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| Anonymous | The Epic of Gilgamesh |
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c. 2000 BC |
| Anonymous | The Egyptian Book of the Dead |
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c. 1650 BC |
| Anonymous | The Bhagavad–Gita |
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c. 1500 BC |
| Homer | The Iliad, The Odyssey |
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c. 700 BC |
| Anonymous | The Old Testament |
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443 BC |
| Eurypides (active c. 438 – 424 BC) | Alcestis |
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438 BC |
| Sophocles | Oedipus Rex |
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429 BC |
| Herodotus | The Histories |
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424 BC |
| Aristophanes | The Birds |
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414 BC |
| Plato | Dialogues |
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c. 400 BC |
| Plato | The Republic |
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380 BC |
| Aeschylus | Prometheus Bound |
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350 BC |
| Virgil | The Aeneid |
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29 – 19 BC |
| Aesop (lived c. 620 – 560 BC) | Fables (compiled by a rhetorician) |
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4 BC |
| Ovid | Metamorphoses |
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2 – 8 AD |
| Anonymous | The New Testament |
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60 AD |
| St. Augustine | Confessions |
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398 |
| Bede | The Ecclesiastical History of the English People |
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731 |
| Anonymous | The Thousand and One Nights |
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c. 850 |
| Anonymous | Beowulf |
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c. 800 – 1000 |
| Omar Khayyam | Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra |
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1070 |
| Anonymous | The Nibelungen Lied |
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1200 |
| Snorri Sturluson | The Prose Edda |
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1220 |
| Dante Alighieri | The Divine Comedy |
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1321 |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | The Decameron |
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1353 |
| Anonymous | The Mabinogion (stories in Welsh, from oral tradition) |
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c. 1350–1410 |
| William Langland | Piers Plowman |
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c. 1370 |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | The Canterbury Tales |
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1390–1400 |
| Thomas Malory | Le Morte d'Arthur |
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1485 |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | The Prince |
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1513 |
| John Calvin | Institutes of the Christian Religion (Latin original) |
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1536 |
| Giorgio Vasari | Lives of the Painters |
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1550 |
| Benvenuto Cellini | Autobiography |
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1558 |
| Nostradamus | Centuries |
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1555–8 |
| John Foxe | The Book of Martyrs |
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1563 |
| Rabelais | Gargantua and Pantagruel |
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1532–64 |
| Luis de Camoens | The Lusiads |
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1572 |
| Cervantes | Don Quixote |
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1605, 1615 |
| Thomas Hobbes | Leviathan |
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1651 |
| Izaak Walton | The Compleat Angler |
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1653 |
| Samuel Pepys | Diary (began) |
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1660 |
| John Milton | Paradise Lost |
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1667 |
| Samuel Pepys | Diary (ended) |
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1669 |
| John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress |
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1678, 1684 |
| Alexander Pope | The Rape of the Lock |
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1712 |
| Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe |
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1719 |
| Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels |
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1726 |
| Henry Fielding | Tom Jones |
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1749 |
| Samuel Richardson | Clarissa |
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1749 |
| Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random |
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1749 |
| John Cleland | Fanny Hill |
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1749 |
| Samuel Johnson | Dictionary of the English Language |
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1755 |
| Voltaire | Candide |
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1759 |
| Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield |
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1766 |
| Lawrence Sterne | Tristram Shandy |
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1759–67 |
| Goethe | The Sorrows of Young Werther |
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1774 |
| Adam Smith | The Wealth of Nations |
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1776 |
| Immanuel Kant | Critique of Pure Reason |
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1781 |
| Pierre Choderlos de Laclos | Dangerous Liaisons |
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1782 |
| Jean–Jacques Rousseau | Confessions |
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1782 |
| Marquis de Sade | The 120 Days of Sodom |
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1785 |
| Gilbert White | Natural History and Antiquities of Selbourne |
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1788 |
| Edward Gibbon | The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire |
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1776–89 |
| James Boswell | The Life of Doctor Samuel Johnson |
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1791 |
| Thomas Paine | The Rights of Man |
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1791 |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | A Vindication of the Rights of Women |
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1792 |
| Thomas Malthus | Essays on the Principle of Population |
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1798 |
| Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility (her first novel) |
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1811 |
| Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey, Persuasion (both posthumous) |
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1817 |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | Frankenstein |
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1818 |
| Sir Walter Scott (active 1814–32) | Ivanhoe |
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1819 |
| Thomas de Quincey | Confessions of an English Opium–Eater |
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1821 |
| James Fennimore Cooper | The Last of the Mohicans |
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1826 |
| Stendahl | The Red and the Black |
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1831 |
| Victor Hugo | The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
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1831 |
| Edward Bulwer–Lytton | The Last Days of Pompeii |
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1834 |
| Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers (his first novel) |
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1836–7 |
| Charles Darwin | Journal and Remarks (The Voyage of the Beagle) |
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1839 |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Fall of the House of Usher |
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1839 |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Murders in the Rue Morgue ("the first detective story") |
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1841 |
| Gogol | Dead Souls |
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1842 |
| John Ruskin | Modern Painters |
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1843 |
| Alexandre Dumas | The Three Musketeers |
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1844 |
| Friedrich Engels | The Condition of the Working Class in England in … |
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1844 |
| William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair |
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1847 |
| Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre |
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1847 |
| Anne Bronte | Agnes Grey |
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1847 |
| Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights |
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1847 |
| Mrs. Gaskell | Mary Barton |
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1848 |
| Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels | The Communist Manifesto |
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1848 |
| William Wordsworth | The Prelude (3 months posthumously) |
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1850 |
| Herman Melville | Moby–Dick |
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1851 |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
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1852 |
| Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary |
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1857 |
| Mrs. Gaskell | The Life of Charlotte Brontë |
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1857 |
| Charles Darwin | On the Origin of Species |
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1859 |
| George Eliot | Adam Bede (her first novel) |
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1859 |
| Wilkie Collins | The Woman in White |
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1860 |
| Ivan Turgenev | Fathers and Sons |
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1862 |
| Victor Hugo | Les Miserables |
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1862 |
| Charles Kingsley | The Water Babies |
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1863 |
| Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
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1865 |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | Crime and Punishment |
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1866 |
| Jules Verne | Journey to the Centre of the Earth |
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1866 |
| Emile Zola | Therese Raquin |
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1867 |
| Louisa May Alcott | Little Women |
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1868 |
| Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone ("the first English detective story") |
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1868 |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Idiot |
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1868–9 |
| Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace |
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1865–9 |
| Charles Dickens | The Mystery of Edwin Drood (unfinished) |
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1870 |
| Lewis Carroll | Through the Looking Glass |
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1871 |
| Thomas Hardy | Under the Greenwood Tree (his first novel) |
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1872 |
| Jules Verne | Around the World in 80 Days |
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1873 |
| George Eliot | Daniel Deronda (her last novel) |
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1876 |
| Mark Twain | Tom Sawyer |
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1876 |
| Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina |
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1878 |
| Lew Wallace | Ben–Hur |
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1880 |
| Henry James | The Portrait of a Lady |
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1881 |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island |
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1883 |
| Mark Twain | Huckleberry Finn |
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1885 |
| H. Rider Haggard | King Solomon's Mines |
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1885 |
| Rudyard Kipling | Plain Tales from the Hills (first major work) |
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1888 |
| Sir James George Fraser | The Golden Bough |
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1890 |
| Oscar Wilde | The Picture of Dorian Gray |
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1891 |
| George & Weedon Grossmith | Diary of a Nobody |
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1892 |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | Sherlock Holmes stories |
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1891–3 |
| Emile Zola | Le Docteur Pascal (his last major novel) |
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1893 |
| Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure (his last novel) |
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1895 |
| H. G. Wells | The Time Machine |
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1895 |
| Bram Stoker | Dracula |
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1897 |
| Emile Zola | J'accuse (open letter to the French government) |
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1898 |
| Joseph Conrad (first novel 1895) | Heart of Darkness |
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1899 |
| Sigmund Freud | The Interpretation of Dreams |
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1900 |
| Arnold Bennett | Anna of the Five Towns |
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1902 |
| Samuel Butler | The Way of All Flesh |
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1903 |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Hound of the Baskervilles |
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1905 |
| E. M. Forster | Where Angels Fear to Tread (his first novel) |
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1905 |
| Oscar Wilde | De Profundis (posthumous) |
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1905 |
| Rudyard Kipling | Puck of Pook's Hill (last major work) |
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1906 |
| John Galsworthy | The Man of Property |
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1906 |
| Kenneth Grahame | The Wind in the Willows |
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1908 |
| Ambrose Bierce | The Devil's Dictionary |
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1911 |
| D. H. Lawrence | The White Peacock (first novel) |
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1911 |
| Thomas Mann (active 1896–1954) | Death in Venice |
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1912 |
| Robert Tressell | The Ragged–Trousered Philanthropists |
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1914 |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | Tarzan of the Apes |
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1914 |
| James Joyce | Dubliners |
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1914 |
| John Buchan (active 1898–1941) | The Thirty–Nine Steps |
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1915 |
| Virginia Woolf | The Voyage Out (her first novel) |
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1915 |
| James Joyce | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
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1916 |
| James Joyce | Ulysses |
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1922 |
| Herman Hesse | Siddhartha |
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1922 |
| T. E. Lawrence | The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (private edition) |
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1922 |
| Joseph Conrad | The Rover (his last finished novel) |
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1923 |
| E. M. Forster | A Passage to India (last novel pub. in his lifetime) |
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1924 |
| Arnold Bennett | The Clayhanger trilogy (compiled as such) |
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1925 |
| Franz Kafka | The Trial (posthumously) |
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1925 |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby |
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1925 |
| Adolf Hitler | Mein Kampf (German edition) |
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1925–6 |
| A. A. Milne | Winnie–the–Pooh |
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1926 |
| T. E. Lawrence | The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (subscribers' edition) |
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1922 |
| Marcel Proust | In Search of Lost Time |
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1913–27 |
| Herman Hesse (active 1904–43) | Steppenwolf |
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1927 |
| Henry Williamson | Tarka the Otter |
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1927 |
| D. H. Lawrence | Lady Chatterley's Lover |
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1928 |
| Evelyn Waugh | Decline and Fall (his first novel) |
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1928 |
| John Galsworthy | The Forsyte Saga compiled as such |
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1929 |
| William Faulkner (active 1926–62) | The Sound and the Fury |
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1929 |
| Ernest Hemingway (active 1926–61) | A Farewell to Arms |
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1929 |
| D. H. Lawrence | The Virgin and the Gypsy (last novel) |
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1930 |
| Dashiell Hammett | The Maltese Falcon |
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1930 |
| Sellars and Yeatman | 1066 and All That (first published in book form) |
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1930 |
| Aldous Huxley (active 1921–62) | Brave New World |
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1932 |
| Adolf Hitler | Mein Kampf: first English edition (abridged) |
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1933 |
| T. E. Lawrence | The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (posth. Public edition) |
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1935 |
| Dale Carnegie | How to Win Friends and Influence People |
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1936 |
| John Maynard Keynes | The General Theory of Employment, Interest … |
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1936 |
| Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the Wind |
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1936 |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | The Hobbit |
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1937 |
| Izak Dinesen | Out of Africa |
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1937 |
| Daphne du Maurier (active 1931–72) | Rebecca |
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1938 |
| James Joyce | Finnegan's Wake |
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1939 |
| John Steinbeck (active 1927–66) | The Grapes of Wrath |
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1939 |
| Adolf Hitler | Mein Kampf: first unabridged edition |
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1939 |
| Virginia Woolf | Between the Acts (her last novel) |
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1941 |
| Albert Camus | The Outsider (The Stranger) |
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1942 |
| Jean–Paul Sartre | Being and Nothingness |
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1943 |
| George Orwell | Animal Farm |
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1945 |
| Evelyn Waugh | Brideshead Revisited |
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1945 |
| Dr. Benjamin Spock | The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care |
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1946 |
| Alfred Kinsey | Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male / Female |
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1948, 1953 |
| Simone de Beauvoir | The Second Sex |
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1949 |
| George Orwell | Nineteen Eighty–Four |
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1949 |
| Isaac Asimov | I, Robot (short story collection) |
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1950 |
| Thor Heyerdahl | The Kon–Tiki Expedition |
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1950 |
| J. D. Salinger | The Catcher in the Rye |
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1951 |
| Stephen Potter | Gamesmanship, Lifemanship, One–Upmanship |
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1947–52 |
| William Golding | Lord of the Flies |
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1954 |
| (Ross & Norris McWhirter) | The Guinness Book of Records (first edition) |
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1955 |
| Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita |
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1955 |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | Lord of the Rings |
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1955 |
| C. S. Lewis | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
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1955 |
| J. P. Donleavy | The Ginger Man |
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1955 |
| Gerald Durrell | My Family and Other Animals |
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1956 |
| Jack Kerouac | On the Road |
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1957 |
| Chinua Achebe | Things Fall Apart |
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1958 |
| Winston Churchill | A History of the English–Speaking Peoples |
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1956–8 |
| Laurie Lee | Cider with Rosie |
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1959 |
| Joy Adamson | Born Free |
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1960 |
| Truman Capote | In Cold Blood |
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1960 |
| Harper Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird |
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1960 |
| Gavin Maxwell | A Ring of Bright Water |
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1960 |
| William Shirer | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich |
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1960 |
| Joseph Heller | Catch–22 |
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1961 |
| Anthony Burgess | A Clockwork Orange |
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1962 |
| Ken Kesey | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
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1962 |
| Muriel Spark | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
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1962 |
| Sylvia Plath | The Bell Jar |
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1963 |
| Frank Herbert | Dune |
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1965 |
| John Lennon | A Spaniard in the Works |
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1965 |
| Ralph Nader | Unsafe at Any Cost |
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1965 |
| Jean Rhys | Wide Sargasso Sea |
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1966 |
| John Fowles | The Magus |
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1966 |
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez | One Hundred Years of Solitude |
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1967 |
| Desmond Morris | The Naked Ape |
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1967 |
| Quentin Crisp | The Naked Civil Servant |
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1968 |
| Erich Von Daniken | Chariots of the Gods |
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1968 |
| John Fowles | The French Lieutenant's Woman |
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1969 |
| Lady Antonia Fraser | Mary, Queen of Scots |
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1969 |
| Philip Roth | Portnoy's Complaint |
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1969 |
| Kurt Vonnegut | Slaughterhouse–5 |
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1969 |
| Germaine Greer | The Female Eunuch |
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1970 |
| Richard Adams | Watership Down |
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1972 |
| Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward | All the President's Men |
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1974 |
| Stephen King | Carrie (his first novel) |
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1974 |
| Anthony Powell | A Dance to the Music of Time |
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1975 |
| Richard Dawkins | The Selfish Gene |
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1976 |
| Edith Holden | The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady |
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1977 |
| Douglas Adams | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
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1978 |
| John Irving (active 1968–) | The World According to Garp |
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1978 |
| V. S. Naipaul | A Bend in the River |
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1979 |
| Salman Rushdie | Midnight's Children |
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1981 |
| Alice Walker | The Color Purple |
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1982 |
| Milan Kundera | The Book of Laughter and Forgetting |
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1982 |
| Terry Pratchett | The Colour of Magic |
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1983 |
| Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid's Tale |
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1985 |
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Love in the Time of Cholera |
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1985 |
| Toni Morrison | Beloved |
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1987 |
| Peter Wright | Spycatcher |
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1987 |
| Stephen Hawking | A Brief History of Time |
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1988 |
| Bill Bryson | The Lost Continent (his first book) |
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1989 |
| Peter Mayle | A Year in Provence |
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1989 |
| Joe Simpson | Touching the Void |
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1989 |
| Jung Chang | Wild Swans |
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1991 |
| John Grey | Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus |
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1992 |
| Nick Hornby | Fever Pitch |
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1992 |
| George R. R. Martin | A Game of Thrones (first in the series A Song of Ice and Fire) |
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1996 |
| J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone |
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1997 |
| Lady Antonia Fraser | The Six Wives of Henry VIII |
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1999 |
| Dan Brown | The Da Vinci Code (said to be the best–selling American novel of all time) |
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2003 |
| J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows |
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2007 |
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