List of years in literature
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This page gives a chronological list of years in literature (descending order), with notable publications listed with their respective years. The time covered in individual years covers [[Renaissance literature|Renaissance]], [[Baroque literature|Baroque]] and [[History of modern literature|Modern literature]], while [[Medieval literature]] is resolved by century.
See [[Table of years in literature]] for an overview of all "year in literature" pages.
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== 21st century ==
{{main|21st century in literature}}
=== 2000s ===
* '''[[2008 in literature]]''' - [[Duma Key]]'' - [[Stephen King]];
* '''[[2007 in literature]]''' - [[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'' - [[J.K. Rowling]];
* '''[[2006 in literature]]''' - [[Daniel Handler]], ''[[The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events)|The End]]'', 13th and final book in [[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]; [[Richard Dawkins]] - ''[[The God Delusion]]''
* '''[[2005 in literature]]''' - ''[[Haunted (novel)|Haunted]]'' - [[Chuck Palahniuk]]; ''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'' - [[J.K. Rowling]]
* '''[[2004 in literature]]''' - ''[[Free Culture (book)|Free Culture]]'' - [[Lawrence Lessig]]
* '''[[2003 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Da Vinci Code]]'' - [[Dan Brown]]; ''[[Hegemony or Survival]]'' - [[Noam Chomsky]]; ''[[Roman Triptych]] (Meditation)'' - [[John Paul II]]
* '''[[2002 in literature]]''' - ''[[Atonement (novel)|Atonement]]'' - [[Ian McEwan]]; ''[[Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World]]'' - [[Margaret MacMillan]]
* '''[[2001 in literature]]''' - ''[[Seabiscuit|Seabiscuit: An American Legend]]'' – [[Laura Hillenbrand]]; ''[[Life of Pi]]'' - [[Yann Martel]]
* '''[[2000 in literature]]''' - ''[[No Logo]]'' - [[Naomi Klein]]
==20th century==
{{main|20th century in literature}}
=== 1990s ===
* '''[[1999 in literature]]''' - ''[[Chocolat]]'' - [[Joanne Harris]]; [[Disgrace (novel)|Disgrace]] - [[John Maxwell Coetzee|J M Coetzee]]
* '''[[1998 in literature]]''' - ''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'' - [[J.K. Rowling]]
* '''[[1997 in literature]]''' - ''[[Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone]]'' - [[J. K. Rowling]]; ''[[Underworld (DeLillo novel)|Underworld]]'' - [[Don DeLillo]]
* '''[[1996 in literature]]''' - ''[[Angela's Ashes]]'' - [[Frank McCourt (author)|Frank McCourt]]; ''[[Left Behind]]'' - [[Tim Lahaye]], [[Jerry B. Jenkins]]; ''[[The Nightmare Factory (Collection)|The Nightmare Factory]]'' - [[Thomas Ligotti]]
* '''[[1995 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Celestine Prophecy]]'' - [[James Redfield]]; ''[[Blindness]]'' - [[José Saramago]]
* '''[[1994 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Stone Diaries]]'' - [[Carol Shields]]
* '''[[1993 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Christmas Box]]'' – [[Richard Paul Evans]]; ''[[Trainspotting (novel)|Trainspotting]]'' - [[Irvine Welsh]]
* '''[[1992 in literature]]''' - ''[[The English Patient]]'' - [[Michael Ondaatje]]
* '''[[1991 in literature]]''' - ''[[Such a Long Journey]]'' - [[Rohinton Mistry]]
* '''[[1990 in literature]]''' - ''[[Vertigo (book)|Vertigo]]'' - [[W.G. Sebald]]
=== 1980s ===
* '''[[1989 in literature]]''' - ''[[Remains of the Day]]'' - [[Kazuo Ishiguro]]; ''[[The Joy Luck Club]]'' - [[Amy Tan]]; ''[[Songs of a Dead Dreamer (Collection)|Songs of a Dead Dreamer]]'' - [[Thomas Ligotti]]
* '''[[1988 in literature]]''' - ''[[Oscar and Lucinda]]'' - [[Peter Carey]]; ''[[The Satanic Verses (novel)|The Satanic Verses]]'' - [[Salman Rushdie]], ''[[Curriculum]]'' - [[Grazyna Miller]]
* '''[[1987 in literature]]''' - ''[[Beloved (novel)|Beloved]]'' - [[Toni Morrison]]
* '''[[1986 in literature]]''' - ''[[Extinction]]'' - [[Thomas Bernhard]]
* '''[[1985 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'' - [[Margaret Atwood]]; ''[[Love in the Time of Cholera]]'' - [[Gabriel García Márquez]]
* '''[[1984 in literature]]''' - ''[[White Noise (novel)|White Noise]]'' - [[Don DeLillo]]; ''[[The Unbearable Lightness of Being]]'' - [[Milan Kundera]]
* '''[[1983 in literature]]''' - ''[[On Wings of Eagles]]'' - [[Ken Follett]]; ''[[Shame]]'' - [[Salman Rushdie]]
* '''[[1982 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Color Purple]]'' - [[Alice Walker]]
* '''[[1981 in literature]]''' - ''[[La Bicyclette Bleue|The Blue Bicycle]]'' - [[Régine Deforges]]; ''[[Midnight's Children]]'' - [[Salman Rushdie]]
* '''[[1980 in literature]]''' - ''[[Smiley's People]]'' - [[John le Carré]]; ''Il nome della rosa ([[The Name of the Rose]])'' - [[Umberto Eco]]
=== 1970s ===
{{main|1970s in literature}}
* '''[[1979 in literature]]''' - ''[[Kane and Abel (novel)|Kane and Abel]]'' - [[Jeffrey Archer]]; ''[[A Bend in the River]]'' - [[V.S. Naipaul]]
* '''[[1978 in literature]]''' - ''[[The World According to Garp]]'' - [[John Irving]]; ''[[The Stand]]'' - [[Stephen King]]
* '''[[1977 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Sea, the Sea]]'' - [[Iris Murdoch]]; ''[[Song of Soloman]]'' - [[Toni Morrison]]
* '''[[1976 in literature]]''' - ''[[Interview with the Vampire]]'' - [[Anne Rice]]; ''[[Triton (book)|Triton]]'' - [[Samuel R. Delany]]
* '''[[1975 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Book of Sand]]'' - [[Jorge Luis Borges]]
* '''[[1974 in literature]]''' - ''[[Carrie (novel)|Carrie]]'' - [[Stephen King]]; ''[[Jaws]]'' - [[Peter Benchley]]
* '''[[1973 in literature]]''' - ''[[Burr]]'' - [[Gore Vidal]]; ''[[Gravity's Rainbow]]'' - [[Thomas Pynchon]]
* '''[[1972 in literature]]''' - ''[[Jonathan Livingston Seagull]]'' - [[Richard Bach]]
* '''[[1971 in literature]]''' - ''[[The End of Summer]]'' - [[Rosamunde Pilcher]]
* '''[[1970 in literature]]''' - ''[[Deliverance]]'' - [[James Dickey]]; ''[[Blue Movie]]'' - [[Terry Southern]]
=== 1960s ===
* '''[[1969 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Godfather]]'' - [[Mario Puzo]]; ''[[Portnoy's Complaint]]'' - [[Philip Roth]]; ''[[Slaughterhouse-Five]]'' - [[Kurt Vonnegut]]; ''[[Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle]]'' - [[Vladimir Nabokov]]
* '''[[1968 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test]]'' - [[Tom Wolfe]]; ''[[Airport (novel)|Airport]]'' - [[Arthur Hailey]]; ''[[Belle du Seigneur]]'' - [[Albert Cohen]]
* '''[[1967 in literature]]''' - ''[[Wild Season]]'' - [[Allan W. Eckert]]; ''Cien años de soledad ([[One Hundred Years of Solitude]])'' - [[Gabriel García Márquez]]; ''[[Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited]]'' - [[Vladimir Nabokov]]
* '''[[1966 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Master and Margarita]]'' - [[Mikhail Bulgakov]]; ''[[The Crying of Lot 49]]'' - [[Thomas Pynchon]]; ''[[Wide Sargasso Sea]]'' - [[Jean Rhys]]; ''[[In Cold Blood (book)|In Cold Blood]]'' - [[Truman Capote]]; ''[[Beautiful Losers (novel)| Beautiful Losers]]'' - [[Leonard Cohen]]
* '''[[1965 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Autobiography of Malcolm X]]'' - [[Alex Haley]], ''[[Herzog (novel)|Herzog]]'' - [[Saul Bellow]]; ''[[An American Dream]]'' - [[Norman Mailer]]; ''[[The Magus (novel)|The Magus]]'' - [[John Fowles]]; ''[[Little Trulsa]]'' - [[Ester Ringnér-Lundgren]]
* '''[[1964 in literature]]''' - ''[[Understanding Media|Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man]]'' - [[Marshall McLuhan]], ''[[Little Big Man]]'' - [[Thomas Berger (US novelist)|Thomas Berger]]; ''[[Flowers for Hitler (Collection)|Flowers for Hitler]]'' - [[Leonard Cohen]]
* '''[[1963 in literature]]''' - ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'' (''La Planete des Singes'') - [[Pierre Boulle]]; ''[[V]]'' - [[Thomas Pynchon]]; ''[[The Bell Jar]]'' - [[Sylvia Plath]]; ''[[Cat's Cradle]]'' - [[Kurt Vonnegut]]
* '''[[1962 in literature]]''' - ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel)|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]'' - [[Ken Kesey]]; ''[[Pale Fire]]'' - [[Vladimir Nabokov]]; ''[[One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]]'' - [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]]; ''[[The Golden Notebook]]'' - [[Doris Lessing]]; ''[[Labyrinths]]'' - [[Jorge Luis Borges]]
* '''[[1961 in literature]]''' - ''[[Catch-22]]'' - [[Joseph Heller]]; ''[[Stranger in a Strange Land]]'' - [[Robert Heinlein]]; ''[[A House for Mr. Biswas]]'' - [[V. S. Naipaul]]
* '''[[1960 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich]]'' - [[William L. Shirer]]; ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'' - [[Harper Lee]]
=== 1950s ===
{{main|1950s literature}}
* '''[[1959 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Last of the Just]]'' - [[André Schwarz-Bart]]; ''[[The Magic Christian]]'' - [[Terry Southern]]; ''[[In the Labyrinth (novel)|In the Labyrinth]]'' - [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]]; ''[[The Tin Drum]]'' - [[Günter Grass]]; ''[[Billiards at Half-past Nine]]'' - [[Heinrich Boll]]; ''[[Naked Lunch]]'' - [[William S. Burroughs]]
* '''[[1958 in literature]]''' - ''[[Exodus (novel)|Exodus]]'' - [[Leon Uris]]; ''[[Candy (novel)|Candy]]'' - [[Terry Southern]]; ''[[The Grass]]'' - [[Claude Simon]]; ''[[The Guide]]'' - [[R. K. Narayan]]
* '''[[1957 in literature]]''' - ''[[On the Road]]'' - [[Jack Kerouac]]; ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'' - [[Ayn Rand]]; ''[[Pnin]]'' - [[Vladimir Nabokov]]; ''[[Voss (novel)|Voss]]'' - [[Patrick White]]
* '''[[1956 in literature]]''' - ''[[Peyton Place (novel)|Peyton Place]]'' - [[Grace Metalious]]; ''[[The Visit]]'' - [[Friedrich Dürrenmatt]]
* '''[[1955 in literature]]''' - ''[[Tunnel in the Sky]]'' – [[Robert A. Heinlein]]; ''[[Lolita]]'' – [[Vladimir Nabokov]]; ''[[The Return of the King]]'' - [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]
* '''[[1954 in literature]]''' - ''[[Lord of the Flies (novel)|Lord of the Flies]]'' - [[William Golding]]; ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' - [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]; ''[[The Two Towers]]'' - [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]
* '''[[1953 in literature]]''' - ''[[Casino Royale (novel)|Casino Royale]]'' - [[Ian Fleming]] - First [[James Bond]] novel; ''[[The Adventures of Augie March]]'' - [[Saul Bellow]], [[Ray Bradbury]] ''[[Fahrenheit 451]],'' ''[[Battle Cry]]'' - [[Leon Uris]]
* '''[[1952 in literature]]''' - ''[[Waiting for Godot]]'' - [[Samuel Beckett]]; ''[[Charlotte's Web]]'' - [[E. B. White]]; ''[[The Old Man and the Sea]]'' - [[Ernest Hemingway]]
* '''[[1951 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Catcher in the Rye]]'' - [[J.D. Salinger]]; ''[[Memoirs of Hadrian]]'' - [[Marguerite Yourcenar]]
* '''[[1950 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Martian Chronicles]]'' - [[Ray Bradbury]]; ''[[The Bald Soprano]]'' - [[Eugène Ionesco]]; ''[[The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]]'' - [[C. S. Lewis]]
=== 1940s ===
* '''[[1949 in literature]]''' - [[George Orwell]]'s ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' and [[Arthur Miller]]'s ''[[Death of a Salesman]]''
* '''[[1948 in literature]]''' - [[Norman Mailer]]'s ''[[The Naked and the Dead]]'' and [[Graham Greene]]'s ''[[The Heart of the Matter]]''
* '''[[1947 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Diary of a Young Girl]]'' - [[Anne Frank]]
* '''[[1946 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Iceman Cometh]]'' - [[Eugene O'Neill]]
* '''[[1945 in literature]]''' - ''[[Cannery Row (novel)|Cannery Row]]'' - [[John Steinbeck]]; ''[[History of Western Philosophy (Russell)|A '''History of Western Philosophy''' And Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day]]'' - [[Bertrand Russell]]; [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] is sentenced to eight years in a labour camp for criticism of Stalin.
* '''[[1944 in literature]]''' - ''[[No Exit]]'' - [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]; ''[[Our Lady of the Flowers]]'' - [[Jean Genet]]; ''[[A Bell for Adano]]'' – [[John Hersey]]
* '''[[1943 in literature]]''' - ''[[Anti-Semite and Jew]]'' - [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]; ''[[The Fountainhead]]'' - [[Ayn Rand]]; [[T. S. Eliot]]'s ''[[Four Quartets]]'' published together for the first time; ''Das Glasperlenspiel ([[The Glass Bead Game]])'' - [[Hermann Hesse]]
* '''[[1942 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Myth of Sisyphus]] (Le Mythe de Sisyphe),'' and ''[[The Stranger (novel)|The Stranger]]'' - [[Albert Camus]]; ''[[Mythology]]'' - [[Edith Hamilton]]
* '''[[1941 in literature]]''' - Death of [[James Joyce]], [[Virginia Woolf]]; ''[[Between the Acts]]'' - [[Virginia Woolf]]
* '''[[1940 in literature]]''' - ''[[Native Son]]'' - [[Richard Wright (author)|Richard Wright]]; ''[[For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'' - [[Ernest Hemingway]]; ''[[The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter]]'' - [[Carson McCullers]]; ''[[Darkness at Noon]]'' - [[Arthur Koestler]]
=== 1930s ===
* '''[[1939 in literature]]''' - ''[[Finnegans Wake]]'' - [[James Joyce]]; ''[[The Day of the Locust]]'' - [[Nathanael West]]; ''[[The Grapes of Wrath]]'' - [[John Steinbeck]]; ''[[How Green Was My Valley]]'' - [[Richard Llewellyn]]; ''[[The Big Sleep]]'' - [[Raymond Chandler]]
* '''[[1938 in literature]]''' - ''[[Tropic of Capricorn (novel)|Tropic of Capricorn]]'' - [[Henry Miller]]; ''[[Nausea (novel)|La Nausée]]'' - [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]; ''[[The Sword in the Stone]]'' - [[T. H. White]]
* '''[[1937 in literature]]''' - ''[[Of Mice and Men]]'' - [[John Steinbeck]]; ''Journal d'un Curé de Campagne ([[Diary of a Country Priest]])'' - [[Georges Bernanos]]
* '''[[1936 in literature]]''' - ''[[Gone with the Wind]]'' - [[Margaret Mitchell]]; ''[[Jamaica Inn (novel)|Jamaica Inn]]'' - [[Daphne du Maurier]]; First issue of ''[[Life magazine]]''
* '''[[1935 in literature]]''' - ''[[Little House on the Prairie]]'' - [[Laura Ingalls Wilder]]; [[Penguin Books]] publishes the first paperback
* '''[[1934 in literature]]''' - ''[[Tropic of Cancer (novel)|Tropic of Cancer]]'' - [[Henry Miller]]; ''[[Lust for Life]]'' - [[Irving Stone]]; ''[[I, Claudius]]'' - [[Robert Graves]]; ''[[The Thin Man]]'' - [[Dashiell Hammett]]; ''[[Goodbye, Mr. Chips]]'' - [[James Hilton]]; ''[[Tender Is the Night]]'' - [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]; ''[[Supernatural Horror in Literature (essay)|Supernatural Horror in Literature]]'' - [[H. P. Lovecraft]] -year completed (1925-34); ''[[The Postman Always Rings Twice]]'' - [[James M. Cain]]
* '''[[1933 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas]]'' - [[Gertrude Stein]]; ''[[Lost Horizon (novel)|Lost Horizon]]'' - [[James Hilton]]; ''[[Testament of Youth]]'' - [[Vera Brittain]]; ''La Condition Humaine'' ''([[Man's Fate]])'' - [[André Malraux]]
* '''[[1932 in literature]]''' - ''[[Brave New World]]'' - [[Aldous Huxley]]; ''Voyage au Bout de la Nuit'' ''([[Journey to the End of the Night]])'' - [[Louis-Ferdinand Céline]]; ''[[Journey to the East]]'' - [[Hermann Hesse]]
* '''[[1931 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Good Earth]]'' - [[Pearl S. Buck]]; first [[Maigret]] novel by [[Georges Simenon]]
* '''[[1930 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]'' - [[Dashiell Hammett]]; [[Luigi Pirandello]]'s ''[[The Man With the Flower in His Mouth]]'' becomes the first broadcast television drama
=== 1920s ===
* '''[[1929 in literature]]''' - ''[[Berlin Alexanderplatz]]'' - [[Alfred Döblin]]; ''[[A Farewell to Arms]]'' - [[Ernest Hemingway]]; ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front]]'' - [[Erich Maria Remarque]]; ''[[Goodbye to All That]]'' - [[Robert Graves]]; ''[[The Sound and the Fury]]'' - [[William Faulkner]]
* '''[[1928 in literature]]''' - ''[[Lady Chatterley's Lover]]'' - [[D. H. Lawrence]]; ''[[The Threepenny Opera]]'' - [[Bertholt Brecht]]; ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front]]'' - [[Erich Maria Remarque]]
* '''[[1927 in literature]]''' - ''[[Elmer Gantry]]'' - [[Sinclair Lewis]]; ''[[Envy (novel)|Envy]]'' - [[Yuri Olesha]]; ''[[The Snake Pit]]'' - [[Sigrid Undset]]; ''[[To the Lighthouse]]'' - [[Virginia Woolf]]; ''[[The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes]]'' - [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]; ''[[In Search of Lost Time]]'' (final installment) - [[Marcel Proust]]
* '''[[1926 in literature]]''' - ''[[Winnie-the-Pooh]]'' - [[A. A. Milne]]; ''[[The Sun Also Rises]]'' - [[Ernest Hemingway]]; [[Sean O'Casey]]'s play, ''[[The Plough and the Stars]]''
* '''[[1925 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'' - [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]; ''[[Mrs. Dalloway]]'' - [[Virginia Woolf]]; ''Der Prozeß'' ''([[The Trial]])'' - [[Franz Kafka]]
* '''[[1924 in literature]]''' - ''[[Billy Budd|Billy Budd, Foretopman]]'' - [[Herman Melville]]; ''[[A Passage to India]]'' - [[E. M. Forster]]; ''Der Zauberberg'' ''([[The Magic Mountain]])'' - [[Thomas Mann]]
* '''[[1923 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Prophet (book)|The Prophet]]'' - [[Kahlil Gibran]]; [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] makes his first appearance in print.
* '''[[1922 in literature]]''' - ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' - [[James Joyce]]; ''[[The Waste Land]]'' - [[T. S. Eliot]]; ''[[Siddhartha (novel)|Siddhartha]]'' - [[Hermann Hesse]]; [[Marcel Proust]] dies - ''[[In Search of Lost Time]]'' completed; ''[[The Worm Ouroboros (novel)|The Worm Ouroboros]]'' - [[E. R. Eddison]]
* '''[[1921 in literature]]''' - [[Karel Čapek]]'s play, ''[[R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)]]''
* '''[[1920 in literature]]''' - ''[[This Side of Paradise]]'' - [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]; '' ''[[Main Street (novel)|Main Street]]'' - [[Sinclair Lewis]]; ''[[The Age of Innocence]]'' - [[Edith Wharton]]; ''[[Women in Love]]'' - [[D. H. Lawrence]]
=== 1910s ===
* '''[[1919 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Moon and Sixpence]]'' - [[W. Somerset Maugham]]
* '''[[1918 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Magnificent Ambersons]]'' - [[Booth Tarkington]]; ''[[Eminent Victorians]]'' - [[Lytton Strachey]]
* '''[[1917 in literature]]''' - ''[[Prufrock and Other Observations]]'' - [[T. S. Eliot]]; ''[[Moon Child (novel)|Moon Child]]'' - [[Aleister Crowley]] Completed
* '''[[1916 in literature]]''' - ''[[General relativity|Relativity]]'' - [[Albert Einstein]]; ''[[A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]]'' - [[James Joyce]]
* '''[[1915 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Metamorphosis]]'' - [[Franz Kafka]]
* '''[[1914 in literature]]''' - [[Ambrose Bierce]] vanishes in Mexico; ''[[Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich]]'' - [[Stephen Leacock]]
* '''[[1913 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Return of Tarzan]]'' - [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]; ''[[Alcools]]'' - [[Guillaume Apollinaire]], ''[[Petersburg (novel)|Petersburg]]'' - [[Andrei Bely]]; ''[[Sons and Lovers]]'' - [[D. H. Lawrence]]; ''[[Pygmalion (play)|Pygmalion]]'' - [[George Bernard Shaw]]
* '''[[1912 in literature]]''' - ''[[Tarzan of the Apes]]'' - [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]; ''[[Death in Venice]]'' - [[Thomas Mann]]; ''[[The Lost World (Arthur Conan Doyle)|The Lost World]]'' - [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]
* '''[[1911 in literature]]''' - ''[[Ethan Frome]]'' - [[Edith Wharton]]; ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' - [[Gaston Leroux]]; ''[[The Devil's Dictionary]]'' - [[Ambrose Bierce]]; 11th edition of ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' published
* '''[[1910 in literature]]''' - ''[[Howards End]]'' - [[E. M. Forster]]; ''[[The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]'' - [[Hanns Heinz Ewers]]
=== 1900s ===
* '''[[1909 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Road to Oz]]'' - [[L.Frank Baum]]; ''[[The Song of Songs]]'' - [[Hermann Sudermann]]
* '''[[1908 in literature]]''' - ''[[Anne of Green Gables]]'' - [[Lucy Maud Montgomery]]; ''L'île des Pingouins'' ''([[Penguin Island]])'' - [[Anatole France]]; ''[[The Wind in the Willows]]'' - [[Kenneth Grahame]]
* '''[[1907 in literature]]''' - ''[[The City of Pleasure]]'' - [[Arnold Bennett]]; ''[[The Listener and Other Stories (collection)|The Listener and Other Stories]]'' - [[Algernon Blackwood]]
* '''[[1906 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Jungle]]'' - [[Upton Sinclair]]; ''[[The House of Souls]]'' - [[Arthur Machen]]; ''[[Time and the Gods (Collection)|Time and the Gods]]'' - [[Lord Dunsany
* '''[[1905 in literature]]''' - ''[[White Fang]]'' - [[Jack London]]; ''[[The Return of Sherlock Holmes]]'' - [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]
* '''[[1904 in literature]]''' - ''[[Nostromo]]'' - [[Joseph Conrad]]; ''[[Ghost Stories of Antiquity (Collection)|Ghost Stories of Antiquity]]'' - [[M. R. James]]
* '''[[1903 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Souls of Black Folk]]'' - [[W. E. B. DuBois]]; ''[[The Ambassadors]]'' - [[Henry James]]; ''[[Jewel of the Seven Stars (novel)|Jewel of the Seven Stars]]'' - [[Bram Stoker]]
* '''[[1902 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Immoralist]]'' - [[André Gide]]; ''[[The Wings of the Dove]]'' - [[Henry James]]
* '''[[1901 in literature]]''' - Death of [[Queen Victoria]]; - ''[[Buddenbrooks]]'' - [[Thomas Mann]]; ''[[The Purple Cloud]]'' - [[M. P. Shiel]]
* '''[[1900 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'' - [[L.Frank Baum]]; ''[[Lord Jim]]'' - [[Joseph Conrad]]; ''[[Sister Carrie]]'' - [[Theodore Dreiser]]; ''[[The Flame of Life (novel)|The Flame of Life]]'' - [[Gabriele d'Annunzio]]
==19th century==
{{main|19th century in literature}}
=== 1890s ===
* '''[[1899 in literature]]''' - ''[[The School and Society]]'' - [[John Dewey]]; ''[[The Awakening]]'' - [[Kate Chopin]]; ''[[Heart of Darkness]]'' - [[Joseph Conrad]]; ''[[The Yellow Wallpaper (Tale)| The Yellow Wallpaper]]'' - [[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]];
* '''[[1898 in literature]]''' - ''[[Paris (novel)|Paris]]'' - [[Emile Zola]]; ''[[The War of the Worlds]]'' - [[H. G. Wells]]
* '''[[1897 in literature]]''' - ''[[Captains Courageous]]'' - [[Rudyard Kipling]]; ''[[Dracula]]'' - [[Bram Stoker]]; [[Divagations (Prose)| Divagations]] -[[Stéphane Mallarmé]]; [[the Beetle (Novel)|the Beetle]] - [[Richard Marsh]]; ''[[The Invisible Man]]'' - [[H. G. Wells]]
* '''[[1896 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Island of Doctor Moreau]]'' - [[H. G. Wells]]; ''[[The Well at the World's End]]'' - [[William Morris]]; ''[[Shapes in the Fire (Collection)| Shapes in the Fire]] - [[M.P. Shiel]]
* '''[[1895 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Time Machine]]'' - [[H. G. Wells]]; ''[[Almayer's Folly]]'' - [[Joseph Conrad]]; ''[[Pharaoh (novel)|Pharaoh]]'' - [[Bolesław Prus]]; ''[[Jude the Obscure]]'' - [[Thomas Hardy]]; ''[[The Three Impostors (Fragmentary Episodic Novel)|The Three Impostors]]'' - [[Arthur Machen]]
* '''[[1894 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Jungle Books]]'' - [[Rudyard Kipling]]; ''[[The Prisoner of Zenda]]'' - [[Anthony Hope]] ; ''[[Pan (novel)|Pan]]'' - [[Knut Hamsun]]; ''[[The Great God Pan (Novella)|The Great God Pan]]'' - [[Arthur Machen]]; ''[[Studies of Death: Romantic Tales (Collection)|Studies of Death: Romantic Tales]]'' - [[Stanislaus Eric Stenbock]]
* '''[[1893 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]'' - [[Oscar Wilde]]; ''[[The New Woman (novel)|The New Woman]]'' - [[Bolesław Prus]]
* '''[[1892 in literature]]''' - ''[[Children of the Ghetto]]'' - [[Israel Zangwill]]; ''[[Gunga Din]]'' - [[Rudyard Kipling]]
* '''[[1891 in literature]]''' - ''[[Diary of a Pilgrimage]]'' - [[Jerome K. Jerome]]; ''[[Tess of the d'Urbervilles]]'' - [[Thomas Hardy]]
* '''[[1890 in literature]]''' - ''[[Hedda Gabler]]'' - [[Henrik Ibsen]]; ''[[Hunger (novel)|Hunger]]'' - [[Knut Hamsun]]; ''[[An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge]]'' - [[Ambrose Bierce]]
=== 1880s ===
* '''[[1889 in literature]]''' - ''[[Thus Spoke Zarathustra]]'' - [[Friedrich Nietzsche]]; ''[[The Doll (novel)|The Doll]]'' - [[Bolesław Prus]]; ''[[The Child of Pleasure (Novel)|The Child of Pleasure]]'' - [[Gabriele d'Annunzio]]
* '''[[1888 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Man Who Would Be King]]'' - [[Rudyard Kipling]]; ''[[Confessions of a Young Man]]'' - [[George A. Moore]]
* '''[[1887 in literature]]''' - ''[[She (novel)|She]]'' - [[Henry Rider Haggard]]; ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'' - [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]; ''[[Thelma]]'' - [[Marie Corelli]]
* '''[[1886 in literature]]''' - ''[[L'Œuvre]] (The Masterpiece)'' - [[Emile Zola]]; ''[[Little Lord Fauntleroy]]'' - [[Frances Hodgson Burnett]]; ''[[Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]'' - [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]; ''[[The Outpost (novel)|The Outpost]]'' - [[Bolesław Prus]]
* '''[[1885 in literature]]''' - ''[[King Solomon's Mines]]'' - [[Henry Rider Haggard]]; ''[[Marius the Epicurean]]'' - [[Walter Pater]]; [[Lord Alfred Tennyson]] completes ''[[Idylls of the King]]''; ''[[Germinal (novel)|Germinal]]'' - [[Émile Zola]]; [[George A. Moore]] - [[The Mummer's Wife]]; ''[[The Mikado]]'' - [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]
* '''[[1884 in literature]]''' - ''[[Miss Bretherton]]'' - [[Mary Augusta Ward]]; ''[[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'' - [[Mark Twain]]
* '''[[1883 in literature]]''' - ''[[Une Vie]]'' - [[Guy de Maupassant]]; ''[[Treasure Island]]'' - [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]; ''[[The Adventures of Pinocchio]]'' - [[Carlo Collodi]]
* '''[[1882 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Prince and the Pauper]]'' - [[Mark Twain]]; ''[[The Naval War of 1812]]'' - [[Theodore Roosevelt]]
* '''[[1881 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Portrait of a Lady]]'' - [[Henry James]]; ''[[The Black Robe]]'' - [[Wilkie Collins]]
* '''[[1880 in literature]]''' - ''[[Workers in the Dawn]]'' - [[George Gissing]]; ''[[Nana]]'' - [[Émile Zola]]; ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]]'' - [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]
=== 1870s ===
* '''[[1879 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Red Room (Strindberg)|The Red Room]]'' - [[August Strindberg]]; ''[[A Doll's House]]'' - [[Henrik Ibsen]]
* '''[[1878 in literature]]''' - ''[[H.M.S. Pinafore]]'' - [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]
* '''[[1877 in literature]]''' - ''[[Under the Lilacs]]'' - [[Louisa May Alcott]]; ''[[Anna Karenina]]'' - [[Leo Tolstoy]]; ''[[L'Assommoir]]'' - [[Emile Zola]]
* '''[[1876 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Adventures of Tom Sawyer]]'' - [[Mark Twain]]; ''[[The Shadow of the Sword]]'' - [[Robert Buchanan]]
* '''[[1875 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Way We Live Now]]'' - [[Anthony Trollope]]
* '''[[1874 in literature]]''' - ''[[Les Diaboliques]]'' - [[Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly]]; ''[[Far from the Madding Crowd]]'' - [[Thomas Hardy]]
* '''[[1873 in literature]]''' - ''[[Around the World in 80 Days]]'' - [[Jules Verne]]; ''[[The Poison Tree]]'' - [[Bankim Chatterjee]]
* '''[[1872 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Birth of Tragedy]]'' - [[Friedrich Nietzsche]]
* '''[[1871 in literature]]''' - ''[[Middlemarch]]'' - [[George Eliot]]
* '''[[1870 in literature]]''' - ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]'' - [[Jules Verne]]
=== 1860s ===
* '''[[1869 in literature]]''' - ''[[War and Peace]]'' - [[Leo Tolstoy]]; ''[[L'Education Sentimentale]]'' - [[Gustav Flaubert]]; ''[[The Idiot (novel)|The Idiot]]'' - [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]; ''[[Les Chants de Maldoror (Novel)|Les Chants de Maldoror]]'' - [[Comte de Lautréamont]]
* '''[[1868 in literature]]''' - ''[[Little Women]]'' - [[Louisa May Alcott]]
* '''[[1867 in literature]]''' - ''[[Cometh Up as a Flower]]'' - [[Rhoda Broughton]]
* '''[[1866 in literature]]''' - ''[[Surry of Eagle's-Nest]]'' - [[John Esten Cooke]]; ''[[Crime and Punishment]]'' - [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]; ''[[Poems and Ballads (Collection)|Poems and Ballads]]'' - [[Algernon Charles Swinburne]]
* '''[[1865 in literature]]''' - ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'' - [[Lewis Carroll]]; ''[[Our Mutual Friend]]'' - [[Charles Dickens]]; ''[[From the Earth to the Moon]]'' - [[Jules Verne]]
* '''[[1864 in literature]]''' - ''[[Journey to the Center of the Earth]]'' - [[Jules Verne]]; ''[[Renee Mauperin]]'' - [[Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt|Edmond de Goncourt]]
* '''[[1863 in literature]]''' - ''[[Capitan Fracassa]]'' - [[Theophile Gautier]]
* '''[[1862 in literature]]''' - ''[[Les Misérables]]'' - [[Victor Hugo]]
* '''[[1861 in literature]]''' - ''[[Silas Marner]]'' - [[George Eliot]]; ''[[Framley Parsonage]]'' - [[Anthony Trollope]]; ''[[Great Expectations]]'' - [[Charles Dickens]]; ''[[East Lynne]]'' - [[Mrs Henry Wood]]
* '''[[1860 in literature]]''' - ''[[Max Havelaar]]'' - [[Multatuli]]; ''[[The Mill on the Floss]]'' - [[George Eliot]]
=== 1850s ===
* '''[[1859 in literature]]''' - ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]'' - [[Charles Dickens]]
* '''[[1858 in literature]]''' - ''[[A House of Gentlefolk]]'' - [[Ivan Turgenev]]
* '''[[1857 in literature]]''' - ''[[Madame Bovary]]'' - [[Gustave Flaubert]]; ''[[Little Dorritt]]'' - [[Charles Dickens]]; ''[[Les Fleurs du mal]]'' - [[Charles Baudelaire]]
* '''[[1856 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Daisy Chain]]'' - [[Charlotte Mary Yonge]]; ''[[Aurora Leigh]]'' - [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]]
* '''[[1855 in literature]]''' - ''[[Westward Ho!]]'' - [[Charles Kingsley]]
* '''[[1854 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Newcomers]]'' - [[William Makepeace Thackeray]]
* '''[[1853 in literature]]''' - ''[[Bleak House]]'' is the first English novel to feature a detective
* '''[[1852 in literature]]''' - ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]'' - [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]
* '''[[1851 in literature]]''' - ''[[Moby-Dick]]'' - [[Herman Melville]]
* '''[[1850 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Scarlet Letter]]'' - [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]; ''[[Household Words]]'' edited by [[Charles Dickens]] begins publication
=== 1840s ===
* '''[[1849 in literature]]''' - ''[[David Copperfield (novel)|David Copperfield]]'' - [[Charles Dickens]]; ''[[The Oregon Trail (book)|The Oregon Trail]]'' - [[Francis Parkman]]
* '''[[1848 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Tenant of Wildfell Hall]]'' - [[Anne Brontë]]; ''[[Vanity Fair]]'' - [[William Makepeace Thackery]]; ''[[Eureka (Prose)|Eureka]]'' - [[Edgar Allan Poe]] -Completed
* '''[[1847 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Vicomte de Bragelonne]]'' - [[Alexandre Dumas, père]]; ''[[Wuthering Heights]]'' - [[Emily Brontë]]; ''[[Jane Eyre]]'' - [[Charlotte Brontë]]; ''[[Evangeline]]'' - [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]
* '''[[1846 in literature]]''' - ''[[Cousin Bette]]'' - [[Honoré de Balzac]]; ''[[The Children of the Night]]'' - [[Edward George Bulwer-Lytton]]
* '''[[1845 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Count of Monte Cristo]]'' - [[Alexandre Dumas, père]]; ''[[Twenty Years After]]'' - [[Alexandre Dumas, père]]; ''[[La Reine Margot (book)|La Reine Margot]]'' - [[Alexandre Dumas, père]]; ''[[Stages on Life's Way]]'' - [[Søren Kierkegaard]]
* '''[[1844 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Three Musketeers]]'' - [[Alexandre Dumas, père]]; ''[[Les Paysans]]'' - [[Honoré de Balzac]]
* '''[[1843 in literature]]''' - ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' - [[Charles Dickens]]; ''[[Windsor Castle (novel)|Windsor Castle]]'' - [[William Harrison Ainsworth]]; ''[[Either/Or]]'' - [[Søren Kierkegaard]]; ''[[The Ugly Duckling]]'' - [[Hans Christian Andersen]]
* '''[[1842 in literature]]''' - ''[[Dead Souls]]'' - [[Nikolai Gogol]]
* '''[[1841 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Bronze Horseman]]'' - [[Alexander Pushkin]]
* '''[[1840 in literature]]''' - ''[[Two Years Before the Mast]]'' - [[Richard Henry Dana, Jr.]]; ''[[Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (Tales)|Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque]]'' - [[Edgar Allan Poe]]; ''[[The Arabian Nights]];'' - [[Edward William Lane]] publishes an English version
=== 1830s ===
* '''[[1839 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Voyage of the Beagle]]'' - [[Charles Darwin]]; ''[[Oliver Twist]]'' - [[Charles Dickens]]; ''[[Nicholas Nickleby]]'' - [[Charles Dickens]]; ''[[The Charterhouse of Parma]]'' - [[Stendhal]]
* '''[[1838 in literature]]''' - ''[[Oliver Twist]]'' - [[Charles Dickens]]; ''[[The Birds of America]]'' - [[John James Audubon]]
* '''[[1837 in literature]]''' - ''[[Live and Let Live]]'' - [[Catharine Maria Sedgwick]]; ''[[The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club]]'' - [[Charles Dickens]]
* '''[[1836 in literature]]''' - ''[[Poems (Oliver Wendell Holmes)|Poems]]'' - [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.|Oliver Wendell Holmes]]; ''[[Gaspard de la nuit (Prose)|Gaspard de la nuit]]'' - [[Aloysius Bertrand]]
* '''[[1835 in literature]]''' - ''[[Souvenirs (book)|Souvenirs]]'' - [[Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun]]; ''[[Le Père Goriot]]'' - [[Honoré de Balzac]]
* '''[[1834 in literature]]''' - ''[[Sartor Resartus]]'' - [[Thomas Carlyle]]
* '''[[1833 in literature]]''' - ''[[Gamiani]]'' - [[Alfred de Musset]]; ''[[Eugene Onegin]]'' - [[Aleksandr Pushkin]]; ''[[Eugénie Grandet]]'' - [[Honoré de Balzac]]
* '''[[1832 in literature]]''' - ''[[Valentine]]'' - [[George Sand]]; ''[[Faust]]'' Part Two - [[Goethe]]
* '''[[1831 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Young Duke]]'' - [[Benjamin Disraeli]]; ''[[Notre-Dame de Paris]]'' - [[Victor Hugo]]
* '''[[1830 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Red and the Black]]'' - [[Stendhal]]
=== 1820s ===
* '''[[1829 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Misfortunes of Elphin]]'' - [[Thomas Love Peacock]]
* '''[[1828 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Birds of America]]'' - [[John James Audubon]]
* '''[[1827 in literature]]''' - ''[[Book of Songs]]'' (poetry) - [[Heinrich Heine]]
* '''[[1826 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Last of the Mohicans]]'' - [[James Fenimore Cooper]]; ''[[Cinq-Mars]]'' - [[Alfred de Vigny]]
* '''[[1825 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Betrothed]]'' - [[Alessandro Manzoni]]
* '''[[1824 in literature]]''' - ''[[Our Village]]'' - [[Mary Russell Mitford]]
* '''[[1823 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Pioneers]]'' - [[James Fenimore Cooper]]; ''[[Posthumous Poems]]'' - [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]]
* '''[[1822 in literature]]''' - ''[[Trilby, ou le lutin d'Argail|Trilby]]'' - [[Charles Nodier]]
* '''[[1821 in literature]]''' - ''[[Confessions of an English Opium Eater]]'' - [[Thomas De Quincey]]
* '''[[1820 in literature]]''' - ''[[Méditations Poétiques]]'' - [[Lamartine]]
=== 1810s ===
* '''[[1819 in literature]]''' - ''[[Ivanhoe]]'' - [[Sir Walter Scott]]; ''[[The Sketch Book]]'' - [[Washington Irving]]; ''[[Ode to a Nightingale]]'' - [[John Keats]]
* '''[[1818 in literature]]''' - ''[[Frankenstein]]'' - [[Mary Shelley]]
* '''[[1817 in literature]]''' - ''[[Rob Roy]]'' - [[Sir Walter Scott]]; ''[[Ormond and Harrington]]'' - [[Maria Edgeworth]]
* '''[[1816 in literature]]''' - ''[[Adolphe]]'' - [[Benjamin Constant]]; ''[[Emma]]'' - [[Jane Austen]]; ''[[The Sandman]]'' - [[E.T.A. Hoffman]]
* '''[[1815 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Pastor's Fireside]]'' - [[Jane Porter]]
* '''[[1814 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Wanderer (1814 novel)|The Wanderer]]'' - [[Fanny Burney]]; ''[[Mansfield Park (novel)|Mansfield Park]]'' - [[Jane Austen]]
* '''[[1813 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Swiss Family Robinson]]'' - [[Johann David Wyss]]; ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'' - [[Jane Austen]]
* '''[[1812 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Milesian Chief]]'' - [[Charles Robert Maturin]]; ''[[Children's and Household Tales]]'' - [[The Brothers Grimm]]
* '''[[1811 in literature]]''' - ''[[Sense and Sensibility]]'' - [[Jane Austen]]
* '''[[1810 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Houses of Osma and Almeria]]'' - [[Regina Maria Roche]]
=== 1800s ===
* '''[[1809 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Martyrs]]'' - [[François-René de Chateaubriand]]
* '''[[1808 in literature]]''' - ''[[Faust]]'' (Part One) - [[Goethe]]
* '''[[1807 in literature]]''' - ''[[Tales from Shakespeare]]'' - [[Charles Lamb]] & [[Mary Lamb]]
* '''[[1806 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Earthquake in Chile]]'' - [[Heinrich von Kleist]]
* '''[[1805 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Wonder of the Village]]'' - [[Mary Meeke]]; ''[[Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Fragmentary Episodic Novel)|Manuscript Found in Saragossa]]'' - [[Count Jan Nepomucen Potocki]]
* '''[[1804 in literature]]''' - ''[[Jerusalem (poem)|Jerusalem]]'' (poetry) - [[William Blake]]
* '''[[1803 in literature]]''' - ''[[St. Clair of the Isles]]'' - [[Elisabeth Helme]]
* '''[[1802 in literature]]''' - ''[[Delphine (book)|Delphine]]'' - [[Anne Louise Germaine de Stael]]
* '''[[1801 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Wizard and the Sword]]'' - [[Henry Summersett]]
* '''[[1800 in literature]]''' - ''[[Hymns to the Night]]'' - [[Novalis]]
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=== 1790s ===
* '''[[1799 in literature]]''' - ''[[Arthur Mervyn]]'' - [[Charles Brockden Brown]]
* '''[[1798 in literature]]''' - ''[[Lyrical Ballads]]'' - [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] and [[William Wordsworth]]; ''[[The Rime of the Ancient Mariner]]'' - [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]]
* '''[[1797 in literature]]''' - ''[[l'Histoire de Juliette]]'' - [[Marquis de Sade]]; ''[[Kubla Khan]]'' - [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]]
* '''[[1796 in literature]]''' - ''[[Camilla (Burney novel)|Camilla]]'' - [[Fanny Burney]]
* '''[[1795 in literature]]''' - ''[[Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship]]'' (to 1796) - [[Goethe]]; ''[[The Mysteries of Udolpho]]'' - [[Ann Radcliffe]]
* '''[[1794 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Age of Reason]]'' - [[Thomas Paine]]
* '''[[1793 in literature]]''' - ''[[Songs of Experience]]'' - [[William Blake]]
* '''[[1792 in literature]]''' - ''[[A Vindication of the Rights of Woman]]'' - [[Mary Wollstonecraft]]
* '''[[1791 in literature]]''' - ''[[Justine (Sade)|Justine]]'' - [[Marquis de Sade]]; ''[[The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.]]'' - [[James Boswell]]; ''[[Dream of the Red Chamber]]'' - [[Cao Xueqin]]
* '''[[1790 in literature]]''' - ''[[Reflections on the Revolution in France]]'' - [[Edmund Burke]]; ''[[Tam o' Shanter (Burns poem)|Tam O'Shanter]]'' - [[Robert Burns]]
=== 1780s ===
* '''[[1789 in literature]]''' - ''[[Songs of Innocence]]'' - [[William Blake]]
* '''[[1788 in literature]]''' - ''[[Memoirs]]'' - [[Saint-Simon]]
* '''[[1787 in literature]]''' - ''[[Don Carlos]]'' - [[Friedrich Schiller]]
* '''[[1786 in literature]]''' - ''[[Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect]]'' - [[Robert Burns]]
* '''[[1785 in literature]]''' - ''[[120 Days of Sodom]]'' - [[Marquis de Sade]]; ''[[Anton Reiser]]'' (to 1790) - [[Karl Philipp Moritz]]
* '''[[1784 in literature]]''' - ''[[Barham Downs (novel)|Barham Downs]]'' - [[Robert Bage (novelist)|Robert Bage]]
* '''[[1783 in literature]]''' - ''[[Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics]]'' - [[Immanuel Kant]]
* '''[[1782 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Robbers]]'' - [[Friedrich Schiller]] ''[[Les Liaisons Dangereuses]]'' - [[Pierre Choderlos de Laclos]]
* '''[[1781 in literature]]''' - ''[[A Critique of Pure Reason]]'' - [[Immanuel Kant]]
* '''[[1780 in literature]]''' -
=== 1770s ===
* '''[[1779 in literature]]''' - ''[[Nathan the Wise]]'' - [[Gotthold Lessing]]; ''[[Fables and Parables]]'' - [[Ignacy Krasicki]]
* '''[[1778 in literature]]''' - ''[[Evelina]]'' - [[Fanny Burney]]
* '''[[1777 in literature]]''' -
* '''[[1776 in literature]]''' - ''[[Common Sense]]'' - [[Thomas Paine]]
* '''[[1775 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Rivals]]'' - [[Richard Sheridan]]
* '''[[1774 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Sorrows of Young Werther]]'' - [[Goethe]]
* '''[[1773 in literature]]''' - ''[[Der Messias]]'' (from 1749) - [[Klopstock]]; ''[[Jaques le fataliste]]'' - [[Denis Diderot]]
* '''[[1772 in literature]]''' -
* '''[[1771 in literature]]''' - ''[[Jacques the Fatalist]]'' (to 1773) - [[Diderot]]
* '''[[1770 in literature]]''' -
=== 1760s ===
* '''[[1769 in literature]]''' - ''The History of Emily Montague'' - [[Frances Brooke]]
* '''[[1768 in literature]]''' - ''Poems'' - [[Thomas Gray]]
* '''[[1767 in literature]]''' - ''[[Minna von Barnhelm]]'' - [[Gotthold Lessing]]
* '''[[1766 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Vicar of Wakefield]]'' - [[Oliver Goldsmith]]
* '''[[1765 in literature]]''' - Beginning of the [[Sturm und Drang]] movement
* '''[[1764 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Castle of Otranto]]'' - [[Horace Walpole]]
* '''[[1763 in literature]]''' - [[James Boswell]] is introduced to [[Samuel Johnson]]
* '''[[1762 in literature]]''' - ''[[Emile: or, On Education]]'' - [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]
* '''[[1761 in literature]]''' - ''[[Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse]]'' - [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]
* '''[[1760 in literature]]''' - ''[[Tristram Shandy]]'' (to 1770) - [[Laurence Sterne]]
=== 1750s ===
* '''[[1759 in literature]]''' - ''[[Candide]]'' - [[Voltaire]]
* '''[[1758 in literature]]''' - [[Voltaire]] buys his estate at Ferney
* '''[[1757 in literature]]''' - Pierre-Augustin Caron changes his surname to [[Pierre Beaumarchais|Beaumarchais]]
* '''[[1756 in literature]]''' - [[Gilbert White]] becomes curate of [[Selborne]], [[Hampshire]]
* '''[[1755 in literature]]''' - ''[[Letter to Lord Chesterfield]]'' - [[Samuel Johnson]]
* '''[[1754 in literature]]''' - ''[[The History of Great Britain]]'' (to 1762) - [[David Hume]]
* '''[[1753 in literature]]''' - ''[[The History of Sir Charles Grandison]]'' - [[Samuel Richardson]]
* '''[[1752 in literature]]''' - Birth of [[Fanny Burney]]
* '''[[1751 in literature]]''' - ''[[Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard]]'' - [[Thomas Gray]]
* '''[[1750 in literature]]''' - ''Rambler'' essays (to 1752) - [[Samuel Johnson]]
=== 1740s ===
* '''[[1749 in literature]]''' - ''[[The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling]]'' - [[Henry Fielding]]
* '''[[1748 in literature]]''' - ''[[Fanny Hill]]'' - [[John Cleland]]; ''[[An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding]]'' - [[David Hume]]
* '''[[1747 in literature]]''' - ''[[Clarissa]]'' (to 1748) - [[Samuel Richardson]]
* '''[[1746 in literature]]''' - [[Voltaire]] is elected to the French Academy
* '''[[1745 in literature]]''' - Death of [[Jonathan Swift]]
* '''[[1744 in literature]]''' - ''The Female Spectator'' is launched by [[Eliza Haywood]]
* '''[[1743 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great]]'' - [[Henry Fielding]]
* '''[[1742 in literature]]''' - ''[[Joseph Andrews]]'' - [[Henry Fielding]]
* '''[[1741 in literature]]''' - ''[[Shamela]]'' - [[Henry Fielding]]
* '''[[1740 in literature]]''' - ''[[Institutions de physique]]'' – [[Émilie du Châtelet]]
=== 1730s ===
* '''[[1739 in literature]]''' - ''[[A Treatise of Human Nature]]'' (to 1740) - [[David Hume]]
* '''[[1738 in literature]]''' - ''[[Leonidas]]'' - [[Richard Glover]]
* '''[[1737 in literature]]''' -
* '''[[1736 in literature]]''' -
* '''[[1735 in literature]]''' -
* '''[[1734 in literature]]''' -
* '''[[1733 in literature]]''' -
* '''[[1732 in literature]]''' - ''[[Essay on Man]]'' (to 1744) - [[Alexander Pope]]
* '''[[1731 in literature]]''' - ''[[Insel Felsenburg]]'' (to 1743) - [[Johann Schnabel]]
* '''[[1730 in literature]]''' -
=== 1720s ===
* '''[[1729 in literature]]''' - Death of [[William Congreve]]
* '''[[1728 in literature]]''' - [[Alexander Pope]], ''[[The Dunciad]]''
* '''[[1727 in literature]]''' - [[Eliza Haywood]], ''Philidore and Placentia''
* '''[[1726 in literature]]''' - [[Jonathan Swift]], ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]''
* '''[[1725 in literature]]''' - Birth of [[Giacomo Casanova]]
* '''[[1724 in literature]]''' - [[Voltaire]], ''Henriade''
* '''[[1723 in literature]]''' - Births of [[Richard Price]] and [[Adam Smith]]; deaths of [[Susannah Centlivre]] and [[Marianna Alcoforado]]
* '''[[1722 in literature]]''' - [[Daniel Defoe]], ''[[Moll Flanders]]''
* '''[[1721 in literature]]''' - [[Montesquieu]], ''[[Persian Letters]]''
* '''[[1720 in literature]]''' - [[Daniel Defoe]], ''[[Memoirs of a Cavalier]]''
=== 1710s ===
* '''[[1719 in literature]]''' - ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]'' - [[Daniel Defoe]]
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* '''[[1715 in literature]]''' - [[Nicholas Rowe (dramatist)|Nicholas Rowe]] becomes [[Poet Laureate]] of Great Britain
* '''[[1714 in literature]]''' - [[Bernard de Mandeville]], ''[[The Fable of the Bees]]''
* '''[[1713 in literature]]''' - Birth of [[Laurence Sterne]]
* '''[[1712 in literature]]''' - [[Alexander Pope]], ''[[The Rape of the Lock]]''
* '''[[1711 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Spectator]]'' is founded by [[Joseph Addison|Addison]] and [[Richard Steele|Steele]]
* '''[[1710 in literature]]''' - [[Colley Cibber]] becomes manager of [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane|Drury Lane]]
=== 1700s ===
* '''[[1709 in literature]]'''
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* '''[[1706 in literature]]'''
* '''[[1705 in literature]]''' - [[Nouveaux essais sur l'entendement humain]] ("New Essays on Human Understanding") - [[Gottfried Leibniz]]
* '''[[1704 in literature]]''' - [[A Tale of a Tub]] - [[Jonathan Swift]]
* '''[[1703 in literature]]''' - ''The Storm'' - [[Daniel Defoe]] (released 1704)
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=== 1690s ===
* '''[[1699 in literature]]'''
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* '''[[1691 in literature]]''' - ''[[Athalie]]'' - [[Jean Racine]]
* '''[[1690 in literature]]'''
=== 1680s ===
* '''[[1689 in literature]]'''
* '''[[1688 in literature]]''' - [[Aphra Behn]], ''[[Oroonoko]]''
* '''[[1687 in literature]]''' - [[Isaac Newton]], ''[[Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]''
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=== 1670s ===
* '''[[1679 in literature]]'''
* '''[[1678 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Pilgrim's Progress]]'' - [[John Bunyan]]
* '''[[1677 in literature]]''' - ''[[Phèdre]]'' - [[Jean Racine]]
* '''[[1676 in literature]]'''
* '''[[1675 in literature]]'''
* '''[[1674 in literature]]''' ''[[Nouveaux contes]]'' - [[Jean de la Fontaine]]
* '''[[1673 in literature]]'''
* '''[[1672 in literature]]''' - ''[[Les Femmes Savantes]]'' - [[Molière]]
* '''[[1671 in literature]]'''
* '''[[1670 in literature]]''' - ''[[Le Bourgeois gentilhomme]]'' - [[Molière]]
=== 1660s ===
* '''[[1669 in literature]]''' - [[Jean Racine]]'s ''Britannicus''
* '''[[1668 in literature]]''' - Birth of [[Alain-René Lesage]]
* '''[[1667 in literature]]''' - [[John Milton]]'s ''[[Paradise Lost]]''
* '''[[1666 in literature]]''' - [[Gottfried Leibniz]]'s ''De Arte Combinatoria ('On the Art of Combination')''
* '''[[1665 in literature]]''' - ''[[Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]]'' begins publication
* '''[[1664 in literature]]''' - Molière's ''[[Tartuffe]]''
* '''[[1663 in literature]]'''
* '''[[1662 in literature]]''' - [[Molière]]'s ''[[L'école des femmes]]''
* '''[[1661 in literature]]'''
* '''[[1660 in literature]]''' - [[Samuel Pepys]] opens his diary
=== 1650s ===
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* '''[[1641 in literature]]'''
* '''[[1640 in literature]]''' [[Rene Descartes]] completes [[Meditations on First Philosophy]]: "I think therefore I am"
=== 1630s ===
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* '''[[1620 in literature]]''' – ''[[Novum Organum]]'' – [[Francis Bacon]]
=== 1610s ===
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* '''[[1616 in literature]]'''
* '''[[1615 in literature]]''' - ''[[Don Quixote de la Mancha]]'' (Part 2) - [[Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]]
* '''[[1614 in literature]]'''
* '''[[1613 in literature]]''' - ''[[Henry VIII]] - [[William Shakespeare]]
* '''[[1612 in literature]]'''
* '''[[1611 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Tempest]]'' - [[William Shakespeare]]
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=== 1600s ===
* '''[[1609 in literature]]'''
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* '''[[1606 in literature]]'''
* '''[[1605 in literature]]''' - ''[[King Lear]]'' - [[William Shakespeare]]; ''[[Don Quixote de la Mancha]]'' (Part 1) [[Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]]
* '''[[1604 in literature]]'''
* '''[[1603 in literature]]''' - ''[[Measure for Measure]]'' - [[William Shakespeare]]
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==16th century==
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=== 1590s ===
* '''[[1599 in literature]]'''
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* '''[[1595 in literature]]'''
* '''[[1594 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Unfortunate Traveller]]'', [[Thomas Nashe]]
* '''[[1593 in literature]]'''
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* '''[[1590 in literature]]'''
* unknown year in 1590s - ''[[Journey to the West]]'', [[Wu Cheng'en]]
=== 1580s ===
* '''[[1589 in literature]]''' [[Christopher Marlowe]] - ''[[The Passionate Shepherd to His Love]]''
* '''[[1588 in literature]]''' [[George Peele]] - ''[[The Battle of Alcazar]]'' (date first performed)
* '''[[1587 in literature]]''' [[George Gifford]] - ''A discourse of the subtill practises of deuilles by witches and sorcerers''
* '''[[1586 in literature]]''' [[John Knox]] - ''Historie of the Reformatioun of Religioun within the Realms of Scotland''
* '''[[1585 in literature]]''' [[Miguel de Cervantes]] - ''[[La Galatea]]''
* '''[[1584 in literature]]''' [[John Lyly]] - ''[[Campaspe (play)|Campaspe]]'', ''[[Sapho and Phao]]''
* '''[[1583 in literature]]''' [[Philip Stubbes]] - ''The Anatomy of Abuses''
* '''[[1582 in literature]]''' [[Richard Hakluyt]] - ''Divers Voyages''
* '''[[1581 in literature]]''' ''[[Book of Discipline (Church of Scotland)|Second Book of Discipline]]''
* '''[[1580 in literature]]''' [[Luís Vaz de Camões]] - ''[[Luís Vaz de Camões]]''
*[[1570s in literature]]
*[[1560s in literature]]
*[[1550s in literature]]
*[[1540s in literature]]
*[[1530s in literature]]
*[[1520s in literature]]
*[[1510s in literature]]
*[[1500s in literature]]
==Middle Ages==
{{see|Medieval literature}}
*[[15th century in literature]]
*[[14th century in literature]] - [[Dante Alighieri]] - ''[[The Divine Comedy]] ([[1321]]);'' [[Giovanni Boccaccio]] - ''[[The Decameron]] ([[1353]]);'' - [[Geoffrey Chaucer]] ''[[Canterbury Tales]] ([[1390]])''
*[[13th century in literature]]
*[[12th century in literature]]
*[[11th century in literature]]
*[[10th century in literature]]
*[[Early Medieval literature|6th to 9th centuries in literature]]
== External links ==
*[http://publicliterature.org/exp/timeline/ Literature Timeline] An interactive timeline of major literary events, books and authors.
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