List of years in literature 190173 224594391 2008-07-09T15:58:17Z Modernist 1653549 /* 1840s */ The Ugly Duckling 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. {| align="right" | __TOC__ |} {{History of literature2}} {{globalize}} == 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]] ==18th century== {{main|18th century in literature}} === 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]] * '''[[1718 in literature]]''' * '''[[1717 in literature]]''' * '''[[1716 in literature]]''' * '''[[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]]''' * '''[[1708 in literature]]''' * '''[[1707 in literature]]''' * '''[[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) * '''[[1702 in literature]]''' * '''[[1701 in literature]]''' * '''[[1700 in literature]]''' ==17th century literature== {{main|17th century in literature}} === 1690s === * '''[[1699 in literature]]''' * '''[[1698 in literature]]''' * '''[[1697 in literature]]''' * '''[[1696 in literature]]''' * '''[[1695 in literature]]''' * '''[[1694 in literature]]''' * '''[[1693 in literature]]''' * '''[[1692 in literature]]''' * '''[[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]]'' * '''[[1686 in literature]]''' * '''[[1685 in literature]]''' * '''[[1684 in literature]]''' * '''[[1683 in literature]]''' * '''[[1682 in literature]]''' * '''[[1681 in literature]]''' * '''[[1680 in literature]]''' === 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 === * '''[[1659 in literature]]''' * '''[[1658 in literature]]''' * '''[[1657 in literature]]''' * '''[[1656 in literature]]''' * '''[[1655 in literature]]''' * '''[[1654 in literature]]''' * '''[[1653 in literature]]''' * '''[[1652 in literature]]''' * '''[[1651 in literature]]''' * '''[[1650 in literature]]''' === 1640s === * '''[[1649 in literature]]''' * '''[[1648 in literature]]''' * '''[[1647 in literature]]''' * '''[[1646 in literature]]''' * '''[[1645 in literature]]''' * '''[[1644 in literature]]''' * '''[[1643 in literature]]''' * '''[[1642 in literature]]''' * '''[[1641 in literature]]''' * '''[[1640 in literature]]''' [[Rene Descartes]] completes [[Meditations on First Philosophy]]: "I think therefore I am" === 1630s === * '''[[1639 in literature]]''' * '''[[1638 in literature]]''' * '''[[1637 in literature]]''' * '''[[1636 in literature]]''' * '''[[1635 in literature]]''' * '''[[1634 in literature]]''' * '''[[1633 in literature]]''' * '''[[1632 in literature]]''' * '''[[1631 in literature]]''' * '''[[1630 in literature]]''' === 1620s === * '''[[1629 in literature]]''' * '''[[1628 in literature]]''' * '''[[1627 in literature]]''' * '''[[1626 in literature]]''' * '''[[1625 in literature]]''' * '''[[1624 in literature]]''' * '''[[1623 in literature]]''' * '''[[1622 in literature]]''' * '''[[1621 in literature]]''' * '''[[1620 in literature]]''' – ''[[Novum Organum]]'' – [[Francis Bacon]] === 1610s === * '''[[1619 in literature]]''' * '''[[1618 in literature]]''' * '''[[1617 in literature]]''' * '''[[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]] * '''[[1610 in literature]]''' === 1600s === * '''[[1609 in literature]]''' * '''[[1608 in literature]]''' * '''[[1607 in literature]]''' * '''[[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]] * '''[[1602 in literature]]''' * '''[[1601 in literature]]''' * '''[[1600 in literature]]''' ==16th century== {{main|16th century in literature}} === 1590s === * '''[[1599 in literature]]''' * '''[[1598 in literature]]''' * '''[[1597 in literature]]''' * '''[[1596 in literature]]''' * '''[[1595 in literature]]''' * '''[[1594 in literature]]''' - ''[[The Unfortunate Traveller]]'', [[Thomas Nashe]] * '''[[1593 in literature]]''' * '''[[1592 in literature]]''' * '''[[1591 in literature]]''' * '''[[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. {{Lists of years}} [[Category:Books by year|*]] [[Category:Literature timelines|Literature]] [[Category:History of literature|Years]] [[de:Literaturkalender]] [[fr:Chronologie de la littérature]] [[pl:Literatura - przegląd chronologiczny]] [[sq:Lista e viteve në literaturë]] [[sv:Lista över litteraturår]]