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<h2>By country</h2>
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<h2>By region</h2>
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|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:China.png]] China </h3>
 
 
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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]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Las fuerzas extrañas|Strange Forces]]''<br />(1906)<br />Leopoldo Lugones</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Museum_of_Eterna's_Novel.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Museum of Eterna's Novel|The Museum of Eterna's Novel]]''<br />(1925)<br />Macedonio Fernandez</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Seven_Madmen.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Roberto Arlt|The Seven Madmen]]''<br />(1929)<br />Roberto Arlt</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:ElAleph.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:El Aleph|The Aleph]]''<br />(1949)<br />Jorge Luis Borges</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Hopscotch.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar novel)|Hopscotch]]''<br />(1963)<br />Julio Cortazar</small>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
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| colspan="5" |<small>by Manuel Puig </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>by Ernesto Sabato </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>by Juan José Saer </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>by Oliverio Girondo </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>by Adolfo Bioy Casares </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>by Fernando Sorrentino </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>by Cesar Aira </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>by Marco Denevi </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>by Luisa Valenzuela </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>by Lila Zemborain </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>by Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>by Rodrigo Fresan </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>by Alberto Laiseca </small>
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Australia.png]] Australia</h3>
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| colspan="5" |<small>[http://tinyurl.com/australianlit Australian Literature Download]</small>
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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]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Man Who Loved Children|The Man Who Loved Children ]]''<br />(1940)<br />by Christina Stead </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Voss.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Voss (novel)|Voss]]''<br />(1957)<br />by Patrick White </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Fatal_Shore.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Fatal Shore|The Fatal Shore]]''<br />(1987)<br />by Robert Hughes </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Cloudstreet.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Cloudstreet|Cloudstreet ]]''<br />(1991)<br />by Tim Winton </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Death_of_a_River_Guide.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Death of a River Guide|Death of a River Guide]]''<br />(1994)<br />by Richard Flanagan </small>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
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| rowspan="41" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Dreaming|The Dreaming]]'' (1980) by Damien Broderick </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Illywhacker|Illywhacker]]'' (1985) by Peter Carey </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Oscar and Lucinda|Oscar and Lucinda]]'' (1988) by Peter Carey </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:For the Term of his Natural Life|For the Term of his Natural Life]]'' (1874) by Marcus Clarke </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Middle Parts of Fortune|The Middle Parts of Fortune]]'' (1929) by Frederic Manning </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Eucalyptus (novel)|Eucalyptus]]'' (1998) by Murray Bail </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Power of One|The Power of One]]'' (1989) by Bryce Courtenay </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A Cry in the Jungle Bar|A Cry in the Jungle Bar]]'' (1979) by Robert Drewer </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gould's Book of Fish|Gould's Book of Fish]]'' (2001) by Richard Flanagan </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Diaspora (novel)|Diaspora]]'' (1997) by Greg Egan </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:My Brilliant Career|My Brilliant Career]]'' (1901) by Miles Franklin </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Children's Bach|The Children's Bach]]'' (1984) by Helen Garner </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Female Eunuch|The Female Eunuch]]'' (1970) by Germaine Greer </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Secret River|The Secret River]]'' (2005) by Kate Grenville </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:But the Dead are Many|But the Dead are Many]]'' (1975) by Frank Hardy </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A.D. Hope|Selected Poetry and Prose]]'' ( ) of A.D. Hope </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Lucky Country|The Lucky Country]]'' (1964) by Donald Horne </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Mystery of a Hansom Cab|The Mystery of a Hansom Cab]]'' (1886) by Fergus Hume </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:My Brother Jack|My Brother Jack]]'' (1964) by George Johnston </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Schindler's Ark|Schindler's Ark]]'' (1982) by Thomas Keneally </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The First Casualty|The First Casualty]]'' (2005) by Phillip Knightley </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Summer of the Seventeenth Doll|Summer of the Seventeenth Doll]]'' (1955) by Ray Lawler </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Picnic at Hanging Rock|Picnic at Hanging Rock]]'' (1967) by Joan Lindsay </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Remembering Babylon|Remembering Babylon]]'' (1993) by David Malouf </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Forty-Seventeen|Forty-Seventeen]]'' (1988) by Frank Moorhouse </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Les Murray|New Collected Poems]]'' (1999) by Les Murray </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Fredy Neptune|Fredy Neptune]]'' (1998) by Les Murray </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Three Dollars|Three Dollars]]'' (1998) by Elliot Perlman </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Fortunes of Richard Mahony|The Fortunes of Richard Mahony]]'' (1930) by Henry Handel Richardson </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Shantaram (novel)|Shantaram]]'' (2003) by Gregory David Roberts </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:On the Beach|On the Beach]]'' (1957) by Nevil Shute </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Animal Liberation|Animal Liberation]]'' (1975) by Peter Singer </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Little Hotel|The Little Hotel]]'' (1973) by Christina Stead </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A Fraction of the Whole|A Fraction of the Whole]]'' (2008) by Steve Toltz </small>
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Three_Kingdoms.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Romance of the Three Kingdoms|Three Kingdoms ]]''<br/>(14th century)<br/>by Luo Guanzhong </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Tree of Man|The Tree of Man]]'' (1955) by Patrick White </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Story_of_the_Stone.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Dream of the Red Chamber|Story of the Stone]]''<br/>(18th century)<br/>by Cao Xueqin </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Strange_Tales_from_a_Chinese_Studio.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio| Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio]]''<br/>(1740)<br/>by Pu Songling </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File: The_Real_Story_of_Ah-Q_and_Other_Tales_of_China.jpg |80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The True Story of Ah Q|The Real Story of Ah Q]]''<br/>(1922)<br/>by Lu Xun  </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File: Camel_Xiangzi.jpg |80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Camel Xiangzi|Camel Xiangzi]]''<br/>(1937)<br/>by Lao She </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Vivisector|The Vivisector]]'' (1970) by Patrick White </small>
|-
|-
|rowspan=12 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Classic||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Tang Dynasty|The Dragon King's Daughter]]'' (Tang dynasty) by </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Dirt Music|Dirt Music]]'' (2001) by Tim Winton </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Yuan Dynasty|Six Yuan Plays]]'' (Yuan dynasty) by </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Wake in Fright|Wake in Fright]]'' (1961) by Kenneth Cook </small>
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|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Outlaws of the Marsh|Outlaws of the Marsh]]'' (14th century) by Shi Nai'an  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:P._R._Stephensen|The Foundations of Culture in Australia]]'' (1936) by P. R. Stephensen </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Romance of the West Chamber|The Story of the Western Wing]]'' (14th century) by Wang Shifu </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Capricornia|Capricornia]]'' (1938) by Xavier Herbert </small>
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|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Journey to the West|Journey to the West]]'' (16th century) by Wu Cheng'en </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Power Without Glory|Power Without Glory]]'' (1950) by Frank Hardy </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Creation of the Gods|Creation of the Gods]]'' (16th century) by Xu Zhonglin </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
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|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Peony Pavilion|The Peony Pavilion]]'' (1598) by Tang Xianzu </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Australian_broad_literature_guide_edit_march_2017.jpg|thumb|80px]]
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Feng Menglong|Stories Old and New]]'' (1620) by Feng Menglong </small>
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Austria.png]] Austria</h3>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Jin Ping Mei|The Plum in the Golden Vase]]'' (17th century) by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Carnal Prayer Mat|The Carnal Prayer Mat]]'' (1657) by Li Yu </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Indian_Summer.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Der Nachsommer|Indian Summer]]''<br />(1857)<br />by Adalbert Stifter </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Man_Without_Qualities.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Man Without Qualities|The Man Without Qualities]]''<br />(1942)<br />by Robert Musil </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Chess_Story.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Royal Game|Chess Story]]''<br />(1942)<br />by Stefan Zweig </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Death_of_Virgil.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Hermann Broch|The Death of Virgil]]''<br />(1945)<br />by Hermann Broch </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Loser.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Loser (book)|The Loser]]''<br />(1983)<br />by Thomas Bernhard </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Scholars (novel)|The Scholars]]'' (1750) by Wu Jingzi </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Six Records of a Floating Life|Six Records of a Floating Life]]'' (1808) by Shen Fu </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Bergkristall|Rock Crystal]]'' (1845) by Adalbert Stifter </small>
|-
|-
|rowspan=21 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Modern||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Family (Ba Jin novel)|Family]]'' (1933) Ba Jin </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Arthur Schnitzler|Round Dance and Other Plays]]'' (1897) by Arthur Schnitzler</small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Lin Yutang|The Importance of Living]]'' (1937) by Lin Yutang </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Confusions of Young Törless|The Confusions of Young Törless]]'' (1906) by Robert Musil </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |My Country and My People]]'' ( ) by Lin Yutang </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Alfred Kubin|The Other Side]]'' (1909) by Alfred Kubin </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Wild Grass]]'' ( ) by Lu Xun </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Dream Story|Dream Story]]'' (1926) by Arthur Schnitzler </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Rainbow]]'' ( ) by Mao Dun </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Beware of Pity|Beware of Pity]]'' (1939) by Stefan Zweig </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Fortress Besieged|Fortress Besieged]]'' (1947) by Qian Zhongshu </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The World of Yesterday|The World of Yesterday]]'' (1942) by Stefan Zweig </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Border Town]]'' ( ) by Shen Congwen </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gregor von Rezzori|An Ermine in Czernopol]]'' (1958) by Gregor von Rezzori </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Selected Stories]]'' ( ) by Shen Congwen </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Wall (1963 novel)|The Wall]]'' (1963) by Marlen Haushofer </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Teahouse]]'' ( ) by Lao She </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Konrad Bayer|The Head of Vitus Bering]]'' (1965) by Konrad Bayer </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Love in a Fallen City]]'' ( ) by Eileen Chang </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Konrad Bayer|Selected Works]]'' (1966) by Konrad Bayer </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The King of Trees]]'' ( ) by Ah Cheng </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A Sorrow Beyond Dreams|A Sorrow Beyond Dreams]]'' (1972) by Peter Handke </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Red Sorghum]]'' ( ) by Mo Yan </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gregor von Rezzori|Memoirs of an Anti-Semite]]'' (1979) by Gregor von Rezzori </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Life and Death are Wearing Me Out]]'' ( ) by Mo Yan </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Woodcutters (novel)|Woodcutters]]'' (1984) by Thomas Bernhard </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Three-Inch Golden Lotus]]'' ( ) by Feng Jicai </small>
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Belgium.png]] Belgium</h3>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Brothers]]'' ( ) by Yu Hua </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |To Live]]'' ( ) by Yu Hua </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:The_Sorrow_of_Belgium.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Sorrow of Belgium|The Sorrow of Belgium]]''<br />(1983)<br />by Hugo Claus </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: |80px]]<br /><br /><small>()<br />by </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: |80px]]<br /><br /><small>()<br />by </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: |80px]]<br /><br /><small>()<br />by </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: |80px]]<br /><br /><small>()<br />by </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Soul Mountain]]'' ( ) by Gao Xingjian </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Waves]]'' ( ) by Bei Dao </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Willem Elsschot|Three Novels: Soft Soap, The Leg, Will O' the Wisp]]'' by Willem Elsschot </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The August Sleepwalker]]'' ( ) by Bei Dao </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Willem Elsschot|Cheese]]'' (1933) by Willem Elsschot </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Five Spice Street]]'' ( ) by Can Xue </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Paul van Ostaijen|Occupied City]]'' (1921) by Paul van Ostaijen </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Vertical Motion]]'' ( ) by Can Xue </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Paul van Ostaijen|The signal]]'' (1918) by Paul van Ostaijen </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Hugo Claus|The Sign of the Hamster]]'' (1964) by Hugo claus </small>
|-
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File:3ro5q.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Dimitri Verhulst|Problemski Hotel]]'' (2003) by Dimitri Verhulst </small>
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:1319910862194.jpg|100px]]
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:1319910950855.jpg|100px]]
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Dimitri Verhulst|The Misfortunates]]'' (2006) by Dimitri Verhulst </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Marnix Gijsen|Strangers Should Not Whisper]]'' (1945) by Marnix Gijsen </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Maurice Gilliams|Elias, or the struggle with the nightingalesl]]'' (1936) by Maurice Gilliams </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Maurice Gilliams|The bottle at sea. The complete poems]]'' by Maurice Gilliams </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''Tempo di Roma'' by Alexis Curvers </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''Pedigree'' by Georges Simenon </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''The Strange Case of Peter the Lett (Maigret series)'' by Georges Simenon </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''Thousand Times Broken, Three Books'' by Henri Michaux </small>
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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]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Romance of the Three Kingdoms|Three Kingdoms ]]''<br />(14th century)<br />by Luo Guanzhong </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Story_of_the_Stone.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Dream of the Red Chamber|Story of the Stone]]''<br />(18th century)<br />by Cao Xueqin </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Strange_Tales_from_a_Chinese_Studio.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio|Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio]]''<br />(1740)<br />by Pu Songling </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: The_Real_Story_of_Ah-Q_and_Other_Tales_of_China.jpg |80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The True Story of Ah Q|The Real Story of Ah Q]]''<br />(1922)<br />by Lu Xun </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: Camel_Xiangzi.jpg |80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Camel Xiangzi|Camel Xiangzi]]''<br />(1937)<br />by Lao She </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| rowspan="12" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Tang Dynasty|The Dragon King's Daughter]]'' (Tang dynasty) by </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Yuan Dynasty|Six Yuan Plays]]'' (Yuan dynasty) by </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Outlaws of the Marsh|Outlaws of the Marsh]]'' (14th century) by Shi Nai'an </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Romance of the West Chamber|The Story of the Western Wing]]'' (14th century) by Wang Shifu </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Journey to the West|Journey to the West]]'' (16th century) by Wu Cheng'en </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Creation of the Gods|Creation of the Gods]]'' (16th century) by Xu Zhonglin </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Peony Pavilion|The Peony Pavilion]]'' (1598) by Tang Xianzu </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Feng Menglong|Stories Old and New]]'' (1620) by Feng Menglong </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jin Ping Mei|The Plum in the Golden Vase]]'' (17th century) by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Carnal Prayer Mat|The Carnal Prayer Mat]]'' (1657) by Li Yu </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Scholars (novel)|The Scholars]]'' (1750) by Wu Jingzi </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Six Records of a Floating Life|Six Records of a Floating Life]]'' (1808) by Shen Fu </small>
|-
| rowspan="21" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lu Xun|Wild Grass]]'' (1927) by Lu Xun </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Mao Dun|Rainbow]]'' (1930) by Mao Dun </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Family (Ba Jin novel)|Family]]'' (1933) Ba Jin </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Shen Congwen|Border Town]]'' (1934) by Shen Congwen </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Shen Congwen|Selected Stories]]'' by Shen Congwen </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lin Yutang|My Country and My People]]'' (1935) by Lin Yutang </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lin Yutang|The Importance of Living]]'' (1937) by Lin Yutang </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Eileen Chang|Love in a Fallen City]]'' (1945) by Eileen Chang </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Fortress Besieged|Fortress Besieged]]'' (1947) by Qian Zhongshu </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lao She|Teahouse]]'' (1957) by Lao She </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Feng Jicai|The Three-Inch Golden Lotus]]'' (1985) by Feng Jicai </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Bei Dao|Waves]]'' (1985) by Bei Dao </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Mo Yan|Red Sorghum]]'' (1987) by Mo Yan </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Bei Dao|The August Sleepwalker]]'' (1988) by Bei Dao </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Chess Master|The King of Trees]]'' (1990) by Ah Cheng </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Soul Mountain|Soul Mountain]]'' (1990) by Gao Xingjian </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:To Live|To Live]]'' (1993) by Yu Hua </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Five Spice Street]]'' (2003) by Can Xue </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Brothers (2005 novel)|Brothers]]'' (2005) by Yu Hua </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Life and Death are Wearing Me Out|Life and Death are Wearing Me Out]]'' (2006) by Mo Yan </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Vertical Motion]]'' (2011) by Can Xue </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:3ro5q.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1319910862194.jpg|100px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1319910950855.jpg|100px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1344669226400.png|100px]]
| colspan="1" |
|}
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|-
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Canadian.png]] Canada</h3>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Montgomery_Anne_of Green_Gables.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Anne of Green Gables|Anne of Green Gables]]''<br />(1908)<br />by Lucy Maud Montgomery </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Sunshine_sketches.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Sunshine_Sketches_of_a_Little_Town|Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town]]''<br />(1912)<br />by Stephen Leacock </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:The_Handmaids_Tale.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The_Handmaid's_Tale|The Handmaid's Tale]]''<br />(1985)<br />by Margaret Atwood </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Dance_of_the_happy_shades.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Dance_of_the_Happy_Shades|Dance of the Happy Shades]]''<br />(1968)<br />by Alice Munro </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Flint_and_feather.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Flint and Feather|Flint and Feather]]''<br />(1913)<br />by Pauline Johnson </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| rowspan="19" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Anglophone
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Fifth_Business|Fifth Business]]'' (1970) by Robertson Davies </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The_Golden_Dog|The Golden Dog]]'' (1872) by William Kirby </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The_Apprenticeship_of_Duddy_Kravitz_(novel)|The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz]]'' (1974) by Mordecai Richler </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The_Wars|The Wars]]'' (1977) by Timothy Findley </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Beautiful_Losers|Beautiful Losers]]'' (1966) by Leonard Cohen </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Klee_Wyck|Klee Wyck]]'' (1941) by Emily Carr </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Three_Day_Road|Three Day Road]]'' (2005) by Joseph Boyden </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Life_of_Pi|Life of Pi]]'' (2001) by Yann Martel </small>
|}
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|-
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Czech.png]] Czech Republic</h3>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:May.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Máj|May]]''<br />(1836)<br />by Karel Hynek Macha </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:The_Good_Soldier_Svejk.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Good Soldier Svejk|The Good Soldier Svejk]]''<br />(1923)<br />by Jaroslav Hasek </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Three_Novels.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Hordubal|Three Novels]]''<br />(1933)<br />by Karel Capek </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:I_Served_the_King_of_England.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:I Served the King of England|I Served the King of England]]''<br />(1983)<br />by Bohumil Hrabal </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Unbearable Lightness of Being|The Unbearable Lightness of Being]]''<br />(1984)<br />by Milan Kundera </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| rowspan="19" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Pre-WW2
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Sorrowful Eyes]]'' ( ) by Ivan Olbracht </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Hidden History]]'' ( ) by Otokar Brezina </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Grandmother]]'' ( ) by Bozena Nemcova </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch]]'' ( ) by Ladislav Klima </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |R.U.R.]]'' ( ) by Karel Capek </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |War With the Newts]]'' ( ) by Karel Capek </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Antilyrik &amp; Other Poems]]'' ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Valerie and Her Week of Wonders]]'' ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Prague Tales]]'' ( ) by Jan Neruda </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Arsonist]]'' ( ) by Egon Hostovsky </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Poetry]]'' ( ) of Jaroslav Seifert </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Vanishing Lung Syndrome]]'' ( ) by Miroslav Holub </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Narrative Poems]]'' ( ) by Vladimir Holan </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Dreams at the End of the Night]]'' ( ) by Ewald Murrer </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |How I Came to Know Fish]]'' ( ) by Ota Pavel </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Fingers Pointing Somewhere Else]]'' ( ) by Daniela Fischerova </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |White Book]]'' ( ) by Pavel Kohout </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Saturnin]]'' ( ) by Zdenek Jirotka </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Summer of Caprice]]'' ( ) by Vadislav Vancura </small>
|-
| rowspan="16" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Post-WW2
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Closely Watched Trains]]'' ( ) Bohumil Hrabal </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Too Loud a Solitude]]'' ( ) by Bohumil Hrabal </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Love and Garbage]]'' ( ) by Ivan Klima </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Immortality]]'' ( ) by Milan Kundera </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Garden Party and Other Plays]]'' ( ) by Vaclav Havel </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Questionnaire]]'' ( ) by Jiri Grusa </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Guinea Pigs]]'' ( ) by Ludvik Vaculik </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Cremator]]'' (1967) by Ladislav Fuks </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova]]'' ( ) by Arnost Lustig </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Bohemian Youth]]'' ( ) by Josef Hirsal </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |City Sister Silver]]'' ( ) by Jachym Topol </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Engineer of Human Souls]]'' ( ) by Josef Skvorecky </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Other City]]'' ( ) by Michal Ajvaz </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Europeana]]'' ( ) by Patrik Ourednik </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Seven Churches]]'' ( ) by Milos Urban </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Of Kids &amp; Parents]]'' ( ) by Emil Hakl </small>
|-
| rowspan="13" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |German-language
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Golem]]'' ( ) by Gustav Meyrink </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Green Face]]'' ( ) by Gustav Meyrink </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Trial]]'' ( ) by Franz Kafka </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Metamorphosis]]'' ( ) by Franz Kafka </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Hunger Artist]]'' ( ) by Franz Kafka </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Blaugast]]'' ( ) by Paul Leppin </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Severin’s Journey into the Dark]]'' ( ) by Paul Leppin </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Raging Reporter]]'' ( ) by Egon Erwin Kisch </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Tycho Brahe’s Path to God]]'' ( ) by Max Brod </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Maimed]]'' ( ) by Hermann Ungar </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Boys &amp; Murderers]]'' ( ) by Hermann Ungar </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge |The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge]]'' ( ) by Rainer Maria Rilke </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Selected Poetry]]'' ( ) of Rainer Maria Rilke </small>
|-
| 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]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Canterbury Tales|The Canterbury Tales]]''<br />(14th century)<br />by Geoffrey Chaucer </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Complete_Works_of_Shakespears.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Shakespeare|The Complete Works]]''<br />of William Shakespeare </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Paradise_Lost.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Paradise Lost|Paradise Lost]]''<br />(1667)<br />by John Milton </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Collected_Poems_of_Wordsworth.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:William Wordsworth|The Collected Poems]]''<br />of William Wordsworth </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Collected_Poems_of_Yeats.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:W.B. Yeats|The Collected Poems]]''<br />of W.B. Yeats </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| rowspan="15" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Beowulf|Beowulf]]'' (10th century) </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sir Gawain and the Green Knight|Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]]'' (14th century) </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Le Morte D'Arthur|Le Morte D'Arthur]]'' (1485) by Sir Thomas Malory </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Utopia (novel)|Utopia]]'' (1516) by Thomas More </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Christopher Marlowe|The Complete Plays]]'' of Christopher Marlowe </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Faerie Queene|The Faerie Queene]]'' (1590) by Edmund Spenser </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Ben Jonson|Plays and Masques]]'' by Ben Jonson </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Duchess of Malfi|the Duchess of Malfi]]'' (1612) by John Webster </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Pilgrim's Progress|The Pilgrim's Progress]]'' (1678) by John Bunyan </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Robinson Crusoe|Robinson Crusoe]]'' (1719) by Daniel Defoe </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gulliver's Travels|Gulliver's Travels]]'' (1735) by Jonathan Swift </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling|Tom Jones]]'' (1749) by Henry Fielding </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Tristram Shandy|The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman]]'' (1759) by Laurence Sterne </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Vicar of Wakefield|The Vicar of Wakefield]]'' (1766) by Oliver Goldsmith </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Marriage of Heaven and Hell|The Marriage of Heaven and Hell]]'' (1793) by William Blake </small>
|-
| rowspan="17" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |19th Century
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Pride and Prejudice|Pride and Prejudice]]'' (1813) by Jane Austen </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Frankenstein|Frankenstein]]'' (1818) by Mary Shelley </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Ivanhoe|Ivanhoe]]'' (1820) by Sir Walter Scott </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Don Juan (Byron)|Don Juan]]'' (1821) by Lord Byron </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sartor Resartus|Sartor Resartus]]'' (1833) by Thomas Carlyle </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jane Eyre|Jane Eyre]]'' (1847) by Charlotte Bronte </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Wuthering Heights|Wuthering Heights]]'' (1847) Emily Bronte </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Vanity Fair|Vanity Fair]]'' (1848) by William Makepeace Thackeray </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Bleak House|Bleak House]]'' (1853) by Charles Dickens </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A Tale of Two Cities|A Tale of Two Cities]]'' (1859) by Charles Dickens </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Middlemarch|Middlemarch]]'' (1872) by George Eliot </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Far from the Madding Crowd|Far from the Madding Crowd]]'' (1874) by Thomas Hardy </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Way We Live Now|The Way We Live Now]]'' (1879) by Anthony Trollope </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Idylls of the King|Idylls of the King]]'' (1885) by Alfred Lord Tennyson </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Robert Louis Stevenson|The Collected Works]]'' of Robert Louis Stevenson </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Dracula|Dracula]]'' (1897) by Bram Stoker </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Oscar Wilde|The Collected Works]]'' of Oscar Wilde </small>
|-
| rowspan="11" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lord Jim|Lord Jim]]'' (1900) by Joseph Conrad </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kim (novel)|Kim]]'' (1900) by Rudyard Kipling </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Way of All Flesh|The Way of All Flesh]]'' (1903) by Samuel Butler </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Man Who Was Thursday|The Man Who Was Thursday]]'' (1908) by G.K. Chesterton </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sons and Lovers|Sons and Lovers]]'' (1913) by D.H. Lawrence </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Of Human Bondage|Of Human Bondage ]]'' (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sherlock Holmes|The Complete Sherlock Holmes]]'' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A Passage To India|A Passage to India ]]'' (1924) by E.M. Forster </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:To the Lighthouse|To the Lighthouse]]'' (1927) by Virginia Woolf </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[Flashman]]'' (1969) by George MacDonald Fraser </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:George Bernard Shaw|The Collected Plays]]'' by George Bernard Shaw </small>
|-
| 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" |
|}
|}




{|{{Prettytable}}
{|{{Prettytable}}
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Czech.png]] Czech Republic </h3>
 
 
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:France.png]] France</h3>
|-
|-
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:May.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Máj|May]]''<br/>(1836)<br/>by Karel Hynek Macha </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:The_Good_Soldier_Svejk.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Good Soldier Svejk|The Good Soldier Svejk]]''<br/>(1923)<br/>by Jaroslav Hasek </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Three_Novels.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Hordubal|Three Novels]]''<br/>(1933)<br/>by Karel Capek </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:I_Served_the_King_of_England.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:I Served the King of England|I Served the King of England]]''<br/>(1983)<br/>by Bohumil Hrabal </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Unbearable Lightness of Being|The Unbearable Lightness of Being]]''<br/>(1984)<br/>by Milan Kundera </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Fleurs-du-mal_titel.jpg|thumb|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Les Fleurs du Mal|Flowers of Evil]]''<br />(1857)<br />by Charles Baudelaire </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Balzac.jpg|thumb|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:La Comédie humaine|The Human Comedy]]''<br />(1829-1848)<br />by Honoré de Balzac </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Remembrance of Things Past.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:In Search of Lost Time|In Search of Lost Time]]''<br />(1927)<br />by Marcel Proust </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Memoirs_of_Hadrian.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Memoirs of Hadrian|Memoirs of Hadrian]]''<br />(1951)<br />by Marguerite Yourcenar </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Madame_Bovary.jpg|thumb|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: Madame Bovary|Madame Bovary ]]''<br />(1856)<br />by Gustave Flaubert </small>
|-
|-
|rowspan=19 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Pre-WW2||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Sorrowful Eyes]]'' ( ) by Ivan Olbracht </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Hidden History]]'' ( ) by Otokar Brezina </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Temptations of Saint Anthony (Flaubert)|The Temptation of Saint Antony]]'' (1895) by Gustave Flaubert </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Grandmother]]'' ( ) by Bozena Nemcova  </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Journey to the End of the Night|Journey to the End of the Night]]'' (1932) by Louis-Ferdinand Céline </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch]]'' ( ) by Ladislav Klima </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Stranger|The Stranger]]'' ( ) by Albert Camus </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |R.U.R.]]'' ( ) by Karel Capek </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Count of Monte Cristo|The Count of Monte Cristo]]'' ( ) by Alexander Dumas </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |War With the Newts]]'' ( ) by Karel Capek </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nausea (novel)|Nausea]]'' ( ) by Jean-Paul Sartre </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Antilyrik & Other Poems]]'' ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Le Grand Meaulnes|The Lost Estate]]'' (1913) by Alain-Fournier </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Valerie and Her Week of Wonders]]'' ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Red and the Black|The Red and the Black ]]'' ( ) by Stendhal </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Prague Tales]]'' ( ) by Jan Neruda </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nadja|Nadja]]'' ( ) by Andre Breton </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Arsonist]]'' ( ) by Egon Hostovsky </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea|Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]'' ( ) by Jules Verne </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Poetry]]'' ( ) of Jaroslav Seifert  </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Henri Michaux|Miserable Miracle]]'' ( ) by Henri Michaux </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Vanishing Lung Syndrome]]'' ( ) by Miroslav Holub </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[Atomised]]'' ( ) by Michel Houellebecq </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Narrative Poems]]'' ( ) by Vladimir Holan </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jean-Jacques Rousseau|Confessions]]'' ( ) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Dreams at the End of the Night]]'' ( ) by Ewald Murrer </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Le Petit Prince|Le Petit Prince]]'' ( ) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |How I Came to Know Fish]]'' ( ) by Ota Pavel </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Candide|Candide]]'' ( ) by Voltaire </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Fingers Pointing Somewhere Else]]'' ( ) by Daniela Fischerova </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Marguerite Duras|The Lover]]'' ( ) by Marguerite Duras </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |White Book]]'' ( ) by Pavel Kohout </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Boris Vian|Froth on the Daydream]]'' ( ) by Boris Vian </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Saturnin]]'' ( ) by Zdenek Jirotka </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Germinal|Germinal ]]'' ( ) by Emile Zola </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Summer of Caprice]]'' ( ) by Vadislav Vancura </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Les Miserables|Les Miserables]]'' ( ) by Victor Hugo </small>
|-
|-
|rowspan=16 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Post-WW2||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Closely Watched Trains]]'' ( )  Bohumil Hrabal </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Too Loud a Solitude]]'' ( ) by Bohumil Hrabal </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275246751497.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="4" |
|}
 
 
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|-
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Germany.png]] Germany</h3>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>[http://tinyurl.com/germanlit German Literature Download]</small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Faust.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Goethe's Faust|Faust]]''<br />(1832)<br />by Goethe </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Thus_Spake_Zarathustra.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Thus Spake Zarathustra|Thus Spake Zarathustra]]''<br />(1885)<br />by Friedrich Nietzsche </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Magic_Mountain.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Magic Mountain|The Magic Mountain]]''<br />(1912)<br />by Thomas Mann </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Man_Without_Qualities.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Man Without Qualities|The Man Without Qualities]]''<br />(1942)<br />by Robert Musil </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Tin_Drum.gif|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Tin Drum|The Tin Drum]]''<br />(1959)<br />by Gunter Grass </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Love and Garbage]]'' ( ) by Ivan Klima </small>
| rowspan="7" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Sorrows of Young Werther|The Sorrows of Young Werther]]'' (1774) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Immortality]]'' ( ) by Milan Kundera </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Robbers|The Robbers and Wallenstein]]'' (1781) by Friedrich Schiller </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Garden Party and Other Plays]]'' ( ) by Vaclav Havel </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Marquise of O|the Marquise of O and Other Stories]]'' (1808) by Heinrich von Kleist</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Questionnaire]]'' ( ) by Jiri Grusa </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Broken Jug|The Broken Jug]]'' (1806) by Heinrich von Kleist </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Guinea Pigs]]'' ( ) by Ludvik Vaculik </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Danton's Death|Danon's Death]]'' (1835) George Buchner </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Cremator]]'' (1967) by Ladislav Fuks </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Der_Schimmelreiter|The Rider on the White Horse]]'' (1888) by Theodor Storm </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova]]'' ( ) by Arnost Lustig </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Effi Briest|Effi Briest]]'' (1895) by Theodor Fontane</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Bohemian Youth]]'' ( ) by Josef Hirsal </small>
| rowspan="14" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Buddenbrooks|Buddenbrooks]]'' (1901) by Thomas Mann </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |City Sister Silver]]'' ( ) by Jachym Topol </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Der Untertan|The Loyal Subject]]'' (1914) by Heinrich Mann</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Engineer of Human Souls]]'' ( ) by Josef Skvorecky </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Metamorphosis|The Metamorphosis]]'' (1915) by Franz Kafka </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Other City]]'' ( ) by Michal Ajvaz </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Trial (novel)|The Trial]]'' (1925) by Franz Kafka </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Europeana]]'' ( ) by Patrik Ourednik </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Castle (novel)|The Castle]]'' (1926) by Franz Kafka </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Seven Churches]]'' ( ) by Milos Urban </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Siddhartha (novel)|Siddhartha]]'' (1922) by Hermann Hesse</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Of Kids & Parents]]'' ( ) by Emil Hakl </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Steppenwolf (novel)|Steppenwolf]]'' (1927) by Hermann Hesse</small>
|-
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|rowspan=13 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|German-language||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Golem]]'' ( ) by Gustav Meyrink </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Berlin Alexanderplatz|Berlin Alexanderplatz]]'' (1929) by Alfred Doblin </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Green Face]]'' ( ) by Gustav Meyrink </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Visit |The Visit]]'' (1956) by Friedrich Durrenmatt </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Trial]]'' ( ) by Franz Kafka </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Physicists|The Physicists]]'' (1961) by Friedrich Durrenmatt </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Metamorphosis]]'' ( ) by Franz Kafka </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Flounder|The Flounder]]'' (1977) by Gunter Grass </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Hunger Artist]]'' ( ) by Franz Kafka </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Cassandra (novel)|Cassandra]]'' (1984) Christa Wolf </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Blaugast]]'' ( ) by Paul Leppin </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Perfume (novel)|Perfume]]'' (1985) by Patrick Suskind</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Severin’s Journey into the Dark]]'' ( ) by Paul Leppin </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Christoph Ransmayr|The Last World]]'' (1988) by Christoph Ransmayr </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Raging Reporter]]'' ( ) by Egon Erwin Kisch </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Tycho Brahe’s Path to God]]'' ( ) by Max Brod </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:German20.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Kafka_flowchart.jpg|100px]]
| colspan="3" |
|}
 
 
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Maimed]]'' ( ) by Hermann Ungar </small>
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Greece.png]] Greece</h3>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Boys & Murderers]]'' ( ) by Hermann Ungar </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge |The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge]]'' ( ) by Rainer Maria Rilke </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px|link=Special:FilePath/.jpg]]<br />
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px|link=Special:FilePath/.jpg]]<br />
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px|link=Special:FilePath/.jpg]]<br />
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px|link=Special:FilePath/.jpg]]<br />
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px|link=Special:FilePath/.jpg]]<br />
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Selected Poetry]]'' ( ) of Rainer Maria Rilke  </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="5" |<small>by </small>
|-
|-
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Czech_literature.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="5" |<small>by </small>
|colspan=4|
|-
|-
| 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" |
|}
|}


{|{{Prettytable}}
{|{{Prettytable}}
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Germany.png]] Germany</h3>
 
 
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Hungary.png]] Hungary</h3>
|-
|-
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Sorrows_of_Young_Werther.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Sorrows of Young Werther|The Sorrows of Young Werther]]''<br/>(1774)<br/>by Goethe </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Thus_Spake_Zarathustra.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Thus Spake Zarathustra|Thus Spake Zarathustra]]''<br/>(1885)<br/>by Friedrich Nietzsche </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Magic_Mountain.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Magic Mountain|The Magic Mountain]]''<br/>(1912)<br/>by Thomas Mann </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Man_Without_Qualities.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Man Without Qualities|The Man Without Qualities]]''<br/> (1942)<br/>by Robert Musil </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Tin_Drum.gif|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Tin Drum|The Tin Drum]]''<br/>(1959)<br/>by Gunter Grass </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Tragedy_of_Man.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: The Tragedy of Man |The Tragedy of Man]]''<br />(1861)<br />by Imre Madach</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Be_Faithful_Unto_Death .jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Zsigmond Móricz|Be Faithful Unto Death ]]''<br />(1920)<br />by Zsigmond Moricz</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Anna_Edes .jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Dezso Kosztolanyi|Anna Edes]]''<br />(1926)<br />by Dezso Kosztolanyi </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Journey_by_Moonlight.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: Journey by Moonlight (novel)|Journey by Moonlight]]''<br />(1937)<br />by Antal Szerb </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Melancholy_of_Resistance .jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Melancholy of Resistance|The Melancholy of Resistance]]''<br />(1989)<br />by Laszlo Krasznahorkai </small>
|-
|-
|rowspan=7 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Classic||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Robbers|The Robbers and Wallenstein]]'' (1781) by Friedrich Schiller </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Marquise of O|the Marquise of O and Other Stories]]'' (1808) by Heinrich von Kleist</small>
| rowspan="7" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Eclipse of the Crescent Moon|Eclipse of the Crescent Moon]]'' (1899) by Geza Gardonyi </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Broken Jug|The Broken Jug]]'' (1806) by Heinrich von Kleist </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A láthatatlan ember|A láthatatlan ember]]'' (1901) by Geza Gardonyi </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Goethe's Faust|Faust]]'' (1832) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A kőszivű ember fiai|A kőszivű ember fiai]]'' (1869) by Mór Jókai </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Danton's Death|Danon's Death]]'' (1835) George Buchner </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Dark Diamonds|The Dark Diamonds]]'' (1872) by Mór Jókai </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Der_Schimmelreiter|The Rider on the White Horse]]'' (1888) by Theodor Storm </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:János vitéz|János vitéz]]'' (1845) by Sándor Petőfi </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Effi Briest|Effi Briest]]'' (1895) by Theodor Fontane</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Szent Péter esernyője|Szent Péter esernyője]]'' (1895) by Kálmán Mikszáth </small>
|-
|-
|rowspan=14 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Modern||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Buddenbrooks|Buddenbrooks]]'' (1901) by Thomas Mann </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Bánk Bán|Bánk Bán]]'' (1819) by József Katona </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Der Untertan|The Loyal Subject]]'' (1914) by Heinrich Mann</small>
| rowspan="21" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Adventures of Sindbad|Adventures of Sindbad]]'' (1911) by Gyula Krudy </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Metamorphosis|The Metamorphosis]]'' (1915) by Franz Kafka </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Tóték|Tóték]]'' (1967) by István Örkény </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Trial (novel)|The Trial]]'' (1925) by Franz Kafka </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Egyperces novellák|Egyperces novellák]]'' (1969) by István Örkény </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Castle (novel)|The Castle]]'' (1926) by Franz Kafka </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Paul Street Boys|The Paul Street Boys]]'' (1907) by Ferenc Molnár </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Siddhartha (novel)|Siddhartha]]'' (1922) by Hermann Hesse</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Harmonia Caelestis|Harmonia Caelestis]]'' (1994) by Peter Esterhazy </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Steppenwolf (novel)|Steppenwolf]]'' (1927) by Hermann Hesse</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Door|The Door]]'' (1987) by Magda Szabo </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Berlin Alexanderplatz|Berlin Alexanderplatz]]'' (1929) by Alfred Doblin </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A Journey Round My Skull|A Journey Round My Skull]]'' (1939) by Frigyes Karinthy </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Visit |The Visit]]'' (1956) by Friedrich Durrenmatt </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Metropole|Metropole]]'' (1970) by Ferenc Karinthy </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Physicists|The Physicists]]'' (1961) by Friedrich Durrenmatt </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The End of a Family Story|The End of a Family Story]]'' (1977) by Peter Nadas </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Flounder|The Flounder]]'' (1977) by Gunter Grass </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Transylvania Trilogy|The Transylvania Trilogy]]'' (1940) by Miklos Banffy </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Cassandra (novel)|Cassandra]]'' (1984) Christa Wolf </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Egy elmebeteg nő naplója|Egy elmebeteg nő naplója]]'' (1978) by Geza Csath </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Perfume (novel)|Perfume]]'' (1985) by Patrick Suskind</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Opium and Other Stories|Opium and Other Stories]]'' (1980) by Geza Csath </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Christoph Ransmayr|The Last Word]]'' (1988) by Christoph Ransmayr </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Embers|Embers]]'' (1942) by Sándor Márai</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Képzelt riport egy amerikai popfesztiválról|Képzelt riport egy amerikai popfesztiválról]]'' (1971) by Tibor Dery </small>
|-
|-
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:German20.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Case Worker|The Case Worker]]'' (1969) by György Konrád </small>
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Kafka_flowchart.jpg|100px]]
|colspan=3|
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Tranquility|Tranquility]]'' (2001) by Attila Bartis </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Colours and Years|Colours and Years]]'' (1912) by Magrit Kaffka </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:In Praise of Older Women|In Praise of Older Women]]'' (1966) by Stephen Vizinczey </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Darkness at Noon|Darkness at Noon]]'' (1940) by Arthur Koestler </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A halál kilovagolt Perzsiából|A halál kilovagolt Perzsiából]]'' (1979) by Péter Hajnóczy </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A bogyósgyümölcskertész fia|A bogyósgyümölcskertész fia]]'' (2010) by János Háy </small>
|}
|}


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{|{{Prettytable}}
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Iran.png]] Iran </h3>
 
 
|-
| 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]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Edda|The Eddas]]''<br />(13th century)<br />by Snorri Sturluson </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Njals_Saga.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Njal's Saga|Njal's Saga]]''<br />(13th century) </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Laxdaela_Saga.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Laxdaela Saga|Laxdaela Saga]]''<br />(13th century)</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Independent_People.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Independent People|Independent People]]''<br />(1935)<br />by Halldór Laxness </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: .jpg|80px|link=Special:FilePath/.jpg]]<br /><br /><small>( )<br />by </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| rowspan="7" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Egils saga|Egil's saga]]'' (12th century) </small>
|-
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:The_Conference_of_the_Birds.JPG|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Conference of the Birds|The Conference of the Birds]]''<br/>(12th century)<br/>by Farid ud-Din Attar </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Heimskringla|King Harald's Saga]]'' (1230) by Snorri Sturluson </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Rubaiyat.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Rubaiyat|The Rubaiyat]]''<br/>(12th century)<br/>of Omar Khayyam </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Essential_Rumi.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Rumi|The Essential Works]]''<br/>(13th century)<br/>by Rumi </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Gulistan.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Gulistan of Sa'di|The Rose Garden]]''<br/>(1259)<br/>by Sa'di </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Divan-i.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Hafiz Shirazi|The Divan-i]]''<br/>(14th century)<br/>of Hafiz </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Eyrbyggja Saga|Eyrbyggja Saga]]'' (13th century) </small>
|-
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|rowspan=5 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Classical||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Shahnameh|Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings]]'' (~1000)</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Saga of Grettir the Strong|The Saga of Grettir the Strong]]'' (13th century) </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Vis and Rāmin|Vis and Ramin]]'' (11th century) by Asad Gorgani  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Saga of the Jomsvikings |The Saga of the Jomsvikings ]]'' (13th century) </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Shusha Guppy|The Secret of Laughter: Magical Tales from Classical Persia]]'' edited by Shusha Guppy </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Völsunga saga|The Saga of the Volsungs]]'' (13th century) </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Nizami Ganjavi|Haft Paykar]]'' (1197) by Nizami Ganjavi </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Hrólfs saga kraka|The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki ]]'' (1400) </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Persian literature#Poetry|Borrowed Ware: Medieval Persian Epigrams]]'' edited by Dick Davis </small>
| rowspan="8" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gunnar Gunnarson|The Good Shepard]]'' (1940) by Gunnar Gunnarson </small>
|-
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|rowspan=4 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Untranslated||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Asadi Tusi|Garshaspnama]]'' (11th century) by Asadi Tusi </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Fish Can Sing|The Fish Can Sing]]'' (1957) by Halldor Laxness </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Nizami Ganjavi|Chosrow and Shirin]]'' (1180) by Nizami Ganjavi </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Justice Undone|Justice Undone]]'' (1986) by Thor Vilhjalmsson </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Tutinama|Tutinama: Tales of a Parrot]]'' (14th century) </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Swan (novel)|The Swan]]'' (1991) by Gudbergur Bergsson </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Francois Petis de la Croix|1001 Days]]'' (1712) by Francois Petis de la Croix </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Einar Mar Gudmundsson|Angels of the Universe]]'' (1993) by Einar Mar Gudmundsson </small>
|-
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Olaf Olafsson|The Journey Home]]'' (1999) by Olaf Olafsson </small>
|-
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Persian_lit.jpg|100px]]
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Blue Fox (novel)|The Blue Fox]]'' (2003) by Sjon </small>
|colspan=4|
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gyir Eliasson|Stone Tree]]'' (2005) by Gyir Eliasson </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275262867188.jpg|80px]]
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|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Japan.png]] Japan</h3>
 
 
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|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" |<h3>Middle East</h3>
|-
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Tale_of_Genji.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Tale of Genji|The Tale of Genji]]''<br/>(11th century)<br/>by Murasaki Shikibu</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>[http://tinyurl.com/iranianlit Iranian Literature Download]</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Kokoro.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Kokoro|Kokoro]]''<br/>(1914)<br/>by Natsume Soseki</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Rashomon_and_Seventeen_Other_Stories.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Rashōmon_(short_story)|Rashomon]]''<br/>(1915)<br/>by Akutagawa</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Naomi.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Naomi (novel)|Naomi]]''<br/>(1924)<br/>by Junichiro Tanizaki</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Snow_Country.jpg|80px]] <br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Snow Country|Snow Country]]''<br/>(1947)<br/>by Yasunari Kawabata</small>
|-
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
|-
|rowspan=6 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Classical Literature (until 1600's)||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Gossamer Years | The Gossamer Years]]'' (974) by Mother of Michitsuna</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:The_Conference_of_the_Birds.JPG|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Conference of the Birds|The Conference of the Birds]]''<br />(12th century)<br />by Farid ud-Din Attar </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Rubaiyat.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Rubaiyat|The Rubaiyat]]''<br />(12th century)<br />of Omar Khayyam </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Essential_Rumi.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Rumi|The Essential Works]]''<br />(13th century)<br />by Rumi </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Divan-i.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Hafiz Shirazi|The Divan-i]]''<br />(14th century)<br />of Hafiz </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Blind_Owl.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Blind Owl|The Blind Owl]]''<br />(1937)<br />by Sadegh Hedayat </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Pillow Book | The Pillow Book]]'' (1002) by Sei Shonagon</small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Tales of Ise | The Tales of Ise]]'' by Anonymous</small>
| rowspan="6" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classical
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Shahnameh|Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings]]'' (~1000)</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: Hojoki | Hojoki]]'' (1212) by Kamo no Chomei</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Vis and Rāmin|Vis and Ramin]]'' (11th century) by Asad Gorgani </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Essays in Idleness | Essays in Idleness]]'' (1330) by Yoshida Kenko</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Shusha Guppy|The Secret of Laughter: Magical Tales from Classical Persia]]'' edited by Shusha Guppy </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Tale of Heike | The Tale of Heike]]'' (1371) by Anonymous</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nizami Ganjavi|Haft Paykar]]'' (1197) by Nizami Ganjavi </small>
|-
|-
|rowspan=5 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Edo Period (1603-1868)||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Life of an Amorous Woman | The Life of an Amorous Woman]]'' (1686) by Saikaku Ihara</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Persian literature#Poetry|Borrowed Ware: Medieval Persian Epigrams]]'' edited by Dick Davis </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Hagakure | Hagakure: the Book of the Samurai]]'' (1716) by Yamamoto Tsunetomo</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gulistan of Sa'di|The Rose Garden]]'' (1259) by Sa'di </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu | Four Major Plays]]'' (~1720) by Chikamatsu Monzaemon</small>
| rowspan="5" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sadegh Hedayat|Three Drops of Blood]]'' (1932) by Sadegh Hedayat </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Chushingura | Chushingura]]'' (1748) by Takedo Izumo, Miyoshi Shoraku, Namiki Senryuu </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sadeq Chubak|The Patient Stone]]'' (1967) by Sadeq Chubak </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Tales of Moonlight and Rain |Tales of Moonlight and Rain]]'' (1776) by Ueda Akinari</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Little Black Fish|The Little Black Fish and Other Modern Persian Stories]]'' (1968) by Samad Behrangi </small>
|-
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|rowspan=15 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Modern Literature (1868-1945)||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Ukigumo | Ukigumo]]'' (1887) by Futabatei Shimei </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Missing Soluch|Missing Soluch]]'' (1979) by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Koda Rohan|Pagoda, Skull and Samurai]]'' (1889) by Koda Rohan</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Shahrnush Parsipur|Women Without Men]]'' (1990) by Shahrnush Parsipur </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Higuchi Ichiyo|In the Shade of Spring Leaves]]'' (1892-6) by Higuchi Ichiyo </small>
| rowspan="4" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Untranslated
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Asadi Tusi|Garshaspnama]]'' (11th century) by Asadi Tusi </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Kyoka Izumi|Japanese Gothic Tales]]'' (1900) by Izumi Kyoka </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nizami Ganjavi|Chosrow and Shirin]]'' (1180) by Nizami Ganjavi </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Broken Commandment|The Broken Commandment]]'' (1906) by Toson Shimazaki</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Tutinama|Tutinama: Tales of a Parrot]]'' (14th century) </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Katai Tayama|The Quilt and Other Stories]]'' (1907) by Katai Tayama </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Francois Petis de la Croix|1001 Days]]'' (1712) by Francois Petis de la Croix </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Kenji Miyazawa|The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa]]'' (1924) by  Kenji Miyazawa</small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: Botchan|Botchan]]'' (1906) by Natsume Soseki </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Persian_lit.jpg|100px]]
| colspan="4" |
|}
 
 
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|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: I am a Cat|I Am a Cat]]'' (1905) by Natsume Soseki </small>
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Italy.png]] Italy</h3>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Wild Geese (novel)|The Wild Geese]]'' (1913) by Mori Ogai </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>[http://tinyurl.com/italianlit Italian Literature Download]</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Shiga Naoya|The Paper Door and Other Stories]]'' (1927) by Shiga Naoya </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: Kafu Nagai|During the Rain & Flowers in the Shade]]'' (1930) by Kafu Nagai </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Divine_Comedy.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Divine Comedy|Divine Comedy]]''<br />(1321)<br />by Dante Alighieri </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Decameron.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Decameron|The Decameron]]''<br />(1353)<br />by Giovanni Boccaccio </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Zeno's_Conscience.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Zeno's Conscience|Zeno's Conscience]]''<br />(1923)<br />by Italo Svevo </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:That_Awful_Mess.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Carlo Emilio Gadda|That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana]]''<br />(1957)<br />by Carlo Emilio Gadda </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Leopard.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Leopard|The Leopard]]''<br />(1958)<br />by Tomasi di Lampedusa </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: Musashi| Musashi]]'' (1935) by Eiji Yoshikawa </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: The Makioka Sisters|The Makioka Sisters]]'' (1943) by Junichiro Tanizaki </small>
| rowspan="17" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Consolation of Philosophy|The Consolation of Philosophy]]'' (524) by Boethius </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Edogawa Ranpo|Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination]]'' (1940) by Edogawa Ranpo </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Golden Legend|Golden Legend]]'' (1260) by Jacobus de Voragine </small>
|-
|-
|rowspan=23 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Post War (1946-present)||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Inoue Yasushi | The Counterfeiter and Other Stories]]'' by Yasushi Inou </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Travels of Marco Polo|The Travels]]'' (13th century) of Marco Polo </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Palm-of-the-Hand Stories|Palm-of-the-Hand Stories]]'' by Yasunari Kawabata</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Il Canzoniere|Il Canzoniere]]'' (1374) by Petrarch </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Master of Go|The Master of Go]]'' (1954) by Yasunari Kawabata </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Prince|The Prince]]'' (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Setting Sun|The Setting Sun]]'' (1947) by Osamu Dazai </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Book of the Courtier|The Book of the Courtier]]'' (1528) by Baldassare Castiglione </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Fires on the Plain|Fires on the Plain]]'' (1951) by Shohei Ooka </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Orlando Furioso|Orlando Furioso]]'' (1532) by Ludovico Ariosto </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Waiting Years|The Waiting Years]]'' (1957) by Fumiko Enchi </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Benvenuto Cellini|The Autobiography]]'' (1563) of Benvenuto Cellini </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Confessions of a Mask|Confessions of a Mask]]'' (1948) by Yukio Mishima </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects|Lives of the Artists]]'' (1568) by Giorgio Vasari </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Temple of the Golden Pavilion|The Temple of the Golden Pavilion]]'' (1956) by Yukio Mishima </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jerusalem Delivered|Jerusalem Delivered]]'' (1581) by Torquato Tasso </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Spring Snow|Spring Snow]]'' (1963) by Yukio Mishima </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Michelangelo|Selected Poems and Letters]]'' by Michelangelo </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids |Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids ]]'' (1958) by Kenzaburo Oe </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Histoire de ma vie|The Memoirs]]'' (1774) of Giacomo Casanova </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis|The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis]]'' (1817) by Ugo Foscolo </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Betrothed (Manzoni novel)|The Betrothed]]'' (1827) by Alessandro Manzoni </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Giacomo Leopardi|Canti]]'' (1837) by Giacomo Leopardi </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Giuseppe Garibaldi|The Life]]'' (1849) of Giuseppe Garibaldi </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Giovanni Verga|Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories]]'' (1880) by Giovanni Verga </small>
|-
| rowspan="21" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Year 3,000|The Year 3,000: A Dream]]'' (1897) by Paolo Mantegazza </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Emilio Salgari|Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem]]'' (1900) by Emilio Salgari </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gabriele d'Annunzio|Francesca da Rimini]]'' (1901) by Gabriele d'Annunzio </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Grazia Deledda|Elias Portolu]]'' (1903) by Grazia Deledda </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Late Mattia Pascal|The Late Mattia Pascal]]'' (1904) by Luigi Pirandello </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Captain Blood (novel)|Captain Blood]]'' (1922) by Rafael Sabatini </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Six Characters in Search of an Author|Six Characters in Search of an Author]]'' (1921) by Luigi Pirandello </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Eugenio Montale|Cuttlefish Bones]]'' (1925) by Eugenio Montale </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Revolt Against the Modern World|Revolt Against the Modern World]]'' (1934) by Julius Evola </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Tartar Steppe|the Tartar Steppe]]'' (1940) by Dino Buzzati </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Christ Stopped at Eboli|Christ Stopped at Eboli]]'' (1945) by Carlo Levi </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Moon and the Bonfires|The Moon and the Bonfires]]'' (1949) by Cesare Pavese </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Alberto Moravia|Contempt]]'' (1954) by Alberto Moravia </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Garden of the Finzi-Continis|The Garden of the Finzi-Continis]]'' (1962) by Giorgio Bassani </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Natalia Ginzburg|Family Sayings]]'' (1967) by Natalia Ginzburg </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Equal Danger|Equal Danger]]'' (1971) by Leonardo Sciascia </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Invisible Cities|Invisible Cities]]'' (1972) by Italo Calvino </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Periodic Table (book)|The Periodic Table]]'' (1975) by Primo Levi </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Foucault's Pendulum|Foucault's Pendulum]]'' (1988) by Umberto Eco </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Q (novel)|Q]]'' (1999) by Luther Blissett </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Tommaso Pincio|Love-Shaped Story ]]'' (2002) by Tommaso Pincio </small>
|-
| 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=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:A Personal Matter|A Personal Matter]]'' (1964) by Kenzaburo Oe </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Black Rain|Black Rain]]'' (1966) by Masuji Ibuse </small>
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Japan.png]] Japan</h3>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Box Man|The Box Man]]'' (1973) by Kobo Abe </small>  
| colspan="5" |<small>[http://tinyurl.com/japaneselit Japanese Literature Download]</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Woman in the Dunes |The Woman in the Dunes]]'' (1962) by Kobo Abe </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: Silence (novel)|Silence]]'' (1966) by Shusaku Endo </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Tale_of_Genji.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Tale of Genji|The Tale of Genji]]''<br />(11th century)<br />by Murasaki Shikibu</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Kokoro.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Kokoro|Kokoro]]''<br />(1914)<br />by Natsume Soseki</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Rashomon_and_Seventeen_Other_Stories.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Rashōmon_(short_story)|Rashomon]]''<br />(1915)<br />by Akutagawa</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Naomi.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Naomi (novel)|Naomi]]''<br />(1924)<br />by Junichiro Tanizaki</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Snow_Country.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Snow Country|Snow Country]]''<br />(1947)<br />by Yasunari Kawabata</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Samurai (novel)|The Samurai]]'' (1980) by Shusaku Endo </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Twilight Years|The Twilight Years]]'' (1972) by Sawako Ariyoshi </small>
| rowspan="6" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classical Literature (until 1600's)
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Gossamer Years |The Gossamer Years]]'' (974) by Mother of Michitsuna</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: Almost Transparent Blue|Almost Transparent Blue]]'' (1976) by Ryu Murakami</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Pillow Book |The Pillow Book]]'' (1002) by Sei Shonagon</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Kitchen (novel)|Kitchen]]'' (1988) by Banana Yoshimoto </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Tales of Ise |The Tales of Ise]]'' by Anonymous</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Norwegian Wood|Norwegian Wood]]'' (1987) by Haruki Murakami </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: Hojoki |Hojoki]]'' (1212) by Kamo no Chomei</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: The Elephant Vanishes|The Elephant Vanishes]]'' (1991) by Haruki Murakami</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Essays in Idleness |Essays in Idleness]]'' (1330) by Yoshida Kenko</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle|The Wind-up Bird Chronicle]]'' (1995) by Haruki Murakami </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Tale of Heike |The Tale of Heike]]'' (1371) by Anonymous</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Housekeeper and the Professor|The Housekeeper and the Professor]]'' (2003) by Yoko Ogawa</small>
| rowspan="5" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Edo Period (1603-1868)
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Life of an Amorous Woman |The Life of an Amorous Woman]]'' (1686) by Saikaku Ihara</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Hagakure |Hagakure: the Book of the Samurai]]'' (1716) by Yamamoto Tsunetomo</small>
|-
|-
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:1276577235824.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu |Four Major Plays]]'' (~1720) by Chikamatsu Monzaemon</small>
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:1298503721666.jpg|100px]]
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Yukio_mishima.jpg|100px]]
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Murakami_guide_fuuuu.jpg|100px]]
|colspan=1|
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Chushingura |Chushingura]]'' (1748) by Takedo Izumo, Miyoshi Shoraku, Namiki Senryuu </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Tales of Moonlight and Rain |Tales of Moonlight and Rain]]'' (1776) by Ueda Akinari</small>
|-
| rowspan="15" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern Literature (1868-1945)
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Ukigumo |Ukigumo]]'' (1887) by Futabatei Shimei </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Koda Rohan|Pagoda, Skull and Samurai]]'' (1889) by Koda Rohan</small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Higuchi Ichiyo|In the Shade of Spring Leaves]]'' (1892-6) by Higuchi Ichiyo </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kyoka Izumi|Japanese Gothic Tales]]'' (1900) by Izumi Kyoka </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Broken Commandment|The Broken Commandment]]'' (1906) by Toson Shimazaki</small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Katai Tayama|The Quilt and Other Stories]]'' (1907) by Katai Tayama </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kenji Miyazawa|The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa]]'' (1924) by Kenji Miyazawa</small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: Botchan|Botchan]]'' (1906) by Natsume Soseki </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: I am a Cat|I Am a Cat]]'' (1905) by Natsume Soseki </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Wild Geese (novel)|The Wild Geese]]'' (1913) by Mori Ogai </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Shiga Naoya|The Paper Door and Other Stories]]'' (1927) by Shiga Naoya </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: Kafu Nagai|During the Rain &amp; Flowers in the Shade]]'' (1930) by Kafu Nagai </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musashi_(novel) Musashi]'' (1935) by Eiji Yoshikawa </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: The Makioka Sisters|The Makioka Sisters]]'' (1943) by Junichiro Tanizaki </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Edogawa Ranpo|Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination]]'' (1940) by Edogawa Ranpo </small>
|-
| rowspan="24" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Post War (1946-present)
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Inoue Yasushi |The Counterfeiter and Other Stories]]'' by Yasushi Inou </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Palm-of-the-Hand Stories|Palm-of-the-Hand Stories]]'' by Yasunari Kawabata</small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Master of Go|The Master of Go]]'' (1954) by Yasunari Kawabata </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Setting Sun|The Setting Sun]]'' (1947) by Osamu Dazai </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Fires on the Plain|Fires on the Plain]]'' (1951) by Shohei Ooka </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Waiting Years|The Waiting Years]]'' (1957) by Fumiko Enchi </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Confessions of a Mask|Confessions of a Mask]]'' (1948) by Yukio Mishima </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Temple of the Golden Pavilion|The Temple of the Golden Pavilion]]'' (1956) by Yukio Mishima </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Spring Snow|Spring Snow]]'' (1963) by Yukio Mishima </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids |Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids ]]'' (1958) by Kenzaburo Oe </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A Personal Matter|A Personal Matter]]'' (1964) by Kenzaburo Oe </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Black Rain|Black Rain]]'' (1966) by Masuji Ibuse </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Box Man|The Box Man]]'' (1973) by Kobo Abe </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Woman in the Dunes |The Woman in the Dunes]]'' (1962) by Kobo Abe </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: Silence (novel)|Silence]]'' (1966) by Shusaku Endo </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Samurai (novel)|The Samurai]]'' (1980) by Shusaku Endo </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Twilight Years|The Twilight Years]]'' (1972) by Sawako Ariyoshi </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: Almost Transparent Blue|Almost Transparent Blue]]'' (1976) by Ryu Murakami</small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kitchen (novel)|Kitchen]]'' (1988) by Banana Yoshimoto </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Norwegian Wood|Norwegian Wood]]'' (1987) by Haruki Murakami </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: The Elephant Vanishes|The Elephant Vanishes]]'' (1991) by Haruki Murakami</small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle|The Wind-up Bird Chronicle]]'' (1995) by Haruki Murakami </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: Kafka on the Shore|Kafka on the Shore]]'' (2002) by Haruki Murakami</small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Housekeeper and the Professor|The Housekeeper and the Professor]]'' (2003) by Yoko Ogawa</small>
|-
| 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]]
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Japan_6.jpg|80px]]
|}
{|{{Prettytable}}
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| 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]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Kim Manjung|The Cloud Dream of the Nine]]''<br />(17th century)<br />Kim Manjung </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Three_Generations.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |Three Generations]]''<br />(1931)<br />by Yom Sang-seop </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Ten_Thousand_Lives.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Ko Un|Ten Thousand Lives]]''<br />by Ko Un </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Land.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Toji (novel)|Land]]''<br />(1994)<br />by Park Kyong-Ni </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Our_Twisted_Hero.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Our Twisted Hero|Our Twisted Hero]]''<br />(1987)<br />by Yi Munyol </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sijo|The Bamboo Grove: An Introduction to Sijo]]'' edited by Richard Rutt </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Samguk Yusa|Samguk Yusa]]'' (13th century) by Iryeon </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Virtuous Women: Three Classic Korean Novels]]'' </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong]]'' (18th century) by Lady Hyegyeong </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kang Kyeong-ae|On Wonso Pond]]'' (1930s) by Kang Kyeong-ae </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Yi Sang|The Wings]]'' (1930s) by Yi Sang </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Park Wan-suh|The Naked Tree]]'' (1970) by Park Wan-suh </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lee Kyun-young|The Other Side of Dark Remembrance]]'' (1979) by Lee Kyun-young </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Yi Munyol|The Poet]]'' (1992) by Yi Munyol </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Park Wan-suh|Who Ate up All the Shinga]]'' (1995) by Park Wan-suh </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kim Young-ha|I Have the Right to Destroy Myself]]'' (1996) by Kim Young-ha </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Yang Gui-ja|Contradictions]]'' (1998) by Yang Gui-ja </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Hwang Sok-yong|The Guest]]'' (2002) by Hwang Sok-yong </small>
|}
{|{{Prettytable}}
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| 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]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll|The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll]]''<br />by Alvaro Mutis </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:One Hundred Years of Solitude|One Hundred Years of Solitude]]''<br />(1967)<br />by Gabriel García Márquez </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Black_Sheep_and_Other_Fables.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Augusto Monterroso|The Black Sheep and Other Fables]]''<br />(1969)<br />by Augusto Monterroso </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: .jpg|80px|link=Special:FilePath/.jpg]]<br /><br /><small>( )<br />by </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: .jpg|80px|link=Special:FilePath/.jpg]]<br /><br /><small>( )<br />by </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Brazil
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Devil to Pay in the Backlands|The Devil to Pay in the Backlands]]'' (1956) by João Guimarães Rosa </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas|The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas]]'' (1881) by Machado de Assis </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Dom Casmurro|Dom Casmurro]]'' (1899) by Machado de Assis </small>
|-
| rowspan="6" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Colombia
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Fernando Vallejo|Our Lady of the Assassins]]'' (1994) by Fernando Vallejo </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>by Alvaro Mutis </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>by Fernando Gonzales </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>by Andres Caicedo </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>by Gonzalo Arango </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>by Hernando Tellez </small>
|-
| rowspan="2" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Ecuador
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Demetrio Aguilera Malta|Seven Serpents and Seven Moons]]'' (1970) by Demetrio Aguilera Malta </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Demetrio Aguilera Malta|Don Goyo]]'' (1933) by Demetrio Aguilera Malta </small>
|-
| rowspan="2" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Guatemala
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:El Señor Presidente|The President]]'' (1946) by Miguel Angel Asturias </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Men of Maize|Men of Maize]]'' (1949) by Miguel Angel Asturias </small>
|-
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Paraguay
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Augusto Roa Bastos </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Roque Vallejos </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by José Ricardo Mazó </small>
|-
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Puerto Rico
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Rosario Ferre </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Miguel Piñero </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Luis Rafael Sánchez </small>
|-
| rowspan="1" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Salvador
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Horacio Castellanos Moya </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275246746486.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="4" |
|}
|}


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{|{{Prettytable}}
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Mexico.png]] Mexico </h3>
 
 
|-
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Mexico.png]] Mexico</h3>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>[http://tinyurl.com/mexicanlit Mexican Literature Download]</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
|-
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Cantares_Mexicanos.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: |Cantares Mexicanos]]''<br/>( )<br/> </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Cantares_Mexicanos.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Cantares Mexicanos|Cantares Mexicanos]]''<br />(16th century)</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Poems_Protest_and_a_Dream.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: |Poems, Protest, and a Dream]]''<br/>( )<br/>by Sor Juana </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Poems_Protest_and_a_Dream.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Juana Inés de la Cruz|Poems, Protest, and a Dream]]''<br />by Sor Juana</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Pedro_Paramo.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Pedro Paramo|Pedro Paramo]]''<br/>( )<br/>by Juan Rulfo</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Confabulario.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Juan José Arreola|Confabulario and Other Inventions]]''<br />(1952)<br />by Juan Jose Arreola </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Death_of_Artemio_Cruz.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Death of Artemio Cruz|The Death of Artemio Cruz]]''<br/>( )<br/>by Carlos Fuentues </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Pedro_Paramo.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Pedro Páramo|Pedro Páramo]]''<br />(1955)<br />by Juan Rulfo</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Confabulario.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: |Confabulario and Other Inventions]]''<br/>( )<br/>by Juan Jose Arreola </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Death_of_Artemio_Cruz.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Death of Artemio Cruz|The Death of Artemio Cruz]]''<br />(1962)<br />by Carlos Fuentes </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
|rowspan=14 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Translated||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Florentine Codex|Florentine Codex]]'' ( ) </small>
| rowspan="15" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Translated
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Florentine Codex|Florentine Codex]]'' ( ) </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Broken Spears]]'' ( ) Miguel Leon-Portilla </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Broken Spears]]'' ( ) Miguel Leon-Portilla </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The History of the Indies of New Spain]]'' ( ) by Fray Diego Duran </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The History of the Indies of New Spain]]'' ( ) by Fray Diego Duran </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Memoirs]]'' ( ) of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Memoirs]]'' ( ) of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Bandits from Rio Frio]]'' ( ) by Manuel Payno </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Bandits from Rio Frio]]'' ( ) by Manuel Payno </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |El Zarco]]'' ( ) by Ignacio Manuel Altamirano </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |El Zarco]]'' ( ) by Ignacio Manuel Altamirano </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Santa]]'' ( ) by Federico Gamboa </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Santa]]'' ( ) by Federico Gamboa </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Anthology]]'' ( ) by Alfonso Reyes </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Anthology]]'' ( ) by Alfonso Reyes </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Song of the Heart: Poems]]'' ( ) by Ramon Lopez Velarde </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Song of the Heart: Poems]]'' ( ) by Ramon Lopez Velarde </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Nostalgia for Death: Poetry]]'' ( ) by Xavier Villaurrutia </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Nostalgia for Death: Poetry]]'' ( ) by Xavier Villaurrutia </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Underdogs]]'' ( ) by Mariano Azuela </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Underdogs]]'' ( ) by Mariano Azuela </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Burning Plain and Other Stories]]'' ( ) by Juan Rulfo </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Burning Plain and Other Stories]]'' ( ) by Juan Rulfo </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Labyrinth of Solitude]]'' ( ) by Octavio Paz </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Labyrinth of Solitude]]'' ( ) by Octavio Paz </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Battles in the Desert & Other Stories]]'' ( ) by Jose Emilio Pacheco </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Battles in the Desert &amp; Other Stories]]'' ( ) by Jose Emilio Pacheco </small>
|-
|-
|rowspan=7 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Untranslated||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Comedias Escogidas]]'' ( ) by D. Juan Ruiz de Alarcon </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Like Water for Chocolate]]'' ( ) by Laura Esquivel </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Los Relampagos de Agosto]]'' ( ) by Jorge Ibarguengoitia </small>
| rowspan="7" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Untranslated
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Comedias Escogidas]]'' ( ) by D. Juan Ruiz de Alarcon </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Muerte sin fin]]'' ( ) by Jose Gorostiza </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Los Relampagos de Agosto]]'' ( ) by Jorge Ibarguengoitia </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Los Dias Terrenales]]'' ( ) by Jose Revueltas </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Muerte sin fin]]'' ( ) by Jose Gorostiza </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Farabeuf]]'' ( ) by Salvador Elizondo </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Los Dias Terrenales]]'' ( ) by Jose Revueltas </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Los Cuervos Estan de Luto]]'' ( ) by Hugo Arguelles  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Farabeuf]]'' ( ) by Salvador Elizondo </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Cronica de la Intervencion]]'' ( ) by Juan Garcia Ponce </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Los Cuervos Estan de Luto]]'' ( ) by Hugo Arguelles </small>
|-
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Cronica de la Intervencion]]'' ( ) by Juan Garcia Ponce </small>
|-
|-
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Mexicancanon.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|colspan=4|
|-
|-
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Mexicancanon.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="4" |
|}
|}


{|{{Prettytable}}
{|{{Prettytable}}
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Netherlands.png]] Netherlands </h3>
 
 
|-
| 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]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Max Havelaar|Max Havelaar]]''<br />(1860)<br />by Multatuli</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Amsterdam_Stories.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Nescio|Amsterdam Stories]]''<br />(1910s)<br />by Nescio </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Beyond_Sleep.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Beyond Sleep|Beyond Sleep ]]''<br />(1966)<br />by Willem Hermans</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Parents_Worry.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Gerard Reve|Parents Worry]]''<br />(1988)<br />by Gerard Reve</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Discovery_of_Heaven.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Discovery of Heaven|The Discovery of Heaven ]]''<br />(1992)<br />by Harry Mulisch </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| rowspan="5" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Praise of Folly|In Praise of Folly]]'' (1511) by Erasmus </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Joost van den Vondel|Lucifer]]'' (1654) by Joost van den Vondel </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Eline Vere|Eline Vere]]'' (1889) by Louis Couperus </small>
|-
|-
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Multatuli.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Max Havelaar|Max Havelaar]]''<br/>(1860)<br/>by Multatuli</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Letters of Vincent van Gogh|The Letters]]'' (1890) of Vincent van Gogh </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Amsterdam_Stories.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Nescio|Amsterdam Stories]]''<br/>(1910s)<br/>by Nescio </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Beyond_Sleep.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Beyond Sleep|Beyond Sleep ]]''<br/>(1966)<br/>by Willem Hermans</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Parents_Worry.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Gerard Reve|Parents Worry]]''<br/>(1988)<br/>by Gerard Reve</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Discovery_of_Heaven.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Discovery of Heaven|The Discovery of Heaven ]]''<br/>(1992)<br/>by Harry Mulisch </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Marcellus Emants|A Posthumous Confession]]'' (1894) by Marcellus Emants </small>
|-
|-
|rowspan=19 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Translated||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Joost van den Vondel|Lucifer]]'' ( ) by Joost van den Vondel </small>
| rowspan="16" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Autumn of the Middle Ages|The Waning of the Middle Ages]]'' (1919) by J. Huizinga </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|A Posthumous Confession]]'' ( ) by Marcellus Emants </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Willem Elsschot|Cheese]]'' (1933) by Willem Elsschot </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|In Praise of Folly]]'' ( ) by Erasmus </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Ferdinand Bordewijk|Character]]'' (1938) by F. Bordewijk </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|In a Dark Wood Wandering]]'' ( ) by Hella S. Haasse </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Hella S. Haasse|In a Dark Wood Wandering]]'' (1949) by Hella S. Haasse </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|The Waning of the Middle Ages]]'' ( ) by J. Huizinga </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:|Chapel Road]]'' (1953) by Louis Paul Boon </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|The Letters]]'' of Vincent van Gogh </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Ten Thousand Things|The Ten Thousand Things]]'' (1955) by Maria Dermout </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|The Ten Thousand Things]]'' ( ) by Maria Dermout </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Darkroom of Damocles|The Darkroom of Damocles]]'' (1958) by Willem Frederik Hermans </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Eline Vere]]'' ( ) by Louis Couperus </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Hugo Claus|Wonder]]'' (1962) by Hugo Claus </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Chapel Road]]'' ( ) by Louis Paul Boon </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Remco Campert|I Dreamed in the Cities at Night]]'' by Remco Campert </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|I Dreamed in the Cities at Night]]'' ( ) by Remco Campert </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jan Wolkers|Turkish Delight]]'' (1969) by Jan Wolkers </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Omega Minor]]'' ( ) by Paul Verhaeghen </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:J. Bernlef|Out of Mind]]'' (1984) by J. Bernlef </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Cheese]]'' ( ) by Willem Elsschot </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Assault|The Assault]]'' (1982) by H. Mulisch </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Turkish Delight]]'' ( ) by Jan Wolkers </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Following Story|The Following Story]]'' (1991) by Cees Nooteboom </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|The Darkroom of Damocles]]'' ( ) by Willem Frederik Hermans </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Omega Minor|Omega Minor]]'' (2004) by Paul Verhaeghen </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Wonder]]'' ( ) by Hugo Claus </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:|Tomorrow Pamplona]]'' (2007) by Jan van Mersbergen </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|The Following Story]]'' ( ) by Cees Nooteboom </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gerbrand Bakker|The Twin]]'' (2008) by Gerbrand Bakker</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Character]]'' ( ) by F. Bordewijk </small>
| rowspan="6" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Untranslated
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nicolaas Beets|Camera Obscura]]'' (1851) by Hildebrand </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|The Twin]]'' ( ) by Gerbrand Bakker</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Louis Couperus|De Stille Kracht]]'' (1900) by Louis Couperus</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Tomorrow Pamplona]]'' ( ) by Jan van Mersbergen </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Frederik van Eeden|Van De Koele Meren des Doods]]'' (1900) by Frederik van Eeden</small>
|-
|-
|rowspan=5 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Untranslated||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Hildebrand|Camera Obscura]]'' ( ) by Hildebrand </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gerard Reve|De Avonden]]'' (1947) by Gerard Reve </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Louis Couperus|De Stille Kracht]]'' ( ) by Louis Couperus</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A. den Doolaard|Het land achter Gods rug]]'' (1956) by A. den Doolaard </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Frederik van Eeden|Van De Koele Meren des Doods]]'' ( ) by Frederik van Eeden</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jan Wolkers|Terug naar Oegstgeest]]'' (1965) by Jan Wolkers </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Dutch_lit.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="4" |
|}
|}
 
olspan="5" |
 
<h3>[[File:No.png]] Norway</h3>
{|{{Prettytable}}
 
 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:A-Doll-s-House-and-Other-Plays.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:A Doll's House|A Doll's House]]''<br />(1879)<br />by Henrik Ibsen</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Thewildduck.png|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Wild Duck|The Wild Duck]]''<br />(1884)<br />by Henrik Ibsen</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Hunger.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Hunger (novel)|Hunger]]''<br />(1890)<br />by Knut Hamsun</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Growthofthesoil.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Growth of the Soil|Growth of the Soil]]''<br />(1917)<br />by Knut Hamsun</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:The wreath.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Kristin Lavransdatter|Kristin Lavransdatter]]''<br />(1920&ndash;1922)<br />by Sigrid Undset</small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Brand (play)|Brand]]'' (1866) by Henrik Ibsen</small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Hedda Gabler|Hedda Gabler]]'' (1891) by Henrik Ibsen</small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Pan (novel)|Pan]]'' (1894) by Knut Hamsun</small>
|-
| rowspan="2" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:One day in October|One Day in October]]'' (1931) by Sigurd Hoel</small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Seed (Novel)|The Seed]]'' (1940) by Tarjei Vesaas</small>
|-
| rowspan="4" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Contemporary
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Beatles (novel)|Beatles]]'' (1984) by Lars Saabye Christensen</small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Dag Solstad|Shyness and Dignity]]'' (1994) by Dag Solstad</small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Naïve. Super|Naïve. Super]]'' (1996) by Erlend Loe</small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Out Stealing Horses|Out Stealing Horses]]'' (2003) by Per Petterson</small>
|}
|}
 
olspan="5" |
 
<h3>[[File:Poland.png]] Poland</h3>
{|{{Prettytable}}
 
 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Pan_Tadeusz.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: Pan Tadeusz|Pan Tadeusz]]''<br />(1834)<br />by Adam Mickiewicz </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Doll .jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Doll (novel)|The Doll]]''<br />(1889)<br />by Bolesław Prus</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Street_of_Crocodiles.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Street of Crocodiles|The Street of Crocodiles]]''<br />(1934)<br />by Bruno Schulz </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Ferdydurke.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: Ferdydurke |Ferdydurke]]''<br />(1937)<br />by Witold Gombrowicz </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:New_and_Collected_Poems.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Czeslaw Milosz|New and Collected Poems]]''<br />(2001)<br />by Czesław Milosz </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Laments (Treny)|Laments ]]'' (1580) by Jan Kochanowski </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Fables and Parables|Fables and Parables]]'' (1779) by Ignacy Krasicki </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Quo Vadis (novel)|Quo Vadis]]'' (1895 ) by Henryk Sienkiewicz </small>
|-
| rowspan="18" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Tadeusz Konwicki</small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Andrzej Stasiuk</small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Wisława Szymborska</small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>Primeval and other times(2005) by Olga Tokarczuk </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Stanisław Lem </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Adam Zagajewski </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Zbigniew Herbert </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Stefan Grabiński </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>The Elephant(1957) by Sławomir Mrożek </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Ewa Lipska </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Jerzy Ficowski </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Stefan żeromski </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Anna Swir </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Juliusz Słowacki </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Gustaw Herling </small>
|-
|}
 
 
 
<h3>[[File:Portugal.png]] Portugal</h3>
{|{{Prettytable}}
 
 
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Gerard Reve|De Avonden]]'' ( ) by Gerard Reve </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Jan Wolkers|Terug naar Oegstgeest]]'' ( ) by Jan Wolkers </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Lusiadas.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Os Lusíadas|The Lusiadas]]''<br />(1572)<br />Luís Vaz de Camões</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Tragedy_of_the_Street_of_Flowers.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Eça de Queiroz|The Tragedy of the Street of Flowers]]''<br />(1878)<br />by Eça de Queiroz </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Book_of_Disquiet.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Book of Disquiet|The Book of Disquiet]]''<br />(1935)<br />by Fernando Pessoa </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Great_Shadow.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: Mário de Sá-Carneiro |The Great Shadow and Other Stories]]''<br />(1915)<br />by Mário de Sá-Carneiro </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: .jpg|80px|link=Special:FilePath/.jpg]]<br /><br />
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Dutch_lit.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="5" |<small>by António Lobo Antunes </small>
|colspan=4|
|-
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>by José Saramago </small>
|}
|}


{| {{Prettytable}} cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
|-
| 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]]<br /><small>''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mountain_Wreath The Mountain Wreath]''<br />(1847)<br />by Petar II Petrović-Njegoš</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Migrations-192x300.jpg|125x125px]]<br /><small>''[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]''<br />(1929)<br />by Miloš Crnjanski</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:81C7uQhW3RL.jpg|121x121px]]<br /><small>''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_on_the_Drina The Bridge on the Drina]''</small><small>(1945)<br />by Ivo Andrić </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Unnamed.jpg|125x125px]]<br /><small>''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_and_the_Dervish Death and the Dervish]''<br />(1966)<br />by Meša Selimović </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Tomb.jpg|125x125px]]<br /><small>''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tomb_for_Boris_Davidovich A Tomb for Boris Davidovich]''<br />(1976)<br />by Danilo Kiš </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ray_of_the_Microcosm ''The Ray of the Microcosm''] (1845) by Petar II Petrović-Njegoš</small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impure_Blood Impure Blood]'' (1910) by Borisav Stanković </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Journal_of_%C4%8Carnojevi%C4%87 ''The Journal of Čarnojević''] (1920) by Miloš Crnjanski</small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[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 </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreni_(novel) Koreni]'' (1954) by Dobrica Ćosić</small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[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</small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[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</small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[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</small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1066549.The_Use_of_Man ''The Use of Man''] (1976) by Aleksandar Tišma</small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies_(novel) ''Rabies''] (1983) by Borislav Pekić</small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Encyclopedia_of_the_Dead ''The Encyclopedia of the Dead''] (1983) by Danilo Kiš</small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_the_Khazars ''Dictionary of the Khazars''] (1984) by Milorad Pavić</small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11723752-the-cyclist-conspiracy ''The Cyclist Conspiracy''] (1987) by Svetislav Basara</small>
|}<h3>[[File:Spain.png]] Spain</h3>
{|{{Prettytable}}
{|{{Prettytable}}
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:No.png]] Norway</h3>
 
 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Poem_of_the_Cid.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Cantar de Mio Cid|The Poem of the Cid]]''<br />(1207)</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Don_Quixote.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Don Quixote|Don Quixote]]''<br />(1615)<br />by Miguel de Cervantes </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Abel_Sanchez.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Abel Sánchez|Abel Sanchez]]''<br />(1917)<br />by Miguel de Unamuno </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Collected_Poems_of_Lorca.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Federico Garcia Lorca|Collected Poems]]''<br />by Federico Garcia Lorca </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Family_of_Pascual_Duarte.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Family of Pascual Duarte|The Family of Pascual Duarte]]''<br />(1942)<br />by Camilo Jose Cela </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lazarillo de Tormes|Lazarillo de Tormes]]'' (1556) </small>
|-
|-
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:A-Doll-s-House-and-Other-Plays.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:A Doll's House|A Doll's House]]''<br/>(1879)<br/>by Henrik Ibsen</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>[https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_verdad_sobre_el_caso_Savolta T''he Truth about the Savolta Case''] by Eduardo Mendoza Garriga </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Thewildduck.png|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Wild Duck|The Wild Duck]]''<br/>(1884)<br/>by Henrik Ibsen</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Hunger.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Hunger (novel)|Hunger]]''<br/>(1890)<br/>by Knut Hamsun</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Growthofthesoil.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Growth of the Soil|Growth of the Soil]]''<br/>(1917)<br/>by Knut Hamsun</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:The wreath.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Kristin Lavransdatter (novel)|The Wreath]]''<br/>(1920)<br/>by Sigrid Undset</small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" |<small>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuenteovejuna ''Fuenteovejuna''] by Lope de Vega </small>
|-
|-
|rowspan=3 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Classic||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Brand (play)|Brand]]'' (1866) by Henrik Ibsen</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>[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 </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Hedda Gabler|Hedda Gabler]]'' (1891) by Henrik Ibsen</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Altimas_tardes_con_Teresacon&#x20;Teresa Últimas tardes con Teresa]'' by Juan Marse </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Pan (novel)|Pan]]'' (1894) by Knut Hamsun</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''Tu rostro mañana'' by Javier Marías </small>
|-
|-
|rowspan=3 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Contemporary||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Beatles (novel)|Beatles]]'' (1984) by Lars Saabye Christensen</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Julian_(novel) Count Julian]'' by Juan Goyitsolo </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Naïve. Super|Naïve. Super]]'' (1996) by Erlend Loe</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''Dublinescas'' by Enrique Vila-Matas </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Out Stealing Horses|Out Stealing Horses]]'' (2003) by Per Petterson</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:La sombra del viento |The Shadow of the Wind ]]'' by Carlos Ruiz Zafón</small>
|-
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Catalan recommendations'''
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>by Santiago Rusiñol </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>by Salvador Espriu </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>by Miquel Bauca </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>by Maria Barbal </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>by Josep Carner </small>
|}
|}
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<h3>[[File:Russia.png]] Russia</h3>
{|{{Prettytable}}
{|{{Prettytable}}
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Russia.png]] Russia</h3>
 
 
|-
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|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" |<small>[http://tinyurl.com/russianlit Russian Literature Download]</small>
|-
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:a_Hero_of_Our_Time.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:A Hero of Our Time|A Hero of Our time]]''<br/>(1841)<br/>by Mikhail Lermontov </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:War_and_Peace.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:War and Peace|War and Peace]]''<br/>(1869)<br/>by Leo Tolstoy </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Brothers_Karamazov.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Brothers Karamazov|The Brothers Karamazov]]''<br/>(1880)<br/>by Fyodor Dostoevsky</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Plays_of_Anton_Chekhov.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Anton Chekhov|The Plays of Anton Chekhov]]''<br/>by Anton Chekhov</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Master_and_Margarita.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Master and Margarita|The Master and Margarita ]]''<br/>(1967)<br/>by Mikhail Bulgakov</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:a_Hero_of_Our_Time.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:A Hero of Our Time|A Hero of Our time]]''<br />(1841)<br />by Mikhail Lermontov </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:War_and_Peace.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:War and Peace|War and Peace]]''<br />(1869)<br />by Leo Tolstoy </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Brothers_Karamazov.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Brothers Karamazov|The Brothers Karamazov]]''<br />(1880)<br />by Fyodor Dostoevsky</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Plays_of_Anton_Chekhov.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Anton Chekhov|The Plays of Anton Chekhov]]''<br />(1886&ndash;1904)<br />by Anton Chekhov</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Master_and_Margarita.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Master and Margarita|The Master and Margarita ]]''<br />(1967)<br />by Mikhail Bulgakov</small>
|-
|-
|rowspan=16 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|19th Century||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Dead Souls |Dead Souls]]'' (1842) by Nikolai Gogol  </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Diary of a Madman|Diary of a Madman and Other Stories ]]'' (1842) by Nikolai Gogol </small>
| rowspan="16" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |19th Century
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Woe from Wit|Woe from Wit ]]'' (1823) by Aleksandr Griboyedov </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Oblomov |Oblomov ]]'' (1859) by Ivan Goncharov </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Dead Souls |Dead Souls]]'' (1842) by Nikolai Gogol </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Sketches From a Hunter's Album |Sketches From a Hunter's Album ]]'' (1852) by Ivan Turgenev </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Diary of a Madman|Diary of a Madman and Other Stories ]]'' (1842) by Nikolai Gogol </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Fathers and Sons |Fathers and Sons ]]'' (1862) by Ivan Turgenev </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sketches From a Hunter's Album |Sketches From a Hunter's Album ]]'' (1852) by Ivan Turgenev </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Golovlyov Family |The Golovlyov Family ]]'' (1876) by Mikhail Saltykov </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Oblomov |Oblomov ]]'' (1859) by Ivan Goncharov </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Leo Tolstoy|Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy]]'' by Leo Tolstoy </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Fathers and Sons |Fathers and Sons ]]'' (1862) by Ivan Turgenev </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Anna Karenina|Anna Karenina]]'' (1877) by Leo Tolstoy </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Crime and Punishment |Crime and Punishment ]]'' (1866) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Notes From Underground |Notes From Underground ]]'' (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Notes From Underground |Notes From Underground ]]'' (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Idiot |The Idiot ]]'' (1869) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nikolai Leskov|Lady McBeth of Mtsensk and Other Stories]]'' (1865) by Nikolai Leskov </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Crime and Punishment |Crime and Punishment ]]'' (1866) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Idiot |The Idiot ]]'' (1869) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Demons (novel)|Demons ]]'' (1872) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Demons (novel)|Demons ]]'' (1872) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Woe from Wit)|Woe from Wit ]]'' (1823) by Aleksandr Griboyedov </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Golovlyov Family |The Golovlyov Family ]]'' (1876) by Mikhail Saltykov </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Anton Chekhov|The Collected Stories]]'' by Anton Chekhov </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Leo Tolstoy|Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy]]'' by Leo Tolstoy </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Alexander Pushkin)|The Collected Stories]]'' by Alexander Pushkin </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Anna Karenina|Anna Karenina]]'' (1877) by Leo Tolstoy </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Nikolai Leskov|Lady McBeth of Mtsensk and Other Stories]]'' (1865) by Nikolai Leskov </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Anton Chekhov|The Collected Stories]]'' by Anton Chekhov </small>
|-
|-
|rowspan=15 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|20th Century||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Life and Fate|Life and Fate]]'' (1959) by Vasily Grossman </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Alexander Pushkin)|The Collected Stories]]'' by Alexander Pushkin </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Heart of a Dog|Heart of a Dog]]'' (1925) by Mikhail Bulgakov </small>
| rowspan="15" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |20th Century
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Petersburg (novel)|Petersburg]]'' (1913) by Andrei Bely </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Doctor Zhivago (novel)|Doctor Zhivago]]'' (1957) by Boris Pasternak </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:We (novel)|We]]'' (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Quiet Flows the Don|Quiet Flows the Don]]'' (1934) by Mikhail Sholokhov </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Heart of a Dog|Heart of a Dog]]'' (1925) by Mikhail Bulgakov </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Ivan Bunin|The Collected Stories]]'' by Ivan Bunin </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Envy (novel)|Envy]]'' (1927) by Yuri Olesha </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:We (novel)|We]]'' (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Foundation Pit|The Foundation Pit]]'' (1930) by Andrey Platonov </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Petersburg (novel)|Petersburg]]'' (1913) by Andrei Bely </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Quiet Flows the Don|Quiet Flows the Don]]'' (1934) by Mikhail Sholokhov </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Foundation Pit|The Foundation Pit]]'' (1930) by Andrey Platonov </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Invitation to a Beheading|Invitation to a Beheading]]'' (1936) by Vladimir Nabokov</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Envy (novel)|Envy]]'' (1927) by Yuri Olesha </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Isaac Bable|The Complete Works]]'' by Isaac Babel</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:A School for Fools|A School for Fools]]'' (1960s) by Sasha Sokolov </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Daniil Kharms|Today I Wrote Nothing]]'' by Daniil Kharms</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Invitation to a Beheading|Invitation to a Beheading]]'' (1936) by Vladimir Nabokob </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Ivan Bunin|The Collected Stories]]'' by Ivan Bunin </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Isaac Bable|The Complete Works]]'' by Isaac Babel </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Doctor Zhivago (novel)|Doctor Zhivago]]'' (1957) by Boris Pasternak </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Kolyma Tales|Kolyma Tales]]'' (1954-73) by Varlam Shalamov </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Life and Fate|Life and Fate]]'' (1959) by Vasily Grossman </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Today I Wrote Nothing|Today I Wrote Nothing]]'' by Daniil Kharms </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A School for Fools|A School for Fools]]'' (1960s) by Sasha Sokolov</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Roadside Picnic |Roadside Picnic]]'' (1971) by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Roadside Picnic |Roadside Picnic]]'' (1971) by Arkady &amp; Boris Strugatsky </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kolyma Tales|Kolyma Tales]]'' (1954-73) by Varlam Shalamov</small>
|-
|-
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Russian2.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|colspan=4|
|-
|-
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Russian2.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="4" |
|}
|}
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<h3>[[File:South_Africa.png]] South Africa</h3>
{|{{Prettytable}}
{|{{Prettytable}}
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:South_Africa.png]] South Africa</h3>
 
 
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:I_Write_What_I_Like.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:I Write What I Like|I Write What I Like]]''<br />(1978)<br />by Steve Biko</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Waiting_for_the_Barbarians.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Waiting for the Barbarians|Waiting for the Barbarians]]''<br />(1980)<br />by J.M. Coetzee</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |
[[File:Nadinegordimerjuly'speople.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:July's People|July's People]]''<br />(1981)<br />by Nadine Gordimer</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Ways_of_Dying.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Ways of Dying|Ways of Dying]]''<br />(1995)<br />by Zakes Mda</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Disgrace.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Disgrace (novel)|Disgrace]]''<br />(1999)<br />by J.M. Coetzee</small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Contemporary
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Marlene van Niekerk|The Way of the Women]]'' (2004) by Marlene van Niekerk </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Portrait with Keys|Portrait with Keys]]'' (2006) by Ivan Vladislavic </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Zoo City|Zoo City]]'' (2010) by Lauren Beukes </small>
|}
|}
 
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<h3>[[File:United_States.png]] United States</h3>
{|{{Prettytable}}
 
 
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>[http://tinyurl.com/usalit American Literature Download]</small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Moby_Dick.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Moby Dick|Moby Dick]]''<br />(1851)<br />by Herman Melville </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Leaves_of_Grass.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Leaves of Grass|Leaves of Grass]]''<br />(1892)<br />by Walt Whitman </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Sound_and_the_Fury.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Sound and the Fury|The Sound and the Fury]]''<br />(1920)<br />by William Faulkner </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:East_of_Eden.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:East of Eden|East of Eden]]''<br />(1952)<br />by John Steinbeck </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Gravity's_Rainbow.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Gravity's Rainbow|Gravity's Rainbow]]''<br />(1973)<br />by Thomas Pynchon </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| rowspan="11" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Short Story Collections
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Twice Told Tales|Twice Told Tales]]'' (1837) by Nathaniel Hawthorne </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Edgar Allen Poe|Collected Works]]'' (1849) by Edgar Allen Poe </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Billy Budd|Billy Budd and the Piazza Tales]]'' (1888) by Herman Melville </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Mark Twain|Collected Short Stories]]'' (1910) by Mark Twain </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Stephen Crane|Maggie and Other Stories]]'' (1900) by Stephen Crane </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Flappers and Philosophers|Flappers and Philosophers]]'' (1920) by F. Scott Fitzgerald </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:H.P. Lovecraft|The Tales]]'' (1937) of H.P. Lovecraft </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sherwood Anderson|Death in the Woods and Other Stories]]'' (1941) by Sherwood Anderson </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Ernest Hemingway|Collected Short Works]]'' (1961) by Ernest Hemingway </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:John Cheever|The Stories]]'' (1982) of John Cheever </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Where I'm Calling From|Where I'm Calling From]]'' (1988) by Raymond Carver </small>
|-
| rowspan="9" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Poetry Collections
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Emily Dickinson|The Poetry]]'' (1886) of Emily Dickinson </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Waste Land|The Waste Land and Other Poems]]'' (1922) by T.S. Eliot </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Harmonium (poetry collection)|Harmonium]]'' (1923) by Wallace Stevens </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Bridge (long poem)|The Bridge]]'' (1930) by Hart Crane </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Howl|Howl and Other Poems]]'' (1955) by Allen Ginsberg </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Robinson Jeffers|Selected Poems]]'' (1962) by Robinson Jeffers </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Robert Frost|Collected Poems]]'' (1963) by Robert Frost </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:William Carlos Williams|Collected Poems Vol.1 &amp; 2]]'' (1963) by William Carlos Williams </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:John Ashbery|Collected Poems]]'' (1987) by John Ashbery </small>
|-
| rowspan="8" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Plays
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Eugene O'Neill|Complete Plays]]'' by Eugene O'Neill </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Our Town|Our Town]]'' (1938) by Thornton Wilder </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Death of a Salesman|Death of a Salesman]]'' (1949) by Arthur Miller </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Tennessee Williams|Plays 1937-1955]]'' (1955) by Tennessee Williams </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Edward Albee|The Collected Plays]]'' of Edward Albee </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Buried Child|Buried Child]]'' (1978) by Sam Shepard </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:August Wilson|Fences]]'' (1985) by August Wilson </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Angels in America|Angels in America]]'' (1993) by Tony Kushner </small>
|-
| rowspan="52" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Others
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Last of the Mohicans|The Last of the Mohicans]]'' (1826) by Fenimore Cooper </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Scarlet Letter|The Scarlet Letter]]'' (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The American (novel)|The American]]'' (1877) by Henry James </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn|The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'' (1884) by Mark Twain </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Red Badge of Courage|The Red Badge of Courage]]'' (1895) by Stephen Crane </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Turn of the Screw|The Turn of the Screw]]'' (1898) by Henry James </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Awakening (novel)|The Awakening]]'' (1899) by Kate Chopin </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Call of the Wild|The Call of the Wild]]'' (1903) by Jack London </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Three Lives|Three Lives]]'' (1909) by Gertrude Stein </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:My Antonia|My Antonia]]'' (1918) by Willa Cather </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Age of Innocence|The Age of Innocence]]'' (1920) by Edith Wharton </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Main Street (novel)|Main Street]]'' (1920) by Sinclair Lewis </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Babbit (novel)|Babbit]]'' (1922) by Sinclair Lewis </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Great Gatsby|The Great Gatsby]]'' (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:An American Tragedy|An American Tragedy]]'' (1925) by Theodore Dreiser </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Sun Also Rises|The Sun Also Rises]]'' (1926) by Ernest Hemingway </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Tropic of Cancer (novel)|Tropic of Cancer]]'' (1934) by Henry Miller </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Appointment in Samarra|Appointment in Samrra]]'' (1934) by John O'Hara </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Absalom, Absalom!|Absalom, Absalom!]]'' (1936) by William Faulkner </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Grapes of Wrath|The Grapes of Wrath]]'' (1939) by John Steinbeck </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Day of the Locust|The Day of the Locust]]'' (1939) by Nathanael 'West </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Big Sleep|The Big Sleep]]'' (1939) by Raymond Chandler </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:For Whom the Bell Tolls|For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'' (1940) by Ernest Hemingway </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Heart is a Lonely Hunter|The Heart is a Lonely Hunter]]'' (1940) by Carson McCullers </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:All the King's Men|All the King's Men]]'' (1946) by Robert Penn Warren </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Catcher in the Rye|The Catcher in the Rye]]'' (1951) by J.D. Salinger </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:On the Road|On the Road]]'' (1951) by Jack Kerouac </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Fahrenheit 451|Fahrenheit 451]]'' (1953) by Ray Bradbury </small>
|-
|-
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Disgrace.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Disgrace (novel)|Disgrace]]''<br/>(1999)<br/>by J.M. Coetzee </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Recognitions|The Recognitions]]'' (1955) by William Gaddis </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:I_Write_What_I_Like.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:I Write What I Like|I Write What I Like]]''<br/>(1978)<br/>by Steve Biko </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|
[[File:Nadinegordimerjuly'speople.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:July's People|July's People]]''<br/>(1981)<br/>by Nadine Gordimer </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Waiting_for_the_Barbarians.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Waiting for the Barbarians|Waiting for the Barbarians]]''<br/>(1980)<br/>by J.M. Coetzee </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Ways_of_Dying.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Ways of Dying|Ways of Dying]]''<br/>(1995)<br/>by Zakes Mda </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lolita|Lolita]]'' (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov </small>
|-
|-
|rowspan=2 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Contemporary||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Zoo City|Zoo City]]'' (2010) by Lauren Beukes </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Naked Lunch|Naked Lunch]]'' (1959) by William S. Burroughs </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Marlene van Niekerk|The Way of the Women]]'' (2004) by Marlene van Niekerk </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Rabbit, Run|Rabbit, Run]]'' (1960) by John Updike </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:To Kill a Mockingbird|To Kill a Mockingbird]]'' (1960) by Harper Lee </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Sot-Weed Factor|The Sot-Weed Factor]]'' (1960) by John Barth </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Catch-22|Catch-22]]'' (1961) by Joseph Heller </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]'' (1962) by Ken Kesey </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Bell Jar|The Bell Jar]]'' (1963) by Sylvia Plath </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:V. (novel)|V.]]'' (1963) by Thomas Pynchon </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Herzog (novel)|Herzog]]'' (1965) by Saul Bellow </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:In Cold Blood (novel)|In Cold Blood]]'' (1966) by Truman Capote </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Crying of Lot 49|The Crying of Lot 49]]'' (1966) by Thomas Pynchon </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Portnoy's Complaint|Portnoy's Complaint]]'' (1969) by Phillip Roth </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Slaughterhouse-Five|Slaughterhouse-Five]]'' (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas|Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas]]'' (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A Confederacy of Dunces|A Confederacy of Dunces]]'' (1980) by John Kennedy Toole </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The New York Trilogy|The New York Trilogy]]'' (1986) by Paul Auster </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Libra (novel)|Libra]]'' (1988) by Don Delillo </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Infinite Jest|Infinite Jest]]'' (1996) by David Foster Wallace </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Underworld (DeLillo novel)|Underworld]]'' (1997) by Don Delillo </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:American Pastoral|American Pastoral]]'' (1997) by Phillip Roth </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Pattern Recognition (novel)|Pattern Recognition]]'' (2003) by William Gibson </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Road|The Road]]'' (2006) by Cormac McCarthy </small>
|-
| rowspan="5" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Slave Narratives
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Interesting Narrative|The Interesting Narrative]]'' (1789) by Olaudah Equiano </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass|Narrative of the Life]]'' (1845) of Frederick Douglass </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sojourner Truth|Narrative]]'' (1850) of Sojourner Truth </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Twelve Years a Slave|Twelve Years a Slave]]'' (1853) by Solomon Northrup </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl|Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl]]'' (1861) by Harriet Jacobs </small>
|-
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Reconstruction Era
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Up From Slavery|Up From Slavery]]'' (1901) by Booker T. Washington </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Souls of Black Folk|The Souls of Black Folk]]'' (1903) by W.E.B. Du Bois </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Paul Laurence Dunbar|The Collected Poetry]]'' (1906) by Paul Laurence Dunbar </small>
|-
| rowspan="8" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Harlem Renaissance
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Cane (novel)|Cane]]'' (1923) by Jean Toomer </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Rudolph Fisher|The Walls of Jericho]]'' (1928) by Rudolph Fisher </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Home to Harlem|Home to Harlem]]'' (1928) by Claude McKay </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nella Larsen|Quicksand and Passing]]'' (1929) by Nella Larsen </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Blacker the Berry|The Blacker the Berry]]'' (1929) by Wallace Thurman</small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Not Without Laughter|Not Without Laughter]]'' (1930) by Langston Hughes </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Black No More|Black no More]]'' (1931) by George S. Schugler </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Their Eyes Were Watching God|Their Eyes Were Watching God]]'' (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston </small>
|-
| rowspan="8" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Civil Rights Era
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Native Son|Native Son]]'' (1940) by Richard Wright </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:If He Hollers Let Him Go|If he Hollers Let Him Go]]'' (1945) by Chester Himes </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Invisible Man|Invisible Man]]'' (1952) by Ralph Ellison </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Go Tell it on the Mountain (novel)|Go Tell it on the Mountain]]'' (1953) by James Baldwin </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A Raisin in the Sun|A Raisin in the Sun]]'' (1959) by Lorraine Hansberry </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Autobiography of Malcolm X|The Autobiography]]'' (1965) of Malcolm X </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gwendolyn Brooks|Selected Poems]]'' (1966) by Gwendolyn Brooks </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings|I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]]'' (1969) by Maya Angelou </small>
|-
| rowspan="12" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Contemporary
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Beneath the Underdog|Beneath the Underdog]]'' (1971) by Charles Mingus </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Mumbo Jumbo (novel)|Mumbo Jumbo]]'' (1972) by Ismael Reed </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Roots (novel)|Roots]]'' (1976) by Alex Haley </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Song of Solomon (novel)|Song of Solomon]]'' (1977) by Toni Morrison </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kindred (novel)|Kindred]]'' (1979) by Ismael Reed </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Color Purple|The Color Purple]]'' (1982) by Alice Walker </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gloria Naylor|Linden Hills]]'' (1985) by Gloria Naylor </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Beloved (novel)|Beloved]]'' (1987) by Toni Morrison </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Terry McMillan|Waiting to Exhale]]'' (1992) by Terry McMillan </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Amiri Baraka|Somebody Blew up America]]'' (2001) by Amiri Baraka </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Known World|The Known World]]'' (2003) by Edward P. Jones </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Killing Johnny Fry|Killing Johnny Fry]]'' (2006) by Walter Mosley </small>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
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| 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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Latest revision as of 19:55, 5 June 2021


By region

Argentina

Essential works

Strange Forces
(1906)
Leopoldo Lugones
The Museum of Eterna's Novel
(1925)
Macedonio Fernandez
The Seven Madmen
(1929)
Roberto Arlt
The Aleph
(1949)
Jorge Luis Borges
Hopscotch
(1963)
Julio Cortazar
Further recommendations
by Manuel Puig
by Ernesto Sabato
by Juan José Saer
by Oliverio Girondo
by Adolfo Bioy Casares
by Fernando Sorrentino
by Cesar Aira
by Marco Denevi
by Luisa Valenzuela
by Lila Zemborain
by Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill
by Rodrigo Fresan
by Alberto Laiseca


Australia

Australian Literature Download
Essential works

The Man Who Loved Children
(1940)
by Christina Stead
Voss
(1957)
by Patrick White
The Fatal Shore
(1987)
by Robert Hughes
Cloudstreet
(1991)
by Tim Winton
Death of a River Guide
(1994)
by Richard Flanagan
Further recommendations
Classic The Dreaming (1980) by Damien Broderick
Illywhacker (1985) by Peter Carey
Oscar and Lucinda (1988) by Peter Carey
For the Term of his Natural Life (1874) by Marcus Clarke
The Middle Parts of Fortune (1929) by Frederic Manning
Eucalyptus (1998) by Murray Bail
The Power of One (1989) by Bryce Courtenay
A Cry in the Jungle Bar (1979) by Robert Drewer
Gould's Book of Fish (2001) by Richard Flanagan
Diaspora (1997) by Greg Egan
My Brilliant Career (1901) by Miles Franklin
The Children's Bach (1984) by Helen Garner
The Female Eunuch (1970) by Germaine Greer
The Secret River (2005) by Kate Grenville
But the Dead are Many (1975) by Frank Hardy
Selected Poetry and Prose ( ) of A.D. Hope
The Lucky Country (1964) by Donald Horne
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886) by Fergus Hume
My Brother Jack (1964) by George Johnston
Schindler's Ark (1982) by Thomas Keneally
The First Casualty (2005) by Phillip Knightley
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1955) by Ray Lawler
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967) by Joan Lindsay
Remembering Babylon (1993) by David Malouf
Forty-Seventeen (1988) by Frank Moorhouse
New Collected Poems (1999) by Les Murray
Fredy Neptune (1998) by Les Murray
Three Dollars (1998) by Elliot Perlman
The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (1930) by Henry Handel Richardson
Shantaram (2003) by Gregory David Roberts
On the Beach (1957) by Nevil Shute
Animal Liberation (1975) by Peter Singer
The Little Hotel (1973) by Christina Stead
A Fraction of the Whole (2008) by Steve Toltz
The Tree of Man (1955) by Patrick White
The Vivisector (1970) by Patrick White
Dirt Music (2001) by Tim Winton
Wake in Fright (1961) by Kenneth Cook
The Foundations of Culture in Australia (1936) by P. R. Stephensen
Capricornia (1938) by Xavier Herbert
Power Without Glory (1950) by Frank Hardy
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Austria

Essential works

Indian Summer
(1857)
by Adalbert Stifter
The Man Without Qualities
(1942)
by Robert Musil
Chess Story
(1942)
by Stefan Zweig
The Death of Virgil
(1945)
by Hermann Broch
The Loser
(1983)
by Thomas Bernhard
Further recommendations
Rock Crystal (1845) by Adalbert Stifter
Round Dance and Other Plays (1897) by Arthur Schnitzler
The Confusions of Young Törless (1906) by Robert Musil
The Other Side (1909) by Alfred Kubin
Dream Story (1926) by Arthur Schnitzler
Beware of Pity (1939) by Stefan Zweig
The World of Yesterday (1942) by Stefan Zweig
An Ermine in Czernopol (1958) by Gregor von Rezzori
The Wall (1963) by Marlen Haushofer
The Head of Vitus Bering (1965) by Konrad Bayer
Selected Works (1966) by Konrad Bayer
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (1972) by Peter Handke
Memoirs of an Anti-Semite (1979) by Gregor von Rezzori
Woodcutters (1984) by Thomas Bernhard


Belgium

Essential works

The Sorrow of Belgium
(1983)
by Hugo Claus 		[[File: |80px]]

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Further recommendations
Three Novels: Soft Soap, The Leg, Will O' the Wisp by Willem Elsschot
Cheese (1933) by Willem Elsschot
Occupied City (1921) by Paul van Ostaijen
The signal (1918) by Paul van Ostaijen
The Sign of the Hamster (1964) by Hugo claus
Problemski Hotel (2003) by Dimitri Verhulst
The Misfortunates (2006) by Dimitri Verhulst
Strangers Should Not Whisper (1945) by Marnix Gijsen
Elias, or the struggle with the nightingalesl (1936) by Maurice Gilliams
The bottle at sea. The complete poems by Maurice Gilliams
Tempo di Roma by Alexis Curvers
Pedigree by Georges Simenon
The Strange Case of Peter the Lett (Maigret series) by Georges Simenon
Thousand Times Broken, Three Books by Henri Michaux


China

Essential works

Three Kingdoms
(14th century)
by Luo Guanzhong
Story of the Stone
(18th century)
by Cao Xueqin
Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio
(1740)
by Pu Songling
The Real Story of Ah Q
(1922)
by Lu Xun
Camel Xiangzi
(1937)
by Lao She
Further recommendations
Classic The Dragon King's Daughter (Tang dynasty) by
Six Yuan Plays (Yuan dynasty) by
Outlaws of the Marsh (14th century) by Shi Nai'an
The Story of the Western Wing (14th century) by Wang Shifu
Journey to the West (16th century) by Wu Cheng'en
Creation of the Gods (16th century) by Xu Zhonglin
The Peony Pavilion (1598) by Tang Xianzu
Stories Old and New (1620) by Feng Menglong
The Plum in the Golden Vase (17th century) by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng
The Carnal Prayer Mat (1657) by Li Yu
The Scholars (1750) by Wu Jingzi
Six Records of a Floating Life (1808) by Shen Fu
Modern Wild Grass (1927) by Lu Xun
Rainbow (1930) by Mao Dun
Family (1933) Ba Jin
Border Town (1934) by Shen Congwen
Selected Stories by Shen Congwen
My Country and My People (1935) by Lin Yutang
The Importance of Living (1937) by Lin Yutang
Love in a Fallen City (1945) by Eileen Chang
Fortress Besieged (1947) by Qian Zhongshu
Teahouse (1957) by Lao She
The Three-Inch Golden Lotus (1985) by Feng Jicai
Waves (1985) by Bei Dao
Red Sorghum (1987) by Mo Yan
The August Sleepwalker (1988) by Bei Dao
The King of Trees (1990) by Ah Cheng
Soul Mountain (1990) by Gao Xingjian
To Live (1993) by Yu Hua
Five Spice Street (2003) by Can Xue
Brothers (2005) by Yu Hua
Life and Death are Wearing Me Out (2006) by Mo Yan
Vertical Motion (2011) by Can Xue
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Canada

Essential works

Anne of Green Gables
(1908)
by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
(1912)
by Stephen Leacock
The Handmaid's Tale
(1985)
by Margaret Atwood
Dance of the Happy Shades
(1968)
by Alice Munro
Flint and Feather
(1913)
by Pauline Johnson
Further recommendations
Anglophone Fifth Business (1970) by Robertson Davies
The Golden Dog (1872) by William Kirby
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) by Mordecai Richler
The Wars (1977) by Timothy Findley
Beautiful Losers (1966) by Leonard Cohen
Klee Wyck (1941) by Emily Carr
Three Day Road (2005) by Joseph Boyden
Life of Pi (2001) by Yann Martel


Czech Republic

Essential works

May
(1836)
by Karel Hynek Macha
The Good Soldier Svejk
(1923)
by Jaroslav Hasek
Three Novels
(1933)
by Karel Capek
I Served the King of England
(1983)
by Bohumil Hrabal
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
(1984)
by Milan Kundera
Further recommendations
Pre-WW2 The Sorrowful Eyes ( ) by Ivan Olbracht
Hidden History ( ) by Otokar Brezina
The Grandmother ( ) by Bozena Nemcova
The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch ( ) by Ladislav Klima
R.U.R. ( ) by Karel Capek
War With the Newts ( ) by Karel Capek
Antilyrik & Other Poems ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval
Prague Tales ( ) by Jan Neruda
The Arsonist ( ) by Egon Hostovsky
The Poetry ( ) of Jaroslav Seifert
Vanishing Lung Syndrome ( ) by Miroslav Holub
Narrative Poems ( ) by Vladimir Holan
Dreams at the End of the Night ( ) by Ewald Murrer
How I Came to Know Fish ( ) by Ota Pavel
Fingers Pointing Somewhere Else ( ) by Daniela Fischerova
White Book ( ) by Pavel Kohout
Saturnin ( ) by Zdenek Jirotka
Summer of Caprice ( ) by Vadislav Vancura
Post-WW2 Closely Watched Trains ( ) Bohumil Hrabal
Too Loud a Solitude ( ) by Bohumil Hrabal
Love and Garbage ( ) by Ivan Klima
Immortality ( ) by Milan Kundera
The Garden Party and Other Plays ( ) by Vaclav Havel
The Questionnaire ( ) by Jiri Grusa
The Guinea Pigs ( ) by Ludvik Vaculik
The Cremator (1967) by Ladislav Fuks
A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova ( ) by Arnost Lustig
A Bohemian Youth ( ) by Josef Hirsal
City Sister Silver ( ) by Jachym Topol
The Engineer of Human Souls ( ) by Josef Skvorecky
The Other City ( ) by Michal Ajvaz
Europeana ( ) by Patrik Ourednik
The Seven Churches ( ) by Milos Urban
Of Kids & Parents ( ) by Emil Hakl
German-language The Golem ( ) by Gustav Meyrink
The Green Face ( ) by Gustav Meyrink
The Trial ( ) by Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis ( ) by Franz Kafka
A Hunger Artist ( ) by Franz Kafka
Blaugast ( ) by Paul Leppin
Severin’s Journey into the Dark ( ) by Paul Leppin
The Raging Reporter ( ) by Egon Erwin Kisch
Tycho Brahe’s Path to God ( ) by Max Brod
The Maimed ( ) by Hermann Ungar
Boys & Murderers ( ) by Hermann Ungar
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge ( ) by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Selected Poetry ( ) of Rainer Maria Rilke
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United Kingdom and Ireland

Essential works

The Canterbury Tales
(14th century)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Complete Works
of William Shakespeare
Paradise Lost
(1667)
by John Milton
The Collected Poems
of William Wordsworth
The Collected Poems
of W.B. Yeats
Further recommendations
Classic Beowulf (10th century)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (14th century)
Le Morte D'Arthur (1485) by Sir Thomas Malory
Utopia (1516) by Thomas More
The Complete Plays of Christopher Marlowe
The Faerie Queene (1590) by Edmund Spenser
Plays and Masques by Ben Jonson
the Duchess of Malfi (1612) by John Webster
The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) by John Bunyan
Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe
Gulliver's Travels (1735) by Jonathan Swift
Tom Jones (1749) by Henry Fielding
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759) by Laurence Sterne
The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) by Oliver Goldsmith
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793) by William Blake
19th Century Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen
Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley
Ivanhoe (1820) by Sir Walter Scott
Don Juan (1821) by Lord Byron
Sartor Resartus (1833) by Thomas Carlyle
Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights (1847) Emily Bronte
Vanity Fair (1848) by William Makepeace Thackeray
Bleak House (1853) by Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens
Middlemarch (1872) by George Eliot
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) by Thomas Hardy
The Way We Live Now (1879) by Anthony Trollope
Idylls of the King (1885) by Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker
The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
Modern Lord Jim (1900) by Joseph Conrad
Kim (1900) by Rudyard Kipling
The Way of All Flesh (1903) by Samuel Butler
The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) by G.K. Chesterton
Sons and Lovers (1913) by D.H. Lawrence
Of Human Bondage (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Passage to India (1924) by E.M. Forster
To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf
Flashman (1969) by George MacDonald Fraser
The Collected Plays by George Bernard Shaw
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France

Essential works

Flowers of Evil
(1857)
by Charles Baudelaire

The Human Comedy
(1829-1848)
by Honoré de Balzac
In Search of Lost Time
(1927)
by Marcel Proust
Memoirs of Hadrian
(1951)
by Marguerite Yourcenar

Madame Bovary
(1856)
by Gustave Flaubert
Further recommendations
The Temptation of Saint Antony (1895) by Gustave Flaubert
Journey to the End of the Night (1932) by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
The Stranger ( ) by Albert Camus
The Count of Monte Cristo ( ) by Alexander Dumas
Nausea ( ) by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Lost Estate (1913) by Alain-Fournier
The Red and the Black ( ) by Stendhal
Nadja ( ) by Andre Breton
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea ( ) by Jules Verne
Miserable Miracle ( ) by Henri Michaux
Atomised ( ) by Michel Houellebecq
Confessions ( ) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Le Petit Prince ( ) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Candide ( ) by Voltaire
The Lover ( ) by Marguerite Duras
Froth on the Daydream ( ) by Boris Vian
Germinal ( ) by Emile Zola
Les Miserables ( ) by Victor Hugo
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Germany

German Literature Download
Essential works

Faust
(1832)
by Goethe
Thus Spake Zarathustra
(1885)
by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Magic Mountain
(1912)
by Thomas Mann
The Man Without Qualities
(1942)
by Robert Musil
The Tin Drum
(1959)
by Gunter Grass
Further recommendations
Classic The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Robbers and Wallenstein (1781) by Friedrich Schiller
the Marquise of O and Other Stories (1808) by Heinrich von Kleist
The Broken Jug (1806) by Heinrich von Kleist
Danon's Death (1835) George Buchner
The Rider on the White Horse (1888) by Theodor Storm
Effi Briest (1895) by Theodor Fontane
Modern Buddenbrooks (1901) by Thomas Mann
The Loyal Subject (1914) by Heinrich Mann
The Metamorphosis (1915) by Franz Kafka
The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka
The Castle (1926) by Franz Kafka
Siddhartha (1922) by Hermann Hesse
Steppenwolf (1927) by Hermann Hesse
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) by Alfred Doblin
The Visit (1956) by Friedrich Durrenmatt
The Physicists (1961) by Friedrich Durrenmatt
The Flounder (1977) by Gunter Grass
Cassandra (1984) Christa Wolf
Perfume (1985) by Patrick Suskind
The Last World (1988) by Christoph Ransmayr
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Greece

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Hungary

Essential works

The Tragedy of Man
(1861)
by Imre Madach
Be Faithful Unto Death
(1920)
by Zsigmond Moricz
Anna Edes
(1926)
by Dezso Kosztolanyi
Journey by Moonlight
(1937)
by Antal Szerb
The Melancholy of Resistance
(1989)
by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Further recommendations
Classic Eclipse of the Crescent Moon (1899) by Geza Gardonyi
A láthatatlan ember (1901) by Geza Gardonyi
A kőszivű ember fiai (1869) by Mór Jókai
The Dark Diamonds (1872) by Mór Jókai
János vitéz (1845) by Sándor Petőfi
Szent Péter esernyője (1895) by Kálmán Mikszáth
Bánk Bán (1819) by József Katona
Modern Adventures of Sindbad (1911) by Gyula Krudy
Tóték (1967) by István Örkény
Egyperces novellák (1969) by István Örkény
The Paul Street Boys (1907) by Ferenc Molnár
Harmonia Caelestis (1994) by Peter Esterhazy
The Door (1987) by Magda Szabo
A Journey Round My Skull (1939) by Frigyes Karinthy
Metropole (1970) by Ferenc Karinthy
The End of a Family Story (1977) by Peter Nadas
The Transylvania Trilogy (1940) by Miklos Banffy
Egy elmebeteg nő naplója (1978) by Geza Csath
Opium and Other Stories (1980) by Geza Csath
Embers (1942) by Sándor Márai
Képzelt riport egy amerikai popfesztiválról (1971) by Tibor Dery
The Case Worker (1969) by György Konrád
Tranquility (2001) by Attila Bartis
Colours and Years (1912) by Magrit Kaffka
In Praise of Older Women (1966) by Stephen Vizinczey
Darkness at Noon (1940) by Arthur Koestler
A halál kilovagolt Perzsiából (1979) by Péter Hajnóczy
A bogyósgyümölcskertész fia (2010) by János Háy


Iceland

Essential works

The Eddas
(13th century)
by Snorri Sturluson
Njal's Saga
(13th century)
Laxdaela Saga
(13th century)
Independent People
(1935)
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Further recommendations
Classic Egil's saga (12th century)
King Harald's Saga (1230) by Snorri Sturluson
Eyrbyggja Saga (13th century)
The Saga of Grettir the Strong (13th century)
The Saga of the Jomsvikings (13th century)
The Saga of the Volsungs (13th century)
The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki (1400)
Modern The Good Shepard (1940) by Gunnar Gunnarson
The Fish Can Sing (1957) by Halldor Laxness
Justice Undone (1986) by Thor Vilhjalmsson
The Swan (1991) by Gudbergur Bergsson
Angels of the Universe (1993) by Einar Mar Gudmundsson
The Journey Home (1999) by Olaf Olafsson
The Blue Fox (2003) by Sjon
Stone Tree (2005) by Gyir Eliasson
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Middle East

Iranian Literature Download
Essential works

The Conference of the Birds
(12th century)
by Farid ud-Din Attar
The Rubaiyat
(12th century)
of Omar Khayyam
The Essential Works
(13th century)
by Rumi
The Divan-i
(14th century)
of Hafiz
The Blind Owl
(1937)
by Sadegh Hedayat
Further recommendations
Classical Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (~1000)
Vis and Ramin (11th century) by Asad Gorgani
The Secret of Laughter: Magical Tales from Classical Persia edited by Shusha Guppy
Haft Paykar (1197) by Nizami Ganjavi
Borrowed Ware: Medieval Persian Epigrams edited by Dick Davis
The Rose Garden (1259) by Sa'di
Modern Three Drops of Blood (1932) by Sadegh Hedayat
The Patient Stone (1967) by Sadeq Chubak
The Little Black Fish and Other Modern Persian Stories (1968) by Samad Behrangi
Missing Soluch (1979) by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Women Without Men (1990) by Shahrnush Parsipur
Untranslated Garshaspnama (11th century) by Asadi Tusi
Chosrow and Shirin (1180) by Nizami Ganjavi
Tutinama: Tales of a Parrot (14th century)
1001 Days (1712) by Francois Petis de la Croix
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Italy

Italian Literature Download
Essential works

Divine Comedy
(1321)
by Dante Alighieri
The Decameron
(1353)
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Zeno's Conscience
(1923)
by Italo Svevo
That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana
(1957)
by Carlo Emilio Gadda
The Leopard
(1958)
by Tomasi di Lampedusa
Further recommendations
Classic The Consolation of Philosophy (524) by Boethius
Golden Legend (1260) by Jacobus de Voragine
The Travels (13th century) of Marco Polo
Il Canzoniere (1374) by Petrarch
The Prince (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli
The Book of the Courtier (1528) by Baldassare Castiglione
Orlando Furioso (1532) by Ludovico Ariosto
The Autobiography (1563) of Benvenuto Cellini
Lives of the Artists (1568) by Giorgio Vasari
Jerusalem Delivered (1581) by Torquato Tasso
Selected Poems and Letters by Michelangelo
The Memoirs (1774) of Giacomo Casanova
The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis (1817) by Ugo Foscolo
The Betrothed (1827) by Alessandro Manzoni
Canti (1837) by Giacomo Leopardi
The Life (1849) of Giuseppe Garibaldi
Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories (1880) by Giovanni Verga
Modern The Year 3,000: A Dream (1897) by Paolo Mantegazza
Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem (1900) by Emilio Salgari
Francesca da Rimini (1901) by Gabriele d'Annunzio
Elias Portolu (1903) by Grazia Deledda
The Late Mattia Pascal (1904) by Luigi Pirandello
Captain Blood (1922) by Rafael Sabatini
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) by Luigi Pirandello
Cuttlefish Bones (1925) by Eugenio Montale
Revolt Against the Modern World (1934) by Julius Evola
the Tartar Steppe (1940) by Dino Buzzati
Christ Stopped at Eboli (1945) by Carlo Levi
The Moon and the Bonfires (1949) by Cesare Pavese
Contempt (1954) by Alberto Moravia
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962) by Giorgio Bassani
Family Sayings (1967) by Natalia Ginzburg
Equal Danger (1971) by Leonardo Sciascia
Invisible Cities (1972) by Italo Calvino
The Periodic Table (1975) by Primo Levi
Foucault's Pendulum (1988) by Umberto Eco
Q (1999) by Luther Blissett
Love-Shaped Story (2002) by Tommaso Pincio
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Japan

Japanese Literature Download
Essential works

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

Essential works

The Cloud Dream of the Nine
(17th century)
Kim Manjung
Three Generations
(1931)
by Yom Sang-seop
Ten Thousand Lives
by Ko Un
Land
(1994)
by Park Kyong-Ni
Our Twisted Hero
(1987)
by Yi Munyol
Further recommendations
The Bamboo Grove: An Introduction to Sijo edited by Richard Rutt
Samguk Yusa (13th century) by Iryeon
Virtuous Women: Three Classic Korean Novels
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong (18th century) by Lady Hyegyeong
On Wonso Pond (1930s) by Kang Kyeong-ae
The Wings (1930s) by Yi Sang
The Naked Tree (1970) by Park Wan-suh
The Other Side of Dark Remembrance (1979) by Lee Kyun-young
The Poet (1992) by Yi Munyol
Who Ate up All the Shinga (1995) by Park Wan-suh
I Have the Right to Destroy Myself (1996) by Kim Young-ha
Contradictions (1998) by Yang Gui-ja
The Guest (2002) by Hwang Sok-yong


Latin America


The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
by Alvaro Mutis
One Hundred Years of Solitude
(1967)
by Gabriel García Márquez
The Black Sheep and Other Fables
(1969)
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Further recommendations
Brazil The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (1956) by João Guimarães Rosa
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (1881) by Machado de Assis
Dom Casmurro (1899) by Machado de Assis
Colombia Our Lady of the Assassins (1994) by Fernando Vallejo
by Alvaro Mutis
by Fernando Gonzales
by Andres Caicedo
by Gonzalo Arango
by Hernando Tellez
Ecuador Seven Serpents and Seven Moons (1970) by Demetrio Aguilera Malta
Don Goyo (1933) by Demetrio Aguilera Malta
Guatemala The President (1946) by Miguel Angel Asturias
Men of Maize (1949) by Miguel Angel Asturias
Paraguay ( ) by Augusto Roa Bastos
( ) by Roque Vallejos
( ) by José Ricardo Mazó
Puerto Rico ( ) by Rosario Ferre
( ) by Miguel Piñero
( ) by Luis Rafael Sánchez
Salvador ( ) by Horacio Castellanos Moya
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Mexico

Mexican Literature Download
Essential works

Cantares Mexicanos
(16th century)
Poems, Protest, and a Dream
by Sor Juana
Confabulario and Other Inventions
(1952)
by Juan Jose Arreola
Pedro Páramo
(1955)
by Juan Rulfo
The Death of Artemio Cruz
(1962)
by Carlos Fuentes
Further recommendations
Translated Florentine Codex ( )
The Broken Spears ( ) Miguel Leon-Portilla
The History of the Indies of New Spain ( ) by Fray Diego Duran
The Memoirs ( ) of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier
The Bandits from Rio Frio ( ) by Manuel Payno
El Zarco ( ) by Ignacio Manuel Altamirano
Santa ( ) by Federico Gamboa
Anthology ( ) by Alfonso Reyes
Song of the Heart: Poems ( ) by Ramon Lopez Velarde
Nostalgia for Death: Poetry ( ) by Xavier Villaurrutia
The Underdogs ( ) by Mariano Azuela
The Burning Plain and Other Stories ( ) by Juan Rulfo
The Labyrinth of Solitude ( ) by Octavio Paz
Battles in the Desert & Other Stories ( ) by Jose Emilio Pacheco
Like Water for Chocolate ( ) by Laura Esquivel
Untranslated Comedias Escogidas ( ) by D. Juan Ruiz de Alarcon
Los Relampagos de Agosto ( ) by Jorge Ibarguengoitia
Muerte sin fin ( ) by Jose Gorostiza
Los Dias Terrenales ( ) by Jose Revueltas
Farabeuf ( ) by Salvador Elizondo
Los Cuervos Estan de Luto ( ) by Hugo Arguelles
Cronica de la Intervencion ( ) by Juan Garcia Ponce
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Netherlands

Essential works

Max Havelaar
(1860)
by Multatuli
Amsterdam Stories
(1910s)
by Nescio
Beyond Sleep
(1966)
by Willem Hermans
Parents Worry
(1988)
by Gerard Reve
The Discovery of Heaven
(1992)
by Harry Mulisch
Further recommendations
Classic In Praise of Folly (1511) by Erasmus
Lucifer (1654) by Joost van den Vondel
Eline Vere (1889) by Louis Couperus
The Letters (1890) of Vincent van Gogh
A Posthumous Confession (1894) by Marcellus Emants
Modern The Waning of the Middle Ages (1919) by J. Huizinga
Cheese (1933) by Willem Elsschot
Character (1938) by F. Bordewijk
In a Dark Wood Wandering (1949) by Hella S. Haasse
Chapel Road (1953) by Louis Paul Boon
The Ten Thousand Things (1955) by Maria Dermout
The Darkroom of Damocles (1958) by Willem Frederik Hermans
Wonder (1962) by Hugo Claus
I Dreamed in the Cities at Night by Remco Campert
Turkish Delight (1969) by Jan Wolkers
Out of Mind (1984) by J. Bernlef
The Assault (1982) by H. Mulisch
The Following Story (1991) by Cees Nooteboom
Omega Minor (2004) by Paul Verhaeghen
Tomorrow Pamplona (2007) by Jan van Mersbergen
The Twin (2008) by Gerbrand Bakker
Untranslated Camera Obscura (1851) by Hildebrand
De Stille Kracht (1900) by Louis Couperus
Van De Koele Meren des Doods (1900) by Frederik van Eeden
De Avonden (1947) by Gerard Reve
Het land achter Gods rug (1956) by A. den Doolaard
Terug naar Oegstgeest (1965) by Jan Wolkers
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Norway

Essential works

A Doll's House
(1879)
by Henrik Ibsen
The Wild Duck
(1884)
by Henrik Ibsen
Hunger
(1890)
by Knut Hamsun
Growth of the Soil
(1917)
by Knut Hamsun
Kristin Lavransdatter
(1920–1922)
by Sigrid Undset
Further recommendations
Classic Brand (1866) by Henrik Ibsen
Hedda Gabler (1891) by Henrik Ibsen
Pan (1894) by Knut Hamsun
Modern One Day in October (1931) by Sigurd Hoel
The Seed (1940) by Tarjei Vesaas
Contemporary Beatles (1984) by Lars Saabye Christensen
Shyness and Dignity (1994) by Dag Solstad
Naïve. Super (1996) by Erlend Loe
Out Stealing Horses (2003) by Per Petterson

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Poland

Essential works

Pan Tadeusz
(1834)
by Adam Mickiewicz
The Doll
(1889)
by Bolesław Prus
The Street of Crocodiles
(1934)
by Bruno Schulz
Ferdydurke
(1937)
by Witold Gombrowicz
New and Collected Poems
(2001)
by Czesław Milosz
Further recommendations
Classic Laments (1580) by Jan Kochanowski
Fables and Parables (1779) by Ignacy Krasicki
Quo Vadis (1895 ) by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Modern ( ) by Tadeusz Konwicki
( ) by Andrzej Stasiuk
( ) by Wisława Szymborska
Primeval and other times(2005) by Olga Tokarczuk
( ) by Stanisław Lem
( ) by Adam Zagajewski
( ) by Zbigniew Herbert
( ) by Stefan Grabiński
( ) by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
( ) by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
The Elephant(1957) by Sławomir Mrożek
( ) by Ewa Lipska
( ) by Jerzy Ficowski
( ) by Stefan żeromski
( ) by Anna Swir
( ) by Juliusz Słowacki
( ) by Gustaw Herling


Portugal

Essential works

The Lusiadas
(1572)
Luís Vaz de Camões
The Tragedy of the Street of Flowers
(1878)
by Eça de Queiroz
The Book of Disquiet
(1935)
by Fernando Pessoa
The Great Shadow and Other Stories
(1915)
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Further recommendations
by António Lobo Antunes
by José Saramago


Serbia

Essential works

The Mountain Wreath
(1847)
by Petar II Petrović-Njegoš
Migrations
(1929)
by Miloš Crnjanski
The Bridge on the Drina(1945)
by Ivo Andrić
Death and the Dervish
(1966)
by Meša Selimović
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
(1976)
by Danilo Kiš
Further recommendations
The Ray of the Microcosm (1845) by Petar II Petrović-Njegoš
Impure Blood (1910) by Borisav Stanković
The Journal of Čarnojević (1920) by Miloš Crnjanski
Bosnian Chronicle (1945) by Ivo Andrić
Koreni (1954) by Dobrica Ćosić
The Damned Yard (1954) by Ivo Andrić
The Sixth Day (1961) by Rastko Petrović
The Fortress (1970) by Meša Selimović
The Use of Man (1976) by Aleksandar Tišma
Rabies (1983) by Borislav Pekić
The Encyclopedia of the Dead (1983) by Danilo Kiš
Dictionary of the Khazars (1984) by Milorad Pavić
The Cyclist Conspiracy (1987) by Svetislav Basara

Spain

Essential works

The Poem of the Cid
(1207)
Don Quixote
(1615)
by Miguel de Cervantes
Abel Sanchez
(1917)
by Miguel de Unamuno
Collected Poems
by Federico Garcia Lorca
The Family of Pascual Duarte
(1942)
by Camilo Jose Cela
Further recommendations
Lazarillo de Tormes (1556)
The Truth about the Savolta Case by Eduardo Mendoza Garriga
Fuenteovejuna by Lope de Vega
Rhymes and Legends by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Últimas tardes con Teresa by Juan Marse
Tu rostro mañana by Javier Marías
Count Julian by Juan Goyitsolo
Dublinescas by Enrique Vila-Matas
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Catalan recommendations
by Santiago Rusiñol
by Salvador Espriu
by Miquel Bauca
by Maria Barbal
by Josep Carner

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Russia

Russian Literature Download
Essential works

A Hero of Our time
(1841)
by Mikhail Lermontov
War and Peace
(1869)
by Leo Tolstoy
The Brothers Karamazov
(1880)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Plays of Anton Chekhov
(1886–1904)
by Anton Chekhov
The Master and Margarita
(1967)
by Mikhail Bulgakov
Further recommendations
19th Century Woe from Wit (1823) by Aleksandr Griboyedov
Dead Souls (1842) by Nikolai Gogol
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories (1842) by Nikolai Gogol
Sketches From a Hunter's Album (1852) by Ivan Turgenev
Oblomov (1859) by Ivan Goncharov
Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev
Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes From Underground (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lady McBeth of Mtsensk and Other Stories (1865) by Nikolai Leskov
The Idiot (1869) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Demons (1872) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Golovlyov Family (1876) by Mikhail Saltykov
Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina (1877) by Leo Tolstoy
The Collected Stories by Anton Chekhov
The Collected Stories by Alexander Pushkin
20th Century Petersburg (1913) by Andrei Bely
We (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Heart of a Dog (1925) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Envy (1927) by Yuri Olesha
The Foundation Pit (1930) by Andrey Platonov
Quiet Flows the Don (1934) by Mikhail Sholokhov
Invitation to a Beheading (1936) by Vladimir Nabokov
The Complete Works by Isaac Babel
Today I Wrote Nothing by Daniil Kharms
The Collected Stories by Ivan Bunin
Doctor Zhivago (1957) by Boris Pasternak
Life and Fate (1959) by Vasily Grossman
A School for Fools (1960s) by Sasha Sokolov
Roadside Picnic (1971) by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
Kolyma Tales (1954-73) by Varlam Shalamov
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South Africa

Essential works

I Write What I Like
(1978)
by Steve Biko
Waiting for the Barbarians
(1980)
by J.M. Coetzee


July's People
(1981)
by Nadine Gordimer


Ways of Dying
(1995)
by Zakes Mda
Disgrace
(1999)
by J.M. Coetzee
Further recommendations
Contemporary The Way of the Women (2004) by Marlene van Niekerk
Portrait with Keys (2006) by Ivan Vladislavic
Zoo City (2010) by Lauren Beukes

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United States

American Literature Download
Essential works

Moby Dick
(1851)
by Herman Melville
Leaves of Grass
(1892)
by Walt Whitman
The Sound and the Fury
(1920)
by William Faulkner
East of Eden
(1952)
by John Steinbeck
Gravity's Rainbow
(1973)
by Thomas Pynchon
Further recommendations
Short Story Collections Twice Told Tales (1837) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Collected Works (1849) by Edgar Allen Poe
Billy Budd and the Piazza Tales (1888) by Herman Melville
Collected Short Stories (1910) by Mark Twain
Maggie and Other Stories (1900) by Stephen Crane
Flappers and Philosophers (1920) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Tales (1937) of H.P. Lovecraft
Death in the Woods and Other Stories (1941) by Sherwood Anderson
Collected Short Works (1961) by Ernest Hemingway
The Stories (1982) of John Cheever
Where I'm Calling From (1988) by Raymond Carver
Poetry Collections The Poetry (1886) of Emily Dickinson
The Waste Land and Other Poems (1922) by T.S. Eliot
Harmonium (1923) by Wallace Stevens
The Bridge (1930) by Hart Crane
Howl and Other Poems (1955) by Allen Ginsberg
Selected Poems (1962) by Robinson Jeffers
Collected Poems (1963) by Robert Frost
Collected Poems Vol.1 & 2 (1963) by William Carlos Williams
Collected Poems (1987) by John Ashbery
Plays Complete Plays by Eugene O'Neill
Our Town (1938) by Thornton Wilder
Death of a Salesman (1949) by Arthur Miller
Plays 1937-1955 (1955) by Tennessee Williams
The Collected Plays of Edward Albee
Buried Child (1978) by Sam Shepard
Fences (1985) by August Wilson
Angels in America (1993) by Tony Kushner
Others The Last of the Mohicans (1826) by Fenimore Cooper
The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The American (1877) by Henry James
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain
The Red Badge of Courage (1895) by Stephen Crane
The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James
The Awakening (1899) by Kate Chopin
The Call of the Wild (1903) by Jack London
Three Lives (1909) by Gertrude Stein
My Antonia (1918) by Willa Cather
The Age of Innocence (1920) by Edith Wharton
Main Street (1920) by Sinclair Lewis
Babbit (1922) by Sinclair Lewis
The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser
The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway
Tropic of Cancer (1934) by Henry Miller
Appointment in Samrra (1934) by John O'Hara
Absalom, Absalom! (1936) by William Faulkner
The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
The Day of the Locust (1939) by Nathanael 'West
The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers
All the King's Men (1946) by Robert Penn Warren
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger
On the Road (1951) by Jack Kerouac
Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury
The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis
Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
Naked Lunch (1959) by William S. Burroughs
Rabbit, Run (1960) by John Updike
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee
The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) by John Barth
Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey
The Bell Jar (1963) by Sylvia Plath
V. (1963) by Thomas Pynchon
Herzog (1965) by Saul Bellow
In Cold Blood (1966) by Truman Capote
The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon
Portnoy's Complaint (1969) by Phillip Roth
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson
A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) by John Kennedy Toole
The New York Trilogy (1986) by Paul Auster
Libra (1988) by Don Delillo
Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace
Underworld (1997) by Don Delillo
American Pastoral (1997) by Phillip Roth
Pattern Recognition (2003) by William Gibson
The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy
Slave Narratives The Interesting Narrative (1789) by Olaudah Equiano
Narrative of the Life (1845) of Frederick Douglass
Narrative (1850) of Sojourner Truth
Twelve Years a Slave (1853) by Solomon Northrup
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Harriet Jacobs
Reconstruction Era Up From Slavery (1901) by Booker T. Washington
The Souls of Black Folk (1903) by W.E.B. Du Bois
The Collected Poetry (1906) by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Harlem Renaissance Cane (1923) by Jean Toomer
The Walls of Jericho (1928) by Rudolph Fisher
Home to Harlem (1928) by Claude McKay
Quicksand and Passing (1929) by Nella Larsen
The Blacker the Berry (1929) by Wallace Thurman
Not Without Laughter (1930) by Langston Hughes
Black no More (1931) by George S. Schugler
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston
Civil Rights Era Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright
If he Hollers Let Him Go (1945) by Chester Himes
Invisible Man (1952) by Ralph Ellison
Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953) by James Baldwin
A Raisin in the Sun (1959) by Lorraine Hansberry
The Autobiography (1965) of Malcolm X
Selected Poems (1966) by Gwendolyn Brooks
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) by Maya Angelou
Contemporary Beneath the Underdog (1971) by Charles Mingus
Mumbo Jumbo (1972) by Ismael Reed
Roots (1976) by Alex Haley
Song of Solomon (1977) by Toni Morrison
Kindred (1979) by Ismael Reed
The Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker
Linden Hills (1985) by Gloria Naylor
Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison
Waiting to Exhale (1992) by Terry McMillan
Somebody Blew up America (2001) by Amiri Baraka
The Known World (2003) by Edward P. Jones
Killing Johnny Fry (2006) by Walter Mosley
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