Recommended Reading/Literature by origin
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Australia | ||||
Essential works | ||||
The Man Who Loved Children (1940) by Christina Stead |
Voss (1957) by Patrick White |
The Fatal Shore (1987) by Robert Hughes |
Cloudstreet (1991) by Tim Winton |
True History of the Kelly Gang (2000) by Peter Carey |
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 Power of One ( ) by Bryce Courtenay | ||||
A Cry in the Jungle Bar ( ) by Robert Drewer | ||||
Gould's Book of Fish ( ) by Richard Flanagan | ||||
Diaspora ( ) by Greg Egan | ||||
My Brilliant Career ( ) by Miles Franklin | ||||
The Children's Bach ( ) by Helen Garner | ||||
The Female Eunuch ( ) by Germaine Greer | ||||
The Secret River ( ) by Kate Grenville | ||||
But the Dead are Many ( ) by Frank Hardy | ||||
Selected Poetry and Prose ( ) of A.D. Hope | ||||
The Lucky Country ( ) by Donald Horne | ||||
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab ( ) by Fergus Hume | ||||
My Brother Jack ( ) by George Johnston | ||||
Schindler's Ark ( ) by Thomas Keneally | ||||
The First Casualty ( ) by Phillip Knightley | ||||
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( ) by Ray Lawler | ||||
Picnic at Hanging Rock ( ) by Joan Lindsay | ||||
Remembering Babylon ( ) by David Malouf | ||||
Forty-Seventeen ( ) by Frank Moorhouse | ||||
New Collected Poems ( ) by Les Murray | ||||
Fredy Neptune ( ) by Les Murray | ||||
Three Dollars ( ) by Elliot Perlman | ||||
The Fortunes of Richard Mahony ( ) by Henry Handel Richardson | ||||
Shantaram ( ) by Gregory David Roberts | ||||
On the Beach ( ) by Nevil Shute | ||||
Animal Liberation ( ) by Peter Singer | ||||
The Little Hotel ( ) by Christina Stead | ||||
A Fraction of the Whole ( ) by Steve Toltz | ||||
The Tree of Man ( ) by Patrick White | ||||
The Vivisector ( ) by Patrick White | ||||
Dirt Music ( ) by Tim Winton | ||||
Wake in Fright ( ) by Kenneth Cook | ||||
Capricornia ( ) by Xavier Herbert | ||||
Power Without Glory ( ) by Frank Hardy | ||||
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China | ||||
Essential works | ||||
Three Kingdoms (14th century) by Luo Guanzhong |
Story of the Stone (18th century) by Cao Xueqin |
Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio (1740) by Pu Songling |
The Real Story of Ah Q (1922) by Lu Xun |
Camel Xiangzi (1937) by Lao She |
Further recommendations | ||||
Classic | The Dragon King's Daughter (Tang dynasty) by | |||
Six Yuan Plays (Yuan dynasty) by | ||||
Outlaws of the Marsh (14th century) by Shi Nai'an | ||||
The Story of the Western Wing (14th century) by Wang Shifu | ||||
Journey to the West (16th century) by Wu Cheng'en | ||||
Creation of the Gods (16th century) by Xu Zhonglin | ||||
The Peony Pavilion (1598) by Tang Xianzu | ||||
Stories Old and New (1620) by Feng Menglong | ||||
The Plum in the Golden Vase (17th century) by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng | ||||
The Carnal Prayer Mat (1657) by Li Yu | ||||
The Scholars (1750) by Wu Jingzi | ||||
Six Records of a Floating Life (1808) by Shen Fu | ||||
Modern | Family (1933) Ba Jin | |||
The Importance of Living (1937) by Lin Yutang | ||||
My Country and My People ( ) by Lin Yutang | ||||
Wild Grass ( ) by Lu Xun | ||||
Rainbow ( ) by Mao Dun | ||||
Fortress Besieged (1947) by Qian Zhongshu | ||||
Border Town ( ) by Shen Congwen | ||||
Selected Stories ( ) by Shen Congwen | ||||
Teahouse ( ) by Lao She | ||||
Love in a Fallen City ( ) by Eileen Chang | ||||
The King of Trees ( ) by Ah Cheng | ||||
Red Sorghum ( ) by Mo Yan | ||||
Life and Death are Wearing Me Out ( ) by Mo Yan | ||||
The Three-Inch Golden Lotus ( ) by Feng Jicai | ||||
Brothers ( ) by Yu Hua | ||||
To Live ( ) by Yu Hua | ||||
Soul Mountain ( ) by Gao Xingjian | ||||
Waves ( ) by Bei Dao | ||||
The August Sleepwalker ( ) by Bei Dao | ||||
Five Spice Street ( ) by Can Xue | ||||
Vertical Motion ( ) by Can Xue | ||||
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Czech Republic | ||||
Essential works | ||||
May (1836) by Karel Hynek Macha |
The Good Soldier Svejk (1923) by Jaroslav Hasek |
Three Novels (1933) by Karel Capek |
I Served the King of England (1983) by Bohumil Hrabal |
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) by Milan Kundera |
Further recommendations | ||||
Pre-WW2 | The Sorrowful Eyes ( ) by Ivan Olbracht | |||
Hidden History ( ) by Otokar Brezina | ||||
The Grandmother ( ) by Bozena Nemcova | ||||
The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch ( ) by Ladislav Klima | ||||
R.U.R. ( ) by Karel Capek | ||||
War With the Newts ( ) by Karel Capek | ||||
Antilyrik & Other Poems ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval | ||||
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval | ||||
Prague Tales ( ) by Jan Neruda | ||||
The Arsonist ( ) by Egon Hostovsky | ||||
The Poetry ( ) of Jaroslav Seifert | ||||
Vanishing Lung Syndrome ( ) by Miroslav Holub | ||||
Narrative Poems ( ) by Vladimir Holan | ||||
Dreams at the End of the Night ( ) by Ewald Murrer | ||||
How I Came to Know Fish ( ) by Ota Pavel | ||||
Fingers Pointing Somewhere Else ( ) by Daniela Fischerova | ||||
White Book ( ) by Pavel Kohout | ||||
Saturnin ( ) by Zdenek Jirotka | ||||
Summer of Caprice ( ) by Vadislav Vancura | ||||
Post-WW2 | Closely Watched Trains ( ) Bohumil Hrabal | |||
Too Loud a Solitude ( ) by Bohumil Hrabal | ||||
Love and Garbage ( ) by Ivan Klima | ||||
Immortality ( ) by Milan Kundera | ||||
The Garden Party and Other Plays ( ) by Vaclav Havel | ||||
The Questionnaire ( ) by Jiri Grusa | ||||
The Guinea Pigs ( ) by Ludvik Vaculik | ||||
The Cremator (1967) by Ladislav Fuks | ||||
A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova ( ) by Arnost Lustig | ||||
A Bohemian Youth ( ) by Josef Hirsal | ||||
City Sister Silver ( ) by Jachym Topol | ||||
The Engineer of Human Souls ( ) by Josef Skvorecky | ||||
The Other City ( ) by Michal Ajvaz | ||||
Europeana ( ) by Patrik Ourednik | ||||
The Seven Churches ( ) by Milos Urban | ||||
Of Kids & Parents ( ) by Emil Hakl | ||||
German-language | The Golem ( ) by Gustav Meyrink | |||
The Green Face ( ) by Gustav Meyrink | ||||
The Trial ( ) by Franz Kafka | ||||
The Metamorphosis ( ) by Franz Kafka | ||||
A Hunger Artist ( ) by Franz Kafka | ||||
Blaugast ( ) by Paul Leppin | ||||
Severin’s Journey into the Dark ( ) by Paul Leppin | ||||
The Raging Reporter ( ) by Egon Erwin Kisch | ||||
Tycho Brahe’s Path to God ( ) by Max Brod | ||||
The Maimed ( ) by Hermann Ungar | ||||
Boys & Murderers ( ) by Hermann Ungar | ||||
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge ( ) by Rainer Maria Rilke | ||||
The Selected Poetry ( ) of Rainer Maria Rilke | ||||
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Germany | ||||
Essential works | ||||
Faust (1832) by Goethe |
Thus Spake Zarathustra (1885) by Friedrich Nietzsche |
The Magic Mountain (1912) by Thomas Mann |
The Man Without Qualities (1942) by Robert Musil |
The Tin Drum (1959) by Gunter Grass |
Further recommendations | ||||
Classic | The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |||
The Robbers and Wallenstein (1781) by Friedrich Schiller | ||||
the Marquise of O and Other Stories (1808) by Heinrich von Kleist | ||||
The Broken Jug (1806) by Heinrich von Kleist | ||||
Danon's Death (1835) George Buchner | ||||
The Rider on the White Horse (1888) by Theodor Storm | ||||
Effi Briest (1895) by Theodor Fontane | ||||
Modern | Buddenbrooks (1901) by Thomas Mann | |||
The Loyal Subject (1914) by Heinrich Mann | ||||
The Metamorphosis (1915) by Franz Kafka | ||||
The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka | ||||
The Castle (1926) by Franz Kafka | ||||
Siddhartha (1922) by Hermann Hesse | ||||
Steppenwolf (1927) by Hermann Hesse | ||||
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) by Alfred Doblin | ||||
The Visit (1956) by Friedrich Durrenmatt | ||||
The Physicists (1961) by Friedrich Durrenmatt | ||||
The Flounder (1977) by Gunter Grass | ||||
Cassandra (1984) Christa Wolf | ||||
Perfume (1985) by Patrick Suskind | ||||
The Last Word (1988) by Christoph Ransmayr | ||||
Recommendation images | ||||
Iran | ||||
Essential works | ||||
The Conference of the Birds (12th century) by Farid ud-Din Attar |
The Rubaiyat (12th century) of Omar Khayyam |
The Essential Works (13th century) by Rumi |
The Divan-i (14th century) of Hafiz |
The Blind Owl (1937) by Sadegh Hedayat |
Further recommendations | ||||
Classical | Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (~1000) | |||
Vis and Ramin (11th century) by Asad Gorgani | ||||
The Secret of Laughter: Magical Tales from Classical Persia edited by Shusha Guppy | ||||
Haft Paykar (1197) by Nizami Ganjavi | ||||
Borrowed Ware: Medieval Persian Epigrams edited by Dick Davis | ||||
The Rose Garden (1259) by Sa'di | ||||
Modern | Three Drops of Blood (1932) by Sadegh Hedayat | |||
The Patient Stone (1967) by Sadeq Chubak | ||||
The Little Black Fish and Other Modern Persian Stories (1968) by Samad Behrangi | ||||
Missing Soluch (1979) by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi | ||||
Women Without Men (1990) by Shahrnush Parsipur | ||||
Untranslated | Garshaspnama (11th century) by Asadi Tusi | |||
Chosrow and Shirin (1180) by Nizami Ganjavi | ||||
Tutinama: Tales of a Parrot (14th century) | ||||
1001 Days (1712) by Francois Petis de la Croix | ||||
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Italy | |||||||||||||||||
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Divine Comedy (1321) by Dante Alighieri |
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Zeno's Conscience (1923) by Italo Svevo |
That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana (1957) by Carlo Emilio Gadda |
The Leopard (1958) by Tomasi di Lampedusa | |||||||||||||
Further recommendations | |||||||||||||||||
Classic | The Consolation of Philosophy (524) by Boethius | ||||||||||||||||
Golden Legend (1260) by Jacobus de Voragine | |||||||||||||||||
The Travels (13th century) of Marco Polo | |||||||||||||||||
The Decameron (1353) by Giovanni Boccaccio | |||||||||||||||||
Il Canzoniere (1374) by Petrarch | |||||||||||||||||
The Prince (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli | |||||||||||||||||
The Book of the Courtier (1528) by Baldassare Castiglione | |||||||||||||||||
Orlando Furioso (1532) by Ludovico Ariosto | |||||||||||||||||
The Autobiography (1563) of Benvenuto Cellini | |||||||||||||||||
Lives of the Artists (1568) by Giorgio Vasari | |||||||||||||||||
Jerusalem Delivered (1581) by Torquato Tasso | |||||||||||||||||
Selected Poems and Letters by Michelangelo | |||||||||||||||||
The Memoirs (1774) of Giacomo Casanova | |||||||||||||||||
The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis (1817) by Ugo Foscolo | |||||||||||||||||
The Betrothed (1827) by Alessandro Manzoni | |||||||||||||||||
Canti (1837) by Giacomo Leopardi | |||||||||||||||||
The Life (1849) of Giuseppe Garibaldi | |||||||||||||||||
Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories (1880) by Giovanni Verga | |||||||||||||||||
Modern | The Year 3,000: A Dream (1897) by Paolo Mantegazza | ||||||||||||||||
Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem (1900) by Emilio Salgari | |||||||||||||||||
Francesca da Rimini (1901) by Gabriele d'Annunzio | |||||||||||||||||
Elias Portolu (1903) by Grazia Deledda | |||||||||||||||||
Captain Blood (1922) by Rafael Sabatini | |||||||||||||||||
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) by Luigi Pirandello | |||||||||||||||||
Cuttlefish Bones (1925) by Eugenio Montale | |||||||||||||||||
Revolt Against the Modern World (1934) by Julius Evola | |||||||||||||||||
the Tartar Steppe (1940) by Dino Buzzati | |||||||||||||||||
Christ Stopped at Eboli (1945) by Carlo Levi | |||||||||||||||||
The Moon and the Bonfires (1949) by Cesare Pavese | |||||||||||||||||
Contempt (1954) by Alberto Moravia | |||||||||||||||||
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962) by Giorgio Bassani | |||||||||||||||||
Family Sayings (1967) by Natalia Ginzburg | |||||||||||||||||
Equal Danger (1971) by Leonardo Sciascia | |||||||||||||||||
Invisible Cities (1972) by Italo Calvino | |||||||||||||||||
The Periodic Table (1975) by Primo Levi | |||||||||||||||||
Foucault's Pendulum (1988) by Umberto Eco | |||||||||||||||||
Q (1999) by Luther Blissett | |||||||||||||||||
Love-Shaped Story (2002) by Tommaso Pincio | |||||||||||||||||
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Japan | ||||
Essential works | ||||
The Tale of Genji (11th century) by Murasaki Shikibu |
Kokoro (1914) by Natsume Soseki |
Rashomon (1915) by Akutagawa |
Naomi (1924) by Junichiro Tanizaki |
Snow Country (1947) by Yasunari Kawabata |
Further recommendations | ||||
Classical Literature (until 1600's) | The Gossamer Years (974) by Mother of Michitsuna | |||
The Pillow Book (1002) by Sei Shonagon | ||||
The Tales of Ise by Anonymous | ||||
Hojoki (1212) by Kamo no Chomei | ||||
Essays in Idleness (1330) by Yoshida Kenko | ||||
The Tale of Heike (1371) by Anonymous | ||||
Edo Period (1603-1868) | The Life of an Amorous Woman (1686) by Saikaku Ihara | |||
Hagakure: the Book of the Samurai (1716) by Yamamoto Tsunetomo | ||||
Four Major Plays (~1720) by Chikamatsu Monzaemon | ||||
Chushingura (1748) by Takedo Izumo, Miyoshi Shoraku, Namiki Senryuu | ||||
Tales of Moonlight and Rain (1776) by Ueda Akinari | ||||
Modern Literature (1868-1945) | Ukigumo (1887) by Futabatei Shimei | |||
Pagoda, Skull and Samurai (1889) by Koda Rohan | ||||
In the Shade of Spring Leaves (1892-6) by Higuchi Ichiyo | ||||
Japanese Gothic Tales (1900) by Izumi Kyoka | ||||
The Broken Commandment (1906) by Toson Shimazaki | ||||
The Quilt and Other Stories (1907) by Katai Tayama | ||||
The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa (1924) by Kenji Miyazawa | ||||
Botchan (1906) by Natsume Soseki | ||||
I Am a Cat (1905) by Natsume Soseki | ||||
The Wild Geese (1913) by Mori Ogai | ||||
The Paper Door and Other Stories (1927) by Shiga Naoya | ||||
During the Rain & Flowers in the Shade (1930) by Kafu Nagai | ||||
Musashi (1935) by Eiji Yoshikawa | ||||
The Makioka Sisters (1943) by Junichiro Tanizaki | ||||
Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1940) by Edogawa Ranpo | ||||
Post War (1946-present) | The Counterfeiter and Other Stories by Yasushi Inou | |||
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata | ||||
The Master of Go (1954) by Yasunari Kawabata | ||||
The Setting Sun (1947) by Osamu Dazai | ||||
Fires on the Plain (1951) by Shohei Ooka | ||||
The Waiting Years (1957) by Fumiko Enchi | ||||
Confessions of a Mask (1948) by Yukio Mishima | ||||
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1956) by Yukio Mishima | ||||
Spring Snow (1963) by Yukio Mishima | ||||
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (1958) by Kenzaburo Oe | ||||
A Personal Matter (1964) by Kenzaburo Oe | ||||
Black Rain (1966) by Masuji Ibuse | ||||
The Box Man (1973) by Kobo Abe | ||||
The Woman in the Dunes (1962) by Kobo Abe | ||||
Silence (1966) by Shusaku Endo | ||||
The Samurai (1980) by Shusaku Endo | ||||
The Twilight Years (1972) by Sawako Ariyoshi | ||||
Almost Transparent Blue (1976) by Ryu Murakami | ||||
Kitchen (1988) by Banana Yoshimoto | ||||
Norwegian Wood (1987) by Haruki Murakami | ||||
The Elephant Vanishes (1991) by Haruki Murakami | ||||
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (1995) by Haruki Murakami | ||||
The Housekeeper and the Professor (2003) by Yoko Ogawa | ||||
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Korea | ||||
Essential works | ||||
The Cloud Dream of the Nine (17th century) Kim Manjung |
Three Generations (1931) by Yom Sang-seop |
Ten Thousand Lives by Ko Un |
Land (1994) by Park Kyong-Ni |
Our Twisted Hero (1987) by Yi Munyol |
Further recommendations | ||||
The Bamboo Grove: An Introduction to Sijo edited by Richard Rutt | ||||
Samguk Yusa (13th century) by Iryeon | ||||
Virtuous Women: Three Classic Korean Novels | ||||
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong (18th century) by Lady Hyegyeong | ||||
On Wonso Pond (1930s) by Kang Kyeong-ae | ||||
The Wings (1930s) by Yi Sang | ||||
The Naked Tree (1970) by Park Wan-suh | ||||
The Other Side of Dark Remembrance (1979) by Lee Kyun-young | ||||
The Poet (1992) by Yi Munyol | ||||
Who Ate up All the Shinga (1995) by Park Wan-suh | ||||
I Have the Right to Destroy Myself (1996) by Kim Young-ha | ||||
Contradictions (1998) by Yang Gui-ja | ||||
The Guest (2002) by Hwang Sok-yong |
Mexico | ||||
Essential works | ||||
Cantares Mexicanos (16th century) |
Poems, Protest, and a Dream by Sor Juana |
Confabulario and Other Inventions (1952) by Juan Jose Arreola |
Pedro Páramo (1955) by Juan Rulfo |
The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962) by Carlos Fuentes |
Further recommendations | ||||
Translated | Florentine Codex ( ) | |||
The Broken Spears ( ) Miguel Leon-Portilla | ||||
The History of the Indies of New Spain ( ) by Fray Diego Duran | ||||
The Memoirs ( ) of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier | ||||
The Bandits from Rio Frio ( ) by Manuel Payno | ||||
El Zarco ( ) by Ignacio Manuel Altamirano | ||||
Santa ( ) by Federico Gamboa | ||||
Anthology ( ) by Alfonso Reyes | ||||
Song of the Heart: Poems ( ) by Ramon Lopez Velarde | ||||
Nostalgia for Death: Poetry ( ) by Xavier Villaurrutia | ||||
The Underdogs ( ) by Mariano Azuela | ||||
The Burning Plain and Other Stories ( ) by Juan Rulfo | ||||
The Labyrinth of Solitude ( ) by Octavio Paz | ||||
Battles in the Desert & Other Stories ( ) by Jose Emilio Pacheco | ||||
Untranslated | Comedias Escogidas ( ) by D. Juan Ruiz de Alarcon | |||
Los Relampagos de Agosto ( ) by Jorge Ibarguengoitia | ||||
Muerte sin fin ( ) by Jose Gorostiza | ||||
Los Dias Terrenales ( ) by Jose Revueltas | ||||
Farabeuf ( ) by Salvador Elizondo | ||||
Los Cuervos Estan de Luto ( ) by Hugo Arguelles | ||||
Cronica de la Intervencion ( ) by Juan Garcia Ponce | ||||
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Netherlands | ||||
Essential works | ||||
Max Havelaar (1860) by Multatuli |
Amsterdam Stories (1910s) by Nescio |
Beyond Sleep (1966) by Willem Hermans |
Parents Worry (1988) by Gerard Reve |
The Discovery of Heaven (1992) by Harry Mulisch |
Further recommendations | ||||
Translated | Lucifer ( ) by Joost van den Vondel | |||
A Posthumous Confession ( ) by Marcellus Emants | ||||
In Praise of Folly ( ) by Erasmus | ||||
In a Dark Wood Wandering ( ) by Hella S. Haasse | ||||
The Waning of the Middle Ages ( ) by J. Huizinga | ||||
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh | ||||
The Ten Thousand Things ( ) by Maria Dermout | ||||
Eline Vere ( ) by Louis Couperus | ||||
Chapel Road ( ) by Louis Paul Boon | ||||
I Dreamed in the Cities at Night ( ) by Remco Campert | ||||
Omega Minor ( ) by Paul Verhaeghen | ||||
Cheese ( ) by Willem Elsschot | ||||
Turkish Delight ( ) by Jan Wolkers | ||||
The Darkroom of Damocles ( ) by Willem Frederik Hermans | ||||
Wonder ( ) by Hugo Claus | ||||
The Following Story ( ) by Cees Nooteboom | ||||
Character ( ) by F. Bordewijk | ||||
The Twin ( ) by Gerbrand Bakker | ||||
Tomorrow Pamplona ( ) by Jan van Mersbergen | ||||
Untranslated | Camera Obscura ( ) by Hildebrand | |||
De Stille Kracht ( ) by Louis Couperus | ||||
Van De Koele Meren des Doods ( ) by Frederik van Eeden | ||||
De Avonden ( ) by Gerard Reve | ||||
Terug naar Oegstgeest ( ) by Jan Wolkers | ||||
Recommendation images | ||||
Norway | ||||
Essential works | ||||
A Doll's House (1879) by Henrik Ibsen |
The Wild Duck (1884) by Henrik Ibsen |
Hunger (1890) by Knut Hamsun |
Growth of the Soil (1917) by Knut Hamsun |
Kristin Lavransdatter (1920–1922) by Sigrid Undset |
Further recommendations | ||||
Classic | Brand (1866) by Henrik Ibsen | |||
Hedda Gabler (1891) by Henrik Ibsen | ||||
Pan (1894) by Knut Hamsun | ||||
Contemporary | Beatles (1984) by Lars Saabye Christensen | |||
Naïve. Super (1996) by Erlend Loe | ||||
Out Stealing Horses (2003) by Per Petterson |
Russia | ||||
Essential works | ||||
A Hero of Our time (1841) by Mikhail Lermontov |
War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy |
The Brothers Karamazov (1880) by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
The Plays of Anton Chekhov (1886–1904) by Anton Chekhov |
The Master and Margarita (1967) by Mikhail Bulgakov |
Further recommendations | ||||
19th Century | Dead Souls (1842) by Nikolai Gogol | |||
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories (1842) by Nikolai Gogol | ||||
Oblomov (1859) by Ivan Goncharov | ||||
Sketches From a Hunter's Album (1852) by Ivan Turgenev | ||||
Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev | ||||
The Golovlyov Family (1876) by Mikhail Saltykov | ||||
Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy | ||||
Anna Karenina (1877) by Leo Tolstoy | ||||
Notes From Underground (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky | ||||
The Idiot (1869) by Fyodor Dostoevsky | ||||
Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoevsky | ||||
Demons (1872) by Fyodor Dostoevsky | ||||
Woe from Wit (1823) by Aleksandr Griboyedov | ||||
The Collected Stories by Anton Chekhov | ||||
The Collected Stories by Alexander Pushkin | ||||
Lady McBeth of Mtsensk and Other Stories (1865) by Nikolai Leskov | ||||
20th Century | Life and Fate (1959) by Vasily Grossman | |||
Heart of a Dog (1925) by Mikhail Bulgakov | ||||
Doctor Zhivago (1957) by Boris Pasternak | ||||
Quiet Flows the Don (1934) by Mikhail Sholokhov | ||||
The Collected Stories by Ivan Bunin | ||||
We (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin | ||||
Petersburg (1913) by Andrei Bely | ||||
The Foundation Pit (1930) by Andrey Platonov | ||||
Envy (1927) by Yuri Olesha | ||||
A School for Fools (1960s) by Sasha Sokolov | ||||
Invitation to a Beheading (1936) by Vladimir Nabokob | ||||
The Complete Works by Isaac Babel | ||||
Kolyma Tales (1954-73) by Varlam Shalamov | ||||
Today I Wrote Nothing by Daniil Kharms | ||||
Roadside Picnic (1971) by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky | ||||
Recommendation images | ||||
South Africa | ||||
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 | |||
Zoo City (2010) by Lauren Beukes |
United States | ||||
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Further recommendations | ||||
Short Story Collections | Twice Told Tales ( ) by Nathaniel Hawthorne | |||
Collected Works ( ) by Edgar Allen Poe | ||||
Collected Short Stories ( ) by Mark Twain | ||||
Billy Budd and the Piazza Tales ( ) by Herman Melville | ||||
Maggie and Other Stories ( ) by Stephen Crane | ||||
Flappers and Philosophers ( ) by F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||||
Collected Short Works ( ) by Ernest Hemingway | ||||
Death in the Woods and Other Stories ( ) by Sherwood Anderson | ||||
Where I'm Calling From ( ) by Raymond Carver | ||||
The Stories ( ) of John Cheever | ||||
The Tales ( ) of H.P. Lovecraft | ||||
Poetry Collections | Leaves of Grass ( ) by Walt Whitman | |||
The Poetry ( ) of Emily Dickinson | ||||
The Waste Land and Other Poems ( ) by T.S. Eliot | ||||
Harmonium ( ) by Wallace Stevens | ||||
Selected Poems ( ) by Robinson Jeffers | ||||
Collected Poems ( ) by Robert Frost | ||||
The Bridge (1930) by Hart Crane | ||||
Collected Poems Vol.1 & 2 ( ) by William Carlos Williams | ||||
Howl and Other Poems (1955) by Allen Ginsberg | ||||
Collected Poems ( ) by John Ashbery | ||||
Plays | Complete Plays ( ) by Eugene O'Neill | |||
Death of a Salesman ( ) by Arthur Miller | ||||
Our Town ( ) by Thornton Wilder | ||||
Plays 1937-1955 ( ) by Tennessee Williams | ||||
The Collected Plays ( ) of Edward Albee | ||||
Buried Child ( ) by Sam Shepard | ||||
Fences ( ) by August Wilson | ||||
Angels in America ( ) by Tony Kushner | ||||
Others | The Last of the Mohicans ( ) by Fenimore Cooper | |||
The Scarlet Letter ( ) by Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||||
Moby-Dick ( ) by Herman Melville | ||||
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( ) by Mark Twain | ||||
The Turn of the Screw ( ) by Henry James | ||||
The American ( ) by Henry James | ||||
The Red Badge of Courage ( ) by Stephen Crane | ||||
The Awakening ( ) by Kate Chopin | ||||
The Call of the Wild ( ) by Jack London | ||||
Three Lives ( ) by Gertrude Stein | ||||
The Age of Innocence ( ) by Edith Wharton | ||||
An American Tragedy ( ) by Theodore Dreiser | ||||
My Antonia ( ) by Willa Cather | ||||
The Great Gatsby ( ) by F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||||
Main Street ( ) by Sinclair Lewis | ||||
Babbit ( ) by Sinclair Lewis | ||||
The New York Trilogy ( ) by Paul Auster | ||||
The Sun Also Rises ( ) by Ernest Hemingway | ||||
For Whom the Bell Tolls ( ) by Ernest Hemingway | ||||
The Sound and the Fury ( ) by William Faulkner | ||||
Absalom, Absalom! ( ) by William Faulkner | ||||
Tropic of Cancer ( ) by Henry Miller | ||||
Appointment in Samrra ( ) by John O'Hara | ||||
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter ( ) by Carson McCullers | ||||
East of Eden ( ) by John Steinbeck | ||||
The Grapes of Wrath ( ) by John Steinbeck | ||||
The Day of the Locust ( ) by Nathanael 'West | ||||
The Big Sleep ( ) by Raymond Chandler | ||||
All the King's Men ( ) by Robert Penn Warren | ||||
Fahrenheit 451 ( ) by Ray Bradbury | ||||
The Catcher in the Rye ( ) by J.D. Salinger | ||||
The Recognitions ( ) by William Gaddis | ||||
Lolita ( ) by Vladimir Nabokov | ||||
On the Road ( ) by Jack Kerouac | ||||
Naked Lunch ( ) by William S. Burroughs | ||||
Rabbit, Run ( ) by John Updike | ||||
To Kill a Mockingbird ( ) by Harper Lee | ||||
Catch-22 ( ) by Joseph Heller | ||||
The Sot-Weed Factor ( ) by John Barth | ||||
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ( ) by Ken Kesey | ||||
The Bell Jar ( ) by Sylvia Plath | ||||
Herzog ( ) by Saul Bellow | ||||
Slaughterhouse-Five ( ) by Kurt Vonnegut | ||||
The Crying of Lot 49 ( ) by Thomas Pynchon | ||||
Gravity's Rainbow ( ) by Thomas Pynchon | ||||
V. ( ) by Thomas Pynchon | ||||
Pattern Recognition ( ) by William Gibson | ||||
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ( ) by Hunter S. Thompson | ||||
Portnoy's Complaint ( ) by Phillip Roth | ||||
American Pastoral ( ) by Phillip Roth | ||||
The Road ( ) by Cormac McCarthy | ||||
A Confederacy of Dunces ( ) by John Kennedy Toole | ||||
Libra ( ) by Don Delillo | ||||
Underworld ( ) by Don Delillo | ||||
Infinite Jest ( ) by David Foster Wallace | ||||
Slave Narratives | The Interesting Narrative ( ) by Olaudah Equiano | |||
Twelve Years a Slave ( ) by Solomon Northrup | ||||
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ( ) by Harriet Jacobs | ||||
Narrative of the Life ( ) of Frederick Douglass | ||||
Narrative ( ) of Sojourner Truth | ||||
Reconstruction Era | The Souls of Black Folk ( ) by W.E.B. Du Bois | |||
The Collected Poetry ( ) by Paul Laurence Dunbar | ||||
Up From Slavery ( ) by Booker T. Washington | ||||
Harlem Renaissance | Not Without Laughter ( ) by Langston Hughes | |||
Cane ( ) by Jean Toomer | ||||
Black no More ( ) by George S. Schugler | ||||
Home to Harlem ( ) by Claude McKay | ||||
Their Eyes Were Watching God ( ) by Zora Neale Hurston | ||||
Quicksand and Passing ( ) by Mella Larsen | ||||
The Walls of Jericho ( ) by Mella Larsen | ||||
The Blacker and the Berry ( ) by Mella Larsen | ||||
Civil Rights Era | Native Son ( ) by Richard Wright | |||
Go Tell it on the Mountain ( ) by James Baldwin | ||||
Invisible Man ( ) by Ralph Ellison | ||||
The Autobiography ( ) of Malcolm X | ||||
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ( ) by Maya Angelou | ||||
Selected Poems ( ) by Gwendolyn Brooks | ||||
If he Hollers Let Him Go ( ) by Chester Himes | ||||
A Raisin in the Sun ( ) by Lorraine Hansberry | ||||
Contemporary | Beneath the Underdog ( ) by Charles Mingus | |||
The Color Purple ( ) by Alice Walker | ||||
Beloved ( ) by Toni Morrison | ||||
Song of Solomon ( ) by Toni Morrison | ||||
Killing Johnny Fry ( ) by Walter Mosley | ||||
Roots ( ) by Alex Haley | ||||
Somebody Blew up America ( ) by Amiri Baraka | ||||
Waiting to Exhale ( ) by Terry McMillan | ||||
Linden Hills ( ) by Gloria Naylor | ||||
Mumbo Jumbo ( ) by Ismael Reed | ||||
Kindre D ( ) by Ismael Reed | ||||
The Known World ( ) by Edward P. Jones | ||||
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