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<h2>By region</h2>
<h2>By region</h2>
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Argentina.png]] Argentina </h3>
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Argentina.png]] Argentina</h3>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
| 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: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_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: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:ElAleph.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:El Aleph|The Aleph]]''<br />(1949)<br />Jorge Luis Borges</small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Manuel Puig </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>by Manuel Puig </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Ernesto Sabato </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>by Ernesto Sabato </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Juan José Saer </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>by Juan José Saer </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Oliverio Girondo </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>by Oliverio Girondo </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Adolfo Bioy Casares </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>by Adolfo Bioy Casares </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Fernando Sorrentino </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>by Fernando Sorrentino </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Cesar Aira </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>by Cesar Aira </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Marco Denevi </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>by Marco Denevi </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Luisa Valenzuela </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>by Luisa Valenzuela </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Lila Zemborain </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>by Lila Zemborain </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>by Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Rodrigo Fresan </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>by Rodrigo Fresan </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Alberto Laiseca </small>
| 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" |<h3>[[File:Australia.png]] Australia </h3>
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| colspan="5" |<small> [http://tinyurl.com/australianlit Australian Literature Download]</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>[http://tinyurl.com/australianlit Australian Literature Download]</small>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
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| 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: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: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>
| 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'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
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| rowspan="40" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Dreaming|The Dreaming]]'' ( ) by Damien Broderick </small>
| rowspan="41" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Dreaming|The Dreaming]]'' (1980) by Damien Broderick </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Illywhacker|Illywhacker]]'' ( ) by Peter Carey </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Illywhacker|Illywhacker]]'' (1985) by Peter Carey </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Oscar and Lucinda|Oscar and Lucinda]]'' ( ) 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]]'' ( ) by Marcus Clarke </small>
| 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>
| 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>
| 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]]'' ( ) by Bryce Courtenay </small>
| 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]]'' ( ) by Robert Drewer </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A Cry in the Jungle Bar|A Cry in the Jungle Bar]]'' (1979) by Robert Drewer </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gould's Book of Fish|Gould's Book of Fish]]'' ( ) by Richard Flanagan </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gould's Book of Fish|Gould's Book of Fish]]'' (2001) by Richard Flanagan </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Diaspora (novel)|Diaspora]]'' ( ) by Greg Egan </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]]'' ( ) by Miles Franklin </small>
| 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]]'' ( ) by Helen Garner </small>
| 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]]'' ( ) by Germaine Greer </small>
| 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]]'' ( ) by Kate Grenville </small>
| 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]]'' ( ) by Frank Hardy </small>
| 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>
| 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]]'' ( ) by Donald Horne </small>
| 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:The Mystery of a Hansom Cab|The Mystery of a Hansom Cab]]'' ( ) by Fergus Hume </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:My Brother Jack|My Brother Jack]]'' (1964) by George Johnston </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:My Brother Jack|My Brother Jack]]'' ( ) by George Johnston </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Schindler's Ark|Schindler's Ark]]'' (1982) by Thomas Keneally </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Schindler's Ark|Schindler's Ark]]'' ( ) by Thomas Keneally </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The First Casualty|The First Casualty]]'' (2005) by Phillip Knightley </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The First Casualty|The First Casualty]]'' ( ) by Phillip Knightley </small>
| 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:Summer of the Seventeenth Doll|Summer of the Seventeenth Doll]]'' ( ) by Ray Lawler </small>
| 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:Picnic at Hanging Rock|Picnic at Hanging Rock]]'' ( ) by Joan Lindsay </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Remembering Babylon|Remembering Babylon]]'' (1993) by David Malouf </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Remembering Babylon|Remembering Babylon]]'' ( ) by David Malouf </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Forty-Seventeen|Forty-Seventeen]]'' (1988) by Frank Moorhouse </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Forty-Seventeen|Forty-Seventeen]]'' ( ) by Frank Moorhouse </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Les Murray|New Collected Poems]]'' (1999) by Les Murray </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Les Murray|New Collected Poems]]'' ( ) by Les Murray </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Fredy Neptune|Fredy Neptune]]'' (1998) by Les Murray </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Fredy Neptune|Fredy Neptune]]'' ( ) by Les Murray </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Three Dollars|Three Dollars]]'' ( ) by Elliot Perlman </small>
| 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]]'' ( ) by Henry Handel Richardson </small>
| 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]]'' ( ) by Gregory David Roberts </small>
| 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]]'' ( ) by Nevil Shute </small>
| 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]]'' ( ) by Peter Singer </small>
| 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]]'' ( ) by Christina Stead </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Little Hotel|The Little Hotel]]'' (1973) by Christina Stead </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A Fraction of the Whole|A Fraction of the Whole]]'' ( ) by Steve Toltz </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A Fraction of the Whole|A Fraction of the Whole]]'' (2008) by Steve Toltz </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Tree of Man|The Tree of Man]]'' ( ) by Patrick White </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Tree of Man|The Tree of Man]]'' (1955) by Patrick White </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Vivisector|The Vivisector]]'' ( ) by Patrick White </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Vivisector|The Vivisector]]'' (1970) by Patrick White </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Dirt Music|Dirt Music]]'' ( ) by Tim Winton </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Dirt Music|Dirt Music]]'' (2001) by Tim Winton </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Wake in Fright|Wake in Fright]]'' ( ) by Kenneth Cook </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Wake in Fright|Wake in Fright]]'' (1961) by Kenneth Cook </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Capricornia|Capricornia]]'' ( ) by Xavier Herbert </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:Power Without Glory|Power Without Glory]]'' ( ) by Frank Hardy </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Capricornia|Capricornia]]'' (1938) by Xavier Herbert </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Power Without Glory|Power Without Glory]]'' (1950) by Frank Hardy </small>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Auslit_(1)_copy.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Australian_broad_literature_guide_edit_march_2017.jpg|thumb|80px]]
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Austria.png]] Austria </h3>
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Austria.png]] Austria</h3>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
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| 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: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: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: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_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>
| 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>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Woodcutters (novel)|Woodcutters]]'' (1984) by Thomas Bernhard </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Woodcutters (novel)|Woodcutters]]'' (1984) by Thomas Bernhard </small>
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Belgium.png]] Belgium </h3>
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Belgium.png]] Belgium</h3>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
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| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:The_Sorrow_of_Belgium.jpg|80px]]<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: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 /><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br />()<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 /><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br />()<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 /><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br />()<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 /><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br />()<br /> by </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: |80px]]<br /><br /><small>()<br />by </small>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
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| colspan="5" |<small>''Thousand Times Broken, Three Books'' by Henri Michaux </small>
| 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: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: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: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: 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>
| 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>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
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| rowspan="12" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Tang Dynasty|The Dragon King's Daughter]]'' (Tang dynasty) by </small>
| 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>
| 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>
| 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>
| 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:Six Records of a Floating Life|Six Records of a Floating Life]]'' (1808) by Shen Fu </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Six Records of a Floating Life|Six Records of a Floating Life]]'' (1808) by Shen Fu </small>
|-
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| rowspan="21" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lu Xun|Wild Grass]]'' (1927) by Lu Xun </small>
| rowspan="21" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lu Xun|Wild Grass]]'' (1927) by Lu Xun </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Mao Dun|Rainbow]]'' (1930) by Mao Dun </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Mao Dun|Rainbow]]'' (1930) by Mao Dun </small>
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1344669226400.png|100px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1344669226400.png|100px]]
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Canadian.png]] Canada</h3>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
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| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Montgomery_Anne_of Green_Gables.jpg|80px]]<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>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
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| rowspan="19" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Anglophone
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Fifth_Business|Fifth Business]]'' (1970) by Robertson Davies </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The_Golden_Dog|The Golden Dog]]'' (1872) by William Kirby </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The_Apprenticeship_of_Duddy_Kravitz_(novel)|The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz]]'' (1974) by Mordecai Richler </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The_Wars|The Wars]]'' (1977) by Timothy Findley </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Beautiful_Losers|Beautiful Losers]]'' (1966) by Leonard Cohen </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Klee_Wyck|Klee Wyck]]'' (1941) by Emily Carr </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Three_Day_Road|Three Day Road]]'' (2005) by Joseph Boyden </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Life_of_Pi|Life of Pi]]'' (2001) by Yann Martel </small>
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Canadian.png]] Canada </h3>
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Czech.png]] Czech Republic</h3>
|-
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
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| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Montgomery_Anne_of Green_Gables.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Anne of Green Gables]]''<br />(1836)<br />by Lucy Maud Montgomery </small>
| 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:Sunshine_sketches.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Sunshine_Sketches_of_a_Little_Town]]''<br />(1923)<br />by Stephen Leacock </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:The_Handmaids_Tale.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The_Handmaid's_Tale]]''<br />(1933)<br />by Margaret Atwood </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:Dance_of_the_happy_shades.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Dance_of_the_Happy_Shades]]''<br />(1983)<br />by Alice Munro </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:Flint_and_feather.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Flint and Feather]]''<br />(1984)<br />by Pauline Johnson </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'''
| 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>
| rowspan="19" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Pre-WW2
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Sorrowful Eyes]]'' ( ) by Ivan Olbracht </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Hidden History]]'' ( ) by Otokar Brezina </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Hidden History]]'' ( ) by Otokar Brezina </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Grandmother]]'' ( ) by Bozena Nemcova </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Grandmother]]'' ( ) by Bozena Nemcova </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch]]'' ( ) by Ladislav Klima </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch]]'' ( ) by Ladislav Klima </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |War With the Newts]]'' ( ) by Karel Capek </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |War With the Newts]]'' ( ) by Karel Capek </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Antilyrik & Other Poems]]'' ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Antilyrik &amp; Other Poems]]'' ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Valerie and Her Week of Wonders]]'' ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Valerie and Her Week of Wonders]]'' ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Arsonist]]'' ( ) by Egon Hostovsky </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Arsonist]]'' ( ) by Egon Hostovsky </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Poetry]]'' ( ) of Jaroslav Seifert </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Poetry]]'' ( ) of Jaroslav Seifert </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Vanishing Lung Syndrome]]'' ( ) by Miroslav Holub </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Vanishing Lung Syndrome]]'' ( ) by Miroslav Holub </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Fingers Pointing Somewhere Else]]'' ( ) by Daniela Fischerova </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Fingers Pointing Somewhere Else]]'' ( ) by Daniela Fischerova </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |White Book]]'' ( ) by Pavel Kohout </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |White Book]]'' ( ) by Pavel Kohout </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Saturnin]]'' ( ) by Zdenek Jirotka </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Saturnin]]'' ( ) by Zdenek Jirotka </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Summer of Caprice]]'' ( ) by Vadislav Vancura </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Summer of Caprice]]'' ( ) by Vadislav Vancura </small>
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| rowspan="16" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Post-WW2|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Closely Watched Trains]]'' ( ) Bohumil Hrabal </small>
| rowspan="16" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Post-WW2
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Closely Watched Trains]]'' ( ) Bohumil Hrabal </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Too Loud a Solitude]]'' ( ) by Bohumil Hrabal </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Too Loud a Solitude]]'' ( ) by Bohumil Hrabal </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Seven Churches]]'' ( ) by Milos Urban </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Seven Churches]]'' ( ) by Milos Urban </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Of Kids & Parents]]'' ( ) by Emil Hakl </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Of Kids &amp; Parents]]'' ( ) by Emil Hakl </small>
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| rowspan="13" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |German-language|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Golem]]'' ( ) by Gustav Meyrink </small>
| rowspan="13" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |German-language
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Golem]]'' ( ) by Gustav Meyrink </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Green Face]]'' ( ) by Gustav Meyrink </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Green Face]]'' ( ) by Gustav Meyrink </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Maimed]]'' ( ) by Hermann Ungar </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Maimed]]'' ( ) by Hermann Ungar </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Boys & Murderers]]'' ( ) by Hermann Ungar </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Boys &amp; Murderers]]'' ( ) by Hermann Ungar </small>
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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>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge |The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge]]'' ( ) by Rainer Maria Rilke </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Selected Poetry]]'' ( ) of Rainer Maria Rilke </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Selected Poetry]]'' ( ) of Rainer Maria Rilke </small>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Czech_literature.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Czech_literature.jpg|80px]]
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Czech.png]] Czech Republic </h3>
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:England.png]] United Kingdom and Ireland</h3>
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|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
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| 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_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_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: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: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: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: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_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_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>
| 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>
|-
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
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| rowspan="19" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Pre-WW2|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Sorrowful Eyes]]'' ( ) by Ivan Olbracht </small>
| rowspan="15" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Beowulf|Beowulf]]'' (10th century) </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Hidden History]]'' ( ) by Otokar Brezina </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sir Gawain and the Green Knight|Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]]'' (14th century) </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Grandmother]]'' ( ) by Bozena Nemcova  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Le Morte D'Arthur|Le Morte D'Arthur]]'' (1485) by Sir Thomas Malory </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch]]'' ( ) by Ladislav Klima </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Utopia (novel)|Utopia]]'' (1516) by Thomas More </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |R.U.R.]]'' ( ) by Karel Capek </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Christopher Marlowe|The Complete Plays]]'' of Christopher Marlowe </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |War With the Newts]]'' ( ) by Karel Capek </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Faerie Queene|The Faerie Queene]]'' (1590) by Edmund Spenser </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Antilyrik & Other Poems]]'' ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Ben Jonson|Plays and Masques]]'' by Ben Jonson </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Valerie and Her Week of Wonders]]'' ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Duchess of Malfi|the Duchess of Malfi]]'' (1612) by John Webster </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Prague Tales]]'' ( ) by Jan Neruda </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Pilgrim's Progress|The Pilgrim's Progress]]'' (1678) by John Bunyan </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Arsonist]]'' ( ) by Egon Hostovsky </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Robinson Crusoe|Robinson Crusoe]]'' (1719) by Daniel Defoe </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Poetry]]'' ( ) of Jaroslav Seifert  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gulliver's Travels|Gulliver's Travels]]'' (1735) by Jonathan Swift </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Vanishing Lung Syndrome]]'' ( ) by Miroslav Holub </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling|Tom Jones]]'' (1749) by Henry Fielding </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Narrative Poems]]'' ( ) by Vladimir Holan </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Tristram Shandy|The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman]]'' (1759) by Laurence Sterne </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Dreams at the End of the Night]]'' ( ) by Ewald Murrer </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Vicar of Wakefield|The Vicar of Wakefield]]'' (1766) by Oliver Goldsmith </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |How I Came to Know Fish]]'' ( ) by Ota Pavel </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Marriage of Heaven and Hell|The Marriage of Heaven and Hell]]'' (1793) by William Blake </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Fingers Pointing Somewhere Else]]'' ( ) by Daniela Fischerova </small>
| rowspan="17" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |19th Century
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Pride and Prejudice|Pride and Prejudice]]'' (1813) by Jane Austen </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |White Book]]'' ( ) by Pavel Kohout </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Frankenstein|Frankenstein]]'' (1818) by Mary Shelley </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Saturnin]]'' ( ) by Zdenek Jirotka </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Ivanhoe|Ivanhoe]]'' (1820) by Sir Walter Scott </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Summer of Caprice]]'' ( ) by Vadislav Vancura </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Don Juan (Byron)|Don Juan]]'' (1821) by Lord Byron </small>
|-
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| rowspan="16" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Post-WW2|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Closely Watched Trains]]'' ( ) Bohumil Hrabal </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sartor Resartus|Sartor Resartus]]'' (1833) by Thomas Carlyle </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Too Loud a Solitude]]'' ( ) by Bohumil Hrabal </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jane Eyre|Jane Eyre]]'' (1847) by Charlotte Bronte </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Love and Garbage]]'' ( ) by Ivan Klima </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Wuthering Heights|Wuthering Heights]]'' (1847) Emily Bronte </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Immortality]]'' ( ) by Milan Kundera </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Vanity Fair|Vanity Fair]]'' (1848) by William Makepeace Thackeray </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Garden Party and Other Plays]]'' ( ) by Vaclav Havel </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Bleak House|Bleak House]]'' (1853) by Charles Dickens </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Questionnaire]]'' ( ) by Jiri Grusa </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A Tale of Two Cities|A Tale of Two Cities]]'' (1859) by Charles Dickens </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Guinea Pigs]]'' ( ) by Ludvik Vaculik </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Middlemarch|Middlemarch]]'' (1872) by George Eliot </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Cremator]]'' (1967) by Ladislav Fuks </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Far from the Madding Crowd|Far from the Madding Crowd]]'' (1874) by Thomas Hardy </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova]]'' ( ) by Arnost Lustig </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Way We Live Now|The Way We Live Now]]'' (1879) by Anthony Trollope </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Bohemian Youth]]'' ( ) by Josef Hirsal </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Idylls of the King|Idylls of the King]]'' (1885) by Alfred Lord Tennyson </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |City Sister Silver]]'' ( ) by Jachym Topol </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Robert Louis Stevenson|The Collected Works]]'' of Robert Louis Stevenson </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Engineer of Human Souls]]'' ( ) by Josef Skvorecky </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Dracula|Dracula]]'' (1897) by Bram Stoker </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Other City]]'' ( ) by Michal Ajvaz </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Oscar Wilde|The Collected Works]]'' of Oscar Wilde </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Europeana]]'' ( ) by Patrik Ourednik </small>
| rowspan="11" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lord Jim|Lord Jim]]'' (1900) by Joseph Conrad </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Seven Churches]]'' ( ) by Milos Urban </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kim (novel)|Kim]]'' (1900) by Rudyard Kipling </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Of Kids & Parents]]'' ( ) by Emil Hakl </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Way of All Flesh|The Way of All Flesh]]'' (1903) by Samuel Butler </small>
|-
|-
| rowspan="13" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |German-language|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Golem]]'' ( ) by Gustav Meyrink </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: |The Green Face]]'' ( ) by Gustav Meyrink </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sons and Lovers|Sons and Lovers]]'' (1913) by D.H. Lawrence </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Trial]]'' ( ) by Franz Kafka </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Of Human Bondage|Of Human Bondage ]]'' (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Metamorphosis]]'' ( ) by Franz Kafka </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sherlock Holmes|The Complete Sherlock Holmes]]'' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Hunger Artist]]'' ( ) by Franz Kafka </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A Passage To India|A Passage to India ]]'' (1924) by E.M. Forster </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Blaugast]]'' ( ) by Paul Leppin </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:To the Lighthouse|To the Lighthouse]]'' (1927) by Virginia Woolf </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Severin’s Journey into the Dark]]'' ( ) by Paul Leppin </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[Flashman]]'' (1969) by George MacDonald Fraser </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Raging Reporter]]'' ( ) by Egon Erwin Kisch </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:George Bernard Shaw|The Collected Plays]]'' by George Bernard Shaw </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 & 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>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Selected Poetry]]'' ( ) of Rainer Maria Rilke  </small>
|-
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Czech_literature.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Britishirish2.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="4" |
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Shakespeare.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Chesterton's_fiction.jpg|80px]]
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:France.png]] France</h3>
{| {{Prettytable}}="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:England.png]] United Kingdom and Ireland </h3>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
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| 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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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:the_Collected_Poems_of_Yeats.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:W.B. Yeats|The Collected Poems]]'' <br /> of W.B. Yeats </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>
|-
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
| rowspan="15" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Beowulf|Beowulf]]'' (10th century) </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Temptations of Saint Anthony (Flaubert)|The Temptation of Saint Antony]]'' (1895) by Gustave Flaubert </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sir Gawain and the Green Knight|Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]]'' (14th century) </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>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Le Morte D'Arthur|Le Morte D'Arthur]]'' (1485) by Sir Thomas Malory </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Stranger|The Stranger]]'' ( ) by Albert Camus </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Utopia (novel)|Utopia]]'' (1516) by Thomas More </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Count of Monte Cristo|The Count of Monte Cristo]]'' ( ) by Alexander Dumas </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Christopher Marlowe|The Complete Plays]]'' of Christopher Marlowe </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nausea (novel)|Nausea]]'' ( ) by Jean-Paul Sartre </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Faerie Queene|The Faerie Queene]]'' (1590) by Edmund Spenser </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Le Grand Meaulnes|The Lost Estate]]'' (1913) by Alain-Fournier </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Ben Jonson|Plays and Masques]]'' by Ben Jonson </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Red and the Black|The Red and the Black ]]'' ( ) by Stendhal </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Duchess of Malfi|the Duchess of Malfi]]'' (1612) by John Webster </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nadja|Nadja]]'' ( ) by Andre Breton </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Pilgrim's Progress|The Pilgrim's Progress]]'' (1678) by John Bunyan </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea|Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]'' ( ) by Jules Verne </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Robinson Crusoe|Robinson Crusoe]]'' (1719) by Daniel Defoe </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Henri Michaux|Miserable Miracle]]'' ( ) by Henri Michaux </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gulliver's Travels|Gulliver's Travels]]'' (1735) by Jonathan Swift </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[Atomised]]'' ( ) by Michel Houellebecq </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling|Tom Jones]]'' (1749) by Henry Fielding </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jean-Jacques Rousseau|Confessions]]'' ( ) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Tristram Shandy|The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman]]'' (1759) by Laurence Sterne </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Le Petit Prince|Le Petit Prince]]'' ( ) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Vicar of Wakefield|The Vicar of Wakefield]]'' (1766) by Oliver Goldsmith </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Candide|Candide]]'' ( ) by Voltaire </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Marriage of Heaven and Hell|The Marriage of Heaven and Hell]]'' (1793) by William Blake </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Marguerite Duras|The Lover]]'' ( ) by Marguerite Duras </small>
|-
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| rowspan="16" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |19th Century|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Pride and Prejudice|Pride and Prejudice]]'' (1813) by Jane Austen </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Boris Vian|Froth on the Daydream]]'' ( ) by Boris Vian </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Frankenstein|Frankenstein]]'' (1818) by Mary Shelley </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Germinal|Germinal ]]'' ( ) by Emile Zola </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Ivanhoe|Ivanhoe]]'' (1820) by Sir Walter Scott </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Les Miserables|Les Miserables]]'' ( ) by Victor Hugo </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Don Juan (Byron)|Don Juan]]'' (1821) by Lord Byron  </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jane Eyre|Jane Eyre]]'' (1847) by Charlotte Bronte </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275246751497.jpg|80px]]
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Wuthering Heights|Wuthering Heights]]'' (1847) Emily Bronte </small>
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Germany.png]] Germany</h3>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Vanity Fair|Vanity Fair]]'' (1848) by William Makepeace Thackeray </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>[http://tinyurl.com/germanlit German Literature Download]</small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Bleak House|Bleak House]]'' (1853) by Charles Dickens </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A Tale of Two Cities|A Tale of Two Cities]]'' (1859) by Charles Dickens </small>
| 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>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Middlemarch|Middlemarch]]'' (1872) by George Eliot </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Far from the Madding Crowd|Far from the Madding Crowd]]'' (1874) by Thomas Hardy </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>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Way We Live Now|The Way We Live Now]]'' (1879) by Anthony Trollope </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Robbers|The Robbers and Wallenstein]]'' (1781) by Friedrich Schiller </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Idylls of the King|Idylls of the King]]'' (1885) by Alfred Lord Tennyson </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Marquise of O|the Marquise of O and Other Stories]]'' (1808) by Heinrich von Kleist</small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Robert Louis Stevenson|The Collected Works]]'' of Robert Louis Stevenson </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Broken Jug|The Broken Jug]]'' (1806) by Heinrich von Kleist </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Dracula|Dracula]]'' (1897) by Bram Stoker </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Danton's Death|Danon's Death]]'' (1835) George Buchner </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Oscar Wilde|The Collected Works]]'' of Oscar Wilde  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Der_Schimmelreiter|The Rider on the White Horse]]'' (1888) by Theodor Storm </small>
|-
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| rowspan="10" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lord Jim|Lord Jim]]'' (1900) by Joseph Conrad </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Effi Briest|Effi Briest]]'' (1895) by Theodor Fontane</small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kim (novel)|Kim]]'' (1900) by Rudyard Kipling </small>
| rowspan="14" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Buddenbrooks|Buddenbrooks]]'' (1901) by Thomas Mann </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Way of All Flesh|The Way of All Flesh]]'' (1903) by Samuel Butler </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Der Untertan|The Loyal Subject]]'' (1914) by Heinrich Mann</small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Man Who Was Thursday|The Man Who Was Thursday]]'' (1908) by G.K. Chesterton </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Metamorphosis|The Metamorphosis]]'' (1915) by Franz Kafka </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sons and Lovers|Sons and Lovers]]'' (1913) by D.H. Lawrence </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Trial (novel)|The Trial]]'' (1925) by Franz Kafka </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Of Human Bondage|Of Human Bondage ]]'' (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Castle (novel)|The Castle]]'' (1926) by Franz Kafka </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:Siddhartha (novel)|Siddhartha]]'' (1922) by Hermann Hesse</small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:To the Lighthouse|To the Lighthouse]]'' (1927) by Virginia Woolf </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Steppenwolf (novel)|Steppenwolf]]'' (1927) by Hermann Hesse</small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[Flashman]]'' (1969) by George MacDonald Fraser </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Berlin Alexanderplatz|Berlin Alexanderplatz]]'' (1929) by Alfred Doblin </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:George Bernard Shaw|The Collected Plays]]'' by George Bernard Shaw </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Visit |The Visit]]'' (1956) by Friedrich Durrenmatt </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Physicists|The Physicists]]'' (1961) by Friedrich Durrenmatt </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Flounder|The Flounder]]'' (1977) by Gunter Grass </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Cassandra (novel)|Cassandra]]'' (1984) Christa Wolf </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Perfume (novel)|Perfume]]'' (1985) by Patrick Suskind</small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Christoph Ransmayr|The Last World]]'' (1988) by Christoph Ransmayr </small>
|-
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Britishirish2.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:German20.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Shakespeare.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Kafka_flowchart.jpg|100px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Chesterton's_fiction.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="3" |
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|-
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:France.png]] France </h3>
{|{{Prettytable}}
 
 
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Greece.png]] Greece</h3>
|-
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Fleurs-du-mal_titel.jpg|thumb|110px]]<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:.jpg|80px|link=Special:FilePath/.jpg]]<br />
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Balzac.jpg|thumb|110px]]<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:.jpg|80px|link=Special:FilePath/.jpg]]<br />
| 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:.jpg|80px|link=Special:FilePath/.jpg]]<br />
| 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:.jpg|80px|link=Special:FilePath/.jpg]]<br />
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Madame_Bovary.jpg|thumb|125px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: Madame Bovary|Madame Bovary ]]''<br />(1856)<br />by Gustave Flaubert </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px|link=Special:FilePath/.jpg]]<br />
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Temptations of Saint Anthony (Flaubert)|The Temptation of Saint Antony]]'' (1895) by Gustave Flaubert </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>by </small>
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| 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="5" |<small>by </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Stranger|The Stranger]]'' ( ) by Albert Camus </small>
| 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]]
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Count of Monte Cristo|The Count of Monte Cristo]]'' ( ) by Alexander Dumas </small>
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Hungary.png]] Hungary</h3>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nausea (novel)|Nausea]]'' ( ) by Jean-Paul Sartre </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Le Grand Meaulnes|The Lost Estate]]'' (1913) by Alain-Fournier </small>
| 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>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Red and the Black|The Red and the Black ]]'' ( ) by Stendhal </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nadja|Nadja]]'' ( ) by Andre Breton </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>
|-
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea|Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]'' ( ) by Jules Verne </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A láthatatlan ember|A láthatatlan ember]]'' (1901) by Geza Gardonyi </small>
|-
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Henri Michaux|Miserable Miracle]]'' ( ) by Henri Michaux </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A kőszivű ember fiai|A kőszivű ember fiai]]'' (1869) by Mór Jókai </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[Atomised]]'' ( ) by Michel Houellebecq </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Dark Diamonds|The Dark Diamonds]]'' (1872) by Mór Jókai </small>
|-
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jean-Jacques Rousseau|Confessions]]'' ( ) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:János vitéz|János vitéz]]'' (1845) by Sándor Petőfi </small>
|-
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Le Petit Prince|Le Petit Prince]]'' ( ) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Szent Péter esernyője|Szent Péter esernyője]]'' (1895) by Kálmán Mikszáth </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Candide|Candide]]'' ( ) by Voltaire </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Bánk Bán|Bánk Bán]]'' (1819) by József Katona </small>
|-
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Marguerite Duras|The Lover]]'' ( ) by Marguerite Duras </small>
| rowspan="21" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Adventures of Sindbad|Adventures of Sindbad]]'' (1911) by Gyula Krudy </small>
|-
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Boris Vian|Froth on the Daydream]]'' ( ) by Boris Vian </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Tóték|Tóték]]'' (1967) by István Örkény </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Germinal|Germinal ]]'' ( ) by Emile Zola </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Egyperces novellák|Egyperces novellák]]'' (1969) by István Örkény </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Les Miserables|Les Miserables]]'' ( ) by Victor Hugo </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Paul Street Boys|The Paul Street Boys]]'' (1907) by Ferenc Molnár </small>
|-
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Harmonia Caelestis|Harmonia Caelestis]]'' (1994) by Peter Esterhazy </small>
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275246751497.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Door|The Door]]'' (1987) by Magda Szabo </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A Journey Round My Skull|A Journey Round My Skull]]'' (1939) by Frigyes Karinthy </small>
 
{| {{Prettytable}}="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Germany.png]] Germany</h3>
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| colspan="5" |<small> [http://tinyurl.com/germanlit German Literature Download]</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Metropole|Metropole]]'' (1970) by Ferenc Karinthy </small>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The End of a Family Story|The End of a Family Story]]'' (1977) by Peter Nadas </small>
|-
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| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Faust.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Goethe's Faust|Faust]]''<br />(1832)<br /> by Goethe </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Transylvania Trilogy|The Transylvania Trilogy]]'' (1940) by Miklos Banffy </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>
|-
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Egy elmebeteg nő naplója|Egy elmebeteg nő naplója]]'' (1978) by Geza Csath </small>
|-
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| 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:Opium and Other Stories|Opium and Other Stories]]'' (1980) by Geza Csath </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Robbers|The Robbers and Wallenstein]]'' (1781) by Friedrich Schiller </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Embers|Embers]]'' (1942) by Sándor Márai</small>
|-
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| 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:Képzelt riport egy amerikai popfesztiválról|Képzelt riport egy amerikai popfesztiválról]]'' (1971) by Tibor Dery </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Broken Jug|The Broken Jug]]'' (1806) by Heinrich von Kleist </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Case Worker|The Case Worker]]'' (1969) by György Konrád </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Danton's Death|Danon's Death]]'' (1835) George Buchner </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Tranquility|Tranquility]]'' (2001) by Attila Bartis </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Der_Schimmelreiter|The Rider on the White Horse]]'' (1888) by Theodor Storm </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Colours and Years|Colours and Years]]'' (1912) by Magrit Kaffka </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Effi Briest|Effi Briest]]'' (1895) by Theodor Fontane</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:In Praise of Older Women|In Praise of Older Women]]'' (1966) by Stephen Vizinczey </small>
|-
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| rowspan="14" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Buddenbrooks|Buddenbrooks]]'' (1901) by Thomas Mann </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Darkness at Noon|Darkness at Noon]]'' (1940) by Arthur Koestler </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Der Untertan|The Loyal Subject]]'' (1914) by Heinrich Mann</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A halál kilovagolt Perzsiából|A halál kilovagolt Perzsiából]]'' (1979) by Péter Hajnóczy </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Metamorphosis|The Metamorphosis]]'' (1915) by Franz Kafka </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A bogyósgyümölcskertész fia|A bogyósgyümölcskertész fia]]'' (2010) by János Háy </small>
|}
 
 
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Trial (novel)|The Trial]]'' (1925) by Franz Kafka </small>
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Iceland.png]] Iceland</h3>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Castle (novel)|The Castle]]'' (1926) by Franz Kafka </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Siddhartha (novel)|Siddhartha]]'' (1922) by Hermann Hesse</small>
| 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>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Steppenwolf (novel)|Steppenwolf]]'' (1927) by Hermann Hesse</small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Berlin Alexanderplatz|Berlin Alexanderplatz]]'' (1929) by Alfred Doblin </small>
| rowspan="7" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Egils saga|Egil's saga]]'' (12th century) </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Visit |The Visit]]'' (1956) by Friedrich Durrenmatt </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Heimskringla|King Harald's Saga]]'' (1230) by Snorri Sturluson </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Physicists|The Physicists]]'' (1961) by Friedrich Durrenmatt </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Eyrbyggja Saga|Eyrbyggja Saga]]'' (13th century) </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Flounder|The Flounder]]'' (1977) by Gunter Grass </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:Cassandra (novel)|Cassandra]]'' (1984) Christa Wolf </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Saga of the Jomsvikings |The Saga of the Jomsvikings ]]'' (13th century) </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Perfume (novel)|Perfume]]'' (1985) by Patrick Suskind</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Völsunga saga|The Saga of the Volsungs]]'' (13th century) </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Christoph Ransmayr|The Last World]]'' (1988) by Christoph Ransmayr </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Hrólfs saga kraka|The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki ]]'' (1400) </small>
|-
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
| rowspan="8" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gunnar Gunnarson|The Good Shepard]]'' (1940) by Gunnar Gunnarson </small>
|-
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:German20.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Fish Can Sing|The Fish Can Sing]]'' (1957) by Halldor Laxness </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Kafka_flowchart.jpg|100px]]
| colspan="3" |
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Justice Undone|Justice Undone]]'' (1986) by Thor Vilhjalmsson </small>
 
 
{| {{Prettytable}}="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Greece.png]] Greece </h3>
|-
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Swan (novel)|The Swan]]'' (1991) by Gudbergur Bergsson </small>
|-
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| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br /> </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Einar Mar Gudmundsson|Angels of the Universe]]'' (1993) by Einar Mar Gudmundsson </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br /> </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br /> </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br /> </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br /> </small>
|-
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Olaf Olafsson|The Journey Home]]'' (1999) by Olaf Olafsson </small>
|-
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Blue Fox (novel)|The Blue Fox]]'' (2003) by Sjon </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gyir Eliasson|Stone Tree]]'' (2005) by Gyir Eliasson </small>
|-
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by  </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1410622362089.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275262867188.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1410622743798.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="4" |
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:start_with_greeks2.jpg|80px]]
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{| {{Prettytable}}="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Hungary.png]] Hungary</h3>
| colspan="5" |<h3>Middle East</h3>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>[http://tinyurl.com/iranianlit Iranian Literature Download]</small>
|-
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
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| 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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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_Melancholy_of_Resistance .jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Melancholy of Resistance|The Melancholy of Resistance]]''<br />(1989)<br />by Laszlo Krasznahorkai </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="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
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| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Geza Gardonyi </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: | ]]'' ( ) by Endry Ady </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: | ]]'' ( ) by Sándor Petőfi </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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| rowspan="17" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Gyula Krudy </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nizami Ganjavi|Haft Paykar]]'' (1197) by Nizami Ganjavi </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by István Örkény </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: | ]]'' ( ) by Ferenc Molnár </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gulistan of Sa'di|The Rose Garden]]'' (1259) by Sa'di </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Peter Esterhazy </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: | ]]'' ( ) by Magda Szabo </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sadeq Chubak|The Patient Stone]]'' (1967) by Sadeq Chubak </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Frigyes Karinthy </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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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Ferenc Karinthy </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Missing Soluch|Missing Soluch]]'' (1979) by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Peter Nadas </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Shahrnush Parsipur|Women Without Men]]'' (1990) by Shahrnush Parsipur </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Miklos Banffy </small>  
| rowspan="4" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Untranslated
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Asadi Tusi|Garshaspnama]]'' (11th century) by Asadi Tusi </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Geza Csath </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nizami Ganjavi|Chosrow and Shirin]]'' (1180) by Nizami Ganjavi </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Sándor Márai</small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Tutinama|Tutinama: Tales of a Parrot]]'' (14th century) </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Tibor Dery </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Francois Petis de la Croix|1001 Days]]'' (1712) by Francois Petis de la Croix </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by György Konrád </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Attila Bartis </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Persian_lit.jpg|100px]]
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Magrit Kaffka </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Stephen Vizinczey </small>  
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Italy.png]] Italy</h3>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Arthur Koestler </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>[http://tinyurl.com/italianlit Italian Literature Download]</small>
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{| {{Prettytable}}="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Iceland.png]] Iceland </h3>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
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| 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: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: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: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:Laxdaela_Saga.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Laxdaela Saga|Laxdaela Saga]]''<br /> (13th century)</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: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: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: .jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br />( )<br />by </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>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
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| rowspan="7" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Egils saga|Egil's saga]]'' (12th century) </small>
| rowspan="17" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Consolation of Philosophy|The Consolation of Philosophy]]'' (524) by Boethius </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Heimskringla|King Harald's Saga]]'' (1230) by Snorri Sturluson </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Golden Legend|Golden Legend]]'' (1260) by Jacobus de Voragine </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Eyrbyggja Saga|Eyrbyggja Saga]]'' (13th century) </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Travels of Marco Polo|The Travels]]'' (13th century) of Marco Polo </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Saga of Grettir the Strong|The Saga of Grettir the Strong]]'' (13th century) </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Il Canzoniere|Il Canzoniere]]'' (1374) by Petrarch </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Saga of the Jomsvikings |The Saga of the Jomsvikings  ]]'' (13th century) </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Prince|The Prince]]'' (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Völsunga saga|The Saga of the Volsungs]]'' (13th century) </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:Hrólfs saga kraka|The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki ]]'' (1400) </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Orlando Furioso|Orlando Furioso]]'' (1532) by Ludovico Ariosto </small>
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| rowspan="8" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gunnar Gunnarson|The Good Shepard]]'' (1940) by Gunnar Gunnarson </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Benvenuto Cellini|The Autobiography]]'' (1563) of Benvenuto Cellini </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Fish Can Sing|The Fish Can Sing]]'' (1957) by Halldor Laxness </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:Justice Undone|Justice Undone]]'' (1986) by Thor Vilhjalmsson </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jerusalem Delivered|Jerusalem Delivered]]'' (1581) by Torquato Tasso </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Swan (novel)|The Swan]]'' (1991) by Gudbergur Bergsson  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Michelangelo|Selected Poems and Letters]]'' by Michelangelo </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Einar Mar Gudmundsson|Angels of the Universe]]'' (1993) by Einar Mar Gudmundsson </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Histoire de ma vie|The Memoirs]]'' (1774) of Giacomo Casanova </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Olaf Olafsson|The Journey Home]]'' (1999) by Olaf Olafsson </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis|The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis]]'' (1817) by Ugo Foscolo </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Blue Fox (novel)|The Blue Fox]]'' (2003) by Sjon </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Betrothed (Manzoni novel)|The Betrothed]]'' (1827) by Alessandro Manzoni </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gyir Eliasson|Stone Tree]]'' (2005) by Gyir Eliasson </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Giacomo Leopardi|Canti]]'' (1837) by Giacomo Leopardi </small>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Giuseppe Garibaldi|The Life]]'' (1849) of Giuseppe Garibaldi </small>
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275262867188.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Giovanni Verga|Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories]]'' (1880) by Giovanni Verga </small>
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| 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>
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| colspan="5" |<h3> Middle East </h3>
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| colspan="5" |<small> [http://tinyurl.com/iranianlit Iranian Literature Download]</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Emilio Salgari|Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem]]'' (1900) by Emilio Salgari </small>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gabriele d'Annunzio|Francesca da Rimini]]'' (1901) by Gabriele d'Annunzio </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:Grazia Deledda|Elias Portolu]]'' (1903) by Grazia Deledda </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="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Late Mattia Pascal|The Late Mattia Pascal]]'' (1904) by Luigi Pirandello </small>
|-
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| rowspan="6" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classical|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Shahnameh|Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings]]'' (~1000)</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Captain Blood (novel)|Captain Blood]]'' (1922) by Rafael Sabatini </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:Six Characters in Search of an Author|Six Characters in Search of an Author]]'' (1921) by Luigi Pirandello </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Shusha Guppy|The Secret of Laughter: Magical Tales from Classical Persia]]'' edited by Shusha Guppy </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Eugenio Montale|Cuttlefish Bones]]'' (1925) by Eugenio Montale </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nizami Ganjavi|Haft Paykar]]'' (1197) by Nizami Ganjavi </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Revolt Against the Modern World|Revolt Against the Modern World]]'' (1934) by Julius Evola </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Persian literature#Poetry|Borrowed Ware: Medieval Persian Epigrams]]'' edited by Dick Davis </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Tartar Steppe|the Tartar Steppe]]'' (1940) by Dino Buzzati </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gulistan of Sa'di|The Rose Garden]]'' (1259) by Sa'di </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Christ Stopped at Eboli|Christ Stopped at Eboli]]'' (1945) by Carlo Levi </small>
|-
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| rowspan="5" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sadegh Hedayat|Three Drops of Blood]]'' (1932) by Sadegh Hedayat </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Moon and the Bonfires|The Moon and the Bonfires]]'' (1949) by Cesare Pavese </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sadeq Chubak|The Patient Stone]]'' (1967) by Sadeq Chubak </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Alberto Moravia|Contempt]]'' (1954) by Alberto Moravia </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Little Black Fish|The Little Black Fish and Other Modern Persian Stories]]'' (1968) by Samad Behrangi </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Garden of the Finzi-Continis|The Garden of the Finzi-Continis]]'' (1962) by Giorgio Bassani </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Missing Soluch|Missing Soluch]]'' (1979) by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Natalia Ginzburg|Family Sayings]]'' (1967) by Natalia Ginzburg </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Shahrnush Parsipur|Women Without Men]]'' (1990) by Shahrnush Parsipur </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Equal Danger|Equal Danger]]'' (1971) by Leonardo Sciascia </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:Invisible Cities|Invisible Cities]]'' (1972) by Italo Calvino </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nizami Ganjavi|Chosrow and Shirin]]'' (1180) by Nizami Ganjavi </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Periodic Table (book)|The Periodic Table]]'' (1975) by Primo Levi </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Foucault's Pendulum|Foucault's Pendulum]]'' (1988) by Umberto Eco </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Tutinama|Tutinama: Tales of a Parrot]]'' (14th century) </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Q (novel)|Q]]'' (1999) by Luther Blissett </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Francois Petis de la Croix|1001 Days]]'' (1712) by Francois Petis de la Croix </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Tommaso Pincio|Love-Shaped Story ]]'' (2002) by Tommaso Pincio </small>
|-
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Persian_lit.jpg|100px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Italian_List_Small.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="4" |
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Italo calvino guide.jpg|80px]]
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Italy.png]] Italy </h3>
{|{{Prettytable}}
 
 
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| colspan="5" |<small> [http://tinyurl.com/italianlit Italian Literature Download]</small>
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Japan.png]] Japan</h3>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>[http://tinyurl.com/japaneselit Japanese Literature Download]</small>
|-
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
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| 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_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: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:Kokoro.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Kokoro|Kokoro]]''<br />(1914)<br />by Natsume Soseki</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: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: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:Naomi.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Naomi (novel)|Naomi]]''<br />(1924)<br />by Junichiro Tanizaki</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>
| 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:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
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| rowspan="17" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Consolation of Philosophy|The Consolation of Philosophy]]'' (524) by Boethius </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>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Golden Legend|Golden Legend]]'' (1260) by Jacobus de Voragine </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Pillow Book |The Pillow Book]]'' (1002) by Sei Shonagon</small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Travels of Marco Polo|The Travels]]'' (13th century) of Marco Polo  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Tales of Ise |The Tales of Ise]]'' by Anonymous</small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Il Canzoniere|Il Canzoniere]]'' (1374) by Petrarch </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: Hojoki |Hojoki]]'' (1212) by Kamo no Chomei</small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Prince|The Prince]]'' (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Essays in Idleness |Essays in Idleness]]'' (1330) by Yoshida Kenko</small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Book of the Courtier|The Book of the Courtier]]'' (1528) by Baldassare Castiglione </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Tale of Heike |The Tale of Heike]]'' (1371) by Anonymous</small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Orlando Furioso|Orlando Furioso]]'' (1532) by Ludovico Ariosto </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>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Benvenuto Cellini|The Autobiography]]'' (1563) of Benvenuto Cellini </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Hagakure |Hagakure: the Book of the Samurai]]'' (1716) by Yamamoto Tsunetomo</small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects|Lives of the Artists]]'' (1568) by Giorgio Vasari </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu |Four Major Plays]]'' (~1720) by Chikamatsu Monzaemon</small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jerusalem Delivered|Jerusalem Delivered]]'' (1581) by Torquato Tasso </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Chushingura |Chushingura]]'' (1748) by Takedo Izumo, Miyoshi Shoraku, Namiki Senryuu </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Michelangelo|Selected Poems and Letters]]'' by Michelangelo </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Tales of Moonlight and Rain |Tales of Moonlight and Rain]]'' (1776) by Ueda Akinari</small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Histoire de ma vie|The Memoirs]]'' (1774) of Giacomo Casanova </small>
| rowspan="15" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern Literature (1868-1945)
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Ukigumo |Ukigumo]]'' (1887) by Futabatei Shimei </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:Koda Rohan|Pagoda, Skull and Samurai]]'' (1889) by Koda Rohan</small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Betrothed (Manzoni novel)|The Betrothed]]'' (1827) by Alessandro Manzoni </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Higuchi Ichiyo|In the Shade of Spring Leaves]]'' (1892-6) by Higuchi Ichiyo </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Giacomo Leopardi|Canti]]'' (1837) by Giacomo Leopardi </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kyoka Izumi|Japanese Gothic Tales]]'' (1900) by Izumi Kyoka </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Giuseppe Garibaldi|The Life]]'' (1849) of Giuseppe Garibaldi  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Broken Commandment|The Broken Commandment]]'' (1906) by Toson Shimazaki</small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Giovanni Verga|Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories]]'' (1880) by Giovanni Verga </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Katai Tayama|The Quilt and Other Stories]]'' (1907) by Katai Tayama </small>
|-
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| rowspan="20" 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:Kenji Miyazawa|The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa]]'' (1924) by Kenji Miyazawa</small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Emilio Salgari|Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem]]'' (1900) by Emilio Salgari </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: Botchan|Botchan]]'' (1906) by Natsume Soseki </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gabriele d'Annunzio|Francesca da Rimini]]'' (1901) by Gabriele d'Annunzio </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: I am a Cat|I Am a Cat]]'' (1905) by Natsume Soseki </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Grazia Deledda|Elias Portolu]]'' (1903) by Grazia Deledda </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Wild Geese (novel)|The Wild Geese]]'' (1913) by Mori Ogai </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Late Mattia Pascal|The Late Mattia Pascal]]'' (1904) by Luigi Pirandello </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Shiga Naoya|The Paper Door and Other Stories]]'' (1927) by Shiga Naoya </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Captain Blood (novel)|Captain Blood]]'' (1922) by Rafael Sabatini </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: Kafu Nagai|During the Rain &amp; Flowers in the Shade]]'' (1930) by Kafu Nagai </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>''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musashi_(novel) Musashi]'' (1935) by Eiji Yoshikawa </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Eugenio Montale|Cuttlefish Bones]]'' (1925) by Eugenio Montale </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: The Makioka Sisters|The Makioka Sisters]]'' (1943) by Junichiro Tanizaki </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Revolt Against the Modern World|Revolt Against the Modern World]]'' (1934) by Julius Evola </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Edogawa Ranpo|Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination]]'' (1940) by Edogawa Ranpo </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Tartar Steppe|the Tartar Steppe]]'' (1940) by Dino Buzzati </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:Christ Stopped at Eboli|Christ Stopped at Eboli]]'' (1945) by Carlo Levi </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Palm-of-the-Hand Stories|Palm-of-the-Hand Stories]]'' by Yasunari Kawabata</small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Moon and the Bonfires|The Moon and the Bonfires]]'' (1949) by Cesare Pavese </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Master of Go|The Master of Go]]'' (1954) by Yasunari Kawabata </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Alberto Moravia|Contempt]]'' (1954) by Alberto Moravia </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Setting Sun|The Setting Sun]]'' (1947) by Osamu Dazai </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:Fires on the Plain|Fires on the Plain]]'' (1951) by Shohei Ooka </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Natalia Ginzburg|Family Sayings]]'' (1967) by Natalia Ginzburg </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Waiting Years|The Waiting Years]]'' (1957) by Fumiko Enchi </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Equal Danger|Equal Danger]]'' (1971) by Leonardo Sciascia </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Confessions of a Mask|Confessions of a Mask]]'' (1948) by Yukio Mishima </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Invisible Cities|Invisible Cities]]'' (1972) by Italo Calvino </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Temple of the Golden Pavilion|The Temple of the Golden Pavilion]]'' (1956) by Yukio Mishima </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Periodic Table (book)|The Periodic Table]]'' (1975) by Primo Levi </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Spring Snow|Spring Snow]]'' (1963) by Yukio Mishima </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Foucault's Pendulum|Foucault's Pendulum]]'' (1988) by Umberto Eco </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids |Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids ]]'' (1958) by Kenzaburo Oe </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Q (novel)|Q]]'' (1999) by Luther Blissett </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A Personal Matter|A Personal Matter]]'' (1964) by Kenzaburo Oe </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Tommaso Pincio|Love-Shaped Story ]]'' (2002) by Tommaso Pincio </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Black Rain|Black Rain]]'' (1966) by Masuji Ibuse </small>
|-
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Box Man|The Box Man]]'' (1973) by Kobo Abe </small>
|-
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Italian_List_Small.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Woman in the Dunes |The Woman in the Dunes]]'' (1962) by Kobo Abe </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Italo calvino guide.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="3" |
|-
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|}
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: Silence (novel)|Silence]]'' (1966) by Shusaku Endo </small>
 
{| {{Prettytable}}="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Japan.png]] Japan</h3>
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| colspan="5" |<small> [http://tinyurl.com/japaneselit Japanese Literature Download]</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Samurai (novel)|The Samurai]]'' (1980) by Shusaku Endo </small>
|-
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Twilight Years|The Twilight Years]]'' (1972) by Sawako Ariyoshi </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>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: Almost Transparent Blue|Almost Transparent Blue]]'' (1976) by Ryu Murakami</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="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kitchen (novel)|Kitchen]]'' (1988) by Banana Yoshimoto </small>
|-
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| 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:Norwegian Wood|Norwegian Wood]]'' (1987) by Haruki Murakami </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Pillow Book | The Pillow Book]]'' (1002) by Sei Shonagon</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: The Elephant Vanishes|The Elephant Vanishes]]'' (1991) by Haruki Murakami</small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Tales of Ise | The Tales of Ise]]'' by Anonymous</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle|The Wind-up Bird Chronicle]]'' (1995) by Haruki Murakami </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: Hojoki | Hojoki]]'' (1212) by Kamo no Chomei</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: Kafka on the Shore|Kafka on the Shore]]'' (2002) by Haruki Murakami</small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Essays in Idleness | Essays in Idleness]]'' (1330) by Yoshida Kenko</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Housekeeper and the Professor|The Housekeeper and the Professor]]'' (2003) by Yoko Ogawa</small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Tale of Heike | The Tale of Heike]]'' (1371) by Anonymous</small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
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| 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>
| 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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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Hagakure | Hagakure: the Book of the Samurai]]'' (1716) by Yamamoto Tsunetomo</small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Japan_6.jpg|80px]]
|}
 
 
{|{{Prettytable}}
 
 
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu | Four Major Plays]]'' (~1720) by Chikamatsu Monzaemon</small>
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:South_Korea.png]] Korea</h3>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Chushingura | Chushingura]]'' (1748) by Takedo Izumo, Miyoshi Shoraku, Namiki Senryuu </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Tales of Moonlight and Rain |Tales of Moonlight and Rain]]'' (1776) by Ueda Akinari</small>
| 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>
|-
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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="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Koda Rohan|Pagoda, Skull and Samurai]]'' (1889) by Koda Rohan</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sijo|The Bamboo Grove: An Introduction to Sijo]]'' edited by Richard Rutt </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Higuchi Ichiyo|In the Shade of Spring Leaves]]'' (1892-6) by Higuchi Ichiyo </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Samguk Yusa|Samguk Yusa]]'' (13th century) by Iryeon </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kyoka Izumi|Japanese Gothic Tales]]'' (1900) by Izumi Kyoka </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Virtuous Women: Three Classic Korean Novels]]'' </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Broken Commandment|The Broken Commandment]]'' (1906) by Toson Shimazaki</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong]]'' (18th century) by Lady Hyegyeong </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Katai Tayama|The Quilt and Other Stories]]'' (1907) by Katai Tayama </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kang Kyeong-ae|On Wonso Pond]]'' (1930s) by Kang Kyeong-ae </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kenji Miyazawa|The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa]]'' (1924) by Kenji Miyazawa</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Yi Sang|The Wings]]'' (1930s) by Yi Sang </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: Botchan|Botchan]]'' (1906) by Natsume Soseki </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Park Wan-suh|The Naked Tree]]'' (1970) by Park Wan-suh </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: I am a Cat|I Am a Cat]]'' (1905) by Natsume Soseki </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lee Kyun-young|The Other Side of Dark Remembrance]]'' (1979) by Lee Kyun-young </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Wild Geese (novel)|The Wild Geese]]'' (1913) by Mori Ogai </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Yi Munyol|The Poet]]'' (1992) by Yi Munyol </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Shiga Naoya|The Paper Door and Other Stories]]'' (1927) by Shiga Naoya </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Park Wan-suh|Who Ate up All the Shinga]]'' (1995) by Park Wan-suh </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: Kafu Nagai|During the Rain & Flowers in the Shade]]'' (1930) by Kafu Nagai </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kim Young-ha|I Have the Right to Destroy Myself]]'' (1996) by Kim Young-ha </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: Musashi| Musashi]]'' (1935) by Eiji Yoshikawa </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Yang Gui-ja|Contradictions]]'' (1998) by Yang Gui-ja </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: The Makioka Sisters|The Makioka Sisters]]'' (1943) by Junichiro Tanizaki </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Hwang Sok-yong|The Guest]]'' (2002) by Hwang Sok-yong </small>
|}
 
 
{|{{Prettytable}}
 
 
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Edogawa Ranpo|Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination]]'' (1940) by Edogawa Ranpo </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |<h3>'''Latin America '''</h3>
|-
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| rowspan="24" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Post War (1946-present)|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Inoue Yasushi | The Counterfeiter and Other Stories]]'' by Yasushi Inou </small>
| 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>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Palm-of-the-Hand Stories|Palm-of-the-Hand Stories]]'' by Yasunari Kawabata</small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Master of Go|The Master of Go]]'' (1954) by Yasunari Kawabata </small>  
| 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 Setting Sun|The Setting Sun]]'' (1947) by Osamu Dazai </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:Fires on the Plain|Fires on the Plain]]'' (1951) by Shohei Ooka </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Dom Casmurro|Dom Casmurro]]'' (1899) by Machado de Assis </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Waiting Years|The Waiting Years]]'' (1957) by Fumiko Enchi </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>''[[wikipedia:Confessions of a Mask|Confessions of a Mask]]'' (1948) by Yukio Mishima </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>by Alvaro Mutis </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>by Fernando Gonzales </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Spring Snow|Spring Snow]]'' (1963) by Yukio Mishima </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>by Andres Caicedo </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>by Gonzalo Arango </small>
|-
|-
 
| colspan="4" |<small>by Hernando Tellez </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>
| 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:The Box Man|The Box Man]]'' (1973) by Kobo Abe </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Demetrio Aguilera Malta|Don Goyo]]'' (1933) by Demetrio Aguilera Malta </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Woman in the Dunes |The Woman in the Dunes]]'' (1962) by Kobo Abe </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: Silence (novel)|Silence]]'' (1966) by Shusaku Endo </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Men of Maize|Men of Maize]]'' (1949) by Miguel Angel Asturias </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Samurai (novel)|The Samurai]]'' (1980) by Shusaku Endo </small>  
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Paraguay
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Augusto Roa Bastos </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Twilight Years|The Twilight Years]]'' (1972) by Sawako Ariyoshi </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Roque Vallejos </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: Almost Transparent Blue|Almost Transparent Blue]]'' (1976) by Ryu Murakami</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by José Ricardo Mazó </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kitchen (novel)|Kitchen]]'' (1988) by Banana Yoshimoto </small>  
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Puerto Rico
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Rosario Ferre </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Norwegian Wood|Norwegian Wood]]'' (1987) by Haruki Murakami </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Miguel Piñero </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: The Elephant Vanishes|The Elephant Vanishes]]'' (1991) by Haruki Murakami</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Luis Rafael Sánchez </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>
| rowspan="1" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Salvador
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Horacio Castellanos Moya </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1276577235824.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275246746486.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1298503721666.jpg|100px]]
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Yukio_mishima.jpg|100px]]
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Murakami_guide_fuuuu.jpg|100px]]
 
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Natsume_Soseki.png|100px]]
 
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Mexico.png]] Mexico</h3>
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| colspan="5" |<small>[http://tinyurl.com/mexicanlit Mexican Literature Download]</small>
 
{| {{Prettytable}}="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:South_Korea.png]] Korea </h3>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
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| 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:Cantares_Mexicanos.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Cantares Mexicanos|Cantares Mexicanos]]''<br />(16th century)</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: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: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: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: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: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:Our_Twisted_Hero.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Our Twisted Hero|Our Twisted Hero]]''<br />(1987)<br />by Yi Munyol </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>
|-
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sijo|The Bamboo Grove: An Introduction to Sijo]]'' edited by Richard Rutt </small>
| rowspan="15" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Translated
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Florentine Codex|Florentine Codex]]'' ( ) </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Samguk Yusa|Samguk Yusa]]'' (13th century) by Iryeon </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Broken Spears]]'' ( ) Miguel Leon-Portilla </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Virtuous Women: Three Classic Korean Novels]]'' </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The History of the Indies of New Spain]]'' ( ) by Fray Diego Duran </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong]]'' (18th century) by Lady Hyegyeong </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Memoirs]]'' ( ) of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kang Kyeong-ae|On Wonso Pond]]'' (1930s) by Kang Kyeong-ae </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Bandits from Rio Frio]]'' ( ) by Manuel Payno </small>
|-
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Yi Sang|The Wings]]'' (1930s) by Yi Sang </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |El Zarco]]'' ( ) by Ignacio Manuel Altamirano </small>
|-
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Park Wan-suh|The Naked Tree]]'' (1970) by Park Wan-suh </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Santa]]'' ( ) by Federico Gamboa </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lee Kyun-young|The Other Side of Dark Remembrance]]'' (1979) by Lee Kyun-young </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Anthology]]'' ( ) by Alfonso Reyes </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Yi Munyol|The Poet]]'' (1992) by Yi Munyol </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Song of the Heart: Poems]]'' ( ) by Ramon Lopez Velarde </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Park Wan-suh|Who Ate up All the Shinga]]'' (1995) by Park Wan-suh </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Nostalgia for Death: Poetry]]'' ( ) by Xavier Villaurrutia </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kim Young-ha|I Have the Right to Destroy Myself]]'' (1996) by Kim Young-ha </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Underdogs]]'' ( ) by Mariano Azuela </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Yang Gui-ja|Contradictions]]'' (1998) by Yang Gui-ja </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Burning Plain and Other Stories]]'' ( ) by Juan Rulfo </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Hwang Sok-yong|The Guest]]'' (2002) by Hwang Sok-yong </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 &amp; Other Stories]]'' ( ) by Jose Emilio Pacheco </small>
 
{| {{Prettytable}}="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''<h3>Latin America </h3>'''
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| 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>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Like Water for Chocolate]]'' ( ) by Laura Esquivel </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]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br />( )<br />by  </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: .jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br />( )<br />by </small>
|-
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
| rowspan="7" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Untranslated
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Comedias Escogidas]]'' ( ) by D. Juan Ruiz de Alarcon </small>
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| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Brazil
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Los Relampagos de Agosto]]'' ( ) by Jorge Ibarguengoitia </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Devil to Pay in the Backlands|The Devil to Pay in the Backlands]]'' (1956) by João Guimarães Rosa </small>
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| 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: |Muerte sin fin]]'' ( ) by Jose Gorostiza </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Dom Casmurro|Dom Casmurro]]'' (1899) by Machado de Assis </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Los Dias Terrenales]]'' ( ) by Jose Revueltas </small>
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| 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>''[[wikipedia: |Farabeuf]]'' ( ) by Salvador Elizondo </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Alvaro Mutis </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Los Cuervos Estan de Luto]]'' ( ) by Hugo Arguelles </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Fernando Gonzales </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Cronica de la Intervencion]]'' ( ) by Juan Garcia Ponce </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Andres Caicedo  </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Gonzalo Arango  </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Mexicancanon.jpg|80px]]
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Hernando Tellez  </small>
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Netherlands.png]] Netherlands</h3>
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| 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="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Demetrio Aguilera Malta|Don Goyo]]'' (1933) by Demetrio Aguilera Malta </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>
| 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>
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| rowspan="2" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Guatemala|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:El Señor Presidente|The President]]'' (1946) by Miguel Angel Asturias </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Men of Maize|Men of Maize]]'' (1949) by Miguel Angel Asturias </small>
| rowspan="5" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Praise of Folly|In Praise of Folly]]'' (1511) by Erasmus </small>
|-
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| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Paraguay|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Augusto Roa Bastos </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Joost van den Vondel|Lucifer]]'' (1654) by Joost van den Vondel </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Roque Vallejos </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Eline Vere|Eline Vere]]'' (1889) by Louis Couperus </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by José Ricardo Mazó </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Letters of Vincent van Gogh|The Letters]]'' (1890) of Vincent van Gogh </small>
|-
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| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Puerto Rico|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Rosario Ferre </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Marcellus Emants|A Posthumous Confession]]'' (1894) by Marcellus Emants </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Miguel Piñero </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>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Luis Rafael Sánchez </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Willem Elsschot|Cheese]]'' (1933) by Willem Elsschot </small>
|-
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| rowspan="1" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Salvador|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Horacio Castellanos Moya </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Ferdinand Bordewijk|Character]]'' (1938) by F. Bordewijk </small>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Hella S. Haasse|In a Dark Wood Wandering]]'' (1949) by Hella S. Haasse </small>
|-
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275246746486.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:|Chapel Road]]'' (1953) by Louis Paul Boon </small>
| colspan="4" |
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Ten Thousand Things|The Ten Thousand Things]]'' (1955) by Maria Dermout </small>
 
{| {{Prettytable}}="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Mexico.png]] Mexico </h3>
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| colspan="5" |<small> [http://tinyurl.com/mexicanlit Mexican Literature Download]</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Darkroom of Damocles|The Darkroom of Damocles]]'' (1958) by Willem Frederik Hermans </small>
|-
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Hugo Claus|Wonder]]'' (1962) by Hugo Claus </small>
|-
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| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Cantares_Mexicanos.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Cantares Mexicanos|Cantares Mexicanos]]''<br />(16th century)<br /></small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Remco Campert|I Dreamed in the Cities at Night]]'' by Remco Campert </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: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: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: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>
|-
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jan Wolkers|Turkish Delight]]'' (1969) by Jan Wolkers </small>
|-
|-
| rowspan="15" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Translated|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Florentine Codex|Florentine Codex]]'' ( ) </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:J. Bernlef|Out of Mind]]'' (1984) by J. Bernlef </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Broken Spears]]'' ( ) Miguel Leon-Portilla </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Assault|The Assault]]'' (1982) by H. Mulisch </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The History of the Indies of New Spain]]'' ( ) by Fray Diego Duran </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Following Story|The Following Story]]'' (1991) by Cees Nooteboom </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Memoirs]]'' ( ) of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Omega Minor|Omega Minor]]'' (2004) by Paul Verhaeghen </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Bandits from Rio Frio]]'' ( ) by Manuel Payno </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:|Tomorrow Pamplona]]'' (2007) by Jan van Mersbergen </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |El Zarco]]'' ( ) by Ignacio Manuel Altamirano </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gerbrand Bakker|The Twin]]'' (2008) by Gerbrand Bakker</small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Santa]]'' ( ) by Federico Gamboa </small>
| rowspan="6" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Untranslated
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nicolaas Beets|Camera Obscura]]'' (1851) by Hildebrand </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Anthology]]'' ( ) by Alfonso Reyes </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Louis Couperus|De Stille Kracht]]'' (1900) by Louis Couperus</small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Song of the Heart: Poems]]'' ( ) by Ramon Lopez Velarde </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Frederik van Eeden|Van De Koele Meren des Doods]]'' (1900) by Frederik van Eeden</small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Nostalgia for Death: Poetry]]'' ( ) by Xavier Villaurrutia </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gerard Reve|De Avonden]]'' (1947) by Gerard Reve </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Underdogs]]'' ( ) by Mariano Azuela </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A. den Doolaard|Het land achter Gods rug]]'' (1956) by A. den Doolaard </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Burning Plain and Other Stories]]'' ( ) by Juan Rulfo </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jan Wolkers|Terug naar Oegstgeest]]'' (1965) by Jan Wolkers </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Labyrinth of Solitude]]'' ( ) by Octavio Paz </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Battles in the Desert & Other Stories]]'' ( ) by Jose Emilio Pacheco </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Dutch_lit.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="4" |
|}
|}
 
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<h3>[[File:No.png]] Norway</h3>
{|{{Prettytable}}
 
 
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Like Water for Chocolate]]'' ( ) by Laura Esquivel </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
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| rowspan="7" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Untranslated|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Comedias Escogidas]]'' ( ) by D. Juan Ruiz de Alarcon </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>
|-
| 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>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Los Relampagos de Agosto]]'' ( ) by Jorge Ibarguengoitia </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>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Muerte sin fin]]'' ( ) by Jose Gorostiza </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Hedda Gabler|Hedda Gabler]]'' (1891) by Henrik Ibsen</small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Los Dias Terrenales]]'' ( ) by Jose Revueltas </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Pan (novel)|Pan]]'' (1894) by Knut Hamsun</small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Farabeuf]]'' ( ) by Salvador Elizondo </small>
| rowspan="2" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:One day in October|One Day in October]]'' (1931) by Sigurd Hoel</small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Los Cuervos Estan de Luto]]'' ( ) by Hugo Arguelles  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Seed (Novel)|The Seed]]'' (1940) by Tarjei Vesaas</small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Cronica de la Intervencion]]'' ( ) by Juan Garcia Ponce </small>
| rowspan="4" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Contemporary
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Beatles (novel)|Beatles]]'' (1984) by Lars Saabye Christensen</small>
|-
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Dag Solstad|Shyness and Dignity]]'' (1994) by Dag Solstad</small>
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Mexicancanon.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Naïve. Super|Naïve. Super]]'' (1996) by Erlend Loe</small>
| colspan="4" |
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Out Stealing Horses|Out Stealing Horses]]'' (2003) by Per Petterson</small>
|}
|}
|}


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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Netherlands.png]] Netherlands </h3>
 
<h3>[[File:Poland.png]] Poland</h3>
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|-
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
| 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: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:Amsterdam_Stories.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Nescio|Amsterdam Stories]]''<br />(1910s)<br />by Nescio </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: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: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: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:Ferdydurke.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: Ferdydurke |Ferdydurke]]''<br />(1937)<br />by Witold Gombrowicz </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>
| 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'''
| 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>
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Laments (Treny)|Laments ]]'' (1580) by Jan Kochanowski </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Joost van den Vondel|Lucifer]]'' (1654) by Joost van den Vondel </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Fables and Parables|Fables and Parables]]'' (1779) by Ignacy Krasicki </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Eline Vere|Eline Vere]]'' (1889) by Louis Couperus </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Quo Vadis (novel)|Quo Vadis]]'' (1895 ) by Henryk Sienkiewicz </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Letters of Vincent van Gogh|The Letters]]'' (1890) of Vincent van Gogh </small>
| rowspan="18" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Tadeusz Konwicki</small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Marcellus Emants|A Posthumous Confession]]'' (1894) by Marcellus Emants </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Andrzej Stasiuk</small>
|-
|-
| rowspan="15" 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>( ) by Wisława Szymborska</small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Willem Elsschot|Cheese]]'' (1933) by Willem Elsschot </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>Primeval and other times(2005) by Olga Tokarczuk </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Ferdinand Bordewijk|Character]]'' (1938) by F. Bordewijk </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Stanisław Lem </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Hella S. Haasse|In a Dark Wood Wandering]]'' (1949) by Hella S. Haasse </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Adam Zagajewski </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:|Chapel Road]]'' (1953) by Louis Paul Boon </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Zbigniew Herbert </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Ten Thousand Things|The Ten Thousand Things]]'' (1955) by Maria Dermout </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Stefan Grabiński </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Darkroom of Damocles|The Darkroom of Damocles]]'' (1958) by Willem Frederik Hermans </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Hugo Claus|Wonder]]'' (1962) by Hugo Claus </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Remco Campert|I Dreamed in the Cities at Night]]'' by Remco Campert </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>The Elephant(1957) by Sławomir Mrożek </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jan Wolkers|Turkish Delight]]'' (1969) by Jan Wolkers </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Ewa Lipska </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:J. Bernlef|Out of Mind]]'' (1984) by J. Bernlef </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Jerzy Ficowski </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Assault|The Assault]]'' (1982) by H. Mulisch </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Stefan żeromski </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Following Story|The Following Story]]'' (1991) by Cees Nooteboom </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Anna Swir </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Omega Minor|Omega Minor]]'' (2004) by Paul Verhaeghen </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Juliusz Słowacki </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:|Tomorrow Pamplona]]'' (2007) by Jan van Mersbergen </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>( ) by Gustaw Herling </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gerbrand Bakker|The Twin]]'' (2008) by Gerbrand Bakker</small>
|}
|-
 
| rowspan="6" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Untranslated|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nicolaas Beets|Camera Obscura]]'' (1851) by Hildebrand </small>
 
|-
 
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Louis Couperus|De Stille Kracht]]'' (1900) by Louis Couperus</small>
<h3>[[File:Portugal.png]] Portugal</h3>
{|{{Prettytable}}
 
 
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Frederik van Eeden|Van De Koele Meren des Doods]]'' (1900) by Frederik van Eeden</small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gerard Reve|De Avonden]]'' (1947) by Gerard Reve </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A. den Doolaard|Het land achter Gods rug]]'' (1956) by A. den Doolaard </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="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jan Wolkers|Terug naar Oegstgeest]]'' (1965) by Jan Wolkers </small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="5" |<small>by António Lobo Antunes </small>
|-
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Dutch_lit.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="4" |
|-
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>by José Saramago </small>
|}
|}


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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:No.png]] Norway</h3>
{| {{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'''
| 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: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: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: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:Hunger.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Hunger (novel)|Hunger]]''<br />(1890)<br />by Knut Hamsun</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: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: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:The wreath.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Kristin Lavransdatter|Kristin Lavransdatter]]''<br />(1920&ndash;1922)<br />by Sigrid Undset</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" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Brand (play)|Brand]]'' (1866) by Henrik Ibsen</small>
| 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="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Hedda Gabler|Hedda Gabler]]'' (1891) by Henrik Ibsen</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impure_Blood Impure Blood]'' (1910) by Borisav Stanković </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Pan (novel)|Pan]]'' (1894) by Knut Hamsun</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>
|-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Contemporary|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Beatles (novel)|Beatles]]'' (1984) by Lars Saabye Christensen</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="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Naïve. Super|Naïve. Super]]'' (1996) by Erlend Loe</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreni_(novel) Koreni]'' (1954) by Dobrica Ćosić</small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Out Stealing Horses|Out Stealing Horses]]'' (2003) by Per Petterson</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>
 
{| {{Prettytable}}="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Poland.png]] Poland </h3>
|-
| 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  Boleslaw 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 Czeslaw 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>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Tadeusz Konwicki</small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Andrzej Stasiuk</small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Wislawa Szymborska</small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Olga Tokarczuk </small>  
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Stanislaw Lem </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="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Adam Zagajewski </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="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Zbigniew Herbert </small>  
| colspan="5" |<small>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies_(novel) ''Rabies''] (1983) by Borislav Pekić</small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Stefan Grabinski </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="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz </small>  
| colspan="5" |<small>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_the_Khazars ''Dictionary of the Khazars''] (1984) by Milorad Pavić</small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz </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>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Slawomir Mrozek </small>
{|{{Prettytable}}
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Ewa Lipska </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Jerzy Ficowski </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Stefan Zeromski </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Anna Swir </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Juliusz Slowacki </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Gustaw Herling </small>  
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Adam Mickiewicz </small>  
|-
|}


{| {{Prettytable}}="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Portugal.png]] Portugal </h3>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| 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]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br />  <br /> </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by  António Lobo Antunes </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by José Saramago </small>
|-
|}


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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Spain.png]] Spain </h3>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
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| 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: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: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: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>
| 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>
|-
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lazarillo de Tormes|Lazarillo de Tormes]]'' (1556) </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lazarillo de Tormes|Lazarillo de Tormes]]'' (1556) </small>
|-
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Eduardo Mendoza Garriga </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>
|-
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Lope de Vega </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuenteovejuna ''Fuenteovejuna''] by Lope de Vega </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer </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>
|-
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Juan Marse </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="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Javier Marias </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''Tu rostro mañana'' by Javier Marías </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Juan Goyitsolo </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Julian_(novel) Count Julian]'' by Juan Goyitsolo </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Enrique Vila-Matas </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''Dublinescas'' by Enrique Vila-Matas </small>
|-
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:La sombra del viento |The Shadow of the Wind ]]'' by Carlos Ruiz Zafón </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" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Catalan recommendations'''
|-
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Santiago Rusiñol </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>by Santiago Rusiñol </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Salvador Espriu </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>by Salvador Espriu </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Miquel Bauca </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>by Miquel Bauca </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Maria Barbal </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>by Maria Barbal </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Josep Carner </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>by Josep Carner </small>
|-
|}
|}
|} olspan="5" |
 
<h3>[[File:Russia.png]] Russia</h3>
{|{{Prettytable}}
 


{| {{Prettytable}}="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Russia.png]] Russia</h3>
|-
|-
| colspan="5" |<small> [http://tinyurl.com/russianlit Russian Literature Download]</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>[http://tinyurl.com/russianlit Russian Literature Download]</small>
|-
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
| rowspan="16" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |19th Century|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Woe from Wit|Woe from Wit ]]'' (1823) by Aleksandr Griboyedov </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:Dead Souls |Dead Souls]]'' (1842) by Nikolai Gogol </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Dead Souls |Dead Souls]]'' (1842) by Nikolai Gogol </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Diary of a Madman|Diary of a Madman and Other Stories ]]'' (1842) by Nikolai Gogol </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Diary of a Madman|Diary of a Madman and Other Stories ]]'' (1842) by Nikolai Gogol </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Oblomov |Oblomov ]]'' (1859) by Ivan Goncharov </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Oblomov |Oblomov ]]'' (1859) by Ivan Goncharov </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Fathers and Sons |Fathers and Sons ]]'' (1862) by Ivan Turgenev </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Fathers and Sons |Fathers and Sons ]]'' (1862) by Ivan Turgenev </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Crime and Punishment |Crime and Punishment ]]'' (1866) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Crime and Punishment |Crime and Punishment ]]'' (1866) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Alexander Pushkin)|The Collected Stories]]'' by Alexander Pushkin </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Alexander Pushkin)|The Collected Stories]]'' by Alexander Pushkin </small>
|-
|-
| rowspan="15" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |20th Century|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Petersburg (novel)|Petersburg]]'' (1913) by Andrei Bely </small>
| rowspan="15" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |20th Century
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Petersburg (novel)|Petersburg]]'' (1913) by Andrei Bely </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:We (novel)|We]]'' (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:We (novel)|We]]'' (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A School for Fools|A School for Fools]]'' (1960s) by Sasha Sokolov</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="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kolyma Tales|Kolyma Tales]]'' (1954-73) by Varlam Shalamov</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kolyma Tales|Kolyma Tales]]'' (1954-73) by Varlam Shalamov</small>
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Russian2.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Russian2.jpg|80px]]
| colspan="4" |
| colspan="4" |
|-
|}
|}
|}
olspan="5" |
<h3>[[File:South_Africa.png]] South Africa</h3>
{|{{Prettytable}}


{| {{Prettytable}}="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:South_Africa.png]] South Africa</h3>
|-
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
| 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>
| 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:Portrait with Keys|Portrait with Keys]]'' (2006) by Ivan Vladislavic </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Zoo City|Zoo City]]'' (2010) by Lauren Beukes </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Zoo City|Zoo City]]'' (2010) by Lauren Beukes </small>
|-
|}
|}
|}


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{| {{Prettytable}}="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
 
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:United_States.png]] United States </h3>
<h3>[[File:United_States.png]] United States</h3>
{|{{Prettytable}}
 
 
|-
|-
| colspan="5" |<small> [http://tinyurl.com/usalit American Literature Download]</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>[http://tinyurl.com/usalit American Literature Download]</small>
|-
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
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| 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: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: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: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: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>
| 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'''
| 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>
| 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:Edgar Allen Poe|Collected Works]]'' (1849) by Edgar Allen Poe </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Where I'm Calling From|Where I'm Calling From]]'' (1988) by Raymond Carver </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
| rowspan="9" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Poetry Collections|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Emily Dickinson|The Poetry]]'' (1886) of Emily Dickinson </small>
| 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:The Waste Land|The Waste Land and Other Poems]]'' (1922) by T.S. Eliot </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Robinson Jeffers|Selected Poems]]'' (1962) by Robinson Jeffers </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:Robert Frost|Collected Poems]]'' (1963) by Robert Frost </small>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:William Carlos Williams|Collected Poems Vol.1 & 2]]'' (1963) by William Carlos Williams </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>
| 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>
| 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:Our Town|Our Town]]'' (1938) by Thornton Wilder </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Tennessee Williams|Plays 1937-1955]]'' (1955) by Tennessee Williams </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: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:Buried Child|Buried Child]]'' (1978) by Sam Shepard </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Angels in America|Angels in America]]'' (1993) by Tony Kushner </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Angels in America|Angels in America]]'' (1993) by Tony Kushner </small>
|-
|-
| rowspan="51" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Others|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Last of the Mohicans|The Last of the Mohicans]]'' (1826) by Fenimore Cooper </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 Scarlet Letter|The Scarlet Letter]]'' (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Road|The Road]]'' (2006) by Cormac McCarthy </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Road|The Road]]'' (2006) by Cormac McCarthy </small>
|-
|-
 
| rowspan="5" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Slave Narratives
| 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: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: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: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:Twelve Years a Slave|Twelve Years a Slave]]'' (1853) by Solomon Northrup </small>
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| 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>
| 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>
| 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:The Souls of Black Folk|The Souls of Black Folk]]'' (1903) by W.E.B. Du Bois </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Paul Laurence Dunbar|The Collected Poetry]]'' (1906) by Paul Laurence Dunbar </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Paul Laurence Dunbar|The Collected Poetry]]'' (1906) by Paul Laurence Dunbar </small>
|-
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| rowspan="8" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Harlem Renaissance|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Cane (novel)|Cane]]'' (1923) by Jean Toomer </small>
| rowspan="8" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Harlem Renaissance
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Cane (novel)|Cane]]'' (1923) by Jean Toomer </small>
|-
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Rudolph Fisher|The Walls of Jericho]]'' (1928) by Rudolph Fisher </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Rudolph Fisher|The Walls of Jericho]]'' (1928) by Rudolph Fisher </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Their Eyes Were Watching God|Their Eyes Were Watching God]]'' (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston </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>
| 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:If He Hollers Let Him Go|If he Hollers Let Him Go]]'' (1945) by Chester Himes </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A Raisin in the Sun|A Raisin in the Sun]]'' (1959) by Lorraine Hansberry </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: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:Gwendolyn Brooks|Selected Poems]]'' (1966) by Gwendolyn Brooks </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings|I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]]'' (1969) by Maya Angelou </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings|I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]]'' (1969) by Maya Angelou </small>
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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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