Books to read

authorbookyearcountry
HomerIliad (Ἰλιάς)8th century BC🏛️ Greece
HomerOdyssey (Ὀδύσσεια)8th century BC🏛️ Greece
CaesarDe Bello Gallico58-49 BC🏛️ Rome
VirgilGeorgics36-29 BC🏛️ Rome
VirgilAeneid19 BC🏛️ Rome
OvidMetamorphoses8🏛️ Rome
SenecaDe Brevitate Vitae49🏛️ Rome
Marcus AureliusMeditations (Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν)170-180🏛️ Rome
AnonymousPoetic Edda1270🇮🇸 Iceland
Snorri SturlusonProse Edda1220🇮🇸 Iceland
William ShakespeareThe Sonnets1609🇬🇧 UK
John Keats🇬🇧 UK
William Wordsworth🇬🇧 UK
Samuel Taylor Coleridge🇬🇧 UK
Emily Dickinson🇺🇸 USA
Walt WhitmanLeaves of Grass1855🇺🇸 USA
W.B. Yeats🇮🇪 Ireland
T.S. ElliotThe Waste Land1922🇺🇸 USA
Ted HughesLupercal1960🇬🇧 UK
Ted HughesBirthday Letters1998🇬🇧 UK
Sylvia PlathAriel1965🇺🇸 USA
Seamus Heaney🇮🇪 Ireland
James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man1916🇮🇪 Ireland
Julio CortázarFinal del juego1956🇦🇷 Argentina
Chinua AchebeThings Fall Apart1958🇳🇬 Nigeria
Olga TokarczukDrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead2009🇵🇱 Poland
J.M. CoetzeeThe Childhood of Jesus2013🇿🇦 South Africa
Orhan PamukThe Red-Haired Woman2016🇹🇷 Turkey
Gabriel Garcia MarquezEn Agosto Nos Vemos2024🇨🇴 Colombia
Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury Tales1387🇬🇧 UK
John MiltonParadise Lost1667🇬🇧 UK
Jane AustenSense and Sensibility1811🇬🇧 UK
Jane AustenPride and Prejudice1813🇬🇧 UK
Jane AustenMansfield Park1814🇬🇧 UK
Jane AustenEmma1816🇬🇧 UK
Anne BrontëAgnes Grey1847🇬🇧 UK
Charlotte BrontëJane Eyre1847🇬🇧 UK
George EliotMiddlemarch1872🇬🇧 UK
Virginia WoolfMrs. Dalloway1925🇬🇧 UK
Virginia WoolfTo the Lighthouse1927🇬🇧 UK
Virginia WoolfOrlando1927🇬🇧 UK
Virginia WoolfThe Waves1931🇬🇧 UK
George OrwellDown and Out in Paris and London1933🇬🇧 UK
George OrwellCigarettes and Books1946🇬🇧 UK
George Orwell19841949🇬🇧 UK
J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit1937🇬🇧 UK
Evelyn WaughThe Loved One1948🇬🇧 UK
Zadie SmithWhite Teeth2000🇬🇧 UK
Zadie SmithOn Beauty2005🇬🇧 UK
Ian McEwanAtonement2001🇬🇧 UK
Kazuo IshiguroNever Let Me Go2005🇬🇧 UK
F. Scott FitzgeraldThis Side of Paradise1920🇺🇸 USA
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Great Gatsby1925🇺🇸 USA
John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath1939🇺🇸 USA
John SteinbeckCannery Row1945🇺🇸 USA
John SteinbeckEast of Eden1952🇺🇸 USA
Truman CapoteBreakfast at Tiffany’s1958🇺🇸 USA
Alice WalkerThe Color Purple1982🇺🇸 USA
Toni MorrisonBeloved1987🇺🇸 USA
André AcimanCall Me By Your Name2007🇺🇸 USA
Elizabeth StroutOlive Kitteridge2008🇺🇸 USA
Donna TarttThe Goldfinch2013🇺🇸 USA
Gustave FlaubertMadame Bovary1857🇫🇷 France
Charles BaudelaireLes Fleurs du mal1857🇫🇷 France
Marcel ProustLa Fin de la jalousie1896🇫🇷 France
Albert CamusLa Chute1956🇫🇷 France
Simone de BeauvoirMémoires d’une jeune fille rangée1958🇫🇷 France
Annie ErnauxUne femme1988🇫🇷 France
Dante AlighieriThe Divine Comedy1320🇮🇹 Italy
Natalia GinzburgÈ stato così1947🇮🇹 Italy
Elena FerranteLa figlia oscura2006🇮🇹 Italy
Domenico StarnoneLacci2014🇮🇹 Italy
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDie Leiden des jungen Werthers1774🇩🇪 Germany
Thomas MannDer Tod in Venedig1912🇩🇪 Germany
Franz KafkaDie Verwandlung1915🇩🇪 Germany
Hermann HesseSiddhartha1922🇩🇪 Germany
Stefan ZweigSchachnovelle1942🇦🇹 Austria
Alexander PushkinEugene Onegin (Евгений Онегин)1833🇷🇺 Russia
Nikolai GogolDead Souls (Мёртвые души)1842🇷🇺 Russia
Ivan TurgenevFathers and Sons (Отцы и дети)1862🇷🇺 Russia
Vladimir NabokovLolita1955🇷🇺 Russia
Boris PasternakDoctor Zhivago (Доктор Живаго)1957🇷🇺 Russia
Mikhail BulgakovThe Master and Margarita (Мастер и Маргарита)1967🇷🇺 Russia
Elias LönnrotThe Kalevala1835🇫🇮 Finland
Tove JanssonSmåtrollen och den stora översvämningen1945🇫🇮 Finland
Tove JanssonTrollkarlens hatt1948🇫🇮 Finland
Tove JanssonMuminpappans bravader1950🇫🇮 Finland
Tove JanssonMuminpappans memoarer1968🇫🇮 Finland
Tove JanssonFarlig midsommar1954🇫🇮 Finland
Tove JanssonTrollvinter1957🇫🇮 Finland
Tove JanssonPappan och havet1965🇫🇮 Finland
Tove JanssonSent i november1970🇫🇮 Finland
Tove JanssonSommarboken1972🇫🇮 Finland
Tove JanssonRent Spel1989🇫🇮 Finland
Selma LagerlöfNils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige1906🇸🇪 Sweden
Tomas TranströmerThe Half-Finished Heaven1962🇸🇪 Sweden
Tove DitlevsenChildhood Youth Dependency1967🇩🇰 Denmark