Antiquity - 1500

For those who want to read only the minimum necessary to have a good background in the Classics, I have starred in red (*) the texts from antiquity (through the year A.D. 500) likely to be most useful in understanding later authors.

   Date Read

 Author’s Life Span

   Author and Title

c. 2150-2000 B.C.

* The Epic of Gilgamesh

c. 1200-100 B.C.

* Old Testament (Selected Books) [Authorized King James Version]

* Torah: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers Deuteronomy

* Historical Books: Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, Ezra

          Nehemiah, Esther

* Wisdom Books: Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon

* Major Prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel

* Minor Prophets: Hosea, Amos

fl. 750-675 B.C.

* Homer: The Iliad

* Homer: The Odyssey

after 700 B.C.

Homeric Hymns 

fl. 700-650 B.C.

Hesiod: The Shield of Herakles

* Hesiod: Works and Days

* Hesiod: Theogony

6^th c. B.C.

Aesop: Fables

6^th c. B.C.

Confucius: Analects

c. 590 B.C. 

Sappho: Lyrics

c. 522-448 B.C.

* Pindar: Odes

523?-456 B.C.

* Aeschylus: Agamemnon (Orestes Trilogy 1)

* Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers (Orestes Trilogy 2)

* Aeschylus: The Eumenides (Orestes Trilogy 3)

* Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound

Aeschylus: The Suppliant Maidens

Aeschylus: The Persians

Aeschylus: The Seven Against Thebes

496?-406 B.C.

* Sophocles: Oedipus the King

* Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus

496?-406 B.C.

* Sophocles: Antigone

Sophocles: Ajax

Sophocles: The Women of Trachis

Sophocles: Electra

Sophocles: Philoctetes

484?-406 B.C.

* Euripides: Alcestis (438 B.C.)

* Euripides: Medea (431 B.C.)

Euripides: The Heracleidae (The Children of Heracles)

* Euripides: Hippolytus (428 B.C.)

Euripides: Andromache

Euripides: Hecuba (c. 425 B.C.)

Euripides: The Suppliant Women (c. 424 B.C.)

Euripides: Heracles (c . 420 B.C.)

Euripides: Ion

Euripides: The Trojan Women (415 B.C.)

Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris

Euripides: Electra (413 B.C.)

Euripides: Helen (412 B.C.)

Euripides: The Phoenician Women (c. 410 B.C.)

Euripides: Orestes (408 B.C.)

Euripides: The Bacchae

Euripides: Iphigenia in Aulis

Euripides: The Cyclops

c. 484-425 B.C.

* Herodotus: The Histories (selections) (441 B.C.)

c. 460-400 B.C.

* Thucydides: The Peloponnesian Wars (selections) (c. 400 B.C.)

430 B.C.

Pericles: Funeral Oration (in Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II, chapters 34-56)

c. 450-380 B.C.

Sun-tzu: The Art of War

450?-380? B.C.

* Aristophanes: The Clouds (423 B.C.)

450?-380? B.C.

* Aristophanes: The Wasps (422 B.C.)

* Aristophanes: The Birds (414 B.C.)

* Aristophanes: Lysistrata (411 B.C.)

* Aristophanes: The Frogs (405 B.C.)

c. 430-? B.C.

* Xenophon: Anabasis (The Persian Expedition)

Xenophon: Cyropaedia (The Education of Cyrus)

Xenophon: Oeconomicus (Household Management)

427?-347? B.C.

Plato: Euthyphro

Plato: Apology (c. 399 B.C.)

Plato: Crito

* Plato: Phaedo

* Plato: Symposium

* Plato: Republic (selections) (c . 375 B.C.)

Plato: Timaeus

384-322 B.C.

Aristotle: Physics (selections)

Aristotle: Metaphysics (selections)

Aristotle: Psychology (selections)

* Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics (selections)

Aristotle: Politics (selections)

* Aristotle: Poetics

383-322 B.C.

Demosthenes: The Philippics

fl. c. 300 B.C.

Euclid: The Elements (Books I-VI)

c. 3^rd c. B.C.

* Apollonius of Rhodes: The Voyage of the Argo

342- 291 B.C.

* Menander: Epitrepontes (Men at Arbitration)

Menander: Dyskolos (The Grouch)

Menander: Aspis (The Shield)

Menander: Georgos (The Farmer)

Menander: Dis Exapaton (Twice a Swindler)

342- 291 B.C.

Menander: Encheiridion (The Dagger)

Menander: The Girl from Samos (tr. Erich G. Turner)

287?-212 B.C.

Archimedes: Scientific Writings (The Sand-Reckoner)

c. 270 B.C.

* Theocritus: Idyls

c. 254-184 B.C.

* Plautus: Miles Gloriosus (The Braggart Soldier) (211 B.C.)

Plautus: Captivi (The Prisoners of War)

* Plautus: Amphitryo

Plautus: Menaechmi

Plautus: Asinaria

Plautus: Aulularia (The Pot of Gold)

Plautus: Casina 

Plautus: Rudens

c. 195-159 B.C.

* Terence: Andria (The Girl From Andros) (166 B.C.)

* Terence: Hecyra (The Mother-in-Law) (165 B.C.)

Terence: Heautontimorumenos (The Self-Tormentor) (163 B.C.)

Terence: Phormio (161 B.C.)

* Terence: The Eunuch (161 B.C.)

Terence: Adelphoe (The Brothers) (160 B.C.)

fl. c. 150 B.C.

Moschus: Europa

fl. c. 100 B.C. 

Bion of Smyrna: Epitaph on Adonis

102-44 B.C.

Julius Caesar: Gallic War

Julius Caesar: Civil War

96?-55 B.C.

* Lucretius: On the Nature of Things

106-43 B.C.

Cicero: Tusculan Disputations

Cicero: On Moral Duties

* Cicero: On the Orator

* Cicero: On the Nature of the Gods

86-35 B.C.

Sallust: Jugurthine War

Sallust: Conspiracy of Catiline

c. 84-54 B.C.

Catullus: Lyrics

70-19 B.C.

* Virgil: Aeneid

Virgil: Georgics

Virgil: Eclogues

65-8 B.C.

* Horace: Odes (selections)

* Horace: The Art of Poetry

59 B.C.-A.D. 17

* Livy: A History of Rome (selections)

43 B.C.-A.D. 17

* Ovid: Metamorphoses

Ovid: The Art of Love

Ovid: The Cure for Love

4 B.C.-A.D. 65

* Seneca: Hercules Furens

Seneca: Troades

* Seneca: Medea

Seneca: Hippolytus

Seneca: Oedipus

Seneca: Agamemnon

* Seneca: Thyestes

Seneca: Hercules Oetaeus

Seneca: Phoenissae

Seneca: Octavia

Seneca: Moral Epistles (selections)

A.D. 20-66

Petroniuis: The Satyricon

c. AD 37-after 97

Josephus: The Jewish War

A.D. 23-79

Pliny the Elder: Natural History: Book 20 (Medicines from Garden Plants) and Book 37 (Jewels & Precious Stones)

A.D. 39-65

Lucan: Pharsalia: Books 1, 5, 6

early 1^st c. A.D.

“Longinus”: On the Sublime

A.D. 35-100

Quintilian: The Orator’s Education: Vol. I: Books 1-2

mid-1^st c. A.D.

Chariton: Chaireas and Kallirhoe

c. A.D. 50-early

2^nd c.

* New Testament: (selected books) [Authorized King James Version]

* Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John

* History: Acts

* Pauline Epistles: Romans, 1 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Colossians, Timothy, Titus

* The General Epistles: Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, 1 John, Jude

* Apocalypse: The Revelation of St. John the Divine

c. A.D. 60-140

* Juvenal: Satires (selections)

c. A.D. 56-120?

Tacitus: Annals

* Tacitus: Histories (selections)

A.D. 46?-120

* Plutarch: Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans (selections)

A.D. 75-160

Suetonius: Lives of the Caesars

fl. 1^st-2^nd c. A.D.

Epictetus: Discourses

Epictetus: Enchiridion (Handbook)

100-165

Justin Martyr: Dialogue with Trypho

Justin Martyr: First Apology

A.D. 120-180

Marcus Aurelius: Meditations

fl. c. A.D. 150

Pausanias: Description of Greece: Vol. 1 (Attica and Corinth) [LCL]

c. A.D. 120-?

* Lucian: The True History

* Lucian: Charon

* Dialogues of the Dead: Hermes and Charon; Charon, Hermes, and Shades; Charon, Menippus, Hermes

Pseudo-Lucian: The Ass

A.D. 121-180

Marcus Aurelius: Meditations 

fl. c. 150 

* Apuleius: The Golden Ass

A.D. 172-250

Philostratus: Life of Apollonius of Tyana

fl. 2^nd c.

Ptolemy: The Almagest 

fl. 2^nd c.-3rd c.

Xenophon of Ephesus: An Ephesian Tale of Anthia and Habrocomes

mid-2^nd c. A.D.

* Apollodorus: The Library of Greek Mythology

205-269

Plotinus: Enneads (selections)

c. A.D. 300

Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon

3^rd c. A.D.

Heliodorus: Aithiopika or Theagenes and Chariclea

3^rd c. A.D.

Longus: Daphnis and Chloe

between 140-340

Pseudo-Callisthenes: The Alexander Romance

Other works of antiquity, not listed here, may be of interest to some readers.

These works and authors include the following:

Among the ancient Greeks: Archilochus of Paros (c. 650 B.C.); Tyrtaeus of Sparta (c. 650 B.C.); Solon of Athens (c. 640-559 B.C.); Alcman of Sparta (c. 630 B.C.); Stesichorus (c. 630-555 B.C.); Alcaeus of Lesbos (c. 600 B.C.); Anacreon of Teos (c. 563-478 B.C.); Simonides of Ceos (556-467 B.C.); Callimachus of Cyrene (c. 304-240 B.C.), Hymns and Epigrams; and many other poets with fragmentary literary remains.

Greeks from the Alexandrian age to the close of antiquity: the Greek Anthology (lyric poetry); the woman poet Anyte of Tegea (fl. c. 300 B.C.); the historian Polybius (c. 203-120 B.C.); the poet Meleager (c. 100 B.C.); Dioscorides, last of the great Alexandrian poets; the first century B.C. historian Diodorus Siculus, Library of History; Dionysius of Halicarnassus (1^st c. B.C.), Roman Antiquities; Strabo (64/63 B.C.-A.D. 21?), Geography in 17 books; Josephus (c. AD 37-after 97), Jewish Antiquities; the physician Dioscorides Pedianus (1^st c. A.D.), Materia Medica; the historian Arrian (c. A.D. 95-175), Anabasis of Alexander; and the epic poet Quintus of Smyrna (4^th c. A.D.), Posthomerica in 14 books.

Among the Latins: Propertius (c . 50-16 B.C.), Elegies; Tibullus (c. 48-19 B.C.), Elegies; Martial (c. A.D. 40-104), Epigrams; Persius (c. A.D. 34-62), Satires; Manilius (late Augustan age), Astronomica; Ovid (43 B.C.-A.D. 17), Heroides, Amores, Fasti, Tristia, and other minor works; Statius (c. A.D. 45-96), Silvae and his epic poem Thebaid; and other minor epic poets, such as Silius Italicus (A.D. 25/6-101), Punica; and Valerius Flaccus (Flavian period), Argonautica.

Middle Ages to Early Renaissance

   Date Read Author’s Life Span Author and Title

c. 349-425

Prudentius: Psychomachia

354-430

* Augustine: Confessions

354-430

Augustine: The City of God (A.D. 426)

480?-524

* Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy

5^th c. A.D.

Nonnus: Dionysiaca

late 5^th c.

Musaeus: Hero and Leandro

500-565

Procopius: The Secret History

c. 610-632

The Qur’an

673-735

Bede: The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (c. 731)

9^th c.

* The Thousand and One Nights

c. 1000

* Beowulf

c. 976-1015

Lady Murasaki: The Tale of Genji

1048-?

Omar Khayyam: The Rubaiyat

c. 1100-1154

Geoffrey of Monmouth: History of the Kings of Britain

c. 1140-1170

* The Song of Roland

c. 1150-1190

Chrétien de Troyes: Erec et Enide

Chrétien de Troyes: Cligés

* Chrétien de Troyes: Yvain

* Chrétien de Troyes: Lancelot

* Chrétien de Troyes: Perceval (c. 1180)

late 12^th c.

Marie de France: The Lays

late 12^th c.

Andreas Capellanus: The Art of Courtly Love (1184-1186)

† c. 1210

Gottfried Von Strassburg: Tristan and Isolde 

early 13^th c.

Anonymous: The Poem of the Cid

c. 1170-c. 1230

Walter von der Vogelweide: Poems (in Penguin Book of German Verse)

c. 1212-c. 1237 / after 1237-1305

Guillaume de Lorris & Jean de Meun: The Romance of the Rose (1237-c. 1277)

c. 13^th-14^th c.

Gesta Romanorum (selections)

c. 1170-1241

Wolfram von Eschenbach: Parzival (c. 1^st quarter 13^th century)

1178-1241

Snorri Sturluson: The Prose Edda (c. 1220)

before 13^th c.

Anonymous: Nibelungenleid

1221-1274

St. Bonaventure: Itinerarium Mentis ad Deum (The Mind’s Road to God)

1225-1274

St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica and Summa contra Gentiles: Selections

c. 1235-1276

Guido Guinizelli: Poems (in Penguin Book of Italian Verse)

1236-1306

Jacopone da Todi: Poems (in Penguin Book of Italian Verse)

c. 1245-1285

Rutebeuf: Poems (in Penguin Book of French Verse)

c. 1255-1300

Guido Cavalcanti: Poems (in Penguin Book of Italian Verse)

1265-1321

* Dante: The Divine Comedy [at least Inferno] (c. 1304-1321)

1304-1374

* Francesco Petrarca: Canzoniere (selections)

c. 1350

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

1313-1375

* Giovanni Boccaccio: Decameron (selected stories) (c. 1350-1353)

c. 1343-1400

* Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (c . 1380s)

c. 1343-1400

Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde (c . 1380-1387)

c. 1330-1400

Luo Kuan-Chung: The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, tr. Moss Roberts

1363-c. 1434

Christine de Pisan: The Book of the City of Ladies (c. 1405)

1349-1465

Charles d’Orléans: Poems (in Penguin Book of French Verse)

1404-1472 

Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting (1436)

1406-1457

Lorenzo Valla: Discourse on the Forgery of the Alleged Donation of Constantine (1440)

1454-1494

Angelo Poliziano: Stanzas for the Joust of Giuliano de’ Medici (1478)

1431-after 1463

Françoise Villon: The Testaments (c. 1456)

1432-1484

Luigi Pulci: Morgante (1483)

1400-1470

* Sir Thomas Malory: Le Morte d’Arthur (1485)

1463-1494

Pico della Mirandola: On the Dignity of Man (1486) 

c. 1434-1494

Matteo Maria Boiardo: Orlando Innamorato (Roland in Love) (1495)

c. 1465-1541

Fernando de Rojas: La Celestina (1499)

1500-1699

Since I am mostly interested in narrative, I give short shrift to poets and philosophers from this point on, although a representative selection of major English poets (at least through the 19^th century) do appear throughout, as well as a few major poets from other languages (primarily Italian). Still, English authors you might expect to see—e.g., Thomas Wyatt, Edmund Spenser (The Faerie Queen and Epithalamium), Sir Philip Sydney (Astrophel and Stella), Thomas Campion, Andrew Marvell, Thomas Wyatt, George Herbert, John Dryden, Thomas Gray (“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”), Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Greenleaf Whittier, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, A. E. Housman, and many other later poets well worth reading—are not listed here. Nor will one find Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy or Sir Thomas Browne’s Urne-Buriall, which some may find interesting, or later works by scientists such as Copernicus and Galileo or philosophers such as Giambattista Vico. As

for English and American poets, I recommend you read a good anthology, such as The Norton Anthology of Poetry and The Oxford Book of American Verse. For Italian poets not included below, one might read the Renaissance authors: Gaspara Stampa, Veronica Franco, and Pietro Bembo, the 18^th century poets Pietro Metastasio, Giuseppe Parini, and Vittorio Alfieri (listed below for his plays), and the 19^th century poet Ugo Foscolo (listed below for his fiction). For later Italian poets not mentioned below, I recommend Dino Campana, Orphic Songs; Umberto Saba; and Salvatore Quasimodo; in addition to others below. For early French poets: among others, Marguerite de Navarre’s

The Heptameron, and later poets such as Alphonse de Lamartine, Alfred de Vigny, Aloysius Bertrand, Alfred de Musset, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, Guillaume Apollinaire, André Breton, René Char, and Paul Éluard, to cite a few. For Spanish poets: Jorge Manrique, Diego de San Pedro (Cárcel de amor), Antonio de Guevara, Jorge de Montemayor, Francisco de Quevedo, Fray Luis de León, St. John of the Cross, Luis de Góngora, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and the later poets, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillén, and Federico García Lorca, among others. For German poets: Novalis, Hölderlin, Heinrich Heine, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Stefan George. Playwrights as famous as John Ford (’Tis Pity She’s a Whore), Pierre Corneille (The Cid), Jean Racine (Phaedra, Andromache), and Jean Anouilh (Becket, Eurydice) are not listed below, nor are German writers such as Friedrich Schiller (Mary Stuart, Don Carlos) and Gotthold Lessing (Laocoön, Nathan the Wise). English essayists are also in short supply, for which one might cite: William Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, and Walter Pater.

   Date Read Author’s Life Span Author and Title

1466/69-1536

Desiderius Erasmus: In Praise of Folly (1511)

1452-1519

Leonardo da Vinci: Notebooks (selections)

1469-1527

Niccolò Machiavell: The Prince (1513)

1469-1527

Niccolò Machiavelli: The Mandragola (1518)

1478-1529

Baldassare Castiglione: The Book of the Courtier (1528)

1474-1533

Lodovico Ariosto: Orlando Furioso (1532) (selections)

c. 1494-1553

François Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532-)

1475-1564

Michelangelo: Poems (in Penguin Book of Italian Verse)

1496-1544

Clément Marot: Poems (in Penguin Book of French Verse)

c. 1501-1563

Maurice Scève: Poems (in Penguin Book of French Verse)

1522-1560

Joachim Du Bellay: Poems (in Penguin Book of French Verse)

c. 1524-1566

Louise Labé: Poems (in Penguin Book of French Verse)

1524-1585

Pierre de Ronsard: Poems (in Penguin Book of French Verse)

1511-1574

Giorgio Vasari: The Lives of the Artists (1550) (selections)

mid-16th c.

Anonymous: Lazarillo de Tormes (1554)

1500-1571

Benvenuto Cellini: Autobiography (1558-)

c. 1524-1580

Luís de Camões: The Lusiads (1572)

1544-1595

Torquato Tasso: Aminta (1573)

1544-1595

Torquato Tasso: Jerusalem Delivered (1580) (selections)

1500-1582

Wu Cheng’en: Journey to the West (tr. as Monkey by Arthur Waley)

1533-1592

Michel de Montaigne: Essays (1580)

1548-1600

Giordano Bruno: The Candle Bearer (Il Candelaio) (1582)

1564-1593

Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus (1588)

1554-1600

Richard Hooker: Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity: Book I (1593)

1552-1630

Agrippa d’Aubigné: Poems (in Penguin Book of French Verse)

1564-1616

Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis

Shakespeare: The Sonnets

Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors

Shakespeare: The Tragedy of King Richard III

Shakespeare: Love’s Labour’s Lost

Shakespeare: The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew

Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice

Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing

Shakespeare: As You Like It

Shakespeare: Twelfth Night; or, What You Will

Shakespeare: The Tragedy of King Richard II

Shakespeare: Henry IV, Part I

Shakespeare: Henry IV, Part II

Shakespeare: Henry V

Shakespeare: Julius Caesar

Shakespeare: All’s Well that Ends Well

Shakespeare: Measure for Measure

Shakespeare: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Shakespeare: Othello, the Moor of Venice

Shakespeare: King Lear

Shakespeare: Macbeth

1564-1616

Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra

Shakespeare: Coriolanus

Shakespeare: The Winter’s Tale

Shakespeare: The Tempest

1573-1637

Ben Jonson: Every Man in His Humor (1601)

Ben Jonson: Volpone or The Fox (1606)

Ben Jonson: The Alchemist (1610)

1547-1616 

Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quijote (1605, 1615)

1569-1625

Giambattista Marino: Poems (in Penguin Book of Italian Verse)

1562-1635

Lope de Vega: Fuente Ovejuna (1619)

1572-1631

John Donne: Selected Poems

c. 1580-c. 1634

John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi (1623)

1568-1639

Tommaso Campanella: The City of the Sun (1623)

c. 1571-1648

Tirso de Molina: The Trickster of Seville (c. 1630)

1591-1674

Robert Herrick: Selected Poems

1573-1637

Ben Jonson: Selected Poems

1600-1681

Calderon de la Barca: Life Is a Dream (c. 1635)

1621-1695

Jean de la Fontaine: Fabliaux

1588-1679

Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan (1651) (selections)

1622-1673

Molière: The School for Wives (1662)

1608-1674

John Milton: Paradise Lost (1665)

1593-1633

George Herbert: Selected Poems

1622-1673

Molière: Don Juan (1665)

1622-1673

Molière: The Misanthrope (1666)

1622-1673

Molière: The Doctor In Spite of Himself [The Reluctant Doctor] (1666)

1622-1673

Molière: The Miser (1668)

1622-1673

Molière: Tartuffe (1669)

1623-1662

Blaise Pascal: Pensées: Of the Necessity of the Wager, etc. (1870)

1633-1703

Samuel Pepys: Diary (selections) (1660-1669; pub. 1825)

1621-1678

Andrew Marvell: Selected Poems

1632-1677

Benedict de Spinoza: Ethics: Part IV (Of Human Bondage) [E-text] (1676)

Benedict de Spinoza: Ethics: Part V (Of Human Freedom) [E-text] (1676)

1634-1693

Madame de La Fayette: The Princess of Clèves (1678)

1628-1688

John Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678)

1640-1689

Aphra Behn: Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (1688)

1644-1694

Matsuo Bashō: The Narrow Road to the Deep North (1689)

1632-1704 

John Locke: Second Treatise on Civil Government (1690) [E-text]

1700-1899

1670-1729

William Congreve: The Way of the World (1700)

1659/61-1731

Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe (1719)

1659/61-1731

Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders (1722)

1659/61-1731

Daniel Defoe: Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (1724)

1667-1745

Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels (1726)

1697-1763

Abbé Prévost: Manon Lescaut (1731)

1688-1744

Alexander Pope: Selected Poems, including Essay on Man (1734) 

1689-1761

Samuel Richardson: Pamela (1740)

1707-1754

Henry Fielding: Shamela (1741)

1707-1754

Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews (1742)

1707-1793

Carlo Goldoni: The Servant of Two Masters (1745)

1689-1755

Charles de Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws (1748)

1689-1761

Samuel Richardson: Clarissa (1748)

1709-1789

John Cleland: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure ( (1749)

1707-1754

Henry Fielding: Tom Jones (1749)

1721-1771

Tobias George Smollett: Roderick Random (1749)

1707-1793

Goldoni: La famiglia dell'antiquario (The Antiquarian's Family) (1750)

c. 1730-1804

Charlotte Lennox: The Female Quijote (1752)

1707-1793

Goldoni: La locandiera (The Innkeeper) (1753)

1721-1771

Tobias George Smollett: Peregrine Pickle (1751, rev. 1758)

1694-1778

Voltaire: Candide (1759)

1712-1778

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract (1762)

1715-1763

Ts’ao Hsüeh-ch’in: The Dream of the Red Chamber [The Story of the Stone, tr. by David Hawkes]

1738-1794

Cesare Beccaria: On Crimes and Punishment (1764)

1707-1793

Carlo Goldoni: Il ventaglio (The Fan) (1765)

1717-1797

Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto (1765)

c. 1730-1774

Oliver Goldsmith: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)

1713-1768

Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy (1759-67)

c. 1730-1774

Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer (1773)

1749-1832

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)

1737-1809

Thomas Paine: Common Sense (1776)

1743-1826

Thomas Jefferson: The Declaration of Independence (1776)

1751-1816

Richard Sheridan: The School for Scandal (1777)

1712-1778

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Confessions (1782, posthumous)

1749-1803

Alfieri: Saul (1782)

1741-1893

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos: Dangerous Liaisons (1782)

1740-1814

Marquis de Sade: The 120 Days of Sodom (1785)

1759-1796

Robert Burns: Selected Poems (1786-)

1770-1850

William Wordsworth: Selected Poems

1707-1793

Carlo Goldoni: Mémoires (selections) (1787)

1737-1794

Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1788)

1740-1814

Marquis de Sade: Justine, or Good Conduct Well Chastised (1788)

1749-1803

Vittorio Alfieri: Mirra (1789)

1749-1803

Alfieri: Autobiography (selections) (c . 1790)

1740-1795

James Boswell: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. (1791)

1706-1790

Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography (1791, posthumous)

1759-1797

Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792)

1737-1809

Thomas Paine: The Rights of Man (1792)

1757-1827

William Blake: Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789/1794)

1764-1823

Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)

1775-1818

Matthew Lewis: The Monk (1796)

1764-1823

Ann Radcliffe: The Italian (1797)

1725-1798

Giacomo Casanova: Memoirs (1789-1798)

1772-1834

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Poems (1798-)

1792-1822

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Selected Poems

1740-1814

Marquis de Sade: The Crimes of Love (1800)

1740-1814

Marquis de Sade: Oxtiern, or The Misfortunes of Libertinage (1800)

1740-1814

Marquis de Sade: Ernestine, A Swedish Tale (1800)

1778-1827

Ugo Foscolo: Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis (1802)

1770-1850

William Wordsmith: Selected Poems (1798-1807)

1777-1811

Heinrich von Kleist: “The Story of O” (1806)

1766-1817

Madame de Stael: Corinne, or Italy (1807)

1749-1832

Goethe: Faust, Part 1 (1808)

1777-1811

Heinrich von Kleist: “Michael Kohlhaas” and other stories (1808)

1749-1832

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Elective Affinities (1809)

1775-1817

Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility (1811)

1775-1817

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

1795-1821

John Keats: Selected Poems (1814-)

1775-1817

Jane Austen: Emma (1815)

1775-1817

Jane Austen: Persuasion (1817, posthumous)

1775-1817

Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey and Other Stories (1817, posthumous)

1771-1832

Sir Walter Scott: Rob Roy (1817)

1797-1851

Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (1818)

1771-1832

Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe (1819)

1788-1860

Arthur Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Representation (1819)

1783-1859

Washington Irving: The Sketch Book (1819-1820)

1771-1832

Sir Walter Scott: Kenilworth (1821)

1789-1851

James Fenimore Cooper: The Spy (1821)

1788-1824

Lord Byron: Don Juan and Selected Poems (1798/1818-1822)

1785-1859

Thomas De Quincey: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822)

1771-1832

Sir Walter Scott: Quentin Durward (1823)

1789-1851

James Fenimore Cooper: The Pioneers (1823)

1799-1837

Alexander Pushkin: Boris Gudunov (1825)

1789-1851

James Fenimore Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans (1826)

1789-1851

James Fenimore Cooper: The Prairie (1827)

1783-1842

Stendhal: The Red and the Black (1830)

1809-1892

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poems (1830-)

1802-1885

Victor Hugo: Notre-Dame de Paris (1831)

1799-1837

Alexander Pushkin: Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin (1831)

1749-1832

Goethe: Faust, Part 2 (1831)

1789-1854

Silvio Pellico: My Ten Years’ Imprisonment (1832)

1799-1837

Alexander Pushkin: Eugene Onegin (1825-1832)

1798-1837

Leopardi: Operetti Morali (selections) (1824-1832)

1799-1850

Honoré de Balzac: Eugénie Grandet (1833)

1799-1837

Alexander Pushkin: The Queen of Spades (1834)

1803-1873

Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The Last Days of Pompeii (1834)

1799-1850

Honoré de Balzac: Père Goriot (1835)

1811-1872

Théophile Gautier: Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835)

1813-1837

Georg Büchner, Danton’s Death (1835)

1804-1864

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Twice-Told Tales (1837)

1770-1831

Hegel: The Philosophy of History (selections) (1837, posthumous)

1798-1837

Giacomo Leopardi: Canti (1828-1837)

1812-1870

Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist (1837-1839)

1803-1882

Ralph Waldo Emerson: “The American Scholar” (1837)

1805-1859

Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America (1835-1840)

1812-1870

Charles Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839)

1783-1842

Stendhal: The Charterhouse of Parma (1839)

1809-1862

Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Tales (1839 and following)

1807-1882

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Selected Poems (1839-)

1812-1889

Robert Browning: Selected Poems (1840-)

1815-1882

Richard Henry Dana: Two Years Before the Mast (1840)

1789-1851

James Fenimore Cooper: The Pathfinder (1840)

1803-1882

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: Self-Reliance, Compensation (1841)

1814-1841

Mikhail Lermontov: A Hero of Our Time (1839-1841)

1789-1851

James Fenimore Cooper: The Deerslayer (1842)

1785-1873

Alessandro Manzoni: The Betrothed (1840-1842)

1809-1852

Nikolai Gogol: Dead Souls (1842)

1799-1850

Honoré de Balzac: Lost Illusions (1837-1843)

1802-1870

Alexandre Dumas (père): The Three Musketeers (1844)

1803-1882

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: Second Series: The Poet, Nature (1844)

c. 1818-1895

Frederick Douglass: A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)

1802-1870

Alexandre Dumas (père): Twenty Years After (1845)

1802-1870

Alexandre Dumas (père): The Count of Monte Cristo (1845-46)

1819-1891

Melville: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846)

1799-1850

Honoré de Balzac: Cousin Bette (1846)

1816-1855

Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre (1847)

1818-1848

Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights (1847)

1820-1849

Ann Brontë: Agnes Grey (1847)

1802-1870

Alexandre Dumas (père): The Vicomte de Bragelonne (1847)

1802-1870

Alexandre Dumas (père): Louis de la Valliere (1847)

1802-1870

Alexandre Dumas (père): The Man in the Iron Mask (1847)

1819-1891

Herman Melville: Omoo: A Narrative of the South Seas (1847)

1823-1893

Francis Parkman, Jr.: The Oregon Trail (1847)

1811-1863

William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair (1848)

1824-1895

Alexandre Dumas (fils): Camille (1848)

1818-83/1820-95

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto (1848)

1814-1884

William Wells Brown: Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave (1848) in The Great Escapes: Four Slave Narratives

1819-1891

Herman Melville: Redburn: His First Voyage (1849)

1822-1888

Matthew Arnold: Selected Poems (1849-)

1817-1862

Henry David Thoreau: “Civil Disobedience” (1849)

1815-after 1878

Henry Box Brown: Narrative of Henry Box Brown (1849) in The Great Escapes: Four Slave Narratives

1812-1870

Charles Dickens: David Copperfield (1849-1850)

1804-1864

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter (1850)

1802-1870

Alexandre Dumas (père): The Black Tulip (1850)

1835-1907

Giosuè Carducci: Selected Poems (1850-)

1819-1891

Herman Melville: Moby Dick (1851)

1804-1864

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The House of the Seven Gables (1851)

1788-1860

Arthur Schopenhauer: The Art of Literature (1851)

1819-1891

Herman Melville: Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852)

1818-1883

Ivan Turgenev: Sketches from a Hunter’s Album (1852)

1811-1863

William Makepeace Thackeray: The History of Henry Esmond (1852)

1804-1864

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Blithedale Romance (1852)

1811-1896

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

1812-1870

Charles Dickens: Bleak House (1852-1853)

1816-1855

Charlotte Brontë: Villette (1853)

1812-1870

Charles Dickens: Hard Times (1854)

1817-1862

Henry David Thoreau: Walden (1854)

1819-1892

Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass (1855-)

1815-1882

Anthony Trollope: The Warden (1855)

1819-1891

Herman Melville: Benito Cereno (1856)

1819-1891

Herman Melville: Bartleby the Scrivener (1856)

1819-1891

Herman Melville: The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles (1856)

1821-1880

Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary (1857)

1821-1867

Charles Baudelaire: The Flowers of Evil (1857)

1815-1882

Anthony Trollope: Barchester Towers (1857)

1819-1891

Herman Melville: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857)

1822-1896

Thomas Hughes: Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1857)

1810-1865

Elizabeth Gaskell: The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857)

1812-1870

Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

1819-1880

George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans]: Adam Bede (1859)

1809-1882

Charles Darwin: On the Origin of Species (selections) (1859)

1806-1873

John Stuart Mill: On Liberty (1859)

1818-1883

Ivan Turgenev: First Love (1860)

1819-1880

George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss (1860)

1824-1889

Wilkie Collins: The Lady in White (1860)

1804-1864

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Marble Faun (1860) [E-text]

†1896 †1891

William and Ellen Craft: Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (1860) in The Great Escapes: Four Slave Narratives

1818-1897

Jacob Burckhardt: The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)

1812-1870

Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (1860-1861)

1819-1880

George Eliot: Silas Marner (1861)

1814-1884

Charles Reade: The Cloister and the Hearth (1861)

1813-1897

Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)

1802-1885

Victor Hugo: Les Miserables (1862)

1818-1883

Turgenev: Fathers and Sons (1862)

1821-1880

Gustave Flaubert: Salammbô (1862)

1830-1894 

Christina Rossetti: Selected Poems (1862-)

1819-1880

George Eliot: Romola (1863)

1811-1872

Théophile Gautier: Le Capitaine Fracasse (1863)

1821-1881

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Notes from Underground (1864)

1828-1905

Jules Verne: Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)

1812-1870

Charles Dickens: Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865)

1832-1898

Lewis Carroll: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

1821-1881

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment (1866)

1810-1865

Elizabeth Gaskell: Wives and Daughters (1866)

1828-1905

Jules Verne: The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (1866)

1828-1906

Henrik Ibsen: Rosmersholm (1866)

1840-1902

Émile Zola: Thérèse Raquin (1867)

1815-1882

Anthony Trollope: The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867)

1824-1889

Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone (1868)

1832-1888

Louisa May Alcott: Little Women (1868)

1832-1899

Horatio Alger: Ragged Dick (1868)

1836-1902

Bret Harte: “The Luck of Roaring Camp” “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” (1869)

1821-1881

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Idiot (1869)

1821-1880

Gustave Flaubert: Sentimental Education (1869)

1806-1873

John Stuart Mill: The Subjection of Women (1869)

1828-1910

Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace (1869)

1835-1910

Mark Twain: The Innocents Abroad (1869)

1832-1899

Horatio Alger: Mark the Match Boy (1869)

1822-1888

Matthew Arnold: Culture and Anarchy (1869) [E-text]

1828-1905

Jules Verne: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869-1870)

1809-1882

Charles Darwin: The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871)

1835-1902

Samuel Butler: Erewhon (1872)

1819-1880

George Eliot: Middlemarch (1871-1872)

1821-1881

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Possessed (1872)

1835-1910

Mark Twain: Roughing It (1872)

1854-1891

Arthur Rimbaud: Selected Poems (1872)

1814-1873

Sheridan Le Fanu: In a Glass Darkly (1872)

1835-1910

Mark Twain: The Gilded Age (with Charles Dudley Warner) (1873)

1840-1902

Émile Zola: The Belly of Paris (1873)

1828-1905

Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)

1815-1882

Anthony Trollope: The Eustace Diamonds (1873)

1854-1891

Arthur Rimbaud: A Season in Hell (1873)

1821-1880

Gustave Flaubert: The Temptations of Saint Anthony (1874)

1854-1891

Arthur Rimbaud: Illuminations (1874)

1840-1928

Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)

1840-1922

Giovanni Verga: The House by the Medlar Tree (I Malavoglia) (1875)

1844-1889

Gerard Manley Hopkins: Selected Poems (1875-)

1815-1882

Anthony Trollope: The Way We Live Now (1875)

1835-1910

Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer (1876)

1819-1880

George Eliot: Daniel Deronda (1876)

1828-1910 

Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina (1877)

1840-1902

Émile Zola: L’Assommoir (1877)

1820-1878

Anna Sewell: Black Beauty (1877)

1821-1881

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Best Short Stories (1846-1877)

1840-1928

Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Native (1878)

1843-1916

Henry James: The Europeans (1878)

1843-1916

Henry James: Daisy Miller (1878)

1850-1894

Robert Louis Stevenson: New Arabian Nights: The Suicide Club (1878)

1836-1911

1842-1900

Sir William Gilbert & Sir Arthur Sullivan: The Mikado (1885)

1828-1906 

Henrik Ibsen: A Doll’s House (1879)

1840-1897

Alphonse Daudet: Kings in Exile (1879)

1827-1905

Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880)

1827-1901

Johanna Spyri: Heidi (1880)

1850-1894

Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island (1883)

1850-1894

Robert Louis Stevenson: The Black Arrow (1883)

1840-1928

Thomas Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)

1850-1894

Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)

1849-1924

Frances Hodgson Burnett: Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886)

1859-1930

Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet (1887)

1843-1916

Henry James: Washington Square (1880)

1840-1902

Émile Zola: Nana (1880)

1850-1893

Guy de Maupassant: Boule De Suif and Selected Stories (1880)

1821-1880

Gustave Flaubert: Bouvard and Pécuchet (1881, posthumous)

1843-1916

Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady (1881)

1821-1881

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Brothers Karamazov (1881)

1845-1908

Joel Chandler Harris: Nights with Uncle Remus (1881)

1835-1910

Mark Twain: The Prince and The Pauper (1882)

1835-1910

Mark Twain: Life on the Mississippi (1883)

1848-1908

Joel Chandler Harris: Nights with Uncle Remus (1883)

1853-1911

Howard Pyle: The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883)

1835-1910

Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn (1884)  

1828-1906 

Henrik Ibsen: The Wild Duck (1884)

1840-1897

Alphonse Daudet: Sapho (1884)

1856-1925

H. Rider Haggard: King Solomon’s Mines (1885)

1840-1902

Émile Zola: Germinal (1885)

1844-1900

Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883-1885)

1850-1893

Guy de Maupassant: Bel-Ami (1885)

1837-1920

William Dean Howells: The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885)

1836-1911

1842-1900

Sir William Gilbert & Sir Arthur Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance (1879)

1819-1891

Herman Melville: Billy Budd, Sailor (1886-, posthumous 1924)

1828-1910

Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories (1886)

1850-1894

Robert Louis Stevenson: Kidnapped (1886)

1844-1900

Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil (1886)

1856-1925

H. Rider Haggard: She (1887)

1856-1925

H. Rider Haggard: Allan Quatermain (1887)

1850-1898

Edward Bellamy: Looking Backward 2000-1887 (1888)

1865-1936

Rudyard Kipling: The Man Who Would Be King (1888)

1844-1900

Friedrich Nietzsche: Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is (1888)

1844-1900

Friedrich Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ: A Criticism of Christianity (1888)

1860-1904

Anton Chekhov: The Steppe (1888)

1849-1912

August Strindberg: Miss Julia (1888)

1828-1910

Leo Tolstoy: The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories (1889)

1835-1910

Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889)

1856-1925

H. Rider Haggard: Cleopatra (1889)

1859-1927

Jerome K. Jerome: Three Men in A Boat (1889)

1850-1894

Robert Louis Stevenson: The Master of Ballantrae (1889)

1863-1938

Gabriele D’Annunzio: The Child of Pleasure (Il Piacere) (1889)

1840-1902

Émile Zola: La Bête Humaine (1890)

1859-1952

Knut Hamsun: Hunger (1890)

1842-1910

William James: The Principles of Psychology (1890)

1788-1860

Arthur Schopenhauer: Studies in Pessimism (1890, posthumous)

1830-1886

Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems (1890-, posthumous)

1840-1928

Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d’Ubervilles (1891)

1860-1940

Hamlin Garland: Much-Travelled Roads (1891)

1857-1903

George Gissing: New Grub Street (1891)

1824-1914?

Ambrose Bierce: In the Midst of Life (1891)

1860-1904

Anton Chekhov: The Duel (1891)

1860-1904

Anton Chekhov: Ward No. 6 (1892)

1847-1912

1854-1919

George & Weedon Grossmith: The Diary of a Nobody (1892)

1859-1930

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)

1828-1906

Henrik Ibsen: The Master Builder (1892)

1863-1933

Anthony Hope: The Prisoner of Zenda (1893)

1860-1904

Anton Chekhov: The Story of an Unknown Man (1893)

1855-1928

Stanley J. Weyman: A Gentleman of France (1893)

1865-1936

Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Books (1894/1895)

1835-1910

Mark Twain: Pudd’nhead Wilson and “Those Extraordinary Twins” (1894)

1856-1950

George Bernard Shaw: Arms and the Man (1894)

1855-1928

Stanley J. Weyman: Under the Red Robe (1894)

1844-1924

Anatole France: The Red Lily (1894)

1840-1928

Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure (1895)

1857-1924

Joseph Conrad: Almayer’s Folly and Other Stories (1895)

1860-1904

Anton Chekhov: Three Years (1895)

1871-1900

Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage (1895)

1846-1916

Henry Sienkiewicz: Quo Vadis (1895)

1866-1946

H. G. Wells: The Time Machine (1895)

1849-1909

Sarah Orne Jewett: The Country of Pointed Firs (1896)

1856-1898

Harold Frederic: The Damnation of Theron Ware (1896)

1860-1904

Anton Chekhov: The Seagull (1896)

1860-1904

Anton Chekhov: My Life (1896)

1870-1925

Pierre Louys: Aphrodite (1896)

1866-1946

H. G. Wells: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)

1843-1916

Henry James: What Maisie Knew (1897)

1857-1924

Joseph Conrad: The Nigger of the Narcissus (1897)

1847-1912

Bram Stoker: Dracula (1897)

1865-1936

Rudyard Kipling: Captains Courageous (1897)

1866-1946

H. G. Wells: The Invisible Man (1897)

1843-1916

Henry James: The Turn of the Screw (1898)

1866-1946

H. G. Wells: The War of the Worlds (1898)

1857-1924

Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness (1899)

1860-1904

Anton Chekhov: Uncle Vanya (1899)

1866-1921

E. W. Hornung: The Amateur Cracksman (1899)

1850-1904

Kate Chopin: The Awakening (1899)

1854-1900

Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Ernest (1899)

1870-1902

Frank Norris: McTeague (1899)

1844-1909

Joshua Slocum: Sailing Alone Around the World (1899)

1900-2000

A few authors of popular fiction who have been very prolific are listed only once or twice (unless there are compelling reasons to add other titles) under the assumption that a reader who enjoys their work will find other books on their own. These authors include Edward S. Aarons, Desmond Bagley, Lawrence Block, Agatha Christie, Dick Francis, Sue Grafton, Zane Grey, Jack Higgins (Harry Patterson), Patricia Highsmith, Hammond Innes, Helen MacInnes, Alistair MacLean, Ed McBain, Robert B. Parker, Georges Simenon, and Ross Thomas. From this point on most (but not all) of the works listed are fiction. As regards titles from the 1960s on, this list favors novels of suspense, although I have tried to include a sampling of so-called serious literary fiction and a representative selection of works in other forms of popular fiction, e.g., horror, sci-fi, romance, fantasy, teen lit., and so forth. Still, the list is not balanced from that point on.

Date Read Author’s Life Span Author and Title

1857-1924

Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim (1900)

1870-1936

Mary Johnston: To Have and to Hold (1900)

1871-1945

Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie (1900)

1860-1904

Anton Chekhov: Three Sisters (1901)

1854-1900

Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1901)

1865-1936

Rudyard Kipling: Kim (1901)

1879-1958

Bertha Runkle: The Helmet of Navarre (1901)

1870-1902

Frank Norris: The Octopus: A Story of California (1901)

1869-1901

George Douglas Brown: The House with the Green Shutters (1901)

1879-1954

Miles (Stella) Franklin: My Brilliant Career (1901)

1865-1948

A. E. W. Mason: The Four Feathers (1902)

1860-1938

Owen Wister: The Virginian (1902)

1843-1916

Henry James: The Wings of the Dove (1902)

1866-1943

Beatrix Potter: The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902)

1869-1951

André Gide: The Immoralist (1902)

1843-1916

Henry James: The Ambassadors (1903)

1865-1939

William Butler Yeats: Selected Poems

1856-1923

Kate Douglas Wiggin: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903)

1876-1916

Jack London: The Call of the Wild (1903)

1835-1902

Samuel Butler: The Way of All Flesh (1903, posthumous)

1857-1924

Joseph Conrad: Nostromo (1904)

1870-1902

Frank Norris: The Pit (1904)

1841-1922

W. H. Hudson: Green Mansions (1904)

1871-1909

John Millington Synge: Riders to the Sea (1904)

1843-1916

Henry James: The Golden Bowl (1904)

1860-1904

Anton Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard (1904)

1867-1936

Luigi Pirandello: The Late Mattia Pascal (1904)

1876-1916

Jack London: The Sea-Wolf (1904)

1864-1946

Thomas Dixon, Jr.: The Clansman (1905)

1862-1937

Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth (1905)

1865-1947

Baroness Orczy: The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)

1855-1912

Giovanni Pascoli: Selected Poems

1878-1968

Upton Sinclair: The Jungle (1906)

1876-1916

Jack London: White Fang (1906)

1867-1933

John Galsworthy: The Man of Property (1906) (Book I of The Forsyte Saga)

1879-1970

E. M. Forster: The Longest Journey (1907)

1868-1936

Maxim Gorky: The Mother (1907)

1857-1924

Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent (1907)

1849-1912

August Strindberg: The Ghost Sonata (1907)

1871-1909 

J. M. Synge: The Playboy of the Western World (1907)

1879-1970

E. M. Forster: A Room With a View (1908)

1862-1919

John Fox Jr.: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908)

1867-1931

Arnold Bennett: The Old Wives’ Tale (1908)

1859-1932

Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows (1908)

1844-1924

Anatole France: Penguin Island (1908)

1871-1919

Leonid Andreyev: The Seven Who Were Hanged (1908)

1863-1924

Gene Stratton-Porter: A Girl of the Limberlost (1909)

1874-1946

Gertrude Stein: Three Lives (1909)

1879-1970

E. M. Forster: Howard’s End (1910)

1878-1952

Jeffrey Farnol: The Broad Highway (1910)

1857-1924

Joseph Conrad: Under Western Eyes (1911)

1862-1937

Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome (1911)

1849-1924

Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden (1911)

1860-1937

J. M. Barrie: Peter Pan [Peter and Wendy] (1911)

1824-1914?

Ambrose Bierce: The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)

1872-1956

Max Beebohm: Zuleika Dobson; or, An Oxford Love Story (1911)

1875-1955

Thomas Mann: Death in Venice (1912) 

1859-1930

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World & Other Stories (1912)

1872-1939

Zane Grey: Riders of the Purple Sage (1912)

1875-1950

Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan of the Apes (1912)

1878-1957

Lord Dunsany (Edward Plunkett): The Book of Wonder (1912)

1876-1916

Jean Webster: Daddy-Long-Legs (1912)

1873-1947

Willa Cather: O Pioneers! (1913)

1868-1920

Eleanor Hodgman Porter: Pollyanna (1913)

1885-1930

D. H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers (1913)

1878-1952

Jeffrey Farnol: The Amateur Gentleman (1913)

1875-1956

E. C. Bentley: Trent’s Last Case (1913)

1871-1922

Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time, 1: Swan’s Way (1913)

1888-1970

Giuseppe Ungaretti: Life of a Man (selected poems)

1868-1936

Maxim Gorky: My Childhood (1913-1914)

1882-1941

James Joyce: Dubliners (1914)

1872-1939

Zane Grey: The Light of Western Stars (1914)

1874-1946

Gertrude Stein: Tender Buttons (1914)

1869-1946

Booth Tarkington: Penrod (1914)

1867-1916

Natsume Soseki: Kokoro (1914)

1869-1951

André Gide: Lafcadio’s Adventures (The Caves of the Vatican) (1914)

1874-1965

W. Somerset Maugham: Of Human Bondage (1915)

1873-1939

Ford Madox Ford: The Good Soldier (1915)

1883-1924

Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis (1915)

1873-1947

Willa Cather: The Song of the Lark (1915)

1875-1940

John Buchan: The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915)

1876-1916

Jean Webster: Dear Enemy (1915)

1875-1950

Rafael Sabatini: The Sea-Hawk (1915)

1882-1941

James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

1856-1950

George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion (1916)

1875-1940

John Buchan: Greenmantle (1916)

1835-1910

Mark Twain: The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories (1897-1916)

1868-1952

Norman Douglas: South Wind (1917)

1859-1952

Knut Hamsun: Growth of the Soil (1917)

1867-1936

Luigi Pirandello: It Is So (If You Think So (1917)

1873-1947

Willa Cather: My Ántonia (1918)

1875-1950

Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Land That Time Forgot (1918) [E-text]

1869-1946

Booth Tarkington: The Magnificent Ambersons (1918)

1880-1958

Marie Stopes: Married Love (1918)

1877-1962

William Beebe: Jungle Peace (1918)

1877-1962

Herman Hesse: Demian (1919)

1874-1965

W. Somerset Maugham: The Moon and Sixpence (1919)

1871-1922

Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time, 2: Within a Budding Grove (1919)

1876-1941

Sherwood Anderson: Winesburg, Ohio (1919)

1872-1942

Albert Payson Terhune: Lad: A Dog (1919)

1879-1958

James Branch Cabell: Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice (1919)

1883-1958

Johnston McCulley: The Mark of Zorro [The Curse of Capistrano] (1919)

1896-1981

Eugenio Montale: Selected Poems

1862-1937

Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence (1920)

1896-1940

F. Scott Fitzgerald: This Side of Paradise (1920)

1885-1930

D. H. Lawrence: Women in Love (1920)

1885-1951

Sinclair Lewis: Main Street (1920)

1879-1957

Freeman Wills Crofts: The Cask (1920)

1888-1937

Sapper (Herman Cyril McNeile): Bulldog Drummond (1920)

1873-1954

Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette): Chéri (1920)

1867-1936

Luigi Pirandello: Six Characters in Search of an Author (1920)

1875-1955

Thomas Mann: Buddenbrooks (1921)

1867-1933

John Galsworthy: The Forsyte Saga (1921) [see 1906 for Book I]

1871-1922

Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time, 3: The Guermantes Way (1920-1921)

1889-1932

Lytton Strachey: Queen Victoria (1921)

1894-1964

Ben Hecht: Erik Dorn (1921)

1872-1939

Zane Grey: To the Last Man (1921)

1875-1950

Rafael Sabatini: Scaramouche (1921)

1896-1970

John Dos Passos: Three Soldiers (1921)

1871-1922

Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time, 4: Cities of the Plain (1921-1922)

1877-1962

Herman Hesse: Siddhartha (1922)

1875-1950

Rafael Sabatini: Captain Blood (1922)

1867-1936

Luigi Pirandello: Henry IV (1922)

1888-1965

T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land and other Selected Poems (1922)

1875-1940

John Buchan: Huntingtower (1922)

1896-1940

F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Beautiful and the Damned (1922)

1896-1940

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Six Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

1885-1951

Sinclair Lewis: Babbitt (1922)

1882-1941

James Joyce: Ulysses (1922)

1888-1935

T. E. Lawrence: Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922)

1856-1931

Frank Harris: My Life and Loves (1922)

1861-1928

Italo Svevo: The Confessions of Zeno (1923)

1883-1923

Jaroslav Hasêk: The Good Soldier Schweik (1923)

1867-1936

Luigi Pirandello: The Man with the Flower in His Mouth (1923)

1871-1922

Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time, 5: The Captive (1923)

1879-1970

E. M. Forster: A Passage to India (1924)

1875-1955

Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain (1924)

1885-1968

Edna Ferber: So Big (1924)

1856-1950

George Bernard Shaw: Saint Joan (1924)

1888-1953

Eugene O’Neill: Desire Under the Elms (1924)

1875-1941

P. C. Wren: Beau Geste (1924)

1872-1939

Zane Grey: The Call of the Canyon (1924)

1884-1964

Sean O’Casey: Juno and the Paycock (1924)

1896-1940

F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (1925)

1874-1965

W. Somerset Maugham: The Painted Veil (1925)

1882-1941

Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway (1925)

1883-1924

Franz Kafka: The Trial (1925)

1885-1951

Sinclair Lewis: Arrowsmith (1925)

1896-1970

John Dos Passos: Manhattan Transfer (1925)

1888-1981

Anita Loos: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925)

1885-1933

Ring Lardner: Haircut and Other Stories (1925)

1882-1941

Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway (1925)

1885-1970

François Mauriac: The Desert of Love (1925)

1867-1936

Luigi Pirandello: One, No one and One Hundred Thousand (1925)

1871-1922

Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time, 6: The Sweet Cheat Gone (1925)

1871-1945

Theodore Dreiser: An American Tragedy (1925)

1885-1933

Ring Lardner: Haircut and Other Stories (1925)

1899-1961

Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises (1926)

1883-1924

Franz Kafka: The Castle (1926)

1885-1968

Edna Ferber: Show Boat (1926)

1890-1976

Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)

1873-1954

Colette: The Last of Chéri (1926)

1873-1947

Willa Cather: Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)

1882-1941

Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse (1927)

1876-1931

Ole Edvart Rølvaag: Giants in the Earth. A Saga of the Prairie (1927)

1897-1975

Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luís Rey (1927)

1877-1962

Herman Hesse: Steppenwolf (1927)

1871-1922

Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time, 7: The Past Recaptured (1927)

1885-1951

Sinclair Lewis: Elmer Gantry (1927)

1885-1930

D. H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928)

1882-1941

Virginia Woolf: Orlando (1928)

1903-1966

Evelyn Waugh: Decline and Fall (1928)

1897-1962

Georges Bataille: Story of the Eye (1928)

1893-1957

Dorothy Sayers: The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928)

1899-1961

Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms (1929)

1899-1961

Ernest Hemingway: The Nick Adams Stories (1920s/1930s) [1972]

1897-1962

William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury (1929)

1900-1938

Thomas Wolfe: Look Homeward, Angel (1929)

1898-1970

Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)

1894-1961

Dashiel Hammett: Red Harvest (1929)

1894-1961

Dashiel Hammett: The Dain Curse (1929)

1882-1941

Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own (1929)

1900-1976

Richard Hughes: A High Wind in Jamaica (1929)

1885-1968

Edna Ferber: Cimarron (1929)

1907-1990

Alberto Moravia: A Time of Indifference (1929)

1877-1951

Lloyd C. Douglas: Magnificent Obsession (1929)

1899-1982

W. R. Burnett: Little Caesar (1929)

1905-1973

Henry Green: Living (1929)

1889-1963

Jean Cocteau: The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles) (1929)

1905-1989

Robert Penn Warren: All the King’s Men (1946)

1874-1963

Robert Frost: Selected Poems

1897-1962

William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying (1930)

1885-1930

D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Short Stories (1930)

1895-1956

Corrado Alvaro: Revolt in Aspromonte (1930)

1894-1961

Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon (1930)

1894-1961

Dashiell Hammett: The Continental Op [7 Short Stories, © 1974] (1930)

1896-1970

John Dos Passos: The 42^nd Parallel (1930) [USA, vol. 1]

1892-1973

Pearl Buck: The Good Earth (1931)

1897-1962

William Faulkner: Sanctuary (1931)

1903-1989

Georges Simenon: Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets (1931)

1885-1957

Kenneth Roberts: The Lively Lady (1931)

1908-1997

Leo Rosten: The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N (1931)

1888-1953

Eugene O’Neill: Mourning Becomes Electra (1931)

1894-1961

Dashiell Hammett: The Glass Key (1931)

1899-1961

Ernest Hemingway: Death in the Afternoon (1932)

1897-1962

William Faulkner: Light in August (1932)

1894-1963

Aldous Huxley: Brave New World (1932)

1887-1947

1887-1951

Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall: Mutiny on the Bounty (1932)

1903-1987

Irskine Caldwell: Tobacco Road (1932)

1896-1970

John Dos Passos: 1919 (1932) [USA, vol. 2]

1906-1977

John Dickson Carr: Poison in Jest (1932)

1873-1954

Colette: The Pure and the Impure (1932)

1894-1961

Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Journey to the End of the Night (1932)

1867-1957

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House in the Big Woods (1932)

1900-1954

James Hilton: Lost Horizon (1933)

1903-1940

Nathanael West: Miss Lonelyhearts (1933)

1890-1937

H. P. Lovecraft: The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories [21 stories] (1933)

1900-1978

Ignazio Silone: Fontamara (1933)

1903-1987

Irskine Caldwell: God’s Little Acre (1933)

1901-1976

André Malraux: Man’s Fate (1933)

1874-1946

Gertrude Stein: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933)

1894-1961

James Thurber: My Life and Hard Times (1933)

1867-1957

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Farmer Boy (1933)

1896-1940

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tender Is the Night (1934)

1905-1970

John O’Hara: Appointment in Samara (1934)

1872-1939

Zane Grey: The Code of the West (1934)

1892-1977

James M. Cain: The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934)

1891-1980

Henry Miller: Tropic of Cancer (1934)

1903-1989

Irving Stone: Lust for Life (1934)

1898-1989

Malcolm Cowley: Exile’s Return (1934)

1900-1954

James Hilton: Good-bye, Mr. Chips (1934)

1894-1961

Dashiell Hammett: The Thin Man (1934)

1895-1985

Robert Graves: I, Claudius (1934)

1890-1976

Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

1886-1975

Rex Stout: Fer-De-Lance (1934)

1902-1968

John Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat (1935)

1909-1979

James T. Farrell: Studs Lonigan Trilogy: Young Lonigan (1932), The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (1934), Judgment Day (1935)

1899-1961

Ernest Hemingway: The Green Hills of Africa (1935)

1885-1951

Sinclair Lewis: It Can’t Happen Here (1935)

1905-1970

John O’Hara: Butterfield 8 (1935)

1888-1965

T. S. Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral (1935)

1900-1938

Thomas Wolfe: Of Time and the River (1935)

1867-1957

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House on the Prairie (1935)

1899-1961

Ernest Hemingway: The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1936)

1896-1970

John Dos Passos: The Big Money (1936) [USA, vol. 3]

1902-1978

John Steinbeck: In Dubious Battle (1936)

1904-1991

Graham Greene: This Gun For Hire (1936)

1900-1949

Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind (1936)

1891-1980

Henry Miller: Back Spring (1936)

1888-1959

Raymond Chandler: Pickup on Noon Street (1936), includes Smart-Aleck Kill (1934), Nevada Gas (1935), and Guns at Cyrano’s (1936)

1903-1998

Walter D. Edmonds: Drums Along the Mohawk (1936)

1899-1966

Lau Shaw: Rickshaw, tr. by Jean James (1936, tr. 1979)

1894-1942

Rachel Field: All This, and Heaven Too (1936)

1899-1961

Ernest Hemingway: To Have and Have Not (1937)

1902-1978

John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men (1937)

1891-1960

Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

1897-1962

William Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom! (1937)

1903-1950

George Orwell: The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)

1885-1962

Isak Dinesen: Out of Africa (1937)

1885-1957

Kenneth Roberts: Northwest Passage (1937)

1892-1977

James M. Cain: Serenade (1937)

1893-1960

John P. Marquand: The Late George Apley (1938)

1896-1981

A. J. Cronin: The Citadel (1937)

1892-1973

J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit (1937)

1897-1962

William Faulkner: The Unvanquished (1938)

1909-1983

John Fante: Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938)

1897-1975

Thornton Wilder: Our Town (1938)

1896-1953

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: The Yearling (1938)

1907-1989

Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca (1938)

1905-1982

Ayn Rand: Anthem (1938)

1909-1998

Eric Ambler: Cause for Alarm (1938)

1909-1998

Eric Ambler: Epitaph for a Spy (1938)

1905-1980

Jean-Paul Sartre: Nausea (1938)

1903-1966

Evelyn Waugh: Scoop (1938)

1886-1975

Rex Stout: Too Many Cooks (1938)

1898-1963

C. S. Lewis: Out of the Silent Planet (1938) [1^st of a Space Trilogy]

1894-1961

James Thurber: “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (1939)

1897-1962

William Faulkner: The Wild Palms (1939)

1903-1940

Nathanael West: Day of the Locust (1939)

1909-1983

John Fante: Ask the Dust (1939)

1900-1988

Geoffrey Household: Rogue Male (1939)

1902-1978

John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

1904-1991

Graham Greene: The Confidential Agent (1939)

1888-1959

Raymond Chandler: The Lady in the Lake (1939)

1890-1980

Katherine Anne Porter: Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939)

1911-1992

Pietro di Donato: Christ in Concrete (1939)

1886-1975

Rex Stout: Some Buried Caesar (1939)

1886-1975

Rex Stout: Double for Death (1939)

1891-1980

Henry Miller: Tropic of Capricorn (1939)

1906-1983

Richard Llewellyn: How Green Was My Valley (1939)

1909-1998

Eric Ambler: A Coffin for Dimitrios (1939)

1907-2000

L. Sprague de Camp: Lest Darkness Fall (1939)

1905-1973

Henry Green: Party Going (1939)

1907-1988

Robert A. Heinlein: For Us, the Living (1939, pub. 2003)

1899-1961

Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

1909-1971

Walter van Tilburg Clark: The Ox-Bow Incident (1940)

1904-1991

Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory (1940)

1888-1953

Eugene O’Neill: The Iceman Cometh (1940)

1908-1960

Richard Wright: Native Son (1940)

1890-1968

Conrad Richter: The Trees (1940)

1903-1968

Cornell Woolrich: The Bride Wore Black (1940)

1917-1967

Carson McCullers: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940)

1888-1959

Raymond Chandler: Farewell, My Lovely (1940)

1905-1983

Arthur Koestler: Darkness at Noon (1940)

1902-1967

Langston Hughes: The Big Sea (1940)

1902-1983

Christina Stead: The Man Who Loved Children (1940)

1909-1998

Eric Ambler: Journey into Fear (1940)

1891-1940

Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita (1940-41, posthumous)

1908-1966

Elio Vittorini: Conversations in Sicily (1941)

1885-1968

Edna Ferber: Saratoga Trunk (1941)

1909-1955

James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941)

1885-1980

Mary O’Hara: My Friend Flicka (1941)

1914-

Budd Schulberg: What Makes Sammy Run? (1941)

1892-1977

James M. Cain: Mildred Pierce (1941)

1903-1968

Cornell Woolrich: The Black Curtain (1941)

1917-1967

Carson McCullers: Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941)

1906-1977

John Dickson Carr: The Case of the Constant Suicides (1941)

1896-1940

F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Last Tycoon (1942, posthumous)

1913-1960

Albert Camus: The Stranger (1942)

1883-1931

Austin Tappan Wright: Islandia (1942)

1877-1951

Lloyd C. Douglas: The Robe (1942)

1907-1985

Helen MacInnes: Assignment in Brittany (1942) and/or any other titles

1892-1977

James M. Cain: Love’s Lovely Counterfeit (1942)

1885-1962

Isak Dinesen: Winter’s Tales (1942)

1888-1959

Raymond Chandler: The High Window (1942)

1902-2000

Curt Siodmak: Donovan’s Brain (1942)

1902-1995

Frank Waters: The Man Who Killed The Deer (1942)

1909-1993

Wallace Stegner: The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943)

1904-1991

Graham Greene: The Ministry of Fear (1943)

1900-1944

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Little Prince (1943)

1898-1956

Bertolt Brecht: The Good Woman of Setzuan (1943)

1905-1982

Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead (1943)

1888-1959

Raymond Chandler: The Lady in the Lake (1943)

1892-1977

James M. Cain: Double Indemnity (1943)

1910-1986

Jean Genet: Our Lady of the Flowers (1943)

1896-1972

Betty Smith: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943)

1903-1968

Cornell Woolrich: The Black Angel (1943)

1898-1963

C. S. Lewis: Perelandra (1943) [2^nd of a Space Trilogy]

1915-2005

Saul Bellow: Dangling Man (1944)

1914-1993

John Hersey: A Bell for Adano (1944)

1905-1980

Jean-Paul Sartre: No Exit (1944)

1911-1983

Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie (1944)

1899-1986

Jorge Luis Borges: Ficciones (1944)

1874-1965

W. Somerset Maugham: The Razor’s Edge (1944)

1902-1968

Charles Jackson: The Lost Weekend (1944)

1890-1980

Katherine Anne Porter: The Leaning Tower and Other Stories (1944)

1873-1954

Colette: Gigi (1944)

1907-1988

Christianna Brand: Green for Danger (1945)

1896-1940

F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Crack-Up (1945)

1909-1971

Walter van Tilburg Clark: The City of Trembling Leaves (1945)

1898-1970

Erich Maria Remarque: Arch of Triumph (1945)

1902-1968

John Steinbeck: Cannery Row (1945)

1902-1975

Carlo Levi: Christ Stopped at Eboli (1945)

1903-1950

George Orwell: Animal Farm (1945)

1905-1973

Henry Green: Loving (1945)

1885-1965

Thomas B. Costain: The Black Rose (1945)

1903-1966

Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited (1945)

1899-1985

E. B. White: Stuart Little (1945)

1904-1986

Christopher Isherwood: The Berlin Stories (1945)

1892-1975

Ivo Andrić: The Bridge on the Drina (1945)

1906-2001

R. K. Narayan: The English Teacher (1945)

1898-1963

C. S. Lewis: That Hideous Strength (1946) [3^rd of a Space Trilogy]

1890-1968

Conrad Richter: The Fields (1946)

1914-1993

John Hersey: Hiroshima (1946)

1909-2001

Eudora Welty: Delta Wedding (1946)

1883-1957

Nikos Kazantzakis: Zorba the Greek (1946)

1900-1985

Taylor Caldwell: This Side of Innocence (1946)

1917-1967

Carson McCullers: The Member of The Wedding (1946)

1895-1972

Edmund Wilson: Memoirs of Hecate County (1946)

1905-1981

Mary Jane Ward: The Snake Pit (1946)

1911-1979

Elizabeth Bishop: Selected Poems

1913-1960

Albert Camus: The Plague (1947)

1916-1991

Frank Yerby: The Vixens (1947)

1903-1968

Cornell Woolrich [as William Irish]: Waltz into Darkness (1947)

1914-

Budd Schulberg: The Harder They Fall (1947)

1911-1983

Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)

1918-2006

Mickey Spillane: I, the Jury (1947)

1913-1998

Hammond Innes: The Killer Mine (1947) and/or other titles

1909-1957

Malcolm Lowry: Under the Volcano (1947)

1901-1999

A. B. Guthrie, Jr.: The Big Sky (1947)

1922-

Vance Bourjaily: The End of My Life (1947)

1869-1951

André Gide: Madeleine (1947)

1900-1980

Erich Fromm: Man for Himself (1947)

1878-1967

Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems

1883-1963

William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems

1902-1967

Langston Hughes: Selected Poems

1897-1962

William Faulkner: Intruder in the Dust (1948)

1904-1991

Graham Greene: The Heart of the Matter (1948)

1923-2007

Norman Mailer: The Naked and the Dead (1948)

1916-1991

Frank Yerby: The Golden Hawk (1948)

1910-1999

Paul Bowles: The Sheltering Sky (1948)

1924-1984

Truman Capote: Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948)

1903-1968

Cornell Woolrich [as William Irish]: I Married a Dead Man (1948)

1912-2000

A. E. van Vogt: The World of Null-A (1948)

1915-1983

Ross Macdonald: The Three Roads (1948)

1903-1988

Alan Paton: Cry, The Beloved Country (1948)

1925-1970

Mishima Yukio: Confessions of a Mask (1948)

1911-2001

1908-2006

Frank B. Gilbreth Jr & Ernestine Gilbreth Carey: Cheaper by the Dozen (1948)

1903-1950

George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

1913-1984

Irwin Shaw: The Young Lions (1949)

1915-2005

Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman (1949)

1905-1970

John O’Hara: A Rage to Live (1949)

1901-1999

A. B. Guthrie, Jr.: The Way West (1949)

1909-1971

Walter van Tilburg Clark: The Track of the Cat (1949)

1907-1991

Jack Schaefer: Shane (1949)

1888-1959

Raymond Chandler: The Little Sister (1949)

1910-1986

Jean Genet: The Thief’s Journal (1949)

1909-1981

Nelson Algren: The Man with the Golden Arm (1949)

1895-1980

George R. Stewart: Earth Abides (1949)

1899-1961

Ernest Hemingway: Across the River and Into the Trees (1950)

1890-1968

Conrad Richter: The Town (1950)

1918-2006

Mickey Spillane: My Gun Is Quick (1950)

1915-1983

Ross Macdonald: The Drowning Pool (1950)

1916-

Beverly Cleary: Henry Huggins (1950)

1908-1950

Cesare Pavese: The Moon and the Bonfires (1950)

1879-1955

Wallace Stevens: Selected Poems

1885-1972

Ezra Pound: Selected Poems

1898-1963

C. S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia, Vol. 1: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)

1920-1992

Isaac Asimov: I, Robot (1950)

1920-

Ray Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles (1950)

1916-1975

Edward S. Aarons: The Art Studio Murders (1950)

1921-1995

Patricia Highsmith: Strangers on a Train (1950)

1919-