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| Date | Title | Author | Country | Type | |||||||
| c.60-70 | Satyricon | Arbiter Petronius | Rome | Prose and poetry | |||||||
| c.150 | The Golden Ass | Lucius Apuleius | Rome | Prose narrative | |||||||
| c.1020 | The Tale of Genji | Murasaki Shikibu | Japan | Prose narrative | |||||||
| c.1200 | The Prose Edda | Snorri Sturlson | Iceland | Prose narrative | |||||||
| c.1220 | The Tale of the Heike | Anonymous | Japan | Prose narrative | |||||||
| c.1360 -1400 |
Romance of Three Kingdoms | Luo Guanzhong | China | Novel | |||||||
| Outlaws of the Marsh | Luo Guanzhong | China | Novel | ||||||||
| 1492 | Prison of Love | Diego de San Pedro | Spain | Novel | |||||||
| 1499 | La Celestina | Fernando de Rojas | Spain | Novel | |||||||
| 1516 | Utopia | Thomas More | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1528 | The Book of the Courtier | Baldasarre Castiglione | Italy | Dialogue | |||||||
| 1532 | Pantagruel | Francois Rabelais | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1534 | Gargantua | Francois Rabelais | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1588 | Oroonoko | Aphra Behn | England | Novel | |||||||
| c.1590 | The Golden Lotus | Anonymous | China | Novel | |||||||
| 1605-15 | Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | Spain | Novel | |||||||
| 1682 | The Life of an Amorous Man | Ihara Saikaku | Japan | Novel | |||||||
| 1699 | The Adventures of Telemachus | François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1719 | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1722 | Moll Flanders | Daniel Defoe | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1726 | Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1731 | Manon Lescant | l’Abbé (Antoine François) Prévost | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1731-41 | The Life of Marianne | Pierre Marivaux | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1740 | Pamela | Samuel Richardson | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1742 | Joseph Andrews | Henry Fielding | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1748 | Clarissa | Samuel Richardson | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1749 | Tom Jones | Henry Fielding | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1751 | The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle | Tobias Smollett | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1759–67 | Tristram Shandy | Laurence Sterne | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1759 | Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia | Samuel Johnson | England | Novel | |||||||
| Candide | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire | France | Novel | ||||||||
| 1764 | The Castle of Otranto | Horace Walpole | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1766 | The Vicar of Wakefield | Oliver Goldsmith | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1771 | Humphrey Clinker | Tobias Smollett | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1774 | The Sorrows of Young Werther | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Germany | Novel | |||||||
| 1778 | Evelina | Fanny Burney | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1782 | Dangerous Liaisons | Pierre Choderlos de Laclos | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1791 | The Dream of the Red Chamber | Cao Zhan | China | Novel | |||||||
| 1794 | The Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Radcliff | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1795-96 | William Meister’s Apprenticeship | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Germany | Novel | |||||||
| 1796 | Jacques the Fatalist and His Master | Denis Diderot | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1797-99 | Hyperion | Friedrich Holderlin | Germany | Novel | |||||||
| 1798 | Wieland | Charles Brockden Brown | USA | Novel | |||||||
| 1799 | Ormond | Charles Brockden Brown | USA | Novel | |||||||
| 1800 | Castle Rackrent | Maria Edgeworth | Ireland | Novel | |||||||
| 1802 | Delphine | Madame de Stael | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1805 | René | François René de Chateaubriand | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1813 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | England | Novel | |||||||
| Swiss Family Robinson | Johann David Wyss | Switzer. | Novel | ||||||||
| 1814 | Waverly | Walter Scott | Scotland | Novel | |||||||
| Mansfield Park | Jane Austen | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1815 | Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1815-16 | The Devil's Elixir | E.T.A. Hoffmann | Germany | Novel | |||||||
| 1816 | Emma | Jane Austen | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1818 | Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen | England | Novel | |||||||
| Nightmare Abbey | Thomas Love Peacock | England | Novel | ||||||||
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1819 | Ivanhoe | Walter Scott | Scotland | Novel | |||||||
| 1820 | Melmouth the Wanderer | Charles Maturin | Ireland | Novel | |||||||
| 1825 | The Talisman | Walter Scott | Scotland | Novel | |||||||
| 1825-42 | The Betrothed | Alessandro Manzoni | Italy | Novel | |||||||
| 1826 | The Last of the Mohicans | James Fennimore Cooper | USA | Novel | |||||||
| 1831 | Scarlet and Black | Stendhal | France | Novel | |||||||
| Notre Dame de Paris | Victor-Marie Hugo | France | Novel | ||||||||
| 1833 | Eugénie Grandet | Honoré de Balzac | France | Novel | |||||||
| Lélia | George Sand | France | Novel | ||||||||
| 1834 | Old Goriot | Honore de Balzac | France | Novel | |||||||
| The Last Days of Pompeii | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1839 | The Charterhouse of Parma | Stendhal | France | Novel | |||||||
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1840 | A Hero of Our Time | Mikhail Lermontov | Russia | Novel | |||||||
| 1841 | The Deerslayer | James Fennimore Cooper | USA | Novel | |||||||
| 1842 | Dead Souls | Nikolai Gogol | Russia | Novel | |||||||
| 1843 | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | England | Novella | |||||||
| 1843-47 | A Harlot High and Low | Honoré de Balzac | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1844 | The Luck of Barry Lyndon | William Makepeace Thackeray | England | Novel | |||||||
| The Count of Monte-Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | France | Novel | ||||||||
| 1845 | The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas | France | Novel | |||||||
| Carmen | Prosper Mérimée | France | Novel | ||||||||
| 1846 | Cousin Bette | Honoré de Balzac | France | Novel | |||||||
| The Devil's Pool | George Sand | France | Novel | ||||||||
| The Man in the Iron Mask | Alexandre Dumas | France | Novel | ||||||||
| 1847 | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | England | Novel | |||||||
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1848 | Mary Barton | Elizabeth Gaskell | England | Novel | |||||||
| Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1850 | The Black Tulip | Alexandre Dumas | France | Novel | |||||||
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | England | Novel | ||||||||
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1851 | Moby Dick | Herman Melville | USA | Novel | |||||||
| 1852 | A Sportsman’s Sketches | Ivan Turgenev | Russia | Novel | |||||||
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1853 | Les Chatiments | Victor-Marie Hugo | France | Novel | |||||||
| Bleak House | Charles Dickens | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1854 | Hard Times | Charles Dickens | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1855 | North and South | Elizabeth Gaskell | England | Novel | |||||||
| The Warden | Anthony Trollope | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1857 | Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | France | Novel | |||||||
| Barchester Towers | Anthony Trollope | England | Novel | ||||||||
| Little Dorrit | Charles Dickens | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1859 | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | England | Novel | |||||||
| The Virginians | William Makepeace Thackeray | England | Novel | ||||||||
| Oblomov | Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov | Russia | Novel | ||||||||
| 1860 | The Mill on the Floss | George Eliot | England | Novel | |||||||
| The Woman in White | Wilkie Collins | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1861 | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | England | Novel | |||||||
| Silas Marner | George Eliot | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1862 | Les Miserables | Victor-Marie Hugo | France | Novel | |||||||
| Fathers and Sons | Ivan Turgenev | Russia | Novel | ||||||||
| 1864 | A Journey to the Centre of the Earth | Jules Verne | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1865 | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1865-69 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | Russia | Novel | |||||||
| 1866 | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevski | Russia | Novel | |||||||
| 1868 | The Moonstone | Wilkie Collins | England | Novel | |||||||
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1869 | Lorna Doone | Richard Blackmore | England | Novel | |||||||
| Phineas Finn | Anthony Trollope | England | Novel | ||||||||
| A Sentimental Education | Gustave Flaubert | France | Novel | ||||||||
| 1870 | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1871 | Through the Looking-Glass | Lewis Carroll | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1872 | Middlemarch | George Eliot | England | Novel | |||||||
| Erewhon | Samuel Butler | England | Novel | ||||||||
| The Possessed | Fyodor Dostoyevski | Russia | Novel | ||||||||
| 1873 | Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1874 | Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy | England | Novel | |||||||
| The Idiot | Fyodor Dostoyevski | Russia | Novel | ||||||||
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | Russia | Novel | ||||||||
| 1876 | Daniel Deronda | George Eliot | England | Novel | |||||||
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1879 | Daisy Miller | Henry James | England | Novel | |||||||
| The Egoist | George Meredith | England | Novel | ||||||||
| Jacques Vingtras | Jules Valles | France | Novel | ||||||||
| 1880 | Nana | Émile Zola | France | Novel | |||||||
| The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoyevski | Russia | Novel | ||||||||
| Ben-Hur | Lew Wallace | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1883 | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | Scotland | Novel | |||||||
| 1884 | Cavalleria Rusticana | Giovanni Verga | Italy | Novel | |||||||
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1885 | Germinal | Émile Zola | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1886 | The Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy | England | Novel | |||||||
| The Death of Ivan Ilyich | Leo Tolstoy | Russia | Novella | ||||||||
| Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | Scotland | Novella | ||||||||
| Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson | Scotland | Novel | ||||||||
| 1889 | Three Men in a Boat | Jerome K. Jerome | England | Novel | |||||||
| The Master of Ballantrae | Robert Louis Stevenson | Scotland | Novel | ||||||||
| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court | Mark Twain | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1891 | Tess of the D’Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy | England | Novel | |||||||
| News from Nowhere | William Morris | England | Novel | ||||||||
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1892 | The Diary of a Nobody | George and Weedon Grossmith | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1894 | Esther Waters | George Moore | Ireland | Novel | |||||||
| 1895 | The Time Machine | H.G. Wells | England | Novel | |||||||
| Effi Briest | Theodor Fontane | Germany | Novel | ||||||||
| Lilith | George MacDonald | Scotland | Novel | ||||||||
| The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1896 | Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy | England | Novel | |||||||
| The Bostonians | Henry James | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1897 | Dracula | Bram Stoker | Ireland | Novel | |||||||
| 1898 | The War of the Worlds | H.G. Wells | England | Novel | |||||||
| The Turn of the Screw | Henry James | USA | Novella | ||||||||
| 1899 | Hunger | Knut Hamsun | Norway | Novel | |||||||
| 1900 | Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad | England | Novel | |||||||
| Sister Carrie | Theodore Dreiser | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| Monsieur Beaucaire | Booth Tarkington | USA | Novel | ||||||||
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