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2014

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel is published

2009 (-)

2000s (-)

2009

The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak is published

2007 (-)

2007

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz is published

2006 (-)

2006

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is published

2005 (-)

2005

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is published

2003 (-)

2003

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is published

2003

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon is published

2002 (-)

2002

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami is published

2001 (-)

2001

Atonement by Ian McEwan is published

The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy is published

1999

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri is published

1996 (-)

1996

Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels is published

1995 (-)

1995

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry is published

1992 (-)

1992

The Secret History by Donna Tartt is published

1991 (-)

1991

Angels in America by Tony Kushner is published

1989 (-)

1980s (-)

1989

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro is published

1987 (-)

1987

Beloved by Toni Morrison is published

1984 (-)

1984

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera is published

1982 (-)

1982

The Color Purple by Alice Walker is published

1981 (-)

1981

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie is published

1981

Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath is published

1979 (-)

1970s (-)

1979

So Long A Letter by Mariama Ba is published

1978 (-)

1978

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams is published

1978

Orientalism by Edward Said is published

1974 (-)

1974

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman is published

1971 (-)

1971

Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B. F. Skinner is published

1967 (-)

1960s (-)

1967

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov is published

1967

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay is published

1967

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is published

1964 (-)

January 1964

The Little Red Book by Mao Zedong is published

1964

The Son of Man is painted by René Magritte

1963 (-)

February 19, 1963

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan is published

1962 (-)

September 27, 1962

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson is published

1962

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by T. S. Kuhn is published

1962

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey is published

1962

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess is published

1961 (-)

1961

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark is published

1961

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller is published

1960 (-)

July 11, 1960

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is published

1958 (-)

1950s (-)

1958

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is published

1957 (-)

September 5, 1957

On the Road by Jack Kerouac is published

February 1957

Syntactic Structures by Noam Chomsky is published

1955 (-)

1955

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is published

c. 1955

Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien is published

1954 (-)

1954

Lord of the Flies by William Golding is published

1953 (-)

1953

Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein is published

1953

In the Castle of My Skin by George Lamming is published

1953

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is published

1952 (-)

1952

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is published

1952

East of Eden by John Steinbeck is published

1951 (-)

1951

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger is published

1949 (-)

1940s (-)

June 8, 1949

1984 by George Orwell is published

1949

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir is published

1948 (-)

1948

No. 5 is painted by Jackson Pollock

1948

The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene is published

1947 (-)

June 25, 1947

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is published

1944 (-)

Modern History (-)

1944

The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich von Hayek is published

1943 (-)

1943

Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre is published

1942 (-)

1942

The Stranger by Albert Camus is published

1940 (-)

1940

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers is published

1940

Native Son by Richard Wright is published

1939 (-)

1930s (-)

November 6, 1939

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie is published

1938 (-)

1938

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh is published

1937 (-)

1937

Portrait of Dora Maar is painted by Pablo Picasso

1937

Guernica is painted by ‎Pablo Picasso

1936 (-)

1936

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes is published

1936

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell is published

1934 (-)

1934

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller is published

1934

The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper is published

1934

I, Claudius by Robert Graves is published

1932 (-)

1932

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is published

1931 (-)

1931

The Persistence of Memory is painted by ‎Salvador Dalí

1930 (-)

1930

Composition with Red Blue and Yellow is painted by Piet Mondrian

1930

American Gothic is painted by ‎Grant Wood

1929 (-)

1920s (-)

September 1929

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf is published

1929

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner is published

1927 (-)

c. 1927

In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust is published

1926 (-)

1926

Water Lilies is painted by Claude Monet

1926

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway is published

1925 (-)

1925

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is published

1925

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf is published

1924 (-)

1924

A Passage to India by E. M. Forster is published

1923 (-)

1923

I and Thou by Martin Buber is published

1922 (-)

1922

Ulysses by James Joyce is published

1922

The Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein is published

1921 (-)

1921

Three Musicians is painted by Pablo Picasso

1921

Psychological Types by Carl Gustav Jung is published

1920 (-)

1920

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is published

c. 1920

The Real Story of Ah Q by Lu Xun is published

1916 (-)

1910s (-)

1916

The Mind and Society by Vilfredo Pareto is published

1916

Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein is published

1915 (-)

1915

The Trial by Franz Kafka is published

1915

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford is published

1915

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham is published

1913 (-)

1913

Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence is published

1909 (-)

1900s (-)

1909

The Dance is painted by Henri Matisse

1908 (-)

1908

The Kiss is painted by Gustav Klimt

1907 (-)

1907

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is painted by Pablo Picasso

1907

Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James is published

1906 (-)

February 26, 1906

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is published

1904 (-)

1904

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad is published

1903 (-)

1903

The Call of the Wild by Jack London is published

The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud is published

1898 (-)

1898

The Bathers is painted by Paul Cézanne

1897 (-)

1897

The Sleeping Gypsy is painted by Henri Rousseau

1897

Dracula by Bram Stoker is published

1894 (-)

1894

Dogs Playing Poker is painted by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge

1893 (-)

1893

The Scream is painted by ‎‎Edvard Munch

1892 (-)

1892

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche is published

1889 (-)

1880s (-)

1889

Starry Night is painted by Vincent van Gogh

1889

Portrait de L’artiste Sans Barbe is painted by Vincent van Gogh

1889

Royal Red and Blue is painted by Mark Rothko

1888 (-)

1888

Cafe Terrace at Night is painted by ‎Vincent van Gogh

1886 (-)

1886

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is painted by Georges Seurat

1886

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson is published

1885 (-)

1885

Potato Eaters is painted by Vincent van Gogh

1884 (-)

1884

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published

1881 (-)

1881

Luncheon on the Boating Party is painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1877 (-)

1870s (-)

1877

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy is published

1876 (-)

1876

Bal du Moulin de la Galette is painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1874 (-)

1874

Impression, Sunrise is painted by Claude Monet

1873 (-)

1873

Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell is published

1871 (-)

1871

Whistler’s Mother is painted by James Abbott Whistler

1869 (-)

1860s (-)

1869

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is published

1866 (-)

1866

L'Origine du monde is painted by Gustave Courbet

1866

The Sleepers is painted by Gustave Courbet

1866

Experiments on Plant Hybridization by Gregor Mendel is published

1866

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is published

1865 (-)

1865

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is published

1863 (-)

1863

Olympia is painted by Édouard Manet

1862 (-)

1862

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo is published

1862

First Principles of a New System of Philosophy by Herbert Spencer is published

On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is published

1859

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill is published

1857 (-)

April 1857

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert is published

1854 (-)

August 9, 1854

Walden by Henry David Thoreau is published

1852 (-)

1852

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe is published

1851 (-)

1851

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville is published

1850 (-)

1850

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens is published

1849 (-)

1840s (-)

1849

Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau is published

1848 (-)

February 21, 1848

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels is published

1848

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery is published

1847 (-)

1847

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is published

1845 (-)

1845

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass is published

1844 (-)

1844

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas is published

1843 (-)

1843

Either/Or by Søren Kierkegaard is published

1842 (-)

1842

Course of Positive Philosophy by Auguste Comte is published

1840 (-)

1840

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville is published

1832 (-)

1830s (-)

1832

On War by Carl von Clausewitz is published

1832

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is published

1819 (-)

1810s (-)

1819

The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer is published

1819

Ivanhoe by Walter Scott is published

1818 (-)

1818

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is published

1814 (-)

1814

The Third of May is painted by Francisco Goya

1814

Grande Odalisque is painted by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

1813 (-)

January 28, 1813

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is published

1807 (-)

1800s (-)

1807

The Phenomenology of Spirit by Friedrich Hegel is published

1801 (-)

1801

Napoleon crossing the Alps is painted by Jacques-Louis David

1800 (-)

18th century (-)

1800

Portrait of Madame Recamier is painted by Jacques-Louis David

1798 (-)

1790s (-)

1798

An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus is published

1793 (-)

1793

Enquiry Concerning Political Justice by William Godwin is published

1792 (-)

1792

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft is published

1792

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft is published

1791 (-)

1791

The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine is published

1791

Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin is published

1790 (-)

November 1790

Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke is published

1789 (-)

1780s (-)

1789

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon is published

1782 (-)

1782

Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau is published

1781 (-)

1781

Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant is published

1776 (-)

1770s (-)

Renaissance and Neoclassicism (-)

March 9, 1776

The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is published

January 10, 1776

Common Sense by Thomas Paine is published

1767 (-)

1760s (-)

c. 1767

Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne is published

1766 (-)

1766

Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot is published

1759 (-)

1750s (-)

1759

Candide by Voltaire is published

1755 (-)

April 15, 1755

A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson is published

1749 (-)

1740s (-)

1749

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding is published

1739 (-)

1730s (-)

1739

A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume is published

1726 (-)

1720s (-)

1726

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift is published

1725 (-)

1725

The New Science by Giambattista Vico is published

1719 (-)

1710s (-)

1719

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is published

1710 (-)

1710

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley is published

Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke is published

1687 (-)

1680s (-)

July 5, 1687

Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton is published

1678 (-)

1670s (-)

1678

The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan is published

1677 (-)

1677

Ethics by Baruch de Spinoza is published

1670 (-)

1670

Pensées by Blaise Pascal is published

1665 (-)

1660s (-)

1665

Girl with a Pearl Earring is painted by ‎‎Johannes Vermeer

1656 (-)

1650s (-)

1656

Las Meninas is painted by Diego Velázquez

1651 (-)

April 1651

Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes is published

1644 (-)

1640s (-)

1644

The Imposter by Molière is published

1642 (-)

1642

Night Watch is painted by ‎‎Rembrandt van Rijn

1637 (-)

1630s (-)

1637

Discourse on the Method by René Descartes is published

1632 (-)

1632

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei is published

1623 (-)

1620s (-)

1623

The First Folio by William Shakespeare is published

1620 (-)

1620

Novum Organum by Francis Bacon is published

1619 (-)

1610s (-)

1619

Harmonices Mundi by Johannes Kepler is published

1615 (-)

1615

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes is published

1610 (-)

1610

Beheading of Saint John the Baptist is painted by Caravaggio

c. 1610

The Plum in the Golden Vase by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng is published

1608 (-)

1600s (-)

1608

Massacre of the Innocents is painted by Peter Paul Rubens

1601 (-)

c. 1601

Hamlet by William Shakespeare is published

Musicians by Caravaggio is painted by Caravaggio

1580 (-)

1580s (-)

March 1580

Essays by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is published

1564 (-)

1560s (-)

c. 1564

Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais is published

1563 (-)

1563

View of Toledo is painted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

1543 (-)

1540s (-)

1543

De revolutionibus orbium coelestium by Nicolaus Copernicus is published

1536 (-)

1530s (-)

1536

Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin is published

1532 (-)

1532

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli is published

1520 (-)

1520s (-)

1520

On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church by Martin Luther is published

1516 (-)

1510s (-)

c. 1516

Saint John the Baptist is painted by Leonardo da Vinci

1515 (-)

1515

The Garden of Earthly Delights is painted by Hieronymus Bosch

1514 (-)

1514

The Triumph of Galatea is painted by Raphael

1512 (-)

1512

Sistine Chapel Ceiling is painted by Michelangelo

1511 (-)

June 1511

In Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus is published

1511

School of Athens is painted by Raphael

1503 (-)

1500s (-)

1503

The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne is painted by Leonardo da Vinci

1503

Mona Lisa is painted by Leonardo da Vinci

15th century (-)

End of 15th century

The Last Supper is painted by Leonardo da Vinci

1486 (-)

1480s (-)

1486

The Birth of Venus is painted by Sandro Botticelli

1485 (-)

1485

Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas is published

1480 (-)

c. 1480

Primavera is painted by Sandro Botticelli

1470 (-)

1470s (-)

1470

Parallel Lives by Plutarch is published

The Arnolfini Marriage is painted by Jan van Eyck

1405 (-)

1400s (-)

c. 1405

The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan is published

1400 (-)

14th century (-)

c. 1400

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is published

Piers Plowman by William Langland is published

1320 (-)

1320s (-)

1320

Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is published

13th century (-)

13th century

The Poetic Edda is published

The Song of the Nibelungs is published

1190 (-)

1190s (-)

c. 1190

The Knight in Panther’s Skin by Shota Rustaveli is published

c. 1190

The Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides is published

Lais by Marie de France is published

1010 (-)

1010s (-)

c. 1010

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu is published

Christ Enthroned is painted as part of the Book of Kells

8th century (-)

c. 8th century

The Tibetan Book of the Dead is published

One Thousand and One Nights is published

632 (-)

630s (-)

632

The Quran by Muhammad is published

6th century (-)

c. 6th century

The oldest known icon of Christ Pantocrator is made

450 (-)

450s (-)

5th century (-)

Classical Antiquity (-)

c. 450

The Tale of an Anklet is published

Confessions by Augustine of Hippo is published

The Enneads by Plotinus is published

2nd century (-)

End of 2nd century

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is published

180 (-)

180s (-)

c. 180

Gospel of Truth by Valentinus is published

150 (-)

150s (-)

c. 150

Geographia by Ptolemy is published

1st century (-)

End of 1st century

The New Testament by Saint Paul and other authors is published

c. End of 1st century

Annals by Cornelius Tacitus is published

90 (-)

90s (-)

c. 90

The Satyricon by Petronius is published

1st century BC (-)

1st century BC

De rerum natura by Lucretius is published

19 BC (-)

10s BC (-)

19 BC

The Aeneid by Virgil is published

Adelphoe by Terence is published

The Mahabharata by Vyasa is published

c. 300 BC

Elements by Euclid is published

4th century BC (-)

4th century BC

Tao Te Ching by Laozi is published

4th century BC

Corpus Aristotelicum by Aristotle is published

c. 4th century BC

Hippocratic Corpus by Hippocrates is published

Beginning of 4th century BC

History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is published

375 BC (-)

370s BC (-)

c. 375 BC

Republic by Plato is published

5th century BC (-)

c. 5th century BC

The Dhammapada by Siddhartha Gautama is published

c. 5th century BC

Analects by Confucius is published

430 BC (-)

430s BC (-)

430 BC

Oedipus the King by Sophocles is published

c. 430 BC

Histories by Herodotus is published

500 BC (-)

500s BC (-)

c. 500 BC

The Upanishads is published

c. 500 BC

Aesop’s Fables by Aesop is published

6th century BC (-)

c. 6th century BC

The Zohar is published

c. 6th century BC

The Avesta by Zoroaster is published

8th century BC (-)

Ancient History (-)

c. 8th century BC

The Iliad by Homer is published

c. 8th century BC

The Hebrew Bible is published

9th century BC (-)

End of 9th century BC

The I Ching by King Wen of Zhou and the Duke of Zhou is published

The Pharaon Tutankhamun destroying his enemies is painted on wood

Epic of Gilgamesh by Sin-liqe-unninni is published

The Story of Sinuhe is published

Lascaux cave paintings are made

34,000 BC (-)

34,000 BC

Cave of Altamira paintings are made

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