Recommended Reading/Literature by origin
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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 ( ) by Damien Broderick | |||
| Illywhacker ( ) by Peter Carey | ||||
| Oscar and Lucinda ( ) by Peter Carey | ||||
| For the Term of his Natural Life ( ) by Marcus Clarke | ||||
| The Middle Parts of Fortune (1929) by Frederic Manning | ||||
| Eucalyptus (1998) by Murray Bail | ||||
| The Power of One ( ) by Bryce Courtenay | ||||
| A Cry in the Jungle Bar ( ) by Robert Drewer | ||||
| Gould's Book of Fish ( ) by Richard Flanagan | ||||
| Diaspora ( ) by Greg Egan | ||||
| My Brilliant Career ( ) by Miles Franklin | ||||
| The Children's Bach ( ) by Helen Garner | ||||
| The Female Eunuch ( ) by Germaine Greer | ||||
| The Secret River ( ) by Kate Grenville | ||||
| But the Dead are Many ( ) by Frank Hardy | ||||
| Selected Poetry and Prose ( ) of A.D. Hope | ||||
| The Lucky Country ( ) by Donald Horne | ||||
| The Mystery of a Hansom Cab ( ) by Fergus Hume | ||||
| My Brother Jack ( ) by George Johnston | ||||
| Schindler's Ark ( ) by Thomas Keneally | ||||
| The First Casualty ( ) by Phillip Knightley | ||||
| Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( ) by Ray Lawler | ||||
| Picnic at Hanging Rock ( ) by Joan Lindsay | ||||
| Remembering Babylon ( ) by David Malouf | ||||
| Forty-Seventeen ( ) by Frank Moorhouse | ||||
| New Collected Poems ( ) by Les Murray | ||||
| Fredy Neptune ( ) by Les Murray | ||||
| Three Dollars ( ) by Elliot Perlman | ||||
| The Fortunes of Richard Mahony ( ) by Henry Handel Richardson | ||||
| Shantaram ( ) by Gregory David Roberts | ||||
| On the Beach ( ) by Nevil Shute | ||||
| Animal Liberation ( ) by Peter Singer | ||||
| The Little Hotel ( ) by Christina Stead | ||||
| A Fraction of the Whole ( ) by Steve Toltz | ||||
| The Tree of Man ( ) by Patrick White | ||||
| The Vivisector ( ) by Patrick White | ||||
| Dirt Music ( ) by Tim Winton | ||||
| Wake in Fright ( ) by Kenneth Cook | ||||
| Capricornia ( ) by Xavier Herbert | ||||
| Power Without Glory ( ) by Frank Hardy | ||||
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 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 |
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| 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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 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 ( ) by Geoffrey Chaucer |
 The Complete Works ( ) of William Shakespeare |
 Paradise Lost ( ) by John Milton |
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| Classic | Beowulf ( ) | |||
| Sir Gaiwan and the Green Knight ( ) | ||||
| Le Morte D'Arthur ( ) by Sir Thomas Malory | ||||
| Utopia ( ) by Thomas More | ||||
| The Complete Plays ( ) of Christopher Marlowe | ||||
| The Faerie Queene ( ) by Edmund Spenser | ||||
| Plays and Masques ( ) by Ben Jonson | ||||
| the Duchess of Malfi ( ) by John Webster | ||||
| Don Juan ( ) by Lord Byron | ||||
| The Pilgrim's Progress ( ) by John Bunyan | ||||
| Robinson Crusoe ( ) by Daniel Defoe | ||||
| Gulliver's Travels ( ) by Jonathan Swift | ||||
| Tom Jones ( ) by Henry Fielding | ||||
| The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman ( ) by Laurence Sterne | ||||
| The Vicar of Wakefield ( ) by Oliver Goldsmith | ||||
| The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ( ) by William Blake | ||||
| 19th Century | Pride and Prejudice ( ) by Jane Austen | |||
| Frankenstein ( ) by Mary Shelley | ||||
| Ivanhoe ( ) by Sir Walter Scott | ||||
| The Collected Poems ( ) of William Wordsworth | ||||
| Jane Eyre ( ) by Charlotte Bronte | ||||
| Wuthering Heights ( ) Emily Bronte | ||||
| Vanity Fair ( ) by William Makepeace Thackeray | ||||
| Bleak House ( ) by Charles Dickens | ||||
| A Tale of Two Cities ( ) by Charles Dickens | ||||
| Middlemarch ( ) by George Eliot | ||||
| The Way We Live Now ( ) by Anthony Trollope | ||||
| Far From the Maddening Crowd ( ) by Thomas Hardy | ||||
| Idylls of the King ( ) by Alfred Lord Tennyson | ||||
| The Collected Works ( ) of Robert Louis Stevenson | ||||
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 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 Word (1988) by Christoph Ransmayr | ||||
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 The Eddas (13th century) by Snorri Sturluson |
 Njal's Saga (13th century) by |
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 Independent People (1935) by Halldór Laxness |
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| Classic | Egil's saga (12th century) | |||
| Laxdaela Saga (13th century) | ||||
| Eyrbyggja Saga (13th century) | ||||
| The Saga of Grettir the Strong (13th century) | ||||
| The Saga of the Volsungs (13th century) | ||||
| Modern | The Good Shepard (1940) by Gunnar Gunnarson | |||
| The Fish Can Sing (1957) by Halldor Laxness | ||||
| Justice Undone (1986) by Thor Vilhjalmsson | ||||
| The Swan (1991) by Gudbergur Bergsson | ||||
| Angels of the Universe (1993) by Einar Mar Gudmundsson | ||||
| The Journey Home (1999) by Olaf Olafsson | ||||
| The Blue Fox (2003) by Sjon | ||||
| Stone Tree (2005) by Gyir Eliasson | ||||
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 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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 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 |
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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 | ||||
| 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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 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
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 The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Alvaro Mutis |
 One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabo |
 The Black Sheep and Other Fables (1969) by Augusto Monterroso |
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| Colombia | Our Lady of the Assassins (1994) by Fernando Vallejo | |||
| Ecuador | Seven Serpents and Seven Moons (1970) by Demetrio Aguilera Malta | |||
| Don Goyo (1933) by Demetrio Aguilera Malta | ||||
| Guatemala | The President (1946) by Miguel Angel Asturias | |||
| Men of Maize (1949) by Miguel Angel Asturias | ||||
| Paraguay | ( ) by Augusto Roa Bastos | |||
| ( ) by Roque Vallejos | ||||
| ( ) by José Ricardo Mazó | ||||
| Puerto Rico | ( ) by Rosario Ferre | |||
| ( ) by Miguel Piñero | ||||
| ( ) by Luis Rafael Sánchez | ||||
| Salvador | ( ) by Horacio Castellanos Moya | |||
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 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 | ||||
| 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 |
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| Classic | In Praise of Folly (1511) by Erasmus | |||
| Lucifer (1654) by Joost van den Vondel | ||||
| Eline Vere (1889) by Louis Couperus | ||||
| The Letters (1890) of Vincent van Gogh | ||||
| A Posthumous Confession (1894) by Marcellus Emants | ||||
| Modern | The Waning of the Middle Ages (1919) by J. Huizinga | |||
| Cheese (1933) by Willem Elsschot | ||||
| Character (1938) by F. Bordewijk | ||||
| In a Dark Wood Wandering (1949) by Hella S. Haasse | ||||
| Chapel Road (1953) by Louis Paul Boon | ||||
| The Ten Thousand Things (1955) by Maria Dermout | ||||
| The Darkroom of Damocles (1958) by Willem Frederik Hermans | ||||
| Wonder (1962) by Hugo Claus | ||||
| I Dreamed in the Cities at Night by Remco Campert | ||||
| Turkish Delight (1969) by Jan Wolkers | ||||
| Out of Mind (1984) by J. Bernlef | ||||
| The Following Story (1991) by Cees Nooteboom | ||||
| Omega Minor (2004) by Paul Verhaeghen | ||||
| Tomorrow Pamplona (2007) by Jan van Mersbergen | ||||
| The Twin (2008) by Gerbrand Bakker | ||||
| Untranslated | Camera Obscura (1851) by Hildebrand | |||
| De Stille Kracht (1900) by Louis Couperus | ||||
| Van De Koele Meren des Doods (1900) by Frederik van Eeden | ||||
| De Avonden (1947) by Gerard Reve | ||||
| Het land achter Gods rug (1956) by A. den Doolaard | ||||
| Terug naar Oegstgeest (1965) by Jan Wolkers | ||||
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 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 | ||||
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 A Hero of Our time (1841) by Mikhail Lermontov |
 War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy |
 The Brothers Karamazov (1880) by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
 The Plays of Anton Chekhov (1886–1904) by Anton Chekhov |
 The Master and Margarita (1967) by Mikhail Bulgakov |
| Further recommendations | ||||
| 19th Century | Woe from Wit (1823) by Aleksandr Griboyedov | |||
| Dead Souls (1842) by Nikolai Gogol | ||||
| Diary of a Madman and Other Stories (1842) by Nikolai Gogol | ||||
| Sketches From a Hunter's Album (1852) by Ivan Turgenev | ||||
| Oblomov (1859) by Ivan Goncharov | ||||
| Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev | ||||
| Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoevsky | ||||
| Notes From Underground (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky | ||||
| Lady McBeth of Mtsensk and Other Stories (1865) by Nikolai Leskov | ||||
| The Idiot (1869) by Fyodor Dostoevsky | ||||
| Demons (1872) by Fyodor Dostoevsky | ||||
| The Golovlyov Family (1876) by Mikhail Saltykov | ||||
| Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy | ||||
| Anna Karenina (1877) by Leo Tolstoy | ||||
| The Collected Stories by Anton Chekhov | ||||
| The Collected Stories by Alexander Pushkin | ||||
| 20th Century | Petersburg (1913) by Andrei Bely | |||
| We (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin | ||||
| Heart of a Dog (1925) by Mikhail Bulgakov | ||||
| Envy (1927) by Yuri Olesha | ||||
| The Foundation Pit (1930) by Andrey Platonov | ||||
| Quiet Flows the Don (1934) by Mikhail Sholokhov | ||||
| Invitation to a Beheading (1936) by Vladimir Nabokob | ||||
| The Complete Works by Isaac Babel | ||||
| Today I Wrote Nothing by Daniil Kharms | ||||
| The Collected Stories by Ivan Bunin | ||||
| Doctor Zhivago (1957) by Boris Pasternak | ||||
| Life and Fate (1959) by Vasily Grossman | ||||
| A School for Fools (1960s) by Sasha Sokolov | ||||
| Roadside Picnic (1971) by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky | ||||
| Kolyma Tales (1954-73) by Varlam Shalamov | ||||
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 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 | ||||
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| 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 | |||
| Leaves of Grass (1892) by Walt Whitman | ||||
| 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 | |||
| 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 (1789) by Olaudah Equiano | |||
| Narrative of the Life (1845) of Frederick Douglass | ||||
| Narrative (1850) of Sojourner Truth | ||||
| Twelve Years a Slave (1853) by Solomon Northrup | ||||
| Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Harriet Jacobs | ||||
| Reconstruction Era | Up From Slavery (1901) by Booker T. Washington | |||
| wikipedia:The Souls of Black FolkThe Souls of Black Folk (1903) by W.E.B. Du Bois | ||||
| The Collected Poetry (1906) by Paul Laurence Dunbar | ||||
| Harlem Renaissance | Cane (1923) by Jean Toomer | |||
| The Walls of Jericho (1928) by Rudolph Fisher | ||||
| Home to Harlem (1928) by Claude McKay | ||||
| Quicksand and Passing (1929) by Nella Larsen | ||||
| The Blacker the Berry (1929) by Wallace Thurman | ||||
| Not Without Laughter (1930) by Langston Hughes | ||||
| Black no More (1931) by George S. Schugler | ||||
| Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston | ||||
| Civil Rights Era | Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright | |||
| If he Hollers Let Him Go (1945) by Chester Himes | ||||
| Invisible Man (1952) by Ralph Ellison | ||||
| Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953) by James Baldwin | ||||
| A Raisin in the Sun (1959) by Lorraine Hansberry | ||||
| The Autobiography (1965) of Malcolm X | ||||
| Selected Poems (1966) by Gwendolyn Brooks | ||||
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) by Maya Angelou | ||||
| Contemporary | Beneath the Underdog (1971) by Charles Mingus | |||
| Mumbo Jumbo (1972) by Ismael Reed | ||||
| Roots (1976) by Alex Haley | ||||
| Song of Solomon (1977) by Toni Morrison | ||||
| Kindred (1979) by Ismael Reed | ||||
| The Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker | ||||
| Linden Hills (1985) by Gloria Naylor | ||||
| Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison | ||||
| Waiting to Exhale (1992) by Terry McMillan | ||||
| Somebody Blew up America (2001) by Amiri Baraka | ||||
| The Known World (2003) by Edward P. Jones | ||||
| Killing Johnny Fry (2006) by Walter Mosley | ||||
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