Do Not Go Gentle Into That
Good Night
Dylan Thomas
Wales
Poem
1951–1953
The Trilogy
Samuel Beckett
Ireland
Novels
1951–1975
A Dance to the Music of Time
Anthony Powell
England
Novels
1952
The Chairs
Eugene Ionesco
France
Play
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
Ireland
Play
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
USA
Novel
Wise Blood
Flannery O'Connor
USA
Novel
Charlotte's Web
E.B. White
USA
Novel
1953
Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke
England
Novel
The Go-Between
L.P. Hartley
England
Novel
The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow
USA
Novel
The Waking
Theodore Roethke
USA
Poetry
1954
Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis
England
Novel
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
England
Novel
Under the Net
Iris Murdoch
England
Novel
The Mandarins
Simone de Beauvoir
France
Novel
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
USA
Novel
I Am Legend
Richard Matheson
USA
Novel
Under Milk Wood
Dylan Thomas
Wales
Play
1954–1955
Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
England
Novel
1955
Pedro Paramo
Juan Rulfo
Mexico
Novel
The Less Deceived
Philip Larkin
England
Poetry
The Recognitions
William Gaddis
USA
Novel
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith
USA
Novel
Howl and Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg
USA
Poetry
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Flannery O'Connor
USA
Stories
A Child's Christmas in
Wales
Dylan Thomas
Wales
Memoir
1956
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
João Guimarães Rosa
Brazil
Novel
Look Back in Anger
John Osburn
England
Play
The Visit
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Switzer.
Play
Long Day's Journey into Night
Eugene O'Neill
USA
Play
Things of This World
Richard Wilbur
USA
Poetry
Night
Elie Wiesel
USA
Memoir
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams
USA
Play
1956–1957
The Cairo Trilogy
Naguib Mahfouz
Egypt
Novels
1957
Voss
Patrick White
Australia
Novel
Room at the Top
John Braine
England
Novel
Jealousy
Alain Robbe-Grillet
France
Novel
Endgame
Samuel Beckett
Ireland
Play
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
Russia
Novel
The Wapshot Chronicle
John Cheever
USA
Novel
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
USA
Novel
1957–1960
The Alexandria Quartet
Laurence Durrell
England
Novels
1958
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
Jorge Amado
Brazil
Novel
The Caretaker
Harold Pinter
England
Play
The Once and Future King
T.H. White
England
Novel
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Alan Sillitoe
England
Novel
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Nigeria
Novel
The Leopard
Giusseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa
Italy
Novel
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Truman Capote
USA
Novella
A Coney Island of the Mind
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
USA
Poetry
The Tin Drum
Günter Grass
Germany
Novel
The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing
England
Novel
Henderson the Rain King
Saul Bellow
USA
Novel
Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs
USA
Novel
Life Studies
Robert Lowell
USA
Poetry
1960
The Woman at the Washington
Zoo
Randal Jarrell
USA
Poetry
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller
USA
Novel
Rabbit, Run
John Updike
USA
Novel
1961
On Heroes and Tombs
Ernesto Sabato
Argentina
Novel
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
England
Novel
Solaris
Stanislaw Lem
Poland
Novel
Zima Junction
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Russia
Poetry
A House for Mr Biswas
V.S. Naipaul
Trinidad
Novel
Catch 22
Joseph Heller
USA
Novel
The Moviegoer
Walker Percy
USA
Novel
Franny and Zooey
J.D. Salinger
USA
Novel
Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates
USA
Novel
1962
The Green House
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peru
Novel
The Death of Artemio Cruz
Carlos Fuentes
Mexico
Novel
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
Russia
Novel
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
England
Novel
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee
USA
Play
The Reivers
William Faulkner
USA
Novel
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
USA
Novel
Ship of Fools
Katherine Anne Porter
USA
Novel
1962–1983
Labyrinths
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentina
Stories and essays
1963
The General of the Dead Aarmy
Ismail Kadare
Albania
Novel
The Garden Party
Vaclav Havel
Czech.
Play
The Clown
Heinrich Boll
Germany
Novel
Hopscotch
Julio Cortazar
Argentina
Novel
Selected Poems
Octavio Paz
Mexico
Poetry
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John le Carré
England
Novel
The Crucible
Arthur Miller
USA
Play
Another Country
James Baldwin
USA
Novel
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
USA
Novel
1964
Herzog
Saul Bellow
USA
Novel
The Swimmer
John Cheever
USA
Story
1965
Dune
Frank Herbert
USA
Novel
1965–1970
Sea of Fertility, The
Yukio Mishima
Japan
Novels
The Magus
John Fowles
England
Novel
Black Sheep
Georgette Heyer
England
Novel
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys
England
Novel
Season of Migration to the North
Tayeb Salih
Sudan
Novel
Giles Goat-Boy
John Barth
USA
Novel
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
USA
Novel
The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon
USA
Novel
Live or Die
Anne Sexton
USA
Poetry
1967
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombia
Novel
The Silent Cry
Oe Kenzaburo
Japan
Novel
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
Russia
Novel
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Tom Stoppard
USA
Play
The Chosen
Chaim Potok
USA
Novel
The Confessions of Nat
Turner
William Styron
USA
Novel
Camp Concentration
Thomas Disch
USA
Novel
1968
2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke
England
Novel
Cancer Ward
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Russia
Novel
The First Circle
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Russia
Novel
Belle du Seigneur
Albert Cohen
Switzerland
Novel
The Lion in Winter
James Goldman
USA
Play
Couples
John Updike
USA
Novel
Myra Breckinridge
Gore Vidal
USA
Novel
1969
Selected Poetry
Irving Layton
Canada
Poetry
Little Painted Mouths
Manuel Puig
Argentina
Novel
Slaughterhouse Five
Kurt Vonnegut
USA
Novel
them
Joyce Carol Oates
USA
Novel
The Godfather
Mario Puzo
USA
Novel
1970
Fifth Business
Robertson Davies
Canada
Novel
I Know Why the Caged Bird
Sings
Maya Angelou
USA
Memoir
Deliverance
James Dickey
USA
Novel
1971
Lives of Girls and Women
Alice Munro
Canada
Stories
Crow
Ted Hughes
England
Poetry
In a Free State
V.S. Naipaul
Trinidad
Novel
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
USA
Novel
Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner
USA
Novel
1972
All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot
England
Stories
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
USA
Novel
The Sunlight Dialogues
John Gardner
USA
Novel
1973
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
USA
Novel
Burr
Gore Vidal
USA
Novel
The Conservationist
Nadine Gordimer
S. Africa
Novel
The Black Prince
Iris Murdoch
England
Novel
1975
The Periodic Table
Primo Levi
Italy
Memoir
The Monkey Wrench Gang
Edward Abbey
USA
Novel
Self-Portrait in a Convex
Mirror
John Ashbery
USA
Poetry
Ragtime
E.L. Doctorow
USA
Novel
1976
Roots: The Saga of an American
Family
Alex Haley
USA
Novel
1977
The Wars
Timothy Findley
Canada
Novel
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
USA
Novel
1978
The Sea, the Sea
Iris Murdoch
England
Novel
Life a User's Manual
Georges Perecs
France
Novel
Buried Child
Sam Shepard
USA
Play
1978–2004
The Dark Tower
Stephen King
USA
Novels
1979
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
Italo Calvino
Italy
Novel
A Bend in the River
V.S. Naipaul
Trinidad
Novel
The Burgher's Daughter
Nadine Gordimer
S. Africa
Novel
Sophie's Choice
William Styron
USA
Novel
1980
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco
Italy
Novel
A Part of Speech
Joseph Brodsky
Russia
Poetry
1981
Obasan
Joy Kogawa
Canada
Novel
The White Hotel
D.M. Thomas
England
Novel
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
India
Novel
What We Talk About When
We Talk About Love
Raymond Carver
USA
Stories
1982
Schindler's List
Thomas Keneally
Australia
Novel
Shoeless Joe
W.P. Kinsella
Canada
Novel
The House of Spirits
Isabel Allende
Chile
Novel
Noises Off
Michael Frayn
England
Play
"Master Harold"...and the Boys
Athol Fugard
S. Africa
Play
The Changing Light at Sandover
James Merrill
USA
Poetry
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
USA
Novel
1983
The Life and Times of Michael K
J.M. Coetzee
S. Africa
Novel
Ironweed
William Kennedy
USA
Novel
LaBrava
Elmore Leonard
USA
Novel
1984
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Canada
Novel
The Unbearable Lightness
of Being
Milan Kundera
Czech.
Novel
Money
Martin Amis
England
Novel
Hotel du Lac
Anita Brookner
England
Novel
Bright Lights, Big City
Jay McInerney
USA
Novel
Foreign Affairs
Alison Lurie
USA
Novel
Glengarry Glen Ross
David Mamet
USA
Play
1985
Black Robe
Brian Moore
Canada
Novel
Continental Drift
Russell Banks
USA
Novel
White Noise
Don DeLillo
USA
Novel
Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
USA
Novel
The Accidental Tourist
Anne Tyler
USA
Novel
1985–1986
The New York Trilogy
Paul Auster
USA
Novels
1987
The Stone Diaries
Carol Shields
Canada
Novel
In the Skin of A Lion
Michael Ondaatje
Canada
Novel
The Radiant Way
Margaret Drabble
England
Novel
Misery
Stephen King
USA
Novel
Beloved
Toni Morrison
USA
Novel
1988
Oscar and Lucinda
Peter Carey
Australia
Novel
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Brazil
Novel
The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie
India
Novel
Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto
Japan
Novel
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
USA
Novel
Breathing Lessons
Anne Tyler
USA
Novel
1989
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
England
Novel
London Fields
Martin Amis
England
Novel
The Storyteller
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peru
Novel
1989–1997
The Hyperion Cantos
Dan Simmons
USA
Novels
1990
Soul Mountain
Gao Xingjian
China
Novel
Possession
A.S. Byatt
England
Novel
Omeros
Derek Walcott
St. Lucia
Poetry
Six Degrees of Separation
John Guare
USA
Play
Get Shorty
Elmore Leonard
USA
Novel
The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien
USA
Stories
1991
Generation X
Douglas Coupland
Canada
Novel
The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa
Portugal
Novel
1992
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
Canada
Novel
The Crow Road
Iain Banks
Scotland
Novel
Angels in America
Tony Kushner
USA
Play
Oleanna
David Mamet
USA
Play
1993
Away
Jane Urquhart
Canada
Novel
Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks
England
Novel
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Roddy Doyle
Ireland
Novel
The Shipping News
Annie Proulx
USA
Novel
1994
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Louis de Bernieres
England
Novel
1994–1995
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
Japan
Novel
1995
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
Canada
Novel
The Information
Martin Amis
England
Novel
1995–2000
His Dark Materials
Philip Pullman
England
Novels
1996
Selected Stories
Mavis Gallant
Canada
Stories
Fall on Your Knees
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Canada
Novel
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
USA
Novel
1997
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
J.K. Rowling
England
Novel
Underworld
Don DeLillo
USA
Novel
Mason and Dixon
Thomas Pynchon
USA
Novel
1998
The Hours
Michael Cunningham
USA
Novel
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver
USA
Novel
1999
Barney's Version
Mordecai Richler
Canada
Novel
The Life and Times of Michael K
J.M. Coetzee
S. Africa
Novel
Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri
USA
Stories
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
England
Novel
2001
True History of the Kelly Gang
Peter Carey
Australia
Novel
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Alice Munro
Canada
Stories
Clara Callan
Richard B. Wright
Canada
Novel
American Gods
Neil Gaiman
England
Novel
Austerlitz
W.G. Sebald
Germany
Novel
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
USA
Novel
Pastoralia
George Saunders
USA
Stories
2002
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
Canada
Novel
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers
USA
Memoir
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
USA
Novel
2003
Vernon God Little
DBC Pierre
USA
Novel
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
USA
Novel
The Fortress of Solitude
Jonathan Lethem
USA
Novel
2004
2666
Roberto Bolaño
Chile
Novel
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Susanna Clarke
Emgland
Novel
2005
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
England
Novel
The History of Love
Nicole Krauss
USA
Novel
2006
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
USA
Novel
2007
The Great Man
Kate Christenson
USA
Novel
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Michael Chabon
USA
Novel
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz
USA
Novel
2009
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
England
Novel
2010
Freedom
Jonathan Franzen
USA
Novel
2013
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigeria
Novel
2015–2017
Broken Earth Trilogy
Nora K. Jemisin
USA
Novels
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Drama
Macbeth
Novel
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Stories
Dubliners
Novel
The Long Goodbye
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