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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|The Letters]]'' of Vincent van Gogh </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|The Ten Thousand Things]]'' ( ) by Maria Dermout </small>
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Eline Vere|Eline Vere]]'' (1889) by Louis Couperus </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Eline Vere]]'' ( ) by Louis Couperus </small>
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Willem Elsschot|Cheese]]'' (1933) by Willem Elsschot </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Chapel Road]]'' ( ) by Louis Paul Boon </small>
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Ferdinand Bordewijk|Character]]'' (1938) by F. Bordewijk </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|I Dreamed in the Cities at Night]]'' ( ) by Remco Campert </small>
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Chapel Road]]'' (1953) by Louis Paul Boon </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Omega Minor]]'' ( ) by Paul Verhaeghen </small>
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Ten Thousand Things|The Ten Thousand Things]]'' (1955) by Maria Dermout </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Cheese]]'' ( ) by Willem Elsschot </small>
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Darkroom of Damocles|The Darkroom of Damocles]]'' (1958) by Willem Frederik Hermans </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Turkish Delight]]'' ( ) by Jan Wolkers </small>
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Hugo Claus|Wonder]]'' (1962) by Hugo Claus </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|The Darkroom of Damocles]]'' ( ) by Willem Frederik Hermans </small>
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Remco Campert|I Dreamed in the Cities at Night]]'' by Remco Campert </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Wonder]]'' ( ) by Hugo Claus </small>
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Jan Wolkers|Turkish Delight]]'' (1969) by Jan Wolkers </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|The Following Story]]'' ( ) by Cees Nooteboom </small>
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Following Story|The Following Story]]'' (1991) by Cees Nooteboom </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Character]]'' ( ) by F. Bordewijk </small>
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Omega Minor|Omega Minor]]'' (2004) by Paul Verhaeghen </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|The Twin]]'' ( ) by Gerbrand Bakker</small>
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Tomorrow Pamplona]]'' (2007) by Jan van Mersbergen </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Tomorrow Pamplona]]'' ( ) by Jan van Mersbergen </small>
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Gerbrand Bakker|The Twin]]'' (2008) by Gerbrand Bakker</small>
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|rowspan=5 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Untranslated||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Hildebrand|Camera Obscura]]'' ( ) by Hildebrand </small>
|rowspan=5 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Untranslated||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Hildebrand|Camera Obscura]]'' ( ) by Hildebrand </small>

Revision as of 11:00, 14 July 2012

By region

Australia

Essential works

The Man Who Loved Children
(1940)
by Christina Stead

Voss
(1957)
by Patrick White

The Fatal Shore
(1987)
by Robert Hughes

Cloudstreet
(1991)
by Tim Winton

Death of a River Guide
(1994)
by Richard Flanagan
Further recommendations
Classic The Dreaming ( ) by Damien Broderick
Illywhacker ( ) by Peter Carey
Oscar and Lucinda ( ) by Peter Carey
For the Term of his Natural Life ( ) by Marcus Clarke
The Middle Parts of Fortune (1929) by Frederic Manning
Eucalyptus (1998) by Murray Bail
The Power of One ( ) by Bryce Courtenay
A Cry in the Jungle Bar ( ) by Robert Drewer
Gould's Book of Fish ( ) by Richard Flanagan
Diaspora ( ) by Greg Egan
My Brilliant Career ( ) by Miles Franklin
The Children's Bach ( ) by Helen Garner
The Female Eunuch ( ) by Germaine Greer
The Secret River ( ) by Kate Grenville
But the Dead are Many ( ) by Frank Hardy
Selected Poetry and Prose ( ) of A.D. Hope
The Lucky Country ( ) by Donald Horne
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab ( ) by Fergus Hume
My Brother Jack ( ) by George Johnston
Schindler's Ark ( ) by Thomas Keneally
The First Casualty ( ) by Phillip Knightley
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( ) by Ray Lawler
Picnic at Hanging Rock ( ) by Joan Lindsay
Remembering Babylon ( ) by David Malouf
Forty-Seventeen ( ) by Frank Moorhouse
New Collected Poems ( ) by Les Murray
Fredy Neptune ( ) by Les Murray
Three Dollars ( ) by Elliot Perlman
The Fortunes of Richard Mahony ( ) by Henry Handel Richardson
Shantaram ( ) by Gregory David Roberts
On the Beach ( ) by Nevil Shute
Animal Liberation ( ) by Peter Singer
The Little Hotel ( ) by Christina Stead
A Fraction of the Whole ( ) by Steve Toltz
The Tree of Man ( ) by Patrick White
The Vivisector ( ) by Patrick White
Dirt Music ( ) by Tim Winton
Wake in Fright ( ) by Kenneth Cook
Capricornia ( ) by Xavier Herbert
Power Without Glory ( ) by Frank Hardy
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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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Iceland

Essential works

The Eddas
(13th century)
by Snorri Sturluson

Njal's Saga
(13th century)
by
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by

Independent People
( )
by Halldór Laxness
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by
Further recommendations
Classic Egil's saga (12th century)
Laxdaela Saga (13th century)
Eyrbyggja Saga (13th century)
The Saga of Grettir the Strong (13th century)
The Saga of the Volsungs (13 century)
Modern The Fish Can Sing ( ) by Halldor Laxness
The Journey Home ( ) by Olaf Olafsson
The Good Shepard (1940) by Gunnar Gunnarson
The Swan ( ) by Gudbergur Bergsson
Angels of the Universe ( ) by Einar Mar Gudmundsson
Justice Undone ( ) by Thor Vilhjalmsson
Stone Tree ( ) by Gyir Eliasson
The Blue Fox ( ) by Sjon
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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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Italy

Essential works

Divine Comedy
(1321)
by Dante Alighieri
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by

Zeno's Conscience
(1923)
by Italo Svevo

That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana
(1957)
by Carlo Emilio Gadda

The Leopard
(1958)
by Tomasi di Lampedusa
Further recommendations
Classic The Consolation of Philosophy (524) by Boethius
Golden Legend (1260) by Jacobus de Voragine
The Travels (13th century) of Marco Polo
The Decameron (1353) by Giovanni Boccaccio
Il Canzoniere (1374) by Petrarch
The Prince (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli
The Book of the Courtier (1528) by Baldassare Castiglione
Orlando Furioso (1532) by Ludovico Ariosto
The Autobiography (1563) of Benvenuto Cellini
Lives of the Artists (1568) by Giorgio Vasari
Jerusalem Delivered (1581) by Torquato Tasso
Selected Poems and Letters by Michelangelo
The Memoirs (1774) of Giacomo Casanova
The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis (1817) by Ugo Foscolo
The Betrothed (1827) by Alessandro Manzoni
Canti (1837) by Giacomo Leopardi
The Life (1849) of Giuseppe Garibaldi
Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories (1880) by Giovanni Verga
Modern The Year 3,000: A Dream (1897) by Paolo Mantegazza
Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem (1900) by Emilio Salgari
Francesca da Rimini (1901) by Gabriele d'Annunzio
Elias Portolu (1903) by Grazia Deledda
Captain Blood (1922) by Rafael Sabatini
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) by Luigi Pirandello
Cuttlefish Bones (1925) by Eugenio Montale
Revolt Against the Modern World (1934) by Julius Evola
the Tartar Steppe (1940) by Dino Buzzati
Christ Stopped at Eboli (1945) by Carlo Levi
The Moon and the Bonfires (1949) by Cesare Pavese
Contempt (1954) by Alberto Moravia
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962) by Giorgio Bassani
Family Sayings (1967) by Natalia Ginzburg
Equal Danger (1971) by Leonardo Sciascia
Invisible Cities (1972) by Italo Calvino
The Periodic Table (1975) by Primo Levi
Foucault's Pendulum (1988) by Umberto Eco
Q (1999) by Luther Blissett
Love-Shaped Story (2002) by Tommaso Pincio
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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
Eline Vere (1889) by Louis Couperus
Cheese (1933) by Willem Elsschot
Character (1938) by F. Bordewijk
Chapel Road (1953) by Louis Paul Boon
The Ten Thousand Things (1955) by Maria Dermout
The Darkroom of Damocles (1958) by Willem Frederik Hermans
Wonder (1962) by Hugo Claus
I Dreamed in the Cities at Night by Remco Campert
Turkish Delight (1969) by Jan Wolkers
The Following Story (1991) by Cees Nooteboom
Omega Minor (2004) by Paul Verhaeghen
Tomorrow Pamplona (2007) by Jan van Mersbergen
The Twin (2008) by Gerbrand Bakker
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

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Short Story Collections Twice Told Tales ( ) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Linden Hills ( ) by Gloria Naylor
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The Known World ( ) by Edward P. Jones
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