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An overview of literature and genre fiction recommended by /lit/.
  
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<h1>Literature</h1>
  
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|colspan=4 style="background:#C3D69B;" align="center"|<h1>'''Recommended Reading'''</h1>
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Heart_of_a_Dog.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Heart of a Dog|Heart of a Dog]]''<br/> (1925) <br/>by Mikhail Bulgakov</small>
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="200" align="center"|<h3>'''[[Recommended Reading/Literature by origin|Literature by origin]]'''</h3>[[File:Ulysses235px.png|link=Recommended Reading/Literature by origin]]
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Dream_Story.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Dream Story|Dream Story]]''<br/> (1926)<br/> by Arthur Schnitzler</small>
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="200" align="center"|<h3>'''[[Recommended Reading/Literature by format|Literature by format]]'''</h3>[[File:Menwithoutwomen235px.png|link=Recommended Reading/Literature by format]]
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Heart_of_Darkness.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Heart of Darkness|Heart of Darkness]]''<br/> (1899) <br/>by Joseph Conrad</small>
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="200" align="center"|<h3>'''[[Recommended Reading/Genre fiction|Genre fiction]]'''</h3>[[File:Lotr1sted235px.png|link=Recommended Reading/Genre fiction]]
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Miss_Lonelyhearts.JPG|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Miss Lonelyhearts|Miss Lonelyhearts]]''<br/> (1933) <br/>by Nathanael West</small>
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="200" align="center"|<h3>'''[[Recommended Reading/Non-fiction|Non-fiction]]'''</h3>[[File:Kritik235px.png|link=Recommended Reading/Non-fiction]]
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Animal_Farm.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Animal Farm|Animal Farm]]''<br/> (1945)<br/> by George Orwell</small>
  
 
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|colspan=4 style="background:#C3D69B;"|<small>Book recommendations compiled by the users of /lit/. Omissions? Errors? Comments? [[Talk:Recommended Reading/sub|Let us know]]!</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: A Christmas Carol|A Christmas Carol]]'' (1843) by Charles Dickens </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: A Clockwork Orange|A Clockwork Orange]]'' (1962) by Anthony Burgess </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: A Room of One's Own|A Room of One's Own]]'' (1929) by Virginia Woolf </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: Fahrenheit 451|Fahrenheit 451]]'' (1953) by Ray Bradbury </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:First Love (novella)|First Love]]'' (1860) by Ivan Turgenev </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:A Pale View of Hills|A Pale View of Hills]]'' (1982) by Kazuo Ishiguro </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Around the World in 80 Days|Around the World in 80 Days]]'' (1873) by Jules Verne </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:At the Mountains of Madness|At the Mountains of Madness]]'' (1931) by H.P. Lovecraft </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Bartleby the Scrivener|Bartleby the Scrivener]]'' (1853) by Herman Melville </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Billy Budd|Billy Budd]]'' (1888) by Herman Melville </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Call of the Wild|The Call of the Wild]]'' (1903) by Jack London </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Candide|Candide]]'' (1759) by Voltaire </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Cannery Row (novel)|Cannery Row]]'' (1945) by John Steinbeck </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Junky (novel)|Junky]]'' (1953) by William S. Burroughs </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Master and Man|Master and Man]]'' (1895) by Leo Tolstoy </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Metamorphosis|The Metamorphosis]]'' (1915) by Franz Kafka </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Botchan|Botchan]]'' (1906) by Natsume Soseki </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Horla|The Horla]]'' (1887) by Guy de Maupassant </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Looking Backward|Looking Backward]]'' (1887) by Edward Bellamy </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Child of God (novel)|Child of God]]'' (1973) by Cormac McCarthy </small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Of_Mice_and_Men.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Of Mice and Men|Of Mice and Men]]''<br/> (1937) <br/>by John Steinbeck </small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Nausea.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Nausea (novel)|Nausea]]''<br/> (1938)<br/> by Jean-Paul Sartre </small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Notes_from_Underground.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Notes from Underground|Notes from Underground]]''<br/> (1864) <br/>by Fyodor Dostoevsky</small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:One_Day_in_the_Life_of_Ivan_Denisovich.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich|One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]]''<br/> (1962) <br/>by Solzhenitsyn</small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Chronicle of a Death Foretold|Chronicle of a Death Foretold]]'' (1981) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Daisy Miller|Daisy Miller]]'' (1878) by Henry James </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Death in Venice|Death in Venice]]'' (1912) by Thomas Mann </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Night (novel)|Night]]'' (1955) by Elie Wiesel </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:No One Writes to the Colonel|No One Writes the Colonel]]'' (1961) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Mathilda (novella)|Mathilda]]'' (1820) by Mary Shelley </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Pedro Paramo|Pedro Paramo]]'' (1955) by Juan Rulfo </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Snow Country|Snow Country]]'' (1947) by Yasunari Kawabata </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:South of the Border, West of the Sun|South of the Border, West of the Sun]]'' (1992) by Haruki Murakami </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Diary of a Madman (short story)|Diary of a Madman]]'' (1835) by Nikolai Gogol </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Dusklands|Dusklands]]'' (1974) by J.M. Coetzee </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Ethan Frome|Ethan Frome]]'' (1911) by Edith Wharton </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Dying Animal|The Dying Animal]]'' (2001) by Phillip Roth </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Outer Dark|Outer Dark]]'' (1968) by Cormac McCarthy </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Scenes of Clerical Life|Scenes of Clerical Life]]'' (1857) by George Eliot </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Everyman (novel)|Everyman]]'' (2006) by Phillip Roth </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Fox (novel)|The Fox]]'' (1923) by D.H. Lawrence </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:La Fille aux yeux d'or|The Girl With the Golden Eyes]]'' (1833) by Honore de Balzac </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Seize the Day (novel)|Seize the Day]]'' (1956) by Saul Bellow </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Siddhartha (novel)|Siddhartha]]'' (1922) by Hermann Hesse </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<h3>Contemporary Novellas</h3>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Dark_Spring.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Dark Spring''<br/> (1970) <br/>by Unica Zurn</small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_White_Ship.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''The White Ship''<br/> (1970)<br/> by Chinghiz Aitmatov</small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Flats.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Flats/Quake''<br/> (1971-4) <br/>by Rudolph Wurlitzer</small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Love.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Love''<br/> (1971) <br/>by Angela Carter</small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Log_of_the_S.S._the_Mrs_Unguentine.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine''<br/> (1972)<br/> by Stanley Crawford</small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Summer Book'' (1972) by Tove Jansson </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Motorman'' (1972) by David Ohle </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''A Sorrow Beyond Dreams'' (1972) by Peter Handke </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Roadside Picnic'' (1972) by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Asleep in the Sun'' (1973) by Adolfo Bioy Casares </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry'' (1973) by B.S. Johnson </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Telegram'' (1973) by Putu Wijaya </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum'' (1974) by Heinrich Boll </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''For Love of Norway'' (1975) by Pal Espolin Johnson </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Travesty'' (1976) by John Hawkes </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Journey into the Past'' (1976) by Stefan Zweig </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''P’s Three Women'' (1977) by Paulo Emilio Slaes Gomes</small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Fatale'' (1977) by Jean-Patrick Manchette </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Hour of the Star'' (1977) by Clarice Lispector </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Painter of Signs'' (1977) by R.K. Narayan </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Secret Rendezvous'' (1977) by Kobo Abe </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''A Tomb for Boris Davidovich'' (1978) by Danilo Kis </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Sleepless Nights'' (1979) by Elizabeth Hardwick </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Volcano'' (1979) by Shusaku Endo </small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File: The_Viceroy_of_Ouidah.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''The Viceroy of Ouidah''<br/> (1980)<br/> by Bruce Chatwin</small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''So the Wind Won’t Blow it All Away'' (1982) by Richard Brautigan </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Witch-Herbalist of the Remote Town'' (1982) by Amos Tutuola </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Assault'' (1982) by Harry Mulisch </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Wine of Astonishment'' (1982) by Earl Lovelace </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''A Tiger for Malgudi'' (1983) by R.K. Narayan </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Mr. Palomar'' (1983) by Italo Calvino </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Cannibal Galaxy'' (1983) by Cynthia Ozick </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Alladin's Problem'' (1984) by Ernst Junger </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Lover'' (1984) by Marguerite Duras </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''In the Dutch Mountains'' (1984) by Cees Nooteboom </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Isle of Dreams'' (1985) by Hino Keizo </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas'' (1983-6) by Can Xue </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Stone in a Landslide'' (1985) by Maria Barbal </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Day the Leader was Killed'' (1985) by Naguib Mahfouz </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''In the Country of Last Things'' (1987) by Paul Auster </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Pigeon'' (1987) by Patrick Suskind </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Kitchen'' (1988) by Banana Yoshimoto </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Swordfish'' (1989) by Hugo Claus </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Mister Blue'' (1989) by Jacques Poulin </small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Kaddish_for_an_Unborn_Child.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Kaddish for an Unborn Child''<br/> (1990)<br/> by Imre Kertesz</small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Angels and Insects'' (1992) by A.S. Byatt </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Other City'' (1993) by Michal Ajvaz </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Loving Sabotage'' (1993) by Amelie Nothomb </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Marx Family Saga'' (1993) by Juan Goytisolo </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Crime Studio'' (1994) by Steve Aylett </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Shyness and Dignity'' (1994) by Dag Solstad </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Of Love and Other Demons'' (1994) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Pereira Declares'' (1994) by Antonio Tabucchi </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Phosphor in Dreamland'' (1995) by Rikki Ducornet </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Panther in the Basement'' (1995) by Amos Oz </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''I Have the Right to Destroy Myself'' (1996) by Kim Young-ha </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Escape Hatch'' (1996) by Vladimir Makanin </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Diary of Mr. Pinke'' (1995) by Ewald Murrer </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Reader's Block'' (1996) by David Markson </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family'' (1998) by Peter Dimock </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Kneller's Happy Campers'' (1998) by Etgar Keret </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Honk if you Love Aphrodite'' (1999) by Daniel Evan Weiss </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Literary Conference'' (1999) by Cesar Aira </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Earth and Ashes'' (1999) by Atiq Rahimi </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Inez'' (2001) by Carlos Fuentes </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Bait'' (2001) by David Albahari </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Europeana'' (2001) by Patrik Ourednik </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Good Morning Comrades'' (2001) by Ondjaki </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''All This Belongs to Me'' (2002) by Petra Hulova </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Conversations with Spinoza'' (2002) by Gocec Smilevski </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''In the Flesh'' (2002) by Christa Wolf </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Agape Agape'' (2002) by William Gaddis </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Blue Fox'' (2003) by Sjon </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Piano'' (2003) by Jean Echenoz </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Housekeeper and the Professor'' (2003) by Yoko Ogawa </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Book of Words'' (2004) by Jenny Erpenbeck </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Moving Parts'' (2004) by Magdalena Tulli </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest'' (2005) by Amos Oz </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Bonsai'' (2006) by Alejandro Zambra </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Waitress Was New'' (2008) by Dominique Fabre </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The North of God'' (2008) by Steve Stern </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Hermaphrodite'' (2009) by Daniel Grandbois </small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Next World Novella'' (2009) by Matthias Politycki </small>
  
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''2010s'''
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Brothers.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''The Brothers''<br/> (2010)<br/> by Asko Sahlberg </small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Lightning.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Lightning''<br/> (2010) <br/>by Jean Echenoz </small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Train_Dreams.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Train Dreams''<br/> (2011) <br/>by Denis Johnson </small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Down_the_Rabbit_Hole.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Down the Rabbit Hole''<br/> (2011)<br/> by Juan Pablo Villalobos </small>
  
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
  
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{|{{Prettytable}}
  
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|colspan=5|<h3>Short Story Collections</h3>
  
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Classic'''
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Aparisianaffair.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''A Parisian Affair and Other Stories''<br/>by Guy de Maupassant</small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Firstlove.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''First Love and Other Stories''<br/>by Ivan Turgenev</small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:The-death-of-ivan-ilyich-and-other-stories.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories''<br/>by Leo Tolstoy</small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:ThreeTales.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Three Tales''<br/>by Gustav Flaubert</small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Deadmentellnotales.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Dead Men Tell No Tales''<br/>by Emile Zola''</small>
  
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further classic collections'''
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky''</small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings'' by Edgar Allan Poe</small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Kruezter Sonata and Other Stories'' by Leo Tolstoy</small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Queen of Spades and Other Stories'' by Alexander Pushkin</small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892&ndash;1895'' by Anton Chekhov</small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896&ndash;1904'' by Anton Chekhov</small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Carmen and Other Stories'' by Prosper Merimee</small>
  
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Modern'''
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Elephant.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Elephant''<br/>by Raymond Carver</small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Dubliners.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Dubliners''<br/>by James Joyce</small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Fictions.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Fictions''<br/>by Jorge Luis Borges</small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Menwowomen.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Men Without Women''<br/>by Ernest Hemingway</small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Southofnonorth.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''South of No North''<br/>by Charles Bukowski''</small>
  
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further modern collections'''
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Short Stories'' by F. Scott Fitzgerald</small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''In the Heart of the Country'' by William Gass</small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner''</small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Return'' by Andrei Platonov</small>
  
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|-
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Collected Short Stories'' by Roald Dahl</small>
  
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Contemporary'''
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Brief Interviews With Hideous Men''<br/>by David Foster Wallace</small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Theelephantvanishes.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''The Elephant Vanishes''<br/>by Haruki Murakami</small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Last-evenings-on-earth.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Last Evenings on Earth''<br/>by Roberto Bolaño</small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:The dog of the marriage.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''The Dog of the Marriage''<br/>by Amy Hempel</small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Life after God.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Life After God''<br/>by Douglas Coupland''</small>
  
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further contemporary collections'''
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''How We are Hungry'' by Dave Eggers</small>
  
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|-
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Drown'' by Junot Diaz</small>
  
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|-
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Break it Down'' by Lydia Davis</small>
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''No One Belongs Here More than You'' by Miranda July</small>
  
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
  
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Shortstories1 2.jpg|80px]]
  
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{|{{Prettytable}}
  
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|colspan=5|<h3>Flash Fiction Collections</h3>
  
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Pre-1950'''
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Waste_Books.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''The Waste Books''<br/> by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg</small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Complete_Fables.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''The Complete Fables''<br/> of Jean de la Fontaine </small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Nature_Stories.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Nature Stories''<br/> by Jules Renard </small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Microscripts.jpeg|80px]]<br/><small>''Microscripts''<br/> by Robert Walser </small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Today_I_Wrote_Nothing.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Today I Wrote Nothing''<br/> by Daniil Kharms </small>
  
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further Pre-1950'''
  
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|-
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Novels in Three Lines'' by Felix Feneon </small>
  
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|-
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Collected Stories'' by Colette </small>
  
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|-
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights''</small>
  
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|-
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''41 Stories'' by O. Henry </small>
  
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|-
  
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Post-1950'''
  
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|-
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Palm-of-the-Hand_Stories.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Palm-of-the-Hand Stories''<br/> by Yasunari Kawabata</small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Lost_in_the_Funhouse.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Lost in the Funhouse''<br/> by John Barth </small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Voice_Imitator.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''The Voice Imitator''<br/> by Thomas Bernhard </small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Age_of_Wire_and_String.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''The Age of Wire and String''<br/> by Ben Marcus </small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Metrophilias.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Metrophilias''<br/> by Brendan Connell </small>
  
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|-
  
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further Post-1950'''
  
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|-
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Book of Fables'' by W.S. Merwin </small>
  
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|-
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Nimrod Flip-out'' by Etgar Keret </small>
  
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|-
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Murder in the Dark'' by Margaret Atwood </small>
  
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|-
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Collected Stories'' by Lydia Davis </small>
  
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|-
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''AM/PM'' by Amelia Gray </small>
  
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|-
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Black Sheep and Other Fables'' by Augusto Monterroso </small>
  
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|-
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Road-Side Dog'' by Czeslaw Milosz </small>
  
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|-
  
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
  
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|-
  
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Flash_ficiton_and_short_short_stories.jpg|100px]]
  
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|colspan=4|
  
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|}
  
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{|{{Prettytable}}
  
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|colspan=5|<h3>Theatre/Drama</h3>
  
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|-
  
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Classical through Medieval'''
  
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|-
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Theban_Plays.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Oedipus the King|The Three Theban Plays]]''<br/> by Sophocles </small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Oresteia.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Oresteia|The Oresteia]]''<br/> by Aeschylus </small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Electra.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Electra (Euripides)|Electra and Other Plays]]''<br/> by Euripides </small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Aristophanes.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Aristophanes|The Complete Plays]]''<br/> by Aristophanes </small>
  
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Menander.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Menander|Plays and Fragments]]''<br/> by Menander </small>
  
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|-
  
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Classical through Medieval cont.'''
  
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|-
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Pot of Gold and Other Plays'' by Plautus </small>
  
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|-
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Four Tragedies and Octavia'' by Seneca </small>
  
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|-
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Comedies'' by Terence </small>
  
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|-
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Loom of Time'' by Kalidasa </small>
  
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|-
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Plays'' of Hrotswitha of Gandersheim </small>
  
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|-
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''Japanese Noh Dramas'' </small>
  
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|-
  
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
  
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|-
  
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Playrecs.jpg|100px]]
  
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Playrecs2.jpg|100px]]
  
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|colspan=3|
  
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<br/>
  
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<h1>Genre fiction</h1>
  
−
<h2>By genre</h2>
  
−
{|{{Prettytable}}
  
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|colspan=5|<h3>Fantasy</h3>
  
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|-
  
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|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Epic fantasy'''
  
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|-
  
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Thehobbit.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Hobbit|The Hobbit]]''<br/>(1937)<br/> by J. R. R. Tolkien</small>
  
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:LordoftheRings.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Lord of the Rings|The Lord of the Rings]]''<br/>(1954&ndash;1955)<br/> by J. R. R. Tolkien</small>
  
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:The Black Company.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Black Company|The Black Company]]''<br/>(1984&mdash;)<br/>by Glen Cook</small>
  
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:TheEyeOfTheWorld.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Wheel of Time|The Wheel of Time]]''<br/>(1990&mdash;)<br/>by Robert Jordan</small>
  
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:AGameOfThrones.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:A Song of Ice and Fire|A Song of Ice and Fire]]''<br/>(1996&mdash;)<br/>by George R. R. Martin</small>
  
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Gardens-of-the-moon.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>[[wikipedia:Malazan Book of the Fallen|''Malazan Book'']]<br/>(1999&ndash;2011)<br/>by Steven Erikson</small>
  
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Thebladeitself.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The First Law|The First Law]]''<br/>(2006&mdash;)<br/>by Joe Abercrombie</small>
  
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:The-name-of-the-wind.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Kingkiller Chronicle|The Kingkiller Chronicle]]''<br/>(2007&mdash;)<br/>by Patrick Rothfuss</small>
  
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:TheWayOfKings.png|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Stormlight Archive|The Stormlight Archive]]''<br/>(2010&mdash;)<br/>by Brandon Sanderson</small>
  
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|style="background:#C3D69B;"|
  
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|-
  
−
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Additional epic fantasy'''
  
−
|-
  
−
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Silmarillion|The Silmarillion]]'' (1977) by J. R. R. Tolkien</small>
  
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|-
  
−
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Shannara|Shannara]]'' (1977&mdash;) by Terry Brooks</small>
  
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|-
  
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Glen Cook|The Swordbearer]]'' (1982) by Glen Cook</small>
  
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|-
  
−
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Belgariad|The Belgariad]]'' (1982&ndash;1984) by David Eddings</small>
  
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|-
  
−
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Deed of Paksenarrion|The Deed of Paksenarrion]]'' (1992) by Elizabeth Moon</small>
  
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|-
  
−
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Mistborn series|Mistborn]]'' (2006&ndash;2008) by Brandon Sanderson</small>
  
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|-
  
−
|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Weird fiction'''
  
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|-
  
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:House on the Borderland.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The House on the Borderland|The House on the Borderland]]''<br/>(1908)<br/> William Hope Hodgson</small>
  
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:At-the-mountains-of-madness.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:At the Mountains of Madness|At the Mountains of Madness]]''<br/>(1936)<br/> by H. P. Lovecraft</small>
  
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:PerdidoStreetStation1sted.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Perdido Street Station|Perdido Street Station]]''<br/>(2000)<br/>by China Miéville</small>
  
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:CityOfSaintsAndMadmen.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:City of Saints and Madmen|City of Saints and Madmen]]''<br/>(2001)<br/>by Jeff VanderMeer</small>
  
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Emperor of dreams.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Emperor of Dreams|The Emperor of Dreams]]''<br/>(2002)<br/>by Clark Ashton Smith</small>
  
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|-
  
−
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Additional weird fiction'''
  
−
|-
  
−
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Shadow Over Innsmouth|The Shadow Over Innsmouth]]'' (1931) by H. P. Lovecraft</small>
  
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|-
  
−
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Kraken (novel)|Kraken]]'' (2010) by China Miéville</small>
  
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|-
  
−
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
  
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|-
  
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File:1307836551252.jpg|80px]]
  
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File:Beginner-fantasy.jpg|80px]]
  
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