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

Australia
Australian Literature Download
Essential works
The Man Who Loved Children (1940) by Christina Stead	Voss (1957) by Patrick White	The Fatal Shore (1987) by Robert Hughes	Cloudstreet (1991) by Tim Winton	Death of a River Guide (1994) by Richard Flanagan
Further recommendations
Classic	The Dreaming (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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Austria
Essential works
Indian Summer (1857) by Adalbert Stifter	The Man Without Qualities (1942) by Robert Musil	Chess Story (1942) by Stefan Zweig	The Death of Virgil (1945) by Hermann Broch	The Loser (1983) by Thomas Bernhard
Further recommendations
Rock Crystal (1845) by Adalbert Stifter
Round Dance and Other Plays (1897) by Arthur Schnitzler
The Confusions of Young Törless (1906) by Robert Musil
The Other Side (1909) by Alfred Kubin
Dream Story (1926) by Arthur Schnitzler
Beware of Pity (1939) by Stefan Zweig
The World of Yesterday (1942) by Stefan Zweig
An Ermine in Czernopol (1958) by Gregor von Rezzori
The Wall (1963) by Marlen Haushofer
The Head of Vitus Bering (1965) by Konrad Bayer
Selected Works (1966) by Konrad Bayer
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (1972) by Peter Handke
Memoirs of an Anti-Semite (1979) by Gregor von Rezzori
Woodcutters (1984) by Thomas Bernhard

Belgium
Essential works
The Sorrow of Belgium (1983) by Hugo Claus	[[File: |80px]] () by	[[File: |80px]] () by	[[File: |80px]] () by	[[File: |80px]] () by
Further recommendations
Three Novels: Soft Soap, The Leg, Will O' the Wisp by Willem Elsschot
Cheese (1933) by Willem Elsschot
Occupied City (1921) by Paul van Ostaijen
The signal (1918) by Paul van Ostaijen
The Sign of the Hamster (1964) by Hugo claus
Problemski Hotel (2003) by Dimitri Verhulst
The Misfortunates (2006) by Dimitri Verhulst
Strangers Should Not Whisper (1945) by Marnix Gijsen
Elias, or the struggle with the nightingalesl (1936) by Maurice Gilliams
The bottle at sea. The complete poems by Maurice Gilliams
Tempo di Roma by Alexis Curvers
Pedigree by Georges Simenon
The Strange Case of Peter the Lett (Maigret series) by Georges Simenon
Thousand Times Broken, Three Books by Henri Michaux

China
Essential works
Three Kingdoms (14th century) by Luo Guanzhong	Story of the Stone (18th century) by Cao Xueqin	Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio (1740) by Pu Songling	The Real Story of Ah Q (1922) by Lu Xun	Camel Xiangzi (1937) by Lao She
Further recommendations
Classic	The Dragon King's Daughter (Tang dynasty) by
	Six Yuan Plays (Yuan dynasty) by
	Outlaws of the Marsh (14th century) by Shi Nai'an
	The Story of the Western Wing (14th century) by Wang Shifu
	Journey to the West (16th century) by Wu Cheng'en
	Creation of the Gods (16th century) by Xu Zhonglin
	The Peony Pavilion (1598) by Tang Xianzu
	Stories Old and New (1620) by Feng Menglong
	The Plum in the Golden Vase (17th century) by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng
	The Carnal Prayer Mat (1657) by Li Yu
	The Scholars (1750) by Wu Jingzi
	Six Records of a Floating Life (1808) by Shen Fu
Modern	Wild Grass (1927) by Lu Xun
	Rainbow (1930) by Mao Dun
	Family (1933) Ba Jin
	Border Town (1934) by Shen Congwen
	Selected Stories by Shen Congwen
	My Country and My People (1935) by Lin Yutang
	The Importance of Living (1937) by Lin Yutang
	Love in a Fallen City (1945) by Eileen Chang
	Fortress Besieged (1947) by Qian Zhongshu
	Teahouse (1957) by Lao She
	The Three-Inch Golden Lotus (1985) by Feng Jicai
	Waves (1985) by Bei Dao
	Red Sorghum (1987) by Mo Yan
	The August Sleepwalker (1988) by Bei Dao
	The King of Trees (1990) by Ah Cheng
	Soul Mountain (1990) by Gao Xingjian
	To Live (1993) by Yu Hua
	Five Spice Street (2003) by Can Xue
	Brothers (2005) by Yu Hua
	Life and Death are Wearing Me Out (2006) by Mo Yan
	Vertical Motion (2011) by Can Xue
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Canada
Essential works
Anne of Green Gables (1908) by Lucy Maud Montgomery	Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912) by Stephen Leacock	The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood	Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) by Alice Munro	Flint and Feather (1913) by Pauline Johnson
Further recommendations
Anglophone	Fifth Business (1970) by Robertson Davies
	The Golden Dog (1872) by William Kirby
	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) by Mordecai Richler
	The Wars (1977) by Timothy Findley
	Beautiful Losers (1966) by Leonard Cohen
	Klee Wyck (1941) by Emily Carr
	Three Day Road (2001) by Joseph Boyden
	Life of Pi (1966) by Yann Martel

Czech Republic
Essential works
May (1836) by Karel Hynek Macha	The Good Soldier Svejk (1923) by Jaroslav Hasek	Three Novels (1933) by Karel Capek	I Served the King of England (1983) by Bohumil Hrabal	The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) by Milan Kundera
Further recommendations
Pre-WW2	The Sorrowful Eyes ( ) by Ivan Olbracht
	Hidden History ( ) by Otokar Brezina
	The Grandmother ( ) by Bozena Nemcova
	The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch ( ) by Ladislav Klima
	R.U.R. ( ) by Karel Capek
	War With the Newts ( ) by Karel Capek
	Antilyrik & Other Poems ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval
	Valerie and Her Week of Wonders ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval
	Prague Tales ( ) by Jan Neruda
	The Arsonist ( ) by Egon Hostovsky
	The Poetry ( ) of Jaroslav Seifert
	Vanishing Lung Syndrome ( ) by Miroslav Holub
	Narrative Poems ( ) by Vladimir Holan
	Dreams at the End of the Night ( ) by Ewald Murrer
	How I Came to Know Fish ( ) by Ota Pavel
	Fingers Pointing Somewhere Else ( ) by Daniela Fischerova
	White Book ( ) by Pavel Kohout
	Saturnin ( ) by Zdenek Jirotka
	Summer of Caprice ( ) by Vadislav Vancura
Post-WW2	Closely Watched Trains ( ) Bohumil Hrabal
	Too Loud a Solitude ( ) by Bohumil Hrabal
	Love and Garbage ( ) by Ivan Klima
	Immortality ( ) by Milan Kundera
	The Garden Party and Other Plays ( ) by Vaclav Havel
	The Questionnaire ( ) by Jiri Grusa
	The Guinea Pigs ( ) by Ludvik Vaculik
	The Cremator (1967) by Ladislav Fuks
	A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova ( ) by Arnost Lustig
	A Bohemian Youth ( ) by Josef Hirsal
	City Sister Silver ( ) by Jachym Topol
	The Engineer of Human Souls ( ) by Josef Skvorecky
	The Other City ( ) by Michal Ajvaz
	Europeana ( ) by Patrik Ourednik
	The Seven Churches ( ) by Milos Urban
	Of Kids & Parents ( ) by Emil Hakl
German-language	The Golem ( ) by Gustav Meyrink
	The Green Face ( ) by Gustav Meyrink
	The Trial ( ) by Franz Kafka
	The Metamorphosis ( ) by Franz Kafka
	A Hunger Artist ( ) by Franz Kafka
	Blaugast ( ) by Paul Leppin
	Severin’s Journey into the Dark ( ) by Paul Leppin
	The Raging Reporter ( ) by Egon Erwin Kisch
	Tycho Brahe’s Path to God ( ) by Max Brod
	The Maimed ( ) by Hermann Ungar
	Boys & Murderers ( ) by Hermann Ungar
	The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge ( ) by Rainer Maria Rilke
	The Selected Poetry ( ) of Rainer Maria Rilke
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United Kingdom and Ireland
Essential works
The Canterbury Tales (14th century) by Geoffrey Chaucer	The Complete Works of William Shakespeare	Paradise Lost (1667) by John Milton	The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth	The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
Further recommendations
Classic	Beowulf (10th century)
	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (14th century)
	Le Morte D'Arthur (1485) by Sir Thomas Malory
	Utopia (1516) by Thomas More
	The Complete Plays of Christopher Marlowe
	The Faerie Queene (1590) by Edmund Spenser
	Plays and Masques by Ben Jonson
	the Duchess of Malfi (1612) by John Webster
	The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) by John Bunyan
	Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe
	Gulliver's Travels (1735) by Jonathan Swift
	Tom Jones (1749) by Henry Fielding
	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759) by Laurence Sterne
	The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) by Oliver Goldsmith
	The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793) by William Blake
19th Century	Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen
	Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley
	Ivanhoe (1820) by Sir Walter Scott
	Don Juan (1821) by Lord Byron
	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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			} size: 95%;" France Essential works 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 Recommendation images } size: 95%;" Germany German Literature Download Essential works Faust (1832) by Goethe Thus Spake Zarathustra (1885) by Friedrich Nietzsche The Magic Mountain (1912) by Thomas Mann The Man Without Qualities (1942) by Robert Musil The Tin Drum (1959) by Gunter Grass Further recommendations Classic The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Robbers and Wallenstein (1781) by Friedrich Schiller the Marquise of O and Other Stories (1808) by Heinrich von Kleist The Broken Jug (1806) by Heinrich von Kleist Danon's Death (1835) George Buchner The Rider on the White Horse (1888) by Theodor Storm Effi Briest (1895) by Theodor Fontane Modern Buddenbrooks (1901) by Thomas Mann The Loyal Subject (1914) by Heinrich Mann The Metamorphosis (1915) by Franz Kafka The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka The Castle (1926) by Franz Kafka Siddhartha (1922) by Hermann Hesse Steppenwolf (1927) by Hermann Hesse Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) by Alfred Doblin The Visit (1956) by Friedrich Durrenmatt The Physicists (1961) by Friedrich Durrenmatt The Flounder (1977) by Gunter Grass Cassandra (1984) Christa Wolf Perfume (1985) by Patrick Suskind The Last World (1988) by Christoph Ransmayr Recommendation images } size: 95%;" Greece Essential works File:.jpg File:.jpg File:.jpg File:.jpg File:.jpg Further recommendations by by } size: 95%;" Hungary Essential works The Tragedy of Man (1861) by Imre Madach Be Faithful Unto Death (1920) by Zsigmond Moricz Anna Edes (1926) by Dezso Kosztolanyi Journey by Moonlight (1937) by Antal Szerb The Melancholy of Resistance (1989) by Laszlo Krasznahorkai Further recommendations Classic 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 |} size: 95%;" Iceland Essential works The Eddas (13th century) by Snorri Sturluson Njal's Saga (13th century) Laxdaela Saga (13th century) Independent People (1935) by Halldór Laxness File:.jpg ( ) by Further recommendations Classic Egil's saga (12th century) King Harald's Saga (1230) by Snorri Sturluson Eyrbyggja Saga (13th century) The Saga of Grettir the Strong (13th century) The Saga of the Jomsvikings (13th century) The Saga of the Volsungs (13th century) The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki (1400) Modern The Good Shepard (1940) by Gunnar Gunnarson The Fish Can Sing (1957) by Halldor Laxness Justice Undone (1986) by Thor Vilhjalmsson The Swan (1991) by Gudbergur Bergsson Angels of the Universe (1993) by Einar Mar Gudmundsson The Journey Home (1999) by Olaf Olafsson The Blue Fox (2003) by Sjon Stone Tree (2005) by Gyir Eliasson Recommendation images } size: 95%;" Middle East Iranian Literature Download Essential works The Conference of the Birds (12th century) by Farid ud-Din Attar The Rubaiyat (12th century) of Omar Khayyam The Essential Works (13th century) by Rumi The Divan-i (14th century) of Hafiz The Blind Owl (1937) by Sadegh Hedayat Further recommendations Classical Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (~1000) Vis and Ramin (11th century) by Asad Gorgani The Secret of Laughter: Magical Tales from Classical Persia edited by Shusha Guppy Haft Paykar (1197) by Nizami Ganjavi Borrowed Ware: Medieval Persian Epigrams edited by Dick Davis The Rose Garden (1259) by Sa'di Modern Three Drops of Blood (1932) by Sadegh Hedayat The Patient Stone (1967) by Sadeq Chubak The Little Black Fish and Other Modern Persian Stories (1968) by Samad Behrangi Missing Soluch (1979) by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi Women Without Men (1990) by Shahrnush Parsipur Untranslated Garshaspnama (11th century) by Asadi Tusi Chosrow and Shirin (1180) by Nizami Ganjavi Tutinama: Tales of a Parrot (14th century) 1001 Days (1712) by Francois Petis de la Croix Recommendation images } size: 95%;" Italy Italian Literature Download Essential works Divine Comedy (1321) by Dante Alighieri The Decameron (1353) by Giovanni Boccaccio Zeno's Conscience (1923) by Italo Svevo That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana (1957) by Carlo Emilio Gadda The Leopard (1958) by Tomasi di Lampedusa Further recommendations Classic The Consolation of Philosophy (524) by Boethius Golden Legend (1260) by Jacobus de Voragine The Travels (13th century) of Marco Polo Il Canzoniere (1374) by Petrarch The Prince (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli The Book of the Courtier (1528) by Baldassare Castiglione Orlando Furioso (1532) by Ludovico Ariosto The Autobiography (1563) of Benvenuto Cellini Lives of the Artists (1568) by Giorgio Vasari Jerusalem Delivered (1581) by Torquato Tasso Selected Poems and Letters by Michelangelo The Memoirs (1774) of Giacomo Casanova The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis (1817) by Ugo Foscolo The Betrothed (1827) by Alessandro Manzoni Canti (1837) by Giacomo Leopardi The Life (1849) of Giuseppe Garibaldi Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories (1880) by Giovanni Verga Modern The Year 3,000: A Dream (1897) by Paolo Mantegazza Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem (1900) by Emilio Salgari Francesca da Rimini (1901) by Gabriele d'Annunzio Elias Portolu (1903) by Grazia Deledda The Late Mattia Pascal (1904) by Luigi Pirandello Captain Blood (1922) by Rafael Sabatini Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) by Luigi Pirandello Cuttlefish Bones (1925) by Eugenio Montale Revolt Against the Modern World (1934) by Julius Evola the Tartar Steppe (1940) by Dino Buzzati Christ Stopped at Eboli (1945) by Carlo Levi The Moon and the Bonfires (1949) by Cesare Pavese Contempt (1954) by Alberto Moravia The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962) by Giorgio Bassani Family Sayings (1967) by Natalia Ginzburg Equal Danger (1971) by Leonardo Sciascia Invisible Cities (1972) by Italo Calvino The Periodic Table (1975) by Primo Levi Foucault's Pendulum (1988) by Umberto Eco Q (1999) by Luther Blissett Love-Shaped Story (2002) by Tommaso Pincio Recommendation images } size: 95%;" Japan Japanese Literature Download Essential works The Tale of Genji (11th century) by Murasaki Shikibu Kokoro (1914) by Natsume Soseki Rashomon (1915) by Akutagawa Naomi (1924) by Junichiro Tanizaki Snow Country (1947) by Yasunari Kawabata Further recommendations Classical Literature (until 1600's) The Gossamer Years (974) by Mother of Michitsuna The Pillow Book (1002) by Sei Shonagon The Tales of Ise by Anonymous Hojoki (1212) by Kamo no Chomei Essays in Idleness (1330) by Yoshida Kenko The Tale of Heike (1371) by Anonymous Edo Period (1603-1868) The Life of an Amorous Woman (1686) by Saikaku Ihara Hagakure: the Book of the Samurai (1716) by Yamamoto Tsunetomo Four Major Plays (~1720) by Chikamatsu Monzaemon Chushingura (1748) by Takedo Izumo, Miyoshi Shoraku, Namiki Senryuu Tales of Moonlight and Rain (1776) by Ueda Akinari Modern Literature (1868-1945) Ukigumo (1887) by Futabatei Shimei Pagoda, Skull and Samurai (1889) by Koda Rohan In the Shade of Spring Leaves (1892-6) by Higuchi Ichiyo Japanese Gothic Tales (1900) by Izumi Kyoka The Broken Commandment (1906) by Toson Shimazaki The Quilt and Other Stories (1907) by Katai Tayama The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa (1924) by Kenji Miyazawa Botchan (1906) by Natsume Soseki I Am a Cat (1905) by Natsume Soseki The Wild Geese (1913) by Mori Ogai The Paper Door and Other Stories (1927) by Shiga Naoya During the Rain & Flowers in the Shade (1930) by Kafu Nagai Musashi (1935) by Eiji Yoshikawa The Makioka Sisters (1943) by Junichiro Tanizaki Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1940) by Edogawa Ranpo Post War (1946-present) The Counterfeiter and Other Stories by Yasushi Inou Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata The Master of Go (1954) by Yasunari Kawabata The Setting Sun (1947) by Osamu Dazai Fires on the Plain (1951) by Shohei Ooka The Waiting Years (1957) by Fumiko Enchi Confessions of a Mask (1948) by Yukio Mishima The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1956) by Yukio Mishima Spring Snow (1963) by Yukio Mishima Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (1958) by Kenzaburo Oe A Personal Matter (1964) by Kenzaburo Oe Black Rain (1966) by Masuji Ibuse The Box Man (1973) by Kobo Abe The Woman in the Dunes (1962) by Kobo Abe Silence (1966) by Shusaku Endo The Samurai (1980) by Shusaku Endo The Twilight Years (1972) by Sawako Ariyoshi Almost Transparent Blue (1976) by Ryu Murakami Kitchen (1988) by Banana Yoshimoto Norwegian Wood (1987) by Haruki Murakami The Elephant Vanishes (1991) by Haruki Murakami The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (1995) by Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore (2002) by Haruki Murakami The Housekeeper and the Professor (2003) by Yoko Ogawa Recommendation images [[File:Japan_6.jp|} size: 95%;" 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 |} size: 95%;" 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 File:.jpg ( ) by File:.jpg ( ) by Further recommendations Brazil The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (1956) by João Guimarães Rosa The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (1881) by Machado de Assis Dom Casmurro (1899) by Machado de Assis Colombia Our Lady of the Assassins (1994) by Fernando Vallejo by Alvaro Mutis by Fernando Gonzales by Andres Caicedo by Gonzalo Arango by Hernando Tellez Ecuador Seven Serpents and Seven Moons (1970) by Demetrio Aguilera Malta Don Goyo (1933) by Demetrio Aguilera Malta Guatemala The President (1946) by Miguel Angel Asturias Men of Maize (1949) by Miguel Angel Asturias Paraguay ( ) by Augusto Roa Bastos ( ) by Roque Vallejos ( ) by José Ricardo Mazó Puerto Rico ( ) by Rosario Ferre ( ) by Miguel Piñero ( ) by Luis Rafael Sánchez Salvador ( ) by Horacio Castellanos Moya Recommendation images } size: 95%;" Mexico Mexican Literature Download Essential works Cantares Mexicanos (16th century) Poems, Protest, and a Dream by Sor Juana Confabulario and Other Inventions (1952) by Juan Jose Arreola Pedro Páramo (1955) by Juan Rulfo The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962) by Carlos Fuentes Further recommendations Translated Florentine Codex ( ) The Broken Spears ( ) Miguel Leon-Portilla The History of the Indies of New Spain ( ) by Fray Diego Duran The Memoirs ( ) of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier The Bandits from Rio Frio ( ) by Manuel Payno El Zarco ( ) by Ignacio Manuel Altamirano Santa ( ) by Federico Gamboa Anthology ( ) by Alfonso Reyes Song of the Heart: Poems ( ) by Ramon Lopez Velarde Nostalgia for Death: Poetry ( ) by Xavier Villaurrutia The Underdogs ( ) by Mariano Azuela The Burning Plain and Other Stories ( ) by Juan Rulfo The Labyrinth of Solitude ( ) by Octavio Paz Battles in the Desert & Other Stories ( ) by Jose Emilio Pacheco Like Water for Chocolate ( ) by Laura Esquivel Untranslated Comedias Escogidas ( ) by D. 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Eliot Harmonium (1923) by Wallace Stevens The Bridge (1930) by Hart Crane Howl and Other Poems (1955) by Allen Ginsberg Selected Poems (1962) by Robinson Jeffers Collected Poems (1963) by Robert Frost Collected Poems Vol.1 & 2 (1963) by William Carlos Williams Collected Poems (1987) by John Ashbery Plays Complete Plays by Eugene O'Neill Our Town (1938) by Thornton Wilder Death of a Salesman (1949) by Arthur Miller Plays 1937-1955 (1955) by Tennessee Williams The Collected Plays of Edward Albee Buried Child (1978) by Sam Shepard Fences (1985) by August Wilson Angels in America (1993) by Tony Kushner Others The Last of the Mohicans (1826) by Fenimore Cooper The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne The American (1877) by Henry James The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain The Red Badge of Courage (1895) by Stephen Crane The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James The Awakening (1899) by Kate Chopin The Call of the Wild (1903) by Jack London Three Lives (1909) by Gertrude Stein My Antonia (1918) by Willa Cather The Age of Innocence (1920) by Edith Wharton Main Street (1920) by Sinclair Lewis Babbit (1922) by Sinclair Lewis The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. 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Burroughs Rabbit, Run (1960) by John Updike To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) by John Barth Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey The Bell Jar (1963) by Sylvia Plath V. (1963) by Thomas Pynchon Herzog (1965) by Saul Bellow In Cold Blood (1966) by Truman Capote The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon Portnoy's Complaint (1969) by Phillip Roth Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) by John Kennedy Toole The New York Trilogy (1986) by Paul Auster Libra (1988) by Don Delillo Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace Underworld (1997) by Don Delillo American Pastoral (1997) by Phillip Roth Pattern Recognition (2003) by William Gibson The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy Slave Narratives The Interesting Narrative (1789) by Olaudah Equiano Narrative of the Life (1845) of Frederick Douglass Narrative (1850) of Sojourner Truth Twelve Years a Slave (1853) by Solomon Northrup Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Harriet Jacobs Reconstruction Era Up From Slavery (1901) by Booker T. Washington The Souls of Black Folk (1903) by W.E.B. 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