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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Dark_Spring.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Dark Spring''<br/> (1970) by Unica Zurn</small> | |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) by Chinghiz Aitmatov</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) by Rudolph Wurlitzer</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/>by Angela Carter</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) by Stanley Crawford</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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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File: The_Viceroy_of_Ouidah.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''The Viceroy of Ouidah''<br/> (1980) by Bruce Chatwin</small> | |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) by J.L. Carr</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) by Josef Hirsal</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) by Muriel | |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) by Thomas Bernhard''</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|<small>''The Assault'' (1982) by Harry Mulisch </small> | |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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|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|<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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Revision as of 15:44, 8 July 2012
An overview of literature and genre fiction recommended by /lit/.
Literature
By country
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| Essential works | ||||
 Three Kingdoms (14th century) by Luo Guanzhong |
 Story of the Stone (18th century) by Cao Xueqin |
 Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio (1740) by Pu Songling |
 The Real Story of Ah Q (1922) by Lu Xun |
 Camel Xiangzi (1937) by Lao She |
| Further recommendations | ||||
| Classic | The Dragon King's Daughter (Tang dynasty) by | |||
| Six Yuan Plays (Yuan dynasty) by | ||||
| Outlaws of the Marsh (14th century) by Shi Nai'an | ||||
| The Story of the Western Wing (14th century) by Wang Shifu | ||||
| Journey to the West (16th century) by Wu Cheng'en | ||||
| Creation of the Gods (16th century) by Xu Zhonglin | ||||
| The Peony Pavilion (1598) by Tang Xianzu | ||||
| Stories Old and New (1620) by Feng Menglong | ||||
| The Plum in the Golden Vase (17th century) by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng | ||||
| The Carnal Prayer Mat (1657) by Li Yu | ||||
| The Scholars (1750) by Wu Jingzi | ||||
| Six Records of a Floating Life (1808) by Shen Fu | ||||
| Modern | Family (1933) Ba Jin | |||
| The Importance of Living (1937) by Lin Yutang | ||||
| My Country and My People ( ) by Lin Yutang | ||||
| Wild Grass ( ) by Lu Xun | ||||
| Rainbow ( ) by Mao Dun | ||||
| Fortress Besieged (1947) by Qian Zhongshu | ||||
| Border Town ( ) by Shen Congwen | ||||
| Selected Stories ( ) by Shen Congwen | ||||
| Teahouse ( ) by Lao She | ||||
| Love in a Fallen City ( ) by Eileen Chang | ||||
| The King of Trees ( ) by Ah Cheng | ||||
| Red Sorghum ( ) by Mo Yan | ||||
| Life and Death are Wearing Me Out ( ) by Mo Yan | ||||
| The Three-Inch Golden Lotus ( ) by Feng Jicai | ||||
| Brothers ( ) by Yu Hua | ||||
| To Live ( ) by Yu Hua | ||||
| Soul Mountain ( ) by Gao Xingjian | ||||
| Waves ( ) by Bei Dao | ||||
| The August Sleepwalker ( ) by Bei Dao | ||||
| Five Spice Street ( ) by Can Xue | ||||
| Vertical Motion ( ) by Can Xue | ||||
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| Essential works | ||||
 May (1836) by Karel Hynek Macha |
 The Good Soldier Svejk (1923) by Jaroslav Hasek |
 Three Novels (1933) by Karel Capek |
 I Served the King of England (1983) by Bohumil Hrabal |
 The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) by Milan Kundera |
| Further recommendations | ||||
| Pre-WW2 | The Sorrowful Eyes ( ) by Ivan Olbracht | |||
| Hidden History ( ) by Otokar Brezina | ||||
| The Grandmother ( ) by Bozena Nemcova | ||||
| The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch ( ) by Ladislav Klima | ||||
| R.U.R. ( ) by Karel Capek | ||||
| War With the Newts ( ) by Karel Capek | ||||
| Antilyrik & Other Poems ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval | ||||
| Valerie and Her Week of Wonders ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval | ||||
| Prague Tales ( ) by Jan Neruda | ||||
| The Arsonist ( ) by Egon Hostovsky | ||||
| The Poetry ( ) of Jaroslav Seifert | ||||
| Vanishing Lung Syndrome ( ) by Miroslav Holub | ||||
| Narrative Poems ( ) by Vladimir Holan | ||||
| Dreams at the End of the Night ( ) by Ewald Murrer | ||||
| How I Came to Know Fish ( ) by Ota Pavel | ||||
| Fingers Pointing Somewhere Else ( ) by Daniela Fischerova | ||||
| White Book ( ) by Pavel Kohout | ||||
| Saturnin ( ) by Zdenek Jirotka | ||||
| Summer of Caprice ( ) by Vadislav Vancura | ||||
| Post-WW2 | Closely Watched Trains ( ) Bohumil Hrabal | |||
| Too Loud a Solitude ( ) by Bohumil Hrabal | ||||
| Love and Garbage ( ) by Ivan Klima | ||||
| Immortality ( ) by Milan Kundera | ||||
| The Garden Party and Other Plays ( ) by Vaclav Havel | ||||
| The Questionnaire ( ) by Jiri Grusa | ||||
| The Guinea Pigs ( ) by Ludvik Vaculik | ||||
| The Cremator (1967) by Ladislav Fuks | ||||
| A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova ( ) by Arnost Lustig | ||||
| A Bohemian Youth ( ) by Josef Hirsal | ||||
| City Sister Silver ( ) by Jachym Topol | ||||
| The Engineer of Human Souls ( ) by Josef Skvorecky | ||||
| The Other City ( ) by Michal Ajvaz | ||||
| Europeana ( ) by Patrik Ourednik | ||||
| The Seven Churches ( ) by Milos Urban | ||||
| Of Kids & Parents ( ) by Emil Hakl | ||||
| German-language | The Golem ( ) by Gustav Meyrink | |||
| The Green Face ( ) by Gustav Meyrink | ||||
| The Trial ( ) by Franz Kafka | ||||
| The Metamorphosis ( ) by Franz Kafka | ||||
| A Hunger Artist ( ) by Franz Kafka | ||||
| Blaugast ( ) by Paul Leppin | ||||
| Severin’s Journey into the Dark ( ) by Paul Leppin | ||||
| The Raging Reporter ( ) by Egon Erwin Kisch | ||||
| Tycho Brahe’s Path to God ( ) by Max Brod | ||||
| The Maimed ( ) by Hermann Ungar | ||||
| Boys & Murderers ( ) by Hermann Ungar | ||||
| The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge ( ) by Rainer Maria Rilke | ||||
| The Selected Poetry ( ) of Rainer Maria Rilke | ||||
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| Essential works | ||||
 The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) by Goethe |
 Thus Spake Zarathustra (1885) by Friedrich Nietzsche |
 The Magic Mountain (1912) by Thomas Mann |
 The Man Without Qualities (1942) by Robert Musil |
 The Tin Drum (1959) by Gunter Grass |
| Further recommendations | ||||
| Classic | The 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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 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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 Cantares Mexicanos ( ) |
 Poems, Protest, and a Dream ( ) by Sor Juana |
 Pedro Paramo ( ) by Juan Rulfo |
 The Death of Artemio Cruz ( ) by Carlos Fuentues |
 Confabulario and Other Inventions ( ) by Juan Jose Arreola |
| Further recommendations | ||||
| Translated | Florentine Codex ( ) | |||
| The Broken Spears ( ) Miguel Leon-Portilla | ||||
| The History of the Indies of New Spain ( ) by Fray Diego Duran | ||||
| The Memoirs ( ) of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier | ||||
| The Bandits from Rio Frio ( ) by Manuel Payno | ||||
| El Zarco ( ) by Ignacio Manuel Altamirano | ||||
| Santa ( ) by Federico Gamboa | ||||
| Anthology ( ) by Alfonso Reyes | ||||
| Song of the Heart: Poems ( ) by Ramon Lopez Velarde | ||||
| Nostalgia for Death: Poetry ( ) by Xavier Villaurrutia | ||||
| The Underdogs ( ) by Mariano Azuela | ||||
| The Burning Plain and Other Stories ( ) by Juan Rulfo | ||||
| The Labyrinth of Solitude ( ) by Octavio Paz | ||||
| Battles in the Desert & Other Stories ( ) by Jose Emilio Pacheco | ||||
| Untranslated | Comedias Escogidas ( ) by D. Juan Ruiz de Alarcon | |||
| Los Relampagos de Agosto ( ) by Jorge Ibarguengoitia | ||||
| Muerte sin fin ( ) by Jose Gorostiza | ||||
| Los Dias Terrenales ( ) by Jose Revueltas | ||||
| Farabeuf ( ) by Salvador Elizondo | ||||
| Los Cuervos Estan de Luto ( ) by Hugo Arguelles | ||||
| Cronica de la Intervencion ( ) by Juan Garcia Ponce | ||||
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 Max Havelaar (1860) by Multatuli |
 Amsterdam Stories (1910s) by Nescio |
 Beyond Sleep (1966) by Willem Hermans |
 Parents Worry (1988) by Gerard Reve |
 The Discovery of Heaven (1992) by Harry Mulisch |
| Further recommendations | ||||
| 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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 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
Contemporary Novellas | ||||
| 1970s | ||||
 Dark Spring (1970) by Unica Zurn |
 The White Ship (1970) by Chinghiz Aitmatov |
 Flats/Quake (1971-4) by Rudolph Wurlitzer |
 Love (1971) by Angela Carter |
 Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine (1972) by Stanley Crawford |
| Further 1970s | ||||
| The Summer Book (1972) by Tove Jansson | ||||
| Motorman (1972) by David Ohle | ||||
| A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (1972) by Peter Handke | ||||
| Roadside Picnic (1972) by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky | ||||
| Asleep in the Sun (1973) by Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||||
| Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry (1973) by B.S. Johnson | ||||
| Telegram (1973) by Putu Wijaya | ||||
| The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1974) by Heinrich Boll | ||||
| For Love of Norway (1975) by Pal Espolin Johnson | ||||
| Travesty (1976) by John Hawkes | ||||
| Journey into the Past (1976) by Stefan Zweig | ||||
| P’s Three Women (1977) by Paulo Emilio Slaes Gomes | ||||
| Fatale (1977) by Jean-Patrick Manchette | ||||
| The Hour of the Star (1977) by Clarice Lispector | ||||
| The Painter of Signs (1977) by R.K. Narayan | ||||
| Secret Rendezvous (1977) by Kobo Abe | ||||
| A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (1978) by Danilo Kis | ||||
| Sleepless Nights (1979) by Elizabeth Hardwick | ||||
| Volcano (1979) by Shusaku Endo | ||||
| 1980s | ||||
 The Viceroy of Ouidah (1980) by Bruce Chatwin |
 A Month in the Country (1980) by J.L. Carr |
 A Bohemian Youth (1980) by Josef Hirsal |
 Loitering With Intent (1981) by Muriel Spark |
 Concrete (1982) by Thomas Bernhard |
| Further 1980s | ||||
| So the Wind Won’t Blow it All Away (1982) by Richard Brautigan | ||||
| The Witch-Herbalist of the Remote Town (1982) by Amos Tutuola | ||||
| The Assault (1982) by Harry Mulisch | ||||
| The Wine of Astonishment (1982) by Earl Lovelace | ||||
| A Tiger for Malgudi (1983) by R.K. Narayan | ||||
| Mr. Palomar (1983) by Italo Calvino | ||||
| The Cannibal Galaxy (1983) by Cynthia Ozick | ||||
| Alladin's Problem (1984) by Ernst Junger | ||||
| The Lover (1984) by Marguerite Duras | ||||
| In the Dutch Mountains (1984) by Cees Nooteboom | ||||
| Isle of Dreams (1985) by Hino Keizo | ||||
| Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas (1983-6) by Can Xue | ||||
| Stone in a Landslide (1985) by Maria Barbal | ||||
| The Day the Leader was Killed (1985) by Naguib Mahfouz | ||||
| In the Country of Last Things (1987) by Paul Auster | ||||
| The Pigeon (1987) by Patrick Suskind | ||||
| Kitchen (1988) by Banana Yoshimoto | ||||
| The Swordfish (1989) by Hugo Claus | ||||
| Mister Blue (1989) by Jacques Poulin | ||||
| 1990s | ||||
 Kaddish for an Unborn Child (1990) by Imre Kertesz |
 The Following Story (1991) by Cees Nooteboom |
 Chaos and All That (1991) by Lui Sola |
 Babyfucker (1992) by Urs Allemann |
 The Death of the Author (1992) by Gilbert Adai |
| Further 1990s | ||||
| Angels and Insects (1992) by A.S. Byatt | ||||
| The Other City (1993) by Michal Ajvaz | ||||
| Loving Sabotage (1993) by Amelie Nothomb | ||||
| The Marx Family Saga (1993) by Juan Goytisolo | ||||
| The Crime Studio (1994) by Steve Aylett | ||||
| Shyness and Dignity (1994) by Dag Solstad | ||||
| Of Love and Other Demons (1994) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | ||||
| Pereira Declares (1994) by Antonio Tabucchi | ||||
| Phosphor in Dreamland (1995) by Rikki Ducornet | ||||
| Panther in the Basement (1995) by Amos Oz | ||||
| I Have the Right to Destroy Myself (1996) by Kim Young-ha | ||||
| Escape Hatch (1996) by Vladimir Makanin | ||||
| The Diary of Mr. Pinke (1995) by Ewald Murrer | ||||
| Reader's Block (1996) by David Markson | ||||
| A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family (1998) by Peter Dimock | ||||
| Kneller's Happy Campers (1998) by Etgar Keret | ||||
| Honk if you Love Aphrodite (1999) by Daniel Evan Weiss | ||||
| The Literary Conference (1999) by Cesar Aira | ||||
| Earth and Ashes (1999) by Atiq Rahimi | ||||
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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| Additional epic fantasy | ||||
| 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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