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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 Sparkr</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) 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

China

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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Czech Republic

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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Germany

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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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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Mexico

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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Netherlands

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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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
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
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South Africa

Essential works

Disgrace
(1999)
by J.M. Coetzee

I Write What I Like
(1978)
by Steve Biko


July's People
(1981)
by Nadine Gordimer


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
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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