Recommended Reading/Literature by origin

2025-05-02T10:36:47Z

Anonymous: Added a book to the category of Britain and Ireland

<h2>By region</h2>
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Argentina.png]] Argentina</h3>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
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| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Strange_Forces.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Las fuerzas extrañas|Strange Forces]]'' (1906) Leopoldo Lugones
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Museum_of_Eterna's_Novel.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Museum of Eterna's Novel|The Museum of Eterna's Novel]]'' (1925) Macedonio Fernandez
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Seven_Madmen.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Roberto Arlt|The Seven Madmen]]'' (1929) Roberto Arlt
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:ElAleph.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:El Aleph|The Aleph]]'' (1949) Jorge Luis Borges
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Hopscotch.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar novel)|Hopscotch]]'' (1963) Julio Cortazar
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
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| colspan="5" |by Manuel Puig 
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| colspan="5" |by Ernesto Sabato 
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| colspan="5" |by Juan José Saer 
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| colspan="5" |by Oliverio Girondo 
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| colspan="5" |by Adolfo Bioy Casares 
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| colspan="5" |by Fernando Sorrentino 
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| colspan="5" |by Cesar Aira 
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| colspan="5" |by Marco Denevi 
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| colspan="5" |by Luisa Valenzuela 
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| colspan="5" |by Lila Zemborain 
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| colspan="5" |by Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill 
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| colspan="5" |by Rodrigo Fresan 
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| colspan="5" |by Alberto Laiseca 
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Australia.png]] Australia</h3>
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| colspan="5" |[http://tinyurl.com/australianlit Australian Literature Download]
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
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| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Tthe_Man_Who_Loved_Children.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Man Who Loved Children|The Man Who Loved Children ]]'' (1940) by Christina Stead 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Voss.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Voss (novel)|Voss]]'' (1957) by Patrick White 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Fatal_Shore.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Fatal Shore|The Fatal Shore]]'' (1987) by Robert Hughes 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Cloudstreet.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Cloudstreet|Cloudstreet ]]'' (1991) by Tim Winton 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Death_of_a_River_Guide.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Death of a River Guide|Death of a River Guide]]'' (1994) by Richard Flanagan 
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
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| rowspan="41" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Dreaming|The Dreaming]]'' (1980) by Damien Broderick 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Illywhacker|Illywhacker]]'' (1985) by Peter Carey 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Oscar and Lucinda|Oscar and Lucinda]]'' (1988) by Peter Carey 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:For the Term of his Natural Life|For the Term of his Natural Life]]'' (1874) by Marcus Clarke 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Middle Parts of Fortune|The Middle Parts of Fortune]]'' (1929) by Frederic Manning 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Eucalyptus (novel)|Eucalyptus]]'' (1998) by Murray Bail 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Power of One|The Power of One]]'' (1989) by Bryce Courtenay 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:A Cry in the Jungle Bar|A Cry in the Jungle Bar]]'' (1979) by Robert Drewer 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Gould's Book of Fish|Gould's Book of Fish]]'' (2001) by Richard Flanagan 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Diaspora (novel)|Diaspora]]'' (1997) by Greg Egan 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:My Brilliant Career|My Brilliant Career]]'' (1901) by Miles Franklin 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Children's Bach|The Children's Bach]]'' (1984) by Helen Garner 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Female Eunuch|The Female Eunuch]]'' (1970) by Germaine Greer 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Secret River|The Secret River]]'' (2005) by Kate Grenville 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:But the Dead are Many|But the Dead are Many]]'' (1975) by Frank Hardy 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:A.D. Hope|Selected Poetry and Prose]]'' ( ) of A.D. Hope 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Lucky Country|The Lucky Country]]'' (1964) by Donald Horne 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Mystery of a Hansom Cab|The Mystery of a Hansom Cab]]'' (1886) by Fergus Hume 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:My Brother Jack|My Brother Jack]]'' (1964) by George Johnston 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Schindler's Ark|Schindler's Ark]]'' (1982) by Thomas Keneally 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The First Casualty|The First Casualty]]'' (2005) by Phillip Knightley 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Summer of the Seventeenth Doll|Summer of the Seventeenth Doll]]'' (1955) by Ray Lawler 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Picnic at Hanging Rock|Picnic at Hanging Rock]]'' (1967) by Joan Lindsay 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Remembering Babylon|Remembering Babylon]]'' (1993) by David Malouf 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Forty-Seventeen|Forty-Seventeen]]'' (1988) by Frank Moorhouse 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Les Murray|New Collected Poems]]'' (1999) by Les Murray 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Fredy Neptune|Fredy Neptune]]'' (1998) by Les Murray 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Three Dollars|Three Dollars]]'' (1998) by Elliot Perlman 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Fortunes of Richard Mahony|The Fortunes of Richard Mahony]]'' (1930) by Henry Handel Richardson 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Shantaram (novel)|Shantaram]]'' (2003) by Gregory David Roberts 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:On the Beach|On the Beach]]'' (1957) by Nevil Shute 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Animal Liberation|Animal Liberation]]'' (1975) by Peter Singer 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Little Hotel|The Little Hotel]]'' (1973) by Christina Stead 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:A Fraction of the Whole|A Fraction of the Whole]]'' (2008) by Steve Toltz 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Tree of Man|The Tree of Man]]'' (1955) by Patrick White 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Vivisector|The Vivisector]]'' (1970) by Patrick White 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Dirt Music|Dirt Music]]'' (2001) by Tim Winton 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Wake in Fright|Wake in Fright]]'' (1961) by Kenneth Cook 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:P._R._Stephensen|The Foundations of Culture in Australia]]'' (1936) by P. R. Stephensen 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Capricornia|Capricornia]]'' (1938) by Xavier Herbert 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Power Without Glory|Power Without Glory]]'' (1950) by Frank Hardy 
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Australian_broad_literature_guide_edit_march_2017.jpg|thumb|80px]]
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Austria.png]] Austria</h3>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
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| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Indian_Summer.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Der Nachsommer|Indian Summer]]'' (1857) by Adalbert Stifter 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Man_Without_Qualities.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Man Without Qualities|The Man Without Qualities]]'' (1942) by Robert Musil 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Chess_Story.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Royal Game|Chess Story]]'' (1942) by Stefan Zweig 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Death_of_Virgil.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Hermann Broch|The Death of Virgil]]'' (1945) by Hermann Broch 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Loser.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Loser (book)|The Loser]]'' (1983) by Thomas Bernhard 
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
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| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Bergkristall|Rock Crystal]]'' (1845) by Adalbert Stifter 
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| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Arthur Schnitzler|Round Dance and Other Plays]]'' (1897) by Arthur Schnitzler
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| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:The Confusions of Young Törless|The Confusions of Young Törless]]'' (1906) by Robert Musil 
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| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Alfred Kubin|The Other Side]]'' (1909) by Alfred Kubin 
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| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Dream Story|Dream Story]]'' (1926) by Arthur Schnitzler 
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| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Beware of Pity|Beware of Pity]]'' (1939) by Stefan Zweig 
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| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:The World of Yesterday|The World of Yesterday]]'' (1942) by Stefan Zweig 
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| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Gregor von Rezzori|An Ermine in Czernopol]]'' (1958) by Gregor von Rezzori 
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| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:The Wall (1963 novel)|The Wall]]'' (1963) by Marlen Haushofer 
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| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Konrad Bayer|The Head of Vitus Bering]]'' (1965) by Konrad Bayer 
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| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Konrad Bayer|Selected Works]]'' (1966) by Konrad Bayer 
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| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:A Sorrow Beyond Dreams|A Sorrow Beyond Dreams]]'' (1972) by Peter Handke 
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| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Gregor von Rezzori|Memoirs of an Anti-Semite]]'' (1979) by Gregor von Rezzori 
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| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Woodcutters (novel)|Woodcutters]]'' (1984) by Thomas Bernhard 
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Belgium.png]] Belgium</h3>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
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| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:The_Sorrow_of_Belgium.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Sorrow of Belgium|The Sorrow of Belgium]]'' (1983) by Hugo Claus 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: |80px]] () by 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: |80px]] () by 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: |80px]] () by 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: |80px]] () by 
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
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| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Willem Elsschot|Three Novels: Soft Soap, The Leg, Will O' the Wisp]]'' by Willem Elsschot 
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| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Willem Elsschot|Cheese]]'' (1933) by Willem Elsschot 
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| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Paul van Ostaijen|Occupied City]]'' (1921) by Paul van Ostaijen 
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| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Paul van Ostaijen|The signal]]'' (1918) by Paul van Ostaijen 
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| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Hugo Claus|The Sign of the Hamster]]'' (1964) by Hugo claus 
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| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Dimitri Verhulst|Problemski Hotel]]'' (2003) by Dimitri Verhulst 
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| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Dimitri Verhulst|The Misfortunates]]'' (2006) by Dimitri Verhulst 
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| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Marnix Gijsen|Strangers Should Not Whisper]]'' (1945) by Marnix Gijsen 
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| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Maurice Gilliams|Elias, or the struggle with the nightingalesl]]'' (1936) by Maurice Gilliams 
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| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Maurice Gilliams|The bottle at sea. The complete poems]]'' by Maurice Gilliams 
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| colspan="5" |''Tempo di Roma'' by Alexis Curvers 
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| colspan="5" |''Pedigree'' by Georges Simenon 
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| colspan="5" |''The Strange Case of Peter the Lett (Maigret series)'' by Georges Simenon 
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| colspan="5" |''Thousand Times Broken, Three Books'' by Henri Michaux 
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:China.png]] China</h3>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
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| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Three_Kingdoms.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Romance of the Three Kingdoms|Three Kingdoms ]]'' (14th century) by Luo Guanzhong 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Story_of_the_Stone.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Dream of the Red Chamber|Story of the Stone]]'' (18th century) by Cao Xueqin 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Strange_Tales_from_a_Chinese_Studio.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio|Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio]]'' (1740) by Pu Songling 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: The_Real_Story_of_Ah-Q_and_Other_Tales_of_China.jpg |80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The True Story of Ah Q|The Real Story of Ah Q]]'' (1922) by Lu Xun 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: Camel_Xiangzi.jpg |80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Camel Xiangzi|Camel Xiangzi]]'' (1937) by Lao She 
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
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| rowspan="12" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Tang Dynasty|The Dragon King's Daughter]]'' (Tang dynasty) by 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Yuan Dynasty|Six Yuan Plays]]'' (Yuan dynasty) by 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Outlaws of the Marsh|Outlaws of the Marsh]]'' (14th century) by Shi Nai'an 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Romance of the West Chamber|The Story of the Western Wing]]'' (14th century) by Wang Shifu 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Journey to the West|Journey to the West]]'' (16th century) by Wu Cheng'en 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Creation of the Gods|Creation of the Gods]]'' (16th century) by Xu Zhonglin 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Peony Pavilion|The Peony Pavilion]]'' (1598) by Tang Xianzu 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Feng Menglong|Stories Old and New]]'' (1620) by Feng Menglong 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Jin Ping Mei|The Plum in the Golden Vase]]'' (17th century) by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Carnal Prayer Mat|The Carnal Prayer Mat]]'' (1657) by Li Yu 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Scholars (novel)|The Scholars]]'' (1750) by Wu Jingzi 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Six Records of a Floating Life|Six Records of a Floating Life]]'' (1808) by Shen Fu 
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| rowspan="21" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Lu Xun|Wild Grass]]'' (1927) by Lu Xun 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Mao Dun|Rainbow]]'' (1930) by Mao Dun 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Family (Ba Jin novel)|Family]]'' (1933) Ba Jin 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Shen Congwen|Border Town]]'' (1934) by Shen Congwen 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Shen Congwen|Selected Stories]]'' by Shen Congwen 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Lin Yutang|My Country and My People]]'' (1935) by Lin Yutang 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Lin Yutang|The Importance of Living]]'' (1937) by Lin Yutang 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Eileen Chang|Love in a Fallen City]]'' (1945) by Eileen Chang 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Fortress Besieged|Fortress Besieged]]'' (1947) by Qian Zhongshu 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Lao She|Teahouse]]'' (1957) by Lao She 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Feng Jicai|The Three-Inch Golden Lotus]]'' (1985) by Feng Jicai 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Bei Dao|Waves]]'' (1985) by Bei Dao 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Mo Yan|Red Sorghum]]'' (1987) by Mo Yan 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Bei Dao|The August Sleepwalker]]'' (1988) by Bei Dao 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Chess Master|The King of Trees]]'' (1990) by Ah Cheng 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Soul Mountain|Soul Mountain]]'' (1990) by Gao Xingjian 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:To Live|To Live]]'' (1993) by Yu Hua 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Five Spice Street]]'' (2003) by Can Xue 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Brothers (2005 novel)|Brothers]]'' (2005) by Yu Hua 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Life and Death are Wearing Me Out|Life and Death are Wearing Me Out]]'' (2006) by Mo Yan 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Vertical Motion]]'' (2011) by Can Xue 
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:3ro5q.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1319910862194.jpg|100px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1319910950855.jpg|100px]]
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Canadian.png]] Canada</h3>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
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| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Montgomery_Anne_of Green_Gables.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Anne of Green Gables|Anne of Green Gables]]'' (1908) by Lucy Maud Montgomery 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Sunshine_sketches.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Sunshine_Sketches_of_a_Little_Town|Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town]]'' (1912) by Stephen Leacock 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:The_Handmaids_Tale.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The_Handmaid's_Tale|The Handmaid's Tale]]'' (1985) by Margaret Atwood 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Dance_of_the_happy_shades.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Dance_of_the_Happy_Shades|Dance of the Happy Shades]]'' (1968) by Alice Munro 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Flint_and_feather.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Flint and Feather|Flint and Feather]]'' (1913) by Pauline Johnson 
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
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| rowspan="19" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Anglophone
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Fifth_Business|Fifth Business]]'' (1970) by Robertson Davies 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The_Golden_Dog|The Golden Dog]]'' (1872) by William Kirby 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The_Apprenticeship_of_Duddy_Kravitz_(novel)|The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz]]'' (1974) by Mordecai Richler 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The_Wars|The Wars]]'' (1977) by Timothy Findley 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Beautiful_Losers|Beautiful Losers]]'' (1966) by Leonard Cohen 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Klee_Wyck|Klee Wyck]]'' (1941) by Emily Carr 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Three_Day_Road|Three Day Road]]'' (2005) by Joseph Boyden 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Life_of_Pi|Life of Pi]]'' (2001) by Yann Martel 
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Czech.png]] Czech Republic</h3>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
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| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:May.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Máj|May]]'' (1836) by Karel Hynek Macha 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:The_Good_Soldier_Svejk.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Good Soldier Svejk|The Good Soldier Svejk]]'' (1923) by Jaroslav Hasek 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Three_Novels.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Hordubal|Three Novels]]'' (1933) by Karel Capek 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:I_Served_the_King_of_England.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:I Served the King of England|I Served the King of England]]'' (1983) by Bohumil Hrabal 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Unbearable Lightness of Being|The Unbearable Lightness of Being]]'' (1984) by Milan Kundera 
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
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| rowspan="19" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Pre-WW2
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |The Sorrowful Eyes]]'' ( ) by Ivan Olbracht 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Hidden History]]'' ( ) by Otokar Brezina 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |The Grandmother]]'' ( ) by Bozena Nemcova 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch]]'' ( ) by Ladislav Klima 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |R.U.R.]]'' ( ) by Karel Capek 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |War With the Newts]]'' ( ) by Karel Capek 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Antilyrik & Other Poems]]'' ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Valerie and Her Week of Wonders]]'' ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Prague Tales]]'' ( ) by Jan Neruda 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |The Arsonist]]'' ( ) by Egon Hostovsky 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |The Poetry]]'' ( ) of Jaroslav Seifert 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Vanishing Lung Syndrome]]'' ( ) by Miroslav Holub 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Narrative Poems]]'' ( ) by Vladimir Holan 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Dreams at the End of the Night]]'' ( ) by Ewald Murrer 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |How I Came to Know Fish]]'' ( ) by Ota Pavel 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Fingers Pointing Somewhere Else]]'' ( ) by Daniela Fischerova 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |White Book]]'' ( ) by Pavel Kohout 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Saturnin]]'' ( ) by Zdenek Jirotka 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Summer of Caprice]]'' ( ) by Vadislav Vancura 
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| rowspan="16" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Post-WW2
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Closely Watched Trains]]'' ( ) Bohumil Hrabal 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Too Loud a Solitude]]'' ( ) by Bohumil Hrabal 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Love and Garbage]]'' ( ) by Ivan Klima 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Immortality]]'' ( ) by Milan Kundera 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |The Garden Party and Other Plays]]'' ( ) by Vaclav Havel 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |The Questionnaire]]'' ( ) by Jiri Grusa 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |The Guinea Pigs]]'' ( ) by Ludvik Vaculik 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |The Cremator]]'' (1967) by Ladislav Fuks 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova]]'' ( ) by Arnost Lustig 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |A Bohemian Youth]]'' ( ) by Josef Hirsal 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |City Sister Silver]]'' ( ) by Jachym Topol 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |The Engineer of Human Souls]]'' ( ) by Josef Skvorecky 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |The Other City]]'' ( ) by Michal Ajvaz 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Europeana]]'' ( ) by Patrik Ourednik 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |The Seven Churches]]'' ( ) by Milos Urban 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Of Kids & Parents]]'' ( ) by Emil Hakl 
|-
| rowspan="13" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |German-language
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |The Golem]]'' ( ) by Gustav Meyrink 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |The Green Face]]'' ( ) by Gustav Meyrink 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |The Trial]]'' ( ) by Franz Kafka 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |The Metamorphosis]]'' ( ) by Franz Kafka 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |A Hunger Artist]]'' ( ) by Franz Kafka 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Blaugast]]'' ( ) by Paul Leppin 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Severin’s Journey into the Dark]]'' ( ) by Paul Leppin 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |The Raging Reporter]]'' ( ) by Egon Erwin Kisch 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Tycho Brahe’s Path to God]]'' ( ) by Max Brod 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |The Maimed]]'' ( ) by Hermann Ungar 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Boys & Murderers]]'' ( ) by Hermann Ungar 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge |The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge]]'' ( ) by Rainer Maria Rilke 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |The Selected Poetry]]'' ( ) of Rainer Maria Rilke 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Czech_literature.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="4" |
|}

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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:England.png]] United Kingdom and Ireland</h3>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Canterbury_Tales.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Canterbury Tales|The Canterbury Tales]]'' (14th century) by Geoffrey Chaucer 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Complete_Works_of_Shakespears.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Shakespeare|The Complete Works]]'' of William Shakespeare 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Paradise_Lost.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Paradise Lost|Paradise Lost]]'' (1667) by John Milton 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Collected_Poems_of_Wordsworth.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:William Wordsworth|The Collected Poems]]'' of William Wordsworth 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Collected_Poems_of_Yeats.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:W.B. Yeats|The Collected Poems]]'' of W.B. Yeats 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| rowspan="15" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Beowulf|Beowulf]]'' (10th century) 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Sir Gawain and the Green Knight|Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]]'' (14th century) 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Le Morte D'Arthur|Le Morte D'Arthur]]'' (1485) by Sir Thomas Malory 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Utopia (novel)|Utopia]]'' (1516) by Thomas More 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Christopher Marlowe|The Complete Plays]]'' of Christopher Marlowe 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Faerie Queene|The Faerie Queene]]'' (1590) by Edmund Spenser 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Ben Jonson|Plays and Masques]]'' by Ben Jonson 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Duchess of Malfi|the Duchess of Malfi]]'' (1612) by John Webster 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Pilgrim's Progress|The Pilgrim's Progress]]'' (1678) by John Bunyan 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Robinson Crusoe|Robinson Crusoe]]'' (1719) by Daniel Defoe 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Gulliver's Travels|Gulliver's Travels]]'' (1735) by Jonathan Swift 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling|Tom Jones]]'' (1749) by Henry Fielding 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Tristram Shandy|The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman]]'' (1759) by Laurence Sterne 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Vicar of Wakefield|The Vicar of Wakefield]]'' (1766) by Oliver Goldsmith 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Marriage of Heaven and Hell|The Marriage of Heaven and Hell]]'' (1793) by William Blake 
|-
| rowspan="17" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |19th Century
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Pride and Prejudice|Pride and Prejudice]]'' (1813) by Jane Austen 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Frankenstein|Frankenstein]]'' (1818) by Mary Shelley 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Ivanhoe|Ivanhoe]]'' (1820) by Sir Walter Scott 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Don Juan (Byron)|Don Juan]]'' (1821) by Lord Byron 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Sartor Resartus|Sartor Resartus]]'' (1833) by Thomas Carlyle 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Jane Eyre|Jane Eyre]]'' (1847) by Charlotte Bronte 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Wuthering Heights|Wuthering Heights]]'' (1847) Emily Bronte 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Vanity Fair|Vanity Fair]]'' (1848) by William Makepeace Thackeray 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Bleak House|Bleak House]]'' (1853) by Charles Dickens 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:A Tale of Two Cities|A Tale of Two Cities]]'' (1859) by Charles Dickens 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Middlemarch|Middlemarch]]'' (1872) by George Eliot 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Far from the Madding Crowd|Far from the Madding Crowd]]'' (1874) by Thomas Hardy 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Way We Live Now|The Way We Live Now]]'' (1879) by Anthony Trollope 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Idylls of the King|Idylls of the King]]'' (1885) by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Robert Louis Stevenson|The Collected Works]]'' of Robert Louis Stevenson 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Dracula|Dracula]]'' (1897) by Bram Stoker 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Oscar Wilde|The Collected Works]]'' of Oscar Wilde 
|-
| rowspan="12" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Lord Jim|Lord Jim]]'' (1900) by Joseph Conrad 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Kim (novel)|Kim]]'' (1900) by Rudyard Kipling 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Way of All Flesh|The Way of All Flesh]]'' (1903) by Samuel Butler 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Man Who Was Thursday|The Man Who Was Thursday]]'' (1908) by G.K. Chesterton 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Sons and Lovers|Sons and Lovers]]'' (1913) by D.H. Lawrence 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Of Human Bondage|Of Human Bondage ]]'' (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Sherlock Holmes|The Complete Sherlock Holmes]]'' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:A Passage To India|A Passage to India ]]'' (1924) by E.M. Forster 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:To the Lighthouse|To the Lighthouse]]'' (1927) by Virginia Woolf 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[Flashman]]'' (1969) by George MacDonald Fraser 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:George Bernard Shaw|The Collected Plays]]'' by George Bernard Shaw 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[https://marielfranklin.com/ Bonding]'' by Mariel Franklin
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Britishirish2.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Shakespeare.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Chesterton's_fiction.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="2" |[[File:Cover of the book Bonding by Mariel Franklin.jpg|thumb|Bonding by Mariel Franklin, 2025]]
|}

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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:France.png]] France</h3>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Fleurs-du-mal_titel.jpg|thumb|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Les Fleurs du Mal|Flowers of Evil]]'' (1857) by Charles Baudelaire 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Balzac.jpg|thumb|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:La Comédie humaine|The Human Comedy]]'' (1829-1848) by Honoré de Balzac 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Remembrance of Things Past.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:In Search of Lost Time|In Search of Lost Time]]'' (1927) by Marcel Proust 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Memoirs_of_Hadrian.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Memoirs of Hadrian|Memoirs of Hadrian]]'' (1951) by Marguerite Yourcenar 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Madame_Bovary.jpg|thumb|80px]] ''[[wikipedia: Madame Bovary|Madame Bovary ]]'' (1856) by Gustave Flaubert 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:The Temptations of Saint Anthony (Flaubert)|The Temptation of Saint Antony]]'' (1895) by Gustave Flaubert 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Journey to the End of the Night|Journey to the End of the Night]]'' (1932) by Louis-Ferdinand Céline 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:The Stranger|The Stranger]]'' ( ) by Albert Camus 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:The Count of Monte Cristo|The Count of Monte Cristo]]'' ( ) by Alexander Dumas 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Nausea (novel)|Nausea]]'' ( ) by Jean-Paul Sartre 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Le Grand Meaulnes|The Lost Estate]]'' (1913) by Alain-Fournier 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:The Red and the Black|The Red and the Black ]]'' ( ) by Stendhal 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Nadja|Nadja]]'' ( ) by Andre Breton 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea|Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]'' ( ) by Jules Verne 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Henri Michaux|Miserable Miracle]]'' ( ) by Henri Michaux 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[Atomised]]'' ( ) by Michel Houellebecq 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Jean-Jacques Rousseau|Confessions]]'' ( ) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Le Petit Prince|Le Petit Prince]]'' ( ) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Candide|Candide]]'' ( ) by Voltaire 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Marguerite Duras|The Lover]]'' ( ) by Marguerite Duras 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Boris Vian|Froth on the Daydream]]'' ( ) by Boris Vian 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Germinal|Germinal ]]'' ( ) by Emile Zola 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Les Miserables|Les Miserables]]'' ( ) by Victor Hugo 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275246751497.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="4" |
|}

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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Germany.png]] Germany</h3>
|-
| colspan="5" |[http://tinyurl.com/germanlit German Literature Download]
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Faust.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Goethe's Faust|Faust]]'' (1832) by Goethe 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Thus_Spake_Zarathustra.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Thus Spake Zarathustra|Thus Spake Zarathustra]]'' (1885) by Friedrich Nietzsche 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Magic_Mountain.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Magic Mountain|The Magic Mountain]]'' (1912) by Thomas Mann 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Man_Without_Qualities.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Man Without Qualities|The Man Without Qualities]]'' (1942) by Robert Musil 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Tin_Drum.gif|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Tin Drum|The Tin Drum]]'' (1959) by Gunter Grass 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| rowspan="7" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Sorrows of Young Werther|The Sorrows of Young Werther]]'' (1774) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Robbers|The Robbers and Wallenstein]]'' (1781) by Friedrich Schiller 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Marquise of O|the Marquise of O and Other Stories]]'' (1808) by Heinrich von Kleist
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Broken Jug|The Broken Jug]]'' (1806) by Heinrich von Kleist 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Danton's Death|Danon's Death]]'' (1835) George Buchner 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Der_Schimmelreiter|The Rider on the White Horse]]'' (1888) by Theodor Storm 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Effi Briest|Effi Briest]]'' (1895) by Theodor Fontane
|-
| rowspan="14" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Buddenbrooks|Buddenbrooks]]'' (1901) by Thomas Mann 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Der Untertan|The Loyal Subject]]'' (1914) by Heinrich Mann
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Metamorphosis|The Metamorphosis]]'' (1915) by Franz Kafka 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Trial (novel)|The Trial]]'' (1925) by Franz Kafka 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Castle (novel)|The Castle]]'' (1926) by Franz Kafka 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Siddhartha (novel)|Siddhartha]]'' (1922) by Hermann Hesse
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Steppenwolf (novel)|Steppenwolf]]'' (1927) by Hermann Hesse
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Berlin Alexanderplatz|Berlin Alexanderplatz]]'' (1929) by Alfred Doblin 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Visit |The Visit]]'' (1956) by Friedrich Durrenmatt 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Physicists|The Physicists]]'' (1961) by Friedrich Durrenmatt 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Flounder|The Flounder]]'' (1977) by Gunter Grass 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Cassandra (novel)|Cassandra]]'' (1984) Christa Wolf 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Perfume (novel)|Perfume]]'' (1985) by Patrick Suskind
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Christoph Ransmayr|The Last World]]'' (1988) by Christoph Ransmayr 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:German20.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Kafka_flowchart.jpg|100px]]
| colspan="3" |
|}

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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Greece.png]] Greece</h3>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px|link=Special:FilePath/.jpg]] 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px|link=Special:FilePath/.jpg]] 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px|link=Special:FilePath/.jpg]] 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px|link=Special:FilePath/.jpg]] 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px|link=Special:FilePath/.jpg]] 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| colspan="5" |by 
|-
| colspan="5" |by 
|-
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1410622362089.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1410622743798.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:start_with_greeks2.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="3" |
|}

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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Hungary.png]] Hungary</h3>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Tragedy_of_Man.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia: The Tragedy of Man |The Tragedy of Man]]'' (1861) by Imre Madach
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Be_Faithful_Unto_Death .jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Zsigmond Móricz|Be Faithful Unto Death ]]'' (1920) by Zsigmond Moricz
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Anna_Edes .jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Dezso Kosztolanyi|Anna Edes]]'' (1926) by Dezso Kosztolanyi 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Journey_by_Moonlight.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia: Journey by Moonlight (novel)|Journey by Moonlight]]'' (1937) by Antal Szerb 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Melancholy_of_Resistance .jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Melancholy of Resistance|The Melancholy of Resistance]]'' (1989) by Laszlo Krasznahorkai 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| rowspan="7" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Eclipse of the Crescent Moon|Eclipse of the Crescent Moon]]'' (1899) by Geza Gardonyi 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:A láthatatlan ember|A láthatatlan ember]]'' (1901) by Geza Gardonyi 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:A kőszivű ember fiai|A kőszivű ember fiai]]'' (1869) by Mór Jókai 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Dark Diamonds|The Dark Diamonds]]'' (1872) by Mór Jókai 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:János vitéz|János vitéz]]'' (1845) by Sándor Petőfi 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Szent Péter esernyője|Szent Péter esernyője]]'' (1895) by Kálmán Mikszáth 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Bánk Bán|Bánk Bán]]'' (1819) by József Katona 
|-
| rowspan="21" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Adventures of Sindbad|Adventures of Sindbad]]'' (1911) by Gyula Krudy 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Tóték|Tóték]]'' (1967) by István Örkény 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Egyperces novellák|Egyperces novellák]]'' (1969) by István Örkény 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Paul Street Boys|The Paul Street Boys]]'' (1907) by Ferenc Molnár 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Harmonia Caelestis|Harmonia Caelestis]]'' (1994) by Peter Esterhazy 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Door|The Door]]'' (1987) by Magda Szabo 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:A Journey Round My Skull|A Journey Round My Skull]]'' (1939) by Frigyes Karinthy 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Metropole|Metropole]]'' (1970) by Ferenc Karinthy 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The End of a Family Story|The End of a Family Story]]'' (1977) by Peter Nadas 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Transylvania Trilogy|The Transylvania Trilogy]]'' (1940) by Miklos Banffy 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Egy elmebeteg nő naplója|Egy elmebeteg nő naplója]]'' (1978) by Geza Csath 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Opium and Other Stories|Opium and Other Stories]]'' (1980) by Geza Csath 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Embers|Embers]]'' (1942) by Sándor Márai
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Képzelt riport egy amerikai popfesztiválról|Képzelt riport egy amerikai popfesztiválról]]'' (1971) by Tibor Dery 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Case Worker|The Case Worker]]'' (1969) by György Konrád 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Tranquility|Tranquility]]'' (2001) by Attila Bartis 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Colours and Years|Colours and Years]]'' (1912) by Magrit Kaffka 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:In Praise of Older Women|In Praise of Older Women]]'' (1966) by Stephen Vizinczey 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Darkness at Noon|Darkness at Noon]]'' (1940) by Arthur Koestler 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:A halál kilovagolt Perzsiából|A halál kilovagolt Perzsiából]]'' (1979) by Péter Hajnóczy 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:A bogyósgyümölcskertész fia|A bogyósgyümölcskertész fia]]'' (2010) by János Háy 
|}

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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Iceland.png]] Iceland</h3>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Eddas.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Edda|The Eddas]]'' (13th century) by Snorri Sturluson 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Njals_Saga.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Njal's Saga|Njal's Saga]]'' (13th century) 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Laxdaela_Saga.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Laxdaela Saga|Laxdaela Saga]]'' (13th century)
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Independent_People.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Independent People|Independent People]]'' (1935) by Halldór Laxness 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: .jpg|80px|link=Special:FilePath/.jpg]] ( ) by 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| rowspan="7" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Egils saga|Egil's saga]]'' (12th century) 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Heimskringla|King Harald's Saga]]'' (1230) by Snorri Sturluson 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Eyrbyggja Saga|Eyrbyggja Saga]]'' (13th century) 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Saga of Grettir the Strong|The Saga of Grettir the Strong]]'' (13th century) 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Saga of the Jomsvikings |The Saga of the Jomsvikings ]]'' (13th century) 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Völsunga saga|The Saga of the Volsungs]]'' (13th century) 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Hrólfs saga kraka|The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki ]]'' (1400) 
|-
| rowspan="8" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Gunnar Gunnarson|The Good Shepard]]'' (1940) by Gunnar Gunnarson 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Fish Can Sing|The Fish Can Sing]]'' (1957) by Halldor Laxness 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Justice Undone|Justice Undone]]'' (1986) by Thor Vilhjalmsson 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Swan (novel)|The Swan]]'' (1991) by Gudbergur Bergsson 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Einar Mar Gudmundsson|Angels of the Universe]]'' (1993) by Einar Mar Gudmundsson 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Olaf Olafsson|The Journey Home]]'' (1999) by Olaf Olafsson 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Blue Fox (novel)|The Blue Fox]]'' (2003) by Sjon 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Gyir Eliasson|Stone Tree]]'' (2005) by Gyir Eliasson 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275262867188.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="4" |
|}

{|{{Prettytable}}

|-
| colspan="5" |<h3>Middle East</h3>
|-
| colspan="5" |[http://tinyurl.com/iranianlit Iranian Literature Download]
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:The_Conference_of_the_Birds.JPG|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Conference of the Birds|The Conference of the Birds]]'' (12th century) by Farid ud-Din Attar 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Rubaiyat.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Rubaiyat|The Rubaiyat]]'' (12th century) of Omar Khayyam 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Essential_Rumi.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Rumi|The Essential Works]]'' (13th century) by Rumi 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Divan-i.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Hafiz Shirazi|The Divan-i]]'' (14th century) of Hafiz 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Blind_Owl.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Blind Owl|The Blind Owl]]'' (1937) by Sadegh Hedayat 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| rowspan="6" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classical
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Shahnameh|Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings]]'' (~1000)
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Vis and Rāmin|Vis and Ramin]]'' (11th century) by Asad Gorgani 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Shusha Guppy|The Secret of Laughter: Magical Tales from Classical Persia]]'' edited by Shusha Guppy 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Nizami Ganjavi|Haft Paykar]]'' (1197) by Nizami Ganjavi 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Persian literature#Poetry|Borrowed Ware: Medieval Persian Epigrams]]'' edited by Dick Davis 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Gulistan of Sa'di|The Rose Garden]]'' (1259) by Sa'di 
|-
| rowspan="5" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Sadegh Hedayat|Three Drops of Blood]]'' (1932) by Sadegh Hedayat 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Sadeq Chubak|The Patient Stone]]'' (1967) by Sadeq Chubak 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Little Black Fish|The Little Black Fish and Other Modern Persian Stories]]'' (1968) by Samad Behrangi 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Missing Soluch|Missing Soluch]]'' (1979) by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Shahrnush Parsipur|Women Without Men]]'' (1990) by Shahrnush Parsipur 
|-
| rowspan="4" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Untranslated
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Asadi Tusi|Garshaspnama]]'' (11th century) by Asadi Tusi 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Nizami Ganjavi|Chosrow and Shirin]]'' (1180) by Nizami Ganjavi 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Tutinama|Tutinama: Tales of a Parrot]]'' (14th century) 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Francois Petis de la Croix|1001 Days]]'' (1712) by Francois Petis de la Croix 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Persian_lit.jpg|100px]]
| colspan="4" |
|}

{|{{Prettytable}}

|-
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Italy.png]] Italy</h3>
|-
| colspan="5" |[http://tinyurl.com/italianlit Italian Literature Download]
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Divine_Comedy.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Divine Comedy|Divine Comedy]]'' (1321) by Dante Alighieri 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Decameron.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Decameron|The Decameron]]'' (1353) by Giovanni Boccaccio 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Zeno's_Conscience.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Zeno's Conscience|Zeno's Conscience]]'' (1923) by Italo Svevo 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:That_Awful_Mess.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Carlo Emilio Gadda|That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana]]'' (1957) by Carlo Emilio Gadda 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Leopard.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Leopard|The Leopard]]'' (1958) by Tomasi di Lampedusa 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| rowspan="17" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Consolation of Philosophy|The Consolation of Philosophy]]'' (524) by Boethius 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Golden Legend|Golden Legend]]'' (1260) by Jacobus de Voragine 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Travels of Marco Polo|The Travels]]'' (13th century) of Marco Polo 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Il Canzoniere|Il Canzoniere]]'' (1374) by Petrarch 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Prince|The Prince]]'' (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Book of the Courtier|The Book of the Courtier]]'' (1528) by Baldassare Castiglione 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Orlando Furioso|Orlando Furioso]]'' (1532) by Ludovico Ariosto 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Benvenuto Cellini|The Autobiography]]'' (1563) of Benvenuto Cellini 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects|Lives of the Artists]]'' (1568) by Giorgio Vasari 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Jerusalem Delivered|Jerusalem Delivered]]'' (1581) by Torquato Tasso 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Michelangelo|Selected Poems and Letters]]'' by Michelangelo 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Histoire de ma vie|The Memoirs]]'' (1774) of Giacomo Casanova 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis|The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis]]'' (1817) by Ugo Foscolo 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Betrothed (Manzoni novel)|The Betrothed]]'' (1827) by Alessandro Manzoni 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Giacomo Leopardi|Canti]]'' (1837) by Giacomo Leopardi 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Giuseppe Garibaldi|The Life]]'' (1849) of Giuseppe Garibaldi 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Giovanni Verga|Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories]]'' (1880) by Giovanni Verga 
|-
| rowspan="21" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Year 3,000|The Year 3,000: A Dream]]'' (1897) by Paolo Mantegazza 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Emilio Salgari|Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem]]'' (1900) by Emilio Salgari 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Gabriele d'Annunzio|Francesca da Rimini]]'' (1901) by Gabriele d'Annunzio 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Grazia Deledda|Elias Portolu]]'' (1903) by Grazia Deledda 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Late Mattia Pascal|The Late Mattia Pascal]]'' (1904) by Luigi Pirandello 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Captain Blood (novel)|Captain Blood]]'' (1922) by Rafael Sabatini 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Six Characters in Search of an Author|Six Characters in Search of an Author]]'' (1921) by Luigi Pirandello 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Eugenio Montale|Cuttlefish Bones]]'' (1925) by Eugenio Montale 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Revolt Against the Modern World|Revolt Against the Modern World]]'' (1934) by Julius Evola 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Tartar Steppe|the Tartar Steppe]]'' (1940) by Dino Buzzati 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Christ Stopped at Eboli|Christ Stopped at Eboli]]'' (1945) by Carlo Levi 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Moon and the Bonfires|The Moon and the Bonfires]]'' (1949) by Cesare Pavese 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Alberto Moravia|Contempt]]'' (1954) by Alberto Moravia 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Garden of the Finzi-Continis|The Garden of the Finzi-Continis]]'' (1962) by Giorgio Bassani 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Natalia Ginzburg|Family Sayings]]'' (1967) by Natalia Ginzburg 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Equal Danger|Equal Danger]]'' (1971) by Leonardo Sciascia 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Invisible Cities|Invisible Cities]]'' (1972) by Italo Calvino 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Periodic Table (book)|The Periodic Table]]'' (1975) by Primo Levi 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Foucault's Pendulum|Foucault's Pendulum]]'' (1988) by Umberto Eco 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Q (novel)|Q]]'' (1999) by Luther Blissett 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Tommaso Pincio|Love-Shaped Story ]]'' (2002) by Tommaso Pincio 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Italian_List_Small.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Italo calvino guide.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="3" |
|}

{|{{Prettytable}}

|-
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Japan.png]] Japan</h3>
|-
| colspan="5" |[http://tinyurl.com/japaneselit Japanese Literature Download]
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Tale_of_Genji.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Tale of Genji|The Tale of Genji]]'' (11th century) by Murasaki Shikibu
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Kokoro.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Kokoro|Kokoro]]'' (1914) by Natsume Soseki
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Rashomon_and_Seventeen_Other_Stories.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Rashōmon_(short_story)|Rashomon]]'' (1915) by Akutagawa
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Naomi.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Naomi (novel)|Naomi]]'' (1924) by Junichiro Tanizaki
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Snow_Country.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Snow Country|Snow Country]]'' (1947) by Yasunari Kawabata
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| rowspan="6" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classical Literature (until 1600's)
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Gossamer Years |The Gossamer Years]]'' (974) by Mother of Michitsuna
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Pillow Book |The Pillow Book]]'' (1002) by Sei Shonagon
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Tales of Ise |The Tales of Ise]]'' by Anonymous
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: Hojoki |Hojoki]]'' (1212) by Kamo no Chomei
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Essays in Idleness |Essays in Idleness]]'' (1330) by Yoshida Kenko
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Tale of Heike |The Tale of Heike]]'' (1371) by Anonymous
|-
| rowspan="5" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Edo Period (1603-1868)
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Life of an Amorous Woman |The Life of an Amorous Woman]]'' (1686) by Saikaku Ihara
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Hagakure |Hagakure: the Book of the Samurai]]'' (1716) by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu |Four Major Plays]]'' (~1720) by Chikamatsu Monzaemon
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Chushingura |Chushingura]]'' (1748) by Takedo Izumo, Miyoshi Shoraku, Namiki Senryuu 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Tales of Moonlight and Rain |Tales of Moonlight and Rain]]'' (1776) by Ueda Akinari
|-
| rowspan="15" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern Literature (1868-1945)
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Ukigumo |Ukigumo]]'' (1887) by Futabatei Shimei 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Koda Rohan|Pagoda, Skull and Samurai]]'' (1889) by Koda Rohan
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Higuchi Ichiyo|In the Shade of Spring Leaves]]'' (1892-6) by Higuchi Ichiyo 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Kyoka Izumi|Japanese Gothic Tales]]'' (1900) by Izumi Kyoka 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Broken Commandment|The Broken Commandment]]'' (1906) by Toson Shimazaki
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Katai Tayama|The Quilt and Other Stories]]'' (1907) by Katai Tayama 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Kenji Miyazawa|The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa]]'' (1924) by Kenji Miyazawa
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: Botchan|Botchan]]'' (1906) by Natsume Soseki 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: I am a Cat|I Am a Cat]]'' (1905) by Natsume Soseki 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Wild Geese (novel)|The Wild Geese]]'' (1913) by Mori Ogai 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Shiga Naoya|The Paper Door and Other Stories]]'' (1927) by Shiga Naoya 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: Kafu Nagai|During the Rain & Flowers in the Shade]]'' (1930) by Kafu Nagai 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musashi_(novel) Musashi]'' (1935) by Eiji Yoshikawa 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: The Makioka Sisters|The Makioka Sisters]]'' (1943) by Junichiro Tanizaki 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Edogawa Ranpo|Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination]]'' (1940) by Edogawa Ranpo 
|-
| rowspan="24" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Post War (1946-present)
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Inoue Yasushi |The Counterfeiter and Other Stories]]'' by Yasushi Inou 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Palm-of-the-Hand Stories|Palm-of-the-Hand Stories]]'' by Yasunari Kawabata
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Master of Go|The Master of Go]]'' (1954) by Yasunari Kawabata 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Setting Sun|The Setting Sun]]'' (1947) by Osamu Dazai 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Fires on the Plain|Fires on the Plain]]'' (1951) by Shohei Ooka 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Waiting Years|The Waiting Years]]'' (1957) by Fumiko Enchi 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Confessions of a Mask|Confessions of a Mask]]'' (1948) by Yukio Mishima 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Temple of the Golden Pavilion|The Temple of the Golden Pavilion]]'' (1956) by Yukio Mishima 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Spring Snow|Spring Snow]]'' (1963) by Yukio Mishima 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids |Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids ]]'' (1958) by Kenzaburo Oe 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:A Personal Matter|A Personal Matter]]'' (1964) by Kenzaburo Oe 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Black Rain|Black Rain]]'' (1966) by Masuji Ibuse 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Box Man|The Box Man]]'' (1973) by Kobo Abe 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Woman in the Dunes |The Woman in the Dunes]]'' (1962) by Kobo Abe 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: Silence (novel)|Silence]]'' (1966) by Shusaku Endo 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Samurai (novel)|The Samurai]]'' (1980) by Shusaku Endo 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Twilight Years|The Twilight Years]]'' (1972) by Sawako Ariyoshi 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: Almost Transparent Blue|Almost Transparent Blue]]'' (1976) by Ryu Murakami
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Kitchen (novel)|Kitchen]]'' (1988) by Banana Yoshimoto 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Norwegian Wood|Norwegian Wood]]'' (1987) by Haruki Murakami 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: The Elephant Vanishes|The Elephant Vanishes]]'' (1991) by Haruki Murakami
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle|The Wind-up Bird Chronicle]]'' (1995) by Haruki Murakami 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: Kafka on the Shore|Kafka on the Shore]]'' (2002) by Haruki Murakami
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Housekeeper and the Professor|The Housekeeper and the Professor]]'' (2003) by Yoko Ogawa
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1276577235824.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1298503721666.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Yukio_mishima.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Murakami_guide_fuuuu.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Natsume_Soseki.png|80px]]
|-
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Japan_6.jpg|80px]]
|}

{|{{Prettytable}}

|-
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:South_Korea.png]] Korea</h3>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Cloud_Dream_of_Nine.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Kim Manjung|The Cloud Dream of the Nine]]'' (17th century) Kim Manjung 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Three_Generations.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia: |Three Generations]]'' (1931) by Yom Sang-seop 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Ten_Thousand_Lives.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Ko Un|Ten Thousand Lives]]'' by Ko Un 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Land.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Toji (novel)|Land]]'' (1994) by Park Kyong-Ni 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Our_Twisted_Hero.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Our Twisted Hero|Our Twisted Hero]]'' (1987) by Yi Munyol 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Sijo|The Bamboo Grove: An Introduction to Sijo]]'' edited by Richard Rutt 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Samguk Yusa|Samguk Yusa]]'' (13th century) by Iryeon 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia: |Virtuous Women: Three Classic Korean Novels]]'' 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia: |The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong]]'' (18th century) by Lady Hyegyeong 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Kang Kyeong-ae|On Wonso Pond]]'' (1930s) by Kang Kyeong-ae 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Yi Sang|The Wings]]'' (1930s) by Yi Sang 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Park Wan-suh|The Naked Tree]]'' (1970) by Park Wan-suh 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Lee Kyun-young|The Other Side of Dark Remembrance]]'' (1979) by Lee Kyun-young 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Yi Munyol|The Poet]]'' (1992) by Yi Munyol 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Park Wan-suh|Who Ate up All the Shinga]]'' (1995) by Park Wan-suh 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Kim Young-ha|I Have the Right to Destroy Myself]]'' (1996) by Kim Young-ha 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Yang Gui-ja|Contradictions]]'' (1998) by Yang Gui-ja 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Hwang Sok-yong|The Guest]]'' (2002) by Hwang Sok-yong 
|}

{|{{Prettytable}}

|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |<h3>'''Latin America '''</h3>
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Adventures_and_Misadventures_of_Maqroll.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll|The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll]]'' by Alvaro Mutis 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:One Hundred Years of Solitude|One Hundred Years of Solitude]]'' (1967) by Gabriel García Márquez 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Black_Sheep_and_Other_Fables.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Augusto Monterroso|The Black Sheep and Other Fables]]'' (1969) by Augusto Monterroso 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: .jpg|80px|link=Special:FilePath/.jpg]] ( ) by 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: .jpg|80px|link=Special:FilePath/.jpg]] ( ) by 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Brazil
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Devil to Pay in the Backlands|The Devil to Pay in the Backlands]]'' (1956) by João Guimarães Rosa 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas|The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas]]'' (1881) by Machado de Assis 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Dom Casmurro|Dom Casmurro]]'' (1899) by Machado de Assis 
|-
| rowspan="6" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Colombia
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Fernando Vallejo|Our Lady of the Assassins]]'' (1994) by Fernando Vallejo 
|-
| colspan="4" |by Alvaro Mutis 
|-
| colspan="4" |by Fernando Gonzales 
|-
| colspan="4" |by Andres Caicedo 
|-
| colspan="4" |by Gonzalo Arango 
|-
| colspan="4" |by Hernando Tellez 
|-
| rowspan="2" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Ecuador
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Demetrio Aguilera Malta|Seven Serpents and Seven Moons]]'' (1970) by Demetrio Aguilera Malta 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Demetrio Aguilera Malta|Don Goyo]]'' (1933) by Demetrio Aguilera Malta 
|-
| rowspan="2" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Guatemala
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:El Señor Presidente|The President]]'' (1946) by Miguel Angel Asturias 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Men of Maize|Men of Maize]]'' (1949) by Miguel Angel Asturias 
|-
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Paraguay
| colspan="4" |( ) by Augusto Roa Bastos 
|-
| colspan="4" |( ) by Roque Vallejos 
|-
| colspan="4" |( ) by José Ricardo Mazó 
|-
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Puerto Rico
| colspan="4" |( ) by Rosario Ferre 
|-
| colspan="4" |( ) by Miguel Piñero 
|-
| colspan="4" |( ) by Luis Rafael Sánchez 
|-
| rowspan="1" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Salvador
| colspan="4" |( ) by Horacio Castellanos Moya 
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275246746486.jpg|80px]]
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Mexico.png]] Mexico</h3>
|-
| colspan="5" |[http://tinyurl.com/mexicanlit Mexican Literature Download]
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Cantares_Mexicanos.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Cantares Mexicanos|Cantares Mexicanos]]'' (16th century)
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Poems_Protest_and_a_Dream.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Juana Inés de la Cruz|Poems, Protest, and a Dream]]'' by Sor Juana
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Confabulario.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Juan José Arreola|Confabulario and Other Inventions]]'' (1952) by Juan Jose Arreola 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Pedro_Paramo.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Pedro Páramo|Pedro Páramo]]'' (1955) by Juan Rulfo
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Death_of_Artemio_Cruz.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Death of Artemio Cruz|The Death of Artemio Cruz]]'' (1962) by Carlos Fuentes 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| rowspan="15" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Translated
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Florentine Codex|Florentine Codex]]'' ( ) 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |The Broken Spears]]'' ( ) Miguel Leon-Portilla 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |The History of the Indies of New Spain]]'' ( ) by Fray Diego Duran 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |The Memoirs]]'' ( ) of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |The Bandits from Rio Frio]]'' ( ) by Manuel Payno 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |El Zarco]]'' ( ) by Ignacio Manuel Altamirano 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Santa]]'' ( ) by Federico Gamboa 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Anthology]]'' ( ) by Alfonso Reyes 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Song of the Heart: Poems]]'' ( ) by Ramon Lopez Velarde 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Nostalgia for Death: Poetry]]'' ( ) by Xavier Villaurrutia 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |The Underdogs]]'' ( ) by Mariano Azuela 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |The Burning Plain and Other Stories]]'' ( ) by Juan Rulfo 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |The Labyrinth of Solitude]]'' ( ) by Octavio Paz 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Battles in the Desert & Other Stories]]'' ( ) by Jose Emilio Pacheco 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Like Water for Chocolate]]'' ( ) by Laura Esquivel 
|-
| rowspan="7" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Untranslated
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Comedias Escogidas]]'' ( ) by D. Juan Ruiz de Alarcon 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Los Relampagos de Agosto]]'' ( ) by Jorge Ibarguengoitia 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Muerte sin fin]]'' ( ) by Jose Gorostiza 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Los Dias Terrenales]]'' ( ) by Jose Revueltas 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Farabeuf]]'' ( ) by Salvador Elizondo 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Los Cuervos Estan de Luto]]'' ( ) by Hugo Arguelles 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia: |Cronica de la Intervencion]]'' ( ) by Juan Garcia Ponce 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Mexicancanon.jpg|80px]]
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Netherlands.png]] Netherlands</h3>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Multatuli.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Max Havelaar|Max Havelaar]]'' (1860) by Multatuli
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Amsterdam_Stories.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Nescio|Amsterdam Stories]]'' (1910s) by Nescio 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Beyond_Sleep.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Beyond Sleep|Beyond Sleep ]]'' (1966) by Willem Hermans
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Parents_Worry.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Gerard Reve|Parents Worry]]'' (1988) by Gerard Reve
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Discovery_of_Heaven.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Discovery of Heaven|The Discovery of Heaven ]]'' (1992) by Harry Mulisch 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| rowspan="5" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Praise of Folly|In Praise of Folly]]'' (1511) by Erasmus 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Joost van den Vondel|Lucifer]]'' (1654) by Joost van den Vondel 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Eline Vere|Eline Vere]]'' (1889) by Louis Couperus 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Letters of Vincent van Gogh|The Letters]]'' (1890) of Vincent van Gogh 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Marcellus Emants|A Posthumous Confession]]'' (1894) by Marcellus Emants 
|-
| rowspan="16" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Autumn of the Middle Ages|The Waning of the Middle Ages]]'' (1919) by J. Huizinga 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Willem Elsschot|Cheese]]'' (1933) by Willem Elsschot 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Ferdinand Bordewijk|Character]]'' (1938) by F. Bordewijk 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Hella S. Haasse|In a Dark Wood Wandering]]'' (1949) by Hella S. Haasse 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:|Chapel Road]]'' (1953) by Louis Paul Boon 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Ten Thousand Things|The Ten Thousand Things]]'' (1955) by Maria Dermout 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Darkroom of Damocles|The Darkroom of Damocles]]'' (1958) by Willem Frederik Hermans 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Hugo Claus|Wonder]]'' (1962) by Hugo Claus 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Remco Campert|I Dreamed in the Cities at Night]]'' by Remco Campert 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Jan Wolkers|Turkish Delight]]'' (1969) by Jan Wolkers 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:J. Bernlef|Out of Mind]]'' (1984) by J. Bernlef 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Assault|The Assault]]'' (1982) by H. Mulisch 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Following Story|The Following Story]]'' (1991) by Cees Nooteboom 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Omega Minor|Omega Minor]]'' (2004) by Paul Verhaeghen 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:|Tomorrow Pamplona]]'' (2007) by Jan van Mersbergen 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Gerbrand Bakker|The Twin]]'' (2008) by Gerbrand Bakker
|-
| rowspan="6" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Untranslated
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Nicolaas Beets|Camera Obscura]]'' (1851) by Hildebrand 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Louis Couperus|De Stille Kracht]]'' (1900) by Louis Couperus
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Frederik van Eeden|Van De Koele Meren des Doods]]'' (1900) by Frederik van Eeden
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Gerard Reve|De Avonden]]'' (1947) by Gerard Reve 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:A. den Doolaard|Het land achter Gods rug]]'' (1956) by A. den Doolaard 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Jan Wolkers|Terug naar Oegstgeest]]'' (1965) by Jan Wolkers 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Dutch_lit.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="4" |
|}
|}

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<h3>[[File:No.png]] Norway</h3>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:A-Doll-s-House-and-Other-Plays.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:A Doll's House|A Doll's House]]'' (1879) by Henrik Ibsen
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Thewildduck.png|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Wild Duck|The Wild Duck]]'' (1884) by Henrik Ibsen
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Hunger.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Hunger (novel)|Hunger]]'' (1890) by Knut Hamsun
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Growthofthesoil.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Growth of the Soil|Growth of the Soil]]'' (1917) by Knut Hamsun
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:The wreath.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Kristin Lavransdatter|Kristin Lavransdatter]]'' (1920–1922) by Sigrid Undset
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Brand (play)|Brand]]'' (1866) by Henrik Ibsen
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Hedda Gabler|Hedda Gabler]]'' (1891) by Henrik Ibsen
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Pan (novel)|Pan]]'' (1894) by Knut Hamsun
|-
| rowspan="2" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:One day in October|One Day in October]]'' (1931) by Sigurd Hoel
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Seed (Novel)|The Seed]]'' (1940) by Tarjei Vesaas
|-
| rowspan="4" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Contemporary
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Beatles (novel)|Beatles]]'' (1984) by Lars Saabye Christensen
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Dag Solstad|Shyness and Dignity]]'' (1994) by Dag Solstad
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Naïve. Super|Naïve. Super]]'' (1996) by Erlend Loe
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Out Stealing Horses|Out Stealing Horses]]'' (2003) by Per Petterson
|}
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<h3>[[File:Poland.png]] Poland</h3>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Pan_Tadeusz.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia: Pan Tadeusz|Pan Tadeusz]]'' (1834) by Adam Mickiewicz 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Doll .jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Doll (novel)|The Doll]]'' (1889) by Bolesław Prus
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Street_of_Crocodiles.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Street of Crocodiles|The Street of Crocodiles]]'' (1934) by Bruno Schulz 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Ferdydurke.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia: Ferdydurke |Ferdydurke]]'' (1937) by Witold Gombrowicz 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:New_and_Collected_Poems.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Czeslaw Milosz|New and Collected Poems]]'' (2001) by Czesław Milosz 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Laments (Treny)|Laments ]]'' (1580) by Jan Kochanowski 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Fables and Parables|Fables and Parables]]'' (1779) by Ignacy Krasicki 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Quo Vadis (novel)|Quo Vadis]]'' (1895 ) by Henryk Sienkiewicz 
|-
| rowspan="18" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern
| colspan="4" |( ) by Tadeusz Konwicki
|-
| colspan="4" |( ) by Andrzej Stasiuk
|-
| colspan="4" |( ) by Wisława Szymborska
|-
| colspan="4" |Primeval and other times(2005) by Olga Tokarczuk 
|-
| colspan="4" |( ) by Stanisław Lem 
|-
| colspan="4" |( ) by Adam Zagajewski 
|-
| colspan="4" |( ) by Zbigniew Herbert 
|-
| colspan="4" |( ) by Stefan Grabiński 
|-
| colspan="4" |( ) by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz 
|-
| colspan="4" |( ) by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz 
|-
| colspan="4" |The Elephant(1957) by Sławomir Mrożek 
|-
| colspan="4" |( ) by Ewa Lipska 
|-
| colspan="4" |( ) by Jerzy Ficowski 
|-
| colspan="4" |( ) by Stefan żeromski 
|-
| colspan="4" |( ) by Anna Swir 
|-
| colspan="4" |( ) by Juliusz Słowacki 
|-
| colspan="4" |( ) by Gustaw Herling 
|-
|}

<h3>[[File:Portugal.png]] Portugal</h3>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Lusiadas.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Os Lusíadas|The Lusiadas]]'' (1572) Luís Vaz de Camões
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Tragedy_of_the_Street_of_Flowers.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Eça de Queiroz|The Tragedy of the Street of Flowers]]'' (1878) by Eça de Queiroz 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Book_of_Disquiet.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Book of Disquiet|The Book of Disquiet]]'' (1935) by Fernando Pessoa 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Great_Shadow.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia: Mário de Sá-Carneiro |The Great Shadow and Other Stories]]'' (1915) by Mário de Sá-Carneiro 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: .jpg|80px|link=Special:FilePath/.jpg]] 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| colspan="5" |by António Lobo Antunes 
|-
| colspan="5" |by José Saramago 
|}

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|-
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Serbia-Flag.png]] Serbia</h3>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:41gzaXuFDBL. SX310 BO1,204,203,200 .jpg|127x127px]] ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mountain_Wreath The Mountain Wreath]'' (1847) by Petar II Petrović-Njegoš
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Migrations-192x300.jpg|125x125px]] ''[https://sr.wikipedia.org/sr-ec/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5_(%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD) Migrations]'' (1929) by Miloš Crnjanski
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:81C7uQhW3RL.jpg|121x121px]] ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_on_the_Drina The Bridge on the Drina]''(1945) by Ivo Andrić 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Unnamed.jpg|125x125px]] ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_and_the_Dervish Death and the Dervish]'' (1966) by Meša Selimović 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Tomb.jpg|125x125px]] ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tomb_for_Boris_Davidovich A Tomb for Boris Davidovich]'' (1976) by Danilo Kiš 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| colspan="5" |[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ray_of_the_Microcosm ''The Ray of the Microcosm''] (1845) by Petar II Petrović-Njegoš
|-
| colspan="5" |''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impure_Blood Impure Blood]'' (1910) by Borisav Stanković 
|-
| colspan="5" |[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Journal_of_%C4%8Carnojevi%C4%87 ''The Journal of Čarnojević''] (1920) by Miloš Crnjanski
|-
| colspan="5" |''[https://sr.wikipedia.org/sr-ec/%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D1%85%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0 Bosnian Chronicle]'' (1945) by Ivo Andrić 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreni_(novel) Koreni]'' (1954) by Dobrica Ćosić
|-
| colspan="5" |''[https://sr.wikipedia.org/sr-ec/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0 The Damned Yard]'' (1954) by Ivo Andrić
|-
| colspan="5" |''[https://sr.wikipedia.org/sr-ec/%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D1%88%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8 The Sixth Day]'' (1961) by Rastko Petrović
|-
| colspan="5" |''[https://sr.wikipedia.org/sr-ec/%D0%A2%D0%B2%D1%80%D1%92%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0_(%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD) The Fortress]'' (1970) by Meša Selimović
|-
| colspan="5" |[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1066549.The_Use_of_Man ''The Use of Man''] (1976) by Aleksandar Tišma
|-
| colspan="5" |[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies_(novel) ''Rabies''] (1983) by Borislav Pekić
|-
| colspan="5" |[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Encyclopedia_of_the_Dead ''The Encyclopedia of the Dead''] (1983) by Danilo Kiš
|-
| colspan="5" |[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_the_Khazars ''Dictionary of the Khazars''] (1984) by Milorad Pavić
|-
| colspan="5" |[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11723752-the-cyclist-conspiracy ''The Cyclist Conspiracy''] (1987) by Svetislav Basara
|}<h3>[[File:Spain.png]] Spain</h3>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Poem_of_the_Cid.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Cantar de Mio Cid|The Poem of the Cid]]'' (1207)
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Don_Quixote.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Don Quixote|Don Quixote]]'' (1615) by Miguel de Cervantes 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Abel_Sanchez.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Abel Sánchez|Abel Sanchez]]'' (1917) by Miguel de Unamuno 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Collected_Poems_of_Lorca.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Federico Garcia Lorca|Collected Poems]]'' by Federico Garcia Lorca 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Family_of_Pascual_Duarte.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Family of Pascual Duarte|The Family of Pascual Duarte]]'' (1942) by Camilo Jose Cela 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Lazarillo de Tormes|Lazarillo de Tormes]]'' (1556) 
|-
| colspan="5" |[https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_verdad_sobre_el_caso_Savolta T''he Truth about the Savolta Case''] by Eduardo Mendoza Garriga 
|-
| colspan="5" |[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuenteovejuna ''Fuenteovejuna''] by Lope de Vega 
|-
| colspan="5" |[https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimas_(B%C3%A9cquer) ''Rhymes''] and [https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyendas_de_B%C3%A9cquer ''Legends''] by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Altimas_tardes_con_Teresacon Teresa Últimas tardes con Teresa]'' by Juan Marse 
|-
| colspan="5" |''Tu rostro mañana'' by Javier Marías 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Julian_(novel) Count Julian]'' by Juan Goyitsolo 
|-
| colspan="5" |''Dublinescas'' by Enrique Vila-Matas 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:La sombra del viento |The Shadow of the Wind ]]'' by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Catalan recommendations'''
|-
| colspan="5" |by Santiago Rusiñol 
|-
| colspan="5" |by Salvador Espriu 
|-
| colspan="5" |by Miquel Bauca 
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| colspan="5" |by Maria Barbal 
|-
| colspan="5" |by Josep Carner 
|}
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<h3>[[File:Russia.png]] Russia</h3>
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| colspan="5" |[http://tinyurl.com/russianlit Russian Literature Download]
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:a_Hero_of_Our_Time.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:A Hero of Our Time|A Hero of Our time]]'' (1841) by Mikhail Lermontov 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:War_and_Peace.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:War and Peace|War and Peace]]'' (1869) by Leo Tolstoy 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Brothers_Karamazov.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Brothers Karamazov|The Brothers Karamazov]]'' (1880) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Plays_of_Anton_Chekhov.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Anton Chekhov|The Plays of Anton Chekhov]]'' (1886–1904) by Anton Chekhov
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Master_and_Margarita.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Master and Margarita|The Master and Margarita ]]'' (1967) by Mikhail Bulgakov
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| rowspan="16" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |19th Century
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Woe from Wit|Woe from Wit ]]'' (1823) by Aleksandr Griboyedov 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Dead Souls |Dead Souls]]'' (1842) by Nikolai Gogol 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Diary of a Madman|Diary of a Madman and Other Stories ]]'' (1842) by Nikolai Gogol 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Sketches From a Hunter's Album |Sketches From a Hunter's Album ]]'' (1852) by Ivan Turgenev 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Oblomov |Oblomov ]]'' (1859) by Ivan Goncharov 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Fathers and Sons |Fathers and Sons ]]'' (1862) by Ivan Turgenev 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Crime and Punishment |Crime and Punishment ]]'' (1866) by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Notes From Underground |Notes From Underground ]]'' (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Nikolai Leskov|Lady McBeth of Mtsensk and Other Stories]]'' (1865) by Nikolai Leskov 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Idiot |The Idiot ]]'' (1869) by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Demons (novel)|Demons ]]'' (1872) by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Golovlyov Family |The Golovlyov Family ]]'' (1876) by Mikhail Saltykov 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Leo Tolstoy|Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy]]'' by Leo Tolstoy 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Anna Karenina|Anna Karenina]]'' (1877) by Leo Tolstoy 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Anton Chekhov|The Collected Stories]]'' by Anton Chekhov 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Alexander Pushkin)|The Collected Stories]]'' by Alexander Pushkin 
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| rowspan="15" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |20th Century
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Petersburg (novel)|Petersburg]]'' (1913) by Andrei Bely 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:We (novel)|We]]'' (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Heart of a Dog|Heart of a Dog]]'' (1925) by Mikhail Bulgakov 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Envy (novel)|Envy]]'' (1927) by Yuri Olesha 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Foundation Pit|The Foundation Pit]]'' (1930) by Andrey Platonov 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Quiet Flows the Don|Quiet Flows the Don]]'' (1934) by Mikhail Sholokhov 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Invitation to a Beheading|Invitation to a Beheading]]'' (1936) by Vladimir Nabokov
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Isaac Bable|The Complete Works]]'' by Isaac Babel
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Daniil Kharms|Today I Wrote Nothing]]'' by Daniil Kharms
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Ivan Bunin|The Collected Stories]]'' by Ivan Bunin 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Doctor Zhivago (novel)|Doctor Zhivago]]'' (1957) by Boris Pasternak 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Life and Fate|Life and Fate]]'' (1959) by Vasily Grossman 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:A School for Fools|A School for Fools]]'' (1960s) by Sasha Sokolov
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Roadside Picnic |Roadside Picnic]]'' (1971) by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Kolyma Tales|Kolyma Tales]]'' (1954-73) by Varlam Shalamov
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Russian2.jpg|80px]]
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<h3>[[File:South_Africa.png]] South Africa</h3>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:I_Write_What_I_Like.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:I Write What I Like|I Write What I Like]]'' (1978) by Steve Biko
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Waiting_for_the_Barbarians.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Waiting for the Barbarians|Waiting for the Barbarians]]'' (1980) by J.M. Coetzee
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |
[[File:Nadinegordimerjuly'speople.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:July's People|July's People]]'' (1981) by Nadine Gordimer
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Ways_of_Dying.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Ways of Dying|Ways of Dying]]'' (1995) by Zakes Mda
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Disgrace.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Disgrace (novel)|Disgrace]]'' (1999) by J.M. Coetzee
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Contemporary
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Marlene van Niekerk|The Way of the Women]]'' (2004) by Marlene van Niekerk 
|-
| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Portrait with Keys|Portrait with Keys]]'' (2006) by Ivan Vladislavic 
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| colspan="5" |''[[wikipedia:Zoo City|Zoo City]]'' (2010) by Lauren Beukes 
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<h3>[[File:United_States.png]] United States</h3>
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|-
| colspan="5" |[http://tinyurl.com/usalit American Literature Download]
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Moby_Dick.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Moby Dick|Moby Dick]]'' (1851) by Herman Melville 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Leaves_of_Grass.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Leaves of Grass|Leaves of Grass]]'' (1892) by Walt Whitman 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Sound_and_the_Fury.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:The Sound and the Fury|The Sound and the Fury]]'' (1920) by William Faulkner 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:East_of_Eden.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:East of Eden|East of Eden]]'' (1952) by John Steinbeck 
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Gravity's_Rainbow.jpg|80px]] ''[[wikipedia:Gravity's Rainbow|Gravity's Rainbow]]'' (1973) by Thomas Pynchon 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| rowspan="11" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Short Story Collections
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Twice Told Tales|Twice Told Tales]]'' (1837) by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Edgar Allen Poe|Collected Works]]'' (1849) by Edgar Allen Poe 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Billy Budd|Billy Budd and the Piazza Tales]]'' (1888) by Herman Melville 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Mark Twain|Collected Short Stories]]'' (1910) by Mark Twain 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Stephen Crane|Maggie and Other Stories]]'' (1900) by Stephen Crane 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Flappers and Philosophers|Flappers and Philosophers]]'' (1920) by F. Scott Fitzgerald 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:H.P. Lovecraft|The Tales]]'' (1937) of H.P. Lovecraft 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Sherwood Anderson|Death in the Woods and Other Stories]]'' (1941) by Sherwood Anderson 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Ernest Hemingway|Collected Short Works]]'' (1961) by Ernest Hemingway 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:John Cheever|The Stories]]'' (1982) of John Cheever 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Where I'm Calling From|Where I'm Calling From]]'' (1988) by Raymond Carver 
|-
| rowspan="9" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Poetry Collections
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Emily Dickinson|The Poetry]]'' (1886) of Emily Dickinson 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Waste Land|The Waste Land and Other Poems]]'' (1922) by T.S. Eliot 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Harmonium (poetry collection)|Harmonium]]'' (1923) by Wallace Stevens 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Bridge (long poem)|The Bridge]]'' (1930) by Hart Crane 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Howl|Howl and Other Poems]]'' (1955) by Allen Ginsberg 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Robinson Jeffers|Selected Poems]]'' (1962) by Robinson Jeffers 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Robert Frost|Collected Poems]]'' (1963) by Robert Frost 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:William Carlos Williams|Collected Poems Vol.1 & 2]]'' (1963) by William Carlos Williams 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:John Ashbery|Collected Poems]]'' (1987) by John Ashbery 
|-
| rowspan="8" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Plays
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Eugene O'Neill|Complete Plays]]'' by Eugene O'Neill 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Our Town|Our Town]]'' (1938) by Thornton Wilder 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Death of a Salesman|Death of a Salesman]]'' (1949) by Arthur Miller 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Tennessee Williams|Plays 1937-1955]]'' (1955) by Tennessee Williams 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Edward Albee|The Collected Plays]]'' of Edward Albee 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Buried Child|Buried Child]]'' (1978) by Sam Shepard 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:August Wilson|Fences]]'' (1985) by August Wilson 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Angels in America|Angels in America]]'' (1993) by Tony Kushner 
|-
| rowspan="52" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Others
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Last of the Mohicans|The Last of the Mohicans]]'' (1826) by Fenimore Cooper 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Scarlet Letter|The Scarlet Letter]]'' (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The American (novel)|The American]]'' (1877) by Henry James 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn|The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'' (1884) by Mark Twain 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Red Badge of Courage|The Red Badge of Courage]]'' (1895) by Stephen Crane 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Turn of the Screw|The Turn of the Screw]]'' (1898) by Henry James 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Awakening (novel)|The Awakening]]'' (1899) by Kate Chopin 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Call of the Wild|The Call of the Wild]]'' (1903) by Jack London 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Three Lives|Three Lives]]'' (1909) by Gertrude Stein 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:My Antonia|My Antonia]]'' (1918) by Willa Cather 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Age of Innocence|The Age of Innocence]]'' (1920) by Edith Wharton 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Main Street (novel)|Main Street]]'' (1920) by Sinclair Lewis 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Babbit (novel)|Babbit]]'' (1922) by Sinclair Lewis 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Great Gatsby|The Great Gatsby]]'' (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:An American Tragedy|An American Tragedy]]'' (1925) by Theodore Dreiser 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Sun Also Rises|The Sun Also Rises]]'' (1926) by Ernest Hemingway 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Tropic of Cancer (novel)|Tropic of Cancer]]'' (1934) by Henry Miller 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Appointment in Samarra|Appointment in Samrra]]'' (1934) by John O'Hara 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Absalom, Absalom!|Absalom, Absalom!]]'' (1936) by William Faulkner 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Grapes of Wrath|The Grapes of Wrath]]'' (1939) by John Steinbeck 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Day of the Locust|The Day of the Locust]]'' (1939) by Nathanael 'West 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Big Sleep|The Big Sleep]]'' (1939) by Raymond Chandler 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:For Whom the Bell Tolls|For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'' (1940) by Ernest Hemingway 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Heart is a Lonely Hunter|The Heart is a Lonely Hunter]]'' (1940) by Carson McCullers 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:All the King's Men|All the King's Men]]'' (1946) by Robert Penn Warren 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Catcher in the Rye|The Catcher in the Rye]]'' (1951) by J.D. Salinger 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:On the Road|On the Road]]'' (1951) by Jack Kerouac 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Fahrenheit 451|Fahrenheit 451]]'' (1953) by Ray Bradbury 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Recognitions|The Recognitions]]'' (1955) by William Gaddis 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Lolita|Lolita]]'' (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Naked Lunch|Naked Lunch]]'' (1959) by William S. Burroughs 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Rabbit, Run|Rabbit, Run]]'' (1960) by John Updike 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:To Kill a Mockingbird|To Kill a Mockingbird]]'' (1960) by Harper Lee 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Sot-Weed Factor|The Sot-Weed Factor]]'' (1960) by John Barth 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Catch-22|Catch-22]]'' (1961) by Joseph Heller 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]'' (1962) by Ken Kesey 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Bell Jar|The Bell Jar]]'' (1963) by Sylvia Plath 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:V. (novel)|V.]]'' (1963) by Thomas Pynchon 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Herzog (novel)|Herzog]]'' (1965) by Saul Bellow 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:In Cold Blood (novel)|In Cold Blood]]'' (1966) by Truman Capote 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Crying of Lot 49|The Crying of Lot 49]]'' (1966) by Thomas Pynchon 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Portnoy's Complaint|Portnoy's Complaint]]'' (1969) by Phillip Roth 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Slaughterhouse-Five|Slaughterhouse-Five]]'' (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas|Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas]]'' (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:A Confederacy of Dunces|A Confederacy of Dunces]]'' (1980) by John Kennedy Toole 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The New York Trilogy|The New York Trilogy]]'' (1986) by Paul Auster 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Libra (novel)|Libra]]'' (1988) by Don Delillo 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Infinite Jest|Infinite Jest]]'' (1996) by David Foster Wallace 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Underworld (DeLillo novel)|Underworld]]'' (1997) by Don Delillo 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:American Pastoral|American Pastoral]]'' (1997) by Phillip Roth 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Pattern Recognition (novel)|Pattern Recognition]]'' (2003) by William Gibson 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Road|The Road]]'' (2006) by Cormac McCarthy 
|-
| rowspan="5" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Slave Narratives
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Interesting Narrative|The Interesting Narrative]]'' (1789) by Olaudah Equiano 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass|Narrative of the Life]]'' (1845) of Frederick Douglass 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Sojourner Truth|Narrative]]'' (1850) of Sojourner Truth 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Twelve Years a Slave|Twelve Years a Slave]]'' (1853) by Solomon Northrup 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl|Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl]]'' (1861) by Harriet Jacobs 
|-
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Reconstruction Era
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Up From Slavery|Up From Slavery]]'' (1901) by Booker T. Washington 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Souls of Black Folk|The Souls of Black Folk]]'' (1903) by W.E.B. Du Bois 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Paul Laurence Dunbar|The Collected Poetry]]'' (1906) by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
|-
| rowspan="8" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Harlem Renaissance
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Cane (novel)|Cane]]'' (1923) by Jean Toomer 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Rudolph Fisher|The Walls of Jericho]]'' (1928) by Rudolph Fisher 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Home to Harlem|Home to Harlem]]'' (1928) by Claude McKay 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Nella Larsen|Quicksand and Passing]]'' (1929) by Nella Larsen 
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| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Blacker the Berry|The Blacker the Berry]]'' (1929) by Wallace Thurman
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Not Without Laughter|Not Without Laughter]]'' (1930) by Langston Hughes 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Black No More|Black no More]]'' (1931) by George S. Schugler 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Their Eyes Were Watching God|Their Eyes Were Watching God]]'' (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston 
|-
| rowspan="8" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Civil Rights Era
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Native Son|Native Son]]'' (1940) by Richard Wright 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:If He Hollers Let Him Go|If he Hollers Let Him Go]]'' (1945) by Chester Himes 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Invisible Man|Invisible Man]]'' (1952) by Ralph Ellison 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Go Tell it on the Mountain (novel)|Go Tell it on the Mountain]]'' (1953) by James Baldwin 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:A Raisin in the Sun|A Raisin in the Sun]]'' (1959) by Lorraine Hansberry 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Autobiography of Malcolm X|The Autobiography]]'' (1965) of Malcolm X 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Gwendolyn Brooks|Selected Poems]]'' (1966) by Gwendolyn Brooks 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings|I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]]'' (1969) by Maya Angelou 
|-
| rowspan="12" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Contemporary
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Beneath the Underdog|Beneath the Underdog]]'' (1971) by Charles Mingus 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Mumbo Jumbo (novel)|Mumbo Jumbo]]'' (1972) by Ismael Reed 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Roots (novel)|Roots]]'' (1976) by Alex Haley 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Song of Solomon (novel)|Song of Solomon]]'' (1977) by Toni Morrison 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Kindred (novel)|Kindred]]'' (1979) by Ismael Reed 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Color Purple|The Color Purple]]'' (1982) by Alice Walker 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Gloria Naylor|Linden Hills]]'' (1985) by Gloria Naylor 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Beloved (novel)|Beloved]]'' (1987) by Toni Morrison 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Terry McMillan|Waiting to Exhale]]'' (1992) by Terry McMillan 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Amiri Baraka|Somebody Blew up America]]'' (2001) by Amiri Baraka 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:The Known World|The Known World]]'' (2003) by Edward P. Jones 
|-
| colspan="4" |''[[wikipedia:Killing Johnny Fry|Killing Johnny Fry]]'' (2006) by Walter Mosley 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:American_lit_003b.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Nigralit.jpg|50px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Pynchon_guide.png|100px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Hemingway_chart.jpg|100px]]
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