This index catalogues the authors who survived the K=2 filter. To appear on this list, an author must have been validated by at least two distinct domains of literary consensus.
Source Category Legend
- PUBLISHERS: Major commercial and academic publishing houses (e.g., Penguin Classics, Oxford World’s Classics).
- PEDAGOGICAL: Academic syllabi and university curricula (e.g., Open Syllabus Project).
- CONTEMPORARY: Modern critical reception and active editorial reviews (e.g., The Complete Review, Tyler Cowen).
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| Author ↕ | Birth Year ↕ | Notable Works | Categories ↕ |
|---|---|---|---|
| A. S. Byatt | 1936 | Possession • The Children's Book • The Virgin in the Garden | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Alfred Tennyson | 1809 | The Charge of the Light Brigade • The Lady of Shalott • Idylls of the King | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Angela Carter | 1940 | Nights at the Circus | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Anthony Burgess | 1917 | A Clockwork Orange | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Aristophanes | 448 BC | The Acharnians • The Birds • The Clouds | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| August Strindberg | 1849 | The Red Room • The Father • Miss Julie | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Bertolt Brecht | 1898 | The Threepenny Opera • Life of Galileo • The Caucasian Chalk Circle | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Charles Dickens | 1812 | The Pickwick Papers • Oliver Twist • A Christmas Carol | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Cormac McCarthy | 1933 | Suttree • Blood Meridian • All the Pretty Horses | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Cynthia Ozick | 1928 | The Shawl • The Puttermesser Papers • Trust | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Dante Alighieri | 1265 | The Divine Comedy • Convivio • De Monarchia | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Doris Lessing | 1919 | The Grass Is Singing • The Golden Notebook • The Good Terrorist | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Edith Wharton | 1862 | The Mount • The Age of Innocence • The Touchstone | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Emily Dickinson | 1830 | Because I could not stop for Death • I heard a Fly buzz - when I died • Hope is the thing with feathers | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Franz Kafka | 1883 | The Metamorphosis • The Trial • The Castle | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Gabriel García Márquez | 1927 | One Hundred Years of Solitude • The Autumn of the Patriarch • Love in the Time of Cholera | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | 1343 | The Canterbury Tales • The Book of the Duchess • The House of Fame | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| George Eliot | 1819 | The Mill on the Floss • Silas Marner • Middlemarch | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Gustave Flaubert | 1821 | Madame Bovary • Salammbô • Bouvard et Pécuchet | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Haruki Murakami | 1949 | A Wild Sheep Chase • Norwegian Wood • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Henrik Ibsen | 1828 | Peer Gynt • A Doll's House • Ghosts | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Henry James | 1843 | The American • The Turn of the Screw • The Portrait of a Lady | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Herman Melville | 1819 | Moby-Dick | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Homer | 900 BC | Iliad • Odyssey • Homeric epics | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Ian McEwan | 1948 | The Cement Garden • Atonement | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Italo Calvino | 1923 | The Baron in the Trees • Invisible Cities • If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| James Joyce | 1882 | Dubliners • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • Ulysses | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Jane Austen | 1775 | Pride and Prejudice • Emma • Persuasion | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau | 1712 | Emile, or On Education • The Social Contract • Julie, or the New Heloise | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749 | Faust • The Sorrows of Young Werther • Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| John Keats | 1795 | Ode to a Nightingale • Ode on a Grecian Urn • Endymion | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| John Milton | 1608 | Paradise Lost • Areopagitica | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Jonathan Swift | 1667 | Gulliver's Travels • A Modest Proposal • A Tale of a Tub | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Jorge Luis Borges | 1899 | The Library of Babel | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Joseph Conrad | 1857 | The Lagoon • The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' • Heart of Darkness | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Julian Barnes | 1946 | The Sense of an Ending | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | 1954 | An Artist of the Floating World • The Remains of the Day • When We Were Orphans | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Laurence Sterne | 1713 | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman • A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy • A Political Romance | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Leo Tolstoy | 1828 | War and Peace • Anna Karenina • A Confession | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Marcel Proust | 1871 | In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower • In Search of Lost Time • Jean Santeuil | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Margaret Atwood | 1939 | The Handmaid's Tale • Cat's Eye • Alias Grace | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Martin Amis | 1949 | The Rachel Papers • The Zone of Interest • Lionel Asbo: State of England | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Mary Shelley | 1797 | The Last Man • Frankenstein • or, The Modern Prometheus | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Miguel De Cervantes | 1547 | Don Quixote • Exemplary Novels | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Muriel Spark | 1918 | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie • The Mandelbaum Gate • The Driver's Seat | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o | 1938 | I Will Marry When I Want • Matigari ma Njiruungi • Weep Not, Child | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Orhan Pamuk | 1952 | The White Castle • The Black Book • The New Life | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Philip Pullman | 1946 | His Dark Materials • The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ • The Book of Dust | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Philip Roth | 1933 | Portnoy's Complaint • American Pastoral • The Human Stain | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Rainer Maria Rilke | 1875 | Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge • Duino Elegies • Sonnets to Orpheus | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Raymond Chandler | 1888 | The Big Sleep • Farewell, My Lovely • The High Window | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Salman Rushdie | 1947 | The Satanic Verses | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Thomas Hardy | 1840 | Tess of the d'Urbervilles • Far from the Madding Crowd • Jude the Obscure | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Thomas Mann | 1875 | Buddenbrooks • The Magic Mountain • Death in Venice | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Umberto Eco | 1932 | The Name of the Rose • Misreadings • Foucault's Pendulum | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| V. S. Naipaul | 1932 | A House for Mr Biswas • In a Free State • A Bend in the River | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Victor Hugo | 1802 | Les Misérables • The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Les Contemplations | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Virgil | 70 BC | Eclogues • Georgics • Aeneid | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Virginia Woolf | 1882 | To the Lighthouse • Mrs Dalloway • Orlando: A Biography | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Vladimir Nabokov | 1899 | The Defense • The Real Life of Sebastian Knight • Lolita | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Willa Cather | 1873 | Alexander's Bridge • O Pioneers! • The Song of the Lark | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| William Blake | 1757 | The Marriage of Heaven and Hell • Jerusalem • Songs of Innocence and of Experience | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| William Faulkner | 1897 | The Sound and the Fury • As I Lay Dying • Light in August | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| William Shakespeare | 1564 | Hamlet • Romeo and Juliet • As You Like It | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| William Wordsworth | 1770 | The Prelude | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Émile Zola | 1840 | Les Rougon-Macquart • Thérèse Raquin • J’accuse…! | Publishers Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Adrienne Rich | 1929 | Diving into the Wreck • On Lies, Secrets and Silence • The Dream of a Common Language | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Aeschylus | 525 BC | Agamemnon • The Libation Bearers • Eumenides | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Alain-Fournier | 1886 | Le Grand Meaulnes | Publishers Contemporary |
| Alasdair Gray | 1934 | Lanark: A Life in Four Books • 1982, Janine • Poor Things | Publishers Contemporary |
| Albert Camus | 1913 | L'homme révolté • A Happy Death • The Fall | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Alberto Moravia | 1907 | Gli indifferenti • Il conformista • Racconti romani | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Aldous Huxley | 1894 | Brave New World • Time Must Have a Stop • The Art of Seeing | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Alejo Carpentier | 1904 | The Kingdom of this World • Explosion in a Cathedral • The Harp and the Shadow | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Alessandro Manzoni | 1785 | The Betrothed • Storia della colonna infame • Il cinque maggio | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Alexander Pope | 1688 | The Rape of the Lock • Messiah • Eloisa to Abelard | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Alexander Pushkin | 1799 | Eugene Onegin • The Captain's Daughter • Boris Godunov | Publishers Contemporary |
| Ali Smith | 1962 | Lente | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Alice Munro | 1931 | Too Much Happiness • Dear Life • Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Ambrose Bierce | 1842 | An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge • The Damned Thing • The Devil's Dictionary | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Andrew Marvell | 1621 | Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Ann Radcliffe | 1764 | The Mysteries of Udolpho • The Italian • The Romance of the Forest | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Anna Kavan | 1901 | Ice | Publishers Contemporary |
| Anne Brontë | 1820 | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall • Agnes Grey | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Anne Carson | 1950 | Autobiography of Red • Electra | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Annie Ernaux | 1940 | Cleaned Out • La Place • The Years | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Anton Chekhov | 1860 | The Cherry Orchard • Uncle Vanya • Vanka | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Anzia Yezierska | 1880 | Hungry Hearts • Bread Givers | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Aphra Behn | 1640 | Oroonoko • The Forc'd Marriage • The Dutch Lover | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Apuleius | 0125 | The Golden Ass • Apologia | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Arthur C. Clarke | 1917 | Rendezvous with Rama • The Fountains of Paradise • 2001: A Space Odyssey | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | 1859 | canon of Sherlock Holmes • The Lost World | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Arthur Koestler | 1905 | Darkness at Noon • The Thirteenth Tribe • The Yogi and the Commissar | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Arthur Miller | 1915 | Death of a Salesman • The Crucible • A View from the Bridge | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Arthur Rimbaud | 1854 | Le Bateau ivre • A Season in Hell • Illuminations | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Arthur Schnitzler | 1862 | Dream Story • Merry-Go-Round • Fräulein Else | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Ben Jonson | 1572 | Every Man in His Humour | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Benito Pérez Galdós | 1843 | Fortunata and Jacinta • Doña Perfecta • Marianela | Publishers Contemporary |
| Bernard Malamud | 1914 | The Natural • The Magic Barrel • The Fixer | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Blaise Pascal | 1623 | Pensées • Lettres provinciales • Traité des Sinus du Quart de Cercle | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Boethius | 0480 | The Consolation of Philosophy • Opuscula sacra • History | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Bram Stoker | 1847 | Dracula • Under the Sunset • The Snake's Pass | Publishers Pedagogical |
| C. S. Lewis | 1898 | The Chronicles of Narnia • Mere Christianity • The Screwtape Letters | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Cao Xueqin | 1724 | Dream of the Red Chamber | Publishers Contemporary |
| Carlo Goldoni | 1707 | Il servitore di due padroni • The Mistress of the Inn • Lo speziale | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Cesar Vallejo | 1892 | Los heraldos negros • El tungsteno • Paco Yunque | Publishers Contemporary |
| Charles Baudelaire | 1821 | Les Fleurs du mal • Les Paradis artificiels • Le Peintre de la vie moderne | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Charles Brockden Brown | 1771 | Publishers Pedagogical | |
| Charles Perrault | 1628 | The Tales of my Mother Goose | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Charles W. Chesnutt | 1858 | Publishers Pedagogical | |
| Charlotte Brontë | 1816 | Jane Eyre • Villette • Shirley | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman | 1860 | The Yellow Wall Paper • Herland • Women and Economics | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Chinua Achebe | 1930 | Things Fall Apart • No Longer at Ease • Arrow of God | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Christa Wolf | 1929 | They Divided the Sky • The Quest for Christa T. • Patterns of Childhood | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Christina Georgina Rossetti | 1830 | Publishers Pedagogical | |
| Christina Stead | 1902 | The Man Who Loved Children • Letty Fox: Her Luck • For Love Alone | Publishers Contemporary |
| Christine De Pizan | 1364 | The Book of the City of Ladies • Le livre du chemin de long estude • The Treasure of the City of Ladies | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Christopher Marlowe | 1564 | Edward II • The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus • The Jew of Malta | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Claude McKay | 1889 | Songs of Jamaica • If We Must Die | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Colson Whitehead | 1969 | The Intuitionist • John Henry Days • The Underground Railroad | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Daniel Defoe | 1660 | Robinson Crusoe • Moll Flanders • A Journal of the Plague Year | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Daniela Hodrová | 1946 | Pedagogical Contemporary | |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti | 1828 | Ecce Ancilla Domini • Beata Beatrix • Dante's Dream | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Dashiell Hammett | 1894 | The Maltese Falcon • Red Harvest • The Gutting of Couffignal | Publishers Pedagogical |
| David Herbert Lawrence | 1885 | Sons and Lovers • The Rainbow • Women in Love | Publishers Pedagogical |
| David Mitchell | 1969 | Ghostwritten • Number9dream • Cloud Atlas | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Desiderius Erasmus | 1466 | In Praise of Folly • A handbook on manners for children • The Education of a Christian Prince | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Don Marquis | 1933 | Publishers Pedagogical | |
| Dylan Thomas | 1914 | Publishers Pedagogical | |
| E. L. Doctorow | 1931 | The Book of Daniel • Ragtime • Billy Bathgate | Publishers Pedagogical |
| E. T. A. Hoffmann | 1776 | Undine • The Devil's Elixirs • The Nutcracker and the Mouse King | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Edgar Allan Poe | 1809 | The Black Cat • The Pit and the Pendulum • The Murders in the Rue Morgue | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Edmund Spenser | 1552 | The Faerie Queene | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Edward Morgan Forster | 1879 | Howards End • A Room with a View • Maurice | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Elfriede Jelinek | 1946 | The Piano Teacher • Women as Lovers • The Children of the Dead | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 1806 | The Battle of Marathon: A Poem • Aurora Leigh • Sonnets from the Portuguese | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Elizabeth Bowen | 1899 | The Last September • The House in Paris • The Death of the Heart | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Elizabeth Gaskell | 1810 | The Life of Charlotte Brontë • Cranford | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Emily Brontë | 1818 | Wuthering Heights • Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Erich Maria Remarque | 1898 | All Quiet on the Western Front • Shadows in Paradise • The Road Back | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Ernest Hemingway | 1899 | Hills Like White Elephants • The Snows of Kilimanjaro • The Old Man and the Sea | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Eudora Welty | 1909 | A Worn Path • A Curtain of Green • Music from Spain | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Eugene O'Neill | 1888 | All God's Chillun Got Wings • Mourning Becomes Electra | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Euripides | 480 BC | Alcestis • Andromache • The Bacchae | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Evelyn Waugh | 1903 | A Handful of Dust • Brideshead Revisited | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Eça De Queirós | 1845 | O Crime do Padre Amaro • Os Maias | Publishers Contemporary |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1896 | The Great Gatsby • Tender Is the Night | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Fakhraddin Gorgani | 1001 | Vis and Ramin | Publishers Contemporary |
| Fanny Burney | 1752 | Evelina • Cecilia • Camilla | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Ford Madox Ford | 1873 | The Good Soldier • Parade's End • The Fifth Queen | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Frances Hodgson Burnett | 1849 | Little Lord Fauntleroy • A Little Princess • The Secret Garden | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Francis Bacon | 1561 | New Atlantis • inductive reasoning | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Frank Norris | 1870 | McTeague • The Octopus: A Story of California | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Frank O'Connor | 1903 | Publishers Pedagogical | |
| Franz Werfel | 1890 | The Man Who Conquered Death • The Forty Days of Musa Dagh • The Song of Bernadette | Publishers Contemporary |
| Friedrich Hölderlin | 1770 | Hyperion • The Death of Empedocles • Poems | Publishers Contemporary |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844 | Thus Spoke Zarathustra • The Birth of Tragedy • Untimely Meditations | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Friedrich Schiller | 1759 | The Robbers • Don Carlos • Wallenstein | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1821 | Notes from Underground • Crime and Punishment • The Idiot | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Gabriele d'Annunzio | 1863 | Il Piacere • Le vergini delle rocce • Francesca da Rimini | Publishers Pedagogical |
| George Bernard Shaw | 1856 | Pygmalion • Saint Joan • Mrs. Warren's Profession | Publishers Pedagogical |
| George Gissing | 1857 | The Nether World • New Grub Street • Born in Exile | Publishers Pedagogical |
| George Herbert | 1593 | Publishers Pedagogical | |
| George MacDonald Fraser | 1925 | Flashman • Royal Flash • Flash for Freedom! | Publishers Contemporary |
| George Orwell | 1903 | The Road to Wigan Pier • Homage to Catalonia • Animal Farm | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Georges Perec | 1936 | Life A User's Manual • A Void • Things: A Story of the Sixties | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Georges Simenon | 1903 | Jules Maigret | Publishers Contemporary |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins | 1844 | The Wreck of the Deutschland | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Gertrude Stein | 1874 | Three Lives • Tender Buttons • The Making of Americans | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | 1313 | The Decameron • Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta • Buccolicum carmen | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Giovanni Verga | 1840 | I Malavoglia • Il marito di Elena • Mastro Don Gesualdo | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Graham Greene | 1904 | A Gun for Sale • The Power and the Glory • The Third Man | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Guy De Maupassant | 1850 | Bel-Ami • Boule de Suif • Une Vie | Publishers Pedagogical |
| H. G. Wells | 1866 | The Outline of History • The Time Machine • The Invisible Man | Publishers Pedagogical |
| H. P. Lovecraft | 1890 | The Call of Cthulhu • The Shadow Out of Time • At the Mountains of Madness | Publishers Pedagogical |
| H. Rider Haggard | 1856 | King Solomon's Mines • She: A History of Adventure | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Ha Jin | 1956 | Waiting • War Trash • A Free Life | Publishers Contemporary |
| Halldór Laxness | 1902 | Independent People • Iceland's Bell • The Atom Station | Publishers Contemporary |
| Hannah Webster Foster | 1758 | The Boarding School • or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils • The Coquette | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Hans Christian Andersen | 1805 | The Improvisatore • A Walking Tour from Holmen’s Canal to the Eastern Point of Amager in the Years 1828 and 1829 • The Fairy Tale of My Life | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1811 | Uncle Tom's Cabin • A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin • Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Heinrich Von Kleist | 1777 | The Broken Jug • The Marquise of O • Penthesilea | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Heliodorus Of Emesa | 0250 | Aethiopica | Publishers Contemporary |
| Henry David Thoreau | 1817 | Walden • Civil Disobedience | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Henry Fielding | 1707 | Tom Jones • Joseph Andrews • Shamela | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Hermann Hesse | 1877 | The Glass Bead Game • Demian • Steppenwolf | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Honoré De Balzac | 1799 | Père Goriot • The Human Comedy • Illusions perdues | Publishers Contemporary |
| Horace | 65 BC | Ars Poetica • Satires • Carmen saeculare | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Horace Walpole | 1717 | The Castle of Otranto | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Iris Murdoch | 1919 | The Bell • The Sovereignty of Good • Sartre: Romantic Rationalist | Publishers Contemporary |
| Irène Némirovsky | 1903 | Suite française | Publishers Contemporary |
| Isaac Asimov | 1920 | Foundation series • Robot series • Nightfall | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | 1903 | The Magician of Lublin • Gimpel the Fool | Publishers Contemporary |
| Isabel Allende | 1942 | The House of the Spirits • Zorro • A Long Petal of the Sea | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Ivan Turgenev | 1818 | A Sportsman's Sketches • Fathers and Sons • A Month in the Country | Publishers Contemporary |
| J. D. Salinger | 1919 | The Catcher in the Rye • Nine Stories • Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction | Publishers Pedagogical |
| J. M. Barrie | 1860 | The Little White Bird • Peter Pan • The Little Minister | Publishers Pedagogical |
| J. M. Coetzee | 1940 | Life & Times of Michael K | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| J. M. Synge | 1871 | Riders to the Sea • The Playboy of the Western World | Publishers Pedagogical |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | 1892 | The Hobbit • The Lord of the Rings • The Silmarillion | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Jack Kerouac | 1922 | On the Road • The Dharma Bums • Big Sur | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Jack London | 1876 | The Call of the Wild • The People of the Abyss • The Sea-Wolf | Publishers Pedagogical |
| James Baldwin | 1924 | Go Tell It on the Mountain • Giovanni's Room • Notes of a Native Son | Publishers Pedagogical |
| James Fenimore Cooper | 1789 | The Last of the Mohicans | Publishers Pedagogical |
| James Hogg | 1770 | The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner | Publishers Pedagogical |
| James M. Cain | 1892 | The Postman Always Rings Twice • Double Indemnity | Publishers Contemporary |
| James Welch | 1940 | Winter in the Blood | Publishers Pedagogical |
| James Weldon Johnson | 1871 | The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Jane Smiley | 1949 | A Thousand Acres • The Greenlanders • Moo | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Jean Genet | 1910 | Our Lady of the Flowers • The Maids | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Jean Paul Sartre | 1905 | Nausea • No Exit • Being and Nothingness | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Jean Racine | 1639 | Andromaque • Phèdre • Athalie | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Jean Rhys | 1890 | Wide Sargasso Sea • Good Morning, Midnight • Voyage in the Dark | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Jean Toomer | 1894 | Cane | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Jeanette Winterson | 1959 | Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit • Sexing the Cherry • Gut Symmetries | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Jens Peter Jacobsen | 1847 | Niels Lyhne • Marie Grubbe • Mogens and Other Stories | Publishers Contemporary |
| Joan Didion | 1934 | Slouching Towards Bethlehem • Play It as It Lays • The Year of Magical Thinking | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Joanna Russ | 1937 | When It Changed • The Female Man • How to Suppress Women's Writing | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| John Banville | 1945 | The Sea | Publishers Contemporary |
| John Bunyan | 1628 | The Pilgrim’s Progress | Publishers Pedagogical |
| John Clare | 1793 | Publishers Pedagogical | |
| John Donne | 1572 | Holy Sonnets • The Flea • Devotions upon Emergent Occasions | Publishers Pedagogical |
| John Dryden | 1631 | The Wild Gallant • Essay of Dramatick Poesie | Publishers Pedagogical |
| John Fowles | 1926 | The Collector • The Magus • The French Lieutenant's Woman | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| John Gay | 1685 | The Beggar's Opera | Publishers Pedagogical |
| John Le Carré | 1931 | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy • The Honourable Schoolboy | Publishers Contemporary |
| John Ruskin | 1819 | Modern Painters • The Seven Lamps of Architecture • The Stones of Venice | Publishers Pedagogical |
| John Steinbeck | 1902 | Of Mice and Men • The Grapes of Wrath • East of Eden | Publishers Pedagogical |
| John Updike | 1932 | The Witches of Eastwick | Publishers Pedagogical |
| John Webster | 1578 | The White Devil • The Duchess of Malfi | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Joseph Roth | 1894 | Radetzky March • Job • The Emperor's Tomb | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Juan Rulfo | 1917 | The Burning Plain and Other Stories • Pedro Páramo | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Jules Verne | 1828 | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea • A Journey to the Centre of the Earth • From the Earth to the Moon | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Julio Cortázar | 1914 | Hopscotch | Publishers Contemporary |
| Juvenal | 0055 | Satires | Publishers Contemporary |
| Kate Chopin | 1850 | The Awakening • At the Cadian Ball | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Katherine Anne Porter | 1890 | Publishers Pedagogical | |
| Katherine Mansfield | 1888 | The Garden Party • The Fly • Bliss | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Ken Kesey | 1935 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest • Sometimes a Great Notion | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Knut Hamsun | 1859 | Hunger • Growth of the Soil | Publishers Contemporary |
| Kurt Vonnegut | 1922 | Cat's Cradle • Slaughterhouse-Five • Breakfast of Champions | Publishers Pedagogical |
| L. Frank Baum | 1856 | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz • The Marvelous Land of Oz • The Wizard of Oz | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Langston Hughes | 1902 | The Negro Speaks of Rivers | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Leonardo Sciascia | 1921 | Equal Danger | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Lewis Carroll | 1832 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland • Through the Looking-Glass • Jabberwocky | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Lord Byron | 1788 | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage • Don Juan • Manfred | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Lorrie Moore | 1957 | Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Louisa May Alcott | 1832 | Little Women • An Old-Fashioned Girl • Jo's Boys | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Lucretius | 94 BC | De rerum natura | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Luigi Pirandello | 1867 | L'Esclusa • The Turn • Ma non è una cosa seria | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | 106 BC | De Oratore • De re publica • De legibus | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Margaret Cavendish | 1623 | The Blazing World | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Margaret Fuller | 1810 | Woman in the Nineteenth Century | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Marguerite Duras | 1914 | The Lover • Moderato Cantabile • The Sea Wall | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Marguerite Yourcenar | 1903 | Memoirs of Hadrian • L'Oeuvre au noir • Alexis | Publishers Contemporary |
| Maria Edgeworth | 1768 | Belinda • Castle Rackrent • Comic Dramas, in Three Acts | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Marianne Moore | 1887 | Publishers Pedagogical | |
| Mariano Azuela | 1873 | The Underdogs | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Marie De France | 1101 | Lais of Marie de France • Legend of the Purgatory of St. Patrick | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Mario Vargas Llosa | 1936 | The Time of the Hero • The Green House • Conversation in The Cathedral | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Mark Twain | 1835 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Mary Elizabeth Braddon | 1835 | Publishers Pedagogical | |
| Matthew Arnold | 1822 | The Scholar-Gypsy • Thyrsis • Dover Beach | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Matthew Lewis | 1775 | The Monk | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Maxine Hong Kingston | 1940 | The Woman Warrior • The Fifth Book of Peace • China Men | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Michael Ondaatje | 1943 | The English Patient • Divisadero • Coming Through Slaughter | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Michel De Montaigne | 1533 | Essays | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Michel Houellebecq | 1956 | The Map and the Territory • Whatever • Atomised | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Mikhail Bulgakov | 1891 | The Master and Margarita • The Heart of a Dog • The White Guard | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Molière | 1622 | Scapin the Schemer • Le Bourgeois gentilhomme • The Imaginary Invalid | Publishers Contemporary |
| Naguib Mahfouz | 1911 | Respected Sir • Rhadopis of Nubia • Miramar | Publishers Contemporary |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1804 | The Scarlet Letter • Little Daffydowndilly, and other stories • The House of the Seven Gables | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Natsume Sōseki | 1867 | Kokoro • Botchan • I Am a Cat | Publishers Contemporary |
| Nella Larsen | 1891 | Quicksand • Passing | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Nikolai Gogol | 1809 | Dead Souls • The Government Inspector • Marriage | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Norman Mailer | 1923 | The Naked and the Dead • The Executioner's Song • The Armies of the Night | Publishers Contemporary |
| Octavio Paz | 1914 | The Labyrinth of Solitude • Sunstone • The Bow and the Lyre | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Oliver Goldsmith | 1728 | The Vicar of Wakefield • She Stoops to Conquer | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Orson Scott Card | 1951 | Ender's Game hexalogy • The Tales of Alvin Maker • Homecoming Saga | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Oscar Wilde | 1854 | The Importance of Being Earnest • The Picture of Dorian Gray • The Canterville Ghost | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Ovid | 43 BC | Metamorphoses • Heroides • Ibis | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Pablo Neruda | 1904 | Crepusculario • Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair • Residence on Earth | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Patricia Highsmith | 1921 | Strangers on a Train • The Price of Salt • The Blunderer | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Patrick White | 1912 | Voss | Publishers Contemporary |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar | 1872 | Discovered • Lyrics of Lowly Life | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Pedro Calderón De La Barca | 1600 | Life is a Dream • The Constant Prince • The Great Theater of the World | Publishers Contemporary |
| Penelope Fitzgerald | 1916 | The Bookshop • Offshore | Publishers Contemporary |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | 1792 | Ozymandias • Love's Philosophy • The Cloud | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Peter Ackroyd | 1949 | London: The Biography • Hawksmoor • Chatterton | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Peter Handke | 1942 | Offending the Audience • The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick • A Sorrow Beyond Dreams | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Peter Weiss | 1916 | The Aesthetics of Resistance • Leavetaking • Marat/Sade | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Philip Sidney | 1554 | The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Phillis Wheatley | 1753 | Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Pierre Louys | 1870 | The Songs of Bilitis | Publishers Contemporary |
| Primo Levi | 1918 | If This Is a Man • The Truce • The Drowned and the Saved | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Ralph Ellison | 1914 | Invisible Man • Juneteenth • Three Days Before the Shooting... | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803 | Concord Hymn • The Humble-Bee • Music | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Ray Bradbury | 1920 | Fahrenheit 451 • Something Wicked This Way Comes • The Illustrated Man | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Raymond Queneau | 1903 | Zazie in the Metro • Exercises in Style • The Flight of Icarus | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Richard Wright | 1908 | Uncle Tom's Children • Native Son • Black Boy | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Roald Dahl | 1916 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory • James and the Giant Peach • Fantastic Mr Fox | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Robert Browning | 1812 | The Ring and the Book | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Robert Burns | 1759 | Auld Lang Syne • To a Mouse • Is There for Honest Poverty | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Robert Burton | 1577 | The Anatomy of Melancholy | Publishers Contemporary |
| Robert Frost | 1874 | North of Boston • Mountain Interval • New Hampshire | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Robert Herrick | 1591 | Hesperides | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | 1850 | Treasure Island • Kidnapped • Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Robert Musil | 1880 | The Confusions of Young Törless • The Man Without Qualities • The Posthumous Papers of a Living Author | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Rudyard Kipling | 1865 | The Jungle Book • Kim • If— | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Ryszard Kapuscinski | 1932 | The Shadow of the Sun | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Samuel Beckett | 1906 | Murphy • Molloy • Malone Dies | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Samuel Johnson | 1709 | A Dictionary of the English Language | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Samuel Richardson | 1689 | Pamela • Clarissa • The History of Sir Charles Grandison | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772 | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner • Kubla Khan • Lyrical Ballads | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Sandra Cisneros | 1954 | The House on Mango Street • Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Sarah Orne Jewett | 1849 | The Country of the Pointed Firs | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Sherwood Anderson | 1876 | Winesburg, Ohio | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Shirley Jackson | 1916 | The Lottery • The Haunting of Hill House • We Have Always Lived in the Castle | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Sir Thomas Browne | 1605 | Religio Medici | Publishers Contemporary |
| Sir Thomas More | 1478 | Utopia • Responsio ad Lutherum • Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Sophocles | 496 BC | Oedipus Rex • Oedipus at Colonus • Antigone | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Stefan Zweig | 1881 | The Royal Game • The World of Yesterday • Letter from an Unknown Woman | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Stendhal | 1783 | The Red and the Black • The Charterhouse of Parma • On Love | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Stephen Crane | 1871 | The Red Badge of Courage | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Sylvia Plath | 1932 | The Bell Jar • Ariel • The Colossus | Publishers Pedagogical |
| T. H. White | 1906 | The Sword in the Stone • The Once and Future King • The Goshawk | Publishers Contemporary |
| T. S. Eliot | 1888 | The Waste Land • Four Quartets | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Ted Hughes | 1930 | Publishers Pedagogical | |
| Theodore Dreiser | 1871 | Sister Carrie • An American Tragedy • The Financier | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Thomas Brussig | 1964 | Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee • Heroes Like Us • Wie es leuchtet | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Thomas Carlyle | 1795 | Sartor Resartus • On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History • The French Revolution: A History | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Thomas De Quincey | 1785 | Publishers Pedagogical | |
| Thomas Kyd | 1558 | The Spanish Tragedy | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Thomas Malory | 1405 | Le Morte d'Arthur | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Thomas Middleton | 1580 | The Changeling • Women Beware Women | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Thomas Pynchon | 1937 | Gravity's Rainbow • The Crying of Lot 49 • Mason & Dixon | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Tom Stoppard | 1937 | Pedagogical Contemporary | |
| Toni Morrison | 1931 | The Bluest Eye • Sula • Song of Solomon | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Truman Capote | 1924 | In Cold Blood • Breakfast at Tiffany's | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | 1929 | Earthsea series • The Left Hand of Darkness • The Dispossessed | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Voltaire | 1694 | Candide • Zadig or Destiny • Zaïre | Publishers Pedagogical |
| W. G. Sebald | 1944 | Vertigo • The Rings of Saturn • Austerlitz | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| W. H. Auden | 1907 | The Orators | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Wallace Stegner | 1909 | Angle of Repose • Crossing to Safety • The Big Rock Candy Mountain | Publishers Contemporary |
| Wallace Stevens | 1879 | The Auroras of Autumn | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| Walt Whitman | 1819 | Leaves of Grass • O Captain! My Captain! | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Walter Pater | 1839 | Marius the Epicurean | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Walter Scott | 1771 | Waverley • Rob Roy • Ivanhoe | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Washington Irving | 1783 | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow • Rip Van Winkle • The Spectre Bridegroom | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Wilhelm Grimm | 1786 | Grimms' fairy tales | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Wilkie Collins | 1824 | The Woman in White • The Moonstone | Publishers Pedagogical |
| William Butler Yeats | 1865 | The Second Coming • Sailing to Byzantium • The Tower | Publishers Pedagogical |
| William Dean Howells | 1837 | Pleasure-Pain | Publishers Pedagogical |
| William Gaddis | 1922 | The Recognitions • J R • A Frolic of His Own | Publishers Contemporary |
| William Gibson | 1948 | Neuromancer | Pedagogical Contemporary |
| William Morris | 1834 | News from Nowhere • The Earthly Paradise • The Wood Beyond the World | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Wole Soyinka | 1934 | Season of Anomy • The Interpreters • Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Yukio Mishima | 1925 | The Temple of the Golden Pavilion • Confessions of a Mask • The Sea of Fertility | Publishers Pedagogical |
| Abbas Maroufi | 1957 | Contemporary | |
| Abbe Prevost | 1697 | Manon Lescaut • Cleveland • The Dean of Coleraine | Publishers |
| Abdelrahman Munif | 1933 | Munif bibliography | Contemporary |
| Abigail Adams | 1744 | Publishers | |
| Abolqasem Ferdowsi | 0940 | Shahnameh | Publishers |
| Adalbert Stifter | 1805 | Rock Crystal • Indian summer • Witiko | Publishers |
| Adam Roberts | 1965 | Salt • Gradisil | Pedagogical |
| Adelaide Anne Procter | 1825 | Publishers | |
| Agatha Christie | 1890 | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd • The Sittaford Mystery • Peril at End House | Pedagogical |
| Ahmad Faris Al-Shidyaq | 1802 | Leg Over Leg • al-Sāq ʻalá al-sāq fī mā huwa al-Fāriyāq • al-Jāsūs ʻalá al-Qāmūs | Contemporary |
| Ahmadou Kourouma | 1927 | Allah Is Not Obliged • Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote • Le soleil des indépendances | Contemporary |
| Alain René Le Sage | 1668 | Turcaret • Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane • The Devil upon Two Sticks | Publishers |
| Alan Ayckbourn | 1939 | Contemporary | |
| Alan Bennett | 1934 | Contemporary | |
| Alan Hollinghurst | 1954 | The Swimming-Pool Library • The Folding Star • The Spell | Pedagogical |
| Alan Moore | 1953 | Batman: The Killing Joke • The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen • Lost Girls | Pedagogical |
| Albert Cohen | 1895 | Belle du Seigneur • Solal • Mangeclous | Publishers |
| Albert Cossery | 1913 | The Colors of Infamy | Contemporary |
| Alejandro Jodorowsky | 1929 | The Incal • El Topo • The Holy Mountain | Contemporary |
| Aleksander Wat | 1900 | Contemporary | |
| Alessandro Baricco | 1958 | Castelli di rabbia • Silk | Contemporary |
| Alexander Solzhenitsyn | 1918 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich • The First Circle • Cancer Ward | Publishers |
| Alexandre Dumas | 1802 | The Count of Monte Cristo • The Three Musketeers • La Reine Margot | Publishers |
| Alexandre Kuprin | 1870 | The Duel | Publishers |
| Alfred De Musset | 1810 | The Moods of Marianne | Publishers |
| Alfred De Vigny | 1797 | Poèmes antiques et modernes • Cinq-Mars • Chatterton | Publishers |
| Alfred Hayes | 1911 | Contemporary | |
| Algernon Blackwood | 1869 | The Willows • The Wendigo | Publishers |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne | 1837 | Atalanta in Calydon • Poems and Ballads | Publishers |
| Alice Walker | 1944 | The Color Purple • The Third Life of Grange Copeland • Meridian | Pedagogical |
| Alison Bechdel | 1960 | Fun Home • Are You My Mother? | Pedagogical |
| Allen Ginsberg | 1926 | Howl • Kaddish • The Fall of America: Poems of These States | Pedagogical |
| Alphonse Daudet | 1840 | Tartarin of Tarascon • Letters From My Windmill • Le petit chose | Publishers |
| Amiri Baraka | 1934 | Somebody Blew Up America • Dutchman • Black Fire: an Anthology of Afro-American Writing | Pedagogical |
| Amitav Ghosh | 1956 | The Glass Palace • Sea of Poppies • River of Smoke | Pedagogical |
| Amos Oz | 1939 | A Tale of Love and Darkness • My Michael • Black Box | Contemporary |
| Amy Tan | 1952 | The Joy Luck Club • The Bonesetter's Daughter | Pedagogical |
| Amélie Nothomb | 1967 | Hygiene and the Assassin • The Character of Rain • Tokyo Fiancée | Contemporary |
| Ana Castillo | 1953 | So Far from God | Pedagogical |
| Anatole France | 1844 | Thaïs • The Gods Are Athirst • The Red Lily | Publishers |
| Anders Bodelsen | 1937 | Contemporary | |
| Andersen | 1873 | Publishers | |
| Andrea Levy | 1956 | Small Island | Pedagogical |
| Andreas Karkavitsas | 1865 | Publishers | |
| Andreas Latzko | 1876 | Publishers | |
| Andrei Bely | 1880 | Petersburg • The Silver Dove • Kotik Letaev | Publishers |
| Andrei Bitov | 1937 | Contemporary | |
| Andrew Smith | 1961 | Pedagogical | |
| Andrey Kurkov | 1961 | The Gardener from Ochakov • Death and the Penguin | Contemporary |
| André Gide | 1869 | The Immoralist • Strait is the Gate • La Symphonie Pastorale | Publishers |
| André Malraux | 1901 | Man's Fate | Publishers |
| Andrés Barba | 1975 | Contemporary | |
| Andy Adams | 1859 | Publishers | |
| Anita Konkka | 1941 | Contemporary | |
| Anita Loos | 1889 | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Publishers |
| Anne Bradstreet | 1612 | Pedagogical | |
| Anne Garréta | 1962 | Contemporary | |
| Anne Manning | 1807 | The Maiden and Married Life of Mary Powell | Publishers |
| Anne Sexton | 1928 | Live or Die | Pedagogical |
| Anne Tyler | 1941 | If Morning Ever Comes • The Tin Can Tree • A Slipping-Down Life | Contemporary |
| Annie Dillard | 1945 | The Maytrees • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek • Teaching a Stone to Talk | Pedagogical |
| Annie Proulx | 1935 | Pedagogical | |
| Anthony Browne | 1946 | Pedagogical | |
| Anthony Hope | 1863 | Publishers | |
| Anthony Trollope | 1815 | Chronicles of Barsetshire | Publishers |
| Antje Rávic Strubel | 1974 | Contemporary | |
| Antoine Volodine | 1949 | Contemporary | |
| Antonio Di Benedetto | 1922 | Zama | Contemporary |
| Antonio Muñoz Molina | 1956 | The Polish Rider | Contemporary |
| Antonio Tabucchi | 1943 | Pereira Maintains • Indian Nocturne | Contemporary |
| Arnaud d'Usseau | 1916 | Publishers | |
| Arno Schmidt | 1914 | Contemporary | |
| Arnold Bennett | 1867 | Those United States | Publishers |
| Arnon Grunberg | 1971 | Fantoompijn • The Asylum Seeker • De geschiedenis van mijn kaalheid | Contemporary |
| Arthur Morrison | 1863 | A Child of the Jago | Publishers |
| Arthur Quiller-Couch | 1863 | Oxford Book of English Verse | Publishers |
| Arundhati Roy | 1961 | The God of Small Things | Pedagogical |
| Aubrey Beardsley | 1872 | Publishers | |
| Audre Lorde | 1934 | Sister Outsider • The Cancer Journals • Zami: A New Spelling of My Name | Pedagogical |
| August Wilson | 1945 | Pedagogical | |
| Augusto Monterroso | 1921 | The black sheep and other fables | Contemporary |
| Ayi Kwei Armah | 1939 | The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born | Contemporary |
| Ayn Rand | 1905 | Atlas Shrugged • The Fountainhead • We the Living | Pedagogical |
| B. S. Johnson | 1933 | Albert Angelo • Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry | Contemporary |
| B. Traven | 1882 | The Death Ship • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre • Der Ziegelbrenner | Publishers |
| Bae Suah | 1965 | Contemporary | |
| Bai Hua | 1930 | Contemporary | |
| Baldassare Castiglione | 1478 | Publishers | |
| Baltasar Gracián | 1604 | Publishers | |
| Banarasidas | 1586 | Publishers | |
| Barbara Kingsolver | 1955 | The Poisonwood Bible • Animal, Vegetable, Miracle | Pedagogical |
| Baroness Orczy | 1865 | The Scarlet Pimpernel • Sir Percy Leads the Band • I Will Repay | Publishers |
| Ben Hecht | 1894 | Publishers | |
| Ben Okri | 1959 | The Famished Road • Starbook • Songs of Enchantment | Publishers |
| Benjamin Constant | 1767 | Adolphe | Publishers |
| Benjamin Disraeli | 1804 | Letters: 1852-1856 | Publishers |
| Bensalem Himmich | 1948 | The Theocrat | Contemporary |
| Benvenuto Cellini | 1500 | Fontainebleau Nymph • Perseus with the Head of Medusa • Cellini Salt Cellar | Publishers |
| Bernard Mandeville | 1670 | The Fable of the Bees | Publishers |
| Bernardin De Saint-Pierre | 1737 | Paul et Virginie | Publishers |
| Bernhard Schlink | 1944 | The Reader • Flights of love | Pedagogical |
| Beroul | 1150 | Tristan | Publishers |
| Bharati Mukherjee | 1940 | Jasmine | Pedagogical |
| Bharavi | 0501 | Kirātārjunīya | Contemporary |
| Bhāsa | 0200 | Svapnavasavadattam | Publishers |
| Billy Collins | 1941 | Pedagogical | |
| Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson | 1832 | Publishers | |
| Bobbie Ann Mason | 1940 | Pedagogical | |
| Bolesław Prus | 1847 | The Doll | Contemporary |
| Booth Tarkington | 1869 | Publishers | |
| Bora Ćosić | 1932 | Contemporary | |
| Boris Pasternak | 1890 | Doctor Zhivago | Publishers |
| Boris Strugatsky | 1933 | Contemporary | |
| Borislav Pekić | 1930 | The Pilgrimage of Arsenij Njegovan • Rabies | Contemporary |
| Brad Leithauser | 1953 | Contemporary | |
| Bret Harte | 1836 | The Luck of Roaring Camp • The Outcasts of Poker Flat • Tennessee's Partner | Publishers |
| Breyten Breytenbach | 1939 | Contemporary | |
| Brian Friel | 1929 | Pedagogical | |
| Brigitte Reimann | 1933 | Contemporary | |
| Bruno Schulz | 1892 | Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass • The Street of Crocodiles | Publishers |
| Buchi Emecheta | 1944 | The Bride Price • The Joys of Motherhood • Gwendolen | Pedagogical |
| Budd Schulberg | 1914 | Publishers | |
| Bán Zsófia | 1957 | Contemporary | |
| Béla Zsolt | 1895 | Contemporary | |
| C. S. Forester | 1899 | The African Queen | Publishers |
| Cameron Mccabe | 1915 | Contemporary | |
| Carlo Collodi | 1826 | I racconti delle fate • Giannettino • Minuzzolo | Publishers |
| Carlos Bulosan | 1913 | Carlos Bulosan Papers • America Is in the Heart | Publishers |
| Carlos Fuentes | 1928 | The Death of Artemio Cruz • Terra Nostra • The Hydra Head | Pedagogical |
| Carlos Rojas | 1928 | Contemporary | |
| Carol Ann Duffy | 1955 | The World's Wife | Pedagogical |
| Carol Dunlop | 1946 | Contemporary | |
| Carson McCullers | 1917 | The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter • The Member of the Wedding | Pedagogical |
| Caryl Churchill | 1938 | Top Girls | Pedagogical |
| Caryl Phillips | 1958 | The Final Passage • Crossing the River | Pedagogical |
| Catharine Maria Sedgwick | 1789 | Publishers | |
| Catherine O'flynn | 1970 | Contemporary | |
| Cees Nooteboom | 1933 | Rituals • The Following Story • All Souls' Day | Contemporary |
| Ch'oe Yun | 1102 | Contemporary | |
| Chang-rae Lee | 1965 | Pedagogical | |
| Charles Cotton | 1630 | Publishers | |
| Charles Ferdinand Ramuz | 1878 | Contemporary | |
| Charles James Lever | 1806 | Publishers | |
| Charles Johnson | 1948 | A General History of the Pyrates | Pedagogical |
| Charles Lamb | 1775 | Tales from Shakspeare • Hamlet, Prince of Denmark • Macbeth | Publishers |
| Charles Palliser | 1947 | Contemporary | |
| Charles Reade | 1814 | Publishers | |
| Charles Robert Maturin | 1782 | Melmoth the Wanderer • Bertram • The Fatal Revenge | Publishers |
| Charlotte Lennox | 1730 | The Female Quixote | Publishers |
| Charlotte Mary Yonge | 1823 | The Heir of Redclyffe | Publishers |
| Chatrian | 1826 | Works as Erckmann-Chatrian | Publishers |
| Chester Himes | 1909 | If He Hollers Let Him Go • The Real Cool Killers • Cotton Comes to Harlem | Publishers |
| Chi Ta-Wei | 1972 | Contemporary | |
| Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 1977 | Purple Hibiscus • Half of a Yellow Sun • Americanah | Pedagogical |
| China Miéville | 1972 | Perdido Street Station • The City & the City • Embassytown | Contemporary |
| Christian Bobin | 1951 | Contemporary | |
| Christoph Ransmayr | 1954 | The Last World • The Terrors of Ice and Darkness • The Dog King | Contemporary |
| Christopher Isherwood | 1904 | A Single Man | Publishers |
| Christopher Morley | 1890 | Thunder on the Left | Publishers |
| Christopher Reid | 1949 | Publishers | |
| Chrétien De Troyes | 1135 | Erec and Enide • Yvain, the Knight of the Lion • Cligès | Publishers |
| Chuck Palahniuk | 1962 | Fight Club • Choke • Rant | Pedagogical |
| Chōmei | 1470 | Publishers | |
| Clarence Day | 1874 | Life with Father | Publishers |
| Clarence Major | 1936 | Publishers | |
| Clarice Lispector | 1920 | The Hour of the Star • The Passion According to G.H. • Family Ties | Publishers |
| Clark Ashton Smith | 1893 | Publishers | |
| Claudia Rankine | 1963 | Citizen: An American Lyric | Pedagogical |
| Claudio Magris | 1939 | Contemporary | |
| Clifford Odets | 1906 | Publishers | |
| Colette | 1873 | Gigi • La Chatte • Chéri | Publishers |
| Colley Cibber | 1802 | Publishers | |
| Comte De Lautréamont | 1846 | Les Chants de Maldoror | Publishers |
| Corinne Hoex | 1946 | Contemporary | |
| Cyril Connolly | 1903 | Contemporary | |
| César Aira | 1949 | How I Became a Nun | Contemporary |
| D. G.Compton | 1930 | Contemporary | |
| Dag Solstad | 1941 | Contemporary | |
| Damon Runyon | 1880 | The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown | Publishers |
| Dan Simmons | 1948 | Song of Kali • Hyperion | Contemporary |
| Dana Gioia | 1950 | Pedagogical | |
| Daniel Evan Weiss | 1953 | Contemporary | |
| Daniel Kehlmann | 1975 | Measuring the World • Me and Kaminski • Fame | Contemporary |
| Daphne Du Maurier | 1907 | Rebecca • My Cousin Rachel • Jamaica Inn | Publishers |
| Dave Eggers | 1970 | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius • What Is the What • Zeitoun | Pedagogical |
| David Albahari | 1948 | Contemporary | |
| David Edgar | 1948 | Publishers | |
| David Foster Wallace | 1962 | Infinite Jest • The Pale King • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again | Pedagogical |
| David Jones | 1895 | In Parenthesis • The Anathemata | Contemporary |
| David Lodge | 1935 | Pedagogical | |
| David Malouf | 1934 | Pedagogical | |
| David Mamet | 1947 | Sexual Perversity in Chicago • American Buffalo • Glengarry Glen Ross | Pedagogical |
| David Markson | 1927 | Wittgenstein's Mistress | Contemporary |
| David Punter | 1949 | Pedagogical | |
| David Sedaris | 1956 | Pedagogical | |
| David Toscana | 1961 | Contemporary | |
| Daša Drndić | 1946 | Contemporary | |
| Delarivier Manley | 1663 | Publishers | |
| Denis Johnson | 1949 | Jesus' Son • Tree of Smoke • Angels | Pedagogical |
| Dennis Potter | 1935 | Pennies from Heaven | Contemporary |
| Deon Meyer | 1958 | Contemporary | |
| Derek Marlowe | 1938 | Contemporary | |
| Derek Raymond | 1931 | Contemporary | |
| Derek Walcott | 1930 | Omeros • Dream on Monkey Mountain • The Capeman | Pedagogical |
| Diego Marani | 1959 | Contemporary | |
| Dimitri Verhulst | 1972 | Godverdomse dagen • The misfortunates • Mevrouw Verona daalt de heuvel af | Contemporary |
| Dinah Craik | 1826 | John Halifax, Gentleman • The Little Lame Prince and his Travelling Cloak | Publishers |
| Dino Buzzati | 1906 | The Tartar Steppe • Coco | Contemporary |
| Djuna Barnes | 1892 | Ladies Almanack • Nightwood • The Book of Repulsive Women | Pedagogical |
| Dmitri Merejkowski | 1865 | Publishers | |
| Don DeLillo | 1936 | White Noise • Libra • Mao II | Pedagogical |
| Donald Barthelme | 1931 | The Dead Father • Snow White • Sixty Stories | Publishers |
| Donald E. Westlake | 1933 | The Hunter • The Grifters | Contemporary |
| Donn Byrne | 1889 | Publishers | |
| Dorothy Allison | 1949 | Trash: Short Stories • Bastard Out of Carolina • Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature | Pedagogical |
| Dorothy Canfield | 1879 | Publishers | |
| Dorothy L. Sayers | 1893 | Whose Body? • Clouds of Witness • Unnatural Death | Publishers |
| Dorothy Osborne | 1627 | Publishers | |
| Dorothy Parker | 1893 | Publishers | |
| Dubose Heyward | 1885 | Publishers | |
| Durs Grünbein | 1962 | On Snow • Erklärte Nacht | Contemporary |
| Dương Thu Hương | 1947 | Paradise of the Blind | Contemporary |
| E. B. White | 1899 | Pedagogical | |
| E. E. Cummings | 1894 | The Enormous Room • Tulips and Chimneys • is 5 | Publishers |
| E. W. Hornung | 1866 | Publishers | |
| Earl Of Rochester | 1647 | Publishers | |
| Eavan Boland | 1944 | Pedagogical | |
| Edgar Lee Masters | 1868 | Spoon River Anthology | Publishers |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | 1875 | Barsoom • Tarzan | Publishers |
| Edgar Saltus | 1855 | Publishers | |
| Edmond Rostand | 1868 | Cyrano de Bergerac • L'Aiglon • Chantecler | Publishers |
| Edna Ferber | 1885 | Personality Plus • Our Mrs. McChesney • So Big | Publishers |
| Edogawa Ranpo | 1894 | Murder on D Street • Beast in the Shadows • The Fiend with Twenty Faces | Contemporary |
| Edouard Levé | 1965 | Contemporary | |
| Eduard Mörike | 1804 | Publishers | |
| Eduard Von Keyserling | 1855 | Contemporary | |
| Eduardo Rabasa | 1978 | Contemporary | |
| Edward Abbey | 1927 | The Monkey Wrench Gang • Desert Solitaire | Pedagogical |
| Edward Albee | 1928 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? • The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? | Pedagogical |
| Edward Bellamy | 1850 | Looking Backward | Publishers |
| Edward Bulwer-Lytton | 1803 | Pelham • Godolphin • The Last Days of Pompeii | Publishers |
| Edward Carpenter | 1844 | Publishers | |
| Edward Howard | 1624 | Publishers | |
| Edward St. Aubyn | 1960 | Never Mind • Bad News • Some Hope | Publishers |
| Edward W Said | 1935 | Orientalism | Pedagogical |
| Edwidge Danticat | 1969 | Pedagogical | |
| Edwin A. Abbott | 1838 | Onesimus: Memoirs of a Disciple of St. Paul • Flatland • Philochristus: Memoirs of a Disciple of the.Lord | Publishers |
| Eka Kurniawan | 1975 | Beauty Is a Wound • Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash | Contemporary |
| Eleanor Catton | 1985 | The Luminaries | Contemporary |
| Elena Ferrante | 1943 | Troubling Love • The Days of Abandonment • The Lost Daughter | Contemporary |
| Eliot Weinberger | 1949 | Contemporary | |
| Eliza Fowler Haywood | 1693 | Pedagogical | |
| Elizabeth Bishop | 1911 | Pedagogical | |
| Elizabeth Garver Jordan | 1865 | Publishers | |
| Elizabeth Madox Roberts | 1881 | Publishers | |
| Elizabeth Sara Sheppard | 1830 | Publishers | |
| Elizabeth Stoddard | 1823 | Publishers | |
| Elizabeth Von Arnim | 1866 | Elizabeth and Her German Garden • Princess Priscilla's Fortnight • Christine | Publishers |
| Elleke Boehmer | 1961 | Pedagogical | |
| Ellen Glasgow | 1873 | In This Our Life | Publishers |
| Elliot Paul | 1891 | Publishers | |
| Emilia Pardo Bazán | 1851 | The House of Ulloa • La cuestión palpitante | Publishers |
| Emilio Lascano Tegui | 1887 | Contemporary | |
| Emmanuel Bove | 1898 | Contemporary | |
| Emmanuel Carrère | 1957 | Class Trip • I Am Alive and You Are Dead | Contemporary |
| Enrique Vila-Matas | 1948 | Bartleby & Co. • Montano's Malady • Dublinesque | Contemporary |
| Ernest Dowson | 1867 | Publishers | |
| Ernest J. Gaines | 1933 | Pedagogical | |
| Erskine Caldwell | 1903 | Tobacco Road • God's Little Acre | Publishers |
| Erskine Childers | 1870 | The Riddle of the Sands | Publishers |
| Esterházy Péter | 1950 | Celestial Harmonies | Contemporary |
| Eugene Sue | 1804 | The Mysteries of Paris | Publishers |
| Ezra Pound | 1885 | Pedagogical | |
| Farid Ud-Din Attar | 1145 | The Conference of the Birds • Tazkirat al-Awliya • Mokhtar-nameh | Publishers |
| Fatos Kongoli | 1944 | Contemporary | |
| Fay Weldon | 1931 | Contemporary | |
| Felix Salten | 1869 | Bambi, A Life in the Woods • The Hound of Florence | Contemporary |
| Fernando De Rojas | 1465 | La Celestina | Publishers |
| Fernando Del Paso | 1935 | José Trigo • Noticias del Imperio • Palinuro de México | Contemporary |
| Fernando Pessoa | 1888 | The Book of Disquiet | Publishers |
| Flann O'Brien | 1911 | The Third Policeman • At Swim-Two-Birds • The Poor Mouth | Publishers |
| Flannery O Connor | 1925 | Wise Blood • The Violent Bear It Away • A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories | Pedagogical |
| Florence Converse | 1871 | Publishers | |
| Frances Browne | 1816 | Granny's Wonderful Chair, and its Tales of Fairy Times | Publishers |
| Francesco Petrarca | 1304 | Il Canzoniere • Secretum • De viris illustribus | Pedagogical |
| Francine Prose | 1947 | Pedagogical | |
| Francis Beaumont | 1584 | Publishers | |
| Francis Ponge | 1899 | Le parti pris des choses | Contemporary |
| Francis Thompson | 1931 | Publishers | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave | 1824 | Palgrave's Golden Treasury | Publishers |
| Francisco De Quevedo | 1584 | El Buscón | Contemporary |
| Frank Herbert | 1920 | Dune | Contemporary |
| Frank Miller | 1957 | Pedagogical | |
| Frank Swinnerton | 1884 | Publishers | |
| Frank Wedekind | 1864 | Eroberung • Spring Awakening | Contemporary |
| François La Rochefoucauld | 1613 | Reflections • or Sentences and Moral Maxims • Mémoires | Publishers |
| François Rabelais | 1494 | Abbaye de Thélème • Gargantua and Pantagruel | Publishers |
| François Villon | 1431 | Ballade des pendus • Le Testament • Épître à Marie d'Orléans | Publishers |
| Françoise Sagan | 1935 | Bonjour tristesse | Publishers |
| Fred Uhlman | 1901 | Publishers | |
| Frederick Marryat | 1792 | Mr Midshipman Easy • The Phantom Ship • The Children of the New Forest | Publishers |
| Frederick Rolfe | 1860 | Hadrian the Seventh | Publishers |
| Friedrich Dürrenmatt | 1921 | The Physicists • The Visit • Suspicion | Contemporary |
| Friedrich Hebbel | 1813 | Maria Magdalena • Judith • The Nibelungs | Publishers |
| Fyodor Sologub | 1863 | The Petty Demon | Publishers |
| G. J. Whyte-Melville | 1821 | Publishers | |
| G. P. R. James | 1799 | Publishers | |
| Gao E | 1738 | Publishers | |
| Gary Goshgarian | 1942 | Pedagogical | |
| Gary Snyder | 1930 | Turtle Island | Pedagogical |
| Gaston Leroux | 1868 | The Phantom of the Opera • The Mystery of the Yellow Room • The Perfume of the Lady in Black | Publishers |
| Geetanjali Shree | 1957 | Tomb of Sand | Contemporary |
| Gene Luen Yang | 1973 | American Born Chinese • Superman Smashes The Klan | Pedagogical |
| Geoff Dyer | 1958 | But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz | Contemporary |
| Geoff Nicholson | 1953 | Contemporary | |
| Geoffrey Hill | 1932 | Contemporary | |
| Georg Büchner | 1813 | The Hessian Courier • Woyzeck • Danton's Death | Publishers |
| Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | 1742 | Publishers | |
| George Douglas Brown | 1869 | The House with the Green Shutters | Publishers |
| George Du Maurier | 1834 | Trilby | Publishers |
| George Gilfillan | 1813 | Publishers | |
| George Henry Borrow | 1803 | The Zincali • The Bible in Spain • Lavengro | Publishers |
| George MacDonald | 1824 | Lilith • Phantastes • David Elginbrod | Publishers |
| George Meredith | 1828 | Publishers | |
| George Sand | 1804 | Indiana • Lelia • Mauprat | Publishers |
| George Santayana | 1863 | Publishers | |
| George Saunders | 1958 | Pedagogical | |
| George Washington Cable | 1844 | Publishers | |
| Georges Bataille | 1897 | The Impossible • L'Abbé C • Blue of Noon | Pedagogical |
| Georgi Gospodinov | 1968 | The physics of sorrow • Time Shelter | Contemporary |
| Gerald Murnane | 1939 | The Plains • Inland • Barley Patch | Contemporary |
| Gerald Vizenor | 1934 | Contemporary | |
| Gerard Reve | 1923 | The Evenings: A Winter's Tale • Nader tot U | Contemporary |
| Gerbrand Bakker | 1962 | The Twin • Boven is het stil | Contemporary |
| Gerhart Hauptmann | 1862 | The Rats • The Assumption of Hannele • The Weavers | Publishers |
| Gertrude Atherton | 1857 | Publishers | |
| Giacomo Leopardi | 1798 | A se stesso • Canti • Ciclo di Aspasia | Pedagogical |
| Gilbert Adair | 1944 | Contemporary | |
| Gilbert Imlay | 1754 | Publishers | |
| Gilbert Keith Chesterton | 1874 | The Club of Queer Trades • The Man Who Was Thursday • Orthodoxy | Publishers |
| Gina Apostol | 1963 | Contemporary | |
| Giorgio Bassani | 1916 | The Garden of the Finzi-Continis • The Novel of Ferrara • Five Stories of Ferrara | Publishers |
| Giorgio Manganelli | 1922 | Contemporary | |
| Giorgio Scerbanenco | 1911 | Contemporary | |
| Gish Jen | 1955 | Pedagogical | |
| Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa | 1896 | The Leopard | Publishers |
| Gloria E. Anzaldúa | 1942 | Pedagogical | |
| Gloria Naylor | 1950 | The Women of Brewster Place | Pedagogical |
| Goce Smilevski | 1975 | Contemporary | |
| Gonçalo M. Tavares | 1970 | Contemporary | |
| Gordon Burn | 1948 | Contemporary | |
| Gore Vidal | 1925 | Myra Breckinridge | Publishers |
| Gottfried Von Strassburg | 1180 | Tristan • Lieder | Publishers |
| Graham Swift | 1949 | Shuttlecock • Waterland • Last Orders | Publishers |
| Grant Allen | 1848 | The Woman Who Did | Publishers |
| Greg Bear | 1951 | Blood Music | Contemporary |
| Gui De Cambrai | 1170 | Le vengement Alixandre • De Baleham et de Josaphas | Publishers |
| Guido Morselli | 1912 | Contemporary | |
| Guillaume Apollinaire | 1880 | Alcools | Pedagogical |
| Gustav Frenssen | 1863 | Publishers | |
| Gustave Aimard | 1818 | Publishers | |
| Guy Boothby | 1867 | Publishers | |
| Gwendolyn Brooks | 1917 | Jump Bad: a New Chicago Anthology | Pedagogical |
| Gérard De Nerval | 1808 | Voyage to the Orient • La Pandora • Aurélia | Publishers |
| Günter Grass | 1927 | The Tin Drum • Cat and Mouse • Dog Years | Publishers |
| H. H. Munro | 1870 | Publishers | |
| H. M. Tomlinson | 1873 | Publishers | |
| H. M. Van Den Brink | 1956 | Over het water | Contemporary |
| Hallgrímur Helgason | 1959 | Contemporary | |
| Hammerstein | 1895 | Publishers | |
| Hanif Kureishi | 1954 | Pedagogical | |
| Harold Frederic | 1856 | The Damnation of Theron Ware | Publishers |
| Harold Pinter | 1930 | The Room • The Birthday Party • The Dumb Waiter | Pedagogical |
| Harper Lee | 1926 | To Kill a Mockingbird • Go Set a Watchman | Pedagogical |
| Harriet A Jacobs | 1813 | Pedagogical | |
| Harriet E. Wilson | 1825 | Our Nig | Publishers |
| Harriet Jacobs | 1813 | Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl | Publishers |
| Harry Crews | 1935 | Publishers | |
| Harry Mathews | 1930 | The Conversions • Tlooth • The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium | Contemporary |
| Harry Mulisch | 1927 | The Assault • The Discovery of Heaven • The Stone Bridal Bed | Contemporary |
| Heiner Müller | 1929 | Hamletmachine | Contemporary |
| Heinrich Böll | 1917 | Billiards at Half-past Nine • The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum • The Clown | Publishers |
| Heinrich Heine | 1797 | Germany. A Winter's Tale • Atta Troll • Die Harzreise | Publishers |
| Helen DeWitt | 1957 | The Last Samurai • Lightning Rods | Contemporary |
| Helena Maria Viramontes | 1954 | Pedagogical | |
| Helene Cixous | 1937 | Pedagogical | |
| Henri Barbusse | 1873 | Under Fire | Publishers |
| Henri Michaux | 1899 | Contemporary | |
| Henrik Pontoppidan | 1857 | Publishers | |
| Henry Green | 1905 | Loving • Party Going • Caught | Publishers |
| Henry Handel Richardson | 1870 | The Fortunes of Richard Mahony | Publishers |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1807 | The Song of Hiawatha • The Courtship of Miles Standish • Voices of the Night | Publishers |
| Henryk Sienkiewicz | 1846 | Janko Muzykant • With Fire and Sword • The Deluge | Publishers |
| Heo Gyun | 1569 | Hong Gildong jeon • Domundaejak | Publishers |
| Hermann Broch | 1886 | The Death of Virgil | Contemporary |
| Hermann Burger | 1942 | Contemporary | |
| Hermann Sudermann | 1857 | Heimat • Fires of St. John | Publishers |
| Hesiod | 776 BC | Theogony • Works and Days • Catalogue of Women | Pedagogical |
| Hilaire Belloc | 1870 | Publishers | |
| Hjalmar Söderberg | 1869 | Historietter • Martin Birck's Youth • Doctor Glas | Contemporary |
| Honor Tracy | 1913 | Publishers | |
| Horatio Alger Jr. | 1832 | Ragged Dick | Publishers |
| Howard Fast | 1914 | Publishers | |
| Howard Jacobson | 1942 | Contemporary | |
| Hugh Walpole | 1884 | Publishers | |
| Hugo Claus | 1929 | The Sorrow of Belgium • De Sporen • De geruchten | Contemporary |
| Iain Pears | 1955 | An Instance of the Fingerpost • The Dream of Scipio • Stone's Fall | Contemporary |
| Iain Sinclair | 1943 | Suicide Bridge • Slow Chocolate Autopsy | Contemporary |
| Ian Cross | 1925 | The God Boy | Publishers |
| Ian Hamilton | 1938 | Publishers | |
| Ibrahim Al-Koni | 1948 | Contemporary | |
| Ignacio Padilla | 1968 | Contemporary | |
| Ignatius Sancho | 1729 | Publishers | |
| Ilya Troyanov | 1965 | Contemporary | |
| Imre Kertész | 1929 | Fatelessness • Liquidation | Contemporary |
| Inaki Irazu | 1954 | Pedagogical | |
| Inka Parei | 1967 | Contemporary | |
| Inoue Yasushi | 1907 | Contemporary | |
| Inès Cagnati | 1937 | Contemporary | |
| Irmtraud Morgner | 1933 | Contemporary | |
| Irwin Shaw | 1913 | Bury the Dead • Rich Man, Poor Man | Publishers |
| Isabel Colegate | 1931 | The Shooting Party | Contemporary |
| Isak Dinesen | 1885 | Out of Africa • Babette's Feast | Publishers |
| Ishmael Reed | 1938 | Pedagogical | |
| Ismail Kadare | 1936 | The General of the Dead Army • The Castle • Chronicle in Stone | Contemporary |
| Italo Svevo | 1861 | Zeno's Conscience • Senilità • A Life | Publishers |
| Ivan Goncharov | 1812 | The Same Old Story • Oblomov • The Precipice | Publishers |
| Ivan Vladislavić | 1957 | Contemporary | |
| Ivo Andrić | 1892 | The Bridge on the Drina • Omerpaša Latas • Ex Ponto | Publishers |
| Iván Repila | 1978 | Contemporary | |
| Izaak Walton | 1593 | Publishers | |
| J. B. Priestley | 1894 | Publishers | |
| J. De Goncourt | Publishers | ||
| J. F. Powers | 1917 | Publishers | |
| J. G. Ballard | 1930 | Crash • Empire of the Sun • The Drowned World | Pedagogical |
| J. G. Farrell | 1935 | Troubles • The Siege of Krishnapur | Publishers |
| J. Hector St. John De Crèvecoeur | 1735 | Publishers | |
| J. K. Rowling | 1965 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Pedagogical |
| J. M.Ledgard | 1968 | Contemporary | |
| J. Slauerhoff | 1898 | The Forbidden Kingdom • Life on Earth • Foam and Ash | Contemporary |
| Jackie Kay | 1961 | Trumpet (novel) • Darling: New & Selected Poems | Pedagogical |
| Jacques Derrida | 1930 | Pedagogical | |
| Jacques Roubaud | 1932 | Contemporary | |
| Jalal al-Din Rumi | 1207 | Seven Sessions • Fihi Ma Fihi • Masnavi | Publishers |
| Jamaica Kincaid | 1949 | Annie John • My Brother • Lucy | Pedagogical |
| James Branch Cabell | 1879 | Publishers | |
| James Ellroy | 1948 | Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy • L.A. Quartet • Underworld USA Trilogy | Publishers |
| James Gould Cozzens | 1903 | Guard of Honor • By Love Possessed | Publishers |
| James Hawes | 1960 | Contemporary | |
| James Jones | 1921 | From Here to Eternity | Publishers |
| James Michener | 1907 | Tales of the South Pacific | Publishers |
| James Morier | 1780 | An Italian Ancedote | Publishers |
| James Russell Lowell | 1819 | The Fountain • The First Snowfall • The Heritage | Publishers |
| James Stephens | 1882 | The Crock of Gold • Irish Fairy Tales • The Charwoman's Daughter | Publishers |
| James T. Farrell | 1904 | Studs Lonigan | Publishers |
| James Thurber | 1894 | My World and Welcome to It • The Last Flower • My Life and Hard Times | Publishers |
| Jan Kjærstad | 1953 | Contemporary | |
| Jan Křesadlo | 1926 | Contemporary | |
| Jan Potocki | 1761 | Publishers | |
| Jane Gardam | 1928 | Contemporary | |
| Janet Burroway | 1936 | Pedagogical | |
| Jang Eun-Jin | 1976 | Contemporary | |
| Jaroslav Hašek | 1883 | The Good Soldier Švejk | Publishers |
| Jason Robert Brown | 1970 | The Last Five Years • Parade | Publishers |
| Javier Marías | 1951 | Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me • A Heart So White | Contemporary |
| Jean Améry | 1912 | Contemporary | |
| Jean Cocteau | 1889 | Orpheus • The Blood of a Poet • Beauty and the Beast | Pedagogical |
| Jean De La Fontaine | 1621 | Publishers | |
| Jean De La Ville De Mirmont | 1886 | Contemporary | |
| Jean Dutourd | 1920 | Mémoires de Mary Watson • The Best Butter | Contemporary |
| Jean Echenoz | 1947 | I'm Off | Contemporary |
| Jean François Paul De Gondi De Retz | 1613 | Publishers | |
| Jean Froissart | 1337 | Froissart's Chronicles • Le paradis d'amour • L'espinette amoureuse | Publishers |
| Jean Ingelow | 1820 | Publishers | |
| Jean Webster | 1876 | Publishers | |
| Jean-Marie Blas De Roblès | 1954 | Contemporary | |
| Jean-Philippe Toussaint | 1957 | Contemporary | |
| Jeff Noon | 1957 | Contemporary | |
| Jeffrey Eugenides | 1960 | Pedagogical | |
| Jennie Erdal | 1951 | Contemporary | |
| Jennifer Egan | 1962 | A Visit from the Goon Squad | Pedagogical |
| Jenny Erpenbeck | 1967 | The Book of Words • Go, Went, Gone | Contemporary |
| Jens Baggesen | 1764 | Publishers | |
| Jeremias Gotthelf | 1797 | The Black Spider • Kurt von Koppigen • Ulric the farm servant | Publishers |
| Jerome K. Jerome | 1859 | Three Men in a Boat • Three Men on the Bummel | Publishers |
| Jerome Weidman | 1913 | Publishers | |
| Jerzy Kosinski | 1933 | The Painted Bird • Cockpit • Being There | Publishers |
| Jesmyn Ward | 1977 | Sing, Unburied, Sing • Salvage the Bones • Men We Reaped | Pedagogical |
| Jessica Au | 1986 | Contemporary | |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | 1967 | Interpreter of Maladies • The Namesake • The Lowland | Pedagogical |
| Jia Pingwa | 1952 | Contemporary | |
| Joanne Greenberg | 1932 | I Never Promised You a Rose Garden | Publishers |
| Joe Simon | 1913 | All Winners Comics • Black Magic • Fighting American | Publishers |
| Joel Chandler Harris | 1848 | Uncle Remus | Publishers |
| Johann David Wyss | 1743 | The Swiss Family Robinson | Publishers |
| Johann Peter Hebel | 1760 | Allemannische Gedichte | Publishers |
| Johanna Spyri | 1827 | Heidi | Publishers |
| John Ashbery | 1927 | Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror • The Tennis Court Oath • Flow Chart | Pedagogical |
| John Barth | 1930 | Pedagogical | |
| John Berger | 1926 | Ways of Seeing • G. • To the Wedding | Pedagogical |
| John Buchan | 1875 | The Thirty-Nine Steps • Greenmantle • Mr Standfast | Publishers |
| John Cheever | 1912 | Pedagogical | |
| John Cleland | 1709 | Fanny Hill • Memoirs of a Coxcomb • The Surprises of Love | Publishers |
| John Davidson | 1857 | Publishers | |
| John Dos Passos | 1896 | U.S.A. • Manhattan Transfer | Publishers |
| John Fletcher | 1579 | Publishers | |
| John Galsworthy | 1867 | The Forsyte Saga • Saint's Progress • The Silver Box | Publishers |
| John Galt | 1779 | Annals of the Parish | Publishers |
| John Gardner | 1926 | Boysie Oakes | Pedagogical |
| John Gibson Lockhart | 1794 | Publishers | |
| John Henry Newman | 1801 | Publishers | |
| John Hollander | 1929 | Philomel | Pedagogical |
| John Lennard | 1964 | Pedagogical | |
| John Mortimer | 1923 | A Voyage Round My Father | Publishers |
| John O'Hara | 1905 | Publishers | |
| John P. Marquand | 1893 | Publishers | |
| John Polidori | 1795 | The Vampyre | Publishers |
| John Romita Sr. | 1930 | Publishers | |
| John Strachey | 1901 | Publishers | |
| John Wain | 1925 | Publishers | |
| John William De Forest | 1826 | Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty | Publishers |
| John Woolman | 1720 | Publishers | |
| Johnston McCulley | 1883 | Zorro | Publishers |
| Jon Krakauer | 1954 | Pedagogical | |
| Jonathan Coe | 1961 | What a Carve Up! | Contemporary |
| Jonathan Franzen | 1959 | The Corrections • Freedom | Contemporary |
| Jonathan Lethem | 1964 | Motherless Brooklyn • The Fortress of Solitude | Publishers |
| Jonathan Safran Foer | 1977 | Everything Is Illuminated • Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Pedagogical |
| Joris-Karl Huysmans | 1848 | Là-Bas • À rebours | Publishers |
| Josef Peterka | 1944 | Pedagogical | |
| Joseph Heller | 1923 | Catch-22 • God Knows • No Laughing Matter | Publishers |
| Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu | 1814 | Countess Mircalla Karnstein • Uncle Silas • Carmilla | Publishers |
| Joseph Viktor Von Scheffel | 1826 | Publishers | |
| Joshua Cohen | 1980 | The Netanyahus | Contemporary |
| José Garcia Villa | 1908 | Publishers | |
| José Martí | 1853 | Ismaelillo • Simple verses • Nuestra América | Publishers |
| José Rizal | 1861 | El filibusterismo • Mi último adiós | Publishers |
| José Saramago | 1922 | The Gospel According to Jesus Christ • Blindness • Seeing | Contemporary |
| Joy Harjo | 1951 | An American sunrise : poems | Pedagogical |
| Joyce Carol Oates | 1938 | Black Water • Blonde • The Falls | Pedagogical |
| Joyce Cary | 1888 | Publishers | |
| Juan Filloy | 1894 | Contemporary | |
| Juan Goytisolo | 1931 | Count Julian | Contemporary |
| Juan José Millás | 1946 | Carta straccia • La mujer loca • Los objetos nos llaman | Contemporary |
| Juana Inés De La Cruz | 1651 | Los empeños de una casa • El divino narciso • Primero sueño | Publishers |
| Judith Ortiz Cofer | 1952 | Pedagogical | |
| Jules Laforgue | 1860 | Publishers | |
| Julia Alvarez | 1950 | In the Time of the Butterflies | Pedagogical |
| Julia Bell | 1971 | Pedagogical | |
| Julian Cope | 1957 | Contemporary | |
| Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing | 1841 | Publishers | |
| Julien Green | 1900 | The Distant Lands • To Leave Before Dawn • Mont-Cinère | Contemporary |
| Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | 1886 | The Makioka Sisters • Naomi • Quicksand | Publishers |
| Junot Díaz | 1968 | Pedagogical | |
| Justin Cartwright | 1945 | Contemporary | |
| Kalidasa | 300 | Raghuvaṃśa • Abhigyanashakuntalam • Mālavikāgnimitram | Publishers |
| Karel Čapek | 1890 | Zářivé hlubiny • Boží muka • Krakonošova zahrada | Publishers |
| Kari Hotakainen | 1957 | Contemporary | |
| Karl Kraus | 1874 | The Last Days of Mankind • Die Fackel | Pedagogical |
| Karl Ove Knausgård | 1968 | My Struggle • Out of the World • A Time for Everything | Contemporary |
| Karl Philipp Moritz | 1756 | Anton Reiser • Andreas Hartknopf • Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde | Publishers |
| Kate Atkinson | 1951 | Contemporary | |
| Kate Douglas Wiggin | 1856 | Publishers | |
| Katharine Burdekin | 1896 | Contemporary | |
| Kay Dick | 1915 | Contemporary | |
| Kenkō | 1959 | Publishers | |
| Kenneth Grahame | 1859 | The Wind in the Willows | Publishers |
| Kenzaburō Ōe | 1935 | A Personal Matter • The Silent Cry | Contemporary |
| Keri Hulme | 1947 | The Bone People | Contemporary |
| Khaled Hosseini | 1965 | The Kite Runner • A Thousand Splendid Suns • And the Mountains Echoed | Pedagogical |
| Kim Addonizio | 1954 | Pedagogical | |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | 1952 | Mars trilogy • Three Californias Trilogy • The Years of Rice and Salt | Contemporary |
| Kingsley Amis | 1922 | Lucky Jim • The Old Devils | Publishers |
| Kong Shangren | 1648 | Contemporary | |
| Kosztolányi Dezső | 1885 | Contemporary | |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | 1689 | Publishers | |
| Lady Sarashina | 1008 | Sarashina Nikki • Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari • Yoru no Nezame | Publishers |
| Lafcadio Hearn | 1850 | Publishers | |
| Lars Saabye Christensen | 1953 | Contemporary | |
| Laura Esquivel | 1950 | Like Water for Chocolate | Pedagogical |
| Layamon | 1200 | Publishers | |
| Leif Gw Persson | 1945 | Contemporary | |
| Leigh Hunt | 1784 | Publishers | |
| Len Deighton | 1929 | The IPCRESS File | Publishers |
| Leon De Winter | 1954 | Zoeken naar Eileen W • Zionoco • Het recht op terugkeer | Contemporary |
| Leonardo Padura | 1955 | Malavana • The Man Who Loved Dogs | Contemporary |
| Leonid Andreyev | 1871 | The Seven Who Were Hanged | Publishers |
| Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch | 1836 | Venus in Furs | Publishers |
| Leopoldo Alas | 1852 | La Regenta | Publishers |
| Leopoldo Marechal | 1900 | Contemporary | |
| Les Murray | 1938 | Contemporary | |
| Leslie Marmon Silko | 1948 | Ceremony | Pedagogical |
| Lew Wallace | 1827 | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Publishers |
| Lewis Grassic Gibbon | 1901 | Sunset Song | Publishers |
| Li Po | 0701 | Quiet Night Thought • Mountain Q&A • Bringing in the Wine | Publishers |
| Libuse Moníková | 1945 | Contemporary | |
| Liesl Ujvary | 1939 | Contemporary | |
| Lillian Hellman | 1905 | Publishers | |
| Linda Boström Knausgård | 1972 | Välkommen till Amerika | Contemporary |
| Linda Hogan | 1947 | Pedagogical | |
| Lion Feuchtwanger | 1884 | Jew Süss • The Oppermanns • Die Jüdin von Toledo | Publishers |
| Lisa Tuttle | 1952 | Contemporary | |
| Liu Cixin | 1963 | The Three-Body Problem • The Dark Forest • Death's End | Contemporary |
| Lloyd Jones | 1951 | Contemporary | |
| Lois Lowry | 1937 | The Giver • Number the Stars • Gathering Blue | Pedagogical |
| Longus | 0200 | Publishers | |
| Lord Dunsany | 1878 | The King of Elfland's Daughter • The Gods of Pegāna • Joseph Jorkens | Publishers |
| Lorraine Hansberry | 1930 | A Raisin in the Sun | Pedagogical |
| Lothar-Günther Buchheim | 1918 | Das Boot • Die Festung • Der Abschied | Publishers |
| Louis Auchincloss | 1917 | Publishers | |
| Louis Couperus | 1863 | Imperia | Contemporary |
| Louis Hemon | 1880 | Maria Chapdelaine | Publishers |
| Louis-Ferdinand Céline | 1894 | Journey to the End of the Night • Death on Credit • Castle to Castle | Contemporary |
| Louise Erdrich | 1954 | Love Medicine • Tracks • The Master Butchers Singing Club | Pedagogical |
| Lu Xun | 1881 | The True Story of Ah Q • A Madman's Diary • Panghuang | Pedagogical |
| Lucian | 0120 | A True Story • Dialogues of the Gods • Dialogues of the Dead | Publishers |
| Ludovico Ariosto | 1474 | Orlando Furioso | Publishers |
| Ludwig Bemelmans | 1898 | Madeline | Publishers |
| Ludwig Lewisohn | 1882 | Publishers | |
| Luis Goytisolo | 1935 | Contemporary | |
| Luis Valdez | 1940 | Pedagogical | |
| Luo Guanzhong | 1334 | The Romance of the Three Kingdoms | Publishers |
| Luís De Camões | 1524 | Os Lusíadas | Publishers |
| Lydie Salvayre | 1948 | Cry, Mother Spain | Contemporary |
| Lynne Truss | 1955 | Pedagogical | |
| M. R. James | 1862 | Ghost Stories of an Antiquary • More Ghost Stories • A Thin Ghost and Others | Publishers |
| M.John Harrison | 1945 | Contemporary | |
| Machado De Assis | 1839 | Crisálidas • O alienista • Dom Casmurro | Contemporary |
| Madame De La Fayette | 1634 | La Princesse de Clèves • The Princess of Montpensier • Zaïde | Publishers |
| Madame De Staël | 1766 | On Germany • Corinne ou l'Italie | Publishers |
| Madame De Sévigné | 1626 | Publishers | |
| Madeleine Bourdouxhe | 1906 | Contemporary | |
| Maggie Nelson | 1973 | Pedagogical | |
| Magnus Mills | 1954 | The Restraint of Beasts • All Quiet on the Orient Express | Contemporary |
| Mahmoud Dowlatabadi | 1940 | Kelidar | Contemporary |
| Malcolm Bradbury | 1932 | Pedagogical | |
| Malcolm X | 1925 | Pedagogical | |
| Manuel Puig | 1932 | Pedagogical | |
| Marcel Allain | 1885 | Fantômas • The Exploits of Juve • Messengers of Evil | Publishers |
| Marcel Bénabou | 1939 | Contemporary | |
| Marcel Möring | 1957 | Het grote verlangen • In Babylon • Amen | Contemporary |
| Marek Hłasko | 1934 | Pierwszy krok w chmurach | Contemporary |
| Margaret Oliphant | 1828 | Publishers | |
| Marge Piercy | 1936 | Going Down Fast • Woman on the Edge of Time | Pedagogical |
| Margery Kempe | 1373 | The Book of Margery Kempe | Publishers |
| Marguerite De Navarre | 1492 | Heptaméron • Les prisons • Letters | Publishers |
| Marian Engel | 1933 | Bear | Contemporary |
| Marie Ndiaye | 1967 | Three Strong Women • Rosie Carpe | Contemporary |
| Marilynne Robinson | 1943 | Housekeeping • Gilead • Home | Pedagogical |
| Mario Benedetti | 1920 | The Truce | Contemporary |
| Marion Poschmann | 1969 | Contemporary | |
| Marjane Satrapi | 1969 | Persepolis • Embroideries • The Voices | Pedagogical |
| Marjorie Fleming | 1803 | Publishers | |
| Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | 1896 | The Yearling | Publishers |
| Mark Dunn | 1956 | Contemporary | |
| Mark Ford | 1962 | Contemporary | |
| Mark Haddon | 1962 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Pedagogical |
| Marlen Haushofer | 1920 | The Wall | Contemporary |
| Marquis De Sade | 1740 | The 120 Days of Sodom • Justine • Juliette | Publishers |
| Marta Petreu | 1955 | Contemporary | |
| Martin Kessel | 1901 | Contemporary | |
| Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman | 1852 | A New England Nun • Young Lucretia and Other Stories • The Pot of Gold and Other Stories | Publishers |
| Mary Lamb | 1764 | The Merchant of Venice • Tales from Shakspeare • The Winter's Tale | Publishers |
| Mary Mapes Dodge | 1831 | Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates | Publishers |
| Mary Oliver | 1935 | Red Bird • The Night Traveler | Pedagogical |
| Mary Prince | 1788 | The History of Mary Prince | Publishers |
| Mary Renault | 1905 | Publishers | |
| Mary Russell Mitford | 1787 | Publishers | |
| Mary Webb | 1881 | Gone to Earth • The House in Dormer Forest • Seven for a Secret | Publishers |
| Mary White Rowlandson | 1635 | A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson | Pedagogical |
| María Amparo Ruíz De Burton | 1832 | Publishers | |
| María José Ferrada | 1977 | Contemporary | |
| Mathias Énard | 1972 | Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants | Contemporary |
| Matsuo Bashō | 1644 | Oku no Hosomichi • The Seashell Game • Nozarashi Kikō | Publishers |
| Matt Madden | 1968 | Contemporary | |
| Maurice Blanchot | 1907 | Pedagogical | |
| Maurice Leblanc | 1864 | Le Formidable Événement | Publishers |
| Maurice Maeterlinck | 1862 | Intruder • The Blind • Interior | Publishers |
| Mavis Gallant | 1922 | Publishers | |
| Max Beerbohm | 1872 | Publishers | |
| Maxim Gorky | 1868 | Mat' • The Lower Depths • My Childhood | Publishers |
| Maxime Raymond Bock | 1981 | Atavisms | Contemporary |
| May Sinclair | 1863 | Life and Death of Harriett Frean | Publishers |
| Maya Angelou | 1928 | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings • On the Pulse of Morning • And Still I Rise | Pedagogical |
| Maylis De Kerangal | 1967 | Mend the Living • Birth of a Bridge | Contemporary |
| Melissa Bank | 1960 | The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing | Publishers |
| Meša Selimović | 1910 | Death and the Dervish • Tvrđava | Contemporary |
| Michael Ajvaz | 1949 | Contemporary | |
| Michael Cunningham | 1952 | Pedagogical | |
| Michael Frayn | 1933 | Contemporary | |
| Michael Maar | 1960 | Contemporary | |
| Michael McCarthy | 1962 | Pedagogical | |
| Michael Morpurgo | 1943 | War Horse | Pedagogical |
| Michael Psellus | 1018 | Chronographia | Publishers |
| Michael Ryan | 1962 | Pedagogical | |
| Michael Scott | 1958 | Publishers | |
| Michel Tournier | 1924 | The Erl-King • Friday and Robinson | Contemporary |
| Mick Herron | 1963 | Contemporary | |
| Micklewicz | 1798 | Pan Tadeusz • Dziady | Publishers |
| Miguel Delibes | 1920 | The Heretic • El camino • The Holy Innocents | Contemporary |
| Mihail Sebastian | 1907 | Contemporary | |
| Mikhail Artsybashev | 1878 | Publishers | |
| Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin | 1826 | The History of a Town • The Golovlyov Family | Publishers |
| Mikhail Lermontov | 1814 | A Hero of Our Time | Publishers |
| Mikhail Shishkin | 1961 | Pismovnik | Contemporary |
| Miklos Banffy | 1873 | Publishers | |
| Milan Kundera | 1929 | The Joke • The Book of Laughter and Forgetting • The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Pedagogical |
| Miles Franklin | 1879 | Publishers | |
| Min Jin Lee | 1968 | Pachinko • Free Food for Millionaires | Contemporary |
| Mir Amman | 1745 | Publishers | |
| Mo Yan | 1955 | Red Sorghum • The Republic of Wine • Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out | Contemporary |
| Moacyr Scliar | 1937 | Contemporary | |
| Mohsin Hamid | 1971 | Moth Smoke | Pedagogical |
| Montaigne | 1995 | Publishers | |
| Mori Ogai | 1862 | The Dancing Girl • Utakata no ki • Vita Sexualis | Contemporary |
| Morley Roberts | 1857 | Publishers | |
| Mulk Raj Anand | 1905 | Morning Face | Publishers |
| Multatuli | 1820 | Max Havelaar | Contemporary |
| Murasaki Shikibu | 0973 | The Tale of Genji • The Diary of Lady Murasaki • Poetic Memoirs | Publishers |
| Murray Bail | 1941 | Contemporary | |
| Mário Sá-Carneiro | 1890 | Contemporary | |
| N. Scott Momaday | 1934 | Pedagogical | |
| Nadezhda Mandelstam | 1899 | Hope Against Hope: A Memoir | Publishers |
| Nadine Gordimer | 1923 | The Conservationist • Burger's Daughter • July's People | Pedagogical |
| Nakamura Fuminori | 1977 | Contemporary | |
| Nancy Mitford | 1904 | The Pursuit of Love • Noblesse Oblige | Publishers |
| Nathanael West | 1903 | Miss Lonelyhearts • The Day of the Locust | Pedagogical |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1804 | Pedagogical | |
| Neal Stephenson | 1959 | Cryptonomicon | Contemporary |
| Neil Gaiman | 1960 | The Sandman • American Gods • Stardust | Pedagogical |
| Nguyễn Du | 1500 | Truyền kỳ mạn lục | Contemporary |
| Nicholas Mosley | 1923 | Contemporary | |
| Nicholas Royle | 1963 | Pedagogical | |
| Nick Joaquin | 1917 | Publishers | |
| Nikolai Leskov | 1831 | Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District | Publishers |
| Nino Haratischvili | 1983 | The Eighth Life (For Brilka) | Contemporary |
| Nizami | 1141 | Khamsa | Contemporary |
| Norah Lange | 1905 | Contemporary | |
| Norman Douglas | 1868 | South Wind | Publishers |
| Norman Manea | 1936 | Contemporary | |
| O. Henry | 1862 | The Gift of the Magi • The Last Leaf | Publishers |
| O. V.Vijayan | 1930 | Contemporary | |
| Octavia E. Butler | 1947 | Kindred • Lilith's Brood • Parable of the Sower | Pedagogical |
| Ogawa Yoko | 1962 | The Housekeeper and the Professor | Contemporary |
| Ogden Nash | 1902 | Speak Low | Publishers |
| Olaf Stapledon | 1886 | Star Maker • Last and First Men • Odd John | Contemporary |
| Olive Schreiner | 1855 | The Story of an African Farm | Publishers |
| Ondjaki | 1977 | Transparent City | Contemporary |
| Oswald Wiener | 1935 | Contemporary | |
| Otakar Chaloupka | 1935 | Pedagogical | |
| Otar Chiladze | 1933 | A Man Was Going Down the Road • Everyone That Findeth Me • The Iron Theatre | Contemporary |
| Ouida | 1839 | Publishers | |
| Owen Wister | 1860 | Publishers | |
| P. D.James | 1920 | Contemporary | |
| P. G. Wodehouse | 1881 | The Code of the Woosters • Right Ho, Jeeves • Leave It to Psmith | Publishers |
| Pascal Garnier | 1949 | Contemporary | |
| Pascal Mercier | 1944 | Night Train to Lisbon | Contemporary |
| Pascal Quignard | 1948 | The Roving Shadows | Contemporary |
| Pat Barker | 1943 | Union Street • Blow Your House Down • The Century's Daughter | Pedagogical |
| Patrick Marber | 1964 | Contemporary | |
| Patrick Modiano | 1945 | La Place de l'Étoile • Les Boulevards de ceinture • Missing Person | Contemporary |
| Patrick Süskind | 1949 | The double-bass • Perfume • The Pigeon | Contemporary |
| Patrik Ouředník | 1957 | Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century | Contemporary |
| Paul Auster | 1947 | Man in the Dark • The Book of Illusions • Leviathan | Pedagogical |
| Paul Durcan | 1944 | Contemporary | |
| Paul Goldberg | 1959 | Contemporary | |
| Paul Magrs | 1968 | Doctor Who | Pedagogical |
| Paul Muldoon | 1951 | Contemporary | |
| Paul Scott | 1920 | Publishers | |
| Paul Theroux | 1941 | Contemporary | |
| Paul Verhaeghen | 1965 | Contemporary | |
| Paule Constant | 1944 | Trading Secrets | Contemporary |
| Pearl S. Buck | 1892 | The Exile • Fighting Angel • East Wind: West Wind | Publishers |
| Pearse Hutchinson | 1927 | Publishers | |
| Pedro Antonio De Alarcón | 1833 | Publishers | |
| Pedro Lemebel | 1952 | My Tender Matador | Publishers |
| Penelope Lively | 1933 | Moon Tiger • According to Mark • The Ghost of Thomas Kempe | Publishers |
| Per Olov Enquist | 1934 | The Visit of the Royal Physician • The Book about Blanche and Marie | Contemporary |
| Per Petterson | 1952 | Contemporary | |
| Peter Carey | 1943 | Oscar and Lucinda • True History of the Kelly Gang | Publishers |
| Peter Cook | 1937 | Publishers | |
| Peter Høeg | 1957 | The Susan Effect | Contemporary |
| Peter Matthiessen | 1927 | The Snow Leopard | Publishers |
| Peter Pišt'anek | 1960 | Contemporary | |
| Peter Stamm | 1963 | Contemporary | |
| Petronius | 0027 | Satyricon | Publishers |
| Philip K. Dick | 1928 | Ubik • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? • The Man in the High Castle | Pedagogical |
| Philip Larkin | 1922 | Pedagogical | |
| Philippe Claudel | 1962 | Brodeck's Report | Contemporary |
| Philippe Grimbert | 1948 | Contemporary | |
| Philippe Soupault | 1897 | Les Champs Magnétiques | Contemporary |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1922 | Ragazzi di vita • Teorema • Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom | Pedagogical |
| Pierre Beaumarchais | 1732 | The Barber of Seville • The Marriage of Figaro • The Guilty Mother | Publishers |
| Pierre Choderlos De Laclos | 1741 | Les Liaisons dangereuses | Publishers |
| Pierre Corneille | 1606 | Le Cid | Publishers |
| Pierre De Marivaux | 1688 | Publishers | |
| Pierre Loti | 1850 | Publishers | |
| Pierre Ronsard | 1524 | Publishers | |
| Pierre Senges | 1968 | Contemporary | |
| Pierre Souvestre | 1874 | Publishers | |
| Pietro Aretino | 1492 | Publishers | |
| Pitigrilli | 1893 | Contemporary | |
| Plautus | 250 BC | Pseudolus • Menaechmi • Cistellaria | Publishers |
| Prosper Mérimée | 1803 | La Vénus d'Ille • Carmen • Homme en Grande Bottes | Publishers |
| Pu Songling | 1640 | Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio | Publishers |
| Pär Lagerkvist | 1891 | Barabbas • The Dwarf • The Sibyl | Publishers |
| Qian Zhongshu | 1910 | Fortress Besieged | Publishers |
| Qu Yuan | 343 BC | Li Sao | Publishers |
| Quentin Crisp | 1908 | The Naked Civil Servant | Publishers |
| Quim Monzó | 1952 | Uf, va dir ell • Why, Why, Why? • The Enormity of the Tragedy | Contemporary |
| Quobna Ottobah Cugoano | 1757 | Thoughts And Sentiments On The Evil & Wicked Traffic Of The Slavery & Commerce Of The Human Species | Publishers |
| R. D. Blackmore | 1825 | Lorna Doone | Publishers |
| R. K. Narayan | 1906 | Malgudi Days • Swami and Friends • A Horse and Two Goats and Other Stories | Publishers |
| R. M. Ballantyne | 1825 | The Coral Island | Publishers |
| R. S. Gwynn | 1948 | Pedagogical | |
| Rabindranath Tagore | 1861 | Gitanjali • Ghare-Bhaire • Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali | Publishers |
| Radek Knapp | 1964 | Contemporary | |
| Rafael Chirbes | 1949 | Crematorio (2007) | Contemporary |
| Rafael Sabatini | 1875 | Scaramouche • Captain Blood • The Sea Hawk | Publishers |
| Raymond Carver | 1938 | Pedagogical | |
| Raymond Roussel | 1877 | Locus Solus • Impressions of Africa • How I Wrote Certain of my Books | Contemporary |
| Raymond Williams | 1921 | cultural materialism • Mobile privatization • Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists | Pedagogical |
| Rebecca Harding Davis | 1831 | Life in the Iron Mills | Pedagogical |
| Rebecca West | 1892 | Black Lamb and Grey Falcon • The Return of the Soldier • The Fountain Overflows | Publishers |
| Rein Raud | 1961 | Contemporary | |
| Reinaldo Arenas | 1943 | Before Night Falls | Pedagogical |
| Remy De Gourmont | 1858 | Publishers | |
| Ricardo Piglia | 1941 | Respiración artificial • Burnt Money | Contemporary |
| Richard Aldington | 1892 | Death of a Hero | Publishers |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan | 1751 | The Rivals | Publishers |
| Richard E. Kim | 1932 | Publishers | |
| Richard Fariña | 1937 | Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me | Publishers |
| Richard Ford | 1944 | The Sportswriter • Independence Day | Publishers |
| Richard Hughes | 1900 | A High Wind in Jamaica • Danger | Publishers |
| Richard Jefferies | 1848 | Publishers | |
| Richard Matheson | 1926 | Pedagogical | |
| Richard Penn Smith | 1799 | Publishers | |
| Richard Powers | 1957 | Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance • The Echo Maker • Galatea 2.2 | Contemporary |
| Richard Yates | 1926 | Revolutionary Road • Eleven Kinds of Loneliness • The Easter Parade | Publishers |
| Ring Lardner | 1915 | Publishers | |
| Robert Buchanan | 1841 | Publishers | |
| Robert Cullen | 1949 | The Killer Department | Pedagogical |
| Robert Graves | 1895 | I, Claudius • The White Goddess • The Greek Myths | Publishers |
| Robert Irwin | 1946 | Contemporary | |
| Robert Lowell | 1917 | Lord Weary's Castle • Life Studies • For the Union Dead | Pedagogical |
| Robert Paltock | 1697 | Publishers | |
| Robert Penn Warren | 1905 | Understanding Poetry • Night Rider • At Heaven's Gate | Publishers |
| Robert Smith Surtees | 1805 | Publishers | |
| Robert Southey | 1774 | Publishers | |
| Robert Walser | 1878 | Der Räuber • Geschwister Tanner • The Assistant (Walser novel) | Pedagogical |
| Roberto Bazlen | 1902 | Contemporary | |
| Roberto Bolaño | 1953 | 2666 • The Savage Detectives | Contemporary |
| Robertson Davies | 1913 | The Deptford Trilogy | Publishers |
| Robin Robertson | 1955 | Publishers | |
| Robinson Jeffers | 1887 | Publishers | |
| Rod Mengham | 1953 | Pedagogical | |
| Rodgers | 1902 | The King and I | Publishers |
| Roger Grenier | 1919 | Ciné-roman | Contemporary |
| Roland Barthes | 1915 | The Death of the Author • Mythologies | Pedagogical |
| Romain Rolland | 1866 | Jean-Christophe • Péguy • The life of Toistoi | Publishers |
| Ross Thomas | 1926 | Contemporary | |
| Roy Heath | 1926 | The Murderer | Publishers |
| Roy Jacobsen | 1954 | Contemporary | |
| Rubén Darío | 1867 | Azul • Cantos de vida y esperanza • Prosas profanas y otros poemas | Publishers |
| Rumer Godden | 1907 | An Episode of Sparrows • In This House of Brede | Publishers |
| Ryūnosuke Akutagawa | 1892 | The Nose • Rashōmon • Hell Screen | Publishers |
| S. J. Perelman | 1904 | Publishers | |
| S. N. Behrman | 1893 | Publishers | |
| Sadegh Hedayat | 1903 | The Blind Owl | Contemporary |
| Sagymbaĭ Orozbak Uulu | 1867 | Epic of Manas (recitation tradition) | Publishers |
| Sallust | 86 BC | The Jugurthine War | Publishers |
| Sam Selvon | 1923 | The Lonely Londoners | Pedagogical |
| Samuel Butler | 1835 | The Way of All Flesh • Erewhon • Erewhon Revisited | Publishers |
| Samuel Hoffenstein | 1890 | Publishers | |
| Samuel Lover | 1797 | Handy Andy | Publishers |
| Samuel Pepys | 1633 | Diary of Samuel Pepys | Publishers |
| Samuel R Delany | 1942 | Nova • Babel-17 • Dhalgren | Pedagogical |
| Sarah Fielding | 1710 | Publishers | |
| Sarah Waters | 1966 | Pedagogical | |
| Saul Bellow | 1915 | The Adventures of Augie March • Herzog • Henderson the Rain King | Publishers |
| Scarlett Thomas | 1972 | The End of Mr. Y • PopCo | Contemporary |
| Seamus Heaney | 1939 | Death of a Naturalist • District and Circle • Human Chain | Pedagogical |
| Sebastian Evans | 1818 | Publishers | |
| Selma Lagerlöf | 1858 | Gösta Berlings Saga • The Wonderful Adventures of Nils • Jerusalem | Publishers |
| Seneca | 4 BC | De Vita Beata • Epistulae morales ad Lucilium • De ira | Publishers |
| Serge Brussolo | 1951 | Contemporary | |
| Sergio Ramírez | 1942 | Contemporary | |
| Shahrnush Parsipur | 1946 | Contemporary | |
| Sharon Olds | 1942 | Pedagogical | |
| Shaun Tan | 1974 | The Lost Thing • The Lost Thing • The Arrival | Pedagogical |
| Shen Fu | 1763 | Six Records of a Floating Life | Publishers |
| Sherman Alexie | 1966 | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian • Reservation Blues • The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven | Pedagogical |
| Sholom Aleichem | 1859 | Tevye the Milkman • The Bloody Hoax • Menahem-Mendl | Publishers |
| Shūsaku Endō | 1923 | Silence | Contemporary |
| Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky | 1887 | Contemporary | |
| Sigrid Undset | 1882 | Kristin Lavransdatter • Jenny • The Master of Hestviken | Publishers |
| Simon Gray | 1936 | Butley | Contemporary |
| Sinclair Lewis | 1885 | It Can't Happen Here • Babbitt | Publishers |
| Sir Richard Steele | 1671 | Publishers | |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | 1552 | Publishers | |
| Sjón | 1962 | The Blue Fox • From the Mouth of the Whale | Contemporary |
| Snorri Sturluson | 1179 | Prose Edda • Heimskringla | Publishers |
| Solomon Northup | 1808 | Publishers | |
| Solvej Balle | 1962 | Contemporary | |
| Somadeva | 1100 | Publishers | |
| Sonallah Ibrahim | 1937 | Zaat • Sharaf • Birlīn 69 | Contemporary |
| Spiró György | 1946 | Chickenhead | Contemporary |
| Stan Lee | 1922 | Marvel Comics | Publishers |
| Stanisław Lem | 1921 | Solaris • Summa Technologiae • The Star Diaries | Contemporary |
| Stella Gibbons | 1902 | Cold Comfort Farm | Publishers |
| Stephen King | 1947 | Carrie • 'Salem's Lot • The Shining | Pedagogical |
| Stephen Romer | 1957 | Publishers | |
| Steve Aylett | 1967 | Contemporary | |
| Steve Erickson | 1950 | Contemporary | |
| Stig Sæterbakken | 1966 | Through the Night | Contemporary |
| Suat Derviş | 1905 | Fosforlu Cevriye | Contemporary |
| Susan Barker | 1978 | Contemporary | |
| Susan Ferrier | 1782 | Publishers | |
| Susan Glaspell | 1876 | Alison's House | Pedagogical |
| Susan Sellers | 1957 | Pedagogical | |
| Susanna Clarke | 1959 | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | Contemporary |
| Susanna Rowson | 1762 | Charlotte, a Tale of Truth • Charlotte Temple • Poems on Various Subjects | Publishers |
| Suzan-Lori Parks | 1963 | Pedagogical | |
| Suzanne Collins | 1962 | The Hunger Games • Gregor the Overlander | Pedagogical |
| Sybille Bedford | 1911 | Publishers | |
| Sydney Owenson | 1776 | The Wild Irish Girl • Florence McCarthy • France | Publishers |
| Sylvia Townsend Warner | 1893 | Lolly Willowes • The Corner That Held Them • Summer Will Show | Publishers |
| Szentkuthy Miklós | 1908 | Contemporary | |
| Szerb Antal | 1901 | Contemporary | |
| Sándor Márai | 1900 | Embers • The Rebels | Contemporary |
| T. Coraghessan Boyle | 1948 | The Tortilla Curtain • Water Music | Pedagogical |
| Tadeusz Borowski | 1922 | This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen • Kamienny świat | Pedagogical |
| Tarjei Vesaas | 1897 | The Ice Palace • The Birds • The Bridges | Contemporary |
| Tennessee Williams | 1911 | The Glass Menagerie • A Streetcar Named Desire • The Rose Tattoo | Pedagogical |
| Terence | 1948 | Good Omens • Nation • Discworld | Publishers |
| Theodor Fontane | 1819 | Effi Briest • Frau Jenny Treibel • Cécile | Publishers |
| Theodore Roethke | 1908 | The Waking | Pedagogical |
| Theophile Gautier | 1811 | Publishers | |
| Thomas Bernhard | 1931 | Correction • Extinction • The Loser | Contemporary |
| Thomas Gray | 1716 | Pedagogical | |
| Thomas Hughes | 1822 | Tom Brown's School Days | Publishers |
| Thomas Ingoldsby | 1788 | The Ingoldsby Legends • The "Monstre" Balloon • Family Stories, by Thomas Ingolsby | Publishers |
| Thomas King | 1834 | Pedagogical | |
| Thomas Love Peacock | 1785 | Nightmare Abbey • Headlong Hall • Crotchet Castle | Publishers |
| Thomas Nashe | 1567 | Summer's Last Will and Testament | Publishers |
| Thomas Nickerson | 1805 | Publishers | |
| Thomas Wolfe | 1900 | Look Homeward, Angel | Publishers |
| Thornton Wilder | 1897 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Publishers |
| Tibor Fischer | 1959 | Contemporary | |
| Tillie Olsen | 1912 | Pedagogical | |
| Tim O'Brien | 1946 | Going After Cacciato • The Things They Carried | Pedagogical |
| Tobias Smollett | 1721 | The Adventures of Roderick Random • The Expedition of Humphry Clinker • The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle | Publishers |
| Tobias Wolff | 1945 | Old School • This Boy's Life | Pedagogical |
| Tom Mccarthy | 1966 | Contemporary | |
| Tomas Espedal | 1961 | Contemporary | |
| Tomás Eloy Martínez | 1934 | Santa Evita • The Perón Novel • The Flight of the Queen | Contemporary |
| Tomáš Zmeškal | 1966 | Contemporary | |
| Toney Duvert | 1945 | Contemporary | |
| Toni Cade Bambara | 1939 | Pedagogical | |
| Tony Kushner | 1956 | Pedagogical | |
| Torgny Lindgren | 1938 | Contemporary | |
| Tove Ditlevsen | 1917 | Contemporary | |
| Tove Jansson | 1914 | Moomins • Moomin comic strips • Moominworld | Contemporary |
| Tsitsi Dangarembga | 1959 | Nervous Conditions | Pedagogical |
| Tété-Michel Kpomassie | 1941 | Publishers | |
| Ueda Akinari | 1734 | Tales of Moonlight and Rain • Harusame Monogatari | Contemporary |
| Upamanyu Chatterjee | 1959 | English, August • The Last Burden • The Mammaries of the Welfare State | Contemporary |
| Upton Sinclair | 1878 | The Jungle • King Coal • Oil! | Publishers |
| Uwe Johnson | 1934 | Speculations About Jakob • Anniversaries | Contemporary |
| Vaclav Cerny | 1905 | Pedagogical | |
| Valmiki | 400 BC | Ramayana | Publishers |
| Vasily Grossman | 1905 | Life and Fate | Publishers |
| Vernon Lee | 1856 | Publishers | |
| Vicente Blasco Ibanez | 1867 | Between Orange Trees • The Shack • The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Publishers |
| Victor Erofeyev | 1947 | Contemporary | |
| Victor Serge | 1890 | The Case of Comrade Tulayev • Memoirs of a Revolutionary • Men in Prison | Contemporary |
| Vikram Seth | 1952 | A Suitable Boy • The Golden Gate • An Equal Music | Contemporary |
| Virginie Despentes | 1969 | Contemporary | |
| Vladimir Sharov | 1952 | Contemporary | |
| Volker Braun | 1939 | Contemporary | |
| W. H. G. Kingston | 1814 | Publishers | |
| W. H. Hudson | 1841 | Publishers | |
| W. L. George | 1882 | Publishers | |
| W. N. Herbert | 1961 | Publishers | |
| Walter Abish | 1931 | Alphabetical Africa • How German Is It | Contemporary |
| Walter Benjamin | 1892 | Theses on the Philosophy of History • The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction • The Origin of German Tragic Drama | Pedagogical |
| Walter D. Edmonds | 1903 | Publishers | |
| Walter De La Mare | 1873 | Publishers | |
| Walter Savage Landor | 1775 | Publishers | |
| Walter Van Tilburg Clark | 1909 | The Ox-Bow Incident | Publishers |
| Wang Wei | 0699 | Publishers | |
| Weedon Grossmith | 1854 | Publishers | |
| Wilfred Owen | 1893 | Pedagogical | |
| Willem Frederik Hermans | 1921 | The Darkroom of Damocles • Beyond Sleep • Een heilige van de horlogerie | Contemporary |
| William Beckford | 1760 | Vathek | Publishers |
| William Boyd | 1952 | A Good Man in Africa | Contemporary |
| William Carlos Williams | 1883 | Paterson | Pedagogical |
| William Congreve | 1670 | Publishers | |
| William Cowper | 1731 | Publishers | |
| William Golding | 1911 | Lord of the Flies • To the Ends of the Earth | Pedagogical |
| William H. Gass | 1924 | The Tunnel • Omensetter's Luck • In the Heart of the Heart of the Country | Contemporary |
| William Harrison Ainsworth | 1805 | The Lancashire Witches | Publishers |
| William Hazlitt | 1778 | Characters of Shakespear's Plays • Table-Talk • The Spirit of the Age | Publishers |
| William Langland | 1332 | Piers Plowman | Publishers |
| William Makepeace Thackeray | 1811 | Vanity Fair • The Luck of Barry Lyndon | Publishers |
| William McFee | 1881 | Publishers | |
| William Mcilvanney | 1936 | Laidlaw | Contemporary |
| William S. Burroughs | 1914 | Junkie • Nova Express • Cities of the Red Night | Pedagogical |
| William Saroyan | 1908 | The Time of Your Life • My Name Is Aram • The Human Comedy | Publishers |
| William Somerset Maugham | 1874 | Of Human Bondage • The Razor's Edge | Publishers |
| William Styron | 1925 | Sophie's Choice • Darkness Visible | Publishers |
| William Trevor | 1928 | Two Lives • Felicia's Journey • The Story of Lucy Gault | Publishers |
| William Wells Brown | 1814 | Publishers | |
| Wolf Haas | 1960 | Contemporary | |
| Wolfram Von Eschenbach | 1170 | Parzival • Willehalm • Titurel | Publishers |
| Wu Cheng’en | 1500 | Journey to the West | Publishers |
| Wyndham Lewis | 1882 | Tarr • The Apes of God • Time and Western Man | Publishers |
| X. J. Kennedy | 1929 | Pedagogical | |
| Xavier De Maistre | 1763 | Voyage Around My Room • Oeuvres complètes | Contemporary |
| Yann Martel | 1963 | Life of Pi | Pedagogical |
| Yasunari Kawabata | 1899 | The Dancing Girl of Izu • Snow Country • Thousand Cranes | Contemporary |
| Yevgeny Zamyatin | 1884 | We | Publishers |
| Yi Mun Yol | 1948 | Our Twisted Hero • Son of the Person | Contemporary |
| Yuri Herrera | 1970 | Contemporary | |
| Yury Dombrovsky | 1909 | Contemporary | |
| Yusef Komunyakaa | 1947 | Pedagogical | |
| Zadie Smith | 1975 | On Beauty • White Teeth • The Autograph Man | Pedagogical |
| Zakes Mda | 1948 | Etisalat Prize for Literature | Contemporary |
| Zbigniew Herbert | 1924 | Contemporary | |
| Zhang Guixing | 1956 | Contemporary | |
| Zitkala-Ša | 1876 | Publishers | |
| Zora Neale Hurston | 1891 | Their Eyes Were Watching God | Pedagogical |