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 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 |
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| 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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 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 |
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| 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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 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 |
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| 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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 The Sorrow of Belgium (1983) by Hugo Claus |
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| 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 (2005) by Joseph Boyden | ||||
| Life of Pi (2001) 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 |
| 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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 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 |
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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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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
 Njal's Saga (13th century) |
 Laxdaela Saga (13th century) |
 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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| 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 |
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| 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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| 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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 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 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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| 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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 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
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A Doll's House
(1879)
by Henrik Ibsen
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The Wild Duck
(1884)
by Henrik Ibsen
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Hunger
(1890)
by Knut Hamsun
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Growth of the Soil
(1917)
by Knut Hamsun
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Kristin Lavransdatter
(1920–1922)
by Sigrid Undset
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |Further recommendations
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| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic
| colspan="4" |Brand (1866) by Henrik Ibsen
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| colspan="4" |Hedda Gabler (1891) by Henrik Ibsen
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| colspan="4" |Pan (1894) by Knut Hamsun
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| rowspan="2" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern
| colspan="4" |One Day in October (1931) by Sigurd Hoel
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| colspan="4" |The Seed (1940) by Tarjei Vesaas
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| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Contemporary
| colspan="4" |Beatles (1984) by Lars Saabye Christensen
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| colspan="4" |Naïve. Super (1996) by Erlend Loe
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| colspan="4" |Out Stealing Horses (2003) by Per Petterson
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Poland
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Pan Tadeusz
(1834)
by Adam Mickiewicz
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The Doll
(1889)
by Boleslaw Prus
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The Street of Crocodiles
(1934)
by Bruno Schulz
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Ferdydurke
(1937)
by Witold Gombrowicz
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New and Collected Poems
(2001)
by Czeslaw Milosz
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |Further recommendations
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| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Classic
| colspan="4" |Laments (1580) by Jan Kochanowski
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| colspan="4" |Fables and Parables (1779) by Ignacy Krasicki
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| colspan="4" |Quo Vadis (1895 ) by Henryk Sienkiewicz
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| rowspan="18" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Modern
| colspan="4" |( ) by Tadeusz Konwicki
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| colspan="4" |( ) by Andrzej Stasiuk
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| colspan="4" |( ) by Wislawa Szymborska
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| colspan="4" |( ) by Olga Tokarczuk
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| colspan="4" |( ) by Stanislaw Lem
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| colspan="4" |( ) by Adam Zagajewski
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| colspan="4" |( ) by Zbigniew Herbert
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| colspan="4" |( ) by Stefan Grabinski
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| colspan="4" |( ) by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
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| colspan="4" |( ) by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz
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| colspan="4" |( ) by Slawomir Mrozek
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| colspan="4" |( ) by Ewa Lipska
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| colspan="4" |( ) by Jerzy Ficowski
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| colspan="4" |( ) by Stefan Zeromski
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| colspan="4" |( ) by Anna Swir
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| colspan="4" |( ) by Juliusz Slowacki
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| colspan="4" |( ) by Gustaw Herling
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| colspan="4" |( ) by Adam Mickiewicz
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Portugal
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The Lusiadas
(1572)
Luís Vaz de Camões
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The Tragedy of the Street of Flowers
(1878)
by Eça de Queiroz
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The Book of Disquiet
(1935)
by Fernando Pessoa
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The Great Shadow and Other Stories
(1915)
by Mário de Sá-Carneiro
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| colspan="5" |by António Lobo Antunes
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| colspan="5" |by José Saramago
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Spain
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The Poem of the Cid
(1207)
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Don Quixote
(1615)
by Miguel de Cervantes
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Abel Sanchez
(1917)
by Miguel de Unamuno
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Collected Poems
by Federico Garcia Lorca
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The Family of Pascual Duarte
(1942)
by Camilo Jose Cela
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| colspan="5" |Lazarillo de Tormes (1556)
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| colspan="5" |by Eduardo Mendoza Garriga
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| colspan="5" |by Lope de Vega
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| colspan="5" |by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
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| colspan="5" |by Juan Marse
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| colspan="5" |by Javier Marias
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| colspan="5" |by Juan Goyitsolo
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| colspan="5" |by Enrique Vila-Matas
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| colspan="5" |The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |Catalan recommendations
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| colspan="5" |by Santiago Rusiñol
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| colspan="5" |by Salvador Espriu
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| colspan="5" |by Miquel Bauca
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| colspan="5" |by Maria Barbal
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| colspan="5" |by Josep Carner
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Russia
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |Essential works
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A Hero of Our time
(1841)
by Mikhail Lermontov
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War and Peace
(1869)
by Leo Tolstoy
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The Brothers Karamazov
(1880)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The Plays of Anton Chekhov
(1886–1904)
by Anton Chekhov
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The Master and Margarita
(1967)
by Mikhail Bulgakov
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| rowspan="16" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |19th Century
| colspan="4" |Woe from Wit (1823) by Aleksandr Griboyedov
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| colspan="4" |Dead Souls (1842) by Nikolai Gogol
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| colspan="4" |Diary of a Madman and Other Stories (1842) by Nikolai Gogol
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| colspan="4" |Sketches From a Hunter's Album (1852) by Ivan Turgenev
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| colspan="4" |Oblomov (1859) by Ivan Goncharov
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| colspan="4" |Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev
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| colspan="4" |Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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| colspan="4" |Notes From Underground (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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| colspan="4" |Lady McBeth of Mtsensk and Other Stories (1865) by Nikolai Leskov
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| colspan="4" |The Idiot (1869) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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| colspan="4" |Demons (1872) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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| colspan="4" |The Golovlyov Family (1876) by Mikhail Saltykov
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| colspan="4" |Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy
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| colspan="4" |Anna Karenina (1877) by Leo Tolstoy
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| colspan="4" |The Collected Stories by Anton Chekhov
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| colspan="4" |The Collected Stories by Alexander Pushkin
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| rowspan="15" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |20th Century
| colspan="4" |Petersburg (1913) by Andrei Bely
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| colspan="4" |We (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin
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| colspan="4" |Heart of a Dog (1925) by Mikhail Bulgakov
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| colspan="4" |Envy (1927) by Yuri Olesha
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| colspan="4" |The Foundation Pit (1930) by Andrey Platonov
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| colspan="4" |Quiet Flows the Don (1934) by Mikhail Sholokhov
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| colspan="4" |Invitation to a Beheading (1936) by Vladimir Nabokov
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| colspan="4" |The Complete Works by Isaac Babel
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| colspan="4" |Today I Wrote Nothing by Daniil Kharms
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| colspan="4" |The Collected Stories by Ivan Bunin
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| colspan="4" |Doctor Zhivago (1957) by Boris Pasternak
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| colspan="4" |Life and Fate (1959) by Vasily Grossman
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| colspan="4" |A School for Fools (1960s) by Sasha Sokolov
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| colspan="4" |Roadside Picnic (1971) by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
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| colspan="4" |Kolyma Tales (1954-73) by Varlam Shalamov
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South Africa
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I Write What I Like
(1978)
by Steve Biko
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Waiting for the Barbarians
(1980)
by J.M. Coetzee
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July's People
(1981)
by Nadine Gordimer
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Ways of Dying
(1995)
by Zakes Mda
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Disgrace
(1999)
by J.M. Coetzee
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| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Contemporary
| colspan="4" |The Way of the Women (2004) by Marlene van Niekerk
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| colspan="5" |Portrait with Keys (2006) by Ivan Vladislavic
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| colspan="5" |Zoo City (2010) by Lauren Beukes
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United States
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| colspan="5" |American Literature Download
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |Essential works
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Moby Dick
(1851)
by Herman Melville
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Leaves of Grass
(1892)
by Walt Whitman
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The Sound and the Fury
(1920)
by William Faulkner
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East of Eden
(1952)
by John Steinbeck
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Gravity's Rainbow
(1973)
by Thomas Pynchon
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| rowspan="11" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Short Story Collections
| colspan="4" |Twice Told Tales (1837) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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| colspan="4" |Collected Works (1849) by Edgar Allen Poe
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| colspan="4" |Billy Budd and the Piazza Tales (1888) by Herman Melville
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| colspan="4" |Collected Short Stories (1910) by Mark Twain
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| colspan="4" |Maggie and Other Stories (1900) by Stephen Crane
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| colspan="4" |Flappers and Philosophers (1920) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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| colspan="4" |The Tales (1937) of H.P. Lovecraft
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| colspan="4" |Death in the Woods and Other Stories (1941) by Sherwood Anderson
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| colspan="4" |Collected Short Works (1961) by Ernest Hemingway
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| colspan="4" |The Stories (1982) of John Cheever
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| colspan="4" |Where I'm Calling From (1988) by Raymond Carver
|- | rowspan="9" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Poetry Collections | colspan="4" |The Poetry (1886) of Emily Dickinson |- | colspan="4" |The Waste Land and Other Poems (1922) by T.S. Eliot |- | colspan="4" |Harmonium (1923) by Wallace Stevens |- | colspan="4" |The Bridge (1930) by Hart Crane |- | colspan="4" |Howl and Other Poems (1955) by Allen Ginsberg |- | colspan="4" |Selected Poems (1962) by Robinson Jeffers |- | colspan="4" |Collected Poems (1963) by Robert Frost |- | colspan="4" |Collected Poems Vol.1 & 2 (1963) by William Carlos Williams |- | colspan="4" |Collected Poems (1987) by John Ashbery |- | rowspan="8" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Plays | colspan="4" |Complete Plays by Eugene O'Neill |- | colspan="4" |Our Town (1938) by Thornton Wilder |- | colspan="4" |Death of a Salesman (1949) by Arthur Miller |- | colspan="4" |Plays 1937-1955 (1955) by Tennessee Williams |- | colspan="4" |The Collected Plays of Edward Albee |- | colspan="4" |Buried Child (1978) by Sam Shepard |- | colspan="4" |Fences (1985) by August Wilson |- | colspan="4" |Angels in America (1993) by Tony Kushner |- | rowspan="52" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Others | colspan="4" |The Last of the Mohicans (1826) by Fenimore Cooper |- | colspan="4" |The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne |- | colspan="4" |The American (1877) by Henry James |- | colspan="4" |The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain |- | colspan="4" |The Red Badge of Courage (1895) by Stephen Crane |- | colspan="4" |The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James |- | colspan="4" |The Awakening (1899) by Kate Chopin |- | colspan="4" |The Call of the Wild (1903) by Jack London |- | colspan="4" |Three Lives (1909) by Gertrude Stein |- | colspan="4" |My Antonia (1918) by Willa Cather |- | colspan="4" |The Age of Innocence (1920) by Edith Wharton |- | colspan="4" |Main Street (1920) by Sinclair Lewis |- | colspan="4" |Babbit (1922) by Sinclair Lewis |- | colspan="4" |The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald |- | colspan="4" |An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser |- | colspan="4" |The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway |- | colspan="4" |Tropic of Cancer (1934) by Henry Miller |- | colspan="4" |Appointment in Samrra (1934) by John O'Hara |- | colspan="4" |Absalom, Absalom! (1936) by William Faulkner |- | colspan="4" |The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck |- | colspan="4" |The Day of the Locust (1939) by Nathanael 'West |- | colspan="4" |The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler |- | colspan="4" |For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway |- | colspan="4" |The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers |- | colspan="4" |All the King's Men (1946) by Robert Penn Warren |- | colspan="4" |The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger |- | colspan="4" |On the Road (1951) by Jack Kerouac |- | colspan="4" |Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury |- | colspan="4" |The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis |- | colspan="4" |Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov |- | colspan="4" |Naked Lunch (1959) by William S. Burroughs |- | colspan="4" |Rabbit, Run (1960) by John Updike |- | colspan="4" |To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee |- | colspan="4" |The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) by John Barth |- | colspan="4" |Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller |- | colspan="4" |One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey |- | colspan="4" |The Bell Jar (1963) by Sylvia Plath |- | colspan="4" |V. (1963) by Thomas Pynchon |- | colspan="4" |Herzog (1965) by Saul Bellow |- | colspan="4" |In Cold Blood (1966) by Truman Capote |- | colspan="4" |The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon |- | colspan="4" |Portnoy's Complaint (1969) by Phillip Roth |- | colspan="4" |Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut |- | colspan="4" |Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson |- | colspan="4" |A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) by John Kennedy Toole |- | colspan="4" |The New York Trilogy (1986) by Paul Auster |- | colspan="4" |Libra (1988) by Don Delillo |- | colspan="4" |Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace |- | colspan="4" |Underworld (1997) by Don Delillo |- | colspan="4" |American Pastoral (1997) by Phillip Roth |- | colspan="4" |Pattern Recognition (2003) by William Gibson |- | colspan="4" |The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy
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| rowspan="5" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Slave Narratives
| colspan="4" |The Interesting Narrative (1789) by Olaudah Equiano
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| colspan="4" |Narrative of the Life (1845) of Frederick Douglass
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| colspan="4" |Narrative (1850) of Sojourner Truth
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| colspan="4" |Twelve Years a Slave (1853) by Solomon Northrup
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| colspan="4" |Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Harriet Jacobs
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| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Reconstruction Era
| colspan="4" |Up From Slavery (1901) by Booker T. Washington
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| colspan="4" |The Souls of Black Folk (1903) by W.E.B. Du Bois
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| colspan="4" |The Collected Poetry (1906) by Paul Laurence Dunbar
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| rowspan="8" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Harlem Renaissance
| colspan="4" |Cane (1923) by Jean Toomer
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| colspan="4" |The Walls of Jericho (1928) by Rudolph Fisher
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| colspan="4" |Home to Harlem (1928) by Claude McKay
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| colspan="4" |Quicksand and Passing (1929) by Nella Larsen
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| colspan="4" |The Blacker the Berry (1929) by Wallace Thurman
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| colspan="4" |Not Without Laughter (1930) by Langston Hughes
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| colspan="4" |Black no More (1931) by George S. Schugler
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| colspan="4" |Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston
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| rowspan="8" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Civil Rights Era
| colspan="4" |Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright
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| colspan="4" |If he Hollers Let Him Go (1945) by Chester Himes
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| colspan="4" |Invisible Man (1952) by Ralph Ellison
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| colspan="4" |Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953) by James Baldwin
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| colspan="4" |A Raisin in the Sun (1959) by Lorraine Hansberry
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| colspan="4" |The Autobiography (1965) of Malcolm X
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| colspan="4" |Selected Poems (1966) by Gwendolyn Brooks
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| colspan="4" |I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) by Maya Angelou
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| rowspan="12" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Contemporary
| colspan="4" |Beneath the Underdog (1971) by Charles Mingus
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| colspan="4" |Mumbo Jumbo (1972) by Ismael Reed
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| colspan="4" |Roots (1976) by Alex Haley
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| colspan="4" |Song of Solomon (1977) by Toni Morrison
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| colspan="4" |Kindred (1979) by Ismael Reed
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| colspan="4" |The Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker
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| colspan="4" |Linden Hills (1985) by Gloria Naylor
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| colspan="4" |Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison
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| colspan="4" |Waiting to Exhale (1992) by Terry McMillan
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| colspan="4" |Somebody Blew up America (2001) by Amiri Baraka
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| colspan="4" |The Known World (2003) by Edward P. Jones
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| colspan="4" |Killing Johnny Fry (2006) by Walter Mosley
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