Recommended Reading/Literature by origin

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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
Faust (1832) 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 Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
	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
	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 Divan-i (14th century) of Hafiz	The Blind Owl (1937) by Sadegh Hedayat
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
	The Rose Garden (1259) by Sa'di
Modern	Three Drops of Blood (1932) by Sadegh Hedayat
	The Patient Stone (1967) by Sadeq Chubak
	The Little Black Fish and Other Modern Persian Stories (1968) by Samad Behrangi
	Missing Soluch (1979) by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
	Women Without Men (1990) by Shahrnush Parsipur
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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Korea
Essential works
The Cloud Dream of the Nine (17th century) Kim Manjung	Three Generations (1931) by Yom Sang-seop	Ten Thousand Lives by Ko Un	Land (1994) by Park Kyong-Ni	Our Twisted Hero (1987) by Yi Munyol
Further recommendations
The Bamboo Grove: An Introduction to Sijo edited by Richard Rutt
Samguk Yusa (13th century) by Iryeon
Virtuous Women: Three Classic Korean Novels
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong (18th century) by Lady Hyegyeong
On Wonso Pond (1930s) by Kang Kyeong-ae
The Wings (1930s) by Yi Sang
The Naked Tree (1970) by Park Wan-suh
The Other Side of Dark Remembrance (1979) by Lee Kyun-young
The Poet (1992) by Yi Munyol
Who Ate up All the Shinga (1995) by Park Wan-suh
I Have the Right to Destroy Myself (1996) by Kim Young-ha
Contradictions (1998) by Yang Gui-ja
The Guest (2002) by Hwang Sok-yong

Mexico
Essential works
Cantares Mexicanos (16th century)	Poems, Protest, and a Dream by Sor Juana	Confabulario and Other Inventions (1952) by Juan Jose Arreola	Pedro Páramo (1955) by Juan Rulfo	The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962) by Carlos Fuentes
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	Kristin Lavransdatter (1920–1922) 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 (1886–1904) 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
I Write What I Like (1978) by Steve Biko	Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) by J.M. Coetzee	July's People (1981) by Nadine Gordimer	Ways of Dying (1995) by Zakes Mda	Disgrace (1999) by J.M. Coetzee
Further recommendations
Contemporary	The Way of the Women (2004) by Marlene van Niekerk
	Zoo City (2010) by Lauren Beukes

United States
Essential works
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Further recommendations
Short Story Collections	Twice Told Tales ( ) by Nathanael Hawthorn
	Collected Works ( ) by Edgar Allen Poe
	Collected Short Stories ( ) by Mark Twain
	Billy Budd and the Piazza Tales ( ) by Herman Melville
	Maggie and Other Stories ( ) by Stephen Crane
	Flappers and Philosophers ( ) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
	Collected Short Works ( ) by Ernest Hemingway
	Death in the Woods and Other Stories ( ) by Sherwood Anderson
	Where I'm Calling From ( ) by Raymond Carver
	The Stories ( ) of John Cheever
	The Tales ( ) of H.P. Lovecraft
Poetry Collections	Leaves of Grass ( ) by Walt Whitman
	The Poetry ( ) of Emily Dickinson
	The Waste Land and Other Poems ( ) by T.S. Eliot
	Harmonium ( ) by Wallace Stevens
	Selected Poems ( ) by Robinson Jeffers
	Collected Poems ( ) by Robert Frost
	The Bridge (1930) by Hart Crane
	Collected Poems Vol.1 & 2 ( ) by William Carlos Williams
	Howl and Other Poems (1955) by Allen Ginsberg
	Collected Poems ( ) by John Ashbery
Plays	Complete Plays ( ) by Eugene O'Neill
	Death of a Salesman ( ) by Arthur Miller
	Our Town ( ) by Thornton Wilder
	Plays 1937-1955 ( ) by Tennessee Williams
	The Collected Plays ( ) of Edward Albee
	Buried Child ( ) by Sam Shepard
	Fences ( ) by August Wilson
	Angels in America ( ) by Tony Kushner
Others	The Last of the Mohicans ( ) by Fenimore Cooper
	The Scarlet Letter ( ) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
	Moby-Dick ( ) by Herman Melville
	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( ) by Mark Twain
	The Turn of the Screw ( ) by Henry James
	The American ( ) by Henry James
	The Red Badge of Courage ( ) by Stephen Crane
	The Awakening ( ) by Kate Chopin
	The Call of the Wild ( ) by Jack London
	Three Lives ( ) by Gertrude Stein
	The Age of Innocence ( ) by Edith Wharton
	An American Tragedy ( ) by Theodore Dreiser
	My Antonia ( ) by Willa Cather
	The Great Gatsby ( ) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
	Main Street ( ) by Sinclair Lewis
	Babbit ( ) by Sinclair Lewis
	The New York Trilogy ( ) by Paul Auster
	The Sun Also Rises ( ) by Ernest Hemingway
	For Whom the Bell Tolls ( ) by Ernest Hemingway
	The Sound and the Fury ( ) by William Faulkner
	Absalom, Absalom! ( ) by William Faulkner
	Tropic of Cancer ( ) by Henry Miller
	Appointment in Samrra ( ) by John O'Hara
	The Heart is a Lonely Hunter ( ) by Carson McCullers
	East of Eden ( ) by John Steinbeck
	The Grapes of Wrath ( ) by John Steinbeck
	The Day of the Locust ( ) by Nathanael 'West
	The Big Sleep ( ) by Raymond Chandler
	All the King's Men ( ) by Robert Penn Warren
	Fahrenheit 451 ( ) by Ray Bradbury
	The Catcher in the Rye ( ) by J.D. Salinger
	The Recognitions ( ) by William Gaddis
	Lolita ( ) by Vladimir Nabokov
	On the Road ( ) by Jack Kerouac
	Naked Lunch ( ) by William S. Burroughs
	Rabbit, Run ( ) by John Updike
	To Kill a Mockingbird ( ) by Harper Lee
	Catch-22 ( ) by Joseph Heller
	The Sot-Weed Factor ( ) by John Barth
	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ( ) by Ken Kesey
	The Bell Jar ( ) by Sylvia Plath
	Herzog ( ) by Saul Bellow
	Slaughterhouse-Five ( ) by Kurt Vonnegut
	The Crying of Lot 49 ( ) by Thomas Pynchon
	Gravity's Rainbow ( ) by Thomas Pynchon
	V. ( ) by Thomas Pynchon
	Pattern Recognition ( ) by William Gibson
	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ( ) by Hunter S. Thompson
	Portnoy's Complaint ( ) by Phillip Roth
	American Pastoral ( ) by Phillip Roth
	The Road ( ) by Cormac McCarthy
	A Confederacy of Dunces ( ) by John Kennedy Toole
	Libra ( ) by Don Delillo
	Underworld ( ) by Don Delillo
	Infinite Jest ( ) by David Foster Wallace
Slave Narratives	The Interesting Narrative ( ) by Olaudah Equiano
	Twelve Years a Slave ( ) by Solomon Northrup
	Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ( ) by Harriet Jacobs
	Narrative of the Life ( ) of Frederick Douglass
	Narrative ( ) of Sojourner Truth
Reconstruction Era	The Souls of Black Folk ( ) by W.E.B. Du Bois
	The Collected Poetry ( ) by Paul Laurence Dunbar
	Up From Slavery ( ) by Booker T. Washington
Harlem Renaissance	Not Without Laughter ( ) by Langston Hughes
	Cane ( ) by Jean Toomer
	Black no More ( ) by George S. Schugler
	Home to Harlem ( ) by Claude McKay
	Their Eyes Were Watching God ( ) by Zora Neale Hurston
	Quicksand and Passing ( ) by Mella Larsen
	The Walls of Jericho ( ) by Mella Larsen
	The Blacker and the Berry ( ) by Mella Larsen
Civil Rights Era	Native Son ( ) by Richard Wright
	Go Tell it on the Mountain ( ) by James Baldwin
	Invisible Man ( ) by Ralph Ellison
	The Autobiography ( ) of Malcolm X
	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ( ) by Maya Angelou
	Selected Poems ( ) by Gwendolyn Brooks
	If he Hollers Let Him Go ( ) by Chester Himes
	A Raisin in the Sun ( ) by Lorraine Hansberry
Contemporary	Beneath the Underdog ( ) by Charles Mingus
	The Color Purple ( ) by Alice Walker
	Beloved ( ) by Toni Morrison
	Song of Solomon ( ) by Toni Morrison
	Killing Johnny Fry ( ) by Walter Mosley
	Roots ( ) by Alex Haley
	Somebody Blew up America ( ) by Amiri Baraka
	Waiting to Exhale ( ) by Terry McMillan
	Linden Hills ( ) by Gloria Naylor
	Mumbo Jumbo ( ) by Ismael Reed
	Kindre D ( ) by Ismael Reed
	The Known World ( ) by Edward P. Jones
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