Wikipedia:
List of years in literature
This page indexes the individual "year in literature" pages. Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point.
Overview
- 21st century in literature - 2000s
- 20th century in literature - 1990s - 1980s - 1970s - 1960s - 1950s - 1940s - 1930s - 1920s - 1910s - 1900s
- 19th century in literature - 1890s - 1880s - 1870s - 1860s - 1850s - 1840s - 1830s - 1820s - 1810s - 1800s
- 18th century in literature - 1790s - 1780s - 1770s - 1760s - 1750s - 1740s - 1730s - 1720s - 1710s - 1700s
- 17th century in literature - 1690s - 1680s - 1670s - 1660s - 1650s - 1640s - 1630s - 1620s - 1610s - 1600s
- 16th century in literature – 1590s
- 15th century in literature
- 14th century in literature – Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
- 13th century in literature – Parzival – Wolfram von Eschenbach
- 12th century in literature – Li Contes di Graal – Chrétien de Troyes
- 11th century in literature
- 10th century in literature
- Early Medieval literature
- Ancient literature
2000s
- 2007 in literature Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling;
- 2006 in literature Daniel Handler, The End, 13th and final book in A Series of Unfortunate Events; Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion
- 2005 in literature - Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk; Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
- 2004 in literature - 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 - Ian McEwan; Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World - Margaret MacMillan
- 2001 in literature - Seabiscuit: An American Legend – Laura Hillenbrand; Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- 2000 in literature - Naomi Klein, No Logo
1990s
- 1999 in literature - Chocolat - Joanne Harris
- 1998 in literature - J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- 1997 in literature - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J. K. Rowling; Underworld - Don DeLillo
- 1996 in literature - Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt; Left Behind - Tim Lahaye, Jerry B. Jenkins; 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 - Irvine Welsh
- 1992 in literature - The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
- 1991 in literature - Such a Long Journey - Rohinton Mistry
- 1990 in literature - 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 - Thomas Ligotti
- 1988 in literature - Oscar and
Lucinda - Peter Carey; The Satanic
Verses - Salman Rushdie,
Curriculum - Grazyna Miller - 1987 in literature - 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 - 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 - 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
- 1979 in literature - Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer; A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
- 1978 in literature - The World According to Garp - John Irving
- 1977 in literature - The Sea, the Sea - Iris Murdoch; Song of Soloman - Toni Morrison
- 1976 in literature - Triton - Samuel R. Delany
- 1975 in literature - The Book of Sand - Jorge Luis Borges
- 1974 in literature - Carrie - Stephen King
- 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
1960s
- 1969 in literature - Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth; Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut; Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle - Vladimir Nabokov
- 1968 in literature - 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 - Truman Capote; Beautiful Losers - Leonard Cohen
- 1965 in literature - Herzog
- Saul Bellow; An American Dream -
Norman Mailer; The Magus -
John Fowles - 1964 in literature - Little Big Man - Thomas Berger; 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 - 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; A House for Mr. Biswas - V. S. Naipaul
- 1960 in literature - To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
1950s
- 1959 in literature - 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 - The Grass - Claude Simon; The Guide - R. K. Narayan
- 1957 in literature - On the Road - Jack Kerouac; Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov; Voss - Patrick White
- 1956 in literature - 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 - William Golding; The Fellowship of the Ring - J. R. R. Tolkien; The Two Towers - J. R. R. Tolkien
- 1953 in literature - Casino Royale - Ian Fleming - First James Bond novel; The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow, Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451
- 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 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 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is sentenced to eight years in a labour camp for criticism of Stalin.
- 1944 in literature - Our Lady
of the Flowers - Jean Genet; A Bell for
Adano –
John Hersey - 1943 in literature - T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets published together for the first time; Das Glasperlenspiel (The Glass Bead Game) - Hermann Hesse
- 1942 in literature - The Stranger - Albert Camus
- 1941 in literature - Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf
- 1940 in literature - Native Son - Richard Wright; For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway; The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
1930s
- 1939 in literature - The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West; The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck; How Green Was My Valley - Richard Llewellyn
- 1938 in literature - 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 - Jamaica Inn - Daphne du Maurier
- 1935 in literature - Penguin Books publishes the first paperback
- 1934 in literature - I, Claudius - Robert Graves; Goodbye, Mr. Chips - James Hilton; Tender Is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald; Supernatural Horror in Literature - H.P. Lovecraft -year completed (1925-34)
- 1933 in literature - 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
- 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
- 1927 in literature - The Snake Pit - Sigrid Undset; To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
- 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, Foretopman - Herman Melville; A Passage to India - E. M. Forster; Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain) - Thomas Mann
- 1923 in literature - Lord Peter Wimsey makes his first appearance in print.
- 1922 in literature - Ulysses - James Joyce; The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot; Marcel Proust dies - In Search of Lost Time completed ; The Worm Ouroboros - E.R. Eddison
- 1921 in literature - Karel Čapek's play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
- 1920 in literature - 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 - Aleister Crowley Completed
- 1916 in literature - Relativity - Albert Einstein; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
- 1915 in literature - The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
- 1914 in literature - Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich - Stephen Leacock
- 1913 in literature - Alcools - Guillaume Apollinaire, Petersburg - Andrei Bely; Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence
- 1912 in literature -
Death in Venice - Thomas Mann - 1911 in literature - 11th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica published
- 1910 in literature - Howards End - E. M. Forster; The Sorcerers Apprentice - Hanns Heinz Ewers
1900s
- 1909 in literature - 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 - Algernon Blackwood
- 1906 in literature - The House of Souls - Arthur Machen; Time and the Gods - Lord Dunsany
- 1905 in literature - White Fang - Jack London
- 1904 in literature - Nostromo - Joseph Conrad; 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 - 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 - Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser; The Flame of Life - Gabriele d'Annunzio
1890s
- 1899 in literature - The School and Society - John Dewey; The Awakening - Kate Chopin; Heart of darkness - Joseph Conrad; The Yellow wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman;
- 1898 in literature - Paris - Emile Zola
- 1897 in literature - Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling; Dracula - Bram Stoker; Divagations -Stéphane Mallarmé; the Beetle - Richard Marsh
- 1896 in literature - The Well at the World's End - William Morris; Shapes in the Fire - M.P. Shiel
- 1895 in literature - Almayer's Folly - Joseph Conrad; Pharaoh - Bolesław Prus; Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy; The Three Impostors - Arthur Machen
- 1894 in literature - The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope ; Pan - Knut Hamsun; The Great God Pan - Arthur Machen; Studies of Death: Romantic Tales - Stanislaus Eric Stenbock
- 1893 in literature - The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde; The New Woman - Bolesław Prus
- 1892 in literature - Children of the Ghetto - Israel Zangwill
- 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 - Knut Hamsun
1880s
- 1889 in literature - Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche; The Doll - Bolesław Prus; The Child of Pleasure - Gabriele d'Annunzio
- 1888 in literature - Confessions of a Young Man - George A. Moore
- 1887 in literature - Thelma - Marie Corelli
- 1886 in literature - Little Lord Fauntleroy - Frances Hodgson Burnett; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson; The Outpost - Bolesław Prus
- 1885 in literature - Marius the Epicurean - Walter Pater; Lord Alfred Tennyson completes Idylls of the King; 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 Naval War of 1812 - Theodore Roosevelt
- 1881 in literature - 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 - 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
- 1876 in literature - 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 - 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