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<h2>By region</h2>
<h2>By region</h2>


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|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Argentina.png]] Argentina </h3>
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Argentina.png]] Argentina </h3>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Strange_Forces.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Las fuerzas extrañas|Strange Forces]]''<br/>(1906)<br/>Leopoldo Lugones</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Strange_Forces.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Las fuerzas extrañas|Strange Forces]]''<br />(1906)<br />Leopoldo Lugones</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Museum_of_Eterna's_Novel.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Museum of Eterna's Novel|The Museum of Eterna's Novel]]''<br/>(1925)<br/> Macedonio Fernandez</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Museum_of_Eterna's_Novel.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Museum of Eterna's Novel|The Museum of Eterna's Novel]]''<br />(1925)<br /> Macedonio Fernandez</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Seven_Madmen.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Roberto Arlt|The Seven Madmen]]''<br/>(1929)<br/>Roberto Arlt</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Seven_Madmen.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Roberto Arlt|The Seven Madmen]]''<br />(1929)<br />Roberto Arlt</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:ElAleph.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:El Aleph|The Aleph]]''<br/>(1949)<br/>Jorge Luis Borges</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:ElAleph.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:El Aleph|The Aleph]]''<br />(1949)<br />Jorge Luis Borges</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Hopscotch.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar novel)|Hopscotch]]''<br/>(1963)<br/>Julio Cortazar</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Hopscotch.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar novel)|Hopscotch]]''<br />(1963)<br />Julio Cortazar</small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Manuel Puig </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Manuel Puig </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Ernesto Sabato </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Ernesto Sabato </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Juan José Saer </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Juan José Saer </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Oliverio Girondo </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Oliverio Girondo </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Adolfo Bioy Casares </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Adolfo Bioy Casares </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Fernando Sorrentino </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Fernando Sorrentino </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Cesar Aira </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Cesar Aira </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Marco Denevi </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Marco Denevi </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Luisa Valenzuela </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Luisa Valenzuela </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Lila Zemborain </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Lila Zemborain </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Rodrigo Fresan </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Rodrigo Fresan </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Alberto Laiseca </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Alberto Laiseca </small>
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Australia.png]] Australia </h3>
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Australia.png]] Australia </h3>
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|colspan=5|<small> [http://tinyurl.com/australianlit Australian Literature Download]</small>
| colspan="5" |<small> [http://tinyurl.com/australianlit Australian Literature Download]</small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Tthe_Man_Who_Loved_Children.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Man Who Loved Children|The Man Who Loved Children ]]''<br/>(1940)<br/>by Christina Stead </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Tthe_Man_Who_Loved_Children.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Man Who Loved Children|The Man Who Loved Children ]]''<br />(1940)<br />by Christina Stead </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Voss.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Voss (novel)|Voss]]''<br/>(1957)<br/>by Patrick White </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Voss.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Voss (novel)|Voss]]''<br />(1957)<br />by Patrick White </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Fatal_Shore.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Fatal Shore|The Fatal Shore]]''<br/>(1987)<br/>by Robert Hughes </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Fatal_Shore.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Fatal Shore|The Fatal Shore]]''<br />(1987)<br />by Robert Hughes </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Cloudstreet.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Cloudstreet|Cloudstreet ]]''<br/>(1991)<br/>by Tim Winton </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Cloudstreet.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Cloudstreet|Cloudstreet ]]''<br />(1991)<br />by Tim Winton </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Death_of_a_River_Guide.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Death of a River Guide|Death of a River Guide]]''<br/> (1994)<br/> by Richard Flanagan </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Death_of_a_River_Guide.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Death of a River Guide|Death of a River Guide]]''<br /> (1994)<br /> by Richard Flanagan </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
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|rowspan=40 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Classic||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Dreaming|The Dreaming]]'' ( ) by Damien Broderick </small>
| rowspan="40" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Dreaming|The Dreaming]]'' ( ) by Damien Broderick </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Illywhacker|Illywhacker]]'' ( ) by Peter Carey </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Illywhacker|Illywhacker]]'' ( ) by Peter Carey </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Oscar and Lucinda|Oscar and Lucinda]]'' ( ) by Peter Carey </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Oscar and Lucinda|Oscar and Lucinda]]'' ( ) by Peter Carey </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:For the Term of his Natural Life|For the Term of his Natural Life]]'' ( ) by Marcus Clarke </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:For the Term of his Natural Life|For the Term of his Natural Life]]'' ( ) by Marcus Clarke </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Middle Parts of Fortune|The Middle Parts of Fortune]]'' (1929) by Frederic Manning </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Middle Parts of Fortune|The Middle Parts of Fortune]]'' (1929) by Frederic Manning </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Eucalyptus (novel)|Eucalyptus]]'' (1998) by Murray Bail </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Eucalyptus (novel)|Eucalyptus]]'' (1998) by Murray Bail </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Power of One|The Power of One]]'' ( ) by Bryce Courtenay </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Power of One|The Power of One]]'' ( ) by Bryce Courtenay </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:A Cry in the Jungle Bar|A Cry in the Jungle Bar]]'' ( ) by Robert Drewer </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A Cry in the Jungle Bar|A Cry in the Jungle Bar]]'' ( ) by Robert Drewer </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Gould's Book of Fish|Gould's Book of Fish]]'' ( ) by Richard Flanagan </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gould's Book of Fish|Gould's Book of Fish]]'' ( ) by Richard Flanagan </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Diaspora (novel)|Diaspora]]'' ( ) by Greg Egan </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Diaspora (novel)|Diaspora]]'' ( ) by Greg Egan </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:My Brilliant Career|My Brilliant Career]]'' ( ) by Miles Franklin </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:My Brilliant Career|My Brilliant Career]]'' ( ) by Miles Franklin </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Children's Bach|The Children's Bach]]'' ( ) by Helen Garner </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Children's Bach|The Children's Bach]]'' ( ) by Helen Garner </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Female Eunuch|The Female Eunuch]]'' ( ) by Germaine Greer </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Female Eunuch|The Female Eunuch]]'' ( ) by Germaine Greer </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Secret River|The Secret River]]'' ( ) by Kate Grenville </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Secret River|The Secret River]]'' ( ) by Kate Grenville </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:But the Dead are Many|But the Dead are Many]]'' ( ) by Frank Hardy </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:But the Dead are Many|But the Dead are Many]]'' ( ) by Frank Hardy </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:A.D. Hope|Selected Poetry and Prose]]'' ( ) of A.D. Hope </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A.D. Hope|Selected Poetry and Prose]]'' ( ) of A.D. Hope </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Lucky Country|The Lucky Country]]'' ( ) by Donald Horne </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Lucky Country|The Lucky Country]]'' ( ) by Donald Horne </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Mystery of a Hansom Cab|The Mystery of a Hansom Cab]]'' ( ) by Fergus Hume </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Mystery of a Hansom Cab|The Mystery of a Hansom Cab]]'' ( ) by Fergus Hume </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:My Brother Jack|My Brother Jack]]'' ( ) by George Johnston </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:My Brother Jack|My Brother Jack]]'' ( ) by George Johnston </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Schindler's Ark|Schindler's Ark]]'' ( ) by Thomas Keneally </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Schindler's Ark|Schindler's Ark]]'' ( ) by Thomas Keneally </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The First Casualty|The First Casualty]]'' ( ) by Phillip Knightley </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The First Casualty|The First Casualty]]'' ( ) by Phillip Knightley </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Summer of the Seventeenth Doll|Summer of the Seventeenth Doll]]'' ( ) by Ray Lawler </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Summer of the Seventeenth Doll|Summer of the Seventeenth Doll]]'' ( ) by Ray Lawler </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Picnic at Hanging Rock|Picnic at Hanging Rock]]'' ( ) by Joan Lindsay </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Picnic at Hanging Rock|Picnic at Hanging Rock]]'' ( ) by Joan Lindsay </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Remembering Babylon|Remembering Babylon]]'' ( ) by David Malouf </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Remembering Babylon|Remembering Babylon]]'' ( ) by David Malouf </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Forty-Seventeen|Forty-Seventeen]]'' ( ) by Frank Moorhouse </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Forty-Seventeen|Forty-Seventeen]]'' ( ) by Frank Moorhouse </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Les Murray|New Collected Poems]]'' ( ) by Les Murray </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Les Murray|New Collected Poems]]'' ( ) by Les Murray </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Fredy Neptune|Fredy Neptune]]'' ( ) by Les Murray </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Fredy Neptune|Fredy Neptune]]'' ( ) by Les Murray </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Three Dollars|Three Dollars]]'' ( ) by Elliot Perlman </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Three Dollars|Three Dollars]]'' ( ) by Elliot Perlman </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Fortunes of Richard Mahony|The Fortunes of Richard Mahony]]'' ( ) by Henry Handel Richardson </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Fortunes of Richard Mahony|The Fortunes of Richard Mahony]]'' ( ) by Henry Handel Richardson </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Shantaram (novel)|Shantaram]]'' ( ) by Gregory David Roberts </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Shantaram (novel)|Shantaram]]'' ( ) by Gregory David Roberts </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:On the Beach|On the Beach]]'' ( ) by Nevil Shute </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:On the Beach|On the Beach]]'' ( ) by Nevil Shute </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Animal Liberation|Animal Liberation]]'' ( ) by Peter Singer </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Animal Liberation|Animal Liberation]]'' ( ) by Peter Singer </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Little Hotel|The Little Hotel]]'' ( ) by Christina Stead </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Little Hotel|The Little Hotel]]'' ( ) by Christina Stead </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:A Fraction of the Whole|A Fraction of the Whole]]'' ( ) by Steve Toltz </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A Fraction of the Whole|A Fraction of the Whole]]'' ( ) by Steve Toltz </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Tree of Man|The Tree of Man]]'' ( ) by Patrick White </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Tree of Man|The Tree of Man]]'' ( ) by Patrick White </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Vivisector|The Vivisector]]'' ( ) by Patrick White </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Vivisector|The Vivisector]]'' ( ) by Patrick White </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Dirt Music|Dirt Music]]'' ( ) by Tim Winton </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Dirt Music|Dirt Music]]'' ( ) by Tim Winton </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Wake in Fright|Wake in Fright]]'' ( ) by Kenneth Cook </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Wake in Fright|Wake in Fright]]'' ( ) by Kenneth Cook </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Capricornia|Capricornia]]'' ( ) by Xavier Herbert </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Capricornia|Capricornia]]'' ( ) by Xavier Herbert </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Power Without Glory|Power Without Glory]]'' ( ) by Frank Hardy </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Power Without Glory|Power Without Glory]]'' ( ) by Frank Hardy </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Austria.png]] Austria </h3>
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Austria.png]] Austria </h3>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Indian_Summer.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Der Nachsommer|Indian Summer]]''<br/>(1857)<br/> by Adalbert Stifter </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Indian_Summer.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Der Nachsommer|Indian Summer]]''<br />(1857)<br /> by Adalbert Stifter </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Man_Without_Qualities.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Man Without Qualities|The Man Without Qualities]]''<br/>(1942)<br/> by Robert Musil </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Man_Without_Qualities.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Man Without Qualities|The Man Without Qualities]]''<br />(1942)<br /> by Robert Musil </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Chess_Story.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Royal Game|Chess Story]]''<br/>(1942)<br/> by Stefan Zweig </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Chess_Story.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Royal Game|Chess Story]]''<br />(1942)<br /> by Stefan Zweig </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Death_of_Virgil.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Hermann Broch|The Death of Virgil]]''<br/>(1945)<br/> by Hermann Broch </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Death_of_Virgil.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Hermann Broch|The Death of Virgil]]''<br />(1945)<br /> by Hermann Broch </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Loser.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Loser (book)|The Loser]]''<br/>(1983)<br/> by Thomas Bernhard </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Loser.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Loser (book)|The Loser]]''<br />(1983)<br /> by Thomas Bernhard </small>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Bergkristall|Rock Crystal]]'' (1845) by Adalbert Stifter </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Bergkristall|Rock Crystal]]'' (1845) by Adalbert Stifter </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Arthur Schnitzler|Round Dance and Other Plays]]'' (1897) by Arthur Schnitzler</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Arthur Schnitzler|Round Dance and Other Plays]]'' (1897) by Arthur Schnitzler</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Confusions of Young Törless|The Confusions of Young Törless]]'' (1906) by Robert Musil </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Confusions of Young Törless|The Confusions of Young Törless]]'' (1906) by Robert Musil </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Alfred Kubin|The Other Side]]'' (1909) by Alfred Kubin </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Alfred Kubin|The Other Side]]'' (1909) by Alfred Kubin </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Dream Story|Dream Story]]'' (1926) by Arthur Schnitzler </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Dream Story|Dream Story]]'' (1926) by Arthur Schnitzler </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Beware of Pity|Beware of Pity]]'' (1939) by Stefan Zweig </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Beware of Pity|Beware of Pity]]'' (1939) by Stefan Zweig </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The World of Yesterday|The World of Yesterday]]'' (1942) by Stefan Zweig </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The World of Yesterday|The World of Yesterday]]'' (1942) by Stefan Zweig </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Gregor von Rezzori|An Ermine in Czernopol]]'' (1958) by Gregor von Rezzori </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gregor von Rezzori|An Ermine in Czernopol]]'' (1958) by Gregor von Rezzori </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Wall (1963 novel)|The Wall]]'' (1963) by Marlen Haushofer </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Wall (1963 novel)|The Wall]]'' (1963) by Marlen Haushofer </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Konrad Bayer|The Head of Vitus Bering]]'' (1965) by Konrad Bayer </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Konrad Bayer|The Head of Vitus Bering]]'' (1965) by Konrad Bayer </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Konrad Bayer|Selected Works]]'' (1966) by Konrad Bayer </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Konrad Bayer|Selected Works]]'' (1966) by Konrad Bayer </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:A Sorrow Beyond Dreams|A Sorrow Beyond Dreams]]'' (1972) by Peter Handke </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A Sorrow Beyond Dreams|A Sorrow Beyond Dreams]]'' (1972) by Peter Handke </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Gregor von Rezzori|Memoirs of an Anti-Semite]]'' (1979) by Gregor von Rezzori </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gregor von Rezzori|Memoirs of an Anti-Semite]]'' (1979) by Gregor von Rezzori </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Woodcutters (novel)|Woodcutters]]'' (1984) by Thomas Bernhard </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Woodcutters (novel)|Woodcutters]]'' (1984) by Thomas Bernhard </small>
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Belgium.png]] Belgium </h3>
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Belgium.png]] Belgium </h3>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:The_Sorrow_of_Belgium.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Sorrow of Belgium|The Sorrow of Belgium]]''<br />(1983)<br /> by Hugo Claus </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Willem Elsschot|Three Novels: Soft Soap, The Leg, Will O' the Wisp]]'' by Willem Elsschot </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Willem Elsschot|Cheese]]'' (1933) by Willem Elsschot </small>
|-
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:The_Sorrow_of_Belgium.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Sorrow of Belgium|The Sorrow of Belgium]]''<br/>(1983)<br/> by Hugo Claus </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Paul van Ostaijen|Occupied City]]'' (1921) by Paul van Ostaijen </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Paul van Ostaijen|The signal]]'' (1918) by Paul van Ostaijen </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Willem Elsschot|Three Novels: Soft Soap, The Leg, Will O' the Wisp]]'' by Willem Elsschot </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Hugo Claus|The Sign of the Hamster]]'' (1964) by Hugo claus </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Willem Elsschot|Cheese]]'' (1933) by Willem Elsschot </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Dimitri Verhulst|Problemski Hotel]]'' (2003) by Dimitri Verhulst </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Paul van Ostaijen|Occupied City]]'' (1921) by Paul van Ostaijen </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Dimitri Verhulst|The Misfortunates]]'' (2006) by Dimitri Verhulst </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Paul van Ostaijen|The signal]]'' (1918) by Paul van Ostaijen </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Marnix Gijsen|Strangers Should Not Whisper]]'' (1945) by Marnix Gijsen </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Hugo Claus|The Sign of the Hamster]]'' (1964) by Hugo claus </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Maurice Gilliams|Elias, or the struggle with the nightingalesl]]'' (1936) by Maurice Gilliams </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Dimitri Verhulst|Problemski Hotel]]'' (2003) by Dimitri Verhulst </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Maurice Gilliams|The bottle at sea. The complete poems]]'' by Maurice Gilliams </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Dimitri Verhulst|The Misfortunates]]'' (2006) by Dimitri Verhulst </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''Tempo di Roma'' by Alexis Curvers </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Marnix Gijsen|Strangers Should Not Whisper]]'' (1945) by Marnix Gijsen </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''Pedigree'' by Georges Simenon </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Maurice Gilliams|Elias, or the struggle with the nightingalesl]]'' (1936) by Maurice Gilliams </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''The Strange Case of Peter the Lett (Maigret series)'' by Georges Simenon </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Maurice Gilliams|The bottle at sea. The complete poems]]'' by Maurice Gilliams </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''Thousand Times Broken, Three Books'' by Henri Michaux </small>
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:China.png]] China </h3>
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:China.png]] China </h3>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
|-
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Three_Kingdoms.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Romance of the Three Kingdoms|Three Kingdoms ]]''<br/>(14th century)<br/>by Luo Guanzhong </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Three_Kingdoms.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Romance of the Three Kingdoms|Three Kingdoms ]]''<br />(14th century)<br />by Luo Guanzhong </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Story_of_the_Stone.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Dream of the Red Chamber|Story of the Stone]]''<br/>(18th century)<br/>by Cao Xueqin </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Story_of_the_Stone.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Dream of the Red Chamber|Story of the Stone]]''<br />(18th century)<br />by Cao Xueqin </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Strange_Tales_from_a_Chinese_Studio.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio| Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio]]''<br/>(1740)<br/>by Pu Songling </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Strange_Tales_from_a_Chinese_Studio.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio| Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio]]''<br />(1740)<br />by Pu Songling </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File: The_Real_Story_of_Ah-Q_and_Other_Tales_of_China.jpg |80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The True Story of Ah Q|The Real Story of Ah Q]]''<br/>(1922)<br/>by Lu Xun  </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: The_Real_Story_of_Ah-Q_and_Other_Tales_of_China.jpg |80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The True Story of Ah Q|The Real Story of Ah Q]]''<br />(1922)<br />by Lu Xun  </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File: Camel_Xiangzi.jpg |80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Camel Xiangzi|Camel Xiangzi]]''<br/>(1937)<br/>by Lao She </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: Camel_Xiangzi.jpg |80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Camel Xiangzi|Camel Xiangzi]]''<br />(1937)<br />by Lao She </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
|rowspan=12 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Classic||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Tang Dynasty|The Dragon King's Daughter]]'' (Tang dynasty) by  </small>
| rowspan="12" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Tang Dynasty|The Dragon King's Daughter]]'' (Tang dynasty) by  </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Yuan Dynasty|Six Yuan Plays]]'' (Yuan dynasty) by  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Yuan Dynasty|Six Yuan Plays]]'' (Yuan dynasty) by  </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Outlaws of the Marsh|Outlaws of the Marsh]]'' (14th century) by Shi Nai'an  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Outlaws of the Marsh|Outlaws of the Marsh]]'' (14th century) by Shi Nai'an  </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Romance of the West Chamber|The Story of the Western Wing]]'' (14th century) by Wang Shifu </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Romance of the West Chamber|The Story of the Western Wing]]'' (14th century) by Wang Shifu </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Journey to the West|Journey to the West]]'' (16th century) by Wu Cheng'en </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Journey to the West|Journey to the West]]'' (16th century) by Wu Cheng'en </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Creation of the Gods|Creation of the Gods]]'' (16th century) by Xu Zhonglin </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Creation of the Gods|Creation of the Gods]]'' (16th century) by Xu Zhonglin </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Peony Pavilion|The Peony Pavilion]]'' (1598) by Tang Xianzu </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Peony Pavilion|The Peony Pavilion]]'' (1598) by Tang Xianzu </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Feng Menglong|Stories Old and New]]'' (1620) by Feng Menglong </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Feng Menglong|Stories Old and New]]'' (1620) by Feng Menglong </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Jin Ping Mei|The Plum in the Golden Vase]]'' (17th century) by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jin Ping Mei|The Plum in the Golden Vase]]'' (17th century) by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Carnal Prayer Mat|The Carnal Prayer Mat]]'' (1657) by Li Yu </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Carnal Prayer Mat|The Carnal Prayer Mat]]'' (1657) by Li Yu </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Scholars (novel)|The Scholars]]'' (1750) by Wu Jingzi </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Scholars (novel)|The Scholars]]'' (1750) by Wu Jingzi </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Six Records of a Floating Life|Six Records of a Floating Life]]'' (1808) by Shen Fu </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Six Records of a Floating Life|Six Records of a Floating Life]]'' (1808) by Shen Fu </small>
|-
|-
|rowspan=21 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Modern||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Lu Xun|Wild Grass]]'' (1927) by Lu Xun </small>
| rowspan="21" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lu Xun|Wild Grass]]'' (1927) by Lu Xun </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Mao Dun|Rainbow]]'' (1930) by Mao Dun </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Mao Dun|Rainbow]]'' (1930) by Mao Dun </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Family (Ba Jin novel)|Family]]'' (1933) Ba Jin </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Family (Ba Jin novel)|Family]]'' (1933) Ba Jin </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Shen Congwen|Border Town]]'' (1934) by Shen Congwen </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Shen Congwen|Border Town]]'' (1934) by Shen Congwen </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Shen Congwen|Selected Stories]]'' by Shen Congwen </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Shen Congwen|Selected Stories]]'' by Shen Congwen </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Lin Yutang|My Country and My People]]'' (1935) by Lin Yutang </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lin Yutang|My Country and My People]]'' (1935) by Lin Yutang </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Lin Yutang|The Importance of Living]]'' (1937) by Lin Yutang </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lin Yutang|The Importance of Living]]'' (1937) by Lin Yutang </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Eileen Chang|Love in a Fallen City]]'' (1945) by Eileen Chang </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Eileen Chang|Love in a Fallen City]]'' (1945) by Eileen Chang </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Fortress Besieged|Fortress Besieged]]'' (1947) by Qian Zhongshu </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Fortress Besieged|Fortress Besieged]]'' (1947) by Qian Zhongshu </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Lao She|Teahouse]]'' (1957) by Lao She </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lao She|Teahouse]]'' (1957) by Lao She </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Feng Jicai|The Three-Inch Golden Lotus]]'' (1985) by Feng Jicai </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Feng Jicai|The Three-Inch Golden Lotus]]'' (1985) by Feng Jicai </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Bei Dao|Waves]]'' (1985) by Bei Dao </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Bei Dao|Waves]]'' (1985) by Bei Dao </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Mo Yan|Red Sorghum]]'' (1987) by Mo Yan </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Mo Yan|Red Sorghum]]'' (1987) by Mo Yan </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Bei Dao|The August Sleepwalker]]'' (1988) by Bei Dao </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Bei Dao|The August Sleepwalker]]'' (1988) by Bei Dao </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Chess Master|The King of Trees]]'' (1990) by Ah Cheng </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Chess Master|The King of Trees]]'' (1990) by Ah Cheng </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Soul Mountain|Soul Mountain]]'' (1990) by Gao Xingjian </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Soul Mountain|Soul Mountain]]'' (1990) by Gao Xingjian </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:To Live|To Live]]'' (1993) by Yu Hua </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:To Live|To Live]]'' (1993) by Yu Hua </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Five Spice Street]]'' (2003) by Can Xue </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Five Spice Street]]'' (2003) by Can Xue </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Brothers (2005 novel)|Brothers]]'' (2005) by Yu Hua </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Brothers (2005 novel)|Brothers]]'' (2005) by Yu Hua </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Life and Death are Wearing Me Out|Life and Death are Wearing Me Out]]'' (2006) by Mo Yan </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Life and Death are Wearing Me Out|Life and Death are Wearing Me Out]]'' (2006) by Mo Yan </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Vertical Motion]]'' (2011) by Can Xue </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Vertical Motion]]'' (2011) by Can Xue </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
|-
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:3ro5q.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:3ro5q.jpg|80px]]
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:1319910862194.jpg|100px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1319910862194.jpg|100px]]
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:1319910950855.jpg|100px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1319910950855.jpg|100px]]
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:1344669226400.png|100px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1344669226400.png|100px]]
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{|{{Prettytable}}
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Czech.png]] Czech Republic </h3>
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Czech.png]] Czech Republic </h3>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:May.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Máj|May]]''<br/>(1836)<br/>by Karel Hynek Macha </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:May.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Máj|May]]''<br />(1836)<br />by Karel Hynek Macha </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:The_Good_Soldier_Svejk.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Good Soldier Svejk|The Good Soldier Svejk]]''<br/>(1923)<br/>by Jaroslav Hasek </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:The_Good_Soldier_Svejk.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Good Soldier Svejk|The Good Soldier Svejk]]''<br />(1923)<br />by Jaroslav Hasek </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Three_Novels.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Hordubal|Three Novels]]''<br/>(1933)<br/>by Karel Capek </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Three_Novels.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Hordubal|Three Novels]]''<br />(1933)<br />by Karel Capek </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:I_Served_the_King_of_England.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:I Served the King of England|I Served the King of England]]''<br/>(1983)<br/>by Bohumil Hrabal </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:I_Served_the_King_of_England.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:I Served the King of England|I Served the King of England]]''<br />(1983)<br />by Bohumil Hrabal </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Unbearable Lightness of Being|The Unbearable Lightness of Being]]''<br/>(1984)<br/>by Milan Kundera </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Unbearable Lightness of Being|The Unbearable Lightness of Being]]''<br />(1984)<br />by Milan Kundera </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
|rowspan=19 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Pre-WW2||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Sorrowful Eyes]]'' ( ) by Ivan Olbracht </small>
| rowspan="19" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Pre-WW2|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Sorrowful Eyes]]'' ( ) by Ivan Olbracht </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Hidden History]]'' ( ) by Otokar Brezina </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Hidden History]]'' ( ) by Otokar Brezina </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Grandmother]]'' ( ) by Bozena Nemcova  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Grandmother]]'' ( ) by Bozena Nemcova  </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch]]'' ( ) by Ladislav Klima </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch]]'' ( ) by Ladislav Klima </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |R.U.R.]]'' ( ) by Karel Capek </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |R.U.R.]]'' ( ) by Karel Capek </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |War With the Newts]]'' ( ) by Karel Capek </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |War With the Newts]]'' ( ) by Karel Capek </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Antilyrik & Other Poems]]'' ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Antilyrik & Other Poems]]'' ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Valerie and Her Week of Wonders]]'' ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Valerie and Her Week of Wonders]]'' ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Prague Tales]]'' ( ) by Jan Neruda </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Prague Tales]]'' ( ) by Jan Neruda </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Arsonist]]'' ( ) by Egon Hostovsky </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Arsonist]]'' ( ) by Egon Hostovsky </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Poetry]]'' ( ) of Jaroslav Seifert  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Poetry]]'' ( ) of Jaroslav Seifert  </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Vanishing Lung Syndrome]]'' ( ) by Miroslav Holub </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Vanishing Lung Syndrome]]'' ( ) by Miroslav Holub </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Narrative Poems]]'' ( ) by Vladimir Holan </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Narrative Poems]]'' ( ) by Vladimir Holan </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Dreams at the End of the Night]]'' ( ) by Ewald Murrer </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Dreams at the End of the Night]]'' ( ) by Ewald Murrer </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |How I Came to Know Fish]]'' ( ) by Ota Pavel </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |How I Came to Know Fish]]'' ( ) by Ota Pavel </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Fingers Pointing Somewhere Else]]'' ( ) by Daniela Fischerova </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Fingers Pointing Somewhere Else]]'' ( ) by Daniela Fischerova </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |White Book]]'' ( ) by  Pavel Kohout </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |White Book]]'' ( ) by  Pavel Kohout </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Saturnin]]'' ( ) by Zdenek Jirotka </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Saturnin]]'' ( ) by Zdenek Jirotka </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Summer of Caprice]]'' ( ) by Vadislav Vancura </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Summer of Caprice]]'' ( ) by Vadislav Vancura </small>
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|rowspan=16 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Post-WW2||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Closely Watched Trains]]'' ( )  Bohumil Hrabal </small>
| rowspan="16" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Post-WW2|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Closely Watched Trains]]'' ( )  Bohumil Hrabal </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Too Loud a Solitude]]'' ( ) by Bohumil Hrabal </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Too Loud a Solitude]]'' ( ) by Bohumil Hrabal </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Love and Garbage]]'' ( ) by Ivan Klima </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Love and Garbage]]'' ( ) by Ivan Klima </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Immortality]]'' ( ) by Milan Kundera </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Immortality]]'' ( ) by Milan Kundera </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Garden Party and Other Plays]]'' ( ) by Vaclav Havel </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Garden Party and Other Plays]]'' ( ) by Vaclav Havel </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Questionnaire]]'' ( ) by Jiri Grusa </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Questionnaire]]'' ( ) by Jiri Grusa </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Guinea Pigs]]'' ( ) by Ludvik Vaculik </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Guinea Pigs]]'' ( ) by Ludvik Vaculik </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Cremator]]'' (1967) by Ladislav Fuks </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Cremator]]'' (1967) by Ladislav Fuks </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova]]'' ( ) by Arnost Lustig </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova]]'' ( ) by Arnost Lustig </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Bohemian Youth]]'' ( ) by Josef Hirsal </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Bohemian Youth]]'' ( ) by Josef Hirsal </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |City Sister Silver]]'' ( ) by Jachym Topol </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |City Sister Silver]]'' ( ) by Jachym Topol </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Engineer of Human Souls]]'' ( ) by Josef Skvorecky </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Engineer of Human Souls]]'' ( ) by Josef Skvorecky </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Other City]]'' ( ) by Michal Ajvaz </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Other City]]'' ( ) by Michal Ajvaz </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Europeana]]'' ( ) by Patrik Ourednik </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Europeana]]'' ( ) by Patrik Ourednik </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Seven Churches]]'' ( ) by Milos Urban </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Seven Churches]]'' ( ) by Milos Urban </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Of Kids & Parents]]'' ( ) by Emil Hakl </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Of Kids & Parents]]'' ( ) by Emil Hakl </small>
|-
|-
|rowspan=13 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|German-language||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Golem]]'' ( )  by Gustav Meyrink </small>
| rowspan="13" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |German-language|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Golem]]'' ( )  by Gustav Meyrink </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Green Face]]'' ( ) by Gustav Meyrink </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Green Face]]'' ( ) by Gustav Meyrink </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Trial]]'' ( ) by Franz Kafka </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Trial]]'' ( ) by Franz Kafka </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Metamorphosis]]'' ( ) by Franz Kafka </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Metamorphosis]]'' ( ) by Franz Kafka </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Hunger Artist]]'' ( ) by Franz Kafka </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Hunger Artist]]'' ( ) by Franz Kafka </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Blaugast]]'' ( ) by Paul Leppin </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Blaugast]]'' ( ) by Paul Leppin </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Severin’s Journey into the Dark]]'' ( ) by Paul Leppin </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Severin’s Journey into the Dark]]'' ( ) by Paul Leppin </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Raging Reporter]]'' ( ) by Egon Erwin Kisch </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Raging Reporter]]'' ( ) by Egon Erwin Kisch </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Tycho Brahe’s Path to God]]'' ( ) by Max Brod </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Tycho Brahe’s Path to God]]'' ( ) by Max Brod </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Maimed]]'' ( ) by Hermann Ungar </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Maimed]]'' ( ) by Hermann Ungar </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Boys & Murderers]]'' ( ) by Hermann Ungar </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Boys & Murderers]]'' ( ) by Hermann Ungar </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge |The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge]]'' ( ) by Rainer Maria Rilke </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge |The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge]]'' ( ) by Rainer Maria Rilke </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Selected Poetry]]'' ( ) of Rainer Maria Rilke  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Selected Poetry]]'' ( ) of Rainer Maria Rilke  </small>
|-
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Czech_literature.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Czech_literature.jpg|80px]]
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|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:England.png]] United Kingdom and Ireland </h3>
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:England.png]] United Kingdom and Ireland </h3>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Canterbury_Tales.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Canterbury Tales|The Canterbury Tales]]''<br/>(14th century)<br/>by Geoffrey Chaucer </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Canterbury_Tales.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Canterbury Tales|The Canterbury Tales]]''<br />(14th century)<br />by Geoffrey Chaucer </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Complete_Works_of_Shakespears.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Shakespeare|The Complete Works]]''<br/>of William Shakespeare  </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Complete_Works_of_Shakespears.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Shakespeare|The Complete Works]]''<br />of William Shakespeare  </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Paradise_Lost.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Paradise Lost|Paradise Lost]]''<br/>(1667)<br/>by John Milton </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Paradise_Lost.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Paradise Lost|Paradise Lost]]''<br />(1667)<br />by John Milton </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Collected_Poems_of_Wordsworth.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:William Wordsworth|The Collected Poems]]''<br/> of William Wordsworth </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Collected_Poems_of_Wordsworth.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:William Wordsworth|The Collected Poems]]''<br /> of William Wordsworth </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Collected_Poems_of_Yeats.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:W.B. Yeats|The Collected Poems]]'' <br/> of W.B. Yeats </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Collected_Poems_of_Yeats.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:W.B. Yeats|The Collected Poems]]'' <br /> of W.B. Yeats </small>
|-
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
|rowspan=15 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Classic||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Beowulf|Beowulf]]'' (10th century) </small>
| rowspan="15" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Beowulf|Beowulf]]'' (10th century) </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Sir Gawain and the Green Knight|Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]]'' (14th century)  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sir Gawain and the Green Knight|Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]]'' (14th century)  </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Le Morte D'Arthur|Le Morte D'Arthur]]'' (1485) by Sir Thomas Malory </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Le Morte D'Arthur|Le Morte D'Arthur]]'' (1485) by Sir Thomas Malory </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Utopia (novel)|Utopia]]'' (1516) by Thomas More </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Utopia (novel)|Utopia]]'' (1516) by Thomas More </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Christopher Marlowe|The Complete Plays]]'' of Christopher Marlowe </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Christopher Marlowe|The Complete Plays]]'' of Christopher Marlowe </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Faerie Queene|The Faerie Queene]]'' (1590) by Edmund Spenser </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Faerie Queene|The Faerie Queene]]'' (1590) by Edmund Spenser </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Ben Jonson|Plays and Masques]]'' by Ben Jonson </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Ben Jonson|Plays and Masques]]'' by Ben Jonson </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Duchess of Malfi|the Duchess of Malfi]]'' (1612) by John Webster </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Duchess of Malfi|the Duchess of Malfi]]'' (1612) by John Webster </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Pilgrim's Progress|The Pilgrim's Progress]]'' (1678) by John Bunyan </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Pilgrim's Progress|The Pilgrim's Progress]]'' (1678) by John Bunyan </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Robinson Crusoe|Robinson Crusoe]]'' (1719) by Daniel Defoe </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Robinson Crusoe|Robinson Crusoe]]'' (1719) by Daniel Defoe </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Gulliver's Travels|Gulliver's Travels]]'' (1735) by Jonathan Swift </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gulliver's Travels|Gulliver's Travels]]'' (1735) by Jonathan Swift </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling|Tom Jones]]'' (1749) by Henry Fielding </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling|Tom Jones]]'' (1749) by Henry Fielding </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Tristram Shandy|The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman]]'' (1759) by Laurence Sterne </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Tristram Shandy|The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman]]'' (1759) by Laurence Sterne </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Vicar of Wakefield|The Vicar of Wakefield]]'' (1766) by Oliver Goldsmith </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Vicar of Wakefield|The Vicar of Wakefield]]'' (1766) by Oliver Goldsmith </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Marriage of Heaven and Hell|The Marriage of Heaven and Hell]]'' (1793) by William Blake </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Marriage of Heaven and Hell|The Marriage of Heaven and Hell]]'' (1793) by William Blake </small>
|-
|-
|rowspan=16 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|19th Century||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Pride and Prejudice|Pride and Prejudice]]'' (1813) by Jane Austen </small>
| rowspan="16" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |19th Century|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Pride and Prejudice|Pride and Prejudice]]'' (1813) by Jane Austen </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Frankenstein|Frankenstein]]'' (1818) by Mary Shelley </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Frankenstein|Frankenstein]]'' (1818) by Mary Shelley </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Ivanhoe|Ivanhoe]]'' (1820) by Sir Walter Scott </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Ivanhoe|Ivanhoe]]'' (1820) by Sir Walter Scott </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Don Juan (Byron)|Don Juan]]'' (1821) by Lord Byron  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Don Juan (Byron)|Don Juan]]'' (1821) by Lord Byron  </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Jane Eyre|Jane Eyre]]'' (1847) by Charlotte Bronte </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jane Eyre|Jane Eyre]]'' (1847) by Charlotte Bronte </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Wuthering Heights|Wuthering Heights]]'' (1847) Emily Bronte </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Wuthering Heights|Wuthering Heights]]'' (1847) Emily Bronte </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Vanity Fair|Vanity Fair]]'' (1848) by William Makepeace Thackeray </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Vanity Fair|Vanity Fair]]'' (1848) by William Makepeace Thackeray </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Bleak House|Bleak House]]'' (1853) by Charles Dickens </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Bleak House|Bleak House]]'' (1853) by Charles Dickens </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:A Tale of Two Cities|A Tale of Two Cities]]'' (1859) by Charles Dickens </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A Tale of Two Cities|A Tale of Two Cities]]'' (1859) by Charles Dickens </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Middlemarch|Middlemarch]]'' (1872) by George Eliot </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Middlemarch|Middlemarch]]'' (1872) by George Eliot </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Far from the Madding Crowd|Far from the Madding Crowd]]'' (1874) by Thomas Hardy </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Far from the Madding Crowd|Far from the Madding Crowd]]'' (1874) by Thomas Hardy </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Way We Live Now|The Way We Live Now]]'' (1879) by Anthony Trollope </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Way We Live Now|The Way We Live Now]]'' (1879) by Anthony Trollope </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Idylls of the King|Idylls of the King]]'' (1885) by Alfred Lord Tennyson </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Idylls of the King|Idylls of the King]]'' (1885) by Alfred Lord Tennyson </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Robert Louis Stevenson|The Collected Works]]'' of Robert Louis Stevenson </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Robert Louis Stevenson|The Collected Works]]'' of Robert Louis Stevenson </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Dracula|Dracula]]'' (1897) by Bram Stoker </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Dracula|Dracula]]'' (1897) by Bram Stoker </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Oscar Wilde|The Collected Works]]'' of Oscar Wilde  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Oscar Wilde|The Collected Works]]'' of Oscar Wilde  </small>
|-
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|rowspan=10 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Modern||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Lord Jim|Lord Jim]]'' (1900) by Joseph Conrad </small>
| rowspan="10" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lord Jim|Lord Jim]]'' (1900) by Joseph Conrad </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Kim (novel)|Kim]]'' (1900) by Rudyard Kipling </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kim (novel)|Kim]]'' (1900) by Rudyard Kipling </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Way of All Flesh|The Way of All Flesh]]'' (1903) by Samuel Butler </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Way of All Flesh|The Way of All Flesh]]'' (1903) by Samuel Butler </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Man Who Was Thursday|The Man Who Was Thursday]]'' (1908) by G.K. Chesterton </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Man Who Was Thursday|The Man Who Was Thursday]]'' (1908) by G.K. Chesterton </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Sons and Lovers|Sons and Lovers]]'' (1913) by D.H. Lawrence </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sons and Lovers|Sons and Lovers]]'' (1913) by D.H. Lawrence </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Of Human Bondage|Of Human Bondage ]]'' (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Of Human Bondage|Of Human Bondage ]]'' (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham </small>
|-  
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Sherlock Holmes|The Complete Sherlock Holmes]]'' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sherlock Holmes|The Complete Sherlock Holmes]]'' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:A Passage To India|A Passage to India ]]'' (1924) by E.M. Forster </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A Passage To India|A Passage to India ]]'' (1924) by E.M. Forster </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:To the Lighthouse|To the Lighthouse]]'' (1927) by Virginia Woolf </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:To the Lighthouse|To the Lighthouse]]'' (1927) by Virginia Woolf </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:George Bernard Shaw|The Collected Plays]]'' by George Bernard Shaw </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:George Bernard Shaw|The Collected Plays]]'' by George Bernard Shaw </small>
|-
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Britishirish2.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Britishirish2.jpg|80px]]
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Shakespeare.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Shakespeare.jpg|80px]]
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Chesterton's_fiction.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Chesterton's_fiction.jpg|80px]]
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:France.png]] France </h3>
{|{{Prettytable}}
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:France.png]] France </h3>
|-
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|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br/>()<br/>by  </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br />()<br />by  </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:La Comédie humaine|The Human Comedy]]''<br/>(1829-1848)<br/>by Honoré de Balzac </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:La Comédie humaine|The Human Comedy]]''<br />(1829-1848)<br />by Honoré de Balzac </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Remembrance of Things Past.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:In Search of Lost Time|In Search of Lost Time]]''<br/>(1927)<br/>by Marcel Proust </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Remembrance of Things Past.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:In Search of Lost Time|In Search of Lost Time]]''<br />(1927)<br />by Marcel Proust </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Memoirs_of_Hadrian.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Memoirs of Hadrian|Memoirs of Hadrian]]''<br/>(1951)<br/>by Marguerite Yourcenar </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Memoirs_of_Hadrian.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Memoirs of Hadrian|Memoirs of Hadrian]]''<br />(1951)<br />by Marguerite Yourcenar </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br/>()<br/>by  </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br />()<br />by  </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Madame Bovary|Madame Bovary ]]'' (1856) by Gustave Flaubert </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Madame Bovary|Madame Bovary ]]'' (1856) by Gustave Flaubert </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Journey to the End of the Night|Journey to the End of the Night]]'' (1932) by  Louis-Ferdinand Céline </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Journey to the End of the Night|Journey to the End of the Night]]'' (1932) by  Louis-Ferdinand Céline </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Stranger|The Stranger]]'' ( ) by Albert Camus </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Stranger|The Stranger]]'' ( ) by Albert Camus </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Count of Monte Cristo|The Count of Monte Cristo]]'' ( ) by Alexander Dumas </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Count of Monte Cristo|The Count of Monte Cristo]]'' ( ) by Alexander Dumas </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Nausea (novel)|Nausea]]'' ( ) by Jean-Paul Sartre </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nausea (novel)|Nausea]]'' ( ) by Jean-Paul Sartre </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Le Grand Meaulnes|The Lost Estate]]'' (1913) by Alain-Fournier </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Le Grand Meaulnes|The Lost Estate]]'' (1913) by Alain-Fournier </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Red and the Black|The Red and the Black ]]'' ( ) by Stendhal </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Red and the Black|The Red and the Black ]]'' ( ) by Stendhal </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Nadja|Nadja]]'' ( ) by Andre Breton </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nadja|Nadja]]'' ( ) by Andre Breton </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea|Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]'' ( ) by Jules Verne </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea|Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]'' ( ) by Jules Verne </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Henri Michaux|Miserable Miracle]]'' ( ) by Henri Michaux </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Henri Michaux|Miserable Miracle]]'' ( ) by Henri Michaux </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Jean-Jacques Rousseau|Confessions]]'' ( ) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jean-Jacques Rousseau|Confessions]]'' ( ) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Le Petit Prince|Le Petit Prince]]'' ( ) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Le Petit Prince|Le Petit Prince]]'' ( ) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Candide|Candide]]'' ( ) by Voltaire </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Candide|Candide]]'' ( ) by Voltaire </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Marguerite Duras|The Lover]]'' ( ) by Marguerite Duras </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Marguerite Duras|The Lover]]'' ( ) by Marguerite Duras </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Boris Vian|Froth on the Daydream]]'' ( ) by Boris Vian </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Boris Vian|Froth on the Daydream]]'' ( ) by Boris Vian </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Germinal|Germinal ]]'' ( ) by Emile Zola </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Germinal|Germinal ]]'' ( ) by Emile Zola </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Les Miserables|Les Miserables]]'' ( ) by Victor Hugo </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Les Miserables|Les Miserables]]'' ( ) by Victor Hugo </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File:1275246751497.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275246751497.jpg|80px]]
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Germany.png]] Germany</h3>
{|{{Prettytable}}
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Germany.png]] Germany</h3>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small> [http://tinyurl.com/germanlit German Literature Download]</small>
| colspan="5" |<small> [http://tinyurl.com/germanlit German Literature Download]</small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Faust.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Goethe's Faust|Faust]]''<br/>(1832)<br/> by Goethe </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Faust.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Goethe's Faust|Faust]]''<br />(1832)<br /> by Goethe </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Thus_Spake_Zarathustra.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Thus Spake Zarathustra|Thus Spake Zarathustra]]''<br/>(1885)<br/>by Friedrich Nietzsche </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Thus_Spake_Zarathustra.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Thus Spake Zarathustra|Thus Spake Zarathustra]]''<br />(1885)<br />by Friedrich Nietzsche </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Magic_Mountain.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Magic Mountain|The Magic Mountain]]''<br/>(1912)<br/>by Thomas Mann </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Magic_Mountain.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Magic Mountain|The Magic Mountain]]''<br />(1912)<br />by Thomas Mann </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Man_Without_Qualities.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Man Without Qualities|The Man Without Qualities]]''<br/> (1942)<br/>by Robert Musil </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Man_Without_Qualities.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Man Without Qualities|The Man Without Qualities]]''<br /> (1942)<br />by Robert Musil </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Tin_Drum.gif|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Tin Drum|The Tin Drum]]''<br/>(1959)<br/>by Gunter Grass </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Tin_Drum.gif|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Tin Drum|The Tin Drum]]''<br />(1959)<br />by Gunter Grass </small>
|-
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
|rowspan=7 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Classic||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Sorrows of Young Werther|The Sorrows of Young Werther]]'' (1774) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe </small>
| rowspan="7" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Sorrows of Young Werther|The Sorrows of Young Werther]]'' (1774) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Robbers|The Robbers and Wallenstein]]'' (1781) by Friedrich Schiller </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Robbers|The Robbers and Wallenstein]]'' (1781) by Friedrich Schiller </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Marquise of O|the Marquise of O and Other Stories]]'' (1808) by Heinrich von Kleist</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Marquise of O|the Marquise of O and Other Stories]]'' (1808) by Heinrich von Kleist</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Broken Jug|The Broken Jug]]'' (1806) by Heinrich von Kleist </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Broken Jug|The Broken Jug]]'' (1806) by Heinrich von Kleist </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Danton's Death|Danon's Death]]'' (1835) George Buchner </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Danton's Death|Danon's Death]]'' (1835) George Buchner </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Der_Schimmelreiter|The Rider on the White Horse]]'' (1888) by Theodor Storm </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Der_Schimmelreiter|The Rider on the White Horse]]'' (1888) by Theodor Storm </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Effi Briest|Effi Briest]]'' (1895) by Theodor Fontane</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Effi Briest|Effi Briest]]'' (1895) by Theodor Fontane</small>
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|rowspan=14 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Modern||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Buddenbrooks|Buddenbrooks]]'' (1901) by Thomas Mann </small>
| rowspan="14" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Buddenbrooks|Buddenbrooks]]'' (1901) by Thomas Mann </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Der Untertan|The Loyal Subject]]'' (1914) by Heinrich Mann</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Der Untertan|The Loyal Subject]]'' (1914) by Heinrich Mann</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Metamorphosis|The Metamorphosis]]'' (1915) by Franz Kafka </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Metamorphosis|The Metamorphosis]]'' (1915) by Franz Kafka </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Trial (novel)|The Trial]]'' (1925) by Franz Kafka </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Trial (novel)|The Trial]]'' (1925) by Franz Kafka </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Castle (novel)|The Castle]]'' (1926) by Franz Kafka </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Castle (novel)|The Castle]]'' (1926) by Franz Kafka </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Siddhartha (novel)|Siddhartha]]'' (1922) by Hermann Hesse</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Siddhartha (novel)|Siddhartha]]'' (1922) by Hermann Hesse</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Steppenwolf (novel)|Steppenwolf]]'' (1927) by Hermann Hesse</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Steppenwolf (novel)|Steppenwolf]]'' (1927) by Hermann Hesse</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Berlin Alexanderplatz|Berlin Alexanderplatz]]'' (1929) by Alfred Doblin </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Berlin Alexanderplatz|Berlin Alexanderplatz]]'' (1929) by Alfred Doblin </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Visit |The Visit]]'' (1956) by Friedrich Durrenmatt </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Visit |The Visit]]'' (1956) by Friedrich Durrenmatt </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Physicists|The Physicists]]'' (1961) by Friedrich Durrenmatt </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Physicists|The Physicists]]'' (1961) by Friedrich Durrenmatt </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Flounder|The Flounder]]'' (1977) by Gunter Grass </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Flounder|The Flounder]]'' (1977) by Gunter Grass </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Cassandra (novel)|Cassandra]]'' (1984) Christa Wolf </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Cassandra (novel)|Cassandra]]'' (1984) Christa Wolf </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Perfume (novel)|Perfume]]'' (1985) by Patrick Suskind</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Perfume (novel)|Perfume]]'' (1985) by Patrick Suskind</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Christoph Ransmayr|The Last Word]]'' (1988) by Christoph Ransmayr </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Christoph Ransmayr|The Last Word]]'' (1988) by Christoph Ransmayr </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File:German20.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:German20.jpg|80px]]
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Kafka_flowchart.jpg|100px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Kafka_flowchart.jpg|100px]]
|colspan=3|
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{|{{Prettytable}}
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Hungary.png]] Hungary</h3>
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Hungary.png]] Hungary</h3>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
|-
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Tragedy_of_Man.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: The Tragedy of Man | The Tragedy of Man]]''<br/>(1861)<br/> by Imre Madach</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Tragedy_of_Man.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: The Tragedy of Man | The Tragedy of Man]]''<br />(1861)<br /> by Imre Madach</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Be_Faithful_Unto_Death .jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Zsigmond Móricz|Be Faithful Unto Death ]]''<br/>(1920)<br/>by  Zsigmond Moricz</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Be_Faithful_Unto_Death .jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Zsigmond Móricz|Be Faithful Unto Death ]]''<br />(1920)<br />by  Zsigmond Moricz</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Anna_Edes .jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Dezso Kosztolanyi|Anna Edes]]''<br/>(1926)<br/>by Dezso Kosztolanyi </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Anna_Edes .jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Dezso Kosztolanyi|Anna Edes]]''<br />(1926)<br />by Dezso Kosztolanyi </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Journey_by_Moonlight.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: Journey by Moonlight (novel)|Journey by Moonlight]]''<br/>(1937)<br/>by Antal Szerb </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Journey_by_Moonlight.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: Journey by Moonlight (novel)|Journey by Moonlight]]''<br />(1937)<br />by Antal Szerb </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Melancholy_of_Resistance .jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Melancholy of Resistance|The Melancholy of Resistance]]''<br/>(1989)<br/>by Laszlo Krasznahorkai </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Melancholy_of_Resistance .jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Melancholy of Resistance|The Melancholy of Resistance]]''<br />(1989)<br />by Laszlo Krasznahorkai </small>
|-
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
|rowspan=3 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Classic||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Geza Gardonyi </small>
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Geza Gardonyi </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by  Endry Ady </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by  Endry Ady </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by  Sándor Petőfi </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by  Sándor Petőfi </small>
|-
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|rowspan=17 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Modern||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Gyula Krudy </small>  
| rowspan="17" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Gyula Krudy </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by István Örkény </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by István Örkény </small>  
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Ferenc Molnár </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Ferenc Molnár </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Peter Esterhazy </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Peter Esterhazy </small>  
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Magda Szabo </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Magda Szabo </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Frigyes Karinthy </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Frigyes Karinthy </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Ferenc Karinthy </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Ferenc Karinthy </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Peter Nadas </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Peter Nadas </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Miklos Banffy </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Miklos Banffy </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Geza Csath </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Geza Csath </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Sándor Márai</small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Sándor Márai</small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Tibor Dery </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Tibor Dery </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by György Konrád </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by György Konrád </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Attila Bartis </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Attila Bartis </small>  
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Magrit Kaffka </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Magrit Kaffka </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Stephen Vizinczey </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Stephen Vizinczey </small>  
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Arthur Koestler </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Arthur Koestler </small>  
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{|{{Prettytable}}
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Iceland.png]] Iceland </h3>
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Iceland.png]] Iceland </h3>
|-
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|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Eddas.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Edda|The Eddas]]''<br/>(13th century)<br/> by Snorri Sturluson </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Eddas.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Edda|The Eddas]]''<br />(13th century)<br /> by Snorri Sturluson </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Njals_Saga.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Njal's Saga|Njal's Saga]]''<br/>(13th century)  </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Njals_Saga.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Njal's Saga|Njal's Saga]]''<br />(13th century)  </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Laxdaela_Saga.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Laxdaela Saga|Laxdaela Saga]]''<br/> (13th century)</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Laxdaela_Saga.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Laxdaela Saga|Laxdaela Saga]]''<br /> (13th century)</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Independent_People.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Independent People|Independent People]]''<br/>(1935)<br/>by Halldór Laxness </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Independent_People.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Independent People|Independent People]]''<br />(1935)<br />by Halldór Laxness </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File: .jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br/>( )<br/>by  </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: .jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br />( )<br />by  </small>
|-
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
|rowspan=7 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Classic||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Egils saga|Egil's saga]]'' (12th century)  </small>
| rowspan="7" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Egils saga|Egil's saga]]'' (12th century)  </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Heimskringla|King Harald's Saga]]'' (1230) by Snorri Sturluson </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Heimskringla|King Harald's Saga]]'' (1230) by Snorri Sturluson </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Eyrbyggja Saga|Eyrbyggja Saga]]'' (13th century)  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Eyrbyggja Saga|Eyrbyggja Saga]]'' (13th century)  </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Saga of Grettir the Strong|The Saga of Grettir the Strong]]'' (13th century)  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Saga of Grettir the Strong|The Saga of Grettir the Strong]]'' (13th century)  </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Saga of the Jomsvikings |The Saga of the Jomsvikings  ]]'' (13th century) </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Saga of the Jomsvikings |The Saga of the Jomsvikings  ]]'' (13th century) </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Völsunga saga|The Saga of the Volsungs]]'' (13th century)  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Völsunga saga|The Saga of the Volsungs]]'' (13th century)  </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Hrólfs saga kraka|The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki ]]'' (1400) </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Hrólfs saga kraka|The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki ]]'' (1400) </small>
|-
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|rowspan=8 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Modern||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Gunnar Gunnarson|The Good Shepard]]'' (1940) by Gunnar Gunnarson </small>
| rowspan="8" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gunnar Gunnarson|The Good Shepard]]'' (1940) by Gunnar Gunnarson </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Fish Can Sing|The Fish Can Sing]]'' (1957) by Halldor Laxness </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Fish Can Sing|The Fish Can Sing]]'' (1957) by Halldor Laxness </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Justice Undone|Justice Undone]]'' (1986) by Thor Vilhjalmsson </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Justice Undone|Justice Undone]]'' (1986) by Thor Vilhjalmsson </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Swan (novel)|The Swan]]'' (1991) by Gudbergur Bergsson  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Swan (novel)|The Swan]]'' (1991) by Gudbergur Bergsson  </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Einar Mar Gudmundsson|Angels of the Universe]]'' (1993) by Einar Mar Gudmundsson </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Einar Mar Gudmundsson|Angels of the Universe]]'' (1993) by Einar Mar Gudmundsson </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Olaf Olafsson|The Journey Home]]'' (1999) by Olaf Olafsson </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Olaf Olafsson|The Journey Home]]'' (1999) by Olaf Olafsson </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Blue Fox (novel)|The Blue Fox]]'' (2003) by Sjon </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Blue Fox (novel)|The Blue Fox]]'' (2003) by Sjon </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Gyir Eliasson|Stone Tree]]'' (2005) by Gyir Eliasson </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gyir Eliasson|Stone Tree]]'' (2005) by Gyir Eliasson </small>
|-
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File:1275262867188.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275262867188.jpg|80px]]
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| colspan="5" |<h3> Middle East </h3>
 
{|{{Prettytable}}
|colspan=5|<h3> Middle East </h3>
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|colspan=5|<small> [http://tinyurl.com/iranianlit Iranian Literature Download]</small>
| colspan="5" |<small> [http://tinyurl.com/iranianlit Iranian Literature Download]</small>
|-
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|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:The_Conference_of_the_Birds.JPG|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Conference of the Birds|The Conference of the Birds]]''<br/>(12th century)<br/>by Farid ud-Din Attar </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:The_Conference_of_the_Birds.JPG|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Conference of the Birds|The Conference of the Birds]]''<br />(12th century)<br />by Farid ud-Din Attar </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Rubaiyat.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Rubaiyat|The Rubaiyat]]''<br/>(12th century)<br/>of Omar Khayyam </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Rubaiyat.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Rubaiyat|The Rubaiyat]]''<br />(12th century)<br />of Omar Khayyam </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Essential_Rumi.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Rumi|The Essential Works]]''<br/>(13th century)<br/>by Rumi </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Essential_Rumi.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Rumi|The Essential Works]]''<br />(13th century)<br />by Rumi </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Divan-i.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Hafiz Shirazi|The Divan-i]]''<br/>(14th century)<br/>of Hafiz </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Divan-i.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Hafiz Shirazi|The Divan-i]]''<br />(14th century)<br />of Hafiz </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Blind_Owl.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Blind Owl|The Blind Owl]]''<br/> (1937)<br/> by Sadegh Hedayat </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Blind_Owl.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Blind Owl|The Blind Owl]]''<br /> (1937)<br /> by Sadegh Hedayat </small>
|-
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
|rowspan=6 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Classical||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Shahnameh|Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings]]'' (~1000)</small>
| rowspan="6" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classical|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Shahnameh|Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings]]'' (~1000)</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Vis and Rāmin|Vis and Ramin]]'' (11th century) by Asad Gorgani  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Vis and Rāmin|Vis and Ramin]]'' (11th century) by Asad Gorgani  </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Shusha Guppy|The Secret of Laughter: Magical Tales from Classical Persia]]'' edited by Shusha Guppy </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Shusha Guppy|The Secret of Laughter: Magical Tales from Classical Persia]]'' edited by Shusha Guppy </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Nizami Ganjavi|Haft Paykar]]'' (1197) by Nizami Ganjavi </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nizami Ganjavi|Haft Paykar]]'' (1197) by Nizami Ganjavi </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Persian literature#Poetry|Borrowed Ware: Medieval Persian Epigrams]]'' edited by Dick Davis </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Persian literature#Poetry|Borrowed Ware: Medieval Persian Epigrams]]'' edited by Dick Davis </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Gulistan of Sa'di|The Rose Garden]]'' (1259) by Sa'di </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gulistan of Sa'di|The Rose Garden]]'' (1259) by Sa'di </small>
|-
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|rowspan=5 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Modern||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Sadegh Hedayat|Three Drops of Blood]]'' (1932) by Sadegh Hedayat </small>
| rowspan="5" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sadegh Hedayat|Three Drops of Blood]]'' (1932) by Sadegh Hedayat </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Sadeq Chubak|The Patient Stone]]'' (1967) by Sadeq Chubak </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sadeq Chubak|The Patient Stone]]'' (1967) by Sadeq Chubak </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Little Black Fish|The Little Black Fish and Other Modern Persian Stories]]'' (1968) by Samad Behrangi </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Little Black Fish|The Little Black Fish and Other Modern Persian Stories]]'' (1968) by Samad Behrangi </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Missing Soluch|Missing Soluch]]'' (1979) by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Missing Soluch|Missing Soluch]]'' (1979) by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Shahrnush Parsipur|Women Without Men]]'' (1990) by Shahrnush Parsipur </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Shahrnush Parsipur|Women Without Men]]'' (1990) by Shahrnush Parsipur </small>
|-
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|rowspan=4 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Untranslated||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Asadi Tusi|Garshaspnama]]'' (11th century) by Asadi Tusi </small>
| rowspan="4" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Untranslated|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Asadi Tusi|Garshaspnama]]'' (11th century) by Asadi Tusi </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Nizami Ganjavi|Chosrow and Shirin]]'' (1180) by Nizami Ganjavi </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nizami Ganjavi|Chosrow and Shirin]]'' (1180) by Nizami Ganjavi </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Tutinama|Tutinama: Tales of a Parrot]]'' (14th century) </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Tutinama|Tutinama: Tales of a Parrot]]'' (14th century) </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Francois Petis de la Croix|1001 Days]]'' (1712) by Francois Petis de la Croix </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Francois Petis de la Croix|1001 Days]]'' (1712) by Francois Petis de la Croix </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
|-
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Persian_lit.jpg|100px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Persian_lit.jpg|100px]]
|colspan=4|
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|}


 
{| {{Prettytable}}="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
{|{{Prettytable}}
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Italy.png]] Italy </h3>
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Italy.png]] Italy </h3>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small> [http://tinyurl.com/italianlit Italian Literature Download]</small>
| colspan="5" |<small> [http://tinyurl.com/italianlit Italian Literature Download]</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
|-
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Divine_Comedy.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Divine Comedy|Divine Comedy]]''<br/>(1321)<br/>by Dante Alighieri </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Divine_Comedy.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Divine Comedy|Divine Comedy]]''<br />(1321)<br />by Dante Alighieri </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Decameron.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Decameron|The Decameron]]'' <br/>(1353)<br/> by Giovanni Boccaccio </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Decameron.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Decameron|The Decameron]]'' <br />(1353)<br /> by Giovanni Boccaccio </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Zeno's_Conscience.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Zeno's Conscience|Zeno's Conscience]]''<br/>(1923)<br/>by Italo Svevo </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Zeno's_Conscience.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Zeno's Conscience|Zeno's Conscience]]''<br />(1923)<br />by Italo Svevo </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:That_Awful_Mess.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Carlo Emilio Gadda|That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana]]''<br/>(1957)<br/> by Carlo Emilio Gadda </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:That_Awful_Mess.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Carlo Emilio Gadda|That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana]]''<br />(1957)<br /> by Carlo Emilio Gadda </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Leopard.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Leopard|The Leopard]]''<br/>(1958)<br/>by Tomasi di Lampedusa </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Leopard.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Leopard|The Leopard]]''<br />(1958)<br />by Tomasi di Lampedusa </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
|rowspan=17 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Classic||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Consolation of Philosophy|The Consolation of Philosophy]]'' (524) by Boethius </small>
| rowspan="17" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Consolation of Philosophy|The Consolation of Philosophy]]'' (524) by Boethius </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Golden Legend|Golden Legend]]'' (1260) by Jacobus de Voragine </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Golden Legend|Golden Legend]]'' (1260) by Jacobus de Voragine </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Travels of Marco Polo|The Travels]]'' (13th century) of Marco Polo  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Travels of Marco Polo|The Travels]]'' (13th century) of Marco Polo  </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Il Canzoniere|Il Canzoniere]]'' (1374) by Petrarch </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Il Canzoniere|Il Canzoniere]]'' (1374) by Petrarch </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Prince|The Prince]]'' (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Prince|The Prince]]'' (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Book of the Courtier|The Book of the Courtier]]'' (1528) by Baldassare Castiglione </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Book of the Courtier|The Book of the Courtier]]'' (1528) by Baldassare Castiglione </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Orlando Furioso|Orlando Furioso]]'' (1532) by Ludovico Ariosto </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Orlando Furioso|Orlando Furioso]]'' (1532) by Ludovico Ariosto </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Benvenuto Cellini|The Autobiography]]'' (1563) of Benvenuto Cellini </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Benvenuto Cellini|The Autobiography]]'' (1563) of Benvenuto Cellini </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects|Lives of the Artists]]'' (1568) by Giorgio Vasari </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects|Lives of the Artists]]'' (1568) by Giorgio Vasari </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Jerusalem Delivered|Jerusalem Delivered]]'' (1581) by Torquato Tasso </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jerusalem Delivered|Jerusalem Delivered]]'' (1581) by Torquato Tasso </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Michelangelo|Selected Poems and Letters]]'' by Michelangelo </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Michelangelo|Selected Poems and Letters]]'' by Michelangelo </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Histoire de ma vie|The Memoirs]]'' (1774) of Giacomo Casanova </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Histoire de ma vie|The Memoirs]]'' (1774) of Giacomo Casanova </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis|The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis]]'' (1817) by Ugo Foscolo </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis|The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis]]'' (1817) by Ugo Foscolo </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Betrothed (Manzoni novel)|The Betrothed]]'' (1827) by Alessandro Manzoni </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Betrothed (Manzoni novel)|The Betrothed]]'' (1827) by Alessandro Manzoni </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Giacomo Leopardi|Canti]]'' (1837) by Giacomo Leopardi </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Giacomo Leopardi|Canti]]'' (1837) by Giacomo Leopardi </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Giuseppe Garibaldi|The Life]]'' (1849) of Giuseppe Garibaldi  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Giuseppe Garibaldi|The Life]]'' (1849) of Giuseppe Garibaldi  </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Giovanni Verga|Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories]]'' (1880) by Giovanni Verga </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Giovanni Verga|Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories]]'' (1880) by Giovanni Verga </small>
|-
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|rowspan=20 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Modern||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Year 3,000|The Year 3,000: A Dream]]'' (1897) by Paolo Mantegazza </small>
| rowspan="20" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Year 3,000|The Year 3,000: A Dream]]'' (1897) by Paolo Mantegazza </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Emilio Salgari|Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem]]'' (1900) by Emilio Salgari </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Emilio Salgari|Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem]]'' (1900) by Emilio Salgari </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Gabriele d'Annunzio|Francesca da Rimini]]'' (1901) by Gabriele d'Annunzio </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gabriele d'Annunzio|Francesca da Rimini]]'' (1901) by Gabriele d'Annunzio </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Grazia Deledda|Elias Portolu]]'' (1903) by Grazia Deledda </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Grazia Deledda|Elias Portolu]]'' (1903) by Grazia Deledda </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Late Mattia Pascal|The Late Mattia Pascal]]'' (1904) by Luigi Pirandello </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Late Mattia Pascal|The Late Mattia Pascal]]'' (1904) by Luigi Pirandello </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Captain Blood (novel)|Captain Blood]]'' (1922) by Rafael Sabatini </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Captain Blood (novel)|Captain Blood]]'' (1922) by Rafael Sabatini </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Six Characters in Search of an Author|Six Characters in Search of an Author]]'' (1921) by Luigi Pirandello </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Six Characters in Search of an Author|Six Characters in Search of an Author]]'' (1921) by Luigi Pirandello </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Eugenio Montale|Cuttlefish Bones]]'' (1925) by Eugenio Montale </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Eugenio Montale|Cuttlefish Bones]]'' (1925) by Eugenio Montale </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Revolt Against the Modern World|Revolt Against the Modern World]]'' (1934) by Julius Evola </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Revolt Against the Modern World|Revolt Against the Modern World]]'' (1934) by Julius Evola </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Tartar Steppe|the Tartar Steppe]]'' (1940) by Dino Buzzati </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Tartar Steppe|the Tartar Steppe]]'' (1940) by Dino Buzzati </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Christ Stopped at Eboli|Christ Stopped at Eboli]]'' (1945) by Carlo Levi </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Christ Stopped at Eboli|Christ Stopped at Eboli]]'' (1945) by Carlo Levi </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Moon and the Bonfires|The Moon and the Bonfires]]'' (1949) by Cesare Pavese </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Moon and the Bonfires|The Moon and the Bonfires]]'' (1949) by Cesare Pavese </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Alberto Moravia|Contempt]]'' (1954) by Alberto Moravia </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Alberto Moravia|Contempt]]'' (1954) by Alberto Moravia </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Garden of the Finzi-Continis|The Garden of the Finzi-Continis]]'' (1962) by Giorgio Bassani </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Garden of the Finzi-Continis|The Garden of the Finzi-Continis]]'' (1962) by Giorgio Bassani </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Natalia Ginzburg|Family Sayings]]'' (1967) by Natalia Ginzburg </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Natalia Ginzburg|Family Sayings]]'' (1967) by Natalia Ginzburg </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Equal Danger|Equal Danger]]'' (1971) by Leonardo Sciascia </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Equal Danger|Equal Danger]]'' (1971) by Leonardo Sciascia </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Invisible Cities|Invisible Cities]]'' (1972) by Italo Calvino </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Invisible Cities|Invisible Cities]]'' (1972) by Italo Calvino </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Periodic Table (book)|The Periodic Table]]'' (1975) by Primo Levi </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Periodic Table (book)|The Periodic Table]]'' (1975) by Primo Levi </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Foucault's Pendulum|Foucault's Pendulum]]'' (1988) by Umberto Eco </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Foucault's Pendulum|Foucault's Pendulum]]'' (1988) by Umberto Eco </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Q (novel)|Q]]'' (1999) by Luther Blissett </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Q (novel)|Q]]'' (1999) by Luther Blissett </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Tommaso Pincio|Love-Shaped Story ]]'' (2002) by Tommaso Pincio </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Tommaso Pincio|Love-Shaped Story ]]'' (2002) by Tommaso Pincio </small>
|-
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Italian_List_Small.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Italian_List_Small.jpg|80px]]
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Italo calvino guide.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Italo calvino guide.jpg|80px]]
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|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Japan.png]] Japan</h3>
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Japan.png]] Japan</h3>
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|colspan=5|<small> [http://tinyurl.com/japaneselit Japanese Literature Download]</small>
| colspan="5" |<small> [http://tinyurl.com/japaneselit Japanese Literature Download]</small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
|-
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Tale_of_Genji.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Tale of Genji|The Tale of Genji]]''<br/>(11th century)<br/>by Murasaki Shikibu</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Tale_of_Genji.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Tale of Genji|The Tale of Genji]]''<br />(11th century)<br />by Murasaki Shikibu</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Kokoro.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Kokoro|Kokoro]]''<br/>(1914)<br/>by Natsume Soseki</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Kokoro.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Kokoro|Kokoro]]''<br />(1914)<br />by Natsume Soseki</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Rashomon_and_Seventeen_Other_Stories.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Rashōmon_(short_story)|Rashomon]]''<br/>(1915)<br/>by Akutagawa</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Rashomon_and_Seventeen_Other_Stories.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Rashōmon_(short_story)|Rashomon]]''<br />(1915)<br />by Akutagawa</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Naomi.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Naomi (novel)|Naomi]]''<br/>(1924)<br/>by Junichiro Tanizaki</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Naomi.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Naomi (novel)|Naomi]]''<br />(1924)<br />by Junichiro Tanizaki</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Snow_Country.jpg|80px]] <br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Snow Country|Snow Country]]''<br/>(1947)<br/>by Yasunari Kawabata</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Snow_Country.jpg|80px]] <br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Snow Country|Snow Country]]''<br />(1947)<br />by Yasunari Kawabata</small>
|-
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
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|rowspan=6 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Classical Literature (until 1600's)||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Gossamer Years | The Gossamer Years]]'' (974) by Mother of Michitsuna</small>
| rowspan="6" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classical Literature (until 1600's)|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Gossamer Years | The Gossamer Years]]'' (974) by Mother of Michitsuna</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Pillow Book | The Pillow Book]]'' (1002) by Sei Shonagon</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Pillow Book | The Pillow Book]]'' (1002) by Sei Shonagon</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Tales of Ise | The Tales of Ise]]'' by Anonymous</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Tales of Ise | The Tales of Ise]]'' by Anonymous</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: Hojoki | Hojoki]]'' (1212) by Kamo no Chomei</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: Hojoki | Hojoki]]'' (1212) by Kamo no Chomei</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Essays in Idleness | Essays in Idleness]]'' (1330) by Yoshida Kenko</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Essays in Idleness | Essays in Idleness]]'' (1330) by Yoshida Kenko</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Tale of Heike | The Tale of Heike]]'' (1371) by Anonymous</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Tale of Heike | The Tale of Heike]]'' (1371) by Anonymous</small>
|-
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|rowspan=5 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Edo Period (1603-1868)||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Life of an Amorous Woman | The Life of an Amorous Woman]]'' (1686) by Saikaku Ihara</small>
| rowspan="5" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Edo Period (1603-1868)|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Life of an Amorous Woman | The Life of an Amorous Woman]]'' (1686) by Saikaku Ihara</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Hagakure | Hagakure: the Book of the Samurai]]'' (1716) by Yamamoto Tsunetomo</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Hagakure | Hagakure: the Book of the Samurai]]'' (1716) by Yamamoto Tsunetomo</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu | Four Major Plays]]'' (~1720) by Chikamatsu Monzaemon</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu | Four Major Plays]]'' (~1720) by Chikamatsu Monzaemon</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Chushingura | Chushingura]]'' (1748) by Takedo Izumo, Miyoshi Shoraku, Namiki Senryuu </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Chushingura | Chushingura]]'' (1748) by Takedo Izumo, Miyoshi Shoraku, Namiki Senryuu </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Tales of Moonlight and Rain |Tales of Moonlight and Rain]]'' (1776) by Ueda Akinari</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Tales of Moonlight and Rain |Tales of Moonlight and Rain]]'' (1776) by Ueda Akinari</small>
|-
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|rowspan=15 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Modern Literature (1868-1945)||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Ukigumo | Ukigumo]]'' (1887) by Futabatei Shimei </small>
| rowspan="15" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern Literature (1868-1945)|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Ukigumo | Ukigumo]]'' (1887) by Futabatei Shimei </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Koda Rohan|Pagoda, Skull and Samurai]]'' (1889) by Koda Rohan</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Koda Rohan|Pagoda, Skull and Samurai]]'' (1889) by Koda Rohan</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Higuchi Ichiyo|In the Shade of Spring Leaves]]'' (1892-6) by Higuchi Ichiyo </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Higuchi Ichiyo|In the Shade of Spring Leaves]]'' (1892-6) by Higuchi Ichiyo </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Kyoka Izumi|Japanese Gothic Tales]]'' (1900) by Izumi Kyoka </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kyoka Izumi|Japanese Gothic Tales]]'' (1900) by Izumi Kyoka </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Broken Commandment|The Broken Commandment]]'' (1906) by Toson Shimazaki</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Broken Commandment|The Broken Commandment]]'' (1906) by Toson Shimazaki</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Katai Tayama|The Quilt and Other Stories]]'' (1907) by Katai Tayama </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Katai Tayama|The Quilt and Other Stories]]'' (1907) by Katai Tayama </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Kenji Miyazawa|The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa]]'' (1924) by  Kenji Miyazawa</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kenji Miyazawa|The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa]]'' (1924) by  Kenji Miyazawa</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: Botchan|Botchan]]'' (1906) by Natsume Soseki </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: Botchan|Botchan]]'' (1906) by Natsume Soseki </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: I am a Cat|I Am a Cat]]'' (1905) by Natsume Soseki </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: I am a Cat|I Am a Cat]]'' (1905) by Natsume Soseki </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Wild Geese (novel)|The Wild Geese]]'' (1913) by Mori Ogai </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Wild Geese (novel)|The Wild Geese]]'' (1913) by Mori Ogai </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Shiga Naoya|The Paper Door and Other Stories]]'' (1927) by Shiga Naoya </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Shiga Naoya|The Paper Door and Other Stories]]'' (1927) by Shiga Naoya </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: Kafu Nagai|During the Rain & Flowers in the Shade]]'' (1930) by Kafu Nagai </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: Kafu Nagai|During the Rain & Flowers in the Shade]]'' (1930) by Kafu Nagai </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: Musashi| Musashi]]'' (1935) by Eiji Yoshikawa </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: Musashi| Musashi]]'' (1935) by Eiji Yoshikawa </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: The Makioka Sisters|The Makioka Sisters]]'' (1943) by Junichiro Tanizaki </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: The Makioka Sisters|The Makioka Sisters]]'' (1943) by Junichiro Tanizaki </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Edogawa Ranpo|Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination]]'' (1940) by Edogawa Ranpo </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Edogawa Ranpo|Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination]]'' (1940) by Edogawa Ranpo </small>
|-
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|rowspan=24 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Post War (1946-present)||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Inoue Yasushi | The Counterfeiter and Other Stories]]'' by Yasushi Inou </small>
| rowspan="24" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Post War (1946-present)|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Inoue Yasushi | The Counterfeiter and Other Stories]]'' by Yasushi Inou </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Palm-of-the-Hand Stories|Palm-of-the-Hand Stories]]'' by Yasunari Kawabata</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Palm-of-the-Hand Stories|Palm-of-the-Hand Stories]]'' by Yasunari Kawabata</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Master of Go|The Master of Go]]'' (1954) by Yasunari Kawabata </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Master of Go|The Master of Go]]'' (1954) by Yasunari Kawabata </small>  
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Setting Sun|The Setting Sun]]'' (1947) by Osamu Dazai </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Setting Sun|The Setting Sun]]'' (1947) by Osamu Dazai </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Fires on the Plain|Fires on the Plain]]'' (1951) by Shohei Ooka </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Fires on the Plain|Fires on the Plain]]'' (1951) by Shohei Ooka </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Waiting Years|The Waiting Years]]'' (1957) by Fumiko Enchi </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Waiting Years|The Waiting Years]]'' (1957) by Fumiko Enchi </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Confessions of a Mask|Confessions of a Mask]]'' (1948) by Yukio Mishima </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Confessions of a Mask|Confessions of a Mask]]'' (1948) by Yukio Mishima </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Temple of the Golden Pavilion|The Temple of the Golden Pavilion]]'' (1956) by Yukio Mishima </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Temple of the Golden Pavilion|The Temple of the Golden Pavilion]]'' (1956) by Yukio Mishima </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Spring Snow|Spring Snow]]'' (1963) by Yukio Mishima </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Spring Snow|Spring Snow]]'' (1963) by Yukio Mishima </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids |Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids ]]'' (1958) by Kenzaburo Oe </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids |Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids ]]'' (1958) by Kenzaburo Oe </small>
|-
|-


|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:A Personal Matter|A Personal Matter]]'' (1964) by Kenzaburo Oe </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A Personal Matter|A Personal Matter]]'' (1964) by Kenzaburo Oe </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Black Rain|Black Rain]]'' (1966) by Masuji Ibuse </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Black Rain|Black Rain]]'' (1966) by Masuji Ibuse </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Box Man|The Box Man]]'' (1973) by Kobo Abe </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Box Man|The Box Man]]'' (1973) by Kobo Abe </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Woman in the Dunes |The Woman in the Dunes]]'' (1962) by Kobo Abe </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Woman in the Dunes |The Woman in the Dunes]]'' (1962) by Kobo Abe </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: Silence (novel)|Silence]]'' (1966) by Shusaku Endo </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: Silence (novel)|Silence]]'' (1966) by Shusaku Endo </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Samurai (novel)|The Samurai]]'' (1980) by Shusaku Endo </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Samurai (novel)|The Samurai]]'' (1980) by Shusaku Endo </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Twilight Years|The Twilight Years]]'' (1972) by Sawako Ariyoshi </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Twilight Years|The Twilight Years]]'' (1972) by Sawako Ariyoshi </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: Almost Transparent Blue|Almost Transparent Blue]]'' (1976) by Ryu Murakami</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: Almost Transparent Blue|Almost Transparent Blue]]'' (1976) by Ryu Murakami</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Kitchen (novel)|Kitchen]]'' (1988) by Banana Yoshimoto </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kitchen (novel)|Kitchen]]'' (1988) by Banana Yoshimoto </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Norwegian Wood|Norwegian Wood]]'' (1987) by Haruki Murakami </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Norwegian Wood|Norwegian Wood]]'' (1987) by Haruki Murakami </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: The Elephant Vanishes|The Elephant Vanishes]]'' (1991) by Haruki Murakami</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: The Elephant Vanishes|The Elephant Vanishes]]'' (1991) by Haruki Murakami</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle|The Wind-up Bird Chronicle]]'' (1995) by Haruki Murakami </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle|The Wind-up Bird Chronicle]]'' (1995) by Haruki Murakami </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: Kafka on the Shore|Kafka on the Shore]]'' (2002) by Haruki Murakami</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: Kafka on the Shore|Kafka on the Shore]]'' (2002) by Haruki Murakami</small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Housekeeper and the Professor|The Housekeeper and the Professor]]'' (2003) by Yoko Ogawa</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Housekeeper and the Professor|The Housekeeper and the Professor]]'' (2003) by Yoko Ogawa</small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File:1276577235824.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1276577235824.jpg|80px]]
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:1298503721666.jpg|100px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1298503721666.jpg|100px]]
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Yukio_mishima.jpg|100px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Yukio_mishima.jpg|100px]]
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Murakami_guide_fuuuu.jpg|100px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Murakami_guide_fuuuu.jpg|100px]]
|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Natsume_Soseki.png|100px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Natsume_Soseki.png|100px]]
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|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:South_Korea.png]] Korea </h3>
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:South_Korea.png]] Korea </h3>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Cloud_Dream_of_Nine.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Kim Manjung|The Cloud Dream of the Nine]]''<br/>(17th century)<br/>Kim Manjung </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Cloud_Dream_of_Nine.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Kim Manjung|The Cloud Dream of the Nine]]''<br />(17th century)<br />Kim Manjung </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Three_Generations.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: |Three Generations]]''<br/>(1931)<br/>by Yom Sang-seop </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Three_Generations.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |Three Generations]]''<br />(1931)<br />by Yom Sang-seop </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Ten_Thousand_Lives.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Ko Un|Ten Thousand Lives]]''<br/>by Ko Un </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Ten_Thousand_Lives.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Ko Un|Ten Thousand Lives]]''<br />by Ko Un </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Land.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Toji (novel)|Land]]''<br/>(1994)<br/>by Park Kyong-Ni </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Land.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Toji (novel)|Land]]''<br />(1994)<br />by Park Kyong-Ni </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Our_Twisted_Hero.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Our Twisted Hero|Our Twisted Hero]]''<br/>(1987)<br/>by Yi Munyol </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Our_Twisted_Hero.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Our Twisted Hero|Our Twisted Hero]]''<br />(1987)<br />by Yi Munyol </small>
|-
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Sijo|The Bamboo Grove: An Introduction to Sijo]]'' edited by Richard Rutt </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sijo|The Bamboo Grove: An Introduction to Sijo]]'' edited by Richard Rutt </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Samguk Yusa|Samguk Yusa]]'' (13th century) by Iryeon </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Samguk Yusa|Samguk Yusa]]'' (13th century) by Iryeon </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Virtuous Women: Three Classic Korean Novels]]''  </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Virtuous Women: Three Classic Korean Novels]]''  </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong]]'' (18th century) by Lady Hyegyeong </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong]]'' (18th century) by Lady Hyegyeong </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Kang Kyeong-ae|On Wonso Pond]]'' (1930s) by Kang Kyeong-ae </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kang Kyeong-ae|On Wonso Pond]]'' (1930s) by Kang Kyeong-ae </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Yi Sang|The Wings]]'' (1930s) by Yi Sang </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Yi Sang|The Wings]]'' (1930s) by Yi Sang </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Park Wan-suh|The Naked Tree]]'' (1970) by Park Wan-suh </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Park Wan-suh|The Naked Tree]]'' (1970) by Park Wan-suh </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Lee Kyun-young|The Other Side of Dark Remembrance]]'' (1979) by Lee Kyun-young </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lee Kyun-young|The Other Side of Dark Remembrance]]'' (1979) by Lee Kyun-young </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Yi Munyol|The Poet]]'' (1992) by Yi Munyol </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Yi Munyol|The Poet]]'' (1992) by Yi Munyol </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Park Wan-suh|Who Ate up All the Shinga]]'' (1995) by Park Wan-suh </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Park Wan-suh|Who Ate up All the Shinga]]'' (1995) by Park Wan-suh </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Kim Young-ha|I Have the Right to Destroy Myself]]'' (1996) by Kim Young-ha </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kim Young-ha|I Have the Right to Destroy Myself]]'' (1996) by Kim Young-ha </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Yang Gui-ja|Contradictions]]'' (1998) by Yang Gui-ja </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Yang Gui-ja|Contradictions]]'' (1998) by Yang Gui-ja </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Hwang Sok-yong|The Guest]]'' (2002) by Hwang Sok-yong </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Hwang Sok-yong|The Guest]]'' (2002) by Hwang Sok-yong </small>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''<h3>Latin America </h3>'''
|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''<h3>Latin America </h3>'''
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Adventures_and_Misadventures_of_Maqroll.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll|The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll]]''<br/> by Alvaro Mutis </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Adventures_and_Misadventures_of_Maqroll.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll|The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll]]''<br /> by Alvaro Mutis </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:One Hundred Years of Solitude|One Hundred Years of Solitude]]'' <br/>(1967)<br/> by Gabo </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:One Hundred Years of Solitude|One Hundred Years of Solitude]]'' <br />(1967)<br /> by Gabo </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Black_Sheep_and_Other_Fables.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Augusto Monterroso|The Black Sheep and Other Fables]]''<br/>(1969)<br/> by Augusto Monterroso </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Black_Sheep_and_Other_Fables.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Augusto Monterroso|The Black Sheep and Other Fables]]''<br />(1969)<br /> by Augusto Monterroso </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File: .jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br/>( )<br/>by  </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: .jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br />( )<br />by  </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File: .jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br/>( )<br/>by  </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: .jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br />( )<br />by  </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
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|rowspan=3 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Brazil
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Brazil
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Devil to Pay in the Backlands|The Devil to Pay in the Backlands]]'' (1956) by João Guimarães Rosa </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Devil to Pay in the Backlands|The Devil to Pay in the Backlands]]'' (1956) by João Guimarães Rosa </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas|The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas]]'' (1881) by Machado de Assis </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas|The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas]]'' (1881) by Machado de Assis </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Dom Casmurro|Dom Casmurro]]'' (1899) by Machado de Assis </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Dom Casmurro|Dom Casmurro]]'' (1899) by Machado de Assis </small>
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|rowspan=6 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Colombia||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Fernando Vallejo|Our Lady of the Assassins]]'' (1994) by Fernando Vallejo </small>
| rowspan="6" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Colombia|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Fernando Vallejo|Our Lady of the Assassins]]'' (1994) by Fernando Vallejo </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Alvaro Mutis </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Alvaro Mutis </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Fernando Gonzales </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Fernando Gonzales </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Andres Caicedo  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Andres Caicedo  </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Gonzalo Arango  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Gonzalo Arango  </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Hernando Tellez  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Hernando Tellez  </small>
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|rowspan=2 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Ecuador||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Demetrio Aguilera Malta|Seven Serpents and Seven Moons]]'' (1970) by Demetrio Aguilera Malta </small>
| rowspan="2" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Ecuador|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Demetrio Aguilera Malta|Seven Serpents and Seven Moons]]'' (1970) by Demetrio Aguilera Malta </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Demetrio Aguilera Malta|Don Goyo]]'' (1933) by Demetrio Aguilera Malta </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Demetrio Aguilera Malta|Don Goyo]]'' (1933) by Demetrio Aguilera Malta </small>
|-
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|rowspan=2 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Guatemala||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:El Señor Presidente|The President]]'' (1946) by Miguel Angel Asturias </small>
| rowspan="2" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Guatemala|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:El Señor Presidente|The President]]'' (1946) by Miguel Angel Asturias </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Men of Maize|Men of Maize]]'' (1949) by Miguel Angel Asturias </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Men of Maize|Men of Maize]]'' (1949) by Miguel Angel Asturias </small>
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|rowspan=3 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Paraguay||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Augusto Roa Bastos </small>
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Paraguay|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Augusto Roa Bastos </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Roque Vallejos </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Roque Vallejos </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by José Ricardo Mazó </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by José Ricardo Mazó </small>
|-
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|rowspan=3 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Puerto Rico||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Rosario Ferre </small>
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Puerto Rico|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Rosario Ferre </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Miguel Piñero </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Miguel Piñero </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Luis Rafael Sánchez </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Luis Rafael Sánchez </small>
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|rowspan=1 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Salvador||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Horacio Castellanos Moya </small>
| rowspan="1" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Salvador|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Horacio Castellanos Moya </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File:1275246746486.jpg|80px]]
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Mexico.png]]  Mexico </h3>
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Mexico.png]]  Mexico </h3>
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|colspan=5|<small> [http://tinyurl.com/mexicanlit Mexican Literature Download]</small>
| colspan="5" |<small> [http://tinyurl.com/mexicanlit Mexican Literature Download]</small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Cantares_Mexicanos.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Cantares Mexicanos|Cantares Mexicanos]]''<br/>(16th century)<br/></small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Cantares_Mexicanos.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Cantares Mexicanos|Cantares Mexicanos]]''<br />(16th century)<br /></small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Poems_Protest_and_a_Dream.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Juana Inés de la Cruz|Poems, Protest, and a Dream]]''<br/>by Sor Juana</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Poems_Protest_and_a_Dream.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Juana Inés de la Cruz|Poems, Protest, and a Dream]]''<br />by Sor Juana</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Confabulario.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Juan José Arreola|Confabulario and Other Inventions]]''<br/>(1952)<br/>by Juan Jose Arreola </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Confabulario.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Juan José Arreola|Confabulario and Other Inventions]]''<br />(1952)<br />by Juan Jose Arreola </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Pedro_Paramo.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Pedro Páramo|Pedro Páramo]]''<br/>(1955)<br/>by Juan Rulfo</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Pedro_Paramo.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Pedro Páramo|Pedro Páramo]]''<br />(1955)<br />by Juan Rulfo</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Death_of_Artemio_Cruz.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Death of Artemio Cruz|The Death of Artemio Cruz]]''<br/>(1962)<br/>by Carlos Fuentes </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Death_of_Artemio_Cruz.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Death of Artemio Cruz|The Death of Artemio Cruz]]''<br />(1962)<br />by Carlos Fuentes </small>
|-
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
|rowspan=15 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Translated||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Florentine Codex|Florentine Codex]]'' ( )  </small>
| rowspan="15" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Translated|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Florentine Codex|Florentine Codex]]'' ( )  </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Broken Spears]]'' ( )  Miguel Leon-Portilla </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Broken Spears]]'' ( )  Miguel Leon-Portilla </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The History of the Indies of New Spain]]'' ( ) by Fray Diego Duran </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The History of the Indies of New Spain]]'' ( ) by Fray Diego Duran </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Memoirs]]'' ( ) of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Memoirs]]'' ( ) of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier  </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Bandits from Rio Frio]]'' ( ) by Manuel Payno </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Bandits from Rio Frio]]'' ( ) by Manuel Payno </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |El Zarco]]'' ( ) by Ignacio Manuel Altamirano </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |El Zarco]]'' ( ) by Ignacio Manuel Altamirano </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Santa]]'' ( ) by  Federico Gamboa </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Santa]]'' ( ) by  Federico Gamboa </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Anthology]]'' ( ) by Alfonso Reyes </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Anthology]]'' ( ) by Alfonso Reyes </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Song of the Heart: Poems]]'' ( ) by Ramon Lopez Velarde </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Song of the Heart: Poems]]'' ( ) by Ramon Lopez Velarde </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Nostalgia for Death: Poetry]]'' ( ) by Xavier Villaurrutia </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Nostalgia for Death: Poetry]]'' ( ) by Xavier Villaurrutia </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Underdogs]]'' ( ) by Mariano Azuela </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Underdogs]]'' ( ) by Mariano Azuela </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Burning Plain and Other Stories]]'' ( ) by Juan Rulfo </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Burning Plain and Other Stories]]'' ( ) by Juan Rulfo </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Labyrinth of Solitude]]'' ( ) by Octavio Paz </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Labyrinth of Solitude]]'' ( ) by Octavio Paz </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Battles in the Desert & Other Stories]]'' ( ) by Jose Emilio Pacheco </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Battles in the Desert & Other Stories]]'' ( ) by Jose Emilio Pacheco </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Like Water for Chocolate]]'' ( ) by Laura Esquivel </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Like Water for Chocolate]]'' ( ) by Laura Esquivel </small>
|-
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|rowspan=7 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Untranslated||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Comedias Escogidas]]'' ( ) by D. Juan Ruiz de Alarcon </small>
| rowspan="7" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Untranslated|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Comedias Escogidas]]'' ( ) by D. Juan Ruiz de Alarcon </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Los Relampagos de Agosto]]'' ( ) by Jorge Ibarguengoitia </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Los Relampagos de Agosto]]'' ( ) by Jorge Ibarguengoitia </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Muerte sin fin]]'' ( ) by Jose Gorostiza </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Muerte sin fin]]'' ( ) by Jose Gorostiza </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Los Dias Terrenales]]'' ( ) by Jose Revueltas </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Los Dias Terrenales]]'' ( ) by Jose Revueltas </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Farabeuf]]'' ( ) by Salvador Elizondo </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Farabeuf]]'' ( ) by Salvador Elizondo </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Los Cuervos Estan de Luto]]'' ( ) by Hugo Arguelles  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Los Cuervos Estan de Luto]]'' ( ) by Hugo Arguelles  </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Cronica de la Intervencion]]'' ( ) by Juan Garcia Ponce </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Cronica de la Intervencion]]'' ( ) by Juan Garcia Ponce </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Mexicancanon.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Mexicancanon.jpg|80px]]
|colspan=4|
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{| {{Prettytable}}="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Netherlands.png]] Netherlands </h3>
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Netherlands.png]] Netherlands </h3>
|-
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|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Multatuli.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Max Havelaar|Max Havelaar]]''<br/>(1860)<br/>by Multatuli</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Multatuli.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Max Havelaar|Max Havelaar]]''<br />(1860)<br />by Multatuli</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Amsterdam_Stories.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Nescio|Amsterdam Stories]]''<br/>(1910s)<br/>by Nescio </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Amsterdam_Stories.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Nescio|Amsterdam Stories]]''<br />(1910s)<br />by Nescio </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Beyond_Sleep.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Beyond Sleep|Beyond Sleep ]]''<br/>(1966)<br/>by Willem Hermans</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Beyond_Sleep.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Beyond Sleep|Beyond Sleep ]]''<br />(1966)<br />by Willem Hermans</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Parents_Worry.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Gerard Reve|Parents Worry]]''<br/>(1988)<br/>by Gerard Reve</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Parents_Worry.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Gerard Reve|Parents Worry]]''<br />(1988)<br />by Gerard Reve</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Discovery_of_Heaven.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Discovery of Heaven|The Discovery of Heaven ]]''<br/>(1992)<br/>by Harry Mulisch </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Discovery_of_Heaven.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Discovery of Heaven|The Discovery of Heaven ]]''<br />(1992)<br />by Harry Mulisch </small>
|-
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
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|rowspan=5 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Classic||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Praise of Folly|In Praise of Folly]]'' (1511) by Erasmus </small>
| rowspan="5" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Praise of Folly|In Praise of Folly]]'' (1511) by Erasmus </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Joost van den Vondel|Lucifer]]'' (1654) by Joost van den Vondel </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Joost van den Vondel|Lucifer]]'' (1654) by Joost van den Vondel </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Eline Vere|Eline Vere]]'' (1889) by Louis Couperus </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Eline Vere|Eline Vere]]'' (1889) by Louis Couperus </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Letters of Vincent van Gogh|The Letters]]'' (1890) of Vincent van Gogh </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Letters of Vincent van Gogh|The Letters]]'' (1890) of Vincent van Gogh </small>
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Marcellus Emants|A Posthumous Confession]]'' (1894) by Marcellus Emants </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Marcellus Emants|A Posthumous Confession]]'' (1894) by Marcellus Emants </small>
|-
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|rowspan=15 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Modern||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Autumn of the Middle Ages|The Waning of the Middle Ages]]'' (1919) by J. Huizinga </small>
| rowspan="15" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Autumn of the Middle Ages|The Waning of the Middle Ages]]'' (1919) by J. Huizinga </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Willem Elsschot|Cheese]]'' (1933) by Willem Elsschot </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Willem Elsschot|Cheese]]'' (1933) by Willem Elsschot </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Ferdinand Bordewijk|Character]]'' (1938) by F. Bordewijk </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Ferdinand Bordewijk|Character]]'' (1938) by F. Bordewijk </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Hella S. Haasse|In a Dark Wood Wandering]]'' (1949) by Hella S. Haasse </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Hella S. Haasse|In a Dark Wood Wandering]]'' (1949) by Hella S. Haasse </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Chapel Road]]'' (1953) by Louis Paul Boon </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:|Chapel Road]]'' (1953) by Louis Paul Boon </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Ten Thousand Things|The Ten Thousand Things]]'' (1955) by Maria Dermout </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:The Darkroom of Damocles|The Darkroom of Damocles]]'' (1958) by Willem Frederik Hermans </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:Hugo Claus|Wonder]]'' (1962) by Hugo Claus </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Hugo Claus|Wonder]]'' (1962) by Hugo Claus </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Remco Campert|I Dreamed in the Cities at Night]]'' by Remco Campert </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:Jan Wolkers|Turkish Delight]]'' (1969) by Jan Wolkers </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jan Wolkers|Turkish Delight]]'' (1969) by Jan Wolkers </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:J. Bernlef|Out of Mind]]'' (1984) by J. Bernlef </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:J. Bernlef|Out of Mind]]'' (1984) by J. Bernlef </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Assault|The Assault]]'' (1982) by H. Mulisch </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Assault|The Assault]]'' (1982) by H. Mulisch </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Following Story|The Following Story]]'' (1991) 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:Omega Minor|Omega Minor]]'' (2004) by Paul Verhaeghen </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Omega Minor|Omega Minor]]'' (2004) by Paul Verhaeghen </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Tomorrow Pamplona]]'' (2007) by Jan van Mersbergen </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:|Tomorrow Pamplona]]'' (2007) by Jan van Mersbergen </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Gerbrand Bakker|The Twin]]'' (2008) by Gerbrand Bakker</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gerbrand Bakker|The Twin]]'' (2008) by Gerbrand Bakker</small>
|-
|-
|rowspan=6 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Untranslated||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Nicolaas Beets|Camera Obscura]]'' (1851) by Hildebrand </small>
| rowspan="6" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Untranslated|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nicolaas Beets|Camera Obscura]]'' (1851) by Hildebrand </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Louis Couperus|De Stille Kracht]]'' (1900) by Louis Couperus</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Louis Couperus|De Stille Kracht]]'' (1900) by Louis Couperus</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Frederik van Eeden|Van De Koele Meren des Doods]]'' (1900) by Frederik van Eeden</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Frederik van Eeden|Van De Koele Meren des Doods]]'' (1900) by Frederik van Eeden</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Gerard Reve|De Avonden]]'' (1947) by Gerard Reve </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gerard Reve|De Avonden]]'' (1947) by Gerard Reve </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:A. den Doolaard|Het land achter Gods rug]]'' (1956) by A. den Doolaard </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A. den Doolaard|Het land achter Gods rug]]'' (1956) by A. den Doolaard </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Jan Wolkers|Terug naar Oegstgeest]]'' (1965) by Jan Wolkers </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jan Wolkers|Terug naar Oegstgeest]]'' (1965) by Jan Wolkers </small>
|-
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Dutch_lit.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Dutch_lit.jpg|80px]]
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|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:No.png]] Norway</h3>
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:No.png]] Norway</h3>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
|-
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:A-Doll-s-House-and-Other-Plays.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:A Doll's House|A Doll's House]]''<br/>(1879)<br/>by Henrik Ibsen</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:A-Doll-s-House-and-Other-Plays.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:A Doll's House|A Doll's House]]''<br />(1879)<br />by Henrik Ibsen</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Thewildduck.png|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Wild Duck|The Wild Duck]]''<br/>(1884)<br/>by Henrik Ibsen</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Thewildduck.png|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Wild Duck|The Wild Duck]]''<br />(1884)<br />by Henrik Ibsen</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Hunger.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Hunger (novel)|Hunger]]''<br/>(1890)<br/>by Knut Hamsun</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Hunger.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Hunger (novel)|Hunger]]''<br />(1890)<br />by Knut Hamsun</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Growthofthesoil.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Growth of the Soil|Growth of the Soil]]''<br/>(1917)<br/>by Knut Hamsun</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Growthofthesoil.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Growth of the Soil|Growth of the Soil]]''<br />(1917)<br />by Knut Hamsun</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:The wreath.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Kristin Lavransdatter|Kristin Lavransdatter]]''<br/>(1920&ndash;1922)<br/>by Sigrid Undset</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:The wreath.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Kristin Lavransdatter|Kristin Lavransdatter]]''<br />(1920&ndash;1922)<br />by Sigrid Undset</small>
|-
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
|rowspan=3 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Classic||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Brand (play)|Brand]]'' (1866) by Henrik Ibsen</small>
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Brand (play)|Brand]]'' (1866) by Henrik Ibsen</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Hedda Gabler|Hedda Gabler]]'' (1891) by Henrik Ibsen</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Hedda Gabler|Hedda Gabler]]'' (1891) by Henrik Ibsen</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Pan (novel)|Pan]]'' (1894) by Knut Hamsun</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Pan (novel)|Pan]]'' (1894) by Knut Hamsun</small>
|-
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|rowspan=3 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Contemporary||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Beatles (novel)|Beatles]]'' (1984) by Lars Saabye Christensen</small>
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Contemporary|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Beatles (novel)|Beatles]]'' (1984) by Lars Saabye Christensen</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Naïve. Super|Naïve. Super]]'' (1996) by Erlend Loe</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Naïve. Super|Naïve. Super]]'' (1996) by Erlend Loe</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Out Stealing Horses|Out Stealing Horses]]'' (2003) by Per Petterson</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Out Stealing Horses|Out Stealing Horses]]'' (2003) by Per Petterson</small>
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|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Poland.png]] Poland </h3>
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Poland.png]] Poland </h3>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Pan_Tadeusz.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: Pan Tadeusz| Pan Tadeusz]]''<br/>(1834)<br/> by Adam Mickiewicz </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Pan_Tadeusz.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: Pan Tadeusz| Pan Tadeusz]]''<br />(1834)<br /> by Adam Mickiewicz </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Doll .jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Doll (novel)|The Doll]]''<br/>(1889)<br/>by  Boleslaw Prus</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Doll .jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Doll (novel)|The Doll]]''<br />(1889)<br />by  Boleslaw Prus</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Street_of_Crocodiles.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Street of Crocodiles|The Street of Crocodiles]]''<br/>(1934)<br/>by Bruno Schulz </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Street_of_Crocodiles.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Street of Crocodiles|The Street of Crocodiles]]''<br />(1934)<br />by Bruno Schulz </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Ferdydurke.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: Ferdydurke |Ferdydurke]]''<br/>(1937)<br/>by Witold Gombrowicz </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Ferdydurke.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: Ferdydurke |Ferdydurke]]''<br />(1937)<br />by Witold Gombrowicz </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:New_and_Collected_Poems.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Czeslaw Milosz|New and Collected Poems]]''<br/>(2001)<br/>by Czeslaw Milosz </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:New_and_Collected_Poems.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Czeslaw Milosz|New and Collected Poems]]''<br />(2001)<br />by Czeslaw Milosz </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
|rowspan=3 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Classic||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Laments (Treny)|Laments ]]'' (1580) by Jan Kochanowski  </small>
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Laments (Treny)|Laments ]]'' (1580) by Jan Kochanowski  </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Fables and Parables|Fables and Parables]]'' (1779) by Ignacy Krasicki </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Fables and Parables|Fables and Parables]]'' (1779) by Ignacy Krasicki </small>  
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Quo Vadis (novel)|Quo Vadis]]'' (1895 )  by Henryk Sienkiewicz </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Quo Vadis (novel)|Quo Vadis]]'' (1895 )  by Henryk Sienkiewicz </small>  
|-
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|rowspan=18 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Modern||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Tadeusz Konwicki</small>  
| rowspan="18" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Tadeusz Konwicki</small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Andrzej Stasiuk</small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Andrzej Stasiuk</small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Wislawa Szymborska</small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Wislawa Szymborska</small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Olga Tokarczuk </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Olga Tokarczuk </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Stanislaw Lem </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Stanislaw Lem </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Adam Zagajewski </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Adam Zagajewski </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Zbigniew Herbert </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Zbigniew Herbert </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Stefan Grabinski </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Stefan Grabinski </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Slawomir Mrozek </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Slawomir Mrozek </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Ewa Lipska </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Ewa Lipska </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Jerzy Ficowski </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Jerzy Ficowski </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Stefan Zeromski </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Stefan Zeromski </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Anna Swir </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by Anna Swir </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Juliusz Slowacki </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Juliusz Slowacki </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Gustaw Herling </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Gustaw Herling </small>  
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Adam Mickiewicz </small>  
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( )  by Adam Mickiewicz </small>  
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|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Portugal.png]] Portugal </h3>
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Portugal.png]] Portugal </h3>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
|-
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Lusiadas.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Os Lusíadas|The Lusiadas]]''<br/> (1572)<br/> Luís Vaz de Camões</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Lusiadas.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Os Lusíadas|The Lusiadas]]''<br /> (1572)<br /> Luís Vaz de Camões</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Tragedy_of_the_Street_of_Flowers.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Eça de Queiroz|The Tragedy of the Street of Flowers]]''<br/>(1878)<br/> by Eça de Queiroz </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Tragedy_of_the_Street_of_Flowers.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Eça de Queiroz|The Tragedy of the Street of Flowers]]''<br />(1878)<br /> by Eça de Queiroz </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Book_of_Disquiet.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Book of Disquiet|The Book of Disquiet]]''<br/> (1935) <br/>by Fernando Pessoa </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Book_of_Disquiet.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Book of Disquiet|The Book of Disquiet]]''<br /> (1935) <br />by Fernando Pessoa </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Great_Shadow.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: Mário de Sá-Carneiro |The Great Shadow and Other Stories]]''<br/>(1915) <br/> by  Mário de Sá-Carneiro  </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Great_Shadow.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: Mário de Sá-Carneiro |The Great Shadow and Other Stories]]''<br />(1915) <br /> by  Mário de Sá-Carneiro  </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File: .jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br/>  <br/> </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: .jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br />  <br /> </small>
|-
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by  António Lobo Antunes </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by  António Lobo Antunes </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by José Saramago </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by José Saramago </small>
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|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Spain.png]] Spain </h3>
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Spain.png]] Spain </h3>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Poem_of_the_Cid.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Cantar de Mio Cid|The Poem of the Cid]]''<br/>(1207)</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Poem_of_the_Cid.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Cantar de Mio Cid|The Poem of the Cid]]''<br />(1207)</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Don_Quixote.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Don Quixote|Don Quixote]]''<br/>(1615)<br/>by Miguel de Cervantes </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Don_Quixote.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Don Quixote|Don Quixote]]''<br />(1615)<br />by Miguel de Cervantes </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Abel_Sanchez.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Abel Sánchez|Abel Sanchez]]''<br/>(1917)<br/>by Miguel de Unamuno </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Abel_Sanchez.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Abel Sánchez|Abel Sanchez]]''<br />(1917)<br />by Miguel de Unamuno </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Collected_Poems_of_Lorca.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Federico Garcia Lorca|Collected Poems]]''<br/> by Federico Garcia Lorca </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Collected_Poems_of_Lorca.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Federico Garcia Lorca|Collected Poems]]''<br /> by Federico Garcia Lorca </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Family_of_Pascual_Duarte.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Family of Pascual Duarte|The Family of Pascual Duarte]]''<br/>(1942)<br/> by Camilo Jose Cela </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Family_of_Pascual_Duarte.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Family of Pascual Duarte|The Family of Pascual Duarte]]''<br />(1942)<br /> by Camilo Jose Cela </small>
|-
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Lazarillo de Tormes|Lazarillo de Tormes]]'' (1556) </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lazarillo de Tormes|Lazarillo de Tormes]]'' (1556) </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Eduardo Mendoza Garriga </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Eduardo Mendoza Garriga </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Lope de Vega </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Lope de Vega </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Juan Marse </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Juan Marse </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Javier Marias </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Javier Marias </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Juan Goyitsolo </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Juan Goyitsolo </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Enrique Vila-Matas  </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Enrique Vila-Matas  </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:La sombra del viento |The Shadow of the Wind ]]'' by Carlos Ruiz Zafón </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:La sombra del viento |The Shadow of the Wind ]]'' by Carlos Ruiz Zafón </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Catalan recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Catalan recommendations'''
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Santiago Rusiñol </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Santiago Rusiñol </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Salvador Espriu </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Salvador Espriu </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Miquel Bauca </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Miquel Bauca </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Maria Barbal </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Maria Barbal </small>
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Russia.png]] Russia</h3>
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Russia.png]] Russia</h3>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small> [http://tinyurl.com/russianlit Russian Literature Download]</small>
| colspan="5" |<small> [http://tinyurl.com/russianlit Russian Literature Download]</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:a_Hero_of_Our_Time.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:A Hero of Our Time|A Hero of Our time]]''<br/>(1841)<br/>by Mikhail Lermontov </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:a_Hero_of_Our_Time.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:A Hero of Our Time|A Hero of Our time]]''<br />(1841)<br />by Mikhail Lermontov </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:War_and_Peace.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:War and Peace|War and Peace]]''<br/>(1869)<br/>by Leo Tolstoy </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:War_and_Peace.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:War and Peace|War and Peace]]''<br />(1869)<br />by Leo Tolstoy </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Brothers_Karamazov.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Brothers Karamazov|The Brothers Karamazov]]''<br/>(1880)<br/>by Fyodor Dostoevsky</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Brothers_Karamazov.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Brothers Karamazov|The Brothers Karamazov]]''<br />(1880)<br />by Fyodor Dostoevsky</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Plays_of_Anton_Chekhov.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Anton Chekhov|The Plays of Anton Chekhov]]''<br/>(1886&ndash;1904)<br/>by Anton Chekhov</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Plays_of_Anton_Chekhov.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Anton Chekhov|The Plays of Anton Chekhov]]''<br />(1886&ndash;1904)<br />by Anton Chekhov</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Master_and_Margarita.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Master and Margarita|The Master and Margarita ]]''<br/>(1967)<br/>by Mikhail Bulgakov</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Master_and_Margarita.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Master and Margarita|The Master and Margarita ]]''<br />(1967)<br />by Mikhail Bulgakov</small>
|-
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
|rowspan=16 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|19th Century||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Woe from Wit)|Woe from Wit ]]'' (1823) by Aleksandr Griboyedov </small>
| rowspan="16" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |19th Century|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Woe from Wit)|Woe from Wit ]]'' (1823) by Aleksandr Griboyedov </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Dead Souls |Dead Souls]]'' (1842) by Nikolai Gogol  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Dead Souls |Dead Souls]]'' (1842) by Nikolai Gogol  </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Diary of a Madman|Diary of a Madman and Other Stories ]]'' (1842) by Nikolai Gogol </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Diary of a Madman|Diary of a Madman and Other Stories ]]'' (1842) by Nikolai Gogol </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Sketches From a Hunter's Album |Sketches From a Hunter's Album ]]'' (1852) by Ivan Turgenev </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sketches From a Hunter's Album |Sketches From a Hunter's Album ]]'' (1852) by Ivan Turgenev </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Oblomov |Oblomov ]]'' (1859) by Ivan Goncharov </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Oblomov |Oblomov ]]'' (1859) by Ivan Goncharov </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Fathers and Sons |Fathers and Sons ]]'' (1862) by Ivan Turgenev  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Fathers and Sons |Fathers and Sons ]]'' (1862) by Ivan Turgenev  </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Crime and Punishment |Crime and Punishment ]]'' (1866) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Crime and Punishment |Crime and Punishment ]]'' (1866) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Notes From Underground |Notes From Underground ]]'' (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Notes From Underground |Notes From Underground ]]'' (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Nikolai Leskov|Lady McBeth of Mtsensk and Other Stories]]'' (1865) by Nikolai Leskov </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nikolai Leskov|Lady McBeth of Mtsensk and Other Stories]]'' (1865) by Nikolai Leskov </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Idiot |The Idiot ]]'' (1869) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Idiot |The Idiot ]]'' (1869) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Demons (novel)|Demons ]]'' (1872) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Demons (novel)|Demons ]]'' (1872) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Golovlyov Family |The Golovlyov Family ]]'' (1876) by Mikhail Saltykov </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Golovlyov Family |The Golovlyov Family ]]'' (1876) by Mikhail Saltykov </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Leo Tolstoy|Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy]]'' by Leo Tolstoy </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Leo Tolstoy|Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy]]'' by Leo Tolstoy </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Anna Karenina|Anna Karenina]]'' (1877) by Leo Tolstoy </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Anna Karenina|Anna Karenina]]'' (1877) by Leo Tolstoy </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Anton Chekhov|The Collected Stories]]'' by Anton Chekhov </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Anton Chekhov|The Collected Stories]]'' by Anton Chekhov </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Alexander Pushkin)|The Collected Stories]]'' by Alexander Pushkin </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Alexander Pushkin)|The Collected Stories]]'' by Alexander Pushkin </small>
|-
|-
|rowspan=15 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|20th Century||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Petersburg (novel)|Petersburg]]'' (1913) by Andrei Bely </small>
| rowspan="15" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |20th Century|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Petersburg (novel)|Petersburg]]'' (1913) by Andrei Bely </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:We (novel)|We]]'' (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:We (novel)|We]]'' (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Heart of a Dog|Heart of a Dog]]'' (1925) by Mikhail Bulgakov </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Heart of a Dog|Heart of a Dog]]'' (1925) by Mikhail Bulgakov </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Envy (novel)|Envy]]'' (1927) by Yuri Olesha </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Envy (novel)|Envy]]'' (1927) by Yuri Olesha </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Foundation Pit|The Foundation Pit]]'' (1930) by Andrey Platonov </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Foundation Pit|The Foundation Pit]]'' (1930) by Andrey Platonov </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Quiet Flows the Don|Quiet Flows the Don]]'' (1934) by Mikhail Sholokhov </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Quiet Flows the Don|Quiet Flows the Don]]'' (1934) by Mikhail Sholokhov </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Invitation to a Beheading|Invitation to a Beheading]]'' (1936) by Vladimir Nabokov</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Invitation to a Beheading|Invitation to a Beheading]]'' (1936) by Vladimir Nabokov</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Isaac Bable|The Complete Works]]'' by Isaac Babel</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Isaac Bable|The Complete Works]]'' by Isaac Babel</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Daniil Kharms|Today I Wrote Nothing]]'' by Daniil Kharms</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Daniil Kharms|Today I Wrote Nothing]]'' by Daniil Kharms</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Ivan Bunin|The Collected Stories]]'' by Ivan Bunin </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Ivan Bunin|The Collected Stories]]'' by Ivan Bunin </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Doctor Zhivago (novel)|Doctor Zhivago]]'' (1957) by Boris Pasternak </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Doctor Zhivago (novel)|Doctor Zhivago]]'' (1957) by Boris Pasternak </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Life and Fate|Life and Fate]]'' (1959) by Vasily Grossman </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Life and Fate|Life and Fate]]'' (1959) by Vasily Grossman </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:A School for Fools|A School for Fools]]'' (1960s) by Sasha Sokolov</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A School for Fools|A School for Fools]]'' (1960s) by Sasha Sokolov</small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Roadside Picnic |Roadside Picnic]]'' (1971) by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Roadside Picnic |Roadside Picnic]]'' (1971) by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Kolyma Tales|Kolyma Tales]]'' (1954-73) by Varlam Shalamov</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kolyma Tales|Kolyma Tales]]'' (1954-73) by Varlam Shalamov</small>
|-
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Russian2.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Russian2.jpg|80px]]
|colspan=4|
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{| {{Prettytable}}="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:South_Africa.png]] South Africa</h3>
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:South_Africa.png]] South Africa</h3>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
|-
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:I_Write_What_I_Like.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:I Write What I Like|I Write What I Like]]''<br/>(1978)<br/>by Steve Biko</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:I_Write_What_I_Like.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:I Write What I Like|I Write What I Like]]''<br />(1978)<br />by Steve Biko</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Waiting_for_the_Barbarians.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Waiting for the Barbarians|Waiting for the Barbarians]]''<br/>(1980)<br/>by J.M. Coetzee</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Waiting_for_the_Barbarians.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Waiting for the Barbarians|Waiting for the Barbarians]]''<br />(1980)<br />by J.M. Coetzee</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |
[[File:Nadinegordimerjuly'speople.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:July's People|July's People]]''<br/>(1981)<br/>by Nadine Gordimer</small>
[[File:Nadinegordimerjuly'speople.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:July's People|July's People]]''<br />(1981)<br />by Nadine Gordimer</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Ways_of_Dying.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Ways of Dying|Ways of Dying]]''<br/>(1995)<br/>by Zakes Mda</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Ways_of_Dying.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Ways of Dying|Ways of Dying]]''<br />(1995)<br />by Zakes Mda</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Disgrace.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Disgrace (novel)|Disgrace]]''<br/>(1999)<br/>by J.M. Coetzee</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Disgrace.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Disgrace (novel)|Disgrace]]''<br />(1999)<br />by J.M. Coetzee</small>
|-
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
|rowspan=3 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Contemporary||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Marlene van Niekerk|The Way of the Women]]'' (2004) by Marlene van Niekerk </small>
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Contemporary|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Marlene van Niekerk|The Way of the Women]]'' (2004) by Marlene van Niekerk </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Portrait with Keys|Portrait with Keys]]'' (2006) by Ivan Vladislavic </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Portrait with Keys|Portrait with Keys]]'' (2006) by Ivan Vladislavic </small>
|-
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Zoo City|Zoo City]]'' (2010) by Lauren Beukes </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Zoo City|Zoo City]]'' (2010) by Lauren Beukes </small>
|-
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|}
|}


{|{{Prettytable}}
{| {{Prettytable}}="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
|colspan=5|<h3>[[File:United_States.png]] United States </h3>
| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:United_States.png]] United States </h3>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small> [http://tinyurl.com/usalit American Literature Download]</small>
| colspan="5" |<small> [http://tinyurl.com/usalit American Literature Download]</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
|-
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Moby_Dick.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Moby Dick|Moby Dick]]''<br/>(1851)<br/>by Herman Melville </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Moby_Dick.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Moby Dick|Moby Dick]]''<br />(1851)<br />by Herman Melville </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Leaves_of_Grass.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Leaves of Grass|Leaves of Grass]]''<br/>(1892)<br/>by Walt Whitman </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Leaves_of_Grass.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Leaves of Grass|Leaves of Grass]]''<br />(1892)<br />by Walt Whitman </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Sound_and_the_Fury.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Sound and the Fury|The Sound and the Fury]]''<br/> (1920)<br/>by William Faulkner </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Sound_and_the_Fury.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Sound and the Fury|The Sound and the Fury]]''<br /> (1920)<br />by William Faulkner </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:East_of_Eden.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:East of Eden|East of Eden]]'' <br/>(1952)<br/>by John Steinbeck </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:East_of_Eden.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:East of Eden|East of Eden]]'' <br />(1952)<br />by John Steinbeck </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Gravity's_Rainbow.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Gravity's Rainbow|Gravity's Rainbow]]''<br/>(1973)<br/> by Thomas Pynchon </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Gravity's_Rainbow.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Gravity's Rainbow|Gravity's Rainbow]]''<br />(1973)<br /> by Thomas Pynchon </small>
|-
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further recommendations'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further recommendations'''
|-
|-
|rowspan=11 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Short Story Collections||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Twice Told Tales|Twice Told Tales]]'' (1837) by Nathaniel Hawthorne </small>
| rowspan="11" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Short Story Collections|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Twice Told Tales|Twice Told Tales]]'' (1837) by Nathaniel Hawthorne </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Edgar Allen Poe|Collected Works]]'' (1849) by Edgar Allen Poe </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Edgar Allen Poe|Collected Works]]'' (1849) by Edgar Allen Poe </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Billy Budd|Billy Budd and the Piazza Tales]]'' (1888) by Herman Melville </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Billy Budd|Billy Budd and the Piazza Tales]]'' (1888) by Herman Melville </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Mark Twain|Collected Short Stories]]'' (1910) by Mark Twain </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Mark Twain|Collected Short Stories]]'' (1910) by Mark Twain </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Stephen Crane|Maggie and Other Stories]]'' (1900) by Stephen Crane </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Stephen Crane|Maggie and Other Stories]]'' (1900) by Stephen Crane </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Flappers and Philosophers|Flappers and Philosophers]]'' (1920) by F. Scott Fitzgerald </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Flappers and Philosophers|Flappers and Philosophers]]'' (1920) by F. Scott Fitzgerald </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:H.P. Lovecraft|The Tales]]'' (1937) of H.P. Lovecraft </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:H.P. Lovecraft|The Tales]]'' (1937) of H.P. Lovecraft </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Sherwood Anderson|Death in the Woods and Other Stories]]'' (1941) by Sherwood Anderson </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sherwood Anderson|Death in the Woods and Other Stories]]'' (1941) by Sherwood Anderson </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Ernest Hemingway|Collected Short Works]]'' (1961) by Ernest Hemingway </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Ernest Hemingway|Collected Short Works]]'' (1961) by Ernest Hemingway </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:John Cheever|The Stories]]'' (1982) of John Cheever </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:John Cheever|The Stories]]'' (1982) of John Cheever </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Where I'm Calling From|Where I'm Calling From]]'' (1988) by Raymond Carver </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Where I'm Calling From|Where I'm Calling From]]'' (1988) by Raymond Carver </small>
|-
|-


|rowspan=9 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Poetry Collections||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Emily Dickinson|The Poetry]]'' (1886) of Emily Dickinson </small>
| rowspan="9" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Poetry Collections|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Emily Dickinson|The Poetry]]'' (1886) of Emily Dickinson </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Waste Land|The Waste Land and Other Poems]]'' (1922) by T.S. Eliot </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Waste Land|The Waste Land and Other Poems]]'' (1922) by T.S. Eliot </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Harmonium (poetry collection)|Harmonium]]'' (1923) by Wallace Stevens </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Harmonium (poetry collection)|Harmonium]]'' (1923) by Wallace Stevens </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Bridge (long poem)|The Bridge]]'' (1930) by Hart Crane </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Bridge (long poem)|The Bridge]]'' (1930) by Hart Crane </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Howl|Howl and Other Poems]]'' (1955) by Allen Ginsberg </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Howl|Howl and Other Poems]]'' (1955) by Allen Ginsberg </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Robinson Jeffers|Selected Poems]]'' (1962) by Robinson Jeffers </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Robinson Jeffers|Selected Poems]]'' (1962) by Robinson Jeffers </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Robert Frost|Collected Poems]]'' (1963) by Robert Frost  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Robert Frost|Collected Poems]]'' (1963) by Robert Frost  </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:William Carlos Williams|Collected Poems Vol.1 & 2]]'' (1963) by William Carlos Williams </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:William Carlos Williams|Collected Poems Vol.1 & 2]]'' (1963) by William Carlos Williams </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:John Ashbery|Collected Poems]]'' (1987) by John Ashbery </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:John Ashbery|Collected Poems]]'' (1987) by John Ashbery </small>
|-
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|rowspan=8 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Plays||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Eugene O'Neill|Complete Plays]]'' by Eugene O'Neill </small>
| rowspan="8" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Plays|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Eugene O'Neill|Complete Plays]]'' by Eugene O'Neill </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Our Town|Our Town]]'' (1938) by Thornton Wilder </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Our Town|Our Town]]'' (1938) by Thornton Wilder </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Death of a Salesman|Death of a Salesman]]'' (1949) by Arthur Miller </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Death of a Salesman|Death of a Salesman]]'' (1949) by Arthur Miller </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Tennessee Williams|Plays 1937-1955]]'' (1955) by Tennessee Williams </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Tennessee Williams|Plays 1937-1955]]'' (1955) by Tennessee Williams </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Edward Albee|The Collected Plays]]'' of Edward Albee  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Edward Albee|The Collected Plays]]'' of Edward Albee  </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Buried Child|Buried Child]]'' (1978) by Sam Shepard </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Buried Child|Buried Child]]'' (1978) by Sam Shepard </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:August Wilson|Fences]]'' (1985) by August Wilson </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:August Wilson|Fences]]'' (1985) by August Wilson </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Angels in America|Angels in America]]'' (1993) by Tony Kushner </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Angels in America|Angels in America]]'' (1993) by Tony Kushner </small>
|-
|-
|rowspan=51 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Others||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Last of the Mohicans|The Last of the Mohicans]]'' (1826) by Fenimore Cooper </small>
| rowspan="51" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Others|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Last of the Mohicans|The Last of the Mohicans]]'' (1826) by Fenimore Cooper </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Scarlet Letter|The Scarlet Letter]]'' (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Scarlet Letter|The Scarlet Letter]]'' (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The American (novel)|The American]]'' (1877) by Henry James </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The American (novel)|The American]]'' (1877) by Henry James </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn|The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'' (1884) by Mark Twain </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn|The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'' (1884) by Mark Twain </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Red Badge of Courage|The Red Badge of Courage]]'' (1895) by Stephen Crane </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Red Badge of Courage|The Red Badge of Courage]]'' (1895) by Stephen Crane </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Turn of the Screw|The Turn of the Screw]]'' (1898) by Henry James </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Turn of the Screw|The Turn of the Screw]]'' (1898) by Henry James </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Awakening (novel)|The Awakening]]'' (1899) by Kate Chopin </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Awakening (novel)|The Awakening]]'' (1899) by Kate Chopin </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Call of the Wild|The Call of the Wild]]'' (1903) by Jack London </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Call of the Wild|The Call of the Wild]]'' (1903) by Jack London </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Three Lives|Three Lives]]'' (1909) by Gertrude Stein </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Three Lives|Three Lives]]'' (1909) by Gertrude Stein </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:My Antonia|My Antonia]]'' (1918) by Willa Cather </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:My Antonia|My Antonia]]'' (1918) by Willa Cather </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Age of Innocence|The Age of Innocence]]'' (1920) by Edith Wharton </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Age of Innocence|The Age of Innocence]]'' (1920) by Edith Wharton </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Main Street (novel)|Main Street]]'' (1920) by Sinclair Lewis </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Main Street (novel)|Main Street]]'' (1920) by Sinclair Lewis </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Babbit (novel)|Babbit]]'' (1922) by Sinclair Lewis </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Babbit (novel)|Babbit]]'' (1922) by Sinclair Lewis </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Great Gatsby|The Great Gatsby]]'' (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Great Gatsby|The Great Gatsby]]'' (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:An American Tragedy|An American Tragedy]]'' (1925) by Theodore Dreiser </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:An American Tragedy|An American Tragedy]]'' (1925) by Theodore Dreiser </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Sun Also Rises|The Sun Also Rises]]'' (1926) by Ernest Hemingway </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Sun Also Rises|The Sun Also Rises]]'' (1926) by Ernest Hemingway </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Tropic of Cancer (novel)|Tropic of Cancer]]'' (1934) by Henry Miller </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Tropic of Cancer (novel)|Tropic of Cancer]]'' (1934) by Henry Miller </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Appointment in Samarra|Appointment in Samrra]]'' (1934) by John O'Hara </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Appointment in Samarra|Appointment in Samrra]]'' (1934) by John O'Hara </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Absalom, Absalom!|Absalom, Absalom!]]'' (1936) by William Faulkner </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Absalom, Absalom!|Absalom, Absalom!]]'' (1936) by William Faulkner </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Grapes of Wrath|The Grapes of Wrath]]'' (1939) by John Steinbeck </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Grapes of Wrath|The Grapes of Wrath]]'' (1939) by John Steinbeck </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Day of the Locust|The Day of the Locust]]'' (1939) by Nathanael 'West </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Day of the Locust|The Day of the Locust]]'' (1939) by Nathanael 'West </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Big Sleep|The Big Sleep]]'' (1939) by Raymond Chandler </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Big Sleep|The Big Sleep]]'' (1939) by Raymond Chandler </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:For Whom the Bell Tolls|For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'' (1940) by Ernest Hemingway </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:For Whom the Bell Tolls|For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'' (1940) by Ernest Hemingway </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Heart is a Lonely Hunter|The Heart is a Lonely Hunter]]'' (1940) by Carson McCullers </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Heart is a Lonely Hunter|The Heart is a Lonely Hunter]]'' (1940) by Carson McCullers </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:All the King's Men|All the King's Men]]'' (1946) by Robert Penn Warren </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:All the King's Men|All the King's Men]]'' (1946) by Robert Penn Warren </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Catcher in the Rye|The Catcher in the Rye]]'' (1951) by J.D. Salinger </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Catcher in the Rye|The Catcher in the Rye]]'' (1951) by J.D. Salinger </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:On the Road|On the Road]]'' (1951) by Jack Kerouac </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:On the Road|On the Road]]'' (1951) by Jack Kerouac </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Fahrenheit 451|Fahrenheit 451]]'' (1953) by Ray Bradbury </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Fahrenheit 451|Fahrenheit 451]]'' (1953) by Ray Bradbury </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Recognitions|The Recognitions]]'' (1955) by William Gaddis </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Recognitions|The Recognitions]]'' (1955) by William Gaddis </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Lolita|Lolita]]'' (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lolita|Lolita]]'' (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Naked Lunch|Naked Lunch]]'' (1959) by William S. Burroughs </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Naked Lunch|Naked Lunch]]'' (1959) by William S. Burroughs </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Rabbit, Run|Rabbit, Run]]'' (1960) by John Updike </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Rabbit, Run|Rabbit, Run]]'' (1960) by John Updike </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:To Kill a Mockingbird|To Kill a Mockingbird]]'' (1960) by Harper Lee </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:To Kill a Mockingbird|To Kill a Mockingbird]]'' (1960) by Harper Lee </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Sot-Weed Factor|The Sot-Weed Factor]]'' (1960) by John Barth </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Sot-Weed Factor|The Sot-Weed Factor]]'' (1960) by John Barth </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Catch-22|Catch-22]]'' (1961) by Joseph Heller </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Catch-22|Catch-22]]'' (1961) by Joseph Heller </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]'' (1962) by Ken Kesey </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]'' (1962) by Ken Kesey </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Bell Jar|The Bell Jar]]'' (1963) by Sylvia Plath </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Bell Jar|The Bell Jar]]'' (1963) by Sylvia Plath </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:V. (novel)|V.]]'' (1963) by Thomas Pynchon </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:V. (novel)|V.]]'' (1963) by Thomas Pynchon </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Herzog (novel)|Herzog]]'' (1965) by Saul Bellow </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Herzog (novel)|Herzog]]'' (1965) by Saul Bellow </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Crying of Lot 49|The Crying of Lot 49]]'' (1966) by Thomas Pynchon </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Crying of Lot 49|The Crying of Lot 49]]'' (1966) by Thomas Pynchon </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Portnoy's Complaint|Portnoy's Complaint]]'' (1969) by Phillip Roth </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Portnoy's Complaint|Portnoy's Complaint]]'' (1969) by Phillip Roth </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Slaughterhouse-Five|Slaughterhouse-Five]]'' (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Slaughterhouse-Five|Slaughterhouse-Five]]'' (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas|Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas]]'' (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas|Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas]]'' (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:A Confederacy of Dunces|A Confederacy of Dunces]]'' (1980) by John Kennedy Toole </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A Confederacy of Dunces|A Confederacy of Dunces]]'' (1980) by John Kennedy Toole </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The New York Trilogy|The New York Trilogy]]'' (1986) by Paul Auster </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The New York Trilogy|The New York Trilogy]]'' (1986) by Paul Auster </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Libra (novel)|Libra]]'' (1988) by Don Delillo </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Libra (novel)|Libra]]'' (1988) by Don Delillo </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Infinite Jest|Infinite Jest]]'' (1996) by David Foster Wallace </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Infinite Jest|Infinite Jest]]'' (1996) by David Foster Wallace </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Underworld (DeLillo novel)|Underworld]]'' (1997) by Don Delillo </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Underworld (DeLillo novel)|Underworld]]'' (1997) by Don Delillo </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:American Pastoral|American Pastoral]]'' (1997) by Phillip Roth </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:American Pastoral|American Pastoral]]'' (1997) by Phillip Roth </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Pattern Recognition (novel)|Pattern Recognition]]'' (2003) by William Gibson </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Pattern Recognition (novel)|Pattern Recognition]]'' (2003) by William Gibson </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Road|The Road]]'' (2006) by Cormac McCarthy </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Road|The Road]]'' (2006) by Cormac McCarthy </small>
|-
|-


 
| rowspan="5" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Slave Narratives|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Interesting Narrative|The Interesting Narrative]]'' (1789) by Olaudah Equiano </small>
|rowspan=5 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Slave Narratives||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Interesting Narrative|The Interesting Narrative]]'' (1789) by Olaudah Equiano </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass|Narrative of the Life]]'' (1845) of Frederick Douglass  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass|Narrative of the Life]]'' (1845) of Frederick Douglass  </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Sojourner Truth|Narrative]]'' (1850) of Sojourner Truth  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sojourner Truth|Narrative]]'' (1850) of Sojourner Truth  </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Twelve Years a Slave|Twelve Years a Slave]]'' (1853) by Solomon Northrup </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Twelve Years a Slave|Twelve Years a Slave]]'' (1853) by Solomon Northrup </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl|Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl]]'' (1861) by Harriet Jacobs </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl|Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl]]'' (1861) by Harriet Jacobs </small>
|-
|-
|rowspan=3 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Reconstruction Era||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Up From Slavery|Up From Slavery]]'' (1901) by Booker T. Washington </small>
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Reconstruction Era|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Up From Slavery|Up From Slavery]]'' (1901) by Booker T. Washington </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Souls of Black Folk|The Souls of Black Folk]]'' (1903) by W.E.B. Du Bois </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Souls of Black Folk|The Souls of Black Folk]]'' (1903) by W.E.B. Du Bois </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Paul Laurence Dunbar|The Collected Poetry]]'' (1906) by Paul Laurence Dunbar </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Paul Laurence Dunbar|The Collected Poetry]]'' (1906) by Paul Laurence Dunbar </small>
|-
|-
|rowspan=8 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Harlem Renaissance||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Cane (novel)|Cane]]'' (1923) by Jean Toomer </small>
| rowspan="8" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Harlem Renaissance|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Cane (novel)|Cane]]'' (1923) by Jean Toomer </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Rudolph Fisher|The Walls of Jericho]]'' (1928) by Rudolph Fisher </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Rudolph Fisher|The Walls of Jericho]]'' (1928) by Rudolph Fisher </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Home to Harlem|Home to Harlem]]'' (1928) by Claude McKay </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Home to Harlem|Home to Harlem]]'' (1928) by Claude McKay </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Nella Larsen|Quicksand and Passing]]'' (1929) by Nella Larsen </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nella Larsen|Quicksand and Passing]]'' (1929) by Nella Larsen </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Blacker the Berry|The Blacker the Berry]]'' (1929) by Wallace Thurman</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Blacker the Berry|The Blacker the Berry]]'' (1929) by Wallace Thurman</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Not Without Laughter|Not Without Laughter]]'' (1930) by Langston Hughes </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Not Without Laughter|Not Without Laughter]]'' (1930) by Langston Hughes </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Black No More|Black no More]]'' (1931) by George S. Schugler </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Black No More|Black no More]]'' (1931) by George S. Schugler </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Their Eyes Were Watching God|Their Eyes Were Watching God]]'' (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Their Eyes Were Watching God|Their Eyes Were Watching God]]'' (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston </small>
|-
|-
|rowspan=8 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Civil Rights Era||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Native Son|Native Son]]'' (1940) by Richard Wright </small>
| rowspan="8" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Civil Rights Era|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Native Son|Native Son]]'' (1940) by Richard Wright </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:If He Hollers Let Him Go|If he Hollers Let Him Go]]'' (1945) by Chester Himes </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:If He Hollers Let Him Go|If he Hollers Let Him Go]]'' (1945) by Chester Himes </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Invisible Man|Invisible Man]]'' (1952) by Ralph Ellison </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Invisible Man|Invisible Man]]'' (1952) by Ralph Ellison </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Go Tell it on the Mountain (novel)|Go Tell it on the Mountain]]'' (1953) by James Baldwin </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Go Tell it on the Mountain (novel)|Go Tell it on the Mountain]]'' (1953) by James Baldwin </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:A Raisin in the Sun|A Raisin in the Sun]]'' (1959) by Lorraine Hansberry </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A Raisin in the Sun|A Raisin in the Sun]]'' (1959) by Lorraine Hansberry </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Autobiography of Malcolm X|The Autobiography]]'' (1965) of Malcolm X  </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Autobiography of Malcolm X|The Autobiography]]'' (1965) of Malcolm X  </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Gwendolyn Brooks|Selected Poems]]'' (1966) by Gwendolyn Brooks </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gwendolyn Brooks|Selected Poems]]'' (1966) by Gwendolyn Brooks </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings|I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]]'' (1969) by Maya Angelou </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings|I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]]'' (1969) by Maya Angelou </small>
|-
|-
|rowspan=12 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Contemporary||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Beneath the Underdog|Beneath the Underdog]]'' (1971) by Charles Mingus </small>
| rowspan="12" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Contemporary|| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Beneath the Underdog|Beneath the Underdog]]'' (1971) by Charles Mingus </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Mumbo Jumbo (novel)|Mumbo Jumbo]]'' (1972) by Ismael Reed </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Mumbo Jumbo (novel)|Mumbo Jumbo]]'' (1972) by Ismael Reed </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Roots (novel)|Roots]]'' (1976) by Alex Haley </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Roots (novel)|Roots]]'' (1976) by Alex Haley </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Song of Solomon (novel)|Song of Solomon]]'' (1977) by Toni Morrison </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Song of Solomon (novel)|Song of Solomon]]'' (1977) by Toni Morrison </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Kindred (novel)|Kindred]]'' (1979) by Ismael Reed </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kindred (novel)|Kindred]]'' (1979) by Ismael Reed </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Color Purple|The Color Purple]]'' (1982) by Alice Walker </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Color Purple|The Color Purple]]'' (1982) by Alice Walker </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Gloria Naylor|Linden Hills]]'' (1985) by Gloria Naylor </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gloria Naylor|Linden Hills]]'' (1985) by Gloria Naylor </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Beloved (novel)|Beloved]]'' (1987) by Toni Morrison </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Beloved (novel)|Beloved]]'' (1987) by Toni Morrison </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Terry McMillan|Waiting to Exhale]]'' (1992) by Terry McMillan </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Terry McMillan|Waiting to Exhale]]'' (1992) by Terry McMillan </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Amiri Baraka|Somebody Blew up America]]'' (2001) by Amiri Baraka </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Amiri Baraka|Somebody Blew up America]]'' (2001) by Amiri Baraka </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Known World|The Known World]]'' (2003) by Edward P. Jones </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Known World|The Known World]]'' (2003) by Edward P. Jones </small>
|-
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Killing Johnny Fry|Killing Johnny Fry]]'' (2006) by Walter Mosley </small>
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Killing Johnny Fry|Killing Johnny Fry]]'' (2006) by Walter Mosley </small>
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Revision as of 19:10, 3 September 2014

By region

Argentina

Essential works

Strange Forces
(1906)
Leopoldo Lugones
The Museum of Eterna's Novel
(1925)
Macedonio Fernandez
The Seven Madmen
(1929)
Roberto Arlt
The Aleph
(1949)
Jorge Luis Borges
Hopscotch
(1963)
Julio Cortazar
Further recommendations
by Manuel Puig
by Ernesto Sabato
by Juan José Saer
by Oliverio Girondo
by Adolfo Bioy Casares
by Fernando Sorrentino
by Cesar Aira
by Marco Denevi
by Luisa Valenzuela
by Lila Zemborain
by Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill
by Rodrigo Fresan
by Alberto Laiseca

Australia

Australian Literature Download
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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Austria

Essential works

Indian Summer
(1857)
by Adalbert Stifter
The Man Without Qualities
(1942)
by Robert Musil
Chess Story
(1942)
by Stefan Zweig
The Death of Virgil
(1945)
by Hermann Broch
The Loser
(1983)
by Thomas Bernhard
Further recommendations
Rock Crystal (1845) by Adalbert Stifter
Round Dance and Other Plays (1897) by Arthur Schnitzler
The Confusions of Young Törless (1906) by Robert Musil
The Other Side (1909) by Alfred Kubin
Dream Story (1926) by Arthur Schnitzler
Beware of Pity (1939) by Stefan Zweig
The World of Yesterday (1942) by Stefan Zweig
An Ermine in Czernopol (1958) by Gregor von Rezzori
The Wall (1963) by Marlen Haushofer
The Head of Vitus Bering (1965) by Konrad Bayer
Selected Works (1966) by Konrad Bayer
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (1972) by Peter Handke
Memoirs of an Anti-Semite (1979) by Gregor von Rezzori
Woodcutters (1984) by Thomas Bernhard

Belgium

Essential works

The Sorrow of Belgium
(1983)
by Hugo Claus
Further recommendations
Three Novels: Soft Soap, The Leg, Will O' the Wisp by Willem Elsschot
Cheese (1933) by Willem Elsschot
Occupied City (1921) by Paul van Ostaijen
The signal (1918) by Paul van Ostaijen
The Sign of the Hamster (1964) by Hugo claus
Problemski Hotel (2003) by Dimitri Verhulst
The Misfortunates (2006) by Dimitri Verhulst
Strangers Should Not Whisper (1945) by Marnix Gijsen
Elias, or the struggle with the nightingalesl (1936) by Maurice Gilliams
The bottle at sea. The complete poems by Maurice Gilliams
Tempo di Roma by Alexis Curvers
Pedigree by Georges Simenon
The Strange Case of Peter the Lett (Maigret series) by Georges Simenon
Thousand Times Broken, Three Books by Henri Michaux

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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United Kingdom and Ireland

Essential works

The Canterbury Tales
(14th century)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Complete Works
of William Shakespeare
Paradise Lost
(1667)
by John Milton
The Collected Poems
of William Wordsworth
The Collected Poems
of W.B. Yeats
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
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France

Essential works
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The Human Comedy
(1829-1848)
by Honoré de Balzac
In Search of Lost Time
(1927)
by Marcel Proust
Memoirs of Hadrian
(1951)
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Further recommendations
Madame Bovary (1856) by Gustave Flaubert
Journey to the End of the Night (1932) by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
The Stranger ( ) by Albert Camus
The Count of Monte Cristo ( ) by Alexander Dumas
Nausea ( ) by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Lost Estate (1913) by Alain-Fournier
The Red and the Black ( ) by Stendhal
Nadja ( ) by Andre Breton
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea ( ) by Jules Verne
Miserable Miracle ( ) by Henri Michaux
Confessions ( ) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Le Petit Prince ( ) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Candide ( ) by Voltaire
The Lover ( ) by Marguerite Duras
Froth on the Daydream ( ) by Boris Vian
Germinal ( ) by Emile Zola
Les Miserables ( ) by Victor Hugo
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Germany

German Literature Download
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)
Laxdaela Saga
(13th century)
Independent People
(1935)
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Further recommendations
Classic Egil's saga (12th century)
King Harald's Saga (1230) by Snorri Sturluson
Eyrbyggja Saga (13th century)
The Saga of Grettir the Strong (13th century)
The Saga of the Jomsvikings (13th century)
The Saga of the Volsungs (13th century)
The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki (1400)
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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Middle East

Iranian Literature Download
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

Italian Literature Download
Essential works

Divine Comedy
(1321)
by Dante Alighieri
The Decameron
(1353)
by Giovanni Boccaccio
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
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
The Late Mattia Pascal (1904) by Luigi Pirandello
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

Japanese Literature Download
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
Kafka on the Shore (2002) 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)
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Further recommendations
Brazil The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (1956) by João Guimarães Rosa
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (1881) by Machado de Assis
Dom Casmurro (1899) by Machado de Assis
Colombia Our Lady of the Assassins (1994) by Fernando Vallejo
by Alvaro Mutis
by Fernando Gonzales
by Andres Caicedo
by Gonzalo Arango
by Hernando Tellez
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

Mexican Literature Download
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
Like Water for Chocolate ( ) by Laura Esquivel
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 Assault (1982) by H. Mulisch
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

Portugal

Essential works

The Lusiadas
(1572)
Luís Vaz de Camões
The Tragedy of the Street of Flowers
(1878)
by Eça de Queiroz
The Book of Disquiet
(1935)
by Fernando Pessoa
The Great Shadow and Other Stories
(1915)
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Further recommendations
by António Lobo Antunes
by José Saramago

Spain

Essential works

The Poem of the Cid
(1207)
Don Quixote
(1615)
by Miguel de Cervantes
Abel Sanchez
(1917)
by Miguel de Unamuno
Collected Poems
by Federico Garcia Lorca
The Family of Pascual Duarte
(1942)
by Camilo Jose Cela
Further recommendations
Lazarillo de Tormes (1556)
by Eduardo Mendoza Garriga
by Lope de Vega
by Juan Marse
by Javier Marias
by Juan Goyitsolo
by Enrique Vila-Matas
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Catalan recommendations
by Santiago Rusiñol
by Salvador Espriu
by Miquel Bauca
by Maria Barbal

Russia

Russian Literature Download
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 Nabokov
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

American Literature Download
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
The 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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