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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: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: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: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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|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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Revision as of 02:17, 8 July 2012
An overview of literature and genre fiction recommended by /lit/.
Literature
By country
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| Essential works | ||||
 May (1836) by Karel Hynek Macha |
 Three Novels (1933) by Karel Capek |
 The Good Soldier Svejk (1923) by Jaroslav Hasek |
 I Served the King of England (1983) by Bohumil Hrabal |
 The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) by Milan Kundera |
| Further recommendations | ||||
| Pre-WW2 | The Sorrowful Eyes ( ) by Ivan Olbracht | |||
| Hidden History ( ) by Otokar Brezina | ||||
| The Grandmother ( ) by Bozena Nemcova | ||||
| The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch ( ) by Ladislav Klima | ||||
| R.U.R. ( ) by Karel Capek | ||||
| War With the Newts ( ) by Karel Capek | ||||
| Antilyrik & Other Poems ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval | ||||
| Valerie and Her Week of Wonders ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval | ||||
| Prague Tales ( ) by Jan Neruda | ||||
| The Arsonist ( ) by Egon Hostovsky | ||||
| The Poetry ( ) of Jaroslav Seifert | ||||
| Vanishing Lung Syndrome ( ) by Miroslav Holub | ||||
| Narrative Poems ( ) by Vladimir Holan | ||||
| Dreams at the End of the Night ( ) by Ewald Murrer | ||||
| How I Came to Know Fish ( ) by Ota Pavel | ||||
| Fingers Pointing Somewhere Else ( ) by Daniela Fischerova | ||||
| White Book ( ) by Pavel Kohout | ||||
| Saturnin ( ) by Zdenek Jirotka | ||||
| Summer of Caprice ( ) by Vadislav Vancura | ||||
| Post-WW2 | Closely Watched Trains ( ) Bohumil Hrabal | |||
| Too Loud a Solitude ( ) by Bohumil Hrabal | ||||
| Love and Garbage ( ) by Ivan Klima | ||||
| Immortality ( ) by Milan Kundera | ||||
| The Garden Party and Other Plays ( ) by Vaclav Havel | ||||
| The Questionnaire ( ) by Jiri Grusa | ||||
| The Guinea Pigs ( ) by Ludvik Vaculik | ||||
| The Cremator (1967) by Ladislav Fuks | ||||
| A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova ( ) by Arnost Lustig | ||||
| A Bohemian Youth ( ) by Josef Hirsal | ||||
| City Sister Silver ( ) by Jachym Topol | ||||
| The Engineer of Human Souls ( ) by Josef Skvorecky | ||||
| The Other City ( ) by Michal Ajvaz | ||||
| Europeana ( ) by Patrik Ourednik | ||||
| The Seven Churches ( ) by Milos Urban | ||||
| Of Kids & Parents ( ) by Emil Hakl | ||||
| German-language | The Golem ( ) by Gustav Meyrink | |||
| The Green Face ( ) by Gustav Meyrink | ||||
| The Trial ( ) by Franz Kafka | ||||
| The Metamorphosis ( ) by Franz Kafka | ||||
| A Hunger Artist ( ) by Franz Kafka | ||||
| Blaugast ( ) by Paul Leppin | ||||
| Severin’s Journey into the Dark ( ) by Paul Leppin | ||||
| The Raging Reporter ( ) by Egon Erwin Kisch | ||||
| Tycho Brahe’s Path to God ( ) by Max Brod | ||||
| The Maimed ( ) by Hermann Ungar | ||||
| Boys & Murderers ( ) by Hermann Ungar | ||||
| The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge ( ) by Rainer Maria Rilke | ||||
| The Selected Poetry ( ) of Rainer Maria Rilke | ||||
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| Essential works | ||||
 Max Havelaar (1860) by Multatuli |
 Parents Worry (1988) by Gerard Reve |
 Amsterdam Stories (1910s) by Nescio |
 Beyond Sleep (1966) by Willem Hermans |
 The Discovery of Heaven (1992) by Harry Mulisch |
| Further recommendations | ||||
| Translated | Lucifer ( ) by Joost van den Vondel | |||
| A Posthumous Confession ( ) by Marcellus Emants | ||||
| In Praise of Folly ( ) by Erasmus | ||||
| In a Dark Wood Wandering ( ) by Hella S. Haasse | ||||
| The Waning of the Middle Ages ( ) by J. Huizinga | ||||
| The Letters of Vincent van Gogh | ||||
| The Ten Thousand Things ( ) by Maria Dermout | ||||
| Eline Vere ( ) by Louis Couperus | ||||
| Chapel Road ( ) by Louis Paul Boon | ||||
| I Dreamed in the Cities at Night ( ) by Remco Campert | ||||
| Omega Minor ( ) by Paul Verhaeghen | ||||
| Cheese ( ) by Willem Elsschot | ||||
| Turkish Delight ( ) by Jan Wolkers | ||||
| The Darkroom of Damocles ( ) by Willem Frederik Hermans | ||||
| Wonder ( ) by Hugo Claus | ||||
| The Following Story ( ) by Cees Nooteboom | ||||
| Character ( ) by F. Bordewijk | ||||
| The Twin ( ) by Gerbrand Bakker | ||||
| Tomorrow Pamplona ( ) by Jan van Mersbergen | ||||
| Untranslated | Camera Obscura ( ) by Hildebrand | |||
| De Stille Kracht ( ) by Louis Couperus | ||||
| Van De Koele Meren des Doods ( ) by Frederik van Eeden | ||||
| De Avonden ( ) by Gerard Reve | ||||
| Terug naar Oegstgeest ( ) by Jan Wolkers | ||||
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| Essential works | ||||
 The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) by Goethe |
 The Magic Mountain (1912) by Thomas Mann |
 The Man Without Qualities (1942) by Robert Musil |
 The Tin Drum (1959) by Gunter Grass |
 Thus Spake Zarathustra (1885) by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Further recommendations | ||||
| Classic | The Robbers and Wallenstein (1781) by Friedrich Schiller | |||
| the Marquise of O and Other Stories (1808) by Heinrich von Kleist | ||||
| The Broken Jug (1806) by Heinrich von Kleist | ||||
| Faust (1832) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ||||
| Danon's Death (1835) George Buchner | ||||
| The Rider on the White Horse (1888) by Theodor Storm | ||||
| Effi Briest (1895) by Theodor Fontane | ||||
| Modern | Buddenbrooks (1901) by Thomas Mann | |||
| The Loyal Subject (1914) by Heinrich Mann | ||||
| The Metamorphosis (1915) by Franz Kafka | ||||
| The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka | ||||
| The Castle (1926) by Franz Kafka | ||||
| Siddhartha (1922) by Hermann Hesse | ||||
| Steppenwolf (1927) by Hermann Hesse | ||||
| Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) by Alfred Doblin | ||||
| The Visit (1956) by Friedrich Durrenmatt | ||||
| The Physicists (1961) by Friedrich Durrenmatt | ||||
| The Flounder (1977) by Gunter Grass | ||||
| Cassandra (1984) Christa Wolf | ||||
| Perfume (1985) by Patrick Suskind | ||||
| The Last Word (1988) by Christoph Ransmayr | ||||
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| 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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| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
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| 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 | ||||
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| Essential works | ||||
 Disgrace (1999) by J.M. Coetzee |
 I Write What I Like (1978) by Steve Biko |
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 Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) by J.M. Coetzee |
 Ways of Dying (1995) by Zakes Mda |
| Further recommendations | ||||
| Contemporary | Zoo City (2010) by Lauren Beukes | |||
| The Way of the Women (2004) by Marlene van Niekerk | ||||
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 | ||||
 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 |
 The Kingkiller Chronicle (2007—) by Patrick Rothfuss |
 The Stormlight Archive (2010—) by Brandon Sanderson |
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| 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 | ||||
| Mistborn (2006–2008) by Brandon Sanderson | ||||
| Weird fiction | ||||
 The House on the Borderland (1908) William Hope Hodgson |
 At the Mountains of Madness (1936) by H. P. Lovecraft |
 Perdido Street Station (2000) by China Miéville |
 City of Saints and Madmen (2001) by Jeff VanderMeer |
 The Emperor of Dreams (2002) by Clark Ashton Smith |
| Additional weird fiction | ||||
| The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1931) by H. P. Lovecraft | ||||
| Kraken (2010) by China Miéville | ||||
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