Recommended Reading/Literature by origin

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	Wild Grass (1927) by Lu Xun
	Rainbow (1930) by Mao Dun
	Family (1933) Ba Jin
	Border Town (1934) by Shen Congwen
	Selected Stories by Shen Congwen
	My Country and My People (1935) by Lin Yutang
	The Importance of Living (1937) by Lin Yutang
	Love in a Fallen City (1945) by Eileen Chang
	Fortress Besieged (1947) by Qian Zhongshu
	Teahouse (1957) by Lao She
	The Three-Inch Golden Lotus (1985) by Feng Jicai
	Waves (1985) by Bei Dao
	Red Sorghum (1987) by Mo Yan
	The August Sleepwalker (1988) by Bei Dao
	The King of Trees (1990) by Ah Cheng
	Soul Mountain (1990) by Gao Xingjian
	To Live (1993) by Yu Hua
	Five Spice Street (2003) by Can Xue
	Brothers (2005) by Yu Hua
	Life and Death are Wearing Me Out (2006) by Mo Yan
	Vertical Motion (2011) 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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England
Essential works
The Canterbury Tales (14th century) by Geoffrey Chaucer	The Complete Works of William Shakespeare	Paradise Lost (1667) by John Milton	File:.jpg The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth	File:.jpg ( ) by
Further recommendations
Classic	Beowulf (10th century)
	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (14th century)
	Le Morte D'Arthur (1485) by Sir Thomas Malory
	Utopia (1516) by Thomas More
	The Complete Plays of Christopher Marlowe
	The Faerie Queene (1590) by Edmund Spenser
	Plays and Masques by Ben Jonson
	the Duchess of Malfi (1612) by John Webster
	The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) by John Bunyan
	Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe
	Gulliver's Travels (1735) by Jonathan Swift
	Tom Jones (1749) by Henry Fielding
	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759) by Laurence Sterne
	The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) by Oliver Goldsmith
	The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793) by William Blake
19th Century	Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen
	Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley
	Ivanhoe (1820) by Sir Walter Scott
	Don Juan (1821) by Lord Byron
	Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Bronte
	Wuthering Heights (1847) Emily Bronte
	Vanity Fair (1848) by William Makepeace Thackeray
	Bleak House (1853) by Charles Dickens
	A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens
	Middlemarch (1872) by George Eliot
	Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) by Thomas Hardy
	The Way We Live Now (1879) by Anthony Trollope
	Idylls of the King (1885) by Alfred Lord Tennyson
	The Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson
	Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker
	The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
Modern	Lord Jim (1900) by Joseph Conrad
	Kim (1900) by Rudyard Kipling
	The Way of All Flesh (1903) by Samuel Butler
	The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) by G.K. Chesterton
	Sons and Lovers (1913) by D.H. Lawrence
	Of Human Bondage (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham
	The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
	A Passage to India (1924) by E.M. Forster
	To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf
	The Collected Plays by George Bernard Shaw
	The Collected Poems by W.B. Yeats
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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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Hungary
Essential works
The Tragedy of Man (1861) by Imre Madach	Be Faithful Unto Death (1920) by Zsigmond Moricz	Anna Edes (1926) by Dezso Kosztolanyi	Journey by Moonlight (1937) by Antal Szerb	The Melancholy of Resistance (1989) by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Further recommendations
Classic	( ) by Geza Gardonyi
	( ) by Endry Ady
	( ) by Sándor Petőfi
Modern	( ) by Gyula Krudy
	( ) by István Örkény
	( ) by Ferenc Molnár
	( ) by Peter Esterhazy
	( ) by Magda Szabo
	( ) by Frigyes Karinthy
	( ) by Ferenc Karinthy
	( ) by Peter Nadas
	( ) by Miklos Banffy
	( ) by Geza Csath
	( ) by Sándor Márai
	( ) by Tibor Dery
	( ) by György Konrád
	( ) by Attila Bartis
	( ) by Magrit Kaffka
	( ) by Stephen Vizinczey
	( ) by Arthur Koestler

Iceland
Essential works
The Eddas (13th century) by Snorri Sturluson	Njal's Saga (13th century) by	File:.jpg ( ) by	Independent People (1935) by Halldór Laxness	File:.jpg ( ) 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 (13th century)
Modern	The Good Shepard (1940) by Gunnar Gunnarson
	The Fish Can Sing (1957) by Halldor Laxness
	Justice Undone (1986) by Thor Vilhjalmsson
	The Swan (1991) by Gudbergur Bergsson
	Angels of the Universe (1993) by Einar Mar Gudmundsson
	The Journey Home (1999) by Olaf Olafsson
	The Blue Fox (2003) by Sjon
	Stone Tree (2005) by Gyir Eliasson
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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	File:.jpg ( ) 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

Latin America
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Alvaro Mutis	One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabo	The Black Sheep and Other Fables (1969) by Augusto Monterroso	File:.jpg ( ) by	File:.jpg ( ) by
Further recommendations
Colombia	Our Lady of the Assassins (1994) by Fernando Vallejo
Ecuador	Seven Serpents and Seven Moons (1970) by Demetrio Aguilera Malta
	Don Goyo (1933) by Demetrio Aguilera Malta
Guatemala	The President (1946) by Miguel Angel Asturias
	Men of Maize (1949) by Miguel Angel Asturias
Paraguay	( ) by Augusto Roa Bastos
	( ) by Roque Vallejos
	( ) by José Ricardo Mazó
Puerto Rico	( ) by Rosario Ferre
	( ) by Miguel Piñero
	( ) by Luis Rafael Sánchez
Salvador	( ) by Horacio Castellanos Moya
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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
Classic	In Praise of Folly (1511) by Erasmus
	Lucifer (1654) by Joost van den Vondel
	Eline Vere (1889) by Louis Couperus
	The Letters (1890) of Vincent van Gogh
	A Posthumous Confession (1894) by Marcellus Emants
Modern	The Waning of the Middle Ages (1919) by J. Huizinga
	Cheese (1933) by Willem Elsschot
	Character (1938) by F. Bordewijk
	In a Dark Wood Wandering (1949) by Hella S. Haasse
	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
	Out of Mind (1984) by J. Bernlef
	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 (1851) by Hildebrand
	De Stille Kracht (1900) by Louis Couperus
	Van De Koele Meren des Doods (1900) by Frederik van Eeden
	De Avonden (1947) by Gerard Reve
	Het land achter Gods rug (1956) by A. den Doolaard
	Terug naar Oegstgeest (1965) 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

Poland
Essential works
Pan Tadeusz (1834) by Adam Mickiewicz	The Doll (1889) by Boleslaw Prus	The Street of Crocodiles (1934) by Bruno Schulz	Ferdydurke (1937) by Witold Gombrowicz	New and Collected Poems (2001) by Czeslaw Milosz
Further recommendations
Classic	Laments (1580) by Jan Kochanowski
	Fables and Parables (1779) by Ignacy Krasicki
	Quo Vadis (1895 ) by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Modern	( ) by Tadeusz Konwicki
	( ) by Andrzej Stasiuk
	( ) by Wislawa Szymborska
	( ) by Olga Tokarczuk
	( ) by Stanislaw Lem
	( ) by Adam Zagajewski
	( ) by Zbigniew Herbert
	( ) by Stefan Grabinski
	( ) by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
	( ) by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz
	( ) by Slawomir Mrozek
	( ) by Ewa Lipska
	( ) by Jerzy Ficowski
	( ) by Stefan Zeromski
	( ) by Anna Swir
	( ) by Juliusz Slowacki
	( ) by Gustaw Herling
	( ) by Adam Mickiewicz

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	Woe from Wit (1823) by Aleksandr Griboyedov
	Dead Souls (1842) by Nikolai Gogol
	Diary of a Madman and Other Stories (1842) by Nikolai Gogol
	Sketches From a Hunter's Album (1852) by Ivan Turgenev
	Oblomov (1859) by Ivan Goncharov
	Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev
	Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
	Notes From Underground (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
	Lady McBeth of Mtsensk and Other Stories (1865) by Nikolai Leskov
	The Idiot (1869) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
	Demons (1872) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
	The Golovlyov Family (1876) by Mikhail Saltykov
	Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy
	Anna Karenina (1877) by Leo Tolstoy
	The Collected Stories by Anton Chekhov
	The Collected Stories by Alexander Pushkin
20th Century	Petersburg (1913) by Andrei Bely
	We (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin
	Heart of a Dog (1925) by Mikhail Bulgakov
	Envy (1927) by Yuri Olesha
	The Foundation Pit (1930) by Andrey Platonov
	Quiet Flows the Don (1934) by Mikhail Sholokhov
	Invitation to a Beheading (1936) by Vladimir Nabokob
	The Complete Works by Isaac Babel
	Today I Wrote Nothing by Daniil Kharms
	The Collected Stories by Ivan Bunin
	Doctor Zhivago (1957) by Boris Pasternak
	Life and Fate (1959) by Vasily Grossman
	A School for Fools (1960s) by Sasha Sokolov
	Roadside Picnic (1971) by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
	Kolyma Tales (1954-73) by Varlam Shalamov
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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
	Portrait with Keys (2006) by Ivan Vladislavic
	Zoo City (2010) by Lauren Beukes

United States
Essential works
Moby Dick (1851) by Herman Melville	Leaves of Grass (1892) by Walt Whitman	The Sound and the Fury (1920) by William Faulkner	East of Eden (1952) by John Steinbeck	Gravity's Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon
Further recommendations
Short Story Collections	Twice Told Tales (1837) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
	Collected Works (1849) by Edgar Allen Poe
	Billy Budd and the Piazza Tales (1888) by Herman Melville
	Collected Short Stories (1910) by Mark Twain
	Maggie and Other Stories (1900) by Stephen Crane
	Flappers and Philosophers (1920) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
	The Tales (1937) of H.P. Lovecraft
	Death in the Woods and Other Stories (1941) by Sherwood Anderson
	Collected Short Works (1961) by Ernest Hemingway
	The Stories (1982) of John Cheever
	Where I'm Calling From (1988) by Raymond Carver
Poetry Collections	The Poetry (1886) of Emily Dickinson
	The Waste Land and Other Poems (1922) by T.S. Eliot
	Harmonium (1923) by Wallace Stevens
	The Bridge (1930) by Hart Crane
	Howl and Other Poems (1955) by Allen Ginsberg
	Selected Poems (1962) by Robinson Jeffers
	Collected Poems (1963) by Robert Frost
	Collected Poems Vol.1 & 2 (1963) by William Carlos Williams
	Collected Poems (1987) by John Ashbery
Plays	Complete Plays by Eugene O'Neill
	Our Town (1938) by Thornton Wilder
	Death of a Salesman (1949) by Arthur Miller
	Plays 1937-1955 (1955) by Tennessee Williams
	The Collected Plays of Edward Albee
	Buried Child (1978) by Sam Shepard
	Fences (1985) by August Wilson
	Angels in America (1993) by Tony Kushner
Others	The Last of the Mohicans (1826) by Fenimore Cooper
	The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
	The American (1877) by Henry James
	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain
	The Red Badge of Courage (1895) by Stephen Crane
	The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James
	The Awakening (1899) by Kate Chopin
	The Call of the Wild (1903) by Jack London
	Three Lives (1909) by Gertrude Stein
	My Antonia (1918) by Willa Cather
	The Age of Innocence (1920) by Edith Wharton
	Main Street (1920) by Sinclair Lewis
	Babbit (1922) by Sinclair Lewis
	The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
	An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser
	The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway
	Tropic of Cancer (1934) by Henry Miller
	Appointment in Samrra (1934) by John O'Hara
	Absalom, Absalom! (1936) by William Faulkner
	The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
	The Day of the Locust (1939) by Nathanael 'West
	The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler
	For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway
	The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers
	All the King's Men (1946) by Robert Penn Warren
	The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger
	On the Road (1951) by Jack Kerouac
	Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury
	The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis
	Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
	Naked Lunch (1959) by William S. Burroughs
	Rabbit, Run (1960) by John Updike
	To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee
	The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) by John Barth
	Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey
	The Bell Jar (1963) by Sylvia Plath
	V. (1963) by Thomas Pynchon
	Herzog (1965) by Saul Bellow
	The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon
	Portnoy's Complaint (1969) by Phillip Roth
	Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut
	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson
	A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) by John Kennedy Toole
	The New York Trilogy (1986) by Paul Auster
	Libra (1988) by Don Delillo
	Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace
	Underworld (1997) by Don Delillo
	American Pastoral (1997) by Phillip Roth
	Pattern Recognition (2003) by William Gibson
	The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy
Slave Narratives	The Interesting Narrative (1789) by Olaudah Equiano
	Narrative of the Life (1845) of Frederick Douglass
	Narrative (1850) of Sojourner Truth
	Twelve Years a Slave (1853) by Solomon Northrup
	Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Harriet Jacobs
Reconstruction Era	Up From Slavery (1901) by Booker T. Washington
	wikipedia:The Souls of Black FolkThe Souls of Black Folk (1903) by W.E.B. Du Bois
	The Collected Poetry (1906) by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Harlem Renaissance	Cane (1923) by Jean Toomer
	The Walls of Jericho (1928) by Rudolph Fisher
	Home to Harlem (1928) by Claude McKay
	Quicksand and Passing (1929) by Nella Larsen
	The Blacker the Berry (1929) by Wallace Thurman
	Not Without Laughter (1930) by Langston Hughes
	Black no More (1931) by George S. Schugler
	Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston
Civil Rights Era	Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright
	If he Hollers Let Him Go (1945) by Chester Himes
	Invisible Man (1952) by Ralph Ellison
	Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953) by James Baldwin
	A Raisin in the Sun (1959) by Lorraine Hansberry
	The Autobiography (1965) of Malcolm X
	Selected Poems (1966) by Gwendolyn Brooks
	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) by Maya Angelou
Contemporary	Beneath the Underdog (1971) by Charles Mingus
	Mumbo Jumbo (1972) by Ismael Reed
	Roots (1976) by Alex Haley
	Song of Solomon (1977) by Toni Morrison
	Kindred (1979) by Ismael Reed
	The Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker
	Linden Hills (1985) by Gloria Naylor
	Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison
	Waiting to Exhale (1992) by Terry McMillan
	Somebody Blew up America (2001) by Amiri Baraka
	The Known World (2003) by Edward P. Jones
	Killing Johnny Fry (2006) by Walter Mosley
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