The following list contains the 3,596 best works of literature ever written. This list includes fiction (novels and stories), non-fiction, poetry and plays, organized in chronological order beginning with the Epic of Gilgamesh in 2000 BCE and ending (for now) with the most highly-rated books from 2022. I created this meta-meta list by combining the following meta-lists:
Greatest Works of Literature
Best Writers and their Best Works
Best Novels of All Time
Best Short Stories of All Time
Best Plays of All Time
Best Poetry of All Time
Best Science Fiction Books
Best Fantasy Books
Best Non-Fiction Books
Best Books – Year by Year (2000-2022) (top 10 or so from each year)
Best Books of the 21st Century (So Far)
TERMINOLOGY
novel: any long work of fiction, no matter the date (Note: some scholars dispute this definition)
novels: a trilogy or longer series of novels
novella: a short novel or very long story
story: a short story, tale or fable
stories: a collection of stories
poem: an individual poem
epic poem: a long narrative poem
poetry: a collection of poems
DATES
Some of the dates are approximate or disputed. For undated works, including many of the individual poems, I have used the last year of the author’s life. When I have both the date the work was written and the date it was published, and the two dates are several years apart, I have placed the work under the date of writing, but also included the publication date. Where there is a range of dates, I have placed the work under the most recent date, EXCEPT in the case of trilogies and other series, in which case I have placed the entire series at the date of the earliest work.
LOCATIONS
In identifying the country or countries associated with the work, I have used the following rules: country of the birth of the author and, if different, the country in which the author was living at the time the work was written. I have used the names of the countries or regions that were applicable at the time the work was written and/or published, except for German and Italian works for which I have used the terms “Germany” and “Italy” for post-Roman Empire works, no matter the date.
AUTHOR NAMES & WORK TITLES
I have to admit my practice is a little inconsistent here. For works in languages other than English, I usually use the English translation. I sometimes also include the original language title. If there is another common title, I usually provide that also. If the author uses a pseudonym, I use that instead of the real name. For some Chinese names I have provided both traditional and more recent transliterations.
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- The Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2000 BCE, Mesopotamia) – Anonymous [epic poem]
- Rig Veda (c. 1500-1200 BCE, India) – Anonymous [poetry/religious text]
- I Ching (c. 1000 BCE, China) – Anonymous [non-fiction]
- The Iliad (c. 800-725 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Homer (attrib.) [epic poem]
- The Odyssey (c. 775-700 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Homer (attrib.) [epic poem]
- Theogony (700 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Hesiod [poem]
- Works and Days (c. 700 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Hesiod [poem]
- Tao Te Ching (c. 624-604 BCE, China) – Lao Tzu (Laozi) [non-fiction: philosophy]
- Classic of Poetry (Book of Odes; Shijing) (c. 600 BCE, China) – Anonymous [poetry]
- With His Venom (c. 570 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Sappho [poem]
- Fragment 42 (c. 570 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Sappho [poem]
- Fragment 155 (c. 570 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Sappho [poem]
- Fables (c. 600-560 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Aesop [fiction: stories]
- The Persians (472 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Aeschylus [play]
- Seven Against Thebes (467 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Aeschylus [play]
- The Suppliant Women (463 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Aeschylus [play]
- The Oresteia (458 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Aeschylus [plays]
- Oedipus Rex (c. 450 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Sophocles [play]
- Women of Trachis (c. 450 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Sophocles [play]
- Ajax (c. 447 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Sophocles [play]
- Victory Odes (498-444 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Pindar [poetry]
- Antigone (442-441 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Sophocles [play]
- The Histories (441 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Herodotus [non-fiction: history]
- Alcestis (438 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Euripides [play]
- Medea (c. 431 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Euripides [play]
- Prometheus Bound (c. 430 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Aeschylus (attrib. in question) [play]
- Hippolytus (c. 428 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Euripides [play]
- Andromache (c. 425 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Euripides [play]
- The Acharnians (425 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Aristophanes [play]
- The Knights (424 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Aristophanes [play]
- Hecuba (c. 424 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Euripides [play]
- The Clouds (423 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Aristophanes [play]
- The Wasps (422 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Aristophanes [play]
- Peace (421 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Aristophanes [play]
- Electra (c. 420 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Euripides [play]
- Heracles (c. 416 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Euripides [play]
- Trojan Women (415 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Euripides [play]
- Electra (418-414 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Sophocles [play]
- Iphigenia in Tauris (414 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Euripides [play]
- Ion (414 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Euripides [play]
- Helen (412 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Euripides [play]
- Thesmophoriazusae (411 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Aristophanes [play]
- Lysistrata (411 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Aristophanes [play]
- The History of the Peloponnesian War (c. 410 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Thucydides [non-fiction: history]
- Philoctetes (409 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Sophocles [play]
- Orestes (408 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Euripides [play]
- The Bacchae (405 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Euripides [play]
- The Frogs (405 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Aristophanes [play]
- Iphigenia at Aulis (405 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Euripides [play]
- Oedipus at Colonus (401 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Sophocles [play]
- Mukya Upanishads (c. 800-400 BCE, India) – Anonymous [religious text]
- The Art of War (c. 499-400 BCE, China) – Sun Tzu (Sunzi) (attrib.) [non-fiction]
- The Birds (c. 400 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Aristophanes [play]
- Cyclops (c. 400 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Euripides [play]
- The Book of Job (c. 400 BCE, Palestine) – Anonymous [religious text]
- The Assemblywomen (392 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Aristophanes [play]
- Apology (c. 399-390 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Plato [non-fiction: philosophy]
- Crito (c. 399-390 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Plato [non-fiction: philosophy]
- Wealth (Plutus) (388 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Aristophanes [play]
- Meno (c. 388-367 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Plato [non-fiction: philosophy]
- Phaedo (c. 388-367 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Plato [non-fiction: philosophy]
- The Republic (c. 388-367 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Plato [non-fiction: philosophy]
- The Symposium (c. 388-367 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Plato [non-fiction: philosophy]
- Avesta (c. 559-330 BCE, Persia) – Anonymous [religious text]
- Poetics (335-323 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Aristotle [non-fiction: philosophy]
- Nicomachean Ethics (335-323 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Aristotle [non-fiction: philosophy]
- Politics (335-323 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Aristotle [non-fiction: philosophy]
- Physics (335-323 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Aristotle [non-fiction: philosophy]
- Rhetoric (335-323 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Aristotle [non-fiction: philosophy]
- Metaphysics (335-323 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Aristotle [non-fiction: philosophy]
- On the Soul (335-323 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Aristotle [non-fiction: philosophy]
- Mahabharata (c. 540-300 BCE, India) – Vyasa (attrib.) [poetry/religious text]
- The Bhagavad-Gita (c. 400-300 BCE, India) – Anonymous [poetry/religious text]
- The Book of Mencius (c. 309-289 BCE, China) – Mencius [non-fiction: philosophy]
- The Book of Zhuangzi (c. 306-286 BCE, China) – Zhuangzi [non-fiction: philosophy]
- The Han Feizi (c. 281-233 BCE, China) – Han Fei [non-fiction: political philosophy]
- The Analects of Confucius (c. 475-221 BCE, China) – Confucius (attrib.) [philosophy]
- Argonautica (Jason and the Argonauts) (c. 220 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Apollonius of Rhodes [epic poem]
- The Panchatantra (c. 300-200 BCE, India) – Vishnu Sharma (attrib.) [fiction: linked stories]
- Idylls (c. 200 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Theocritus [poetry]
- Pseudolus (c. 191 BCE, Ancient Rome) – Plautus [play]
- Amphitryon (c. 190-185 BCE, Ancient Rome) – Plautus [play]
- The Menaechmi (c. 254-184 BCE, Ancient Rome) – Plautus [play]
- The Old Testament (c. 800-100 BCE, Palestine/Mesopotamia) – Anonymous [religious texts]
- Dhammapada (200-100 BCE, India) – Anonymous [religious text]
- Records of the Grand Historian (109-91 BCE, China) Sima Qian [non-fiction: history]
- IV (The Yacht) (c. 65-54 BCE, Ancient Rome) – Catullus [poem]
- V (Let’s Live and Love: To Lesbia) (c. 65-54 BCE, Ancient Rome) – Catullus [poem]
- VI (Flavius’s Girl: To Flavius) (c. 65-54 BCE, Ancient Rome) – Catullus [poem]
- VII (How Many Kisses: To Lesbia) (c. 65-54 BCE, Ancient Rome) – Catullus [poem]
- VIII (Advice: To Himself) (c. 65-54 BCE, Ancient Rome) – Catullus [poem]
- X (Home Truths For Varus’s Girl: To Varus) (c. 65-54 BCE, Ancient Rome) – Catullus [poem]
- XI (Words Against Lesbia: To Furius and Aurelius) (c. 65-54 BCE, Ancient Rome) – Catullus [poem]
- XIII (Invitation: To Fabullus) (c. 65-54 BCE, Ancient Rome) – Catullus [poem]
- XIV (What A Book! : To Calvus The Poet) (c. 65-54 BCE, Ancient Rome) – Catullus [poem]
- XXXI (Sirmio) ( c. 65-54 BCE, Ancient Rome) – Catullus [poem]
- LI (He seems to me equal to a God/To Lesbia) (c. 65-54 BCE, Ancient Rome) – Catullus [poem]
- LXIII (Attis) (c. 65-54 BCE, Ancient Rome) – Catullus [poem]
- CI (Ave Atque Vale: On His brother’s death) (c. 65-54 BCE, Ancient Rome) – Catullus [poem]
- De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) (50 BCE, Ancient Rome) – Lucretius [poem]
- Eclogues (39-38 BCE, Ancient Rome) – Virgil [poetry]
- Satires (35-30 BCE, Ancient Rome) – Horace [poetry]
- Georgics (37-29 BCE, Ancient Rome) [poetry]
- The Aeneid (29-19 BCE, Ancient Rome) –Virgil [epic poem]
- Heroides (The Heroines) (c. 19 BCE, Ancient Rome) – Ovid [poem]
- Amores (The Loves) (c. 16-15 BCE, Ancient Rome) – Ovid [poem]
- Elegies (c. 15 BCE, Ancient Rome) – Sextus Propertius [poetry]
- Odes (65-8 BCE, Ancient Rome) – Horace [poetry]
- The Young Men Come Here Less Often, Isn’t It So? (Odes, Book 1:25) (65-8 BCE, Ancient Rome) – Horace [poem]
- Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love) (1 CE, Ancient Rome) – Ovid [poem]
- Metamorphoses (2-8 CE, Ancient Rome) – Ovid [epic poem]
- Tristia (c. 9-12 CE, Ancient Rome) – Ovid [poem]
- Pharsalia (On the Civil War) (61-65 CE, Ancient Rome) – Lucan [epic poem]
- Satyricon (27-66 CE, Ancient Rome) – Petronius [fiction: novel]
- Ramayana (c. 100 CE, India) – Valmiki (attrib.) [epic poem/religious text]
- Moralia (c. 100 CE, Ancient Rome) – Plutarch [non-fiction: essays]
- Vimalakirti Sutra (100 CE, India) – Anonymous [religious text]
- Annals (109 CE, Ancient Rome) – Tacitus [non-fiction: history]
- Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans (100-125 CE, Ancient Rome) – Plutarch [non-fiction: biography]
- Satires (c. 138 CE, Ancient Rome) – Juvenal [poetry]
- The New Testament (c. 50-150 CE, Palestine/Ancient Rome) – Anonymous [religious texts]
- Meditations (c. 180 CE, Ancient Rome) – Marcus Aurelius [non-fiction: memoir]
- The Golden Ass (c. 158-180 CE, Ancient Rome) – Apuleius [fiction]
- Satires (c. 125-190 CE, Ancient Rome) – Lucian [fiction]
- Lotus Sutra (c. 200 CE, India) – Anonymous [religious text]
- Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali (c. 400 CE, India) – Patanjali (attrib.) [religious text]
- Confessions (c. 400 CE, Ancient Rome/Algeria) – Augustine of Hippo [non-fiction: memoir]
- The City of God (426 CE, Ancient Rome/Algeria) – Augustine of Hippo [non-fiction: religion]
- Returning to Live in the Country (I) (c. 427 CE, China) – Tao Yuanming (Tao Qian) [poem]
- Returning to Live in the Country (II) (c. 427 CE, China) – Tao Yuanming (Tao Qian) [poem]
- Reading the Classic of Hills and Seas (c. 427 CE, China) – Tao Yuanming (Tao Qian) [poem]
- Begging for Food (c. 427 CE, China) – Tao Yuanming (Tao Qian) [poem]
- Twenty Poems After Drinking Wine (c. 427 CE, China) – Tao Yuanming (Tao Qian) [poem]
- The Return (c. 427 CE, China) – Tao Yuanming (Tao Qian) [poem]
- On Moving House (c. 427 CE, China) – Tao Yuanming (Tao Qian) [poem]
- In The Sixth Month of 408, Fire (c. 427 CE, China) – Tao Yuanming (Tao Qian) [poem]
- The Recognition of Sakuntala (c. 400-450 CE, India) – Kālidāsa [play]
- Malavika and Agnimitra (Malavikagnimitra) (c. 400-450 CE) – Kālidāsa [play]
- Urvashi Won By Valor (Vikramorvashi) (c. 400-450 CE, India) – Kālidāsa [play]
- Birth of the War God (Kumarasambhava)(c. 400-450 CE, India) – Kālidāsa [epic poem]
- Dynasty of Raghu (Raghuvamsha) (c. 400-450 CE, India) – Kālidāsa [epic poem]
- The Cloud Messenger (Meghaduta) (c. 400-450 CE, India) – Kālidāsa [poem]
- The Three Centuries (Satakatraya) (c. 500 CE, India) – Bhartrihari [poetry]
- The Hanging Poems (Mu’allaqat) (c. 550-630 CE, Arabia) – Anonymous [poetry]
- The Qur’an (610-632 CE, Arabia) – Muhammad (attrib.) [religious text]
- Deer Park (c. 759 CE, China) – Wang Wei [poem]
- Replying to Subprefect Zhang (c. 759 CE, China) – Wang Wei [poem]
- A Green Stream (c. 759 CE, China) – Wang Wei [poem]
- The Bamboo Grove (c. 759 CE, China) – Wang Wei [poem]
- A Song of Peach Blossom River (c. 759 CE, China) – Wang Wei [poem]
- Mourning Yin Yao (c. 759 CE, China) – Wang Wei [poem]
- A Song of an Autumn Night (c. 759 CE, China) – Wang Wei [poem]
- A Message from My Lodge at Wangchuan to Pei Di (c. 759 CE, China) – Wang Wei [poem]
- One-Hearted (c. 759 CE, China) – Wang Wei [poem]
- Autumn Evening in a Mountain Retreat (c. 759 CE, China) – Wang Wei [poem]
- At Parting (c. 759 CE, China) – Wang Wei [poem]
- Birds Calling in the Ravine (c. 759 CE, China) – Wang Wei [poem]
- Huazi Ridge (c. 759 CE, China) – Wang Wei [poem]
- Temple Tree Path (c. 759 CE, China) – Wang Wei [poem]
- At the Lake Pavilion (c. 759 CE, China) – Wang Wei [poem]
- Farewell (c. 759 CE, China) – Wang Wei [poem]
- Passing Hidden Fragrance Temple (c. 759 CE, China) – Wang Wei [poem]
- Drifting on the Lake (c. 759 CE, China) – Wang Wei [poem]
- Lament for Mêng Hao-Jan (c. 759 CE, China) – Wang Wei [poem]
- Man’yōshū (c. 760 CE, Japan) – Anonymous [poetry]
- Jade Stairs Lament (c. 750-762 CE, China) – Li Bai (Li Po) [poem]
- The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter (A Poem of Changgan) (c. 750-762 CE, China) – Li Bai (Li Po) [poem]
- The Exile’s Letter (c. 750-762 CE, China) – Li Bai (Li Po) [poem]
- Farewell to Meng Hao-jan (c. 750-762 CE, China) – Li Bai (Li Po) [poem]
- The Moon at the Fortified Pass (c. 750-762 CE, China) – Li Bai (Li Po) [poem]
- Waking From Drunkenness on a Spring Day (c. 750-762 CE, China) – Li Bai (Li Po) [poem]
- To Wang Lun (c. 750-762 CE, China) – Li Bai (Li Po) [poem]
- Long Yearning (c. 750-762 CE, China) – Li Bai (Li Po) [poem]
- Looking for a Monk and not Finding Him (c. 750-762 CE, China) – Li Bai (Li Po) [poem]
- Visiting a Taoist Priest on Tiatien Mountain (c. 750-762 CE, China) – Li Bai (Li Po) [poem]
- Amidst the Flowers a Jug of Wine (Drinking Alone in the Moonlight) (c. 750-762 CE, China) – Li Bai (Li Po) [poem]
- A Quiet Night Thought (c. 750-762 CE, China) – Li Bai (Li Po) [poem]
- Taking Leave of a Friend (c. 750-762 CE, China) – Li Bai (Li Po) [poem]
- For Meng Hao-Jan (c. 750-762 CE, China) – Li Bai (Li Po) [poem]
- Chuang Tzu and the Butterfly (c. 750-762 CE, China) – Li Bai (Li Po) [poem]
- Alone, Looking at the Mountain (c. 750-762 CE, China) – Li Bai (Li Po) [poem]
- Autumn River Song (c. 750-762 CE, China) – Li Bai (Li Po) [poem]
- About Du Fu (c. 750-762 CE, China) – Li Bai (Li Po) [poem]
- Confessional (c. 750-762 CE, China) – Li Bai (Li Po) [poem]
- On Climbing in Nan-king to the Terrace of Phoenixes (c. 750-762 CE, China) – Li Bai (Li Po) [poem]
- Drinking with Someone in the Mountains (c. 750-762 CE, China) – Li Bai (Li Po) [poem]
- To Du Fu from Shantung (c. 750-762 CE, China) – Li Bai (Li Po) [poem]
- Climbing West of Lotus Flower Peak (c. 750-762 CE, China) – Li Bai (Li Po) [poem]
- Song of an Old Cypress (c. 750-770 CE, China)- Du Fu (Tu Fu) [poem]
- To My Retired Friend Wei (c. 750-770 CE, China)- Du Fu (Tu Fu) [poem]
- Thinking of Li Bai at the End of the Sky (c. 750-770 CE, China)- Du Fu (Tu Fu) [poem]
- Spring Night in the Left Office (c. 750-770 CE, China) – Du Fu (Tu Fu) [poem]
- On Meeting Li Guinian Again, South of the River (c. 750-770 CE, China) – Du Fu (Tu Fu) [poem]
- Ballad of the Army Carts (c. 750-770 CE, China) – Du Fu (Tu Fu) [poem]
- Moonlit Night (c. 750-770 CE, China)- Du Fu (Tu Fu) [poem]
- Alone, Looking for Blossoms along the River (c. 750-770 CE, China)- Du Fu (Tu Fu) [poem]
- A Spring View (c. 750-770 CE, China)- Du Fu (Tu Fu) [poem]
- Thinking of My Brothers on a Moonlit Night (c. 750-770 CE, China) – Du Fu (Tu Fu) [poem]
- Four Rhymes to see off General Yan at Fenji Station (c. 750-770 CE, China) – Du Fu (Tu Fu) [poem]
- Reply to a Friend’s Advice (c. 750-770 CE, China) – Du Fu (Tu Fu) [poem]
- Jūjūshinron (Treatise on the Ten Stages of the Development of Mind) (830 CE, Japan) – Kukai [non-fiction: philosophy]
- Wulf and Eadwacer (c. 960-990 CE, England) – Anonymous [poem]
- Beowulf (c. 1000 CE, England) – Anonymous [epic poem]
- The Pillow Book (1002, Japan) – Sei Shonagon [non-fiction: memoir]
- Shahnameh (The Book of Kings) (1010, Persia) – Ferdowsi [epic poem]
- The Tale of Genji (c. 1021, Japan) – Shikibu Murasaki [fiction: novel]
- Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra (1070, Persia) – Omar Khayyam [non-fiction: mathematics]
- The Ocean of Rivers of Story (c. 1050-1080, India) – Somadeva [fiction: stories]
- Deliverance from Error (c. 1100, Persia) – Al-Ghazali [non-fiction: memoir]
- Dreaming of my Deceased Wife on the Night of the 20th Day of the First Month (c. 1101, China) – Su Shi (Su Dongpo) [poem]
- Impromptu Verse (“My frosty hair blows loosely in the wind”) (c. 1101, China) – Su Shi (Su Dongpo) [poem]
- Mid-Autumn Moon (c. 1101, China) – Su Shi (Su Dongpo) [poem]
- New Year’s Watch (c. 1101, China) – Su Shi (Su Dongpo) [poem]
- Visiting the Temple of Auspicious Fortune Alone on Winter Solstice (c. 1101, China) – Su Shi (Su Dongpo) [poem]
- Visiting the Temple of the God of Mercy on a Rainy Day (c. 1101, China) – Su Shi (Su Dongpo) [poem]
- Written While Drunk in Lake-View Pavilion on the 27th Day of the Sixth Month (c. 1101, China) – Su Shi (Su Dongpo) [poem]
- Remembrance (c. 1101, China) – Su Shi (Su Dongpo) [poem]
- The Immortal by the River (c. 1101, China) – Su Shi (Su Dongpo) [poem]
- The Assemblies of Al-Hariri (Maqamat Al-Hariri) (c. 1100-1122, Arabia) – Al-Hariri of Basra [poetry]
- The Rubaiyat (c. 1110-1131, Persia) – Omar Khayyam (attrib.) [poem]
- To the Tune of ‘Fisherman’s Pride’ (Early Plum Blossom) (c. 1151, China) – Li Qingzhao [poem]
- To the Tune of ‘Intoxicated Under the Shadow of Flowers’ (c. 1151, China) – Li Qingzhao [poem]
- To the Tune of ‘Like a Dream’ (c. 1151, China) – Li Qingzhao [poem]
- Confession (c. 1165, Western Europe) – Archpoet (pseud.) [poem]
- The Song of Roland (c. 1140-1170, France) – Anonymous [epic poem]
- Lais of Marie de France (c. 1155-1170, France) – Marie de France [poetry]
- The Conference of the Birds (1177, Persia) – Attar of Nishapur (Farid Al-Din Attar) [poem]
- Perceval, the Story of the Grail (1181-1190, France) – Chrétien de Troyes [epic poem]
- Commentary on the Four Books (c. 1180-1200, China) – Zhu Xi [non-fiction: philosophy]
- Nibelungenlied (c. 1200, Germany) – Anonymous [epic poem]
- Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190-1204, Spain/Morocco/Egypt) – Maimonides [non-fiction: philosophy/religion]
- The Poem of the Cid (1195-1207, Spain) – Anonymous [epic poem]
- Tristan (c. 1210, Germany) – Gottfried von Strassburg [fiction]
- Parzifal (1200-1220, Germany) – Wolfram von Eschenbach [poem]
- Romance of the Rose, Part 1 (1230, France) – Guillaume de Lorris [poem]
- Song of Govinda (Gita Govinda) (c. 1250, India) – Jayadeva [poem]
- Bustan (Bostan) (The Orchard) (1257, Persia) – Saadi Shirazi (Sa’di) [poetry]
- Gulistan (Golestan) (The Rose Garden) (1258, Persia) – Saadi Shirazi (Sa’di) [poetry]
- Bani Adam (“All human beings are in truth akin”) (1258, Persia) – Saadi Shirazi (Sa’di) [poem]
- The Masnavi (1258-1273, Persia) – Jalalu’l-Din Rumi [poetry]
- Birdsong (c. 1273, Persia) – Jalalu’l-Din Rumi [poem]
- A Stone I died (c. 1273, Persia) – Jalalu’l-Din Rumi [poem]
- Come, Come, Whoever You Are (c. 1273, Persia) – Jalalu’l-Din Rumi [poem]
- At the Twilight (c. 1273, Persia) – Jalalu’l-Din Rumi [poem]
- Romance of the Rose, Part 2 (1275, France) – Jean de Meun [poem]
- Njal’s Saga (c. 1280, Iceland) – Anonymous [fiction: saga]
- The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch (c. 1200-1280, China) – Anonymous [non-fiction: philosophy]
- The New Life (1295, Italy) – Dante Alighieri [poem]
- A Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights) (compiled 700-1400, final version, 1707-1714, India/Arabia/Persia/) – Anonymous [fiction: linked stories]
- The Divine Comedy (c. 1308-1321, Italy) – Dante Alighieri [epic poem]
- Meditation on the Past at Tong Pass (c. 1329, China) – Zhang Yanghao [poem]
- Essays in Idleness (1330-1332, Japan) – Yoshida Kenko [non-fiction: essays]
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (c. 1350, England) – Anonymous [poem]
- The Decameron (1350-1353, Italy) – Giovanni Boccaccio [fiction: linked stories]
- The Water Margin (Outlaws of the Marsh) (c. 1296-1372, China) – Shi Nai’an [fiction: novel]
- Sonnets to Laura in Life 109 (“Alas, when Love makes his assaults on me”) – Petrarch (c. 1350-1374, Italy) [poem]
- Sonnets to Laura in Life 156 (“I saw angelic virtue on earth”) – Petrarch (c. 1350-1374, Italy) [poem]
- Muqaddimah (1377, Tunisia) – Ibn Khaldun [non-fiction: history]
- Troilus and Criseyde (c. 1385, England) – Chaucer [poem]
- Rubaiyat 1 (“Nothing comes in our eyes except Your face”) (c. 1385, Persia) – Hafez [poem]
- O beautiful wine bearer, bring forth the cup (Ghazal 1) (c. 1385, Persia) – Hafez [poem]
- That beautiful Shirazi Turk, took control and my heart stole (Ghazal 3) (c. 1385, Persia) – Hafez [poem]
- Where is my Ruined Life? (Ghazal 12) (c. 1385, Persia) – Hafez [poem]
- Last Night, as Half Asleep I Dreaming Lay (Ghazal 44) (c. 1385, Persia) – Hafez [poem]
- Wild Deer (c. 1385, Persia) – Hafez [poem]
- Piers Plowman (c. 1386, England) – William Landland [poem]
- The Canterbury Tales (c. 1380-1400, England) – Chaucer [poetry/fiction]
- Atsumori (c. 1400, Japan) – Zeami Motokiyo [play]
- Adam Lay I-Bowndyn (Adam Lay Ybounden) (c. 1400, England) – Anonymous [poem]
- I Syng of A Mayden (As Dewe In Aprille) (c. 1400, England) – Anonymous [poem]
- The Unquiet Grave (Child Ballad No. 78) (c. 1400, England) – Anonymous [poem]
- The Book of the City of Ladies (1405, Italy/France) – Christine de Pizan [fiction: allegory]
- Izutsu (The Well Curb; The Well Cradle) (c. 1420-1440, Japan) – Zeami Motokiyo [play]
- Le Morte d’Arthur (1485, England) – Thomas Malory [fiction: novel]
- Everyman (c. 1490, England) – Anonymous [play]
- Orlando Innamorato (c. 1494, Italy) – Matteo Maria Boiardo [epic poem]
- La Celestina (The Spanish Bawd) (1499, Spain) – Fernando de Rojas [novel]
- The Praise of Folly (1511, The Netherlands) – Erasmus [non-fiction]
- The Prince (1513, pub. 1532, Italy) – Niccolò Machiavelli [non-fiction: political philosophy]
- Utopia (1516, England) – Thomas More [fiction: novel]
- To Mistress Margaret Hussey (1523, England) – John Skelton [poem]
- The Book of the Courtier (1528, Italy) – Baldassare Castiglione [non-fiction]
- Western Wind (Westron Wynde) (c. 1530, England) – Anonymous [poem]
- Orlando Furioso (1532, Italy) – Ludovico Ariosto [epic poem]
- Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532-1534, France) – François Rabelais [fiction: novels]
- Whoso List to Hunt (c. 1542, England) – Sir Thomas Wyatt [poem]
- They Flee from Me (The Lover Showeth How He Is Forsaken) (c. 1542, England) – Sir Thomas Wyatt [poem]
- Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1550, Italy) – Giorgio Vasari [non-fiction: biography]
- Epic of Layla and Majnun (c. 1540-1556, Turkey) – Fużūlī [poem]
- The Heptameron (1558, France) – Marguerite de Navarre [fiction: linked stories]
- Journey to the West (Monkey) (c. 1540-1560, China) – Wu Cheng’en [fiction: novel]
- The Lusiads (1572, Portugal) – Luís Vaz de Camões [epic poem]
- Essays (1580, France) – Michel de Montaigne [non-fiction: essays]
- Jerusalem Delivered (1581, Italy) – Torquato Tasso [poem]
- Tichborne’s Elegy (1586, England) – Chidiock Tichborne [poem]
- Dido, Queen of Carthage (c. 1586, England) – Christopher Marlowe [play]
- Doctor Faustus (1588, England) – Christopher Marlowe [play]
- Tamburlaine, Pts. 1 and 2 (1587-1588, England) – Christopher Marlowe [plays]
- The Jew of Malta (c. 1589, England) – Christopher Marlowe [play]
- A Comedy of Errors (1589, England) – William Shakespeare [play]
- The Faerie Queen (Books I-III) (1590, England) – Edmund Spenser [epic poem]
- Henry VI, Pts. 1, 2, 3 (1591, England) – William Shakespeare [plays]
- Astrophel and Stella (1591, England) – Philip Sidney [poem]
- The Spanish Tragedy (1582-1592, England) – Thomas Kyd [play]
- Titus Andronicus (1592, England) – William Shakespeare [play]
- Edward II (1592, England) – Christopher Marlowe [play]
- The Lie (1592, England) – Walter Raleigh [poem]
- Richard III (1592-93, England) – William Shakespeare [play]
- The Massacre at Paris (c. 1593, England) – Christopher Marlowe [play]
- The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (c. 1593, pub. 1599, England) – Christopher Marlowe [poem]
- Romeo and Juliet (1594, England) – William Shakespeare [play]
- The Taming of the Shrew (1594, England) – William Shakespeare [play]*
- Two Gentlemen of Verona (1594, England) – William Shakespeare [play]
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1594-95, England) – William Shakespeare [play]
- Richard II (1595, England) – William Shakespeare [play]
- Love’s Labour’s Lost (1595, England) – William Shakespeare [play]
- The Burning Babe (1595, England) – Robert Southwell [poem]
- The Faerie Queen (Books IV-VI) (1596, England) – Edmund Spenser [epic poem]
- The Merchant of Venice (1596, England) – William Shakespeare [play]
- King John (1596, England) – William Shakespeare [play]
- The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd (c. 1596, pub. 1600, England) – Walter Raleigh [poem]
- Henry IV, Parts I and II (1597, England) – William Shakespeare [plays]
- Essays (1597, England) – Francis Bacon [non-fiction: essays]
- The Merry Wives of Windsor (1598, England) – William Shakespeare [play]
- Much Ado about Nothing (1598, England) – William Shakespeare [play]
- Henry V (1598, England) – William Shakespeare [play]
- The Peony Pavilion (1598, China) – Tang Xiansu [play]
- Julius Caesar (1599, England) – William Shakespeare [play]
- Twelfth Night (1599, England) – William Shakespeare [play]
- As You Like It (1599, England) – William Shakespeare [play]
- Sonnet 138 (“When my love swears she is made of truth”) (1599, England) – William Shakespeare [poem]
- My Love Is Like to Ice, and I to Fire (c. 1599, England) – Edmund Spenser [poem]
- Hamlet (1600, England) – William Shakespeare [play]
- The Plum in the Golden Vase (c. 1600, China) – Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng [fiction: novel]
- Summer’s Last Will and Testament (1600, England) – Thomas Nashe [play]
- All’s Well That Ends Well (1602, England) – William Shakespeare [play]
- The Passionate Man’s Pilgrimage (1603, England) – Walter Raleigh [poem]
- Othello (1604, England) – William Shakespeare [play]
- Measure for Measure (1604, England) – William Shakespeare [play]
- King Lear (1605, England) – William Shakespeare [play]*
- Macbeth (1605, England) – William Shakespeare [play]
- The Advancement of Learning (1605, England) – Francis Bacon [non-fiction]
- Don Quixote (Part 1) (1605, Spain) – Miguel de Cervantes [fiction: novel]
- Antony and Cleopatra (1606, England) – William Shakespeare [play]
- Timon of Athens (1606, England) – William Shakespeare [play]*
- Volpone (1606, England) – Ben Jonson [play]
- Coriolanus (1607, England) – William Shakespeare [play]
- Sonnet 1 (“From fairest creatures we desire increase”) (1609, England) – William Shakespeare [poem]
- Sonnet 12 (“When I do count the clock that tells the time”) (1609, England) – William Shakespeare [poem]
- Sonnet 18 (“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day”) (1609, England) – William Shakespeare [poem]
- Sonnet 20 (“A woman’s face with nature’s own hand painted”) (1609, England) – William Shakespeare [poem]
- Sonnet 29 (“When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes”) (1609, England) – William Shakespeare [poem]
- Sonnet 30 (“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought”) (1609, England) – William Shakespeare [poem]
- Sonnet 55 (“Not marble, nor the gilded monuments”) (1609, England) – William Shakespeare [poem]
- Sonnet 65 (“Since neither brass nor stone”) (1609, England) – William Shakespeare [poem]
- Sonnet 71 (“No longer mourn for me when I am dead”) (1609, England) – William Shakespeare [poem]
- Sonnet 73 (“That Time of year thou mayst in me behold”) (1609, England) – William Shakespeare [poem]
- Sonnet 76 (“Why is my verse so barren of new pride”) (1609, England) – William Shakespeare [poem]
- Sonnet 94 (“They that have power to hurt and will do none”) (1609, England) – William Shakespeare [poem]
- Sonnet 106 (“When in the chronicle of wasted time”) (1609, England) – William Shakespeare [poem]
- Sonnet 107 (“Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul”) (1609, England) – William Shakespeare [poem]
- Sonnet 116 (“Let me not to the marriage of true minds”) (1609, England) – William Shakespeare [poem]
- Sonnet 127 (“In the old age black was counted fair”) (1609, England) – William Shakespeare [poem]
- Sonnet 129 (“The expense of spirit in a waste of shame”) (1609, England) – William Shakespeare [poem]
- Sonnet 130 (“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”) (1609, England) – William Shakespeare [poem]
- Sonnet 146 (“Pour soul, the centre of my sinful earth”) (1609, England) – William Shakespeare [poem]
- Sonnet 147 (“My love is a fever, longing still”) (1609, England) – William Shakespeare [poem]
- Holy Sonnets No. 7 (“At the round earth’s imagined corners”) (1609, England) – John Donne [poem]
- Holy Sonnets No. 10 (“Death be not proud”) (1609, England) – John Donne [poem]
- Holy Sonnets No. 14 (“Batter my heart, three-personed God”) (1609, England) [poem]
- The Winter’s Tale (1610, England) – William Shakespeare [play]
- Holy Sonnets No. 1 (“Thou has made me, and shall thy work decay”) (1609-1611, England) – John Donne [poem]
- The Tempest (1611, England) – William Shakespeare [play]
- Cymbeline (1611, England) – William Shakespeare [play]
- The Alchemist (1612, England) – Ben Jonson [play]
- The White Devil (1612, England) – John Webster [play]
- Henry VIII (1613, England) – William Shakespeare [play]
- Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward (1613, England) – John Donne [poem]
- The Duchess of Malfi (1614, England) – John Webster [play]
- Don Quixote (Part 2) (1615, Spain) – Miguel de Cervantes [fiction: novel]
- Song to Celia (“Drink to me only with thine eyes”) (1616, England) – Ben Jonson [poem]
- On My First Son (1616, England) – Ben Jonson [poem]
- To Penshurst (1616, England) – Ben Jonson [poem]
- Fuenteovejuna (Lost in a Mirror) (1619, Spain) Lope de Vega [play]
- Novum Organum (1620, England) – Francis Bacon [non-fiction]
- Rose-Cheeked Laura (c. 1620, England) – Thomas Campion [poem]
- New Atlantis (1623, England) – Francis Bacon [fiction: novel]
- On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity (1629, England) – John Milton [poem]
- Holy Sonnets No. 5 (“I am a little world made cunningly”) (c. 1631, England) – John Donne [poem]
- Song (“Go and Catch a Falling Star”) (c. 1631, England) – John Donne [poem]
- The Good-Morrow (c. 1631, England) – John Donne [poem]
- The Sun Rising (c. 1631, England) – John Donne [poem]
- The Anniversary (c. 1631, England) – John Donne [poem]
- The Canonization (c. 1631, England) – John Donne [poem]
- The Ecstasy (c. 1631, England) – John Donne [poem]
- The Flea (c. 1631, England) – John Donne [poem]
- The Funeral (c. 1631, England) – John Donne [poem]
- A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning (c. 1631, England) – John Donne [poem]
- Woman’s Constancy (c. 1631, England) – John Donne [poem]
- L’Allegro (1631, England) – John Milton [poem]
- Il Penseroso (1631, England) – John Milton [poem]
- Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632, Italy) – Galileo Galilei [non-fiction: science]
- ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (1633, England) – John Ford [play]
- The Collar (1633, England) – George Herbert [poem]
- Virtue (1633, England) – George Herbert [poem]
- The Pulley (1633, England) – George Herbert [poem]
- Easter Wings (1633, England) – George Herbert [poem]
- Jordan (1633, England) – George Herbert [poem]
- Redemption (1633, England) – George Herbert [poem]
- Bitter-sweet (1633, England) – George Herbert [poem]
- Life is a Dream (1629-1635, Spain) – Pedro Calderon de la Barca [play]
- The Cid (1637, France) – Pierre Corneille [play]
- Discourse on Method (1637, France) – René Descartes [non-fiction: philosophy]
- To John Donne (c. 1637, England) – Ben Jonson [poem]
- Lycidas (1637, England) – John Milton [poem]
- Comus (1638, England) – John Milton [play]
- Orsames’ Song (“Why so pale and wan, fond lover?”) (1638, England) – John Suckling [poem]
- To My Inconstant Mistress (c. 1640, England) – Thomas Carew [poem]
- Meditations on First Philosophy (1641, France) – René Descartes [non-fiction: philosophy]
- To Althea, From Prison (1642, England) – Richard Lovelace [poem]
- Areopagitica (1644, England) – John Milton [non-fiction]
- The Argument of His Book (1648, England) – Robert Herrick [poem]
- Upon Julia’s Clothes (1648, England) – Robert Herrick [poem]
- Delight In Disorder (1648, England) – Robert Herrick [poem]
- To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time (1648, England) – Robert Herrick [poem]
- Corinna’s Going a-Maying (1648, England) – Robert Herrick [poem]
- To Lucasta, Going to the Wars (1649, England) – Richard Lovelace [poem]
- The Retreat (1650, Wales) – Henry Vaughan [poem]
- Leviathan (1651, England) – Thomas Hobbes [non-fiction: philosophy]
- The Would-Be Gentleman (1655, France) – Molière [play]
- Sonnet XVIII (On the Late Massacre in Piedmont) (1655, England) – John Milton [poem]
- Sonnet XIX (On His Blindness) (1655, England) – John Milton [poem]
- They Are All Gone into the World of Light (1655, Wales) – Henry Vaughan [poem]
- Sonnet XXIII (On His Deceased Wife) (1656, England) – John Milton [poem]
- Ridiculous Precieuses (1659, France) – Molière [play]
- School for Husbands (1661, France) – Molière [play]
- The School for Wives (1662, France) – Molière [play]
- Don Juan (1665, France) – Molière [play]
- The Misanthrope (1666, France) – Molière [play]
- The Physician in Spite of Himself (1666, France) – Molière [play]
- Paradise Lost (1667, England) – John Milton [epic poem]
- Andromache (1667, France) – Jean Racine [play]
- The Miser (1668, France) – Molière [play]
- Simplicius Simplicissimus (1668, Germany) – Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelhausen [fiction: novel]
- Tartuffe (1669, France) – Molière [play]
- Pensées (1669, France) – Blaise Pascal [non-fiction: philosophy/religion]
- An Exequy, To His Matchless Never-to- be-Forgotten Friend (Exequy on his Wife) (c. 1669, England) – Henry King [poem]
- Paradise Regained (1671, England) – John Milton [poem]
- Samson Agonistes (1671, England) – John Milton [play]
- The Seashell Game (1672, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poetry]
- The Learned Ladies (1672, France) – Molière [play]
- To My Dear and Loving Husband (c. 1672, Colonial America) – Anne Bradstreet [poem]
- The Imaginary Invalid (1673, France) – Molière [play]
- To Daffodils (c. 1674, England) – Robert Herrick [poem]
- The Country Wife (1675, England) – William Wycherley [play]
- The Plain Dealer (1676, England) – William Wycherley [play]
- Phèdre (1677, France) – Jean Racine [play]
- Ethics (1677, The Netherlands) – Benedict de Spinoza [non-fiction: philosophy]
- The Rover (1677, England) – Aphra Behn [play]
- The Princess of Cleves (1678, France) – Madame de La Fayette [fiction: novel]
- To His Coy Mistress (c. 1678, England) – Andrew Marvell [poem]
- Bermudas (c. 1678, England) – Andrew Marvell [poem]
- The Definition of Love (c. 1678, England) – Andrew Marvell [poem]
- The Garden (c. 1678, England) – Andrew Marvell [poem]
- All For Love (1678, England) – John Dryden [play]
- Mac Flecknoe (c. 1678, England) – John Dryden [poem]
- The Pilgrim’s Progress (1679, England) – John Bunyan [fiction: novel]
- Maxims (1680, France) – François de la Rochefoucauld [non-fiction]
- Shriveled Chestnuts (1683, Japan) – Various, incl. Matsuo Basho [poetry]
- Record of a Weather-Exposed Skeleton (1684, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [non-fiction/poetry]
- Winter Days (1684, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poetry]
- To the Memory of Mr. Oldham (1684, England) – John Dryden [poem]
- Spring Days (1686, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poetry]
- A Visit to Kashima Shrine (1687, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [non-fiction/poetry]
- Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687, England) – Isaac Newton [non-fiction: science]
- Song (“Go, Lovely Rose”) (c. 1687, England) – Edmund Waller [poem]
- A Song for St. Cecila’s Day (1687, England) – John Dryden [poem]
- Record of a Travel-Worn Satchel (1688, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [non-fiction/poetry]
- A Visit to Sarashina Village (1688, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [non-fiction/poetry]
- Wasteland (1689, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poetry]
- Two Treatises of Government (1689, England) – John Locke [non-fiction: political philosophy]
- The Gourd (1690, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poetry]
- The Monkey’s Raincoat (1691, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poetry]
- Saga Diary (1691, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [non-fiction/poetry]
- On Transplanting the Banana Tree (1691, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poetry]
- On Seclusion (1692, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poetry]
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North (1694, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [non-fiction/poetry]
- Fables (1668-1694, France) – Jean de La Fontaine [fiction: stories]
- A Sack of Charcoal (1694, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poetry]
- The Detached Room (1694, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poetry]
- An old pond (c. 1694, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poem]
- First day of spring (c. 1694, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poem]
- Four Haiku (c. 1694, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poem]
- A bee (c. 1694, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poem]
- The dragonfly (c. 1694, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poem]
- Fleas, lice (c. 1694, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poem]
- A caterpillar (c. 1694, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poem]
- A cicada shell (c. 1694, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poem]
- What fish feel (c. 1694, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poem]
- A wild sea (c. 1694, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poem]
- Spring rain (c. 1694, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poem]
- First snow (c. 1694, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poem]
- Winter garden (c. 1694, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poem]
- Awake at night (c. 1694, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poem]
- How admirable (c. 1694, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poem]
- None is travelling (c. 1694, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poem]
- Don’t imitate me (c. 1694, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poem]
- Autumn moonlight (c. 1694, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poem]
- Winter solitude (c. 1694, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poem]
- Stillness (c. 1694, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poem]
- The oak tree (c. 1694, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poem]
- A field of cotton (c. 1694, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poem]
- Moonlight slanting (c. 1694, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poem]
- The clouds come and go (c. 1694, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poem]
- Won’t you come and see (c. 1694, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poem]
- Basho’s Death Poem (c. 1694, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poem]
- Love for Love (1695, England) – William Congreve [play]
- The Monkey’s Raincoat, Continued (1698, Japan) – Matsuo Basho [poetry]
- The Way of the World (1700, England) – William Congreve [play]
- The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (1703, Japan) – Chikamatsu Monzaemon [play]
- A Tale of a Tub (1704, Ireland/England) – Jonathan Swift [fiction: satire]
- A Description of the Morning (1709, Ireland/GB) – Jonathan Swift [poem]
- Essay on Criticism (1711, GB) – Alexander Pope [poem]
- The Rape of the Lock (1712, GB) – Alexander Pope [poem]
- Robinson Crusoe (1719, GB) – Daniel Defoe [fiction: novel]
- Moll Flanders (1722, GB) – Daniel Defoe [fiction: novel]
- A Journal of the Plague Year (1722, England) – Daniel Defoe [fiction: novel]
- Gulliver’s Travels (1726, Ireland) – Jonathan Swift [fiction: novel]
- The Beggar’s Opera (1728, GB) – John Gay [play]
- A Modest Proposal (1729, Ireland/GB) – Jonathan Swift [fiction: satire]
- Manon Lescaut (1731, France) – Abbé Prévost [fiction: novel]
- Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (1734, GB) – Alexander Pope [poem]
- Letters Concerning the English Nation (1734, France) – Voltaire [non-fiction: essays]
- Pamela (1740, GB) – Samuel Richardson [fiction: novel]
- Joseph Andrews (1742, GB) – Henry Fielding [fiction: novel]
- Life of Mr Richard Savage (1744, GB) – Samuel Johnson [non-fiction: biography]
- The Servant of Two Masters (One Man, Two Guvnors) (1746, Italy) – Carlo Goldoni [play]
- Zadig (1747, France) – Voltaire [fiction: novel]
- Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes (1747, GB) – Thomas Gray [poem]
- Clarissa (1748, GB) – Samuel Richardson [fiction: novel]
- The Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Chushingura) (c. 1748, Japan) – Takeda Izumo (II) [play]
- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749, GB) – Henry Fielding [fiction: novel]
- The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749, GB) – Samuel Johnson [poem]
- Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard (1751, GB) – Thomas Gray [poem]
- Candide (1759, France) – Voltaire [fiction: novel]
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759, Ireland/GB) – Laurence Sterne [fiction: novel]
- The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759, GB) – Samuel Johnson [fiction: novel]
- The Social Contract (1762, Switzerland/France) – Jean-Jacques Rousseau [non-fiction: political philosophy]
- Émile, or On Education (1762, Switzerland/France) – Jean-Jacques Rousseau [non-fiction: education]
- Dream of the Red Chamber (The Story of the Stone) (1763-1764, China) – Cao Xueqin [fiction: novel]
- The Castle of Otranto (1765, GB) – Horace Walpole [fiction: novel]
- The Vicar of Wakefield (1766, Ireland) – Oliver Goldsmith [fiction: novel]
- The Beautiful Night (1768, Germany) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [poem]
- A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768, Ireland/GB) – Laurence Sterne [fiction: novel]
- The Deserted Village (1770, Ireland) – Oliver Goldsmith [poem]
- The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker (1771, GB) – Tobias Smollett [fiction: novel]
- Rameau’s Nephew (1761-1772, France) – Denis Diderot [fiction: novel]
- She Stoops to Conquer (1773, Ireland) – Oliver Goldsmith [play]
- The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774, Germany) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [fiction: novel]
- The Rivals (1775, GB) – Richard Brinsley Sheridan [play]
- The Declaration of Independence (1776, US) – Thomas Jefferson [non-fiction: political philosophy]
- The Wealth of Nations (1776, Scotland) – Adam Smith [non-fiction: economics]
- Common Sense (1776, GB/US) – Thomas Paine [non-fiction: political philosophy]
- The School for Scandal (1777, Ireland/GB) – Richard Brinsley Sheridan [play]
- Jacques the Fatalist (1771-1778, France) – Denis Diderot [fiction: novel]
- Evelina (1778, GB) – Fanny Burney [fiction: novel]
- Nathan the Wise (1779, Germany) – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing [play]
- Olney Hymn 35 (“Light Shining out of Darkness”) (1779, GB) – William Cowper [poem]
- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779, GB: Scotland) – David Hume [non-fiction: philosophy]
- The Robbers (1781, Germany) – Friedrich Schiller [play]
- Confessions (1781, Switzerland/France) – Jean-Jacques Rousseau [non-fiction: memoir]
- Critique of Pure Reason (1781, Germany) – Immanuel Kant [non-fiction: philosophy]
- The Lives of the Poets (1781, GB) – Samuel Johnson [non-fiction: biography] (partial)
- Dangerous Liaisons (1782, France) – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos [fiction: novel]
- The Marriage of Figaro (1784, France) – Pierre Beaumarchais [play]
- Poetical Sketches (1783, GB) – William Blake [poetry]
- The Erlking (1782, Germany) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [poem]
- To The Evening Star (1783, GB) – William Blake [poem]
- Hokku Poems in Four Seasons (c. 1784, Japan) – Yosa Buson [poem]
- Buying leeks (c. 1784, Japan) – Yosa Buson [poem]
- A bat flits (c. 1784, Japan) – Yosa Buson [poem]
- Ploughing the land (c. 1784, Japan) – Yosa Buson [poem]
- Washing the hoe (c. 1784, Japan) – Yosa Buson [poem]
- Calligraphy of geese (c. 1784, Japan) – Yosa Buson [poem]
- His Holiness the Abbot (c. 1784, Japan) – Yosa Buson [poem]
- Coolness (c. 1784, Japan) – Yosa Buson [poem]
- Early summer rain (c. 1784, Japan) – Yosa Buson [poem]
- Harvest moon (c. 1784, Japan) – Yosa Buson [poem]
- Haiku (The winter river…) (c. 1784, Japan) – Yosa Buson [poem]
- Not quite dark yet (c. 1784, Japan) – Yosa Buson [poem]
- Blown from the west (c. 1784, Japan) – Yosa Buson [poem]
- Straw sandal half sunk (c. 1784, Japan) – Yosa Buson [poem]
- The behavior of the pigeon (c. 1784, Japan) – Yosa Buson [poem]
- He’s on the porch (c. 1784, Japan) – Yosa Buson [poem]
- The spring sea rising (c. 1784, Japan) – Yosa Buson [poem]
- The end of spring (c. 1784, Japan) – Yosa Buson [poem]
- The willow leaves fallen (c. 1784, Japan) – Yosa Buson [poem]
- Dawn (c. 1784, Japan) – Yosa Buson [poem]
- Evening wind (c. 1784, Japan) – Yosa Buson [poem]
- Lighting one candle (c. 1784, Japan) – Yosa Buson [poem]
- My arm for a pillow (c. 1784, Japan) – Yosa Buson [poem]
- Sparrow singing (c. 1784, Japan) – Yosa Buson [poem]
- They end their flight (c. 1784, Japan) – Yosa Buson [poem]
- Before the white chrysanthemum (c. 1784, Japan) – Yosa Buson [poem]
- Blow of an ax (c. 1784, Japan) – Yosa Buson [poem]
- Old well (c. 1784, Japan) – Yosa Buson [poem]
- Elegy to the Old Man Hokuju (c. 1784, Japan) – Yosa Buson [poem]
- On Being Brought from Africa to America (c. 1784, US) – Phillis Wheatley [poem]
- On Imagination (c. 1784, US) – Phillis Wheatley [poem]
- To S. M., A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works (c. 1784, US) – Phillis Wheatley [poem]
- On Virtue (c. 1784, US) – Phillis Wheatley [poem]
- An Island in the Moon (1784-1785, GB) – William Blake [fiction]
- Holy Willie’s Prayer (1785, GB) – Robert Burns [poem]
- To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough (1785, GB) – Robert Burns [poem]
- Ode to Joy (1785, Germany) – Friedrich Schiller [poem]
- Don Carlos (1787, Germany) – Friedrich Schiller [play]
- There Is No Natural Religion (c. 1788, GB) – William Blake [non-fiction: religion]
- All Religions Are One (c. 1788, GB) – William Blake [non-fiction: religion]
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1788, GB) – Edward Gibbon [non-fiction: history]
- The Federalist Papers (1787-1788, US) – James Madison, Alexander Hamilton & John Jay [non-fiction: political philosophy]
- Songs of Innocence (1789, GB) – William Blake [poetry]
- Piping down the Valleys Wild (Introduction to Songs of Innocence) (1789, GB) – William Blake [poem]
- Tiriel (1789, GB) – William Blake [poetry]
- The Book of Thel (1789, GB) – William Blake [poetry]
- John Anderson My Jo (1789 GB: Scotland) – Robert Burns [poem]
- The French Revolution (1791, GB) – William Blake [poetry]
- The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791, GB) – James Boswell [non-fiction: biography]
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1791, US) – Benjamin Franklin [non-fiction: memoir]
- The Rights of Man (1791, US/France) – Thomas Paine [non-fiction: political philosophy]
- The Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792, GB) – Mary Wollstonecraft [non-fiction: feminism]
- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793, GB) – William Blake [poetry/non-fiction]
- A Song of Liberty (1793, GB) – William Blake [poem]
- Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793, GB) – William Blake [poetry]
- America A Prophecy (1793, GB) – William Blake [non-fiction/mythology /poetry]
- Songs of Experience (1794, GB) – William Blake [poetry]
- The Tyger (1794, GB) – William Blake [poem]
- London (1794, GB) – William Blake [poem]
- Europe A Prophecy (1794, GB) – William Blake [non-fiction/mythology/poetry]
- The First Book of Urizen (1794, GB) – William Blake [mythology/poetry]
- My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose (1794 GB: Scotland) – Robert Burns [poem]
- Continental Prophecies (1793-1795, GB) – William Blake [mythology/poetry]
- The Book of Los (1795, GB) – William Blake [mythology/poetry]
- The Song of Los (1795, GB) – William Blake [poetry: mythology]
- The Book of Ahania (1795, GB) – William Blake [mythology/poetry]
- Nearness of the Beloved (1795, Germany) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [poem]
- Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (1796, Germany) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [fiction: novel]
- The Four Zoas (1797, GB) – William Blake [poetry]
- Farewell (1797, Germany) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [poem]
- Kubla Khan (1797, GB) – Samuel Taylor Coleridge [poem]
- The Glove (1797, Germany) – Friedrich Schiller [poem]
- Frost at Midnight (1798, GB) – Samuel Taylor Coleridge [poem]
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798, GB) – Samuel Taylor Coleridge [poem]
- Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey (1798, GB) – William Wordsworth [poem]
- Castle Rackrent (1800, GB/Ireland) – Maria Edgeworth [fiction: novel]
- Mary Stuart (1800, Germany) – Friedrich Schiller [play]
- Lyrical Ballads (1798-1800, GB) – Samuel Taylor Coleridge & William Wordsworth [poetry]
- Lucy Gray, or Solitude (1800, GB) – William Wordsworth [poem]
- Dejection: An Ode (1802, UK) – Samuel Taylor Coleridge [poem]
- Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 (1802, UK) – William Wordsworth [poem]
- London, 1802 (1802, UK) – William Wordsworth [poem]
- Mock On, Mock On! Voltaire, Rousseau (1800-1803, UK) – William Blake [poem]
- Auguries of Innocence (1803, UK) – William Blake [poem]
- William Tell (1804, Germany) – Friedrich Schiller [play]
- Archimedes (c. 1805, Germany) – Friedrich Schiller [poem]
- Evening (c. 1805, Germany) – Friedrich Schiller [poem]
- The Artists (c. 1805, Germany) – Friedrich Schiller [poem]
- Daffodils (“I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud”) (1807, UK) – William Wordsworth [poem]
- The World Is Too Much with Us (1807, UK) – William Wordsworth [poem]
- My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold (1807, UK) – William Wordsworth [poem]
- Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (1807, UK) – William Wordsworth [poem]
- Resolution and Independence (1807, UK) – William Wordsworth [poem]
- The Solitary Reaper (1807, UK) – William Wordsworth [poem]
- Faust, Part 1 (1808, Germany) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [play]
- Elective Affinities (1809, Germany) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [fiction: novel]
- Jerusalem (“And did those feet in ancient time”) (1804-1810, UK) – William Blake [poem]
- The Lady of the Lake (1810, UK) – Walter Scott [poem]
- Sense and Sensibility (1811, UK) – Jane Austen [fiction: novel]
- Milton: A Poem (c. 1804-1811, UK) – William Blake [poem]
- Children’s and Household Tales, Vol. 1 (Grimm’s Fairy Tales) (1812) [fiction: stories]
- Waverley (1814, UK) – Walter Scott [fiction: novel]
- Mansfield Park (1814, UK) – Jane Austen [fiction: novel]
- She Walks In Beauty (1814, UK) – George Gordon, Lord Byron [poem]
- Pride and Prejudice (1815, UK) – Jane Austen [fiction: novel]
- Emma (1815, UK) – Jane Austen [fiction: novel]
- Children’s and Household Tales, Vol. 2 (Grimm’s Fairy Tales) (1815) [fiction: stories]
- The Destruction of Sennacherib (1815, UK) – George Gordon, Lord Byron [poem]
- On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer (1816, UK) – John Keats [poem]
- Rob Roy (1817, UK) – Walter Scott [fiction: novel]
- Endymion (1817, UK) – John Keats [poem]
- So, We’ll Go No More a-Roving (1817, UK) – George Gordon, Lord Byron [poem]
- When We Two Parted (1817, UK) – George Gordon, Lord Byron [poem]
- Thanatopsis (1817, US) – William Cullen Bryant [poem]
- Frankenstein (1818, UK) – Mary Shelley [fiction: novel]
- Persuasion (1818, UK) – Jane Austen [fiction: novel]
- Northanger Abbey (1818, UK) – Jane Austen [fiction: novel]
- Nightmare Abbey (1818, UK) – Thomas Love Peacock [fiction: novel]
- At Midnight Hour (1818, Germany) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [poem]
- When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be (1818, UK) – John Keats [poem]
- Ozymandias (1818, UK) – Percy Bysshe Shelley [poem]
- Stanzas Written in Dejection – December 1818, Near Naples (1818, UK) – Percy Bysshe Shelley [poem]
- Rip Van Winkle (1819, US) – Washington Irving [fiction: story]
- Ode to the West Wind (1819, UK) – Percy Bysshe Shelley [poem]
- England in 1819 (1819, UK) – Percy Bysshe Shelley [poem]
- The Masque of Anarchy (1819, UK) – Percy Bysshe Shelley [poem]
- Ode on a Grecian Urn (1819, UK) – John Keats [poem]
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1819, UK) – John Keats [poem]
- Ode on Melancholy (1819, UK) – John Keats [poem]
- Ode to Autumn (1819, UK) – John Keats [poem]
- Bright Star (1819, UK) – John Keats [poem]
- Ode to a Nightingale (1819, UK) – John Keats [poem]
- Ode to Psyche (1819, UK) – John Keats [poem]
- Ivanhoe (1820, UK) – Walter Scott [fiction: novel]
- Melmoth the Wanderer (1820, Ireland) – Charles Maturin [fiction: novel]
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820, US) – Washington Irving [fiction: story]
- Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion (1804-1820, UK) – William Blake [poetry]
- Love’s Philosophy (1820, UK) – Percy Bysshe Shelley [poem]
- To A Skylark (1820, UK) – Percy Bysshe Shelley [poem]
- Ruslan and Ludmila (1820, Russia) – Alexander Pushkin [poem]
- Prince of Homburg (1821, Germany) – Heinrich von Kleist [play]
- Music, When Soft Voices Die (1821, UK) – Percy Bysshe Shelley [poem]
- Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats (1821, UK) – Percy Bysshe Shelley [poem]
- The Eve of St. Agnes (c. 1815-1821, UK) – John Keats [poem]
- To A Waterfowl (1821, US) – William Cullen Bryant [poem]
- A Defence of Poetry (1821, pub. 1840, UK) – Percy Bysshe Shelley [non-fiction: literary criticism]
- The Devil and Tom Walker (1824, US) – Washington Irving [fiction: story]
- Don Juan (1819-1824, UK) – George Gordon, Lord Byron [epic poem]
- Boris Godunov (1825, Russia) – Alexander Pushkin [play]
- The Last of the Mohicans (1826, US) – James Fenimore Cooper [fiction: novel]
- The Betrothed (1827, Italy) – Alessandro Manzoni [fiction: novel]
- All the time I pray to Buddha (c. 1828, Japan) – Kobayashi Issa [poem]
- The snow is melting (c. 1828, Japan) – Kobayashi Issa [poem]
- Even with insects (c. 1828, Japan) – Kobayashi Issa [poem]
- A cuckoo sings (c. 1828, Japan) – Kobayashi Issa [poem]
- Ducks bobbing on the water (c. 1828, Japan) – Kobayashi Issa [poem]
- In this world (c. 1828, Japan) – Kobayashi Issa [poem]
- It once happened (c. 1828, Japan) – Kobayashi Issa [poem]
- Pissing in the snow (c. 1828, Japan) – Kobayashi Issa [poem]
- That pretty girl (c. 1828, Japan) – Kobayashi Issa [poem]
- A huge frog and I (c. 1828, Japan) – Kobayashi Issa [poem]
- Writing shit about new snow (c. 1828, Japan) – Kobayashi Issa [poem]
- I’m going out (c. 1828, Japan) – Kobayashi Issa [poem]
- How much (c. 1828, Japan) – Kobayashi Issa [poem]
- Don’t know about the people (c. 1828, Japan) – Kobayashi Issa [poem]
- Even on the smallest islands (c. 1828, Japan) – Kobayashi Issa [poem]
- Blossoms at night (c. 1828, Japan) – Kobayashi Issa [poem]
- With my father (c. 1828, Japan) – Kobayashi Issa [poem]
- Last time, I think (c. 1828, Japan) – Kobayashi Issa [poem]
- Summer night (c. 1828, Japan) – Kobayashi Issa [poem]
- Windy fall (c. 1828, Japan) – Kobayashi Issa [poem]
- Seen (c. 1828, Japan) – Kobayashi Issa [poem]
- New Year’s morning (c. 1828, Japan) – Kobayashi Issa [poem]
- The crow (c. 1828, Japan) – Kobayashi Issa [poem]
- Don’t worry, spiders (c. 1828, Japan) – Kobayashi Issa [poem]
- A bath when you’re born (c. 1828, Japan) – Kobayashi Issa [poem]
- In spring rain (c. 1828, Japan) – Kobayashi Issa [poem]
- I Loved You (1829, Russia) – Alexander Pushkin [poem]
- Alone (1829, US) – Edgar Allan Poe [poem]
- The Red and the Black (1830, France) – Stendhal [fiction: novel]
- A Passion in the Desert – Honoré de Balzac (France, 1830) [fiction: story]
- Mariana (1830, UK) – Alfred, Lord Tennyson [poem]
- From My Life: Poetry and Truth (1811-1830, Germany) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [non-fiction: memoir]
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831, France) – Victor Hugo [fiction: novel]
- The Wild Ass’s Skin (1831, France) – Honoré de Balzac [fiction: novel]
- To Helen (1831, US) – Edgar Allan Poe [poem]
- Louis Lambert (1832, France) – Honoré de Balzac [fiction: novel]
- Indiana (1832, France) – George Sand [fiction: novel]
- Valentine (1832, France) – George Sand [fiction: novel]
- Faust, Part 2 (1832, Germany) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [play]
- Mignon’s Longing (c. 1832, Germany)- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [poem]
- Permanence in Change (c. 1832, Germany) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [poem]
- The Fisherman (c. 1832, Germany) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [poem]
- The Dance of Death (c. 1832, Germany) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [poem]
- On War (1832, Germany) – Carl von Clausewitz [nonfiction: military treatise]
- Eugénie Grandet (1833, France) – Honoré de Balzac [fiction: novel]
- The Girl with the Golden Eyes (1833, France) – Honoré de Balzac [fiction: novel]
- Eugene Onegin (1833, Russia) – Alexander Pushkin [fiction: novel in verse]
- Ulysses (1833, UK) – Alfred, Lord Tennyson [poem]
- The Lotos-eaters (1833, UK) – Alfred, Lord Tennyson [poem]
- The Queen of Spades (1834, Russia) – Alexander Pushkin [fiction: story]
- Abou Ben Adhem (1834, UK) – James Henry Leigh Hunt [poem]
- Does Fortune Favor Fools? (c. 1834, UK) – Samuel Taylor Coleridge [non-fiction: essay]
- On Men, Educated and Uneducated (c. 1834, UK) – Samuel Taylor Coleridge [non-fiction: essay]
- The Character of Othello (c. 1834, UK) – Samuel Taylor Coleridge [non-fiction: essay]
- Materialism and Ghosts (c. 1834, UK) – Samuel Taylor Coleridge [non-fiction: essay]
- The Destiny of the United States (c. 1834, UK) – Samuel Taylor Coleridge [non-fiction: essay]
- Le Père Goriot (1835, France) – Honoré de Balzac [fiction: novel]
- Young Goodman Brown (1835, US) – Nathaniel Hawthorne [fiction: story]
- The Ambitious Guest (1835, US) – Nathaniel Hawthorne [fiction: story]
- The Gray Champion (1835, US) – Nathaniel Hawthorne [fiction: story]
- Diary of a Madman (1835, Russia) – Nikolai Gogol [fiction: story]
- Thumbelina (1835, Denmark) – Hans Christian Andersen [fiction: story]
- The Canti (1835, Italy) – Giacomo Leopardi [poetry]
- Break, Break, Break (1835, UK) – Alfred, Lord Tennyson [poem]
- The Captain’s Daughter (1836, Russia) – Alexander Pushkin [fiction: novel]
- The Nose (1835-1836, Russia) – Nikolai Gogol [fiction: story]
- The Minister’s Black Veil (1836, US) – Nathaniel Hawthorne [fiction: story]
- The Government Inspector (The Inspector General) (1836, Russia) – Nikolai Gogol [play]
- Concord Hymn (1836, US) – Ralph Waldo Emerson [poem]
- The Pickwick Papers (1837, UK) – Charles Dickens [fiction: novel]
- David Swan (1837, US) – Nathaniel Hawthorne [fiction: story]
- Woyzeck (1836-1837, Germany) – Georg Büchner [play]
- Oliver Twist (1838, UK) – Charles Dickens [fiction: novel]
- The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838, US) – Edgar Allan Poe [fiction: novella]
- The Eclipse (US, 1833-1838) – James Fenimore Cooper [fiction: story]
- The Steadfast Tin Soldier (1838, Denmark) – Hans Christian Andersen [fiction: story]
- A Psalm of Life (1838, US) – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [poem]
- Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839, UK) – Charles Dickens [fiction: novel]
- The Charterhouse of Parma (1839, France) – Stendhal [fiction: novel]
- The Fall of the House of Usher (1839, US) – Edgar Allan Poe [fiction: story]
- Democracy in America (1835-1840, France) – Alexis de Toqueville [non-fiction]
- The Deerslayer (1841, US) – James Fenimore Cooper [fiction: novel]
- Ursule Mirouet (1841, France) – Honoré de Balzac [fiction: novel]
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841, US) – Edgar Allan Poe [fiction: story]
- The Snow-storm (1841, US) – Ralph Waldo Emerson [poem]
- The Demon (1829-1841, Russia) – Mikhail Lermontov [poem]
- Essays, 1st Series (1841, US) – Ralph Waldo Emerson [non-fiction: essays]
- Dead Souls (1842, Russia) – Nikolai Gogol [fiction: novel]
- The Overcoat (1842, Russia) – Nikolai Gogol [fiction: story]
- The Pit and the Pendulum (US, 1842) – Edgar Allan Poe [fiction: story]
- The Masque of the Red Death (US, 1842) – Edgar Allan Poe [fiction: story]
- The Village Blacksmith (1842, US) – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [poem]
- My Last Duchess (1842, UK) – Robert Browning [poem]
- Lost Illusions (1837-1843, France) – Honoré de Balzac [fiction: novel]
- A Christmas Carol (1843, UK) – Charles Dickens [fiction: novel]
- The Tell-Tale Heart (1843, US) – Edgar Allan Poe [fiction: story]
- The Gold Bug (1843, US) – Edgar Allan Poe [fiction: story]
- The Birthmark (1843, US) – Nathaniel Hawthorne [fiction: story]
- The Ugly Duckling (1843, Denmark) – Hans Christian Andersen [fiction: story]
- The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844, India/UK) – William Makepeace Thackeray [fiction: novel]
- Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-1844, UK) – Charles Dickens [fiction: novel]
- The Three Musketeers (1844, France) – Alexandre Dumas [fiction: novel]
- The Snow Queen (1844, Denmark) – Hans Christian Andersen [fiction: story]
- Rappaccini’s Daughter (1844, US) – Nathaniel Hawthorne [fiction: story]
- The Purloined Letter (1844, US) – Edgar Allan Poe [fiction: story]
- Essays, 2nd Series (1844, US) – Ralph Waldo Emerson [non-fiction: essays]
- Marguerite de Valois (La Reine Margot) (1845, France) – Alexandre Dumas [fiction: novel]
- The Little Match Girl (1845, Denmark) – Hans Christian Andersen [fiction: story]
- The Raven (1845, US) – Edgar Allan Poe [poem]
- I Am (1845, UK) – John Clare [poem]
- The Arrow and the Song (1845, US) – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [poem]
- Home-thoughts, From Abroad (1845, UK) – Robert Browning [poem]
- Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845, US) – Frederick Douglass [non-fiction: memoir]
- Cousin Bette (1846, France) – Honoré de Balzac [fiction: novel]
- The Count of Monte-Cristo (1846, France) – Alexandre Dumas [fiction: novel]
- The Haunted Marsh (La mare au diable) (1846, France) – George Sand [fiction: novel]
- The Cask of Amontillado (1846, US) – Edgar Allan Poe [fiction: story]
- Remembrance (1846, UK) – Emily Brontë [poem]
- Sonnets from the Portuguese 14 (“If thou must love me, let it be for nought”) (1845-1846, UK) – Elizabeth Barrett Browning [poem]
- Sonnets from the Portuguese 43 (“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”) (1845-1846, UK) – Elizabeth Barrett Browning [poem]
- Wuthering Heights (1847, UK) – Emily Brontë [fiction: novel]
- Jane Eyre (1847, UK) – Charlotte Brontë [fiction: novel]
- A Harlot High and Low (1847, France) – Honoré de Balzac [fiction: novel]
- The Rhodora (1847, US) – Ralph Waldo Emerson [poem]
- Dombey and Son (1846-1848, UK) – Charles Dickens [fiction: novel]
- Vanity Fair (1848, UK) – William Makepeace Thackeray [fiction: novel]
- Mary Barton (1848, UK) – Elizabeth Gaskell [fiction: novel]
- The Christmas Tree and the Wedding (Russia, 1848) – Fyodor Dostoevsky [fiction: story]
- The Communist Manifesto (1848, Germany/UK) – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels [non-fiction: political philosophy]
- Little Fadette (La petite Fadette) (1849, France) – George Sand [fiction: novel]
- Annabel Lee (1849, US) – Edgar Allan Poe [poem]
- A Dream Within A Dream (1849, US) – Edgar Allan Poe [poem]
- In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849, UK) – Alfred, Lord Tennyson [poem]
- Nature (1849, US) – Ralph Waldo Emerson [non-fiction: essay]
- Civil Disobedience (1849, US) – Henry David Thoreau [non-fiction: essay]
- David Copperfield (1849-1850, UK) – Charles Dickens [fiction: novel]
- The Scarlet Letter (1850, US) – Nathaniel Hawthorne [fiction: novel]
- The Prelude (1850, UK) – William Wordsworth [poem]
- The Blessed Damozel (1850, UK) – Dante Gabriel Rossetti [poem]
- Representative Men (1850, US) – Ralph Waldo Emerson [non-fiction: essay]
- Moby-Dick (1851, US) – Herman Melville [fiction: novel]
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1851, US) – Harriet Beecher Stowe [fiction: novel]
- The House of Seven Gables (1851, US) – Nathaniel Hawthorne [fiction: novel]
- The Eagle (1851, UK) – Alfred, Lord Tennyson [poem]
- A Sportsman’s Notebook (1852, Russia) – Ivan Turgenev [fiction: stories]
- The District Doctor (1852, Russia) – Ivan Turgenev [fiction: story]
- Thee, Thee, Only Thee (c. 1852, Ireland) – Thomas Moore [poem]
- Tis the Last Rose of Summer (c. 1852, Ireland) – Thomas Moore [poem]
- The Meeting of the Waters (c. 1852, Ireland) – Thomas Moore [poem]
- Oft in the Stilly Night (c. 1852, Ireland) – Thomas Moore [poem]
- Bleak House (1852-1853, UK) – Charles Dickens [fiction: novel]
- Villette (1853, UK) – Charlotte Brontë [fiction: novel]
- Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853, US) – Herman Melville [fiction: story]
- The Scholar Gipsy (1853, UK) – Matthew Arnold [poem]
- Hard Times (1854, UK) – Charles Dickens [fiction: novel]
- The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. (1854, India/UK) – William Makepeace Thackeray [fiction: novel]
- The Lightning-Rod Man (1854, US) – Herman Melville [fiction: story]
- The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854, UK) – Alfred, Lord Tennyson [poem]
- Echo (1854, UK) – Christina Rossetti [poem]
- Walden (1854, US) – Henry David Thoreau [non-fiction: memoir]
- Slavery in Massachusetts (1854, US) – Henry David Thoreau [non-fiction: essay]
- North and South (1854-1855, UK) – Elizabeth Gaskell [fiction: novel]
- The Warden (1855, UK) – Anthony Trollope [fiction: novel]
- Leaves of Grass (1855, US) – Walt Whitman [poetry]
- Song of Myself (1855, US) – Walt Whitman [poem]
- Two in the Campagna (1855, UK) – Robert Browning [poem]
- History of Rome (1854-1856, Germany) – Christian Mommsen [non-fiction: history]
- In An Artist’s Studio (1856, UK) – Christina Rossetti [poem]
- Madame Bovary (1857, France) – Gustave Flaubert [fiction: novel]
- Little Dorrit (1857, UK) – Charles Dickens [fiction: novel]
- Barchester Towers (1857, UK) – Anthony Trollope [fiction: novel]
- Flowers of Evil (1857, France) – Charles Baudelaire [poetry]
- Carrion (A Carcass) (1857, France) – Charles Baudelaire [poem]
- Invitation to a Voyage (1857, France) – Charles Baudelaire [poem]
- My Lost Youth (1858, US) – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [poem]
- The Chambered Nautilus (1858, US) – Oliver Wendell Holmes [poem]
- A Tale of Two Cities (1859, UK) – Charles Dickens [fiction: novel]
- Oblomov (1859, Russia) – Ivan Goncharov [fiction: novel]
- Adam Bede (1859, UK) – George Eliot [fiction: novel]
- Family Happiness (1859, Russia) – Leo Tolstoy [fiction: novella]
- Jenny Kiss’d Me (c. 1859) – James Henry Leigh Hunt [poem]
- Goblin Market (1859, UK) – Christina Rossetti [poem]
- A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859, US) – Henry David Thoreau [non-fiction: essay]
- On Liberty (1859, UK) – John Stuart Mill [non-fiction: political philosophy]
- On the Origin of Species (1859, UK) – Charles Darwin [non-fiction: science]
- The Mill on the Floss (1860, UK) – George Eliot [fiction: novel]
- The Marble Faun (1860, US) – Nathaniel Hawthorne [fiction: novel]
- The Woman in White (1860, UK) – Wilkie Collins [fiction: novel]
- On the Eve (1860, Russia) – Ivan Turgenev [fiction: novel]
- First Love (1860, Russia) – Ivan Turgenev [fiction: novella]
- The Storm (1860, Russia) – Alexander Ostrovsky [play]
- To You (1860, US) – Walt Whitman [poem]
- The Conduct of Life (1860) – Ralph Waldo Emerson [non-fiction: essay]
- Great Expectations (1860-1861, UK) – Charles Dickens [fiction: novel]
- Silas Marner (1861, UK) – George Eliot [fiction: novel]
- Hymn to Beauty (1861, France) – Charles Baudelaire [poem]
- The Latest Decalogue (c. 1861, UK) – Arthur Hugh Clough [poem]
- Battle Hymn of the Republic (1861, US) – Julia Ward Howe [poem]
- Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth (c. 1861, UK) – Arthur Hugh Clough [poem]
- A Birthday (1861, UK) – Christina Rossetti [poem]
- Les Misérables (1862, France) – Victor Hugo [fiction: novel]
- Fathers and Sons (1862, Russia) – Ivan Turgenev [fiction: novel]
- Remember (1862, UK) – Christina Rossetti [poem]
- Up-hill (1862, UK) – Christina Rossetti [poem]
- Song (1862, UK) – Christina Rossetti [poem]
- Sic Vita (1862, US) – Henry David Thoreau [poem]
- The Children’s Hour (1863, US) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [poem]
- Notes from the Underground (1864, Russia) – Fyodor Dostoevsky [fiction: novel]
- Our Mutual Friend (1864, UK) – Charles Dickens [fiction: novel]
- On his Seventy-Fifth Birthday (c. 1864, UK) – Walter Savage Landor [poem]
- Rose Aylmer (c. 1864, UK) – Walter Savage Landor [poem]
- Dirce (c. 1864, UK) – Walter Savage Landor [poem]
- Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher (c. 1864, UK) – Walter Savage Landor [poem]
- Piers Plowman (c. 1864, UK) – Walter Savage Landor [poem]
- First Love (c. 1864, UK) – John Clare [poem]
- Barbara Frietchie (1864, US) – John Greenleaf Whittier [poem]
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865, UK) – Lewis Carroll [fiction: novel]
- The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865, US) – Mark Twain [fiction: story]
- Captain! My Captain! (1865, US) – Walt Whitman [poem]
- When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d (1865, US) – Walt Whitman [poem]
- Shiloh: A Requiem (1865, US) – Herman Melville [poem]
- America (1865, US) – Herman Melville [poem]
- Crime and Punishment (1866, Russia) – Fyodor Dostoevsky [fiction: novel]
- Journey to the Center of the Earth (1866, France) – Jules Verne [fiction: novel]
- The Signal-Man (1866, UK) – Charles Dickens [fiction: story]
- Brand (1866, Norway) – Henrik Ibsen [play]
- Gettysburg (1866, US) – Herman Melville [poem]
- Snowbound (1866, US) – John Greenleaf Whittier [poem]
- The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867, UK) – Anthony Trollope [fiction: novel]
- Thérèse Raquin (1867, France) – Émile Zola [fiction: novel]
- Peer Gynt (1867, Norway) – Henrik Ibsen [play]
- Dover Beach (1867, UK) – Matthew Arnold [poem]
- When I Heard The Learn’d Astronomer (1867, US) – Walt Whitman [poem]
- I Hear America Singing (1867, US) – Walt Whitman [poem]
- Year that Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me (1867, US) – Walt Whitman [poem]
- Whoever You Are Now Holding Me Now in Hand (1867, US) – Walt Whitman [poem]
- Dirge for Two Veterans (1867, US) – Walt Whitman [poem]
- The Runner (1867, US) – Walt Whitman [poem]
- Little Women (1868, US) – Louisa May Alcott [fiction: novel]
- The Moonstone (1868, UK) – Wilkie Collins [fiction: novel]
- The Luck of Roaring Camp (1868, US) – Bret Harte [fiction: story]
- War and Peace (1869, Russia) – Leo Tolstoy [fiction: novel]
- Sentimental Education (1869, France) – Gustave Flaubert [fiction: novel]
- The Idiot (1869, Russia) – Fyodor Dostoevsky [fiction: novel]
- Phineas Finn (1869, UK) – Anthony Trollope [fiction: novel]
- The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1869, US) – Bret Harte [fiction: story]
- Tennessee’s Partner (1869, US) – Bret Harte [fiction: story]
- Scarlet Stockings (1869, US) – Louisa May Alcott [fiction: story]
- Paris Spleen (1869, France) – Charles Baudelaire [poetry]
- Rhyme? and Reason? (Phantasmagoria) (1869, UK) – Lewis Carroll [poem]
- The Innocents Abroad (1869, US) – Mark Twain [non-fiction: travel]
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870, France) – Jules Verne [fiction: novel]
- A Fight with a Cannon (c. 1870, France) – Victor Hugo [fiction: story]
- The Earthly Paradise (1868-1870, UK) – William Morris [epic poem]
- The Sleeper in the Valley (1870, France) – Arthur Rimbaud [poem]
- Sensation (1870, France) – Arthur Rimbaud [poem]
- Romance (1870, France) – Arthur Rimbaud [poem]
- Through the Looking-Glass (1871, UK) – Lewis Carroll [fiction: novel]
- Jabberwocky (from Through The Looking Glass) (1871, UK) – Lewis Carroll [poem]
- The Drunken Boat (Le Bateau Ivre) (1871) – Arthur Rimbaud [poetry]
- As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days (1871, US) – Walt Whitman [poem]
- President Lincoln’s Burial Hymn (1871, US) – Walt Whitman [poem]
- The Owl and the Pussycat (1871, UK) – Edward Lear [poem]
- Middlemarch (1871-1872, UK) – George Eliot [fiction: novel]
- The Possessed (The Devils) (1872, Russia) – Fyodor Dostoevsky [fiction: novel]
- Erewhon (1872, UK) – Samuel Butler [fiction: novel]
- Proses Evangeliques (1872, France) – Arthur Rimbaud [poetry]
- Roughing It (1872, US) – Mark Twain [non-fiction: memoir/travel]
- Around the World in Eighty Days (1873, France) – Jules Verne [fiction: novel]
- Emperor and Galilean (1873, Norway) – Henrik Ibsen [play]
- Poesies (c. 1869-1873, France) – Arthur Rimbaud [poetry]
- A Season in Hell (Un Saison en Enfer) (1873, France) – Arthur Rimbaud [poetry]
- Far From the Madding Crowd (1874, UK) – Thomas Hardy [fiction: novel]
- Song of the Redwood Tree (1874, US) – Walt Whitman [poem]
- Illuminations (1874, France) – Arthur Rimbaud [poetry]
- Invictus (1875, UK) – William Ernest Henley [poem]
- The Way We Live Now (1875, UK) – Anthony Trollope [fiction: novel]
- Daniel Deronda (1876, UK) – George Eliot [fiction: novel]
- The Adventure of Tom Sawyer (1876, US) – Mark Twain [fiction: novel]
- The Hunting of the Snark (1876, UK) – Lewis Carroll [poem]
- Anna Karenina (1877, Russia) – Leo Tolstoy [fiction: novel]
- L’Assommoir (1877, France) – Émile Zola [fiction: novel]
- Three Tales (1877, France) – Gustave Flaubert [fiction: stories]
- The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller (from Three Tales) (1877, France) – Gustave Flaubert [fiction: story]
- God’s Grandeur (1877, UK) – Gerard Manley Hopkins [poem]
- The Windhover (1877, UK) – Gerard Manley Hopkins [poem]
- Pied Beauty (1877, UK) – Gerard Manley Hopkins [poem]
- The Return of the Native (1878, UK) – Thomas Hardy [fiction: novel]
- Daisy Miller (1878, US/UK) – Henry James [fiction: novella]
- A Forsaken Garden (1878, UK) – Algernon Charles Swinburne [poem]
- A Doll’s House (1879, Norway) – Henrik Ibsen [play]
- The Brothers Karamazov (1880, Russia) – Fyodor Dostoevsky [fiction: novel]
- Ben-Hur (1880, US) – Lew Wallace [fiction: novel]
- Nana (1880, France) – Émile Zola [fiction: novel]
- The Red Room (1880, Sweden) – August Strindberg [fiction: novel]
- Washington Square (1880, US/UK) – Henry James [fiction: novella]
- Boule de Suif (1880, France) – Guy de Maupassant [fiction: story]
- Vera, or The Nihilists (1880, Ireland) – Oscar Wilde [play]
- Spring and Fall: To A Young Child (1880) – Gerard Manley Hopkins [poem]
- Felix Randal (1880) – Gerard Manley Hopkins [poem]
- Requiem (1880, UK) – Robert Louis Stevenson [poem]
- The Portrait of a Lady (1881, US/UK) – Henry James [fiction: novel]
- Bouvard and Pécuchet (1881, France) – Gustave Flaubert [fiction: novel]
- Thrawn Janet (1881, UK) – Robert Louis Stevenson [fiction: story]
- Ghosts (1881, Norway) – Henrik Ibsen [play]
- Inversnaid (1881, UK) – Gerard Manley Hopkins [poem]
- A Lodging for the Night (1882, UK) – Robert Louis Stevenson [fiction: story]
- The Lady or the Tiger? (1882, US) – Frank Stockton [fiction: story]
- An Enemy of the People (1882, Norway) – Henrik Ibsen [play]
- A Clear Midnight (1882, US) – Walt Whitman [poem]
- In Paths Untrodden (1882, US) – Walt Whitman [poem]
- Shut Not Your Doors (1882, US) – Walt Whitman [poem]
- A Noiseless Patient Spider (1882, US) – Walt Whitman [poem]
- Days (c. 1882, US) – Ralph Waldo Emerson [poem]
- Treasure Island (1883, UK) – Robert Louis Stevenson [fiction: novel]
- Little Novels of Sicily (1883, Italy) – Giovanni Verga [fiction: novel]
- The Duchess of Padua (1883, Ireland) – Oscar Wilde [play]
- Das Kapital (Capital) (three volumes) (1867-1883, Germany/UK) – Karl Marx [non-fiction: political philosophy]
- Life on the Mississippi (1883, US) – Mark Twain [non-fiction: travel/memoir]
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884, US) – Mark Twain [fiction: novel]
- With Fire and Sword (1884, Poland) – Henryk Sienkiewicz [fiction: novel]
- The Necklace (1884, France) – Guy de Maupassant [fiction: story]
- Bel Ami (1885, France) – Guy de Maupassant [fiction: novel]
- Germinal (1885, France) – Émile Zola [fiction: novel]
- The Three Questions (1885, Russia) – Leo Tolstoy [fiction: story]
- The Private History of a Campaign That Failed (1885, US) – Mark Twain [fiction: story]
- The Huntsmen (1885, Russia) – Anton Chekhov [fiction: story]
- The Looking Glass (1885, Russia) – Anton Chekhov [fiction: story]
- The Griffin and the Minor Canon (1885, US) – Frank Stockton [fiction: story]
- The Wild Duck (1885, Norway) – Henrik Ibsen [play]
- Old Ironsides (1885, US) – Oliver Wendell Holmes [poem]
- Carrion Comfort (1885, UK) – Gerard Manley Hopkins [poem]
- The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886, UK) – Thomas Hardy [fiction: novel]
- Kidnapped (1886, UK) – Robert Louis Stevenson [fiction: novel]
- The Bostonians (1886, US/UK) – Henry James [fiction: novel]
- The Deluge (1886, Poland) – Henryk Sienkiewicz [fiction: novel]
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886, UK) – Robert Louis Stevenson [fiction: novella]
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886, Russia) – Leo Tolstoy [fiction: novella]
- How Much Land Does A Man Need? (1886, Russia) – Leo Tolstoy [fiction: story]
- Vanka (1886, Russia) – Anton Chekhov [fiction: story]
- Mosada (1886, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [play]
- The End of Satan (Et nox facta es) (1886, France) – Victor Hugo [poem]
- Beyond Good and Evil (1886, Germany) – Friedrich Nietzsche [non-fiction: philosophy]
- Success is counted sweetest (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- ‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers, (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- I heard a Fly buzz – when I died (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- Because I could not stop for Death (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- A narrow fellow in the grass (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- I’m Nobody! Who are you? (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- There’s a certain Slant of light, (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- I felt a funeral, in my Brain, (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- The Soul selects her own Society (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- A Bird came down the Walk (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- After great pain, a formal feeling comes (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- Much madness is divinest sense (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- Wild Nights! Wild Nights! (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- This is my letter to the world (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- As Imperceptibly as Grief (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- The Bible Is an Antique Volume (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- Fame Is a Bee (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- I Like a Look of Agony (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- I Never Lost as Much but Twice (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- I Reckon – When I Count at All (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- I Would Not Paint – a Picture (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- A Little Over [or, East of] Jordan (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- My Life Had Stood – a Loaded Gun (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- On a Columnar Self (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- The bustle in a house (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- Publication Is the Auction (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- Renunciation Is a Piercing Virtue (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- A Route of Evanescence (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- Safe in their Alabaster Chambers (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- Split the Lark and You’ll Find the Music (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- They Shut Me Up in Prose (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- I Cannot Live with You (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- If those I loved were lost (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- There is another sky (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- “Why do I love” You, Sir? (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- “Faith” is a fine invention (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- To hear an oriole sing (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- Ample make this Bed (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- This Grass so little has to do (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- One need not be a Chamber – to be haunted (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- Surgeons must be very careful (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- To fight aloud, is very brave (c. 1886, US) – Emily Dickinson [poem]
- Fortunata and Jacinta (1886-1887, Spain) – Benito Pérez Galdós [fiction: novel]
- The People of Hemsö (1887, Sweden) – August Strindberg [fiction: novel]
- The Woodlanders (1887, UK) – Thomas Hardy [fiction: novel]
- The Horla (1887, France) – Guy de Maupassant [fiction: story]
- The Father (1887, Sweden) – August Strindberg [play]
- The Maldive Shark (1887, US) – Herman Melville [poem]
- The Maias (1888, Portugal) – José Maria de Eça de Queiroz [fiction: novel]
- Fire in the Steppe (1888, Poland) – Henryk Sienkiewicz [fiction: novel]
- Pierre and Jean (1888, France) – Guy de Maupassant [fiction: novel]
- The Aspern Papers (1888, US/UK) – Henry James [fiction: novella]
- The Man Who Would be King (1888, UK/India) – Rudyard Kipling [fiction: story]
- The Nightingale and the Rose (1888, Ireland) – Oscar Wilde [fiction: story]
- The Happy Prince (1888, Ireland) – Oscar Wilde [fiction: story]
- The Selfish Giant (1888, Ireland) – Oscar Wilde [fiction: story]
- Miss Julie (1888, Sweden) – August Strindberg [play]
- Roman Constitutional Law (1871-1888, Germany) – Christian Mommsen [non-fiction: history]
- The Way of All Flesh (c. 1889, UK) – Samuel Butler [fiction: novel]
- The Master of Ballantrae (1889, UK) – Robert Louis Stevenson [fiction: novel]
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889, US) – Mark Twain [fiction: novel]
- The Kreutzer Sonata (1889, Russia) – Leo Tolstoy [fiction: novella]
- The Bet (1889, Russia) – Anton Chekhov [fiction: story]
- Chickamauga (1889, US) – Ambrose Bierce [fiction: story]
- A Horseman in the Sky (1889, US) – Ambrose Bierce [fiction: story]
- Crossing The Bar (1889, UK) – Alfred, Lord Tennyson [poem]
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin (c. 1889, UK) – Robert Browning [poem]
- Hunger (1890, Norway) – Knut Hamsun [fiction: novel]
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890, Ireland) – Oscar Wilde [fiction: novel]
- News from Nowhere (1890, UK) – William Morris [fiction: novel]
- By the Open Sea (1890, Sweden) – August Strindberg [fiction: novel]
- La Bête Humaine (1890, France) – Émile Zola [fiction: novel]
- The House by the Medlar Tree (1890, Italy) – Giovanni Verga [fiction: novel]
- The Tragic Muse (1890, US/UK) – Henry James [fiction: novella]
- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890, US) – Ambrose Bierce [fiction: story]
- Without Benefit of Clergy (1890, UK/India) – Rudyard Kipling [fiction: story]
- Hedda Gabler (1890, Norway) – Henrik Ibsen [play]
- The Lake Isle of Innisfree (1890, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [poem]
- The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (1890, UK) – James George Frazer [non-fiction]
- The Principles of Psychology (1890, US) – William James [nonfiction: psychology]
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891, UK) – Thomas Hardy [fiction: novel]
- Billy Budd (c. 1891, pub. 1924, US) – Herman Melville [fiction: novella]
- A New England Nun (1891, US) – Mary Wilkins Freeman [fiction: story]
- The Boarded Window (1891, US) – Ambrose Bierce [fiction: story]
- The Bottle Imp (1891, UK) – Robert Louis Stevenson [fiction: story]
- Under The Lion’s Paw (1891, US) – Hamlin Garland [fiction: story]
- The Red-Headed League (1891, UK) – Arthur Conan Doyle [fiction: story]
- Good-Bye My Fancy! (1891, US) – Walt Whitman [poem]
- Evil (c. 1891, France) – Arthur Rimbaud [poem]
- The Seekers of Lice (c. 1891, France) – Arthur Rimbaud [poem]
- A Winter Dream (c. 1891, France) – Arthur Rimbaud [poem]
- Dance of The Hanged Men (c. 1891, France) – Arthur Rimbaud [poem]
- Ophelia (c. 1891, France) – Arthur Rimbaud [poem]
- Narcissus Speaks (Version 1: 1891, Version 2: 1920, France) – Paul Valéry [poem]
- Intentions: The Critic As Artist (1891, Ireland) – Oscar Wilde [non-fiction: criticism]
- Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883-1891, Germany) – Friedrich Nietzsche [non-fiction: philosophy]
- Diary of a Nobody (1892, UK) – George & Weedon Grossmith [fiction: novel]
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892, UK) – Arthur Conan Doyle [fiction: stories]
- Ward Number Six (1892, Russia) – Anton Chekhov [fiction: story]
- The Yellow Wallpaper (1892, US) – Charlotte Perkins Gilman [fiction: story]
- Chitra (1892, India) – Rabindranath Tagore [play]
- The Countess Cathleen (1892, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [play]
- Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892, Ireland) – Oscar Wilde [play]
- The Master Builder (1892, Norway) – Henrik Ibsen [play]
- The Weavers (1892, Germany) – Gerhart Hauptmann [play]
- Gunga Din (1892, UK/India) – Rudyard Kipling [poem]
- When You Are Old (1892, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [poem]
- A Child Said, What is the grass? (c. 1892, US) – Walt Whitman [poem]
- Beat! Beat! Drums! (c. 1892, US) – Walt Whitman [poem]
- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (c. 1892, US) – Walt Whitman [poem]
- Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking (c. 1892, US) – Walt Whitman [poem]
- President Lincoln’s Burial Hymn (c. 1892, US) – Walt Whitman [poem]
- To a Locomotive in Winter (c. 1892, US) – Walt Whitman [poem]
- Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night (c. 1892, US) – Walt Whitman [poem]
- Specimen Days (1892, US) – Walt Whitman [non-fiction: essays]
- Desiree’s Baby (1893, US) – Kate Chopin [fiction: story]
- A Woman of No Importance (1893, Ireland) – Oscar Wilde [play]
- Salomé (1893, Ireland) – Oscar Wilde [play]
- The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894, US) – Mark Twain [fiction: novel]
- The Jungle Book (1894, UK/India) – Rudyard Kipling [fiction: stories]
- Rikki Tikki Tavi (1894, UK/India) – Rudyard Kipling [fiction: story]
- The Story of an Hour (1894, US) – Kate Chopin [fiction: story]
- Regret (1894, US) – Kate Chopin [fiction: story]
- Arms and the Man (1894, Ireland/UK) – George Bernard Shaw [play]
- The Land of Heart’s Desire (1894, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [play]
- Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae (1894) – Ernest Dowson [poem]
- Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci (1894, France) – Paul Valéry [non-fiction: essay]
- Jude the Obscure (1895, UK) – Thomas Hardy [fiction: novel]
- The Time Machine (1895, UK) – H.G. Wells [fiction: novel]
- The Red Badge of Courage (1895, US) – Stephen Crane [fiction: novel]
- Quo Vadis (1895, Poland) – Henryk Sienkiewicz [fiction: novel]
- An Ideal Husband (1895, Ireland) – Oscar Wilde [play]*
- In the Desert (1895, US) – Stephen Crane [poem]
- Effi Briest (1896, Germany) – Theodor Fontane [fiction: novel]
- The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896, UK) – H.G. Wells [fiction: novel]
- The House with the Mezzanine (1896, Russia) – Anton Chekhov [fiction: story]
- The Figure in the Carpet (1896, US/UK) – Henry James [fiction: story]
- Little Herr Friedemann (1896, Germany) – Thomas Mann [fiction: story]
- The Seagull (1896, Russia) – Anton Chekhov [play]
- Ubu Roi (King Ubu) (1896, France) – Alfred Jarry [play]
- A Shropshire Lad II (“Loveliest of Trees The Cherry Now”) (1896, UK) – A.E. Housman [poem]
- A Shropshire Lad XIX (To An Athlete Dying Young) (1896, UK) – A.E. Housman [poem]
- A Shropshire Lad LIV (“With Rue My Heart Is Laden”) (1896, UK) – A.E. Housman [poem]
- A Shropshire Lad LXII (“Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff”) (1896, UK) – A.E. Housman [poem]
- The Evening With Monsieur Teste (1896, France) – Paul Valéry [non-fiction: essay]
- What Maisie Knew (1897, US/UK) – Henry James [fiction: novel]
- The Invisible Man (1897, UK) – H.G. Wells [fiction: novel]
- Dracula (1897, Ireland) – Bram Stoker [fiction: novel]
- Misericordia (1897, Spain) – Benito Pérez Galdós [fiction: novel]
- A Pair of Silk Stockings (1896-1897, US) – Kate Chopin [fiction: story]
- The Open Boat (1897, US) – Stephen Crane [fiction: story]
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1897, France) – Edmond Rostand [play]*
- Recessional (1897, UK/India) – Rudyard Kipling [poem]
- Richard Cory (1897, US) – Edwin Arlington Robinson [poem]
- Luke Havergal (1897, US) – Edwin Arlington Robinson [poem]
- The War of the Worlds (1898, UK) – H.G. Wells [fiction: novel]
- The Turn of the Screw (1898, US/UK) – Henry James [fiction: story]
- Gooseberries (1898, Russia) – Anton Chekhov [fiction: story]
- Youth (1898 (magazine), 1902 (book), Poland/UK) – Joseph Conrad [fiction: story]
- To Damascus (1898, Sweden) – August Strindberg [play]
- Three Sunsets (c. 1898, UK) – Lewis Carroll [poem]
- J’Accuse (1898, France) – Émile Zola [non-fiction: essay]
- The Awakening (1899, US) – Kate Chopin [fiction: novel]
- Resurrection (1899, Russia) – Leo Tolstoy [fiction: novel]
- Heart of Darkness (1899 (serial), 1902 (book), Poland/UK) – Joseph Conrad [fiction: novella]
- The Lady with the Dog (1899, Russia) – Anton Chekhov [fiction: story]
- The Importance of Being Earnest (1899, Ireland) – Oscar Wilde [play]
- When We Dead Awaken (1899, Norway) – Henrik Ibsen [play]
- He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (1899, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [poem]
- The Interpretation of Dreams (1899, Austria) – Sigmund Freud [non-fiction: psychology]
- Lord Jim (1900, Poland/UK) – Joseph Conrad [fiction: novel]
- Sister Carrie (1900, US) – Theodore Dreiser [fiction: novel]
- A Dark Brown Dog (c. 1900, pub. 1901, US) – Stephen Crane [fiction: story]
- Uncle Vanya (1899-1900, Russia) – Anton Chekhov [play]*
- La Ronde (1900 (pub.), 1920 (performed), Austria) – Arthur Schnitzler [play]
- Buddenbrooks (1901, Germany) – Thomas Mann [fiction: novel]
- Kim (1901, UK) – Rudyard Kipling [fiction: novel]
- The Broken Nest (Nashtanir) (1901, India) – Rabindranath Tagore [fiction: novella]
- Three Sisters (1901, Russia) – Anton Chekhov [play]
- A Dream Play (1901, Sweden) – August Strindberg [play]
- The Dance of Death (1901, Sweden) – August Strindberg [play]
- Cathleen Ni Houlihan (1901, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [play]
- The Darkling Thrush (1901, UK) – Thomas Hardy [poem]
- The Ruined Maid (1901, UK) – Thomas Hardy [poem]
- Up From Slavery (1901, US) – Booker T. Washington [non-fiction: memoir]
- The Wings of the Dove (1902, US/UK) – Henry James [fiction: novel]
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902, UK) – Arthur Conan Doyle [fiction: novel]
- The Immoralist (1902, France) – André Gide [fiction: novel]
- The Monkey’s Paw (1902, UK) – W.W. Jacobs [fiction: story]
- How the Leopard Got His Spots (1902, UK/India) – Rudyard Kipling [fiction: story]
- One Autumn Night (1902, Russia) – Maxim Gorky [fiction: story]
- The Omnibus (1902, UK) – Arthur Quiller-Couch [fiction: story]
- The Lower Depths (1902, Russia) – Maxim Gorky [play]
- The Man He Killed (1902, UK) – Thomas Hardy [poem]
- A Mountain Village (c. 1902, Japan) – Masaoka Shiki [poem]
- A Hollyhock (c. 1902, Japan) – Masaoka Shiki [poem]
- Night (c. 1902, Japan) – Masaoka Shiki [poem]
- A Quart of Phlegm (c. 1902, Japan) – Masaoka Shiki [poem]
- For Love and For Hate (c. 1902, Japan) – Masaoka Shiki [poem]
- The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902, US) – William James [non-fiction]
- The Ambassadors (1903, US/UK) – Henry James [fiction: novel]
- The Call of the Wild (1903, US) – Jack London [fiction: novel]
- A Dog’s Tale (1903, US) – Mark Twain [fiction: story]
- Was it Heaven? Or Hell? (1903, US) – Mark Twain [fiction: story]
- Man and Superman (1902-1903, Ireland/UK) – George Bernard Shaw [play]
- Where There Is Nothing (1903, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [play]
- The Hour Glass (1903, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [play]
- The Souls of Black Folk (1903, US) W.E.B. Du Bois [non-fiction]
- Nostromo (1904, Poland/UK) – Joseph Conrad [fiction: novel]
- The Golden Bowl (1904, US/UK) – Henry James [fiction: novel]
- The Sea-Wolf (1904, US) – Jack London [fiction: novel]
- The Mezzotint (1904, UK) – M.R. James [fiction: story]
- The Cherry Orchard (1904, Russia) – Anton Chekhov [play]
- Riders to the Sea (1904, Ireland) – John Millington Synge [play]
- King’s Threshold (1904, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [play]
- The Pot of Broth (1904, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [play]
- Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes (1904) – Rainer Maria Rilke [poem]
- Peter Pan (1904, UK) – J. M. Barrie [play]
- Waiting for the Barbarians (1904, Greece) – Constantine P. Cavafy [poem]
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904, Germany) – Max Weber [non-fiction]
- Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905, UK) – E.M. Forster [fiction: novel]
- The Cop and the Anthem (1904, US) – O. Henry [fiction: story]
- The House of Mirth (1905, US) – Edith Wharton [fiction: novel]
- The Gift of the Magi (1905, US) – O. Henry [fiction: story]
- Paul’s Case (1905, US) – Willa Cather [fiction: story]
- Eve’s Diary (1905, US) – Mark Twain [fiction: story]
- Major Barbara (1905, Ireland/UK) – George Bernard Shaw [play]
- Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905, Austria) – Sigmund Freud [non-fiction: psychology]
- The Jungle (1906, US) – Upton Sinclair [fiction: novel]
- The Confusions of Young Törless (1906, Germany) – Robert Musil [fiction: novel]
- White Fang (1906, US) – Jack London [fiction: novel]
- Mother (1906, Russia) – Maxim Gorky [fiction: novel]
- The Last Leaf (1906, US) – O. Henry [fiction: story]
- The Skylight Room (1906, US) – O. Henry [fiction: story]
- The Furnished Room (1906, US) – O. Henry [fiction: story]
- Lazarus (1906, Russia) – Leonid Andreyev [fiction: story]
- The Highwayman (1906, UK) – Alfred Noyes [poem]
- The Secret Agent (1907, Poland/UK) – Joseph Conrad [fiction: novel]
- Marta Oulie (1907, Denmark/Norway) – Sigrid Undset [fiction: novel]
- The Willows (1907, UK) – Algernon Blackwood [fiction: story]
- The Ghost Sonata (1907, Sweden) – August Strindberg [play]
- The Playboy of the Western World (1907, Ireland) – John Millington Synge [play]
- A Flea in Her Ear (1907, France) – Georges Feydeau [play]
- Dierdre (1907, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [play]
- New Poems: First Part and Other Part (1907, Austria) – Rainer Maria Rilke [poetry]
- The Cremation of Sam McGee (1907, Canada/UK) – Robert William Service [poem]
- To Mother (1907, Russia) – Marina Tsvetaeva [poem]
- Pragmatism (1907, US) – William James [non-fiction: philosophy]
- The Making of Americans (1906-1908, pub. 1925, US/France) – Gertrude Stein [fiction: novel]
- A Wind in the Willows (1908, UK) – Kenneth Grahame [fiction: novel]
- The Old Wive’s Tale (1908, UK) – Arnold Bennett [fiction: novel]
- A Room with a View (1908, UK) – E.M. Forster [fiction: novel]
- To Build a Fire (1908, US) – Jack London [fiction: story]
- On The Gull’s Road (1908, US) – Willa Cather [fiction: story]
- Self-Portrait (Retrato) (1908, Spain) – Antonio Machado [poem]
- Anne of Green Gables (1908, Canada) – Lucy Maud Montgomery [fiction: novel]
- The Cactus (c. 1905-1909, US) – O. Henry [fiction: story]
- The Princess and the Puma (c. 1905-1909, US) – O. Henry [fiction: story]
- A Municipal Report (c. 1905-1909, US) – O. Henry [fiction: story]
- Gabriel-Ernest (1909, UK) – Saki (H.H. Munro) [fiction: story]
- The Machine Stops (1909, UK) – E.M. Forster [fiction: story]
- Martin Eden (1909, US) – Jack London [fiction: novel]
- Tono-Bungay (1909, UK) – H.G. Wells [fiction: novel]
- Three Lives (1909, US/France) – Gertrude Stein [fiction: novellas]
- Les Mains Jointes (1909, France) – François Mauriac [poetry]
- In Paris (1909, Russia) – Marina Tsvetaeva [poem]
- Howards End (1910, UK) – E.M. Forster [fiction: novel]
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910) – Rainer Maria Rilke [fiction: novel]
- Gora (Fair-Faced) (1910, India) – Rabindranath Tagore [fiction: novel]
- The Secret Sharer (1909-1910, Poland/UK) – Joseph Conrad [fiction: story]
- The Schartz-Metterklume Method (1910, UK) – Saki (H.H. Munro) [fiction: story]
- The Tattooer (Shisei) (1910, Japan) – Junichiro Tanizaki [fiction: story]
- The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm (c. 1910, pub. 1916, US) – Mark Twain [fiction: story]
- Gitanjali (Song Offerings) (1910, India) – Rabindranath Tagore [poetry]
- Endless Time (Gitanjali #1) (1910, India) – Rabindranath Tagore [poem]
- A Moment’s Indulgence (Gitanjali #5) (1910, India) – Rabindranath Tagore [poem]
- The Lotus (Gitanjali #20) (1910, India) – Rabindranath Tagore [poem]
- On The Seashore (Gitanjali #60) (1910, India) – Rabindranath Tagore [poem]
- Miniver Cheevy (1910, US) – Edwin Arlington Robinson [poem]
- The City (1910, Greece) – Constantine P. Cavafy [poem]
- The Goat (1910, Italy) – Umberto Saba [poem]
- If (1910, UK/India) – Rudyard Kipling [poem]
- The Way through the Woods (1910, UK/India) – Rudyard Kipling [poem]
- No Second Troy (1910, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [poem]
- Ethan Frome (1911, US) – Edith Wharton [fiction: novel]
- Under Western Eyes (1911, Poland/UK) – Joseph Conrad [fiction: novel]
- Zuleika Dobson (1911, UK) – Max Beerbohm [fiction: novel]
- Jenny (1911, Denmark/Norway) – Sigrid Undset [fiction: novel]
- The Odour of Chrysanthemums (1911, UK) – D.H. Lawrence [fiction: story]
- The Other Side of the Hedge (1911, UK) – E.M. Forster [fiction: story]
- How the Widow Won the Deacon (1911, US) – William James Lampton [fiction: story]
- Casting the Runes (1911, UK) – M.R. James [fiction: story]
- Ithaka (1911, Greece) – Constantine P. Cavafy [poem]
- Leisure (1911, UK) – W.H. Davies [poem]
- A Princess of Mars (Under the Moons of Stars) (1912, pub. 1917, US) – Edgar Rice Burroughs [fiction: novel]
- Tarzan of the Apes (1912, US) – Edgar Rice Burroughs [fiction: novel]
- Death in Venice (1912, Germany) – Thomas Mann [fiction: novella]
- The Gift (1912, India) – Rabindranath Tagore [poem]
- The Listeners (1912, UK) – Walter de la Mare [poem]
- Susie Asado (1912, US/France) – Gertrude Stein [poem]
- My Reminiscences (1912, India) – Rabindranath Tagore [non-fiction: memoir]
- Sons and Lovers (1913, UK) – D.H. Lawrence [fiction: novel]
- The Custom of the Country (1913, US) – Edith Wharton [fiction: novel]
- Le Grand Meaulnes (1913, France) – Henry Alain-Fournier [fiction: novel]
- Pygmalion (1912-1913, Ireland/UK) – George Bernard Shaw [play]
- The Post Office (1913, India) – Rabindranath Tagore [play]
- The Gardener (1913, India) – Rabindranath Tagore [poetry]
- The Gardener #38 (“My love once upon a time”) (1913, India) – Rabindranath Tagore [poem]
- Silver (1913, UK) – Walter de la Mare [poem]
- Trees (1913, UK) – Joyce Kilmer [poem]
- For My Poems, Written So Young (1913, Russia) – Marina Tsvetaeva [poem]
- You Walk, Looking Just Like Me (1913, Russia) – Marina Tsvetaeva [poem]
- A Station of the Metro (1913, US) – Ezra Pound [poem]
- Zone (1913, Poland/France) – Guillaume Apollinaire [poem]
- Kokoro (1914, Japan) – Natsume Soseki [fiction: novel]
- The Vatican Cellars (1914, France) – André Gide [fiction: novel]
- Dubliners (1914, Ireland) – James Joyce [fiction: stories]
- Araby (1914, Ireland) – James Joyce [fiction: story]
- The Dead (1914, Ireland) – James Joyce [fiction: story]
- Eveline (1914, Ireland) – James Joyce [fiction: story]
- The Sisters (1914, Ireland) – James Joyce [fiction: story]
- In the Penal Colony (1914, pub. 1919, Austria-Hungary) – Franz Kafka [fiction: story]
- Sredni Vashtar (c. 1900-1914, UK) – Saki (H.H. Munro) [fiction: story]
- The Open Window (1914, UK) – Saki (H.H. Munro) [fiction: story]
- The Prussian Officer (1914, UK) – D.H. Lawrence [fiction: story]
- Dracula’s Guest (1914, Ireland) – Bram Stoker [fiction: story]
- The King of the Dark Chamber (1914, India) – Rabindranath Tagore [play]
- The Convergence of the Twain (1914, UK) – Thomas Hardy [poem]
- The Voice (1914, UK) – Thomas Hardy [poem]
- Channel Firing (1914, UK) – Thomas Hardy [poem]
- Chicago (1914, US) – Carl Sandburg [poem]
- The Soldier (1914, UK) – Rupert Brooke [poem]
- Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries (1914, UK) – A.E. Housman [poem]
- Mending Wall (1914, US) – Robert Frost [poem]
- After Apple-Picking (1914, US) – Robert Frost [poem]
- Tender Buttons (1914, US/France) – Gertrude Stein [poem]
- My Childhood (1914, Russia) – Maxim Gorky [non-fiction: memoir]
- The Rainbow (1915, UK) – D.H. Lawrence [fiction: novel]
- The Good Soldier (1915, UK) – Ford Madox Ford [fiction: novel]
- Of Human Bondage (1915, UK) – Somerset Maugham [fiction: novel]
- Victory (1915, Poland/UK) – Joseph Conrad [fiction: novel]
- The Metamorphosis (1915, Austria-Hungary) – Franz Kafka [fiction: novella]
- Rashomon and Other Stories (1915, Japan) – Akutagawa Ryunosuke [fiction: stories]
- Spoon River Anthology (1915, US) – Edgar Lee Masters [poetry]
- The Girlfriend (cycle) (1914-1915, Russia) – Marina Tsvetaeva [poem]
- In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’ (1915, UK) – Thomas Hardy [poem]
- Peter Quince at the Clavier (1915, US) – Wallace Stevens [poem]
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915, US/UK) – T.S. Eliot [poem]
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916, Ireland) – James Joyce [fiction: novel]
- The Home and the World (1916, India) – Rabindranath Tagore [fiction: novel]
- At the Hawk’s Well (1916) – William Butler Yeats [play]
- Fruit-Gathering (1916, India) – Rabindranath Tagore [poem]
- Easter, 1916 (1916, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [poem]
- Where Does Such Tenderness Come From? (1916, Russia) – Marina Tsvetaeva [poem]
- The Trees of My Childhood (1916, Finland) – Edith Södergran [poem]
- Break of Day in the Trenches (1916, UK) – Isaac Rosenberg [poem]
- Fog (1916, US) – Carl Sandburg [poem]
- Patterns (1916, US) – Amy Lowell [poem]
- The Road Not Taken (1916, US) – Robert Frost [poem]
- An Old Man’s Winter Night (1916, US) – Robert Frost [poem]
- Birches (1916, US) – Robert Frost [poem]
- Out, Out (1916, US) – Robert Frost [poem]
- The Oven Bird (1916, US) – Robert Frost [poem]
- The Garden (1916, US) – Ezra Pound [poem]
- Danse Russe (1916, US) – William Carlos Williams [poem]
- My Apprenticeship (1915-1916, Russia) – Maxim Gorky [non-fiction: memoir]
- Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (1916, Germany) – Albert Einstein [non-fiction: science]
- The Tale (1917, Poland/UK) – Joseph Conrad [fiction: story]
- Afterwards (1917, UK) – Thomas Hardy [poem]
- During Wind and Rain (1917, UK) – Thomas Hardy [poem]
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (1917) – Wallace Stevens [poem]
- The Wild Swans at Coole (1917, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [poem]
- Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town (1917, US) – E.E. Cummings [poem]
- Dulce et Decorum Est (1917, UK) – Wilfred Owen [poem]
- Anthem for Doomed Youth (1917, UK) – Wilfred Owen [poem]
- La Figlia Che Piange (1917, US/UK) – T.S. Eliot [poem]
- La Jeune Parque (1917, France) – Paul Valéry [poem]
- Nationalism (1917, India) – Rabindranath Tagore [non-fiction: essays]
- The Magnificent Ambersons (1918, US) – Booth Tarkington [fiction: novel]
- My Ántonia (1918, US) – Willa Cather [fiction: novel]
- The Gods of Mars (1918, US) – Edgar Rice Burroughs [fiction: novel]
- I Want to Know Why (1918, US) – Sherwood Anderson [fiction: story]
- A Madman’s Diary (1918, China) – Lu Xun [fiction: story]
- Strange Meeting (1918, UK) – Wilfred Owen [poem]
- The Fish (1918, US) – Marianne Moore [poem]
- The Twelve (1918, USSR) – Alexander Blok [poem]
- Grass (1918, US) – Carl Sandburg [poem]
- Piano (1918, UK) – D.H. Lawrence [poem]
- The Education of Henry Adams (1918, US) – Henry Adams [non-fiction: memoir]
- The Elements of Style (1918, US) – William Strunk & E.B. White [non-fiction: writing]
- Eminent Victorians (1918, UK) – Lytton Strachey [non-fiction: biography]
- The Warlord of Mars (1919, US) – Edgar Rice Burroughs [fiction: novel]
- The Moon and Sixpence (1919, UK) – W. Somerset Maugham [fiction: novel]
- Winesburg, Ohio (1919, US) – Sherwood Anderson [fiction: linked stories]
- Kew Gardens (1919, UK) – Virginia Woolf [fiction: story]
- A.V. Laider (1919, UK) – Max Beerbohm [fiction: story]
- The Interlopers (1919, UK) – Saki (H.H. Munro) [fiction: story]
- Heartbreak House (1919, Ireland/UK) – George Bernard Shaw [play]
- Anecdote of the Jar (1919, US) – Wallace Stevens [poem]
- An Irish Airman Foresees His Death (1919, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [poem]
- Poetry (1919, US) – Marianne Moore [poem]
- The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1917-1919, pub. 1954, Czechoslovakia) – Franz Kafka [non-fiction: journals]
- The Age of Innocence (1920, US) – Edith Wharton [fiction: novel]
- Women in Love (1920, UK) – D.H. Lawrence [fiction: novel]
- Main Street (1920, US) – Sinclair Lewis [fiction: novel]
- This Side of Paradise (1920, US) – F. Scott Fitzgerald [fiction: novel]
- The Forsyte Saga (1906-1921, UK) – John Galsworthy [fiction: novels]
- Rain (1921, UK) – W. Somerset Maugham [fiction: story]
- A Haunted House (1921, UK) – Virginia Woolf [fiction: story]
- Bliss (1920, New Zealand/UK) – Katherine Mansfield [fiction: story]
- The Other Woman (1920, US) – Sherwood Anderson [fiction: story]
- The Dybbuk (1920, Poland/Russia/Belarus) – S. Ansky [play]
- Album of Ancient Verses (1920, France) – Paul Valéry [poetry]
- Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921, Italy) – Luigi Pirandello [play]
- Back to Methuselah (1921, Ireland/UK) – George Bernard Shaw [play]
- Four Plays for Dancers (1921, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [play]
- The Frontier in American History (1921, US) – Frederick Jackson Turner [non-fiction: history]
- The Second Coming (1920, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [poem]
- Preludes (1920, US/UK) – T.S. Eliot [poem]
- Sweeney Among The Nightingales (1920, US/UK) – T.S. Eliot [poem]
- Mother to Son (1920, US) – Langston Hughes [poem]
- The Negro Speaks of Rivers (1920, US) – Langston Hughes [poem]
- The Graveyard by the Sea (1920, France) – Paul Valéry [poem]
- The Necklace (“Take From My Palms”) (1920, USSR) – Osip Mandelstam [poem]
- I Carry Your Heart with Me (1920, US) – E.E. Cummings [poem]
- The Snow Man (1921, US) – Wallace Stevens [poem]
- Tea at the Palaz of Hoon (1921, US) – Wallace Stevens [poem]
- Mr. Flood’s Party (1921, US) – Edwin Arlington Robinson [poem]
- Ulysses (1922, Ireland) – James Joyce [fiction: novel]
- Siddhartha (1922, Germany/Switzerland) – Hermann Hesse [fiction: novel]
- Babbitt (1922, US) By Sinclair Lewis [fiction: novel]
- Kristin Lavransdatter (1. The Wreath. 2. The Wife. 3. The Cross) (1920-1922, Denmark/Norway) – Sigrid Undset [fiction: novels]
- A Kiss to the Leper (Le Baiser au lépreux) (1922, France) – François Mauriac [fiction: novel]
- The True Story of Ah Q (1921-1922, China) – Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) [fiction: novella]
- The Horse Dealer’s Daughter (1922, UK) – D.H. Lawrence [fiction: story]
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (1922, US) – F. Scott Fitzgerald [fiction: story]
- The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (1922, US) – F. Scott Fitzgerald [fiction: story]
- A Hunger Artist (1922, Czechoslovakia) – Franz Kafka [fiction: story]
- The Doll’s House (1922, New Zealand/UK) – Katherine Mansfield [fiction: story]
- The Garden Party (1922, New Zealand/UK) – Kathleen Mansfield [fiction: story]
- The Fly (1922, New Zealand/UK) – Katherine Mansfield [fiction: story]
- I’m a Fool (1922, US) – Sherwood Anderson [fiction: story]
- Henry IV (1922, Italy) – Luigi Pirandello [play]
- The Player Queen (1922, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [play]
- The Waste Land (1922, US/UK) – T.S. Eliot [poem]
- The Emperor of Ice Cream (1922, US) – Wallace Stevens [poem]
- First Fig (1922, US) – Edna St. Vincent Millay [poem]
- Gray Hairs (1922, USSR) – Marina Tsvetaeva [poem]
- Design (1922, US) – Robert Frost [poem]
- Charms (1922, France) – Paul Valéry [poetry]
- The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922, UK) – T.E. Lawrence [nonfiction: memoir]
- Zeno’s Conscience (The Confessions of Zeno) (1923, Italy) – Italo Svevo [fiction: novel]
- A Lost Lady (1923, US) – Willa Cather [fiction: novel]
- Antic Hay (1923, UK) – Aldous Huxley [fiction: novel]
- Génitrix (1923, France) – François Mauriac [fiction: novel]
- Duino Elegies (1912-1923) – Rainer Maria Rilke [poetry]
- The Window (1923, USSR) – Marina Tsvetaeva [poem]
- Dialogue Between Hamlet and His Conscience (1923, USSR) – Marina Tsvetaeva [poem]
- You Who Loved Me with the Falseness (1923, USSR) – Marina Tsvetaeva [poem]
- Shine, Perishing Republic (1923, US) – Robinson Jeffers [poem]
- Fire and Ice (1923, US) – Robert Frost [poem]
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923, US) – Robert Frost [poem]
- The Red Wheelbarrow (1923, US) – William Carlos Williams [poem]
- Snake (1923, UK) – D.H. Lawrence [poem]
- Sunday Morning (1923, US) – Wallace Stevens [poem]
- The Magic Mountain (1924, Germany) – Thomas Mann [fiction: novel]
- A Passage to India (1924, UK) – E.M. Forster [fiction: novel]
- The Land that Time Forgot (1924, US) – Edgar Rice Burroughs [fiction: novel]
- The Most Dangerous Game (1924, US) – Richard Connell [fiction: story]
- Saint Joan (1924, Ireland/UK) – George Bernard Shaw [play]
- Juno and the Paycock (1924, Ireland) – Sean O’Casey [play]
- Red Oleanders (1924, India) – Rabindranath Tagore [play]
- The Vortex (1924, UK) – Noël Coward [play]
- Piazza Piece (1924, US) – John Crowe Ransom [poem]
- Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter (1924, US) – John Crowe Ransom [poem]
- The Trial (1925, Czechoslovakia) – Franz Kafka [fiction: novel]
- The Great Gatsby (1925, US) – F. Scott Fitzgerald [fiction: novel]
- Mrs. Dalloway (1925, UK) – Virginia Woolf [fiction: novel]
- An American Tragedy (1925, US) – Theodore Dreiser [fiction: novel]
- The Counterfeiters (1925, France) – André Gide [fiction: novel]
- The Desert of Love (Le Désert de l’amour) (1925, France) – François Mauriac [fiction: novel]
- The Professor’s House (1925, US) – Willa Cather [fiction: novel]
- The Artamonov Business (1925, USSR) – Maxim Gorky [fiction; novel]
- Naomi (Chijin no ai) (1924-1925, Japan) – Junichiro Tanizaki [fiction: novel]
- In Our Time (1925, US) – Ernest Hemingway [fiction: stories]
- Tales of the Don (1925, USSR) – Mikhail Sholokhov [fiction: stories]
- The Story of My Dovecot (1925, Ukraine/USSR) – Isaac Babel [fiction: story]
- Haircut (1925, US) – Ring Lardner [fiction: story]
- Orpheus (1925, France) – Jean Cocteau [play]
- The Eye (1925, US) – Robinson Jeffers [poem]
- The Deer Lay Down Their Bones (1925) – Robinson Jeffers [poem]
- Suicide’s Note (1925, US) – Langston Hughes [poem]
- The Hollow Men (1925, US/UK) – T.S. Eliot [poem]
- The Good Soldier Švejk (1926, Czechoslovakia) – Jaroslav Hašek [fiction: novel]
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926, UK) – Agatha Christie [fiction: novel]
- Winnie-the-Pooh (1926, UK) – A.A. Milne [fiction: novel]
- The Castle (1926, Czechoslovakia) – Franz Kafka [fiction: novel]
- The Sun Also Rises (1926, US) – Ernest Hemingway [fiction: novel]
- The Rocking-Horse Winner (1926, UK) – D.H. Lawrence [fiction: story]
- My First Goose (1926, Ukraine/USSR) – Isaac Babel [fiction: story]
- The Gardener (1926, UK/India) – Rudyard Kipling [fiction: story]
- The Dancing Girl of Izu (1926, Japan) – Yasunari Kawabata [fiction: story]
- The Plough and the Stars (1926, Ireland) – Sean O’Casey [play]
- Sweeney Agonistes (1926, US/UK) – T.S. Eliot [play]
- Selected Poetry (1894-1926, Austria) – Rainer Maria Rilke [poetry]
- Personae: Collected Poems (1926, US) – Ezra Pound [poetry]
- Since Feeling Is First (1926, US) – E.E. Cummings [poem]
- Ars Poetica (1926, US) – Archibald MacLeish [poem]
- Voyages (1921-1926, US) – Hart Crane [poem]
- Autobiographies (1926, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [non-fiction: memoir]
- In Search of Lost Time (1913-1927, France) – Marcel Proust [fiction: novels]
- To the Lighthouse (1927, UK) – Virginia Woolf [fiction: novel]
- Steppenwolf (1927, Germany/Switzerland) – Hermann Hesse [fiction: novel]
- Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927, US) – Willa Cather [fiction: novel]
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927, US) – Thornton Wilder [fiction: novel]
- Amerika (1927, Czechoslovakia) – Franz Kafka [fiction: novel]
- The Master of Hestviken (1. The Axe. 2. The Snake Pit. 3. In the Wilderness. 4. The Son Avenger) (1925-1927, Denmark/Norway) – Sigrid Undset [fiction: novels]
- Thérèse Desqueyroux (1927, France) – François Mauriac [fiction: novel]
- The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (1927, UK) – Arthur Conan Doyle [fiction: stories]
- Hills Like White Elephants (1927, US) – Ernest Hemingway [fiction: story]
- The Killers (1927, US) – Ernest Hemingway [fiction: story]
- A Jury of her Peers (1927, US) – Susan Glaspell [fiction: story]
- Footprints in the Jungle (1927, UK) – W. Somerset Maugham [fiction: story]
- The Resurrection (1927, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [play]
- Journey of the Magi (1927, US/UK) – T.S. Eliot [poem]
- Among School Children (1927, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [poem]
- Parade’s End (1924-1928, UK) – Ford Madox Ford [fiction: novel]
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928, UK) – D.H. Lawrence [fiction: novel]
- Nadja (1928, France) – André Breton [fiction: novel]
- Orlando: A Biography (1928, UK) – Virginia Woolf [fiction: novel]
- Point Counter Point (1928, UK) – Aldous Huxley [fiction: novel]
- The Threepenny Opera (1928, Germany) – Bertolt Brecht [play]*
- Strange Interlude (1928, US) – Eugene O’Neill [play]
- Machinal (1928, US) – Sophie Treadwell [play]
- Journey’s End (1928, UK) – R.C. Sherriff [play]
- The Front Page (1928, US) – Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur [play]
- Gypsy Ballads (1928, Spain) – Federico García Lorca [poetry]
- The Tower (1928, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [poetry]
- Leda and the Swan (1928, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [poem]
- Sailing to Byzantium (1928, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [poem]
- Dead Water (1928, China) – Wen Yiduo [poem]
- Conversation with a Genius (1928, USSR) – Marina Tsvetaeva [poem]
- Ode to the Confederate Dead (1928, US) – Allen Tate [poem]
- Acquainted With The Night (1928, US) – Robert Frost [poem]
- Mack the Knife (1928, German) – Bertolt Brecht [song lyric]
- The Sound and the Fury (1929, US) – William Faulkner [fiction: novel]
- A Farewell to Arms (1929, US) – Ernest Hemingway [fiction: novel]
- Look Homeward, Angel (1929, US) – Thomas Wolfe [fiction: novel]
- The Maltese Falcon (1929, US) – Dashiell Hammett [fiction: novel]
- Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929, Germany) – Alfred Döblin [fiction: novel]
- Les Enfants Terribles (1929, France) – Jean Cocteau [fiction: novel]
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1929, Germany) – Erich Maria Remarqué [fiction: novel]
- Southern Mail (1929, France) – Antoine De Saint-Exupéry [fiction: novel]
- Some Prefer Nettles (Tade kuu mushi) (1928–1929, Japan) – Junichiro Tanizaki [fiction: novel]
- The Dunwich Horror (1929, US) – H.P. Lovecraft [fiction: story]
- The Bedbug (1929, USSR) – Vladimir Mayakovsky [play]
- A Room of One’s Own (1929, UK) – Virginia Woolf [non-fiction: essay]
- An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth (1929, India) – Mohandas K. Gandhi [non-fiction: memoir]
- Goodbye to All That (1929, UK) – Robert Graves [non-fiction: memoir]
- Vile Bodies (1930, UK) – Evelyn Waugh [fiction: novel]
- East Wind, West Wind (1930, US) – Pearl Buck [fiction: novel]
- As I Lay Dying (1930, US) – William Faulkner [fiction: novel]
- Narcissus and Goldmund (1930, Germany) – Hermann Hesse [fiction: novel]
- Babylon Revisited (1930, US) – F. Scott Fitzgerald [fiction: story]
- The Jilting of Granny Wetherall (1930, US) – Katherine Anne Porter [fiction: story]
- Flowering Judas (1930, US) – Katherine Anne Porter [fiction: story]
- Theft (1930, US) – Katherine Anne Porter [fiction: story]
- A Rose for Emily (1930, US) – William Faulkner [fiction: story]
- A Telephone Call (1930, US) – Dorothy Parker [fiction: story]
- Private Lives (1930, UK) – Noël Coward [play]
- Design for Living (1930, UK) – Noël Coward [play]
- The Bridge (1930, US) – Hart Crane [poem]
- Seven-Sided Poem (1930, Brazil) – Carlos Drummond de Andrade [poem]
- Civilization and its Discontents (1930, Austria) – Sigmund Freud [non-fiction]
- The Waves (1931, UK) – Virginia Woolf [fiction: novel]
- The Good Earth (1931, US) – Pearl Buck [fiction: novel]
- Night Flight (1931, France) Antoine de Saint-Exupéry [fiction: novella]
- Guests of the Nation (1931, Ireland) – Frank O’Connor [fiction: story]
- That Evening Sun (That Evening Sun Go Down) (1931, US) – William Faulkner [fiction: story]
- Dry September (1931, US) – William Faulkner [fiction: story]
- Terra Incognita (1931, USSR/US) – Vladimir Nabokov [fiction: story]
- Mourning Becomes Electra (1931, US) – Eugene O’Neill [play]
- Residence on Earth (Series I) (1925-1931, pub. 1933, Chile) – Pablo Neruda [poetry]
- Autopsychography (1931, Portugal) – Fernando Pessoa [poem]
- Lord, Help Me to Live Through This Night (1931, USSR) – Osip Mandelstam [poem]
- Sonnet XLI (“I, Being Born A Woman and Distressed”) (1931) – Edna St. Vincent Millay [poem]
- Journey to the End of Night (1932, France) – Louis-Ferdinand Céline [fiction: novel]
- Brave New World (1932, UK) – Aldous Huxley [fiction: novel]
- Light in August (1932, US) – William Faulkner [fiction: novel]
- Cold Comfort Farm (1932, UK) – Stella Gibbons [fiction: novel]
- Seeds of Tomorrow (Virgin Soil Upturned I) (1932, USSR) – Mikhail Sholokhov [fiction: novel]
- The Radetzky March (1932, Austria) – Joseph Roth [fiction: novel]
- Sons (1932, US) – Pearl Buck [fiction: novel]
- Tobacco Road (1932, US) – Erskine Caldwell [fiction: novel]
- Young Lonigan (1932, US) – James T. Farrell [fiction: novel]
- The Reed Cutter (Ashikari) (1932, Japan) – Junichiro Tanizaki [fiction: novel]
- Vipers’ Tangle (Le Nœud de vipers) (1932, France) – François Mauriac [fiction: novel]
- The Frontenac Mystery (Le Mystère Frontenac) (1932, France) – François Mauriac [fiction: novel]
- Guy de Maupassant (1932, Ukraine/USSR) – Isaac Babel [fiction: story]
- Blood Wedding (1932, Spain) – Federico García Lorca [play]
- The Wedding (Hochzeit) (1932, Bulgaria/UK) – Elias Canetti [play]
- The Skull (1932, Turkey) – Nâzim Hikmet [play]
- Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep (1932, US) – Mary Elizabeth Frye [poem]
- Bavarian Gentians (1932, UK) – D.H. Lawrence [poem]
- Man’s Fate (1933, France) – André Malraux [fiction: novel]
- Miss Lonelyhearts (1933, US) – Nathanael West [fiction: novel]
- Apache Devil (1933, US) – Edgar Rice Burroughs [fiction: novel]
- A Portrait of Shunkin (Shunkinsho) (1933, Japan) – Junichiro Tanizaki [fiction: novel]
- A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (1933, US) – Ernest Hemingway [fiction: story]
- A Day’s Wait (1933, US) – Ernest Hemingway [fiction: story]
- Our Lady’s Juggler (1933, France) – Anatole France [fiction: story]
- Death in the Woods (1933, US) – Sherwood Anderson [fiction: story]
- Poem in Frozen Time (1933, Poland) – Czesław Miłosz [poetry]
- The Ship of Death (1933, UK) – D.H. Lawrence [poem]
- To Be Great, Be Whole (1933, Portugal) – Fernando Pessoa [poem]
- The Stalin Epigram (1933, USSR) – Osip Mandelstam [poem]
- The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower (1933, UK) – Dylan Thomas [poem]
- Letter to My Wife (1933, Turkey) – Nâzim Hikmet [poem]
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933, US) – Gertrude Stein [non-fiction: biography]
- In Praise of Shadows (In’ei Raisan) (1933, Japan) – Junichiro Tanizaki [non-fiction: essay]
- Tender is the Night (1934, US) – F. Scott Fitzgerald [fiction: novel]
- Tropic of Cancer (1934, US) – Henry Miller [fiction: novel]
- A Handful of Dust (1934, UK) – Evelyn Waugh [fiction: novel]
- I, Claudius (1934, UK) – Robert Graves [fiction: novel]
- Call It Sleep (1934, US) – Henry Roth [fiction: novel]
- The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934, US) – James M. Cain [fiction: novel]
- Appointment in Samarra (1934, US) – John O’Hara [fiction: novel]
- Burmese Days (1934, UK) – George Orwell [fiction: novel]
- The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (1934, US) – James T. Farrell [fiction: novel]
- Murder on the Orient Express (1934, UK) – Agatha Christie [fiction: novel]
- Seven Gothic Tales (1934, Denmark) – Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) [fiction: stories]
- Silent Snow, Secret Snow (1934, US) – Conrad Aiken [fiction: story]
- The Children’s Hour (1934, US) – Lillian Hellman [play]
- Wheels and Butterflies (1934, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [play]
- The Words Upon the Window Pane (1934, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [play]
- Yerma (1934, Spain) – Federico García Lorca [play]
- Poems (1934, UK) – William Golding [poetry]
- The Idea of Order at Key West (1934, US) – Wallace Stevens [poem]
- Permit Me Voyage (1934, US) – James Agee [poem]
- This is Just to Say (1934, US) – William Carlos Williams [poem]
- Independent People (1935, Iceland) – Halldór Laxness [fiction: novel]
- The Book of Disquiet (1935, Portugal) – Fernando Pessoa [fiction: novel]
- Judgment Day (1935, US) – James T. Farrell [fiction: novel]
- The ABC Murders (1935, UK) – Agatha Christie [fiction: novel]
- Auto-da-Fé (Die Blendung; Tower of Babel) (1935, Bulgaria/UK) – Elias Canetti [fiction: novel]
- A House Divided (1935, US) – Pearl Buck [fiction: novel]
- Murder in the Cathedral (1935, US) – T.S. Eliot [play]
- Awake and Sing! (1935, US) – Clifford Odets [play]
- The Forgotten Man (1935, Turkey) – Nâzim Hikmet [play]
- Residence on Earth (Series II) (1931-1935, Chile) – Pablo Neruda [poetry]
- Walking Around (1935, Chile) – Pablo Neruda [poem]
- Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias (1935, Spain) – Federico García Lorca [poem]
- The Steeplejack (1935, US) – Marianne Moore [poem]
- Mythistorema (1935, Greece) – George Seferis [poem]
- The Yachts (1935, US) – William Carlos Williams [poem]
- U.S.A. (1930-1936, US) – John Dos Passos [fiction: novels]
- Absalom, Absalom! (1936, US) – William Faulkner [fiction: novel]
- Gone With The Wind (1936, US) – Margaret Mitchell [fiction: novel]
- Eyeless in Gaza (1936, UK) – Aldous Huxley [fiction: novel]
- Black Spring (1936, US) – Henry Miller [fiction: novel]
- At the Mountains of Madness (1936, US) – H.P. Lovecraft [fiction: novella]
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1936, US) – Ernest Hemingway [fiction: story]
- The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber (1936, US) – Ernest Hemingway [fiction: story]
- Death of a Traveling Salesman (1936, US) – Eudora Welty [fiction: story]
- Spring in Fialta (1936, USSR/US) – Vladimir Nabokov [fiction: story]
- Shooting An Elephant (1936, UK) – George Orwell [fiction: story]
- The House of Bernarda Alba (1936, Spain) – Federico García Lorca [play]
- The Women (1936, US) – Claire Booth Luce [play]
- Selected Poems (1918-1936, Spain) – Federico García Lorca [poetry]
- The Unfaithful Wife (c. 1936, Spain) – Federico García Lorca [poem]
- The Epic of Shaykh Bedreddin (1936, Turkey) – Nâzim Hikmet [poem]
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest & Money (1936, UK) – John Maynard Keynes [non-fiction: economics]
- Rickshaw Boy (1937, China) – Lao She [fiction: novel]
- The Years (1937, UK) – Virginia Woolf [fiction: novel]
- Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937, US) – Zora Neale Hurston [fiction: novel]
- The Hobbit (1937, UK) – J.R.R. Tolkien [fiction: novel]
- Of Mice and Men (1937, US) – John Steinbeck [fiction: novella]
- In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (1937, US) – Delmore Schwartz [fiction: story]
- The Devil and Daniel Webster (1937, US) – Stephen Vincent Benét [fiction: story]
- The Leader of the People (1937, US) – John Steinbeck [fiction: story]
- Golden Boy (1937, US) – Clifford Odets [play]
- Electra (1937, France) – Jean Giraudoux [play]
- Perched on Nothing’s Branch (1922-1937, Hungary) – Attila József [poetry]
- In Parenthesis (1937, UK) – David Jones [epic poem]
- Provide, Provide (1937, US) – Robert Frost [poem]
- Out of Africa (1937, Denmark) – Isak Dinesen [non-fiction: memoir]
- Rebecca (1938, UK) – Daphne DuMaurier [fiction: novel]
- Nausea (1938, France) – Jean-Paul Sartre [fiction: novel]
- Brighton Rock (1938, UK) – Graham Greene [fiction: novel]
- The Death of the Heart (1938, UK) – Elizabeth Bowen [fiction: novel]
- Murphy (1938, Ireland/France) – Samuel Beckett [fiction: novel]
- Tropic of Capricorn (1938, US) – Henry Miller [fiction: novel]
- Scoop (1938, UK) – Evelyn Waugh [fiction: novel]
- The Chrysanthemums (1938, US) – John Steinbeck [fiction: story]
- The Use of Force (1938, US) – William Carlos Williams [fiction: story]
- Flight (1938, US) – John Steinbeck [fiction: story]
- Leiningen versus the Ants (1938, Germany) – Carl Stephenson [fiction: story]
- The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins (1938, US) [fiction: children’s literature]
- Our Town (1938, US) – Thornton Wilder [play]
- Life of Galileo (1938, performed 1943, Germany) – Bertolt Brecht [play]
- Asmodée (1938, France) – François Mauriac [play]
- The Herne’s Egg (1938, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [play]
- Black Stone Lying on a White Stone (c. 1938, Peru) – César Vallejo [poem]
- Funeral Blues (1938, US) – W.H. Auden [poem]
- Bagpipe Music (1938, Ireland) – Louis MacNeice [poem]
- Musée Des Beaux Arts (1938, US) – W.H. Auden [poem]
- I Am Writing to You from a Far-off Country (1938, Belgium/France) – Henri Michaux [poem]
- Today Is Sunday (1938, Turkey) – Nâzim Hikmet [poem]
- Lapis Lazuli (for Henry Clifton) (1938, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [poem]
- Homage to Catalonia (1938, UK) – George Orwell [non-fiction: memoir]
- Finnegan’s Wake (1939, Ireland) – James Joyce [fiction: novel]
- And Then There Were None (Ten Little N****rs) (1939, UK) – Agatha Christie [fiction: novel]
- The Master and Margarita (1929-1939; pub. 1966, USSR) – Mikhail Bulgakov [fiction: novel]
- The Big Sleep (1939, US) – Raymond Chandler [fiction: novel]
- At Swim-Two-Birds (1939, Ireland) – Flann O’Brien [fiction: novel]
- The Day of the Locust (1939, US) – Nathanael West [fiction: novel]
- Barn Burning (1939, US) – William Faulkner [fiction: story]
- The Wall (1939, France) – Jean-Paul Sartre [fiction: story]
- The Door (1939, US) – E.B. White [fiction: story]
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1939, US) – James Thurber [fiction: story]
- First Confession (1939, Ireland) – Frank O’Connor [fiction: story]
- The Girls In Their Summer Dresses (1939, US) – Irwin Shaw [fiction: story]
- Mother Courage and Her Children (1938-1939, Germany) – Bertolt Brecht [play]
- The Iceman Cometh (1939, US) – Eugene O’Neill [play]
- The Little Foxes (1939, US) – Lillian Hellman [play]
- The Time of Your Life (1939, US) – William Saroyan [play]
- The Philadelphia Story (1939, US) – Philip Barry [play]*
- The Family Reunion (1939, US/UK) – T.S. Eliot [play]
- The Circus Animals’ Desertion (1939, Ireland) – William Butler Yeats [poem]
- Wind, Sand and Stars (1939, France) – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry [non-fiction: memoir]
- The Grapes of Wrath (1940, US) – John Steinbeck [fiction: novel]
- Native Son (1940, US) – Richard Wright [fiction: novel]
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940, US) – Ernest Hemingway [fiction: novel]
- The Power and the Glory (1940, UK) – Graham Greene [fiction: novel]
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940, US) – Carson McCullers [fiction: novel]
- The Man Who Loved Children (1940, Australia) – Christina Stead [fiction: novel]
- And Quiet Flows the Don (1926-1940, USSR) – Mikhail Sholokhov [fiction: novel]
- The Third Policeman (1939-1940, Ireland) – Flann O’Brien [fiction: novel]
- The Hamlet (1940, US) – William Faulkner [fiction: novel]
- Darkness at Noon (1940, Hungary/UK) – Arthur Koestler [fiction: novel]
- The Tartar Steppe (1940, Italy) – Dino Buzzati [fiction: novel]
- Farewell, My Lovely (1940, US) – Raymond Chandler [fiction: novel]
- Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940, Argentina) – Jorge Luis Borges [fiction: story]
- The Saint (1940, UK) – V.S. Pritchett [fiction: story]
- Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1940, US) – Eugene O’Neill [play]
- My Faust (I. Lust. II. The Only One.) (1940, France) – Paul Valéry [play]
- Requiem (1935-1940, USSR) – Anna Akhmatova [poem]
- Lullaby (1940, US/UK) – W.H. Auden [poem]
- In Memory of W.B. Yeats (1940, UK) – W.H. Auden [poem]
- Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941, US) – Carson McCullers [fiction: novel]
- The Colossus of Maroussi (1941, US) – Henry Miller [fiction: novel]
- A Woman of the Pharisees (La Pharisienne) (1941, France) – François Mauriac [fiction: novel]
- Between the Acts (1941, UK) – Virginia Woolf [fiction: novel]
- China Sky (1941, US) – Pearl Buck [fiction: novel]
- A Curtain of Green (1941, US) – Eudora Welty [fiction: stories]
- A Worn Path (1941, US) – Eudora Welty [fiction: story]
- The Hitch-Hikers (1941, US) – Eudora Welty [fiction: story]
- Why I Live at the P.O. (1941, US) – Eudora Welty [fiction: story]
- Petrified Man (1941, US) – Eudora Welty [fiction: story]
- The Garden of Forking Paths (1941, Argentina) – Jorge Luis Borges [fiction: story]
- Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland (1941, US) – Carson McCullers [fiction: story]
- Nightfall (1941, USSR/US) – Isaac Asimov [fiction: story]
- Blithe Spirit (1941, UK) – Noël Coward [play]
- The Good Person of Szechwan (The Good Woman of Setzuan) (1941, Germany) – Bertolt Brecht [play]
- Don’t Ask Me For That Love Again (1941, Pakistan) – Faiz Ahmed Faiz [poem]
- What Are Years? (1941, US) – Marianne Moore [poem]
- Little World (c. 1941, USSR) – Marina Tsvetaeva [poem]
- The Demon in Me (c. 1941, USSR) – Marina Tsvetaeva [poem]
- Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through Yugoslavia (1941, UK) – Rebecca West [non-fiction: travel]
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941, US) – James Agee [non-fiction]
- The Stranger (1942, France) – Albert Camus [fiction: novel]
- They Fought for their Country (1942, Russia) – Mikhail Sholokov [fiction: novel]
- The Screwtape Letters (1942, UK) – C.S. Lewis [fiction: novel]
- Dragon Seed (1942, US) – Pearl Buck [fiction: novel]
- The Robber Bridegroom (1942, US) – Eudora Welty [fiction: novella]
- Winter’s Tales (1942, Denmark) – Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) [fiction: stories]
- Sorrow-Acre (1942, Denmark) – Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) [fiction: story]
- The Skin of Our Teeth (1942, US) – Thornton Wilder [play]*
- Present Laughter (1942, UK) – Noel Coward [play]
- The Pleasures of the Door (1942, France) – Francis Ponge [poem]
- And Suddenly It’s Evening (1942, Italy) – Salvatore Quasimodo [poem]
- My Papa’s Waltz (1942, US) – Theodore Roethke [poem]
- Lessons of the War: 1. Naming of Parts (1942, UK) – Henry Reed [poem]
- The Most of It (1942, US) – Robert Frost [poem]
- The Gift Outright (1942, US) – Robert Frost [poem]
- Flight to Arras (1942, France) – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry [non-fiction: memoir]
- Mythology (1942, Germany/US) – Edith Hamilton [non-fiction: criticism]
- The Man Without Qualities (1930-1943, Germany) – Robert Musil [fiction: novel]
- Our Lady of the Flowers (1942-1943, France) – Jean Genet [fiction: novel]
- The Little Prince (1943, France) – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry [fiction: novel]
- Magister Ludi (The Glass Bead Game) (1943, Germany/Switzerland) – Herman Hesse [fiction: novel]
- The Fountainhead (1943, US) – Ayn Rand [fiction: novel]
- Five Little Pigs (1943, UK) – Agatha Christie [fiction: novel]
- The Lady in the Lake (1943, US) – Raymond Chandler [fiction: novel]
- Joseph and His Brothers (1933-1943, Germany) – Thomas Mann [fiction: novel]
- Canto General (1943, Chile) – Pablo Neruda [poem]
- The World (A Naive Poem) (1943, Poland) – Czesław Miłosz [poem]
- The Abolition of Man (1943, UK) – C.S. Lewis [non-fiction: philosophy]
- Being and Nothingness (1943, France) – Jean-Paul Sartre [non-fiction: philosophy]
- The Nature and Destiny of Man (1943, US) – Reinhold Niebuhr [non-fiction: religion]
- The Razor’s Edge (1944, UK) – W. Somerset Maugham [fiction: novel]
- The Angelic Avengers (1944, Denmark) – Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) [fiction: novel]
- Ficciones (1944, Argentina) – Jorge Luis Borges [fiction: stories]
- Beware of the Dog (1944, UK)- Roald Dahl [fiction: story]
- No Exit (1944, France) – Jean-Paul Sartre [play]
- The Glass Menagerie (1944, US) – Tennessee Williams [play]
- The Mind Is An Enchanting Thing (1944, US) – Marianne Moore [poem]
- Nevertheless (1944, US) – Marianne Moore [poem]
- Vergissmeinnicht (c. 1944, UK) – Keith Douglas [poem]
- A Song on the End of the World (1944, Poland) – Czesław Miłosz [poem]
- Brideshead Revisited (1945, UK) – Evelyn Waugh [fiction: novel]
- Animal Farm (1945, UK) – George Orwell [fiction: novel]
- The Bridge on the Drina (1945, Yugoslavia) – Ivo Andrić [fiction: novel]
- Loving (1945, UK) – Henry Green [fiction: novel]
- The Death of Virgil (1945, Austria) – Hermann Broch [fiction: novel]
- Watt (1945, Ireland/France) – Samuel Beckett [fiction: novel]
- The Age of Reason (Roads to Freedom I) (1945, France) – Jean-Paul Sartre [fiction: novel]
- Pippi Longstocking (1945, Sweden) – Astrid Lindgren [fiction: novel]
- The Great Divorce (1945, UK) – C.S. Lewis [fiction: novel]
- The Berlin Stories (1945, UK) – Christopher Isherwood [fiction: novellas]
- The Demon Lover (1945, Ireland/UK) – Elizabeth Bowen [fiction: story]
- Miriam (1945, US) – Truman Capote [fiction: story]
- The Aleph (1945) – Jorge Luis Borges [fiction: story]
- The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1943-1945, Germany) – Bertolt Brecht [play]
- The Madwoman of Chaillot (1945, France) – Jean Giraudoux [play]
- Residence on Earth (Series III) (1935-1945, pub. 1947, Chile) – Pablo Neruda [poetry]
- Human Landscapes from My Country (1941-1945, pub. 1966-67, Turkey) – Nâzim Hikmet [epic poem]
- Four Quartets (1945, US/UK) – T.S. Eliot [poem]
- The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner (1945, US) – Randall Jarrell [poem]
- The Mother (1945, US) – Gwendolyn Brooks [poem]
- Fern Hill (1945, UK) – Dylan Thomas [poem]
- I’ve Dreamed of You So Much (1945, France) – Robert Desnos [poem]
- Family Portrait (1945, Brazil) – Carlos Drummond de Andrade [poem]
- Dedication (1945, Poland) – Czesław Miłosz [poem]
- Black Boy (1945, US) – Richard Wright [non-fiction: memoir]
- All the King’s Men (1946, US) – Robert Penn Warren [fiction: novel]
- Zorba the Greek (1946, Greece) – Nikos Kazantzakis [fiction: novel]
- The Member of the Wedding (1946, US) – Carson McCullers [fiction: novel]
- Titus Groan (Gormenghast I) (1946, UK) – Mervyn Peake [fiction: novel]
- The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1946, Nigeria) – Amos Tutuola [fiction: novel]
- First Love (1946, pub. 1973, Ireland/France) – Samuel Beckett [fiction: story]
- Casa Tomada (A House Taken Over) (1946, Argentina) – Julio Cortázar [fiction: story]
- In My Craft or Sullen Art (1946, UK) – Dylan Thomas [poem]
- The Fish (1946, US) – Elizabeth Bishop [poem]
- Frederick Douglass (1946, US) – Robert Hayden [poem]
- Middle Passage (1946, US) – Robert Hayden [poem]
- Winter Night (1946, USSR) – Boris Pasternak [poem]
- Guillaume Apollinaire (c. 1946, US/France) – Gertrude Stein [poem]
- Stanzas in Meditation (1946, US/France) – Gertrude Stein [poem]
- Hiroshima (1946, US) – John Hersey [non-fiction: journalism]
- Doctor Faustus (1947, Germany) – Thomas Mann [fiction: novel]
- Midaq Alley (1947, Egypt) – Naguib Mahfouz [fiction: novel]
- Under the Volcano (1947, UK) – Malcolm Lowry [fiction: novel]
- The Plague (1947, France) – Albert Camus [fiction: novel]
- Sinners (1947, Ireland) – Seán Ó Faoláin [fiction: story]
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1947, US) – Tennessee Williams [play]*
- All My Sons (1947, US) – Arthur Miller [play]
- A Refusal to Mourn the Death – Fire, of a Child in London (1947, UK) – Dylan Thomas [poem]
- Directive (1947, US) – Robert Frost [poem]
- The Diary of a Young Girl (1947, The Netherlands) – Anne Frank [non-fiction: memoir]
- If This Is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz) (1947, Italy) – Primo Levi [non-fiction: memoir]
- Snow Country (1948, Japan) – Yasunari Kawabata [fiction: novel]
- The Makioka Sisters (1948, Japan) – Junichiro Tanizaki [fiction: novel]
- Cry, The Beloved Country (1948, South Africa) – Alan Paton [fiction: novel]
- The Heart of the Matter (1948, UK) – Graham Greene [fiction: novel]
- The Naked and the Dead (1948, US) – Norman Mailer [fiction: novel]
- A Perfect Day for a Bananafish (1948, US) – J.D. Salinger [fiction: story]
- The Lottery (1948, US) – Shirley Jackson [fiction: story]
- Symbols and Signs (1948, Russia/US) – Vladimir Nabokov [fiction: story]
- A Man From the South (1948, UK) – Roald Dahl [fiction: story]
- Miami-New York (1948, US) – Martha Gellhorn [fiction: story]
- Puntila and His Man Matti (1948, Germany/US) – Bertolt Brecht [play]
- Rescue (1948, Poland) – Czesław Miłosz [poetry]
- Since Akkad, Since Elam, Since Sumer (1948, Martinique/France) – Aimé Césaire [poem]
- Death Fugue (1948, Romania/France) – Paul Celan [poem]
- The Dispossessed (1948, US) – John Berryman [poem]
- The Ball Poem (1948, US) – John Berryman [poem]
- The Traveler (1948, US) – John Berryman [poem]
- Angina Pectoris (1948, Turkey) – Nâzim Hikmet [poem]
- On Living (1948, Turkey) – Nâzim Hikmet [poem]
- The Wisdom of the Sands (1948, France) – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry [non-fiction: essays]
- Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949, UK) – George Orwell [fiction: novel]
- The Sheltering Sky (1949, US) – Paul Bowles [fiction: novel]
- The Kingdom of this World (1949, Cuba) – Alejo Carpentier [fiction: novel]
- The Man with the Golden Arm (1949, US) – Nelson Algren [fiction: novel]
- The Little Sister (1949, US) – Raymond Chandler [fiction: novel]
- The Third Man (1949, UK) – Graham Greene [fiction: novella]
- The Golden Apples (1949, US) – Eudora Welty [fiction: stories]
- The Aleph and Other Stories (1949, Argentina) – Jorge Luis Borges [fiction: stories]
- Los Reyes (The Kings) (1949, Argentina) – Julio Cortázar [play]
- Death of a Salesman (1949, US) – Arthur Miller [play]
- The Cocktail Party (1949, US) – T.S. Eliot [play]
- Prison Poems (Songs From A Prison Diary) (c. 1949, Vietnam) – Ho Chi Minh [poetry]
- Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday (1949, US) – Robert Hayden [poem]
- Some Advice to Those Who Will Serve Time In Prison (1949, Turkey) – Nâzim Hikmet [poem]
- The Second Sex (1949, France) – Simone de Beauvoir [non-fiction]
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949, US) – Joseph Campbell [non-fiction: mythology]
- A Murder is Announced (1950, UK) – Agatha Christie [fiction: novel]
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia: I) (1950, UK) – C.S. Lewis [fiction: novel]
- Gormenghast (Gormenghast II) (1950, UK) – Mervyn Peake [fiction: novel]
- A Town Like Alice (1950, UK) – Nevil Shute [fiction: novel]
- The Grass is Singing (1950, UK) – Doris Lessing [fiction: novel]
- The Family Moskat (1950, US) – Isaac Bashevis Singer [fiction: novel]
- The Martian Chronicles (1950, US) – Ray Bradbury [fiction: stories]
- I, Robot (1950, USSR/US) – Isaac Asimov [fiction: stories]
- The Veldt (1950, US) – Ray Bradbury [fiction: story]
- For Esmé – with Love and Squalor (1950, US) – J.D. Salinger [fiction: story]
- The Comedy of Vanity (Komödie der Eitelkeit) (1950, Bulgaria/UK) – Elias Canetti [play]
- The Bald Soprano (1950, Romania/France) – Eugène Ionesco [play]
- Kinaxixi (1950, Angola) – Agostinho Neto [poem]
- Elegy for Jane (1950, US) – Theodore Roethke [poem]
- The Story of Art (1950, Austria/UK) – Ernst Gombrich [non-fiction: criticism]
- The Catcher in the Rye (1951, US) – J.D. Salinger [fiction: novel]
- Memoirs of Hadrian (1951, France) – Marguerite Yourcenar [fiction: novel]
- Foundation (Foundation I) (1951) – Isaac Asimov [fiction: novel]
- From Here to Eternity (1951, US) – James Jones [fiction: novel]
- Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia: II) (1951, UK) – C.S. Lewis [fiction: novel]
- Day of the Triffids (1951, UK) – John Wyndham [fiction: novel]
- The Opposing Shore (1951, France) – Julien Gracq [fiction: novel]
- The Stars, Like Dust (1951, USSR/US) – Isaac Asimov [fiction: novel]
- The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951, US) – Carson McCullers [fiction: novella]
- The End of the Affair (1951, UK) – Graham Greene [fiction: novella]
- The Illustrated Man (1951, US) – Ray Bradbury [fiction: stories]
- Bestiario (Bestiary) (1951, Argentina) – Julio Cortázar [fiction: stories]
- Bestiario (Bestiary) (1951, Argentina) – Julio Cortázar [fiction: story]
- Goodbye, My Brother (1951, US) – John Cheever [fiction: story]
- The Chaser (1951, UK) – John Collier [fiction: story]
- Christmas Every Day (Christmas Not Just Once a Year) (1951, Germany) – Heinrich Böll [fiction: story]
- The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin (1951, US) – Tennessee Williams [fiction: story]
- The African Queen (1951, US) – James Agee [fiction: screenplay]*
- Dream Deferred (1951, US) – Langston Hughes [poem]
- Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night (1951, UK) – Dylan Thomas [poem]
- The Rebel (1951, Algeria/France) – Albert Camus [non-fiction: philosophy/essays]
- Speak, Memory (1951, USSR/US) – Vladimir Nabokov [non-fiction: memoir]
- The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951, Germany/US) – Hannah Arendt [nonfiction: political philosophy]
- Invisible Man (1952, US) – Ralph Ellison [fiction: novel]
- The Old Man and the Sea (1952, US) – Ernest Hemingway [fiction: novel]
- Wise Blood (1952, US) – Flannery O’Connor [fiction: novel]
- Foundation and Empire (Foundation II) (1952) – Isaac Asimov [fiction: novel]
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (The Chronicles of Narnia: III) (1952, UK) – C.S. Lewis [fiction: novel]
- Charlotte’s Web (1952, US) – E.B. White [fiction: novel]
- East of Eden (1952, US) – John Steinbeck [fiction: novel]
- A Thousand Cranes (1949-1952, Japan) – Yasunari Kawabata [fiction: novel]
- Martha Quest (1952, UK) – Doris Lessing [fiction: novel]
- A Sound of Thunder (1952, US) – Ray Bradbury [fiction: story]
- A Child’s Christmas in Wales (1952, UK) – Dylan Thomas [fiction: story]
- A Mother’s Tale (1952, US) – James Agee [fiction: story]
- Babette’s Feast (1952, Denmark) – Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) [fiction: story]
- The Chairs (1952, Romania/France) – Eugène Ionesco [play]
- The Crucible (1952, US) – Arthur Miller [play]*
- The Deep Blue Sea (1952, UK) – Terence Rattigan [play]
- Collected Poems: 1934-1952 (1952, Ireland) – Dylan Thomas [poetry]
- If You Forget Me (1952, Chile) – Pablo Neruda [poem]
- Mere Christianity (1952, UK) – C.S. Lewis [non-fiction: religion]
- Molloy; Molone Dies; The Unnameable (Three Novels) (1951-1953, Ireland/France) – Samuel Beckett [fiction: novels]
- The Adventures of Augie March (1953, US) – Saul Bellow [fiction: novel]
- Second Foundation (Foundation III) (1953) – Isaac Asimov [fiction: novel]
- Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953, US) – James Baldwin [fiction: novel]
- Lucky Jim (1953, UK) – Kingsley Amis [fiction: novel]
- Fahrenheit 451 (1953, US) – Ray Bradbury [fiction: novel]
- The Lost Steps (1953, Cuba) – Alejo Carpentier [fiction: novel]
- The Silver Chair (The Chronicles of Narnia: IV) (1953, UK) – C.S. Lewis [fiction: novel]
- The Demolished Man (1953, US) – Alfred Bester [fiction: novel]
- Childhood’s End (1953, UK) – Arthur C. Clarke [fiction: novel]
- Seizure of Power (1953, Poland) – Czesław Miłosz [fiction: novel]
- Queer (1951-1953, pub. 1985, US) – William Burroughs [fiction: novel]
- Junkie (1953, US) – William Burroughs [fiction: novel]
- The Long Goodbye (1953, US) – Raymond Chandler [fiction: novel]
- The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953, US) – Ray Bradbury [fiction: stories]
- Nine Stories (1953, US) – J.D. Salinger [fiction: stories]
- A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1953, US) – Flannery O’Connor [fiction: story]
- Second Variety (1953, US) – Philip K. Dick [fiction: story]
- Gimpel the Fool (1953, Poland/US) – Isaac Bashevis Singer [fiction: story]
- Waiting for Godot (1953, Ireland/France) – Samuel Beckett [play]
- The Confidential Clerk (1953, US/UK) – T.S. Eliot [play]
- Picnic (1953, US) – William Inge [play]
- Carmel Point (1953, US) – Robinson Jeffers [poem]
- The Waking (1953, US) – Theodore Roethke [poem]
- Homage to Mistress Bradstreet (1953, US) – John Berryman [poem]
- The Captive Mind (1953, Poland) – Czesław Miłosz [non-fiction: political philosophy]
- A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary (1953, Germany) – Anonymous (Marta Hillers) [nonfiction: memoir]
- Philosophical Investigations (1953, Austria/UK) – Ludwig Wittgenstein [nonfiction: philosophy]
- A Fable (1954, US) – William Faulkner [fiction: novel]
- The Sound of the Mountain (1949-1954, Japan) – Yasunari Kawabata [fiction: novel]
- Lord of the Flies (1954, UK) – William Golding [fiction: novel]
- I’m Not Stiller (1954, Switzerland) – Max Frisch [fiction: novel]
- The Master of Go (1951-1954, Japan) – Yasunari Kawabata [fiction: novel]
- Under the Net (1954, UK) – Iris Murdoch [fiction: novel]
- Bonjour Tristesse (1954, France) – Françoise Sagan [fiction: novel]
- The Horse and His Boy (The Chronicles of Narnia: V) (1954, UK) – C.S. Lewis [fiction: novel]
- I Am Legend (1954, US) – Richard Matheson [fiction: novel]
- The Caves of Steel (1954, USSR/US) – Isaac Asimov [fiction: novel]
- All Summer in a Day (1954, US) – Ray Bradbury [fiction: story]
- The Five-Forty-Eight (1954, US) – John Cheever [fiction: story]
- The Country Husband (1954, US) – John Cheever [fiction: story]
- Horton Hears a Who! (1954, US) – Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) [fiction: children’s literature]
- Twelve Angry Men (1954 (teleplay), 1964 (stage), US) – Reginald Rose [play]*
- The Night of the Hunter (1954, US) – James Agee [fiction: screenplay]*
- Collected Poems (1954, US) – Wallace Stevens [poetry]
- I Knew a Woman (1954, US) – Theodore Roethke [poem]
- Pedro Páramo (1955, Mexico) – Juan Rulfo [fiction: novel]
- The Quiet American (1955, UK) – Graham Greene [fiction: novel]
- The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955, UK) – Patricia Highsmith [fiction: novel]
- The Recognitions (1955, US) – William Gaddis [fiction: novel]
- The End of Eternity (1955, USSR/US) – Isaac Asimov [fiction: novel]
- The Issa Valley (1955, Poland) – Czesław Miłosz [fiction: novel]
- Lolita (1955, USSR/US) – Vladimir Nabokov [fiction: novel]
- The Inheritors (1955, UK) – William Golding [fiction: novel]
- The Magician’s Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia: VI) (1955, UK) – C.S. Lewis [fiction: novel]
- The Artificial N****r (1955, US) – Flannery O’Connor [fiction: story]
- Good Country People (1955, US) – Flannery O’Connor [fiction: story]
- The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (1955, Colombia) – Gabriel García Márquez [fiction: story]
- Murke’s Collected Silences (1955, Germany) – Heinrich Böll [fiction: story]
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955, US) – Tennessee Williams [play]
- A View from the Bridge (1955, US) – Arthur Miller [play]
- Sunflower Sutra (1955, US) – Allen Ginsberg [poem]
- At the Fishhouses (1955, US) – Elizabeth Bishop [poem]
- Church Going (1955, US) – Philip Larkin [poem]
- Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (1955, UK) – C.S. Lewis [non-fiction: memoir]
- Notes of a Native Son (1955, US) – James Baldwin [non-fiction: essays]
- The Lord of the Rings (1956, UK) – J.R.R. Tolkien [fiction: novels]
- Seize the Day (1956, US) – Saul Bellow [fiction: novel]
- The Fall (1956, France) – Albert Camus [fiction: novel]
- The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (1956, Brazil) – João Guimarães Rosa [fiction: novel]
- Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy I) (1956, Egypt) – Naguib Mahfouz [fiction: novel]
- Pincher Martin (1956, UK) – William Golding [fiction: novel]
- The Last Battle (The Chronicles of Narnia: VII) (1956, UK) – C.S. Lewis [fiction: novel]
- Till We Have Faces (1956, UK) – C.S. Lewis [fiction: novel]
- The Key (Kagi) (1956, Japan) – Junichiro Tanizaki [fiction: novel]
- Imperial Woman (1956, US) – Pearl Buck [fiction: novel]
- Final del juego (1956, Argentina) – Julio Cortázar [fiction: stories]
- The Continuity of Parks (1956, Argentina) – Julio Cortázar [fiction: story]
- The Last Question (1956, USSR/US) – Isaac Asimov [fiction: story]
- Like a Bad Dream (1956, Germany) – Heinrich Böll [fiction: story]
- Their Days Are Numbered (Die Befristeten) (1956, Bulgaria/UK) – Elias Canetti [play]
- The Visit (1956, Germany) – Friedrich Dürrenmatt [play]
- Look Back in Anger (1956, UK) – John Osborne [play]
- Things of This World (1956, US) – Richard Wilbur [poetry]
- A Supermarket in California (1956, US) – Allen Ginsberg [poem]
- Howl (1956, US) – Allen Ginsberg [poem]
- America (1956, US) – Allen Ginsberg [poem]
- Love Calls Us to the Things of This World (1956, US) – Richard Wilbur [poem]
- An Arundel Tomb (1956, UK) – Philip Larkin [poem]
- What’s Bad (c. 1956, Germany) – Gottfried Benn [poem]
- The Eel (1956, Italy) – Eugenio Montale [poem]
- For John Clare (1956, US) – John Ashbery [poem]
- Glazunoviana (1956, US) – John Ashbery [poem]
- I Come and Stand at Every Door (The Little Girl) (1956, Turkey) – Nâzim Hikmet [poem]
- Radio Poem (c. 1956, Germany) – Bertolt Brecht [poem]
- I Want to Go with the One I Love (c. 1956, Germany) – Bertolt Brecht [poem]
- On the Critical Attitude (c. 1956, Germany) – Bertolt Brecht [poem]
- Parting (c. 1956, Germany) – Bertolt Brecht [poem]
- Contemplating Hell (c. 1956, Germany) – Bertolt Brecht [poem]
- The Mask of Evil (c. 1956, Germany) – Bertolt Brecht [poem]
- To Be Read in the Morning and at Night (c. 1956, Germany) – Bertolt Brecht [poem]
- United Front Song (c. 1956, Germany) – Bertolt Brecht [poem]
- The Sweet Science (1956, US) – A. J. Liebling [non-fiction]
- Doctor Zhivago (1957, USSR) – Boris Pasternak [fiction: novel]
- On the Road (1957, US) – Jack Kerouac [fiction: novel]
- The Wapshot Chronicle (1957, US) – John Cheever [fiction: novel]
- A Death in the Family (1957, US) – James Agee [fiction: novel]
- The Stars My Destination (1957, UK) – Alfred Bester [fiction: novel]
- Voss (1957, Australia) – Patrick White [fiction: novel]
- Jealousy (1957, France) – Alain Robbe-Grillet [fiction: novel]
- The Baron in the Trees (1957, Italy) – Italo Calvino [fiction: novel]
- Palace of Desire (The Cairo Trilogy II) (1957, Egypt) – Naguib Mahfouz [fiction: novel]
- Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy III) (1957, Egypt) – Naguib Mahfouz [fiction: novel]
- Atlas Shrugged (1957, US) – Ayn Rand [fiction: novel]
- Dandelion Wine (1957, US) – Ray Bradbury [fiction: novel]
- The Naked Sun (1957, USSR/US) – Isaac Asimov [fiction: novel]
- Desolation Angels (1957?, pub. 1965, US) – Jack Kerouac [fiction: novel]
- The Fate of a Man (1957, USSR) – Mikhail Sholokhov [fiction: novella]
- The Habit of Loving (1957, UK) – Doris Lessing [fiction: story]
- The Adulterous Woman (1957, Algeria/France) – Albert Camus [fiction: story]
- Sonny’s Blues (1957, US) – James Baldwin [fiction: story]
- The Little Shoemakers (1957, Poland/US) – Isaac Bashevis Singer [fiction: story]
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957) – Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) [fiction: children’s literature]
- The Cat in the Hat (1957, US) – Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) [fiction: children’s literature]
- Endgame (1957, Ireland/France) – Samuel Beckett [play]
- The Birthday Party (1957, UK) – Harold Pinter [play]
- The Dumb Waiter (1957, UK) – Harold Pinter [play]
- The Balcony (1957, France) – Jean Genet [play]
- The Entertainer (1957, UK) – John Osborne [play]
- The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957, US) – William Inge [play]
- Not Waving but Drowning (1957, UK) – Stevie Smith [poem]
- The Thought-Fox (1957, UK) – Ted Hughes [poem]
- Mythologies (1957, France) – Roland Barthes [non-fiction: essays]
- Selected Essays (1939-1957, US/UK) – T.S. Eliot [non-fiction: essays]
- Things Fall Apart (1958, Nigeria) – Chinua Achebe [fiction: novel]
- The Leopard (1958, Italy) – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa [fiction: novel]
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958, US) – Truman Capote [fiction: novel]
- The Once and Future King (1958, UK) – T.H. White [fiction: novel]
- The Dharma Bums (1958, US) – Jack Kerouac [fiction: novel]
- The Last Mohican (1958, US) – Bernard Malamud [fiction: story]
- An Immortal Story (1958, Denmark) – Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) [fiction: story]
- The Challenge (1958, Peru) – Mario Vargas Llosa [fiction: story]
- Krapp’s Last Tape (1958, Ireland/France) – Samuel Beckett [play]
- The Elder Statesman (1958, US/UK) – T.S. Eliot [play]
- The Zoo Story (1958, US) – Edward Albee [play]
- Paterson (1946-1958, US) – William Carlos Williams [poem]
- Night (1958, Romania/France/US) – Elie Wiesel [non-fiction: memoir]
- The Tin Drum (1959, Germany) – Günter Grass [fiction: novel]
- Naked Lunch (1959, US) – William Burroughs [fiction: novel]
- Henderson the Rain King (1959, US) – Saul Bellow [fiction: novel]
- Free Fall (1959, UK) – William Golding [fiction: novel]
- Starship Troopers (1959, US) – Robert Heinlein [fiction: novel]
- Titus Alone (Gormenghast III) (1959, UK) – Mervyn Peake [fiction: novel]
- Children of the Alley (Children of Gebelawi) (1959, Egypt) – Naguib Mahfouz [fiction: novel]
- The Sirens of Titan (1959, US) – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. [fiction: novel]
- Billiards at Half-Past Nine (1959, Germany) – Heinrich Böll [fiction: novel]
- Secret Weapons (1959, Argentina) – Julio Cortázar [fiction: stories]
- Miguel Street (1959, Trinidad & Tobago/UK) – V.S. Naipaul [fiction: stories]
- The Sacrificial Egg (1959, Nigeria) – Chinua Achebe [fiction: story]
- The Ledge (1959, US) – Lawrence Sargent Hall [fiction: story]
- Defender of the Faith (1959, US) – Philip Roth [fiction: story]
- The Landlady (1959, UK) – Roald Dahl [fiction: story]
- Flowers for Algernon (1959, US) – Daniel Keyes [fiction: story]
- Las Babas del Diablo (Blow-Up) (1959, Argentina) – Julio Cortázar [fiction: story]
- The Pursuer (1959, Argentina) – Julio Cortázar [fiction: story]
- Advertisements for Myself (1959, US) – Norman Mailer [fiction: stories/non-fiction: essays]
- The Caretaker (1959, UK) – Harold Pinter [play]
- The Lion and the Jewel (1959, pub. 1963, Nigeria) – Wole Soyinka [play]
- Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance (1959, UK) – John Arden [play]
- Rhinoceros (1959, Romania/France) – Eugène Ionesco [play]
- A Raisin in the Sun (1959, US) – Lorraine Hansberry [play]*
- My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow (1959) – Robert Lowell [poem]
- A Jelly-Fish (1959, US) – Marianne Moore [poem]
- To Axion Esti (It Is Worthy) (1959, Greece) – Odysseas Elytis [poem]
- We Real Cool (1959, US) – Gwendolyn Brooks [poem]
- Matiere de Bretagne (1959, Romania/France) – Paul Celan [poem]
- Tenebrae (1959, Romania/France) – Paul Celan [poem]
- The Day Lady Died (1959, US) – Frank O’Hara [poem]
- Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition (1959, Poland) – Czesław Miłosz [non-fiction: memoir]
- The Alexandria Quartet (1957-1960, UK) – Lawrence Durrell [fiction: novels]
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1960, US) – Harper Lee [fiction: novel]
- Rabbit, Run (1960, US) – John Updike [fiction: novel]
- The Sot-Weed Factor (1960, US) – John Barth [fiction: novel]
- The Violent Bear It Away (1960, US) – Flannery O’Connor [fiction: novel]
- A Canticle for Leibowitz (1960, US) – Walter M. Miller, Jr. [fiction: novel]
- Los Premios (The Winners) (1960, Argentina) – Julio Cortázar [fiction: novel]
- Harvest on the Don (Virgin Soil Upturned II) (1960, USSR) – Mikhail Sholokhov [fiction: novel]
- Dreamtigers (The Maker) (1960, Argentina) – Jorge Luis Borges [fiction: stories]
- Borges and I (1960, Argentina) – Jorge Luis Borges [fiction: story]
- Patriotism (1960, Japan) – Yukio Mishima [fiction: story]
- Green Eggs and Ham (1960, US) – Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) [fiction: children’s literature]
- One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (1960, US) – Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) [fiction: children’s literature]
- A Dance of the Forests (1960, pub. 1963, Nigeria) – Wole Soyinka [play]
- The Trials of Brother Jero (1960, pub. 1963, Nigeria) – Wole Soyinka [play]
- Brazil, January 1, 1502 (1960, US) – Elizabeth Bishop [poem]
- Talking in Bed (1960, UK) – Philip Larkin [poem]
- How to Paint A Water Lily (1960, UK) – Ted Hughes [poem]
- The Colossus (1960, US) – Sylvia Plath [poem]
- Crowds and Power (Masse und Macht) (1960, Bulgaria/UK) – Elias Canetti [non-fiction: sociology]
- The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (1960, US) – William L. Shirer [non-fiction: history]
- A Moveable Feast (c. 1960, pub. 1964, US) – Ernest Hemingway [non-fiction: memoir]
- Revolutionary Road (1961, US) – Richard Yates [fiction: novel]
- Solaris (1961, Poland) – Stanislaw Lem [fiction: novel]
- Cat and Mouse (1961, Germany) – Günter Grass [fiction: novel]
- The Soft Machine (Nova Trilogy I) (1961, US) – William Burroughs [fiction: novel]
- The Thief and the Dogs (1961, Egypt) – Naguib Mahfouz [fiction: novel]
- How It Is (1961, Ireland/France) – Samuel Beckett [fiction: novel]
- Catch-22 (1961, US) – Joseph Heller [fiction: novel]
- The Moviegoer (1961, US) – Walker Percy [fiction: novel]
- A House for Mr. Biswas (1961, Trinidad/UK) – V.S. Naipaul [fiction: novel]
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961, UK) – Muriel Spark [fiction: novel]
- Mother Night (1961, US) – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. [fiction: novel]
- Stranger in a Strange Land (1961, US) – Robert Heinlein [fiction: novel]
- Franny and Zooey (1961, US) – J.D. Salinger [fiction: novellas]
- The House of the Sleeping Beauties (1961, Japan) – Yasunari Kawabata [fiction: novella]
- Almos’ a Man (The Man who was Almost a Man) (1961, US) – Richard Wright [fiction: story]
- The Complete Short Stories (1923-1961, pub. 1987, US) – Ernest Hemingway [fiction: stories]
- Harrison Bergeron (1961, US) – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. [fiction: story]
- I Stand Here Ironing (1961, US) – Tillie Olsen [fiction: story]
- A & P (1961, US) – John Updike [fiction: story]
- Lifeguard (1961, US) – John Updike [fiction: story]
- A Personal Anthology (1961, Argentina) – Jorge Luis Borges [fiction: stories/non-fiction: essays/poems]
- Blood Knot (1961, South Africa) – Athol Fugard [play]
- Babi Yar (1961, USSR) – Yevgeny Yevtushenko [poem]
- Poet’s Obligation (1961, Chile) – Pablo Neruda [poem]
- Miniature (1961, Greece) – Yannis Ritsos [poem]
- Advice to a Prophet (1961, US) – Richard Wilbur [poem]
- Elegy of Fortinbras (1961, Poland) – Zbigniew Herbert [poem]
- The Fly (1961, Czechoslovakia) – Miroslav Holub [poem]
- James and the Giant Peach (1961, UK) – Roald Dahl [fiction: children’s literature]
- The Wretched of the Earth (1961, France/Algeria) – Franz Fanon [non-fiction]
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961, US) – Jane Jacobs [non-fiction]
- The City in History (1961, US) – Lewis Mumford [nonfiction: history/urban studies]
- Mastering The Art of French Cooking (Vol. 1: 1961; Vol. 2: 1970, US/France) – Julia Child, with Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle [non-fiction: food]
- Pale Fire (1962, USSR/US) – Vladimir Nabokov [fiction: novel]
- The Golden Notebook (1962, Zimbabwe/UK) – Doris Lessing [fiction: novel]
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962, USSR) – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn [fiction: novel]
- A Clockwork Orange (1962, UK) – Anthony Burgess [fiction: novel]
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962, US) – Ken Kesey [fiction: novel]
- The Woman in the Dunes (1962, Japan) – Kobo Abe [fiction: novel]
- The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962, Mexico) – Carlos Fuentes [fiction: novel]
- The Man in the High Castle (1962, US) – Philip K. Dick [fiction: novel]
- The Time of the Hero (The City and the Dogs) (1962, Peru) – Mario Vargas Llosa [fiction: novel]
- A Wrinkle in Time (1962, US) – Madeleine L’Engle [fiction: novel]
- The Drowned World (1962, UK) – J.G. Ballard [fiction: novel]
- Big Sur (1962, US) – Jack Kerouac [fiction: novel]
- The Wanting Seed (1962, UK) – Anthony Burgess [fiction: novel]
- The Ticket That Exploded (Nova Trilogy II) (1962, US) – William Burroughs [fiction: novel]
- The Old Capital (1962, Japan) – Yasunari Kawabata [fiction: novel]
- Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962, US) – Ray Bradbury [fiction: novel]
- Labyrinths (1962, Argentina) – Jorge Luis Borges [fiction: stories/poems/non-fiction: essays]
- Pigeon Feathers (1962, US) – John Updike [fiction: story]
- Let Them Call It Jazz (1962, Dominica/UK) – Jean Rhys [fiction: story]
- Diary of a Mad Old Man (Futen Rojin Nikki) (1961–1962, Japan) – Junichiro Tanizaki [fiction: story]
- Yentl the Yeshiva Boy (1962, UK) – Graham Greene [fiction: story]
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962, US) – Edward Albee [play]*
- A Ballad of Remembrance (1962, US) – Robert Hayden [poetry]
- The Dance (1962, US) – William Carlos Williams [poem]
- The Heaven of Animals (1962, US) – James Dickey [poem]
- The Truth The Dead Know (1962, US) – Anne Sexton [poem]
- Daddy (1962, US) – Sylvia Plath [poem]
- Lady Lazarus (1962, US) – Sylvia Plath [poem]
- Those Winter Sundays (1962, US) – Robert Hayden [poem]
- Runagate Runagate (1962, US) – Robert Hayden [poem]
- The Whipping (1962, US) – Robert Hayden [poem]
- Things I Didn’t Know I Loved (1962, Turkey) – Nâzim Hikmet [poem]
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962, US) – Thomas Kuhn [non-fiction: science]
- Silent Spring (1962, US) – Rachel Carson [non-fiction: science]
- The Guns of August (1962, US) – Barbara Tuchman [non-fiction: history]
- The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1963, US) – John Le Carré [fiction: novel]
- Cat’s Cradle (1963, US) – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. [fiction: novel]
- The Bell Jar (1963, US) – Sylvia Plath [fiction: novel]
- V. (1963, US) – Thomas Pynchon [fiction: novel]
- Raise High The Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963, US) – J.D. Salinger [fiction: novellas]
- Inside Mr. Enderby (1963, UK) – Anthony Burgess [fiction: novel]
- The Clown (1963, Germany) – Heinrich Böll [fiction: novel]
- Rayuela (Hopscotch) (1963, Argentina) – Julio Cortázar [fiction: novel]
- Where Is the Voice Coming From? (1963, US) – Eudora Welty [fiction: story]
- The Jewbird (1963, US) – Bernard Malamud [fiction: story]
- Gogol’s Wife (1963, Italy) – Tomasso Landolfi [fiction: story]
- Birds and Fishes (1963, US) – Robinson Jeffers [poem]
- A Blessing (1963, US) – James Wright [poem]
- Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio (1963, US) – James Wright [poem]
- Don Quixote (c. 1963, Turkey) – Nâzim Hikmet [poem]
- Hymn to Life (c. 1963, Turkey) – Nâzim Hikmet [poem]
- The Labyrinth of Solitude (1963, Mexico) – Octavio Paz [non-fiction: essays]
- The Feminine Mystique (1963, US) – Betty Friedan [non-fiction: feminism]
- The Making of the English Working Class (1963, UK) – E.P. Thompson [non-fiction: history]
- Herzog (1964, US) – Saul Bellow [fiction: novel]
- Earthsea (series, 1964-2014, US) – Ursula K. LeGuin [fiction: stories/novels]
- A Personal Matter (1964, Japan) – Kenzaburo Oe [fiction: novel]
- The Interpreters (1964, Nigeria) – Wole Soyinka [fiction: novel]
- Nova Express (Nova Trilogy III) (1964, US) – William Burroughs [fiction: novel]
- The Spire (1964, UK) – William Golding [fiction: novel]
- The Doll Queen (1964, Mexico) – Carlos Fuentes [fiction: story]
- One Arm (1964, Japan) – Yasunari Kawabata [fiction: story]
- The Swimmer (1964, US) – John Cheever [fiction: story]
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964, UK) – Roald Dahl [fiction: children’s literature]
- The Homecoming (1964, UK) – Harold Pinter [play]
- Marat/Sade (1964, Germany) – Peter Weiss [play]
- Dutchman (1964, US) – LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) [play]
- A Word to Husbands (1964, US) – Ogden Nash [poem]
- Poetry (1964. Chile) – Pablo Neruda [poem]
- For the Union Dead (1964) – Robert Lowell [poem]
- The Broken Home (1964, US) – James Merrill [poem]
- Breyten Prays for Himself (1964, South Africa) – Breyten Breytenbach [poem]
- This is a Photograph of Me (1964, Canada) – Margaret Atwood [poem]
- 77 Dream Songs (1964, US) – John Berryman [poetry]
- Dream Song 1: Huffy Henry hid the day (1964, US) – John Berryman [poem]
- Dream Song 10: There were strange gatherings. A vote would come (1964, US) – John Berryman [poem]
- Dream Song 14: Life, friends, is boring. (1964, US) – John Berryman [poem]
- Dream Song 29: There sat down, once, a thing on Henry’s heart (1964, US) – John Berryman [poem]
- Dream Song 31: Henry Hankovitch, con guitar… (1964, US) – John Berryman [poem]
- De Gaulle (1964, France) – François Mauriac [non-fiction: biography]
- Shadow and Act (1964, US) – Ralph Ellison [non-fiction: essays]
- The Words (1964, France) – Jean-Paul Sartre [non-fiction: memoir]
- Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (1964, China) – Mao Zedong [non-fiction]
- Why We Can’t Wait (1964, US) – Martin Luther King, Jr. [non-fiction]
- Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964, Canada) – Marshall McLuhan [non-fiction: media]
- Arrow of God (1964, Nigeria) – Chinua Achebe [fiction: novel]
- The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965, US) – Philip K. Dick [fiction: novel]
- Dune (1965, US) – Frank Herbert [fiction: novel]
- Collected Stories (1965, US) – Katherine Anne Porter [fiction: stories]
- Parker’s Back (1965, US) – Flannery O’Connor [fiction: story]
- All at One Point (1965, Italy) – Italo Calvino [fiction: story]
- The Odd Couple (1965, US) – Neil Simon [play]*
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965, US) – Malcolm X with Alex Haley [non-fiction: memoir]
- An Area of Darkness (1965, Trinidad & Tobago/US) – V.S. Naipaul [non-fiction: travel/sociology]
- Wide Sargasso Sea (1966, Dominica/UK) – Jean Rhys [fiction: novel]
- The Fixer (1966, US) – Bernard Malamud [fiction: novel]
- The Crying of Lot 49 (1966, US) – Thomas Pynchon [fiction: novel]
- The Magus (1966, UK) – John Fowles [fiction: novel]
- Enemies: A Love Story (1966, Poland/US) – Isaac Bashevis Singer [fiction: novel]
- Flowers for Algernon (1966, US) – Daniel Keyes [fiction: novel]
- The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966, US) – Robert Heinlein [fiction: novel]
- The Green House (1966, Peru) – Mario Vargas Llosa [fiction: novel]
- The Crystal World (1966, UK) – J.G. Ballard [fiction: novel]
- Todos los fuegos el fuego (All the Fires the Fire) (1966, Argentina) – Julio Cortázar [fiction: stories]
- Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? (1966, US) – Joyce Carol Oates [fiction: story]
- We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (1966, US) – Philip K. Dick [fiction: story]
- The Laugher (1966, Germany) – Heinrich Böll [fiction: story]
- Digging (1966, US) – Seamus Heaney [poem]
- In Cold Blood (1966, US) – Truman Capote [non-fiction: journalism]
- Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (1966, US) – Hunter S. Thompson [non-fiction: journalism]
- Against Interpretation (1966, US) – Susan Sontag [nonfiction: essays/criticism]
- One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967, Colombia) – Gabriel García Márquez [fiction: novel]
- Cancer Ward (1967, USSR) – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn [fiction: novel]
- Miramar (1967, Egypt) – Naguib Mahfouz [fiction: novel]
- Lord of Light (1967, US) – Roger Zelazny [fiction: novel]
- The Mimic Men (1967, Trinidad & Tobago/US) – V.S. Naipaul [fiction: novel]
- The Pyramid (1967, US) – William Golding [fiction: novel]
- Endless Night (1967, UK) – Agatha Christie [fiction: novel]
- The Night Face Up (1967, Argentina) – Julio Cortázar [fiction: story]
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967, UK) – Tom Stoppard [play]
- Kongi’s Harvest (1967, Nigeria) – Wole Soyinka [play]
- A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1967, UK) – Peter Nichols [play]
- More Light! More Light! (1967, US) – Anthony Hecht [poem]
- Dreams (c. 1967, US) – Langston Hughes [poem]
- Men at Forty (1967, US) – Donald Justice [poem]
- Telephone Conversation (1967, Nigeria) – Wole Soyinka [poem]
- The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects (1967, Canada/UK) – Marshall McLuhan & Quentin Fiore [non-fiction: media]
- The First Circle (1968, USSR) – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn [fiction: novel]
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, UK) – Arthur C. Clarke [fiction: novel]
- Myra Breckenridge (1968, US)- Gore Vidal [fiction: novel]
- Stand on Zanzibar (1968, UK) – John Brunner [fiction: novel]
- A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea series) (1968, US) – Ursula Le Guin [fiction: novel]
- The Last Unicorn (1968, US) – Peter S. Beagle [novel: fiction]
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968, US) – Philip K. Dick [fiction: novel]
- Dragonriders of Pern (series, 1968-Present) – Anne & Todd McCaffrey [fiction: novels]
- Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern series) (1968, US) – Anne McCaffrey [fiction: novel]
- The Past Through Tomorrow (1967, US) – Robert Heinlein [fiction: stories]
- Henne Fire (1968, Poland/US) – Isaac Bashevis Singer [fiction: story]
- The Cafeteria (1968, Poland/US) – Isaac Bashevis Singer [fiction: story]
- Threadsuns (1968, Romania/France) – Paul Celan [poem]
- Song for the Last Act (1968, US) – Louise Bogan [poem]
- Juan’s Song (1968, US) – Louise Bogan [poem]
- Gretel in Darkness (1968, US) – Louise Glück [poem]
- Armies of the Night (1968, US) – Norman Mailer [non-fiction: journalism/memoir]
- The Double Helix (1968, US) – James Watson [non-fiction: science]
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968, US)- Tom Wolfe [non-fiction: journalism]
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968, US) – Joan Didion [non-fiction: essays]
- Slaughterhouse-Five (1969, US) – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. [fiction: novel]
- Portnoy’s Complaint (1969, US) – Philip Roth [fiction: novel]
- Them (1969, US) – Joyce Carol Oates [fiction: novel]
- The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969, UK) – John Fowles [fiction: novel]
- The Godfather (1969, US) – Mario Puzo [fiction: novel]
- The Left Hand of Darkness (1969, US) – Ursula K. LeGuin [fiction: novel]
- Conversation in the Cathedral (1969, Peru) – Mario Vargas Llosa [fiction: novel]
- Ubik (1969, US) – Philip K. Dick [fiction: novel]
- Ada or Ardor (1969, USSR/US) – Vladimir Nabokov [fiction: novel]
- How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again (1969, US) – Joyce Carol Oates [fiction: story]
- What the Butler Saw (1969, UK) – Joe Orton [play]
- Dream Song 106: 28 July (1969, US) – John Berryman [poem]
- Poems from Prison (A Shuttle in the Crypt) (1969, Nigeria) – Wole Soyinka [poetry]
- I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (1969, US) – Maya Angelou [non-fiction: memoir]
- Visions from San Francisco Bay (1969, Poland) – Czesław Miłosz [non-fiction: essays]
- Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969, Germany/US) – Charles Bukowski [non-fiction: essays]
- The Sea of Fertility (1965-1970, Japan) – Yukio Mishima [fiction: novels]
- Deliverance (1970, US) – James Dickey [fiction: novel]
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970, US) – Richard Bach [fiction: novella]
- The Ogre (1970, France) – Michel Tournier [fiction: novel]
- Ringworld (1970, US) – Larry Niven [fiction: novel]
- The Chronicles of Amber (series of 10 books, 1970-1991, US) – Roger Zelazny [fiction: novels]
- Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber series) (1970, US) – Roger Zelazny [fiction: novel]
- The Bluest Eye (1970, US) – Toni Morrison [fiction: novel]
- Play It As It Lays (1970, US) – Joan Didion [fiction: novel]
- Fantastic Mr Fox (1970, UK) – Roald Dahl [fiction: children’s literature]
- Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1970, Italy) – Dario Fo [play]
- The Explosion (1970, UK) – Philip Larkin [poem]
- Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape (1970, US) – John Ashbery [poem]
- The Carrier of Ladders (1970, UK) – W.S. Merwin [poetry]
- Crow’s Fall (1970, UK) – Ted Hughes [poem]
- El-hajj Malik El-shabazz (Malcolm X) (1970, US) – Robert Hayden [poem]
- Shakespeare (1970, UK) – Anthony Burgess [non-fiction: biography]
- Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee (1970, US) – Dee Brown [non-fiction: history]
- Future Shock (1970, US) – Alvin Toffler [nonfiction]
- The Unheavenly City: The Nature and the Future of Our Urban Crisis (1970, US) – Edward C. Banfield [nonfiction]
- Rabbit Redux (1971, US) – John Updike [fiction: novel]
- In a Free State (1971, Trinidad & Tobago/UK) – V.S. Naipaul [fiction: novel]
- Angle of Repose (1971, US) – Wallace Stegner [fiction: novel]
- The Exorcist (1971, US) – William Peter Blatty [fiction: novel]
- The Day of the Jackal (1971, UK) – Frederick Forsyth [fiction: novel]
- The Lathe of Heaven (1971, US) – Ursula K. Le Guin [fiction: novel]
- Group Portrait with Lady (1971, Germany) – Heinrich Böll [fiction: novel]
- Roadside Picnic (1971, USSR) – Arkady and Boris Strugatsky [fiction: novel]
- To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld series, 1971, US) – Philip José Farmer [fiction: novel]
- The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (1971, US) – William Burroughs [fiction: novel]
- Post Office (1971, Germany/US) – Charles Bukowski [fiction: novel]
- The Lorax (1971, US) – Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) [fiction: children’s literature]
- The Complete Stories (1971, US) – Flannery O’Connor [fiction: stories]
- The Suitcase (1971, US) – Cynthia Ozick [fiction: story]
- The House of Blue Leaves (1971, US) – John Guare [play]
- Madmen and Specialists (1971, Nigeria) – Wole Soyinka [play]
- A Mirror (c. 1971, France) – Jean Follain [poem]
- Face the Animal (c. 1971, France) – Jean Follain [poem]
- A Theory of Justice (1971, US) – John Rawls [non-fiction: political philosophy]
- In the Shadow of Man (1971, UK) – Jane Goodall [nonfiction: science/memoir]
- Beyond Freedom and Dignity (1971) – B. F. Skinner [nonfiction]
- Our Bodies, Ourselves (1971, US) – Boston Women’s Health Book Collective [non-fiction: health]
- Surfacing (1972, Canada) – Margaret Atwood [fiction: novel]
- Invisible Cities (1972, Italy) – Italo Calvino [fiction: novel]
- Watership Down (1972, UK) – Richard Adam [fiction: novel]
- The Gods Themselves (1972, USSR/US) – Isaac Asimov [fiction: novel]
- The Optimist’s Daughter (1972, US) – Eudora Welty [fiction: novel]
- Naga (1972, India) – R.K. Narayan [fiction: story]
- The Lorax (1971, US) – Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) [fiction: children’s literature]
- The Cantos (1917-1972, US) – Ezra Pound [poetry]
- A Girl (c. 1972, US) – Ezra Pound [poem]
- Under One Small Star (1972, Poland) – Wisława Szymborska [poem]
- Henry James: A Life (1953-1972, US/Canada) – Leon Edel [non-fiction: biography]
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (1972, US) – Hunter S. Thompson [non-fiction: journalism]
- The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka (1972, Nigeria) – Wole Soyinka [non-fiction: memoir]
- The Joy of Sex (1972, UK) – Alex Comfort [non-fiction: sexuality]
- Ways of Seeing (1972, UK) – John Berger [non-fiction]
- Gravity’s Rainbow (1973, US) – Thomas Pynchon [fiction: novel]
- Breakfast of Champions (1973, US) – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. [fiction: novel]
- The Siege of Krishnapur (1973, UK) – J.G. Farrell [fiction: novel]
- Rendezvous with Rama (1973, UK) – Arthur C. Clarke [fiction: novel]
- Fear of Flying (1973, US) – Erica Jong [fiction: novel]
- The Season of Anomy (1973, Nigeria) – Wole Soyinka [fiction: novel]
- Child of God (1973, US) – Cormac McCarthy [fiction: novel]
- Sula (1973, US) – Toni Morrison [fiction: novel]
- Crash (1973, UK) – J.G. Ballard [fiction: novel]
- Time Enough for Love (1973, US) – Robert Heinlein [fiction: novel]
- Exterminator! (1973, US) – William Burroughs [fiction: stories]
- The Old Demon (c. 1973, pub. 1981, US) – Pearl Buck [fiction: story]
- Everyday Use (1973, US) – Alice Walker [fiction: story]
- The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1973, US) – Ursula Le Guin [fiction: story]
- The Norman Conquests (trilogy) (1973, UK) – Alan Ayckbourn [plays]
- Equus (1973, UK) – Peter Shaffer [play]
- A Kind of Loss (c. 1973, Austria) – Ingeborg Bachmann [poem]
- Aria 1 (c. 1973, Austria) – Ingeborg Bachmann [poem]
- The Envoy of Mr. Cogito (1973, Poland) – Zbigniew Herbert [poem]
- Diving into the Wreck (1973, US) – Adrienne Rich [poem]
- Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72 (1973, US) – Hunter S. Thompson [non-fiction: journalism]
- The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956 (1973, USSR) – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn [non-fiction: history]
- The Conservationist (1974, South Africa) – Nadine Gordimer [fiction: novel]
- The Mote in God’s Eye (1974, US) – Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle [fiction: novel]
- The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974, US) – Ursula K. LeGuin [fiction: novel]
- The Forever War (1974, US) – Joe Haldeman [fiction: novel]
- The Killer Angels (1974, US) – Michael Shaara [fiction: novel]
- Carrie (1974, US) – Stephen King [fiction: novel]
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974, UK) – John Le Carré [fiction: novel]
- Concrete Island (1974, UK) – J.G. Ballard [fiction: novel]
- Dog Soldiers (1974, US) – Robert Stone [fiction: novel]
- Five-Twenty (1974, Australia) – Patrick White [fiction: story]
- Travesties (1974, UK) – Tom Stoppard [play]
- Selected Poems (1923-1974, Chile) – Pablo Neruda [poetry]
- Where The Sidewalk Ends (1974, US) – Shel Silverstein [poetry]
- Ars Poetica? (1974, Poland) – Czesław Miłosz [poem]
- Backdrop Addresses Cowboy (1974, Canada) – Margaret Atwood [poem]
- Siren Song (1974, Canada) – Margaret Atwood [poem]
- In Praise of Darkness (1974, Argentina) – Jorge Luis Borges [poem]
- What Mr. Cogito Thinks About Hell (1974, Poland) – Zbigniew Herbert [poem]
- The Civil War: A Narrative (1974, US) – Shelby Foote [non-fiction: history]
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974, US) – Robert Pirsig [non-fiction: philosophy]
- All The President’s Men (1974, US) – Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward [non-fiction: journalism]
- The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (1974, US) – Lewis Thomas [non-fiction: science]
- Helter Skelter: the True Story of the Manson Murders (1974, US) – Vincent Bugliosi & Curt Gentry [non-fiction: true crime]
- Pilgrim At Tinker Creek (1974, US) – Annie Dillard [non-fiction]
- Working (1974, US) – Studs Terkel [non-fiction]
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1974, US) – Robert A. Caro [non-fiction: biography]
- Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1974, US) – Eugene Genovese [nonfiction: history]
- Earwitness: Fifty Characters (1974, Bulgaria/UK/Switzerland) – Elias Canetti [non-fiction: biography]
- A Dance to the Music of Time (12-novel cycle) (1951-1975, UK) – Anthony Powell [fiction: novels]
- Ragtime (1975, US) – E.L. Doctorow [fiction: novel]
- The Periodic Table (1975, Italy) – Primo Levi [non-fiction: memoir/fiction: stories]
- Humboldt’s Gift (1975, US) – Saul Bellow [fiction: novel]
- J R (1975, US) – William Gaddis [fiction: novel]
- The Female Man (1975, US) – Joanna Russ [fiction: novel]
- Dhalgren (1975, US) – Samuel R. Delany [fiction: novel]
- Salem’s Lot (1975, US) – Stephen King [fiction: novel]
- High Rise (1975, UK) – J.G. Ballard [fiction: novel]
- Autumn of the Patriarch (1975, Colombia) – Gabriel García Márquez [fiction: novel]
- Shōgun (1975, US) – James Clavell [fiction: novel]
- Factotum (1975, Germany/US) – Charles Bukowski [fiction: novel]
- Respected Sir (1975, Egypt) – Naguib Mahfouz [fiction: novel]
- Bluebell Meadow (1975, Ireland) – Benedict Kiely [fiction: story]
- American Buffalo (1975, US) – David Mamet [play]
- Death and the King’s Horseman (1975, Nigeria) – Wole Soyinka [play]
- Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975, US) – John Ashbery [poetry]
- I Am Root (1973-1975, Nicaragua/El Salvador) – Claribel Alegría [poem]
- The Harvest Moon (1975, UK) – Ted Hughes [poem]
- Funeral Rites (1975, Ireland) – Seamus Heaney [poem]
- The Grauballe Man (1975, Ireland) – Seamus Heaney [poem]
- The Tollund Man (1975, Ireland) – Seamus Heaney [poem]
- The School Children (1975, US) – Louise Glück [poem]
- The Great War and Modern Memory (1975, US) – Paul Fussell [non-fiction: criticism]
- Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1975, France) – Michel Foucault [non-fiction]
- Edith Wharton: A Biography (1975, US) – R.W.B. Lewis [non-fiction: biography]
- Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975, US) – Edward O. Wilson [nonfiction: science]
- Roots (1976, US) – Alex Haley [fiction: novel]
- Interview with the Vampire (1976, US) – Anne Rice [fiction: novel]
- The School (1976, US) – Donald Barthelme [fiction: story]
- The Selfish Gene (1976, UK) – Richard Dawkins [non-fiction: science]
- The Uses of Enchantment (1976, US) – Bruno Bettelheim [non-fiction: criticism/psychology]
- The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme (1976, UK) – John Keegan [nonfiction: history]
- In Praise of My Sister (1976, Poland) – Wisława Szymborska [poem]
- The Wishing Bone Cycle (1976, Canada) – Jacob Nibenegenesabe [poem]
- Love After Love (1976, St. Lucia) – Derek Walcott [poem]
- Song of Solomon (1977, US) – Toni Morrison [fiction: novel]
- Falconer (1977, US) – John Cheever [fiction: novel]
- A Book of Common Prayer (1977, US) – Joan Didion [fiction: novel]
- Lucifer’s Hammer (1977, US) – Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle [fiction: novel]
- Gateway (Heechee Saga series, 1977, US) – Frederik Pohl [fiction: novel]
- The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (series of 10 books, 1977-2013, US) – Stephen R. Donaldson [fiction: novels]
- Lord Foul’s Bane (1977, US) – Stephen R. Donaldson [fiction: novel]
- A Scanner Darkly (1977, US) – Philip K. Dick [fiction: novel]
- Shannara (series, 1977-Present, US) – Terry Brooks [fiction: novels]
- The Sword of Shannara (The Shannara series) (1977, US) – Terry Brooks [fiction: novel]
- The Shining (1977, US) – Stephen King [fiction: novel]
- Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977, Peru) – Maro Vargas Llosa [fiction: novel]
- Rape Fantasies (1977, Canada) – Margaret Atwood [fiction: story]
- A Family Man (1977, UK) – V.S. Pritchett [fiction: story]
- Uncommon Women and Others (1977, US) – Wendy Wasserstein [play]
- Epilogue (1977, US) – Robert Lowell [poem]
- One Art (1977, US) – Elizabeth Bishop [poem]
- In the Waiting Room (1977, US) – Elizabeth Bishop [poem]
- Syringa (1977, US) – John Ashbery [poem]
- India: A Wounded Civilization (1977, US) – V.S. Naipaul [non-fiction: travel/sociology]
- The Land of Ulro (1977, Poland) – Czesław Miłosz [non-fiction: memoir/philosophy]
- The Tongue Set Free (Die gerettete Zunge) (1977 Bulgaria/UK/Switzerland) – Elias Canetti [non-fiction: memoir]
- Dispatches (1977, US) – Michael Herr [non-fiction: journalism]
- Samuel Johnson (1977, US) – Walter Jackson Bates [non-fiction: biography]
- The Sea, The Sea (1978, UK) – Iris Murdoch [fiction: novel]
- Women (1978, Germany/US) – Charles Bukowski [fiction: novel]
- Life: A User’s Manual (1978, France) – Georges Perec [fiction: novel]
- The World According to Garp (1978, US) – John Irving [fiction: novel]
- The Stand (1978, US) – Stephen King [fiction: novel]
- The Stories of John Cheever (1978, US) – John Cheever [fiction: stories]
- The Beggar Maid (Who Do You Think You Are?) (1978, Canada) – Alice Munro [fiction: stories]
- To Room Nineteen (1978, UK) – Doris Lessing [fiction: story]
- Buried Child (1978, US) – Sam Shepard [play]
- Betrayal (1978, UK) – Harold Pinter [play]*
- The Layers (1978, US) – Stanley Kunitz [poem]
- “A” (1978, US) – Louis Zukofsky [poem]
- Phenomenal Woman (1978, US) – Maya Angelou [poem]
- Still I Rise (1978, US) – Maya Angelou [poem]
- Orientalism (1978, Palestine) – Edward Said [non-fiction]
- The Snow Leopard (1978, US) – Peter Matthiessen [non-fiction: travel/memoir/nature]
- The Emperor: Downfall of An Autocrat (1978, Poland) – Ryszard Kapuściński [nonfiction]
- A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century (1978, US) – Barbara Tuchman [nonfiction: history]
- If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (1979, Italy) – Italo Calvino [fiction: novel]
- Sophie’s Choice (1979, US) – William Styron [fiction: novel]
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979, UK)- Douglas Adams [fiction: novel]
- A Bend in the River (1979, Trinidad/UK) – V.S. Naipaul [fiction: novel]
- The Dead Zone (1979, US) – Stephen King [fiction: novel]
- Burger’s Daughter (1979, South Africa) – Nadine Gordimer [fiction: novel]
- The Safety Net (1979, Germany) – Heinrich Böll [fiction: novel]
- The Ghost Writer (1979, US) – Philip Roth [fiction: novel]
- The Year of the French (1979, US) – Thomas Flanagan [fiction: novel]
- The Bloody Chamber (1979, UK) – Angela Carter [fiction: story]
- Cloud 9 (1979, UK) – Caryl Churchill [play]
- Amadeus (1979, UK) – Peter Shaffer [play]*
- At Blackwater Pond (1979, US) – Mary Oliver [poem]
- Filling Station (1979, US) – Elizabeth Bishop [poem]
- Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979, US) – Douglas Hofstadter [non-fiction]
- The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1979, US) – Edmund Morris [non-fiction: biography]
- Munich: The Price of Peace (1979, US) – Telford Taylor [non-fiction: history]
- Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur (1979, US) – Ernest Samuels [non-fiction: biography]
- Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture (1979, US) – Carl Schorske [non-fiction]
- The White Album (1979, US) – Joan Didion [non-fiction: essays]
- The Right Stuff (1979, US) – Tom Wolfe [non-fiction: journalism]
- The Gnostic Gospels (1979, US) – Elaine Pagels [non-fiction: religion]
- The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged (1979, US) – Robert Frost [poetry]
- A Confederacy of Dunces (1980, US) – John Kennedy Toole [fiction: novel]
- So Long, See You Tomorrow (1980, US) – William Maxwell [fiction: novel]
- Housekeeping (1980, US) – Marilynne Robinson [fiction: novel]
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980, UK) – Douglas Adams [fiction: novel]
- Earthly Powers (1980, UK) – Anthony Burgess [fiction: novel]
- The Second Coming (1980, US) – Walker Percy [fiction: novel]
- Rites of Passage (1980, UK) – William Golding [fiction: novel]
- The Executioner’s Song (1980, US) – Norman Mailer [fiction: novel/non-fiction]
- The Name of the Rose (1980, Italy) – Umberto Eco [fiction: novel]
- Waiting for the Barbarians (1980, South Africa) – J. M. Coetzee [fiction: novel]
- The Book of the New Sun (series, 1980-1983, US) – Gene Wolfe [fiction: novels]
- The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun series) (1980, US) – Gene Wolfe [fiction: novel]
- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (1980, US) – Eudora Welty [fiction: stories]
- China Men (1980, US) – Maxine Hong Kingston [fiction: stories/non-fiction: biography/memoir]
- The Shawl (1980, US) – Cynthia Ozick [fiction: story]
- True West (1980, US) – Sam Shepard [play]
- Empire of Dreams (1980, Serbia/US) – Charles Simic [poem]
- The Schooner ‘Flight’ (1980, St. Lucia) – Derek Walcott [poem]
- A People’s History of The United States (1980, US) – Howard Zinn [non-fiction: history]
- The Torch in My Ear (Die Fackel im Ohr) (1980, Bulgaria/UK/Switzerland) – Elias Canetti [non-fiction: memoir]
- Walter Lippmann and the American Century (1980, US) – Ronald Steel [non-fiction: biography]
- Peter the Great: His Life and World (1980, US) – Robert K. Massie [non-fiction: biography]
- Walt Whitman: A Life (1980, US) – Justin Kaplan [non-fiction: biography]
- Cosmos (1980, US) – Carl Sagan [non-fiction: science]
- Free to Choose: A Personal Statement (1980, US) – Milton and Rose D. Friedman [nonfiction]
- The Third Wave (1980, US) – Alvin Toffler [nonfiction]
- Midnight’s Children (1981, India/UK) – Salman Rushdie [fiction: novel]
- Rabbit is Rich (1981, US) – John Updike [fiction: novel]
- The Hotel New Hampshire (1981, US) – John Irving [fiction: novel]
- Obasan (1981, Canada) – Joy Kogawa [fiction: novel]
- The War of the End of the World (1981, Peru) – Mario Vargas Llosa [fiction: novel]
- July’s People (1981, South Africa) – Nadine Gordimer [fiction: novel]
- Cities of the Red Night (Red Night Trilogy I) (1981, US) – William Burroughs [fiction: novel]
- A Flag for Sunrise (1981, US) – Robert Stone [fiction: novel]
- Transit of Venus (1981, US) – Shirley Hazzard [fiction: novel]
- Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981, UK) – Alisdair Gray [fiction: novel]
- Gorky Park (1981, US) – Martin Cruz Smith [fiction: novel]
- A Light in the Attic (1981, US) – Shel Silverstein [poetry/children’s literature]
- Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (1981, US) – Alvin Schwartz [fiction: children’s literature]
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981, US) – Raymond Carver [fiction: stories]
- Why Don’t You Dance (1981, US) – Raymond Carver [fiction: story]
- Easter Morning (1981, US) – A.R. Ammons [poem]
- In Memoriam Mae Noblitt (1981, US) – A.R. Ammons [poem]
- The Season of Phantasmal Peace (1981, St. Lucia) – Derek Walcott [poem]
- Aké: The Years of Childhood (1981, Nigeria) – Wole Soyinka [non-fiction: memoir]
- The Mismeasure of Man (1981, US) – Stephen Jay Gould [non-fiction: science]
- Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey (1981, Trinidad & Tobago/UK) – V.S. Naipaul [non-fiction: travel/sociology]
- Jefferson and His Time (1948-1981, US) – Dumas Malone [non-fiction: biography]
- Grant: A Biography (1981, US) – William S. McFeely [non-fiction: biography]
- National Defense (1981, US) – James Fallows [non-fiction]
- The Lord God Made Them All (1981, UK) – James Herriot [nonfiction: memoir]
- After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory (1981, UK) – Alasdair Macintyre [nonfiction: philosophy]
- Wealth and Poverty (1981, US) – George Gilder [nonfiction]
- So Long a Letter (1981, Senegal) – Mariama Bâ [fiction: novel]
- Schindler’s List (1982, Australia) – Thomas Keneally [fiction: novel]
- The Color Purple (1982, US) – Alice Walker [fiction: novel]
- The House of the Spirits (1982, Chile) – Isabel Allende [fiction: novel]
- Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982, US) – Anne Tyler [fiction: novel]
- Hollow (1982, US) – Breece D’J Pancake [fiction: story]
- The Dark Tower (series of 8 books, 1982-2012, US) – Stephen King [fiction: novels]
- The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower series) (1982, US) – Stephen King [fiction: novel]
- Different Seasons (1982, US) – Stephen King [fiction: novellas]
- Ham on Rye (1982, Germany/US) – Charles Bukowski [fiction: novel]
- The BFG (1982, UK) – Roald Dahl [fiction: children’s literature]
- ‘Master Harold’ … and the Boys (1982, South Africa) – Athol Fugard [play]
- ’night, Mother (1982, US) – Marsha Norman [play]*
- The Real Thing (1982, UK) – Tom Stoppard [play]
- Top Girls (1982, UK) – Caryl Churchill [play]
- Noises Off (1982, UK) – Michael Frayn [play]
- The Changing Light at Sandover (1982, US) – James Merrill [poetry]
- Selected Poems (1982, US) – Galway Kinnell [poetry]
- Old Leaves from the Chinese Earth (c. 1982, India) – Sadanand Rege [poem]
- The Witness of Poetry (1982, Poland) – Czesław Miłosz [non-fiction: criticism]
- The Fate of the Earth (1982, US) – Jonathan Schell [non-fiction]
- The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980 (1982, US) – Jonathan D. Spence [nonfiction: history]
- The Women of Brewster Place (1982, US) – Gloria Naylor [fiction: novel]
- The Life and Times of Michael K. (1983, South Africa) – J.M. Coetzee [fiction: novel]
- Ironweed (1983, US) – William Kennedy [fiction: novel]
- The Mists of Avalon (1983, US) – Marion Zimmer Bradley [fiction: novel]
- Christine (1983, US) – Stephen King [fiction: novel]
- Winter’s Tale (1983, US) – Mark Helprin [fiction: novel]
- Pet Sematary (1983, US) – Stephen King [fiction: novel]
- Discworld (series of 41 books, 1983-2015) – Terry Pratchett [fiction: novels]
- The Color of Magic (Discworld series ) (1983, UK) – Terry Pratchett [fiction: novel]
- The Place of Dead Roads (Red Night Trilogy I) (1983, US) – William Burroughs [fiction: novel]
- Hot Water Music (1983, Germany/US) – Charles Bukowski [fiction: stories]
- Cathedral (1983, US) – Raymond Carver [fiction: story]
- The Witches (1983, UK) – Roald Dahl [fiction: children’s literature]
- The Complete Poems: 1927-1979 (1983, US) – Elizabeth Bishop [poetry]
- A Ballad of Going Down to the Store (c. 1983, Poland) – Miron Bialoszewski [poem]
- Caged Bird (1983, US) – Maya Angelou [poem]
- August (1983, US) – Mary Oliver [poem]
- A Meeting (1983, US) – Mary Oliver [poem]
- Parsley (1983, US) – Rita Dove [poem]
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984, Czechoslovakia) – Milan Kundera [fiction: novel]
- The Lover (1984, France) – Marguerite Duras [fiction: novel]
- Money: A Suicide Note (1984, UK) – Martin Amis [fiction: novel]
- Bright Lights, Big City (1984, US) – Jay McInerney [fiction: novel]
- Neuromancer (1984, US/Canada) – William Gibson [fiction: novel]
- Foreign Affairs (1984, US) – Alison Lurie [fiction: novel]
- Flaubert’s Parrot (1984, UK) – Julian Barnes [fiction: novel]
- Empire of the Sun (1984, UK) – J.G. Ballard [fiction: novel]
- Cold Sassy Tree (1984, US) – Olive Ann Burns [fiction: novel]
- The House on Mango Street (1984, US) – Sandra Cisneros [fiction: novel]
- Glengarry Glen Ross (1984, US)- David Mamet [play]*
- Fool for Love (1984, US) – Sam Shepard [play]
- Be Glad Your Nose Is on Your Face (1984, US) – Jack Prelutsky [poem]
- The Second Madrigal (c. 1984, Poland) – Anna Swir (Anna Swirszczynska) [poem]
- She Does Not Remember (c. 1984, Poland) – Anna Swir [poem]
- You Tell Us What to Do (c. 1984, Pakistan) – Faiz Ahmed Faiz [poem]
- Before You Came (c. 1984, Pakistan) – Faiz Ahmed Faiz [poem]
- Just Walking Around (1984, US) – John Ashbery [poem]
- One Writer’s Beginnings (1984, US) – Eudora Welty [non-fiction: memoir]
- Love in the Time of Cholera (1985, Colombia) – Gabriel García Márquez [fiction: novel]
- White Noise (1985, US) – Don DeLillo [fiction: novel]
- The Good Terrorist (1985, UK) – Doris Lessing [fiction: novel]
- The Accidental Tourist (1985, US) – Anne Tyler [fiction: novel]
- The Cider House Rules (1985, US) – John Irving [fiction: novel]
- The Handmaid’s Tale (1985, Canada) – Margaret Atwood [fiction: novel]
- Blood Meridian (1985, US) – Cormac McCarthy [fiction: novel]
- Lonesome Dove (1985, US) – Larry McMurtry [fiction: novel]
- Ender’s Game (1985, US) – Orson Scott Card [fiction: novel]
- Contact (1985, US) – Carl Sagan [fiction: novel]
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985, Japan) – Hakuri Murakami [fiction: novel]
- Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth (1985, Egypt) – Naguib Mahfouz [fiction: novel]
- The Vampire Lestat (1985, US) – Anne Rice [fiction: novel]
- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985, UK) – Jeanette Winterson [fiction: novel]
- The Mammoth Hunters (1985, US) – Jean M. Auel [fiction: novel]
- Self-Help (1985, US) – Lorrie Moore [fiction: stories]
- Greasy Lake (1985, US) – T. Coraghessan Boyle [fiction: story]
- The Chosen Husband (1985, Canada/France) – Mavis Gallant [fiction: story]
- The Elephant Vanishes (1985, Japan) – Haruki Murakami [fiction: story]
- The Normal Heart (1985, US) – Larry Kramer [play]
- Oranges (1985, US) – Gary Soto [poem]
- War Photographer (1985, UK) – Carol Ann Duffy [poem]
- Collected Poems (1985, US) – Robert Hayden [poetry]
- The Play of the Eyes (Das Augenspiel) (1985, Bulgaria/UK/Switzerland) – Elias Canetti [non-fiction: memoir]
- The New York Trilogy (1985-1986, US) – Paul Auster [fiction: novels]
- A Summons to Memphis (1986, US) – Peter Taylor [fiction: novel]
- Speaker for the Dead (Ender’s series) (1986, US) – Orson Scott Card [fiction: novel]
- It (1986, US) – Stephen King [fiction: novel]
- Foe (1986, South Africa/Australia) – J.M. Coetzee [fiction: novel]
- The Prince of Tides (1986, US) – Pat Conroy [fiction: novel]
- Fits (1986, Canada) – Alice Munro [fiction: story]
- Communist (1986, US) – Richard Ford [fiction: story]
- And Yet the Books (1986, Poland) – Czesław Miłosz [poem]
- The Journey (1986, US) – Mary Oliver [poem]
- Wild Geese (1986, US) – Mary Oliver [poem]
- A Prayer That Will Be Answered (c. 1986, Poland) – Anna Kamienska [poem]
- Variation on the Word Sleep (1986, Canada) – Margaret Atwood [poem]
- Maus: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleed’s History (1986, US) – Art Spiegelman [non-fiction: graphic memoir]
- Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (1986, US) – J. Anthony Lukas [non-fiction: journalism]
- Going to the Territory (1986, US) – Ralph Ellison [non-fiction: essays]
- Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (1986, US) – Marc Reisner [nonfiction]
- Beloved (1987, US) – Toni Morrison [fiction: novel]
- The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987, US) – Tom Wolfe [fiction: novel]
- Norwegian Wood (1987, Japan) – Hakuri Murakami [fiction: novel]
- Watchmen (1987, US) – Alan Moore [fiction: graphic novel]
- Mort (Discworld series) (1987, UK) [fiction: novel]
- Equal Rites (Discworld series) (1987, UK) [fiction: novel]
- Misery (1987, US) – Stephen King [fiction: novel]
- Presumed Innocent (1987, US) – Scott Turow [fiction: novel]
- The Eyes of the Dragon (1987, US) – Stephen King [fiction: novel]
- The Shell Seekers (1987, UK) – Rosamunde Pilcher [fiction: novel]
- Hatchet (1987, US) – Gary Paulsen [fiction: novel]
- The Western Lands (Red Night Trilogy I) (1987, US) – William Burroughs [fiction: novel]
- The Enigma of Arrival (1987, Trinidad & Tobago/UK) – V.S. Naipaul [fiction: novel]
- The Things They Carried (1987, US) – Tim O’Brien [fiction: story]
- You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town (1987, South Africa) – Zoë Wicomb [fiction: story]
- Fences (1987, US) – August Wilson [play]
- Caedmon (1987, US) – Denise Levertov [poem]
- Residue (c. 1987, Brazil) – Carlos Drummond de Andrade [poem]
- Don’t Kill Yourself (c. 1987, Brazil) – Carlos Drummond de Andrade [poem]
- I Go Back to May 1937 (1987, US) – Sharon Olds [poem]
- Clearances (1987, Ireland) – Seamus Heaney [poem]
- Little Wilson and Big God (1987, UK) – Anthony Burgess [non-fiction: memoir]
- And The Band Played On: Politics, People, and the Aids Epidemic (1987, US) – Randy Shilts [non-fiction: journalism]
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1987, US) – Richard Rhodes [non-fiction: history/science]
- The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students (1987, US) – Allan Bloom [nonfiction]
- The Satanic Verses (1988, India/UK) – Salman Rushdie [fiction: novel]
- Nervous Conditions (1988, Zimbabwe) – Tsitsi Dangaremba [fiction: novel]
- Oscar and Lucinda (1988, Australia) – Peter Carey [fiction: novel]
- Paris Trout (1988, US) – Pete Dexter [fiction: novel]
- The Alchemist (1988, Brazil) – Paulo Coelho [fiction: novel]
- The Player of Games (Culture series) (1988, UK) – Iain M. Banks [fiction: novel]
- Dance Dance Dance (1988, Japan) – Haruki Murakami [fiction: novel]
- The Fifth Child (1988, UK) – Doris Lessing [fiction: novel]
- The Silence of the Lambs (1988, US) – Thomas Harris [fiction: novel]
- White Angel (1988, US) – Michael Cunningham [fiction: story]
- The Management of Grief (1988, India/US) – Bharati Mukherjee [fiction: story]
- Where I’m Calling From: New and Selected Stories (1988, US) – Raymond Carver [fiction: stories]
- Bad Behavior (1988, US) – Mary Gaitskill [fiction: stories]
- Matilda (1988, UK) – Roald Dahl [fiction: children’s literature]
- Esio Trot (1989, UK) – Roald Dahl [fiction: children’s literature]
- The Heidi Chronicles (1988, US) – Wendy Wasserstein [play]
- M Butterfly (1988, US) – David Henry Hwang [play]
- Torture Chamber (c. 1988, Chile) – Enrique Lihn [poem]
- The One Day (1988, US) – Donald Hall [poem]
- The Answer (1988, China) – Bei Dao [poem]
- Funeral Sermon, Soweto (1988, Nigeria) – Wole Soyinka [poem]
- A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (1988, UK) – Stephen Hawking [non-fiction: science]
- Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988, US) – James M. McPherson [non-fiction: history]
- Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 (1988, US) – Taylor Branch [non-fiction: biography]
- A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1988, US) – Neil Sheehan [non-fiction: history/biography]
- Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (1988, US) – Eric Foner [non-fiction: history]
- The Remains of the Day (1989, UK) – Kazuo Ishiguro [fiction: novel]
- Billy Bathgate (1989, US) – E.L. Doctorow [fiction: novel]
- A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989, US) – John Irving [fiction: novel]
- Breathing Lessons (1989, US) – Anne Tyler [fiction: novel]
- The Joy Luck Club (1989, US) – Amy Tan [fiction: novel]
- The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (1989, US) – Oscar Hijuelos [fiction: novel]
- The Power of One (1989, South Africa/Australia) – Bruce Courtenay [fiction: novel]
- Like Water for Chocolate (1989, Mexico) – Laura Esquivel [fiction: novel]
- Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos series) (1989, US) – Dan Simmons [fiction: novel]
- A Time to Kill (1989, US) – John Grisham [fiction: novel]
- London Fields (1989, UK) – Martin Amis [fiction: novel]
- Guards! Guards! (Discworld series) (1989, UK) – Terry Pratchett [fiction: novel]
- Number the Stars (1989, US) – Lois Lowry [fiction: novel]
- Clear and Present Danger (1989, US) – Tom Clancy [fiction: novel]
- You’re Ugly, Too (1989, US) – Lorrie Moore [fiction: story]
- This Boy’s Life (1989, US) – Tobias Wolff [nonfiction: memoir]
- Possession (1990, UK) – A.S Byatt [fiction: novel]
- Rabbit at Rest (1990, US) – John Updike [fiction: novel]
- Amongst Women (1990, Ireland) – John McGahern [fiction: novel]
- Use of Weapons (Culture series) (1990, UK) – Iain M. Banks [fiction: novel]
- The Dark Elf Trilogy (series, 1990-1991, US) – R.A. Salvatore [fiction: novels]
- Homeland (The Dark Elf Trilogy I) (1990, US) – R.A. Salvatore [fiction: novel]
- The Wheel of Time (series of 14 books, 1990-2013, US) – Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson [fiction: novels]
- The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time series) (1990, US) – Robert Jordan [fiction: novel]
- The Things They Carried (1990, US) – Tim O’Brien [fiction: linked stories]
- Friend of My Youth (1990, Canada) – Alice Munro [fiction: stories]
- Death by Landscape (1990, Canada) – Margaret Atwood [fiction: story]
- A Real Doll (1990, US) – A.M. Homes [fiction: story]
- Oh, the Places You’ll Go (1990, US) – Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) [fiction: children’s literature]
- Six Degrees of Separation (1990, US) – John Guare [play]*
- Dancing at Lughnasa (1990, Ireland) – Brian Friel [play]
- The Other Shore (1990, China) – Gao Xingjian [play]
- New Selected Poems: 1966-1987 (1990, Ireland) – Seamus Heaney [poetry]
- The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1990, Germany/US) – Charles Bukowski [poetry]
- Omeros (1990, St. Lucia) – Derek Walcott [poem]
- The End of Dodona 2 (c. 1990, Greece) – Yiannis Ritsos [poem]
- As Soon As Fred Gets Out of Bed (1990, US) – Jack Prelutsky [poem]
- Words, Wide Night (1990, US) – Carol Ann Duffy [poem]
- The Summer Day (1990, US) – Mary Oliver [poem]
- You’ve Had Your Time (1990, UK) – Anthony Burgess [non-fiction: memoir]
- India: A Million Mutinies Now (1990, Trinidad & Tobago/UK) – V.S. Naipaul [non-fiction: travel/sociology]
- The Journalist and the Murderer (1990, US) – Janet Malcolm [non-fiction: journalism]
- The House of Morgan (1990, US) – Ron Chernow [nonfiction]
- The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women (1990, Canada) – Naomi Wolf [nonfiction]
- The Taming of Chance (1990, Canada) – Ian Hacking [nonfiction]
- The Ants (1990, US) – Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson [nonfiction: science]
- Get Shorty (1990, US) – Elmore Leonard [fiction: novel]
- Mao II (1991, US) – Don DeLillo [fiction: novel]
- Mating (1991, US) – Norman Rush [fiction: novel]
- A Thousand Acres (1991, US) – Jane Smiley [fiction: novel]
- Time’s Arrow (1991, UK) – Martin Amis [fiction: novel]
- American Psycho (1991, US) – Bret Easton Ellis [fiction: novel]
- Wise Children (1991, US) – Angela Carter [fiction: novel]
- The Firm (1991, US) – John Grisham [fiction: novel]
- Generation X: Tales For An Accelerated Culture (1991, US) – Douglas Coupland [fiction: novel]
- The Pugilist at Rest (1991, US) – Thom Jones [fiction: story]
- They’re Made out of Meat (1991, US) – Terry Bisson [fiction: story]
- Silver Water (1991, US) – Amy Bloom [fiction: story]
- Never Marry a Mexican (1991, Mexico/US) – Sandra Cisneros [fiction: story]
- An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 (1991, US) – Adrienne Rich [poetry]
- Sava’s Journey (c. 1991, Yugoslavia/Serbia) – Vasko Popa [poem]
- All the Pretty Horses (1992, US) – Cormac McCarthy [fiction: novel]
- The Secret History (1992, US) – Donna Tartt [fiction: novel]
- Jazz (1992, US) – Toni Morrison [fiction: novel]
- Black Water (1992, US) – Joyce Carol Oates [fiction: novella]
- The English Patient (1992, Canada) – Michael Ondaatje [fiction: novel]
- Doomsday Book (1992, US) – Connie Willis [fiction: novel]
- A Fire Upon the Deep (1992, US) – Vernor Vinge [fiction: novel]
- Snow Crash (1992, US) – Neal Stephenson [fiction: novel]
- Dangerous Lady (1992, UK) – Martina Cole [fiction: novel]
- She’s Come Undone (1992, US) – Wally Lamb [fiction: novel]
- Bastard Out of Carolina (1992, US) – Dorothy Alison [fiction: novel]
- Small Gods (Discworld series) (1992, UK) – Terry Pratchett [fiction: novel]
- Emergency (1992, US) – Denis Johnson [fiction: story]
- Angels in America (1992, US) – Tony Kushner [play]*
- When Death Comes (1992, US) – Mary Oliver [poem]
- Conversation with Jeanne (1992, Poland) – Czesław Miłosz [poem]
- A Poem for the End of the Century (1992, Poland) – Czesław Miłosz [poem]
- Beginning with My Streets: Essays and Recollections (1992, Poland) – Czesław Miłosz [non-fiction: essays/memoir]
- What It Takes: The Way to the White House (1992, US) – Richard Ben Cramer [non-fiction: journalism]
- Truman (1992, US) – David McCullough [non-fiction: biography]
- Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America (1992, US) – Garry Wills [non-fiction]
- The End of History and the Last Man (1992, US) – Francis Fukuyama [nonfiction]
- Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale: and Here My Troubles Began (1992, US) – Art Spiegelman [fiction/nonfiction: graphic memoir]
- The Stone Diaries (1993, Canada) – Carol Shields [fiction: novel]
- The Shipping News (1993, US) – E. Annie Proulx [fiction: novel]
- Operation Shylock (1993, US) – Philip Roth [fiction: novel]
- A Suitable Boy (1993, India/UK) – Vikram Seth [fiction: novel]
- Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1993, Ireland) – Roddy Doyle [fiction: novel]
- The Virgin Suicides (1993, US) – Jeffrey Eugenides [fiction: novel]
- Red Mars (1993, US) – Kim Stanley Robinson [fiction: novel]
- The Ladykiller (1993, UK) – Martina Cole [fiction: novel]
- The Client (1993, US) – John Grisham [fiction: novel]
- Trainspotting (1993, UK) – Irvine Welsh [fiction: novel]
- The Giver (1993, US) – Lois Lowry [fiction: novel]
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993, US) – Sherman Alexie [fiction: stories]
- I Want to Live! (1993, US) – Thom Jones [fiction: story]
- Arcadia (1993, UK) – Tom Stoppard [play]
- Valentine (1993, US) – Carol Ann Duffy [poem]
- Havisham (1993, US) – Carol Ann Duffy [poem]
- Stuffed (1993, US) – Carol Ann Duffy [poem]
- The End and the Beginning (1993, Poland) – Wisława Szymborska [poem]
- Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year (1993, US) – Anne Lamont [nonfiction: memoir]
- Snow Falling on Cedars (1994, US) – David Guterson [fiction: novel]
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994, Japan) – Haruki Murakami [fiction: novel]
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (1994, UK) – Louis De Bernières [fiction: novel]
- How Late It Was, How Late (1994, US) – James Kelman [fiction: novel]
- The Sword of Truth (series of 18 books, 1994-2017, US) – Terry Goodkind [fiction: novels]
- Wizard’s First Rule (The Sword of Truth series) (1994, US) – Terry Goodkind [fiction: novel]
- The Crossing (1994, US) – Cormac McCarthy [fiction: novel]
- A Way in the World (1994, Trinidad & Tobago/UK) – V.S. Naipaul [fiction: novel]
- Juneteenth (c. 1994, pub. 1999, US) – Ralph Ellison [fiction: novel]
- Milkweed and Monarch (1994, Ireland) – Paul Muldoon [poem]
- Under My Skin (1994, UK) – Doris Lessing [non-fiction: memoir]
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1994, US) – John Berendt [non-fiction]
- How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter (1994, US) – Sherwin B. Nuland [non-fiction]
- Long Walk to Freedom (1994, South Africa) – Nelson Mandela [nonfiction: autobiography]
- Prozac Nation (1994, US) – Elizabeth Wurtzel [nonfiction: memoir]
- A Fine Balance (1995, Canada) – Rohinton Mistry [fiction: novel]
- Sabbath’s Theater (1995, US) – Philip Roth [fiction: novel]
- The Blue Flower (1995, US) – Penelope Fitzgerald [fiction: novel]
- Blindness (1995, Portugal) – José Saramago [fiction: novel]
- High Fidelity (1995, UK) – Nick Hornby [fiction: novel]
- The Farseer Trilogy (series, 1995-1997, US) – Robin Hobb [fiction: novels]
- Assassin’s Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy I) (1995, US) – Robin Hobb [fiction: novel]
- The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer (1995, US) – Neil Stephenson [fiction: novel]
- His Dark Materials (trilogy, 1995-2000, UK) – Philip Pullman [fiction: novels]
- The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials I) (1995) – Philip Pullman [fiction: novel]
- The Rainmaker (1995, US) – John Grisham [fiction: novel]
- The Information (1995, UK) – Martin Amis [fiction: novel]
- The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995, India/UK) – Salman Rushdie [fiction: novel]
- Bullet in the Brain (1995, US) – Tobias Wolff [fiction: story]
- Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing (1995, Canada) – Margaret Atwood [poem]
- Morning in the Burned House (1995, Canada) – Margaret Atwood [poem]
- In the Secular Night (1995, Canada) – Margaret Atwood [poem]
- The Moment (1995, Canada) – Margaret Atwood [poem]
- The Rings of Saturn (1995, Germany) – W.G. Sebald [non-fiction]
- The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (1995, US) – Richard Preston [non-fiction: medicine]
- The Haunted Land: Facing Europe’s Ghosts After Communism (1995, US) – Tina Rosenberg [non-fiction]
- Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995, republished 2004, US) – Barack Obama [non-fiction: memoir]
- Infinite Jest (1996, US) – David Foster Wallace [fiction: novel]
- The Reality Dysfunction (The Night’s Dawn trilogy) (1996, UK) – Peter F. Hamilton [fiction: novel]
- A Song of Ice and Fire (series, 1996-Present) – George R.R. Martin [fiction: novels]
- A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire series) (1996, US) – George R. R. Martin [fiction: novel]
- Fight Club (1996, Ukraine/US) – Chuck Palahniuk [fiction: novel]
- The Runaway Jury (1996, US) – John Grisham [fiction: novel]
- Bridget Jones’s Diary (1996, UK) – Helen Fielding [fiction: novel]
- Flying Home and Other Stories (1996, US) – Ralph Ellison [fiction: stories]
- Drown (1996, Dominican Republic/US) – Junot Díaz [fiction: story]
- Night Women (1996, Haiti/US) – Edwidge Danticat [fiction: story]
- Into The Wild (1996, US) – Jon Krakauer [non-fiction: journalism]
- The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996, US) – Samuel P. Huntington [nonfiction]
- Angela’s Ashes (1996, Ireland/US) – Frank McCourt [nonfiction: memoir]
- American Pastoral (1997, US) – Philip Roth [fiction: novel]
- The God of Small Things (1997, India) – Arundhati Roy [fiction: novel]
- Underworld (1997, US) – Don DeLillo [fiction: novel]
- Cold Mountain (1997, US) – Charles Frazier [fiction: novel]
- Mason & Dixon (1997, US) – Thomas Pynchon [fiction: novel]
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone) (1997, UK) – J.K. Rowling [fiction: novel]
- The Partner (1997, US) – John Grisham [fiction: novel]
- Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower IV) (1997, US) – Stephen King [fiction: novel]
- Ghost World (1997, US) – Daniel Clowes [fiction: graphic novel]
- Tiny, Smiling Daddy (1997, US) – Mary Gaitskill [fiction: story]
- Brokeback Mountain (1997, US) – Annie Proulx [fiction: story]
- The Weir (1997, Ireland/UK) – Conor McPherson [play]
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies (1997, US) – Jared Diamond [non-fiction: history]
- The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (1997, US) – Sebastian Junger [non-fiction: journalism]
- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster (1997, US) – Jon Krakauer [non-fiction: journalism]
- Naked (1997, US) – David Sedaris [nonfiction: essays]
- The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (1997, US) – Iris Chang [non-fiction: history]
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (1997, US) – David Foster Wallace [non-fiction: essays]
- Sex and the City (1997, US) – Candace Bushnell [nonfiction: essays]
- The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson (1997, US) – Jeffrey Toobin [nonfiction]
- The Hours (1998, US) – Michael Cunningham [fiction: novel]
- The Savage Detectives (1998, Chile) – Roberto Bolaño [fiction: novel]
- My Name Is Red (1998, Turkey) – Orhan Pamuk [fiction: novel]
- The Poisonwood Bible (1998, US) – Barbara Kingsolver [fiction: novel]
- A Man in Full (1998, US) – Tom Wolfe [fiction: novel]
- Cities of the Plain (1998, US) – Cormac McCarthy [fiction: novel]
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998, UK) – J.K. Rowling [fiction: novel]
- The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (1998, UK) – Alexander McCall Smith [fiction: novel]
- Holes (1998, US) – Louis Sachar [fiction: novel]
- Birds of America (1998, US) – Lorrie Moore [fiction: stories]
- Sea Oak (1998, US) – George Saunders [fiction: story]
- The Key of Water (c. 1998, Mexico) – Octavio Paz [poem]
- Zito the Magician (c. 1998, Czech Republic) – Miroslav Holub [poem]
- A Woman Unconscious (c. 1998, UK) – Ted Hughes [poem]
- Old Age Gets Up (c. 1998, UK) – Ted Hughes [poem]
- Wind (c. 1998, UK) – Ted Hughes [poem]
- We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (1998, US) – Philip Gourevitch [non-fiction: journalism]
- A Walk In The Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (1998, US) – Bill Bryson [non-fiction: travel]
- Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples (1998, Trinidad & Tobago/UK) – V.S. Naipaul [non-fiction: travel/sociology]
- Annals of the Former World (1998, US) – John McPhee [nonfiction: science]
- Waiting (1999, China/US) – Ha Jin [fiction: novel]
- The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999, India/UK) – Salman Rushdie [fiction: novel]
- Disgrace (1999, South Africa) – J.M. Coetzee [fiction: novel]
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999, UK) – J.K. Rowling [fiction: novel]
- The Testament (1999, US) – John Grisham [fiction: novel]
- Malazan Book of the Fallen (series of 10 books, 1999-2011, Canada) – Steven Erikson [fiction: novels]
- Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen series) (1999, Canada) – Steven Erikson [fiction: novel]
- Invisible Monsters (1999, Ukraine/US) – Chuck Palahniuk [fiction: novel]
- Cryptonomicon (1999, US) – Neal Stephenson [fiction: novel]
- The Perks of Being A Wallflower (1999, US) – Stephen Chbosky [fiction: novel]
- White Oleander (1999, US) – Janet Fitch [fiction: novel]
- Survivor (1999, Ukraine/US) – Chuck Palahniuk [fiction: novel]
- The Love of a Good Woman (1998, Canada) – Alice Munro [fiction: stories]
- The Bear Came Over the Mountain (1999, Canada) – Alice Munro [fiction: story]
- Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999, US) – David Foster Wallace [fiction: stories]
- Interpreter of Maladies (1999, UK/US) – Jhumpa Lahiri [fiction: stories]
- Forgetfulness (1999, US) – Billy Collins [poem]
- Anne Hathaway (1999, US) – Carol Ann Duffy [poem]
- The Emptiness of Being A Man (The Emptiness of Man) (c. 1999, Brazil) – João Cabral De Melo Neto [poem]
- No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (1999, Canada) – Naomi Klein [non-fiction]
- Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (1999, US) – John W. Dower
- White Teeth (2000, UK) – Zadie Smith [fiction: novel]
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000, US) – Michael Chabon [fiction: novel]
- Being Dead (2000, UK) – Jim Crace [fiction: novel]
- The Human Stain (2000, US) – Philip Roth [fiction: novel]
- The Blind Assassin (2000, Canada) – Margaret Atwood [fiction: novel]
- Ravelstein (2000, US) – Saul Bellow [fiction: novel]
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000, UK) – J.K. Rowling [fiction: novel]
- The Dresden Files (series, 2000 and continuing, US) – Jim Butcher [fiction: novels]
- Storm Front (The Dresden Files series) (2000, US) – Jim Butcher [fiction: novel]
- Revelation Space (2000, UK) – Alastair Reynolds [fiction: novel]
- The Feast of the Goat (2000, Peru) – Mario Vargas Llosa [fiction: novel]
- Pastoralia (2000, US) – George Saunders [fiction: stories]
- Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (2000, US) – ZZ Packer [fiction: story]
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000, US) – Stephen King [non-fiction]
- Proof (2000, US) – David Auburn [play]
- We Have Done Our Duty (c. 2000, Israel) – Yehuda Amichai [poem]
- A Pity, We Were Such A Good Invention (c. 2000, Israel) – Yehuda Amichai [poem]
- My Mother Once Told Me (c. 2000, Israel) – Yehuda Amichai [poem]
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000, US) – Dave Eggers [non-fiction: memoir]
- In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (2000, US) – Nathaniel Philbrick [non-fiction: history]
- From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to The Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life (2000, France/US) – Jacques Barzun [non-fiction: history]
- London: The Biography (2000, UK) – Peter Ackroyd [non-fiction: history]
- Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War (2000, US) – Frances FitzGerald [non-fiction: history/journalism]
- Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000, US) – David Sedaris [non-fiction: humor]
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (2000, US) – Malcolm Gladwell [non-fiction]
- Cherry (2000, US) – Mary Karr [non-fiction: memoir]
- Experience: A Memoir (2000, UK) – Martin Amis [non-fiction: memoir]
- Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir (2000, US) – Lauren Slater [non-fiction: memoir]
- Persepolis (2000, Iran/France) – Marjane Satrapi [non-fiction: graphic memoir]
- Blonde (2000, US) – Joyce Carol Oates [fiction: novel]
- The Corrections (2001, US) – Jonathan Franzen [fiction: novel]
- Austerlitz (2001, Germany) – W.G. Sebald [fiction: novel]
- Atonement (2001, UK) – Ian McEwan [fiction: novel]
- True History of The Kelly Gang (2001, US) – Peter Carey [fiction: novel]
- American Gods (2001, UK) – Neil Gaiman [fiction: novel]
- Empire Falls (2001, US) – Richard Russo [fiction: novel]
- Bel Canto (2001, US) – Ann Patchett [fiction: novel]
- John Henry Days (2001, US) – Colson Whitehead [fiction: novel]
- Life of Pi (2001, Canada) – Yann Martel [fiction: novel]
- The Secret Life of Bees (2001, US) – Sue Monk Kidd [fiction: novel]
- The Shadow of the Wind (2001, Spain) – Carlos Ruiz Zafón [fiction: novel]
- Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories (2001, US) – Alice Munro [fiction: stories]
- Family Furnishings (2001, Canada) – Alice Munro [fiction: story]
- The Lieutenant of Inishmore (2001, Ireland/UK) – Martin McDonagh [play]
- Topdog/Underdog (2001, US) – Suzan-Lori Parks [play]
- I Am Alone (c. 2001, Senegal) – Léopold Sédar Senghor [poem]
- To New York (c. 2001, Senegal) – Léopold Sédar Senghor [poem]
- An Improvisation for Angular Momentum (c. 2001, US) – A.R. Ammons [poem]
- Gravelly Run (c. 2001, US) – A.R. Ammons [poem]
- Hymn (c. 2001, US) – A.R. Ammons [poem]
- John Adams (2001, US) – David McCullough [non-fiction: biography]
- Seabiscuit: An American Legend (2001, US) – Laura Hillenbrand [non-fiction: sports]
- Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (2001, US) – Eric Schlosser [non-fiction: food]
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America (2001, US) – Barbara Ehrenreich [non-fiction]
- The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America (2001, US) – Louis Menand [non-fiction: history/biography/philosophy]
- Uncle Tungsten: Memories of A Chemical Boyhood (2001, US) – Oliver Sachs [non-fiction: memoir]
- Comfort Me With Apples: More Adventures At The Table (2001, US) – Ruth Reichl [non-fiction: food]
- The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World (2001, US) – Michael Pollan [non-fiction]
- Middlesex (2002, US) – Jeffrey Eugenides [fiction: novel]
- Everything Is Illuminated (2002, US) – Jonathan Safran Foer [fiction: novel]
- Kafka on the Shore (2002, Japan) – Haruki Murakami [fiction: novel]
- Snow (2002, Turkey) – Orhan Pamuk [fiction: novel]
- Altered Carbon (2002, UK) – Richard K. Morgan [fiction: novel]
- Gould’s Book of Fish (2002, Australia) – Richard Flanagan [fiction: novel]
- The Lovely Bones (2002, US) – Alice Sebold [fiction: novel]
- The Crimson Petal and The White (2002, The Netherlands/UK) – Michel Faber [fiction: novel]
- Caramelo (2002, US) – Sandra Cisneros [fiction: novel]
- Prague (2002, US) – Arthur Phillips [fiction: novel]
- Unless (2002, US/Canada) – Carol Shields [fiction: novel]
- Lullaby (2002, Ukraine/US) – Chuck Palahniuk [fiction: novel]
- Night Watch (Discworld series) (2002, UK) – Terry Pratchett [fiction: novel]
- You Are Not A Stranger Here (2002, US) – Adam Haslett [fiction: stories]
- Travis B (2002, US) – Maile Meloy [fiction: story]
- The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (2002, US) – Edward Albee [play]
- Charles Darwin: A Biography, Vol. 2 – The Power of Place (2002, UK) – Janet Browne [non-fiction: biography]
- Running With Scissors (2002, US) – Augusten Burroughs [nonfiction: memoir]
- Bad Blood (2002, UK) – Lorna Sage [non-fiction: memoir]
- Live From New York (2002, US) – Tom Shales [non-fiction: arts]
- Salt: A World History (2002, US) – Mark Kurlansky [non-fiction: history]
- Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (2002, US) – Robert A. Caro [non-fiction: biography]
- “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide (2002, Ireland/US) – Samantha Power [non-fiction: history/foreign policy]
- The Known World (2003, US) – Edward P. Jones [fiction: novel]
- Drop City (2003, US) – T. Coraghessan Boyle [fiction: novel]
- The Fortress of Solitude (2003, US) – Jonathan Lethem [fiction: novel]
- Brick Lane (2003, Bangladesh/UK) – Monica Ali [fiction: novel]
- Any Human Heart (2003, UK) – William Boyd [fiction: novel]
- The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Night-Time (2003, UK) – Mark Haddon [fiction: novel]
- The Namesake (2003, UK/US) – Jhumpa Lahiri [fiction: novel]
- The Graft (2003, UK) – Martina Cole [fiction: novel]
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003, UK) – J.K. Rowling [fiction: novel]
- Oryx and Crake (2003, Canada) – Margaret Atwood [fiction: novel]
- The Kite Runner (2003, Afghanistan/US) – Khaled Hosseini [fiction: novel]
- Elizabeth Costello (2003, South Africa/Australia) – J.M. Coetzee [fiction: novel]
- The Time Traveler’s Wife (2003, US) – Audrey Niffenegger [fiction: novel]
- The Great Fire (2003, Australia) – Shirley Hazzard [fiction: novel]
- Waxwings (2003, UK) – Jonathan Raban [fiction: novel]
- The Da Vinci Code (2003, US) – Dan Brown [fiction: novel]
- Servants of the Map (2002, US) – Andrea Barrett [fiction: stories]
- What You Pawn, I Will Redeem (2003, US) – Sherman Alexie [fiction: story]
- Paradise (2003, UK) – Ali Smith [fiction: story]
- Runaway (2003, Canada) – Alice Munro [fiction: story]
- The Pillowman (2003, Ireland) – Martin McDonagh [play]
- They Marched Into Sunlight: War And Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967 (2003, US) – David Maraniss [non-fiction: history]
- Gulag: A History (2003, US/Poland) – Anne Applebaum [non-fiction: history]
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003, US) – Mary Roach [non-fiction: science]
- The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (2003, US) – Caroline Alexander [nonfiction: history]
- A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003, US/UK) – Bill Bryson [nonfiction: science]
- Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded – August 27, 1883 (2003, UK/US) – Simon Winchester [nonfiction: history]
- Living to Tell The Tale (2003, Colombia) – Gabriel García Márquez [non-fiction: memoir]
- Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age In The Bronx (2003, US) – Adrian Nicole Leblanc [non-fiction: sociology]
- Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (2003, Iran/US) – Azar Nafisi [nonfiction: memoir]
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (2003, US) – Erik Larson [non-fiction: history]
- Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means (2003, US) – William Vollmann [non-fiction: history/violence]
- Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (2003, US) – William Taubman [non-fiction: biography]
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (2003, US) – Michael Lewis [non-fiction: sports]
- Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (2003, US) – Jon Krakauer [non-fiction: journalism]
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (2003, UK) – Lynne Truss [non-fiction: language]
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003, US) – Walter Isaacson [nonfiction: science]
- Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind (2003, US) – David Quammen [nonfiction]
- Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles (2003, US) – Anthony Swofford [nonfiction: memoir]
- Pandora’s Star (2004, UK) – Peter F. Hamilton [fiction: novel]
- Going Postal (Discworld series) (2004, UK) – Terry Pratchett [fiction: novel]
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (2004, US) – Susanna Clarke [fiction: novel]
- Cloud Atlas (2004, US) – David Mitchell [fiction: novel]
- The Line of Beauty (2004, US) – Alan Hollinghurst [fiction: novel]
- The Master (2004, US) – Colm Tóibín [fiction: novel]
- Gilead (2004, US) – Marilynne Robinson [fiction: novel]
- The Plot Against America (2004, US) – Philip Roth [fiction: novel]
- The Inner Circle (2004, US) – T. Coraghessan Boyle [fiction: novel]
- The Falls (2004, US) – Joyce Carol Oates [fiction: novel]
- Aloft (2004, US) – Chang-Rae Lee [fiction: novel]
- 2666 (2004, Chile) – Roberto Bolaño [fiction: novel]
- Case Histories (2004, US) – Kate Atkinson [fiction: novel]
- Suite Française (2004, France) – Irène Némirovsky [fiction: novel]
- Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2004, Colombia) – Gabriel Garcia Marquez [fiction: novella]
- Small Island (2004, UK) – Andrea Levy [fiction: novel]
- A Bit on the Side (2004, US) – William Trevor [fiction: novel]
- The Amateur Marriage (2004, US) – Anne Tyler [fiction: novel]
- Little Children (2004, US) – Tom Perrotta [fiction: novel]
- Runaway (2004, Canada) – Alice Munro [fiction: stories]
- Oblivion: Stories (2004, US) – David Foster Wallace [fiction: stories]
- The First Day (2004, US)- Edward P. Jones [fiction: story]
- The History Boys (2004, UK) – Alan Bennett [play]
- The Clean House (2004, US) – Sarah Ruhl [play]
- Doubt (2004, US) – John Patrick Shanley [play]*
- Alexander Hamilton (2004, US) – Ron Chernow [non-fiction: biography]
- Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (2004, US) – Stephen Greenblatt [non-fiction: biography]
- Chronicles: Volume One (2004, US) – Bob Dylan [non-fiction: memoir]
- Chain of Command: The Road From 9/11 To Abu Ghraib (2004, US) – Seymour M. Hersh [non-fiction: journalism]
- Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age (2004, US) – Kevin Boyle [non-fiction: history]
- The 9/11 Commission Report (2004, US) – National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States [non-fiction: government report]
- The Working Poor: Invisible in America (2004, US) – David K. Shipler [nonfiction: sociology]
- Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (2004, India) – Suketu Mehta [nonfiction: journalism]
- The Places in Between (2004, UK) – Rory Stewart [nonfiction: travel]
- John James Audubon: The Making of an American (2004, US) – Richard Rhodes [nonfiction: biography]
- America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction (2004, US) – Jon Stewart, et al. [nonfiction: humor]
- Shadow Divers (2004, US) – Robert Kurson [non-fiction]
- Washington’s Crossing (2004, US) – David Hackett Fischer [non-fiction: history]
- de Kooning: An American Master (2004, US) – Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan [non-fiction: biography]
- Hip: The History (2004, US) – John Leland [nonfiction: history]
- Never Let Me Go (2005, Japan/UK) – Kazuo Ishiguro [fiction: novel]
- On Beauty (2005, UK) – Zadie Smith [fiction: novel]
- The March (2005, US) – E.L. Doctorow [fiction: novel]
- Europe Central (2005, US) – William Vollmann [fiction: novel]
- Saturday (2005, UK) – Ian McEwan [fiction: novel]
- Lunar Park (2005, US) – Bret Easton Ellis [fiction: novel]
- Shalimar the Clown (2005, India/UK) – Salman Rushdie [fiction: novel]
- Veronica (2005, US) – Mary Gaitskill [fiction: novel]
- The Book Thief (2005, Australia) – Markus Zusak [fiction: novel]
- The History of Love (2005, US) – Nicole Krauss [fiction: novel]
- The Sea (2005, Ireland) – John Banville [fiction: novel]
- Prep (2005, US) – Curtis Sittenfeld [fiction: novel]
- The Accidental (2005, UK: Scotland) – Ali Smith [fiction: novel]
- Arthur & George (2005, UK) – Julian Barnes [fiction: novel]
- No Country for Old Men (2005, US) – Cormac McCarthy [fiction: novel]
- The Painted Drum (2005, US) – Louise Erdrich [fiction: novel]
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005, Sweden) – Stieg Larsson [fiction: novel]
- Twilight (2005, US) – Stephenie Meyer [fiction: novel]
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005, UK) – J.K. Rowling [fiction: novel]
- Old Man’s War (2005, US) – John Scalzi [fiction: novel]
- The Year of Magical Thinking (2005, US) – Joan Didion [non-fiction: memoir]
- The Assassins’ Gate: America In Iraq (2005, US) – George Packer [non-fiction: journalism]
- 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (2005, US) – Charles C. Mann [non-fiction: history]
- The Glass Castle (2005, US) – Jeannette Wells [non-fiction: memoir]
- 1776 (2005, US) – David McCullough [non-fiction: history]
- The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey (2005, US) – Candice Millard [non-fiction: history]
- Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (2005, UK). By Tony Judt [non-fiction: history]
- Them: A Memoir of Parents (2005, France/US). By Francine du Plessix Gray [non-fiction: memoir/biography]
- Two Lives (2005, India) – Vikram Seth [nonfiction: biography/memoir]
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005, US) – Jared Diamond [nonfiction: history/science]
- Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke (2005, US) – Peter Guralnick [nonfiction: biography]
- Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves (2005, US) – Adam Hochschild [nonfiction: history]
- Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War (2005, US) – Anthony Shadid [nonfiction: journalism]
- 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (2005, US) – Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn [nonfiction: journalism]
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (2005, US) – Steven D. Levitt [non-fiction]
- Untold Stories (2005, UK). By Alan Bennett [non-fiction: memoir/essays]
- American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2005, US). By Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin [non-fiction: biography]
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005, US) – Malcolm Gladwell [non-fiction]
- Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays (2005, US) – David Foster Wallace [non-fiction: essays]
- The Bad Girl (2006, Peru) – Mario Vargas Llosa [fiction: novel]
- The Road (2006, US) – Cormac McCarthy [fiction: novel]
- The Inheritance of Loss (2006, India) – Kiran Desai [fiction: novel]
- What Is the What. The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng: A Novel (2006, US) – Dave Eggers [fiction: novel]
- A Disorder Peculiar to the Country (2006, US) – Ken Kalfus [fiction: novel]
- Black Swan Green (2006, UK) – David Mitchell [fiction: novel]
- The Lay of the Land (2006, US) – Richard Ford [fiction: novel]
- The Echo Maker (2006, US) – Richard Powers [fiction: novel]
- The Emperor’s Children (2006, US) – Claire Messud [fiction: novel]
- Everyman (2006, US) – Philip Roth [fiction: novel]
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics (2006, US) – Marisha Pessl [fiction: novel]
- All Aunt Hagar’s Children (2006, US) – Edward P. Jones [fiction: novel]
- Half of a Yellow Sun (2006, Nigeria) – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [fiction: novel]
- After This (2006, US) – Alice McDermott [fiction: novel]
- The Night Gardener (2006, US) – George Pelecanos [fiction: novel]
- The First Law (series, 2006-Present, UK) – Joe Abercrombie [fiction: novels]
- The Blade Itself (The First Law series) (2006) – Joe Abercrombie [fiction: novel]
- Mistborn (series, 2006-Present, US) – Brandon Sanderson [fiction: novels]
- Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn series) (2006, US) – Brandon Sanderson [fiction: novel]
- The Thirteenth Tale (2006, UK) – Diane Setterfield [fiction: novel]
- Twilight of The Superheroes (2006, US) – Deborah Eisenberg [fiction: stories]
- The Collected Stories (2006, US) – Amy Hempel [fiction: stories]
- Dimension (2006, Canada) – Alice Munro [fiction: story]
- God of Carnage (2006, France) – Yasmina Reza [play]
- The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and The Road to 9/11 (2006, US) – Lawrence Wright [non-fiction: journalism]
- James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Seldon (2006, US) – Julie Phillips [non-fiction: biography]
- Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War (2006, US) – Nathanial Philbrick [non-fiction: history]
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006, US) – Michael Pollan [non-fiction: food]
- Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006, US) – Alison Bechdel [non-fiction: graphic memoir]
- The Lost: A Search For Six of Six Million (2006, US) – Daniel Mendelsohn [non-fiction]
- The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (2006, US) – Christopher Egan [nonfiction: history]
- State of Denial (2006, US) – Bob Woodward [nonfiction: journalism]
- Field Notes From A Catastrophe (2006, US) – Elizabeth Kolbert [nonfiction: science]
- At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68 (2006, US) – Taylor Branch [non-fiction: biography/history]
- Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (2006, US) – Elizabeth Gilbert [non-fiction: memoir]
- Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone (2006, US) – Rajiv Chandrasekaran [non-fiction: journalism]
- Enrique’s Journey (2006, US) – Sonia Nazario [non-fiction: journalism]
- Peeling the Onion (2006, Germany) – Günter Grass [non-fiction: memoir]
- The God Delusion (2006, UK) – Richard Dawkins [non-fiction: religion]
- Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (2006, US) – Thomas Ricks [nonfiction: journalism]
- The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007, US) – Michael Chabon [fiction: novel]
- Then We Came To The End (2007, US) – Joshua Ferris [fiction: novel]
- Tree of Smoke (2007, US) – Denis Johnson [fiction: novel]
- On Chesil Beach (2007, US) – Ian McEwan [fiction: novella]
- The Gathering (2007, Ireland) – Anne Enright [fiction: novel]
- A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007, Afghanistan/US) – Khaled Hosseini [fiction: novel]
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007, Dominican Republic/US) – Junot Díaz [fiction: novel]
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007, UK) – J.K. Rowling [fiction: novel]
- The Kingkiller Chronicle (series, 2007-Present, US) – Patrick Rothfuss [fiction: novel]
- The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle series) (2007, US) – Patrick Rothfuss [fiction: novel]
- A Free Life (2007, US) – Ha Jin [fiction: novel]
- Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey (2007, Ukraine/US) – Chuck Palahniuk [fiction: novel]
- Varieties of Disturbance (2007, US) – Lydia Davis [fiction: stories]
- The Man on the Stairs (2007, US) – Miranda July [fiction: story]
- August: Osage County (2007, US) – Tracy Letts [play]
- War Horse (2007, UK) – Nick Stafford [play]
- The Rest Is Noise: Listening to The Twentieth Century (2007, US) – Alex Ross [non-fiction: arts]
- Legacy of Ashes: The History of The CIA (2007, US) – Tim Weiner [non-fiction: history]
- The World Without Us (2007, US) – Alan Weisman [nonfiction: science]
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of A Boy Soldier (2007, Sierra Leone/US) – Ishmael Beah [nonfiction: memoir]
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (2007, US) – Barbara Kingsolver [nonfiction: food]
- Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal (2007, UK) – Ben MacIntyre [non-fiction: history]
- The Nine: Inside The Secret World of The Supreme Court (2007, US) – Jeffrey Toobin [non-fiction: law]
- Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories From History and The Arts (2007, Australia) – Clive James [non-fiction]
- The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007, Canada) – Naomi Klein [non-fiction]
- Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace … One School at a Time (2007, US) – Greg Mortenson [non-fiction]
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007, US) – Nassim Nicholas Taleb [non-fiction]
- The Three-Body Problem (2008, China) – Liu Cixin [fiction: novel]
- Lush Life (2008, UK/US) – Richard Price [fiction: novel]
- The Hunger Games (2008, US) – Suzanne Collins [fiction: novel]
- A Mercy (2008, US) – Toni Morrison [fiction: novel]
- Anathem (2008, US) – Neal Stephenson [fiction: novel]
- Home (2008, UK/US) – Marilynne Robinson [fiction: novel]
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2008, US) – Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows [fiction: novel]
- The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House (2008, UK) – Kate Summerscale [fiction: novel]
- Netherland (2008, Ireland/US) – Joseph O’Neill [fiction: novel]
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (2008, US) – David Wroblewski [fiction: novel]
- Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories (2008, US) – Steven Millhauser [fiction: stories]
- Unaccustomed Earth (2008, UK/US) – Jhumpa Lahiri [fiction: stories]
- Outliers: The Story of Success (2008, US) – Malcolm Gladwell [non-fiction]
- The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul (2008, UK) – Patrick French [non-fiction: biography]
- The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals (2008, US) – Jane Mayer [non-fiction: journalism]
- Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2008, US) – Rick Perlstein [non-fiction: history]
- This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (2008, UK/US) – Drew Gilpin Faust [non-fiction: history]
- The Hemingses of Monticello (2008, US) – Annette Gordon-Reed [non-fiction: history/biography]
- The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (2008, UK) – Richard Holmes [non-fiction: history/science]
- The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America (2008, US) – Steven Johnson [nonfiction: science/history]
- Nothing To Be Frightened of (2008, UK) – Julian Barnes [nonfiction: memoir]
- Pictures At A Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood (2008, US) – Mark Harris [nonfiction: criticism/history]
- How Fiction Works (2008, UK/US) – James Wood [nonfiction: criticism]
- The Forever War (2008, UK/US) – Dexter Filkins [non-fiction: journalism]
- Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (2008, US) – Doug Blackmon [non-fiction: history]
- The Last Lecture (2008, US) – Randy Pausch [non-fiction]
- Wolf Hall (2009, UK) – Hilary Mantel [fiction: novel]
- The Children’s Book (2009, UK) A.S. Byatt [fiction: novel]
- 1Q84 (2009, Japan) – Hakuri Murakami [fiction: novel]
- Let the Great World Spin (2009, US) – Colum McCann [fiction: novel]
- Parrot and Olivier in America (2009, Australia) – Peter Carey [fiction: novel]
- Lark and Termite (2009, US) – Jayne Anne Phillips [fiction: novel]
- Love and Summer (2009, Ireland) – William Trevor [fiction: novel]
- The Year of The Flood (2009, Canada) – Margaret Atwood [fiction: novel]
- Inherent Vice (2009, US) – Thomas Pynchon [fiction: novel]
- The Windup Girl (2009, US) – Paolo Bacigalupi [fiction: novel]
- The City and the City (2009, UK) – China Miéville [fiction: novel]
- The Magicians Trilogy (series, 2009-2014, US) – Lev Grossman [fiction: novels]
- The Magicians (The Magicians Trilogy I) (2009, US) – Lev Grossman [fiction: novel]
- The Help (2009, US) – Kathryn Stockett [fiction: novel]
- In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (2009, Pakistan/US) – Daniyal Mueenuddin [fiction: stories]
- Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned (2009, US) – Wells Tower [fiction: stories]
- A Tiny Feast (2009, US) – Chris Adrian [fiction: story]
- Ruined (2009, US) – Lynn Nottage [play]
- Red (2009, US) – John Logan [play]
- Jerusalem (2009, UK) – Jez Butterworth [play]*
- Enron (2009, UK) – Lucy Prebble [play]
- Cheever: A Life (2009, US) – Blake Bailey [non-fiction: biography]
- The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (2009, US) – David Grann [non-fiction: history]
- A Paradise Built In Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise In Disaster (2009, US) – Rebecca Solnit [non-fiction]
- Zeitoun (2009, US) – Dave Eggers [non-fiction: journalism]
- Lit: A Memoir (2009, US) – Mary Karr [non-fiction: memoir]
- A Fiery Peace in A Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon (2009, US) – Neil Sheehan [nonfiction: history]
- Strength In What Remains (2009, US) – Tracy Kidder [non-fiction]
- Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (2009) – Christopher McDougall [non-fiction: journalism]
- The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (2009, US) – T.J. Stiles [non-fiction: biography]
- Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City (2009, US) – Greg Grandin [non-fiction: history]
- Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (2009, US) – Barbara Demick [non-fiction: journalism]
- A Visit From The Goon Squad (2010, US) – Jennifer Egan [fiction: novel]
- Freedom (2010, US) – Jonathan Franzen [fiction: novel]
- Room (2010, Ireland/Canada) – Emma Donoghue [fiction: novel]
- The Stormlight Archive (series, 2010-Present, US) – Brandon Sanderson [fiction: novels]
- The Way of Kings (2010, US) – Brandon Sanderson [fiction: novel]
- The Imperfectionists (2010, UK/Canada) – Tom Rachman [fiction: novel]
- Super Sad True Love Story (2010, USSR/US) – Gary Shteyngart [fiction: novel]
- To The End of The Land (2010, Israel) – David Grossman [fiction: novel]
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010, UK) – David Mitchell [fiction: novel]
- Safari (2010, US) – Jennifer Egan [fiction: story]
- Clybourne Park (2010, US) – Bruce Norris [play]
- The Big Short (2010, US) – Michael Lewis [non-fiction: journalism]
- The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and The People Who Read Them (2010, US) – Elif Batuman [non-fiction]
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010, US) – Rebecca Skloot [non-fiction: science/biography]
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (2010, US) – Isabel Wilkerson [non-fiction: history]
- Cleopatra: A Life (2010, US) – Stacy Schiff [nonfiction: biography]
- People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of A Young Woman Who Vanished From the Streets of Tokyo — and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up (2010, UK) – Richard Lloyd Parry [nonfiction: journalism]
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (2010, US) – Siddhartha Mukherjee [non-fiction: medicine]
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010, US) – Michelle Alexander [nonfiction: sociology]
- The Tiger’s Wife (2011, Serbia/US) – Téa Obreht [fiction: novel]
- There But For The (2011, UK: Scotland) – Ali Smith [fiction: novel]
- Swamplandia! (2011, US) – Karen Russell [fiction: novel]
- The Tragedy of Arthur (2011, US) – Arthur Phillips [fiction: novel]
- The Marriage Plot (2011, US) – Jeffrey Eugenides [fiction: novel]
- The Sense of An Ending (2011, UK) – Julian Barnes [fiction: novel]
- The Art of Fielding (2011, US) – Chad Harbach [fiction: novel]
- The Stranger’s Child (2011, UK) – Alan Hollinghurst [fiction: novel]
- Open City (2011, US) – Teju Cole [fiction: novel]
- State of Wonder (2011, US) – Ann Patchett [fiction: novel]
- The Faithless (2011, UK) – Martina Cole [fiction: novel]
- The Night Circus (US, 2011) – Erin Morgenstern [fiction: novel]
- In The Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and An American Family In Hitler’s Berlin (2011, US) – Erik Larson [non-fiction: history]
- Blue Nights (2011, US) – Joan Didion [non-fiction: memoir]
- The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011, US) – Stephen Greenblatt [non-fiction]
- Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II (2011, US) – Mitchell Zuckoff [nonfiction: history]
- Catherine the Great: Portrait of A Woman (2011, US) – Robert K. Massie [nonfiction: biography]
- Charles Dickens: A Life (2011, UK) – Claire Tomalin [nonfiction: biography]
- Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011, Israel/US) – Daniel Kahneman [non-fiction]
- Gone Girl (2012, US) – Gillian Flynn [fiction: novel]
- The Paris Wife (2012, US) – Paula McLain [fiction: novel]
- Where’d You Go, Bernadette (2012, US) – Maria Semple [fiction: novel]
- The Round House (2012, US) – Louise Erdrich [fiction: novel]
- The Orphan Master’s Son (2012, US) – Adam Johnson [fiction: novel]
- Bring Up The Bodies (2012, UK) – Hilary Mantel [fiction: novel]
- Beautiful Ruins (2012, US) – Jess Walter [fiction: novel]
- Canada (2012, US) – Richard Ford [fiction: novel]
- This Is How You Lose Her (2012, Dominican Republic/US) – Junot Díaz [fiction: novel]
- Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2012, US) – Ben Fountain [fiction: novel]
- The Fault in Our Stars (2012, US) – John Green [fiction: novel]
- My Brilliant Friend (The Neapolitan Novels: Book 1) (2012, Italy) – Elena Ferrante [fiction: novel]
- The Story of a New Name (The Neapolitan Novels: Book 2) (2012, Italy) – Elena Ferrante [fiction: novel]
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories (2012, US) – Nathan Englander [fiction: stories]
- Blasphemy (2012, US) – Sherman Alexie [fiction: stories]
- Dear Life (2012, Canada) – Alice Munro [fiction: stories]
- Lorry Raja (2012, India/US) – Madhuri Vijay [fiction: story]
- Italy (2012, US) – Antonio Elefano [fiction: story]
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2012, UK) – Simon Stephens [play]
- The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (2012, US) – Robert A. Caro [non-fiction: biography]
- Wild: From Lost to Found On The Pacific Crest Trail (2012, US) – Cheryl Strayed [non-fiction: memoir]
- Behind The Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope In A Mumbai Undercity (2012, US) – Katherine Boo [non-fiction: journalism]
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking (2012, US) – Susan Cain [non-fiction]
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (2012, US) – Charles Duhigg [non-fiction]
- The Goldfinch (2013, US) – Donna Tartt [fiction: novel]
- The Son (2013, US) – Philipp Meyer [fiction: novel]
- Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (The Neapolitan Novels: Book 3) (2013, Italy) – Elena Ferrante [fiction: novel]
- How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013, Pakistan/US) – Mohsin Hamid [fiction: novel]
- Americanah (2013, Nigeria) – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [fiction: novel]
- Ancillary Justice (2013, US) – Ann Leckie [fiction: novel]
- Life After Life (2013, UK) – Kate Atkinson [fiction: novel]
- The Flamethrowers (2013, US) – Rachel Kushner [fiction: novel]
- The Lowland (2013, UK/US) – Jhumpa Lahiri [fiction: novel]
- A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (2013, US) – Anthony Marra [fiction: novel]
- The Luminaries (2013, Canada/New Zealand) – Eleanor Catton [fiction: novel]
- Tenth of December (2013, US) – George Saunders [fiction: stories]
- Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East (2013, US) – Scott Anderson [nonfiction: history/biography]
- The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest To Crack An Ancient Code (2013, US) – Margalit Fox [nonfiction: archaeology]
- Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China (2013, China/US) – Jung Chang [nonfiction: biography]
- Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and The Prison of Belief (2013, US) – Lawrence Wright [non-fiction: journalism]
- The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (2013, US) – George Packer [non-fiction: journalism]
- Thank You For Your Service (2013, US) – David Finkel [non-fiction: journalism]
- Men We Reaped: A Memoir (2013, US) – Jesmyn Ward [non-fiction: memoir]
- Station Eleven (2014, Canada) – Emily St. John Mandel [fiction: novel]
- The Story of the Lost Child (The Neapolitan Novels: Book 4) (2014, Italy) – Elena Ferrante [fiction: novel]
- The Bone Clocks (2014, UK) – David Mitchell [fiction: novel]
- Lila (2014, US) – Marilynne Robinson [fiction: novel]
- All The Light We Cannot See (2014, US) – Anthony Doerr [fiction: novel]
- A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014, Jamaica/US) – Marlon James [fiction: novel]
- The Paying Guests (2014, UK) – Sarah Waters [fiction: novel]
- All Our Names (2014, Ethiopia/US) – Dinaw Mengestu [fiction: novel]
- Everything I Never Told You (2014, US) – Celeste Ng [fiction: novel]
- Fourth of July Creek (2014, US) – Smith Henderson [fiction: novel]
- The Narrow Road to The Deep North (2014, Australia) – Richard Flanagan [fiction: novel]
- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (2014, Japan) – Haruki Murakami [fiction: novel]
- My Struggle. Book 3: Boyhood (2014, US) – Karl Ove Knausgård [fiction: novel]
- The Book of Strange New Things (2014, The Netherlands/UK) – Michel Faber [fiction: novel]
- 10:04 (2014, US) – Ben Lerner [fiction: novel]
- Boy, Snow, Bird (2014, UK) – Helen Oyeyemi [fiction: novel]
- In the Light of What We Know (2014, Bangladesh/UK) – Zia Haider Rahman [fiction: novel]
- Can’t and Won’t (2014, US) – Lydia Davis [fiction: stories]
- Redeployment (2014, US) – Phil Klay [fiction: stories]
- The Zero Meter Diving Team (2014, US) – Jim Shepard [fiction: story]
- For the Anniversary of My Death (c. 2014, US) – W.S. Merwin [poem]
- Ballad of the Dogs (c. 2014, Sweden) – Lars Gustafsson [poem]
- A Sketch for a Modern Love Poem (c. 2014, Poland) – Tadeusz Różewicz [poem]
- The Tree, The Lamp (c. 2014, France) – Yves Bonnefoy [poem]
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters In The End (2014, US) – Atul Gawande [non-fiction: medicine]
- Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? A Memoir (2014, US) – Roz Chast [nonfiction: graphic memoir]
- The Empathy Exams (2014, US) – Leslie Jamison [non-fiction: essays]
- Women in Clothes (2014, US) – Sheila Heti & Heidi Julavits [nonfiction: fashion]
- Thirteen Days In September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat At Camp David (2014, US) – Lawrence Wright [non-fiction: history]
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (2014, US) – Elizabeth Kolbert [non-fiction: science]
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2014, Israel) – Yuval Noah Harari [nonfiction: history]
- A Little Life (2015, US) – Hanya Yanagihara [fiction: novel]
- The Sellout (2015, US) – Paul Beatty [fiction: novel]
- A God In Ruins (2015, UK) – Kate Atkinson [fiction: novel]
- Purity (2015, US) – Jonathan Franzen [fiction: novel]
- Fates and Furies (2015, US) – Lauren Groff [fiction: novel]
- Delicious Foods (2015, US) – James Hannaham [fiction: novel]
- City On Fire (2015, US) – Garth Risk Hallberg [fiction: novel]
- Get In Trouble: Stories (2015, US) – Kelly Link [fiction: stories]
- A Manual For Cleaning Women: Selected Stories (2015, US) – Lucia Berlin [fiction: stories]
- The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt’s New World (2015, UK) – Andrea Wulf [nonfiction: history/biography]
- Between The World and Me (2015, US) – Ta-Nehisi Coates [non-fiction]
- H Is For Hawk (2015, UK) – Helen MacDonald [non-fiction: memoir]
- On The Move: A Life (2015, US) – Oliver Sacks [non-fiction: memoir]
- My Name Is Lucy Barton (2016, US) – Elizabeth Strout [fiction: novel]
- The Underground Railroad (2016, US) – Colson Whitehead [fiction: novel]
- Homegoing (2016, Ghana/US) – Yaa Gyasi [fiction: novel]
- Swing Time (2016, UK) – Zadie Smith [fiction: novel]
- Barkskins (2016, US) – Annie Proulx [fiction: novel]
- The Nix (2016, US) – Nathan Hill [fiction: novel]
- Another Brooklyn (2016, US) – Jacqueline Woodson [fiction: novel]
- Look (2016, Iran/US) – Solmaz Sharif [poetry]
- Born A Crime: Stories From A South African Childhood (2016, South Africa/US) – Trevor Noah [nonfiction: memoir]
- When Breath Becomes Air (2016, US) – Paul Kalanithi [non-fiction: memoir]
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit In The American City (2016, US) – Matthew Desmond [non-fiction: sociology]
- The Gene: An Intimate History (2016, India/US) – Siddhartha Mukherjee [non-fiction: science]
- Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (2016, US) – Ruth Franklin [non-fiction: biography]
- Lincoln in the Bardo (2017, US) – George Saunders [fiction: novel]
- Exit West (2017, Pakistan) – Mohsin Hamid [fiction: novel]
- Anything Is Possible (2017, US) – Elizabeth Strout [fiction: novel]
- Manhattan Beach (2017, US) – Jennifer Egan [fiction: novel]
- Home Fire (2017, Pakistan/UK) – Kamila Shamsie [fiction: novel]
- Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017, US) – Jesmyn Ward [fiction: novel]
- Little Fires Everywhere (2017, US) – Celeste Ng [fiction: novel]
- Her Body and Other Parties (2017, US) – Carmen Maria Machado [fiction: stories]
- Whereas (2017, Oglala Lakota Nation/US) – Layli Long Soldier [poetry]
- Don’t Call Us Dead (2017, US) – Danez Smith [poetry]
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (2017, US) – David Grann [non-fiction: history]
- Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (2017, US) – Roxane Gay [non-fiction: memoir]
- Priestdaddy: A Memoir (2017, US) – Patricia Lockwood [non-fiction: memoir]
- The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir (2017, US) – Ariel Levy [non-fiction: memoir]
- What Happened (2017, US) – Hillary Rodham Clinton [non-fiction: memoir/politics]
- There There (2018, US) – Tommy Orange [fiction: novel]
- Circe (2018, US) – Madeline Miller [fiction: novel]
- The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories (2018, US) – Denis Johnson [fiction: stories]
- Asymmetry (2018, US) – Lisa Halliday [fiction: novel]
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018, US) – Ottessa Moshfegh [fiction: novel]
- Normal People (2018, Ireland) – Sally Rooney [fiction: novel]
- Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (2018, US) – David W. Blight [non-fiction: biography]
- Becoming (2018, US) – Michelle Obama [nonfiction: memoir]
- Educated: A Memoir (2018, US) – Tara Westover [non-fiction: memoir]
- Heavy: An American Memoir (2018, US) – Kiese Laymon [non-fiction: memoir]
- How To Write An Autobiographical Novel (2018, US) – Alexander Chee [non-fiction: memoir]
- These Truths: A History of the United States (2018, US) – Jill Lepore [non-fiction: history]
- The Library Book (2018, US) – Susan Orlean [non-fiction: journalism/history]
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (2018, US) – John Carreyrou [non-fiction: journalism]
- American Sonnets For My Past and Future Assassin (2018, US) – Terrance Hayes [poetry]
- Trust Exercise (2019, US) – Susan Choi [fiction: novel]
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019, US) – Ocean Vuong [fiction: novel]
- Ducks, Newburyport (2019, US) – Lucy Ellmann [fiction: novel]
- The Nickel Boys (2019, US) – Colson Whitehead [fiction: novel]
- Fleishman Is in Trouble (2019, US) – Taffy Brodesser-Akner [fiction: novel]
- The Tradition (2019, US) – Jericho Brown [poetry]
- Deaf Republic (2019, US) – Ilya Kaminsky [poetry]
- Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (2019, US) – Jia Tolentino [nonfiction: essays]
- The Yellow House (2019, US) – Sarah M. Broom [nonfiction: memoir]
- How We Fight For Our Lives: A Memoir (2019, US) – Saeed Jones [nonfiction: memoir]
- Underland: A Deep Time Journey (2019, US) – Robert MacFarlane [nonfiction]
- Three Women (2019, US) – Lisa Taddeo [nonfiction: journalism/sociology]
- In The Dream House: A Memoir (2019, US) – Carmen Maria Machado [nonfiction: memoir]
- Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (2019, US) – Patrick Radden Keefe [nonfiction: journalism]
- Hamnet (2020, Ireland/UK) – Maggie O’Farrell [fiction: novel]
- Homeland Elegies (2020, US) – Ayad Akhtar [fiction: novel]
- Deacon King Kong (2020, US) – James McBride [fiction: novel]
- Transcendent Kingdom (2020, Ghana/US) – Yaa Gyasi [fiction: novel]
- The Vanishing Half (2020, US) – Brit Bennett [fiction: novel]
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020, US) – Isabel Wilkerson [nonfiction]
- Vesper Flights (2020, UK) – Helen Macdonald [nonfiction: memoir]
- Memorial Drive: A Memoir (2020, US) – Natasha Trethewey [nonfiction: memoir]
- Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (2020, US) – Robert Kolker [nonfiction: journalism]
- Just Us: An American Conversation (2020, US) – Claudia Rankine [nonfiction]
- The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (2020, US) – Erik Larson [nonfiction: history]
- African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (2020, US) – Kevin Young, Ed. [poetry]
- Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (2021, US) – Patrick Radden Keefe [nonfiction: journalism]
- A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance (2021, US) – Hanif Abdurraqib [nonfiction: criticism]
- Crying in H Mart: A Memoir (2021, US) – Michelle Zauner [nonfiction: memoir]
- How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America. (2021, US) – Clint Smith [nonfiction: history]
- Harlem Shuffle (2021, US) – Colson Whitehead [fiction: novel]
- Detransition, Baby (2021, US) – Torrey Peters [fiction: novel]
- Great Circle (2021, US) – Maggie Shipstead [fiction: novel]
- Crossroads (2021, US) – Jonathan Franzen [fiction: novel]
- The Candy House (2022, US) – Jennifer Egan [fiction: novel]
- Either/Or (2022, US) – Elif Batuman [fiction: novel]
- Our Missing Hearts (2022, US) – Celeste Ng [fiction: novel]
- Vladimir (2022, US) – Julia May Jonas[fiction: novel]
- The Furrows (2022, Zambia/US) – Namwali Serpell [fiction: novel]
- Lessons (2022, UK) – Ian McEwan [fiction: novel]
- Liberation Day: Stories (2022, US) – George Saunders [fiction: stories]
- Sea of Tranquility (2022, Canada) – Emily St. John Mandel [fiction: novel]
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (2022, US) – Gabrielle Zevin [fiction: novel]
- Trust (2022, US) – Hernan Diaz [fiction: novel]
- The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams (2022, US) – Stacy Schiff [nonfiction: biography]
- An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (2022, UK/US) – Ed Yong [nonfiction: science/nature]
- Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (2022, Canada) – Kate Beaton [nonfiction: graphic memoir]
- Easy Beauty: A Memoir (2022, US) – Chloé Cooper Jones [nonfiction: memoir]
- Getting Lost (2022, France) – Annie Ernaux. Translated by Alison L Strayer [nonfiction: memoir]
- Index, a History of the: A Bookish Adventure From Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age (2022, UK) – Dennis Duncan [nonfiction]
- In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss (2022, US) – Amy Bloom [nonfiction: memoir]
- Stay True: A Memoir (2022, US) – Hua Hsu [nonfiction: memoir]
- Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us (2022, US) – Rachel Aviv [nonfiction]
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