Work Type
Fiction
160 works in this collection, sorted chronologically.
One Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights)
Various (compiled, traditional) · 950 AD
The Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu · 1010 AD
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Luo Guanzhong · 1330 AD
Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio · 1353 AD
Gargantua and Pantagruel
François Rabelais · 1534 AD
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes · 1605 AD
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift · 1726 AD
Candide
Voltaire · 1759 AD
The Sorrows of Young Werther
J.W. von Goethe · 1774 AD
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen · 1813 AD
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 1818 AD
Red and Black
Stendhal · 1830 AD
Père Goriot / La Comédie humaine
Honoré de Balzac · 1835 AD
The Charterhouse of Parma
Stendhal · 1839 AD
Complete Tales and Poems
Edgar Allan Poe · 1839 AD
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol · 1842 AD
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas · 1844 AD
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë · 1847 AD
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville · 1851 AD
Selected Novellas
Paul Heyse · 1855 AD
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · 1857 AD
Arne / The Fisher Maiden
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson · 1858 AD
Great Expectations / David Copperfield
Charles Dickens · 1861 AD
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo · 1862 AD
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1864 AD
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866 AD
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy · 1869 AD
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1869 AD
Middlemarch
George Eliot · 1871 AD
Demons
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1872 AD
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy · 1877 AD
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880 AD
Collected Works
Machado de Assis (Dom Casmurro / Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas) · 1881 AD
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James · 1881 AD
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · 1884 AD
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy · 1886 AD
Minna / Selected Works
Karl Adolph Gjellerup · 1889 AD
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · 1890 AD
Hunger
Knut Hamsun · 1890 AD
Tess of the d'Urbervilles / Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy · 1891 AD
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle · 1892 AD
The Jungle Book / Kim
Rudyard Kipling · 1894 AD
The Time Machine
H.G. Wells · 1895 AD
Quo Vadis
Henryk Sienkiewicz · 1896 AD
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad · 1899 AD
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann · 1901 AD
The Counterfeiters
André Gide · 1902 AD
Lucky Per
Henrik Pontoppidan · 1904 AD
The Peasants
Władysław Reymont · 1904 AD
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Selma Lagerlöf · 1906 AD
The Man Who Was Thursday
G.K. Chesterton · 1908 AD
Penguin Island / The Gods Are Athirst
Anatole France · 1908 AD
The Long Journey
Johannes V. Jensen · 1908 AD
Jean-Christophe
Romain Rolland · 1912 AD
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust · 1913 AD
Reeds in the Wind
Grazia Deledda · 1913 AD
Dubliners
James Joyce · 1914 AD
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka · 1915 AD
A Portrait of the Artist
James Joyce · 1916 AD
Meek Heritage
Frans Eemil Sillanpää · 1919 AD
The Growth of the Soil
Knut Hamsun · 1920 AD
Main Street / Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis · 1920 AD
Ulysses
James Joyce · 1922 AD
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse · 1922 AD
Kristin Lavransdatter
Sigrid Undset · 1922 AD
The Forsyte Saga
John Galsworthy · 1922 AD
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann · 1924 AD
The Trial
Franz Kafka · 1925 AD
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 AD
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf · 1925 AD
The Castle
Franz Kafka · 1926 AD
Thérèse Desqueyroux
François Mauriac · 1927 AD
And Quiet Flows the Don
Mikhail Sholokhov · 1928 AD
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner · 1929 AD
The Life of Arseniev / Dark Avenues
Ivan Bunin · 1930 AD
The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck · 1931 AD
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley · 1932 AD
Journey to the End of the Night
L.-F. Céline · 1932 AD
Independent People
Halldór Laxness · 1935 AD
Auto-da-Fé (Die Blendung)
Elias Canetti · 1935 AD
The Thibaults
Roger Martin du Gard · 1936 AD
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien · 1937 AD
Finnegans Wake
James Joyce · 1939 AD
The Stranger
Albert Camus · 1942 AD
The Family of Pascual Duarte / The Hive
Camilo José Cela · 1942 AD
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · 1943 AD
Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges · 1944 AD
Animal Farm
George Orwell · 1945 AD
The Bridge on the Drina
Ivo Andrić · 1945 AD
Only Yesterday / Selected Stories
Shmuel Yosef Agnon · 1945 AD
Men of Maize / El Señor Presidente
Miguel Ángel Asturias · 1946 AD
Return to Ithaca
Eyvind Johnson · 1946 AD
The Plague
Albert Camus · 1947 AD
No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai · 1948 AD
Snow Country
Yasunari Kawabata · 1948 AD
1984
George Orwell · 1949 AD
The Aleph
Jorge Luis Borges · 1949 AD
Barabbas
Pär Lagerkvist · 1950 AD
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger · 1951 AD
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway · 1952 AD
East of Eden
John Steinbeck · 1952 AD
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison · 1952 AD
Lord of the Flies
William Golding · 1954 AD
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien · 1954 AD
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 1955 AD
Pedro Páramo
Juan Rulfo · 1955 AD
Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy)
Naguib Mahfouz · 1956 AD
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak · 1957 AD
Voss / The Tree of Man
Patrick White · 1957 AD
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe · 1958 AD
The Leopard
G.T. di Lampedusa · 1958 AD
The Tin Drum
Günter Grass · 1959 AD
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 1960 AD
The Flanders Road
Claude Simon · 1960 AD
Catch-22
Joseph Heller · 1961 AD
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess · 1962 AD
Collected Stories / The Slave
Isaac Bashevis Singer · 1962 AD
The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing · 1962 AD
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace
Yukio Mishima · 1963 AD
The Clown / Group Portrait with Lady
Heinrich Böll · 1963 AD
A Personal Matter
Kenzaburō Ōe · 1964 AD
Herzog / Humboldt's Gift
Saul Bellow · 1964 AD
Stoner
John Williams · 1965 AD
Dune
Frank Herbert · 1965 AD
The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon · 1966 AD
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · 1967 AD
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967 AD
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick · 1968 AD
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut · 1969 AD
Spring Snow (Sea of Fertility)
Yukio Mishima · 1969 AD
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon · 1973 AD
Fatelessness
Imre Kertész · 1975 AD
Missing Person / Suspended Sentences
Patrick Modiano · 1978 AD
A Bend in the River
V.S. Naipaul · 1979 AD
July's People / Burger's Daughter
Nadine Gordimer · 1979 AD
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole · 1980 AD
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco · 1980 AD
The Book of the New Sun
Gene Wolfe · 1980 AD
Desert / The Prospector
J.M.G. Le Clézio · 1980 AD
The War of the End of the World
Mario Vargas Llosa · 1981 AD
The Piano Teacher
Elfriede Jelinek · 1983 AD
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy · 1985 AD
Satantango
László Krasznahorkai · 1985 AD
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez · 1985 AD
Beloved
Toni Morrison · 1987 AD
Red Sorghum / Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
Mo Yan · 1987 AD
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989 AD
Soul Mountain
Gao Xingjian · 1990 AD
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis · 1991 AD
Paradise / Afterlives
Abdulrazak Gurnah · 1994 AD
Blindness
José Saramago · 1995 AD
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace · 1996 AD
My Name Is Red / Snow
Orhan Pamuk · 1998 AD
Disgrace
J.M. Coetzee · 2003 AD
2666
Roberto Bolaño · 2004 AD
The Vegetarian
Han Kang · 2007 AD
The Books of Jacob / Flights
Olga Tokarczuk · 2007 AD
The Hunger Angel
Herta Müller · 2009 AD
Selected Stories
Alice Munro · 2012 AD
Septology
Jon Fosse · 2019 AD