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Twentieth-Century Literature (1901 to 2000 CE)
1901
The Broken Nest
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengal
Novella
Three Sisters
Anton Chekhov
Russia
Play
Resurrection
Leo Tolstoy
Russia
Novel
The Monkey's Paw
W.W. Jacobs
England
Story
Just So Stories
Rudyard Kipling
England
Story collection
including How the Camel Got His Hump, How the Leopard Got His Spots, How the First Letter Was Written, and others
The Immoralist
André Gide
France
Novel
The Wings of the Dove
Henry James
United States
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
United States
Novel
The Beast in the Jungle
Henry James
United States
Novella
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
United States
Novella
1904
Riders to the Sea
John Millington Synge
Ireland
Play
Peter Pan
J.M. Barrie
Scotland
Play
The Golden Bowl
Henry James
United States
Novel
The Sea Wolfe
Jack London
United States
Novel
Cabbages and Kings
O. Henry
United States
Story cycle
1905
England
Story collection
including The Empty House, The Norwood Builder, The Dancing Men, Charles Augustus Milverton, and others
Major Barbara
George Bernard Shaw
Ireland
Play
Professor Unrat
Heinrich Mann
Germany
Novel
Major Barbara
George Bernard Shaw
Ireland
Play
Summerfolk
Maxim Gorky
Russia
Play
Solitude
Victor Català
Spain
Novel
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton
United States
Novel
1906
The Confusions of Young Törless
Robert Musil
England
Austria
Spring Awakening
Frank Wedekind
Germany
Play
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
United States
Novel
White Fang
Jack London
United States
Novella
1906–1921
England
Novel series
including The Man of Property, In Chancery, To Let, and two interludes
1907
Songs of a Sourdough
Robert Service
Canada
Poetry
The Travels of Lao Can
Liu E
China
Novel
The Playboy of the Western World
John Millington Synge
Ireland
Play
Mother
Maxim Gorky
Russia
Novel
1908
Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maude Montgomery
Canada
Novel
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
The Inferno
Henri Barbusse
France
Novel
The Circular Staircase
Mary Roberts Rinehart
United Sstates
Novel
1909
Martin Eden
Jack London
United States
Novel
Penguin Island
Anatole France
France
Novel
Strait Is the Gate
André Gide
France
Novel
1910
Howards End
E.M. Forster
England
Novel
Jean-Christophe
Romain Rolland
France
Novel
Impressions of Africa
Raymond Roussel
France
Novel
1911
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
England
Novel
England
Story collection
including The Blue Cross, The Invisible Man, The Hammer of God, and others
Casting the Runes
M.R. James
England
Story
The Country of the Blind and Other Stories
H.G. Wells
England
Story collection
Fantômas
Marcel Allain, Pierre Souvestre
France
Novel
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
United States
Novella
1912
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
Campos de Castilla
Antonio Machado
Spain
Poetry collection
O Pioneers!
Willa Cather
United States
Novel
Riders of the Purple Sage
Zane Grey
United States
Novel
1913
Trent's Last Case
E.C. Bentley
England
Novel
Sons and Lovers
D.H. Lawrence
England
Novel
Alcohols
Guillaume Apollinaire
France
Poetry collection
Le Grand Meaulnes
Alain-Fournier
France
Novel
Petersburg
Andrei Bely
Russia
Novel
My Childhood
Maxim Gorky
Russia
Memoir
1913–1927
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust
France
Novel
seven volumes including Swann's Way, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, The Guermantes Way, Time Regained
The Prussian Officer and other Stories
D.H. Lawrence
England
Story collection
The Three Sisters
May Sinclair
England
Novel
Locus Solus
Raymond Roussel
France
Novel
Ireland
including The Sisters, Araby, Eveline, Two Gallants, Ivy Day in the Committee Room, The Dead, and others
Kokoro
Sōseki Natsume
Japan
Novel
Platero and I
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Spain
Poetry
North of Boston
Robert Frost
United States
Poetry collection
including Mending Wall, The Death of the Hired Man, After Apple-Picking, and others
Tarzan of the Apes
Edgar Rice Burroughs
United States
Novel
1914–1917
Golpoguchchho (Bunch of Stories)
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengal
Story collection
1914–1955
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
Robert Tressell
Ireland
Story collection
The Good Soldier
Ford Maddox Ford
England
Novel
The Rainbow
D.H. Lawrence
England
Novel
Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham
England
Novel
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
United States
Poem
Herland
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
United States
Novel
Spoon River Anthology
Edgar Lee Masters
United States
Poetry
1916
The Home and the World
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengal
Novel
The Underdogs
Mariano Azuela
Mexico
Novel
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
Czech.
Novella
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
Ireland
Play
Mountain Interval
Robert Frost
United States
Poetry collection
including The Road Not Taken, Birches, Out, Out—, and others
Chicago Poems
Carl Sandburg
United States
Poetry
1917
La Jeune Parque
Paul Valéry
France
Poetry
The Charwoman's Daughteer
James Stephens
Ireland
Novel
Heartless
Yi Gwangsu
Korea
Novel
Growth of the Soil
Knut Hamsun
Norway
Novel
A Cloud in Trousers
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Russia
Poetry
1918
A Madman's Diary
Lu Hsun
China
Story
The Breasts of Tiresias
Guillaume Apollinaire
France
Play
Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War 1913-1916
Guillaume Apollinaire
France
Poetry collection
Poems
Gerard Manley Hopkins
England
Poetry
The Magnificent Ambersons
Booth Tarkington
United States
Novel
In the Penal Colony
Franz Kafka
Czechia
Novel
The Moon and Sixpence
W. Somerset Maugham
England
Novel
Demian
Herman Hesse
Switzerland
Novel
Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson
United States
Story cycle
1920
Women in Love
D.H. Lawrence
England
Novel
Poems
Wilfred Owen
England
Poetry
Bohemian Nights
Ramón del Valle-Inclán
Spain
Play
Youth and the Bright Medusa
Willa Cather
United States
Story collection
including Paul's Case, A Wagner Matinee, A Death in the Desert, and others
This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald
United States
Novel
Main Street
Sinclair Lewis
United States
Novel
A Few Figs from Thistles
Edna St. Vincent Millay
United States
Poetry collection
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
United States
Novel
1920–1922
Kristin Lavransdatter
Sigrid Undset
Norway
Novel series
including The Wreath, The Wife, The Cross
1920–1923
The Good Soldier Schweik
Jaroslav Hasek
Czechia
Novel
1921
Crome Yellow
Aldous Huxley
England
Novel
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Luigi Pirandello
Italy
Play
1922
Despair
Gabriela Mistral
Chile
Poetry collection
The Worm Ouroboros
E.R. Eddison
England
Novel
The Kiss of the Leper
Francois Mauriac
France
Novel
Siddhartha
Herman Hesse
Switzerland
Novel
Henry IV
Luigi Pirandello
Italy
Play
Rashōmon and Other Stories
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Japan
Story collection
New Zealand
Story collection
including At the Bay, The Garden Party, The Daughters of the Late Colonel, Miss Brill, and others
The Beautiful and the Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald
United States
Novel
Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis
United States
Novel
The Facade
Edith Sitwell
United States
Novel
United States
Story collection
including May Day, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and others
1923
The Devil in Flesh
Raymond Radiguet
France
Novel
Saint Joan
George Bernard Shaw
Ireland
Play
Duino Elegies
Rainer Maria Rilke
Germany
Poetry
The Confessions of Zeno
Italo Svevo
Italy
Novel
Chapayev
Dmitry Furmanov
Russia
Novel
A Lost Lady
Willa Cather
United States
Novel
Tulips and Chimneys
e.e. cummings
United States
Poetry
New Hampshire
Robert Frost
United States
Poetry
including Fire and Ice, Nothing Gold Can Stay, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, and others
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
United States
Prose poetry
Harmonium
Wallace Stevens
United States
Poetry
1924
The Vortex
Noel Coward
England
Play
A Passage to India
E.M. Forster
England
Novel
Juno and the Paycock
Sean O'Casey
Ireland
Play
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Russia
Novel
So Big
Edna Ferber
United States
Novel
Billy Budd, Foretopman
Herman Melville
United States
Novel
1925
Chaka
Thomas Mofolo
Basotho
Novel
Residence on Earth and Other Poems
Pablo Neruda
Chile
Poetry
The Trial
Franz Kafka
Czechoslovakia
Novel
Parade's End
Ford Maddox Ford
England
Novel
Heart of a Dog
Mikhail Bulgakov
Russia
Novella
The Artamonov Business
Maxim Gorky
Russia
Novel
The Iron Flood
Alexander Serafimovich
Russia
Novel
The Professor's House
Willa Cather
United States
Novel
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser
United States
Novel
Manhattan Transfer
John Dos Passos
United States
Novel
United States
Story collection
including The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife, The Three-Day Blow, The Big Two-Hearted River, and others
Arrowsmith
Sinclair Lewis
United States
Novel
1925–1970
The Cantos
Ezra Pound
United States
Poetry
1926
The Castle
Franz Kafka
Czech.
Novel
Under the Sun of Satan
Georges Bernanos
France
Novel
Moravagine
Blaise Cendrars
France
Novel
The Counterfeiters
André Gide
France
Novel
The Plough and the Stars
Sean O'Casey
Ireland
Play
Winnie-the-Pooh
A.A. Milne
England
Story collection
One, None and One HUndred Thousand
Luigi Pirandello
Italy
Novel
1927
Confusion of Feelings
Stefan Zweig
Austria
Novella
Thérése Desqueyroux
Paul Mauriac
France
Novel
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
B. Traven
Mexico
Novel
Steppenwolf
Herman Hesse
Switzerland
Novel
Elmer Gantry
Sinclair Lewis
United States
Novel
Men Without Women
United States
Story collection
including Hills Like White Elephants, The Killers, Ten Indians, and others
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
United States
Novella
A Flower in a Sinful Sea
Jin Tianhe, Zeng Pu
China
Novel
The Machine Stops
E.M. Forster
England
Novella
The Well of Loneliness
Radclyffe Hall
England
Novel
Lady Chatterley's Lover
D.H. Lawrence
England
Novel
Ashenden: Or the British Agent
W. Somerset Maugham
England
Storty collection
Decline and Fall
Evelyn Waugh
England
Novel
Nadja
André Breton
France
Novel
The Three-Penny Opera
Bertolt Brecht
Germany
Play
The Tower
W.B. Yeats
Ireland
Poetry
And Quiet Flows the Don
Mikhail Sholokov
Russia
Novel
Gypsy Ballads
Federico Garcia Lorca
Spain
Poetry
Quicksand
Nella Larsen
United States
Novel
Machinal
Sophie Treadwell
United States
Play
1929
Good-Bye to All that
Robert Graves
England
Memoir
A High Wind in Jamaica
Richard Hughes
England
Novel
Children of the Game
Jean Cocteau
France
Novel
Retreat Without Song
Shahan Shanoor
France
Novel
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Alfred Döblin
Germany
Novel
The Time of Indifference
Alberto Moravia
Italy
Novel
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
United States
Novel
Passing
Nella Larsen
United States
Novella
Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas Wolfe
United States
Novel
1930
Private Lives
Noel Coward
England
Play
Strong Poison
Dorothy L. Sayers
England
Novel
Story of the Eye
Georges Bataille
France
Novella
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
United States
Novel
The Bridge
Hart Crane
United States
Poetry
1930–1936
U.S.A.
John Dos Passos
United States
Novel series
including The 42nd Parallel, 1919, The Big Money
1930–1943
The Man Without Qualities
Robert Musil
Austria
Novel
1931
The Family
Pa Chin
China
Novel
Night Flight
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
France
Novel
Three Generations
Yeom Sang-seop
Korea
Novel
Odessa Stories
Isaac Babel
Russia
Story collection
Shadow Over Innsmouth
H.P. Lovecraft
United States
Novella
At the Mountains of Madness
H.P. Lovecraft
United States
Novel
Morning Becomes Electra
Eugene O'Neill
United States
Play
1932
Radetzky March
Joseph Roth
Austria
Novel
The Crime of Inspector Maigret
Georges Simenon
Belgium
Novel
Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons
England
Novel
Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
France
Novel
Viper's Tangle
Francois Mauriac
France
Novel
Larva: Midsummer Night's Babel
Julián Ríos
Spain
Novel
Tobacco Road
Erskine Caldwell
United States
Novel
Light in August
William Faulkner
United States
Novel
Guys and Dolls
Damon Runyon
United States
Story collection
1932–1935
Studs Lonigan
James T. Farrell
United States
Novel series
including Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, Judgment Day
1933
Beloved
Toni Morrison
United States
Novel
Murder Must Advertise
Dorothy L. Sayers
England
Poetry
Man's Fate
André Malraux
France
Novel
In the Heart of the Seas
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Israel
Play
Blood Wedding
Federico Garcia Lorca
Spain
Play
Winner Take Nothing
Ernest Hemingway
United States
Story collection
including A Clean, Well-Lighted Place; A Natural History of the Dead; The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio; and others
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein
United States
Novel
Miss Lonelyhearts
Nathanael West
United States
Novella
Rogue Male
Geoffrey Household
England
Novel
The Nine Tailors
Dorothy L. Sayers
England
Novel
A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh
England
Novel
The Bells of Basel
Louis Aragon
France
Novel
How the Steel Was Tempered
Nikolai Ostrovsky
Ukraine
Novel
The Children's Hour
Lillian Hellman
United States
Play
Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
United States
Novel
A Martian Odyssey
Stanley G. Weinbaum
United States
Story
1934–1935
Independent People
Halldór Laxness
Iceland
Novel
1935
Auto-da-Fé
Elias Canetti
Austria
Novel
Untouchable
Mulk Raj Anand
India
Novel
Selected Poems
Marianne Moore
United States
Poetry collection
Call It Sleep
Henry Roth
United States
Novel
Awake and Sing!
Clifford Odets
United States
Play
1936
Rickshaw Boy
Lao She
China
Novel
The War With the Newts
Karel Čapek
Czechia
Novel
Jamaica Inn
Daphne Du Maurier
England
Novel
Invitation to a Beheading
Vladimir Nabokov
Russia
Novel
Nightwood
Djuna Barnes
United States
Novel
Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner
United States
Novel
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
United States
Novel
1937
Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen
Denmark
Memoir
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
England
Novel
The Blind Owl
Ssadegh Hedayat
Italy
Novel
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
United States
Novel
1937–1967
Horatio Hornblower
C.S. Forester
England
Novel series
1938
Harvesting
Gabriela Mistral
Chile
Poetry collection
Cause for Alarm
Eric Ambler
England
Novel
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
England
Novel
Brighton Rock
Graham Greene
England
Novel
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Winifred Watson
England
Novel
Scoop
Evelyn Waugh
England
Novel
The Sword in the Stone
T.H. White
England
Novel
The Code of the Woosters
P.G. Wodehouse
England
Novel
Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre
France
Novel
The Death of the Heart
Elizabeth Bowen
Ireland
Novel
Human Poems
Cesar Vallejo
Peru
Poetry
The Gift
Vladimir Nabokov
Russia
Novel
Alamuit
Vladimir Bartol
Slovenia
Novel
Who Goes there?
John W. Campbell
United States
Novella
Anthem
Ayn Rand
United States
Novella
The Book of the Dead
Muriel Rukeyser
United States
Poem cycle
1939
The Mask of Dimitrios
Eric Ambler
England
Novel
Goodbye to Berlin
Christopher Isherwood
England
Novel
Mother Courage and Her Children
Bertolt Brecht
Germany
Play
At Swim-Two-Birds
Flann O'Brien
Ireland
Novel
Arsenic and Old Lace
Joseph Kesselring
United States
Play
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Katherine Anne Porter
United States
Story collection
1940
The Invention of Morel
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Argentina
Novel
The Man Who Loved Children
Christina Stead
Australia
Novel
The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene
England
Novel
Another Time
W.H. Auden
England
Poetry
The Tartar Steppe
Dino Buzzati
Italy
Novel
The Don Flows Home to the Sea
Mikhail Sholokov
Russia
Novel
Poet in New York
Federico García Lorca
Spain
Poetry collection
The Roads Must Roll
Robert A. Heinlein
United States
Story
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
United States
Novel
Native Son
Richard Wright
United States
Novel
1940–1942
Four Quartets
T.S. Eliot
England
Poem
1941
Chess Story
Stefan Zweig
Austria
Novella
Blithe Spirit
Noel Coward
England
Play
The Silence of the Sea
Vercors
France
Novel
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Bertolt Brecht
Germany
Play
The Wife of Martin Guerre
Janet Lewisa
United States
Novella
A Curtain of Green
Eudora Welty
United States
Story collection
1941–1956
Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentina
Story collection
1942
The Outsider
Albert Camus
Algeria
Novella
Nerves
Lester Del Rey
United States
Novella
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Joyce Cariol Oates
United States
Story
The Life of Galileo
Bertolt frecht
Germany
Play
The Crooked Line
Ismat Chugtai
India
Novel
Mythology
Edith Hamilton
United States
Story collection
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
United States
Novel
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
United States
Novel
1944
The Horse's Mouth
Joyce Cary
England
Novel
The Razor's Edge
W. Someret Maugham
England
Novel
Antigone
Jean Anouilh
France
Play
Aurélien
Louis Aragon
France
Novel
Arcanum 17
Andre Breton
France
Poem
Our Lady of the Flowers
Jean Genet
France
Novel
No Exit
Jean-Paul Sartre
France
Play
Transit
Anna Seghers
Germany
Novel
The Makioka Sisters
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Japan
Novel
1944–1946
Trilogy
Hilda Doolittle
United States
Poetry collection
1945
Two Solitudes
Hugh MacLennan
Canada
Novel
The Tin Flute
Gabrielle Roy
Canada
Novel
Loving
Henry Green
England
Novel
The Pursuit of Love
Nancy Mitford
England
Novel
The Madwoman of Chaillot
Jean Giraudoux
France
Play
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Bertolt Brecht
Germany
Play
The Glass Bead Game
Herman Hesse
Switzerland
Novel
Cannery Row
John Steinbeck
United States
Novel
The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams
United States
Play
Black Boy
Richard Wright
United States
Memoir
1945–1948
Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren
Sweden
Novella series
including Pippi Longstocking, Pippi Goes on Board, Pippi in the South Seas
1945–1949
The Roads to Freedom
Jean-Paul Sartre
France
Novel series
including The Age of Reason, The Reprieve, Iron in the Soul
1946
The Moving Toyshop
Edmund Crispin
England
Novel
Paroles
Jacques Prévert
France
Poetry collection
Zorba the Greek
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greece
Novel
Mr. President
Miguel Angel Asturias
Guatemala
Novel
1946
Adventures in Time and Space
ed. Rymond J. Healy, J. Francis McComas
United States
Story collection
Hiroshima
John Hersey
United States
Nonfiction novel
The Marching Morons
C.M. Kornbluth
United States
Novella
Vintage Season
C.L. Moore, Henry Kuttner
(as Lawrence O'Donnell)
(as Lawrence O'Donnell)
United States
Novella
Lord Weary's Castle
Robert Lowell
United States
Poetry
The Iceman Cometh
Eugene O'Neill
United States
Play
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren
United States
Novel
Slan
A.E. Van Vogt
United States
Novel
Bridge on the Drina
Ivo Andric
Yugoslavia
Novel
1946–1958
Paterson
William Carlos Williams
United States
Epic poem
1946–1959
Gormenghast
Mervyn Peake
England
Novel series
including Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus Alone
1947
The Plague
Albert Camus
Algeria
Novella
Who Has Seen the Wind?
W.O. Mitchell
Canada
Novel
Midaq Alley
Naguib Mahfouz
Egypt
Novel
The Age of Anxiety
W.H. Auden
England
Poetry
Eustace and Hilda
L.P. Hartley
England
Novel
Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry
England
Novel
A Case to Answer
Edgar Lustgarten
England
Novel
The Maids
Jean Genet
France
Play
Exercises in Style
Raymond Queneau
France
Story cycle
Froth on the Daydream
Boris Vian
France
Play
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
Germany
Memoir
Doctor Faustus
Anne Frank
Germany
Novel
The Path to the Spiders' Nest
Italo Calvino
Italy
Novel
If This Is a Man
Primo Levy
Italy
Memoir
I, the Jury
Mickey Spillane
United States
Novella
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
United States
Play
With Folded Hands...
Jack Williamson
United States
Novella
1948
The Tunnel
Ernesto Sabato
Argentina
Novel
All About H. Hatterr
G.V. Desani
England
Novel
I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith
England
Novel
Ring Round the Moon
Jean Anouilh
France
Play
Death Sentence
Maurice Blanchot
France
Novel
Snow Country
Yasunari Kawabata
Japan
Novel
The Franchise Affair
Josephine Tey
Scotland
Novel
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton
South Africa
Novel
Journey to Alcarria
Camilo José Cela
Spain
Travelogue
1949
The Kingdom of This World
Alejo Carpentier
Cuba
Novel
The Third Man
Graham Greene
England
Novel
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
France
Novel
Men of Maize
Miguel Angel Asturias
Guatemala
Novel
Confessions of a Mask
Yukio Mishima
Japan
Novel
The Man With the Golden Arm
Nelson Algren
United States
Novel
The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
United States
Novel
The Anniad
Gwendolyn Brooks
United States
Play
The Lottery and Other Stories
Shirley Jackson
United States
Story collection
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
United States
Play
Shane
Jack Schaefer
United States
Novel
A Martian Odyssey and Others
Stanley Weinbaum
United States
Novel
The Abbot C
Georges Bataille
France
Novella
The Bald Soprano
Eugène Ionesco
France
Play
The Moon and Bonfires
Cesare Pavese
Italy
Novel
The Hive
Camilo José Cela
Spain
Novel
Barabbas
Pär Lagerkvist
Sweden
Novel
Strangers on a Train
Paricia Highsmith
United States
Novel
Come Back, Little Sheba
William Inge
United States
Play
1950–1956
C.S. Lewis
England
Novel series
including The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; and others
1951
Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar
Belgium
Novel
The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham
England
Novel
The Opposing Shore
Julien Gracq
France
Novel
Smallbone Deceased
Michael Gilbert
England
Novel
The End of the Affair
Graham Greene
England
Novel
The Complete Short Stories
W. Somerset Maugham
England
Story collection
Forbidden Colors
Yukio Mishima
Japan
Novel
The Daughter of Time
Josephine Tey
Scotland
Novel
Spartacus
Howard Fast
United States
Novel
Montage of a Dream Deferred
Langston Hughes
United States
Poetry
From Here to Eternity
James Jones
United States
Novel
The Ballad of the Sad Café
Carson McCullers
United States
Novella
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas
Wales
Poems
1951–1953
The Trilogy
Samuel Beckett
Ireland
Novel series
including Molly, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
United States
Novel series
including Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation
1951–1975
A Dance to the Music of Time
Anthony Powell
England
Novel series
1952
The Tiger in the Smoke
Margery Allingham
England
Novel
The Deep Blue Sea
Terence Rattigan
England
Play
The Chairs
Eugene Ionesco
France
Play
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
Ireland
Play
Thousand Cranes
Yasunari Kawabata
Japan
Novel
The Palm-Wine Drunkard
Amos Tutola
Nigeria
Novel
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
United States
Novel
Wise Blood
Flannery O'Connor
United States
Novel
Baby Is Three
Thodore Sturgeon
United States
Novella
Player Piano
Kurt Vonnegut
United States
Novel
Last Seen Wearing...
Hilary Waugh
United States
Novel
Charlotte's Web
E.B. White
United States
Novel
A Child's Christmas in Wales
Dylan Thomas
Wales
Story
1953
The Lost Steps
Alejo Carpentier
Cuba
Novel
Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke
England
Novel
The Nine Billion Names of God
Arthur C. Clarke
England
Story
Casino Royale
Ian Fleming
England
Novel
The Go-Between
L.P. Hartley
England
Novel
The Hothouse
Wolfgang Koeppen
Germany
Novel
The Dark Child
Camara Laye
Guinea
Novel
The Burning Plain and Other Stories
Juan Rulfo
Mexico
Story collection
The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow
United States
Novel
Nine Stories
J.D. Salinger
United States
Story collection
including A Perfect Day for Bananafish, For Esmé—With Love and Squalor, and others
More Than Human
Theodore Sturgeon
United States
Novel
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
The Story of O
Pauline Reage
France
Novel
Hello Sadness
Francoise Sagan
France
Novel
Death in Rome
Wolfgang Koeppen
Germany
Novel
Nectar in a Sieve
Kamala Markandaya
India
Novel
Contempt
Alberto Moravia
Italy
Novel
The Sound of the Mountain
Yasunari Kawabata
Japan
Novel
The Sound of Waves
Yukio Mishima
Japan
Novel
I'm Not Stiller
Max Frisch
Switzerland
Novel
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
United States
Novel
The Wicked Pavilion
Dwn Powell
United States
Novel
Under Milk Wood
Dylan Thomas
Wales
Play
1954–1955
Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
England
Novel
The Less Deceived
Philip Larkin
England
Poetry
The Chrysalids
John Wyndham
England
Novel
The Last Tempation of Cjrist
Nikos Kazantzákis
Greece
Novel
Waiting for the Mahatma
R.K. Narayan
India
Novel
Pedro Paramo
Juan Rulfo
Mexico
Novel
Collected Stories
Isaac Babel
Russia
Story collection
The Complete Poems
Emily Dickinson
United States
Poetry
The Recognitions
William Gaddis
United States
Novel
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith
United States
Novel
Beast in View
Margaret Millar
United States
Novel
A View From the Bridge
Arthur Miller
United States
Play
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Flannery O'Connor
United States
Story collection
1956
The Fall
Albert Camus
Algeria
Novella
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
João Guimarães Rosa
Brazil
Novel
Look Back in Anger
John Osburn
England
Play
Passing Time
Michel Butor
France
Novel
The Roots of Heaven
Romain Gary
France
Novel
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Yukio Mishima
Japan
Novel
The Visit
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Switzerland
Play
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
United States
Novel
Seize the Day
Saul Bellow
United States
Novella
Howl
Allen Ginsberg
United States
Poem
Double Star
Robert A. Heinlein
United States
Novel
Long Day's Journey into Night
Eugene O'Neill
United States
Play
Things of This World
Richard Wilbur
United States
Poetry
Night
Elie Wiesel
United States
Memoir
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams
United States
Play
1956–1957
The Cairo Trilogy
Naguib Mahfouz
Egypt
Novel series
1957
Voss
Patrick White
Australia
Novel
Room at the Top
John Braine
England
Novel
From Russia With Love
Ian Fleming
England
Novel
The Entertainer
John Osborne
England
Playl
The Birthday Party
Harold Pinter
England
Play
The Blue of Noon
Georges Bataille
France
Novel
Second Thoughts
Michel Butor
France
Novel
Jealousy
Alain Robbe-Grillet
France
Novel
The Glass Bees
Ernst Jünger
Germany
Novel
Endgame
Samuel Beckett
Ireland
Play
Sunstone
Octavio Paz
Mexico
Poetry
Pnin
Vladimir Nabokov
Russia
Novel
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
Russia
Novel
The Wapshot Chronicle
John Cheever
United States
Novel
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
United States
Novel
1957–1960
The Alexandria Quartet
Laurence Durrell
England
Novel series
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
The Guide
R.K. Narayan
India
Novel
Krapp's Last Tape
Samuel Beckett
Ireland
Play
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
Kenzaburō Ōe
Japan
Novel
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Nigeria
Novel
The Leopard
Giusseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Italy
Novel
Where the Air Is Clear
Carlos Fuentes
Mexico
Novel
Jamila
Chingiz Aitmatov
Russia
Novel
Zoo Story
Edward Albee
United States
Play
A Case of Conscience
James Blish
United States
Novel
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Truman Capote
United States
Novella
A Coney Island of the Mind
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
United States
Poetry
The Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac
United States
Novel
The Big Time
Fritz Leiber
United States
Novel
Anatomy of a Murder
Robert Lovesey
United States
Novel
The Magic Barrel
Bernard Malamud
United States
Story collection
1959
Canada
Story collection
including All the Years of Her Life, A Sick Call, Now That April's Here, Ancient Lineage, Two Fishermen, and others
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Mordecai Richler
Canada
Novel
Double Hook
Sheila Watson
Canada
Novel
Cider With Rosie
Laurie Lee
England
Novel
The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing
England
Novel
Zazie in the Metro
Raymond Queneau
France
Novel
Billiards at Half Past Nine
Heinrich Böll
Germany
Novel
The Tin Drum
Günter Grass
Germany
Novel
Sacrificial Egg
Chinua Achebe
Nigeria
Novel
Henderson the Rain King
Saul Bellow
United States
Novel
Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs
United States
Novel
The Manchurian Candidate
Richard Condon
United States
Novel
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
United States
Play
Life Studies
Robert Lowell
United States
Poetry
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut
United States
Novel
1960
A Man for All Seasons
Robert Bolt
England
Play
Halftime
Martin Walser
Germany
Novel
God's Bits of Wood
Ousmane Sembene
Senegal
Novel
The Sot-Weed Factor
John Barth
United States
Novel
The Woman at the Washington Zoo
Randal Jarrell
United States
Poetry
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller
United States
Novel
Rabbit, Run
John Updike
United States
Novel
1961
On Heroes and Tombs
Ernesto Sabato
Argentina
Novel
No One Writes to the Colonel
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombia
Novel
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
England
Novel
Cat and Mouse
Günter Grass
Germany
Novella
Solaris
Stanislaw Lem
Poland
Novel
Memoirs of a Peasant Boy
Xosé Neira Vilas
Spain
Novel
A House for Mr Biswas
V.S. Naipaul
Trinidad
Novel
Kaddish and Other Poems
Allen Ginsbergs
United States
Poetry collection
The Moviegoer
Walker Percy
United States
Novel
Franny and Zooey
J.D. Salinger
United States
Novel
Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates
United States
Novel
1962
Hothouse
Brian Aldiss
England
Novel
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
England
Novel
The IPCRESS File
Len Deighton
England
Novel
The Third Wedding
Costas Taktsis
Greece
Novel
Girl With Green Eyes
Edna O'Brien
Ireland
Novel
The Death of Artemio Cruz
Carlos Fuentes
Mexico
Novel
The Green House
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peru
Novel
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
Russia
Novel
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Russia
Novella
Time of Silence
Luis Martín-Santos
Spain
Novel
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee
United States
Play
The Reivers
William Faulkner
United States
Novel
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson
United States
Novel
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
United States
Novel
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle
United States
Novel
The Changing Light at Sandover
James Merrill
United States
Poem
Ship of Fools
Katherine Anne Porter
United States
Novel
Ballad of Lost C'Mell
Cordwainer Smith
United States
Novella
1962–1983
Labyrinths
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentina
Stories and essays
1963
The General of the Dead Army
Ismail Kadare
Albania
Novel
Hopscotch
Julio Cortazar
Argentina
Novel
The Garden Party
Vaclav Havel
Czechia
Play
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John le Carré
England
Novel
The Water of the Hills
Marcel Pagnol
France
Novel series
including Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources
The Clown
Heinrich Böll
Germany
Novel
Dog Years
Günter Grass
Germany
Novel
Selected Poems
Octavio Paz
Mexico
Poetry collection
Best Stories of Manto
Saadat Hasan Manto
Pakistan
Story collection
The Time of the Hero
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peru
Novel
Requiem
Anna Akhmatova
Russia
Poetry collection
The Crucible
Arthur Miller
United States
Play
V.
Thomas Pynchon
United States
Novel
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
J.D. Salinger
United States
Novella
Seymour: An Introduction
J.D. Salinger
United States
Novella
Short Friday and Other Stories
Isaac Bashevis Singer
United States
Story collection
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
United States
Novel
The Graduate
Charles Webb
United States
Novella
The Ravishing of Lol Stein
Marguerite Duras
France
Novel
Arrow of God
Chinua Achebe
Nigeria
Novel
Herzog
Saul Bellow
United States
Novel
Sometimes a Great Notion
Ken Kesey
United States
Novel
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl
Wales
Novel
1965
The Homecoming
Harold Pinter
England
Play
The Vice-Consul
Maguerite Duras
France
Novel
Things
Georges Perec
France
Novel
The River Between
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Kenya
Novel
Everything That Rises Must Converge
Flannery O'Connor
United States
Story collection
Ariel
Syvia Plath
United States
Poetry collection
Fences
August Wilson
United States
Play
1965–1971
Sea of Fertility, The
Yukio Mishima
Japan
Novel series
including Spring Snow, Runaway Horses, The Temple of Dawn, The Decay of the Angel
St. Urbain's Horseman
Mordecai Richler
Canada
Novel
The Magus
John Fowles
England
Novel
Black Sheep
Georgette Heyer
England
Novel
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys
England
Novel
Silence
Shūsaku Endō
Japan
Novel
Marks of Identity
Juan Goytisolo
Spain
Novel
Season of Migration to the North
Tayeb Salih
Sudan
Novel
Giles Goat-Boy
John Barth
United States
Novel
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
United States
Novel
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
United States
Novel
The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon
United States
Novel
Live or Die
Anne Sexton
United States
Poetry
1966–1969
Song of Lawino
Okot p'Bitek
Uganda
Epic poem
1967
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombia
Novel
Three Trapped Tigers
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Cuba
Novel
Children of Gebelawi
Naguib Mahfouz
Egypt
Novel
Miramar
Naguib Mahfouz
Egypt
Novel
Day of the Dolphin
Robert Merle
France
Novel
Z
Vassillis Vassilikos
Greece
Novel
The Third Policeman
Flann O'Brien
Ireland
Novel
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
Russia
Novel
The Case of Comrade Tulayev
Victor Serge
Russia
Novel
Mimic Men
V.S. Naipaul
Trinidad
Novel
Babel-17
Samuel R. Delaney
United States
Novel
Camp Concentration
Thomas Disch
United States
Novel
The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
United States
Novel
The Chosen
Chaim Potok
United States
Novel
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Tom Stoppard
England
Play
The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron
United States
Novel
Dangerous Visions
Various, ed. Harlan Ellison
United States
Story collection
Lord of Light
Roger Zelazney
United States
Novel
1968
Betrayed by Rita Hayworth
Manuel Puig
Argentina
Novel
2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke
England
Novel
The German Lesson
Siegfried Lenz
Germany
Novel
The Search for Christa T.
Christa Wolf
Germany
Novel
To Each His Own
Leonardo Sciascia
Italy
Novel
Cancer Ward
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Russia
Novel
The First Circle
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Russia
Novel
The Laughing Policeman
Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö
Sweden
Novel
Belle du Seigneur
Albert Cohen
Switzerland
Novel
The Last Unicorn
Peter S. Beagle
United States
Novel
In Watermelon Sugar
Richard Brautigan
United States
Novel
Stand on Zanzibar
John Brunner
United States
Novel
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
William H. Gass
United States
Story collection
The Lion in Winter
James Goldman
United States
Play
Dragonflight
Anne McCaffrey
United States
Novel
The Séance and Other Stories
Isaac Bashevis Singer
United States
Story collection
Couples
John Updike
United States
Novel
Myra Breckinridge
Gore Vidal
United States
Novel
Welcome to the Monkey House
Kurt Vonnegut
United States
Story collection
including Harrison Bergeron, Welcome to the Monkey House, D.P. , The Euphio Question, and others
1968–1977
The Cornelius Quartet
Michael Moorcock
England
Novel series
1968–2001
United States
Novel series
including A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, The other Wind, and others
1969
Little Painted Mouths
Manuel Puig
Argentina
Novel
Selected Poetry
Irving Layton
Canada
Poetry
Master and Commander
Patick O'Brian
England
Novel
What the Butler Saw
Joe Orton
England
Play
A Void
Georges Perec
France
Novel
Jacob the Liar
Jurek Becker
Germany
Novel
The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Italo Calvino
Italy
Novel
Here's to You, Jesusa
Elena Poniatowska
Mexico
Nonfiction novel
Ada or Ardor
Vladimir Nabokov
Russia
Novel
Blind Man with a Pistol
Chester Himes
United States
Novel
them
Joyce Carol Oates
United States
Novel
The Godfather
Mario Puzo
United States
Novel
Slaughterhouse Five
Kurt Vonnegut
United States
Novel
1970
Fifth Business
Robertson Davies
Canada
Novel
Kamouraska
Anne Hébert
Canada
Novel
Troubles
J.G. Farrell
England
Novel
Fool's Gold
Maro Douka
Greece
Novel
Twenty-One Stories
S.Y. Agnon
Israel
Story collection
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
United States
Memoir
Jonathan Livingston Seagul?
Richard Bach
United States
Novella
Deliverance
James Dickey
United States
Novel
PLay It as It Lays
Joan Didion
United States
Novel
1970–1983
Anniversaries
Uwe Johnson
Germany
Novel series
1971
Lives of Girls and Women
Alice Munro
Canada
Story collection
The Day of the Jackal
Frederick Forsyth
England
Novel
Crow
Ted Hughes
England
Poetry
The Egyptian
Mika Waltari
Finland
Novel
Group Portrait with a Lady
Heinrich Böll
Germany
Novel
The Complete Stories
Franz Kafka
Germany
Story collection
August 1914
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russia
Novel
The Poetry of Luis Cernuda
Luis Cernuda
Spain
POetry collection
In a Free State
V.S. Naipaul
Trinidad
Novel
The Book of Daniel
E.L. Doctorow
United States
Novel
Collected Poems
Frank O'Hara
United States
Poetry collection
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
United States
Novel
Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner
United States
Novel
Rabbit Redux
John Updike
United States
Novel
1971–1983
United States
Novel series
including To Your Scattered Bodies Go, The Fabulous Riverboat, The Dark Design, and others
1972
Surfacing
Margaret Atwood
Canada
Novel
Watership Down
Richard Adams
England
Novel
G.
John Berger
England
Novel
Rendezvous With Rama
Arthur C. Clarke
England
Novel
All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot
England
Story collection
The Summer Book
Tove Jansson
Finland
Novel
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
Italy
Novel
The Twilight Years
Sawako Ariyuoshi
Japan
Novel
Bless Me, Ultima
Rudolpho Anaya
United States
Novel
The Gods Themselves
Isaac Asimov
United States
Novel
Chimera
John Barth
United States
Novella cycle
including Dunyazadiad, Perseid, Bellerophoniad
The Sunlight Dialogues
John Gardner
United States
Novel
The Palm at the End of the Mind
Wallace Stevens
United States
Poetry collection
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
United States
Novel
Again, Dangerous Visions
Various, ed. Harlan Ellison
United States
Story collection
The Optimist's Daughter
Eudora Welty
United States
Novel
1973
A Question of Power
Bessie Head
Botswana
Novel
Crash
J.G. Ballard
England
Novel
The Siege of Krishnapur
J.G. Farrell
England
Novel
Equus
Peter Shaffer
England
Play
Moscow to the End of the Line
Venedikt Yerofeyev
Russia
Novel
Searches and Seizures
Stanley Elkin
United States
Novella collection
Dance Hall of the Dead
Tony Hillerman
United States
Novel
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
United States
Novel
Diving Into the Wreck
Adrienne Rich
United States
Poetry collection
Burr
Gore Vidal
United States
Novel
The Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut
United States
Novel
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
John Le Carré
England
Novel
The Black Prince
Iris Murdoch
England
Novel
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
Heinrich Böll
Germany
Novel
History
Elas Morante
Italy
Novel
Dusklands
J.M. Coetzee
South Africa
Novel
The Conservationist
Nadine Gordimer
South Africa
Novel
The Forever War
Joe Haldeman
United States
Novel
Fletch
Gregory Mcdonald
United States
Story collection
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Grace Paley
United States
Story collection
Turtle Island
Gary Snyder
United States
Poetry collection
Dog Soldiers
Robert Stone
United States
Novel
1975
Correction
Thomas Bernhard
Austria
Memoir
The Autumn of the Patriarch
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombia
Novel
Heat and Dust
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
England
Novel
W, or the Memory of Childhood
Georges Perec
France
Novel
The Periodic Table
Primo Levi
Italy
Memoir
Death and the King's Horseman
Wole Soyinka
Nigeria
Play
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
John Ashbery
United States
Poetry collection
Humboldt's Gift
Saul Bellow
United States
Novel
Ragtime
E.L. Doctorow
United States
Novel
The Wind's Twelve Quarters
Ursula Le Guin
United States
Story collection
So Long, See You Tomorrow
William Maxwell
United States
Novel
The Dreadful Lemon Sky
John D. MacDonald
United States
Novel
1976
Bear
Marian Engel
Canada
Novel
Coming Through Slaughter
Michael Ondaatje
Canada
Novel
Hérémakhonon
Maryse Conde
France
Novel
Patterns of Childhood
Christa Wolf
Germany
Novel
Almost Transparent Blue
Murakami Ryu
Japan
Novel
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Raymond Carver
United States
Story collection
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Alex Haley
United States
Novel
Dhalgren
Samuel Delaney
United States
Novel
A River Runs Through It
Norman Maclean
United States
Novella
Interview With the Vampire
Ann Rice
United States
Novel
1976–1979
Kiss of the Spiderwoman
Manuel Puig
Argentina
Novel
1976–1982
The Plantagenet Saga
Jean Plaidy
England
Novel series
1977
The Monkey Grip
Helen Garner
Australia
Novel
The Hour of the Star
Clarice Lispector
Brazil
Novel
The Wars
Timothy Findley
Canada
Novel
The Beggar Maid
Alice Munro
Canada
Story cycle
Stardance
Spider and Jeanne Robinson
Canada
Novel
Aunt Julia and the Script-Writer
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peru
Novel
Woman at Point Zero
Nawal El Saadawi
Egypt
Novel
A Part of Speech
Joseph Brodsky
Russia
Poetry
In the Heart of the Country
J.M. Coetzee
South Africa
Novel
Lord Foul's Bane
Stephen R. Donaldson
United States
Novel
Fefu and Her Friends
María Irene Fornés
United States
Play
Dispatches
Michael Herr
United States
Memoir
The Shining
Stephen King
United States
Novel
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
United States
Novel
Delta of Venus
Anaïs Nin
United States
Story collection
Gateway
Frederick Pohl
United States
Novel
The Elephant Man
Bernard Pomerance
United States
Play
1978
The Bookshop
Penelope Fitzgerald
England
Novella
Eye of the Needle
Ken Follett
England
Novel
The Cement Garden
Ian McEwan
England
Novel
Rumpole of the Bailey
John Mortimer
England
Story collection
The Sea, the Sea
Iris Murdoch
England
Novel
Life a User's Manual
Georges Perecs
France
Novel
The Back Room
Carmen Martin Gaite
Spain
Novel
The Stories of John Cheever
John Cheever
United States
Story collection
The Stand
Stephen King
United States
Novel
Dreamsnake
Vonda M. McIntyre
United States
Novel
Buried Child
Sam Shepard
United States
Play
The Persistence of Vision
John Varley
United States
Novella
1978–2004
The Dark Tower
Stephen King
United States
Novel series
including The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three, The Waste Lands, Wizard and Glass, and others
1979
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Angela Carter
England
Story collection
Cloud 9
Caryl Churchill
England
Play
The Fountains of Paradise
Arthur C. Clarke
England
Novel
Whip Hand
Dick Francis
England
Novel
Smiley's People
John Le Carré
England
Novel
Amadeus
Peter Shaffer
England
Play
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera
France
Novel
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino
Italy
Novel
So Long a Letter
Mariama Bâ
Senegal
Novel
Burger's Daughter
Nadine Gordimer
South Africa
Novel
The Southern Seas
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Spain
Novel
A Bend in the River
V.S. Naipaul
Trinidad
Novel
Legends of the Fall
Jim Harrison
United States
Novella
Sophie's Choice
William Styron
United States
Novel
1979–1992
England
Novel series
including The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and more
1980
Clear Light of Day
Anita Desai
India
Novel
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco
Italy
Novel
The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years
Chinghiz Aitmatov
Kyrgyzstan
Novel
Waiting for the Barbarians
J.M. Coetzee
South Africa
Novel
Life and Fate
Vasily Grossman
Ukraine
Novel
Timescape
Gregory Benford
United States
Novel
Riddley Walker
Russell Hoban
United States
Novel
1980–1987
The Book of the New Sun
Gene Wolfe
United States
Novel series
1981
Obasan
Joy Kogawa
Canada
Novel
Leaden Wings
Zhang Jie
China
Novel
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Gabriel Garcia Márque
Colombia
Novella
The White Hotel
D.M. Thomas
England
Novel
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
India
Novel
The War of the End of the World
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peru
Novel
Lanark
Alasdair Gray
Scotland
Novel
July's People
Nadine Gordimer
South Africa
Novel
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Raymond Carver
United States
Story collection
Emplumada
Lorna Dee Cervantes
United States
Poetry collection
Downbelow Station
C.J. Cherryh
United States
Novel
Red Dragon
Thomas Harris
United States
Novel
Gorky Park
Martin Cruz Smith
United States
Novel
Rabbit Is Rich
John Updike
United States
Novel
1982
Schindler's List
Thomas Keneally
Australia
Novel
Fly Away Peter
David Malouf
Australia
Novella
Wittgenstein's Nephew
Thomas Bernhard
Austria
Memoir
Shoeless Joe
W.P. Kinsella
Canada
Novel
The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende
Chile
Novel
Running in the Family
Michael Ondaatje
Canada
Novel
On the Black Hill
Bruce Chatwin
England
Novel
Top Girls
Carol Churchill
England
Play
Noises Off
Michael Frayn
England
Play
A Pale View of Hills
Kazuo Ishiguro
England
Novel
A Wild Sheep Chase
Haruki Murakami
Japan
Novel
Summer in Badin-Badin
Leonard Tsypkin
Russia
Biography
"Master Harold"...and the Boys
Athol Fugard
South Africa
Play
The Elfstones of Shannara
Terry Brooks
United States
Novel
The Body
Stephen King
United States
Novella
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Stephen King
United States
Novella
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
United States
Novel
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Anne Tyler
United States
Novel
1982–1984
The Belgariad
David Eddings
United States
Novel series
1982–1986
The False Inspector Dew
Peter Lovesey
England
Novel
Memory of the Fire
Eduardo Galeano
Uruguay
Novel series
1983
The Sorrow of Belgium
Hugo Claus
Belgium
Novel
Shame
Salman Rushdie
England
Novel
Fado Alexandrino
Antonio Lobo Antunes
Portugal
Novel
The Life and Times of Michael K
J.M. Coetzee
South Africa
Novel
The Mists of Avalon
Marion Bradley
United States
Novel
Startide Rising
David Brin
United States
Novel
Cathedral
Raymond Carver
United States
Story collection
The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
United States
Novella
The Eye of the World
Robert Jordany
United States
Novel
Ironweed
William Kennedy
United States
Novel
LaBrava
Elmore Leonard
United States
Novel
1984
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Canada
Novel
The Engineer of Human Souls
Josef Skvorecky
Canada
Novel
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
Czechia
Novel
Money
Martin Amis
England
Novel
Flaubert's Parrot
Julian Barnes
England
Novel
Hotel du Lac
Anita Brookner
England
Novel
The Lover
Marguerite Duras
France
Novella
Small Lives
Pierre Michon
France
Novel
The Bone People
Keri Hulme
New Zealand
Novel
The Wasp Factory
Iain Banks
Scotland
Novel
Last Evenings With Teresa
Juan Marsé
Spain
Novel
Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich
United States
Novel
Bright Lights, Big City
Jay McInerney
United States
Novel
Glengarry Glen Ross
David Mamet
United States
Play
PRESS ENTER[]
John Varley
Novella
Play
1984–1986
The Fionavar Tapestry
Guy Gavriel Kay
Canada
Novel series
1985
Annie John
Jamaica Kincaid
Antigua
Novel
Black Robe
Brian Moore
Canada
Novel
Half of Man Is Woman
Zhang Xianliang
China
Novel
The Tenth Man
Graham Greene
England
Novella
The Parable of the Blind
Gert Hofmann
Germany
Novel
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Patrick Suskind
Germany
Novel
The Old Gringo
Carlos Fuentes
Mexico
Novel
Blood Music
Greg Bear
United States
Novel
White Noise
Don DeLillo
United States
Novel
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
United States
Novel
Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
United States
Novel
Contact
Carl Sagan
United States
Novel
The Accidental Tourist
Anne Tyler
United States
Novel
1985–1986
The New York Trilogy
Paul Auster
United States
Novel series
1986
The Old Devils
Kingsley Amis
England
Novel
An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro
England
Novel
Howl's Moving Castle
Diana Wynne Jones
England
Novel
A Dark-Adopted Eye
Barbara Vine
England
Novel
Matigari
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Kenya
Novel
Who Killed Palomino Molero?
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peru
Novel
Kaffir Boy
Mark Mathabane
South Africa
Memoir
The Prince of Tides
Pat Conroy
United States
Novel
The Sportswriter
Richard Ford
United States
Novel
1986–1987
Red Sorghum
Mo Yan
China
Novel
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
Watchmen
Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons
England
Graphic novel
The Pigeon
Patrick Süskind
Germany
Novella
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
Japan
Novel
The Place of the Skull
Chingiz Aitmatov
Russia
Novel
You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town
Zoë Wicomb
South Africa
Story cycle
The Enigma of Arrival
V.S. Naipaul
Trinidad
Novel
World's End
T. Coraghessan Boyle
Portugal
Novel
War for the Oaks
Emma Bull
United States
Novel
The Black Dahlia
James Ellroy
United States
Novel
Misery
Stephen King
United States
Novel
Beloved
Toni Morrison
United States
Novel
Presumed Innocent
Scott Turow
United States
Novel
1988
Oscar and Lucinda
Peter Carey
Australia
Novel
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Brazil
Novel
The First Garden
Anne Hebert
Canada
Novel
Under World
Reginald Hill
England
Novel
A Taste for Death
P.D. James
England
Novel
Foucault's Pendulum
Umberto Eco
Italy
Novel
The Shadow Lines
Amitav Ghosh
India
Novel
The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie
India
Novel
Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto
Japan
Novel
Ice Candy Man
Bapsi Sidhwa
Pakistan
Novel
Obabakoak
Bernardo Atxaga
Spain
Novel
Where I'm Calling From
Raymond Carver
United States
Story collection
The Silence of the Lambs
Thomas Harris
United States
Play
A Thief of Time
Tony Hillerman
United States
Novel
M. Butterfly
David Henry Hwang
United States
Play
The Bean Trees
Barbara Kingsolver
United States
Novel
Wittgenstein's Mistress
David Markson
United States
Novel
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
United States
Novel
Breathing Lessons
Anne Tyler
United States
Novel
Nervous Conditions
Dangarembga Tsitsi
Zimbabwe
Novel
1989
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
England
Novel
Devices and Desires
P.D. James
England
Novel
London Fields
Martin Amis
England
Novel
The Great Indian Novel
Shashi Tharoor
India
Novel
Like Water for Chocolate
Laura Esquivel
Mexico
Novel
The Storyteller
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peru
Novel
The History of the Siege of Lisbon
José Saramago
Portugal
Novel
All Souls
Javier Marías
Spain
Novel
Billy Bathgate
E.L. Doctorow
United States
Novel
1989–1999
The Hyperion Cantos
Dan Simmons
United States
Novel series
including Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion, and stories
1990
Tigana
Guy Gavriel Kay
Canada
Novel
Possession
A.S. Byatt
England
Novel
Vertigo
W.G. Sebald
Germany
Novel
The Daughter
Pavlos Matesis
Greece
Novel
Dancing at Lughnasa
Brian Friel
Ireland
Play
Omeros
Derek Walcott
St. Lucia
Poetry
L.A. Confidential
James Ellroy
United States
Novel
Six Degrees of Separation
John Guare
United States
Play
Get Shorty
Elmore Leonard
United States
Novel
Devil in a Blue Dress
Walter Mosley
United States
Novel
Like Life
Lorrie Moore
United States
Story collection
The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien
United States
Story cycle
Rabbit at Rest
John Updike
United States
Novel
1991
Generation X
Douglas Coupland
Canada
Novel
Astradeni
DEugenia Fakinou
Greece
Novel
The Famished Road
Ben Okri
Nigeria
Novel
The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa
Portugal
Novel
Faceless Killers
Henning Mankell
Sweden
Novel
Mao II
Don Delillo
United States
Novel
American Psycho
Bret Ellis Easton
United States
Novel
A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley
United States
Novel
Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Art Spiegelman
United States
Graphic novel
1991–1993
The Thrawn Trilogy
Timothy Zahn
United States
Novel series
1991–1995
Pat Barker
England
Novel series
including Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road
1991–
Outlander
Diana Gabaldon
United States
Novel series
1992
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
Canada
Novel
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
Peter Hoeg
Denmark
Novel
Memories of Rain
Sunetra Gupta
England
Novel
Written on the Body
Jeanette Winterson
England
Novel
Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture
Apostolos Doxiadis
Greece
Novel
The Triple Mirror of the Self
Zulfikar Ghose
Pakistan
Novel
The Crow Road
Iain Banks
Scotland
Novel
Bastard Out of Carolina
Dorothy Allison
United States
Novel
Jesus' Son
Denis Johnson
United States
Story collection
Angels in America
Tony Kushner
United States
Play
Oleanna
David Mamet
United States
Play
All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy
United States
Novel
Black Water
Joyce Carol Oates
United States
Novella
The Secret History
Donna Tartt
United States
Novel
A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge
United States
Novel
Doomsday Book
Connie Willis
United States
Novel
Green Grass, Running Water
Thomas King
Canada
Novel
To Live
Yu Hu
China
Novel
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
Álvaro Mutis
Colombia
Novella collection
Before Night Falls
Reinaldo Arenas
Cuba
Memoir
A Dead Man in Deptford
Anthony Burgess
England
Novel
Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks
England
Novel
Arcadia
Tom Stoppard
England
Play
The Emigrants
W.G. Sebald
Germany
Novel
The Invention of Curried Sausage
Uwe Timm
Germany
Novella
A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth
India
Novel
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Roddy Doyle
Ireland
Novel
Deep River
Shūsaku Endō
Japan
Novel
The Life of Insects
Victor Pelevin
Russia
Novel
Trainspotting
Irvine Welsh
Scotland
Novel
Gifts
Narrudin Farah
Somalia
Novel
The Dumas Club
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Spain
Novel
The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides
United States
Novel
The Shipping News
Annie Proulx
United States
Novel
1994
Of Love and Shadows
Isabel Allende
Chile
Novel
Our Lady of the Assassins
Fernando Vallejo
Colombia
Novel
What a Carve Up!
Jonathan Coe
England
Novel
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Louis de Bernieres
England
Novel
Whatever
Michel Houellbecq
France
Novel
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Edwidge Dandicat
Haiti
Novel
How Late It Was
James Kelman
Scotland
Novel
In the Time of Butterflies
Julia Alvarez
United States
Novel
Complete Collected Poems
Maya Angelou
United states
Poetry collection
1994–1995
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
Japan
Novel
1995
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
Canada
Novel
The Jade Peony
Wayson Choy
Canada
Novel
High Fidelity
Nick Hornby
England
Novel
The Unconsoled
Kazuo Ishiguro
England
Novel
The Prestige
Christopher Priest
England
Novel
The Reader
Bernard Schlink
Germany
Novel
The Late-Night News
Petros Markaris
Greece
Novel
The Tortilla Curtain
T. Coraghessan Boyle
United States
Novel
1995–2000
His Dark Materials
Philip Pullman
England
Novel series
including Northern Lights (The Golden Compass), The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass
1996
Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood
Canada
Novel
Fugitive Pieces
Anne Michaels
Canada
Novel
Selected Stories
Mavis Gallant
Canada
Story collection
including The Moslem Wife, In Youth Is Pleasure, The Chosen Husband, In Plain Sight, and others
Fall on Your Knees
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Canada
Novel
Quilt and Other Stories
Ismat Chugtai
India
Story collection
Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt
Ireland
Memoir
Chapeyev and Pustota
Victor Pelevin
Russia
Novel
Drown
Junot Díaz
United States
Story collection
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
George Saunders
United States
Story collection
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
United States
Novel
1996–
A Song of Ice and Fire
George R.R. Martin
United States
Novel series
1997
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
India
Novel
Closely Watched Trains
Bohumil Hrabal
Czechia
Novel
Underworld
Don DeLillo
United States
Novel
The Philip K. Dick Reader
Philip K. Dick
United States
Story Collection
Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett
United States
England
Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier
United States
Novel
Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden
United States
Novel
Mason and Dixon
Thomas Pynchon
United States
Novel
1997–2007
Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling
England
Novel series
including Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, ...and the Chamber of Secrets, ...and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and more
1998
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
Wayne Johnston
Canada
Novel
The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño
Chile
Novel
Birthday Letters
Ted Hughes
England
Poetry
The Elementary Particles
Michel Houellbecq
France
Novel
Crossfire
Miyuki Miyabi
Japan
Novel
Open Ground
Seamus Heaney
Northern Ireland
Poetry collection
The Heretic
Orhan Pamuk
Turkey
Novel
My Name Is Red
Miguel Delibes
Spain
Novel
The Hours
Michael Cunningham
United States
Novel
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver
United States
Novel
1999
No Great Mischief
Alexander MacLeod
Canada
Novel
Barney's Version
Mordecai Richler
Canada
Novel
Waiting
Ha Jin
China
Novel
Somersault
Kenzaburō Ōe
Japan
Novel
The Years With Laura Diaz
Carlos Fuentes
Mexico
Novel
The Life and Times of Michael K
J.M. Coetzee
South Africa
Novel
Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri
United States
Story collection
Ties That Bind, Ties That Break
Lensey Namioka
United States
Novel
2000
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
Ismail Kadare
Albania
Novel
True History of the Kelly Gang
Peter Carey
Australia
Novel
Anil's Ghost
Michael Ondaatje
Canada
Novel
Mercy Among the Children
David Adams Richards
Canada
Novel
Monkey Beach
Eden Robinson
Canada
Novel
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
England
Novel
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Dai Sijie
France
Novel
The Feast of the Goat
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peru
Novel
Bartleby and Co
Entique Vila-Matas
Spain
Novel
The Poems and Prose of Paul Celan
Paul Celan
Romania
Poetry and prose
I Ask the Impossible
Ana Castillo
United States
Poetry collection
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
United States
Novel
Shopgirl
Steve Martin
United States
Novella
Pastoralia
George Saunders
United States
Story collection
2000–2003
Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
Iran
Graphic novels
including Persepolis, Persepolis 2
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