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An overview of literature and genre fiction recommended by /lit/.
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<h1>Literature</h1>
<h2>By country</h2>
 
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|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:China.png]] China </h3>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="200" align="center"|<h3>'''[[Recommended Reading/Literature by origin|Literature by origin]]'''</h3>[[File:Ulysses235px.png|link=Recommended Reading/Literature by origin]]
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="200" align="center"|<h3>'''[[Recommended Reading/Literature by type|Literature by type]]'''</h3>[[File:Menwithoutwomen235px.png|link=Recommended Reading/Literature by type]]
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="200" align="center"|<h3>'''[[Recommended Reading/Genre fiction|Genre fiction]]'''</h3>[[File:Lotr1sted235px.png|link=Recommended Reading/Genre fiction]]
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="200" align="center"|<h3>'''[[Recommended Reading/Non-fiction|Non-fiction]]'''</h3>[[File:Kritik235px.png|link=Recommended Reading/Non-fiction]]
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Three_Kingdoms.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Romance of the Three Kingdoms|Three Kingdoms ]]''<br/>(14th century)<br/>by Luo Guanzhong </small>
|colspan=4 style="background:#C3D69B;"| Completely new to reading and feeling overwhelmed? [https://lit.trainroll.xyz/images/e/e2/1365475090228.jpg Check out the /lit/ starter kit.] [https://lit.trainroll.xyz/images/3/3f/Start_with_the_greeks.jpg Or maybe you'd like to start with the Greeks?] [[Poetry|Alternatively if you're looking to get into poetry, you can start here.]]
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Story_of_the_Stone.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Dream of the Red Chamber|Story of the Stone]]''<br/>(18th century)<br/>by Cao Xueqin </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Strange_Tales_from_a_Chinese_Studio.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio| Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio]]''<br/>(1740)<br/>by Pu Songling </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File: The_Real_Story_of_Ah-Q_and_Other_Tales_of_China.jpg |80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The True Story of Ah Q|The Real Story of Ah Q]]''<br/>(1922)<br/>by Lu Xun  </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File: Camel_Xiangzi.jpg |80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Camel Xiangzi|Camel Xiangzi]]''<br/>(1937)<br/>by Lao She </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
|colspan=4 style="background:#C3D69B;"| A general collection of recommended reading charts can be found [[Charts|here]] and [[:Category:Charts|here]]. Charts for specific authors can be found [[Recommended_Reading_Charts_(by_Author)|here]].
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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>
|colspan=4 style="background:#C3D69B;"| Still need help finding ebooks? [https://lit.trainroll.xyz/images/2/2e/1373256590041.png Try out some of these.]
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Yuan Dynasty|Six Yuan Plays]]'' (Yuan dynasty) by  </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Outlaws of the Marsh|Outlaws of the Marsh]]'' (14th century) by Shi Nai'an  </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Romance of the West Chamber|The Story of the Western Wing]]'' (14th century) by Wang Shifu </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Journey to the West|Journey to the West]]'' (16th century) by Wu Cheng'en </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Creation of the Gods|Creation of the Gods]]'' (16th century) by Xu Zhonglin </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Peony Pavilion|The Peony Pavilion]]'' (1598) by Tang Xianzu </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Feng Menglong|Stories Old and New]]'' (1620) by Feng Menglong </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Jin Ping Mei|The Plum in the Golden Vase]]'' (17th century) by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Carnal Prayer Mat|The Carnal Prayer Mat]]'' (1657) by Li Yu </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Scholars (novel)|The Scholars]]'' (1750) by Wu Jingzi </small>
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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>
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|rowspan=21 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Modern||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Family (Ba Jin novel)|Family]]'' (1933) Ba Jin </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Lin Yutang|The Importance of Living]]'' (1937) by Lin Yutang </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |My Country and My People]]'' ( ) by Lin Yutang </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Wild Grass]]'' ( ) by Lu Xun </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Rainbow]]'' ( ) by Mao Dun </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Fortress Besieged|Fortress Besieged]]'' (1947) by Qian Zhongshu </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Border Town]]'' ( ) by Shen Congwen </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Selected Stories]]'' ( ) by Shen Congwen </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Teahouse]]'' ( ) by Lao She </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Love in a Fallen City]]'' ( ) by Eileen Chang </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The King of Trees]]'' ( ) by Ah Cheng </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Red Sorghum]]'' ( ) by Mo Yan </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Life and Death are Wearing Me Out]]'' ( ) by Mo Yan </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Three-Inch Golden Lotus]]'' ( ) by Feng Jicai </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Brothers]]'' ( ) by Yu Hua </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |To Live]]'' ( ) by Yu Hua </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Soul Mountain]]'' ( ) by Gao Xingjian </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Waves]]'' ( ) by Bei Dao </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The August Sleepwalker]]'' ( ) by Bei Dao </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Five Spice Street]]'' ( ) by Can Xue </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Vertical Motion]]'' ( ) by Can Xue </small>
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|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Czech.png]] Czech Republic </h3>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:May.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Máj|May]]''<br/>(1836)<br/>by Karel Hynek Macha </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:The_Good_Soldier_Svejk.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Good Soldier Svejk|The Good Soldier Svejk]]''<br/>(1923)<br/>by Jaroslav Hasek </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Three_Novels.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Hordubal|Three Novels]]''<br/>(1933)<br/>by Karel Capek </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:I_Served_the_King_of_England.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:I Served the King of England|I Served the King of England]]''<br/>(1983)<br/>by Bohumil Hrabal </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Unbearable Lightness of Being|The Unbearable Lightness of Being]]''<br/>(1984)<br/>by Milan Kundera </small>
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|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>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Hidden History]]'' ( ) by Otokar Brezina </small>
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|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>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |R.U.R.]]'' ( ) by Karel Capek </small>
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|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>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Valerie and Her Week of Wonders]]'' ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Prague Tales]]'' ( ) by Jan Neruda </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Arsonist]]'' ( ) by Egon Hostovsky </small>
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|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>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Narrative Poems]]'' ( ) by Vladimir Holan </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Dreams at the End of the Night]]'' ( ) by Ewald Murrer </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |How I Came to Know Fish]]'' ( ) by Ota Pavel </small>
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|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>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Saturnin]]'' ( ) by Zdenek Jirotka </small>
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|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>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Too Loud a Solitude]]'' ( ) by Bohumil Hrabal </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Love and Garbage]]'' ( ) by Ivan Klima </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Immortality]]'' ( ) by Milan Kundera </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Garden Party and Other Plays]]'' ( ) by Vaclav Havel </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Questionnaire]]'' ( ) by Jiri Grusa </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Guinea Pigs]]'' ( ) by Ludvik Vaculik </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Cremator]]'' (1967) by Ladislav Fuks </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova]]'' ( ) by Arnost Lustig </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Bohemian Youth]]'' ( ) by Josef Hirsal </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |City Sister Silver]]'' ( ) by Jachym Topol </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Engineer of Human Souls]]'' ( ) by Josef Skvorecky </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Other City]]'' ( ) by Michal Ajvaz </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Europeana]]'' ( ) by Patrik Ourednik </small>
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|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>
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|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>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Trial]]'' ( ) by Franz Kafka </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Metamorphosis]]'' ( ) by Franz Kafka </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Hunger Artist]]'' ( ) by Franz Kafka </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Blaugast]]'' ( ) by Paul Leppin </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Severin’s Journey into the Dark]]'' ( ) by Paul Leppin </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Raging Reporter]]'' ( ) by Egon Erwin Kisch </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Tycho Brahe’s Path to God]]'' ( ) by Max Brod </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Maimed]]'' ( ) by Hermann Ungar </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Boys & 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>
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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'''
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Czech_literature.jpg|80px]]
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{|{{Prettytable}}
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Germany.png]] Germany</h3>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Sorrows_of_Young_Werther.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Sorrows of Young Werther|The Sorrows of Young Werther]]''<br/>(1774)<br/>by Goethe </small>
|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'''
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|rowspan=7 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Classic||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Robbers|The Robbers and Wallenstein]]'' (1781) by Friedrich Schiller </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>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Broken Jug|The Broken Jug]]'' (1806) by Heinrich von Kleist </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Goethe's Faust|Faust]]'' (1832) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Danton's Death|Danon's Death]]'' (1835) George Buchner </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Der_Schimmelreiter|The Rider on the White Horse]]'' (1888) by Theodor Storm </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Effi Briest|Effi Briest]]'' (1895) by Theodor Fontane</small>
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|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:Der Untertan|The Loyal Subject]]'' (1914) by Heinrich Mann</small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Metamorphosis|The Metamorphosis]]'' (1915) by Franz Kafka </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Trial (novel)|The Trial]]'' (1925) by Franz Kafka </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Castle (novel)|The Castle]]'' (1926) by Franz Kafka </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Siddhartha (novel)|Siddhartha]]'' (1922) by Hermann Hesse</small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Steppenwolf (novel)|Steppenwolf]]'' (1927) by Hermann Hesse</small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Berlin Alexanderplatz|Berlin Alexanderplatz]]'' (1929) by Alfred Doblin </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Visit |The Visit]]'' (1956) by Friedrich Durrenmatt </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Physicists|The Physicists]]'' (1961) by Friedrich Durrenmatt </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Flounder|The Flounder]]'' (1977) by Gunter Grass </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Cassandra (novel)|Cassandra]]'' (1984) Christa Wolf </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Perfume (novel)|Perfume]]'' (1985) by Patrick Suskind</small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Christoph Ransmayr|The Last Word]]'' (1988) by Christoph Ransmayr </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
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{|{{Prettytable}}
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Iran.png]] Iran </h3>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:The_Conference_of_the_Birds.JPG|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Conference of the Birds|The Conference of the Birds]]''<br/>(12th century)<br/>by Farid ud-Din Attar </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Rubaiyat.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Rubaiyat|The Rubaiyat]]''<br/>(12th century)<br/>of Omar Khayyam </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Essential_Rumi.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Rumi|The Essential Works]]''<br/>(13th century)<br/>by Rumi </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Gulistan.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Gulistan of Sa'di|The Rose Garden]]''<br/>(1259)<br/>by Sa'di </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Divan-i.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Hafiz Shirazi|The Divan-i]]''<br/>(14th century)<br/>of Hafiz </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
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|rowspan=5 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:Vis and Rāmin|Vis and Ramin]]'' (11th century) by Asad Gorgani  </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>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Nizami Ganjavi|Haft Paykar]]'' (1197) by Nizami Ganjavi </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Persian literature#Poetry|Borrowed Ware: Medieval Persian Epigrams]]'' edited by Dick Davis </small>
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|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:Nizami Ganjavi|Chosrow and Shirin]]'' (1180) by Nizami Ganjavi </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Tutinama|Tutinama: Tales of a Parrot]]'' (14th century) </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Francois Petis de la Croix|1001 Days]]'' (1712) by Francois Petis de la Croix </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
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{|{{Prettytable}}
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Japan.png]] Japan</h3>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Tale_of_Genji.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Tale of Genji|The Tale of Genji]]''<br/>(11th century)<br/>by Murasaki Shikibu</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Kokoro.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Kokoro|Kokoro]]''<br/>(1914)<br/>by Natsume Soseki</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Rashomon_and_Seventeen_Other_Stories.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Rashōmon_(short_story)|Rashomon]]''<br/>(1915)<br/>by Akutagawa</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Naomi.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Naomi (novel)|Naomi]]''<br/>(1924)<br/>by Junichiro Tanizaki</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Snow_Country.jpg|80px]] <br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Snow Country|Snow Country]]''<br/>(1947)<br/>by Yasunari Kawabata</small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
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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>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Pillow Book | The Pillow Book]]'' (1002) by Sei Shonagon</small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Tales of Ise | The Tales of Ise]]'' by Anonymous</small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: Hojoki | Hojoki]]'' (1212) by Kamo no Chomei</small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Essays in Idleness | Essays in Idleness]]'' (1330) by Yoshida Kenko</small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Tale of Heike | The Tale of Heike]]'' (1371) by Anonymous</small>
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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>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Hagakure | Hagakure: the Book of the Samurai]]'' (1716) by Yamamoto Tsunetomo</small>
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|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:Chushingura | Chushingura]]'' (1748) by Takedo Izumo, Miyoshi Shoraku, Namiki Senryuu </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Tales of Moonlight and Rain |Tales of Moonlight and Rain]]'' (1776) by Ueda Akinari</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>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Koda Rohan|Pagoda, Skull and Samurai]]'' (1889) by Koda Rohan</small>
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|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:Kyoka Izumi|Japanese Gothic Tales]]'' (1900) by Izumi Kyoka </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Broken Commandment|The Broken Commandment]]'' (1906) by Toson Shimazaki</small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Katai Tayama|The Quilt and Other Stories]]'' (1907) by Katai Tayama </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Kenji Miyazawa|The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa]]'' (1924) by  Kenji Miyazawa</small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: Botchan|Botchan]]'' (1906) by Natsume Soseki </small>
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|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:The Wild Geese (novel)|The Wild Geese]]'' (1913) by Mori Ogai </small>
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|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: Kafu Nagai|During the Rain & Flowers in the Shade]]'' (1930) by Kafu Nagai </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: Musashi| Musashi]]'' (1935) by Eiji Yoshikawa </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: The Makioka Sisters|The Makioka Sisters]]'' (1943) by Junichiro Tanizaki </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Edogawa Ranpo|Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination]]'' (1940) by Edogawa Ranpo </small>
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|rowspan=23 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Post War (1946-present)||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Inoue Yasushi | The Counterfeiter and Other Stories]]'' by Yasushi Inou </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Palm-of-the-Hand Stories|Palm-of-the-Hand Stories]]'' by Yasunari Kawabata</small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Master of Go|The Master of Go]]'' (1954) by Yasunari Kawabata </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Setting Sun|The Setting Sun]]'' (1947) by Osamu Dazai </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Fires on the Plain|Fires on the Plain]]'' (1951) by Shohei Ooka </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Waiting Years|The Waiting Years]]'' (1957) by Fumiko Enchi </small>
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|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: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:Spring Snow|Spring Snow]]'' (1963) by Yukio Mishima </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids |Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids ]]'' (1958) by Kenzaburo Oe </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:A Personal Matter|A Personal Matter]]'' (1964) by Kenzaburo Oe </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Black Rain|Black Rain]]'' (1966) by Masuji Ibuse </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Box Man|The Box Man]]'' (1973) by Kobo Abe </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Woman in the Dunes |The Woman in the Dunes]]'' (1962) by Kobo Abe </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: Silence (novel)|Silence]]'' (1966) by Shusaku Endo </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Samurai (novel)|The Samurai]]'' (1980) by Shusaku Endo </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Twilight Years|The Twilight Years]]'' (1972) by Sawako Ariyoshi </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: Almost Transparent Blue|Almost Transparent Blue]]'' (1976) by Ryu Murakami</small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Kitchen (novel)|Kitchen]]'' (1988) by Banana Yoshimoto </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Norwegian Wood|Norwegian Wood]]'' (1987) by Haruki Murakami </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: The Elephant Vanishes|The Elephant Vanishes]]'' (1991) by Haruki Murakami</small>
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|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:The Housekeeper and the Professor|The Housekeeper and the Professor]]'' (2003) by Yoko Ogawa</small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File:1276577235824.jpg|80px]]
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:1298503721666.jpg|100px]]
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Yukio_mishima.jpg|100px]]
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Murakami_guide_fuuuu.jpg|100px]]
|colspan=1|
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{|{{Prettytable}}
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Mexico.png]]  Mexico </h3>
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Cantares_Mexicanos.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: |Cantares Mexicanos]]''<br/>( )<br/> </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Poems_Protest_and_a_Dream.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: |Poems, Protest, and a Dream]]''<br/>( )<br/>by Sor Juana </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Pedro_Paramo.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Pedro Paramo|Pedro Paramo]]''<br/>( )<br/>by  Juan Rulfo</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Death_of_Artemio_Cruz.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Death of Artemio Cruz|The Death of Artemio Cruz]]''<br/>( )<br/>by Carlos Fuentues </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Confabulario.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: |Confabulario and Other Inventions]]''<br/>( )<br/>by Juan Jose Arreola </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|rowspan=14 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Translated||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Florentine Codex|Florentine Codex]]'' ( )  </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Broken Spears]]'' ( )  Miguel Leon-Portilla </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The History of the Indies of New Spain]]'' ( ) by Fray Diego Duran </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Memoirs]]'' ( ) of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier  </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Bandits from Rio Frio]]'' ( ) by Manuel Payno </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |El Zarco]]'' ( ) by Ignacio Manuel Altamirano </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Santa]]'' ( ) by  Federico Gamboa </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Anthology]]'' ( ) by Alfonso Reyes </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Song of the Heart: Poems]]'' ( ) by Ramon Lopez Velarde </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Nostalgia for Death: Poetry]]'' ( ) by Xavier Villaurrutia </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Underdogs]]'' ( ) by Mariano Azuela </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Burning Plain and Other Stories]]'' ( ) by Juan Rulfo </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Labyrinth of Solitude]]'' ( ) by Octavio Paz </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Battles in the Desert & Other Stories]]'' ( ) by Jose Emilio Pacheco </small>
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|rowspan=7 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Untranslated||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Comedias Escogidas]]'' ( ) by D. Juan Ruiz de Alarcon </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Los Relampagos de Agosto]]'' ( ) by Jorge Ibarguengoitia </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Muerte sin fin]]'' ( ) by Jose Gorostiza </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Los Dias Terrenales]]'' ( ) by Jose Revueltas </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Farabeuf]]'' ( ) by Salvador Elizondo </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Los Cuervos Estan de Luto]]'' ( ) by Hugo Arguelles  </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Cronica de la Intervencion]]'' ( ) by Juan Garcia Ponce </small>
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Mexicancanon.jpg|80px]]
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{|{{Prettytable}}
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Netherlands.png]] Netherlands </h3>
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
|-
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Multatuli.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Max Havelaar|Max Havelaar]]''<br/>(1860)<br/>by Multatuli</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Amsterdam_Stories.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Nescio|Amsterdam Stories]]''<br/>(1910s)<br/>by Nescio </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Beyond_Sleep.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Beyond Sleep|Beyond Sleep ]]''<br/>(1966)<br/>by Willem Hermans</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Parents_Worry.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Gerard Reve|Parents Worry]]''<br/>(1988)<br/>by Gerard Reve</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Discovery_of_Heaven.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Discovery of Heaven|The Discovery of Heaven ]]''<br/>(1992)<br/>by Harry Mulisch </small>
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|rowspan=19 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Translated||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Joost van den Vondel|Lucifer]]'' ( ) by Joost van den Vondel </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|A Posthumous Confession]]'' ( ) by Marcellus Emants </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|In Praise of Folly]]'' ( ) by Erasmus </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|In a Dark Wood Wandering]]'' ( ) by Hella S. Haasse </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|The Waning of the Middle Ages]]'' ( ) by J. Huizinga </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|The Letters]]'' of Vincent van Gogh </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|The Ten Thousand Things]]'' ( ) by Maria Dermout </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Eline Vere]]'' ( ) by Louis Couperus </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Chapel Road]]'' ( ) by Louis Paul Boon </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|I Dreamed in the Cities at Night]]'' ( ) by Remco Campert </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Omega Minor]]'' ( ) by Paul Verhaeghen </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Cheese]]'' ( ) by Willem Elsschot </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Turkish Delight]]'' ( ) by Jan Wolkers </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|The Darkroom of Damocles]]'' ( ) by Willem Frederik Hermans </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Wonder]]'' ( ) by Hugo Claus </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|The Following Story]]'' ( ) by Cees Nooteboom </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Character]]'' ( ) by F. Bordewijk </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|The Twin]]'' ( ) by Gerbrand Bakker</small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Tomorrow Pamplona]]'' ( ) by Jan van Mersbergen </small>
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|rowspan=5 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Untranslated||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Hildebrand|Camera Obscura]]'' ( ) by Hildebrand </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Louis Couperus|De Stille Kracht]]'' ( ) by Louis Couperus</small>
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Frederik van Eeden|Van De Koele Meren des Doods]]'' ( ) by Frederik van Eeden</small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Gerard Reve|De Avonden]]'' ( ) by Gerard Reve </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Jan Wolkers|Terug naar Oegstgeest]]'' ( ) by Jan Wolkers </small>
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Dutch_lit.jpg|80px]]
|colspan=4|
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{|{{Prettytable}}
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:No.png]] Norway</h3>
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
|-
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:A-Doll-s-House-and-Other-Plays.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:A Doll's House|A Doll's House]]''<br/>(1879)<br/>by Henrik Ibsen</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Thewildduck.png|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Wild Duck|The Wild Duck]]''<br/>(1884)<br/>by Henrik Ibsen</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Hunger.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Hunger (novel)|Hunger]]''<br/>(1890)<br/>by Knut Hamsun</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Growthofthesoil.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Growth of the Soil|Growth of the Soil]]''<br/>(1917)<br/>by Knut Hamsun</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:The wreath.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Kristin Lavransdatter (novel)|The Wreath]]''<br/>(1920)<br/>by Sigrid Undset</small>
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|rowspan=3 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Classic||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Brand (play)|Brand]]'' (1866) by Henrik Ibsen</small>
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Hedda Gabler|Hedda Gabler]]'' (1891) by Henrik Ibsen</small>
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Pan (novel)|Pan]]'' (1894) by Knut Hamsun</small>
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|rowspan=3 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Contemporary||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Beatles (novel)|Beatles]]'' (1984) by Lars Saabye Christensen</small>
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Naïve. Super|Naïve. Super]]'' (1996) by Erlend Loe</small>
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Out Stealing Horses|Out Stealing Horses]]'' (2003) by Per Petterson</small>
|-
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{|{{Prettytable}}
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Russia.png]] Russia</h3>
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
|-
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:a_Hero_of_Our_Time.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:A Hero of Our Time|A Hero of Our time]]''<br/>(1841)<br/>by Mikhail Lermontov </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:War_and_Peace.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:War and Peace|War and Peace]]''<br/>(1869)<br/>by Leo Tolstoy </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Brothers_Karamazov.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Brothers Karamazov|The Brothers Karamazov]]''<br/>(1880)<br/>by Fyodor Dostoevsky</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Plays_of_Anton_Chekhov.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Anton Chekhov|The Plays of Anton Chekhov]]''<br/><br/>by Anton Chekhov</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Master_and_Margarita.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Master and Margarita|The Master and Margarita ]]''<br/>(1967)<br/>by Mikhail Bulgakov</small>
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|rowspan=16 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|19th Century||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>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Oblomov |Oblomov ]]'' (1859) by Ivan Goncharov </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Sketches From a Hunter's Album |Sketches From a Hunter's Album ]]'' (1852) by Ivan Turgenev </small>
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Fathers and Sons |Fathers and Sons ]]'' (1862) by Ivan Turgenev  </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Golovlyov Family |The Golovlyov Family ]]'' (1876) by Mikhail Saltykov </small>
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Leo Tolstoy|Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy]]'' by Leo Tolstoy </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Anna Karenina|Anna Karenina]]'' (1877) by Leo Tolstoy </small>
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Notes From Underground |Notes From Underground ]]'' (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Idiot |The Idiot ]]'' (1869) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Crime and Punishment |Crime and Punishment ]]'' (1866) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Demons (novel)|Demons ]]'' (1872) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Woe from Wit)|Woe from Wit ]]'' (1823) by Aleksandr Griboyedov </small>
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Anton Chekhov|The Collected Stories]]'' by Anton Chekhov </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Alexander Pushkin)|The Collected Stories]]'' by Alexander Pushkin </small>
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Nikolai Leskov|Lady McBeth of Mtsensk and Other Stories]]'' (1865) by Nikolai Leskov </small>
|-
|rowspan=15 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|20th Century||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Life and Fate|Life and Fate]]'' (1959) by Vasily Grossman </small>
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Heart of a Dog|Heart of a Dog]]'' (1925) by Mikhail Bulgakov </small>
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Doctor Zhivago (novel)|Doctor Zhivago]]'' (1957) by Boris Pasternak </small>
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Quiet Flows the Don|Quiet Flows the Don]]'' (1934) by Mikhail Sholokhov </small>
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Ivan Bunin|The Collected Stories]]'' by Ivan Bunin </small>
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:We (novel)|We]]'' (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin </small>
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Petersburg (novel)|Petersburg]]'' (1913) by Andrei Bely </small>
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Foundation Pit|The Foundation Pit]]'' (1930) by Andrey Platonov </small>
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Envy (novel)|Envy]]'' (1927) by Yuri Olesha </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:Invitation to a Beheading|Invitation to a Beheading]]'' (1936) by Vladimir Nabokob </small>
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Isaac Bable|The Complete Works]]'' by Isaac Babel </small>
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Kolyma Tales|Kolyma Tales]]'' (1954-73) by Varlam Shalamov </small>
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Today I Wrote Nothing|Today I Wrote Nothing]]'' by Daniil Kharms </small>
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Roadside Picnic |Roadside Picnic]]'' (1971) by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky </small>
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
|-
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Russian2.jpg|80px]]
|colspan=4|
|-
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{|{{Prettytable}}
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:South_Africa.png]] South Africa</h3>
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
|-
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Disgrace.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Disgrace (novel)|Disgrace]]''<br/>(1999)<br/>by J.M. Coetzee </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:I_Write_What_I_Like.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:I Write What I Like|I Write What I Like]]''<br/>(1978)<br/>by Steve Biko </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|
[[File:Nadinegordimerjuly'speople.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:July's People|July's People]]''<br/>(1981)<br/>by Nadine Gordimer </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Waiting_for_the_Barbarians.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Waiting for the Barbarians|Waiting for the Barbarians]]''<br/>(1980)<br/>by J.M. Coetzee </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Ways_of_Dying.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Ways of Dying|Ways of Dying]]''<br/>(1995)<br/>by Zakes Mda </small>
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|rowspan=2 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Contemporary||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Zoo City|Zoo City]]'' (2010) by Lauren Beukes </small>
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Marlene van Niekerk|The Way of the Women]]'' (2004) by Marlene van Niekerk </small>
|-
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<h2>By format</h2>
 
 
{|{{Prettytable}}
|colspan=5|<h3>Novellas</h3>
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Heart_of_a_Dog.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Heart of a Dog|Heart of a Dog]]''<br/> (1925) <br/>by Mikhail Bulgakov</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Dream_Story.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Dream Story|Dream Story]]''<br/> (1926)<br/> by Arthur Schnitzler</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Heart_of_Darkness.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Heart of Darkness|Heart of Darkness]]''<br/> (1899) <br/>by Joseph Conrad</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Miss_Lonelyhearts.JPG|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Miss Lonelyhearts|Miss Lonelyhearts]]''<br/> (1933) <br/>by Nathanael West</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Animal_Farm.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Animal Farm|Animal Farm]]''<br/> (1945)<br/> by George Orwell</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: A Christmas Carol|A Christmas Carol]]'' (1843) by Charles Dickens  </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: A Clockwork Orange|A Clockwork Orange]]'' () by Anthony Burgess  </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: A Room of One's Own|A Room of One's Own]]'' () by Virginia Woolf  </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: Fahrenheit 451|Fahrenheit 451]]'' () by Ray Bradbury  </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:First Love (novel)|First Love]]'' ( ) by Ivan Turgenev </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:A Pale View of Hills|A Pale View of Hills]]'' ( ) by Kazuo Ishiguro </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Around the World in 80 Days|Around the World in 80 Days]]'' ( ) by Jules Verne </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:At the Mountains of Madness|At the Mountains of Madness]]'' ( ) by H.P. Lovecraft </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Bartleby the Scrivener|Bartleby the Scrivener]]'' ( ) by Herman Melville </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Billy Budd|Billy Budd]]'' ( ) by Herman Melville </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Call of the Wild|The Call of the Wild]]'' ( ) by Jack London </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Candide|Candide]]'' ( ) by Voltaire </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Cannery Row|Cannery Row]]'' ( ) by John Steinbeck </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Junky (novel)|Junky]]'' ( ) by William S. Burroughs </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Master and Man|Master and Man]]'' ( ) by Leo Tolstoy </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Metamorphosis|The Metamorphosis]]'' ( ) by Franz Kafka </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Botchan|Botchan]]'' ( ) by Natsume Soseki </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Horla|The Horla]]'' ( ) by Guuy de Maupassant </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Looking Backward|Looking Backward]]'' ( ) by Edward Bellamy </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Child of God (novel)|Child of God]]'' ( ) by Cormac McCarthy </small>
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Of_Mice_and_Men.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Of Mice and Men|Of Mice and Men]]''<br/> () <br/>by John Steinbeck </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Nausea.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Nausea (novel)|Nausea]]''<br/> (1938)<br/> by Jean-Paul Sartre </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Notes_from_Underground.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Notes from Underground|Notes from Underground]]''<br/> () <br/>by Fyodor Dostoevsky</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:One_Day_in_the_Life_of_Ivan_Denisovich.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich|One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]]''<br/> (1962) <br/>by Solzhenitsyn</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:The_Ballad_of_Sad_Cafe.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Ballad of Sad Cafe|The Ballad of Sad Cafe]]''<br/> ()<br/> by Carson McCullers </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Chronicle of a Death Foretold|Chronicle of a Death Foretold]]'' () by Gabriel Garcia Marquez </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Daisy Miller|Daisy Miller]]'' () by Henry James </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Death in Venice|Death in Venice]]'' () by Thomas Mann </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Night (novel)|Night]]'' () by Elie Wiesel </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:No One Writes the Colonel|No One Writes the Colonel]]'' () by Gabriel Garcia Marquez </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Mathilda|Mathilda]]'' ( ) by Mary Shelley </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Pedro Paramo|Pedro Paramo]]'' ( ) by Juan Rulfo </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Snow Country|Snow Country]]'' ( ) by Yasunari Kawabata </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:South of the Border, West of the Sun|South of the Border, West of the Sun]]'' ( ) by Haruki Murakami </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Diary of a Madman|Diary of a Madman]]'' ( ) by Nikolai Gogol </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Dusklands|Dusklands]]'' ( ) by  J.M. Coetzee </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Ethan Frome|Ethan Frome]]'' ( ) by Edith Wharton </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Dying Animal|The Dying Animal]]'' ( ) by Phillip Roth </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Outer Dark|Outer Dark]]'' ( ) by Cormac McCarthy </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Scenes of a Clerical Life|Scenes of a Clerical Life]]'' ( ) by George Eliot </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Everyman (novel)|Everyman]]'' ( ) by Phillip Roth </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Fox (novel)|The Fox]]'' ( ) by D.H. Lawrence </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Girl With the Golden Eyes|The Girl With the Golden Eyes]]'' ( ) by Honore de Balzac </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Seize the Day|Seize the Day]]'' ( ) by Saul Bellow </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Siddhartha (novel)|Siddhartha]]'' ( ) by Hermann Hesse </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Novellas2.jpg|100px]]
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{|{{Prettytable}}
|colspan=5|<h3>Contemporary Novellas</h3>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''1970s'''
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Dark_Spring.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Dark Spring''<br/> (1970) <br/>by Unica Zurn</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_White_Ship.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''The White Ship''<br/> (1970)<br/> by Chinghiz Aitmatov</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Flats.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Flats/Quake''<br/> (1971-4) <br/>by Rudolph Wurlitzer</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Love.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Love''<br/> (1971) <br/>by Angela Carter</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Log_of_the_S.S._the_Mrs_Unguentine.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine''<br/> (1972)<br/> by Stanley Crawford</small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further 1970s'''
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Summer Book'' (1972) by Tove Jansson  </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Motorman'' (1972) by David Ohle </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''A Sorrow Beyond Dreams'' (1972) by Peter Handke </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Roadside Picnic'' (1972) by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Asleep in the Sun'' (1973) by Adolfo Bioy Casares </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry'' (1973) by B.S. Johnson </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Telegram'' (1973) by Putu Wijaya </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum'' (1974) by Heinrich Boll </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''For Love of Norway'' (1975) by Pal Espolin Johnson </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Travesty'' (1976) by John Hawkes </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Journey into the Past'' (1976) by Stefan Zweig </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''P’s Three Women'' (1977) by Paulo Emilio Slaes Gomes</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Fatale'' (1977) by Jean-Patrick Manchette </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Hour of the Star'' (1977) by Clarice Lispector </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Painter of Signs'' (1977) by R.K. Narayan </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Secret Rendezvous'' (1977) by Kobo Abe </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''A Tomb for Boris Davidovich'' (1978) by Danilo Kis </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Sleepless Nights'' (1979) by Elizabeth Hardwick </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Volcano'' (1979) by Shusaku Endo </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''1980s'''
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File: The_Viceroy_of_Ouidah.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''The Viceroy of Ouidah''<br/> (1980)<br/> by Bruce Chatwin</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File: a_Month_in_the_Country.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''A Month in the Country''<br/> (1980)<br/> by J.L. Carr</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:A_Bohemian_Youth.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''A Bohemian Youth''<br/> (1980)<br/> by Josef Hirsal</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File: Loitering_With_Intent.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Loitering With Intent''<br/> (1981)<br/> by Muriel Spark</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File: Concrete.JPG|80px]]<br/><small>''Concrete''<br/> (1982)<br/> by Thomas Bernhard''</small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further 1980s'''
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|colspan=5|<small>''So the Wind Won’t Blow it All Away'' (1982) by Richard Brautigan </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Witch-Herbalist of the Remote Town'' (1982) by Amos Tutuola  </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Assault'' (1982) by Harry Mulisch  </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Wine of Astonishment'' (1982) by Earl Lovelace </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''A Tiger for Malgudi'' (1983) by R.K. Narayan </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Mr. Palomar'' (1983) by Italo Calvino </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Cannibal Galaxy'' (1983) by Cynthia Ozick </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Alladin's Problem'' (1984) by Ernst Junger </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Lover'' (1984) by Marguerite Duras </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''In the Dutch Mountains'' (1984) by Cees Nooteboom </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Isle of Dreams'' (1985) by Hino Keizo </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas'' (1983-6) by Can Xue </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Stone in a Landslide'' (1985) by Maria Barbal </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Day the Leader was Killed'' (1985) by Naguib Mahfouz </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''In the Country of Last Things'' (1987) by Paul Auster </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Pigeon'' (1987) by Patrick Suskind </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Kitchen'' (1988) by Banana Yoshimoto </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Swordfish'' (1989) by Hugo Claus </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Mister Blue'' (1989) by Jacques Poulin </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''1990s'''
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Kaddish_for_an_Unborn_Child.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Kaddish for an Unborn Child''<br/> (1990)<br/> by Imre Kertesz</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Following_Story.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''The Following Story''<br/> (1991) <br/>by Cees Nooteboom </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Chaos_and_All_That.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Chaos and All That''<br/> (1991) <br/>by Lui Sola </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Babyfucker.png|80px]]<br/><small>''Babyfucker''<br/> (1992)<br/> by Urs Allemann</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Death_of_the_Author.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''The Death of the Author''<br/> (1992) <br/>by Gilbert Adai''</small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further 1990s'''
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|colspan=5|<small>''Angels and Insects'' (1992) by A.S. Byatt </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Other City'' (1993) by Michal Ajvaz </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Loving Sabotage'' (1993) by Amelie Nothomb </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Marx Family Saga'' (1993) by Juan Goytisolo </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Crime Studio'' (1994) by Steve Aylett </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Shyness and Dignity'' (1994) by Dag Solstad </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Of Love and Other Demons'' (1994) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Pereira Declares'' (1994) by Antonio Tabucchi </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Phosphor in Dreamland'' (1995) by Rikki Ducornet </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Panther in the Basement'' (1995) by Amos Oz </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''I Have the Right to Destroy Myself'' (1996) by Kim Young-ha </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Escape Hatch'' (1996) by Vladimir Makanin </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Diary of Mr. Pinke'' (1995) by Ewald Murrer </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Reader's Block'' (1996) by David Markson </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family'' (1998) by Peter Dimock </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Kneller's Happy Campers'' (1998) by Etgar Keret </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Honk if you Love Aphrodite'' (1999) by Daniel Evan Weiss </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Literary Conference'' (1999) by Cesar Aira </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Earth and Ashes'' (1999) by Atiq Rahimi </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''2000s'''
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:In_Her_Absence.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''In Her Absence''<br/> (2000)<br/> by Antonio Munoz Molina </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Kafka's_Leopards.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Kafka's Leopards''<br/> (2000) <br/>by Moacyr Scliar </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Colors_of_Infamy.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''The Colors of Infamy''<br/> (2000) <br/>by Albert Cossery </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Tales_of_Galicia.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Tales of Galicia''<br/> (2001)<br/> by Andrzej Stasiuk</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Beside the Sea.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Besides the Sea''<br/> (2001) <br/>by Veronique Olmi</small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further 2000s'''
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|colspan=5|<small>''Inez'' (2001) by Carlos Fuentes </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Bait'' (2001) by David Albahari </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Europeana'' (2001) by Patrik Ourednik </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Good Morning Comrades'' (2001) by Ondjaki </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''All This Belongs to Me'' (2002) by Petra Hulova </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Conversations with Spinoza'' (2002) by Gocec Smilevski </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''In the Flesh'' (2002) by Christa Wolf </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Agape Agape'' (2002) by William Gaddis </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Blue Fox'' (2003) by Sjon </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Piano'' (2003) by Jean Echenoz </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Housekeeper and the Professor'' (2003) by Yoko Ogawa </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Book of Words'' (2004) by Jenny Erpenbeck </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Moving Parts'' (2004) by Magdalena Tulli </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest'' (2005) by Amos Oz </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Bonsai'' (2006) by Alejandro Zambra </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Waitress Was New'' (2008) by Dominique Fabre </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The North of God'' (2008) by Steve Stern </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Hermaphrodite'' (2009) by Daniel Grandbois </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Next World Novella'' (2009) by Matthias Politycki </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''2010s'''
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Brothers.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''The Brothers''<br/> (2010)<br/> by Asko Sahlberg </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Lightning.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Lightning''<br/> (2010) <br/>by Jean Echenoz </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Train_Dreams.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Train Dreams''<br/> (2011) <br/>by Denis Johnson </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Down_the_Rabbit_Hole.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Down the Rabbit Hole''<br/> (2011)<br/> by Juan Pablo Villalobos </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Contemporary_novellas.jpg|100px]]
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{|{{Prettytable}}
|colspan=5|<h3>Short Story Collections</h3>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Classic'''
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Aparisianaffair.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''A Parisian Affair and Other Stories''<br/>by Guy de Maupassant</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Firstlove.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''First Love and Other Stories''<br/>by Ivan Turgenev</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:The-death-of-ivan-ilyich-and-other-stories.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories''<br/>by Leo Tolstoy</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:ThreeTales.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Three Tales''<br/>by Gustav Flaubert</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Deadmentellnotales.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Dead Men Tell No Tales''<br/>by Emile Zola''</small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further classic collections'''
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky''</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings'' by Edgar Allan Poe</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Kruezter Sonata and Other Stories'' by Leo Tolstoy</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Queen of Spades and Other Stories'' by Alexander Pushkin</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892&ndash;1895'' by Anton Chekhov</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896&ndash;1904'' by Anton Chekhov</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Carmen and Other Stories'' by Prosper Merimee</small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Modern'''
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Elephant.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Elephant''<br/>by Raymond Carver</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Dubliners.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Dubliners''<br/>by James Joyce</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Fictions.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Fictions''<br/>by Jorge Luis Borges</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Menwowomen.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Men Without Women''<br/>by Ernest Hemingway</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Southofnonorth.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''South of No North''<br/>by Charles Bukowski''</small>
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further modern collections'''
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Short Stories'' by F. Scott Fitzgerald</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''In the Heart of the Country'' by William Gass</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner''</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Return'' by Andrei Platonov</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Collected Short Stories'' by Roald Dahl</small>
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Contemporary'''
|-
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Brief Interviews With Hideous Men''<br/>by David Foster Wallace</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Theelephantvanishes.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''The Elephant Vanishes''<br/>by Haruki Murakami</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Last-evenings-on-earth.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Last Evenings on Earth''<br/>by Roberto Bolaño</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:The dog of the marriage.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''The Dog of the Marriage''<br/>by Amy Hempel</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Life after God.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Life After God''<br/>by Douglas Coupland''</small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further contemporary collections'''
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|colspan=5|<small>''How We are Hungry'' by Dave Eggers</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Drown'' by Junot Diaz</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Break it Down'' by Lydia Davis</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''No One Belongs Here More than You'' by Miranda July</small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Shortstories1 2.jpg|80px]]
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{|{{Prettytable}}
|colspan=5|<h3>Flash Fiction Collections</h3>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Pre-1950'''
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Waste_Books.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''The Waste Books''<br/> by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Complete_Fables.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''The Complete Fables''<br/> of Jean de la Fontaine </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Nature_Stories.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Nature Stories''<br/> by Jules Renard </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Microscripts.jpeg|80px]]<br/><small>''Microscripts''<br/> by Robert Walser </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Today_I_Wrote_Nothing.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Today I Wrote Nothing''<br/> by Daniil Kharms </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further Pre-1950'''
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|colspan=5|<small>''Novels in Three Lines'' by Felix Feneon </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Collected Stories'' by Colette </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights''</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''41 Stories'' by O. Henry </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Post-1950'''
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Palm-of-the-Hand_Stories.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Palm-of-the-Hand Stories''<br/> by Yasunari Kawabata</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Lost_in_the_Funhouse.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Lost in the Funhouse''<br/> by John Barth </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Voice_Imitator.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''The Voice Imitator''<br/> by Thomas Bernhard </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Age_of_Wire_and_String.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''The Age of Wire and String''<br/> by Ben Marcus </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Metrophilias.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Metrophilias''<br/> by Brendan Connell </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further Post-1950'''
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Book of Fables'' by W.S. Merwin </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Nimrod Flip-out'' by Etgar Keret </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Murder in the Dark'' by Margaret Atwood </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Collected Stories'' by Lydia Davis </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''AM/PM'' by Amelia Gray </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Black Sheep and Other Fables'' by Augusto Monterroso </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Road-Side Dog'' by Czeslaw Milosz </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Flash_ficiton_and_short_short_stories.jpg|100px]]
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{|{{Prettytable}}
|colspan=5|<h3>Theatre/Drama</h3>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Classical through Medieval'''
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Theban_Plays.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Oedipus the King|The Three Theban Plays]]''<br/> by Sophocles </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Oresteia.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Oresteia|The Oresteia]]''<br/> by Aeschylus </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Electra.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Electra (Euripides)|Electra and Other Plays]]''<br/> by Euripides </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Aristophanes.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Aristophanes|The Complete Plays]]''<br/> by Aristophanes </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Menander.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Menander|Plays and Fragments]]''<br/> by Menander </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Classical through Medieval cont.'''
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Pot of Gold and Other Plays'' by Plautus </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Four Tragedies and Octavia'' by Seneca </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Comedies'' by Terence </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Loom of Time'' by Kalidasa </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Plays'' of Hrotswitha of Gandersheim </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Japanese Noh Dramas'' </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Playrecs.jpg|100px]]
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Playrecs2.jpg|100px]]
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<br/>
<h1>Genre fiction</h1>
<h2>By genre</h2>
{|{{Prettytable}}
|colspan=5|<h3>Fantasy</h3>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Epic fantasy'''
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Thehobbit.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Hobbit|The Hobbit]]''<br/>(1937)<br/> by J. R. R. Tolkien</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:LordoftheRings.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Lord of the Rings|The Lord of the Rings]]''<br/>(1954&ndash;1955)<br/> by J. R. R. Tolkien</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:The Black Company.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Black Company|The Black Company]]''<br/>(1984&mdash;)<br/>by Glen Cook</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:TheEyeOfTheWorld.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Wheel of Time|The Wheel of Time]]''<br/>(1990&mdash;)<br/>by Robert Jordan</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:AGameOfThrones.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:A Song of Ice and Fire|A Song of Ice and Fire]]''<br/>(1996&mdash;)<br/>by George R. R. Martin</small>
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Gardens-of-the-moon.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>[[wikipedia:Malazan Book of the Fallen|''Malazan Book'']]<br/>(1999&ndash;2011)<br/>by Steven Erikson</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Thebladeitself.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The First Law|The First Law]]''<br/>(2006&mdash;)<br/>by Joe Abercrombie</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:The-name-of-the-wind.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Kingkiller Chronicle|The Kingkiller Chronicle]]''<br/>(2007&mdash;)<br/>by Patrick Rothfuss</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:TheWayOfKings.png|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Stormlight Archive|The Stormlight Archive]]''<br/>(2010&mdash;)<br/>by Brandon Sanderson</small>
|style="background:#C3D69B;"|
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Additional epic fantasy'''
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Silmarillion|The Silmarillion]]'' (1977) by J. R. R. Tolkien</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Shannara|Shannara]]'' (1977&mdash;) by Terry Brooks</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Glen Cook|The Swordbearer]]'' (1982) by Glen Cook</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Belgariad|The Belgariad]]'' (1982&ndash;1984) by David Eddings</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Deed of Paksenarrion|The Deed of Paksenarrion]]'' (1992) by Elizabeth Moon</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Mistborn series|Mistborn]]'' (2006&ndash;2008) by Brandon Sanderson</small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Weird fiction'''
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:House on the Borderland.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The House on the Borderland|The House on the Borderland]]''<br/>(1908)<br/> William Hope Hodgson</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:At-the-mountains-of-madness.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:At the Mountains of Madness|At the Mountains of Madness]]''<br/>(1936)<br/> by H. P. Lovecraft</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:PerdidoStreetStation1sted.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Perdido Street Station|Perdido Street Station]]''<br/>(2000)<br/>by China Miéville</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:CityOfSaintsAndMadmen.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:City of Saints and Madmen|City of Saints and Madmen]]''<br/>(2001)<br/>by Jeff VanderMeer</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Emperor of dreams.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Emperor of Dreams|The Emperor of Dreams]]''<br/>(2002)<br/>by Clark Ashton Smith</small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Additional weird fiction'''
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Shadow Over Innsmouth|The Shadow Over Innsmouth]]'' (1931) by H. P. Lovecraft</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Kraken (novel)|Kraken]]'' (2010) by China Miéville</small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File:1307836551252.jpg|80px]]
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Beginner-fantasy.jpg|80px]]
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