Author
Works
Year
Country
Language
Read?
Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart
1958
Nigeria
English
Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy
1308-21
Italy
Italian
Hans Christian Andersen
Fairy tales
1835-37
Denmark
Danish
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
1813
United Kingdom
English
Samuel Beckett
Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, a trilogy
1951-53
Republic of Ireland
French, English
Giovanni Boccaccio
The Decameron
1349-53
Italy
Italian
Jorge Luis Borges
Ficciones
1944-86
Argentina
Spanish
Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights
1847
United Kingdom
English
Albert Camus
The Stranger
1942
Algeria, French Empire
French
Paul Celan
Poems
1952
Romania, USSR, France
German
Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote
1605 (part 1), 1615 (part 2)
Spain
Spanish
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
1380s-1400
England
English
Anton Chekhov
Stories
1886
Russia
Russian
Joseph Conrad
Nostromo
1904
United Kingdom
English
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Journey to the End of the Night
1932
France
French
Honoré de Balzac
Le Père Goriot
1835
France
French
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
1861
United Kingdom
English
Denis Diderot
Jacques the Fatalist
1796
France
French
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment
1866
Russia
Russian
The Brothers Karamazov
1880
Russia
Russian
The Idiot
1869
Russia
Russian
The Possessed
1872
Russia
Russian
Alfred Döblin
Berlin Alexanderplatz
1929
Germany
German
George Eliot
Middlemarch
1871
United Kingdom
English
Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man
1952
United States
English
Euripides
Medea
431 BCE
Greece
Greek
William Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom!
1936
United States
English
The Sound and the Fury
1929
United States
English
Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
1857
France
French
Sentimental Education
1869
France
French
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust
1832
Saxe-Weimar
German
Nikolai Gogol
Dead Souls
1842
Russia
Russian
Günter Grass
The Tin Drum
1959
Germany
German
João Guimarães Rosa
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
1956
Brazil
Portuguese
Knut Hamsun
Hunger
1890
Norway
Norwegian
Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
1952
United States
English
Homer
Iliad
760-710 BCE
Greece
Greek
Odyssey
8th century BCE
Greece
Greek
Henrik Ibsen
A Doll's House
1879
Norway
Norwegian
James Joyce
Ulysses
1922
Irish Free State
English
Franz Kafka
Stories
1924
Czechoslovakia
German
The Castle
1926
Czechoslovakia
German
The Trial
1925
Czechoslovakia
German
Yasunari Kawabata
The Sound of the Mountain
1954
Japan
Japanese
Nikos Kazantzakis
Zorba the Greek
1946
Greece
Greek
Kalidasa
Shakuntala
1st century BCE - 4th century CE
India
Sanskrit
D. H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers
1913
United Kingdom
English
Halldór Laxness
Independent People
1934-35
Iceland
Icelandic
Giacomo Leopardi
Poems
1818
Italy
Italian
Doris Lessing
The Golden Notebook
1962
United Kingdom
English
Astrid Lindgren
Pippi Longstocking
1945
Sweden
Swedish
Federico García Lorca
Gypsy Ballads
1928
Spain
Spanish
Naguib Mahfouz
Children of Gebelawi
1959
Egypt
Arabic
Thomas Mann
Buddenbrooks
1901
Germany
German
The Magic Mountain
1924
Germany
German
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
1851
United States
English
Michel de Montaigne
Essays
1595
France
French
Elsa Morante
History
1974
Italy
Italian
Toni Morrison
Beloved
1987
United States
English
Murasaki Shikibu
The Tale of Genji
1000-12
Japan
Japanese
Robert Musil
The Man Without Qualities
1930-32
Austria
German
Gabriel García Márquez
Love in the Time of Cholera
1985
Colombia
Spanish
One Hundred Years of Solitude
1967
Colombia
Spanish
Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita
1955
Russia/United States
English
George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four
1949
United Kingdom
English
Ovid
Metamorphoses
1st century CE
Roman Empire
Classical Latin
Fernando Pessoa
The Book of Disquiet
1928
Portugal
Portuguese
Edgar Allan Poe
Tales
1832-49
United States
English
Marcel Proust
In Search of Lost Time
1913-27
France
French
François Rabelais
Gargantua and Pantagruel
1532-34
France
French
Juan Rulfo
Pedro Páramo
1955
Mexico
Spanish
Rumi
Masnavi
1258-73
Sultanate of Rum
Persian
Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children
1981
United Kingdom, India
English
Saadi
Bostan
1257
Persia, Persian Empire
Persian
Tayeb Salih
Season of Migration to the North
1966
Sudan
Arabic
José Saramago
Blindness
1995
Portugal
Portuguese
William Shakespeare
Hamlet
1603
England
English
King Lear
1608
England
English
Othello
1609
England
English
Sophocles
Oedipus the King
430 BCE
Greece
Greek
Stendhal
The Red and the Black
1830
France
French
Laurence Sterne
Tristram Shandy
1760
England
English
Italo Svevo
Confessions of Zeno
1923
Italy
Italian
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels
1726
Ireland
English
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
1877
Russia
Russian
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
1886
Russia
Russian
War and Peace
1865-69
Russia
Russian
Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1884
United States
English
Unknown
Book of Job
7th - 4th century BCE
Achaemenid Empire
Hebrew
Unknown
Epic of Gilgamesh
18th - 17th century BCE
Sumer and Akkadian Empire
Akkadian
Unknown
Njál's Saga
13th century
Iceland
Old Norse
Unknown
One Thousand and One Nights
700-1500
India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt/Tajikistan
Arabic
Valmiki
Ramayana
5th - 4th century BCE
India
Sanskrit
Virgil
Aeneid
29-19 BCE
Roman Empire
Classical Latin
Vyasa
Mahabharata
9th - 5th century BCE
India
Sanskrit
Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
1855
United States
English
Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway
1925
United Kingdom
English
To the Lighthouse
1927
United Kingdom
English
Lu Xun
A Madman's Diary
1918
China
Chinese
Marguerite Yourcenar
Memoirs of Hadrian
1951
France/Belgium
French
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