Recommended Reading/sub

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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Iran
Essential works
The Conference of the Birds (12th century) by Farid ud-Din Attar	The Rubaiyat (12th century) of Omar Khayyam	The Essential Works (13th century) by Rumi	The Rose Garden (1259) by Sa'di	The Divan-i (14th century) of Hafiz
Further recommendations
Classical	Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (~1000)
	Vis and Ramin (11th century) by Asad Gorgani
	The Secret of Laughter: Magical Tales from Classical Persia edited by Shusha Guppy
	Haft Paykar (1197) by Nizami Ganjavi
	Borrowed Ware: Medieval Persian Epigrams edited by Dick Davis
Untranslated	Garshaspnama (11th century) by Asadi Tusi
	Chosrow and Shirin (1180) by Nizami Ganjavi
	Tutinama: Tales of a Parrot (14th century)
	1001 Days (1712) by Francois Petis de la Croix
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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

Novellas
Heart of a Dog (1925) by Mikhail Bulgakov	Dream Story (1926) by Arthur Schnitzler	Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad	Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) by Nathanael West	Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell
A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens
A Clockwork Orange () by Anthony Burgess
A Room of One's Own () by Virginia Woolf
Fahrenheit 451 () by Ray Bradbury
First Love ( ) by Ivan Turgenev
A Pale View of Hills ( ) by Kazuo Ishiguro
Around the World in 80 Days ( ) by Jules Verne
At the Mountains of Madness ( ) by H.P. Lovecraft
Bartleby the Scrivener ( ) by Herman Melville
Billy Budd ( ) by Herman Melville
The Call of the Wild ( ) by Jack London
Candide ( ) by Voltaire
Cannery Row ( ) by John Steinbeck
Junky ( ) by William S. Burroughs
Master and Man ( ) by Leo Tolstoy
The Metamorphosis ( ) by Franz Kafka
Botchan ( ) by Natsume Soseki
The Horla ( ) by Guuy de Maupassant
Looking Backward ( ) by Edward Bellamy
Child of God ( ) by Cormac McCarthy
Of Mice and Men () by John Steinbeck	Nausea (1938) by Jean-Paul Sartre	Notes from Underground () by Fyodor Dostoevsky	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) by Solzhenitsyn	The Ballad of Sad Cafe () by Carson McCullers
Chronicle of a Death Foretold () by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Daisy Miller () by Henry James
Death in Venice () by Thomas Mann
Night () by Elie Wiesel
No One Writes the Colonel () by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Mathilda ( ) by Mary Shelley
Pedro Paramo ( ) by Juan Rulfo
Snow Country ( ) by Yasunari Kawabata
South of the Border, West of the Sun ( ) by Haruki Murakami
Diary of a Madman ( ) by Nikolai Gogol
Dusklands ( ) by J.M. Coetzee
Ethan Frome ( ) by Edith Wharton
The Dying Animal ( ) by Phillip Roth
Outer Dark ( ) by Cormac McCarthy
Scenes of a Clerical Life ( ) by George Eliot
Everyman ( ) by Phillip Roth
The Fox ( ) by D.H. Lawrence
The Girl With the Golden Eyes ( ) by Honore de Balzac
Seize the Day ( ) by Saul Bellow
Siddhartha ( ) by Hermann Hesse
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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
2000s
In Her Absence (2000) by Antonio Munoz Molina	Kafka's Leopards (2000) by Moacyr Scliar	The Colors of Infamy (2000) by Albert Cossery	Tales of Galicia (2001) by Andrzej Stasiuk	Besides the Sea (2001) by Veronique Olmi
Further 2000s
Inez (2001) by Carlos Fuentes
Bait (2001) by David Albahari
Europeana (2001) by Patrik Ourednik
Good Morning Comrades (2001) by Ondjaki
All This Belongs to Me (2002) by Petra Hulova
Conversations with Spinoza (2002) by Gocec Smilevski
In the Flesh (2002) by Christa Wolf
Agape Agape (2002) by William Gaddis
The Blue Fox (2003) by Sjon
Piano (2003) by Jean Echenoz
The Housekeeper and the Professor (2003) by Yoko Ogawa
The Book of Words (2004) by Jenny Erpenbeck
Moving Parts (2004) by Magdalena Tulli
Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest (2005) by Amos Oz
Bonsai (2006) by Alejandro Zambra
The Waitress Was New (2008) by Dominique Fabre
The North of God (2008) by Steve Stern
The Hermaphrodite (2009) by Daniel Grandbois
Next World Novella (2009) by Matthias Politycki
2010s
The Brothers (2010) by Asko Sahlberg	Lightning (2010) by Jean Echenoz	Train Dreams (2011) by Denis Johnson	Down the Rabbit Hole (2011) by Juan Pablo Villalobos
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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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Flash Fiction Collections
Pre-1950
The Waste Books by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg	The Complete Fables of Jean de la Fontaine	Nature Stories by Jules Renard	Microscripts by Robert Walser	Today I Wrote Nothing by Daniil Kharms
Further Pre-1950
Novels in Three Lines by Felix Feneon
The Collected Stories by Colette
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights
41 Stories by O. Henry
Post-1950
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata	Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth	The Voice Imitator by Thomas Bernhard	The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus	Metrophilias by Brendan Connell
Further Post-1950
The Book of Fables by W.S. Merwin
The Nimrod Flip-out by Etgar Keret
Murder in the Dark by Margaret Atwood
The Collected Stories by Lydia Davis
AM/PM by Amelia Gray
The Black Sheep and Other Fables by Augusto Monterroso
Road-Side Dog by Czeslaw Milosz
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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
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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