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Twentieth-Century Literature (1901 to 2000 CE)
1901
My Brilliant Career
Miles Franklin
Australia, novel
The Broken Nest
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengal, novella
Rudyard Kipling
England, novel
Buddenbrooks
Germany, novel
Three Sisters
Anton Chekhov
Russia, play
Resurrection
Leo Tolstoy
Russia, novel
The Monkey's Paw
W.W. Jacobs
England, story
Just So Stories
Rudyard Kipling
England, story collection
Includes How the Camel Got His Hump, How the Leopard Got His Spots, How the First Letter Was Written, and others
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter
England, novella
The Immoralist
André Gide
France, novel
The Lower Depths
Maxim Gorky
Russia, novel
The Power of Darkness
Leo Tolstoy
Russia, play
The Wings of the Dove
Henry James
United States, novel
1903
Man and Superman
George Bernard Shaw
Ireland, play
The Riddle of the Sands
Erskine Childers
England, novel
The Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekhov
Russia, play
The Ambassadors
Henry James
United States, novel
The Beast in the Jungle
Henry James
United States, novella
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
United States, novella
1904
Nostromo
England, novel
Riders to the Sea
John Millington Synge
Ireland, play
Peter Pan
J.M. Barrie
Scotland, play
Cabbages and Kings
O. Henry
United States, story collection
The Golden Bowl
Henry James
United States, novel
The Sea Wolfe
Jack London
United States, novel
1905
England, story collection
Includes The Empty House, The Norwood Builder, The Dancing Men, Charles Augustus Milverton, and others
Major Barbara
George Bernard Shaw
Ireland, play
Professor Unrat
Heinrich Mann
Germany, novel
Major Barbara
George Bernard Shaw
Ireland, play
Summerfolk
Maxim Gorky
Russia, play
Solitude
Victor Català
Spain, novel
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton
United States, novel
1905–1928
A Flower in a Sinful Sea
Jin Tianhe, Zeng Pu
China, novel
1906
The Confusions of Young Törless
Robert Musil
England, Austria
Spring Awakening
Frank Wedekind
Germany, play
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
United States, novel
White Fang
Jack London
United States, novella
1906–1907
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Selma Lagerlöf
Sweden, novel
1906–1921
England, novel series
Includes The Man of Property, In Chancery, To Let, and two interludes
1907
Songs of a Sourdough
Robert Service
Canada, Poetry
The Travels of Lao Can
Liu E
China, novel
Algernon Blackwood
England, story
The Secret Agent
England, novel
The Playboy of the Western World
John Millington Synge
Ireland, play
Mother
Maxim Gorky
Russia, novel
1908
Anne of Green Gables
L.M. Montgomery
Canada, novel
The Old Wives' Tale
Arnold Bennett
England, novel
A Room With a View
E.M. Forster
England, novel
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
England, novel
Tono-Bungay
H.G. Wells
England, novel
The Inferno
Henri Barbusse
France, novel
Tendrils of the Vine
Colette
France, novel
The Seven Who Were Hanged
Leonid Andreyev
Russia, novella
The Circular Staircase
Mary Roberts Rinehart
United Sstates, novel
1909
Penguin Island
Anatole France
France, novel
Strait Is the Gate
André Gide
France, novel
Martin Eden
Jack London
United States, novel
1910
Howards End
E.M. Forster
England, novel
Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux
France, novel
Jean-Christophe
Romain Rolland
France, novel
Impressions of Africa
Raymond Roussel
France, novel
1911
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
England, novel
England, story collection
Includes The Blue Cross, The Invisible Man, The Hammer of God, and others
Casting the Runes
M.R. James
England, story
Fantômas
Marcel Allain, Pierre Souvestre
France, novel
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
United States, novella
1912
Song Offerings
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengal, Poetry
Zuleika Dobson
Max Beerbohm
England, novel
Poetical Works
Robert Bridges
England, Poetry
The Lost World
England, novel
The Gods are Athirst
Anatole France
France, novel
Campos de Castilla
Antonio Machado
Spain, poetry collection
Tarzan of the Apes
Edgar Rice Burroughs
United States, novel
Riders of the Purple Sage
Zane Grey
United States, novel
1913
Trent's Last Case
E.C. Bentley
England, novel
Sons and Lovers
D.H. Lawrence
England, novel
Le Grand Meaulnes
Alain-Fournier
France, novel
Alcohols
Guillaume Apollinaire
France, poetry collection
By the Open Sea
August Strindberg
Norway, novel
Petersburg
Andrei Bely
Russia, novel
My Childhood
Maxim Gorky
Russia, memoir
O Pioneers!
Willa Cather
United States, novel
1913–1927
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust
France, novel
seven volumes including Swann's Way, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, The Guermantes Way, Time Regained
1914
Canada, story collection
The Prussian Officer and other Stories
D.H. Lawrence
England, story collection
The Three Sisters
May Sinclair
England, novel
Locus Solus
Raymond Roussel
France, novel
Dubliners
Ireland
Includes The Sisters, Araby, Eveline, Two Gallants, Ivy Day in the Committee Room, The Dead, and others
Kokoro
Sōseki Natsume
Japan, novel
Platero and I
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Spain, Poetry
The Emperor of Portugalia
Selma Lagerlöf
Sweden, novel
North of Boston
Robert Frost
United States, poetry collection
Includes Mending Wall, The Death of the Hired Man, After Apple-Picking, and others
1914–1917
Golpoguchchho (Bunch of Stories)
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengal, story collection
1914–1955
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
Robert Tressell
Ireland, story collection
The Good Soldier
Ford Maddox Ford
England, novel
The Rainbow
D.H. Lawrence
England, novel
Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham
England, novel
A Cloud in Trousers
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Russia, Poetry
Herland
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
United States, novel
Spoon River Anthology
Edgar Lee Masters
United States, Poetry
1916
The Home and the World
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengal, novel
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
Bohemia, novella
The Underdogs
Mariano Azuela
Mexico, novel
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
Ireland, play
Mountain Interval
Robert Frost
United States, poetry collection
Includes The Road Not Taken, Birches, Out, Out—, and others
Chicago Poems
Carl Sandburg
United States, Poetry
1917
The Charwoman's Daughter
James Stephens
Ireland, novel
Heartless
Yi Gwangsu
Korea, novel
Growth of the Soil
Knut Hamsun
Norway, novel
A Princes of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs
United states, novel
1917–1929
The Fortunes Of Richard Mahony
Richard Handel Richardson
Australia, novel series
1918
A Madman's Diary
Lu Hsun
China, story
Poems
Gerard Manley Hopkins
England, Poetry
Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War 1913-1916
Guillaume Apollinaire
France, poetry collection
The Magnificent Ambersons
Booth Tarkington
United States, novel
1919
In the Penal Colony
Franz Kafka
Bohemia, novel
The Moon and Sixpence
W. Somerset Maugham
England, novel
Demian
Herman Hesse
Switzerland, novel
Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson
United States, story collection
1920
R.U.R.
Karel Čapek
Bohemia, play
Women in Love
D.H. Lawrence
England, novel
Poems
Wilfred Owen
England, Poetry
Chéri
Colette
France, novel
Heartbreak House
George Bernard Shaw
Ireland, novel
Bohemian Nights
Ramón del Valle-Inclán
Spain, play
Youth and the Bright Medusa
Willa Cather
United States, story collection
Includes Paul's Case, A Wagner Matinee, A Death in the Desert, and others
This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald
United States, novel
Main Street
Sinclair Lewis
United States, novel
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
United States, novel
1920–1922
Kristin Lavransdatter
Sigrid Undset
Norway, novel series
Includes The Wreath, The Wife, The Cross
1920–1923
The Good Soldier Schweik
Jaroslav Hasek
Czechoslovakia, novel
1921
Crome Yellow
Aldous Huxley
England, novel
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Luigi Pirandello
Italy, play
1922
Despair
Gabriela Mistral
Chile, poetry collection
The Worm Ouroboros
E.R. Eddison
England, novel
Henry IV
Luigi Pirandello
Italy, play
Rashōmon and Other Stories
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Japan, story collection
The Garden Party and Other Stories
New Zealand, story collection
Includes At the Bay, The Garden Party, The Daughters of the Late Colonel, Miss Brill, and others
Siddhartha
Herman Hesse
Switzerland, novel
The Enormous Room
e.e. cummings
United States, nonfiction novel
The Beautiful and Damned
United States, novel
Tales of the Jazz Age
United States, story collection
Includes May Day, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and others
Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis
United States, novel
The Facade
Edith Sitwell
United States, novel
1923
The Devil in Flesh
Raymond Radiguet
France, novel
Duino Elegies
Rainer Maria Rilke
Germany, Poetry
Saint Joan
George Bernard Shaw
Ireland, play
The Confessions of Zeno
Italo Svevo
Italy, novel
Chapayev
Dmitry Furmanov
Russia, novel
A Lost Lady
Willa Cather
United States, novel
Tulips and Chimneys
e.e. cummings
United States, Poetry
New Hampshire
Robert Frost
United States, Poetry
Includes Fire and Ice, Nothing Gold Can Stay, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, and others
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
United States, Prose poetry
Cane
Jean Toomer
United States, novel
1924
The Vortex
Noel Coward
England, play
A Passage to India
E.M. Forster
England, novel
The Magic Mountain
Germany, novel
Juno and the Paycock
Sean O'Casey
Ireland, play
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Russia, novel
So Big
Edna Ferber
United States, novel
Billy Budd, Foretopman
Herman Melville
United States, novel
1925
The Trial
Franz Kafka
Bohemia, novel
Residence on Earth and Other Poems
Pablo Neruda
Chile, Poetry
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
England, novel
Parade's End
Ford Maddox Ford
England, novel
The Counterfeiters
André Gide
France, novel
Chaka
Thomas Mofolo
Lesotho, novel
Heart of a Dog
Mikhail Bulgakov
Russia, novella
The Artamonov Business
Maxim Gorky
Russia, novel
The Professor's House
Willa Cather
United States, novel
The Iron Flood
Alexander Serafimovich
Russia, novel
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser
United States, novel
Manhattan Transfer
John Dos Passos
United States, novel
In Our Time
United States, story collection
Includes The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife, The Three-Day Blow, The Big Two-Hearted River, and others
Arrowsmith
Sinclair Lewis
United States, novel
1925–1970
The Cantos
Ezra Pound
United States, Poetry
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1926
The Castle
Franz Kafka
Bohemia, novel
Winnie-the-Pooh
A.A. Milne
England, story collection
Under the Sun of Satan
Georges Bernanos
France, novel
Moravagine
Blaise Cendrars
France, novel
The Plough and the Stars
Sean O'Casey
Ireland, play
One, None and One HUndred Thousand
Luigi Pirandello
Italy, novel
The Sun Also Rises
United States, novel
1926–1939
Alberta Trilogy
Cora Sandel
Norway, novel series
1926–1943
Joseph and His Brothers
Thomas Mann
Germany, novel
1927
Confusion of Feelings
Stefan Zweig
Austria, novella
Thérése Desqueyroux
Paul Mauriac
France, novel
The Case of Sergeant Grischa
Arnold Zweig
Germany, novel
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
B. Traven
Mexico, novel
Sunset
Isaac Babel
Russia, play
The Twelve Chairs
Ilya Ilf, Evgeny Petrov
Russia, novel
Envy
Yuri Olesha
Russia, novel
Steppenwolf
Herman Hesse
Switzerland, novel
Death Comes for the Archbishop
United States, novel
Men Without Women
United States, story collection
Includes Hills Like White Elephants, The Killers, Ten Indians, and others
Elmer Gantry
Sinclair Lewis
United States, novel
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
United States, novella
1928
Strange Fugitive
Canada, novel
The Machine Stops
E.M. Forster
England, novella
The Well of Loneliness
Radclyffe Hall
England, novel
Lady Chatterley's Lover
D.H. Lawrence
England, novel
Ashenden: Or the British Agent
W. Somerset Maugham
England, story collection
Decline and Fall
Evelyn Waugh
England, novel
Story of the Eye
Georges Bataille
France, novella
Nadja
André Breton
France, novel
The Three-Penny Opera
Bertolt Brecht
Germany, play
The Tower
W.B. Yeats
Ireland, poetry collection
And Quiet Flows the Don
Mikhail Sholokov
Russia, novel
Gypsy Ballads
Federico Garcia Lorca
Spain, Poetry
Quicksand
Nella Larsen
United States, novel
Machinal
Sophie Treadwell
United States, play
1929
The Poisoned Chocolates Case
Anthony Berkeley
England, novel
Good-Bye to All that
Robert Graves
England, memoir
A High Wind in Jamaica
Richard Hughes
England, novel
Children of the Game
Jean Cocteau
France, novel
Retreat Without Song
Shahan Shanoor
France, novel
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Alfred Döblin
Germany, novel
All Quiet on the Western Front
Germany, novel
Some Prefer Nettles
Alberto Moravia
Italy, novel
The Time of Indifference
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Japan, novel
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
United States, novel
Red Harvest
United States, novel
Passing
Nella Larsen
United States, novella
Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas Wolfe
United States, novel
1930
Private Lives
Noel Coward
England, play
Strong Poison
Dorothy L. Sayers
England, novel
Last and First Men
Olaf Stapledon
England, novel
Insatiability
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
Poland, novel
The Foundation Pit
Andrei Platonov
Russia, novel
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
United States, novel
William Faulkner
United States, story
The Bridge
Hart Crane
United States, Poetry
1930–1936
U.S.A.
John Dos Passos
United States, novel series
Includes The 42nd Parallel, 1919, The Big Money
1930–1943
The Man Without Qualities
Robert Musil
Austria, novel
1931
Peter the Lett
Georges Simenon
Belgioum, novel
Night Flight
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
France, novel
Three Generations
Yeom Sang-seop
Korea, novel
Odessa Stories
Isaac Babel
Russia, story collection
The Little Golden Calf
Ilya Ilf, Evgeny Petrov
Russia, novel
Pearl S. Buck
United States, novel
Sanctuary
William Faulkner
United States, novel
The Glass Key
United States, novel
At the Mountains of Madness
H.P. Lovecraft
United States, novel
Morning Becomes Electra
Eugene O'Neill
United States, play
1932
Radetzky March
Joseph Roth
Austria, novel
The Crime of Inspector Maigret
Georges Simenon
Belgium, novel
To the North
Elizabeth Bowen
England, novel
Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons
England, novel
Brave New World
England, novel
Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
France, novel
Viper's Tangle
Francois Mauriac
France, novel
The Artificial Silk Girl
Irmgard Keun
Germany, novel
Tobacco Road
Erskine Caldwell
United States, novel
Light in August
William Faulkner
United States, novel
Guys and Dolls
Damon Runyon
United States, story collection
1932–1935
Studs Lonigan
James T. Farrell
United States, novel series
Includes Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, Judgment Day
1932–1942
Josephus Trilogy
Lion Feuchtwanger
Germany, novel series
1933
The Family
Pa Chin
China, novel
A Day Off
Storm Jameson
Germany, novel
Murder Must Advertise
Dorothy L. Sayers
England, Poetry
Man's Fate
André Malraux
France, novel
In the Heart of the Seas
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Israel, play
Blood Wedding
Federico Garcia Lorca
Spain, play
The Case of the Sulky Girl
Erle Stnaley Gardner
United States, novel
Winner Take Nothing
Ernest Hemingway
United States, story collection
Includes A Clean, Well-Lighted Place; A Natural History of the Dead; The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio; and others
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein
United States, novel
Miss Lonelyhearts
Nathanael West
United States, novella
1934
Such Is My Beloved
Canada, novel
Murder on the Orient Express
England, novel
The Nine Tailors
Dorothy L. Sayers
England, novel
A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh
England, novel
The Bells of Basel
Louis Aragon
France, novel
The Street of Crocodiles
Bruno Schulz
Poland, story collection
How the Steel Was Tempered
Nikolai Ostrovsky
Ukraine, novel
The Children's Hour
Lillian Hellman
United States, play
Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
United States, novel
Lust for Life
Irving Stone
United States, novel
A Martian Odyssey
Stanley G. Weinbaum
United States, story
1934–1935
Independent People
Halldór Laxness
Iceland, novel
1934–1988;
Mary Poppins
P.L. Travers
England, novel series
1935
Auto-da-Fé
Elias Canetti
Austria, novel
Dorothy L. Sayers
England, novel
Untouchable
Mulk Raj Anand
India, novel
Virgin Soil Upturned
Mikhail Sholokov
Russia, novel
Swami and Friends
R.K. Narayan
South Africa, novel
Selected Poems
Marianne Moore
United States, poetry collection
United States, story collection
Call It Sleep
Henry Roth
United States, novel
Awake and Sing!
Clifford Odets
United States, play
1936
The War With the Newts
Karel Čapek
Czechoslovakia, novel
Jamaica Inn
Daphne Du Maurier
England, novel
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
England, novel
Diary of a Country Priest
Georges Bernanos
Spain, novel
Invitation to a Beheading
Vladimir Nabokov
Russia, novel
Juan de Mairena
Antonio Machado
Spain, Prose collection
Nightwood
Djuna Barnes
United States, novel
Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner
United States, novel
The Shadow over Innsmouth
H.P. Lovecraft
United States, novella
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
United States, novel
1937
Rickshaw Boy
Lao She
China, novel
Out of Africa
Karen Blixen
Denmark, memoir
Star Maker
Olaf Stapledon
England, novella
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
England, novel
The Blind Owl
Ssadegh Hedayat
Italy, novel
Ferdydurke
Witold Gombrowicz
Poland, novel
To Have and Have Not
United States, novel
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
United States, novel
1937–1967
Horatio Hornblower
C.S. Forester
England, novel series
1938
Harvesting
Gabriela Mistral
Chile, poetry collection
Cause for Alarm
Eric Ambler
England, novel
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
England, novel
Brighton Rock
Graham Greene
England, novel
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Winifred Watson
England, novel
Scoop
Evelyn Waugh
England, novel
The Sword in the Stone
T.H. White
England, novel
The Code of the Woosters
P.G. Wodehouse
England, novel
Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre
France, novel
The Death of the Heart
Elizabeth Bowen
England, novel
Murphy
Samuel Beckett
Ireland, novel
Human Poems
Cesar Vallejo
Peru, Poetry
The Gift
Vladimir Nabokov
Russia, novel
Alamuit
Vladimir Bartol
Slovenia, novel
Who Goes there?
John W. Campbell
United States, novella
Anthem
Ayn Rand
United States, novella
The Book of the Dead
Muriel Rukeyser
United States, poetry collection
Thornton Wilder
United States, play
1939
The Mask of Dimitrios
Eric Ambler
England, novel
Rogue Male
Geoffrey Household
England, novel
Goodbye to Berlin
Christopher Isherwood
England, novel
Good Morning, Midnight
Jean Rhys
England, novel
Tropisms
Nathalie Sarraute
France, novel
Mother Courage and Her Children
Bertolt Brecht
Germany, play
At Swim-Two-Birds
Flann O'Brien
Ireland, novel
Lillian Hellman
United States, play
Arsenic and Old Lace
Joseph Kesselring
United States, play
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Katherine Anne Porter
United States, story collection
The Grapes of Wrath
United States, novel
The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West
United States, novel
1940
The Invention of Morel
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Argentina, novel
The Man Who Loved Children
Christina Stead
Australia, novel
The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene
England, novel
The Tartar Steppe
Dino Buzzati
Italy, novel
The Don Flows Home to the Sea
Mikhail Sholokov
Russia, novel
Poet in New York
Federico García Lorca
Spain, poetry collection
Farewell, My Lovely
United States, novel
For Whom the Bell Tolls
United States, novel
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
United States, novel
Native Son
Richard Wright
United States, novel
1940–1942
Four Quartets
T.S. Eliot
England, poem
1941
Chess Story
Stefan Zweig
Austria, novella
Blithe Spirit
Noel Coward
England, play
Owen Glendower
John Cowper Powys
England, novel
Between the Acts
England, novel
The Silence of the Sea
Vercors
France, novel
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Bertolt Brecht
Germany, play
Ride This Night
Vilhelm Moberg
Sweden, novel
Universe
United States, novella
The Wife of Martin Guerre
Janet Lewisa
United States, novella
A Curtain of Green
Eudora Welty
United States, story collection
1941–1956
Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentina, story collection
1942
The Outsider
Albert Camus
Algeria, novella
Nerves
Lester Del Rey
United States, novella
Mythology
Edith Hamilton
United States, story collection
1943
Love in a Fallen City
Eileen Chang
China, novel
The Life of Galileo
Bertolt Brecht
Germany, play
The Crooked Line
Ismat Chugtai
India, novel
Double Indemnity
United States, novella
The Lady in the Lake
United States, novel
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
United States, novel
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
United States, novel
1944
The Horse's Mouth
Joyce Cary
England, novel
The Razor's Edge
W. Someret Maugham
England, novel
Antigone
Jean Anouilh
France, play
Aurélien
Louis Aragon
France, novel
Arcanum 17
Andre Breton
France, poem
Our Lady of the Flowers
Jean Genet
France, novel
No Exit
Jean-Paul Sartre
France, play
Transit
Anna Seghers
Germany, novel
The Makioka Sisters
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Japan, novel
The Dwarf
Pär Lagerkvist
Sweden, novel
1944–1946
Trilogy
Hilda Doolittle
United States, poetry collection
1945
Caligula
Albert Camus
Algeria, play
Two Solitudes
Hugh MacLennan
Canada, novel
The Tin Flute
Gabrielle Roy
Canada, novel
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Elizabeth Smart
Canada, novel
Loving
Henry Green
England, novel
The Pursuit of Love
Nancy Mitford
England, novel
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
England, novel
The Madwoman of Chaillot
Jean Giraudoux
France, play
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Bertolt Brecht
Germany, play
The English Teacher
R.K. Narayan
India, novel
Only Yesterday
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Israel, novel
The Glass Bead Game
Herman Hesse
Switzerland, novel
Continental Op, The
United States, story collection
Cannery Row
John Steinbeck
United States, novel
The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams
United States, play
Black Boy
Richard Wright
United States, memoir
1945–1948
Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren
Sweden, novella series
Includes Pippi Longstocking, Pippi Goes on Board, Pippi in the South Seas
1945–1949
The Roads to Freedom
Jean-Paul Sartre
France, novel series
Includes The Age of Reason, The Reprieve, Iron in the Soul
1946
The Moving Toyshop
Edmund Crispin
England, novel
Paroles
Jacques Prévert
France, poetry collection
Zorba the Greek
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greece, novel
Mr. President
Miguel Angel Asturias
Guatemala, novel
The Young Guard
Alexander Fadeyev
Russia, novel
Dark Avenues
Ivan Bunin
Russia, story collection
Return to Ithaca
Eyvind Johnson
Sweden, novel
Adventures in Time and Space
ed. Rymond J. Healy, J. Francis McComas
United States, story collection
Hiroshima
John Hersey
United States, nonfiction novel
The Marching Morons
C.M. Kornbluth
United States, novella
Lord Weary's Castle
Robert Lowell
United States, Poetry
Vintage Season
C.L. Moore, Henry Kuttner
(as Lawrence O'Donnell)
United States, novella
The Iceman Cometh
Eugene O'Neill
United States, play
Slan
A.E. Van Vogt
United States, novel
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren
United States, novel
Bridge on the Drina
Ivo Andric
Yugoslavia, novel
1946–1959
Gormenghast
Mervyn Peake
England, novel series
Includes Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus Alone
1947
The Plague
Albert Camus
Algeria, novella
Who Has Seen the Wind?
W.O. Mitchell
Canada, novel
The Heights of Macchu Picchu
Pablo Neruda
Chile, poem
Fortress Besieged
Qian Zhongshu
China, novel
Midaq Alley
Naguib Mahfouz
Egypt, novel
The Age of Anxiety
W.H. Auden
England, poetry collection
Eustace and Hilda
L.P. Hartley
England, novel
Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry
England, novel
A Case to Answer
Edgar Lustgarten
England, novel
The Maids
Jean Genet
France, play
Exercises in Style
Raymond Queneau
France, story collection
Froth on the Daydream
Boris Vian
France, play
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
Germany, memoir
Doctor Faustus
Anne Frank
Germany, novel
The Path to the Spiders' Nest
Italo Calvino
Italy, novel
If This Is a Man
Primo Levy
Italy, memoir
I, the Jury
Mickey Spillane
United States, novella
The Pearl
United States, novella
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
United States, play
With Folded Hands...
Jack Williamson
United States, novella
1948
The Tunnel
Ernesto Sabato
Argentina, novel
All About H. Hatterr
G.V. Desani
England, novel
Graham Greene
England, novel
I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith
England, Novel
Death Sentence
Maurice Blanchot
France, novel
Snow Country
Yasunari Kawabata
Japan, novel
Ashes and Diamonds
Jerzy Andrzejewski
Poland, novel
The Franchise Affair
Josephine Tey
Scotland, novel
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton
South Africa, novel
Journey to Alcarria
Camilo José Cela
Spain, nonfiction
The Road to Klockrike
Harry Martinson
SWeden, novel
1949
The Kingdom of This World
Alejo Carpentier
Cuba, novel
The Heat of the Day
Elizabeth Bowen
England, novel
The Third Man
Graham Greene
England, novel
Men of Maize
Miguel Angel Asturias
Guatemala, novel
Confessions of a Mask
Yukio Mishima
Japan, novel
The Man With the Golden Arm
Nelson Algren
United States, novel
The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
United States, novel
The Anniad
Gwendolyn Brooks
United States, play
The Lottery and Other Stories
Shirley Jackson
United States, story collection
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
United States, play
Shane
Jack Schaefer
United States, novel
1949–1959
The Emigrants
Vilhelm Moberg
Sweden, novel series
Smallbone Deceased
Michael Gilbert
England, novel
The Grass Is Singing
Doris Lessing
England, novel
The Abbot C
Georges Bataille
France, novella
The Bald Soprano
Eugène Ionesco
France, play
The Moon and the Bonfires
Cesare Pavese
Italy, novel
The Labyrinth of Solitude
Octavio Paz
Mexico, essay collection
The Hive
Camilo José Cela
Spain, novel
Barabbas
Pär Lagerkvist
Sweden, novel
United States, story collection
The Martian Chronicles
United States, story collection
Strangers on a Train
Paricia Highsmith
United States, novel
Come Back, Little Sheba
William Inge
United States, play
Back to top
1950–1956
C.S. Lewis
England, novel series
Includes The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; and others
1951
Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar
Belgium, novel
Porius
John Cowper Powys
England, novel
The End of the Affair
Graham Greene
England, novel
The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham
England, novel
The Opposing Shore
Julien Gracq
France, novel
The Complete Short Stories
W. Somerset Maugham
England, story collection
Watt
Samuel Beckett
Ireland, novel
Forbidden Colors
Yukio Mishima
Japan, novel
The Daughter of Time
Josephine Tey
Scotland, novel
The Illustrated Man
United States, story collection
Spartacus
Howard Fast
United States, novel
Montage of a Dream Deferred
Langston Hughes
United States, Poetry
From Here to Eternity
James Jones
United States, novel
The Ballad of the Sad Café
Carson McCullers
United States, novella
The Catcher in the Rye
United States, novel
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas
Wales, poetry collection
1951–1953
The Trilogy
Samuel Beckett
Ireland, novel series
Includes Molly, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
United States, novel series
Includes Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation
1951–1975
A Dance to the Music of Time
Anthony Powell
England, novel series
1952
The Tiger in the Smoke
Margery Allingham
England, novel
The Deep Blue Sea
Terence Rattigan
England, play
The Chairs
Eugene Ionesco
France, play
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
Ireland, play
Thousand Cranes
Yasunari Kawabata
Japan, novel
The Palm-Wine Drunkard
Amos Tutola
Nigeria, novel
The Martian Way
United States, novella
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
United States, novel
Wise Blood
Flannery O'Connor
United States, novel
East of Eden
United States, novel
Baby Is Three
Thodore Sturgeon
United States, novella
Player Piano
Kurt Vonnegut
United States, novel
Last Seen Wearing...
Hilary Waugh
United States, novel
Charlotte's Web
E.B. White
United States, novel
A Child's Christmas in Wales
Dylan Thomas
Wales, story
1953
The Lost Steps
Alejo Carpentier
Cuba, novel
Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke
England, novel
The Nine Billion Names of God
Arthur C. Clarke
England, story
Casino Royale
Ian Fleming
England, novel
The Go-Between
L.P. Hartley
England, novel
The Hothouse
Wolfgang Koeppen
Germany, novel
The Dark Child
Camara Laye
Guinea, novel
The Burning Plain and Other Stories
Juan Rulfo
Mexico, story collection
The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow
United States, novel
The Demolished Man
United States, novel
The Long Goodbye
United States, novel
Nine Stories
J.D. Salinger
United States, story collection
Includes A Perfect Day for Bananafish, For Esmé—With Love and Squalor, and others
More Than Human
Theodore Sturgeon
United States, novel
1954
Swamp Angel
Ethel Wilson
Canada, novel
Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis
England, novel
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
England, novel
Under the Net
Iris Murdoch
England, novel
The Unknown Soldier
Väinö Linna
Finland, novel
The Mandarins
Simone de Beauvoir
France, novel
The Story of O
Pauline Reage
France, novel
Hello Sadness
Francoise Sagan
France, novel
Death in Rome
Wolfgang Koeppen
Germany, novel
Nectar in a Sieve
Kamala Markandaya
India, novel
Contempt
Alberto Moravia
Italy, novel
The Sound of the Mountain
Yasunari Kawabata
Japan, novel
The Sound of Waves
Yukio Mishima
Japan, novel
I'm Not Stiller
Max Frisch
Switzerland, novel
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
United States, novel
Richard Matheson
United States, novella
The Wicked Pavilion
Dwn Powell
United States, novel
Twelve Angry Men
Reginald Rose
United States, play
1954–1955
Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
England, novel
1955
The Tree of Man
Patrick White
Australia, novel
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Brian Moore
Canada, novel
Graham Greene
England, novel
The Less Deceived
Philip Larkin
England, Poetry
The Chrysalids
John Wyndham
England, novel
The Voyeur
Alain Robbe-Grillet
France, novel
The Last Temptation of Christ
Nikos Kazantzákis
Greece, novel
Waiting for the Mahatma
R.K. Narayan
India, novel
The Ginger Man
J.P. Donleavy
Ireland, novel
Pedro Paramo
Juan Rulfo
Mexico, novella
Collected Stories
Isaac Babel
Russia, story collection
Vladimir Nabokov
Russia, novel
The Complete Poems
Emily Dickinson
United States, Poetry
The Recognitions
William Gaddis
United States, novel
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith
United States, novel
Beast in View
Margaret Millar
United States, novel
A View From the Bridge
Arthur Miller
United States, play
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Flannery O'Connor
United States, story collection
Includes A Good Man Is Hard to Find, The River, The Life You Save May Be Your Own, Good Country People, and others
1956
The Fall
Albert Camus
Algeria, novella
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
João Guimarães Rosa
Brazil, novel
The City and the Stars
Arthur C. Clarke
England, novel
Look Back in Anger
John Osburn
England, play
Passing Time
Michel Butor
France, novel
The Roots of Heaven
Romain Gary
France, novel
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Yukio Mishima
Japan, novel
The Visit
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Switzerland, play
A Dram of Poison
JCharlotte Armstrong
United States, novel
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
United States, novel
Seize the Day
Saul Bellow
United States, novella
Howl
Allen Ginsberg
United States, poem
Double Star
Robert A. Heinlein
United States, novel
Long Day's Journey into Night
Eugene O'Neill
United States, play
Night
Elie Wiesel
United States, memoir
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams
United States, play
1956–1957
The Cairo Trilogy
Naguib Mahfouz
Egypt, novel series
1957
Voss
Patrick White
Australia, novel
From Russia With Love
Ian Fleming
England, novel
The Entertainer
John Osborne
England, Playl
The Birthday Party
Harold Pinter
England, play
On the Beach
England, novel
The Midwich Cuckoos
John Wyndham
England, novel
The Blue of Noon
Georges Bataille
France, novel
Second Thoughts
Michel Butor
France, novel
Jealousy
Alain Robbe-Grillet
France, novel
The Glass Bees
Ernst Jünger
Germany, novel
Endgame
Samuel Beckett
Ireland, play
Arturo's Island
Elsa Morante
Italy, novel
Sunstone
Octavio Paz
Mexico, Poetry
Pnin
Vladimir Nabokov
Russia, novel
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
Russia, novel
Homo Faber
Max Frisch
Switzerland, novel
The Wapshot Chronicle
John Cheever
United States, novel
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
United States, novel
1957–1959
The Baron in the Trees
Italo Calvino
Italy, Novels\
1957–1960
The Alexandria Quartet
Laurence Durrell
England, novel series
1958
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
Jorge Amado
Brazil, novel
The Caretaker
Harold Pinter
England, play
The Once and Future King
T.H. White
England, novel
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Alan Sillitoe
England, novel
The Guide
R.K. Narayan
India, novel
Krapp's Last Tape
Samuel Beckett
Ireland, play
Borstal Biy
Brendan Behan
Ireland, memoir
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
Kenzaburō Ōe
Japan, novel
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Nigeria, novel
The Leopard
Giusseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Italy, novel
Where the Air Is Clear
Carlos Fuentes
Mexico, novel
Jamila
Chingiz Aitmatov
Russia, novel
Zoo Story
Edward Albee
United States, play
A Case of Conscience
James Blish
United States, novel
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Truman Capote
United States, novella
A Coney Island of the Mind
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
United States, Poetry
The Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac
United States, novel
The Big Time
Fritz Leiber
United States, novel
Anatomy of a Murder
Robert Lovesey
United States, novel
The Magic Barrel
Bernard Malamud
United States, story collection
Clifford D. Simak
United States, novella
1959
Canada, story collection
Includes All the Years of Her Life, A Sick Call, Now That April's Here, Ancient Lineage, Two Fishermen, and others
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Mordecai Richler
Canada, novel
Double Hook
Sheila Watson
Canada, novel
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
John Arden
England, play
Cider With Rosie
Laurie Lee
England, novel
The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing
England, novel
Zazie in the Metro
Raymond Queneau
France, novel
Billiards at Half Past Nine
Heinrich Böll
Germany, novel
The Cloven Viscount
Italo Calvino
Italy, novel
The Tin Drum
Günter Grass
Germany, novel
Sacrificial Egg
Chinua Achebe
Nigeria, novel
Henderson the Rain King
Saul Bellow
United States, novel
Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs
United States, novel
The Manchurian Candidate
Richard Condon
United States, novel
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
United States, play
Starship Troopers
United States, novel
A Separate Peace
John Knowles
United States, novel
Life Studies
Robert Lowell
United States, Poetry
Goodbye, Columbus
United States, novella
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut
United States, novel
1960
A Man for All Seasons
Robert Bolt
England, play
Halftime
Martin Walser
Germany, novel
The Country Girls
Edna O'Brien
Ireland, novel
God's Bits of Wood
Ousmane Sembene
Senegal, novel
The Days of His Grace
Eyvind Johnson
Sweden, novel
The Sot-Weed Factor
John Barth
United States, novel
United States, story collection
The Woman at the Washington Zoo
Randal Jarrell
United States, Poetry
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller
United States, novel
Rabbit, Run
John Updike
United States, novel
1960–1968
Stockholm
Pers Ansers Fogelström
Sweden, novel series
1961
On Heroes and Tombs
Ernesto Sabato
Argentina, novel
No One Writes to the Colonel
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombia, novel
Cat and Mouse
Günter Grass
Germany, novella
1961
The Day of the Owl
Leonardo Sciascia
Italy, novel
Solaris
Stanislaw Lem
Poland, novel
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
Scotland, novel
Memoirs of a Peasant Boy
Xosé Neira Vilas
Spain, novel
A House for Mr Biswas
V.S. Naipaul
Trinidad, novel
Kaddish and Other Poems
Allen Ginsbergs
United States, poetry collection
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
United States, novel
The Moviegoer
Walker Percy
United States, novel
Franny and Zooey
J.D. Salinger
United States, novel
Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates
United States, novel
James and the Giant Peach
Roald Dahl
Wales, novel
1962
Hothouse
Brian Aldiss
England, novel
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
England, novel
The IPCRESS File
Len Deighton
England, novel
The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas
Marguerite Duras
France, novel
The Third Wedding
Costas Taktsis
Greece, novel
Girl With Green Eyes
Edna O'Brien
Ireland, novel
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Giorgio Bassani
Ireland, novel
The Death of Artemio Cruz
Carlos Fuentes
Mexico, novel
The Green House
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peru, novel
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
Russia, novel
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Russia, novella
Time of Silence
Luis Martín-Santos
Spain, novel
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee
United States, play
Something Wicked This Way Comes
United States, novel
The Reivers
William Faulkner
United States, novel
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson
United States, novel
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
United States, novel
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle
United States, novel
Ship of Fools
Katherine Anne Porter
United States, novel
Ballad of Lost C'Mell
Cordwainer Smith
United States, novella
1962–1983
Labyrinths
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentina, story collection
1963
The General of the Dead Army
Ismail Kadare
Albania, novel
Hopscotch
Julio Cortazar
Argentina, novel
The Garden Party
Vaclav Havel
Czechoslovakia, play
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John le Carré
England, novel
The Water of the Hills
Marcel Pagnol
France, novel series
Includes Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources
The Clown
Heinrich Böll
Germany, novel
Dog Years
Günter Grass
Germany, novel
Family Sayings
Natalia Ginzburg
Italy, novel
Selected Poems
Octavio Paz
Mexico, poetry collection
Best Stories of Manto
Saadat Hasan Manto
Pakistan, story collection
The Time of the Hero
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peru, novel
Requiem
Anna Akhmatova
Russia, poetry collection
The Crucible
Arthur Miller
United States, play
V.
Thomas Pynchon
United States, novel
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
J.D. Salinger
United States, novella
Seymour: An Introduction
J.D. Salinger
United States, novella
Short Friday and Other Stories
Isaac Bashevis Singer
United States, story collection
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
United States, novel
The Graduate
Charles Webb
United States, novella
The Good Hope
William Heinesen
Faroe Islands, novel
The Ravishing of Lol Stein
Marguerite Duras
France, novel
Arrow of God
Chinua Achebe
Nigeria, novel
Herzog
Saul Bellow
United States, novel
Sometimes a Great Notion
Ken Kesey
United States, novel
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl
Wales, novel
1965
A Season in the Life of Emmannuel
Marie-Claire Blais
Canada, novel
The Berlin Memorandum
Adam Hall
England, novel
The Homecoming
Harold Pinter
England, play
The Vice-Consul
Maguerite Duras
France, novel
Things
Georges Perec
France, novel
Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino
Italy, story collection
The River Between
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Kenya, novel
Dune
Frank Herbert
United States, novel
The Painted Bird
Jerzy Kosinski
United States, novel
Everything That Rises Must Converge
Flannery O'Connor
United States, story collection
Includes Everything That Rises Must Converge, Greenleaf, The Lame Shall Enter First, Revelation, Parker's Back, Judgement Day, and others
Ariel
Syvia Plath
United States, poetry collection
Fences
August Wilson
United States, play
1965–1971
Sea of Fertility, The
Yukio Mishima
Japan, novel series
Includes Spring Snow, Runaway Horses, The Temple of Dawn, The Decay of the Angel
1965–1989
Lord Ramage
Dudley Pope
England, novel series
1965–2003
Alisa's Adventures
Kir Bulychev
Russia, novel series
A Jest of God
Canada, novel
St. Urbain's Horseman
Mordecai Richler
Canada, novel
The Fate of a Cockroach
Tawfiq Al-Hakim
Egypt, play
J.G. Ballard
England, novel
The Magus
John Fowles
England, novel
Black Sheep
Georgette Heyer
England, novel
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys
England, novel
Silence
Shūsaku Endō
Japan, novel
Marks of Identity
Juan Goytisolo
Spain, novel
Season of Migration to the North
Tayeb Salih
Sudan, novel
Giles Goat-Boy
John Barth
United States, novel
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
United States, nonfiction novel
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
United States, novel
The Fixer
Bernard Malamud
United States, novel
The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon
United States, novel
Live or Die
Anne Sexton
United States, Poetry
Death and the Dervish
Meša Selimović
Yugoslavia, novel
1966–1969
Song of Lawino
Okot p'Bitek
Uganda, Epic poem
1967
Picnic at hanging /Rock
Joan Lindsay
Australia, novel
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombia, novel
Three Trapped Tigers
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Cuba, novel
Children of Gebelawi
Naguib Mahfouz
Egypt, novel
Miramar
Naguib Mahfouz
Egypt, novel
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Tom Stoppard
England, play
The Manila Rope
Veijo Meri
Finlnd, novel
Day of the Dolphin
Robert Merle
France, novel
Z
Vassillis Vassilikos
Greece, novel
The Third Policeman
Flann O'Brien
Ireland, novel
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
Russia, novel
The Case of Comrade Tulayev
Victor Serge
Russia, novel
Mimic Men
V.S. Naipaul
Trinidad, novel
Babel-17
Samuel R. Delaney
United States, novel
Camp Concentration
Thomas Disch
United States, novel
The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
United States, novel
The Chosen
Chaim Potok
United States, novel
The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron
United States, novel
Dangerous Visions
ed. Harlan Ellison
United States, story collection
Lord of Light
Roger Zelazny
United States, novel
1967–1970
Slaves trilogy
Thorkild Hansen
Denmark, novel series
Includes Coast of Slaves, Ships of Slaves, Islands of Slaves
1968
Betrayed by Rita Hayworth
Manuel Puig
Argentina, novel
2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke
England, novel
Eva Trout, or Changing Scenes
Elizabeth Bowen
England, novel
The Abyss
Margaret Yourcenar
France, novel
The German Lesson
Siegfried Lenz
Germany, novel
The Quest for Christa T.
Christa Wolf
Germany, novel
To Each His Own
Leonardo Sciascia
Italy, novel
Cancer Ward
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Russia, novel
The First Circle
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Russia, novel
The Laughing Policeman
Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö
Sweden, novel
Belle du Seigneur
Albert Cohen
Switzerland, novel
The Last Unicorn
Peter S. Beagle
United States, novel
In Watermelon Sugar
Richard Brautigan
United States, novel
Stand on Zanzibar
John Brunner
United States, novel
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
United States, novella
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
William H. Gass
United States, story collection
The Lion in Winter
James Goldman
United States, play
Dragonflight
Anne McCaffrey
United States, novel
Rite of Passage
Alexei Panshin
United States, novel
The Séance and Other Stories
Isaac Bashevis Singer
United States, story collection
Myra Breckinridge
Gore Vidal
United States, novel
Welcome to the Monkey House
Kurt Vonnegut
United States, story collection
Includes Harrison Bergeron, Welcome to the Monkey House, D.P. , The Euphio Question, and others
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
United States, Journalism
1968–1977
The Cornelius Quartet
Michael Moorcock
England , novel series
1968–2001
United States, novel series
Includes A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, The other Wind, and others
1969
Little Painted Mouths
Manuel Puig
Argentina, novel
Selected Poetry
Irving Layton
Canada, Poetry
John Fowles
England, novel
Master and Commander
Patick O'Brian
England, novel
What the Butler Saw
Joe Orton
England, play
A Void
Georges Perec
France, novel
Jacob the Liar
Jurek Becker
Germany, novel
The Case Worker
Gyorgy Konrad
Hungary, novel
Strumpet City
James Plunkett
Ireland, novel
The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Italo Calvino
Italy, novel
Here's to You, Jesusa
Elena Poniatowska
Mexico, nonfiction novel
Ada or Ardor
Vladimir Nabokov
Russia, novel
Ubik
United States, novel
Blind Man with a Pistol
Chester Himes
United States, novel
them
Joyce Carol Oates
United States, novel
The Godfather
Mario Puzo
United States, novel
Slaughterhouse Five
Kurt Vonnegut
United States, novel
1970
Fifth Business
Robertson Davies
Canada, novel
Kamouraska
Anne Hébert
Canada, novel
Troubles
J.G. Farrell
England, novel
Crow
Ted Hughes
England, poetry collection
Group Portrait with a Lady
Heinrich Böll
Geermany, novel
Fool's Gold
Maro Douka
Greece, novel
Twenty-One Stories
S.Y. Agnon
Israel, story collection
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
United States, memoir
Jonathan Livingston Seagul?
Richard Bach
United States, novella
Deliverance
James Dickey
United States, novel
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
United States, novel
Play It as It Lays
Joan Didion
United States, novel
Larry Niven
United States, novel
1970–1983
Anniversaries
Uwe Johnson
Germany, novel
1970–1991
thr Chronicles of Mmber
Roger Zelazny
United States, novel series
Includes Nine Princes in Amber, The Guns of Avalon, Sign of the Unicorn, and others
1971
The Complete Stories
Franz Kafka
Bohemia, story collection
Lives of Girls and Women
Alice Munro
Canada, story collection
The Day of the Jackal
Frederick Forsyth
England, novel
The Egyptian
Mika Waltari
Finland, novel
Group Portrait with a Lady
Heinrich Böll
Germany, novel
August 1914
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russia, novel
The Poetry of Luis Cernuda
Luis Cernuda
Spain, poetry collection
In a Free State
V.S. Naipaul
Trinidad, novel
The Book of Daniel
E.L. Doctorow
United States, novel
Collected Poems
Frank O'Hara
United States, poetry collection
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
United States, novel
Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner
United States, novel
Rabbit Redux
John Updike
United States, novel
1971–1983
Riverworld
United States, novel series
Includes To Your Scattered Bodies Go, The Fabulous Riverboat, The Dark Design, and others
1972
Surfacing
Margaret Atwood
Canada, novel
Watership Down
Richard Adams
England, novel
G.
John Berger
England, novel
Rendezvous With Rama
Arthur C. Clarke
England, novel
All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot
England, story collection
The Summer Book
Tove Jansson
Finland, novel
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
Italy, novel
The Twilight Years
Sawako Ariyuoshi
Japan, novel
Roadside Picnic
Arkady and Boris Strugatski
Russia, novel
Bless Me, Ultima
Rudolpho Anaya
United States, novel
The Gods Themselves
Isaac Asimov
United States, novel
Chimera
John Barth
United States, Novella cycle
Includes Dunyazadiad, Perseid, Bellerophoniad
The Palm at the End of the Mind
Wallace Stevens
United States, poetry collection
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
United States, novel
Again, Dangerous Visions
ed. Harlan Ellison
United States, story collection
The Optimist's Daughter
Eudora Welty
United States, novel
1973
A Question of Power
Bessie Head
Botswana, novel
Crash
J.G. Ballard
England, novel
The Siege of Krishnapur
J.G. Farrell
England, novel
Equus
Peter Shaffer
England, play
The Box Man
Kōbō Abe
Japan, novel
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russia, nonfiction
Moscow to the End of the Line
Venedikt Yerofeyev
Russia, novel
Searches and Seizures
Stanley Elkin
United States, novella series
The Princess Bride
William Goldman
United States, novel
Dance Hall of the Dead
Tony Hillerman
United States, novel
Fear of Flying
Erica Jong
United States, novel
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
United States, novel
Diving Into the Wreck
Adrienne Rich
United States, poetry collection
Burr
Gore Vidal
United States, novel
The Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut
United States, novel
1974
The Diviners
Canada, novel
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
John Le Carré
England, novel
The Black Prince
Iris Murdoch
England, novel
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
Heinrich Böll
Germany, novella
History
Elas Morante
Italy, novel
Dusklands
J.M. Coetzee
South Africa, novel
The Conservationist
Nadine Gordimer
South Africa, novel
Jaws
Peter Benchley
United States, novel
The Forever War
Joe Haldeman
United States, novel
The Dispossessed
United States, novel
Fletch
Gregory Mcdonald
United States, story collection
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Nicholas Meyer
United States, novel
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Grace Paley
United States, story collection
Turtle Island
Gary Snyder
United States, poetry collection
Dog Soldiers
Robert Stone
United States, novel
1975
The Commandant
Jessica Anderson
Australia, novel
Shōgun
James Clavell
Australia, novel
Correction
Thomas Bernhard
Austria, memoir
The Autumn of the Patriarch
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombia, novel
The Eagle Has Landed
Jack Higgins
England, novel
Heat and Dust
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
England, novel
The Year of the Hare
Arto Paasilinna
Finland, novel
W, or the Memory of Childhood
Georges Perec
France, novel
The Periodic Table
Primo Levi
Italy, memoir
Terra Nostra
Carlos Fuentes
Mexico, novel
Death and the King's Horseman
Wole Soyinka
Nigeria, play
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
John Ashbery
United States, poetry collection
Humboldt's Gift
Saul Bellow
United States, novel
Dhalgren
Samuel Delaney
United States, novel
Ragtime
E.L. Doctorow
United States, novel
The Wind's Twelve Quarters
Ursula Le Guin
United States, story collection
The Dreadful Lemon Sky
John D. MacDonald
United States, novel
1975–2011
Bolitho
Alexander Kent
England, novel series
Back to top
1976
Bear
Marian Engel
Canada, novel
Coming Through Slaughter
Michael Ondaatje
Canada, novel
A Demon in My View
Ruth Rendell
England, novel
Saville
David Storey
England, novel
Hérémakhonon
Maryse Conde
France, novel
Patterns of Childhood
Christa Wolf
Germany, novel
Almost Transparent Blue
Murakami Ryu
Japan, novel
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Raymond Carver
United States, story collection
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Alex Haley
United States, novel
A River Runs Through It
Norman Maclean
United States, novella
The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston
United States, novella
Man Plus
Frederick Pohl
United States, novel
Interview With the Vampire
Ann Rice
United States, novel
1976–1979
Kiss of the Spiderwoman
Manuel Puig
Argentina, novel
1976–1980
The Changing Light at Sandover
James Merrill
United States, poem
1976–1982
The Plantagenet Saga
Jean Plaidy
England, novel series
1977
The Monkey Grip
Helen Garner
Australia, novel
The Thorn Birds
Colleen McCullough
Australia, novel
The Hour of the Star
Clarice Lispector
Brazil, novel
The Wars
Timothy Findley
Canada, novel
The Beggar Maid
Alice Munro
Canada, story collection
Stardance
Spider and Jeanne Robinson
Canada, novel
Woman at Point Zero
Nawal El Saadawi
Egypt, novel
A Morbid Taste for Bones
Ellis Peters
England, novel
Delta of Venus
Anaïs Nin
France, story collection
Petals of Blood
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Kenya, novel
Aunt Julia and the Script-Writer
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peru, novel
A Part of Speech
Joseph Brodsky
Russia, Poetry
In the Heart of the Country
J.M. Coetzee
South Africa, novel
The Sword of Shannara
Terry Brooks
United States, novel
Falconer
John Cheever
United States, novel
Lord Foul's Bane
Stephen R. Donaldson
United States, novel
Fefu and Her Friends
María Irene Fornés
United States, play
Dispatches
Michael Herr
United States, memoir
The Shining
Stephen King
United States, novel
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
United States, novel
Gateway
Frederick Pohl
United States, novel
The Elephant Man
Bernard Pomerance
United States, play
1978
Tirra Lirra by the River
Jessica Anderson
Australia, novel
The Singapore Grip
F.G. Farrell
England, novel
The Bookshop
Penelope Fitzgerald
England, novella
Ken Follett
England, novel
The Far Pavilions
M.M. Kaye
England, novel
The Cement Garden
Ian McEwan
England, novel
Rumpole of the Bailey
John Mortimer
England, story collection
The Sea, the Sea
Iris Murdoch
England, novel
Life a User's Manual
Georges Perecs
France, novel
Kolyma Tales
Varlam Shalamov
Russia, story collection
The Back Room
Carmen Martin Gaite
Spain, novel
The Stories of John Cheever
John Cheever
United States, story collection
The Stand
Stephen King
United States, novel
Dreamsnake
Vonda M. McIntyre
United States, novel
Going After Cacciato
Tim O'Brien
United States, novel
The Persistence of Vision
John Varley
United States, novella
Fifth of July
Lanford Wilson
United States, play
1978–2004
The Dark Tower
Stephen King
United States, novel series
Includes The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three, The Waste Lands, and others
1978–2014
Tales of the City
Armistead Maupin
United States, novel series
1979
Lust, Caution
Eileen Chang
China, novella
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera
Czechoslovakia, novel
Kane and Abel
Jeffrey archer
England, novel
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Angela Carter
England, story collection
Cloud 9
Caryl Churchill
England, play
The Fountains of Paradise
Arthur C. Clarke
England, novel
Whip Hand
Dick Francis
England, novel
Smiley's People
John Le Carré
England, novel
Amadeus
Peter Shaffer
England, play
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera
Czechoslovakia, novel
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino
Italy, novel
Territory of Light
Yūko Tsushima
Japan, novel
So Long a Letter
Mariama Bâ
Senegal, novel
A Dry White Season
André Brink
South Africa, novel
Burger's Daughter
Nadine Gordimer
South Africa, novel
The Southern Seas
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Spain, novel
A Bend in the River
V.S. Naipaul
Trinidad, novel
Flowers in the Attic
V.C. Andrews
United States, novel
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
United States, novel
Legends of the Fall
Jim Harrison
United States, novella
The Executioner's Song
United States, nonfiction novel
The Ghost Writer
United States, novel
Sophie's Choice
William Styron
United States, novel
1979–1992
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
England, novel series
Includes The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and more
1980
Clear Light of Day
Anita Desai
India, novel
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco
Italy, novel
Mother's Stake 1
Park Wan-suh
Korea, novel
The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years
Chinghiz Aitmatov
Kyrgyzstan, novel
Waiting for the Barbarians
J.M. Coetzee
South Africa, novel
Life and Fate
Vasily Grossman
Ukraine, novel
Timescape
Gregory Benford
United States, novel
The Transit of Venus
Shirley Hazzard
United States, novel
Riddley Walker
Russell Hoban
United States, novel
So Long, See You Tomorrow
William Maxwell
United States, novel
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
United States, novel
1980–1987
The Book of the New Sun
Gene Wolfe
United States, novel series
1980–1989
To the Ends of the Earth
William Golding
England, novel series
1981
Obasan
Joy Kogawa
Canada, novel
Leaden Wings
Zhang Jie
China, novel
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Gabriel Garcia Márque
Colombia, novella
The White Hotel
D.M. Thomas
England, novel
Couples, Passersby
Botho Strauss
Germany, story collection
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
India, novel
Mother's Garden
Park Wan-suh
Korea, novel
The House wth the Blind Glass Windows
Mario Vargas Llosa
Norway, novel
The War of the End of the World
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peru, novel
Lanark
Alasdair Gray
Scotland, novel
July's People
Nadine Gordimer
South Africa, novel
Samuel's Book
Sven Delblanc
Sweden, novel
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Raymond Carver
United States, story collection
Emplumada
Lorna Dee Cervantes
United States, poetry collection
Downbelow Station
C.J. Cherryh
United States, novel
Little, Big
John Crowley
United States, novel
Red Dragon
Thomas Harris
United States, novel
The Hotel New Hampshire
United States, novel
Gorky Park
Martin Cruz Smith
United States, novel
Rabbit Is Rich
John Updike
United States, novel
1982
Schindler's List
Thomas Keneally
Australia, novel
Fly Away Peter
David Malouf
Australia, novella
Wittgenstein's Nephew
Thomas Bernhard
Austria, memoir
Shoeless Joe
W.P. Kinsella
Canada, novel
Running in the Family
Michael Ondaatje
Canada, novel
The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende
Chile, novel
On the Black Hill
Bruce Chatwin
England, novel
Top Girls
Carol Churchill
England, play
Noises Off
Michael Frayn
England, play
A Pale View of Hills
Kazuo Ishiguro
England, novel
The False Inspector Dew
Peter Lovesey
England, novel
The Real Thing
Tom Stoppard
England, play
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾
Sue Townsend
England, play
If Not Now, When?
Primo Levy
Italy, novel
A Wild Sheep Chase
Haruki Murakami
Japan, novel
Summer in Baden-Baden
Leonard Tsypkin
Russia, biography
"Master Harold"...and the Boys
Athol Fugard
South Africa, play
The Elfstones of Shannara
Terry Brooks
United States, novel
Ham on Rye
Chaarles Bukowski
United States, novel
The Body
Stephen King
United States, novella
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Stephen King
United States, novella
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Anne Tyler
United States, novel
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
United States, novel
1982–1984
The Belgariad
David Eddings
United States, novel series
1982–1986
Memory of the Fire
Eduardo Galeano
Uruguay, novel series
1983
The Sorrow of Belgium
Hugo Claus
Belgium, novel
Shame
Salman Rushdie
England, novel
Mr Palomar
Italo Calvino
Italy, novel
Fado Alexandrino
Antonio Lobo Antunes
Portugal, novel
The Life and Times of Michael K
J.M. Coetzee
South Africa, novel
Larva: Midsummer Night's Babel
Julián Ríos
Spain, novel
The Christmas Oratorio
Göran Tunström
Sweden, novel
The Mists of Avalon
Marion Bradley
United States, novel
Startide Rising
David Brin
United States, novel
Cathedral
Raymond Carver
United States, story collection
Ironweed
William Kennedy
United States, novel
LaBrava
Elmore Leonard
United States, novel
1983–2015
Discworld
Terry Pratchett
England, novel series
1984
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Canada, novel
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
Czechoslovakia, novel
The Engineer of Human Souls
Josef Skvorecky
Czechoslovakia, novel
Money
Martin Amis
England, novel
J.G. Ballard
England, novel
Flaubert's Parrot
Julian Barnes
England, novel
Hotel du Lac
Anita Brookner
England, novel
The Lover
Marguerite Duras
France, novella
Small Lives
Pierre Michon
France, novel
The Young Man
Botho Strauss
Germany, novel
The Bone People
Keri Hulme
New Zealand, novel
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Portugal, novel
The Wasp Factory
Iain Banks
Scotland, novel
Dictionary of the Khazars
Milorad Pavic
Serbia, novel
Last Evenings With Teresa
Juan Marsé
Spain, novel
The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
United States, novella
The Hunt for Red October
Tom Clancy
United States, novel
Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich
United States, novel
Bright Lights, Big City
Jay McInerney
United States, novel
Glengarry Glen Ross
David Mamet
United States, play
PRESS ENTER[]
John Varley
Novella, play
1984–1986
The Fionavar Tapestry
Guy Gavriel Kay
Canada, novel series
1985
Annie John
Jamaica Kincaid
Antigua, novel
Old Masters
Thomas Bernhard
Austria, novel
Black Robe
Brian Moore
Canada, novel
Half of Man Is Woman
Zhang Xianliang
China, novel
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombia, novel
The Tenth Man
Graham Greene
England, novella
The Parable of the Blind
Gert Hofmann
Germany, novel
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Patrick Suskind
Germany, novel
The Old Gringo
Carlos Fuentes
Mexico, novel
Simon and the Oak Trees
Marianne Frederiksson
Sweden, novel
Blood Music
Greg Bear
United States, novel
White Noise
Don DeLillo
United States, novel
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
United States, novel
Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
United States, novel
Contact
Carl Sagan
United States, novel
The Accidental Tourist
Anne Tyler
United States, novel
1985–1986
The New York Trilogy
Paul Auster
United States, novel series
1986
Extinction
Thomas Bernhard
Austria, novel
The Old Devils
Kingsley Amis
England, novel
An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro
England, novel
A Taste for Death
P.D. James
England, novel
Howl's Moving Castle
Diana Wynne Jones
England, novel
A Dark-Adopted Eye
Barbara Vine
England, novel
Matigari
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Kenya, novel
Who Killed Palomino Molero?
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peru, novel
Kaffir Boy
Mark Mathabane
South Africa, memoir
Ancestral Voices
Etienne van Heerden
South Africa, novel
The Dog
Kerstin Ekman
Sweden, novel
The Prince of Tides
Pat Conroy
United States, novel
The Sportswriter
Richard Ford
United States, novel
1986–1987
Red Sorghum
Mo Yan
China, novel
1986–2011
Red Wall
Brian Jacques
Englqnd, novel series
1986–present
The Vorkosigan Saga
Lois McMaster Bujold
United States, novel series
Includes Test of Honour, Dreamweaver's Dilemma, Shards of Honour, Barrayar and others
1987
In the Skin of a Lion
Michael Ondaatje
Canada, novel
The Stone Diaries
Carol Shields
Canada, novel
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
England, novel
The Radiant Way
Margaret Drabble
England, novel
Watchmen
Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons
England, graphic novel
A Fatal Inversion
Barbara Vine
England, novel
The Pigeon
Patrick Süskind
Germany, novella
The Commitments
Roddy Doyle
Ireland, novel
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
Japan, novel
The Place of the Skull
Chingiz Aitmatov
Russia, novel
You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town
Zoë Wicomb
South Africa, story collection
The Enigma of Arrival
V.S. Naipaul
Trinidad, novel
World's End
T. Coraghessan Boyle
United States, novel
War for the Oaks
Emma Bull
United States, novel
The Black Dahlia
James Ellroy
United States, novel
Misery
Stephen King
United States, novel
Beloved
Toni Morrison
United States, novel
Presumed Innocent
Scott Turow
United States, novel
1988
Oscar and Lucinda
Peter Carey
Australia, novel
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Brazil, novel
Cat's Eye
Margaret Atwood
Canada, novel
The First Garden
Anne Hebert
Canada, novel
Under World
Reginald Hill
England, novel
The Swimming-Pool Library
Alan Hollinghurst
England, novel
The Shadow Lines
Amitav Ghosh
India, novel
The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie
India, novel
Foucault's Pendulum
Umberto Eco
Italy, novel
Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto
Japan, novel
Ice Candy Man
Bapsi Sidhwa
Pakistan, novel
Obabakoak
Bernardo Atxaga
Spain, novel
Black Cherry Blues
James Lee Burke
United States, story collection
Where I'm Calling From
Raymond Carver
United States, story collection
The Silence of the Lambs
Thomas Harris
United States, play
A Thief of Time
Tony Hillerman
United States, novel
M. Butterfly
David Henry Hwang
United States, play
The Bean Trees
Barbara Kingsolver
United States, novel
Wittgenstein's Mistress
David Markson
United States, novel
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
United States, novel
Breathing Lessons
Anne Tyler
United States, novel
Matilda
Rouald Dahl
Wales, novel
Nervous Conditions
Dangarembga Tsitsi
Zimbabwe, novel
1989
Whale Music
Paul Quarrington
Canada, novel
London Fields
Martin Amis
England, novel
The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett
England, novel
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
England, novel
Devices and Desires
P.D. James
England, novel
The Quincunx
England, novel
The Great Indian Novel
Shashi Tharoor
India, novel
Like Water for Chocolate
Laura Esquivel
Mexico, novel
The Storyteller
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peru, novel
The History of the Siege of Lisbon
José Saramago
Portugal, novel
All Souls
Javier Marías
Spain, novel
A Prayer for Owen Meany
United States, novel
1989–1996
Sandman
Neil Gaiman
England, graphic novel series
1989–1999
The Hyperion Cantos
Dan Simmons
United States, novel series
Includes Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion, and stories
1990
Tigana
Guy Gavriel Kay
Canada, novel
Soul Mountain
Gao Xingjian
China, novel
Possession
A.S. Byatt
England, novel
Vertigo
W.G. Sebald
Germany, novel
The Daughter
Pavlos Matesis
Greece, novel
The Snapper
Roddy Doyle
Ireland, novel
Dancing at Lughnasa
Brian Friel
Ireland, play
Circle of Friends
Maeve Binchey
Ireland, novel
Amongst Women
John McGahern
Ireland, novel
Omeros
Derek Walcott
St. Lucia, Poetry
L.A. Confidential
James Ellroy
United States, novel
Six Degrees of Separation
John Guare
United States, play
The Eye of the World
Robert Jordan
United States, novel
Get Shorty
Elmore Leonard
United States, novel
Devil in a Blue Dress
Walter Mosley
United States, novel
Like Life
Lorrie Moore
United States, story collection
The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien
United States, story collection
Rabbit at Rest
John Updike
United States, novel
1990–1993
Raise the Red Lantern
Su Tong
China, novella series
Includes Raise the Red Lantern, Nineteen Thirty-Four Escapes, Opium Family
1991
Cloudstreet
Tim Winton
Australia, novel
Generation X
Douglas Coupland
Canada, novel
Wild Swans
Jung Chang
China, nonfiction novel
Astradeni
Eugenia Fakinou
Greece, novel
The Famished Road
Ben Okri
Nigeria, novel
Sophie's World
Jostein Gaarder
Norway, novel
The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa
Portugal, novel
Faceless Killers
Henning Mankell
Sweden, novel
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent
Julia Alvarez
United States, novel
Mao II
Don Delillo
United States, novel
American Psycho
Bret Ellis Easton
United States, novel
Mating
Norman Rush
United States, novel
A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley
United States, novel
Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Art Spiegelman
United States, graphic novel
The Kitchen God's Wife
Amy Tan
United States, novel
1991–1993
The Thrawn Trilogy
Timothy Zahn
United States, novel series
1991–1995
Pat Barker
England, novel series
Includes Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road
1991–
Outlander
Diana Gabaldon
United States, novel series
1992
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
Canada, novel
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Peter Høeg
Denmark, novel
Memories of Rain
Sunetra Gupta
England, novel
Sacred Hunger
Barry Unsworth
England, novel
Written on the Body
Jeanette Winterson
England, novel
The Emigrants
W.G. Sebald
Germany, novel
Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture
Apostolos Doxiadis
Greece, novel
Vardi Wala Gunda
Ved Prakash
India, novel
The Butcher Boy
Patrick McCabe
Ireland, novel
The Discovery of Heaven
Harry Mulisch
Netherlands, novel
The Triple Mirror of the Self
Zulfikar Ghose
Pakistan, novel
The Crow Road
Iain Banks
Scotland, novel
Bastard Out of Carolina
Dorothy Allison
United States, novel
Jesus' Son
Denis Johnson
United States, story collection
Angels in America
Tony Kushner
United States, play
All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy
United States, novel
Black Water
Joyce Carol Oates
United States, novella
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
United States, novel
The Secret History
Donna Tartt
United States, novel
A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge
United States, novel
The Bridges of Madison County
Robert James Waller
United States, novel
Doomsday Book
Connie Willis
United States, novel
1992–1996
Mars trilogy
Kim Stanley Robinson
United States, novel
Includes Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars
1993
Remembering Babylon
David Malouf
Australia, novel
Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
Canada, poetry collection
Green Grass, Running Water
Thomas King
Canada, novel
To Live
Yu Hu
China, novel
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
Álvaro Mutis
Colombia, novella series
Before Night Falls
Reinaldo Arenas
Cuba, memoir
A Dead Man in Deptford
Anthony Burgess
England, novel
Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks
England, novel
Arcadia
Tom Stoppard
England, play
The Invention of Curried Sausage
Uwe Timm
Germany, novella
A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth
India, novel
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Roddy Doyle
Ireland, novel
Deep River
Shūsaku Endō
Japan, novel
The Life of Insects
Victor Pelevin
Russia, novel
Trainspotting
Irvine Welsh
Scotland, novel
Gifts
Narrudin Farah
Somalia, novel
The Dumas Club
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Spain, novel
Blackwater
Kerstin Ekman
Sweden, novel
The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides
United States, novel
The Giver
Lois Lowry
United States, novel
The Shipping News
Annie Proulx
United States, novel
The Celestine Prophecy
James Redfield
United States, novel
1994
The Book of Secrets
M.G. Vassanji
Canada, novel
Of Love and Shadows
Isabel Allende
Chile, novel
Our Lady of the Assassins
Fernando Vallejo
Colombia, novel
What a Carve Up!
Jonathan Coe
England, novel
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Louis de Bernieres
England, novel
Whatever
Michel Houellbecq
France, novel
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Edwidge Dandicat
Haiti, novel
Pereira Maintains
Antonio Tabucchi
Italy, novel
How Late It Was
James Kelman
Scotland, novel
In the Time of Butterflies
Julia Alvarez
United States, novel
Complete Collected Poems
Maya Angelou
United states, poetry collection
1994–1995
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
Japan, novel
1995
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
Canada, novel
The Jade Peony
Wayson Choy
Canada, novel
High Fidelity
Nick Hornby
England, novel
The Unconsoled
Kazuo Ishiguro
England, novel
The Prestige
Christopher Priest
England, novel
The Reader
Bernard Schlink
Germany, novel
The Late-Night News
Petros Markaris
Greece, novel
Astonishing the Gods
Ben Okri
Nigeria, novel
The Tortilla Curtain
T. Coraghessan Boyle
United States, novel
Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson
United States, novel
1995–1997
The Farseer Trilogy
Philip Pullman
England, novel series
Includes Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest
1995–2000
His Dark Materials
Philip Pullman
England, novel series
Includes Northern Lights (The Golden Compass), The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass
1995–2003
The Old Kingdom
Garth Nix
Australia, novel series
Includes Sabriel; Lirael; Abhorsen; Clariel; Goldenhand; Terciel and Elinor
1996
The Cure for Death by Lightning
Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Canada, novel
Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood
Canada, novel
Selected Stories
Mavis Gallant
Canada, story collection
Includes The Moslem Wife, In Youth Is Pleasure, The Chosen Husband, In Plain Sight, and others
Fall on Your Knees
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Canada, novel
Fugitive Pieces
Anne Michaels
Canada, novel
The Englishman's Boy
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Canada, novel
Last Orders
Graham Swift
England, story collection
Quilt and Other Stories
Ismat Chugtai
India, story collection
Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt
Ireland, memoir
Silk
Alessandro Baricco
Italy, novel
View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
Wisława Szymborska
Poland, novel
Chapeyev and Pustota
Victor Pelevin
Russia, novel
Drown
Junot Díaz
United States, story collection
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
George Saunders
United States, story collection
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
United States, novel
1996–
A Song of Ice and Fire
George R.R. Martin
United States, novel series
Includes A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons, and others
1997
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
India, novel
Closely Watched Trains
Bohumil Hrabal
Czechia, novel
Underworld
Don DeLillo
United States, novel
The Red Tent
Anita Diamant
United States, novel
The Philip K. Dick Reader
Philip K. Dick
United States, story collection
Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier
United States, novel
Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden
United States, novel
Forever Peace
Joe Haldeman
United States, novel
Charming Billy
Alice McDermott
United States, novel
Mason and Dixon
Thomas Pynchon
United States, novel
American Pastoral
United States, novel
1997–2007
Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling
England, novel series
Includes Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, ...and the Chamber of Secrets, ...and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and more
1998
Brown Girl in the Ring
Nalo Hopkinson
Canada, novel
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
Wayne Johnston
Canada, novel
The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño
Chile, novel
Birthday Letters
Ted Hughes
England, Poetry
Amsterdam
Ian McEwan
England, novel
The Elementary Particles
Michel Houellbecq
France, novel
Crossfire
Miyuki Miyabi
Japan, novel
Open Ground
Seamus Heaney
Northern Ireland, poetry collection
The No. 1 Laies' Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith
Scotland, novel
My Name Is Red
Miguel Delibes
Spain, novel
The Heretic
Orhan Pamuk
Turkey, novel
The Hours
Michael Cunningham
United States, novel
On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon
United States, novel
A Widow for One Year
United States, novel
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver
United States, novel
1998–2018
Fandorin
Boris Akunin
Russia, novel series
Includes The Winter Queen, The Turkish Gambit, Murder on the Leviathan, The Death of Achilles, and others
1999
Natural Novel
Georgi Gospodinov
Bulgaria, novel
No Great Mischief
Alexander MacLeod
Canada, novel
Barney's Version
Mordecai Richler
Canada, novel
Brooklyn
Colm Tóibín
Ireland, novel
Somersault
Kenzaburō Ōe
Japan, novel
The Years With Laura Diaz
Carlos Fuentes
Mexico, novel
Disgrace
J.M. Coetzee
South Africa, novel
Waiting
Ha Jin
United States, novel
Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri
United States, story collection
Ties That Bind, Ties That Break
Lensey Namioka
United States, novel
2000
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
Ismail Kadare
Albania, novel
True History of the Kelly Gang
Peter Carey
Australia, novel
Anil's Ghost
Michael Ondaatje
Canada, novel
Mercy Among the Children
David Adams Richards
Canada, novel
Monkey Beach
Eden Robinson
Canada, novel
Emotionally Weird
Kate Atkinson
England, novel
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
England, novel
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Dai Sijie
France, novel
The Feast of the Goat
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peru, novel
The Poems and Prose of Paul Celan
Paul Celan
Romania, prose and poetry collection
Bartleby and Co
Entique Vila-Matas
Spain, novel
Proof
David Auburn
United States, play
Angels and Demons
Dan Brown
United States, novel
I Ask the Impossible
Ana Castillo
United States, poetry collection
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
United States, novel
Shopgirl
Steve Martin
United States, novella
Pastoralia
George Saunders
United States, story collection
2000–2003
Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
Iran, graphic novel series
Includes Persepolis, Persepolis 2
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