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| 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> | | colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:France.png]] France </h3> | ||
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Germany.png]] Germany</h3> | | colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Germany.png]] Germany</h3> | ||
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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]] | ||
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Greece.png]] Greece </h3> | | colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Greece.png]] Greece </h3> | ||
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:start_with_greeks2.jpg|80px]] | | width="120" align="center" |[[File:start_with_greeks2.jpg|80px]] | ||
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Hungary.png]] Hungary</h3> | | colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Hungary.png]] Hungary</h3> | ||
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A halál kilovagolt Perzsiából|A halál kilovagolt Perzsiából]]'' (1979) by Péter Hajnóczy </small> | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A halál kilovagolt Perzsiából|A halál kilovagolt Perzsiából]]'' (1979) by Péter Hajnóczy </small> | ||
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A bogyósgyümölcskertész fia|A bogyósgyümölcskertész fia]]'' (2010) by János Háy |} | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A bogyósgyümölcskertész fia|A bogyósgyümölcskertész fia]]'' (2010) by János Háy </small> | ||
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Iceland.png]] Iceland </h3> | | colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Iceland.png]] Iceland </h3> | ||
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| colspan="5" |<h3> Middle East </h3> | | colspan="5" |<h3> Middle East </h3> | ||
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Persian_lit.jpg|100px]] | | width="120" align="center" |[[File:Persian_lit.jpg|100px]] | ||
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Italy.png]] Italy </h3> | | colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Italy.png]] Italy </h3> | ||
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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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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Japan_6. | | width="120" align="center" |[[File:Japan_6.jpg|80px]] | ||
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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" |<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 |} | | 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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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Mexico.png]] Mexico </h3> | | colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Mexico.png]] Mexico </h3> | ||
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Mexicancanon.jpg|80px]] | | width="120" align="center" |[[File:Mexicancanon.jpg|80px]] | ||
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Netherlands.png]] Netherlands </h3> | | colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:Netherlands.png]] Netherlands </h3> | ||
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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> | ||
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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|} | | 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> | ||
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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 <|} | | 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> | ||
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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 |} | | 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> | ||
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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" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Josep Carner |} | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' by Josep Carner </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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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Russian2.jpg|80px]] | | width="120" align="center" |[[File:Russian2.jpg|80px]] | ||
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:South_Africa.png]] South Africa</h3> | | colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:South_Africa.png]] South Africa</h3> | ||
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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 |} | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Zoo City|Zoo City]]'' (2010) by Lauren Beukes </small> | ||
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| colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:United_States.png]] United States </h3> | | colspan="5" |<h3>[[File:United_States.png]] United States </h3> | ||
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Pynchon_guide.png|100px]] | | width="120" align="center" |[[File:Pynchon_guide.png|100px]] | ||
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Hemingway_chart.jpg|100px]] | | width="120" align="center" |[[File:Hemingway_chart.jpg|100px]] | ||
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Revision as of 13:40, 12 November 2017
By region
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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 |
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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 (1980) by Damien Broderick | |||
Illywhacker (1985) by Peter Carey | ||||
Oscar and Lucinda (1988) by Peter Carey | ||||
For the Term of his Natural Life (1874) by Marcus Clarke | ||||
The Middle Parts of Fortune (1929) by Frederic Manning | ||||
Eucalyptus (1998) by Murray Bail | ||||
The Power of One (1989) by Bryce Courtenay | ||||
A Cry in the Jungle Bar (1979) by Robert Drewer | ||||
Gould's Book of Fish (2001) by Richard Flanagan | ||||
Diaspora (1997) by Greg Egan | ||||
My Brilliant Career (1901) by Miles Franklin | ||||
The Children's Bach (1984) by Helen Garner | ||||
The Female Eunuch (1970) by Germaine Greer | ||||
The Secret River (2005) by Kate Grenville | ||||
But the Dead are Many (1975) by Frank Hardy | ||||
Selected Poetry and Prose ( ) of A.D. Hope | ||||
The Lucky Country (1964) by Donald Horne | ||||
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886) by Fergus Hume | ||||
My Brother Jack (1964) by George Johnston | ||||
Schindler's Ark (1982) by Thomas Keneally | ||||
The First Casualty (2005) by Phillip Knightley | ||||
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1955) by Ray Lawler | ||||
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967) by Joan Lindsay | ||||
Remembering Babylon (1993) by David Malouf | ||||
Forty-Seventeen (1988) by Frank Moorhouse | ||||
New Collected Poems (1999) by Les Murray | ||||
Fredy Neptune (1998) by Les Murray | ||||
Three Dollars (1998) by Elliot Perlman | ||||
The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (1930) by Henry Handel Richardson | ||||
Shantaram (2003) by Gregory David Roberts | ||||
On the Beach (1957) by Nevil Shute | ||||
Animal Liberation (1975) by Peter Singer | ||||
The Little Hotel (1973) by Christina Stead | ||||
A Fraction of the Whole (2008) by Steve Toltz | ||||
The Tree of Man (1955) by Patrick White | ||||
The Vivisector (1970) by Patrick White | ||||
Dirt Music (2001) by Tim Winton | ||||
Wake in Fright (1961) by Kenneth Cook | ||||
The Foundations of Culture in Australia (1936) by P. R. Stephensen | ||||
Capricornia (1938) by Xavier Herbert | ||||
Power Without Glory (1950) by Frank Hardy | ||||
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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 |
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Essential works | ||||
![]() The Sorrow of Belgium (1983) by Hugo Claus |
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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 |
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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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![]() Anne of Green Gables (1908) by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
![]() Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912) by Stephen Leacock |
![]() The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood |
![]() Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) by Alice Munro |
![]() Flint and Feather (1913) by Pauline Johnson |
Further recommendations | ||||
Anglophone | Fifth Business (1970) by Robertson Davies | |||
The Golden Dog (1872) by William Kirby | ||||
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) by Mordecai Richler | ||||
The Wars (1977) by Timothy Findley | ||||
Beautiful Losers (1966) by Leonard Cohen | ||||
Klee Wyck (1941) by Emily Carr | ||||
Three Day Road (2001) by Joseph Boyden | ||||
Life of Pi (1966) by Yann Martel |
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![]() 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 |
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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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![]() The Canterbury Tales (14th century) by Geoffrey Chaucer |
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![]() Paradise Lost (1667) by John Milton |
![]() The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth |
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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 | ||||
Sartor Resartus (1833) by Thomas Carlyle | ||||
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 | ||||
Flashman (1969) by George MacDonald Fraser | ||||
The Collected Plays by George Bernard Shaw | ||||
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![]() Flowers of Evil (1857) by Charles Baudelaire |
![]() The Human Comedy (1829-1848) by Honoré de Balzac |
![]() In Search of Lost Time (1927) by Marcel Proust |
![]() Memoirs of Hadrian (1951) by Marguerite Yourcenar |
![]() Madame Bovary (1856) by Gustave Flaubert |
Further recommendations | ||||
The Temptation of Saint Antony (1895) 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 | ||||
Atomised ( ) by Michel Houellebecq | ||||
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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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 World (1988) by Christoph Ransmayr | ||||
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![]() 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 | Eclipse of the Crescent Moon (1899) by Geza Gardonyi | |||
A láthatatlan ember (1901) by Geza Gardonyi | ||||
A kőszivű ember fiai (1869) by Mór Jókai | ||||
The Dark Diamonds (1872) by Mór Jókai | ||||
János vitéz (1845) by Sándor Petőfi | ||||
Szent Péter esernyője (1895) by Kálmán Mikszáth | ||||
Bánk Bán (1819) by József Katona | ||||
Modern | Adventures of Sindbad (1911) by Gyula Krudy | |||
Tóték (1967) by István Örkény | ||||
Egyperces novellák (1969) by István Örkény | ||||
The Paul Street Boys (1907) by Ferenc Molnár | ||||
Harmonia Caelestis (1994) by Peter Esterhazy | ||||
The Door (1987) by Magda Szabo | ||||
A Journey Round My Skull (1939) by Frigyes Karinthy | ||||
Metropole (1970) by Ferenc Karinthy | ||||
The End of a Family Story (1977) by Peter Nadas | ||||
The Transylvania Trilogy (1940) by Miklos Banffy | ||||
Egy elmebeteg nő naplója (1978) by Geza Csath | ||||
Opium and Other Stories (1980) by Geza Csath | ||||
Embers (1942) by Sándor Márai | ||||
Képzelt riport egy amerikai popfesztiválról (1971) by Tibor Dery | ||||
The Case Worker (1969) by György Konrád | ||||
Tranquility (2001) by Attila Bartis | ||||
Colours and Years (1912) by Magrit Kaffka | ||||
In Praise of Older Women (1966) by Stephen Vizinczey | ||||
Darkness at Noon (1940) by Arthur Koestler | ||||
A halál kilovagolt Perzsiából (1979) by Péter Hajnóczy | ||||
A bogyósgyümölcskertész fia (2010) by János Háy |
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![]() The Eddas (13th century) by Snorri Sturluson |
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![]() Independent People (1935) by Halldór Laxness |
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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 |
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![]() 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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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 |
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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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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 |
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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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![]() 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 |
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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 Gabriel García Márquez |
![]() The Black Sheep and Other Fables (1969) by Augusto Monterroso |
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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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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 |
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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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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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![]() 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 | ||||
Modern | One Day in October (1931) by Sigurd Hoel | |||
The Seed (1940) by Tarjei Vesaas | ||||
Contemporary | Beatles (1984) by Lars Saabye Christensen | |||
Naïve. Super (1996) by Erlend Loe | ||||
Out Stealing Horses (2003) by Per Petterson |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) by Mário de Sá-Carneiro |
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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 Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer | ||||
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 | ||||
by Josep Carner |
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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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Essential works | ||||
![]() I Write What I Like (1978) by Steve Biko |
![]() Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) by J.M. Coetzee |
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![]() 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 |
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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 | ||||
In Cold Blood (1966) by Truman Capote | ||||
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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