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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Out Stealing Horses|Out Stealing Horses]]'' (2003) by Per Petterson</small>
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Out Stealing Horses|Out Stealing Horses]]'' (2003) by Per Petterson</small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:a_Hero_of_Our_Time.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:A Hero of Our Time|A Hero of Our time]]''<br/>(1841)<br/>by Mikhail Lermontov </small>
|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>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
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|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>
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|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>
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|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>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Notes From Underground |Notes From Underground ]]'' (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
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|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>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Demons (novel)|Demons ]]'' (1872) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Woe from Wit)|Woe from Wit ]]'' (1823) by Aleksandr Griboyedov </small>
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|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>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Nikolai Leskov|Lady McBeth of Mtsensk and Other Stories]]'' (1865) by Nikolai Leskov </small>
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|rowspan=15 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|20th Century||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Life and Fate|Life and Fate]]'' (1959) by Vasily Grossman </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Heart of a Dog|Heart of a Dog]]'' (1925) by Mikhail Bulgakov </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Doctor Zhivago (novel)|Doctor Zhivago]]'' (1957) by Boris Pasternak </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Quiet Flows the Don|Quiet Flows the Don]]'' (1934) by Mikhail Sholokhov </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Ivan Bunin|The Collected Stories]]'' by Ivan Bunin </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:We (novel)|We]]'' (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Petersburg (novel)|Petersburg]]'' (1913) by Andrei Bely </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Foundation Pit|The Foundation Pit]]'' (1930) by Andrey Platonov </small>
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|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>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Invitation to a Beheading|Invitation to a Beheading]]'' (1936) by Vladimir Nabokob </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Isaac Bable|The Complete Works]]'' by Isaac Babel </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Kolyma Tales|Kolyma Tales]]'' (1954-73) by Varlam Shalamov </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Today I Wrote Nothing|Today I Wrote Nothing]]'' by Daniil Kharms </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Roadside Picnic |Roadside Picnic]]'' (1971) by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky </small>
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Revision as of 13:12, 7 July 2012

An overview of literature and genre fiction recommended by /lit/.

Literature

By country

Japan

Essential works

The Tale of Genji
(11th century)
by Murasaki Shikibu

Kokoro
(1914)
by Natsume Soseki

Rashomon
(1915)
by Akutagawa

Naomi
(1924)
by Junichiro Tanizaki

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

Essential works

A Doll's House
(1879)
by Henrik Ibsen

The Wild Duck
(1884)
by Henrik Ibsen

Hunger
(1890)
by Knut Hamsun

Growth of the Soil
(1917)
by Knut Hamsun

The Wreath
(1920)
by Sigrid Undset
Further recommendations
Medieval Heimskringla (13th century) by Snorri Sturluson
Classic Brand (1866) by Henrik Ibsen
Hedda Gabler (1891) by Henrik Ibsen
Pan (1894) by Knut Hamsun
Contemporary Beatles (1984) by Lars Saabye Christensen
Naïve. Super (1996) by Erlend Loe
Out Stealing Horses (2003) by Per Petterson

Russia

Essential works

A Hero of Our time
(1841)
by Mikhail Lermontov

War and Peace
(1869)
by Leo Tolstoy

The Brothers Karamazov
(1880)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Plays of Anton Chekhov

by Anton Chekhov

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

By format

Short story collections

Classic

A Parisian Affair and Other Stories
by Guy de Maupassant

First Love and Other Stories
by Ivan Turgenev

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
by Leo Tolstoy

Three Tales
by Gustav Flaubert

Dead Men Tell No Tales
by Emile Zola
Further classic collections
The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
The Kruezter Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
The Queen of Spades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892–1895 by Anton Chekhov
The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896–1904 by Anton Chekhov
Carmen and Other Stories by Prosper Merimee
Modern

Elephant
by Raymond Carver

Dubliners
by James Joyce

Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges

Men Without Women
by Ernest Hemingway

South of No North
by Charles Bukowski
Further modern collections
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Short Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
In the Heart of the Country by William Gass
Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner
The Return by Andrei Platonov
The Collected Short Stories by Roald Dahl
Contemporary

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
by David Foster Wallace

The Elephant Vanishes
by Haruki Murakami

Last Evenings on Earth
by Roberto Bolaño

The Dog of the Marriage
by Amy Hempel

Life After God
by Douglas Coupland
Further contemporary collections
How We are Hungry by Dave Eggers
Drown by Junot Diaz
Break it Down by Lydia Davis
No One Belongs Here More than You by Miranda July
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Genre fiction

By genre

Fantasy

Epic fantasy

Essential works

The Hobbit
(1937)
by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings
(1954–1955)
by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Black Company
(1984—)
by Glen Cook

The Wheel of Time
(1990—)
by Robert Jordan

A Song of Ice and Fire
(1996—)
by George R. R. Martin

Malazan Book
(1999–2011)
by Steven Erikson

The First Law
(2006—)
by Joe Abercrombie

Mistborn
(2006–2008)
by Brandon Sanderson

The Kingkiller Chronicle
(2007—)
by Patrick Rothfuss
Additional works
The Silmarillion (1977) by J. R. R. Tolkien
Shannara (1977—) by Terry Brooks
The Swordbearer (1982) by Glen Cook
The Belgariad (1982–1984) by David Eddings
The Deed of Paksenarrion (1992) by Elizabeth Moon
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