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| Date | Title | Author | Country | Type | |||||||
| 1601 | Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1839 | Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1892 | Lady Windermere's Fan | Oscar Wilde | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1897 | The Ballad of Reading Gaol | Oscar Wilde | England | Poetry | |||||||
| 1925 | The Professor's House | Willa Cather | USA | Novel | |||||||
| 1929 | Wolf Solent | John Cowper Powys | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1929-34 | Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky | Patrick Hamilton | England | Novels | |||||||
| 1932 | Light in August | William Faulkner | USA | Novel | |||||||
| 1934 | Burmese Days | George Orwell | England | Novel | |||||||
| Yerma | Federico Garcia Lorca | Spain | Drama | ||||||||
| 1936 | The House of Bernarda Alba | Federico Garcia Lorca | Spain | Drama | |||||||
| 1940 | The Man Who Loved Children | Christina Stead | Australia | Novel | |||||||
| 1942 | The Family of Pascal Duarte | Camilo José Cela | Spain | Novel | |||||||
| 1943 | A Moon for the Misbegotten | Eugene O'Neill | USA | Drama | |||||||
| 1945 | The Pursuit of Love | Nancy Mitford | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1951 | The Hive | Camilo José Cela | Spain | Novel | |||||||
| 1951-53 | Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable | Samuel Beckett | Ireland | Novels | |||||||
| 1962 | The Physicists | Friedrich Dürrenmatt | Switzer. | Drama | |||||||
| 1965 | Ariel | Sylvia Plath | USA | Poetry | |||||||
| 1974 | The Bottle Factory Outing | Beryl Bainbridge | England | Novel | |||||||
| Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | John Le Carré | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1977-85 | Shannara | Terry Brooks | USA | Novels | |||||||
| 1978 | An Imaginary Life | David Malouf | Australia | Novel | |||||||
| Plenty | David Hare | England | Drama | ||||||||
| 1979 | Offshore | Penelope Fitzgerald | England | Novel | |||||||
| The Executioner's Song | Norman Mailer | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1980 | Clear Light of Day | Anita Desai | India | Novel | |||||||
| So Long, See You Tomorrow | William Maxwell | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1981 | Lanark: A Life in Four Books | Alasdair Gray | Scotland | Novel | |||||||
| 1983 | Ironweed | William Joseph Kennedy | USA | Novel | |||||||
| 1984 | Empire of the Sun | J.G. Ballard | England | Novel | |||||||
| The Wasp Factory | Iain Banks | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1985 | Blood Meridian | Cormac McCarthy | USA | Novel | |||||||
| 1987 | The New York Trilogy | Paul Auster | USA | Novels | |||||||
| 1989 | The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1990 | Haroun and the Sea of Stories | Salman Rushdie | India | Stories | |||||||
| LA Confidential | James Ellroy | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1992 | All the Pretty Horses | Cormac McCarthy | USA | Novel | |||||||
| 1995 | The Blue Flower | Penelope Fitzgerald | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1996 | Fugitive Pieces | Anne Michaels | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| 1997 | American Pastoral | Philip Roth | USA | Novel | |||||||
| Cold Mountain | Charles Frazier | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1998 | Opened Ground: Selected Poems | Seamus Heaney | Ireland | Poetry | |||||||
| On Beulah Height | Reginald Hill | England | Novel | ||||||||
| Copenhagen | Michael Frayn | England | Drama | ||||||||
| 1999 | The Drawer Boy | Michael Healey | Canada | Drama | |||||||
| No Great Mischief | Alistair MacLeod | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| Angela's Ashes | Frank McCourt | USA | Memoir | ||||||||
| 2000 | The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood | Canada | Novel | |||||||
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