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Revision as of 09:05, 9 July 2012

An overview of literature and genre fiction recommended by /lit/.

Literature

By country

China China

Essential works
Three Kingdoms
Three Kingdoms
(14th century)
by Luo Guanzhong
The Story of the Stone
Story of the Stone
(18th century)
by Cao Xueqin
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio
(1740)
by Pu Songling
The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China
The Real Story of Ah Q
(1922)
by Lu Xun
Camel Xiangzi
Camel Xiangzi
(1937)
by Lao She
Further recommendations
Classic The Dragon King's Daughter (Tang dynasty) by
Six Yuan Plays (Yuan dynasty) by
Outlaws of the Marsh (14th century) by Shi Nai'an
The Story of the Western Wing (14th century) by Wang Shifu
Journey to the West (16th century) by Wu Cheng'en
Creation of the Gods (16th century) by Xu Zhonglin
The Peony Pavilion (1598) by Tang Xianzu
Stories Old and New (1620) by Feng Menglong
The Plum in the Golden Vase (17th century) by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng
The Carnal Prayer Mat (1657) by Li Yu
The Scholars (1750) by Wu Jingzi
Six Records of a Floating Life (1808) by Shen Fu
Modern Family (1933) Ba Jin
The Importance of Living (1937) by Lin Yutang
My Country and My People ( ) by Lin Yutang
Wild Grass ( ) by Lu Xun
Rainbow ( ) by Mao Dun
Fortress Besieged (1947) by Qian Zhongshu
Border Town ( ) by Shen Congwen
Selected Stories ( ) by Shen Congwen
Teahouse ( ) by Lao She
Love in a Fallen City ( ) by Eileen Chang
The King of Trees ( ) by Ah Cheng
Red Sorghum ( ) by Mo Yan
Life and Death are Wearing Me Out ( ) by Mo Yan
The Three-Inch Golden Lotus ( ) by Feng Jicai
Brothers ( ) by Yu Hua
To Live ( ) by Yu Hua
Soul Mountain ( ) by Gao Xingjian
Waves ( ) by Bei Dao
The August Sleepwalker ( ) by Bei Dao
Five Spice Street ( ) by Can Xue
Vertical Motion ( ) by Can Xue
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Czech Czech Republic

Essential works
May
May
(1836)
by Karel Hynek Macha
The Good Soldier Svejk
The Good Soldier Svejk
(1923)
by Jaroslav Hasek
Three Novels
Three Novels
(1933)
by Karel Capek
I Served the King of England
I Served the King of England
(1983)
by Bohumil Hrabal
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
(1984)
by Milan Kundera
Further recommendations
Pre-WW2 The Sorrowful Eyes ( ) by Ivan Olbracht
Hidden History ( ) by Otokar Brezina
The Grandmother ( ) by Bozena Nemcova
The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch ( ) by Ladislav Klima
R.U.R. ( ) by Karel Capek
War With the Newts ( ) by Karel Capek
Antilyrik & Other Poems ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval
Prague Tales ( ) by Jan Neruda
The Arsonist ( ) by Egon Hostovsky
The Poetry ( ) of Jaroslav Seifert
Vanishing Lung Syndrome ( ) by Miroslav Holub
Narrative Poems ( ) by Vladimir Holan
Dreams at the End of the Night ( ) by Ewald Murrer
How I Came to Know Fish ( ) by Ota Pavel
Fingers Pointing Somewhere Else ( ) by Daniela Fischerova
White Book ( ) by Pavel Kohout
Saturnin ( ) by Zdenek Jirotka
Summer of Caprice ( ) by Vadislav Vancura
Post-WW2 Closely Watched Trains ( ) Bohumil Hrabal
Too Loud a Solitude ( ) by Bohumil Hrabal
Love and Garbage ( ) by Ivan Klima
Immortality ( ) by Milan Kundera
The Garden Party and Other Plays ( ) by Vaclav Havel
The Questionnaire ( ) by Jiri Grusa
The Guinea Pigs ( ) by Ludvik Vaculik
The Cremator (1967) by Ladislav Fuks
A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova ( ) by Arnost Lustig
A Bohemian Youth ( ) by Josef Hirsal
City Sister Silver ( ) by Jachym Topol
The Engineer of Human Souls ( ) by Josef Skvorecky
The Other City ( ) by Michal Ajvaz
Europeana ( ) by Patrik Ourednik
The Seven Churches ( ) by Milos Urban
Of Kids & Parents ( ) by Emil Hakl
German-language The Golem ( ) by Gustav Meyrink
The Green Face ( ) by Gustav Meyrink
The Trial ( ) by Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis ( ) by Franz Kafka
A Hunger Artist ( ) by Franz Kafka
Blaugast ( ) by Paul Leppin
Severin’s Journey into the Dark ( ) by Paul Leppin
The Raging Reporter ( ) by Egon Erwin Kisch
Tycho Brahe’s Path to God ( ) by Max Brod
The Maimed ( ) by Hermann Ungar
Boys & Murderers ( ) by Hermann Ungar
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge ( ) by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Selected Poetry ( ) of Rainer Maria Rilke
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Germany Germany

Essential works
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Sorrows of Young Werther
(1774)
by Goethe
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Thus Spake Zarathustra
(1885)
by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain
(1912)
by Thomas Mann
The Man Without Qualities
The Man Without Qualities
(1942)
by Robert Musil
The Tin Drum
The Tin Drum
(1959)
by Gunter Grass
Further recommendations
Classic The Robbers and Wallenstein (1781) by Friedrich Schiller
the Marquise of O and Other Stories (1808) by Heinrich von Kleist
The Broken Jug (1806) by Heinrich von Kleist
Faust (1832) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Danon's Death (1835) George Buchner
The Rider on the White Horse (1888) by Theodor Storm
Effi Briest (1895) by Theodor Fontane
Modern Buddenbrooks (1901) by Thomas Mann
The Loyal Subject (1914) by Heinrich Mann
The Metamorphosis (1915) by Franz Kafka
The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka
The Castle (1926) by Franz Kafka
Siddhartha (1922) by Hermann Hesse
Steppenwolf (1927) by Hermann Hesse
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) by Alfred Doblin
The Visit (1956) by Friedrich Durrenmatt
The Physicists (1961) by Friedrich Durrenmatt
The Flounder (1977) by Gunter Grass
Cassandra (1984) Christa Wolf
Perfume (1985) by Patrick Suskind
The Last Word (1988) by Christoph Ransmayr
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Japan Japan

Essential works
The Tale of Genji
The Tale of Genji
(11th century)
by Murasaki Shikibu
Kokoro
Kokoro
(1914)
by Natsume Soseki
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
Rashomon
(1915)
by Akutagawa
Naomi
Naomi
(1924)
by Junichiro Tanizaki
Snow Country
Snow Country
(1947)
by Yasunari Kawabata
Further recommendations
Classical Literature (until 1600's) The Gossamer Years (974) by Mother of Michitsuna
The Pillow Book (1002) by Sei Shonagon
The Tales of Ise by Anonymous
Hojoki (1212) by Kamo no Chomei
Essays in Idleness (1330) by Yoshida Kenko
The Tale of Heike (1371) by Anonymous
Edo Period (1603-1868) The Life of an Amorous Woman (1686) by Saikaku Ihara
Hagakure: the Book of the Samurai (1716) by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Four Major Plays (~1720) by Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Chushingura (1748) by Takedo Izumo, Miyoshi Shoraku, Namiki Senryuu
Tales of Moonlight and Rain (1776) by Ueda Akinari
Modern Literature (1868-1945) Ukigumo (1887) by Futabatei Shimei
Pagoda, Skull and Samurai (1889) by Koda Rohan
In the Shade of Spring Leaves (1892-6) by Higuchi Ichiyo
Japanese Gothic Tales (1900) by Izumi Kyoka
The Broken Commandment (1906) by Toson Shimazaki
The Quilt and Other Stories (1907) by Katai Tayama
The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa (1924) by Kenji Miyazawa
Botchan (1906) by Natsume Soseki
I Am a Cat (1905) by Natsume Soseki
The Wild Geese (1913) by Mori Ogai
The Paper Door and Other Stories (1927) by Shiga Naoya
During the Rain & Flowers in the Shade (1930) by Kafu Nagai
Musashi (1935) by Eiji Yoshikawa
The Makioka Sisters (1943) by Junichiro Tanizaki
Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1940) by Edogawa Ranpo
Post War (1946-present) The Counterfeiter and Other Stories by Yasushi Inou
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata
The Master of Go (1954) by Yasunari Kawabata
The Setting Sun (1947) by Osamu Dazai
Fires on the Plain (1951) by Shohei Ooka
The Waiting Years (1957) by Fumiko Enchi
Confessions of a Mask (1948) by Yukio Mishima
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1956) by Yukio Mishima
Spring Snow (1963) by Yukio Mishima
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (1958) by Kenzaburo Oe
A Personal Matter (1964) by Kenzaburo Oe
Black Rain (1966) by Masuji Ibuse
The Box Man (1973) by Kobo Abe
The Woman in the Dunes (1962) by Kobo Abe
Silence (1966) by Shusaku Endo
The Samurai (1980) by Shusaku Endo
The Twilight Years (1972) by Sawako Ariyoshi
Almost Transparent Blue (1976) by Ryu Murakami
Kitchen (1988) by Banana Yoshimoto
Norwegian Wood (1987) by Haruki Murakami
The Elephant Vanishes (1991) by Haruki Murakami
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (1995) by Haruki Murakami
The Housekeeper and the Professor (2003) by Yoko Ogawa
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Mexico Mexico

Essential works
Cantares Mexicanos
Cantares Mexicanos
( )
Poems Protest and a Dream
Poems, Protest, and a Dream
( )
by Sor Juana
Pedro Paramo
Pedro Paramo
( )
by Juan Rulfo
The Death of Artemio Cruz
The Death of Artemio Cruz
( )
by Carlos Fuentues
Confabulario
Confabulario and Other Inventions
( )
by Juan Jose Arreola
Further recommendations
Translated Florentine Codex ( )
The Broken Spears ( ) Miguel Leon-Portilla
The History of the Indies of New Spain ( ) by Fray Diego Duran
The Memoirs ( ) of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier
The Bandits from Rio Frio ( ) by Manuel Payno
El Zarco ( ) by Ignacio Manuel Altamirano
Santa ( ) by Federico Gamboa
Anthology ( ) by Alfonso Reyes
Song of the Heart: Poems ( ) by Ramon Lopez Velarde
Nostalgia for Death: Poetry ( ) by Xavier Villaurrutia
The Underdogs ( ) by Mariano Azuela
The Burning Plain and Other Stories ( ) by Juan Rulfo
The Labyrinth of Solitude ( ) by Octavio Paz
Battles in the Desert & Other Stories ( ) by Jose Emilio Pacheco
Untranslated Comedias Escogidas ( ) by D. Juan Ruiz de Alarcon
Los Relampagos de Agosto ( ) by Jorge Ibarguengoitia
Muerte sin fin ( ) by Jose Gorostiza
Los Dias Terrenales ( ) by Jose Revueltas
Farabeuf ( ) by Salvador Elizondo
Los Cuervos Estan de Luto ( ) by Hugo Arguelles
Cronica de la Intervencion ( ) by Juan Garcia Ponce
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Netherlands Netherlands

Essential works
Multatuli
Max Havelaar
(1860)
by Multatuli
Amsterdam Stories
Amsterdam Stories
(1910s)
by Nescio
Beyond Sleep
Beyond Sleep
(1966)
by Willem Hermans
Parents Worry
Parents Worry
(1988)
by Gerard Reve
The Discovery of Heaven
The Discovery of Heaven
(1992)
by Harry Mulisch
Further recommendations
Translated Lucifer ( ) by Joost van den Vondel
A Posthumous Confession ( ) by Marcellus Emants
In Praise of Folly ( ) by Erasmus
In a Dark Wood Wandering ( ) by Hella S. Haasse
The Waning of the Middle Ages ( ) by J. Huizinga
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
The Ten Thousand Things ( ) by Maria Dermout
Eline Vere ( ) by Louis Couperus
Chapel Road ( ) by Louis Paul Boon
I Dreamed in the Cities at Night ( ) by Remco Campert
Omega Minor ( ) by Paul Verhaeghen
Cheese ( ) by Willem Elsschot
Turkish Delight ( ) by Jan Wolkers
The Darkroom of Damocles ( ) by Willem Frederik Hermans
Wonder ( ) by Hugo Claus
The Following Story ( ) by Cees Nooteboom
Character ( ) by F. Bordewijk
The Twin ( ) by Gerbrand Bakker
Tomorrow Pamplona ( ) by Jan van Mersbergen
Untranslated Camera Obscura ( ) by Hildebrand
De Stille Kracht ( ) by Louis Couperus
Van De Koele Meren des Doods ( ) by Frederik van Eeden
De Avonden ( ) by Gerard Reve
Terug naar Oegstgeest ( ) by Jan Wolkers
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No Norway

Essential works
A-Doll-s-House-and-Other-Plays
A Doll's House
(1879)
by Henrik Ibsen
Thewildduck
The Wild Duck
(1884)
by Henrik Ibsen
Hunger
Hunger
(1890)
by Knut Hamsun
Growthofthesoil
Growth of the Soil
(1917)
by Knut Hamsun
The wreath
The Wreath
(1920)
by Sigrid Undset
Further recommendations
Classic Brand (1866) by Henrik Ibsen
Hedda Gabler (1891) by Henrik Ibsen
Pan (1894) by Knut Hamsun
Contemporary Beatles (1984) by Lars Saabye Christensen
Naïve. Super (1996) by Erlend Loe
Out Stealing Horses (2003) by Per Petterson

Russia Russia

Essential works
A Hero of Our Time
A Hero of Our time
(1841)
by Mikhail Lermontov
War and Peace
War and Peace
(1869)
by Leo Tolstoy
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov
(1880)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Plays of Anton Chekhov
The Plays of Anton Chekhov

by Anton Chekhov
The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita
(1967)
by Mikhail Bulgakov
Further recommendations
19th Century Dead Souls (1842) by Nikolai Gogol
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories (1842) by Nikolai Gogol
Oblomov (1859) by Ivan Goncharov
Sketches From a Hunter's Album (1852) by Ivan Turgenev
Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev
The Golovlyov Family (1876) by Mikhail Saltykov
Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina (1877) by Leo Tolstoy
Notes From Underground (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot (1869) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Demons (1872) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Woe from Wit (1823) by Aleksandr Griboyedov
The Collected Stories by Anton Chekhov
The Collected Stories by Alexander Pushkin
Lady McBeth of Mtsensk and Other Stories (1865) by Nikolai Leskov
20th Century Life and Fate (1959) by Vasily Grossman
Heart of a Dog (1925) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Doctor Zhivago (1957) by Boris Pasternak
Quiet Flows the Don (1934) by Mikhail Sholokhov
The Collected Stories by Ivan Bunin
We (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Petersburg (1913) by Andrei Bely
The Foundation Pit (1930) by Andrey Platonov
Envy (1927) by Yuri Olesha
A School for Fools (1960s) by Sasha Sokolov
Invitation to a Beheading (1936) by Vladimir Nabokob
The Complete Works by Isaac Babel
Kolyma Tales (1954-73) by Varlam Shalamov
Today I Wrote Nothing by Daniil Kharms
Roadside Picnic (1971) by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
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South Africa South Africa

Essential works
Disgrace
Disgrace
(1999)
by J.M. Coetzee
I Write What I Like
I Write What I Like
(1978)
by Steve Biko

Nadinegordimerjuly'speople
July's People
(1981)
by Nadine Gordimer

Waiting for the Barbarians
Waiting for the Barbarians
(1980)
by J.M. Coetzee
Ways of Dying
Ways of Dying
(1995)
by Zakes Mda
Further recommendations
Contemporary Zoo City (2010) by Lauren Beukes
The Way of the Women (2004) by Marlene van Niekerk

By format


Novellas

Heart of a Dog
Heart of a Dog
(1925)
by Mikhail Bulgakov
Dream Story
Dream Story
(1926)
by Arthur Schnitzler
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness
(1899)
by Joseph Conrad
Miss Lonelyhearts
Miss Lonelyhearts
(1933)
by Nathanael West
Animal Farm
Animal Farm
(1945)
by George Orwell
A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens
A Clockwork Orange () by Anthony Burgess
A Room of One's Own () by Virginia Woolf
Fahrenheit 451 () by Ray Bradbury
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men
()
by John Steinbeck
Nausea
Nausea
(1938)
by Jean-Paul Sartre
Notes from Underground
Notes from Underground
()
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
(1962)
by Solzhenitsyn
The Ballad of Sad Cafe
The Ballad of Sad Cafe
()
by Carson McCullers
Chronicle of a Death Foretold () by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Daisy Miller () by Henry James
Death in Venice () by Thomas Mann
Night () by Elie Wiesel
No One Writes the Colonel () by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Contemporary Novellas

1970s
Dark Spring
Dark Spring
(1970)
by Unica Zurn
The White Ship
The White Ship
(1970)
by Chinghiz Aitmatov
Flats
Flats/Quake
(1971-4)
by Rudolph Wurlitzer
Love
Love
(1971)
by Angela Carter
Log of the S.S. the Mrs Unguentine
Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine
(1972)
by Stanley Crawford
Further 1970s
The Summer Book (1972) by Tove Jansson
Motorman (1972) by David Ohle
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (1972) by Peter Handke
Roadside Picnic (1972) by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
Asleep in the Sun (1973) by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry (1973) by B.S. Johnson
Telegram (1973) by Putu Wijaya
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1974) by Heinrich Boll
For Love of Norway (1975) by Pal Espolin Johnson
Travesty (1976) by John Hawkes
Journey into the Past (1976) by Stefan Zweig
P’s Three Women (1977) by Paulo Emilio Slaes Gomes
Fatale (1977) by Jean-Patrick Manchette
The Hour of the Star (1977) by Clarice Lispector
The Painter of Signs (1977) by R.K. Narayan
Secret Rendezvous (1977) by Kobo Abe
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (1978) by Danilo Kis
Sleepless Nights (1979) by Elizabeth Hardwick
Volcano (1979) by Shusaku Endo
1980s
The Viceroy of Ouidah
The Viceroy of Ouidah
(1980)
by Bruce Chatwin
A Month in the Country
A Month in the Country
(1980)
by J.L. Carr
A Bohemian Youth
A Bohemian Youth
(1980)
by Josef Hirsal
Loitering With Intent
Loitering With Intent
(1981)
by Muriel Spark
Concrete
Concrete
(1982)
by Thomas Bernhard
Further 1980s
So the Wind Won’t Blow it All Away (1982) by Richard Brautigan
The Witch-Herbalist of the Remote Town (1982) by Amos Tutuola
The Assault (1982) by Harry Mulisch
The Wine of Astonishment (1982) by Earl Lovelace
A Tiger for Malgudi (1983) by R.K. Narayan
Mr. Palomar (1983) by Italo Calvino
The Cannibal Galaxy (1983) by Cynthia Ozick
Alladin's Problem (1984) by Ernst Junger
The Lover (1984) by Marguerite Duras
In the Dutch Mountains (1984) by Cees Nooteboom
Isle of Dreams (1985) by Hino Keizo
Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas (1983-6) by Can Xue
Stone in a Landslide (1985) by Maria Barbal
The Day the Leader was Killed (1985) by Naguib Mahfouz
In the Country of Last Things (1987) by Paul Auster
The Pigeon (1987) by Patrick Suskind
Kitchen (1988) by Banana Yoshimoto
The Swordfish (1989) by Hugo Claus
Mister Blue (1989) by Jacques Poulin
1990s
Kaddish for an Unborn Child
Kaddish for an Unborn Child
(1990)
by Imre Kertesz
The Following Story
The Following Story
(1991)
by Cees Nooteboom
Chaos and All That
Chaos and All That
(1991)
by Lui Sola
Babyfucker
Babyfucker
(1992)
by Urs Allemann
The Death of the Author
The Death of the Author
(1992)
by Gilbert Adai
Further 1990s
Angels and Insects (1992) by A.S. Byatt
The Other City (1993) by Michal Ajvaz
Loving Sabotage (1993) by Amelie Nothomb
The Marx Family Saga (1993) by Juan Goytisolo
The Crime Studio (1994) by Steve Aylett
Shyness and Dignity (1994) by Dag Solstad
Of Love and Other Demons (1994) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pereira Declares (1994) by Antonio Tabucchi
Phosphor in Dreamland (1995) by Rikki Ducornet
Panther in the Basement (1995) by Amos Oz
I Have the Right to Destroy Myself (1996) by Kim Young-ha
Escape Hatch (1996) by Vladimir Makanin
The Diary of Mr. Pinke (1995) by Ewald Murrer
Reader's Block (1996) by David Markson
A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family (1998) by Peter Dimock
Kneller's Happy Campers (1998) by Etgar Keret
Honk if you Love Aphrodite (1999) by Daniel Evan Weiss
The Literary Conference (1999) by Cesar Aira
Earth and Ashes (1999) by Atiq Rahimi
2000s
In Her Absence
In Her Absence
(2000)
by Antonio Munoz Molina
Kafka's Leopards
Kafka's Leopards
(2000)
by Moacyr Scliar
The Colors of Infamy
The Colors of Infamy
(2000)
by Albert Cossery
Tales of Galicia
Tales of Galicia
(2001)
by Andrzej Stasiuk
Beside the Sea
Besides the Sea
(2001)
by Veronique Olmi
Further 2000s
Inez (2001) by Carlos Fuentes
Bait (2001) by David Albahari
Europeana (2001) by Patrik Ourednik
Good Morning Comrades (2001) by Ondjaki
All This Belongs to Me (2002) by Petra Hulova
Conversations with Spinoza (2002) by Gocec Smilevski
In the Flesh (2002) by Christa Wolf
Agape Agape (2002) by William Gaddis
The Blue Fox (2003) by Sjon
Piano (2003) by Jean Echenoz
The Housekeeper and the Professor (2003) by Yoko Ogawa
The Book of Words (2004) by Jenny Erpenbeck
Moving Parts (2004) by Magdalena Tulli
Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest (2005) by Amos Oz
Bonsai (2006) by Alejandro Zambra
The Waitress Was New (2008) by Dominique Fabre
The North of God (2008) by Steve Stern
The Hermaphrodite (2009) by Daniel Grandbois
Next World Novella (2009) by Matthias Politycki
2010s
The Brothers
The Brothers
(2010)
by Asko Sahlberg
Lightning
Lightning
(2010)
by Jean Echenoz
Train Dreams
Train Dreams
(2011)
by Denis Johnson
Down the Rabbit Hole
Down the Rabbit Hole
(2011)
by Juan Pablo Villalobos
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Contemporary novellas


Short Story Collections

Classic
Aparisianaffair
A Parisian Affair and Other Stories
by Guy de Maupassant
Firstlove
First Love and Other Stories
by Ivan Turgenev
The-death-of-ivan-ilyich-and-other-stories
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
by Leo Tolstoy
ThreeTales
Three Tales
by Gustav Flaubert
Deadmentellnotales
Dead Men Tell No Tales
by Emile Zola
Further classic collections
The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
The Kruezter Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
The Queen of Spades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892–1895 by Anton Chekhov
The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896–1904 by Anton Chekhov
Carmen and Other Stories by Prosper Merimee
Modern
Elephant
Elephant
by Raymond Carver
Dubliners
Dubliners
by James Joyce
Fictions
Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
Menwowomen
Men Without Women
by Ernest Hemingway
Southofnonorth
South of No North
by Charles Bukowski
Further modern collections
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Short Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
In the Heart of the Country by William Gass
Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner
The Return by Andrei Platonov
The Collected Short Stories by Roald Dahl
Contemporary
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
by David Foster Wallace
Theelephantvanishes
The Elephant Vanishes
by Haruki Murakami
Last-evenings-on-earth
Last Evenings on Earth
by Roberto Bolaño
The dog of the marriage
The Dog of the Marriage
by Amy Hempel
Life after God
Life After God
by Douglas Coupland
Further contemporary collections
How We are Hungry by Dave Eggers
Drown by Junot Diaz
Break it Down by Lydia Davis
No One Belongs Here More than You by Miranda July
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Flash Fiction Collections

Pre-1950
The Waste Books
The Waste Books
by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The Complete Fables
The Complete Fables
of Jean de la Fontaine
Nature Stories
Nature Stories
by Jules Renard
Microscripts
Microscripts
by Robert Walser
Today I Wrote Nothing
Today I Wrote Nothing
by Daniil Kharms
Further Pre-1950
Novels in Three Lines by Felix Feneon
The Collected Stories by Colette
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights
41 Stories by O. Henry
Post-1950
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
by Yasunari Kawabata
Lost in the Funhouse
Lost in the Funhouse
by John Barth
The Voice Imitator
The Voice Imitator
by Thomas Bernhard
The Age of Wire and String
The Age of Wire and String
by Ben Marcus
Metrophilias
Metrophilias
by Brendan Connell
Further Post-1950
The Book of Fables by W.S. Merwin
The Nimrod Flip-out by Etgar Keret
Murder in the Dark by Margaret Atwood
The Collected Stories by Lydia Davis
AM/PM by Amelia Gray
The Black Sheep and Other Fables by Augusto Monterroso
Road-Side Dog by Czeslaw Milosz
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Flash ficiton and short short stories

Theatre/Drama

Classical through Medieval
Theban Plays
The Three Theban Plays
by Sophocles
Oresteia
The Oresteia
by Aeschylus
Electra
Electra and Other Plays
by Euripides
Aristophanes
The Complete Plays
by Aristophanes
Menander
Plays and Fragments
by Menander
Classical through Medieval cont.
The Pot of Gold and Other Plays by Plautus
Four Tragedies and Octavia by Seneca
The Comedies by Terence
The Loom of Time by Kalidasa
The Plays of Hrotswitha of Gandersheim
Japanese Noh Dramas
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Genre fiction

By genre

Fantasy

Epic fantasy
Thehobbit
The Hobbit
(1937)
by J. R. R. Tolkien
LordoftheRings
The Lord of the Rings
(1954–1955)
by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Black Company
The Black Company
(1984—)
by Glen Cook
TheEyeOfTheWorld
The Wheel of Time
(1990—)
by Robert Jordan
AGameOfThrones
A Song of Ice and Fire
(1996—)
by George R. R. Martin
Gardens-of-the-moon
Malazan Book
(1999–2011)
by Steven Erikson
Thebladeitself
The First Law
(2006—)
by Joe Abercrombie
The-name-of-the-wind
The Kingkiller Chronicle
(2007—)
by Patrick Rothfuss
TheWayOfKings
The Stormlight Archive
(2010—)
by Brandon Sanderson
Additional epic fantasy
The Silmarillion (1977) by J. R. R. Tolkien
Shannara (1977—) by Terry Brooks
The Swordbearer (1982) by Glen Cook
The Belgariad (1982–1984) by David Eddings
The Deed of Paksenarrion (1992) by Elizabeth Moon
Mistborn (2006–2008) by Brandon Sanderson
Weird fiction
House on the Borderland
The House on the Borderland
(1908)
William Hope Hodgson
At-the-mountains-of-madness
At the Mountains of Madness
(1936)
by H. P. Lovecraft
PerdidoStreetStation1sted
Perdido Street Station
(2000)
by China Miéville
CityOfSaintsAndMadmen
City of Saints and Madmen
(2001)
by Jeff VanderMeer
Emperor of dreams
The Emperor of Dreams
(2002)
by Clark Ashton Smith
Additional weird fiction
The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1931) by H. P. Lovecraft
Kraken (2010) by China Miéville
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