The Really Long List of Great Literature (cont'd)
Ancient • Medieval & Renaissance • 18th & 19th century • 20th century • 21st century
Twentieth-Century Literature (1901 to 2000 CE)
1901
My Brilliant Career
by Miles Franklin, Australia
Novel
The Broken Nest
by Rabindranath Tagore, Bengal
Novella
Three Sisters
by Anton Chekhov, Russia
Play
Resurrection
by Leo Tolstoy, Russia
Novel
Just So Stories
by Rudyard Kipling, England
Story collection includes "How the Camel Got His Hump", "How the Leopard Got His Spots", "How the First Letter Was Written", and others
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
by Beatrix Potter, England
Novella
The Immoralist
by André Gide, France
Novel
The Lower Depths
by Maxim Gorky, Russia
Novel
The Power of Darkness
by Leo Tolstoy, Russia
Play
The Wings of the Dove
by Henry James, United States
Novel
1903
Man and Superman
by George Bernard Shaw, Ireland
Play
The Riddle of the Sands
by Erskine Childers, England
Novel
The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekhov, Russia
Play
The Ambassadors
by Henry James, United States
Novel
The Beast in the Jungle
by Henry James, United States
Novella
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London, United States
Novella
Riders to the Sea
by John Millington Synge, Ireland
Play
Peter Pan
by J.M. Barrie, Scotland
Play
Cabbages and Kings
by O. Henry, United States
Story collection
The Golden Bowl
by Henry James, United States
Novel
The Sea Wolfe
by Jack London, United States
Novel
1905
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle, England
Story collection includes "The Empty House", "The Norwood Builder", "The Dancing Men", "Charles Augustus Milverton", and others
Major Barbara
by George Bernard Shaw, Ireland
Play
Professor Unrat
by Heinrich Mann, Germany
Novel
Major Barbara
by George Bernard Shaw, Ireland
Play
Summerfolk
by Maxim Gorky, Russia
Play
Solitude
by Victor Català, Spain
Novel
The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton, United States
Novel
1905–1928
A Flower in a Sinful Sea
by Jin Tianhe, Zeng Pu, China
Novel
1906
The Confusions of Young Törless
by Robert Musil, England, Austria
Spring Awakening
by Frank Wedekind, Germany
Play
The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair, United States
Novel
White Fang
by Jack London, United States
Novella
1906–1907
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
by Selma Lagerlöf, Sweden
Novel
1906–1921
The Forsyte Saga
by John Galsworthy, England
Novel series includes The Man of Property, In Chancery, To Let, and two interludes
1907
Songs of a Sourdough
by Robert Service, Canada
Poetry collection
The Travels of Lao Can
by Liu E, China
Novel
The Playboy of the Western World
by John Millington Synge, Ireland
Play
Mother
by Maxim Gorky, Russia
Novel
1908
Anne of Green Gables
by L.M. Montgomery, Canada
Novel
The Old Wives' Tale
by Arnold Bennett, England
Novel
A Room With a View
by E.M. Forster, England
Novel
The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame, England
Novel
Tono-Bungay
by H.G. Wells, England
Novel
The Inferno
by Henri Barbusse, France
Novel
Tendrils of the Vine
by Colette, France
Novel
The Seven Who Were Hanged
by Leonid Andreyev, Russia
Novella
The Circular Staircase
by Mary Roberts Rinehart, United Sstates
Novel
1909
Penguin Island
by Anatole France, France
Novel
Strait Is the Gate
by André Gide, France
Novel
Martin Eden
by Jack London, United States
Novel
1910
Howards End
by E.M. Forster, England
Novel
Phantom of the Opera
by Gaston Leroux, France
Novel
Jean-Christophe
by Romain Rolland, France
Novel
Impressions of Africa
by Raymond Roussel, France
Novel
1911
The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett, England
Novel
The Innocence of Father Brown
by G.K. Chesterton, England
Story collection includes "The Blue Cross", "The Invisible Man", "The Hammer of God", and others
"Casting the Runes"
by M.R. James, England
Story
Fantômas
by Marcel Allain, Pierre Souvestre, France
Novel
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton, United States
Novella
1912
Song Offerings
by Rabindranath Tagore, Bengal
Poetry collection
Zuleika Dobson
by Max Beerbohm, England
Novel
Poetical Works
by Robert Bridges, England
Poetry collection
The Gods are Athirst
by Anatole France, France
Novel
Campos de Castilla
by Antonio Machado, Spain
Poetry collection
Tarzan of the Apes
by Edgar Rice Burroughs, United States
Novel
Riders of the Purple Sage
by Zane Grey, United States
Novel
1913
Trent's Last Case
by E.C. Bentley, England
Novel
Sons and Lovers
by D.H. Lawrence, England
Novel
Le Grand Meaulnes
by Alain-Fournier, France
Novel
Alcohols
by Guillaume Apollinaire, France
Poetry collection
By the Open Sea
by August Strindberg, Norway
Novel
Petersburg
by Andrei Bely, Russia
Novel
My Childhood
by Maxim Gorky, Russia
Memoir
O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather, United States
Novel
1913–1927
In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust, France
Novel in seven volumes including Swann's Way, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, The Guermantes Way, Time Regained, and others
The Prussian Officer and other Stories
by D.H. Lawrence, England
Story collection
The Three Sisters
by May Sinclair, England
Novel
Locus Solus
by Raymond Roussel, France
Novel
Dubliners
by James Joyce, Ireland
Includes "The Sisters", "Araby", "Eveline", "Two Gallants", "Ivy Day in the Committee Room", "The Dead", and others
Kokoro
by Sōseki Natsume, Japan
Novel
Platero and I
by Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spain
Poetry collection
The Emperor of Portugalia
by Selma Lagerlöf, Sweden
Novel
North of Boston
by Robert Frost, United States
Poetry collection includes "Mending Wall", "The Death of the Hired Man", "After Apple-Picking", and others
1914–1917
Golpoguchchho (Bunch of Stories)
by Rabindranath Tagore, Bengal
Story collection
1914–1955
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
by Robert Tressell, Ireland
Story collection
The Good Soldier
by Ford Maddox Ford, England
Novel
The Rainbow
by D.H. Lawrence, England
Novel
Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham, England
Novel
A Cloud in Trousers
by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russia
Poem
Herland
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, United States
Novel
Spoon River Anthology
by Edgar Lee Masters, United States
Poetry collection
1916
The Home and the World
by Rabindranath Tagore, Bengal
Novel
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka, Bohemia
Novella
The Underdogs
by Mariano Azuela, Mexico
Novel
Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw, Ireland
Play
Mountain Interval
by Robert Frost, United States
Poetry collection includes "The Road Not Taken"; "Birches"; "Out, Out—"; and others
Chicago Poems
by Carl Sandburg, United States
Poetry collection
1917
The Charwoman's Daughter
by James Stephens, Ireland
Novel
Heartless
by Yi Gwangsu, Korea
Novel
Growth of the Soil
by Knut Hamsun, Norway
Novel
A Princes of Mars
by Edgar Rice Burroughs, United states
Novel
1917–1929
The Fortunes Of Richard Mahony
by Richard Handel Richardson, Australia
Novel series
1918
"A Madman's Diary"
by Lu Hsun, China
Story
Poems
by Gerard Manley Hopkins, England
Poetry collection
Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War 1913-1916
by Guillaume Apollinaire, France
Poetry collection
The Magnificent Ambersons
by Booth Tarkington, United States
Novel
1919
In the Penal Colony
by Franz Kafka, Bohemia
Novel
The Moon and Sixpence
by W. Somerset Maugham, England
Novel
Demian
by Herman Hesse, Switzerland
Novel
Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson, United States
Story collection
1920
R.U.R.
by Karel Čapek, Bohemia
Play
Women in Love
by D.H. Lawrence, England
Novel
Poems
by Wilfred Owen, England
Poetry collection
Chéri
by Colette, France
Novel
Heartbreak House
by George Bernard Shaw, Ireland
Novel
Bohemian Nights
by Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Spain
Play
Youth and the Bright Medusa
by Willa Cather, United States
Story collection includes "Paul's Case", "A Wagner Matinee", "A Death in the Desert", and others
This Side of Paradise
by F. Scott Fitzgerald, United States
Novel
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton, United States
Novel
1920–1922
Kristin Lavransdatter
by Sigrid Undset, Norway
Novel series includes The Wreath, The Wife, The Cross
1920–1923
The Good Soldier Schweik
by Jaroslav Hasek, Czechoslovakia
Novel
1921
Crome Yellow
by Aldous Huxley, England
Novel
Six Characters in Search of an Author
by Luigi Pirandello, Italy
Play
1922
Despair
by Gabriela Mistral, Chile
Poetry collection
The Worm Ouroboros
by E.R. Eddison, England
Novel
Henry IV
by Luigi Pirandello, Italy
Play
Rashōmon and Other Stories
by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japan
Story collection
The Garden Party and Other Stories
by Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand
Story collection includes "At the Bay", "The Garden Party", "The Daughters of the Late Colonel", "Miss Brill", and others
Siddhartha
by Herman Hesse, Switzerland
Novel
The Enormous Room
by e.e. cummings, United States
Nonfiction novel
Tales of the Jazz Age
by F. Scott Fitzgerald, United States
Story collection includes "May Day", "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", and others
Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis, United States
Novel
The Facade
by Edith Sitwell, United States
Novel
1923
The Devil in Flesh
by Raymond Radiguet, France
Novel
Duino Elegies
by Rainer Maria Rilke, Germany
Poetry collection
Saint Joan
by George Bernard Shaw, Ireland
Play
The Confessions of Zeno
by Italo Svevo, Italy
Novel
Chapayev
by Dmitry Furmanov, Russia
Novel
A Lost Lady
by Willa Cather, United States
Novel
Tulips and Chimneys
by e.e. cummings, United States
Poetry collection
New Hampshire
by Robert Frost, United States
Poetry collection includes Fire and Ice, Nothing Gold Can Stay, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, and others
The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran, United States
Prose poetry collection
Cane
by Jean Toomer, United States
Novel
1924
The Vortex
by Noel Coward, England
Play
A Passage to India
by E.M. Forster, England
Novel
Juno and the Paycock
by Sean O'Casey, Ireland
Play
We
by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russia
Novel
So Big
by Edna Ferber, United States
Novel
Billy Budd, Foretopman
by Herman Melville, United States
Novel
1925
The Trial
by Franz Kafka, Bohemia
Novel
Residence on Earth and Other Poems
by Pablo Neruda, Chile
Poetry collection
Parade's End
by Ford Maddox Ford, England
Novel
The Counterfeiters
by André Gide, France
Novel
Chaka
by Thomas Mofolo, Lesotho
Novel
Heart of a Dog
by Mikhail Bulgakov, Russia
Novella
The Artamonov Business
by Maxim Gorky, Russia
Novel
The Professor's House
by Willa Cather, United States
Novel
The Iron Flood
by Alexander Serafimovich, Russia
Novel
An American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser, United States
Novel
Manhattan Transfer
by John Dos Passos, United States
Novel
In Our Time
by Ernest Hemingway, United States
Story collection includes "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife", "The Three-Day Blow", "The Big Two-Hearted River", and others
Arrowsmith
by Sinclair Lewis, United States
Novel
1925–1970
The Cantos
by Ezra Pound, United States
Poetry collection
1926
The Castle
by Franz Kafka, Bohemia
Novel
Winnie-the-Pooh
by A.A. Milne, England
Story collection
Under the Sun of Satan
by Georges Bernanos, France
Novel
Moravagine
by Blaise Cendrars, France
Novel
The Plough and the Stars
by Sean O'Casey, Ireland
Play
One, None and One HUndred Thousand
by Luigi Pirandello, Italy
Novel
1926–1939
Alberta Trilogy
by Cora Sandel, Norway
Novel series
1926–1943
Joseph and His Brothers
by Thomas Mann, Germany
Novel
1927
Confusion of Feelings
by Stefan Zweig, Austria
Novella
Thérése Desqueyroux
by Paul Mauriac, France
Novel
The Case of Sergeant Grischa
by Arnold Zweig, Germany
Novel
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
by B. Traven, Mexico
Novel
Sunset
by Isaac Babel, Russia
Play
The Twelve Chairs
by Ilya Ilf, Evgeny Petrov, Russia
Novel
Envy
by Yuri Olesha, Russia
Novel
Steppenwolf
by Herman Hesse, Switzerland
Novel
Men Without Women
by Ernest Hemingway, United States
Story collection includes "Hills Like White Elephants", "The Killers", "Ten Indians", and others
Elmer Gantry
by Sinclair Lewis, United States
Novel
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
by Thornton Wilder, United States
Novella
The Machine Stops
by E.M. Forster, England
Novella
The Well of Loneliness
by Radclyffe Hall, England
Novel
Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D.H. Lawrence, England
Novel
Ashenden: Or the British Agent
by W. Somerset Maugham, England
Story collection
Decline and Fall
by Evelyn Waugh, England
Novel
Story of the Eye
by Georges Bataille, France
Novella
Nadja
by André Breton, France
Novel
The Three-Penny Opera
by Bertolt Brecht, Germany
Play
The Tower
by W.B. Yeats, Ireland
Poetry collection
And Quiet Flows the Don
by Mikhail Sholokov, Russia
Novel
Gypsy Ballads
by Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain
Poetry collection
Quicksand
by Nella Larsen, United States
Novel
Machinal
by Sophie Treadwell, United States
Play
1929
The Poisoned Chocolates Case
by Anthony Berkeley, England
Novel
Good-Bye to All that
by Robert Graves, England
Memoir
A High Wind in Jamaica
by Richard Hughes, England
Novel
Children of the Game
by Jean Cocteau, France
Novel
Retreat Without Song
by Shahan Shanoor, France
Novel
Berlin Alexanderplatz
by Alfred Döblin, Germany
Novel
Some Prefer Nettles
by Alberto Moravia, Italy
Novel
The Time of Indifference
by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Japan
Novel
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner, United States
Novel
Passing
by Nella Larsen, United States
Novella
Look Homeward, Angel
by Thomas Wolfe, United States
Novel
1930
Private Lives
by Noel Coward, England
Play
Strong Poison
by Dorothy L. Sayers, England
Novel
Last and First Men
by Olaf Stapledon, England
Novel
Insatiability
by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Poland
Novel
The Foundation Pit
by Andrei Platonov, Russia
Novel
As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner, United States
Novel
The Bridge
by Hart Crane, United States
Epic poem
1930–1936
U.S.A.
by John Dos Passos, United States
Novel series includes The 42nd Parallel, 1919, The Big Money
1930–1943
The Man Without Qualities
by Robert Musil, Austria
Novel
1931
Peter the Lett
by Georges Simenon, Belgioum
Novel
Night Flight
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, France
Novel
Three Generations
by Yeom Sang-seop, Korea
Novel
Odessa Stories
by Isaac Babel, Russia
Story collection
The Little Golden Calf
by Ilya Ilf, Evgeny Petrov, Russia
Novel
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck, United States
Novel
Sanctuary
by William Faulkner, United States
Novel
At the Mountains of Madness
by H.P. Lovecraft, United States
Novel
Morning Becomes Electra
by Eugene O'Neill, United States
Play
1932
Radetzky March
by Joseph Roth, Austria
Novel
The Crime of Inspector Maigret
by Georges Simenon, Belgium
Novel
To the North
by Elizabeth Bowen, England
Novel
Cold Comfort Farm
by Stella Gibbons, England
Novel
Journey to the End of the Night
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, France
Novel
Viper's Tangle
by Francois Mauriac, France
Novel
The Artificial Silk Girl
by Irmgard Keun, Germany
Novel
Tobacco Road
by Erskine Caldwell, United States
Novel
Light in August
by William Faulkner, United States
Novel
Guys and Dolls
by Damon Runyon, United States
Story collection
1932–1935
Studs Lonigan
by James T. Farrell, United States
Novel series includes Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, Judgment Day
1932–1942
Josephus Trilogy
by Lion Feuchtwanger, Germany
Novel series
1933
The Family
by Pa Chin, China
Novel
A Day Off
by Storm Jameson, Germany
Novel
Murder Must Advertise
by Dorothy L. Sayers, England
Novel
Man's Fate
by André Malraux, France
Novel
In the Heart of the Seas
by Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israel
Play
Blood Wedding
by Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain
Play
The Case of the Sulky Girl
by Erle Stnaley Gardner, United States
Novel
Winner Take Nothing
by Ernest Hemingway, United States
Story collection includes "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
by Gertrude Stein, United States
Novel
Miss Lonelyhearts
by Nathanael West, United States
Novella
The Nine Tailors
by Dorothy L. Sayers, England
Novel
A Handful of Dust
by Evelyn Waugh, England
Novel
The Bells of Basel
by Louis Aragon, France
Novel
The Street of Crocodiles
by Bruno Schulz, Poland
Story collection
How the Steel Was Tempered
by Nikolai Ostrovsky, Ukraine
Novel
The Children's Hour
by Lillian Hellman, United States
Play
Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller, United States
Novel
Lust for Life
by Irving Stone, United States
Novel
"A Martian Odyssey"
by Stanley G. Weinbaum, United States
Story
1934–1935
Independent People
by Halldór Laxness, Iceland
Novel
1934–1988;
Mary Poppins
by P.L. Travers, England
Novel series
1935
Auto-da-Fé
by Elias Canetti, Austria
Novel
Untouchable
by Mulk Raj Anand, India
Novel
Virgin Soil Upturned
by Mikhail Sholokov, Russia
Novel
Swami and Friends
by R.K. Narayan, South Africa
Novel
Selected Poems
by Marianne Moore, United States
Poetry collection
Call It Sleep
by Henry Roth, United States
Novel
Awake and Sing!
by Clifford Odets, United States
Play
1936
The War With the Newts
by Karel Čapek, Czechoslovakia
Novel
Jamaica Inn
by Daphne Du Maurier, England
Novel
Diary of a Country Priest
by Georges Bernanos, Spain
Novel
Invitation to a Beheading
by Vladimir Nabokov, Russia
Novel
Juan de Mairena
by Antonio Machado, Spain, Prose collection
Nightwood
by Djuna Barnes, United States
Novel
Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner, United States
Novel
The Shadow over Innsmouth
by H.P. Lovecraft, United States
Novella
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell, United States
Novel
1937
Rickshaw Boy
by Lao She, China
Novel
Out of Africa
by Karen Blixen, Denmark
Memoir
Star Maker
by Olaf Stapledon, England
Novella
The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien, England
Novel
The Blind Owl
by Ssadegh Hedayat, Italy
Novel
Ferdydurke
by Witold Gombrowicz, Poland
Novel
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston, United States
Novel
1937–1967
Horatio Hornblower
by C.S. Forester, England
Novel series
1938
Harvesting
by Gabriela Mistral, Chile
Poetry collection
Cause for Alarm
by Eric Ambler, England
Novel
Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier, England
Novel
Brighton Rock
by Graham Greene, England
Novel
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
by Winifred Watson, England
Novel
Scoop
by Evelyn Waugh, England
Novel
The Sword in the Stone
by T.H. White, England
Novel
The Code of the Woosters
by P.G. Wodehouse, England
Novel
Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre, France
Novel
The Death of the Heart
by Elizabeth Bowen, England
Novel
Murphy
by Samuel Beckett, Ireland
Novel
Human Poems
by Cesar Vallejo, Peru
Poetry collection
The Gift
by Vladimir Nabokov, Russia
Novel
Alamuit
by Vladimir Bartol, Slovenia
Novel
Who Goes there?
by John W. Campbell, United States
Novella
Anthem
by Ayn Rand, United States
Novella
The Book of the Dead
by Muriel Rukeyser, United States
Poetry collection
1939
The Mask of Dimitrios
by Eric Ambler, England
Novel
Rogue Male
by Geoffrey Household, England
Novel
Goodbye to Berlin
by Christopher Isherwood, England
Novel
Good Morning, Midnight
by Jean Rhys, England
Novel
Tropisms
by Nathalie Sarraute, France
Novel
Mother Courage and Her Children
by Bertolt Brecht, Germany
Play
At Swim-Two-Birds
by Flann O'Brien, Ireland
Novel
The Little Foxes
by Lillian Hellman, United States
Play
Arsenic and Old Lace
by Joseph Kesselring, United States
Play
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
by Katherine Anne Porter, United States
Story collection
The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West, United States
Novel
1940
The Invention of Morel
by Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentina
Novel
The Man Who Loved Children
by Christina Stead, Australia
Novel
The Power and the Glory
by Graham Greene, England
Novel
The Tartar Steppe
by Dino Buzzati, Italy
Novel
The Don Flows Home to the Sea
by Mikhail Sholokov, Russia
Novel
Poet in New York
by Federico García Lorca, Spain
Poetry collection
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers, United States
Novel
Native Son
by Richard Wright, United States
Novel
1940–1942
"Four Quartets"
by T.S. Eliot, England
Poem
1941
Chess Story
by Stefan Zweig, Austria
Novella
Blithe Spirit
by Noel Coward, England
Play
Owen Glendower
by John Cowper Powys, England
Novel
The Silence of the Sea
by Vercors, France
Novel
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
by Bertolt Brecht, Germany
Play
Ride This Night
by Vilhelm Moberg, Sweden
Novel
Mildred Pierce
by James M. Cain, United States
Novel
The Wife of Martin Guerre
by Janet Lewisa, United States
Novella
A Curtain of Green
by Eudora Welty, United States
Story collection
1941–1956
Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina
Story collection
1942
The Outsider
by Albert Camus, Algeria
Novella
Nerves
by Lester Del Rey, United States
Novella
Mythology
by Edith Hamilton, United States
Story collection
1943
Love in a Fallen City
by Eileen Chang, China
Novel
The Life of Galileo
by Bertolt Brecht, Germany
Play
The Crooked Line
by Ismat Chugtai, India
Novel
The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand, United States
Novel
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith, United States
Novel
1944
The Horse's Mouth
by Joyce Cary, England
Novel
The Razor's Edge
by W. Someret Maugham, England
Novel
Antigone
by Jean Anouilh, France
Play
Aurélien
by Louis Aragon, France
Novel
"Arcanum 17"
by Andre Breton, France
Poem
Our Lady of the Flowers
by Jean Genet, France
Novel
No Exit
by Jean-Paul Sartre, France
Play
Transit
by Anna Seghers, Germany
Novel
The Makioka Sisters
by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Japan
Novel
The Dwarf
by Pär Lagerkvist, Sweden
Novel
1944–1946
Trilogy
by Hilda Doolittle, United States
Poetry collection
1945
Caligula
by Albert Camus, Algeria
Play
Two Solitudes
by Hugh MacLennan, Canada
Novel
The Tin Flute
by Gabrielle Roy, Canada
Novel
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
by Elizabeth Smart, Canada
Novel
Loving
by Henry Green, England
Novel
The Pursuit of Love
by Nancy Mitford, England
Novel
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh, England
Novel
The Madwoman of Chaillot
by Jean Giraudoux, France
Play
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
by Bertolt Brecht, Germany
Play
The English Teacher
by R.K. Narayan, India
Novel
Only Yesterday
by Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israel
Novel
The Glass Bead Game
by Herman Hesse, Switzerland
Novel
Cannery Row
by John Steinbeck, United States
Novel
The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams, United States
Play
Black Boy
by Richard Wright, United States
Memoir
1945–1948
Pippi Longstocking
by Astrid Lindgren, Sweden
Novella series includes Pippi Longstocking, Pippi Goes on Board, Pippi in the South Seas
1945–1949
The Roads to Freedom
by Jean-Paul Sartre, France
Novel series includes The Age of Reason, The Reprieve, Iron in the Soul
1946
The Moving Toyshop
by Edmund Crispin, England
Novel
Paroles
by Jacques Prévert, France
Poetry collection
Zorba the Greek
by Nikos Kazantzakis, Greece
Novel
Mr. President
by Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemala
Novel
The Young Guard
by Alexander Fadeyev, Russia
Novel
Dark Avenues
by Ivan Bunin, Russia
Story collection
Return to Ithaca
by Eyvind Johnson, Sweden
Novel
Adventures in Time and Space
ed. Rymond J. Healy, J. Francis McComas, United States
Story collection
Hiroshima
by John Hersey, United States
Nonfiction novel
The Marching Morons
by C.M. Kornbluth, United States
Novella
Lord Weary's Castle
by Robert Lowell, United States
Poetry collection
Vintage Season
by C.L. Moore, Henry Kuttner
(as Lawrence O'Donnell), United States
(as Lawrence O'Donnell), United States
Novella
The Iceman Cometh
by Eugene O'Neill, United States
Play
Slan
by A.E. Van Vogt, United States
Novel
All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren, United States
Novel
Bridge on the Drina
by Ivo Andric, Yugoslavia
Novel
1946–1959
Gormenghast
by Mervyn Peake, England
Novel series includes Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus Alone
1947
The Plague
by Albert Camus, Algeria
Novella
Who Has Seen the Wind?
by W.O. Mitchell, Canada
Novel
"The Heights of Macchu Picchu"
by Pablo Neruda, Chile
Poem
Fortress Besieged
by Qian Zhongshu, China
Novel
Midaq Alley
by Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt
Novel
The Age of Anxiety
by W.H. Auden, England
Poetry collection
Eustace and Hilda
by L.P. Hartley, England
Novel
Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry, England
Novel
A Case to Answer
by Edgar Lustgarten, England
Novel
The Maids
by Jean Genet, France
Play
Exercises in Style
by Raymond Queneau, France
Story collection
Froth on the Daydream
by Boris Vian, France
Play
The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank, Germany
Memoir
Doctor Faustus
by Anne Frank, Germany
Novel
The Path to the Spiders' Nest
by Italo Calvino, Italy
Novel
If This Is a Man
by Primo Levy, Italy
Memoir
I, the Jury
by Mickey Spillane, United States
Novella
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams, United States
Play
With Folded Hands...
by Jack Williamson, United States
Novella
1948
The Tunnel
by Ernesto Sabato, Argentina
Novel
All About H. Hatterr
by G.V. Desani, England
Novel
I Capture the Castle
by Dodie Smith, England, Novel
Death Sentence
by Maurice Blanchot, France
Novel
Snow Country
by Yasunari Kawabata, Japan
Novel
Ashes and Diamonds
by Jerzy Andrzejewski, Poland
Novel
The Franchise Affair
by Josephine Tey, Scotland
Novel
Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton, South Africa
Novel
Journey to Alcarria
by Camilo José Cela, Spain
Nonfiction
The Road to Klockrike
by Harry Martinson, SWeden
Novel
1949
The Kingdom of This World
by Alejo Carpentier, Cuba
Novel
The Heat of the Day
by Elizabeth Bowen, England
Novel
The Third Man
by Graham Greene, England
Novel
Men of Maize
by Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemala
Novel
Confessions of a Mask
by Yukio Mishima, Japan
Novel
The Man With the Golden Arm
by Nelson Algren, United States
Novel
The Sheltering Sky
by Paul Bowles, United States
Novel
The Anniad
by Gwendolyn Brooks, United States
Play
The Lottery and Other Stories
by Shirley Jackson, United States
Story collection
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller, United States
Play
Shane
by Jack Schaefer, United States
Novel
1949–1959
The Emigrants
by Vilhelm Moberg, Sweden
Novel series
Smallbone Deceased
by Michael Gilbert, England
Novel
The Grass Is Singing
by Doris Lessing, England
Novel
The Abbot C
by Georges Bataille, France
Novella
The Bald Soprano
by Eugène Ionesco, France
Play
The Moon and the Bonfires
by Cesare Pavese, Italy
Novel
The Labyrinth of Solitude
by Octavio Paz, Mexico, essay collection
The Hive
by Camilo José Cela, Spain
Novel
Barabbas
by Pär Lagerkvist, Sweden
Novel
I, Robot
by Isaac Asimov, United States
Story collection includes "Robbie", "Runaround", "Reason", "Catch that Rabbit", "Liar!", "Little Lost Robot", and others
Strangers on a Train
by Paricia Highsmith, United States
Novel
Come Back, Little Sheba
by William Inge, United States
Play
1950–1956
by C.S. Lewis, England
Novel series includes The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; and others
1951
Memoirs of Hadrian
by Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgium
Novel
Porius
by John Cowper Powys, England
Novel
The End of the Affair
by Graham Greene, England
Novel
The Day of the Triffids
by John Wyndham, England
Novel
The Opposing Shore
by Julien Gracq, France
Novel
The Complete Short Stories
by W. Somerset Maugham, England
Story collection
Watt
by Samuel Beckett, Ireland
Novel
Forbidden Colors
by Yukio Mishima, Japan
Novel
The Daughter of Time
by Josephine Tey, Scotland
Novel
Spartacus
by Howard Fast, United States
Novel
Montage of a Dream Deferred
by Langston Hughes, United States
Poetry cycle
From Here to Eternity
by James Jones, United States
Novel
The Ballad of the Sad Café
by Carson McCullers, United States
Novella
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
by Dylan Thomas, Wales
Poetry collection
1951–1953
The Trilogy
by Samuel Beckett, Ireland
Novel series includes Molly, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
1951–1975
A Dance to the Music of Time
by Anthony Powell, England
Novel series
1952
The Tiger in the Smoke
by Margery Allingham, England
Novel
The Deep Blue Sea
by Terence Rattigan, England
Play
The Chairs
by Eugene Ionesco, France
Play
Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett, Ireland
Play
Thousand Cranes
by Yasunari Kawabata, Japan
Novel
The Palm-Wine Drunkard
by Amos Tutola, Nigeria
Novel
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison, United States
Novel
Wise Blood
by Flannery O'Connor, United States
Novel
Baby Is Three
by Thodore Sturgeon, United States
Novella
Player Piano
by Kurt Vonnegut, United States
Novel
Last Seen Wearing...
by Hilary Waugh, United States
Novel
Charlotte's Web
by E.B. White, United States
Novel
"A Child's Christmas in Wales"
by Dylan Thomas, Wales
Story
1953
The Lost Steps
by Alejo Carpentier, Cuba
Novel
Childhood's End
by Arthur C. Clarke, England
Novel
"The Nine Billion Names of God"
by Arthur C. Clarke, England
Story
Casino Royale
by Ian Fleming, England
Novel
The Go-Between
by L.P. Hartley, England
Novel
The Hothouse
by Wolfgang Koeppen, Germany
Novel
The Dark Child
by Camara Laye, Guinea
Novel
The Burning Plain and Other Stories
by Juan Rulfo, Mexico
Story collection
The Adventures of Augie March
by Saul Bellow, United States
Novel
Nine Stories
by J.D. Salinger, United States
Story collection includes "A Perfect Day for Bananafish", "For Esmé—With Love and Squalor", and others
More Than Human
by Theodore Sturgeon, United States
Novel
1954
Swamp Angel
by Ethel Wilson, Canada
Novel
Lucky Jim
by Kingsley Amis, England
Novel
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding, England
Novel
Under the Net
by Iris Murdoch, England
Novel
The Unknown Soldier
by Väinö Linna, Finland
Novel
The Mandarins
by Simone de Beauvoir, France
Novel
The Story of O
by Pauline Reage, France
Novel
Hello Sadness
by Francoise Sagan, France
Novel
Death in Rome
by Wolfgang Koeppen, Germany
Novel
Nectar in a Sieve
by Kamala Markandaya, India
Novel
Contempt
by Alberto Moravia, Italy
Novel
The Sound of the Mountain
by Yasunari Kawabata, Japan
Novel
The Sound of Waves
by Yukio Mishima, Japan
Novel
I'm Not Stiller
by Max Frisch, Switzerland
Novel
Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin, United States
Novel
I Am Legend
by Richard Matheson, United States
Novella
The Wicked Pavilion
by Dwn Powell, United States
Novel
Twelve Angry Men
by Reginald Rose, United States
Play
1954–1955
Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien, England
Novel
1955
The Tree of Man
by Patrick White, Australia
Novel
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
by Brian Moore, Canada
Novel
The Less Deceived
by Philip Larkin, England
Poetry collection
The Chrysalids
by John Wyndham, England
Novel
The Voyeur
by Alain Robbe-Grillet, France
Novel
The Last Temptation of Christ
by Nikos Kazantzákis, Greece
Novel
Waiting for the Mahatma
by R.K. Narayan, India
Novel
The Ginger Man
by J.P. Donleavy, Ireland
Novel
Pedro Paramo
by Juan Rulfo, Mexico
Novella
Collected Stories
by Isaac Babel, Russia
Story collection
The Complete Poems
by Emily Dickinson, United States
Poetry collection
The Recognitions
by William Gaddis, United States
Novel
The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith, United States
Novel
Beast in View
by Margaret Millar, United States
Novel
A View From the Bridge
by Arthur Miller, United States
Play
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
by Flannery O'Connor, United States
Story collection includes "A Good Man Is Hard to Find", "The River", "The Life You Save May Be Your Own", "Good Country People", and others
1956
The Fall
by Albert Camus, Algeria
Novella
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
by João Guimarães Rosa, Brazil
Novel
The City and the Stars
by Arthur C. Clarke, England
Novel
Look Back in Anger
by John Osburn, England
Play
Passing Time
by Michel Butor, France
Novel
The Roots of Heaven
by Romain Gary, France
Novel
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
by Yukio Mishima, Japan
Novel
The Visit
by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Switzerland
Play
A Dram of Poison
by JCharlotte Armstrong, United States
Novel
Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin, United States
Novel
Seize the Day
by Saul Bellow, United States
Novella
"Howl"
by Allen Ginsberg, United States
Poem
Double Star
by Robert A. Heinlein, United States
Novel
Long Day's Journey into Night
by Eugene O'Neill, United States
Play
Night
by Elie Wiesel, United States
Memoir
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
by Tennessee Williams, United States
Play
1956–1957
The Cairo Trilogy
by Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt
Novel series
1957
Voss
by Patrick White, Australia
Novel
From Russia With Love
by Ian Fleming, England
Novel
The Entertainer
by John Osborne, England, Playl
The Birthday Party
by Harold Pinter, England
Play
The Midwich Cuckoos
by John Wyndham, England
Novel
The Blue of Noon
by Georges Bataille, France
Novel
Second Thoughts
by Michel Butor, France
Novel
Jealousy
by Alain Robbe-Grillet, France
Novel
The Glass Bees
by Ernst Jünger, Germany
Novel
Endgame
by Samuel Beckett, Ireland
Play
Arturo's Island
by Elsa Morante, Italy
Novel
Sunstone
by Octavio Paz, Mexico
Poem
Pnin
by Vladimir Nabokov, Russia
Novel
Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak, Russia
Novel
Homo Faber
by Max Frisch, Switzerland
Novel
The Wapshot Chronicle
by John Cheever, United States
Novel
Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand, United States
Novel
1957–1959
The Baron in the Trees
by Italo Calvino, Italy, Novels\
1957–1960
The Alexandria Quartet
by Laurence Durrell, England
Novel series
1958
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
by Jorge Amado, Brazil
Novel
The Caretaker
by Harold Pinter, England
Play
The Once and Future King
by T.H. White, England
Novel
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
by Alan Sillitoe, England
Novel
The Guide
by R.K. Narayan, India
Novel
Krapp's Last Tape
by Samuel Beckett, Ireland
Play
Borstal Biy
by Brendan Behan, Ireland
Memoir
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
by Kenzaburō Ōe, Japan
Novel
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe, Nigeria
Novel
The Leopard
by Giusseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Italy
Novel
Where the Air Is Clear
by Carlos Fuentes, Mexico
Novel
Jamila
by Chingiz Aitmatov, Russia
Novel
Zoo Story
by Edward Albee, United States
Play
A Case of Conscience
by James Blish, United States
Novel
Breakfast at Tiffany's
by Truman Capote, United States
Novella
A Coney Island of the Mind
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, United States
Poetry collection
The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac, United States
Novel
The Big Time
by Fritz Leiber, United States
Novel
Anatomy of a Murder
by Robert Lovesey, United States
Novel
The Magic Barrel
by Bernard Malamud, United States
Story collection
1959
Morley Callaghan's Stories
by Morley Callaghan, Canada
Story collection includes "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
by Mordecai Richler, Canada
Novel
Double Hook
by Sheila Watson, Canada
Novel
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
by John Arden, England
Play
Cider With Rosie
by Laurie Lee, England
Novel
The Golden Notebook
by Doris Lessing, England
Novel
Zazie in the Metro
by Raymond Queneau, France
Novel
Billiards at Half Past Nine
by Heinrich Böll, Germany
Novel
The Cloven Viscount
by Italo Calvino, Italy
Novel
The Tin Drum
by Günter Grass, Germany
Novel
Sacrificial Egg
by Chinua Achebe, Nigeria
Novel
Henderson the Rain King
by Saul Bellow, United States
Novel
Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs, United States
Novel
The Manchurian Candidate
by Richard Condon, United States
Novel
A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry, United States
Play
A Separate Peace
by John Knowles, United States
Novel
Life Studies
by Robert Lowell, United States
Poetry collection
The Sirens of Titan
by Kurt Vonnegut, United States
Novel
1960
A Man for All Seasons
by Robert Bolt, England
Play
Halftime
by Martin Walser, Germany
Novel
The Country Girls
by Edna O'Brien, Ireland
Novel
God's Bits of Wood
by Ousmane Sembene, Senegal
Novel
The Days of His Grace
by Eyvind Johnson, Sweden
Novel
The Sot-Weed Factor
by John Barth, United States
Novel
The Woman at the Washington Zoo
by Randal Jarrell, United States
Poetry collection
A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller, United States
Novel
Rabbit, Run
by John Updike, United States
Novel
1960–1968
Stockholm
by Pers Ansers Fogelström, Sweden
Novel series
1961
On Heroes and Tombs
by Ernesto Sabato, Argentina
Novel
No One Writes to the Colonel
by Gabriel García Márquez, Colombia
Novel
Cat and Mouse
by Günter Grass, Germany
Novella
1961
The Day of the Owl
by Leonardo Sciascia, Italy
Novel
Solaris
by Stanislaw Lem, Poland
Novel
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark, Scotland
Novel
Memoirs of a Peasant Boy
by Xosé Neira Vilas, Spain
Novel
A House for Mr Biswas
by V.S. Naipaul, Trinidad
Novel
Kaddish and Other Poems
by Allen Ginsbergs, United States
Poetry collection
The Moviegoer
by Walker Percy, United States
Novel
Franny and Zooey
by J.D. Salinger, United States
Novel
Revolutionary Road
by Richard Yates, United States
Novel
James and the Giant Peach
by Roald Dahl, Wales
Novel
1962
Hothouse
by Brian Aldiss, England
Novel
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess, England
Novel
The IPCRESS File
by Len Deighton, England
Novel
The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas
by Marguerite Duras, France
Novel
The Third Wedding
by Costas Taktsis, Greece
Novel
Girl With Green Eyes
by Edna O'Brien, Ireland
Novel
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
by Giorgio Bassani, Ireland
Novel
The Death of Artemio Cruz
by Carlos Fuentes, Mexico
Novel
The Green House
by Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru
Novel
Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov, Russia
Novel
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russia
Novella
Time of Silence
by Luis Martín-Santos, Spain
Novel
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
by Edward Albee, United States
Play
The Reivers
by William Faulkner, United States
Novel
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson, United States
Novel
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey, United States
Novel
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle, United States
Novel
Ship of Fools
by Katherine Anne Porter, United States
Novel
Ballad of Lost C'Mell
by Cordwainer Smith, United States
Novella
1962–1983
Labyrinths
by Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina
Story collection
1963
The General of the Dead Army
by Ismail Kadare, Albania
Novel
Hopscotch
by Julio Cortazar, Argentina
Novel
The Garden Party
by Vaclav Havel, Czechoslovakia
Play
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
by John le Carré, England
Novel
The Water of the Hills
by Marcel Pagnol, France
Novel series includes Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources
The Clown
by Heinrich Böll, Germany
Novel
Dog Years
by Günter Grass, Germany
Novel
Family Sayings
by Natalia Ginzburg, Italy
Novel
Selected Poems
by Octavio Paz, Mexico
Poetry collection
Best Stories of Manto
by Saadat Hasan Manto, Pakistan
Story collection
The Time of the Hero
by Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru
Novel
Requiem
by Anna Akhmatova, Russia
Poetry collection
The Crucible
by Arthur Miller, United States
Play
V.
by Thomas Pynchon, United States
Novel
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
by J.D. Salinger, United States
Novella
Seymour: An Introduction
by J.D. Salinger, United States
Novella
Short Friday and Other Stories
by Isaac Bashevis Singer, United States
Story collection
Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut, United States
Novel
The Graduate
by Charles Webb, United States
Novella
The Good Hope
by William Heinesen, Faroe Islands
Novel
The Ravishing of Lol Stein
by Marguerite Duras, France
Novel
Arrow of God
by Chinua Achebe, Nigeria
Novel
Herzog
by Saul Bellow, United States
Novel
Sometimes a Great Notion
by Ken Kesey, United States
Novel
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl, Wales
Novel
1965
A Season in the Life of Emmannuel
by Marie-Claire Blais, Canada
Novel
The Berlin Memorandum
by Adam Hall, England
Novel
The Homecoming
by Harold Pinter, England
Play
The Vice-Consul
by Maguerite Duras, France
Novel
Things
by Georges Perec, France
Novel
Cosmicomics
by Italo Calvino, Italy
Story collection
The River Between
by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Kenya
Novel
The Painted Bird
by Jerzy Kosinski, United States
Novel
Everything That Rises Must Converge
by Flannery O'Connor, United States
Story collection includes "Everything That Rises Must Converge", "Greenleaf", "The Lame Shall Enter First", "Revelation", "Parker's Back", "Judgement Day", and others
Ariel
by Syvia Plath, United States
Poetry collection
Fences
by August Wilson, United States
Play
1965–1971
Sea of Fertility, The
by Yukio Mishima, Japan
Novel series includes Spring Snow, Runaway Horses, The Temple of Dawn, The Decay of the Angel
1965–1989
Lord Ramage
by Dudley Pope, England
Novel series
1965–2003
Alisa's Adventures
by Kir Bulychev, Russia
Novel series
St. Urbain's Horseman
by Mordecai Richler, Canada
Novel
The Fate of a Cockroach
by Tawfiq Al-Hakim, Egypt
Play
The Magus
by John Fowles, England
Novel
Black Sheep
by Georgette Heyer, England
Novel
Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys, England
Novel
Silence
by Shūsaku Endō, Japan
Novel
Marks of Identity
by Juan Goytisolo, Spain
Novel
Season of Migration to the North
by Tayeb Salih, Sudan
Novel
Giles Goat-Boy
by John Barth, United States
Novel
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote, United States
Nonfiction novel
Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes, United States
Novel
The Fixer
by Bernard Malamud, United States
Novel
The Crying of Lot 49
by Thomas Pynchon, United States
Novel
Live or Die
by Anne Sexton, United States
Poetry collection
Death and the Dervish
by Meša Selimović, Yugoslavia
Novel
1966–1969
Song of Lawino
by Okot p'Bitek, Uganda, Epic poem
1967
Picnic at hanging /Rock
by Joan Lindsay, Australia
Novel
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez, Colombia
Novel
Three Trapped Tigers
by Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuba
Novel
Children of Gebelawi
by Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt
Novel
Miramar
by Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt
Novel
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
by Tom Stoppard, England
Play
The Manila Rope
by Veijo Meri, Finlnd
Novel
Day of the Dolphin
by Robert Merle, France
Novel
Z
by Vassillis Vassilikos, Greece
Novel
The Third Policeman
by Flann O'Brien, Ireland
Novel
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov, Russia
Novel
The Case of Comrade Tulayev
by Victor Serge, Russia
Novel
Mimic Men
by V.S. Naipaul, Trinidad
Novel
Babel-17
by Samuel R. Delaney, United States
Novel
Camp Concentration
by Thomas Disch, United States
Novel
The Outsiders
by S.E. Hinton, United States
Novel
The Chosen
by Chaim Potok, United States
Novel
The Confessions of Nat Turner
by William Styron, United States
Novel
Dangerous Visions
ed. Harlan Ellison, United States
Story collection
Lord of Light
by Roger Zelazny, United States
Novel
1967–1970
Slaves trilogy
by Thorkild Hansen, Denmark
Novel series includes Coast of Slaves, Ships of Slaves, Islands of Slaves
1968
Betrayed by Rita Hayworth
by Manuel Puig, Argentina
Novel
2001: A Space Odyssey
by Arthur C. Clarke, England
Novel
Eva Trout, or Changing Scenes
by Elizabeth Bowen, England
Novel
The Abyss
by Margaret Yourcenar, France
Novel
The German Lesson
by Siegfried Lenz, Germany
Novel
The Quest for Christa T.
by Christa Wolf, Germany
Novel
To Each His Own
by Leonardo Sciascia, Italy
Novel
Cancer Ward
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russia
Novel
The First Circle
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russia
Novel
The Laughing Policeman
by Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö, Sweden
Novel
Belle du Seigneur
by Albert Cohen, Switzerland
Novel
The Last Unicorn
by Peter S. Beagle, United States
Novel
In Watermelon Sugar
by Richard Brautigan, United States
Novel
Stand on Zanzibar
by John Brunner, United States
Novel
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
by William H. Gass, United States
Story collection
The Lion in Winter
by James Goldman, United States
Play
Dragonflight
by Anne McCaffrey, United States
Novel
Rite of Passage
by Alexei Panshin, United States
Novel
The Séance and Other Stories
by Isaac Bashevis Singer, United States
Story collection
Myra Breckinridge
by Gore Vidal, United States
Novel
Welcome to the Monkey House
by Kurt Vonnegut, United States
Story collection includes "Harrison Bergeron", "Welcome to the Monkey House", "D.P"., "The Euphio Question", and others
1968–1977
The Cornelius Quartet
by Michael Moorcock, England
Novel series
1968–2001
The Earthsea Cycle
by Ursula K. Le Guin, United States
Novel series also known as Earthsea; The Earthsea Trilogy
1969
Little Painted Mouths
by Manuel Puig, Argentina
Novel
Selected Poetry
by Irving Layton, Canada
Poetry collection
The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles, England
Novel
Master and Commander
by Patick O'Brian, England
Novel
What the Butler Saw
by Joe Orton, England
Play
A Void
by Georges Perec, France
Novel
Jacob the Liar
by Jurek Becker, Germany
Novel
The Case Worker
by Gyorgy Konrad, Hungary
Novel
Strumpet City
by James Plunkett, Ireland
Novel
The Castle of Crossed Destinies
by Italo Calvino, Italy
Novel
Here's to You, Jesusa
by Elena Poniatowska, Mexico
Nonfiction novel
Ada or Ardor
by Vladimir Nabokov, Russia
Novel
Blind Man with a Pistol
by Chester Himes, United States
Novel
them
by Joyce Carol Oates, United States
Novel
The Godfather
by Mario Puzo, United States
Novel
Slaughterhouse Five
by Kurt Vonnegut, United States
Novel
1970
Fifth Business
by Robertson Davies, Canada
Novel
Kamouraska
by Anne Hébert, Canada
Novel
Troubles
by J.G. Farrell, England
Novel
Crow
by Ted Hughes, England
Poetry collection
Group Portrait with a Lady
by Heinrich Böll, Geermany
Novel
Fool's Gold
by Maro Douka, Greece
Novel
Twenty-One Stories
by S.Y. Agnon, Israel
Story collection
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou, United States
Memoir
Jonathan Livingston Seagul?
by Richard Bach, United States
Novella
Deliverance
by James Dickey, United States
Novel
The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison, United States
Novel
Play It as It Lays
by Joan Didion, United States
Novel
1970–1983
Anniversaries
by Uwe Johnson, Germany
Novel
1970–1991
thr Chronicles of Mmber
by Roger Zelazny, United States
Novel series includes Nine Princes in Amber, The Guns of Avalon, Sign of the Unicorn, and others
1971
The Complete Stories
by Franz Kafka, Bohemia
Story collection
Lives of Girls and Women
by Alice Munro, Canada
Story collection
The Day of the Jackal
by Frederick Forsyth, England
Novel
The Egyptian
by Mika Waltari, Finland
Novel
Group Portrait with a Lady
by Heinrich Böll, Germany
Novel
August 1914
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russia
Novel
The Poetry of Luis Cernuda
by Luis Cernuda, Spain
Poetry collection
In a Free State
by V.S. Naipaul, Trinidad
Novel
The Book of Daniel
by E.L. Doctorow, United States
Novel
Collected Poems
by Frank O'Hara, United States
Poetry collection
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath, United States
Novel
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner, United States
Novel
Rabbit Redux
by John Updike, United States
Novel
1971–1983
Riverworld
by Philip José Farmer, United States
Novel series includes To Your Scattered Bodies Go, The Fabulous Riverboat, The Dark Design, and others
1972
Surfacing
by Margaret Atwood, Canada
Novel
Watership Down
by Richard Adams, England
Novel
G.
by John Berger, England
Novel
Rendezvous With Rama
by Arthur C. Clarke, England
Novel
All Creatures Great and Small
by James Herriot, England
Story collection
The Summer Book
by Tove Jansson, Finland
Novel
Invisible Cities
by Italo Calvino, Italy
Novel
The Twilight Years
by Sawako Ariyuoshi, Japan
Novel
Roadside Picnic
by Arkady and Boris Strugatski, Russia
Novel
Bless Me, Ultima
by Rudolpho Anaya, United States
Novel
The Gods Themselves
by Isaac Asimov, United States
Novel
Chimera
by John Barth, United States, Novella cycle
Includes Dunyazadiad, Perseid, Bellerophoniad
The Palm at the End of the Mind
by Wallace Stevens, United States
Poetry collection
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson, United States
Novel
Again, Dangerous Visions
ed. Harlan Ellison, United States
Story collection
The Optimist's Daughter
by Eudora Welty, United States
Novel
1973
A Question of Power
by Bessie Head, Botswana
Novel
Crash
by J.G. Ballard, England
Novel
The Siege of Krishnapur
by J.G. Farrell, England
Novel
Equus
by Peter Shaffer, England
Play
The Box Man
by Kōbō Abe, Japan
Novel
The Gulag Archipelago
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russia
Nonfiction
Moscow to the End of the Line
by Venedikt Yerofeyev, Russia
Novel
Searches and Seizures
by Stanley Elkin, United States
Novella series
The Princess Bride
by William Goldman, United States
Novel
Dance Hall of the Dead
by Tony Hillerman, United States
Novel
Fear of Flying
by Erica Jong, United States
Novel
Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon, United States
Novel
Diving Into the Wreck
by Adrienne Rich, United States
Poetry collection
Burr
by Gore Vidal, United States
Novel
The Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut, United States
Novel
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
by John Le Carré, England
Novel
The Black Prince
by Iris Murdoch, England
Novel
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
by Heinrich Böll, Germany
Novella
History
by Elas Morante, Italy
Novel
Dusklands
by J.M. Coetzee, South Africa
Novel
The Conservationist
by Nadine Gordimer, South Africa
Novel
Jaws
by Peter Benchley, United States
Novel
The Forever War
by Joe Haldeman, United States
Novel
Fletch
by Gregory Mcdonald, United States
Story collection
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
by Nicholas Meyer, United States
Novel
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
by Grace Paley, United States
Story collection
Turtle Island
by Gary Snyder, United States
Poetry collection
Dog Soldiers
by Robert Stone, United States
Novel
1975
The Commandant
by Jessica Anderson, Australia
Novel
Shōgun
by James Clavell, Australia
Novel
Correction
by Thomas Bernhard, Austria
Memoir
The Autumn of the Patriarch
by Gabriel García Márquez, Colombia
Novel
The Eagle Has Landed
by Jack Higgins, England
Novel
Heat and Dust
by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, England
Novel
The Year of the Hare
by Arto Paasilinna, Finland
Novel
W, or the Memory of Childhood
by Georges Perec, France
Novel
The Periodic Table
by Primo Levi, Italy
Memoir
Terra Nostra
by Carlos Fuentes, Mexico
Novel
Death and the King's Horseman
by Wole Soyinka, Nigeria
Play
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
by John Ashbery, United States
Poetry collection
Humboldt's Gift
by Saul Bellow, United States
Novel
Dhalgren
by Samuel Delaney, United States
Novel
Ragtime
by E.L. Doctorow, United States
Novel
The Wind's Twelve Quarters
by Ursula Le Guin, United States
Story collection
1975–2011
Bolitho
by Alexander Kent, England
Novel series
1976
Bear
by Marian Engel, Canada
Novel
Coming Through Slaughter
by Michael Ondaatje, Canada
Novel
A Demon in My View
by Ruth Rendell, England
Novel
Saville
by David Storey, England
Novel
Hérémakhonon
by Maryse Conde, France
Novel
Patterns of Childhood
by Christa Wolf, Germany
Novel
Almost Transparent Blue
by Murakami Ryu, Japan
Novel
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
by Raymond Carver, United States
Story collection
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
by Alex Haley, United States
Novel
A River Runs Through It
by Norman Maclean, United States
Novella
The Woman Warrior
by Maxine Hong Kingston, United States
Novella
Man Plus
by Frederick Pohl, United States
Novel
Interview With the Vampire
by Ann Rice, United States
Novel
1976–1979
Kiss of the Spiderwoman
by Manuel Puig, Argentina
Novel
1976–1980
The Changing Light at Sandover
by James Merrill, United States
Epic poem
1976–1982
The Plantagenet Saga
by Jean Plaidy, England
Novel series
1977
The Monkey Grip
by Helen Garner, Australia
Novel
The Thorn Birds
by Colleen McCullough, Australia
Novel
The Hour of the Star
by Clarice Lispector, Brazil
Novel
The Wars
by Timothy Findley, Canada
Novel
The Beggar Maid
by Alice Munro, Canada
Story collection
Stardance
by Spider and Jeanne Robinson, Canada
Novel
Woman at Point Zero
by Nawal El Saadawi, Egypt
Novel
A Morbid Taste for Bones
by Ellis Peters, England
Novel
Delta of Venus
by Anaïs Nin, France
Story collection
Petals of Blood
by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenya
Novel
Aunt Julia and the Script-Writer
by Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru
Novel
A Part of Speech
by Joseph Brodsky, Russia
Poetry collection
In the Heart of the Country
by J.M. Coetzee, South Africa
Novel
The Sword of Shannara
by Terry Brooks, United States
Novel
Falconer
by John Cheever, United States
Novel
Lord Foul's Bane
by Stephen R. Donaldson, United States
Novel
Fefu and Her Friends
by María Irene Fornés, United States
Play
Dispatches
by Michael Herr, United States
Memoir
The Shining
by Stephen King, United States
Novel
Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison, United States
Novel
Gateway
by Frederick Pohl, United States
Novel
The Elephant Man
by Bernard Pomerance, United States
Play
1978
Tirra Lirra by the River
by Jessica Anderson, Australia
Novel
The Singapore Grip
by F.G. Farrell, England
Novel
The Bookshop
by Penelope Fitzgerald, England
Novella
The Far Pavilions
by M.M. Kaye, England
Novel
The Cement Garden
by Ian McEwan, England
Novel
Rumpole of the Bailey
by John Mortimer, England
Story collection
The Sea, the Sea
by Iris Murdoch, England
Novel
Life a User's Manual
by Georges Perecs, France
Novel
Kolyma Tales
by Varlam Shalamov, Russia
Story collection
The Back Room
by Carmen Martin Gaite, Spain
Novel
The Stories of John Cheever
by John Cheever, United States
Story collection
The Stand
by Stephen King, United States
Novel
Dreamsnake
by Vonda M. McIntyre, United States
Novel
Going After Cacciato
by Tim O'Brien, United States
Novel
The Persistence of Vision
by John Varley, United States
Novella
Fifth of July
by Lanford Wilson, United States
Play
1978–2004
The Dark Tower
by Stephen King, United States
Novel series includes The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three, The Waste Lands, and others
1978–2014
Tales of the City
by Armistead Maupin, United States
Novel series
1979
Lust, Caution
by Eileen Chang, China
Novella
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
by Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakia
Novel
Kane and Abel
by Jeffrey archer, England
Novel
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
by Angela Carter, England
Story collection
Cloud 9
by Caryl Churchill, England
Play
The Fountains of Paradise
by Arthur C. Clarke, England
Novel
Whip Hand
by Dick Francis, England
Novel
Smiley's People
by John Le Carré, England
Novel
Amadeus
by Peter Shaffer, England
Play
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
by Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakia
Novel
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino, Italy
Novel
Territory of Light
by Yūko Tsushima, Japan
Novel
So Long a Letter
by Mariama Bâ, Senegal
Novel
A Dry White Season
by André Brink, South Africa
Novel
Burger's Daughter
by Nadine Gordimer, South Africa
Novel
The Southern Seas
by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spain
Novel
A Bend in the River
by V.S. Naipaul, Trinidad
Novel
Flowers in the Attic
by V.C. Andrews, United States
Novel
Kindred
by Octavia E. Butler, United States
Novel
Legends of the Fall
by Jim Harrison, United States
Novella
Sophie's Choice
by William Styron, United States
Novel
1979–1992
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams, England
Novel series includes The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and others
1980
Clear Light of Day
by Anita Desai, India
Novel
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco, Italy
Novel
Mother's Stake 1
by Park Wan-suh, Korea
Novel
The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years
by Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstan
Novel
Waiting for the Barbarians
by J.M. Coetzee, South Africa
Novel
Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman, Ukraine
Novel
Timescape
by Gregory Benford, United States
Novel
The Transit of Venus
by Shirley Hazzard, United States
Novel
Riddley Walker
by Russell Hoban, United States
Novel
So Long, See You Tomorrow
by William Maxwell, United States
Novel
Housekeeping
by Marilynne Robinson, United States
Novel
1980–1987
The Book of the New Sun
by Gene Wolfe, United States
Novel series
1980–1989
To the Ends of the Earth
by William Golding, England
Novel series
1981
Obasan
by Joy Kogawa, Canada
Novel
Leaden Wings
by Zhang Jie, China
Novel
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
by Gabriel Garcia Márque, Colombia
Novella
The White Hotel
by D.M. Thomas, England
Novel
Couples, Passersby
by Botho Strauss, Germany
Story collection
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie, India
Novel
Mother's Garden
by Park Wan-suh, Korea
Novel
The House wth the Blind Glass Windows
by Mario Vargas Llosa, Norway
Novel
The War of the End of the World
by Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru
Novel
Lanark
by Alasdair Gray, Scotland
Novel
July's People
by Nadine Gordimer, South Africa
Novel
Samuel's Book
by Sven Delblanc, Sweden
Novel
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
by Raymond Carver, United States
Story collection
Emplumada
by Lorna Dee Cervantes, United States
Poetry collection
Downbelow Station
by C.J. Cherryh, United States
Novel
Little, Big
by John Crowley, United States
Novel
Red Dragon
by Thomas Harris, United States
Novel
Rabbit Is Rich
by John Updike, United States
Novel
1982
Schindler's List
by Thomas Keneally, Australia
Novel
Fly Away Peter
by David Malouf, Australia
Novella
Wittgenstein's Nephew
by Thomas Bernhard, Austria
Memoir
Shoeless Joe
by W.P. Kinsella, Canada
Novel
Running in the Family
by Michael Ondaatje, Canada
Novel
The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende, Chile
Novel
On the Black Hill
by Bruce Chatwin, England
Novel
Top Girls
by Carol Churchill, England
Play
Noises Off
by Michael Frayn, England
Play
A Pale View of Hills
by Kazuo Ishiguro, England
Novel
The False Inspector Dew
by Peter Lovesey, England
Novel
The Real Thing
by Tom Stoppard, England
Play
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾
by Sue Townsend, England
Play
If Not Now, When?
by Primo Levy, Italy
Novel
A Wild Sheep Chase
by Haruki Murakami, Japan
Novel
Summer in Baden-Baden
by Leonard Tsypkin, Russia
Biography
"Master Harold"...and the Boys
by Athol Fugard, South Africa
Play
The Elfstones of Shannara
by Terry Brooks, United States
Novel
Ham on Rye
by Chaarles Bukowski, United States
Novel
The Body
by Stephen King, United States
Novella
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
by Stephen King, United States
Novella
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
by Anne Tyler, United States
Novel
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker, United States
Novel
1982–1984
The Belgariad
by David Eddings, United States
Novel series
1982–1986
Memory of the Fire
by Eduardo Galeano, Uruguay
Novel series
1983
The Sorrow of Belgium
by Hugo Claus, Belgium
Novel
Shame
by Salman Rushdie, England
Novel
Mr Palomar
by Italo Calvino, Italy
Novel
Fado Alexandrino
by Antonio Lobo Antunes, Portugal
Novel
The Life and Times of Michael K
by J.M. Coetzee, South Africa
Novel
Larva: Midsummer Night's Babel
by Julián Ríos, Spain
Novel
The Christmas Oratorio
by Göran Tunström, Sweden
Novel
The Mists of Avalon
by Marion Bradley, United States
Novel
Startide Rising
by David Brin, United States
Novel
Cathedral
by Raymond Carver, United States
Story collection
Ironweed
by William Kennedy, United States
Novel
LaBrava
by Elmore Leonard, United States
Novel
1983–2015
Discworld
by Terry Pratchett, England
Novel series
1984
Neuromancer
by William Gibson, Canada
Novel
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakia
Novel
The Engineer of Human Souls
by Josef Skvorecky, Czechoslovakia
Novel
Money
by Martin Amis, England
Novel
Flaubert's Parrot
by Julian Barnes, England
Novel
Hotel du Lac
by Anita Brookner, England
Novel
The Lover
by Marguerite Duras, France
Novella
Small Lives
by Pierre Michon, France
Novel
The Young Man
by Botho Strauss, Germany
Novel
The Bone People
by Keri Hulme, New Zealand
Novel
The Wasp Factory
by Iain Banks, Scotland
Novel
Dictionary of the Khazars
by Milorad Pavic, Serbia
Novel
Last Evenings With Teresa
by Juan Marsé, Spain
Novel
The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros, United States
Novella
The Hunt for Red October
by Tom Clancy, United States
Novel
Love Medicine
by Louise Erdrich, United States
Novel
Bright Lights, Big City
by Jay McInerney, United States
Novel
Glengarry Glen Ross
by David Mamet, United States
Play
PRESS ENTER[]
by John Varley, Novella
Play
1984–1986
The Fionavar Tapestry
by Guy Gavriel Kay, Canada
Novel series
1985
Annie John
by Jamaica Kincaid, Antigua
Novel
Old Masters
by Thomas Bernhard, Austria
Novel
Black Robe
by Brian Moore, Canada
Novel
Half of Man Is Woman
by Zhang Xianliang, China
Novel
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel García Márquez, Colombia
Novel
The Tenth Man
by Graham Greene, England
Novella
The Parable of the Blind
by Gert Hofmann, Germany
Novel
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by Patrick Suskind, Germany
Novel
The Old Gringo
by Carlos Fuentes, Mexico
Novel
Simon and the Oak Trees
by Marianne Frederiksson, Sweden
Novel
Blood Music
by Greg Bear, United States
Novel
White Noise
by Don DeLillo, United States
Novel
Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy, United States
Novel
Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry, United States
Novel
Contact
by Carl Sagan, United States
Novel
The Accidental Tourist
by Anne Tyler, United States
Novel
1985–1986
The New York Trilogy
by Paul Auster, United States
Novel series
1986
Extinction
by Thomas Bernhard, Austria
Novel
The Old Devils
by Kingsley Amis, England
Novel
An Artist of the Floating World
by Kazuo Ishiguro, England
Novel
A Taste for Death
by P.D. James, England
Novel
Howl's Moving Castle
by Diana Wynne Jones, England
Novel
A Dark-Adopted Eye
by Barbara Vine, England
Novel
Matigari
by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Kenya
Novel
Who Killed Palomino Molero?
by Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru
Novel
Kaffir Boy
by Mark Mathabane, South Africa
Memoir
Ancestral Voices
by Etienne van Heerden, South Africa
Novel
The Dog
by Kerstin Ekman, Sweden
Novel
The Prince of Tides
by Pat Conroy, United States
Novel
The Sportswriter
by Richard Ford, United States
Novel
1986–1987
Red Sorghum
by Mo Yan, China
Novel
1986–2011
Red Wall
by Brian Jacques, Englqnd
Novel series
1986–present
The Vorkosigan Saga
by Lois McMaster Bujold, United States
Novel series includes Test of Honour, Dreamweaver's Dilemma, Shards of Honour, Barrayar and others
1987
In the Skin of a Lion
by Michael Ondaatje, Canada
Novel
The Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields, Canada
Novel
The Radiant Way
by Margaret Drabble, England
Novel
Watchmen
by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, England, graphic novel
A Fatal Inversion
by Barbara Vine, England
Novel
The Pigeon
by Patrick Süskind, Germany
Novella
The Commitments
by Roddy Doyle, Ireland
Novel
Norwegian Wood
by Haruki Murakami, Japan
Novel
The Place of the Skull
by Chingiz Aitmatov, Russia
Novel
You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town
by Zoë Wicomb, South Africa
Story collection
The Enigma of Arrival
by V.S. Naipaul, Trinidad
Novel
World's End
by T. Coraghessan Boyle, United States
Novel
War for the Oaks
by Emma Bull, United States
Novel
The Black Dahlia
by James Ellroy, United States
Novel
Misery
by Stephen King, United States
Novel
Beloved
by Toni Morrison, United States
Novel
Presumed Innocent
by Scott Turow, United States
Novel
1988
Oscar and Lucinda
by Peter Carey, Australia
Novel
The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho, Brazil
Novel
Cat's Eye
by Margaret Atwood, Canada
Novel
The First Garden
by Anne Hebert, Canada
Novel
Under World
by Reginald Hill, England
Novel
The Swimming-Pool Library
by Alan Hollinghurst, England
Novel
The Shadow Lines
by Amitav Ghosh, India
Novel
The Satanic Verses
by Salman Rushdie, India
Novel
Foucault's Pendulum
by Umberto Eco, Italy
Novel
Kitchen
by Banana Yoshimoto, Japan
Novel
Ice Candy Man
by Bapsi Sidhwa, Pakistan
Novel
Obabakoak
by Bernardo Atxaga, Spain
Novel
Black Cherry Blues
by James Lee Burke, United States
Story collection
Where I'm Calling From
by Raymond Carver, United States
Story collection
The Silence of the Lambs
by Thomas Harris, United States
Play
A Thief of Time
by Tony Hillerman, United States
Novel
M. Butterfly
by David Henry Hwang, United States
Play
The Bean Trees
by Barbara Kingsolver, United States
Novel
Wittgenstein's Mistress
by David Markson, United States
Novel
The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan, United States
Novel
Breathing Lessons
by Anne Tyler, United States
Novel
Matilda
by Rouald Dahl, Wales
Novel
Nervous Conditions
by Dangarembga Tsitsi, Zimbabwe
Novel
1989
Whale Music
by Paul Quarrington, Canada
Novel
London Fields
by Martin Amis, England
Novel
The Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett, England
Novel
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro, England
Novel
Devices and Desires
by P.D. James, England
Novel
The Great Indian Novel
by Shashi Tharoor, India
Novel
Like Water for Chocolate
by Laura Esquivel, Mexico
Novel
The Storyteller
by Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru
Novel
The History of the Siege of Lisbon
by José Saramago, Portugal
Novel
All Souls
by Javier Marías, Spain
Novel
1989–1996
Sandman
by Neil Gaiman, England, graphic novel series
1989–1999
The Hyperion Cantos
by Dan Simmons, United States
Novel series includes Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion, and stories
1990
Tigana
by Guy Gavriel Kay, Canada
Novel
Soul Mountain
by Gao Xingjian, China
Novel
Possession
by A.S. Byatt, England
Novel
Vertigo
by W.G. Sebald, Germany
Novel
The Daughter
by Pavlos Matesis, Greece
Novel
The Snapper
by Roddy Doyle, Ireland
Novel
Dancing at Lughnasa
by Brian Friel, Ireland
Play
Circle of Friends
by Maeve Binchey, Ireland
Novel
Amongst Women
by John McGahern, Ireland
Novel
Omeros
by Derek Walcott, St. Lucia
Epic poem
L.A. Confidential
by James Ellroy, United States
Novel
Six Degrees of Separation
by John Guare, United States
Play
The Eye of the World
by Robert Jordan, United States
Novel
Get Shorty
by Elmore Leonard, United States
Novel
Devil in a Blue Dress
by Walter Mosley, United States
Novel
Like Life
by Lorrie Moore, United States
Story collection
The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien, United States
Story collection
Rabbit at Rest
by John Updike, United States
Novel
1990–1993
Raise the Red Lantern
by Su Tong, China
Novella series includes Raise the Red Lantern, Nineteen Thirty-Four Escapes, Opium Family
1991
Cloudstreet
by Tim Winton, Australia
Novel
Generation X
by Douglas Coupland, Canada
Novel
Wild Swans
by Jung Chang, China
Nonfiction novel
Astradeni
by Eugenia Fakinou, Greece
Novel
The Famished Road
by Ben Okri, Nigeria
Novel
Sophie's World
by Jostein Gaarder, Norway
Novel
The Book of Disquiet
by Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
Novel
Faceless Killers
by Henning Mankell, Sweden
Novel
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent
by Julia Alvarez, United States
Novel
Mao II
by Don Delillo, United States
Novel
American Psycho
by Bret Ellis Easton, United States
Novel
Mating
by Norman Rush, United States
Novel
A Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley, United States
Novel
Maus: A Survivor's Tale
by Art Spiegelman, United States, graphic novel
The Kitchen God's Wife
by Amy Tan, United States
Novel
1991–1993
The Thrawn Trilogy
by Timothy Zahn, United States
Novel series
1991–1995
The Regeneration Trilogy
by Pat Barker, England
Novel series includes Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road
1991–
Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon, United States
Novel series
1992
The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje, Canada
Novel
Smilla's Sense of Snow
by Peter Høeg, Denmark
Novel
Memories of Rain
by Sunetra Gupta, England
Novel
Sacred Hunger
by Barry Unsworth, England
Novel
Written on the Body
by Jeanette Winterson, England
Novel
The Emigrants
by W.G. Sebald, Germany
Novel
Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture
by Apostolos Doxiadis, Greece
Novel
Vardi Wala Gunda
by Ved Prakash, India
Novel
The Butcher Boy
by Patrick McCabe, Ireland
Novel
The Discovery of Heaven
by Harry Mulisch, Netherlands
Novel
The Triple Mirror of the Self
by Zulfikar Ghose, Pakistan
Novel
The Crow Road
by Iain Banks, Scotland
Novel
Bastard Out of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison, United States
Novel
Jesus' Son
by Denis Johnson, United States
Story collection
Angels in America
by Tony Kushner, United States
Play
All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy, United States
Novel
Black Water
by Joyce Carol Oates, United States
Novella
Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson, United States
Novel
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt, United States
Novel
A Fire Upon the Deep
by Vernor Vinge, United States
Novel
The Bridges of Madison County
by Robert James Waller, United States
Novel
Doomsday Book
by Connie Willis, United States
Novel
1992–1996
Mars trilogy
by Kim Stanley Robinson, United States
Novel
Includes Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars
1993
Remembering Babylon
by David Malouf, Australia
Novel
Green Grass, Running Water
by Thomas King, Canada
Novel
To Live
by Yu Hu, China
Novel
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
by Álvaro Mutis, Colombia
Novella series
Before Night Falls
by Reinaldo Arenas, Cuba
Memoir
A Dead Man in Deptford
by Anthony Burgess, England
Novel
Birdsong
by Sebastian Faulks, England
Novel
Arcadia
by Tom Stoppard, England
Play
The Invention of Curried Sausage
by Uwe Timm, Germany
Novella
A Suitable Boy
by Vikram Seth, India
Novel
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
by Roddy Doyle, Ireland
Novel
Deep River
by Shūsaku Endō, Japan
Novel
The Life of Insects
by Victor Pelevin, Russia
Novel
Trainspotting
by Irvine Welsh, Scotland
Novel
Gifts
by Narrudin Farah, Somalia
Novel
The Dumas Club
by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Spain
Novel
Blackwater
by Kerstin Ekman, Sweden
Novel
The Virgin Suicides
by Jeffrey Eugenides, United States
Novel
The Giver
by Lois Lowry, United States
Novel
The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx, United States
Novel
The Celestine Prophecy
by James Redfield, United States
Novel
1994
The Book of Secrets
by M.G. Vassanji, Canada
Novel
Of Love and Shadows
by Isabel Allende, Chile
Novel
Our Lady of the Assassins
by Fernando Vallejo, Colombia
Novel
What a Carve Up!
by Jonathan Coe, England
Novel
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
by Louis de Bernieres, England
Novel
Whatever
by Michel Houellbecq, France
Novel
Breath, Eyes, Memory
by Edwidge Dandicat, Haiti
Novel
Pereira Maintains
by Antonio Tabucchi, Italy
Novel
How Late It Was
by James Kelman, Scotland
Novel
In the Time of Butterflies
by Julia Alvarez, United States
Novel
Complete Collected Poems
by Maya Angelou, United states
Poetry collection
1994–1995
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami, Japan
Novel
1995
A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry, Canada
Novel
The Jade Peony
by Wayson Choy, Canada
Novel
High Fidelity
by Nick Hornby, England
Novel
The Unconsoled
by Kazuo Ishiguro, England
Novel
The Prestige
by Christopher Priest, England
Novel
The Reader
by Bernard Schlink, Germany
Novel
The Late-Night News
by Petros Markaris, Greece
Novel
Astonishing the Gods
by Ben Okri, Nigeria
Novel
The Tortilla Curtain
by T. Coraghessan Boyle, United States
Novel
Diamond Age
by Neal Stephenson, United States
Novel
1995–1997
The Farseer Trilogy
by Philip Pullman, England
Novel series includes Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest
1995–2000
His Dark Materials
by Philip Pullman, England
Novel series includes Northern Lights (The Golden Compass), The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass
1995–2003
The Old Kingdom
by Garth Nix, Australia
Novel series includes Sabriel; Lirael; Abhorsen; Clariel; Goldenhand; Terciel and Elinor
1996
The Cure for Death by Lightning
by Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Canada
Novel
Selected Stories
by Mavis Gallant, Canada
Story collection includes "The Moslem Wife", "In Youth Is Pleasure", "The Chosen Husband", "In Plain Sight", and others
Fall on Your Knees
by Ann-Marie MacDonald, Canada
Novel
Fugitive Pieces
by Anne Michaels, Canada
Novel
The Englishman's Boy
by Guy Vanderhaeghe, Canada
Novel
Last Orders
by Graham Swift, England
Story collection
Quilt and Other Stories
by Ismat Chugtai, India
Story collection
Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt, Ireland
Memoir
Silk
by Alessandro Baricco, Italy
Novel
View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
by Wisława Szymborska, Poland
Novel
Chapeyev and Pustota
by Victor Pelevin, Russia
Novel
Drown
by Junot Díaz, United States
Story collection
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
by George Saunders, United States
Story collection
Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace, United States
Novel
1996–
A Song of Ice and Fire
by George R.R. Martin, United States
Novel series includes A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons, and others
1997
The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy, India
Novel
Closely Watched Trains
by Bohumil Hrabal, Czechia
Novel
Underworld
by Don DeLillo, United States
Novel
The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant, United States
Novel
The Philip K. Dick Reader
by Philip K. Dick, United States
Story collection
Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier, United States
Novel
Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden, United States
Novel
Forever Peace
by Joe Haldeman, United States
Novel
Charming Billy
by Alice McDermott, United States
Novel
Mason and Dixon
by Thomas Pynchon, United States
Novel
1997–2007
Harry Potter
by J.K. Rowling, England
Novel series includes Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone; ...and the Chamber of Secrets; ...and the Prisoner of Azkaban; and more
1998
Brown Girl in the Ring
by Nalo Hopkinson, Canada
Novel
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
by Wayne Johnston, Canada
Novel
The Savage Detectives
by Roberto Bolaño, Chile
Novel
Birthday Letters
by Ted Hughes, England
Poetry collection
Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan, England
Novel
The Elementary Particles
by Michel Houellbecq, France
Novel
Crossfire
by Miyuki Miyabi, Japan
Novel
Open Ground
by Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland
Poetry collection
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
by Alexander McCall Smith, Scotland
Novel
My Name Is Red
by Miguel Delibes, Spain
Novel
The Heretic
by Orhan Pamuk, Turkey
Novel
The Hours
by Michael Cunningham, United States
Novel
The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver, United States
Novel
1998–2018
Fandorin
by Boris Akunin, Russia
Novel series includes The Winter Queen, The Turkish Gambit, Murder on the Leviathan, The Death of Achilles, and others
1999
Natural Novel
by Georgi Gospodinov, Bulgaria
Novel
No Great Mischief
by Alexander MacLeod, Canada
Novel
Barney's Version
by Mordecai Richler, Canada
Novel
Brooklyn
by Colm Tóibín, Ireland
Novel
Somersault
by Kenzaburō Ōe, Japan
Novel
The Years With Laura Diaz
by Carlos Fuentes, Mexico
Novel
Disgrace
by J.M. Coetzee, South Africa
Novel
Waiting
by Ha Jin, United States
Novel
Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri, United States
Story collection
Ties That Bind, Ties That Break
by Lensey Namioka, United States
Novel
2000
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
by Ismail Kadare, Albania
Novel
True History of the Kelly Gang
by Peter Carey, Australia
Novel
Anil's Ghost
by Michael Ondaatje, Canada
Novel
Mercy Among the Children
by David Adams Richards, Canada
Novel
Monkey Beach
by Eden Robinson, Canada
Novel
Emotionally Weird
by Kate Atkinson, England
Novel
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith, England
Novel
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by Dai Sijie, France
Novel
The Feast of the Goat
by Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru
Novel
The Poems and Prose of Paul Celan
by Paul Celan, Romania
Prose and poetry collection
Bartleby and Co
by Entique Vila-Matas, Spain
Novel
Proof
by David Auburn, United States
Play
Angels and Demons
by Dan Brown, United States
Novel
I Ask the Impossible
by Ana Castillo, United States
Poetry collection
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon, United States
Novel
Shopgirl
by Steve Martin, United States
Novella
Pastoralia
by George Saunders, United States
Story collection
2000–2003
Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi, Iran, graphic novel series
Includes Persepolis, Persepolis 2
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