800 Literature
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000 General works · 1
800 Literature · 521
Winnie-the-Pooh
A. A. Milne
2024
Recommended
Afterlives
Abdulrazak Gurnah
2020
Recommended
The Luzumiyat
Abu al-ʻAlaʼ al-Maʻarri
2024
Recommended
Perhaps the Stars
Ada Palmer
2021
Recommended
Children of Ruin
Adrian Tchaikovsky
2019
Must-Read
Elder Race
Adrian Tchaikovsky
2021
Recommended
Suppliant Women
Aeschylus
1930
Must-Read
Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie
1937
Must-Read
Badenheim 1939
Aharon Appelfeld
1981
Recommended
The Jade God
Alan Sullivan
2023
Recommended
Explosion in a Cathedral
Alejo Carpentier
1963
Recommended
Russian Folktales
Aleksandr Afanas'ev
2013
Recommended
The Captain's Daughter
Aleksandr Pushkin
1933
Must-Read
The Queen of Spades
Aleksandr Pushkin
1928
Must-Read
Democracy
Alexis de Tocqueville
1889
Recommended
Idylls of the King
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
1859
Must-Read
Ghost Stories
Algernon Blackwood
1919
Recommended
The Willows
Algernon Blackwood
2002
Recommended
The Book of Seventy
Alicia Ostriker
2009
Supplementary
Howl and Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg
1956
Must-Read
Kaddish
Allen Ginsberg
1961
Must-Read
Kaddish and Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg
1961
Recommended
The Way of the World
Alphonsus Joseph-Mary Augustus Montague SUMMERS
1921
Recommended
Dark Psychology
Amy Brown
2022
Recommended
The White Feather
Andrew Wharton
2025
Recommended
A Popular Schoolgirl
Angela Brazil
1920
Recommended
The Fierce Reads Anthology: Volume 2
Ann Aguirre, Gennifer Albin, Elizabeth Fama, Lish McBride, Caragh M. O'Brien, Marie Rutkoski
2012
Recommended
Translation State
Ann Leckie
2023
Recommended
Requiem
Anna Akhmatova
1991
Must-Read
Autonomous
Annalee Newitz
2017
Recommended+ 491 more in Literature.
810 American literature · 669
Seven Surrenders
Ada Palmer
2017
Recommended
The Will to Battle
Ada Palmer
2017
Recommended
Too Like the Lightning
Ada Palmer
2016
Must-Read
The Invention of Morel
Adolfo Bioy Casares
1964
Recommended
Diving into the Wreck
Adrienne Rich
1973
Recommended
The Dream of a Common Language
Adrienne Rich
1978
Recommended
The Stars My Destination
Alfred Bester
1956
Must-Read
Dear Life
Alice Munro
2000
Recommended
Lives of Girls and Women
Alice Munro
1971
Recommended
Runaway
Alice Munro
2004
Recommended
The Moons of Jupiter
Alice Munro
1982
Recommended
Meridian
Alice Walker
1976
Recommended
Howl
Allen Ginsberg
1956
Must-Read
Dutchman
Amiri Baraka
1964
Recommended
Ralestone Luck
Andre Norton
2006
Recommended
The Defiant Agents
Andre Norton
1962
Recommended
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
2021
Recommended
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie
2013
Must-Read
Ancillary Mercy
Ann Leckie
2015
Must-Read
Ancillary Sword
Ann Leckie
2014
Must-Read
The Leavenworth Case
Anna Katharine Green
1902
Recommended
A Strange Disappearance
Anna Katharine Green, Sheba Blake
1880
Recommended
Autobiography of Red
Anne Carson
1999
Recommended
Glass, Irony and God
Anne Carson
1995
Recommended
Dragonflight
Anne McCaffrey
1968
Must-Read
Queen of the Damned
Anne Rice
1988
Recommended
The Vampire Lestat
Anne Rice
1986
Recommended
The Flick
Annie Baker
2014
Recommended
Accordion Crimes
Annie Proulx
1996
Recommended
Barkskins
Annie Proulx
2016
Recommended+ 639 more in American literature.
820 English literature · 673
Paradise
Abdulrazak Gurnah
1994
Recommended
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
2015
Must-Read
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
1939
Must-Read
Five Little Pigs
Agatha Christie
1942
Must-Read
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
1934
Must-Read
The ABC Murders
Agatha Christie
1936
Must-Read
The Big Four
Agatha Christie
1913
Recommended
The Man in the Brown Suit
Agatha Christie
1924
Recommended
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie
1926
Must-Read
The Murder on the Links
Agatha Christie
1923
Recommended
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie
1920
Recommended
The Mystery of the Blue Train
Agatha Christie
1928
Recommended
The Seven Dials Mystery
Agatha Christie
1929
Recommended
Call Me Ishmael Tonight
Agha Shahid Ali
2004
Recommended
Rooms Are Never Finished
Agha Shahid Ali
2001
Recommended
The Map of Love
Ahdaf Soueif
1999
Recommended
House of Suns
Alastair Reynolds
2008
Must-Read
Pushing Ice
Alastair Reynolds
2005
Must-Read
Revelation Space
Alastair Reynolds
2000
Must-Read
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
1932
Must-Read
Crome Yellow
Aldous Huxley
1921
Recommended
Island
Aldous Huxley
1962
Must-Read
Point Counter Point
Aldous Huxley
1928
Recommended
Those Barren Leaves
Aldous Huxley
1925
Recommended
The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas
1999
Must-Read
The Demolished Man
Alfred Bester
1951
Must-Read
In Memoriam A.H.H.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
2021
Must-Read
Selected Poems
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
1890
Must-Read
Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
Algernon Blackwood
1973
Recommended
The Memory of Love
Aminatta Forna
2010
Supplementary+ 643 more in English literature.
830 German literature · 58
A Dream Play
August Strindberg
1935
Must-Read
Life of Galileo
Bertolt Brecht
2013
Must-Read
Mother Courage and Her Children
Bertolt Brecht
2007
Must-Read
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Bertolt Brecht
1966
Must-Read
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Bertolt Brecht
1941
Must-Read
The Threepenny Opera
Bertolt Brecht
1955
Must-Read
The Nibelungenlied
Edward Haymes
1986
Recommended
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
2024
Recommended
Bambi
Felix Salten
1926
Recommended
Amerika
Franz Kafka
1927
Must-Read
In the Penal Colony
Franz Kafka
2016
Must-Read
Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
1966
Must-Read
The Castle
Franz Kafka
1957
Must-Read
Don Carlos
Friedrich Schiller
1787
Recommended
Wallenstein
Friedrich Schiller
1800
Recommended
Dog Years
Günter Grass
1963
Must-Read
Independent People
Halldór Laxness
1945
Recommended
The Clown
Heinrich Böll
1963
Recommended
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
Heinrich Böll
1974
Must-Read
Faceless Killers
Henning Mankell
1997
Recommended
A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen
1889
Must-Read
An Enemy of the People
Henrik Ibsen
1906
Must-Read
Ghosts
Henrik Ibsen
1965
Must-Read
Hedda Gabler
Henrik Ibsen
1890
Must-Read
The Wild Duck
Henrik Ibsen
1889
Must-Read
Demian
Hermann Hesse
1919
Must-Read
Narcissus and Goldmund
Hermann Hesse
1930
Must-Read
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
1922
Must-Read
The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse
1943
Must-Read
The Land of Green Plums
Herta Müller
1994
Recommended+ 28 more in German literature.
840 French literature · 105
Gil Blas
Alain René Le Sage
1747
Recommended
The Wanderer
Alain-Fournier
1913
Must-Read
The Fall
Albert Camus
1956
Must-Read
The Plague
Albert Camus
1947
Must-Read
Belle du Seigneur
Albert Cohen
1968
Must-Read
Antic Hay
Aldous Huxley
1923
Recommended
The Man in the Iron Mask
Alexandre Dumas
2016
Must-Read
The Vicomte de Bragelonne
Alexandre Dumas
1848
Recommended
Twenty Years After
Alexandre Dumas
1900
Must-Read
Samarkand
Amin Maalouf
1988
Recommended
Nadja
André Breton
1928
Must-Read
The Counterfeiters
André Gide
1925
Must-Read
Man's Fate
André Malraux
1933
Must-Read
Simple Passion
Annie Ernaux
1992
Recommended
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1943
Must-Read
Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade
Assia Djebar
1993
Recommended
Moravagine
Blaise Cendrars
1926
Must-Read
Les Fleurs du mal
Charles Baudelaire
1855
Must-Read
Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens
1800
Must-Read
Ursule Mirouët
Clara Bell, Honore De Balzac
1883
Recommended
D'Alembert's Dream
Denis Diderot
1966
Recommended
Jacques the Fatalist
Denis Diderot
1959
Recommended
Rameau's Nephew
Denis Diderot
1956
Recommended
Germinie Lacerteux
Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt
1889
Recommended
Monsieur Lecoq
Émile Gaboriau
1880
Recommended
The Bald Soprano
Eugène Ionesco
1950
Must-Read
Bonjour Tristesse
Françoise Sagan
1954
Must-Read
The Tin Flute
Gabrielle Roy
1945
Recommended
Consuelo
George Sand
1842
Recommended
Indiana
George Sand
1832
Recommended+ 75 more in French literature.
850 Italian literature · 21
Contempt
Alberto Moravia
1954
Must-Read
La Vita Nuova
Dante Alighieri
1876
Must-Read
Paradiso
Dante Alighieri
1595
Must-Read
Purgatorio
Dante Alighieri
1768
Must-Read
The Inferno
Dante Alighieri
1785
Recommended
The Tartar Steppe
Dino Buzzati
1940
Must-Read
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
2012
Recommended
The Story of a New Name
Elena Ferrante
2012
Recommended
The Story of the Lost Child
Elena Ferrante
2014
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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Elena Ferrante
2013
Recommended
The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio
1940
Must-Read
The Mother
Grazia Deledda
1923
Recommended
If on a winter's night a traveler
Italo Calvino
1979
Must-Read
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
1972
Must-Read
The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Italo Calvino
1977
Must-Read
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Luigi Pirandello
1925
Recommended
Canzoniere
Petrarch
1533
Must-Read
The Day of Judgment
Salvatore Satta
1987
Supplementary
Foucault's Pendulum
Umberto Eco
1988
Must-Read
The Island of the Day Before
Umberto Eco
1994
Must-Read
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco
1980
Must-Read860 Spanish & Portuguese literature · 47
The Kingdom of This World
Alejo Carpentier
1957
Recommended
Aura
Carlos Fuentes
1962
Recommended
Terra Nostra
Carlos Fuentes
1975
Recommended
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
César Aira
2006
Supplementary
Ghosts
César Aira
1990
Supplementary
Água Viva
Clarice Lispector
1973
Must-Read
Near to the Wild Heart
Clarice Lispector
2012
Must-Read
The Hour of the Star
Clarice Lispector
1986
Must-Read
The Passion According to G.H.
Clarice Lispector
1964
Must-Read
Poet in New York
Federico García Lorca
1940
Must-Read
The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa
1982
Must-Read
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Gabriel García Márquez
1981
Must-Read
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez
1985
Must-Read
No One Writes to the Colonel
Gabriel García Márquez
1961
Must-Read
The Autumn of the Patriarch
Gabriel García Márquez
1975
Must-Read
Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges
1945
Must-Read
Labyrinths
Jorge Luis Borges
1962
Must-Read
The Aleph
Jorge Luis Borges
1957
Must-Read
The Obscene Bird of Night
José Donoso
2024
Recommended
Paradiso
José Lezama Lima
1966
Recommended
El Filibusterismo
José Rizal
1891
Recommended
Noli Me Tangere
José Rizal
1887
Recommended
Baltasar and Blimunda
José Saramago
1988
Must-Read
Blindness
José Saramago
1995
Must-Read
The Sound of Things Falling
Juan Gabriel Vásquez
2011
Recommended
The Burning Plain
Juan Rulfo
1953
Must-Read
Dom Casmurro
Machado de Assis
1899
Must-Read
Quincas Borba
Machado de Assis
1899
Must-Read
Our Share of Night
Mariana Enriquez
2019
Recommended
Things We Lost in the Fire
Mariana Enriquez
2016
Recommended+ 17 more in Spanish & Portuguese literature.
870 Latin literature · 20
The Golden Ass
Apuleius
1500
Recommended
Poems
Catullus
1834
Recommended
Tom Jones
Henry Fielding
1749
Must-Read
Epistles
Horace
1816
Recommended
Odes
Horace
1635
Recommended
Satires
Horace
2004
Recommended
On the Nature of Things
Lucretius
1495
Must-Read
Pharsalia
Marcus Annaeus Lucan
1486
Recommended
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
170
Must-Read
Selected Political Speeches
Marcus Tullius Cicero
1550
Must-Read
Fasti
Ovid
1482
Must-Read
Heroides
Ovid
1502
Must-Read
The Art of Love
Ovid
1929
Must-Read
Satyricon
Petronius
1575
Recommended
The Twelve Caesars
Suetonius
1574
Must-Read
Annals & The Histories
Tacitus
2018
Must-Read
Histories
Tacitus
1864
Must-Read
Aeneid
Virgil
29 BCE
Must-Read
Eclogues
Virgil
1684
Must-Read
Georgics
Virgil
1628
Must-Read880 Greek literature · 65
Agamemnon
Aeschylus
1816
Must-Read
Eumenides
Aeschylus
1844
Must-Read
Libation Bearers
Aeschylus
2016
Must-Read
Oresteia
Aeschylus
1845
Must-Read
Persians
Aeschylus
1818
Must-Read
Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus
1559
Must-Read
Seven Against Thebes
Aeschylus
1812
Must-Read
The 'Agamemnon' of Aeschylus
Aeschylus
2017
Recommended
The Oresteia of Aeschylus
Aeschylus
1845
Recommended
Aesop's Fables
Aesop
1848
Must-Read
Enuma Elish
Anonymous (Babylonian)
2010
Must-Read
The Story of Sinuhe
Anonymous (Egyptian)
2019
Must-Read
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Anonymous (Sumerian)
2100 BCE
Must-Read
Argonautica
Apollonius of Rhodes
1574
Recommended
Lysistrata
Aristophanes
411 BCE
Must-Read
The Acharnians
Aristophanes
1973
Must-Read
The Birds
Aristophanes
1999
Must-Read
The Clouds
Aristophanes
423 BCE
Must-Read
The Frogs
Aristophanes
405 BCE
Must-Read
The Wasps
Aristophanes
1868
Must-Read
On the Soul
Aristotle
350 BCE
Must-Read
Rhetoric
Aristotle
350 BCE
Must-Read
Natya Shastra
Bharata Muni
Must-Read
Classic of Poetry (Shijing)
Confucius (compiled)
2014
Must-Read
Alcestis
Euripides
1818
Must-Read
Electra
Euripides
1588
Must-Read
Helen
Euripides
1837
Must-Read
Heracles
Euripides
1876
Must-Read
Hippolytus
Euripides
1756
Must-Read
Iphigenia in Aulis
Euripides
1900
Must-Read+ 35 more in Greek literature.
890 Other literatures · 141
Speaking of Siva
A.K. Ramanujan
1973
Recommended
Pan Tadeusz
Adam Mickiewicz
1834
Recommended
Curtain
Agatha Christie
1975
Must-Read
Yama
Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin
1952
Recommended
Boris Godunov
Aleksandr Pushkin
1831
Must-Read
Eugene Onegin
Aleksandr Pushkin
1995
Must-Read
Cancer Ward
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1968
Must-Read
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1962
Must-Read
Leo Africanus
Amin Maalouf
1998
Recommended
Poem Without a Hero
Anna Akhmatova
1970
Must-Read
Selected Poems
Anna Akhmatova
1969
Must-Read
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
Anonymous (Japanese)
Must-Read
Popol Vuh
Anonymous (Mayan)
Must-Read
Selected Stories
Anton Chekhov
1960
Must-Read
The Lady with the Little Dog
Anton Chekhov
2002
Must-Read
Ward No. 6
Anton Chekhov
2000
Must-Read
Roadside Picnic
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
1978
Must-Read
Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto
2006
Recommended
Selected Haiku
Basho
2013
Must-Read
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Basho
1966
Must-Read
Pather Panchali
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
2020
Recommended
Closely Watched Trains
Bohumil Hrabal
1990
Recommended
Too Loud a Solitude
Bohumil Hrabal
1990
Recommended
I Ching
Book of Changes
1951
Recommended
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Bruno Schulz
1978
Recommended
The Street of Crocodiles
Bruno Schulz
1963
Recommended
Dream of the Red Chamber
Cao Xueqin
2011
Must-Read
Selected Poems
Czesław Miłosz
1973
Recommended
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
1686
Must-Read
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
1925
Recommended+ 111 more in Other literatures.