Jahsonic's literary canon  

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Edgar Allan Poe, 1848

Charles Baudelaire by Étienne Carjat (ca. 1863)

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Jahsonic's literary canon of cult books

Works

Ancient literature

Metamorphoses, The Golden Ass, A True Story, One Thousand and One Nights

Middle Ages

Medieval literature

The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales

15th century

Facetiae, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Ship of Fools

16th century

I Modi (1524) - Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532) - Index Librorum Prohibitorum

17th century

Don Quixote (1605) - Simplicissimus (1668) - Letters of a Portuguese Nun (1669) - La Princesse de Clèves (1678)

18th century

Robinson Crusoe (1719) - Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740) - Dom Bougre (1741) - The Sofa: A Moral Tale (1742) - Thérèse the Philosopher (1748) - The Indiscreet Jewels (1748) - Fanny Hill (1750) - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1770) - The Castle of Otranto (1765) - Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) - The 120 Days of Sodom (1785) - The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) - La Religieuse (1796) - The Monk (1796) - Juliette (1797)

19th century

The Crimes of Love (1800) - The Devil's Elixirs (1815/16) - The Sandman (1817) - Frankenstein (1818) - Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) - The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) - The Red and the Black (1831) - Gamiani (1833 - Viy (1835) - Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853) - Histoires extraordinaires (1856) - Les Fleurs du mal (1857) - Madame Bovary (1857) - Les Paradis artificiels (1860) - Salammbô (1862) - The Painter of Modern Life (1863) - Notes from Underground (1864) - Le Spleen de Paris (1869) - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) - Venus in Furs (1870) - Carmilla (1872) - The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1874) Les Diaboliques (1874) - Anna Karenina (1877) - Flatland (1884) - À rebours (1884) - Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) - Psychopathia Sexualis (1886) - The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) - La Bête humaine (1890) - Hunger (1890) - New Grub Street (1891) - The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) - Degeneration (1892) Jude the Obscure (1895) - The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) - Dracula (1897) - The She-Devils (1898) - The Torture Garden (1899)

20th century

Heart of Darkness (1902) - The Monkey's Paw (1902) - The Confessions of Wanda von Sacher-Masoch (1907) - Hell (1908) - The Phantom of the Opera (1910) - We (1920) - Ulysses (1922) - In Search of Lost Time (1913 -1927) - The Metamorphosis (1915) - The Great Gatsby (1925) - Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) - Story of the Eye (1928) - Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) - The Solar Anus (1931) - Tropic of Cancer (1934) - Thomas the Obscure (1941) - Madame Edwarda (1941) - No Exit (1944) - Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) - The Catcher in the Rye (1951) - The Conformist (1951) - Watt (1953) - Junkie (1953) - Contempt (1954) - Story of O (1954) - Lolita (1955) - The Image (1956) - The Outsider (1956) - Erotism: Death and Sensuality (1957) - Candy (1958) - Emmanuelle (1959) - Naked Lunch (1959) - Boredom (1960) - The Tears of Eros (1961) - Ma Mère (1966) - Danse Macabre (1981) - The Piano Teacher (1983) - The Voyeur (1985) - The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders (1988) - Time's Arrow (1991) - American Psycho (1991) - Fight Club (1996)

21st century

21st century in literature

A top ten of sorts

• The Dice Man, George Cockcroft
• The Stand, Stephen King
• Histoire de l'oeil, Georges Bataille
• De verveling, Alberto Moravia
• Aantekeningen uit het ondergrondse, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Galápagos, Kurt Vonnegut
• Joko's Anniversary, Roland Topor
• Krabat, Otfried Preußler
• Story of O, Pauline Réage
• The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
• Time's Arrow, Martin Amis
• Waargebeurde geschiedenis, Lucianus van Samosata
• De Gouden Ezel, Apuleius

See also

• Jahsonic's canon
• For writers, see the writer page.