Benjamin von Stuckrad Barre - Soloalbum
1975  

William Sutcliffe - Are you experienced?

1971  

Naomi Klein - No Logo

1970  

Alexander von Schönburg - Die Kunst des stilvollen Verarmens

1969  

Christian Kracht - Faserland

1966  
Eckart Nickel - Was ich davon halte
1966  
Waris Dirie - Desert Flower
1965  
Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho
1964  
Elke Naters, Sven Lager
1963  
Douglas Coupland - Generation X
1961  
Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
1961  
Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting
1961  
Robert Schneider - Schlafes Bruder
1961  
Maxim Biller - die Tempojahre
1960  
Seth Godin -
1960  
Michel Houellebecq - Rester vivant
1958  
Nick Hornby - High Fidelity
1957  
Peter Glaser - Geschichte von Nichts
1957  

Rainald Goetz - Rave

1954  
Jostein Gaarder - Sophie's World
1952  
Douglas Adams - the Hitch- Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
1952  
Anne Carson - Eros the Bittersweet
1950  

 

 

Patrick Süßkind - das Parfüm
1949  
T.C. Boyle - Drop City
1948  
Salman Rushdie - the Satanic Verses
1947  
Elfriede Jelinek - the Piano Teacher
1946  
Howard Marks - Mr Nice
1945  
Annie Dillard - Teaching a stone to talk
1945  
Bernhard Schlink - der Vorleser
1944  

 

 

Alice Walker -
1944  
Peter Handke (1942) die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter
   

Erica Jong - Fear of Flying
1942  
Hans-Günter Wallraff - Ganz unten
1942  
Sten Nadolny - Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit
1942  
Jack Herer - the Emperor wears no clothes
1939  
Joyce Carol Oates - We Were the Mulvaneys
1938  
Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
1937  
Hunter S Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1937-2005  
Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingston Seagull
1936  
Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1935-2001  
John Updike - Rabbit, Run
1932  
Umberto Eco - the Name of the Rose
1932  
Sylvia Plath - the It-Doesn't-Matter-Suit
1932-1963  
Horst Eckert - Janosch
1931  
Tom Wolfe - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
1930  
Slawomir Mrozek - Out at sea
1930  
Lorraine Hansberry -
1930-1965  

 

 

Hans Markus Enzensberger - Mittelmaß und Wahn
1929  
George Steiner - Grammatik der Schöpfung
1929  
Anne Frank - the Diary of Anne Frank
1929-1945  
Milan Kundera - the Unbearable Lightness of Being
1929  
Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
1928  
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
1928  
Guenther Grass - die Blechtrommel
1927  
Martin Walser - ein springender Brunnen
1927  
Ingeborg Bachmann - Gedichte
1926  
Harper Lee - to Kill a Mockingbird
1926  
Dario Fo - Mistero Buffo
1926  
Allen Ginsberg - Howl and Other Poems
1926-1997  
René Goscinny - Astérix, Lucky Luke
1926-1977  
Zig Ziglar - See you at the top
1926  
Gore Vidal - Palimpsest
1925  
Carlos Castaneda - the Teachings of Don Juan
1925-1998  
Truman Capote - In Cold Blood
1924-1984  
Ephraim Kishon - Noah's Ark, Tourist Class
1924-2005  
Otfried Preußler - der Räuber Hotzenplotz
1923  
Norman Mailer - the Naked and the Dead
1923  
Stan Lee - Spiderman
1922  
Charles M. Schulz - Peanuts
1922-2000  
Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
1922  
Jack Kerouac - On the road
1922-1969  

 

 

Alex Haley
1921-1992  
Friedrich Dürrenmatt - der Besuch der alten Dame
1921-1990  
Wolfgang Borchert - Draussen vor der Tür
1921-1947  
Charles Bukowski - Post Office
1920-1994  
Isaac Asimov - War of the worlds
1920-1992  
J. D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
1919  

 

 

Iris Murdoch
1919-1999  
Primo Levi - If This is a Man
1919-1987  
Heinrich Böll - the Clown
1917-1985  
Roald Dahl - Matilda
1916-1990  
Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman
1915-2005  
John Seymour - the Complete Book of Self Sufficiency
1914-2004  
William S Burroughs - the Naked Lunch
1914-1997  
Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster - Superman
1914-1996, 1914-1992  

 

 

James Baldwin - Go tell it on the mountain
1924-1987  

 

 

Ralph Ellison
1913-1994  
Albert Camus - L'etranger
1913-1960  
William Golding - the Lord of the Flies
1911  
Max Frisch - Andorra
1911-1991  
Tennessee Williams - a Streetcar named Desire
1911-1983  
Paul Bowles - the Sheltering Sky
1910-1999  
Ian Fleming - James Bond
1909-1964  
Astrid Lindgren - Pippi Longstockings
1907-2002  
Hergé - les aventures de Tintin et Milou
1907-1983  
Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
1906-1989  
Theodor Seuss Geisel - And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street
1904-1991  
Graham Greene -
1904-1991  
George Orwell - 1984
1903-1950  
John Steinbeck - Of mice and men
1902-1968  
Jacques Prévert - les enfants du paradis
1900-1977  
Antoine de St. Exupéry - Le petit prince
1900-1940  
Ernest Hemingway - the Old Man and the Sea
1899-1961  
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
1899-1977  
Erich Kästner - Emil und die Detektive
1899-1974  
Erich Maria Remarque - Im Westen nichts Neues
1898-1970  
Bertolt Brecht - the Good Person of Szechwan
1898-1956  
Federico García Lorca - Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías
1898-1936  
William Faulkner - the sound and the fury
1897-1962  
F. Scott Fitzgerald - the Great Gatsby
1896-1940  
Ernst Jünger - Eumeswil
1895-1998  
e.e. cummings - the enormous room, poems
1894-1962  
J.R.R. Tolkien - the Lord of the Rings
1892-1973  

 

 

Boris Pasternak - Dr. Zhivago
1890-1960  
Agatha Christie - the Murder at the Vicarage
1890-1976  
Howard Phillips Lovecraft - at the Mountains of Madness
1890-1937  
Kurt Tucholsky - Schloss Gripsholm
1890-1935  
Jean Cocteau - les Enfants Terribles
1889-1963  
T.S. Eliot - the Waste Land
1888-1965  
Hilda Doolittle - Helen in Egypt
1886-1961  
Gottfried Benn - Morgue und andere Gedichte
1886-1956  
Hugh Lofting - Dr. Doolittle
1886-1947  
Marc Bloch - l'étrange défaite
1886-1944  
Ezra Pound - the Cantos
1885-1972  
Yevgeny Zamyatin -
1884-1937  
Johnston McCulley - Zorro: The Curse of Capistrano
1883-1958  
Khalil Gibran - the Prophet
1883-1931  
Franz Kafka - the Metamorphosis
1883-1924  
Joachim Ringelnatz - Kuttel Daddeldu
1883-1934  
Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway
1882-1941  
James Joyce - Ulysses
1882-1941  
Alan Alexander Milne - Winne-the-Pooh
1882-1956  

 

 

John Neihardt
1881-1973  
Stefan Zweig - die Welt von Gestern
1881-1942  
Helen Keller - Light in my Darkness
1880-1968  
Robert Musil - the Man Without Qualities
1880-1942  
Guillaume Apollinaire - les Onze Mille Verges
1880-1918  
Gorch Fock - Seefahrt ist not
1880-1916  
Alfred Döblin - Berlin Alexanderplatz
1878-1957  
Hermann Hesse - the Glass Bead Game
1877-1962  

 

 

Muhammad Iqbal
1877-1938  
Jack London - the call of the Wild
1876-1916  
Thomas Mann - der Zauberberg
1875-1955  
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan
1875-1950  
Rainer Maria Rilke - Duino Elegies
1875-1926  
Edgar Wallace - the four just men
1875-1932  
William Somerset Maugham - of Human Bondage
1874-1965  
Robert Frost - New Hampshire
1874-1963  
Arthur Lovejoy - the Great Chain of Being
1873-1962  
Harold Bell Wright - the Shepherd of the Hills
1872-1944  
Heinrich Mann - der Untertan
1871-1950  
Marcel Proust - La Recherche du Temps Perdu
1871-1922  
Christian Morgenstern - Galgenlieder
1871-1914  
André Gide - l'Immoraliste
1869-1951  
Else Lasker-Schüler -
1869-1945  
Makszim Gorkij - Detstvo
1868-1936  
Herbert George Wells - the War of the Worlds
1866-1946  
William Butler Yeats - the Celtic Twilight
1865-1939  
Rudyard Kipling - the Jungle Book
1865-1936  
Frank Wedekind - Frühlings Erwachen
1864-1918  
Richard Fenton Outcault - the Yellow Kid
1863-1928  
John Fox Jr. - the Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, A Mountain Europa
1863-1919  
Gerhart Hauptmann - die Weber
1862-1946  

 

 

Rabindranath Tagore
1861-1941  
Anton Chekhov - the Seagull
1860-1904  
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes
1859-1930  
George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion
1856-1950  
L. Frank Baum - the Wizard of Oz
1856-1919  
Oscar Wilde - the picture of Dorian Gray
1854-1900  
Arthur Rimbaud - a season in hell
1854-1891  
Robert Louis Stevenson - Weir of Hermiston
1850-1894  
Guy de Maupassant - Boule de Suif
1850-1893  

 

 

August Strindberg
1849-1912  
Grant Allen - the Woman Who Did
1848-1899  
Gertrude Stein - the Autobiography of Alice B Toklas
1847-1946  
Andrew Lang - Christabel
1844-1912  
Paul Verlaine - Chanson d'automne
1844-1896  
Bertha von Suttner - Waffen nieder!
1843-1914  
Karl May - Winnetou
1842-1912  
Émile Zola - l'Oeuvre, J'accuse
1840-1902  
Mark Twain - the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1835-1910  
Samuel Butler - Erewhon
1835-1902  
Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland
1832-1898  
Wilhelm Busch - Max and Moritz
1832-1896  
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
1830-1916  
Henrik Ibsen - the wild duck
1828-1906  
Jules Verne - le tour du monde en 80 jours, 20000 leagues under the seas
1828-1905  
Carlo Collodi - Pinocchio
1826-1890  
Joseph Victor von Scheffel - der Heini von Steier
1826-1886  
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
1821-1881  
Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
1821-1880  
Charles Baudelaire - les Miserables
1821-1867  
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass
1819-1892  
Theodor Fontane - Effie Briest
1819-1898  
Gottfried Keller - Kleider machen Leute
1819-1890  
John Ruskin - Fors Clavigera
1819-1900  
Herman Melville - Moby Dick
1819-1891  
Mary Ann Evans, aka George Eliot - Middlemarch
1819-1880  
Theodor Storm - Der Schimmelreiter
1817-1888  
Georg Büchner - Woyzeck
1813-1837  
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
1811-1896  
Margaret Fuller - at Home and Abroad
1810-1850  
Heinrich Hoffmann - Der Struwwelpeter
1809-1894  

 

 

Alfred Tennyson
1809-1892  
Nyikolaj Vasziljevich Gogol - the Government Inspector
1809-1852  
Edgar Allen Poe - the Raven
1809-1849  
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Evangeline, Christus: A mystery
1807-1882  
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Sonnets from the Portuguese
1806-1861  
Hans Christian Andersen - the Emperor's New Clothes, the Snow Queen and other fairy tales
1805-1875  
George Sand - Indiana
1804-1876  

 

 

Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804-1864  
Karl Joseph Simrock
1802-1876  
Eduard Mörike - Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag
1804-1875  
Victor Hugo - les Miserables
1802-1885  
Alexandre Dumas - the Three Musketeers
1802-1870  
Wilhelm Hauff - der Mann im Mond
1802-1827  
Honore de Balzac - la Comédie humaine
1799-1850  
Aleksandr Pushkin - Eugene Onegin
1799-1837  
Hoffmann von Fallersleben - das Lied der Deutschen
1798-1874  

Annette von Droste Hülshoff - die Judenbuche

1797-1848  
Heinrich Heine - Deutschland: Ein Wintermärchen
1797-1856  
Jeremias Gotthelf - die schwarze Spinne
1796-1854  
Anna Jameson - Sacred and Legendary Art
1794-1860  
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
1792-1822  
Franz Grillparzer - der Traum, ein Leben
1791-1872  
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff - Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts
1788-1857  
Lord Byron - Don Juan
1788-1824  
David Crockett - A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett
1786-1836  
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm - Fairy Tales
1785-1863, 1786-1859  
Achim von Anima - des Knaben Wunderhorn
1781-1831  
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué - Undine
1777-1843  
Heinrich von Kleist - der zerbrochne Krug
1777-1811  
Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe
1777-1810  

 

 

Sophie Gay
1776-1852  
ETA Hoffmann - Mademoiselle de Scudery
1776-1822  
Jane Austen - Emma
1775-1817  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Kubla Khan and other poems
1772-1834  
William Wordsworth - the Prelude
1770-1850  

Chateaubriand

1768-1848  
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël - Corinne ou Italie
1766-1817  
Jean Paul - Flegeljahre
1763-1825  
August von Kotzebue -
1761-1819  
William Blake - Jerusalem and other prophetic books
1757-1827  
Georg Forster - Ansichten vom Niederrhein
1754-1794  
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust
1749-1832  

 

 

Johann David Wyss
1743-1818  
Marquis de Sade - the 120 Days of Sodom
1740-1814  
Rudolf Erich Raspe - Baron Münchhausens Erzählungen seiner wundersamen Reisen
1736-1794  
Christopher Martin Wieland - Agathon
1733-1813  
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais - the Marriage of Figaro
1732-1799  
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Nathan the wise, Emilia Galotti
1729-1781  
Casanova - the Story of My Life
1725-1798  
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock - the Messiah
1724-1803  

 

 

Ts'ao Chan
1715-1763  

 

 

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784  
Henry Fielding - Tom Jones
1707-1754  
Samuel Richardson - Clarissa
1689-1761  
Pierre de Marivaux - le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard
1688-1763  
Alexander Pope - an Essay on Man
1688-1744  

 

 

Bernard de Mandeville
1670-1733  
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels
1667-1745  
Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
1660-1731  

 

 

William Wycherley
1640-1716  
Aphra Behn
1640-1689  
Jean Racine - Athalie
1639-1699  
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux - l'art poétique
1636-1711  
John Dryden - All for Love
1631-1700  
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, dit Molière - Dom Juan, le Misanthrope
1622-1673  
Jean de la Fontaine - les Fables
1621-1695  
Francois Duc de la RochefoucauldMémoires, Maximes
1613-1680  
John Milton - Paradise lost
1608-1674  
Pierre Corneille - le Cid
1606-1684  

 

 

Martin Opitz von Boberfeld
1597-1639  
Jean Chapelain - la Pucelle
1595-1674  
John Donne - Divine Poems
1572-1631  
Marie de Gournay - the equality of men and women
1565-1645  
William Shakespeare - Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet
1564-1616  
Christopher Marlowe
1564-1593  

 

 

John Ford
1586-1640  
Lope de Vega - la Arcadia
1562-1635  
Francois de Malherbe - Consolation a Duperier
1555-1628  
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote
1547-1616  

 

 

Torquato Tasso
1544-1595  

Jean Antoine de Baïf - founded the Pléiade, and the Académie française

1532-1589  
Olivier de Magny - les Amours, les Soupirs
1530-1561  
Pierre de Ronsard - Amours, Sonnets pour Hélène
1524-1585  
Louise Labé - Sonnets
1524-1566  
Nostradamus - les Propheties
1503-1566  

 

 

John Heywood
1497-1580  
Francois Rabelais - la Vie de Gargantua et Pantagruel
1494-1553  
Hans Sachs - das bittersüße eheliche Leben
1494-1576  
Marguerite de Navarre - the Heptameron
1492-1549  
Sebastian Brant - das Narrenschiff
1457-1521  

 

 

Limbourg brothers - Très Riches Heures
1410  
François Villon - le testament
1431-1463  

 

 

Alain Chartier - Bréviaire des nobles
1390-1440  

 

 

Christine de Pizan
1364 -1430  
Geoffrey Chaucer - Canterbury Tales
1343-1400  
Giovanni Boccaccio - the Decameron
1313-1375  

 

 

Guillaume Tirel - le Viander
1310-1395  

 

 

Kao Ming

1310-1380  

Francesco Petrarch - Canzoniere, celebrated as the father of humanism

1304-1374  

 

 

Don Juan Manuel
1282-1349  

 

 

Immanuel the Roman
1270-1330  

 

 

Jean de Meun
1250-1305  
Guillaume de Lorris - Romance of the rose
1210-1237  
der Tannhäuser
1205-1267  
Snorri Sturluson
1178-1241  

 

 

Wolfram von Eschenbach - Parzival
1170-1220  

 

 

Chrestien de Troyes - Le conte du graal
1135-1190  

 

 

André le Chapelain - Les préceptes d'amour
1130-1200  

 

 

Abraham ibn Ezra -
1092-1167  

 

 

Turold - Chanson de Roland
fl 1075  

 

 

Moses ibn Ezra
1070-1138  

 

 

Frau Ava
1060-1127  

 

 

Shikibu Murasaki
973-1025  
Ferdowsi - Schahnameh
940-1020  
Hrotsvit von Gandersheim
940-990  

 

 

Walahfried Strabo
808-849  
The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
8th century  

 

 

Han Yu
768-824  
Li Po
701-762  

 

 

Wang Wei -
699-759  
Nonnos - Dionysiaca
400-476  

 

 

Quintus Smyrnaeus - Posthomerica
fl 460  

 

 

Hsi K'ang
223-262  

 

 

Mesomedes - the Invention of Glass
fl150  
Lucius Apuleius - the Golden Ass
120-180  
Pausanias - Description of Greece
115-190  
Herodes Atticus - orator
102-177  

 

 

Suetonius - the Lives of the First Twelve Caesars
75-160  
Juvenal - satirist, coined the phrase "panem et circenses"
60-140  
Gaius Cornelius Tacitus - the Annals, the Histories
55-117  

 

 

Martial - Epigrams
40-104  
Quintilian - rhetorican
35-95  
Persius Flaccus - satirist
34-62  
Petronius - Satyricon
27-66  
Ovid - the Metamorphoses
43bc-18ad  
Propertius - Elegies
50-16 bc  
Tibullus - Life
54-19 bc  
Horace - Satires, Epodes, Odes, Epistles
65-8 bc  
Virgil - the Aeneid
70-19 bc  
Maecenas - Patron of Arts
74-8 bc  

 

 

Varro - Bellum Sequanicum
82-35 bc  
Catullus - Carmina
84-54 bc  

 

 

Sallust - De conjuratione Catilinae, Historiae
86-34 bc  
Terence - playwright
190-159 bc  

 

 

Moschos - the Europa
fl 150 bc  
Ennius - Father of Roman poetry, Annales
239-169 bc  
Plautus - Comedies
254-184 bc  

 

 

Callimachus - became the organizer of the great library at Alexandria
294-235 bc  
Apollonios
295-215 bc  

 

 

Simmias of Rhodes - Technopaegnia
300 bc  

 

 

Aratus
315-240 bc  
Menander - the bad-tempered man
342-291 bc  
Aristophanes - the Clouds, the Knights
448-385 bc  
Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War
455-395 bc  

 

 

Hermippus
fl. 430 bc  
Euripides - Medea, Hippolytus
480- 406 bc  
Herodot - the Histories of Herodotus
482-429 bc  

 

 

Ion of Chios - began biographical literature
490-421 bc  
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex, Antigone
497-406 bc  
Bacchylides - Odes
516-451 bc  
Pindar - Odes
518-438 bc  
Aeschylus - Agamemnon
525-456 bc  

 

 

Epicharmus
540-450 bc  

 

 

Hipponax - considered the inventor of parody
fl 540 bc  

 

 

Sun Tzu
6th century bc  

 

 

Simonides - Elegies
556-468 bc  
Anacreon - Poems
570-485 bc  

 

 

Erinna - the Distaph
fl. 600 bc  
Sappho - Poems
612-580 bc  
Aesop - Fables
620-563 bc  
Alkaios
620-580 bc  

 

 

the Epic of Gilgamesh
7th century bc  
Arion
656-587 bc  

 

 

Archilochos - Poems
680-645 bc  
Hesiod - Theogony, The Works and Days
fl. 700 bc  

 

 

Callinus - regarded as the creator of the classical Greek song

728-660 bc  
Homer - The Odyssey, Iliad
900-850 bc  
Enheduanna - The Sumerian Temple Hymns
2300-2225 bc