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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 Plays'' of Hrotswitha of Gandersheim </small> | |||
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Revision as of 08:31, 9 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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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 | ||||
![]() 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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Essential works | ||||
![]() Max Havelaar (1860) by Multatuli |
![]() Amsterdam Stories (1910s) by Nescio |
![]() Beyond Sleep (1966) by Willem Hermans |
![]() Parents Worry (1988) by Gerard Reve |
![]() The Discovery of Heaven (1992) by Harry Mulisch |
Further recommendations | ||||
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 | ||||
![]() 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
Theatre/Drama | ||||
Classical through Medieval | ||||
![]() The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles |
![]() The Oresteia by Aeschylus |
![]() Electra and Other Plays by Euripides |
![]() The Complete Plays by Aristophanes |
![]() Plays and Fragments by Menander |
Classical through Medieval cont. | ||||
The Pot of Gold and Other Plays by Plautus | ||||
Four Tragedies and Octavia by Seneca | ||||
The Comedies by Terence | ||||
The Loom of Time by Kalidasa | ||||
The Plays of Hrotswitha of Gandersheim | ||||
Japanese Noh Dramas | ||||
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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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