Contemporary Literature

  • Period: to

    1900-1909 Decade

  • Henry James

    Henry James
    "The Wings of the Dove"
  • Joseph Conrad

    Joseph Conrad
    "Heart of Darkness"
  • G. K. Chesterton

    G. K. Chesterton
    "The Man Who Was Thursday"
  • Period: to

    1910-1919 Decade

  • Franz Kafka

    Franz Kafka
    "The Metamorphosis"
  • D. H. Lawrence

    D. H. Lawrence
    "The Rainbow"
  • James Joyce

    James Joyce
    "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
  • Period: to

    1920-1929 Decade

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald

    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    "The Great Gatsby"
  • Virginia Woolf

    Virginia Woolf
    "Mrs. Dalloway"
  • Ernest Hemingway

    Ernest Hemingway
    "The Sun Also Rises"
  • Period: to

    1930-1939 Decade

  • William Faulkner

    William Faulkner
    "Light in August"
  • George Orwell

    George Orwell
    "The Road to Wigan Pier"
  • John Steinbeck

    John Steinbeck
    "Of Mice and Men"
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    1940-1949 Decade

  • Albert Camus

    Albert Camus
    "The Stranger"
  • Jean-Paul Sartre

    Jean-Paul Sartre
    "Being and Nothingness"
  • George Orwell

    George Orwell
    "1984"
  • Period: to

    1950-1959 Decade

  • Samuel Beckett

    Samuel Beckett
    "Waiting for Godot"
  • Vladimir Nabokov

    Vladimir Nabokov
    "Lolita"
  • Jack Kerouac

    Jack Kerouac
    "On the Road"
  • Period: to

    1960-1969 Decade

  • Mario Vargas Llosa

    Mario Vargas Llosa
    "The Green House"
  • Gabriel García Márquez

    Gabriel García Márquez
    "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
  • Philip K. Dick

    Philip K. Dick
    "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
  • Period: to

    1970-1979 Decade

  • Toni Morrison

    Toni Morrison
    "Sula"
  • Jorge Luis Borges

    Jorge Luis Borges
    "The Book of Sand"
  • Stephen King

    Stephen King
    "The Shining"
  • Period: to

    1980-1989 Decade

  • Isabel Allende

    Isabel Allende
    "The House of the Spirits"
  • Milan Kundera

    Milan Kundera
    "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
  • Kazuo Ishiguro

    Kazuo Ishiguro
    "An Artist of the Floating World"
  • Period: to

    1990-1999 Decade

  • Haruki Murakami

    Haruki Murakami
    "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle"
  • José Saramago

    José Saramago
    "Blindness"
  • J. K. Rowling

    J. K. Rowling
    "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"
  • Period: to

    2000-2009 Decade

  • Khaled Hosseini

    Khaled Hosseini
    "The Kite Runner"
  • Stieg Larsson

    Stieg Larsson
    "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
  • Cormac McCarthy

    Cormac McCarthy
    "The Road"
  • Period: to

    2010-2019 Decade

  • Delia Owens

    Delia Owens
    "Where the Crawdads Sing"
  • Sally Rooney

    Sally Rooney
    "Normal People"
  • Margaret Atwood

    Margaret Atwood
    "The Testaments"
  • Period: to

    2020-2024

  • Brandon Taylor

    Brandon Taylor
    "Filthy Animals"
  • Colleen Hoover

    Colleen Hoover
    "It Ends With Us"
  • Douglas Stuart

    Douglas Stuart
    "Shuggie Bain"