Teste

Greatest Works of Literature-Chronological
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Mesopotamia, c. 2000 BCE)(on 10 lists)

– Anonymous (poetry: narrative)
I Ching (Book of Changes)(China, c. 1000-750 BCE)(on 3 lists)

– Anonymous (non-fiction: divination/religious text)
The Iliad (Ancient Greece, c. 800-725 BCE)(on 19 lists)

– Homer (attrib.)(poetry: narrative)
Mukya Upanishads (India, c. 800-400 BCE)(on 5 lists)

– Anonymous (religious texts)
The Odyssey (Ancient Greece, c. 775-700 BCE)(on 20 lists)

– Homer (attrib.)(poetry: narrative)
The Bible: Old Testament (various books)(Palestine/Mesopotamia, c. 750 BCE – 100 CE)(on 12
lists)
– Various Authors (religious texts)
Theogony (Ancient Greece, c. 700 BCE)(on 3 lists)

– Hesiod (poetry: narrative)
Poems (esp. Fragment 42 and Fragment 155)(Ancient Greece, c. 630-570 BCE)(on 4 lists)
– Sappho (poetry: lyric)
Tao Te Ching (China, c. 624-604 BCE)(on 5 lists)

– Laozi (Lao Tzu)(attrib.)(non-fiction: philosophy/religious text)
Classic of Poetry (Book of Odes)(China, c. 600 BCE)(on 5 lists)

– Anonymous (poetry: lyric/religious text)
Fables (esp. The Tortoise and the Hare and The Grasshopper and the Ant)(Ancient Greece, c.
600-560 BCE)(on 4 lists)
– Aesop (fiction: stories)
The Book of Job (Palestine, c. 600-400 BCE)(on 3 lists)

– Anonymous (religious text)
Avesta (Persia, c. 559-330 BCE)(on 3 lists)

The Analects of Confucius (China, c . 551-479 BCE)(on 7 lists)

– Confucius (attrib.)(non-fiction: philosophy/religious text)
Ramayana (India, c. 500-200 BCE)(on 11 lists)

– Valmiki (attrib.)(poetry: narrative/religious text)
The Bhagavad-Gita (India, c. 500-100 BCE)(on 8 lists)

– Anonymous (poetry: narrative/religious text)
Victory Odes (Ancient Greece, c. 490-443 BCE)(on 3 lists)
– Pindar (poetry: lyric)
The Persians (Ancient Greece, 472 BCE)(on 3 lists)

– Aeschylus (drama)
The Suppliant Women (Ancient Greece, c. 469 BCE)(on 3 lists)

Prometheus Bound (Ancient Greece, c. 460-415 BCE)(on 5 lists)

– Aeschylus (attrib.)(drama)
The Oresteia (three plays)(Ancient Greece, 458 BCE)(on 10 lists)

Oedipus the King (Ancient Greece, c. 450 BCE)(on 15 lists)

– Sophocles (drama)
Women of Trachis (Ancient Greece, c. 450 BCE)(on 3 lists)

Ajax (Ancient Greece, c. 447 BCE)(on 3 lists)

Antigone (Ancient Greece, 442-441 BCE)(on 11 lists)

The Histories (Ancient Greece, 441, BCE)(on 10 lists)

– Herodotus (non-fiction: history)
Alcestis (Ancient Greece, 438 BCE)(on 5 lists)

– Euripides (drama)
Medea (Ancient Greece, c. 431 BCE)(on 13 lists)

Hippolytus (Ancient Greece, c. 428 BCE)(on 4 lists)

Andromache (Ancient Greece, c. 425 BCE)(on 3 lists)

The Knights (Ancient Greece, 424 BCE)(on 4 lists)

– Aristophanes (drama)
Hecuba (Ancient Greece, c. 424 BCE)(on 3 lists)

The Clouds (Ancient Greece, 423 BCE)(on 6 lists)

The Wasps (Ancient Greece, 422 BCE)(on 3 lists)
Electra (Ancient Greece, 420 BCE)(on 5 lists)

Electra (Ancient Greece, c. 418-414 BCE)(on 6 lists)

Heracles (Ancient Greece, c. 416 BCE)(on 3 lists)

Trojan Women (Ancient Greece, 415 BCE)(on 5 lists)

Iphigenia in Tauris (Ancient Greece, 414 BCE)(on 3 lists)

Ion (Ancient Greece, 414 BCE)(on 3 lists)

Helen (Ancient Greece, 412 BCE)(on 3 lists)

Lysistrata (Ancient Greece, 411 BCE)(on 8 lists)

Philoctetes (Ancient Greece, 409 BCE)(on 3 lists)

Orestes (Ancient Greece, 408 BCE)(on 3 lists)

The Bacchae (Ancient Greece, 405 BCE)(on 7 lists)

The Frogs (Ancient Greece, 405 BCE)(on 5 lists)

Iphigenia at Aulis (Ancient Greece, 405 BCE)(on 3 lists)

Oedipus at Colonus (Ancient Greece, 401 BCE)(on 5 lists)

The Peloponnesian War (Ancient Greece, 400 BCE)(on 8 lists)

– Thucydides (non-fiction: history)
The Birds (Ancient Greece, 400 BCE)(on 7 lists)

Cyclops (Ancient Greece, c. 400 BCE)(on 3 lists)
The Assemblywomen (Ancient Greece, 392 BCE)(on 3 lists)

Apology (Ancient Greece, c. 399-387 BCE)(on 9 lists)

– Plato (non-fiction: philosophy)
Crito (Ancient Greece, c. 399-387)(on 3 lists)

The Republic (Ancient Greece, c. 387-380 BCE)(on 8 lists)

Meno (Ancient Greece, c. 387-380)(on 3 lists)

The Symposium (Ancient Greece, c. 380-360 BCE)(on 4 lists)

Phaedo (Ancient Greece, c. 380-360)(on 3 lists)

Poetics (Ancient Greece, c. 335-323 BCE)(on 8 lists)

– Aristotle (non-fiction: philosophy)
Nichomachean Ethics (c. 335-323 BCE)(on 6 lists)

Physics (Ancient Greece, c. 335-323 BCE)(on 5 lists)

– Aristotle (non-fiction: philosophy/science)
Rhetoric (Ancient Greece, c. 335-323 BCE)(on 3 lists)

Metaphysics (Ancient Greece, c. 335-323 BCE)(on 3 lists)

On the Soul (Ancient Greece, c. 335-323 BCE)(on 3 lists)

The Book of Mencius (China, c. 309-289 BCE)(on 5 lists)

– Mencius (non-fiction: philosophy/religious text)
The Zhuangzi (China, c. 306-286 BCE)(on 4 lists)

– Zhuangzi (non-fiction: philosophy/fiction: stories)
The Panchatantra (India, c. 300 BCE)(on 4 lists)

– Vishnu Sharma (attrib.)(fiction: linked stories)
Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali (India, c. 300 BCE-400 CE)(on 3 lists)

– Patañjali (religious text)
Han Feizi (China, c. 281-233 BCE)(on 3 lists)

– Han Fei (attrib.)(non-fiction: political philosophy)
Menaechmi (The Brothers Menaechmus)(Roman Republic, c. 254-184 BCE)(on 4 lists)

– Plautus (drama)
Amphitryon (Roman Republic, c. 220-184 BCE)(on 3 lists)

– Plautus (drama)
Pseudolus (Roman Republic, c. 220-184 BCE)(on 3 lists)

– Plautus (drama)
Dhammapada (India, 200-100 BCE)(on 3 lists)

Records of the Grand Historian (China, c. 109-91 BCE)(on 5 lists)

– Sima Qian (non-fiction: history)
Odes (Ancient Rome, 65-8 BCE)(on 7 lists)

– Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)(poetry: lyric)
Poems (esp. Attis)(Roman Republic, c. 65-54 BCE)(on 3 lists)

– Catullus (Gaius Valerius Catullus)(poetry: lyric)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)(Ancient Rome, 50 BCE)(on 8 lists)

– Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)(poetry: narrative/non-fiction: philosophy)
Eclogues (Bucolics)(Roman Republic, 39-38 BCE)(on 3 lists)

– Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)(poetry: lyric)
The Aeneid (Roman Empire, 29-19 BCE)(on 14 lists)

– Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)(poetry: narrative)
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)(Roman Empire, 2 CE)(on 3 lists)

– Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)(poetry: lyric)
Metamorphoses (Roman Empire, 2-8 CE)(on 8 lists)

– Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)(poetry: narrative)
Satyricon (Roman Empire, c. 27-66 CE)(on 4 lists)

– Petronius (Gaius Petronius Arbiter)(attrib.)(poetry: narrative/fiction: novel)
The Bible: New Testament (various books)(Palestine/Roman Empire, c. 50-120 CE)(on 12 lists)
– Various Authors (religious texts)
Vimalakirti Sutra (India, c. 100 CE)(on 3 lists)

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans (Roman Empire, 100-125 CE)(on 6 lists)
– Plutarch (Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus)(non-fiction: biography/history)
Annals (Roman Empire, 109 CE)(on 4 lists)
– Tacitus (Publius Cornelius Tacitus)(non-fiction: history)
Satires (esp. True History (A True Story))(Roman Empire/Syria, c. 125-190 CE)(on 3 lists)
– Lucian of Samosata (fiction: stories)
The Satires (Roman Empire, c. 98-138 CE)(on 3 lists)

– Juvenal (Decimus Iūnius Iuvenālis)(poetry: lyric)
The Golden Ass (Roman Empire, c. 158-180 CE)(on 5 lists)

– Apuleius (Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis)(fiction: novel)
Meditations (Roman Empire, c. 180 CE)(on 6 lists)

– Marcus Aurelius (non-fiction: memoir/philosophy)
Lotus Sutra (India, c. 200 CE)(on 3 lists)

The Enneads (Egypt/Roman Empire, 270 CE)(on 3 lists)

– Plotinus (non-fiction: philosophy)
Mahabharata (India, c. 300-400 CE)(on 10 lists)

– Vyasa (attrib.)(poetry: narrative/religious text)
Shakuntala (The Recognition of Sakuntala)(India, c. 350-450 CE)(on 10 lists)

– Kālidāsa (drama)
Returning To Live in the Country (Returning to the Farm to Dwell)(China, c. 380-427 CE)(on 3
lists)
– Tao Yuanming (Tao Qian)(poetry: lyric)
Returning Home (China, c. 380-427 CE)(on 3 lists)

On Moving House (China, c. 380-427 CE)(on 3 lists)

In the Sixth Month of 409, Fire (China, c. 380-427 CE)(on 3 lists)

Twenty Poems After Drinking Wine (China, c. 380-427 CE)(on 3 lists)

On Reading the Classic of Mountains and Seas (China, c. 380-427 CE)(on 3 lists)
Confessions (Algeria/Ancient Rome, c. 400 CE)(on 11 lists)

– Augustine of Hippo (non-fiction: memoir)
The City of God (Algeria/Roman Empire, 426 CE)(on 3 lists)

– Augustine of Hippo (non-fiction: religion)
Satakatraya (The Three Centuries)(India, c. 450-500 CE)(on 4 lists)
– Bhartrihari (attrib.)(poetry: lyric)
Mu’allaqat (The Hanging Poems)(Arabia, c. 550-630 CE)(on 3 lists)

– Anonymous (poetry: lyric)
The Qur’an (Arabia, 610-632 CE)(on 10 lists)

– Muhammad (attrib.)(religious text)
Poems (esp. A Quiet Night Thought, Long Yearning, Farewell to Meng Hao-jan, Drinking Alone
in the Moonlight, The Moon at the Fortified Pass, and Chuang Tzu and the Butterfly)(China, c.
715-762 CE)(on 3 lists)
– Li Bai (Li Po)(poetry: lyric)
Poems (esp. Song of an Old Cypress, To My Retired Friend Wei, Thinking of Li Bai at the End of
the Sky, Spring Night in the Left Office, Moonlit Night, and Ballad of the Army Carts)(China, c.
725-770)(on 3 lists)
– Du Fu (Tu Fu)(poetry: lyric)
Man’yōshū (Japan, c. 760 CE)(on 5 lists)

– Various Authors (poetry: lyric)
Jujushinron (Ten Stages of the Development of the Mind)(Japan, 830 CE)(on 3 lists)
– Kukai (religious text)
Beowulf (England, c. 1000)(on 5 lists)

The Pillow Book (Japan, c. 1002)(on 5 lists)

– Sei Shonagon (non-fiction: memoir)
The Book of Kings (Shahnameh)(Persia, c. 1010)(on 6 lists)

– Ferdowsi (poetry: narrative)
The Tale of Genji (Japan, c. 1021)(on 11 lists)

– Murasaki Shikibu (fiction: novel)
Kathāsaritsāgara (The Ocean of Rivers of Story)(India, c. 1050-1080)(on 3 lists)

– Somadeva (fiction: stories/poetry: narrative)
The Rubaiyat (Persia, c. 1100)(on 6 lists)

– Omar Khayyam (attrib.)(poetry: lyric)
Deliverance from Error (Persia, c. 1100)(on 3 lists)

– Al-Ghazali (non-fiction: memoir)
The Assemblies of al-Hariri (Iraq, c. 1100-1122)(on 3 lists)

– Al-Hariri of Basra (poetry: lyric)
The Song of Roland (France, c. 1140-1170)(on 6 lists)

Tristan (Germany, c. 1150-1210)(on 3 lists)
– Gottfried von Strassburg (poetry: narrative)
The Conference of the Birds (Persia, 1177)(on 4 lists)

– Attar of Nishapur (poetry: lyric)
Commentary on the Four Books (China, c. 1180-1200)(on 3 lists)

– Zhu Xi (non-fiction: philosophy/religion)
Perceval, the Story of the Grail (France, c. 1181-1190)(on 3 lists)

– Chrétien de Troyes (poetry: narrative)
Guide for the Perplexed (Spain/Morocco, c. 1190-1204)(on 3 lists)

– Maimonides (Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon)(non-fiction: philosophy/religion)
The Poem of the Cid (Spain, c. 1195-1207)(on 4 lists)

Gita Govinda (Song of Govinda)(India, c. 1200-1245)(on 4 lists)

– Jayadeva (poetry: narrative)
Parzifal Germany, c. 1200-1220)(on 3 lists)

– Wolfram von Eschenbach (poetry: narrative)
The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch (China, c. 1200-1280)(on 3 lists)

The Masnavi (Persia, c. 1258-1273)(on 5 lists)

– Jalalu’l-Din Rumi (poetry: lyric)
Summa Theologica (Italy, 1265-1274)(on 3 lists)

– Thomas Aquinas (non-fiction: religion)
Njal’s Saga (Iceland, c. 1270-1290)(on 4 lists)

– Anonymous (fiction: saga)
Romance of the Rose (France, 1230 [Pt. 1], 1275 [Pt. 2])(on 3 lists)
– Guillaume de Lorris (Pt. 1)& Jean de Meun (Pt. 2)(poetry: narrative)
The New Life (Italy, 1295)(on 3 lists)

– Dante Alighieri (poetry: narrative)
Water Margin (Outlaws of the Marsh)(China, c. 1296-1372)(on 4 lists)

– Shi Nai’an (attrib.)(fiction: novel)
The Divine Comedy (Italy, c. 1308-1321)(on 21 lists)

– Dante Alighieri (poetry: narrative)
Poems (esp. Sonnets To Laura in Life: 109)(Italy, c. 1326-1374)(on 4 lists)

– Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca)(poetry: lyric)
Poems (esp. O beautiful wine bearer, bring forth the cup (Ghazal 1))(Persia, c. 1330-1390)(on 4
lists)
– Hafez (Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī)(poetry: lyric)
Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness)(Japan, 1330-1332) (on 3 lists)

– Yoshida Kenko (non-fiction: essays)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (England, c. 1350)(on 3 lists)

The Decameron (Italy, 1350-1353)(on 8 lists)

– Giovanni Boccaccio (fiction: linked stories)
Muqaddimah (Tunisia, 1377)(on 3 lists)

– Ibn Khaldun (non-fiction: history)
The Canterbury Tales (England, c. 1380-1400)(on 14 lists)

– Geoffrey Chaucer (fiction: linked stories/poetry)
Atsumori (Japan, c. 1380-1443)(on 3 lists)

– Zeami Motokiyo (drama)
Troilus and Criseyde (England, c. 1385)(on 4 lists)

– Geoffrey Chaucer (poetry: narrative)
Poems (esp. Celestial Love and The Doom of Beauty)(Italy, 1475-1564)(on 3 lists)
– Michelangelo (Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni)(poetry: lyric)
Le Morte d’Arthur (England, 1485)(on 6 lists)

– Thomas Malory (fiction: linked stories)
Everyman (England, c. 1490)(on 4 lists)

– Anonymous (drama)
La Celestine (The Spanish Bawd)(Spain, 1499)(on 3 lists)

– Fernando de Rojas (drama)
The Praise of Folly (In Praise of Folly)(Netherlands, 1511)(on 7 lists)

– Desiderius Erasmus (non-fiction: satire)
The Prince (Italy, 1513)(on 12 lists)

– Niccolò Machiavelli (non-fiction: political philosophy)
Utopia (England, 1516)(on 6 lists)

– Thomas More (fiction: satire)
The Book of the Courtier (Italy, 1528)(on 4 lists)

– Baldassare Castiglione (non-fiction: manners/fiction: dialogue)
Gargantua and Pantagruel (five novels)(France, 1532-1534)(on 12 lists)

– François Rabelais (fiction: novels)
Orlando Furioso (Italy, 1532)(on 4 lists)
– Ludovico Ariosto (poetry: narrative)
Journey to the West (Monkey)(China, c. 1540-1560)(on 5 lists)

– Wu Cheng’en (fiction: novel)
Epic of Layla and Majnun (Turkey/Ottoman Empire, c. 1540-1556)(on 3 lists)

– Fużūlī (poetry: narrative)
Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (Italy, 1550)(on 4 lists)
– Giorgio Vasari (non-fiction: biography/arts)
The Heptameron (France, 1558)(on 3 lists)

– Marguerite de Navarre (fiction: linked stories)
The Lusiads (Portugal, 1572)(on 3 lists)

– Luís Vaz de Camões (poetry: narrative)
Essays (France, 1580)(on 13 lists)

– Michel de Montaigne (non-fiction: essays)
Astrophel and Stella (England, c. 1580)(on 3 lists)

– Philip Sydney (poetry: narrative)
Jerusalem Delivered (Italy, 1581)(on 3 lists)

– Torquato Tasso (poetry: narrative)
Tamburlaine, Pts. 1 and 2 (England, 1587-1588)(on 3 lists)

– Christopher Marlowe (drama)
Doctor Faustus (England, 1588)(on 5 lists)

A Comedy of Errors (England, 1589)(on 9 lists)

– William Shakespeare (drama)
The Jew of Malta (England, c. 1589)(on 3 lists)

Henry VI, Pts. 1, 2, 3 (England, 1591)(on 5 lists)

Titus Andronicus (England, 1592)(on 5 lists)

The Spanish Tragedy (England, 1582-1592)(on 3 lists)

– Thomas Kyd (drama)
Edward II (England, 1592)(on 3 lists)

Richard III (England, 1592-1593)(on 11 lists)

Sonnets (esp. Sonnet 18 [“Shall I compare Thee to a summer’s day“])(England, 1593-1609)(on

7 lists)
– William Shakespeare (poetry: lyric)
Romeo and Juliet (England, 1594)(on 11 lists)

The Taming of the Shrew (England, 1594)(on 9 lists)

Two Gentlemen of Verona (England, 1594)(on 9 lists)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (England, 1594-1595)(on 13 lists)

Richard II (England, 1595)(on 9 lists)

Love’s Labour’s Lost (England, 1595)(on 6 lists)

Poems (esp. Holy Sonnet X [“Death be not proud…“])(England, c. 1595-1631)(on 6 lists)

– John Donne (poetry: lyric)
Poems (esp. On my First Son and Song To Celia (“Drink to me only with thine eyes”))(England,
c. 1595-1637)(on 3 lists)
– Ben Jonson (poetry: lyric)
The Merchant of Venice (England, 1596)(on 11 lists)

King John (England, 1596)(on 5 lists)

The Faerie Queen (England, 1590 [Bks. I-III], 1596 [Bks. IV-VI])(on 3 lists)
– Edmund Spenser (poetry: narrative)
Henry IV, Pts. 1 & 2 (England, 1597)(on 10 lists)

Essays (England, 1597)(on 3 lists)

– Francis Bacon (non-fiction: essays)
Much Ado About Nothing (England, 1598)(on 9 lists)

Henry V (England, 1598)(on 9 lists)

The Merry Wives of Windsor (England, 1598)(on 6 lists)
Julius Caesar (England, 1599)(on 11 lists)

Twelfth Night (England, 1599)(on 10 lists)

As You Like It (England, 1599)(on 10 lists)

Hamlet (England, 1600)(on 16 lists)

The Plum in the Golden Vase (China, c. 1600)(on 4 lists)

– Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng (fiction: novel)
All’s Well that Ends Well (England, 1602)(on 9 lists)

Troilus and Cressida (England, 1602)(on 5 lists)

King Lear (England, 1605)(on 15 lists)

Othello (England, 1604)(on 13 lists)

Measure for Measure (England, 1604)(on 10 lists)

Macbeth (England, 1605)(on 11 lists)

The Advancement of Learning (England, 1605)(on 3 lists)

– Francis Bacon (non-fiction: education/science)
Antony and Cleopatra (England, 1606)(on 10 lists)

Timon of Athens (England, 1606)(on 5 lists)

Volpone (England, 1606)(on 5 lists)

– Ben Jonson (drama)
Coriolanus (England, 1607)(on 8 lists)

The Winter’s Tale (England, 1610)(on 9 lists)

The Tempest (England, 1611)(on 10 lists)

Cymbeline (England, 1611)(on 5 lists)

The Alchemist (England, 1612)(on 4 lists)

– Ben Jonson (drama)
Henry VIII (England, 1613)(on 5 lists)

The Duchess of Malfi (England, 1614)(on 3 lists)

– John Webster (drama)
Don Quixote (Spain, 1605 [Pt. 1], 1615 [Pt. 2])(on 22 lists)
– Miguel de Cervantes (fiction: novel)
Poems (esp. Upon Julia’s Clothes)(England, c. 1617-1674)(on 3 lists)

– Robert Herrick (poetry: lyric)
Fuenteovejuna (Lost in a Mirror)(Spain, 1619)(on 5 lists)

– Lope de Vega (drama)
Novum Organum (England, 1620)(on 3 lists)

– Francis Bacon (non-fiction: philosophy)
New Atlantis (England, 1623-1626, pub. 1627)(on 3 lists)

– Francis Bacon (fiction: novel)
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Italy, 1632)(on 4 lists)
– Galileo Galilei (non-fiction: science/fiction: dialogue)
‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (England, 1633)(on 3 lists)

– John Ford (drama)
Poems (esp. To His Coy Mistress)(England, c. 1634-1678)(on 3 lists)

– Andrew Marvell (poetry: lyric)
Life Is a Dream (Spain, 1629-1635)(on 4 lists)

– Pedro Calderón de la Barca (drama)
The Cid (France, 1637)(on 4 lists)

– Pierre Corneille (drama)
Discourse on Method (France/Netherlands, 1637)(on 4 lists)

– René Descartes (non-fiction: philosophy)
Lycidas (England, 1637)(on 3 lists)

– John Milton (poetry: narrative)
Meditations on First Philosophy (France/Netherlands, 1641)(on 4 lists)
– René Descartes (non-fiction: philosophy)
Areopagitica (England, 1644)(on 4 lists)

– John Milton (non-fiction: political philosophy/arts)
Leviathan (England, 1651)(on 6 lists)

– Thomas Hobbes (non-fiction: political philosophy)
The Would-Be Gentleman (France, 1655)(on 5 lists)

– Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)(drama)
Ridiculous Precieuses (France, 1659)(on 3 lists)

School for Husbands (France, 1661)(on 3 lists)

The School for Wives (France, 1662)(on 5 lists)

Don Juan (France, 1665)(on 4 lists)

The Misanthrope (France, 1666)(on 6 lists)

The Physician in Spite of Himself (France, 1666)(on 3 lists)

Paradise Lost (England, 1667)(on 11 lists)

Andromache (France, 1667)(on 3 lists)

– Jean Racine (drama)
The Miser (France, 1668)(on 6 lists)

Tartuffe (France, 1669)(on 9 lists)

Pensées (France, 1669)(on 6 lists)

– Blaise Pascal (non-fiction: philosophy/religion)
Paradise Regained (England, 1671)(on 5 lists)

Samson Agonistes (England, 1671)(on 4 lists)

– John Milton (drama)
The Seashell Game (anthology)(Japan, 1672)(on 4 lists)
– Matsuo Basho and others (poetry: lyric)
The Learned Ladies (France, 1672)(on 3 lists)

The Imaginary Invalid (France, 1673)(on 4 lists)

The Country Wife (England, 1675)(on 3 lists)

– William Wycherley (drama)
The Plain Dealer (England, 1676)(on 3 lists)

– William Wycherley (drama)
Phaedra (France, 1677)(on 6 lists)

– Jean Racine (drama)
Ethics (Netherlands, 1677)(on 4 lists)

– Benedict de Spinoza (non-fiction: philosophy)
The Princess of Cleves (France, 1678)(on 4 lists)

– Madame de La Fayette (fiction: novel)
All for Love (England, 1678)(on 3 lists)

– John Dryden (drama)
The Pilgrim’s Progress (England, 1679)(on 7 lists)

– John Bunyan (fiction: novel)
Maxims (France, 1680)(on 3 lists)

– François de la Rochefoucauld (non-fiction: manners/philosophy/politics)
Shriveled Chestnuts (Japan, 1683)(on 4 lists)

– Matsuo Basho (poetry: lyric)
Record of a Weather-Exposed Skeleton (Japan, 1684)(on 4 lists)

– Matsuo Basho (poetry: lyric/non-fiction: travel)
Winter Days (Japan, 1684)(on 4 lists)

Spring Days (Japan, 1686)(on 4 lists)

A Visit to Kashima Shrine (Japan, 1687)(on 4 lists)

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (England, 1687)(on 3 lists)

– Isaac Newton (non-fiction: science)
Record of a Travel-Worn Satchel (Japan, 1688)(on 4 lists)

Wasteland (Japan, 1689)(on 4 lists)

Two Treatises of Government (England, 1689)(on 3 lists)

– John Locke (non-fiction: political philosophy)
The Gourd (Japan, 1690)(on 4 lists)

The Monkey’s Raincoat (Japan, 1691)(on 4 lists)

Saga Diary (Japan, 1691)(on 4 lists)

On Transplanting the Banana Tree (Japan, 1691)(on 4 lists)

On Seclusion (Japan, 1691)(on 4 lists)

The Narrow Road to the Deep North (The Narrow Road to the Interior)(Japan, 1694)(on 7 lists)
Fables (12 books)(France, 1668-1694)(on 4 lists)

– Jean de La Fontaine (poetry: lyric/narrative)
A Sack of Charcoal (Japan, 1694)(on 4 lists)

The Detached Room (Japan, 1694)(on 4 lists)

Love for Love (England, 1695)(on 3 lists)

– William Congreve (drama)
The Monkey’s Raincoat, Continued (Japan, 1698)(on 4 lists)

The Way of the World (England, 1700)(on 5 lists)

– William Congreve (drama)
The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (Japan, 1703)(on 4 lists)

– Chikamatsu Monzaemon (drama)
Poems (esp. Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot)(GB, c. 1705-1744)(on 3 lists)

– Alexander Pope (poetry: lyric/narrative)
A Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights)(India/Persia/Arabia, 1704-1717 [1st English
ed.])(on 12 lists)
– Anonymous (fiction: linked stories)
Note: Expanded from Hezār Afsān (Persia, 10th Century CE)
Robinson Crusoe (GB, 1719)(on 7 lists)

– Daniel Defoe (fiction: novel)
Moll Flanders (GB, 1722)(on 4 lists)

– Daniel Defoe (fiction: novel)
Gulliver’s Travels (Ireland/GB, 1726)(on 13 lists)

– Jonathan Swift (fiction: satire)
The Beggar’s Opera (GB, 1728)(on 3 lists)

– John Gay (drama)
Manon Lescaut (France, 1731)(on 3 lists)

– Abbé Prévost (Antoine François Prévost d’Exiles)(fiction: novel)
Pamela (GB, 1740)(on 4 lists)

– Samuel Richardson (fiction: novel)
Joseph Andrews (GB, 1742)(on 4 lists)

– Henry Fielding (fiction: novel)
Clarissa (GB, 1748)(on 4 lists)

– Samuel Richardson (fiction: novel)
Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers)(Japan, c. 1748)(on 3 lists)

– Takeda Izumo II (drama)
Tom Jones (GB, 1749)(on 8 lists)

– Henry Fielding (fiction: novel)
Candide (France, 1759)(on 11 lists)

– Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)(fiction: novel)
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Ireland/GB, 1759)(on 10 lists)
– Laurence Sterne (fiction: novel)
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (GB, 1759)(on 4 lists)

– Samuel Johnson (fiction: novel)
Poems (esp. A Red, Red Rose)(GB: Scotland, 1759-1796)(on 4 lists)

– Robert Burns (poetry: lyric)
The Social Contract (Switzerland, 1762)(on 4 lists)

– Jean-Jacques Rousseau (non-fiction: political philosophy)
Émile, or On Education (Switzerland/France, 1762)(on 3 lists)

– Jean-Jacques Rousseau (non-fiction: education/philosophy)
Dream of the Red Chamber (Story of the Stone)(China, 1763-1764 [manuscripts], 1791 [1st
printed ed.])(on 8 lists)
– Cao Xueqin (fiction: novel)
The Vicar of Wakefield (Ireland/GB, 1766)(on 5 lists)

– Oliver Goldsmith (fiction: novel)
Poems (esp. The Erlking and Mignon’s Longing)(Germany, c. 1770-1832)(on 4 lists)

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (poetry: lyric)
The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker (GB, 1771)(on 4 lists)

– Tobias Smollett (fiction: novel)
Rameau’s Nephew (France, 1761-1772)(on 4 lists)

– Denis Diderot (non-fiction: philosophy/fiction: dialogue)
She Stoops to Conquer (Ireland/GB, 1773)(on 6 lists)

– Oliver Goldsmith (drama)
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Germany, 1774)(on 5 lists)

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (fiction: novel)
The Rivals (GB, 1775)(on 3 lists)

– Richard Brinsley Sheridan (drama)
Common Sense (GB/US, 1776)(on 3 lists)

– Thomas Paine (non-fiction: political philosophy)
The Declaration of Independence (US, 1776)(on 3 lists)

– Thomas Jefferson (non-fiction: political philosophy)
The Wealth of Nations (GB, 1776)(on 3 lists)

– Adam Smith (non-fiction: economics)
The School for Scandal (Ireland/GB, 1777)(on 5 lists)

– Richard Brinsley Sheridan (drama)
Evelina (GB, 1778)(on 3 lists)

– Fanny Burney (fiction: novel)
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (GB, 1779)(on 3 lists)

– David Hume (non-fiction: philosophy)
Jacques the Fatalist (France, 1765-1780)(on 6 lists)

– Denis Diderot (fiction: novel)
The Confessions (Switzerland, 1781)(on 7 lists)

– Jean-Jacques Rousseau (non-fiction: memoir)
Critique of Pure Reason (Germany, 1781)(on 4 lists)

– Immanuel Kant (non-fiction: philosophy)
Dangerous Liaisons (France, 1782)(on 6 lists)
– Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (fiction: novel)
Poetical Sketches (GB, 1783)(on 3 lists)

– William Blake (poetry: lyric)
Poems (esp. Bread and Wine and In the Middle of Life)(Germany, c. 1784-1843)(on 4 lists)
– Friedrich Hölderlin (poetry: lyric)
The Marriage of Figaro (France, 1784)(on 3 lists)

– Pierre Beaumarchais (drama)
Poems (esp. Daffodils (“I wandered lonely as a cloud“)(GB/UK, 1787-1850)(on 5 lists)

– William Wordsworth (poetry: lyric/narrative)
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (GB, 1776-1788)(on 7 lists)
– Edward Gibbon (non-fiction: history)
The Federalist Papers (US, 1787-1788)(on 3 lists)

– James Madison, Alexander Hamilton & John Jay (non-fiction: political philosophy)
Songs of Innocence (GB, 1789)(on 8 lists)

Hymns and Fragments (Germany, c. 1790-1843)(on 3 lists)

– Friedrich Hölderlin (poetry: lyric)
The Life of Samuel Johnson (GB, 1791)(on 8 lists)

– James Boswell (non-fiction: biography)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (US, 1791)(on 3 lists)

– Benjamin Franklin (non-fiction: memoir)
The Rights of Man (GB/US/France, 1791)(on 3 lists)

– Thomas Paine (non-fiction: political philosophy)
Poems (esp. Kubla Khan)(GB/UK, c. 1792-1834)(on 6 lists)

– Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poetry: lyric)
Essays (GB/UK, c. 1792-1834)(on 4 lists)

– Samuel Taylor Coleridge (non-fiction: essays)
The Vindication of the Rights of Women (GB, 1792)(on 4 lists)

– Mary Wollstonecraft (non-fiction: political philosophy/sociology)
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (GB, 1790-1793)(on 3 lists)

Songs of Experience (GB, 1794)(on 8 lists)

Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (Germany, 1796)(on 3 lists)

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (fiction: novel)
Castle Rackrent (UK, 1800)(on 3 lists)

– Maria Edgeworth (fiction:novel)
Poems (esp. So, We’ll Go No More A Roving and She Walks In Beauty)(UK, c. 1805-1824)(on 3
lists)
– Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron)(poetry: narrative/lyric)
Stories (esp. The Earthquake in Chile)(Germany, 1810-1811)(on 5 lists)

– Heinrich von Kleist (fiction: stories)
The Prince of Homburg (Germany, 1809-1810, pub. 1821)(on 3 lists)

– Heinrich von Kleist (drama)
Poems (esp. Ozymandias)(UK, c. 1810-1822)(on 3 lists)

– Percy Bysshe Shelley (poetry: lyric)
Sense and Sensibility (UK, 1811)(on 4 lists)

– Jane Austen (fiction: novel)
Poems (esp. La Belle Dame Sans Merci)(UK, c. 1814-1821)(on 6 lists)

– John Keats (poetry: lyric)
Waverley (UK, 1814)(on 3 lists)

– Walter Scott (fiction: novel)
Mansfield Park (UK, 1814)(on 3 lists)

Pride and Prejudice (UK, 1815)(on 13 lists)

Emma (UK, 1815)(on 7 lists)

Poems (esp. The Canti)(Italy, 1816-1837)(on 7 lists)

– Giacomo Leopardi (poetry: lyric)
Frankenstein (UK, 1818)(on 6 lists)

– Mary Shelley (fiction: novel)
Persuasion (UK, 1818)(on 3 lists)

Tales (esp. The Queen of Spades)(Russia, c. 1820–1837)(on 4 lists)

– Alexander Pushkin (fiction: stories)
Ivanhoe (UK, 1820)(on 3 lists)

– Walter Scott (fiction: novel)
Melmoth the Wanderer (Ireland, 1820)(on 3 lists)

– Charles Maturin (fiction: novel)
Poems (esp. Concord Hymn, Days, The Rhodora, and The Snow-storm)(US, c. 1823-1882)(on 4
lists)
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (poetry: lyric)
Fairy Tales and Stories (esp. The Emperor’s New Clothes and The Little Mermaid)(Denmark, c.
1825-1872)(on 4 lists)
– Hans Christian Andersen (fiction: stories)
Boris Godunov (Russia, 1825)(on 3 lists)

– Alexander Pushkin (drama)
Poems (esp. The Charge of the Light Brigade)(UK, c. 1826-1892)(on 5 lists)

– Alfred, Lord Tennyson (poetry: lyric)
The Last of the Mohicans (US, 1826)(on 3 lists)

– James Fenimore Cooper (fiction: novel)
The Betrothed (Italy, 1827)(on 5 lists)

– Alessandro Manzoni (fiction: novel)
The Red and the Black (France, 1830)(on 12 lists)

– Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)(fiction: novel)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (France, 1831)(on 7 lists)

– Victor Hugo (fiction: novel)
The Wild Ass’s Skin (France, 1831)(on 3 lists)

– Honoré de Balzac (fiction: novel)
Stories (esp. The Overcoat and The Nose)(Russia, c. 1831-1842)(on 3 lists)

– Nikolai Gogol (fiction: stories)
Faust (Germany, 1808 [Pt. 1], 1832 [Pt. 2])(on 11 lists)

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (drama)
Tales (esp. The Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado)(US, 1832-1849)(on 10 lists)
– Edgar Allan Poe (fiction: stories)
Louis Lambert (France, 1832)(on 3 lists)

Eugénie Grandet (France, 1833)(on 6 lists)

The Girl with the Golden Eyes (France, 1833)(on 3 lists)

Poems (esp. My Last Duchess)(UK, c. 1833-1889)(on 3 lists)

– Robert Browning (poetry: lyric)
Le Père Goriot (France, 1835)(on 9 lists)
The Inspector General (The Government Inspector)(Russia, 1836)(on 3 lists)

– Nikolai Gogol (drama)
The Pickwick Papers (UK, 1837)(on 5 lists)

– Charles Dickens (fiction: novel)
Tales and Sketches (esp. Young Goodman Brown)(US, 1837-1864)(on 3 lists)

– Nathaniel Hawthorne (fiction: stories)
Poems (esp. Dover Beach and The Scholar Gipsy)(UK, c. 1837-1888)(on 3 lists)
– Matthew Arnold (poetry: lyric)
Oliver Twist (UK, 1838)(on 6 lists)

The Charterhouse of Parma (France, 1839)(on 7 lists)

– Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)(fiction: novel)
Democracy in America (France, 1835-1840)(on 4 lists)

– Alexis de Tocqueville (non-fiction: journalism/travel)
Essays, 1st Series (US, 1841)(on 4 lists)

– Ralph Waldo Emerson (non-fiction: essays)
The Deerslayer (US, 1841)(on 3 lists)

– James Fenimore Cooper (fiction: novel)
Ursule Mirouet (France, 1841)(on 3 lists)

Dead Souls (Russia, 1842)(on 9 lists)

– Nikolai Gogol (fiction: novel)
Poems (esp. Remember)(UK, c. 1842-1894)(on 4 lists)

– Christina Rossetti (poetry: lyric)
A Christmas Carol (UK, 1843)(on 6 lists)

Essays, 2nd Series (US, 1844)(on 4 lists)

– Ralph Waldo Emerson (non-fiction: essays)
The Three Musketeers (France, 1844)(on 4 lists)

– Alexandre Dumas (fiction: novel)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, An American Slave (US, 1845)(on 5 lists)
– Frederick Douglass (non-fiction: memoir)
Stories (esp. Bartleby the Scrivener)(US, c. 1845-1891)(on 4 lists)

– Herman Melville (fiction: stories)
Cousin Bette (France, 1846)(on 8 lists)

The Count of Monte-Cristo (France, 1846)(on 7 lists)

– Alexandre Dumas (fiction: novel)
Wuthering Heights (UK, 1847)(on 11 lists)

– Emily Brontë (fiction: novel)
Jane Eyre (UK, 1847)(on 10 lists)

– Charlotte Brontë (fiction: novel)
A Harlot High and Low (France, 1847)(on 4 lists)

The Communist Manifesto (Germany/UK, 1848)(on 9 lists)

– Karl Marx & Freidrich Engels (non-fiction: political philosophy)
Vanity Fair (UK, 1848)(on 8 lists)

– William Makepeace Thackeray (fiction: novel)
Mary Barton (UK, 1848)(on 3 lists)

– Elizabeth Gaskell (fiction: novel)
Nature (US, 1849)(on 3 lists)

– Ralph Waldo Emerson (non-fiction: essay)
Poems (esp. A Ballad of Death)(UK, c. 1849-1909)(on 3 lists)

– Algernon Charles Swinburne (poetry: lyric)
David Copperfield (UK, 1849-1850)(on 8 lists)

The Scarlet Letter (US, 1850)(on 7 lists)

– Nathaniel Hawthorne (fiction: novel)
Representative Men (US, 1850)(on 4 lists)

– Ralph Waldo Emerson (non-fiction: essay)
The Prelude (UK, 1850)(on 4 lists)

– William Wordsworth (poetry: narrative)
Moby-Dick (US, 1851)(on 17 lists)

– Herman Melville (fiction: novel)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (US, 1851)(on 5 lists)

– Harriet Beecher Stowe (fiction: novel)
Bleak House (UK, 1852-1853)(on 6 lists)

Walden, or Life in the Woods (US, 1854)(on 7 lists)
– Henry David Thoreau (non-fiction: memoir/philosophy)
Hard Times (UK, 1854)(on 4 lists)

Leaves of Grass (US, 1855 [1st ed.])(on 9 lists)

– Walt Whitman (poetry: lyric)
Note: Numerous further, expanded editions, 1856-1892.
Poems (esp. “‘Hope’ Is the Thing with feathers“)(US, c. 1855-1886)(on 7 lists)

– Emily Dickinson (poetry: lyric)
North and South (UK, 1854-1855)(on 3 lists)

– Elizabeth Gaskell (fiction: novel)
The Warden (UK, 1855)(on 3 lists)

– Anthony Trollope (fiction: novel)
Children’s and Household Tales (Grimm’s Fairy Tales)(seven editions)(Germany, 1812-1857)(on

3 lists)
– Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm (fiction: stories)
Madame Bovary (France, 1857)(on 17 lists)

– Gustave Flaubert (fiction: novel)
Flowers of Evil (France, 1857)(on 5 lists)

– Charles Baudelaire (poetry: lyric)
Little Dorrit (UK, 1857)(on 4 lists)

Barchester Towers (UK, 1857)(on 3 lists)

On the Origin of Species (UK, 1859)(on 9 lists)

– Charles Darwin (non-fiction: science)
On Liberty (UK, 1859)(on 7 lists)

– John Stuart Mill (non-fiction: political philosophy)
A Tale of Two Cities (UK, 1859)(on 6 lists)

Oblomov (Russia, 1859)(on 4 lists)

– Ivan Goncharov (fiction: novel)
Adam Bede (UK, 1859)(on 3 lists)

– George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans)(fiction: novel)
The Woman in White (UK, 1860)(on 5 lists)

– Wilkie Collins (fiction: novel)
The Mill on the Floss (UK, 1860)(on 5 lists)

– George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)(fiction: novel)
Poems (esp. The Windhover)(UK, c. 1860-1889)(on 5 lists)

– Gerard Manley Hopkins (poetry: lyric)
First Love (Russia, 1860)(on 3 lists)

– Ivan Turgenev (fiction: novel)
The Storm (Russia, 1860)(on 3 lists)

– Alexander Ostrovsky (drama)
Great Expectations (UK, 1860-1861)(on 8 lists)

Silas Marner (UK, 1861)(on 5 lists)

Les Misérables (France, 1862)(on 8 lists)

– Victor Hugo (fiction: novel)
Fathers and Sons (Russia, 1862)(on 6 lists)

– Ivan Turgenev (fiction: novel)
Tales (esp. The Enchanted Wanderer)(Russia, 1862-1895)(on 3 lists)

– Nikolai Leskov (fiction: stories)
Short Novels and Tales (esp. The Turn of the Screw)(US/UK, c. 1864-1910)(on 7 lists)
– Henry James (fiction: stories/novellas)
Notes from the Underground (Russia, 1864)(on 4 lists)

– Fyodor Dostoevsky (fiction: novel)
Our Mutual Friend (UK, 1864)(on 3 lists)

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (UK, 1865)(on 9 lists)

– Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson)(fiction: novel)
Crime and Punishment (Russia, 1866)(on 16 lists)

Brand (Norway, 1866)(on 3 lists)

– Henrik Ibsen (drama)
Peer Gynt (Norway, 1867)(on 5 lists)

The Last Chronicle of Barset (UK, 1867)(on 4 lists)

Thérèse Raquin (France, 1867)(on 3 lists)

– Émile Zola (fiction: novel)
Little Women (US, 1868)(on 6 lists)

– Louisa May Alcott (fiction: novel)
The Moonstone (UK, 1868)(on 3 lists)

– Wilkie Collins (fiction: novel)
War and Peace (Russia, 1869)(on 19 lists)

– Leo Tolstoy (fiction: novel)
Sentimental Education (France, 1869)(on 8 lists)

– Gustave Flaubert (fiction: novel)
The Idiot (Russia, 1869)(on 8 lists)

Phineas Finn (UK, 1869)(on 3 lists)

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (France, 1870)(on 4 lists)

– Jules Verne (fiction: novel)
Through the Looking Glass (UK, 1871)(on 6 lists)

– Lewis Carroll (fiction: novel)
The Drunken Boat (France, 1871)(on 3 lists)

– Arthur Rimbaud (poetry: lyric)
Middlemarch (UK, 1871-1872)(on 12 lists)

The Possessed (The Devils)(Russia, 1872)(on 6 lists)

Erewhon (UK, 1872)(on 3 lists)

– Samuel Butler (fiction: novel)
A Season in Hell (France, 1873)(on 5 lists)

Around the World in Eighty Days (France, 1873)(on 3 lists)

– Jules Verne (fiction: novel)
Far from the Madding Crowd (UK, 1874)(on 5 lists)

– Thomas Hardy (fiction: novel)
Illuminations (France, 1874)(on 3 lists)

Stories (esp. The Necklace)(France, c. 1875-1893)(on 5 lists)
– Guy de Maupassant (fiction: stories)
Daniel Deronda (UK, 1876)(on 3 lists)

Anna Karenina (Russia, 1877)(on 16 lists)

– Leo Tolstoy (fiction: novel)
Poems (esp. Endless Time (Gitanjali #1); A Moment’s Indulgence (Gitanjali #5); The Lotus
(Gitanjali #20); and The Gardener #38 (“My Love Once upon a Time”)
(India, c. 1877-1941)(on 5 lists)
– Rabindranath Tagore (poetry: lyric)
Stories (esp. Kabuliwallah (The Fruitseller from Kabul), Kshudita Pashan (The Hungry Stones),
and Nastanirh (The Broken Nest))(India, c. 1877-1941)(on 3 lists)
– Rabindranath Tagore (fiction: stories)
L’Assommoir (France, 1877)(on 3 lists)

The Return of the Native (UK, 1878)(on 4 lists)

A Doll’s House (Norway, 1879)(on 11 lists)

The Brothers Karamazov (Russia, 1880)(on 14 lists)

Tales (esp. The Lady with the Dog)(Russia, 1880-1903)(on 11 lists)

– Anton Chekhov (fiction: stories)
Ben-Hur (US, 1880)(on 3 lists)

– Lew Wallace (fiction: novel)
Nana (France, 1880)(on 3 lists)

The Red Room (Sweden, 1880)(on 3 lists)

– August Strindberg (fiction: novel)
The Portrait of a Lady (US/UK, 1881)(on 8 lists)

– Henry James (fiction: novel)
Ghosts (Norway, 1881)(on 3 lists)

Poems (esp. When You Are Old and The Second Coming)(Ireland, c. 1882-1939)(on 9 lists)
– William Butler Yeats (poetry: lyric)
Treasure Island (UK, 1883)(on 6 lists)
– Robert Louis Stevenson (fiction: novel)
Thus Spake Zarathustra (Germany, 1883)(on 4 lists)

– Friedrich Nietzsche (non-fiction: philosophy)
Little Novels of Sicily (Italy, 1883)(on 3 lists)

– Giovanni Verga (fiction: stories)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (US, 1884)(on 14 lists)

– Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)(fiction: novel)
Germinal (France, 1885)(on 4 lists)

The Wild Duck (Norway, 1885)(on 3 lists)

The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Russia, 1886)(on 6 lists)

– Leo Tolstoy (fiction: novella)
The Mayor of Casterbridge (UK, 1886)(on 6 lists)

Kidnapped (UK, 1886)(on 4 lists)

The Bostonians (US/UK, 1886)(on 3 lists)

Beyond Good and Evil (Germany, 1886)(on 3 lists)

– Friedrich Nietzsche (non-fiction: philosophy)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (UK, 1886)(on 3 lists)

– Robert Louis Stevenson (fiction: novella)
The Father (Sweden, 1887)(on 4 lists)

– August Strindberg (drama)
Fortunata and Jacinta (Spain, 1887)(on 3 lists)

– Benito Pérez Galdós (fiction: novel)
The People of Hemsö (Sweden, 1887)(on 3 lists)

– August Strindberg (fiction: novel)
Miss Julie (Sweden, 1888)(on 5 lists)

The Maias (Portugal, 1888)(on 3 lists)

– José Maria de Eça de Queiroz (fiction: novel)
The Master of Ballantrae (UK, 1889)(on 3 lists)

Hunger (Norway, 1890)(on 8 lists)

– Knut Hamsun (fiction: novel)
Hedda Gabler (Norway, 1890)(on 5 lists)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Ireland/UK, 1890)(on 5 lists)

– Oscar Wilde (fiction: novel)
News from Nowhere (UK, 1890)(on 3 lists)

– William Morris (fiction: novel)
The House by the Medlar Tree (Italy, 1890)(on 3 lists)

– Giovanni Verga (fiction: novel)
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (UK, 1890)(on 3 lists)
– James George Frazer (non-fiction: religion/mythology)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (UK, 1891)(on 7 lists)

Billy Budd (US, c. 1891, pub. 1924)(on 5 lists)

– Herman Melville (fiction: novella)
The Master Builder (Norway, 1892)(on 4 lists)

Diary of a Nobody (UK, 1892)(on 3 lists)

– George & Weedon Grossmith (fiction: novel)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (UK, 1892)(on 3 lists)

– Arthur Conan Doyle (fiction: stories)
Das Kapital (Capital)(three volumes)(Germany/UK, 1867-1894)(on 4 lists)

– Karl Marx (non-fiction: economics/political philosophy)
Note: Volume I published by Marx in 1867. Friedrich Engels wrote Volumes II (1885)and III
(1894)based on notes left by Marx.
Arms and the Man (Ireland/UK, 1894)(on 3 lists)

– George Bernard Shaw (drama)
Jude the Obscure (UK, 1895)(on 6 lists)

The Time Machine (UK, 1895)(on 5 lists)

– H.G. Wells (fiction: novel)
The Red Badge of Courage (US, 1895)(on 4 lists)

– Stephen Crane (fiction: novel)
Effi Briest (Germany, 1896)(on 4 lists)
– Theodor Fontane (fiction: novel)
The Seagull (Russia, 1896)(on 3 lists)

– Anton Chekhov (drama)
Cyrano de Bergerac (France, 1897)(on 6 lists)

– Edmond Rostand (drama)
Dracula (Ireland, 1897)(on 5 lists)

– Bram Stoker (fiction: novel)
Misericordia (Spain, 1897)(on 3 lists)

– Benito Pérez Galdós (fiction: novel)
The Invisible Man (UK, 1897)(on 3 lists)

The War of the Worlds (UK, 1898)(on 7 lists)

Heart of Darkness (Poland/UK, 1899 [serial], 1902 [book])(on 13 lists)

– Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski)(fiction: novella)
The Interpretation of Dreams (Austria, 1899)(on 9 lists)

– Sigmund Freud (non-fiction: psychology)
The Importance of Being Earnest (Ireland/UK, 1899)(on 6 lists)

– Oscar Wilde (drama)
The Way of All Flesh (UK, c. 1899)(on 4 lists)

– Samuel Butler (fiction: novel)
The Kreutzer Sonata (Russia, 1899)(on 4 lists)

– Leo Tolstoy (fiction: novella)
The Awakening (US, 1899)(on 4 lists)

– Kate Chopin (fiction: novel)
Lord Jim (Poland/UK, 1900)(on 7 lists)

– Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski)(fiction: novel)
Uncle Vanya (Russia, 1899-1900)(on 5 lists)

Sister Carrie (US, 1900)(on 5 lists)

– Theodore Dreiser (fiction: novel)
Stories (esp. Idgah and Kafan)(India, c. 1900-1936)(on 3 lists)

– Premchand (Dhanpat Rai)(fiction: stories)
Buddenbrooks (Germany, 1901)(on 8 lists)

– Thomas Mann (fiction: novel)
Kim (India/UK, 1901)(on 7 lists)

– Rudyard Kipling (fiction: novel)
Three Sisters (Russia, 1901)(on 4 lists)

A Dream Play (Sweden, 1901)(on 3 lists)

The Dance of Death (Sweden, 1901)(on 3 lists)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (UK, 1902)(on 5 lists)

– Arthur Conan Doyle (fiction: novel)
The Wings of the Dove (US/UK, 1902)(on 4 lists)

The Varieties of Religious Experience (US, 1902)(on 4 lists)

– William James (non-fiction: religion/psychology)
The Ambassadors (US/UK, 1903)(on 6 lists)

Man and Superman (Ireland/UK, 1902-1903)(on 5 lists)

The Call of the Wild (US, 1903)(on 5 lists)

– Jack London (fiction: novel)
The Souls of Black Folk (US, 1903)(on 3 lists)

– W.E.B. Du Bois (non-fiction: sociology)
Poems (esp. Dulce et Decorum Est)(UK, c. 1903-1918)(on 3 lists)

– Wilfred Owen (poetry: lyric)
Stories (esp. The Metamorphosis)(Czechoslovakia, 1904-1924)(on 16 lists)

– Franz Kafka (fiction: stories)
The Cherry Orchard (Russia, 1904)(on 11 lists)

Nostromo (Poland/UK, 1904)(on 8 lists)

The Golden Bowl (US/UK, 1904)(on 4 lists)

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Germany, 1904)(on 3 lists)
– Max Weber (non-fiction: economics/history)
Riders to the Sea (Ireland, 1904)(on 3 lists)
– John Millington Synge (drama)
The House of Mirth (US, 1905)(on 7 lists)

– Edith Wharton (fiction: novel)
Major Barbara (Ireland/UK, 1905)(on 5 lists)

Poems (esp. Poetry and The Fish)(US, c. 1905-1972)(on 5 lists)

– Marianne Moore (poetry: lyric)
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (Austria, 1905)(on 4 lists)

– Sigmund Freud (non-fiction: psychology)
The Jungle (US, 1906)(on 4 lists)

– Upton Sinclair (fiction: novel)
The Confusions of Young Törless (Germany, 1906)(on 3 lists)

– Robert Musil (fiction: novel)
The Secret Agent (Poland/UK, 1907)(on 5 lists)

The Ghost Sonata (Sweden, 1907)(on 4 lists)

Pragmatism (US, 1907)(on 4 lists)

– William James (non-fiction: philosophy)
The Playboy of the Western World (Ireland, 1907)(on 4 lists)

– John Millington Synge (drama)
New Poems: First Part and Other Part (Austria, 1907)(on 3 lists)
– Rainer Maria Rilke (poetry: lyric)
A Wind in the Willows (UK, 1908)(on 5 lists)

– Kenneth Grahame (fiction: novel)
The Old Wive’s Tale (UK, 1908)(on 4 lists)

– Arnold Bennett (fiction: novel)
A Room with a View (UK, 1908)(on 4 lists)

– E.M. Forster (fiction: novel)
Stories (esp. A Madman’s Diary)(China, 1909-1936)(on 8 lists)

– Lu Xun (fiction: stories)
Poems (esp. The Waste Land)(US/UK, c. 1909-1965)(on 8 lists)

– T.S. Eliot (poetry: lyric)
Poems (esp. The Red Wheelbarrow)(US, 1909-1963)(on 3 lists)
– William Carlos Williams (poetry: lyric/narrative)
Howards End (UK, 1910)(on 5 lists)

Ethan Frome (US, 1911)(on 4 lists)

Under Western Eyes (Poland/UK, 1911)(on 3 lists)

Zuleika Dobson (UK, 1911)(on 3 lists)

– Max Beerbohm (fiction: novel)
Death in Venice (Germany, 1912)(on 6 lists)

– Thomas Mann (fiction: novella)
Poems (esp. A Cloud in Trousers and Past One O’Clock)(Georgia/Russia/USSR, c. 1912-1930)(on

4 lists)
– Vladimir Mayakovsky (poetry: lyric)
Poems (esp. Requiem)(Russia/USSR, c. 1912-1966)(on 4 lists)

– Anna Akhmatova (poetry: lyric)
Short Stories (esp. The Garden Party)(New Zealand, 1912-1923)(on 3 lists)

– Katherine Mansfield (fiction: stories)
Sons and Lovers (UK, 1913)(on 11 lists)

– D.H. Lawrence (fiction: novel)
Pygmalion (Ireland/UK, 1912-1913)(on 4 lists)

Le Grand Meaulnes (France, 1913)(on 3 lists)

– Alain-Fournier (Henri-Alban Fournier)(fiction: novel)
Stories (esp. Rashomon)(Japan, c. 1913-1927)(on 3 lists)

– Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (fiction: stories)
Dubliners (Ireland, 1914)(on 6 lists)

– James Joyce (fiction: stories)
Kokoro (Japan, 1914)(on 6 lists)

– Natsume Soseki (fiction: novel)
The Trial (Czechoslovakia, 1914-1915, pub. 1925)(on 14 lists)

– Franz Kafka (fiction: novel)
The Rainbow (UK, 1915)(on 6 lists)

The Good Soldier (UK, 1915)(on 4 lists)
– Ford Madox Ford (fiction: novel)
Of Human Bondage (UK, 1915)(on 4 lists)

– W. Somerset Maugham (fiction: novel)
Stories (esp. The Story of My Dovecot and My First Goose)(Ukraine/USSR, c. 1915-1940)(on 4

lists)
– Isaak Babel (fiction: stories)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Ireland, 1916)(on 9 lists)

– James Joyce (fiction: novel)
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Germany, 1917)(on 3 lists)
– Albert Einstein (non-fiction: science)
The Education of Henry Adams (US, 1918)(on 6 lists)

– Henry Adams (non-fiction: memoir)
My Ántonia (US, 1918)(on 5 lists)

– Willa Cather (fiction: novel)
The Elements of Style (US, 1918)(on 3 lists)

– William Strunk & E.B. White (non-fiction: reference)
The Magnificent Ambersons (US, 1918)(on 3 lists)

– Booth Tarkington (fiction: novel)
Eminent Victorians (UK, 1918)(on 3 lists)

– Lytton Strachey (non-fiction: biography)
Winesburg, Ohio (US, 1919)(on 5 lists)

– Sherwood Anderson (fiction: linked stories)
Heartbreak House (Ireland/UK, 1919)(on 3 lists)

The Age of Innocence (US, 1920)(on 7 lists)

Poems (esp. Harlem (Dream Deferred))(US, c. 1920-1967)(on 3 lists)

– Langston Hughes (poetry: lyric)
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Italy, 1921)(on 7 lists)

– Luigi Pirandello (drama)
The Forsyte Saga (three novels and two stories)(UK, 1906-1921)(on 5 lists)
– John Galsworthy (fiction: novels/stories)
Ulysses (Ireland/France, 1922)(on 17 lists)

The True Story of Ah Q (China, 1921-1922)(on 3 lists)
– Lu Xun (Lu Hsun)(fiction: novella)
Siddhartha (Germany/Switzerland, 1922)(on 3 lists)

– Hermann Hesse (fiction: novel)
Zeno’s Conscience (The Confessions of Zeno)(Italy, 1923)(on 7 lists)

– Italo Svevo (fiction: novel)
Poems (esp. Lullaby)(US, 1923-1973)(on 4 lists)

– W.H. Auden (poetry: lyric)
A Lost Lady (US, 1923)(on 3 lists)

The Magic Mountain (Germany, 1924)(on 10 lists)

The Castle (Czechoslovakia, 1922-1924, pub. 1926)(on 8 lists)

A Passage to India (UK, 1924)(on 8 lists)

Saint Joan (Ireland/UK, 1924)(on 8 lists)

Juno and the Paycock (Ireland, 1924)(on 5 lists)

– Sean O’Casey (drama)
The Great Gatsby (US, 1925)(on 12 lists)

– F. Scott Fitzgerald (fiction: novel)
Mrs. Dalloway (UK, 1925)(on 8 lists)

– Virginia Woolf (fiction: novel)
An American Tragedy (US, 1925)(on 6 lists)

– Theodore Dreiser (fiction: novel)
The Counterfeiters (France, 1925)(on 5 lists)

– André Gide (fiction: novel)
Stories (esp. A Rose for Emily and That Evening Sun Go Down)(US, c. 1925-1962)(on 5 lists)
– William Faulkner (fiction: stories)
Orpheus (France, 1925)(on 3 lists)

– Jean Cocteau (drama)
The Sun Also Rises (US, 1926)(on 9 lists)

– Ernest Hemingway (fiction: novel)
Winnie-the-Pooh (UK, 1926)(on 5 lists)

– A.A. Milne (fiction: novel)
The Plough and the Stars (Ireland, 1926)(on 4 lists)

– Sean O’Casey (drama)
The Good Soldier Švejk (Czechoslovakia, 1926)(on 4 lists)

– Jaroslav Hašek (fiction: novel)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (UK, 1926)(on 3 lists)

– Agatha Christie (fiction: novel)
In Search of Lost Time (seven novels)(France, 1913-1927)(on 18 lists)

– Marcel Proust (fiction: novels)
To the Lighthouse (UK, 1927)(on 10 lists)

Death Comes for the Archbishop (US, 1927)(on 4 lists)

The Bridge of San Luis Rey (US, 1927)(on 4 lists)

– Thornton Wilder (fiction: novel)
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (UK, 1927)(on 3 lists)

– Arthur Conan Doyle (fiction: stories)
Amerika (Czechoslovakia, 1911-1914, pub. 1927)(on 3 lists)

Steppenwolf (Germany/Switzerland, 1927)(on 3 lists)

– Hermann Hesse (fiction: novel)
Gypsy Ballads (Spain, 1928)(on 5 lists)

– Federico García Lorca (poetry: lyric)
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (UK, 1928)(on 5 lists)

Nadja (France, 1928)(on 5 lists)

– André Breton (fiction: novel)
Parade’s End (UK, 1924-1928)(on 4 lists)

– Ford Madox Ford (fiction: novel)
Orlando: A Biography (UK, 1928)(on 4 lists)

Point Counter Point (UK, 1928)(on 3 lists)

– Aldous Huxley (fiction: novel)
The Threepenny Opera (Germany, 1928)(on 3 lists)

– Bertolt Brecht (with music by Kurt Weill)(drama)
The Sound and the Fury (US, 1929)(on 12 lists)
– William Faulkner (fiction: novel)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany, 1929)(on 7 lists)

– Erich Maria Remarqué (fiction: novel)
A Room of One’s Own (UK, 1929)(on 7 lists)

– Virginia Woolf (non-fiction: essay)
A Farewell to Arms (US, 1929)(on 6 lists)

An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth (India, 1929)(on 5 lists)

– Mohandas K. Gandhi (non-fiction: memoir)
The Maltese Falcon (US, 1929)(on 5 lists)

– Dashiell Hammett (fiction: novel)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Germany, 1929)(on 4 lists)

– Alfred Döblin (fiction: novel)
Les Enfants Terribles (Frances, 1929)(on 4 lists)

– Jean Cocteau (fiction: novel)
Look Homeward, Angel (US, 1929)(on 4 lists)

– Thomas Wolfe (fiction: novel)
The Bedbug (USSR, 1929)(on 3 lists)

– Vladimir Mayakovsky (drama)
Goodbye to All That (UK, 1929)(on 3 lists)

– Robert Graves (non-fiction: memoir)
As I Lay Dying (US, 1930)(on 7 lists)

Civilization and its Discontents (Austria, 1930)(on 4 lists)

– Sigmund Freud (non-fiction: psychology/sociology)
Stories (esp. The Doctor’s Son)(US, c. 1930-1970)(on 3 lists)

– John O’Hara (fiction: stories)
The Good Earth (US, 1931)(on 5 lists)

– Pearl Buck (fiction: novel)
The Waves (UK, 1931)(on 4 lists)

Mourning Becomes Electra (US, 1931)(on 3 lists)

– Eugene O’Neill (drama)
Journey to the End of the Night (France, 1932)(on 10 lists)
– Louis-Ferdinand Céline (fiction: novel)
Brave New World (UK, 1932)(on 9 lists)

– Aldous Huxley (fiction: novel)
Light in August (US, 1932)(on 6 lists)

Blood Wedding (Spain, 1932)(on 4 lists)

– Federico García Lorca (drama)
The Radetzky March (Austria, 1932)(on 3 lists)

– Joseph Roth (fiction: novel)
Tobacco Road (US, 1932)(on 3 lists)

– Erskine Caldwell (fiction: novel)
Young Lonigan (US, 1932)(on 3 lists)

– James T. Farrell (fiction)
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (US/France, 1933)(on 8 lists)

– Gertrude Stein (non-fiction: biography)
Man’s Fate (France, 1933)(on 5 lists)

– André Malraux (fiction: novel)
Miss Lonelyhearts (US, 1933)(on 3 lists)

– Nathanael West (fiction: novel)
Tender Is the Night (US, 1934)(on 6 lists)

– F. Scott Fitzgerald (fiction: novel)
Tropic of Cancer (US, 1934)(on 5 lists)

– Henry Miller (fiction: novel)
Poems (esp. Death Fugue)(Romania/France, c. 1934-1970)(on 5 lists)

– Paul Celan (poetry: lyric)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (US, 1934)(on 4 lists)

– James M. Cain (fiction: novel)
A Handful of Dust (UK, 1934)(on 4 lists)

– Evelyn Waugh (fiction: novel)
Appointment in Samarra (US, 1934)(on 4 lists)

– John O’Hara (fiction: novel)
I, Claudius (UK, 1934)(on 3 lists)

– Robert Graves (fiction: novel)
The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (US, 1934)(on 3 lists)

– James T. Farrell (fiction: novel)
Call It Sleep (US, 1934)(on 3 lists)

– Henry Roth (fiction: novel)
Independent People (Iceland, 1935)(on 6 lists)

– Halldór Laxness (fiction: novel)
Murder in the Cathedral (US/UK, 1935)(on 6 lists)

– T.S. Eliot (drama)
The Book of Disquiet (Portugal, 1935)(on 5 lists)

– Fernando Pessoa (fiction: novel)
Residence on Earth (Chile, 1933-1935)(on 3 lists)

– Pablo Neruda (Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto)(poetry: lyric)
Judgment Day (US, 1935)(on 3 lists)

– James T. Farrell (fiction: novel)
Poems (esp. My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereaux Winslow)(US, c. 1935-1977)(on 3 lists)
– Robert Lowell (poetry: lyric)
Absalom, Absalom! (US, 1936)(on 9 lists)

Gone with the Wind (US, 1936)(on 9 lists)

– Margaret Mitchell (fiction: novel)
U.S.A. (three novels)(US, 1930-1936)(on 6 lists)

– John Dos Passos (fiction: novels)
The General Theory of Employment, Interest & Money (UK, 1936)(on 5 lists)
– John Maynard Keynes (non-fiction: economics)
The House of Bernarda Alba (Spain, 1936)(on 3 lists)

– Federico García Lorca (drama)
Out of Africa (Denmark, 1937)(on 8 lists)

– Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)(non-fiction: memoir)
Of Mice and Men (US, 1937)(on 5 lists)

– John Steinbeck (fiction: novella)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (US, 1937)(on 4 lists)

– Zora Neale Hurston (fiction: novel)
The Hobbit (UK, 1937)(on 3 lists)

– J.R.R. Tolkien (fiction: novel)
In Parenthesis (UK, 1937)(on 3 lists)

– David Jones (poetry: lyric)
Rickshaw Boy (China, 1937)(on 3 lists)
– Lao She (fiction: novel)
Rebecca (UK, 1938)(on 7 lists)

– Daphne du Maurier (fiction: novel)
Our Town (US, 1938)(on 6 lists)

– Thornton Wilder (drama)
Nausea (France, 1938)(on 5 lists)

– Jean-Paul Sartre (fiction: novel)
Brighton Rock (UK, 1938)(on 4 lists)

– Graham Greene (fiction: novel)
Homage to Catalonia (UK, 1938)(on 3 lists)

– George Orwell (non-fiction: memoir)
Scoop (UK, 1938)(on 3 lists)

The Master and Margarita (USSR, 1929-1939, pub. 1966)(on 7 lists)

– Mikhail Bulgakov (fiction: novel)
Finnegan’s Wake (Ireland/France, 1939)(on 6 lists)

Mother Courage and Her Children (Germany, 1938-1939)(on 5 lists)

– Bertolt Brecht (drama)
The Big Sleep (US, 1939)(on 5 lists)

– Raymond Chandler (fiction: novel)
The Iceman Cometh (US, 1939)(on 4 lists)

The Day of the Locust (US, 1939)(on 3 lists)

– Nathanael West (fiction: novel)
The Little Foxes (US, 1939)(on 3 lists)

– Lillian Hellman (drama)
The Time of Your Life (US, 1939)(on 3 lists)

– William Saroyan (drama)
At Swim-Two-Birds (Ireland, 1939)(on 3 lists)

– Flann O’Brien (Brian O’Nolan)(fiction: novel)
The Grapes of Wrath (US, 1940)(on 13 lists)

– John Steinbeck (fiction: novel)
Native Son (US, 1940)(on 8 lists)
– Richard Wright (fiction: novel)
Long Day’s Journey Into Night (US, 1940)(on 8 lists)

For Whom The Bell Tolls (US, 1940)(on 7 lists)

The Power and the Glory (UK, 1940)(on 5 lists)

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (US, 1940)(on 4 lists)

– Carson McCullers (fiction: novel)
The Third Policeman (Ireland, 1939-1940)(on 3 lists)

– Flann O’Brien (fiction: novel)
Darkness at Noon (Hungary/UK, 1940)(on 3 lists)

– Arthur Koestler (fiction: novel)
The Tartar Steppe (Italy, 1940)(on 3 lists)

– Dino Buzzati (fiction: novel)
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (US, 1941)(on 4 lists)

– James Agee (with photos by Walker Evans)(non-fiction: journalism/essay)
The Good Person of Szechwan (The Good Woman of Setzuan)(Germany/US, 1941)(on 4 lists)
The Stranger (Algeria/France, 1942)(on 16 lists)

– Albert Camus (fiction: novel)
The Skin of Our Teeth (US, 1942)(on 4 lists)

– Thornton Wilder (drama)
Mythology (Germany/US, 1942)(on 3 lists)

– Edith Hamilton (non-fiction: mythology)
The Little Prince (France, 1943)(on 8 lists)

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (fiction: novel)
The Man Without Qualities (Austria, 1930-1943)(on 7 lists)

– Robert Musil (fiction: novel)
The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi)(Germany/Switzerland, 1943)(on 4 lists)

– Herman Hesse
Our Lady of the Flowers (France, 1942-1943)(on 3 lists)

– Jean Genet (fiction: novel)
The Nature and Destiny of Man (US, 1943)(on 3 lists)

– Reinhold Niebuhr (non-fiction: religion)
Poems (esp. Howl)(US, c. 1943-1997)(on 3 lists)

– Allen Ginsberg (poetry: lyric)
Ficciones (Argentina, 1944)(on 11 lists)

– Jorge Luis Borges (fiction: stories)
No Exit (France, 1944)(on 4 lists)

– Jean-Paul Sartre (drama)
The Glass Menagerie (US, 1944)(on 4 lists)

– Tennessee Williams (drama)
Animal Farm (UK, 1945)(on 9 lists)

– George Orwell (fiction: novel)
The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Germany, 1943-1945)(on 5 lists)

Loving (UK, 1945)(on 5 lists)

– Henry Green (fiction: novel)
Brideshead Revisited (UK, 1945)(on 5 lists)

The Madwoman of Chaillot (France, 1945)(on 4 lists)

– Jean Giraudoux (drama)
The Bridge on the Drina (Yugoslavia, 1945)(on 3 lists)

– Ivo Andrić (fiction: novel)
The Berlin Stories (two novellas)(UK, 1945)(on 3 lists)

– Christopher Isherwood (fiction: novellas)
The Death of Virgil (Austria, 1945)(on 3 lists)

– Hermann Broch (fiction: novel)
Pippi Longstocking (Sweden, 1945)(on 3 lists)

– Astrid Lindgren (fiction: novel)
All the King’s Men (US, 1946)(on 6 lists)

– Robert Penn Warren (fiction: novel)
Zorba the Greek (Greece, 1946)(on 4 lists)

– Nikos Kazantzakis (fiction: novel)
Titus Groan (UK, 1946)(on 4 lists)

– Mervyn Peake (fiction: novel)
The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Nigeria, 1946)(on 4 lists)

– Amos Tutola (fiction: novel)
Hiroshima (US, 1946)(on 3 lists)
– John Hersey (non-fiction: journalism)
Under the Volcano (UK, 1947)(on 8 lists)

– Malcolm Lowry (fiction: novel)
The Plague (Algeria/France, 1947)(on 6 lists)

A Streetcar Named Desire (US, 1947)(on 6 lists)

The Diary of a Young Girl (Netherlands, 1947)(on 6 lists)

– Anne Frank (non-fiction: diary)
If This Is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz)(Italy, 1947)(on 5 lists)

– Primo Levi (non-fiction: memoir)
Doctor Faustus (Germany, 1947)(on 4 lists)

Snow Country (Japan, 1948)(on 5 lists)

– Yasunari Kawabata (fiction: novel)
Cry, the Beloved Country (South Africa, 1948)(on 5 lists)

– Alan Paton (fiction: novel)
The Heart of the Matter (UK, 1948)(on 4 lists)

The Naked and the Dead (US, 1948)(on 4 lists)

– Norman Mailer (fiction: novel)
The Makioka Sisters (Japan, 1948)(on 3 lists)

– Jun’ichirō Tanizaki (fiction: novel)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (UK, 1949)(on 15 lists)

– George Orwell (fiction: novel)
The Second Sex (France, 1949)(on 8 lists)

– Simone de Beauvoir (non-fiction: sociology)
The Aleph and Other Stories (Argentina, 1949)(on 7 lists)

– Jorge Luis Borges (fiction: stories)
Death of a Salesman (US, 1949)(on 6 lists)

– Arthur Miller (drama)
The Cocktail Party (US/UK, 1949)(on 3 lists)

– T.S. Eliot (drama)
The Kingdom of This World (Cuba, 1949)(on 3 lists)
– Alejo Carpentier (fiction: novel)
The Man with the Golden Arm (US, 1949)(on 3 lists)

– Nelson Algren (fiction: novel)
The Sheltering Sky (US, 1949)(on 3 lists)

– Paul Bowles (fiction: novel)
The Bald Soprano (Romania/France, 1950)(on 4 lists)

– Eugène Ionesco (drama)
Gormenghast (UK, 1950)(on 4 lists)

Canto General (Chile, 1938-1950)(on 3 lists)

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, book 1)(UK, 1950)(on 3 lists)
– C.S. Lewis (fiction: novel)
A Town Like Alice (UK, 1950)(on 3 lists)

– Nevil Shute (fiction: novel)
The Family Moskat (Poland/US, 1950)(on 3 lists)

– Isaac Bashevis Singer (fiction: novel)
The Story of Art (Austria/UK, 1950)(on 3 lists)

– Ernst Gombrich (non-fiction: art history)
The Catcher in the Rye (US, 1951)(on 10 lists)

– J.D. Salinger (fiction: novel)
Memoirs of Hadrian (France, 1951)(on 5 lists)

– Marguerite Yourcenar (fiction: novel)
Speak, Memory (USSR/US, 1951)(on 4 lists)

– Vladimir Nabokov (non-fiction: memoir)
Day of the Triffids (UK, 1951)(on 4 lists)

– John Wyndham (fiction: novel)
The Opposing Shore (France, 1951)(on 3 lists)

– Julien Gracq (fiction: novel)
Foundation (USSR/US, 1951)(on 3 lists)

– Isaac Asimov (fiction: novel)
From Here to Eternity (US, 1951)(on 3 lists)

– James Jones (fiction: novel)
Invisible Man (US, 1952)(on 12 lists)

– Ralph Ellison (fiction: novel)
The Old Man and the Sea (US, 1952)(on 10 lists)

– Ernest Hemingway (fiction: novella)
The Chairs (Romania/France, 1952)(on 3 lists)

– Eugène Ionesco (drama)
Collected Poems: 1934-1952 (UK, 1952)(on 3 lists)

– Dylan Thomas (poetry: lyric)
The Crucible (US, 1952)(on 3 lists)

– Arthur Miller (drama)
Wise Blood (US, 1952)(on 3 lists)

– Flannery O’Connor (fiction: novel)
Waiting for Godot (Ireland/France, 1953)(on 11 lists)

– Samuel Beckett (drama)
The Adventures of Augie March (US, 1953)(on 6 lists)

– Saul Bellow (fiction: novel)
Molloy; Molone Dies; The Unnameable (three novels)(Ireland/France, 1951-1953)(on 5 lists)

– Samuel Beckett (fiction: novels)
Go Tell It on the Mountain (US, 1953)(on 4 lists)

– James Baldwin (fiction: novel)
The Lost Steps (Cuba, 1953)(on 4 lists)

– Alejo Carpentier (fiction: novel)
Lucky Jim (UK, 1953)(on 3 lists)

– Kingsley Amis (fiction: novel)
Collected Poems (US, 1954)(on 6 lists)

– Wallace Stevens (poetry: lyric)
Lord of the Flies (UK, 1954)(on 5 lists)

– William Golding (fiction: novel)
I’m Not Stiller (Switzerland, 1954)(on 4 lists)

– Max Frisch (fiction: novel)
Under the Net (UK, 1954)(on 3 lists)

– Iris Murdoch (fiction: novel)
Bonjour Tristesse (France, 1954)(on 3 lists)

– Françoise Sagan (fiction: novel)
Lolita (USSR/US, 1955)(on 12 lists)

– Vladimir Nabokov (fiction: novel)
The Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca (Spain, 1918-1936, pub. 1955)(on 4 lists)
– Federico García Lorca (poetry: lyric)
Pedro Páramo (Mexico, 1955)(on 4 lists)

– Juan Rulfo (fiction: novel)
The Quiet American (UK, 1955)(on 3 lists)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (US, 1955)(on 3 lists)

The Talented Mr. Ripley (UK, 1955)(on 3 lists)

– Patricia Highsmith (fiction: novel)
The Recognitions (US, 1955)(on 3 lists)

– William Gaddis (fiction: novel)
Notes of a Native Son (US, 1955)(on 3 lists)

– James Baldwin (non-fiction: essays)
The Lord of the Rings (three novels)(UK, 1956)(on 6 lists)

– J.R.R. Tolkien (fiction: novels)
The Visit (Germany, 1956)(on 5 lists)

– Friedrich Dürrenmatt (drama)
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (Brazil, 1956)(on 4 lists)

– João Guimarães Rosa (fiction: novel)
Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy, Vol. 1)(Egypt, 1956)(on 4 lists)

– Naguib Mahfouz (fiction: novel)
The Fall (France, 1956)(on 3 lists)

Seize the Day (US, 1956)(on 3 lists)

Things of This World (US, 1956)(on 3 lists)

– Richard Wilbur (poetry: lyric)
Doctor Zhivago (USSR, 1957)(on 8 lists)

– Boris Pasternak (fiction: novel)
On the Road (US, 1957)(on 6 lists)

– Jack Kerouac (fiction: novel)
Endgame (Ireland/France, 1957)(on 5 lists)

Voss (Australia, 1957)(on 4 lists)
– Patrick White (fiction: novel)
Jealousy (France, 1957)(on 4 lists)

– Alain Robbe-Grillet (fiction: novel)
The Baron in the Trees (Italy, 1957)(on 4 lists)

– Italo Calvino (fiction: novel)
Palace of Desire (Cairo Trilogy, Vol. 2)(Egypt, 1957)(on 3 lists)

Sugar Street (Cairo Trilogy, Vol. 3)(Egypt, 1957)(on 3 lists)

The Wapshot Chronicle (US, 1957)(on 3 lists)

– John Cheever (fiction: novel)
Things Fall Apart (Nigeria, 1958)(on 14 lists)

– Chinua Achebe (fiction: novel)
The Leopard (Italy, 1958)(on 6 lists)

– Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (fiction: novel)
The Once and Future King (UK, 1958)(on 3 lists)

– T.H. White (fiction: novel)
Krapp’s Last Tape (Ireland/France, 1958)(on 3 lists)

The Tin Drum (Germany, 1959)(on 8 lists)

– Günter Grass (fiction: novel)
The Caretaker (UK, 1959)(on 4 lists)

– Harold Pinter (drama)
Henderson the Rain King (US, 1959)(on 4 lists)

Titus Alone (UK, 1959)(on 3 lists)

Naked Lunch (US, 1959)(on 3 lists)

– William Burroughs (fiction: novel)
Rabbit, Run (US, 1960)(on 7 lists)

– John Updike (fiction: novel)
Dreamtigers (El Hacedor)(Argentina, 1960)(on 6 lists)

– Jorge Luis Borges (fiction: stories/poetry/non-fiction: essays)
To Kill a Mockingbird (US, 1960)(on 6 lists)

– Harper Lee (fiction: novel)
The Alexandria Quartet (four novels)(UK, 1957-1960)(on 4 lists)

– Lawrence Durrell (fiction: novels)
Catch-22 (US, 1961)(on 6 lists)

– Joseph Heller (fiction: novel)
The Moviegoer (US, 1961)(on 5 lists)

– Walker Percy (fiction: novel)
Selected Poems (Chile, c. 1921-1959, pub. 1961)(on 4 lists)

A House for Mr. Biswas (Trinidad & Tobago/UK, 1961)(on 4 lists)

– V.S. Naipaul (fiction: novel)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (UK, 1961)(on 3 lists)

– Muriel Spark (fiction: novel)
The Wretched of the Earth (France, 1961)(on 3 lists)

– Franz Fanon (non-fiction: psychology/political philosophy)
Labyrinths (Argentina, 1962)(on 11 lists)

– Jorge Luis Borges (fiction: stories/poetry/non-fiction: essays)
Pale Fire (USSR/US, 1962)(on 6 lists)

– Vladimir Nabokov (fiction: novel)
The Golden Notebook (Zimbabwe/UK, 1962)(on 6 lists)

– Doris Lessing (fiction: novel)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (USSR, 1962)(on 6 lists)

– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (fiction: novel)
A Clockwork Orange (UK, 1962)(on 5 lists)

– Anthony Burgess (fiction: novel)
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (US, 1962)(on 5 lists)

– Thomas Kuhn (non-fiction: science)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (US, 1962)(on 4 lists)

– Ken Kesey (fiction: novel)
Silent Spring (US, 1962)(on 4 lists)

– Rachel Carson (non-fiction: science)
The Woman in the Dunes (Japan, 1962)(on 3 lists)

– Kobo Abe (fiction: novel)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (US, 1962)(on 3 lists)

– Edward Albee (drama)
The Labyrinth of Solitude (Mexico, 1963)(on 4 lists)
– Octavio Paz (non-fiction: essays)
The Feminine Mystique (US, 1963)(on 4 lists)

– Betty Friedan (non-fiction: sociology)
Paterson (US, 1946-1963)(on 3 lists)

– William Carlos Williams (poetry: narrative)
Cat’s Cradle (US, 1963)(on 3 lists)

– Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (fiction: novel)
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (US, 1963)(on 3 lists)
– John Le Carré (fiction: novel)
The Bell Jar (US, 1963)(on 3 lists)

– Sylvia Plath (fiction: novel)
V. (US, 1963)(on 3 lists)

– Thomas Pynchon (fiction: novel)
Herzog (US, 1964)(on 5 lists)

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (China, 1964)(on 5 lists)

– Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung)(non-fiction: political philosophy)
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter (US, 1922-1960, pub. 1965)(on 4 lists)
– Katherine Anne Porter (fiction: stories)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (US, 1965)(on 4 lists)

– Malcolm X (as told to Alex Haley)(non-fiction: memoir)
In Cold Blood (US, 1966)(on 7 lists)

– Truman Capote (non-fiction: journalism)
Wide Sargasso Sea (Dominica/UK, 1966)(on 4 lists)

– Jean Rhys (fiction: novel)
The Fixer (US, 1966)(on 4 lists)

– Bernard Malamud (fiction: novel)
Cancer Ward (USSR, 1966)(on 4 lists)

The Magus (UK, 1966)(on 3 lists)

– John Fowles (fiction: novel)
The Crying of Lot 49 (US, 1966)(on 3 lists)

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Colombia, 1967)(on 19 lists)
– Gabriel García Márquez (fiction: novel)
Rosencranz and Guildenstern Are Dead (UK, 1967)(on 3 lists)

– Tom Stoppard (drama)
The First Circle (USSR, 1968)(on 3 lists)

The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel/The Novel as History (US, 1968)(on 3 lists)
– Norman Mailer (non-fiction: journalism)
Myra Breckenridge (US, 1968)(on 3 lists)

– Gore Vidal (fiction: novel)
The Double Helix (US, 1968)(on 3 lists)

– James Watson (non-fiction: science)
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (US, 1968)(on 3 lists)

– Tom Wolfe (non-fiction: journalism/memoir)
Slaughterhouse-five (US, 1969)(on 5 lists)

– Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (fiction: novel)
The Cantos (US/Italy, 1917-1969)(on 4 lists)

– Ezra Pound (poetry: lyric)
Portnoy’s Complaint (US, 1969)(on 4 lists)

– Philip Roth (fiction: novel)
Them (US, 1969)(on 4 lists)

– Joyce Carol Oates (fiction: novel)
The Godfather (US, 1969)(on 3 lists)

– Mario Puzo (fiction: novel)
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (UK, 1969)(on 3 lists)

– John Fowles (fiction: novel)
The Sea of Fertility (four novels)(Japan, 1964-1970, pub. 1969-1971)(on 3 lists)

– Yukio Mishima (fiction: novels)
Deliverance (US, 1970)(on 3 lists)

– James Dickey (fiction: novel)
The Ogre (France, 1970)(on 3 lists)

– Michel Tournier (fiction: novel)
The Complete Stories (US, 1971)(on 8 lists)

– Flannery O’Connor (fiction: stories)
Angle of Repose (US, 1971)(on 4 lists)

– Wallace Stegner (fiction: novel)
Rabbit Redux (US, 1971)(on 3 lists)

In a Free State (Trinidad & Tobago/UK, 1971)(on 3 lists)

Invisible Cities (Italy, 1972)(on 5 lists)

Henry James: A Biography (five volumes)(US, 1953-1972)(on 3 lists)

– Leon Edel (non-fiction: biography)
Gravity’s Rainbow (US, 1973)(on 5 lists)

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (USSR, 1973)(on 5 lists)

– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (non-fiction: history)
The Siege of Krishnapur (UK, 1973)(on 3 lists)

– J.G. Farrell (fiction: novel)
The Lives of a Cell (US, 1974)(on 6 lists)

– Lewis Thomas (non-fiction: science/essays)
The Conservationist (South Africa, 1974)(on 3 lists)

– Nadine Gordimer (fiction: novel)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (US, 1974)(on 3 lists)
– Robert Pirsig (non-fiction: philosophy)
Dog Soldiers (US, 1974)(on 3 lists)

– Robert Stone (fiction: novel)
The Great War and Modern Memory (US, 1975)(on 4 lists)

– Paul Fussell (non-fiction: criticism)
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (US, 1975)(on 4 lists)

– John Ashbery (poetry: lyric)
Ragtime (US, 1975)(on 4 lists)

– E.L. Doctorow (fiction: novel)
A Dance to the Music of Time (12 novels)(UK, 1951-1975)(on 3 lists)

– Anthony Powell (fiction: novels)
Humboldt’s Gift (US, 1975)(on 3 lists)

The Periodic Table (Italy, 1975)(on 3 lists)

– Primo Levi (fiction: novel)
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (US, 1976)(on 3 lists)
– Bruno Bettelheim (non-fiction: psychology/criticism)
Song of Solomon (US, 1977)(on 8 lists)

– Toni Morrison (fiction: novel)
Dispatches (US, 1977)(on 4 lists)

– Michael Herr (non-fiction: journalism)
Samuel Johnson (US, 1977)(on 3 lists)

– Walter Jackson Bates (non-fiction: biography)
The Stories of John Cheever (US, 1978)(on 8 lists)

– John Cheever (fiction: stories)
The World According to Garp (US, 1978)(on 6 lists)

– John Irving (fiction: novel)
The Sea, the Sea (UK, 1978)(on 3 lists)

– Iris Murdoch (fiction: novel)
Orientalism (Palestine/US, 1978)(on 3 lists)

– Edward Said (non-fiction: cultural studies)
Life: A User’s Manual (France, 1978)(on 3 lists)

– Georges Perec (fiction: novel)
Buried Child (US, 1978)(on 3 lists)

– Sam Shepard (drama)
Sophie’s Choice (US, 1979)(on 6 lists)

– William Styron (fiction: novel)
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (Italy, 1979)(on 5 lists)

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (UK, 1979)(on 5 lists)

– Douglas Adams (fiction: novel)
A Bend in the River (Trinidad & Tobago/UK, 1979)(on 4 lists)

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (UK, 1979)(on 4 lists)

– Douglas Hofstadter (non-fiction: science/arts)
The Right Stuff (US, 1979)(on 3 lists)

– Tom Wolfe (non-fiction: journalism)
The Ghost Writer (US, 1979)(on 3 lists)

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (US, 1979)(on 3 lists)
– Edmund Morris (non-fiction: biography)
A Confederacy of Dunces (US, 1980)(on 4 lists)

– John Kennedy Toole (fiction: novel)
So Long, See You Tomorrow (US, 1980)(on 3 lists)

– William Maxwell (fiction: novel)
The Executioner’s Song (US, 1980)(on 3 lists)

– Norman Mailer (fiction: novel/non-fiction: biography)
The Name of the Rose (Italy, 1980)(on 3 lists)

– Umberto Eco (fiction: novel)
True West (US, 1980)(on 3 lists)

– Sam Shepard (drama)
Midnight’s Children (India/UK, 1981)(on 15 lists)

– Salman Rushdie (fiction: novel)
Rabbit Is Rich (US, 1981)(on 6 lists)

Obasan (Canada, 1981)(on 3 lists)

– Joy Kogawa (fiction: novel)
Schindler’s List (Schindler’s Ark)(Australia, 1982)(on 5 lists)

– Thomas Keneally (fiction: novel)
The House of the Spirits (Chile, 1982)(on 5 lists)

– Isabel Allende (fiction: novel)
The Changing Light at Sandover (US, 1982)(on 3 lists)

– James Merrill (poetry: lyric)
Selected Poems (US, 1982)(on 3 lists)

– Galway Kinnell (poetry: lyric)
‘Master Harold’ … and the Boys (South Africa, 1982)(on 3 lists)

– Athol Fugard (drama)
The Color Purple (US, 1982)(on 3 lists)

– Alice Walker (fiction: novel)
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (Bohemia/Austria, c. 1897-1926, pub. 1982)(on 3
lists)
– Rainer Maria Rilke (poetry: lyric)
Ironweed (US, 1983)(on 5 lists)

– William Kennedy (fiction: novel)
The Life and Times of Michael K. (South Africa, 1983)(on 4 lists)
– J.M. Coetzee (fiction: novel)
The Complete Poems: 1927-1979 (US, 1983)(on 3 lists)

– Elizabeth Bishop (poetry: lyric)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Czechoslovakia, 1984)(on 5 lists)

– Milan Kundera (fiction: novel)
The Lover (France, 1984)(on 4 lists)

– Marguerite Duras (fiction: novel)
Glengarry Glen Ross (US, 1984)(on 3 lists)

– David Mamet (drama)
Neuromancer (US, 1984)(on 3 lists)

– William Gibson (fiction: novel)
Love in the Time of Cholera (Colombia, 1985)(on 10 lists)

– Gabriel García Márquez (fiction: novel)
White Noise (US, 1985)(on 6 lists)

– Don DeLillo (fiction: novel)
The Handmaid’s Tale (Canada, 1985)(on 5 lists)

– Margaret Atwood (fiction: novel)
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (US, 1985)(on 3
lists)
– J. Anthony Lukas (non-fiction: journalism)
The Accidental Tourist (US, 1985)(on 3 lists)

– Anne Tyler (fiction: novel)
Beloved (US, 1987)(on 7 lists)

– Toni Morrison (fiction: novel)
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (US, 1923-1961, pub. 1987)(on 4 lists)
– Ernest Hemingway (fiction: stories)
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (US, 1987)(on 4 lists)

– Richard Rhodes (non-fiction: science/history)
The Bonfire of the Vanities (US, 1987)(on 3 lists)

– Tom Wolfe (fiction: novel)
Fences (US, 1987)(on 3 lists)

– August Wilson (drama)
Where I’m Calling From (US, 1988)(on 4 lists)

– Raymond Carver (fiction: stories)
Oscar and Lucinda (Australia, 1988)(on 4 lists)
– Peter Carey (fiction: novel)
The Alchemist (Brazil, 1988)(on 4 lists)

– Paulo Coelho (fiction: novel)
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (US, 1988)(on 3 lists)
– James M. McPherson (non-fiction: history)
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and American in Vietnam (US, 1988)(on 3 lists)
– Neil Sheehan (non-fiction: journalism/history)
The Satanic Verses (India/UK, 1988)(on 3 lists)

– Salman Rushdie (fiction: novel)
Nervous Conditions (Zimbabwe, 1988)(on 3 lists)

– Tsitsi Dangaremba (fiction: novel)
A Prayer for Owen Meany (US, 1989)(on 3 lists)

– John Irving (fiction: novel)
The Gnostic Gospels (US, 1989)(on 3 lists)

– Elaine Pagels (non-fiction: religion)
The Remains of the Day (UK, 1989)(on 3 lists)

– Kazuo Ishiguro (fiction: novel)
The Power of One (South Africa/Australia, 1989)(on 3 lists)

– Bryce Courtenay (fiction: novel)
Like Water for Chocolate (Mexico, 1989)(on 3 lists)

– Laura Esquivel (fiction: novel)
The Joy Luck Club (US, 1989)(on 3 lists)

– Amy Tan (fiction: novel)
Billy Bathgate (US, 1989)(on 4 lists)

– E.L. Doctorow (fiction: novel)
Possession (UK, 1990)(on 5 lists)

– A.S. Byatt (fiction: novel)
Rabbit at Rest (US, 1990)(on 4 lists)

The Things They Carried (US, 1990)(on 4 lists)

– Tim O’Brien (fiction: linked stories)
New Selected Poems: 1966-1987 (Ireland, 1990)(on 3 lists)

– Seamus Heaney (poetry: lyric)
Mao II (US, 1991)(on 4 lists)

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (US, 1992)(on 4 lists)

– Tony Kushner (drama)
The English Patient (Canada, 1992)(on 3 lists)

– Michael Ondaatje (fiction: novel)
Operation Shylock (US, 1993)(on 4 lists)

The Stone Diaries (US/Canada, 1993)(on 4 lists)

– Carol Shields (fiction: novel)
The Shipping News (US, 1993)(on 4 lists)

– E. Annie Proulx (fiction: novel)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles (Japan, 1994)(on 3 lists)

– Haruki Murakami (fiction: novel)
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (UK, 1994)(on 3 lists)

– Louis De Bernières (fiction: novel)
The Rings of Saturn (Germany, 1995)(on 3 lists)

– W.G. Sebald (fiction: novel/non-fiction: essay)
A Fine Balance (India/Canada, 1995)(on 3 lists)

– Rohinton Mistry (fiction: novel)
American Pastoral (US, 1997)(on 5 lists)

The God of Small Things (India, 1997)(on 5 lists)

– Arundhati Roy (fiction: novel)
Underworld (US, 1997)(on 4 lists)

The Poisonwood Bible (US, 1998)(on 5 lists)

– Barbara Kingsolver (fiction: novel)
Waiting (China/US, 1999)(on 5 lists)

– Ha Jin (fiction: novel)
The Human Stain (US, 2000)(on 3 lists)

The Blind Assassin (Canada, 2000)(on 3 lists)

– Margaret Atwood (fiction: novel)
The Corrections (US, 2001)(on 4 lists)

– Jonathan Franzen (fiction: novel)
Life of Pi (Canada, 2001)(on 4 lists)
– Yann Martel (fiction: novel)
Austerlitz (Germany, 2001)(on 3 lists)

– W.G. Sebald (fiction: novel)
The Known World (US, 2003)(on 3 lists)

– Edward P. Jones (fiction: novel)
Harry Potter (seven novels)(UK, 1997-2007)(on 3 lists)

– J.K. Rowling (fiction: novels)
The Emperor of All Maladies (India/US, 2010)(on 3 lists)

– Siddhartha Mukherjee (non-fiction: medicine)

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I Ching (Book of Changes)(China, c. 1000-750 BCE)(on 3 lists)

The Iliad (Ancient Greece, c. 800-725 BCE)(on 19 lists)

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Medea (Ancient Greece, c. 431 BCE)(on 13 lists)

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The Knights (Ancient Greece, 424 BCE)(on 4 lists)

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The Clouds (Ancient Greece, 423 BCE)(on 6 lists)

Electra (Ancient Greece, 420 BCE)(on 5 lists)

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Heracles (Ancient Greece, c. 416 BCE)(on 3 lists)

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The Birds (Ancient Greece, 400 BCE)(on 7 lists)

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The Symposium (Ancient Greece, c. 380-360 BCE)(on 4 lists)

Phaedo (Ancient Greece, c. 380-360)(on 3 lists)

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