1900s •
1901 in literature – Thomas Mann's
Buddenbrooks; M. P. Shiel's
The Purple Cloud; Anton Chekhov's
Three Sisters; Rudyard Kipling's
Kim; August Strindberg's
A Dream Play; Stanislaw Wyspianski's
The Wedding. Death of
Kate Greenaway,
Charlotte Mary Yonge •
1902 in literature – André Gide's
The Immoralist; Maxim Gorky's
The Lower Depths; Henry James's
The Wings of the Dove; Arthur Conan Doyle's
The Hound of the Baskervilles; Beatrix Potter's
The Tale of Peter Rabbit; J. M. Barrie's
The Little White Bird; Leo Tolstoy's
The Power of Darkness. Death of
Émile Zola,
Bret Harte •
1903 in literature – Henry James's
The Ambassadors; Jack London's
The Call of the Wild; W. E. B. Du Bois's
The Souls of Black Folk; Bram Stoker's
The Jewel of Seven Stars. Death of
George Gissing,
W. E. Henley •
1904 in literature – Joseph Conrad's
Nostromo; E. M. Forster's
Where Angels Fear to Tread; Henry James's
The Golden Bowl; M. R. James's
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary; Jack London's
The Sea-Wolf; William Henry Hudson's
Green Mansions; Wyladyslaw Reymont's
The Peasants; Anton Chekhov's play
The Cherry Orchard first performed. Death of
Anton Chekhov •
1905 in literature –
Leopoldo Lugones'
La Guerra Gaucha; Jack London's
White Fang; Arthur Conan Doyle's
The Return of Sherlock Holmes; Edith Nesbit's
The Railway Children, Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain's ''
Sultana's Dream''; Baroness Orczy's
The Scarlet Pimpernel. Death of
Jules Verne •
1906 in literature – Leopoldo Lugones'
Strange Forces; Alfred Noyes'
The Highwayman; Maxim Gorky's
The Mother; Upton Sinclair's
The Jungle; Lope K. Santos'
Banaag at Sikat. Death of
Paul Laurence Dunbar,
Henrik Ibsen •
1907 in literature – Arnold Bennett's
The City of Pleasure; Selma Lagerlöf's
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils; Robert Hugh Benson's
Lord of the World; August Strindberg's
The Ghost Sonata; Pedro Alcantara Monteclaro's
Maragtas. Death of
Alfred Jarry,
Sully Prudhomme •
1908 in literature – Leonid Andreyev's
The Seven Who Were Hanged; E. M. Forster's
A Room with a View; Lucy Maud Montgomery's
Anne of Green Gables; Anatole France's ''L'île des Pingouins
(
Penguin Island)''; Kenneth Grahame's
The Wind in the Willows; Baroness Orczy's
The Elusive Pimpernel; Colette's
The Tendrils of the Vine. Death of
Joel Chandler Harris,
Machado de Assis •
1909 in literature – Hermann Sudermann's
The Song of Songs; H. G. Wells'
Tono-Bungay. Death of
John Millington Synge,
Algernon Charles Swinburne 1910s •
1910 in literature – E. M. Forster's
Howards End; Hanns Heinz Ewers's ''
The Sorcerer's Apprentice''; Rabindranath Tagore's
Raja. Death of
Leo Tolstoy,
Mark Twain •
1911 in literature – Joseph Conrad's
Under Western Eyes; Gaston Leroux's
The Phantom of the Opera; Frances Hodgson Burnett's
The Secret Garden; Ambrose Bierce's ''
The Devil's Dictionary''; Edith Wharton's
Ethan Frome; Hugo Gernsback's
Ralph 124C 41+;
Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition published. Death of
Joseph Pulitzer •
1912 in literature – Thomas Mann's
Death in Venice; Edgar Rice Burroughs's
Tarzan of the Apes; Arthur Conan Doyle's
The Lost World. Death of
Bram Stoker •
1913 in literature – Andrei Bely's
Petersburg; Alain-Fournier's
Le Grand Meaulnes; D. H. Lawrence's
Sons and Lovers; George Bernard Shaw's
Pygmalion; Edgar Rice Burroughs's
The Return of Tarzan; Guillaume Apollinaire's
Alcools •
1914 in literature –
Heinrich Mann's
The Loyal Subject; Stephen Leacock's
Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich; James Joyce's
Dubliners. Disappearance of
Ambrose Bierce in Mexico •
1915 in literature – Franz Kafka's
The Metamorphosis; Charlotte Perkins Gilman's
Herland; Russell Thorndike's
Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh. Death of
Rupert Brooke •
1916 in literature – Albert Einstein's
Relativity; W. H. Davies'
Leisure; James Joyce's
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Death of
Henry James,
Jack London •
1917 in literature – T. S. Eliot's
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; Aleister Crowley's
Moonchild; Edgar Rice Burroughs's
A Princess of Mars •
1918 in literature – Booth Tarkington's
The Magnificent Ambersons; Thomas Mann's
Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man; Alexander Blok's
The Twelve; Lytton Strachey's
Eminent Victorians; Norman Lindsay's
The Magic Pudding; Jack London's
The Red One. Death of
Wilfred Owen •
1919 in literature – W. Somerset Maugham's
The Moon and Sixpence;
Johnston McCulley's
The Curse of Capistrano; H. P. Lovecraft's
Dagon;
Daisy Ashford's
The Young Visiters. Death of
Rosa Luxemburg,
L. Frank Baum,
Andrew Carnegie.
1920s •
1920 in literature – F. Scott Fitzgerald's
This Side of Paradise; D. H. Lawrence's
Women in Love; Sinclair Lewis's
Main Street; Edith Wharton's
The Age of Innocence;
Hugh Lofting's
The Story of Doctor Dolittle; Yevgeny Zamyatin's
We; Sigmund Freud's
Beyond the Pleasure Principle; Karel Capek's
R.U.R.; Agatha Christie's
The Mysterious Affair at Styles; H. P. Lovecraft's
The Cats of Ulthar. Death of
William Heinemann,
Olive Schreiner •
1921 in literature – Luigi Pirandello's play,
Six Characters in Search of an Author; Langston Hughes's poem "
The Negro Speaks of Rivers" in
The Crisis. Death of
Alexander Blok •
1922 in literature – James Joyce's
Ulysses; T. S. Eliot's
The Waste Land; Hermann Hesse's
Siddhartha; E. R. Eddison's
The Worm Ouroboros; Rainer Maria Rilke's
Duino Elegies and
Sonnets to Orpheus; Karel Capek's
The Makropulos Affair; John Galsworthy begins writing
The Forsyte Saga; Agatha Christie's
The Secret Adversary. Death of
Marcel Proust (
In Search of Lost Time completed) •
1923 in literature – Kahlil Gibran's
The Prophet; Dorothy L. Sayers'
Whose Body? (
Lord Peter Wimsey makes his first appearance in print); Jaroslav Hašek's
The Good Soldier Švejk; Agatha Christie's
The Murder on the Links. Death of
Katherine Mansfield •
1924 in literature – Yevgeny Zamyatin's
We; Thomas Mann's
Der Zauberberg (
The Magic Mountain); E. M. Forster's
A Passage to India; Herman Melville's
Billy Budd, Foretopman; Lord Dunsany's ''
The King of Elfland's Daughter''; José Eustasio Rivera's
The Vortex; Agatha Christie's
The Man in the Brown Suit and
Poirot Investigates. Death of
Franz Kafka,
Joseph Conrad,
Marie Corelli,
Anatole France,
Frances Hodgson Burnett •
1925 in literature – F. Scott Fitzgerald's
The Great Gatsby; W. Somerset Maugham's
The Painted Veil; Virginia Woolf's
Mrs. Dalloway; Franz Kafka's
Der Prozeß (
The Trial); Adolf Hitler's
Mein Kampf; Mikhail Bulgakov's
Heart of a Dog; André Gide's
The Counterfeiters; John Dos Passos's
Manhattan Transfer; Agatha Christie's
The Secret of Chimneys. Death of
Sergey Esenin,
Amy Lowell •
1926 in literature –
Roberto Arlt'
s Mad Toy; A. A. Milne's
Winnie-the-Pooh; Ernest Hemingway's
The Sun Also Rises; Sean O'Casey's play
The Plough and the Stars; Franz Kafka's
Das Schloß (The Castle); Agatha Christie's
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd;
Ricardo Güiraldes'
Don Segundo Sombra. Death of
J. M. Dent,
Rudolf Christoph Eucken,
Rainer Maria Rilke •
1927 in literature – Final instalment of Marcel Proust's
In Search of Lost Time; Hermann Hesse's
Steppenwolf; Virginia Woolf's
To the Lighthouse; Arthur Conan Doyle's
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes; Sinclair Lewis's
Elmer Gantry; Yuri Olesha's
Envy; Sigrid Undset's
The Snake Pit; Martin Heidegger's
Being and Time; Thornton Wilder's
The Bridge of San Luis Rey; Agatha Christie's
The Big Four; François Mauriac's
Thérèse Desqueyroux; H. P. Lovecraft's
The Colour Out of Space. Death of
Jerome K. Jerome •
1928 in literature – D. H. Lawrence's ''
Lady Chatterley's Lover''; Siegfried Sassoon's
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man; Bertholt Brecht's
The Threepenny Opera; Ilf and Petrov's
The Twelve Chairs; Federico Garcia Lorca's
Gypsy Ballads; Agatha Christie's
The Mystery of the Blue Train; Andrei Platonov's
Chevengur; Valerian Pidmohylny's
The City. Death of
Thomas Hardy •
1929 in literature – William Faulkner's
The Sound and the Fury; Ernest Hemingway's
A Farewell to Arms; Alfred Döblin's
Berlin Alexanderplatz; Erich Maria Remarque's
All Quiet on the Western Front; Robert Graves's
Goodbye to All That; John Cowper Powys's
Wolf Solent; Rómulo Gallegos'
Doña Bárbara; Agatha Christie's
The Seven Dials Mystery and
Partners in Crime; Virginia Woolf's ''
A Room of One's Own''. Death of
Mary MacLane. Establishment of
Faber and Faber 1930s •
1930 in literature – William Faulkner's
As I Lay Dying; Dashiell Hammett's
The Maltese Falcon; Andrei Platonov's
The Foundation Pit; Carolyn Keene's
The Secret of the Old Clock (first in the
Nancy Drew stories); Vladimir Nabokov's
The Defence; Olaf Stapledon's
Last and First Men; Luigi Pirandello's
The Man With the Flower in His Mouth becomes the first broadcast television drama; Sigmund Freud's
Civilization and Its Discontents; Agatha Christie's
The Murder at the Vicarage, ''
Giant's Bread, and The Mysterious Mr Quin''. Death of
D. H. Lawrence,
Robert Bridges •
1931 in literature – Roberto Arlt's
The Flamethrowers; Ilf and Petrov's
The Little Golden Calf; Pearl S. Buck's
The Good Earth; Georges Simenon's
The Strange Case of Peter the Lett (first
Jules Maigret novel); Agatha Christie's
The Sittaford Mystery;
The Floating Admiral (collaborative novel by 13 writers of the
Detection Club:
Victor Whitechurch,
G. D. H. Cole and
Margaret Cole,
Henry Wade,
Agatha Christie,
John Rhode,
Milward Kennedy,
Dorothy L. Sayers,
Ronald Knox,
Freeman Wills Crofts,
Edgar Jepson,
Clemence Dane and
Anthony Berkeley. Prologue written by
G. K. Chesterton.); H. P. Lovecraft's
The Whisperer in Darkness. Death of
Arnold Bennett,
Erik Axel Karlfeldt,
Khalil Gibran •
1932 in literature – Aldous Huxley's
Brave New World; Louis-Ferdinand Céline's
Voyage au Bout de la Nuit (
Journey to the End of the Night); Hermann Hesse's
Journey to the East; William Faulkner's
Light in August; Lewis Grassic Gibbon's
Sunset Song; Agatha Christie's
Peril at End House and
The Thirteen Problems. Death of
Lytton Strachey,
Hart Crane,
Sol Plaatje •
1933 in literature – André Malraux's
La Condition Humaine ''(
Man's Fate''); Gertrude Stein's
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas; James Hilton's
Lost Horizon; Vera Brittain's
Testament of Youth; John Cowper Powys
A Glastonbury Romance; Eugene O'Neill's
Ah, Wilderness!; Agatha Christie's
Lord Edgware Dies and
The Hound of Death; Lao She's
Cat Country; Lion Feuchtwanger's
The Oppermanns. Death of
John Galsworthy,
Ring Lardner,
George Moore •
1934 in literature – F. Scott Fitzgerald's
Tender Is the Night; Robert Graves's
I, Claudius; Henry Miller's
Tropic of Cancer; Agatha Christie's
Murder on the Orient Express,
Unfinished Portrait, ''
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, Three Act Tragedy, The Listerdale Mystery, and Parker Pyne Investigates''; Irving Stone's
Lust for Life; P.L. Travers'
Mary Poppins; Dashiell Hammett's
The Thin Man; James Hilton's
Goodbye, Mr. Chips; Nikolai Ostrovsky's
How the Steel Was Tempered; James M. Cain's
The Postman Always Rings Twice; H. P. Lovecraft completes
Supernatural Horror in Literature (1925–34); E. E. Smith's
Triplanetary. Death of
Andrei Bely,
Wallace Thurman •
1935 in literature –
Jorge Luis Borges'
A Universal History of Infamy; Laura Ingalls Wilder's
Little House on the Prairie; Russell Thorndike's
Doctor Syn Returns; Agatha Christie's
Death in the Clouds. First paperback published by
Penguin Books. Death of
Charlotte Perkins Gilman,
T. E. Lawrence,
Fernando Pessoa •
1936 in literature – William Faulkner's
Absalom, Absalom!; Margaret Mitchell's
Gone with the Wind; Daphne du Maurier's
Jamaica Inn; First issue of
Life magazine; John Dos Passos's
U.S.A. trilogy; Karel Capek's
War with the Newts; Munro Leaf's
The Story of Ferdinand; Russell Thorndike's
Doctor Syn on the High Seas and
Further Adventures of Doctor Syn; Agatha Christie's
The A.B.C. Murders,
Murder in Mesopotamia, and
Cards on the Table; Maxim Gorky's
The Life of Klim Samgin; H. P. Lovecraft's
At the Mountains of Madness,
The Shadow Over Innsmouth and
The Shadow Out of Time. Killing of
Federico García Lorca, death of
Maxim Gorky •
1937 in literature – John Steinbeck's
Of Mice and Men; J. R. R. Tolkien's
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again; Georges Bernanos's ''Journal d'un Curé de Campagne
(The Diary of a Country Priest''); Olaf Stapledon's
Star Maker; Lao She's
Rickshaw Boy; Agatha Christie's
Dumb Witness,
Death on the Nile, and
Murder in the Mews. Death of
H. P. Lovecraft,
John Drinkwater,
Antonio Gramsci,
J. M. Barrie,
Edith Wharton •
1938 in literature – Jean-Paul Sartre's
La Nausée; Graham Greene's
Brighton Rock; Evelyn Waugh's
Scoop; Henry Miller's
Tropic of Capricorn; T. H. White's
The Sword in the Stone; Vladimir Bartol's
Alamut; C. L. R. James's
The Black Jacobins, Agatha Christie's
Appointment with Death and ''
Hercule Poirot's Christmas''. Death of
Karel Čapek,
James Weldon Johnson,
Osip Mandelstam,
Thomas Wolfe •
1939 in literature – James Joyce's
Finnegans Wake; Konstantine Gamsakhurdia's
The Right Hand of the Grand Master; John Steinbeck's
The Grapes of Wrath; Robert L. May's
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; Raymond Chandler's
The Big Sleep; Flora Thompson's
Lark Rise; T. S. Eliot's ''
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats''; Ludwig Bemelmans's
Madeline; Nathanael West's
The Day of the Locust; Richard Llewellyn's
How Green Was My Valley; Russell Thorndike's
Courageous Exploits of Doctor Syn; Agatha Christie's
Murder Is Easy,
And Then There Were None, and
The Regatta Mystery; Nathalie Sarraute's
Tropisms; Stefan Zweig's
Beware of Pity. Death of
Sigmund Freud,
W. B. Yeats 1940s •
1940 in literature – Anna Akhmatova's
Requiem; Arthur Koestler's
Darkness at Noon; Graham Greene's
The Power and the Glory; Ernest Hemingway's
For Whom the Bell Tolls; Eric Knight's
Lassie Come-Home; Carson McCullers's
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter; Richard Wright's
Native Son; Olaf Stapledon's
Sirius; John Cowper Powys's
Owen Glendower; Agatha Christie's
Sad Cypress and
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe;
Adolfo Bioy Casares's
The Invention of Morel; Mikhail Sholokhov's
And Quiet Flows the Don. Death of
F. Scott Fitzgerald •
1941 in literature – Jorge Luis Borges'
The Garden of Forking Paths; Virginia Woolf's
Between the Acts; Margret and H.A. Rey's
Curious George; Agatha Christie's
Evil Under the Sun and
N or M?; H. P. Lovecraft's
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Death of
James Joyce,
Virginia Woolf •
1942 in literature – Albert Camus's
Le Mythe de Sisyphe (
The Myth of Sisyphus) and ''L'Étranger
(The Stranger''); Edith Hamilton's
Mythology; Enid Blyton's
The Famous Five; Robert Musil's
The Man Without Qualities; Agatha Christie's
The Body in the Library,
Five Little Pigs. and
The Moving Finger. Death of
Stefan Zweig •
1943 in literature – Jean-Paul Sartre's
Anti-Semite and Jew and
Being and Nothingness; Ayn Rand's
The Fountainhead; T. S. Eliot's
Four Quartets published together for the first time; Hermann Hesse's
Das Glasperlenspiel (
The Glass Bead Game); Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's
The Little Prince; Jean Genet's
Our Lady of the Flowers; Colette's
Gigi; H. P. Lovecraft's
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. Death of
Beatrix Potter •
1944 in literature – Jorge Luis Borges's
Ficciones; Jean-Paul Sartre's
No Exit; Ivan Bunin's
Dark Avenues; Jean Genet's
Our Lady of the Flowers; John Hersey's
A Bell for Adano; Tennessee Williams's
The Glass Menagerie; Russell Thorndike's
The Shadow of Doctor Syn; Agatha Christie's
Towards Zero,
Absent in the Spring, and
Death Comes as the End. Death of
Jean Giraudoux,
Arthur Quiller-Couch,
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry •
1945 in literature – George Orwell's
Animal Farm; Bertrand Russell's
A History of Western Philosophy And Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day; Astrid Lindgren's
Pippi Longstocking; The Rev W. Awdry's
The Railway Series, Evelyn Waugh's
Brideshead Revisited; Flora Thompson's
Lark Rise to Candleford; John Steinbeck's
Cannery Row; Agatha Christie's
Sparkling Cyanide;
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn sentenced to eight years in a labour camp for criticism of
Joseph Stalin. Death of
Paul Valéry,
Theodore Dreiser •
1946 in literature – Eugene O'Neill's
The Iceman Cometh; Nikos Kazantzakis's
Zorba the Greek; George Orwell's
Critical Essays; E. E. Smith's
The Skylark of Space; Agatha Christie's
The Hollow; Mervyn Peake's
Titus Groan. Death of
Countee Cullen,
H. G. Wells •
1947 in literature – Anne Frank's
The Diary of a Young Girl; Thomas Mann's
Doctor Faustus; Albert Camus's
La Peste; Tennessee Williams's
A Streetcar Named Desire; Boris Vian's
Froth on the Daydream and
Autumn in Peking; Malcolm Lowry's
Under the Volcano; Jean Genet's
Querelle of Brest and
The Maids; Arthur Miller's
All My Sons; Agatha Christie's
The Labours of Hercules;
1st Tony Awards are awarded. Death of
Hugh Lofting,
Manuel Machado,
Maxwell Perkins •
1948 in literature –
Ernesto Sábato's
The Tunnel;
Leopoldo Marechal's
Adam Buenosayres; Graham Greene's
The Heart of the Matter; Norman Mailer's
The Naked and the Dead; Agatha Christie's
Taken at the Flood,
The Rose and the Yew Tree, and
The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories; Dazai Osamu's
No Longer Human. Death of
Zelda Fitzgerald,
Claude McKay •
1949 in literature – Jorge Luis Borges'
The Aleph and Other Stories; George Orwell's
Nineteen Eighty-Four; Arthur Miller's
Death of a Salesman; Enid Blyton's
Noddy Goes to Toyland; Jean Genet's ''
The Thief's Journal''; Vilhelm Moberg's
The Emigrants; Agatha Christie's
Crooked House; Simone de Beauvoir's
The Second Sex;
Yukio Mishima's
Confessions of a Mask. Death of
Maurice Maeterlinck,
Sigrid Undset,
Hallie Quinn Brown 1950s •
1950 in literature – Ray Bradbury's
The Martian Chronicles; Eugène Ionesco's
The Bald Soprano; C. S. Lewis's
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Isaac Asimov's
I, Robot; Agatha Christie's
A Murder Is Announced and
Three Blind Mice and Other Stories;
Mervyn Peake's
Gormenghast;
Pablo Neruda's
Canto General. Death of
George Orwell,
George Bernard Shaw •
1951 in literature – Jorge Luis Borges'
Death and the Compass; Julio Cortázar's
Bestiario; J. D. Salinger's
The Catcher in the Rye; Graham Greene's
The End of the Affair; Marguerite Yourcenar's
Memoirs of Hadrian;
John Cowper Powys's
Porius: A Romance of the Dark Ages; Samuel Beckett's
Molloy and
Malone Dies; Isaac Asimov's
Foundation; Agatha Christie's
They Came to Baghdad and ''
The Under Dog and Other Stories;
Kalki Krishnamurty's
Ponniyin Selvan''. Death of
Sinclair Lewis,
André Gide •
1952 in literature – Ernest Hemingway's
The Old Man and the Sea; E. B. White's ''
Charlotte's Web''; Ralph Ellison's
Invisible Man; Mary Norton's
The Borrowers; Flannery O'Connor's
Wise Blood; Agatha Christie's ''
Mrs McGinty's Dead, They Do It with Mirrors, The Mousetrap and A Daughter's a Daughter''. Death of
Knut Hamsun •
1953 in literature – Samuel Beckett's
Waiting for Godot and
The Unnamable; Ian Fleming's
Casino Royale (First
James Bond novel); Saul Bellow's
The Adventures of Augie March; Ray Bradbury's
Fahrenheit 451; L. P. Hartley's
The Go-Between;
George Lamming's
In the Castle of My Skin; Leon Uris's
Battle Cry; Arthur Miller's play
The Crucible first performed; J. D. Salinger's
Nine Stories; Agatha Christie's
After the Funeral and
A Pocket Full of Rye. Death of
Hilaire Belloc,
Dylan Thomas,
Eugene O'Neill •
1954 in literature – J. R. R. Tolkien's
The Lord of the Rings; William Golding's
Lord of the Flies; Aldous Huxley's
The Doors of Perception; Kingsley Amis's
Lucky Jim; Christy Brown's
My Left Foot; William Soutar's
Diaries of a Dying Man; Françoise Sagan's
Bonjour tristesse; Dr. Seuss'
Horton Hears a Who!; Winston Churchill's
The Second World War – completed; Agatha Christie's
Destination Unknown. Death of
Colette •
1955 in literature – Juan Rulfo's
Pedro Páramo; Vladimir Nabokov's
Lolita; Tennessee Williams's
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Beverly Cleary's
Beezus and Ramona; Patricia Highsmith's
The Talented Mr. Ripley; Flannery O'Connor's
A Good Man Is Hard to Find; Arthur Miller's
A View from the Bridge; Alistair MacLean's
HMS Ulysses; Agatha Christie's
Hickory Dickory Dock. Death of
Thomas Mann,
Dale Carnegie •
1956 in literature – Julio Cortázar's
End of the Game; Grace Metalious's
Peyton Place; Friedrich Dürrenmatt's
The Visit; Eugene O'Neill's ''
Long Day's Journey into Night''; Allen Ginsberg's
Howl and Other Poems; Fred Gipson's
Old Yeller; Agatha Christie's ''
Dead Man's Folly and The Burden''. Death of
H. L. Mencken,
Walter de la Mare •
1957 in literature – Jack Kerouac's
On the Road; Ayn Rand's
Atlas Shrugged; Vladimir Nabokov's
Pnin;
Rodolfo Walsh's
Operación Masacre;Patrick White's
Voss; Ted Hughes's
The Hawk in the Rain, John Cheever's
The Wapshot Chronicle; Boris Pasternak's
Doctor Zhivago; Dr. Seuss'
The Cat in the Hat and
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!; Max Frisch's
Homo Faber; Tennessee Williams'
Orpheus Descending; Jean Genet's
The Balcony; Harold Pinter's
The Birthday Party; Harold Pinter's
The Room; Robert A. Heinlein's
The Door into Summer; Agatha Christie's
4.50 from Paddington. Death of
Oliver St. John Gogarty,
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa •
1958 in literature – Chinua Achebe's
Things Fall Apart; Brendan Behan's
Borstal Boy; Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's
Il Gattopardo (
The Leopard); Leon Uris's
Exodus; Terry Southern's
Candy; Jack Kerouac's
The Dharma Bums; Michael Bond's
A Bear Called Paddington; R. K. Narayan's
The Guide; Harold Pinter's play
The Birthday Party first performed; Jean Genet's
The Blacks; Josef Skvorecky's
The Cowards; Agatha Christie's
Ordeal by Innocence. Death of
Cyril M. Kornbluth,
Juan Ramón Jiménez,
Roger Martin du Gard •
1959 in literature – Julio Cortázar's
The Secret Weapons; William S. Burroughs's
Naked Lunch; Günter Grass's
The Tin Drum; Heinrich Böll's
Billiards at Half-past Nine; Eugène Ionesco's
Rhinocéros (
Rhinoceros); André Schwarz-Bart's
The Last of the Just; Terry Southern's
The Magic Christian; Alain Robbe-Grillet's
In the Labyrinth; Walter M. Miller Jr.'s
A Canticle for Leibowitz; Tennessee Williams'
Sweet Bird of Youth; John Arden's ''
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance''; Raymond Queneau's
Zazie in the Metro; Agatha Christie's
Cat Among the Pigeons; Mervyn Peake's
Titus Alone. Death of
Edwin Muir,
Raymond Chandler 1960s •
1960 in literature – Julio Cortázar's
The Winners; William L. Shirer's
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich; Harper Lee's
To Kill a Mockingbird; Dr. Seuss'
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and
Green Eggs and Ham; Edna O'Brien's
The Country Girls; John Updike's
Rabbit, Run; Agatha Christie's
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding. Death of
Albert Camus,
Boris Pasternak,
Nevil Shute,
Richard Wright.
Lady Chatterley trial •
1961 in literature – Ernesto Sábato's
On Heroes and Tombs; Joseph Heller's
Catch-22; V. S. Naipaul's
A House for Mr Biswas; Richard Yates's
Revolutionary Road; Walker Percy's
The Moviegoer; Muriel Spark's
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Robert A. Heinlein's
Stranger in a Strange Land; Stanislaw Lem's
Solaris; J. D. Salinger's
Franny and Zooey; Jean Genet's
The Screens; Roald Dahl's
James and the Giant Peach; Agatha Christie's
The Pale Horse and
Double Sin and Other Stories. Death of
Ernest Hemingway,
Frantz Fanon,
Dashiell Hammett,
James Thurber •
1962 in literature – Julio Cortázar's
Cronopios and Famas; Ken Kesey's ''
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest''; Anthony Burgess's
A Clockwork Orange, Vladimir Nabokov's
Pale Fire; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; Doris Lessing's
The Golden Notebook; Jorge Luis Borges's
Labyrinths; Philip K. Dick's
The Man in the High Castle; Carlos Fuentes's
The Death of Artemio Cruz; Madeleine L'Engle's
A Wrinkle in Time; Thomas Kuhn's
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions; Stan and Jan Berenstain's
The Big Honey Hunt (first
Berenstain Bears book); Mercè Rodoreda's
The Time of the Doves; Ray Bradbury's
Something Wicked This Way Comes; Agatha Christie's ''
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side''. Death of
Hermann Hesse,
William Faulkner,
Vita Sackville-West,
E. E. Cummings •
1963 in literature – Thomas Pynchon's
V.; Sylvia Plath's
The Bell Jar; Kurt Vonnegut's ''
Cat's Cradle''; Pierre Boulle's
La Planete des Singes (
Planet of the Apes); Maurice Sendak's
Where the Wild Things Are; John le Carré's
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold; Václav Havel's
The Garden Party; Norman Bridwell's
Clifford the Big Red Dog; Agatha Christie's
The Clocks; Julio Cortazar's
Hopscotch. Death of
Aldous Huxley,
Robert Frost,
Clifford Odets,
Sylvia Plath,
William Carlos Williams,
C. S. Lewis;
John Cowper Powys •
1964 in literature – Marshall McLuhan's
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, Thomas Berger's
Little Big Man; Leonard Cohen's
Flowers for Hitler; Roald Dahl's
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Hubert Selby Jr.'s
Last Exit to Brooklyn; Brian Friel's play
Philadelphia, Here I Come! first performed; Philip Larkin's
The Whitsun Weddings; Harold Pinter's
The Homecoming; Gore Vidal's
Julian; Shel Silverstein's
The Giving Tree; Agatha Christie's
A Caribbean Mystery. Death of
Brendan Behan,
Ian Fleming,
Seán O'Casey,
Nella Larsen,
Edith Sitwell. Refusal of Nobel Prize by
Jean-Paul Sartre •
1965 in literature – Alex Haley's
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Saul Bellow's
Herzog; Norman Mailer's
An American Dream; John Fowles's
The Magus; John McGahern's
The Dark; Jerzy Kosinski's
The Painted Bird; Frank Herbert's
Dune; Harlan Ellison's
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman; Václav Havel's
The Memorandum; Agatha Christie's ''
At Bertram's Hotel and Surprise! Surprise!''. Death of
T. S. Eliot,
W. Somerset Maugham •
1966 in literature – Julio Cortázar's
All Fires The Fire; Mikhail Bulgakov's
The Master and Margarita; Thomas Pynchon's
The Crying of Lot 49; Jean Rhys's
Wide Sargasso Sea; Truman Capote's
In Cold Blood; Leonard Cohen's
Beautiful Losers; Larry McMurtry's
The Last Picture Show; Tom Stoppard's play
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead first performed; Basil Buntings'
Briggflatts; ''
The Witch's Daughter by Nina Bawden; Babel-17'' by Samuel R. Delany; Agatha Christie's
Third Girl. Death of
Frank O'Connor,
Brian O'Nolan,
Evelyn Waugh •
1967 in literature – Gabriel García Márquez's
Cien años de soledad (
One Hundred Years of Solitude); Vladimir Nabokov's
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited; Bernard Malamud's
The Fixer; Flann O'Brien's
The Third Policeman; Milan Kundera's
Žert (
The Joke); Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore's
The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects; William Manchester's
The Death of a President; Robert K. Massie's
Nicholas and Alexandra; Allan W. Eckert's
Wild Season; Roger Zelazny's
Lord of Light; Harlan Ellison's
Dangerous Visions; Harlan Ellison's
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream; S. E. Hinton's
The Outsiders; Agatha Christie's
Endless Night. Death of
Victor Gollancz,
Langston Hughes,
Carson McCullers,
John Masefield,
Dorothy Parker,
Siegfried Sassoon,
Alice B. Toklas,
Jean Toomer •
1968 in literature – Julio Cortázar's
Blow-up and Other Stories; Julio Cortázar's
62: A Model Kit; Philip K. Dick's
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; Tom Wolfe's
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; Arthur Hailey's
Airport; Albert Cohen's
Belle du Seigneur; Judith Kerr's
The Tiger Who Came to Tea; Carlos Castaneda's
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge; Ursula K. Le Guin's
A Wizard of Earthsea; Samuel R. Delany's
Nova; Agatha Christie's
By the Pricking of My Thumbs; Marguerite Yourcenar's
The Abyss; Haddis Alemayehu's
Love to the Grave. Death of
John Steinbeck,
Edna Ferber,
Upton Sinclair,
Enid Blyton,
Mervyn Peake •
1969 in literature – inaugural Booker Prize awarded to P. H. Newby's
Something to Answer For;
Manuel Puig's
Heartbreak Tango; Mario Puzo's
The Godfather; Philip Roth's ''
Portnoy's Complaint''; Eric Carle's
The Very Hungry Caterpillar; Kurt Vonnegut's
Slaughterhouse-Five; Vladimir Nabokov's
Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle; Maya Angelou's
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings; John Fowles's ''
The French Lieutenant's Woman''; Harlan Ellison's
A Boy and His Dog; Agatha Christie's ''
Hallowe'en Party'';
Sam Greenlee's
The Spook Who Sat By the Door. Death of
Jack Kerouac,
B. Traven,
Leonard Woolf 1970s •
1970 in literature – Judy Blume's ''
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.'', Muriel Spark's ''
The Driver's Seat''; Judith Kerr's
Mog the Forgetful Cat; J. G. Farrell's
Troubles; Toni Morrison's
The Bluest Eye; James Dickey's
Deliverance; Roald Dahl's
Fantastic Mr. Fox; Terry Southern's
Blue Movie; Jim Bouton's
Ball Four; Ted Hughes's
Crow; Nina Bawden's
The Birds on the Trees; Maurice Sendak's
In the Night Kitchen; Larry Niven's
Ringworld; Agatha Christie's
Passenger to Frankfurt; Annette Tison and Talus Taylor's
Barbapapa; Roger Zelazny's
Nine Princes in Amber. Death of
Máirtín Ó Cadhain;
Erich Maria Remarque; •
1971 in literature – Frederick Forsyth's
The Day of the Jackal; Carlos Castaneda's
A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan; Dr. Seuss'
The Lorax;
Xaviera Hollander's
The Happy Hooker: My Own Story; Rosamunde Pilcher's
The End of Summer; Roger Hargreaves's
Mr. Men; Agatha Christie's
Nemesis and
The Golden Ball and Other Stories. Death of
Ogden Nash,
Stevie Smith •
1972 in literature – Richard Bach's
Jonathan Livingston Seagull; Hunter S. Thompson's
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; Ira Levin's
The Stepford Wives; Richard Adams's
Watership Down; Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's
Roadside Picnic; Isaac Asimov's
The Gods Themselves; Agatha Christie's
Elephants Can Remember. Death of
Ezra Pound,
L. P. Hartley •
1973 in literature – Julio Cortázar's
Libro de Manuel; Thomas Pynchon's ''
Gravity's Rainbow''; J. G. Ballard's
Crash; J. G. Farrell's
The Siege of Krishnapur; Gore Vidal's
Burr; Peter Shaffer's play
Equus first performed; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's
The Gulag Archipelago; John Bellairs'
The House with a Clock in Its Walls; Kurt Vonnegut's
Breakfast of Champions; Nina Bawden's ''
Carrie's War''; Arthur C. Clarke's
Rendezvous with Rama; Dean Koontz's
Demon Seed; Agatha Christie's
Postern of Fate. Death of
W. H. Auden,
J. R. R. Tolkien,
B. S. Johnson •
1974 in literature – Julio Cortázar's
Octahedron; Ernesto Sábato's
Abbadón, The Exterminator; Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward's ''
All the President's Men''; Stephen King's
Carrie; Peter Benchley's
Jaws; Erica Jong's
Fear of Flying; Jill Murphy's
The Worst Witch; James Herbert's
The Rats; Agatha Christie's ''
Poirot's Early Cases''. Death of
Edmund Blunden,
Georgette Heyer,
William Gardner Smith •
1975 in literature – James Clavell's
Shogun; Stephen King's ''
'Salem's Lot''; Jorge Luis Borges's
The Book of Sand; Samuel R. Delany's
Dhalgren; E. L. Doctorow's
Ragtime; Carlos Fuentes'
Terra Nostra; James Herbert's
The Fog; Diana Wynne Jones'
Cart and Cwidder; Agatha Christie's
Curtain. Death of
P. G. Wodehouse,
Saint-John Perse,
Thornton Wilder •
1976 in literature – Manuel Puig's
Kiss of the Spider Woman; Anne Rice's
Interview with the Vampire; Richard Yates's
The Easter Parade; Mildred D. Taylor's
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's
The Final Days; Samuel R. Delany's
Triton; Alex Haley's
Roots: The Saga of an American Family; Agatha Christie's
Sleeping Murder; Marc Brown's ''
Arthur's Nose (first Arthur'' book). Death of
Agatha Christie,
André Malraux •
1977 in literature – Iris Murdoch's
The Sea, the Sea; Toni Morrison's
Song of Solomon; Stephen King's
The Shining; J. R. R. Tolkien's
The Silmarillion; Frederick Pohl's
Gateway; Diana Wynne Jones'
Charmed Life; Shirley Hughes's
Dogger; Patrick Leigh Fermor's
A Time of Gifts; Terry Brooks'
The Sword of Shannara; Michael Moorcock's
The Condition of Muzak. Death of
Anaïs Nin,
Vladimir Nabokov,
Dennis Wheatley,
Terence Rattigan •
1978 in literature – John Irving's
The World According to Garp; J. G. Farrell's
The Singapore Grip; Judi Barrett's
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs; John Cheever's
The Stories of John Cheever; Stephen King's
The Stand; Harold Pinter's
Betrayal; Ken Follett's
Eye of the Needle; Octavia Butler's
Kindred; Roy Heath's
The Murderer,
Dambudzo Marechera's
The House of Hunger, Raymond Briggs's
The Snowman, Roger Hargreaves's
Timbuctoo. Death of
F. R. Leavis,
Hugh MacDiarmid,
Georgi Markov •
1979 in literature – Douglas Adams's ''
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''; Italo Calvino's ''Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore
(If on a winter's night a traveler''); V.S. Naipaul's
A Bend in the River, Milan Kundera's
Kniha smíchu a zapomnení (
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting); Angela Sommer-Bodenburg's
Der kleine Vampir (
The Little Vampire); William Styron's ''
Sophie's Choice''; Norman Mailer's ''
The Executioner's Song''; Jeffrey Archer's
Kane and Abel; Peter Shaffer's play
Amadeus first performed; Flora Thompson's
Heatherley; Arthur C. Clarke's
The Fountains of Paradise; Ken Follett's
Triple; Agatha Christie's ''
Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories'', Rosemary Wells's
Max & Ruby. Death of
J. G. Farrell,
Jean Rhys 1980s •
1980 in literature – John le Carré's ''
Smiley's People''; Robert Ludlum's
Jason Bourne trilogy; J. M. Coetzee's
Waiting for the Barbarians; William Maxwell's
So Long, See You Tomorrow; Anthony Burgess's
Earthly Powers; Umberto Eco's
Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose); John Kennedy Toole's
A Confederacy of Dunces; Gay Talese's ''
Thy Neighbor's Wife''; Brian Friel's play
Translations first performed; Ken Follett's
The Key to Rebecca; Robert Munsch's
The Paper Bag Princess. Death of
Jean-Paul Sartre,
Alejo Carpentier,
Henry Miller,
Katherine Anne Porter,
C. P. Snow,
Kenneth Tynan •
1981 in literature – Salman Rushdie's ''
Midnight's Children''; Thomas Harris's
Red Dragon; Gary K. Wolf's
Who Censored Roger Rabbit?; Roger Hargreaves's
Little Miss. Death of
Nelson Algren,
Gwendolyn B. Bennett,
Christy Brown,
Eugenio Montale,
William Saroyan,
Philip Toynbee •
1982 in literature – José Saramago's
Memorial do Convento (
Baltasar and Blimunda); Alice Walker's
The Color Purple; Primo Levi's
Se non ora, quando? (
If Not Now, When?); L. Ron Hubbard's
Battlefield Earth; Isabel Allende's
La casa de los espíritus (
The House of the Spirits); Charles Bukowski's
Ham on Rye; Roald Dahl's
The BFG; Tom Stoppard's
The Real Thing; Fernando Pessoa's
The Book of Disquiet; Stephen King's
The Gunslinger; David Eddings'
The Belgariad; Ken Follett's
The Man from St. Petersburg. Death of
Louis Aragon,
Philip K. Dick,
Ayn Rand •
1983 in literature – J. M. Coetzee's
Life & Times of Michael K; Salman Rushdie's
Shame; Terry Pratchett's
Discworld; Parker Brothers and Random House publish the first
Care Bears books; Ken Follett's
On Wings of Eagles; Katherine Holabird's
Angelina Ballerina, Norman Mailer's
Ancient Evenings; Stephen King's
Pet Sematary; Dean Koontz's
Phantoms; Lynley Dodd's ''
Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy''; Palanca Awardee's
Luha ng Buwaya. Death of
Arthur Koestler,
Nikolaus Pevsner,
Mikey Smith,
Rebecca West,
Tennessee Williams •
1984 in literature – Milan Kundera's
The Unbearable Lightness of Being; José Saramago's
O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis (
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis); Richard Harris' play
Stepping Out first performed; Don DeLillo's
White Noise; Julian Barnes's ''
Flaubert's Parrot''; Tom Clancy's
The Hunt for Red October; Milorad Pavic's
Dictionary of the Khazars; Antonio Tabucchi's
Indian Nocturne; Glen Cook's
The Black Company. Death of
Julio Cortázar,
John Betjeman,
Truman Capote,
Michel Foucault,
Chester Himes,
Alexander Trocchi •
1985 in literature – Margaret Atwood's ''
The Handmaid's Tale; Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian'' Gabriel García Márquez's
El amor en los tiempos del cólera (
Love in the Time of Cholera); Patrick Süskind's
Perfume; Carlos Fuentes's
The Old Gringo; Chris Van Allsburg's
The Polar Express; Orson Scott Card's ''
Ender's Game''; Ken Follett's
Lie Down with Lions. Death of
Italo Calvino,
Heinrich Böll,
Basil Bunting,
Geoffrey Grigson,
Philip Larkin,
Robert Graves •
1986 in literature – Thomas Bernhard's
Extinction; Caryl Churchill's
A Mouthful of Birds; Stephen King's
It; Brian Lumley's
Necroscope; Tony Ross'
I Want My Potty; Clive Barker's
The Hellbound Heart; Carl Sagan's
Contact; Brian Jacques'
Redwall; Diana Wynne Jones' ''
Howl's Moving Castle'', Robert Munsch's
Love You Forever. Death of
Jorge Luis Borges,
Simone de Beauvoir,
Jean Genet,
Bessie Head,
Christopher Isherwood,
Juan Rulfo,
Jaroslav Seifert •
1987 in literature – Toni Morrison's
Beloved; Alfred Uhry's play
Driving Miss Daisy first performed; Haruki Murakami's
Noruwei no mori (
Norwegian Wood); Tom Clancy's
Patriot Games; Robert Hughes'
The Fatal Shore; Martin Handford's ''
Where's Wally?''; Stephen King's
Misery; Dean Koontz's
Watchers. Death of
Jean Anouilh,
James Baldwin,
Primo Levi,
Marguerite Yourcenar •
1988 in literature – Salman Rushdie's
The Satanic Verses; Noam Chomsky's
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media; Stephen Hawking's
A Brief History of Time; Roald Dahl's
Matilda; Peter Carey's
Oscar and Lucinda; Alan Hollinghurst's
The Swimming Pool Library; Grazyna Miller's
Curriculum, Umberto Eco's
Il pendolo di Foucault (''
Foucault's Pendulum''). Death of
Raymond Carver,
Marghanita Laski,
Alan Paton,
Roger Hargreaves,
Sacheverell Sitwell •
1989 in literature – Kazuo Ishiguro's
The Remains of the Day; John Banville's
The Book of Evidence; Amy Tan's
The Joy Luck Club; Michael Rosen's ''
We're Going on a Bear Hunt''; Ken Follett's
The Pillars of the Earth; David McKee's
Elmer. Death of
Samuel Beckett,
Thomas Bernhard,
Daphne du Maurier,
C. L. R. James,
Georges Simenon 1990s •
1990 in literature – John McGahern's
Amongst Women; W. G. Sebald's
Vertigo; Raphael Patai's
The Hebrew Goddess; Michael Critchton's
Jurassic Park; Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's
Good Omens; Robert Jordan's
The Eye of the World; William Steig's
Shrek!; Maeve Binchy's
Circle of Friends; Brian Friel's play
Dancing at Lughnasa first performed. Death of
Roald Dahl,
Dodie Smith,
Malcolm Forbes,
Alberto Moravia,
Walker Percy,
Anya Seton,
Patrick White •
1991 in literature – José Saramago's
O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo (
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ); Norman Rush's
Mating; Bret Easton Ellis's
American Psycho; Josephine Hart's
Damage; Rohinton Mistry's
Such a Long Journey; P. J. O'Rourke's
Parliament of Whores; Henning Mankell's
Mördare utan ansikte (
Faceless Killers – first in the Wallander series); Diana Gabaldon's
Outlander; Koji Suzuki's
Ring; Ken Follett's
Night Over Water; Agatha Christie's
Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories. Death of
Graham Greene,
Isaac Bashevis Singer,
Elisaveta Bagriana,
Jerzy Kosiński,
Angus Wilson,
Frank Yerby •
1992 in literature – Harry Mulisch's
De Ontdekking van de Hemel (
The Discovery of Heaven); Salman Rushdie's
Imaginary Homelands; Michael Ondaatje's
The English Patient; Cormac McCarthy's
All the Pretty Horses; Jim Cartwright's play
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice; Michael Connelly's
The Black Echo; Barry Unsworth's
Sacred Hunger; Dean Koontz's
Hideaway; R. L. Stine's
Goosebumps. Death of
Alex Haley,
Angela Carter,
George MacBeth,
Isaac Asimov,
Iceberg Slim,
Richard Yates,
Audre Lorde •
1993 in literature – Irvine Welsh's
Trainspotting; E. Annie Proulx'
The Shipping News; Sebastian Faulks's
Birdsong; Richard Paul Evans's
The Christmas Box; Ken Follett's
A Dangerous Fortune. Death of
Kobo Abe,
Anthony Burgess,
William Golding,
William L. Shirer •
1994 in literature – Herta Müller's
Herztier (
The Land of Green Plums); Carol Shields's
The Stone Diaries; Terry Goodkind's ''
Wizard's First Rule''; Antonio Tabucchi's
Pereira Maintains. Death of
Elias Canetti,
James Clavell,
Ralph Ellison,
Eugène Ionesco •
1995 in literature – James Redfield's
The Celestine Prophecy; José Saramago's
Ensaio sobre a cegueira (
Blindness); Haruki Murakami's
Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru (
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle); Philip Pullman's
His Dark Materials; Samuel R. Delany's
Hogg; Dean Koontz's
Intensity; Ken Follett's
A Place Called Freedom; Bernard Cornwell's
The Winter King. Death of
Gerald Durrell,
Kingsley Amis,
Olga Ivinskaya (mistress of
Boris Pasternak),
Patricia Highsmith,
Stephen Spender,
Toni Cade Bambara •
1996 in literature – Inaugural
International Dublin Literary Award and
Orange Prize for Fiction awarded; David Foster Wallace's
Infinite Jest; Frank McCourt's ''
Angela's Ashes''; George R.R. Martin's
A Song of Ice and Fire; Chuck Palahniuk's
Fight Club; Tim Lahaye, Jerry B. Jenkins's
Left Behind; Ken Follett's
The Third Twin. Death of
Erma Bombeck,
Joseph Brodsky,
Marguerite Duras,
Timothy Leary,
Carl Sagan •
1997 in literature – J. K. Rowling's
Harry Potter; Don DeLillo's
Underworld; Arundhati Roy's
The God of Small Things; Charles Frazier's
Cold Mountain; Patrick Marber's play
Closer first performed; Agatha Christie's
While the Light Lasts and Other Stories and
The Harlequin Tea Set. Death of
Allen Ginsberg,
William S. Burroughs,
James Dickey,
James A. Michener,
P. H. Newby,
Kathy Acker •
1998 in literature – Orhan Pamuk's
Benim Adim Kirmizi (
My Name Is Red); Michael Cunningham's
The Hours; Julian Barnes's
England, England; Alice McDermott's
Charming Billy; Ian McEwan's
Amsterdam; Beryl Bainbridge's
Master Georgie; Michel Houellebecq's
Les Particules élémentaires (
Atomised); Michael Connelly's
Blood Work; Bret Easton Ellis's
Glamorama; Louis Sachar's
Holes; Diana Wynne Jones'
Dark Lord of Derkholm; Ken Follett's
The Hammer of Eden. Death of
Carlos Castaneda,
Octavio Paz,
Lawrence Sanders,
Benjamin Spock,
Dorothy West,
Grace Paley,
Ted Hughes,
Rumer Godden •
1999 in literature – J. M. Coetzee's
Disgrace; Joanne Harris's
Chocolat; Ha Jin's
Waiting; Colm Tóibín's
The Blackwater Lightship; Julia Donaldson's
The Gruffalo; Neil Gaiman's
Stardust; Steven Erikson's
Gardens of the Moon. Death of
Iris Murdoch,
Sarah Kane,
Joseph Heller,
Mario Puzo,
John F. Kennedy Jr. ==21st century==