An Astonishing List

from Annemarie Gallaugher

Hi Everyone,

As we come up on what I believe is the beginning of our fourth (?) year here at Story Club, I want to take a minute to thank all of our paid subscribers. This really is, as it sometimes says in the Subscribe Now box, “a reader-supported publication.” Those of you willing to contribute $6/month, $50/year literally make all of this possible.

Story Club has become a big part of my life, both in terms of creative energy and time, and so it’s heartening to think that it’s worth it, for those of you who are able to support it in this way.

So, I just want you to know how much I appreciate it.

We’re in a funny place here - or I am, anyway. I’m doing two posts a week, one on Thursday (usually an Office Hours) and one on Sunday (usually discussing a classic short story). The Thursday posts go out to everyone, Free subscribers included, while the Sunday ones only go out to Paid subscribers (who also, of course, receive the Thursday posts). It’s…a lot. (Also, I’m teaching this semester). As I turn the corner on this new book and head into what promises to be a very fraught and concentration-requiring phase, I’m trying to figure out a way to move a little bit of time and energy in that direction.

So, what I’m going to do is start sending out the free Thursday posts every other Thursday, while continuing to do a Paid post every Sunday, and I’m also going to start restricting comments, on all posts, to just Paid subscribers. My intent is to keep the quality and intensity of Story Club up, while also clearing a little time and space for this new book - and also honoring the Paid member’s willingness to be part of this in an active way. (I am also (obviously, honestly) trying to move some of our numerous (120,000+) Free subscribers over into the Paid category.)

So, a Paid subscriber will get Office Hours twice a month and the Sunday, story-examining, posts four times a month, and will have full commenting privileges.

Free subscribers will get two Office Hours a month, with the option of upgrading to Paid, in order to comment.

I want to thank Story Club member Annemarie Gallaugher, who has compiled an amazing list from our recent (October 3) post about how much one needs to read to be a writer (you can find that post here).

Annemarie has compiled your responses and it is pretty astonishing, and will, I think, prove useful to so many of us.

You can access the pdf below, and I’ll also paste the entire list in below.

Revised Sc Members Book List For Office Hours Assign Oct 3, 2024 Compiled By Annemarie Gallaugher

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Annemarie: THANKS SO MUCH. This was a Herculean effort that I know will provide so much benefit and food for thought for us all.

MEMO

To: George Saunders and Story Club Members

From: Annemarie Gallaugher, Story Club

Date: Sunday, October 13, 2024

Re: REVISED DRAFT: List of novels/authors/other works submitted by SC members in response to Office Hours, Thursday, October 3, 2024

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REVISED NOTES:

1. This is a REVISED DRAFT list of SC members’ nominations/suggestions for novels/authors/works as per Office Hours, Thurs., Oct. 3rd. I’ve tried to include everything posted up to about 1:00 a.m. (ET), Thurs., Oct. 10th. I was doing this for myself anyway, so thought I may as well share. Hope it’s useful for some SCers. I’ve kept the file in word so everyone can reorganize, edit, or change it however they want.

2. I’ve looked up all titles in Wikipedia and have tried to add dates and authors if they weren’t included in SC members’ posts. Dates were often very tricky though, what with different versions, editions, fragments, lost manuscripts, serializations, time written vs time published, etc. The earliest works mentioned (before 1200) were especially challenging and I know I haven’t done a very good job with those (but I did try to add notes where SCers pointed to particular/more recent editions). In the end, I decided to just lump them generally into “BCE” and “CE up to 1200,” and I haven’t organized them any further than that. Now I understand some of what literary scholars/historians go through. Wow!

3. The entries after 1200 are organized (hopefully) by decade, then by year, then alphabetically by authors’ surnames. Apologies if I’ve missed any entries.

4. I tried to place non-English-language works according to when they were first published in their original language, not when they were first published in English.

5. Some titles/authors/other works are placed a bit arbitrarily (by me and/or a SC member) since they straddle the half-century point, or since they were published (and/or written, and/or serialized) over multiple years. I have tried to place them according to what Wikipedia says is the first publication date. (I know what Wikipedia states may not always be accurate, but my aim was just to create a working draft list.)

6. Some titles were identified by some SC members as simply “favorites,” but I included those as well. I also included a “Miscellaneous” category at the end for related lists, books, websites, etc., that were mentioned. I didn’t have time to look up dates for those items, but I think they should be easy enough to find.

7. Apologies again, but to save myself time, I did not use any diacritics in any non-English-language spellings. (I don’t know the quick codes by heart, unfortunately, and still have to do Insert Symbol every time.)

8. I’ve fixed some typos (including the missing word “The” in some titles), but I’m sure there are still errors and inconsistencies on my part.

9. Sometimes an SC member only named an author and not any specific titles for that author; hence my two subcategories: 1) Authors mentioned without specific titles and 2) Titles.

10. This was fun!!! I reminisced a lot and learned a lot, so thanks to George for the assignment and thanks to everyone for your suggestions.

11. It would be nice to follow up with a poll and take a vote someday.

12. And, it would be nice to see even more international/world titles on the list.

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Before 1200:

Authors mentioned without specific titles: Virgil; Aristophanes

Titles:

BCE: The Odyssey (Homer; see in Emily Wilson’s pentameter; also see Pat Barker, The Voyage Home); The Iliad (Homer); The Epic of Gilgamesh; Antigone (Sophocles); Mahabharata (Vyasa; see Brook, 1985, stage play; see Carole Satyamurti, 2016, A Modern Retelling); The Ramayana (Valmiki); Aesop’s Fables (Aesop lived c. 620-564 BCE; however, his existence is unclear and no writings by him survive; he has been credited with many fables across the centuries and in many languages; these fables belong to oral tradition and were not collected until some three centuries after his death; many stories have been attributed to him that probably were not his; new stories are still being added)

CE to 1200: The Metamorphoses (Ovid, 8 CE; see Stephanie McCarter’s pentameter); Shahnameh (Ferdowsi, between 977-1010); One Thousand and One Nights/Arabian Nights (c. 8^th century to 13^th century; English trans. c. 1706-1721); The Tale of Genji (Shikibu, early 11^th century); Beowulf (author unknown; 975-1025; Heaney trans., 1999); The Pillow Book (Shonagon, completed 1002); Meditations (Marcus Aurelius, 161-180); Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Khayyam, 1048-1131); The Satyricon (G. or P. Petronius, late 1^st century); The Metamorphoses of Apuleius/The Golden Ass (Apuleius, c. 158-159 or 170s or 180s); Tristan and Isolde (Celtic legend, 12^th and 13^th century)

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1200-1250:

Authors mentioned without specific titles:

Titles:

1200: Author unknown. (c. 1200). Nibelungenlied (Epic poem); Various authors. (c. 13^th-14^th centuries). The Sagas of Icelanders.

1210:

1220:

1230: de Lorris, Guillaume. (c. 1230). Le Roman de la Rose (Part 1).

1240:

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1250-1300:

Authors mentioned without specific titles:

Titles:

1250:

1260: de Voragine, Jacobus. (c. 1260). Golden Legend (Stories of saints).

1270: de Meun, Jean (born Jean Clopinel or Jean Chopinel). (c. 1275). Le Roman de la Rose (Part 2).

1280:

1290:

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1300-1350:

Authors mentioned without specific titles:

Titles:

1300: Dante (Dante Alighieri). (c. 1308-1321). Divine Comedy (Poem).

1310:

1320: Dante (Dante Alighieri). Inferno (c. 1321). (Part 1 of Divine Comedy, Poem; Part 1 was written last???).

1330:

1340: Boccaccio, Giovanni. (c. 1348-1353). The Decameron (Story collection).

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1350-1400:

Authors mentioned without specific titles:

Titles:

1350: Various authors. (c. 1350-1410). The Mabinogion (Welsh tales).

1360:

1370:

1380: Chaucer, Geoffrey. (c. Mid 1380s, completed). Troilus and Criseyde; Chaucer, Geoffrey. (1387-1400). Canterbury Tales (See Carolyn Bergvall’s, Alisoun Sings for a retelling of some).

1390: Author unknown. (Late 14^th century). Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Author unknown/Sir Gawain Poet. (Late 14^th century). Pearl.

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1400-1450:

Authors mentioned without specific titles:

Titles:

1400: de Pizan, Christine. (c. 1405). The Book of the City of Ladies (Believed to have been finished 1405).

1410:

1420: Kempe, Margery. (1420s-1430s? dictated by Kempe). The Book of Margery Kempe (Kempe lived c. 1373-after 1438; she was illiterate and wrote by dictation; modern editions based on a ms copied by a scribe sometime in 15^th century)

1430:

1440:

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1450-1500:

Authors mentioned without specific titles:

Titles:

1450:

1460:

1470:

1480: Malory, Thomas. (1485). Le Morte d’Arthur (Completed c. 1470).

1490: de Rojas, Fernando. (1499). La Celestina.

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1500-1550:

Authors mentioned without specific titles:

Titles:

1500:

1510: Erasmus. (1511). In Praise of Folly (written 1509); More, Thomas. (1516). Utopia.

1520:

1530: Machiavelli, Niccolo. (1532). The Prince (a version was apparently being written in 1513); Rabelais, Francois. (c. 1532-1564, 5 vols.). Gargantua and Pantagruel.

1540:

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1550-1600:

Authors mentioned without specific titles: Shakespeare

Titles:

1550: Straparola, Giovanni. (1550-1555, 2 vols.). The Nights of Straparola; Author unknown. (1554). The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes.

1560:

1570:

1580: Montaigne, Michel de. (1580). Essays.

1590: Spenser, Edmund. (1590, 1596). The Faerie Queene; Shakespeare, William. (c. 1595 or 1596, written). A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Shakespeare, William. (1596-1598, written). The Merchant of Venice; Bacon, Francis. (1597). Essays; Shakespeare, William. (1597). Romeo and Juliet; Shakespeare, William. (c. 1599-1601). Hamlet; Shakespeare, William. (1599, first performed). Julius Caesar.

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1600-1650:

Authors mentioned without specific titles: Aemelia Lanyer; Margaret Cavendish; Shakespeare

Titles:

1600: de Scudery, Georges and/or Madeleine. (17^th century; 10 vols.). Le Grand Cyrus/Artamene; Cervantes, Miguel de. (1605, 1615). Don Quixote; Shakespeare, William. (1606, first performed). Macbeth.

1610: Shakespeare, William. (1610-1611). The Tempest; Various authors. (1611). King James Bible.

1620: de Erauso, Antonio (Catalina de Erauso/The Ensign Nun/The Nun Lieutenant). (1626?). Historia de la monja alferez escrita por ella misma.

1630: de la Barca, Pedro Calderon. (1635). La vida es sueno.

1640:

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1650-1700:

Authors mentioned without specific titles:

1650:

1660: Milton, John. (1667). Paradise Lost;

1670: Author unknown. (1678). La Princesse de Cleves; Bunyan, John. (1678). The Pilgrim’s Progress.

1680:

1690:

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1700-1750:

Authors mentioned without specific titles:

Titles:

1700: Author unknown. (18^th century). Celebrated Cases of Judge Di/Dee (Chinese title: De Gong An; van Gulik trans., 1949); Basho, Matsuo. (1702). A Narrow Road to the Deep North/Interior.

1710: Defoe, Daniel. (1719). Robinson Crusoe.

1720: Defoe, Daniel. (1722). A Journal of the Plague Year; Defoe, Daniel. (1722). Moll Flanders; Swift, Jonathan. (1726). Gulliver’s Travels; Swift, Jonathan. (1729). A Modest Proposal.

1730:

1740: Richardson, Samuel. (1740). Pamela; Fielding, Henry. (1741). Shamela; Fielding, Henry. (1742). Joseph Andrews; Richardson, Samuel. (1748). Clarissa; Fielding, Henry. (1749). Tom Jones.

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1750-1800:

Authors mentioned without specific titles:

Titles:

1750: Johnson, Samuel. (1750-1752). The Rambler (Essay periodical); Sterne, Laurence. (1759-1767, 9 vols.). Tristram Shandy; Voltaire. (1759). Candide.

1760: Voltaire. (1767). L’Ingenu.

1770: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. (Various dates, 1772-1775 up to 1832). Faust (Dates vary because of different fragments/parts/revisions; copy of ms discovered 1886); Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. (1774). The Sorrows of Young Werther (Revised 1787).

1780: Beckford, William. (1782, 1786). Vathek Episodes; de Laclos, Pierre Chodleros. (1782, 4 vols.). Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

1790: Radcliffe, Ann. (1790). A Sicilian Romance (First published anonymously in 1790); Boswell, James. (1791). The Life of Samuel Johnson; Godwin, William. (1794). Caleb Williams; Lewis, Matthew Gregory. (1796, 3 vols.). The Monk.

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1800-1850:

Authors mentioned without specific titles: Jane Austen

Titles:

1800:

1810: Austen, Jane. (1813). Pride and Prejudice; Austen, Jane (1815/1816?). Emma; Austen, Jane. (1817/1818?). Persuasion; Shelley, Mary. (1818). Frankenstein.

1820: Poe, Edgar Allan. (1827-1829?). Collected Edgar Allan Poe (Poe was published 1827-1829); Balzac, Honore. (1829-1848, multiple vols.). La Comedie humaine.

1830: Stendhal (pseud.; Marie-Henri Beyle). (1830, 2 vols.). The Red and The Black; Pushkin, Alexander. (1833, 1837). Eugene Onegin (Serial 1825-1832); Andersen, Hans Christian. (1835-1837). Fairy Tales Told for Children; Dickens, Charles. (1838, 3 vols.). Oliver Twist (Serial 1837-1839, under pseud. Boz).

1840: Gogol, Nikolai. (1842). Dead Souls); Dickens, Charles. (1843). A Christmas Carol; Dumas, Alexandre. (1844). The Count of Monte Cristo; Bronte, Charlotte. (1847). Jane Eyre; Bronte, Emily. (1847). Wuthering Heights.  

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1850-1900:

Authors mentioned without specific titles: Dickens; Knut Hamsun; Strindberg; Chekhov; Twain/Clemens; Cavafy; Kafka; Dickinson; Beckett; Ibsen

Titles:

1850: Dickens, Charles. (1850). David Copperfield (Serial 1849-1850); Hawthorne, Nigel. (1850). The Scarlet Letter; Melville, Herman. (1851). Moby-Dick; Stowe, Harriet Beecher. (1852). Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Dickens, Charles. (1853). Bleak House (Serial 1852-1853); Dickens, Charles. (1857). Little Dorrit (Serial 1855-1857); Flaubert, Gustave. (1857). Madame Bovary; Dickens, Charles. (1859). A Tale of Two Cities; Eliot, George (pseud.; Evans, Mary Ann). (1859). Adam Bede; Goncharov, Ivan. (1859). Oblomov.

1860: Eliot, George. (pseud.; Evans, Mary Ann). (1860, 3 vols.). The Mill on the Floss; Dickens, Charles. (1861, 3 vols.). Great Expectations (Serial 1860-1861); Hugo, Victor. (1862). Les Miserables; Turgenev, Ivan. (1862). Fathers and Sons; Dostoevsky, Fyodor. (1864). Notes from Underground; Carroll, Lewis. (1865). Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; Dostoevsky, Fyodor. (1867). Crime and Punishment (12 installments 1866); Tolstoy, Leo. (1869). War and Peace (Serial 1865).

1870: Eliot, George (pseud.; Evans, Mary Ann). (1871 and 1872, 8 installments/vols.). Middlemarch; Twain, Mark (pseud.; Samuel Clemens). (1876). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Tolstoy, Leo. (1878). Anna Karenina (Serial 1875-1877); Dostoevsky, Fyodor. (1879-1880). The Brothers Karamazov (Serial). 

1880: James, Henry. (1881). The Portrait of a Lady (Serial 1880-1881); Nietzsche, Friedrich. (1883-1885, 4 vols.). Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Abbott, Edwin. (1884). Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions; Twain, Mark (pseud.; Samuel Clemens). (1884). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Zola, Emile. (1885). Germinal (Serial 1884-1885); Stevenson, Robert Louis. (1886). Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Chekhov, Anton. (1888). The Steppe.   

1890: Hamsun, Knut. (1890). Hunger; Wilde, Oscar. (1890-1891). The Picture of Dorian Gray; Conrad, Joseph. (1899). Heart of Darkness.

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1900-1950:

Authors mentioned without specific titles: Harry Martinson; Eyvind Johnson; Proust; Wharton; Wodehouse; Chesterton; Fitzgerald; Jorge Luis Borges; Eudora Welty; Jose Saramago; Ivo Andric; Thomas Mann; Herman Hesse; Ezra Pound; Patricia Highsmith; Par Lagerkvist; Hemingway

Titles:

1900: Dreiser, Theodore. (1900). Sister Carrie; Mann, Thomas. (1901). Buddenbrooks; London, Jack. (1903). The Call of the Wild; James, Henry. (1904). The Golden Bowl; Conrad, Joseph (1907). The Secret Agent.

1910: Beerbohm, Max. (1911). Zuleika Dobson; Proust, Marcel. (1913-1927, 7 vols.). In Search of Lost Time (Swann’s Way, vol. 1); Joyce, James. (1914). Dubliners (Story collection); Eliot, T.  S. (1915). The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Poem); Ford, Ford Madox. (1915). The Good Soldier; Kafka, Franz. (1915). The Metamorphosis; Masters, Edgar Lee. (1915). Spoon River (Poems); Maugham, W. Somerset. (1915). Of Human Bondage; Joyce, James. (1916). A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

1920: Eliot, T. S. (1922). The Wasteland (Poem); Joyce, James. (1922). Ulysses (parts as serial 1918-1920); Mann, Thomas. (1924). The Magic Mountain; Fitgerald, F. Scott. (1925). The Great Gatsby; Kafka, Franz. (1925). The Trial (written 1914-1915); Woolf, Virginia. (1925). Mrs. Dalloway; Hemingway, Ernest. (1926). The Sun Also Rises; Mann, Thomas. (1926-1943, 4 vols.). Joseph and His Brothers (The Stories of Jacob; Young Joseph; Joseph in Egypt; Joseph the Provider); Milne (1926). Winnie-the-Pooh; Dixon, Franklin W. (collective pseudonym). (1927 ff). The Hardy Boys; Woolf, Virginia. (1927). To the Lighthouse; Remarque, Erich Maria. (1928). All Quiet on the Western Front; Woolf, Virginia. (1928). Orlando; Faulkner, William. (1929). The Sound and the Fury.

1930: Faulkner, William. (1930). As I Lay Dying; Hesse, Herman. (1930). Narcissus and Goldmund; Buck, Pearl S. (1931). The Good Earth; Faulkner, William. (1936). Absalom, Absalom!; Hurston, Zora Neale. (1937). Their Eyes Were Watching God; Steinbeck, John. (1937). Of Mice and Men; Fante, John. (1938). Wait Until Spring; Fante, John. (1939). Ask the Dusk; O’Brien, Flann (pseud.; O’Nolan, Brian). (1939). At Swim-Two-Birds; Steinbeck, John. (1939). The Grapes of Wrath.

1940: Greene, Graham. (1940). The Power and The Glory; Hemingway, Ernest. (1940). For Whom the Bell Tolls; McCullers, Carson. (1940). The Heart is a Lonely Hunter; Agee, James and Walker Evans. (1941). Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; Sweig, Stefan. (1941). The Royal Game (Chess Story); Camus, Albert. (1942). The Stranger (The Outsider); Markham, Beryl. (1942). West with the Night; Hesse, Herman. (1943, 2 vols.). The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi); Jansson, Tove. (1945-1993). Moomins (Book series); Steinbeck, John. (1945). Cannery Row; Camus, Albert. (1947). The Plague; Mann, Thomas. (1947). Doctor Faustus; Bowles, Paul. (1949). The Sheltering Sky; Orwell, George. (1949). 1984.

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1950-2000:

Authors mentioned without specific titles: James Baldwin; David Foster Wallace; Amos Oz; Alice Munro; Joseph Brodsky; Ismail Kadare; Orhan Pamuk; Laszlo Krasznahorkai; Jon Fosse; Olga Tokarczuk; John Updike; Bruce Jay Friedman; Astrid Lindgren; Sylvia Plath; Maya Angelou; Kurt Vonnegut; John Le Carre

Titles:

1950: Beckett, Samuel. (1951). Molloy; Salinger, J.D. (1951). The Catcher in the Rye (serial form 1945-46); Bellow, Saul. (1953). The Adventures of Augie March; Bradbury, Ray. (1953). Fahrenheit 451; Golding, William. (1954). Lord of the Flies; Markandaya, Kamala. (1954). Nectar in a Sieve; Tolkien, J. R. R. (1954-1955). Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of The Ring; 1954: The Two Towers; 1955: The Return of the King); Greene, Graham. (1955). The Quiet American; Kazantzakis, Nikos. (1955). The Last Temptation of Christ; Nabokov, Vladimir. (1955). Lolita; Mahfouz, Naguib. (1956-1957, 3 vols.). Cairo Trilogy (Palace Walk, 1956; Palace of Desire, 1957; Sugar Street, 1957); Agee, James. (1957). A Death in the Family; Dr. Seuss. (1957); Bellow, Saul. (1959). Henderson the Rain King; Naipaul, V. S. (1959). Miguel Street (Story collection).

1960: Lee, Harper. (1960). To Kill a Mockingbird; Updike, John. (1960). Rabbit Run; Heller, Joseph (1961). Catch-22; Burgess, Anthony. (1962). A Clockwork Orange; Kesey, Ken. (1962). One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Nabokov, Vladimir. (1962). Pale Fire; Bellow, Saul. (1964). Herzog; Fowles, John. (1965). The Magus; Pynchon, Thomas. (1966). The Crying of Lot 49; Bulgakov, Mikhail. (1967; written between 1928-1940; 1966-1967 censored version in magazine). The Master and Margarita; Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. (1967). One Hundred Years of Solitude; Styron, William. (1968). The Confessions of Nat Turner; Le Guin, Ursula. (1969). The Left Hand of Darkness; Vonnegut, Kurt (1969). Slaughterhouse Five.

1970: Davies, Robertson. (1970-1975). The Deptford Trilogy (Fifth Business, 1970; The Manticore, 1972; World of Wonders, 1975); Morrison, Toni. (1970). The Bluest Eye; Le Guin, Ursula. (1971). The Lathe of Heaven; O’Connor, Flannery. (1971). Flannery O’Connor: The Complete Stories (written c. 1946-1964); Thompson, Hunter. S. (1971). Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; Narayan, R. K. (1972). The Ramayana; Pynchon, Thomas. (1973). Gravity’s Rainbow; Pirsig, Robert. (1974). Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; Farrell, J. G. (1978). The Singapore Grip.

1980: Ford, Richard. (1981). The Ultimate Good Luck; Rushdie, Salman. (1981). Midnight’s Children; Murakami, Haruki. (1982). A Wild Sheep Chase; Atwood, Margaret. (1985). The Handmaid’s Tale; Krasznahorkai, Laszlo. (1985). Satantango; McMurtry, Larry. (1985). Lonesome Dove; Tyler, Anne. (1985). The Accidental Tourist; Conroy, Pat. (1986). The Prince of Tides; Gordimer, Nadine. (1987). A Sport of Nature; Morrison, Toni. (1987). Beloved; Wolfe, Tom. (1987). The Bonfire of the Vanities; Tan, Amy. (1989). The Joy Luck Club.

1990: Byatt, A. S. (1990). Possession; Gaarder, Jostein. (1991). Sophie’s World; Hart, Josephine. (1991). Damage; Morrison, Toni. (1992). Jazz; Ondaatje, Michael. (1992). The English Patient; Faulks, Sebastian. (1993). Birdsong; Pullman, Philip. (1995-2000). His Dark Materials Trilogy (Northern Lights/The Golden Compass, 1995; The Subtle Knife, 1997; The Amber Spyglass, 2000); DeLillo, Don. (1997). Underworld; Gordimer, Nadine. (1997). The House Gun; Pears, Iain. (1997). An Instance of the Fingerpost; Pamuk, Orhan. (1998). My Name is Red; Lahiri, Jhumpa. (1999). Interpreter of Maladies (Story collection).

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2000-Now:

Authors mentioned without specific titles: Percival Everett; Jenny Offill; W. G. Sebald; Elena Ferrante; Zadie Smith; Kazuo Ishiguro; Ta Nehisi Coates

Titles:

2000: Chabon, Michael. (2000). The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay; Hazzard, Shirley. (2000); Mieville, China. (2000). Perdido Street Station; Franzen, Jonathan. (2001). The Corrections; Martel, Yann. (2001). Life of Pi; McEwan, Ian. (2001). Atonement; Sebald, W. G. (2001). Austerlitz; Faber, Michael. (2002). The Crimson Petal and the White; Brown, Dan. (2003). The Da Vinci Code; Mitchell, David. (2004). Cloud Atlas; Robinson, Marilynne. (2004). Gilead; Kundera, Milan. (2005). The Curtain/Le Rideau (Essay); Littell, Jonathan. (2006). The Kindly Ones/Les Bienveillantes; McCarthy, Cormac. (2006). The Road; Bukowski, Charles. (2007). The Pleasures of the Damned (Poems); Knausgaard, Karl Ove. (2009-2011, 6 vols.). My Struggle; Mantel, Hilary. (2009). Wolf Hall.

2010: Barnes, Julian. (2011). The Sense of an Ending; Ferrante, Elena. (2011). My Brilliant Friend; Oyeyemi, Helen. (2011). Mr. Fox; Hazzard, Shirley. (2013). The Transit of Venus; Saunders, George. (2013). The Tenth of December (Story collection); Cusk, Rachel. (2014/2015). The Outline Trilogy (Outline, Transit, Kudos); Doerr, Anthony. (2014). All The Light We Cannot See; Tokarczuk, Olga. (2014). The Books of Jacob; Mitchell, David. (2015). Slade House; Smith, Ali. (2016-2021, 4 vols.). Seasonal Quartet (Autum, Winter, Spring, Summer); Whitehead, Colson. (2016). The Underground Railroad; Saunders, George. (2017). Lincoln in the Bardo; Whitehead, Colson. (2019). Nickel Boys.

2020: Clarke, Susanna. (2020). Piranesi; O’Farrell, Maggie. (2020). Hamnet; Erdrich, Louise. (2021). The Sentence; Kingsolver, Barbara. (2022). Demon Copperhead.

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MISCELLANEOUS WORKS MENTIONED (INCLUDES WEBSITES, COURSES, ETC.)

--Ashe, L., The Invention of Fiction

--Barker, A., Anna Barker’s Substack

--BBC, The One Hundred Stories that Shaped the World

--Bloom, H., The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry

--Bloom, H., 278 Books You Should Have Read By Now

--Carver, R./Lish, G., Beginners

--Cunningham, M., The Hours

--Erdrich, L., The Sentence (novel that includes a reading list)

--Forster, E. M., Aspects of the Novel

--Gioia, T., The Honest Broker Substack

--thegreatestbooks.org, The Greatest Books of All Times

--Harvard University (course), Harvard X: Modern Masterpieces of World Literature

--Kilgour, M., The Rise of the Gothic Novel

--King, S. On Writing; Levi, P., The Search for Roots

--McEvoy, B., Benjamin McEvoy’s Hardcore Literature

--Mead, R., My Life in Middlemarch

--Nabokov, V., Lectures on Literature

--Prose, F., Reading Like a Writer

--Saunders, G., A Swim in A Pond in The Rain

--Smiley, J., 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel

--Wood, J. Best Books Since 1945

--Yorke, J. (BBC), Opening Lines

Thanks, again, Annemarie, for this amazing contribution.