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		+	"The [[novel]] is not an imaginary situation of imaginary truths—it is an expression of what one feels. [[Podhoretz]] doesn't write prose, he doesn't know how to write prose, and he isn't interested in the technical problems of prose or poetry. His criticism of Jack's spontaneous bop prosody [in "The Know-Nothing Bohemians] shows that he can't tell the difference between words as rhythm and words as in diction ... The bit about [[anti-intellectualism]] is a piece of vanity, we had the same education, went to the same school, you know there are 'Intellectuals' and there are intellectuals. Podhoretz is just out of touch with [[20th century in literature|twentieth-century literature]], he's writing for the [[eighteenth-century]] mind. We have a personal literature now—[[Marcel Proust|Proust]], [[Thomas Wolfe|Wolfe]], [[William Faulkner|Faulkner]], [[James Joyce|Joyce]]. The trouble is Podhoretz has a great ridiculous fat-bellied mind which he pats too often."--[[Allen Ginsberg]], responding to "[[The Know-Nothing Bohemians]]" (1958) by Norman Podhoretz in an October 1958 interview with ''[[The Village Voice]]'', collected in ''[[Spontaneous Mind]]''
		+	<hr>
		+	Chronology: ''[[Heart of Darkness]]'' (1902) - ''[[The Monkey's Paw]]'' (1902) - ''[[The Confessions of Wanda von Sacher-Masoch]]'' (1907) - ''[[Hell (novel)|Hell]]'' (1908) - ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' (1910) - ''[[We (novel)|We]]'' (1920) - ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' (1922) - ''[[In Search of Lost Time]]'' (1913 -1927) - ''[[The Metamorphosis]]'' (1915) - ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'' (1925) - ''[[Six Characters in Search of an Author]]'' (1921) - ''[[Histoire de l'oeil]]'' (1928) - ''[[Lady Chatterley's Lover]]'' (1928) - ''[[Solar Anus]]'' (1931) - ''[[Tropic of Cancer]]'' (1934) - ''[[Thomas the Obscure]]'' (1941) - ''[[Madame Edwarda]]'' (1941) - ''[[No Exit]]'' (1944) - ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' (1949) - ''[[Catcher in the Rye]]'' (1951) - ''[[The Conformist]]'' (1951) - ''[[Watt (novel)|Watt]]'' (1953) - ''[[Junkie (novel)|Junkie]]'' (1953) - ''[[Contempt (novel)|Contempt]]'' (1954) - ''[[Story of O]]'' (1954) - ''[[Lolita (novel)|Lolita]]'' (1955) - ''[[The Image]]'' (1956) - ''[[The Outsider (Colin Wilson)|The Outsider]]'' (1956) - ''[[Erotism: Death and Sensuality]]'' (1957) - ''[[Candy (novel)|Candy]]'' (1958) - ''[[Emmanuelle]]'' (1959) - ''[[Naked Lunch]]'' (1959) - ''[[Boredom (novel)|Boredom]]'' (1960) - ''[[Tears of Eros]]'' (1961) - ''[[Ma Mère]]'' (1966) - ''[[Danse Macabre (Stephen King)|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 (novel)|Fight Club]]'' (1996)
		+	|}
-	[[Literature]] of the [[20th century]] refers to [[world literature]] produced during the [[20th century]]. The range of years is, for the purpose of this article, [[literature]] written from (roughly) the [[1900s]] through the [[1990s]].	+	[[Image:Cortazar boekenuitstalling.JPG |thumb|200px|Bookshop display of [[Julio Cortázar]] books]] {{Template}}
-	The main periods are captured in the bipartite division, [[Modernist literature]] and [[Postmodern literature]], flowering from roughly 1900 to 1940 and 1960 to 1990 respectively, divided, as a rule of thumb, by [[World War II]].	+	[[Literature]] of the 20th century refers to [[world literature]] produced during the 20th century (1901 to 2000).
-	The somewhat malleable term of '''contemporary literature''' is usually applied with a post-[[1960]] cutoff point.	+	In terms of the Euro-American tradition, the main periods are captured in the bipartite division, [[Modernist literature]] and [[Postmodern literature]], flowering from roughly 1900 to 1940 and 1960 to 1990 respectively, divided, as a rule of thumb, by [[World War II]]. The somewhat malleable term of '''contemporary literature''' is usually applied with a post-1960 cutoff point.
-	Technological advances during the 20th century allowed cheaper production of books, resulting in a significant rise in production of [[popular literature]] and [[Pulp magazines|trivial literature]], comparable to the development in [[music]]. The division of "popular literature" and "high literature" in the 20th century is by no means absolute, and various genres such as [[high fantasy]] or [[science fiction]] fluctuate between the two.	+	Although these terms (modern, contemporary and postmodern) are most applicable to Western literary history, the rise of globalization has allowed European literary ideas to spread into non-Western cultures fairly rapidly, so that [[Asian literature|Asian]] and [[African literature]]s can be included into these divisions with only minor qualifications. And in some ways, such as in [[Postcolonial literature]], writers from non-Western cultures were on the forefront of literary development.
-	For the most part of the century mostly ignored by mainstream [[literary criticism]], these genres develop their own establishments and critical awards, such as the ''[[Nebula Award]]'' (since 1965), the ''[[British Fantasy Award]]'' (since 1971) or the ''[[Mythopoeic Awards]]'' (since 1971).	+
-	Towards the end of the century, [[electronic literature]] ([[hypertext fiction]], [[interactive fiction]]) rises to some significance with the advent of the [[internet]].	+	Technological advances during the 20th century allowed cheaper production of books, resulting in a significant rise in production of popular literature and [[Pulp magazines|trivial literature]], comparable to the similar developments in music. The division of "popular literature" and "high literature" in the 20th century is by no means absolute, and various [[genre fiction|genres]] such as [[Detective fiction|detectives]] or [[science fiction]] fluctuate between the two. Largely ignored by mainstream [[literary criticism]] for the most of the century, these genres developed their own establishments and critical awards.
-	The [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] is awarded annually throughout the century (with the exception of 1914, 1918, 1935 and 1940-1943), the first laureate (1901) being [[Sully Prudhomme]]. The [[New York Times Best Seller list]] has been published since 1942.	+	Towards the end of the 20th century, [[electronic literature]] developed due to the development of [[hypertext]] and later the [[world wide web]].
-	The [[List of best-selling books|best-selling works]] of the 20th century are estimated to be ''[[Quotations from Chairman Mao]]'' (1966, 900 million copies), ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'' (1997, 120 million copies), ''[[And Then There Were None]]'' (1939, 115 million copies) and ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' (1954/55, 100 million copies).	+	The [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] was awarded annually throughout the century (with the exception of 1914, 1918, 1935 and 1940–1943), the first laureate (1901) being [[Sully Prudhomme]]. The [[New York Times Best Seller list]] has been published since 1942.
-	''The Lord of the Rings'' was also voted "book of the century" in various surveys.	+
-	''[[Perry Rhodan]]'' (1961 to present) boasts as being the best-selling book series, with an estimated total of 1 billion copies sold.	+	The [[List of best-selling books|best-selling literary works]] of the 20th century are estimated to be ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' (1954/55, 150 million copies), ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'' (1997, 120 million copies) and ''[[And Then There Were None]]'' (1939, 115 million copies).
		+	''The Lord of the Rings'' was also voted "book of the century" in various surveys.
		+	''[[Perry Rhodan]]'' (1961 to present) proclaimed as the best-selling book series, with an estimated total of 1 billion copies sold.
-	==1900-1918==	+	==1901–18==
-	The ''[[Fin de siècle]]'' movement of the ''[[Belle Époque]]'' persisted into the 1900s, but was brutally cut short with the outbreak of [[World War I]] (an effect depicted e.g. in [[Thomas Mann]]'s ''[[The Magic Mountain]]'', published 1924). The [[Dada]] movement of 1916-1920 was at least in part a protest against the [[bourgeoisie|bourgeois]] [[nationalism|nationalist]] and [[colonialism|colonialist]] interests which many Dadaists believed were the root cause of the warm; the movement heralded the [[Surrealism]] movement of the 1920s.	+
-	* [[Thomas Mann]] publishes [[Buddenbrooks]] in 1901	+	The ''[[Fin de siècle]]'' movement of the ''[[Belle Époque]]'' persisted into the 20th century, but was brutally cut short with the outbreak of World War I (an effect depicted e.g. in [[Thomas Mann]]'s ''[[The Magic Mountain]]'', published 1924). The [[Dada]] movement of 1916-1920 was at least in part a protest against the [[bourgeoisie|bourgeois]] [[nationalism|nationalist]] and [[colonialism|colonialist]] interests which many Dadaists believed were the root cause of the war; the movement heralded the [[Surrealism]] movement of the 1920s.
-	* [[Joseph Conrad]] publishes the novella [[Heart of Darkness]] in 1902, after the serial release in 1898 and [[The Secret Agent]] in 1907	+
-	* [[Jack London]] publishes [[The Call of the Wild]] in 1903	+	1900
-	* [[Serbian language|Serbian writers]] use the [[Belgrade]] literary style, an [[Ekavian]] writing form which set basis for the later standardization of the Serbian language	+	* ''[[Lord Jim]]'' by [[Joseph Conrad]] (Poland, England)
-	* [[D. H. Lawrence]] publishes [[Sons and Lovers]]	+	''Genre fiction''
-	* [[Of Human Bondage]] by [[Somerset Maugham]]	+	* ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'' by [[L. Frank Baum]] (USA)
-	* [[Tarzan of the Apes]] by [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]	+
-	* [[Dubliners]] and [[A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]] by [[James Joyce]]	+	1901
-	* [[Pygmalion (play)|Pygmalion]] by [[George Bernard Shaw]]	+	* ''[[Buddenbrooks]]'' by [[Thomas Mann]] (Germany)
-	* [[Thomas Mann]] publishes [[Death in Venice]]	+	* ''[[The Inheritors (William Golding)|The Inheritors]]'' by [[Joseph Conrad]] and [[Ford Madox Ford]] (England)
-	*[[Dadaism]]	+	* ''[[Kim (novel)|Kim]]'' by [[Rudyard Kipling]] (India, England)
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[The Purple Cloud]]'' by [[M. P. Shiel]] ([[Montserrat]], England)
		+	* ''[[The First Men in the Moon]]'' by [[H. G. Wells]] (England)
		+
		+	1902
		+	* ''[[Heart of Darkness]]'' by [[Joseph Conrad]]
		+	* ''[[The Immoralist]]'' by [[André Gide]] (France)
		+	* ''[[The Wings of the Dove]]'' by [[Henry James]] (USA, England)
		+	* ''[[The Grand Babylon Hotel]]'' by [[Arnold Bennett]] (England)
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[The Hound of the Baskervilles]]'' by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] (Scotland)
		+	* ''[[Just So Stories]]'' by [[Rudyard Kipling]]
		+	''Plays
		+	* ''[[Man and Superman]]'' by [[George Bernard Shaw]] (Ireland)
		+
		+	1903
		+	* ''[[Romance (novel)|Romance]]'' by [[Joseph Conrad]] and [[Ford Madox Ford]]
		+	* ''[[The Ambassadors]]'' by [[Henry James]]
		+	* ''[[The Pit (Norris novel)|The Pit]]'' by [[Frank Norris]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[In Wonderland]]'' by [[Knut Hamsun]] (Norway)
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[The Call of the Wild]]'' by [[Jack London]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[The Riddle of the Sands]]'' by [[Robert Erskine Childers|Erskine Childers]] (England, Ireland)
		+
		+	1904
		+	* ''[[The Golden Bowl]]'' by [[Henry James]]
		+	* ''[[Nostromo]]'' by [[Joseph Conrad]]
		+	* ''[[The Napoleon of Notting Hill]]'' by [[G. K. Chesterton]] (England)
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth|The Food of the Gods]]'' by [[H. G. Wells]]
		+	* ''[[The Sea-Wolf]]'' by [[Jack London]]
		+	* ''[[Green Mansions]]'' by [[William Henry Hudson]] (Argentina, England)
		+	''Plays
		+	* ''[[John Bull's Other Island]]'' by [[George Bernard Shaw]]
		+
		+	1905
		+	* ''[[Hadrian the Seventh]]'' by [[Frederick Rolfe]] aka [[Baron Corvo]] (England, Italy)
		+	* ''[[Where Angels Fear to Tread]]'' by [[E. M. Forster]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Kipps]]'' by [[H. G. Wells]]
		+	* [[Songs of Life and Hope]] by [[Rubén Darío]] (Nicaragua)
		+	* ''[[The House of Mirth]]'' by [[Edith Wharton]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[The Club of Queer Trades]]'' by [[G. K. Chesterton]]
		+
		+	1906
		+	* ''[[The Jungle]]'' by [[Upton Sinclair]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[The Confusions of Young Törless]]'' by [[Robert Musil]] (Austria)
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Puck of Pook's Hill]]'' by [[Rudyard Kipling]]
		+	* ''[[Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens]]'' by [[J. M. Barrie]] (Scotland)
		+	* ''[[Time and the Gods]]'' by [[Lord Dunsany]] (Ireland, England)
		+	* ''[[White Fang]]'' by [[Jack London]]
		+	''Plays
		+	* ''[[The Aran Islands]]'' by [[John Millington Synge]] (Ireland)
		+
		+	1907
		+	* ''[[The Secret Agent]]'' by [[Joseph Conrad]]
		+	* ''[[The Longest Journey]]'' by [[E. M. Forster]]
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[The Listener and Other Stories]]'' by [[Algernon Blackwood]] (England) - contains [[The Willows (story)|The Willows]], one of the first '[[cosmic horror]]' stories
		+	* ''[[The Hill of Dreams]]'' by [[Arthur Machen]] (England)
		+	''Plays
		+	* ''[[The Playboy of the Western World]]'' by [[John Millington Synge]]
		+	''Poetry
		+	* ''[[Cautionary Tales for Children]]'' by [[Hilaire Belloc]] (France, England)
		+
		+	1908
		+	* ''[[The Man Who Was Thursday]]'' by [[G. K. Chesterton]]
		+	* ''[[A Room with a View]]'' by [[E. M. Forster]]
		+	* ''[[The Iron Heel]]'' by [[Jack London]]
		+	* ''[[Hell (novel)|Hell]]'' by [[Henri Barbusse]] (France, Russia)
		+	* ''[[The Magician (Maugham novel)|The Magician]]'' by [[Somerset Maugham]] (England, France) - based on the author's meeting with [[Aleister Crowley]]
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[The Wind in the Willows]]'' by [[Kenneth Grahame]] (England)
		+	''Poetry
		+	* ''Personae'' by [[Ezra Pound]] (USA, England, Italy) - one of the first examples of 'modernist' poetry
		+
		+	1909
		+	* ''[[Martin Eden]]'' by [[Jack London]]
		+	* [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4345 Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl] by [[Horace Newte|Horace W C Newte]]
		+	* ''[[Tono-Bungay]]'' by [[H. G. Wells]]
		+	* ''[[Three Lives]]'' by [[Gertrude Stein]] (USA, France)
		+	''Poetry
		+	* ''[[Exultations]]'' by [[Ezra Pound]]
		+	* ''[[Poems (William Carlos Williams)|Poems]]'' by [[William Carlos Williams]] (USA)
		+	''Plays
		+	* ''[[The Blue Bird (play)|The Blue Bird]]'' by [[Maurice Maeterlinck]] (Belgium)
		+
		+	1910
		+	* ''[[Howards End]]'' by [[E. M. Forster]]
		+	* ''[[The Card]]'' by [[Arnold Bennett]]
		+	* ''[[The History of Mr Polly]]'' by [[H. G. Wells]]
		+
		+	1911
		+	* ''[[Zuleika Dobson]]'' by [[Max Beerbohm]] (England)
		+	* ''[[In a German Pension]]'' by [[Katherine Mansfield]] (England) - short stories
		+	* ''[[Under Western Eyes (novel)|Under Western Eyes]]'' by [[Joseph Conrad]]
		+	* [[The Tree of Knowledge]] by [[Pío Baroja]] (Spain)
		+	* ''[[The White Peacock]]'' by [[D. H. Lawrence]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Jennie Gerhardt]]'' by [[Theodore Dreiser]] (USA)
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Peter and Wendy]]'' by [[J. M. Barrie]] (Scotland)
		+
		+	1912
		+	* ''[[The Trespasser]]'' by [[D. H. Lawrence]]
		+	* ''[[Death in Venice]]'' by [[Thomas Mann]] (Germany)
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Riders of the Purple Sage]]'' by [[Zane Grey]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[The Lost World (Conan Doyle novel)|The Lost World]]'' by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]
		+	* ''[[Tarzan of the Apes]]'' by [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]] (USA)
		+	''Plays
		+	* ''[[Pygmalion (play)|Pygmalion]]'' by [[George Bernard Shaw]]
		+
		+	1913
		+	* ''[[Petersburg (novel)|Petersburg]]'' by [[Andrei Bely]] (Russia)
		+	* ''[[Swann's Way]]'' by [[Marcel Proust]] (France)
		+	* ''[[Le Grand Meaulnes]]'' by [[Alain-Fournier]] (France)
		+	* ''[[Sons and Lovers]]'' by [[D. H. Lawrence]]
		+	* ''[[Chance (Conrad novel)|Chance]]'' by [[Joseph Conrad]]
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[A Prisoner in Fairyland]]'' by [[Algernon Blackwood]] - adapted into a play, it later became the [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] musical ''[[Starlight Express]]''
		+	* ''[[The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu]]'' by '[[Sax Rohmer]]' (England)
		+	''Poetry
		+	* ''[[Alcools]]'' by [[Guillaume Apollinaire]] (Poland, France) - dada poems
		+	* ''[[Gitanjali]]'' by [[Rabindranath Tagore]]
		+
		+	1914
		+	* ''[[Dubliners]]'' by [[James Joyce]] (Ireland, France, Italy) - short stories
		+	* ''[[The Prussian Officer and Other Stories]]'' by [[D. H. Lawrence]] - short stories
		+	* ''[[The Vatican Cellars]]'' by [[André Gide]]
		+	* ''[[Tender Buttons (book)|Tender Buttons]]'' by [[Gertrude Stein]]
		+	* ''[[The Golem (novel)|The Golem]]'' by [[Gustav Meyrink]] ([[Austria]])
		+	* [[Mist (novel)|Mist]] by [[Miguel de Unamuno]] (Spain)
		+	* ''[[Maurice (novel)|Maurice]]'' by [[E. M. Forster]] - unpublished
		+	* ''[[Sinister Street]]'' by [[Compton Mackenzie]] (Scotland, Greece)
		+	* ''[[The Flying Inn]]'' by [[G. K. Chesterton]]
		+	''Poetry
		+	* ''[[North of Boston]]'' by [[Robert Frost]] (USA)
		+
		+	1915
		+	* ''[[The Good Soldier]]'' by [[Ford Madox Ford]]
		+	* ''[[The Rainbow]]'' by [[D. H. Lawrence]]
		+	* ''[[The Metamorphosis]]'' by [[Franz Kafka]]
		+	* ''[[Of Human Bondage]]'' by [[Somerset Maugham]]
		+	* [[The Underdogs (novel)|The Underdogs]] by [[Mariano Azuela]] (Mexico)
		+	* ''[[Victory (novel)|Victory]]'' by [[Joseph Conrad]]
		+	* ''Pointed Roofs'' by [[Dorothy Richardson]]
		+	* ''[[The Voyage Out]]'' by [[Virginia Woolf]] (England)
		+	* ''Vainglory'' by [[Ronald Firbank]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Rashōmon (short story)|Rashōmon]]'' by [[Ryūnosuke Akutagawa]]
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[The Thirty-Nine Steps]]'' by [[John Buchan]] (Scotland, Canada)
		+
		+	1916
		+	* ''[[A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]]'' by [[James Joyce]]
		+	* ''[[Women in Love]]'' by [[D. H. Lawrence]] - initially banned, published in 1920
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Greenmantle]]'' by [[John Buchan]]
		+	''Poetry
		+	* ''[[Salt-Water Poems and Ballads]]'' by [[John Masefield]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Mountain Interval]]'' by [[Robert Frost]]
		+
		+	1917
		+	* ''[[Under Fire (novel)|Under Fire]]'' by [[Henri Barbusse]] (France, Russia)
		+	* ''[[Walpurgis Night]]'' by [[Gustav Meyrink]]
		+	* ''[[Growth of the Soil]]'' by [[Knut Hamsun]]
		+	* ''[[The Shadow Line]]'' by [[Joseph Conrad]]
		+	* ''[[Caprice (novel)|Caprice]]'' by [[Ronald Firbank]]
		+	''Poetry
		+	* ''[[Dulce et Decorum est]] and [[Anthem for Doomed Youth]]'' by [[Wilfred Owen]] (England) - published posthumously
		+	* ''[[Prufrock and Other Observations]]'' by [[T. S. Eliot]] (USA, England)
		+
		+	1918
		+	* ''[[Tarr]]'' by [[Wyndham Lewis]] (Canada, England)
		+	* ''Man of Straw'' by [[Heinrich Mann]] (Germany)
		+	''Poetry
		+	* ''[[Calligrammes]]'' by [[Guillaume Apollinaire]] - dada poetry
		+	''Non-fiction
		+	* ''[[Eminent Victorians]]'' by [[Lytton Strachey]] (England)
	==Interwar period==		==Interwar period==
-	The 1920s were a period of literary creativity, and works of several notable author appeared during the period. [[D.H. Lawrence|D.H. Lawrence's]] novel ''[[Lady Chatterley's Lover]]'' was a scandal at the time because of its explicit descriptions of sex.
-	* [[Virginia Woolf]] publishes [[Mrs. Dalloway]], [[To the Lighthouse]], and [[A Room of One's Own]]	+	The 1920s were a period of literary creativity, and works of several notable authors appeared during the period. [[D. H. Lawrence]]'s novel ''[[Lady Chatterley's Lover]]'' was a scandal at the time because of its explicit descriptions of sex. James Joyce's novel, ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'', published in 1922 in Paris, was one of the most important achievements of literary modernism.
-	* [[T. S. Eliot]] publishes [[The Waste Land]]	+
-	* [[James Joyce]] publishes [[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]	+	1919
-	* [[Franz Kafka]] publishes [[The Trial]]	+	* ''[[Within a Budding Grove]]'' by [[Marcel Proust]]
-	* [[Hermann Hesse]] publishes [[Siddhartha (novel)|Siddhartha]]	+	* ''[[Night and Day (Woolf novel)|Night and Day]]'' by [[Virginia Woolf]]
-	* [[Alexey Tolstoy]] publishes [[Aelita]]	+	* ''[[Winesburg, Ohio (novel)|Winesburg, Ohio]]'' by [[Sherwood Anderson]] (USA) - the first 'lost generation' novel
-	* [[George Bernard Shaw]] publishes [[Back to Methuselah]]	+	* ''[[Valmouth]]'' by [[Ronald Firbank]]
-	* Eugene O'Neill awarded [[Pulitzer Prizes]] for [[Beyond the Horizon (play)|Beyond the Horizon]] in 1920, [[Anna Christie]] in 1922, and [[Strange Interlude]] in 1928.	+	* ''[[Bazaar-e-Husn]]'' by [[Premchand]] (publ. in Hindi as ''Seva-sadan'')
-	*''[[The Great Gatsby]]'' by [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] is often described as the epitome of the "Jazz Age" in American literature.	+	''Genre fiction
-	*''[[All Quiet on the Western Front]]'' by [[Erich Maria Remarque]] recounts the horrors of WWI and also the deep detachment from German civilian life felt by many men returning from the front.	+	* ''[[Dope (novel)|Dope]]'' by [[Sax Rohmer]] - inspired by the true story of Limehouse dope-dealer [[Brilliant Chang]]
-	*''[[This Side of Paradise]]'' by F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays the lives and morality of post-World War I youth.	+	* ''[[Dope Darling]]'' by [[Leda Burke]] ([[David Garnett]]) (England)
-	*''[[The Sun Also Rises]]'' by [[Ernest Hemingway]] is about a group of expatriate Americans in Europe during the 1920s.	+
-	* [[W. H. Auden]] publishes ''Poems''.	+	1920
-	* [[Aldous Huxley]] publishes ''Brave New World''.	+	* ''[[We (novel)|We]]'' by [[Yevgeny Zamyatin]] ([[Russia]])
		+	* ''[[Limbo (novel)|Limbo]]'' by [[Aldous Huxley]] (England) - short stories
		+	* ''[[The Lost Girl]]'' by [[D. H. Lawrence]]
		+	* ''[[This Side of Paradise]]'' by [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[The London Venture]]'' by [[Michael Arlen]] ([[Armenia]], England)
		+	* ''[[Storm of Steel]]'' by [[Ernst Jünger]] (Germany)
		+	* ''[[A Voyage to Arcturus]]'' by [[David Lindsay (novelist)|David Lindsay]] (Scotland)
		+	* ''[[Main Street (novel)|Main Street]]'' by [[Sinclair Lewis]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[The Age of Innocence]]'' by [[Edith Wharton]] (USA)
		+	''Plays
		+	* ''[[Six Characters in Search of an Author]]'' by [[Luigi Pirandello]] (Italy)
		+	* ''[[Beyond the Horizon (play)|Beyond the Horizon]] and [[Anna Christie]]'' by [[Eugene O'Neill]] - Pulitzer prize winner
		+
		+	1921
		+	* ''[[The Guermantes Way]]'' by [[Marcel Proust]]
		+	* ''[[Crome Yellow]]'' by [[Aldous Huxley]]
		+	* ''[[England, My England and Other Stories]]'' by [[D. H. Lawrence]] - short stories
		+	* ''[[The Forsyte Saga]]'' by [[John Galsworthy]] (England) - pentology, first volume published in 1906
		+	* ''[[My Life and Loves]]'' by [[Frank Harris]] (England, USA) - four volumes of quasi-factual sex gossip, the fifth completed by Alex Trocchi
		+	''Plays
		+	* ''[[Back to Methuselah]]'' by [[George Bernard Shaw]]
		+	* ''[[R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)]]'' by [[Karel Čapek]] - from which the term 'robot' was coined
		+
		+	1922
		+	* ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' by [[James Joyce]]
		+	* ''[[Jacob's Room]]'' by [[Virginia Woolf]]
		+	* ''[[Sodom and Gomorrah]]'' by [[Marcel Proust]]
		+	* ''[[Croatian God Mars]]'' by [[Miroslav Krleža]]
		+	* ''[[The Enormous Room]]'' by [[E. E. Cummings]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Futility (Gerhardie novel)|Futility]]'' by [[William Gerhardie]] (Russia, England)
		+	* ''[[The Beautiful and Damned]]'' by [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]
		+	* ''[[Mortal Coils]]'' by [[Aldous Huxley]] - short stories
		+	* ''[[Aaron's Rod (novel)|Aaron's Rod]]'' by [[D. H. Lawrence]] Kim
		+	* ''[[The Garden Party (short story collection)|The Garden Party]]'' by [[Katherine Mansfield]] - short stories
		+	* ''[[Siddhartha (novel)|Siddhartha]]'' by [[Hermann Hesse]] (Germany, Switzerland)
		+	* ''[[Peter Whiffle]]'' by [[Carl Van Vechten]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Babbitt (novel)|Babbitt]]'' by [[Sinclair Lewis]]
		+	* ''[[Lady into Fox]]'' by [[David Garnett]]
		+	''Poetry''
		+	* ''[[The Waste Land]]'' by [[T. S. Eliot]]
		+
		+	1923
		+	* ''[[Confessions of Zeno]]'' by [[Italo Svevo]] (Italy)
		+	* ''[[The Good Soldier Švejk]]'' by [[Jaroslav Hašek]] ([[Czechoslovakia]])
		+	* ''[[In Search of Lost Time|The Captive]]'' by [[Marcel Proust]]
		+	* ''[[Kangaroo (novel)|Kangaroo]]'' by [[D. H. Lawrence]]
		+	* ''[[Antic Hay]]'' by [[Aldous Huxley]]
		+	* ''[[Three Soldiers]]'' by [[John Dos Passos]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[The Great American Novel (novel)|The Great American Novel]]'' by [[William Carlos Williams]]
		+	* ''[[Le Diable au corps (novel)|The Devil in the Flesh]]'' by [[Raymond Radiguet]] (France)
		+	* ''[[Aelita]]'' by [[Alexey Tolstoy]] (Russia)
		+	''Plays
		+	* ''[[The Shadow of a Gunman]]'' by [[Seán O'Casey]] (Ireland)
		+	''Poetry
		+	* ''[[New Hampshire (collection)|New Hampshire]]'' by [[Robert Frost]]
		+	* ''[[The Duino Elegies]]'' by [[Rainer Maria Rilke]]
		+
		+	1924
		+	* ''[[The Magic Mountain]]'' by [[Thomas Mann]] (Germany)
		+	* ''[[In Our Time (short story collection)|In Our Time]]'' by [[Ernest Hemingway]] (USA) - short stories
		+	* ''[[A Passage to India]]'' by [[E. M. Forster]]
		+	* [[The Vortex (novel)|The Vortex]] by [[José Eustasio Rivera]] (Colombia)
		+	* ''[[Little Mexican]]'' by [[Aldous Huxley]] - short stories
		+	* [[Bohemian Lights]] by [[Ramón del Valle-Inclán]] (Spain)
		+	* ''[[The Fox (novella)|The Fox]] and [[The Captain's Doll]]'' by [[D. H. Lawrence]] - short stories
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[The Murder of Roger Ackroyd]]'' by [[Agatha Christie]] (England)
		+	''Plays
		+	* ''[[Juno and the Paycock]]'' by [[Seán O'Casey]]
		+	* ''[[The Vortex]]'' by [[Noël Coward]] (England)
		+
		+	1925
		+	* ''[[Mrs Dalloway]]'' by [[Virginia Woolf]]
		+	* ''[[The Trial]]'' by [[Franz Kafka]] ([[Czechoslovakia]]) - posthumous, first English translation in 1930
		+	* ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'' by [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] - often described as the epitome of the "Jazz Age" in American literature
		+	* ''The Green Hat'' by [[Michael Arlen]] - perhaps the epitome of the jazz age in British literature
		+	* ''[[Paris Peasant]]'' by [[Louis Aragon]] (France)
		+	* ''[[Albertine disparue]]'' by [[Marcel Proust]]
		+	* ''[[Manhattan Transfer (novel)|Manhattan Transfer]]'' by [[John Dos Passos]]
		+	* ''[[In the American Grain]]'' by [[William Carlos Williams]]
		+	* ''[[The Desert of Love]]'' by [[François Mauriac]] (France)
		+	* ''[[Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (novel)|Gentlemen Prefer Blondes]]'' by [[Anita Loos]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Those Barren Leaves]]'' by [[Aldous Huxley]]
		+	* ''[[St Mawr]]'' by [[D. H. Lawrence]] - short stories
		+	* ''[[The Making of Americans]]'' by [[Gertrude Stein]]
		+	* ''[[Heart of a Dog]]'' by [[Mikhail Bulgakov]] (Russia)
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Beau Geste]]'' by [[P. C. Wren]] (England)
		+	''Poetry
		+	* ''[[The Hollow Men]]'' by [[T. S. Eliot]]
		+	''Non-fiction
		+	* ''[[The Old Straight Track]]'' by [[Alfred Watkins]] (England) - introducing ley lines
		+
		+	1926
		+	* ''[[The Castle (novel)|The Castle]]'' by [[Franz Kafka]] - posthumous, first English translation in 1932
		+	* ''[[The Counterfeiters (novel)|The Counterfeiters]]'' by [[André Gide]]
		+	* ''[[The Sun Also Rises]]'' aka ''Fiesta'' by [[Ernest Hemingway]]
		+	* ''[[Moravagine]]'' by [[Blaise Cendrars]] (France)
		+	* [[Don Segundo Sombra]] by [[Ricardo Güiraldes]] (Argentina)
		+	* ''[[Nigger Heaven]]'' by [[Carl Van Vechten]]
		+	* ''[[Two or Three Graces]]'' by [[Aldous Huxley]] - short stories
		+	* ''[[The Plumed Serpent]]'' by [[D. H. Lawrence]]
		+	* ''[[The Call of Cthulhu]]'' by [[H. P. Lovecraft]]
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Winnie-the-Pooh (book)|Winnie-the-Pooh]]'' by [[A. A. Milne]] (England)
		+	''Poetry
		+	* ''[[A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle]]'' by '[[Hugh MacDiarmid]]' (Scotland)
		+	''Plays
		+	* ''[[The Plough and the Stars]]'' by [[Seán O'Casey]]
		+	''Non-fiction
		+	* ''[[Seven Pillars of Wisdom]]'' by [[T. E. Lawrence]] (England, Arabia)
		+
		+	1927
		+	* ''[[To the Lighthouse]]'' by [[Virginia Woolf]]
		+	* ''[[In Search of Lost Time#Volume Seven: Time Regained|Time Regained]]'' by [[Marcel Proust]]
		+	* ''[[Steppenwolf (novel)|Steppenwolf]]'' by [[Hermann Hesse]]
		+	* ''[[Men Without Women (short story collection)|Men Without Women]]'' by [[Ernest Hemingway]] - short stories
		+	* ''[[Vestal Fire]]'' by [[Compton Mackenzie]]
		+	* ''[[Dusty Answer]]'' by [[Rosamond Lehmann]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Elmer Gantry]]'' by [[Sinclair Lewis]]
		+	* ''[[The Rocking-Horse Winner]]'' by [[D. H. Lawrence]] - short stories
		+	''Plays
		+	* ''[[The Silver Tassie (play)|The Silver Tassie]]'' by [[Seán O'Casey]]
		+
		+	1928
		+	* ''[[Berlin Alexanderplatz]]'' by [[Alfred Döblin]] (Germany)
		+	* ''[[Nadja (novel)|Nadja]]'' by [[André Breton]] (France)
		+	* ''[[Story of the Eye]]'' by [[Georges Bataille]] (France)
		+	* ''[[Parade's End]]'' by [[Ford Madox Ford]] - war tetralogy, first volume in 1926
		+	* [[Gypsy Ballads]] by [[Federico García Lorca]]
		+	* ''[[Point Counter Point]]'' by [[Aldous Huxley]]
		+	* ''[[Lady Chatterley's Lover]]'' by [[D. H. Lawrence]] - banned until 1963
		+	* ''[[Decline and Fall]]'' by [[Evelyn Waugh]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Amerika (novel)|Amerika]]'' by [[Franz Kafka]] - posthumous, first English translation in 1938
		+	''Plays
		+	* ''[[Strange Interlude]]'' by [[Eugene O'Neill]] (USA) - Pulitzer prize winner
		+	* ''[[Messrs. Glembay]]'' by [[Miroslav Krleža]]
		+	''Non-fiction
		+	* ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front]]'' by [[Erich Maria Remarque]] (Germany) - recounts the horrors of World War I and also the deep detachment from German civilian life felt by many men returning from the front
		+
		+	1929
		+	* ''[[Les Enfants Terribles]]'' by [[Jean Cocteau]] (France)
		+	* ''[[A Farewell to Arms]]'' by [[Ernest Hemingway]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Look Homeward, Angel]]'' by [[Thomas Wolfe]]
		+	* ''[[Death of a Hero]]'' by [[Richard Aldington]] (England)
		+	* ''[[The Sound and the Fury]]'' by [[William Faulkner]] (USA)
		+	* [[Doña Bárbara]] by [[Rómulo Gallegos]] (Venezuela)
		+	* ''[[Mario and the Magician]]'' by [[Thomas Mann]] (Germany)
		+	* ''[[The Escaped Cock]]'' by [[D. H. Lawrence]] (England)
		+	* ''[[The Defence]]'' by [[Vladimir Nabokov]] (Russia, France)
		+	* [[Wolf Solent]] by [[John Cowper Powys]] (England)
		+	* ''[[The Good Companions]]'' by [[J. B. Priestley]] (England)
		+	''Non-fiction
		+	* ''[[Good-Bye to All That]]'' by [[Robert Graves]] (England)
		+	* ''[[A Room of One's Own]]'' by [[Virginia Woolf]] (England)
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Red Harvest]]'' by [[Dashiell Hammett]] (USA) - the first hard-boiled American detective novel
		+
		+	1930
		+	* ''[[Vile Bodies]]'' by [[Evelyn Waugh]]
		+	* ''[[The Apes of God]]'' by [[Wyndham Lewis]]
		+	* ''[[Brief Candles]]'' by [[Aldous Huxley]] - short stories
		+	* ''[[As I Lay Dying (novel)|As I Lay Dying]]'' by [[William Faulkner]]
		+	* ''[[Narcissus and Goldmund]]'' by [[Hermann Hesse]]
		+	* ''[[Angel Pavement]]'' by [[J. B. Priestley]]
		+	* ''[[The Virgin and the Gypsy]] and [[Love Among the Haystacks]]'' by [[D. H. Lawrence]] - short stories
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Last and First Men]]'' by [[Olaf Stapledon]] (England)
		+	* ''[[The Maltese Falcon (novel)|The Maltese Falcon]]'' by [[Dashiell Hammett]] (USA)
		+	''Poetry
		+	* ''[[Whoroscope]]'' by [[Samuel Beckett]] (Ireland, France)
		+	''Plays
		+	* ''[[Private Lives]]'' by [[Noël Coward]]
		+	''Non-fiction
		+	* ''[[Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man]]'' by [[Siegfried Sassoon]] (England) - 2 volumes, 1st in 1929
		+
		+	1931
		+	* ''[[The Good Earth]]'' by [[Pearl S. Buck]]
		+	* ''[[The Waves]]'' by [[Virginia Woolf]]
		+	* ''[[Night Flight (novel)|Night Flight]]'' by [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]] (France)
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[The Glass Key]]'' by [[Dashiell Hammett]]
		+	* ''[[At the Mountains of Madness]]'' by [[H. P. Lovecraft]]
		+	''Plays
		+	* ''[[Mourning Becomes Electra]]'' by [[Eugene O'Neill]]
		+	* ''[[Cavalcade (play)|Cavalcade]]'' by [[Noël Coward]]
		+	''Non-fiction
		+	* ''[[Axel's Castle]]'' by [[Edmund Wilson]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Music at Night (book)|Music at Night]]'' by [[Aldous Huxley]]
		+
		+	1932
		+	* ''[[The Return of Philip Latinowicz]]'' by [[Miroslav Krleža]]
		+	* ''[[Journey to the End of the Night|Journey to the End of Night]]'' by [[Louis-Ferdinand Céline]] (France)
		+	* ''[[Brave New World]]'' by [[Aldous Huxley]] (England)
		+	* ''[[The Memorial]]'' by [[Christopher Isherwood]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Laughter in the Dark (novel)|Laughter in the Dark]]'' by [[Vladimir Nabokov]] (Russia, France)
		+	* ''[[Light in August]]'' by [[William Faulkner]]
		+	* ''[[A Glastonbury Romance]]'' by [[John Cowper Powys]]
		+	* ''[[Stamboul Train]]'' by [[Graham Greene]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Black Mischief]]'' by [[Evelyn Waugh]]
		+	* ''[[Radetzky March]]'' by [[Joseph Roth]] (Austria)
		+	* ''[[Jew Boy]]'' by [[Simon Blumenfeld]] (England)
		+	''Poetry
		+	* ''[[The Orators]]'' by [[W. H. Auden]] (England)
		+
		+	1933
		+	* ''[[Man's Fate]]'' by [[André Malraux]] (France)
		+	* ''[[Love on the Dole]]'' by [[Walter Greenwood]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Miss Lonelyhearts]]'' by [[Nathanael West]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas]]'' by [[Gertrude Stein]]
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Lost Horizon]]'' by [[James Hilton (novelist)|James Hilton]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Murder Must Advertise]]'' by [[Dorothy L. Sayers]] (England)
		+	''Non-fiction
		+	* ''[[Down and Out in Paris and London]]'' by [[George Orwell]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Texts and Pretexts]]'' by [[Aldous Huxley]]
		+	* ''[[In Praise of Shadows]]'' by [[Jun'ichirō Tanizaki]]
		+
		+	1934
		+	* ''[[Tropic of Cancer (novel)|Tropic of Cancer]]'' by [[Henry Miller]] (USA) - a groundbreaking obscenity case before the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] in 1961 allowed its publication there
		+	* ''[[Call It Sleep]]'' by [[Henry Roth]] (Austria, USA)
		+	* ''[[Tender Is the Night]]'' by [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]
		+	* ''[[Threepenny Novel]]'' by [[Bertolt Brecht]] (Germany)
		+	* ''[[Despair (novel)|Despair]]'' by [[Vladimir Nabokov]]
		+	* ''[[It's a Battlefield]]'' by [[Graham Greene]]
		+	* ''[[A Handful of Dust]]'' by [[Evelyn Waugh]]
		+	* ''[[20,000 Streets Under the Sky]]'' by [[Patrick Hamilton (writer)|Patrick Hamilton]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Voyage in the Dark]]'' by [[Jean Rhys]] ([[Dominica]], France, England)
		+	* ''[[Appointment in Samarra]]'' by [[John O'Hara]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[A Scots Quair]]'' by [[Lewis Grassic Gibbon]] (Scotland) - trilogy, first volume published in 1932
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[The Postman Always Rings Twice (novel)|The Postman Always Rings Twice]]'' by [[James M. Cain]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Novel with Cocaine]] aka [[Cocain Romance]]'' by [[M. Ageyev]] (Russia)
		+	''Poetry
		+	* ''[[18 Poems]]'' by [[Dylan Thomas]] ([[Wales]])
		+	''Non-fiction
		+	* ''[[Burmese Days]]'' by [[George Orwell]]
		+	* ''[[Death in the Afternoon]]'' by [[Ernest Hemingway]]
		+
		+	1935
		+	* ''[[Mr Norris Changes Trains]]'' by [[Christopher Isherwood]]
		+	* ''[[Eyeless in Gaza (novel)|Eyeless in Gaza]]'' by [[Aldous Huxley]]
		+	* ''[[Auto-da-Fé (novel)|Auto-da-Fe]]'' by [[Elias Canetti]] ([[Bulgaria]], Germany)
		+	* ''[[A Clergyman's Daughter]]'' by [[George Orwell]]
		+	* ''[[England Made Me (novel)|England Made Me]]'' by [[Graham Greene]]
		+	* ''[[A House in Paris]]'' by [[Elizabeth Bowen]] (Ireland)
		+	* ''[[Tortilla Flat]]'' by [[John Steinbeck]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Studs Lonigan]]'' by [[James T. Farrell]] (USA) - trilogy, first volume published in 1932
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Little House on the Prairie]]'' by [[Laura Ingalls Wilder]] (USA)
		+	''Poetry
		+	* ''[[Collected Poems (Cecil Day-Lewis)|Collected Poems]]'' by [[Cecil Day-Lewis]] (Northern Ireland)
		+	''Plays
		+	* ''[[Waiting for Lefty]]'' by [[Clifford Odets]] (USA)
		+
		+	1936
		+	* ''[[Death on the Installment Plan]]'' by [[Louis-Ferdinand Céline]]
		+	* ''[[Black Spring (novel)|Black Spring]]'' by [[Henry Miller]]
		+	* ''[[U.S.A. trilogy|U.S.A.]]'' by [[John Dos Passos]]
		+	* ''[[Mephisto (novel)|Mephisto]]'' by [[Klaus Mann]] (Germany, USA)
		+	* ''[[Absalom, Absalom!]]'' by [[William Faulkner]]
		+	* ''[[Keep the Aspidistra Flying]]'' by [[George Orwell]]
		+	* ''[[Confession of a Murderer]]'' by [[Joseph Roth]]
		+	* ''[[Invitation to a Beheading]]'' by [[Vladimir Nabokov]]
		+	* ''[[The Wessex Novels]]'' by [[John Cowper Powys]] (England) - tetralogy, 1st vol published in 1927
		+	* ''[[Godaan]]'' by [[Premchand]]
		+	''Poetry''
		+	* ''[[Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh]]'' by [[Miroslav Krleža]]
		+	''Genre fiction''
		+	* ''[[Jamaica Inn]]'' by [[Daphne du Maurier]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Gone with the Wind (novel)|Gone with the Wind]]'' by [[Margaret Mitchell]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[A Gun for Sale]]'' by [[Graham Greene]]
		+
		+	1937
		+	* ''[[To Have and Have Not]]'' by [[Ernest Hemingway]]
		+	* ''[[The Years]]'' by [[Virginia Woolf]]
		+	* ''[[Of Mice and Men]]'' by [[John Steinbeck]]
		+	* ''[[Lions and Shadows]]'' by [[Christopher Isherwood]]
		+	* ''[[The Black Book]]'' by [[Lawrence Durrell]] (UK, Egypt)
		+	* ''[[Revenge for Love]]'' by [[Wyndham Lewis]]
		+	* ''[[White Mule]]'' by [[William Carlos Williams]]
		+	* ''[[Wide Boys Never Work]]'' by [[Robert Westerby]] (England, USA)
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Star Maker]]'' by [[Olaf Stapledon]]
		+	* ''[[Night and the City]]'' by [[Gerald Kersh]] (England, USA)
		+	* ''[[The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor]]'' by [[Cameron McCabe]] ([[Ernest Bornemann]]) (Germany, England)
		+	* ''[[The Hobbit]]'' by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] (England)
		+	''Non-fiction
		+	* ''[[The Road to Wigan Pier]]'' by [[George Orwell]]
		+	* ''[[How Green Was My Valley]]'' by [[Richard Llewellyn]] (Wales)
		+
		+	1938
		+	* ''[[Nausea (novel)|Nausea]]'' by [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] (France)
		+	* ''[[Murphy (novel)|Murphy]]'' by [[Samuel Beckett]]
		+	* ''[[Tropic of Capricorn (novel)|Tropic of Capricorn]]'' by [[Henry Miller]]
		+	* ''[[Man's Hope]]'' by [[André Malraux]]
		+	* ''[[The Death of the Heart]]'' by [[Elizabeth Bowen]]
		+	* ''[[Brighton Rock (novel)|Brighton Rock]]'' by [[Graham Greene]]
		+	* ''[[Scoop (novel)|Scoop]]'' by [[Evelyn Waugh]]
		+	* ''[[The Gift (Nabokov novel)|The Gift]]'' by [[Vladimir Nabokov]]
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Brighton Rock (novel)|Brighton Rock]]'' by [[Graham Greene]]
		+	* ''[[Rebecca (novel)|Rebecca]]'' by [[Daphne du Maurier]]
		+	''Non-fiction
		+	* ''[[Journey to a War]] by [[W. H. Auden]]'' and [[Christopher Isherwood]]
		+	* ''[[Homage to Catalonia]]'' by [[George Orwell]]
		+	* ''[[Enemies of Promise]]'' by [[Cyril Connolly]] (England)
		+
		+	1939
		+	* ''[[The Grapes of Wrath]]'' by [[John Steinbeck]]
		+	* ''[[Finnegans Wake]]'' by [[James Joyce]]
		+	* ''[[The Banquet in Blitva]]'' by [[Miroslav Krleža]]
		+	* ''[[At Swim-Two-Birds]]'' by [[Flann O'Brien]] (Ireland)
		+	* ''[[Goodbye to Berlin]]'' by [[Christopher Isherwood]]
		+	* ''[[After Many a Summer]]'' by [[Aldous Huxley]]
		+	* ''[[Coming Up for Air]]'' by [[George Orwell]]
		+	* ''[[On the Marble Cliffs]]'' by [[Ernst Jünger]]
		+	* ''[[Good Morning, Midnight (Rhys novel)|Good Morning, Midnight]]'' by [[Jean Rhys]]
		+	* ''[[The Day of the Locust]]'' by [[Nathanael West]]
		+	* ''[[The Legend of the Holy Drinker]]'' by [[Joseph Roth]]
		+	* ''[[Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns|Lotte in Weimar]]'' by [[Thomas Mann]]
		+	* ''[[The Confidential Agent]]'' by [[Graham Greene]]
		+	* ''[[Mister Johnson]]'' by [[Joyce Cary]] (Ireland)
		+	* ''[[Wind, Sand and Stars]]'' by [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]]
		+	* ''[[Pal Joey (novel)|Pal Joey]]'' by [[John O'Hara]]
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[The Big Sleep]]'' by [[Raymond Chandler]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Rogue Male (novel)|Rogue Male]]'' by [[Geoffrey Household]] (England)
		+	* ''[[The Mask of Dimitrios]]'' by [[Eric Ambler]]
		+	* ''[[And Then There Were None]]'' by [[Agatha Christie]]
		+	''Poetry
		+	* ''[[Autumn Journal]]'' by [[Louis MacNeice]] (N Ireland)
		+	* ''[[The Map of Love]]'' by [[Dylan Thomas]]
		+	''Plays
		+	* ''[[This Happy Breed]]'' by [[Noël Coward]]
	==World War II==		==World War II==
-	{{see|1940s literature}}	+
-	*[[Orson Welles]]	+	1940
-	*[[George Orwell]]	+	* ''[[Darkness at Noon]]'' by [[Arthur Koestler]] (Hungary, England)
-	*[[J. R. R. Tolkien]] writes ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' (published 1954/55)	+	* ''[[The Master and Margarita]]'' by [[Mikhail Bulgakov]] - published in English 1966
		+	* ''[[For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'' by [[Ernest Hemingway]]
		+	* ''[[The Power and the Glory]]'' by [[Graham Greene]]
		+	* ''[[Native Son]]'' by [[Richard Wright (author)|Richard Wright]] (USA, France)
		+	* ''[[The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter]]'' by [[Carson McCullers]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog]]'' by [[Dylan Thomas]]
		+	* ''Owen Glendower'' by [[John Cowper Powys]]
		+	* ''[[You Can't Go Home Again]]'' by [[Thomas Wolfe]]
		+	* ''[[And Quiet Flows the Don]]'' by [[Mikhail Sholokhov]] (Russia) - two volumes, first published in 1934
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Journey into Fear (novel)|Journey into Fear]]'' by [[Eric Ambler]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Farewell, My Lovely]]'' by [[Raymond Chandler]]
		+	''Plays
		+	* ''[[The Iceman Cometh]]'' by [[Eugene O'Neill]]
		+	''Non-fiction
		+	* ''[[To the Finland Station]]'' by [[Edmund Wilson]]
		+
		+	1941
		+	* ''[[Hangover Square]]'' by [[Patrick Hamilton (writer)|Patrick Hamilton]]
		+	* ''[[Reflections in a Golden Eye (novel)|Reflections in a Golden Eye]]'' by [[Carson McCullers]]
		+	* ''[[The Third Policeman]]'' by [[Flann O'Brien]]
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Mildred Pierce]]'' by [[James M. Cain]]
		+	''Non-fiction''
		+	* ''[[Grey Eminence]]'' by [[Aldous Huxley]]
		+
		+	1942
		+	* ''[[The Stranger (novel)|The Stranger]]'' by [[Albert Camus]] ([[Algeria]], France)
		+	* ''[[Our Lady of the Flowers]]'' by [[Jean Genet]] (France)
		+	* ''[[Flight to Arras]]'' by [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]]
		+	''Plays
		+	* ''[[The Flies]]'' by [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]
		+
		+	1943
		+	* ''[[Arrival and Departure]]'' by [[Arthur Koestler]]
		+	* ''[[The Ministry of Fear]]'' by [[Graham Greene]]
		+	* ''[[The Man Without Qualities]]'' by [[Robert Musil]] (Austria) - trilogy, first volume published 1930
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Double Indemnity (novel)|Double Indemnity]]'' by [[James M. Cain]]
		+	* ''[[The Little Prince]]'' by [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]] (France)
		+	''Poetry
		+	* Selected Poems by [[Keith Douglas]] (England)
		+	''Non-fiction''
		+	* ''[[Being and Nothingness]]'' by [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]
		+	* ''[[The Myth of Sisyphus]]'' by [[Albert Camus]]
		+
		+	1944
		+	* ''[[The Horse's Mouth]]'' by [[Joyce Cary]]
		+	* ''[[Ficciones]]'' by [[Jorge Luis Borges]] ([[Argentina]]) - short stories
		+	* ''[[The Razor's Edge]]'' by [[Somerset Maugham]]
		+	* ''[[Time Must Have a Stop]]'' by [[Aldous Huxley]]
		+	''Plays''
		+	* ''[[The Glass Menagerie]]'' by [[Tennessee Williams]] (USA)
		+
		+	1945
		+	* ''[[Animal Farm]]'' by [[George Orwell]]
		+	* ''[[Watt (novel)|Watt]]'' by [[Samuel Beckett]] - published in 1953
		+	* ''[[Brideshead Revisited]]'' by [[Evelyn Waugh]]
		+	* ''[[Black Boy]]'' by [[Richard Wright (author)|Richard Wright]]
		+	* ''[[Lark Rise to Candleford]]'' by [[Flora Thompson]] (England) - trilogy, first volume in 1939
		+	''Genre fiction''
		+	* ''[[If He Hollers Let Him Go]]'' by [[Chester Himes]] (USA, France)
		+	* ''[[The Space Trilogy]]'' by [[C. S. Lewis]] (N Ireland) - first volume published in 1938
		+
		+	1946
		+	* ''[[Cry, the Beloved Country]]'' by [[Alan Paton]] (South Africa)
		+	* ''[[The Miracle of the Rose]]'' by [[Jean Genet]]
		+	* [[El Señor Presidente]] by [[Miguel Ángel Asturias]] (Guatemala)
		+	* ''[[Froth on the Daydream]]'' by [[Boris Vian]] (France)
		+	* ''[[The Member of the Wedding]]'' by [[Carson McCullers]]
		+	''Poetry''
		+	* ''[[Deaths and Entrances]]'' by [[Dylan Thomas]]
		+	''Plays''
		+	* ''[[The Winslow Boy]]'' by [[Terence Rattigan]] (England)
		+	''Non-fiction''
		+	* ''[[Alamein to Zem Zem]]'' by [[Keith Douglas]]
		+	* ''[[Memoirs of Hecate County]]'' by [[Edmund Wilson]]
		+
		+	1947
		+	* ''[[The Plague]]'' by [[Albert Camus]]
		+	* ''[[Under the Volcano]]'' by [[Malcolm Lowry]] (England, Canada)
		+	* ''[[Bend Sinister (novel)|Bend Sinister]]'' by [[Vladimir Nabokov]]
		+	* ''[[The Victim (novel)|The Victim]]'' by [[Saul Bellow]] (Canada, USA)
		+	* ''[[The Conformist]]'' by [[Alberto Moravia]] (Italy)
		+	* ''[[The Middle of the Journey]]'' by [[Lionel Trilling]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Slaves of Solitude]]'' by [[Patrick Hamilton (writer)|Patrick Hamilton]]
		+	* ''[[Of Love and Hunger]]'' by [[Julian MacLaren-Ross]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Funeral Rites (novel)|Funeral Rites]]'' by [[Jean Genet]]
		+	* ''[[Snow Country]]'' by [[Yasunari Kawabata]]
		+	''Plays''
		+	* ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire (play)|A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' by [[Tennessee Williams]]
		+	''Non-fiction''
		+	* ''[[The Diary of a Young Girl]]'' by [[Anne Frank]] (Netherlands)
		+
		+	1948
		+	* ''[[The Naked and the Dead]]'' by [[Norman Mailer]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Confessions of a Mask]]'' by '[[Yukio Mishima]]' (Japan)
		+	* ''[[The Heart of the Matter]]'' by [[Graham Greene]]
		+	* [[El Túnel]] by [[Ernesto Sabato]] (Argentina)
		+	* ''[[The City and the Pillar]]'' by [[Gore Vidal]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Ape and Essence]]'' by [[Aldous Huxley]]
		+	* ''[[Querelle of Brest]]'' by [[Jean Genet]]
		+	''Genre fiction''
		+	* ''[[No Orchids for Miss Blandish (novel)|No Orchids for Miss Blandish]]'' by [[James Hadley Chase]] (England)
		+	''Plays''
		+	* ''[[The Browning Version (play)|The Browning Version]]'' by [[Terence Rattigan]]
		+	''Non-fiction''
		+	* ''[[The Second Sex]]'' by [[Simone de Beauvoir]] (France&nbsp;— early feminist study
		+
		+	1949
		+	* ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' by [[George Orwell]]
		+	* ''[[The Roads to Freedom]]'' by [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] - trilogy, first volume published 1945
		+	* ''[[The Thief's Journal]]'' by [[Jean Genet]]
		+	* ''[[The Man with the Golden Arm]]'' by [[Nelson Algren]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[The Train Was on Time]]'' by [[Heinrich Böll]] (Germany)
		+	* ''[[The Aleph (short story collection)|The Aleph]]'' by [[Jorge Luis Borges]]
		+	* ''[[The Kingdom of this World]]'' by [[Alejo Carpentier]] (Mexico)
		+	* ''[[The Heat of the Day]]'' by [[Elizabeth Bowen]]
		+	''Genre fiction''
		+	* ''[[The Trouble with Harry]]'' by [[Jack Trevor Story]] (England)
		+	* ''[[The Mating Season (novel)|The Mating Season]]'' by [[P. G. Wodehouse]]
		+	''Plays''
		+	* ''[[Death of a Salesman]]'' by [[Arthur Miller]] (USA)
	==Postwar period==		==Postwar period==
-	The intermediate [[postwar period]] separating "Modernism" from "Postmodernism" ([[1950s literature]]) is the ''floruit'' of the [[beat generation]] and the classical science fiction of [[Isaac Asimov]], [[Arthur C. Clarke]] and [[Robert A. Heinlein]].
-	==Cold War period==	+	The intermediate [[postwar period]] separating "Modernism" from "Postmodernism" ([[1950s literature]]) is the ''floruit'' of the [[beat generation]] and the classical science fiction of [[Isaac Asimov]], [[Arthur C. Clarke]] and [[Robert A. Heinlein]]. This period also saw the publication of Samuel Beckett's trilogy of novels, ''[[Molloy (novel)|Molloy]]'', ''[[Malone Dies]]'', and ''The Unnameable'', which enacted the dissolution of the self-identical human subject and inspired later novelists such as [[Thomas Bernhard]], [[John Banville]], and [[David Markson]].
-	* [[Umberto Eco]] ''Il nome della rosa'' ([[1980 in literature|1980]] - English translation: ''[[The Name of the Rose]]'', 1983), ''Il pendolo di Foucault'' ([[1988 in literature|1988]] - English translation: ''[[Foucault's Pendulum (book)|Foucault's Pendulum]]'', 1989)	+	1950
		+	* ''[[Scenes from Provincial Life]]'' by [[William Cooper (novelist)|William Cooper]] (England) - the first of the British 1950s 'kitchen sink' novels
		+	* [[Canto General]] by [[Pablo Neruda]]
		+	''Genre fiction''
		+	* ''[[A Town Like Alice]]'' by [[Nevil Shute]] (England, Australia)
		+	* ''[[Strangers on a Train (novel)|Strangers On a Train]]'' by [[Patricia Highsmith]] (USA)
		+	''Non-fiction''
		+	* ''[[The Authoritarian Personality]]'' by [[Theodor Adorno]] (Germany, USA)
		+
		+	1951
		+	* ''[[Molloy (novel)|Molloy]]'' by [[Samuel Beckett]] (Ireland, France)
		+	* ''[[Malone Dies]]'' by [[Samuel Beckett]] (Ireland, France)
		+	* ''[[The Catcher in the Rye]]'' by [[J. D. Salinger]] (USA)
		+	* [[The Hive (novel)|The Hive]] by [[Camilo José Cela]] (Spain)
		+	* ''[[Porius (A Romance of the Dark Ages)]]'' by [[John Cowper Powys]] (England)
		+	* ''[[The Grass Harp]]'' by [[Truman Capote]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Memoirs of Hadrian]]'' by [[Marguerite Yourcenar]] (France)
		+	* ''[[The Opposing Shore]]'' by [[Julien Gracq]] (France)
		+	''Non-fiction''
		+	* ''[[The Rebel (book)|The Rebel]]'' by [[Albert Camus]] (France)
		+
		+	1952
		+	* ''[[Invisible Man]]'' by [[Ralph Ellison]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Wise Blood]]'' by [[Flannery O'Connor]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Go (Holmes novel)|Go]]'' by [[John Clellon Holmes]] (USA) - the first [[Beat Generation|Beat]] novel
		+	* ''[[The Natural]]'' by [[Bernard Malamud]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[The Old Man and the Sea]]'' by [[Ernest Hemingway]]
		+	* ''[[East of Eden (novel)|East of Eden]]'' by [[John Steinbeck]]
		+	''Genre fiction''
		+	* ''[[The Tiger in the Smoke]]'' by [[Margery Allingham]] (England)
		+	* ''[[The Killer Inside Me]]'' by [[Jim Thompson (writer)|Jim Thompson]] (USA)
		+	''Plays''
		+	* ''[[The Chairs]]'' by [[Eugène Ionesco]] ([[Romania]], France)
		+
		+	1953
		+	* ''The Unnameable'' by [[Samuel Beckett]] (Ireland, France)
		+	* ''[[Junkie (novel)|Junkie]] and [[Queer (novel)|Queer]]'' by [[William S. Burroughs]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Go Tell It on the Mountain (novel)|Go Tell It On the Mountain]]'' by [[James Baldwin (writer)|James Baldwin]] (USA, France)
		+	* ''[[The Outsider (Wright novel)|The Outsider]]'' by [[Richard Wright (author)|Richard Wright]]
		+	* ''[[The Adventures of Augie March]]'' by [[Saul Bellow]]
		+	* ''[[Hurry on Down]]'' by [[John Wain]] (England) - the first 'angry young man' novel
		+	''Genre fiction''
		+	* ''[[Casino Royale (novel)|Casino Royale]]'' by [[Ian Fleming]] (England, [[Jamaica]]) - first James Bond novel
		+	* ''[[The Long Goodbye (novel)|The Long Goodbye]]'' by [[Raymond Chandler]]
		+	* ''[[Childhood's End]]'' by [[Arthur C. Clarke]] (England, [[Sri Lanka]])
		+	* ''[[Foundation (Isaac Asimov novel)|Foundation]]'' by [[Isaac Asimov]] (USA) - trilogy, first volume published in 1951
		+	* ''[[Prelude to a Certain Midnight]]'' by [[Gerald Kersh]]
		+	''Plays''
		+	* ''[[Waiting for Godot]]'' by [[Samuel Beckett]]
		+
		+	1954
		+	* ''[[Lord of the Flies]]'' by [[William Golding]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Lucky Jim]]'' by [[Kingsley Amis]] (England) - the most famous 'angry young man' novel
		+	* ''[[Under the Net]]'' by [[Iris Murdoch]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Bonjour Tristesse]]'' by [[Françoise Sagan]] (France)
		+	''Genre fiction''
		+	* ''[[Fahrenheit 451]]'' by [[Ray Bradbury]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Story of O]]'' by [[Pauline Réage]] (France)
		+	''Plays''
		+	* ''[[Under Milk Wood]]'' by [[Dylan Thomas]]
		+	* ''[[The Quare Fellow]]'' by [[Brendan Behan]] (Ireland)
		+	''Non-fiction''
		+	* ''[[The Doors of Perception]]'' by [[Aldous Huxley]]
		+
		+	1955
		+	* ''[[Lolita]]'' by [[Vladimir Nabokov]]
		+	* ''[[One (David Karp novel)|One]]'' by [[David Karp (novelist)|David Karp]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[The Quiet American]]'' by [[Graham Greene]]
		+	* ''[[The Bread of Those Early Years]]'' by [[Heinrich Böll]]
		+	* ''[[The Tree of Man]]'' by [[Patrick White]] (Australia)
		+	* ''[[The Inheritors (William Golding)|The Inheritors]]'' by [[William Golding]]
		+	* [[Pedro Páramo]] by [[Juan Rulfo]] (Mexico)
		+	* ''[[The Voyeur (novel)|The Voyeur]]'' by [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]] (France)
		+	* ''[[The Genius and the Goddess]]'' by [[Aldous Huxley]]
		+	* ''[[The Deer Park]]'' by [[Norman Mailer]]
		+	* ''[[The Recognitions]]'' by [[William Gaddis]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Memed, My Hawk]]'' by [[Yaşar Kemal]] (Turkey)
		+	''Genre fiction''
		+	* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]], first volume in 1954
		+	* ''[[The Talented Mr. Ripley]]'' by [[Patricia Highsmith]]
		+	''Plays''
		+	* ''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]'' by [[Tennessee Williams]]
		+	* ''[[Bus Stop (play)|Bus Stop]]'' by [[William Inge]] (USA)
		+	''Poetry''
		+	* ''[[The Less Deceived]]'' by [[Philip Larkin]] (England)
		+
		+	1956
		+	* ''[[The Fall (Albert Camus novel)|The Fall]]'' by [[Albert Camus]]
		+	*''[[The Devil to Pay in the Backlands]]'' by [[João Guimarães Rosa]]
		+	* ''[[Giovanni's Room]]'' by [[James Baldwin (writer)|James Baldwin]]
		+	* ''[[The Lonely Londoners]]'' by [[Samuel Selvon]] ([[Trinidad]], England)
		+	* ''[[A Walk on the Wild Side (novel)|A Walk on the Wild Side]]'' by [[Nelson Algren]]
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' by [[C. S. Lewis]] (N Ireland) - seven volumes, first in 1950
		+	* ''[[Peyton Place (novel)|Peyton Place]]'' by [[Grace Metalious]]
		+	* ''[[The Hundred and One Dalmatians]]'' by [[Dodie Smith]] (England)
		+	''Plays''
		+	* ''[[Look Back In Anger]]'' by [[John Osborne]] (England) - the first 'angry young man' play
		+	''Poetry''
		+	* ''[[Howl and Other Poems]]'' by [[Allen Ginsberg]] (USA)
		+	''Non-fiction''
		+	* ''[[Heaven and Hell (essay)|Heaven and Hell]]'' by [[Aldous Huxley]]
		+
		+	1957
		+	* ''[[On the Road]]'' by [[Jack Kerouac]] (Canada, USA)
		+	* ''[[Young Adam]]'' by [[Alexander Trocchi]] (Scotland)
		+	* ''[[Room at the Top (novel)|Room at the Top]]'' by [[John Braine]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Doctor Zhivago (novel)|Doctor Zhivago]]'' by [[Boris Pasternak]] (Russia)
		+	* ''[[Voss (novel)|Voss]]'' by [[Patrick White]]
		+	* ''[[The Assistant (novel)|The Assistant]]'' by [[Bernard Malamud]]
		+	* ''[[Second Thoughts (Michel Butor novel)|Second Thoughts]]'' by [[Michel Butor]] (France)
		+	* ''[[Pnin]]'' by [[Vladimir Nabokov]]
		+	* ''[[Cairo Trilogy]]'' by [[Naguib Mahfouz]] (Egypt)
		+	* ''[[Gimpel the Fool]]'' by [[Isaac Bashevis Singer]] (Poland, USA) - short stories, originally published in Yiddish years earlier
		+	* ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'' by [[Ayn Rand]] (USA)
		+	''Genre fiction''
		+	* ''[[On the Beach (novel)|On the Beach]]'' by [[Nevil Shute]]
		+	''Plays''
		+	* ''[[The Room (play)|The Room]] and [[The Birthday Party (play)|The Birthday Party]]'' by [[Harold Pinter]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Endgame (play)|Endgame]]'' by [[Samuel Beckett]]
		+	* ''[[The Entertainer (play)|The Entertainer]]'' by [[John Osborne]]
		+	* ''[[Orpheus Descending]]'' by [[Tennessee Williams]]
		+	* ''[[The Visit (play)|The Visit]]'' by [[Friedrich Dürrenmatt]] (Switzerland)
		+
		+	1958
		+	* ''[[If This Is a Man]]'' by [[Primo Levi]] (Italy)
		+	* ''[[Breakfast at Tiffany's (novella)|Breakfast At Tiffany's]]'' by [[Truman Capote]]
		+	* ''[[The Dharma Bums]]'' by [[Jack Kerouac]]
		+	* ''[[Saturday Night and Sunday Morning]]'' by [[Alan Sillitoe]] (England)
		+	* ''[[A Taste of Honey]]'' by [[Shelagh Delaney]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Things Fall Apart]]'' by [[Chinua Achebe]] (Nigeria)
		+	* ''[[The Bell (novel)|The Bell]]'' by [[Iris Murdoch]]
		+	* ''[[Fowlers End]]'' by [[Gerald Kersh]]
		+	* ''[[Our Man in Havana]]'' by [[Graham Greene]]
		+	* ''[[Candy (Southern and Hoffenberg novel)|Candy]]'' by [[Terry Southern]] (USA)
		+	''Genre fiction''
		+	* ''[[Exodus (Uris novel)|Exodus]]'' by [[Leon Uris]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Zimiamvian Trilogy]]'' by [[E. R. Eddison]] (England) - first volume in 1935
		+	* ''[[Nigel Molesworth|Molesworth]]'' by [[Geoffrey Willans]] (England) and [[Ronald Searle]] (England, France) - tetrology, first book in 1954
		+	''Plays''
		+	* ''[[Krapp's Last Tape]]'' by [[Samuel Beckett]]
		+	* ''[[Suddenly, Last Summer]]'' by [[Tennessee Williams]]
		+	''Non-fiction''
		+	* ''[[The Theatre and Its Double]]'' by [[Antonin Artaud]] (France)
		+	* ''[[Borstal Boy]]'' by [[Brendan Behan]]
		+
		+	1959
		+	* ''[[The Tin Drum]]'' by [[Günter Grass]] (Germany)
		+	* ''[[Naked Lunch]]'' by [[William S. Burroughs]]
		+	* ''[[The Last of the Just]]'' by [[André Schwarz-Bart]] (France)
		+	* ''[[Goodbye, Columbus]]'' by [[Philip Roth]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Zazie in the Metro]]'' by [[Raymond Queneau]] (France)
		+	* ''[[In the Labyrinth (novel)|In the Labyrinth]]'' by [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]]
		+	* ''[[The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner]]'' by [[Alan Sillitoe]]
		+	* ''[[Billy Liar]]'' by [[Keith Waterhouse]] (England)
		+	* ''[[The Long Day Wanes]]'' by [[Anthony Burgess]] (England) - trilogy, first volume published in 1956
		+	* ''[[The Magic Christian (novel)|The Magic Christian]]'' by [[Terry Southern]]
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Gormenghast series|The Gormenghast Trilogy]]'' by [[Mervyn Peake]] (England) - first volume in 1946
		+	* ''[[The Getaway (novel)|The Getaway]]'' by [[Jim Thompson (writer)|Jim Thompson]]
		+	''Plays
		+	* ''[[The Dumb Waiter]] and [[The Caretaker]]'' by [[Harold Pinter]]
		+	* ''[[Rhinoceros (play)|Rhinoceros]]'' by [[Eugène Ionesco]]
		+
		+	==Cold War period 1960–89==
		+
		+	1960
		+	* ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'' by [[Harper Lee]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[The London Trilogy]]'' by [[Colin MacInnes]] (England) - first volume, [[Absolute Beginners (novel)|Absolute Beginners]], published in 1957
		+	* ''[[Cain's Book]]'' by [[Alexander Trocchi]] (UK, France, USA)
		+	* ''[[This Sporting Life]]'' by [[David Storey]] (UK)
		+	* ''[[A Burnt-Out Case]]'' by [[Graham Greene]]
		+	* ''[[Hiroshima Mon Amour]]'' by [[Marguerite Duras]] (France)
		+	* ''[[The Ballad of Peckham Rye]]'' by [[Muriel Spark]] (Scotland)
		+	* ''[[The Rosy Crucifixion]]'' by [[Henry Miller]] (USA) - trilogy, first volume published 1949
		+	* ''[[The Sot-Weed Factor]]'' by [[John Barth]] (USA),
		+	''Non-fiction and Quasi-fiction
		+	* ''[[The Morning of the Magicians]] by [[Louis Pauwels]]'' and [[Jacques Bergier]] (France) - the 1960s obsession with the occult starts here. Published in English 1963
		+	* ''[[A Canticle for Leibowitz]] by [[Walter M. Miller Jr.]]'' (USA)
		+
		+	1961
		+	* ''[[Catch 22]]'' by [[Joseph Heller]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[A House for Mr Biswas]]'' by [[V. S. Naipaul]] ([[Trinidad]], England)
		+	* ''[[Riders in the Chariot]]'' by [[Patrick White]]
		+	* ''[[The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (novel)|The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie]]'' by [[Muriel Spark]]
		+	* ''[[A Severed Head]]'' by [[Iris Murdoch]]
		+	* ''[[Sword of Honour]]'' by [[Evelyn Waugh]] - trilogy, first volume published in 1952
		+	* ''[[Revolutionary Road]]'' by [[Richard Yates (novelist)|Richard Yates]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place]]'' by [[Malcolm Lowry]] - posthumous
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Solaris (novel)|Solaris]]'' by [[Stanisław Lem]] (Poland)
		+	* ''[[Stranger in a Strange Land]]'' by [[Robert A. Heinlein]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[The Man in the High Castle]]'' by [[Philip K. Dick]] (USA)
		+
		+	1962
		+	* ''[[One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]]'' by [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] (Russia)
		+	* ''[[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|A Clockwork Orange]] and [[The Wanting Seed]]'' by [[Anthony Burgess]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Pale Fire]]'' by [[Vladimir Nabokov]]
		+	* ''[[Island (Huxley novel)|Island]]'' by [[Aldous Huxley]]
		+	* ''[[The Time of the Hero]]'' by [[Mario Vargas Llosa]] (Peru)
		+	* ''[[The Golden Notebook]]'' by [[Doris Lessing]] (Zimbabwe, England)
		+	* ''[[The Death of Artemio Cruz]]'' by [[Carlos Fuentes]] (Mexico)
		+	* ''[[The Alexandria Quartet]]'' by [[Lawrence Durrell]] - first volume published 1957
		+	* ''[[Big Sur (novel)|Big Sur]]'' by [[Jack Kerouac]] - the last of the Lost Generation at the end of the Beat Generation
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[The IPCRESS File]]'' by [[Len Deighton]] (England) - first of the Harry Palmer novels
		+	''Non-fiction
		+	* ''[[Silent Spring]]'' by [[Rachel Carson]] (USA) - the first major popular study on the deterioration of the environment
		+
		+	1963
		+	* ''[[V.]]'' by [[Thomas Pynchon]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[The Bell Jar]]'' by [[Sylvia Plath]] (USA, England)
		+	* [[Hopscotch (Cortázar novel)|Hopscotch]] by [[Julio Cortázar]] (Argentina)
		+	* ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel)|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]'' by [[Ken Kesey]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[The Collector]]'' by [[John Fowles]] (England)
		+	* ''[[The Lowlife]]'' by [[Alexander Baron]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Cat's Cradle]]'' by [[Kurt Vonnegut]] (USA)
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Planet of the Apes (novel)|Planet of the Apes]]'' by [[Pierre Boulle]] (France)
		+	* ''[[The Spy Who Came in from the Cold]]'' by [[John le Carré]] (England)
		+	* ''[[The Grifters (novel)|The Grifters]]'' by [[Jim Thompson (writer)|Jim Thompson]]
		+	''Non-fiction
		+	* ''[[The Truce]]'' by [[Primo Levi]])
		+
		+	1964
		+	* ''[[Herzog (novel)|Herzog]]'' by [[Saul Bellow]]
		+	* ''[[A Single Man (novel)|A Single Man]]'' by [[Christopher Isherwood]]
		+	* ''[[Last Exit to Brooklyn]]'' by [[Hubert Selby]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[The Spire]]'' by [[William Golding]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Nothing Like the Sun]]'' by [[Anthony Burgess]]
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]'' by [[Roald Dahl]] (UK)
		+	* ''[[The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch]]'' by [[Philip K. Dick]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Little Big Man (novel)|Little Big Man]]'' by [[Thomas Berger (novelist)|Thomas Berger]] (USA)
		+	''Non-fiction
		+	* ''[[Understanding Media]]'' by [[Marshall McLuhan]] (Canada)
		+
		+	1965
		+	* ''[[The Magus (novel)|The Magus]]'' by [[John Fowles]]
		+	* ''[[The Interpreters]]'' by [[Wole Soyinka]] (Nigeria)
		+	* ''[[Cosmicomics]]'' by [[Italo Calvino]] (Italy)
		+	* ''[[The Painted Bird]]'' by [[Jerzy Kosinski]] (Poland, USA)
		+	* ''[[Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush]]'' by [[Hunter Davies]] (England) - the kitchen sink novel mutates into the swinging 1960s novel
		+	''Plays
		+	* ''[[Marat/Sade]]'' by [[Peter Weiss]] (Germany, Sweden)
		+	''Poetry''
		+	* ''Briggflatts'' by [[Basil Bunting]]
		+	''Non-fiction and Quasi-fiction
		+	* ''[[The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby]]'' by [[Tom Wolfe]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[The Autobiography of Malcolm X]]'' by [[Alex Haley]] (USA)
		+
		+	1966
		+	* ''[[A Man of the People]]'' by [[Chinua Achebe]] (Nigeria)
		+	* ''[[Alfie (play)|Alfie]]'' by [[Bill Naughton]] (England)
		+	* ''[[The Comedians (novel)|The Comedians]]'' by [[Graham Greene]]
		+	* ''[[Wide Sargasso Sea]]'' by [[Jean Rhys]]
		+	* ''[[Tremor of Intent]]'' by [[Anthony Burgess]]
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Pavane (novel)|Pavane]]'' by [[Keith Roberts]] (England)
		+	* ''[[The Anti-Death League]]'' by [[Kingsley Amis]]
		+	''Non-fiction and Quasi-fiction
		+	* ''[[In Cold Blood]]'' by [[Truman Capote]]
		+	* ''[[Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs]]'' by [[Hunter S. Thompson]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me]]'' by [[Richard Fariña]] (USA)
		+
		+	1967
		+	* ''[[One Hundred Years of Solitude]]'' by [[Gabriel García Márquez]] ([[Colombia]])
		+	* ''[[The Crying of Lot 49]]'' by [[Thomas Pynchon]]
		+	* ''[[The Vendor of Sweets]]'' by [[R. K. Narayan]] (India)
		+	* ''[[Poor Cow]]'' by [[Nell Dunn]] (England)
		+	* ''[[A Grain of Wheat]]'' by [[Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o]]
		+	''Non-fiction
		+	* ''[[In the First Circle]]'' by [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]]
		+	* ''[[The Medium is the Message]] by [[Marshall McLuhan]]'' and [[Quentin Fiore]]
		+
		+	1968
		+	* ''[[Cocksure]]'' by [[Mordecai Richler]] (Canada)
		+	* ''[[Couples (novel)|Couples]]'' by [[John Updike]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[The Public Image]]'' by [[Muriel Spark]]
		+	* ''[[Lunar Caustic (novel)|Lunar Caustic]]'' by [[Malcolm Lowry]] - posthumous
		+	''Non-fiction and quasi-fiction
		+	* ''[[Cancer Ward]]'' by [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]]
		+	* ''[[The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test]]'' by [[Tom Wolfe]]
		+	* ''[[The Armies of the Night]] and [[Miami and the Siege of Chicago]]'' by [[Norman Mailer]]
		+	* ''[[Bomb Culture]]'' by [[Jeff Nuttall]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Slouching Towards Bethlehem]]'' by [[Joan Didion]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[The Teachings of Don Juan]]'' by [[Carlos Castaneda]] (USA)
		+
		+	1969
		+	* ''[[Portnoy's Complaint]]'' by [[Philip Roth]]
		+	* ''[[The French Lieutenant's Woman]]'' by [[John Fowles]]
		+	* ''[[A Void]]'' by [[Georges Perec]] (France)
		+	* ''[[Passacaille (novel)|Passacaille]]'' by [[Robert Pinget]] (France)
		+	* ''[[Dark as the Grave wherein my Friend is Laid]]'' by [[Malcolm Lowry]] - posthumous
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Barefoot in the Head]]'' by [[Brian Aldiss]]
		+	* ''[[The Final Programme]]'' by [[Michael Moorcock]] (England, USA)
		+	* ''[[Slaughterhouse-Five]]'' by [[Kurt Vonnegut]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[The Godfather]]'' by [[Mario Puzo]] (USA)
		+	''Non-fiction and Quasi-fiction
		+	* ''[[Papillon (book)|Papillon]]'' by [[Henri Charrière]] (France)
		+	* ''[[The View Over Atlantis]]'' by [[John Michell (writer)|John Michell]] (England)
		+
		+	1970
		+	* ''[[Play It as It Lays]]'' by [[Joan Didion]]
		+	* ''[[Mr. Sammler's Planet]]'' by [[Saul Bellow]]
		+	* ''[[October Ferry to Gabriola]]'' by [[Malcolm Lowry]] - posthumous
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[The Hot Rock (novel)|The Hot Rock]]'' by [[Donald E. Westlake]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Deliverance (novel)|Deliverance]]'' by [[James Dickey]] (USA)
		+	''Non-fiction and Quasi-fiction
		+	* ''[[The Female Eunuch]]'' by [[Germaine Greer]] (Australia, England)
		+	* ''[[Groupie (book)|Groupie]]'' by [[Jenny Fabian]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Playpower]]'' by [[Richard Neville (writer)|Richard Neville]] (Australia, England)
		+	* ''[[Revolt into Style]]'' by [[George Melly]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Soledad Brother]]'' by [[George Jackson (Black Panther)|George Jackson]] (USA) - prison letters
		+	* ''[[Soul On Ice (book)|Soul On Ice]]'' by [[Eldridge Cleaver]] (USA)
		+
		+	1971
		+	* ''[[In a Free State]]'' by [[V. S. Naipaul]] ([[Trinidad]], England)
		+	* ''[[M/F]]'' by [[Anthony Burgess]]
		+	* ''[[Our Gang]]'' by [[Philip Roth]]
		+	* ''[[The Dice Man]]'' by [[Luke Rhinehart]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Another Roadside Attraction]]'' by [[Tom Robbins]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Being There]]'' by [[Jerzy Kosiński]]
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[The Day of the Jackal]]'' by [[Frederick Forsyth]] (England)
		+	''Non-fiction and Quasi-fiction
		+	* ''[[The Happy Hooker]]'' by [[Xaviera Hollander]] (Indonesia, Netherlands)
		+	* ''[[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas]]'' by [[Hunter S. Thompson]]
		+
		+	1972
		+	* ''[[The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman]]'' by [[Angela Carter]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Invisible Cities]]'' by [[Italo Calvino]]
		+	* ''[[G. (novel)|G]]'' by [[John Berger]] (England, France)
		+	* ''[[Tutunamayanlar|The Good for Nothing]]'' by [[Oğuz Atay]] (Turkey)
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[The Friends of Eddie Coyle]]'' by [[George V. Higgins]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Jonathan Livingston Seagull]]'' by [[Richard Bach]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[The Odessa File]]'' by [[Frederick Forsyth]]
		+	''Poetry
		+	* ''[[Crossing the Water]] and [[Winter Trees]]'' by [[Sylvia Plath]]
		+
		+	1973
		+	* ''[[Gravity's Rainbow]]'' by [[Thomas Pynchon]]
		+	* ''[[Crash (J. G. Ballard novel)|Crash]]'' by [[J. G. Ballard]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Season of Anomy]]'' by [[Wole Soyinka]] (Nigeria)
		+	* ''[[Life Is Elsewhere]]'' by [[Milan Kundera]] ([[Czechoslovakia]], France)
		+	* ''[[Sweet Dreams (novel)|Sweet Dreams]]'' by [[Michael Frayn]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Fear of Flying (novel)|Fear of Flying]]'' by [[Erica Jong]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[The Great American Novel (novel)|The Great American Novel]]'' by [[Philip Roth]]
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Frankenstein Unbound]]'' by [[Brian Aldiss]]
		+
		+	1974
		+	* ''[[The Conservationist]]'' by [[Nadine Gordimer]] (South Africa)
		+	* ''[[The Fan Man]]'' by [[William Kotzwinkle]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum]]'' by [[Heinrich Böll]]
		+	* [[I, the Supreme]] by [[Augusto Roa Bastos]] (Paraguay)
		+	* ''[[Napoleon Symphony]]'' by [[Anthony Burgess]]
		+	* ''[[Myra Breckinridge]] and [[Myron (novel)|Myron]]'' by [[Gore Vidal]] - first of pair published in 1968
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy]]'' by [[John le Carré]]
		+	* ''[[Fletch (novel)|Fletch]]'' by [[Gregory Mcdonald]] (USA)
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Jaws (novel)|Jaws]]'' by [[Peter Benchley]] (USA)
		+	''Non-fiction and Quasi-fiction
		+	* ''[[All the President's Men]] by [[Bob Woodward]]'' and [[Carl Bernstein]] (USA)
		+
		+	1975
		+	* ''[[Humboldt's Gift]]'' by [[Saul Bellow]]
		+	* ''[[The Deptford Trilogy]]'' by [[Robertson Davies]] - first volume published 1970
		+	* ''[[Dead Babies (novel)|Dead Babies]]'' by [[Martin Amis]] (England)
		+	* ''[[The Autumn of the Patriarch]]'' by [[Gabriel García Márquez]]
		+	* ''[[The History Man]]'' by [[Malcolm Bradbury]] (England)
		+	* ''[[The Periodic Table (book)|The Periodic Table]]'' by [[Primo Levi]] - short stories
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Watership Down]]'' by [[Richard Adams]] (England)
		+	* ''[[The Choirboys (novel)|The Choirboys]]'' by [[Joseph Wambaugh]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Shōgun (novel)|Shōgun]]'' by [[James Clavell]] (England, USA)
		+	* ''[['Salem's Lot]]'' by [[Stephen King]] (USA)
		+
		+	1976
		+	* ''[[Ragtime]]'' by [[EL Doctorow]] (USA)
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Interview with the Vampire]]'' by [[Anne Rice]] (USA)
		+	''Non-fiction and quasi-fiction
		+	* ''[[Roots: The Saga of an American Family|Roots]]'' by [[Alex Haley]]
		+	''Drama
		+	* ''[[Death and the King's Horseman]]'' by [[Wole Soyinka]]
		+
		+	1977
		+	* ''[[The Engineer of Human Souls]]'' by [[Josef Škvorecký]] ([[Czechoslovakia]])
		+	* ''[[Song of Solomon (novel)|Song of Solomon]]'' by [[Toni Morrison]] (USA)
		+
		+	1978
		+	* ''[[Success (novel)|Success]]'' by [[Martin Amis]]
		+	* ''[[The Sea, the Sea]]'' by [[Iris Murdoch]]
		+	* ''[[Lanark: A Life in Four Books]]'' by [[Alasdair Gray]] (Scotland)
		+	* ''[[Life A User's Manual]]'' by [[Georges Perec]]
		+	* ''[[The Book of Laughter and Forgetting]]'' by [[Milan Kundera]]
		+	* ''[[Jake's Thing]]'' by [[Kingsley Amis]]
		+	* ''[[The World According to Garp]]'' by [[John Irving]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[1985 (Anthony Burgess novel)|1985]]'' by [[Anthony Burgess]]
		+	* ''[[Horatio Stubbs]]'' by [[Brian Aldiss]] - trilogy, first volume published in 1970
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Rumpole of the Bailey]]'' by [[John Mortimer]] (England)
		+
		+	1979
		+	* ''[[A Bend in the River]]'' by [[V. S. Naipaul]]
		+	* ''[[The Unlimited Dream Company]]'' by [[J. G. Ballard]]
		+	* ''[[Sophie's Choice (novel)|Sophie's Choice]]'' by [[William Styron]] (USA)
		+	''Non-fiction and Quasi-fiction
		+	* ''[[The White Album (book)|The White Album]]'' by [[Joan Didion]]
		+	* ''[[The Right Stuff (book)|The Right Stuff]]'' by [[Tom Wolfe]] (USA)
		+
		+	1980
		+	* ''[[The Name of the Rose]]'' by [[Umberto Eco]]
		+	* ''[[Pascali's Island (novel)|Pascali's Island]]'' by [[Barry Unsworth]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Earthly Powers]]'' by [[Anthony Burgess]]
		+
		+	1981
		+	* ''[[Midnight's Children]]'' by [[Salman Rushdie]] (India, UK)
		+	* ''[[The Comfort of Strangers]]'' by [[Ian McEwan]] (England)
		+	* ''[[The White Hotel]]'' by [[D. M. Thomas]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Chronicle of a Death Foretold]]'' by [[Gabriel García Márquez]]
		+	* ''[[What We Talk About When We Talk About Love]]'' by [[Raymond Carver]] (USA) - short stories
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[The Red Dragon]]'' by [[Thomas Harris]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Gorky Park (novel)|Gorky Park]]'' by [[Martin Cruz Smith]] (England, Russia)
		+
		+	1982
		+	* ''[[Schindler's Ark]]'' by [[Thomas Keneally]] (Australia)
		+	* ''[[An Ice-Cream War]]'' by [[William Boyd (writer)|William Boyd]] (Ghana, Scotland)
		+	* ''[[The Color Purple]]'' by [[Alice Walker]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[A Wild Sheep Chase]]'' by [[Haruki Murakami]]
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Prizzi's Honor (novel)|Prizzi's Honor]]'' by [[Richard Condon]]
		+
		+	1983
		+	* ''[[Waterland (novel)|Waterland]]'' by [[Graham Swift]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Shame (Rushdie novel)|Shame]]'' by [[Salman Rushdie]]
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[The Colour of Magic]]'' by [[Terry Pratchett]] (England) - first book of the ''[[Discworld]]'' series
		+
		+	1984
		+	* ''[[Money (novel)|Money]]'' by [[Martin Amis]]
		+	* ''[[Bright Lights, Big City (novel)|Bright Lights, Big City]]'' by [[Jay McInerney]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[The Unbearable Lightness of Being]]'' by [[Milan Kundera]]
		+	* ''[[Flaubert's Parrot]]'' by [[Julian Barnes]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Nights at the Circus]]'' by [[Angela Carter]]
		+	* ''[[Inside Mr. Enderby|Enderby]]'' by [[Anthony Burgess]] - tetrology, first volume published in 1963
		+	* ''[[The Witches of Eastwick]]'' by [[John Updike]]
		+	''Non-fiction
		+	* ''[[Empire of the Sun]]'' by [[J. G. Ballard]]
		+
		+	1985
		+	* ''[[White Noise (novel)|White Noise]]'' by [[Don DeLillo]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Less Than Zero (novel)|Less Than Zero]]'' by [[Bret Easton Ellis]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit]]'' by [[Jeanette Winterson]] (England)
		+	* ''[[The Accidental Tourist]]'' by [[Anne Tyler]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Hawksmoor (novel)|Hawksmoor]]'' by [[Peter Ackroyd]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Illywhacker]]'' by [[Peter Carey (novelist)|Peter Carey]] (Australia)
		+	* ''[[The Kingdom of the Wicked]]'' by [[Anthony Burgess]]
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[L.A. Noir]]'' by [[James Ellroy]] (USA) - trilogy, first volume published 1984
		+	* ''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'' by [[Margaret Atwood]] - (USA)
		+
		+	1986
		+	* ''[[Slaves of New York]]'' by [[Tama Janowitz]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[The Old Devils]]'' by [[Kingsley Amis]]
		+	* ''[[An Artist of the Floating World]]'' by [[Kazuo Ishiguro]] (Japan, UK)
		+	''Non-fiction
		+	* ''[[Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature]]'' by [[Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o]]
		+
		+	1987
		+	* ''[[The Satanic Verses]]'' by [[Salman Rushdie]]
		+	* ''[[The Bonfire of the Vanities]]'' by [[Tom Wolfe]]
		+	* ''[[Anthills of the Savannah]]'' by [[Chinua Achebe]]
		+	* ''[[The Alchemist (novel)|The Alchemist]]'' by [[Paulo Coelho]] (Brasil)
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Presumed Innocent (novel)|Presumed Innocent]]'' by [[Scott Turow]] (USA)
		+
		+	1988
		+	* ''[[Mother London]]'' by [[Michael Moorcock]]
		+	* ''[[Libra (novel)|Libra]]'' by [[Don DeLillo]]
		+	* ''[[Oscar and Lucinda]]'' by [[Peter Carey (novelist)|Peter Carey]] (Australia)
		+	* ''[[Love in the Time of Cholera]]'' by [[Gabriel García Márquez]]
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Sprawl trilogy|Sprawl]]'' by [[William Gibson]] (Canada, USA) - trilogy, first volume published 1984
		+
		+	1989
		+	* ''[[London Fields]]'' by [[Martin Amis]]
		+	* ''[[Foucault's Pendulum]]'' by [[Umberto Eco]]
		+	* ''[[The Remains of the Day]]'' by [[Kazuo Ishiguro]]
		+	* ''[[To the Ends of the Earth]]'' by [[William Golding]] - trilogy, first volume published 1980
		+	* ''[[The Book of Evidence]]'' by [[John Banville]] (Ireland)
		+	* ''[[The Trick of It]]'' by [[Michael Frayn]]
	==1990s==		==1990s==
		+
	*''[[The English Patient]]'' by [[Michael Ondaatje]]		*''[[The English Patient]]'' by [[Michael Ondaatje]]
-	*''[[Harry Potter]]'' series	+	*[[Slam poetry]]
-	*[[Boris Akunin]]	+
-	*[[slam poetry]]	+
-	== See also ==	+	1990
-	*[[20th century#Literature]]	+	* ''[[The New York Trilogy]]'' by [[Paul Auster]] (USA) - first volume published 1985
-	*[[History of modern literature]]	+	* ''[[The Black Book (Pamuk novel)|The Black Book]]'' by [[Orhan Pamuk]] (Turkey)
-	* [[Modern_Library#Best_20th_century_novels|Modern Library's selection of best 20th century novels]]	+	* ''[[Restoration (Tremain novel)|Restoration]]'' by [[Rose Tremain]] (England)
-	* [[Museum of Modern Literature]], Germany	+	* ''[[Possession (Byatt novel)|Possession]]'' by [[A. S. Byatt]] (England)
-	* [[Experimental literature]]	+	* ''[[The Buddha of Suburbia (novel)|The Buddha of Suburbia]]'' by [[Hanif Kureishi]] (England)
		+	* ''[[Dirty Weekend (novel)|Dirty Weekend]]'' by [[Helen Zahavi]] (England)
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Devil in a Blue Dress]]'' by [[Walter Mosley]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[Good Omens]]'' by [[Neil Gaiman]] and [[Terry Pratchett]]
-	; by language	+	1991
		+	* ''[[Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture]]'' by [[Douglas Coupland]] (Canada)
		+
		+	1996
		+	* ''[[Infinite Jest]]'' by [[David Foster Wallace]] (USA)
		+
		+	1997
		+	* ''[[Underworld (DeLillo novel)|Underworld]]'' by [[Don DeLillo]] (USA)
		+	* ''[[American Pastoral]]'' by [[Philip Roth]]
		+	''Genre fiction
		+	* ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'' by [[J. K. Rowling]] (England) - first in series
		+	==By language ==
	* [[French literature of the 20th century]]		* [[French literature of the 20th century]]
	* [[20th century Italian literature]]		* [[20th century Italian literature]]
-		+	* [[20th century English literature]]
		+	* [[20th century American literature]]
		+	== See also ==
		+	* [[19th century in literature]]
		+	* [[20th century]]
		+	* [[20th century art]]
		+	* [[French literature of the 20th century ]]
		+	* [[Contemporary literature]]
		+	* [[Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels]]''
		+	* [[20th century#Literature]]
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"The novel is not an imaginary situation of imaginary truths—it is an expression of what one feels. Podhoretz doesn't write prose, he doesn't know how to write prose, and he isn't interested in the technical problems of prose or poetry. His criticism of Jack's spontaneous bop prosody [in "The Know-Nothing Bohemians] shows that he can't tell the difference between words as rhythm and words as in diction ... The bit about anti-intellectualism is a piece of vanity, we had the same education, went to the same school, you know there are 'Intellectuals' and there are intellectuals. Podhoretz is just out of touch with twentieth-century literature, he's writing for the eighteenth-century mind. We have a personal literature now—Proust, Wolfe, Faulkner, Joyce. The trouble is Podhoretz has a great ridiculous fat-bellied mind which he pats too often."--Allen Ginsberg, responding to "The Know-Nothing Bohemians" (1958) by Norman Podhoretz in an October 1958 interview with The Village Voice, collected in Spontaneous Mind Chronology: 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) - Histoire de l'oeil (1928) - Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) - Solar Anus (1931) - Tropic of Cancer (1934) - Thomas the Obscure (1941) - Madame Edwarda (1941) - No Exit (1944) - Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) - 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) - 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)

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Literature of the 20th century refers to world literature produced during the 20th century (1901 to 2000).

In terms of the Euro-American tradition, the main periods are captured in the bipartite division, Modernist literature and Postmodern literature, flowering from roughly 1900 to 1940 and 1960 to 1990 respectively, divided, as a rule of thumb, by World War II. The somewhat malleable term of contemporary literature is usually applied with a post-1960 cutoff point.

Although these terms (modern, contemporary and postmodern) are most applicable to Western literary history, the rise of globalization has allowed European literary ideas to spread into non-Western cultures fairly rapidly, so that Asian and African literatures can be included into these divisions with only minor qualifications. And in some ways, such as in Postcolonial literature, writers from non-Western cultures were on the forefront of literary development.

Technological advances during the 20th century allowed cheaper production of books, resulting in a significant rise in production of popular literature and trivial literature, comparable to the similar developments in music. The division of "popular literature" and "high literature" in the 20th century is by no means absolute, and various genres such as detectives or science fiction fluctuate between the two. Largely ignored by mainstream literary criticism for the most of the century, these genres developed their own establishments and critical awards.

Towards the end of the 20th century, electronic literature developed due to the development of hypertext and later the world wide web.

The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded annually throughout the century (with the exception of 1914, 1918, 1935 and 1940–1943), the first laureate (1901) being Sully Prudhomme. The New York Times Best Seller list has been published since 1942.

The best-selling literary works of the 20th century are estimated to be The Lord of the Rings (1954/55, 150 million copies), Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997, 120 million copies) and And Then There Were None (1939, 115 million copies). The Lord of the Rings was also voted "book of the century" in various surveys. Perry Rhodan (1961 to present) proclaimed as the best-selling book series, with an estimated total of 1 billion copies sold.

Contents 1 1901–18 2 Interwar period 3 World War II 4 Postwar period 5 Cold War period 1960–89 6 1990s 7 By language 8 See also

1901–18

The Fin de siècle movement of the Belle Époque persisted into the 20th century, but was brutally cut short with the outbreak of World War I (an effect depicted e.g. in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, published 1924). The Dada movement of 1916-1920 was at least in part a protest against the bourgeois nationalist and colonialist interests which many Dadaists believed were the root cause of the war; the movement heralded the Surrealism movement of the 1920s.

1900

• Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (Poland, England)

Genre fiction

• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (USA)

1901

• Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann (Germany)
• The Inheritors by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford (England)
• Kim by Rudyard Kipling (India, England)

Genre fiction

• The Purple Cloud by M. P. Shiel (Montserrat, England)
• The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells (England)

1902

• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• The Immoralist by André Gide (France)
• The Wings of the Dove by Henry James (USA, England)
• The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett (England)

Genre fiction

• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (Scotland)
• Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Plays

• Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw (Ireland)

1903

• Romance by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford
• The Ambassadors by Henry James
• The Pit by Frank Norris (USA)
• In Wonderland by Knut Hamsun (Norway)

Genre fiction

• The Call of the Wild by Jack London (USA)
• The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers (England, Ireland)

1904

• The Golden Bowl by Henry James
• Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
• The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G. K. Chesterton (England)

Genre fiction

• The Food of the Gods by H. G. Wells
• The Sea-Wolf by Jack London
• Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson (Argentina, England)

Plays

• John Bull's Other Island by George Bernard Shaw

1905

• Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe aka Baron Corvo (England, Italy)
• Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster (England)
• Kipps by H. G. Wells
• Songs of Life and Hope by Rubén Darío (Nicaragua)
• The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (USA)
• The Club of Queer Trades by G. K. Chesterton

1906

• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (USA)
• The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil (Austria)

Genre fiction

• Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling
• Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J. M. Barrie (Scotland)
• Time and the Gods by Lord Dunsany (Ireland, England)
• White Fang by Jack London

Plays

• The Aran Islands by John Millington Synge (Ireland)

1907

• The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
• The Longest Journey by E. M. Forster

Genre fiction

• The Listener and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood (England) - contains The Willows, one of the first 'cosmic horror' stories
• The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen (England)

Plays

• The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge

Poetry

• Cautionary Tales for Children by Hilaire Belloc (France, England)

1908

• The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
• A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
• The Iron Heel by Jack London
• Hell by Henri Barbusse (France, Russia)
• The Magician by Somerset Maugham (England, France) - based on the author's meeting with Aleister Crowley

Genre fiction

• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (England)

Poetry

• Personae by Ezra Pound (USA, England, Italy) - one of the first examples of 'modernist' poetry

1909

• Martin Eden by Jack London
• Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl by Horace W C Newte
• Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells
• Three Lives by Gertrude Stein (USA, France)

Poetry

• Exultations by Ezra Pound
• Poems by William Carlos Williams (USA)

Plays

• The Blue Bird by Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgium)

1910

• Howards End by E. M. Forster
• The Card by Arnold Bennett
• The History of Mr Polly by H. G. Wells

1911

• Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm (England)
• In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield (England) - short stories
• Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
• The Tree of Knowledge by Pío Baroja (Spain)
• The White Peacock by D. H. Lawrence (England)
• Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser (USA)

Genre fiction

• Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie (Scotland)

1912

• The Trespasser by D. H. Lawrence
• Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (Germany)

Genre fiction

• Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey (USA)
• The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs (USA)

Plays

• Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

1913

• Petersburg by Andrei Bely (Russia)
• Swann's Way by Marcel Proust (France)
• Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier (France)
• Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
• Chance by Joseph Conrad

Genre fiction

• A Prisoner in Fairyland by Algernon Blackwood - adapted into a play, it later became the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Starlight Express
• The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu by 'Sax Rohmer' (England)

Poetry

• Alcools by Guillaume Apollinaire (Poland, France) - dada poems
• Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore

1914

• Dubliners by James Joyce (Ireland, France, Italy) - short stories
• The Prussian Officer and Other Stories by D. H. Lawrence - short stories
• The Vatican Cellars by André Gide
• Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
• The Golem by Gustav Meyrink (Austria)
• Mist by Miguel de Unamuno (Spain)
• Maurice by E. M. Forster - unpublished
• Sinister Street by Compton Mackenzie (Scotland, Greece)
• The Flying Inn by G. K. Chesterton

Poetry

• North of Boston by Robert Frost (USA)

1915

• The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
• The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
• The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela (Mexico)
• Victory by Joseph Conrad
• Pointed Roofs by Dorothy Richardson
• The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf (England)
• Vainglory by Ronald Firbank (England)
• Rashōmon by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Genre fiction

• The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (Scotland, Canada)

1916

• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
• Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence - initially banned, published in 1920

Genre fiction

• Greenmantle by John Buchan

Poetry

• Salt-Water Poems and Ballads by John Masefield (England)
• Mountain Interval by Robert Frost

1917

• Under Fire by Henri Barbusse (France, Russia)
• Walpurgis Night by Gustav Meyrink
• Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
• The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad
• Caprice by Ronald Firbank

Poetry

• Dulce et Decorum est and Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen (England) - published posthumously
• Prufrock and Other Observations by T. S. Eliot (USA, England)

1918

• Tarr by Wyndham Lewis (Canada, England)
• Man of Straw by Heinrich Mann (Germany)

Poetry

• Calligrammes by Guillaume Apollinaire - dada poetry

Non-fiction

• Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey (England)

Interwar period

The 1920s were a period of literary creativity, and works of several notable authors appeared during the period. D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover was a scandal at the time because of its explicit descriptions of sex. James Joyce's novel, Ulysses, published in 1922 in Paris, was one of the most important achievements of literary modernism.

1919

• Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust
• Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
• Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (USA) - the first 'lost generation' novel
• Valmouth by Ronald Firbank
• Bazaar-e-Husn by Premchand (publ. in Hindi as Seva-sadan)

Genre fiction

• Dope by Sax Rohmer - inspired by the true story of Limehouse dope-dealer Brilliant Chang
• Dope Darling by Leda Burke (David Garnett) (England)

1920

• We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Russia)
• Limbo by Aldous Huxley (England) - short stories
• The Lost Girl by D. H. Lawrence
• This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald (USA)
• The London Venture by Michael Arlen (Armenia, England)
• Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger (Germany)
• A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay (Scotland)
• Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (USA)
• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (USA)

Plays

• Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello (Italy)
• Beyond the Horizon and Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill - Pulitzer prize winner

1921

• The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
• Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
• England, My England and Other Stories by D. H. Lawrence - short stories
• The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy (England) - pentology, first volume published in 1906
• My Life and Loves by Frank Harris (England, USA) - four volumes of quasi-factual sex gossip, the fifth completed by Alex Trocchi

Plays

• Back to Methuselah by George Bernard Shaw
• R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek - from which the term 'robot' was coined

1922

• Ulysses by James Joyce
• Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
• Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust
• Croatian God Mars by Miroslav Krleža
• The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings (USA)
• Futility by William Gerhardie (Russia, England)
• The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Mortal Coils by Aldous Huxley - short stories
• Aaron's Rod by D. H. Lawrence Kim
• The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield - short stories
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (Germany, Switzerland)
• Peter Whiffle by Carl Van Vechten (USA)
• Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
• Lady into Fox by David Garnett

Poetry

• The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot

1923

• Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo (Italy)
• The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek (Czechoslovakia)
• The Captive by Marcel Proust
• Kangaroo by D. H. Lawrence
• Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley
• Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos (USA)
• The Great American Novel by William Carlos Williams
• The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet (France)
• Aelita by Alexey Tolstoy (Russia)

Plays

• The Shadow of a Gunman by Seán O'Casey (Ireland)

Poetry

• New Hampshire by Robert Frost
• The Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke

1924

• The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (Germany)
• In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway (USA) - short stories
• A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
• The Vortex by José Eustasio Rivera (Colombia)
• Little Mexican by Aldous Huxley - short stories
• Bohemian Lights by Ramón del Valle-Inclán (Spain)
• The Fox and The Captain's Doll by D. H. Lawrence - short stories

Genre fiction

• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (England)

Plays

• Juno and the Paycock by Seán O'Casey
• The Vortex by Noël Coward (England)

1925

• Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
• The Trial by Franz Kafka (Czechoslovakia) - posthumous, first English translation in 1930
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - often described as the epitome of the "Jazz Age" in American literature
• The Green Hat by Michael Arlen - perhaps the epitome of the jazz age in British literature
• Paris Peasant by Louis Aragon (France)
• Albertine disparue by Marcel Proust
• Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
• In the American Grain by William Carlos Williams
• The Desert of Love by François Mauriac (France)
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos (USA)
• Those Barren Leaves by Aldous Huxley
• St Mawr by D. H. Lawrence - short stories
• The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein
• Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov (Russia)

Genre fiction

• Beau Geste by P. C. Wren (England)

Poetry

• The Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot

Non-fiction

• The Old Straight Track by Alfred Watkins (England) - introducing ley lines

1926

• The Castle by Franz Kafka - posthumous, first English translation in 1932
• The Counterfeiters by André Gide
• The Sun Also Rises aka Fiesta by Ernest Hemingway
• Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars (France)
• Don Segundo Sombra by Ricardo Güiraldes (Argentina)
• Nigger Heaven by Carl Van Vechten
• Two or Three Graces by Aldous Huxley - short stories
• The Plumed Serpent by D. H. Lawrence
• The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft

Genre fiction

• Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne (England)

Poetry

• A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle by 'Hugh MacDiarmid' (Scotland)

Plays

• The Plough and the Stars by Seán O'Casey

Non-fiction

• Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence (England, Arabia)

1927

• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
• Time Regained by Marcel Proust
• Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
• Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway - short stories
• Vestal Fire by Compton Mackenzie
• Dusty Answer by Rosamond Lehmann (England)
• Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
• The Rocking-Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence - short stories

Plays

• The Silver Tassie by Seán O'Casey

1928

• Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin (Germany)
• Nadja by André Breton (France)
• Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille (France)
• Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford - war tetralogy, first volume in 1926
• Gypsy Ballads by Federico García Lorca
• Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
• Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence - banned until 1963
• Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh (England)
• Amerika by Franz Kafka - posthumous, first English translation in 1938

Plays

• Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill (USA) - Pulitzer prize winner
• Messrs. Glembay by Miroslav Krleža

Non-fiction

• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (Germany) - recounts the horrors of World War I and also the deep detachment from German civilian life felt by many men returning from the front

1929

• Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau (France)
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (USA)
• Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
• Death of a Hero by Richard Aldington (England)
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (USA)
• Doña Bárbara by Rómulo Gallegos (Venezuela)
• Mario and the Magician by Thomas Mann (Germany)
• The Escaped Cock by D. H. Lawrence (England)
• The Defence by Vladimir Nabokov (Russia, France)
• Wolf Solent by John Cowper Powys (England)
• The Good Companions by J. B. Priestley (England)

Non-fiction

• Good-Bye to All That by Robert Graves (England)
• A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (England)

Genre fiction

• Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett (USA) - the first hard-boiled American detective novel

1930

• Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
• The Apes of God by Wyndham Lewis
• Brief Candles by Aldous Huxley - short stories
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
• Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
• Angel Pavement by J. B. Priestley
• The Virgin and the Gypsy and Love Among the Haystacks by D. H. Lawrence - short stories

Genre fiction

• Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon (England)
• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (USA)

Poetry

• Whoroscope by Samuel Beckett (Ireland, France)

Plays

• Private Lives by Noël Coward

Non-fiction

• Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon (England) - 2 volumes, 1st in 1929

1931

• The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
• The Waves by Virginia Woolf
• Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (France)

Genre fiction

• The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
• At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft

Plays

• Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill
• Cavalcade by Noël Coward

Non-fiction

• Axel's Castle by Edmund Wilson (USA)
• Music at Night by Aldous Huxley

1932

• The Return of Philip Latinowicz by Miroslav Krleža
• Journey to the End of Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (France)
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (England)
• The Memorial by Christopher Isherwood (England)
• Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov (Russia, France)
• Light in August by William Faulkner
• A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys
• Stamboul Train by Graham Greene (England)
• Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh
• Radetzky March by Joseph Roth (Austria)
• Jew Boy by Simon Blumenfeld (England)

Poetry

• The Orators by W. H. Auden (England)

1933

• Man's Fate by André Malraux (France)
• Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood (England)
• Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West (USA)
• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein

Genre fiction

• Lost Horizon by James Hilton (England)
• Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers (England)

Non-fiction

• Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell (England)
• Texts and Pretexts by Aldous Huxley
• In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

1934

• Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (USA) - a groundbreaking obscenity case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1961 allowed its publication there
• Call It Sleep by Henry Roth (Austria, USA)
• Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Threepenny Novel by Bertolt Brecht (Germany)
• Despair by Vladimir Nabokov
• It's a Battlefield by Graham Greene
• A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
• 20,000 Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton (England)
• Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys (Dominica, France, England)
• Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara (USA)
• A Scots Quair by Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Scotland) - trilogy, first volume published in 1932

Genre fiction

• The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain (USA)
• Novel with Cocaine aka Cocain Romance by M. Ageyev (Russia)

Poetry

• 18 Poems by Dylan Thomas (Wales)

Non-fiction

• Burmese Days by George Orwell
• Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway

1935

• Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
• Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley
• Auto-da-Fe by Elias Canetti (Bulgaria, Germany)
• A Clergyman's Daughter by George Orwell
• England Made Me by Graham Greene
• A House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen (Ireland)
• Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck (USA)
• Studs Lonigan by James T. Farrell (USA) - trilogy, first volume published in 1932

Genre fiction

• Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (USA)

Poetry

• Collected Poems by Cecil Day-Lewis (Northern Ireland)

Plays

• Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets (USA)

1936

• Death on the Installment Plan by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
• Black Spring by Henry Miller
• U.S.A. by John Dos Passos
• Mephisto by Klaus Mann (Germany, USA)
• Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
• Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
• Confession of a Murderer by Joseph Roth
• Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Wessex Novels by John Cowper Powys (England) - tetralogy, 1st vol published in 1927
• Godaan by Premchand

Poetry

• Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh by Miroslav Krleža

Genre fiction

• Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier (England)
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (USA)
• A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene

1937

• To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
• The Years by Virginia Woolf
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Lions and Shadows by Christopher Isherwood
• The Black Book by Lawrence Durrell (UK, Egypt)
• Revenge for Love by Wyndham Lewis
• White Mule by William Carlos Williams
• Wide Boys Never Work by Robert Westerby (England, USA)

Genre fiction

• Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
• Night and the City by Gerald Kersh (England, USA)
• The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor by Cameron McCabe (Ernest Bornemann) (Germany, England)
• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (England)

Non-fiction

• The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
• How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn (Wales)

1938

• Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre (France)
• Murphy by Samuel Beckett
• Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
• Man's Hope by André Malraux
• The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
• Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
• Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
• The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov

Genre fiction

• Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Non-fiction

• Journey to a War by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood
• Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
• Enemies of Promise by Cyril Connolly (England)

1939

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
• The Banquet in Blitva by Miroslav Krleža
• At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien (Ireland)
• Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
• After Many a Summer by Aldous Huxley
• Coming Up for Air by George Orwell
• On the Marble Cliffs by Ernst Jünger
• Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
• The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
• The Legend of the Holy Drinker by Joseph Roth
• Lotte in Weimar by Thomas Mann
• The Confidential Agent by Graham Greene
• Mister Johnson by Joyce Cary (Ireland)
• Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Pal Joey by John O'Hara

Genre fiction

• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (USA)
• Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (England)
• The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Poetry

• Autumn Journal by Louis MacNeice (N Ireland)
• The Map of Love by Dylan Thomas

Plays

• This Happy Breed by Noël Coward

World War II

1940

• Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler (Hungary, England)
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov - published in English 1966
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
• The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
• Native Son by Richard Wright (USA, France)
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (USA)
• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog by Dylan Thomas
• Owen Glendower by John Cowper Powys
• You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe
• And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov (Russia) - two volumes, first published in 1934

Genre fiction

• Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler (England)
• Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler

Plays

• The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill

Non-fiction

• To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson

1941

• Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton
• Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers
• The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien

Genre fiction

• Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain

Non-fiction

• Grey Eminence by Aldous Huxley

1942

• The Stranger by Albert Camus (Algeria, France)
• Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet (France)
• Flight to Arras by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Plays

• The Flies by Jean-Paul Sartre

1943

• Arrival and Departure by Arthur Koestler
• The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene
• The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil (Austria) - trilogy, first volume published 1930

Genre fiction

• Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (France)

Poetry

• Selected Poems by Keith Douglas (England)

Non-fiction

• Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
• The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

1944

• The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary
• Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina) - short stories
• The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham
• Time Must Have a Stop by Aldous Huxley

Plays

• The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (USA)

1945

• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Watt by Samuel Beckett - published in 1953
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
• Black Boy by Richard Wright
• Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson (England) - trilogy, first volume in 1939

Genre fiction

• If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester Himes (USA, France)
• The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis (N Ireland) - first volume published in 1938

1946

• Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton (South Africa)
• The Miracle of the Rose by Jean Genet
• El Señor Presidente by Miguel Ángel Asturias (Guatemala)
• Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian (France)
• The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers

Poetry

• Deaths and Entrances by Dylan Thomas

Plays

• The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan (England)

Non-fiction

• Alamein to Zem Zem by Keith Douglas
• Memoirs of Hecate County by Edmund Wilson

1947

• The Plague by Albert Camus
• Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry (England, Canada)
• Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Victim by Saul Bellow (Canada, USA)
• The Conformist by Alberto Moravia (Italy)
• The Middle of the Journey by Lionel Trilling (USA)
• Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton
• Of Love and Hunger by Julian MacLaren-Ross (England)
• Funeral Rites by Jean Genet
• Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

Plays

• A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Non-fiction

• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (Netherlands)

1948

• The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer (USA)
• Confessions of a Mask by 'Yukio Mishima' (Japan)
• The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
• El Túnel by Ernesto Sabato (Argentina)
• The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal (USA)
• Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley
• Querelle of Brest by Jean Genet

Genre fiction

• No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase (England)

Plays

• The Browning Version by Terence Rattigan

Non-fiction

• The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir (France — early feminist study

1949

• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
• The Roads to Freedom by Jean-Paul Sartre - trilogy, first volume published 1945
• The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet
• The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren (USA)
• The Train Was on Time by Heinrich Böll (Germany)
• The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges
• The Kingdom of this World by Alejo Carpentier (Mexico)
• The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen

Genre fiction

• The Trouble with Harry by Jack Trevor Story (England)
• The Mating Season by P. G. Wodehouse

Plays

• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (USA)

Postwar period

The intermediate postwar period separating "Modernism" from "Postmodernism" (1950s literature) is the floruit of the beat generation and the classical science fiction of Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Robert A. Heinlein. This period also saw the publication of Samuel Beckett's trilogy of novels, Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnameable, which enacted the dissolution of the self-identical human subject and inspired later novelists such as Thomas Bernhard, John Banville, and David Markson.

1950

• Scenes from Provincial Life by William Cooper (England) - the first of the British 1950s 'kitchen sink' novels
• Canto General by Pablo Neruda

Genre fiction

• A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute (England, Australia)
• Strangers On a Train by Patricia Highsmith (USA)

Non-fiction

• The Authoritarian Personality by Theodor Adorno (Germany, USA)

1951

• Molloy by Samuel Beckett (Ireland, France)
• Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett (Ireland, France)
• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (USA)
• The Hive by Camilo José Cela (Spain)
• Porius (A Romance of the Dark Ages) by John Cowper Powys (England)
• The Grass Harp by Truman Capote (USA)
• Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar (France)
• The Opposing Shore by Julien Gracq (France)

Non-fiction

• The Rebel by Albert Camus (France)

1952

• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (USA)
• Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor (USA)
• Go by John Clellon Holmes (USA) - the first Beat novel
• The Natural by Bernard Malamud (USA)
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Genre fiction

• The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham (England)
• The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson (USA)

Plays

• The Chairs by Eugène Ionesco (Romania, France)

1953

• The Unnameable by Samuel Beckett (Ireland, France)
• Junkie and Queer by William S. Burroughs (USA)
• Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin (USA, France)
• The Outsider by Richard Wright
• The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
• Hurry on Down by John Wain (England) - the first 'angry young man' novel

Genre fiction

• Casino Royale by Ian Fleming (England, Jamaica) - first James Bond novel
• The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
• Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke (England, Sri Lanka)
• Foundation by Isaac Asimov (USA) - trilogy, first volume published in 1951
• Prelude to a Certain Midnight by Gerald Kersh

Plays

• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

1954

• Lord of the Flies by William Golding (England)
• Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis (England) - the most famous 'angry young man' novel
• Under the Net by Iris Murdoch (England)
• Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan (France)

Genre fiction

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (USA)
• Story of O by Pauline Réage (France)

Plays

• Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
• The Quare Fellow by Brendan Behan (Ireland)

Non-fiction

• The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley

1955

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• One by David Karp (USA)
• The Quiet American by Graham Greene
• The Bread of Those Early Years by Heinrich Böll
• The Tree of Man by Patrick White (Australia)
• The Inheritors by William Golding
• Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo (Mexico)
• The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet (France)
• The Genius and the Goddess by Aldous Huxley
• The Deer Park by Norman Mailer
• The Recognitions by William Gaddis (USA)
• Memed, My Hawk by Yaşar Kemal (Turkey)

Genre fiction

• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, first volume in 1954
• The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

Plays

• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
• Bus Stop by William Inge (USA)

Poetry

• The Less Deceived by Philip Larkin (England)

1956

• The Fall by Albert Camus
• The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by João Guimarães Rosa
• Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
• The Lonely Londoners by Samuel Selvon (Trinidad, England)
• A Walk on the Wild Side by Nelson Algren

Genre fiction

• The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis (N Ireland) - seven volumes, first in 1950
• Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
• The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith (England)

Plays

• Look Back In Anger by John Osborne (England) - the first 'angry young man' play

Poetry

• Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg (USA)

Non-fiction

• Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley

1957

• On the Road by Jack Kerouac (Canada, USA)
• Young Adam by Alexander Trocchi (Scotland)
• Room at the Top by John Braine (England)
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (Russia)
• Voss by Patrick White
• The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
• Second Thoughts by Michel Butor (France)
• Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
• Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt)
• Gimpel the Fool by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Poland, USA) - short stories, originally published in Yiddish years earlier
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (USA)

Genre fiction

• On the Beach by Nevil Shute

Plays

• The Room and The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter (England)
• Endgame by Samuel Beckett
• The Entertainer by John Osborne
• Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams
• The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt (Switzerland)

1958

• If This Is a Man by Primo Levi (Italy)
• Breakfast At Tiffany's by Truman Capote
• The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe (England)
• A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney (England)
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)
• The Bell by Iris Murdoch
• Fowlers End by Gerald Kersh
• Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
• Candy by Terry Southern (USA)

Genre fiction

• Exodus by Leon Uris (USA)
• Zimiamvian Trilogy by E. R. Eddison (England) - first volume in 1935
• Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans (England) and Ronald Searle (England, France) - tetrology, first book in 1954

Plays

• Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett
• Suddenly, Last Summer by Tennessee Williams

Non-fiction

• The Theatre and Its Double by Antonin Artaud (France)
• Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan

1959

• The Tin Drum by Günter Grass (Germany)
• Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
• The Last of the Just by André Schwarz-Bart (France)
• Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth (USA)
• Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau (France)
• In the Labyrinth by Alain Robbe-Grillet
• The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe
• Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse (England)
• The Long Day Wanes by Anthony Burgess (England) - trilogy, first volume published in 1956
• The Magic Christian by Terry Southern

Genre fiction

• The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake (England) - first volume in 1946
• The Getaway by Jim Thompson

Plays

• The Dumb Waiter and The Caretaker by Harold Pinter
• Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco

Cold War period 1960–89

1960

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (USA)
• The London Trilogy by Colin MacInnes (England) - first volume, Absolute Beginners, published in 1957
• Cain's Book by Alexander Trocchi (UK, France, USA)
• This Sporting Life by David Storey (UK)
• A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene
• Hiroshima Mon Amour by Marguerite Duras (France)
• The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark (Scotland)
• The Rosy Crucifixion by Henry Miller (USA) - trilogy, first volume published 1949
• The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth (USA),

Non-fiction and Quasi-fiction

• The Morning of the Magicians by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier (France) - the 1960s obsession with the occult starts here. Published in English 1963
• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (USA)

1961

• Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (USA)
• A House for Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul (Trinidad, England)
• Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
• A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
• Sword of Honour by Evelyn Waugh - trilogy, first volume published in 1952
• Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (USA)
• Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place by Malcolm Lowry - posthumous

Genre fiction

• Solaris by Stanisław Lem (Poland)
• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (USA)
• The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (USA)

1962

• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Russia)
• A Clockwork Orange and The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess (England)
• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
• Island by Aldous Huxley
• The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
• The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (Zimbabwe, England)
• The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes (Mexico)
• The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell - first volume published 1957
• Big Sur by Jack Kerouac - the last of the Lost Generation at the end of the Beat Generation

Genre fiction

• The IPCRESS File by Len Deighton (England) - first of the Harry Palmer novels

Non-fiction

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (USA) - the first major popular study on the deterioration of the environment

1963

• V. by Thomas Pynchon (USA)
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (USA, England)
• Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar (Argentina)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (USA)
• The Collector by John Fowles (England)
• The Lowlife by Alexander Baron (England)
• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (USA)

Genre fiction

• Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle (France)
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré (England)
• The Grifters by Jim Thompson

Non-fiction

• The Truce by Primo Levi)

1964

• Herzog by Saul Bellow
• A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
• Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby (USA)
• The Spire by William Golding (England)
• Nothing Like the Sun by Anthony Burgess

Genre fiction

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (UK)
• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick (USA)
• Little Big Man by Thomas Berger (USA)

Non-fiction

• Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan (Canada)

1965

• The Magus by John Fowles
• The Interpreters by Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
• Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino (Italy)
• The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski (Poland, USA)
• Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush by Hunter Davies (England) - the kitchen sink novel mutates into the swinging 1960s novel

Plays

• Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss (Germany, Sweden)

Poetry

• Briggflatts by Basil Bunting

Non-fiction and Quasi-fiction

• The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe (USA)
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley (USA)

1966

• A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)
• Alfie by Bill Naughton (England)
• The Comedians by Graham Greene
• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
• Tremor of Intent by Anthony Burgess

Genre fiction

• Pavane by Keith Roberts (England)
• The Anti-Death League by Kingsley Amis

Non-fiction and Quasi-fiction

• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs by Hunter S. Thompson (USA)
• Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Fariña (USA)

1967

• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia)
• The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
• The Vendor of Sweets by R. K. Narayan (India)
• Poor Cow by Nell Dunn (England)
• A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Non-fiction

• In the First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• The Medium is the Message by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore

1968

• Cocksure by Mordecai Richler (Canada)
• Couples by John Updike (USA)
• The Public Image by Muriel Spark
• Lunar Caustic by Malcolm Lowry - posthumous

Non-fiction and quasi-fiction

• Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
• The Armies of the Night and Miami and the Siege of Chicago by Norman Mailer
• Bomb Culture by Jeff Nuttall (England)
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (USA)
• The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda (USA)

1969

• Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
• The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
• A Void by Georges Perec (France)
• Passacaille by Robert Pinget (France)
• Dark as the Grave wherein my Friend is Laid by Malcolm Lowry - posthumous

Genre fiction

• Barefoot in the Head by Brian Aldiss
• The Final Programme by Michael Moorcock (England, USA)
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (USA)
• The Godfather by Mario Puzo (USA)

Non-fiction and Quasi-fiction

• Papillon by Henri Charrière (France)
• The View Over Atlantis by John Michell (England)

1970

• Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion
• Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow
• October Ferry to Gabriola by Malcolm Lowry - posthumous

Genre fiction

• The Hot Rock by Donald E. Westlake (USA)
• Deliverance by James Dickey (USA)

Non-fiction and Quasi-fiction

• The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer (Australia, England)
• Groupie by Jenny Fabian (England)
• Playpower by Richard Neville (Australia, England)
• Revolt into Style by George Melly (England)
• Soledad Brother by George Jackson (USA) - prison letters
• Soul On Ice by Eldridge Cleaver (USA)

1971

• In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul (Trinidad, England)
• M/F by Anthony Burgess
• Our Gang by Philip Roth
• The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart (USA)
• Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins (USA)
• Being There by Jerzy Kosiński

Genre fiction

• The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth (England)

Non-fiction and Quasi-fiction

• The Happy Hooker by Xaviera Hollander (Indonesia, Netherlands)
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

1972

• The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter (England)
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
• G by John Berger (England, France)
• The Good for Nothing by Oğuz Atay (Turkey)

Genre fiction

• The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins (USA)
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach (USA)
• The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth

Poetry

• Crossing the Water and Winter Trees by Sylvia Plath

1973

• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
• Crash by J. G. Ballard (England)
• Season of Anomy by Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
• Life Is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera (Czechoslovakia, France)
• Sweet Dreams by Michael Frayn (England)
• Fear of Flying by Erica Jong (USA)
• The Great American Novel by Philip Roth

Genre fiction

• Frankenstein Unbound by Brian Aldiss

1974

• The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)
• The Fan Man by William Kotzwinkle (USA)
• The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll
• I, the Supreme by Augusto Roa Bastos (Paraguay)
• Napoleon Symphony by Anthony Burgess
• Myra Breckinridge and Myron by Gore Vidal - first of pair published in 1968

Genre fiction

• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré
• Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald (USA)

Genre fiction

• Jaws by Peter Benchley (USA)

Non-fiction and Quasi-fiction

• All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (USA)

1975

• Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
• The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies - first volume published 1970
• Dead Babies by Martin Amis (England)
• The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez
• The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury (England)
• The Periodic Table by Primo Levi - short stories

Genre fiction

• Watership Down by Richard Adams (England)
• The Choirboys by Joseph Wambaugh (USA)
• Shōgun by James Clavell (England, USA)
• 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King (USA)

1976

• Ragtime by EL Doctorow (USA)

Genre fiction

• Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (USA)

Non-fiction and quasi-fiction

• Roots by Alex Haley

Drama

• Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka

1977

• The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Škvorecký (Czechoslovakia)
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (USA)

1978

• Success by Martin Amis
• The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
• Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray (Scotland)
• Life A User's Manual by Georges Perec
• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
• Jake's Thing by Kingsley Amis
• The World According to Garp by John Irving (USA)
• 1985 by Anthony Burgess
• Horatio Stubbs by Brian Aldiss - trilogy, first volume published in 1970

Genre fiction

• Rumpole of the Bailey by John Mortimer (England)

1979

• A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
• The Unlimited Dream Company by J. G. Ballard
• Sophie's Choice by William Styron (USA)

Non-fiction and Quasi-fiction

• The White Album by Joan Didion
• The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe (USA)

1980

• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• Pascali's Island by Barry Unsworth (England)
• Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess

1981

• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (India, UK)
• The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan (England)
• The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas (England)
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver (USA) - short stories

Genre fiction

• The Red Dragon by Thomas Harris (USA)
• Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith (England, Russia)

1982

• Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally (Australia)
• An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd (Ghana, Scotland)
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker (USA)
• A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami

Genre fiction

• Prizzi's Honor by Richard Condon

1983

• Waterland by Graham Swift (England)
• Shame by Salman Rushdie

Genre fiction

• The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett (England) - first book of the Discworld series

1984

• Money by Martin Amis
• Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney (USA)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
• Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes (England)
• Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
• Enderby by Anthony Burgess - tetrology, first volume published in 1963
• The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike

Non-fiction

• Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard

1985

• White Noise by Don DeLillo (USA)
• Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis (USA)
• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson (England)
• The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler (USA)
• Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd (England)
• Illywhacker by Peter Carey (Australia)
• The Kingdom of the Wicked by Anthony Burgess

Genre fiction

• L.A. Noir by James Ellroy (USA) - trilogy, first volume published 1984
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - (USA)

1986

• Slaves of New York by Tama Janowitz (USA)
• The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
• An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (Japan, UK)

Non-fiction

• Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

1987

• The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
• The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
• Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (Brasil)

Genre fiction

• Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow (USA)

1988

• Mother London by Michael Moorcock
• Libra by Don DeLillo
• Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey (Australia)
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

Genre fiction

• Sprawl by William Gibson (Canada, USA) - trilogy, first volume published 1984

1989

• London Fields by Martin Amis
• Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
• To the Ends of the Earth by William Golding - trilogy, first volume published 1980
• The Book of Evidence by John Banville (Ireland)
• The Trick of It by Michael Frayn

1990s

• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
• Slam poetry

1990

• The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster (USA) - first volume published 1985
• The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)
• Restoration by Rose Tremain (England)
• Possession by A. S. Byatt (England)
• The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi (England)
• Dirty Weekend by Helen Zahavi (England)

Genre fiction

• Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley (USA)
• Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

1991

• Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland (Canada)

1996

• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (USA)

1997

• Underworld by Don DeLillo (USA)
• American Pastoral by Philip Roth

Genre fiction

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling (England) - first in series

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• Contemporary literature
• Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels
• 20th century#Literature