List of years in literature

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This page indexes the individual "year in literature" pages. Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point. Template:History of literature

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2000s

• 2006 in literature
• 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 - The American Family Association begins a year-long attack on Robert Clark Young's novel, One of the Guys, in an attempt to persuade the U.S. Congress to defund the National Endowment for the Arts, In the wabe of the breath - Grazyna Miller

1990s

• 1999 in literature - Chocolat - Joanne Harris
• 1998 in literature - A Man in Full - Tom Wolfe
• 1997 in literature - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J. K. Rowling
• 1996 in literature - Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt; Left Behind - Tim Lahaye, Jerry Jinkins
• 1995 in literature - The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield
• 1994 in literature - The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
• 1993 in literature - The Christmas Box – Richard Paul Evans
• 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
• 1988 in literature - Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey, (novel) 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
• 1984 in literature - White Noise - Don DeLillo
• 1983 in literature - On Wings of Eagles - Ken Follett
• 1982 in literature - The Color Purple - Alice Walker
• 1981 in literature - The Blue Bicycle - Régine Deforges
• 1980 in literature - Smiley's People - John le Carré

1970s

• 1979 in literature - Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
• 1978 in literature - The World According to Garp - John Irving
• 1977 in literature - The Sea, the Sea - Iris Murdoch
• 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
• 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
• 1968 in literature - Airport - Arthur Hailey
• 1967 in literature - Wild Season - Allan W. Eckert
• 1966 in literature - The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
• 1965 in literature - Herzog - Saul Bellow
• 1964 in literature - Little Big Man - Thomas Berger
• 1963 in literature - Planet of the Apes (La Planete des Singes) - Pierre Boulle
• 1962 in literature - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
• 1961 in literature - Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
• 1960 in literature - To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

1950s

• 1959 in literature - In the Labyrinth - Alain Robbe-Grillet
• 1958 in literature - The Grass - Claude Simon
• 1957 in literature - On the Road - Jack Kerouac
• 1956 in literature - The Visit - Friedrich Dürrenmatt
• 1955 in literature - Tunnel in the Sky – Robert A. Heinlein
• 1954 in literature - Lord of the Flies - William Golding
• 1953 in literature - Casino Royale - Ian Fleming - First James Bond novel
• 1952 in literature - Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett; Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
• 1951 in literature - The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
• 1950 in literature - The Bald Soprano - Eugène Ionesco

1940s

• 1949 in literature - Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
• 1948 in literature - Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann
• 1947 in literature - The Diary of Anne Frank
• 1946 in literature - The Iceman Cometh - Eugene O'Neill
• 1945 in literature - The Death of Virgil - Hermann Broch
• 1944 in literature - Our Lady of the Flowers - Jean Genet
• 1943 in literature - Four Quartets - T.S. Eliot
• 1942 in literature - The Stranger - Albert Camus
• 1941 in literature - Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf
• 1940 in literature - Native Son - Richard Wright

1930s

• 1939 in literature - Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
• 1938 in literature - Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
• 1937 in literature - Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
• 1936 in literature - Death on the Installment Plan - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
• 1935 in literature - The Dog Beneath the Skin - W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood
• 1934 in literature - I, Claudius - Robert Graves
• 1933 in literature - A Universal History of Infamy (to 1934) - Jorge Luis Borges
• 1932 in literature - Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
• 1931 in literature - The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
• 1930 in literature - The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil

1920s

• 1929 in literature - Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin
• 1928 in literature - Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
• 1927 in literature - In Search of Lost Time (final volume) - Marcel Proust
• 1926 in literature - The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway; Jose Ortega y Gasset completes The Revolt of the Masses
• 1925 in literature - The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• 1924 in literature - Billy Budd, Foretopman - Herman Melville
• 1923 in literature - Duino Elegies - Rainer Maria Rilke
• 1922 in literature - Ulysses - James Joyce, The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot, Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse; Marcel Proust dies - In Search of Lost Time completed
• 1921 in literature - The Mistress of Husaby - Sigrid Undset
• 1920 in literature - The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton

1910s

• 1919 in literature - The Moon and Sixpence - W. Somerset Maugham
• 1918 in literature - The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington, Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
• 1917 in literature - Prufrock and Other Observations - T.S. Eliot
• 1916 in literature - Relativity - Albert Einstein
• 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
• 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

1900s

• 1909 in literature - The Song of Songs - Hermann Sudermann
• 1908 in literature - Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maude Montgomery
• 1907 in literature - The City of Pleasure - Arnold Bennett
• 1906 in literature - The House of Souls - Arthur Machen
• 1905 in literature - White Fang - Jack London
• 1904 in literature - Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
• 1903 in literature - The Souls of Black Folk - W. E. B. DuBois
• 1902 in literature - The Immoralist - André Gide
• 1901 in literature - Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
• 1900 in literature - Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser

1890s

• 1899 in literature - The School and Society - John Dewey
• 1898 in literature - Paris - Emile Zola
• 1897 in literature - Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling
• 1896 in literature - The Well at the World's End - William Morris
• 1895 in literature - Almayer's Folly - Joseph Conrad
• 1894 in literature - The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope
• 1893 in literature - The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
• 1892 in literature - Children of the Ghetto - Israel Zangwill
• 1891 in literature - Diary of a Pilgrimage - Jerome K. Jerome
• 1890 in literature - Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen

1880s

• 1889 in literature - Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
• 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
• 1885 in literature - Marius the Epicurean - Walter Pater; Lord Alfred Tennyson completes Idylls of the King
• 1884 in literature - Miss Bretherton - Mary Augusta Ward
• 1883 in literature - Une Vie - Guy de Maupassant
• 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

1870s

• 1879 in literature - The Red Room - August Strindberg
• 1878 in literature - Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
• 1877 in literature - Under the Lilacs - Louisa May Alcott
• 1876 in literature - The Shadow of the Sword - Robert Buchanan
• 1875 in literature - The Goldsmith's Wife - William Harrison Ainsworth
• 1874 in literature - Les Diaboliques - Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
• 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 - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne

1860s

• 1869 in literature - War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
• 1868 in literature - Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
• 1867 in literature - Cometh Up as a Flower - Rhoda Broughton
• 1866 in literature - Surry of Eagle's-Nest - John Esten Cooke
• 1865 in literature - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
• 1864 in literature - Renee Mauperin - Edmond de Goncourt
• 1863 in literature - Capitan Fracassa - Theophile Gautier
• 1862 in literature - Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
• 1861 in literature - Framley Parsonage - Anthony Trollope
• 1860 in literature - The Fall of the Alamo - R.M. Potter

1850s

• 1859 in literature - A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
• 1858 in literature - A House of Gentlefolk - Ivan Turgenev
• 1857 in literature - Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
• 1856 in literature - The Daisy Chain - Charlotte Mary Yonge; Aurora Leigh - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• 1855 in literature - Westward Ho! - Charles Kingsley
• 1854 in literature - The Newcomers - William Makepeace Thackeray
• 1853 in literature - Life in the Clearings - Susanna Moodie
• 1852 in literature - Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
• 1851 in literature - Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
• 1850 in literature - The Arabian Nights - Sir Richard Burton; Lord Alfred Tennyson completes In Memoriam A.H.H.; William Wordsworth writes The Prelude

1840s

• 1849 in literature - The Oregon Trail - Francis Parkman
• 1848 in literature - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
• 1847 in literature - Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
• 1846 in literature - The Children of the Night - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
• 1845 in literature - The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas, père
• 1844 in literature - Les Paysans - Honoré de Balzac
• 1843 in literature - Windsor Castle - William Harrison Ainsworth
• 1842 in literature - Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
• 1841 in literature - The Bronze Horseman - Alexander Pushkin
• 1840 in literature - Two Years Before the Mast - Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

1830s

• 1839 in literature - The Voyage of the Beagle - Charles Darwin
• 1838 in literature - The Birds of America - John James Audubon
• 1837 in literature - Live and Let Live - Catharine Maria Sedgwick
• 1836 in literature - Poems - Oliver Wendell Holmes
• 1835 in literature - Souvenirs - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun
• 1834 in literature - Sartor Resartus - Thomas Carlyle
• 1833 in literature - Gamiani - Alfred de Musset
• 1832 in literature - Valentine - George Sand
• 1831 in literature - The Young Duke - Benjamin Disraeli
• 1830 in literature - The Red and the Black - Stendhal

1820s

• 1829 in literature - The Misfortunes of Elphin - Thomas Love Peacock
• 1828 in literature - The Birds of America - John James Audubon
• 1827 in literature - Book of Songs (poetry) - Heinrich Heine
• 1826 in literature - Cinq-Mars - Alfred de Vigny
• 1825 in literature - The Betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni
• 1824 in literature - Our Village - Mary Russell Mitford
• 1823 in literature - Posthumous Poems - Percy Bysshe Shelley
• 1822 in literature - Trilby - Charles Nodier
• 1821 in literature - Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Thomas De Quincey
• 1820 in literature - Méditations Poétiques - Lamartine

1810s

• 1819 in literature - The Sketch Book - Washington Irving
• 1818 in literature - Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
• 1817 in literature - Ormond and Harrington - Maria Edgeworth
• 1816 in literature - Adolphe - Benjamin Constant
• 1815 in literature - The Pastor's Fireside - Jane Porter
• 1814 in literature - The Wanderer - Fanny Burney
• 1813 in literature - The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann David Wyss
• 1812 in literature - The Milesian Chief - Charles Robert Maturin
• 1811 in literature - Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
• 1810 in literature - The Houses of Osma and Almeria - Regina Maria Roche

1800s

• 1809 in literature - The Martyrs - François-René de Chateaubriand
• 1808 in literature - Faust (Part One) - Goethe
• 1807 in literature - Tales from Shakespeare - Charles Lamb & Mary Lamb
• 1806 in literature - The Earthquake in Chile - Heinrich von Kleist
• 1805 in literature - The Wonder of the Village - Mary Meeke
• 1804 in literature - Jerusalem (poetry) - William Blake
• 1803 in literature - St. Clair of the Isles - Elisabeth Helme
• 1802 in literature - Delphine - Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
• 1801 in literature - The Wizard and the Sword - Henry Summersett
• 1800 in literature - Hymns to the Night - Novalis

1790s

• 1799 in literature - Arthur Mervyn - Charles Brockden Brown
• 1798 in literature - Lyrical Ballads - Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth
• 1797 in literature - l'Histoire de Juliette - Marquis de Sade
• 1796 in literature - Camilla - Fanny Burney
• 1795 in literature - Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (to 1796) - Goethe
• 1794 in literature - The Age of Reason - Thomas Paine
• 1793 in literature -
• 1792 in literature - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft
• 1791 in literature - The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - James Boswell
• 1790 in literature - Reflections on the Revolution in France - Edmund Burke

1780s

• 1789 in literature - Songs of Innocence - William Blake
• 1788 in literature - Memoirs - Saint-Simon
• 1787 in literature - Don Carlos - Friedrich Schiller
• 1786 in literature - Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect - Robert Burns
• 1785 in literature - Anton Reiser (to 1790) - Karl Philipp Moritz
• 1784 in literature - Barham Downs - Robert Bage
• 1783 in literature - Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics - Immanuel Kant
• 1782 in literature - The Robbers - Friedrich Schiller
• 1781 in literature - A Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant
• 1780 in literature -

1770s

• 1779 in literature - Nathan the Wise - Gotthold Lessing
• 1778 in literature - Evelina - Fanny Burney
• 1777 in literature -
• 1776 in literature - Common Sense - Thomas Paine
• 1775 in literature - The Rivals - Richard Sheridan

• 1774 in literature - The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
• 1773 in literature - Der Messias (from 1749) - Klopstock
• 1772 in literature -
• 1771 in literature - Jacques le fataliste et son maître (to 1773) - Diderot
• 1770 in literature -

1760s

• 1769 in literature - The History of Emily Montague - Frances Brooke
• 1768 in literature - Poems - Thomas Gray
• 1767 in literature - Minna von Barnhelm - Gotthold Lessing
• 1766 in literature - The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
• 1765 in literature -
• 1764 in literature - The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
• 1763 in literature - The Chronicles of the Stone - Cao Xueqin
• 1762 in literature - Émile - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• 1761 in literature - Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• 1760 in literature - Tristram Shandy (to 1770) - Laurence Sterne

1750s

• 1759 in literature - Candide - Voltaire
• 1758 in literature - Letter to d'Alembert - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• 1757 in literature - Odes - Thomas Gray
• 1756 in literature -
• 1755 in literature - Letter to Lord Chesterfield - Samuel Johnson
• 1754 in literature - History of Great Britain (to 1762) - David Hume
• 1753 in literature - Sir Charles Grandison (to 1754) - Samuel Richardson
• 1752 in literature - Micromégas - Voltaire
• 1751 in literature - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard - Thomas Gray
• 1750 in literature - Rambler essays (to 1752) - Samuel Johnson

1740s

• 1749 in literature - Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
• 1748 in literature - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - David Hume
• 1747 in literature - Clarissa (to 1748) - Samuel Richardson
• 1746 in literature -
• 1745 in literature -
• 1744 in literature - The Pleasures of the Imagination - Mark Akenside
• 1743 in literature - The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great - Henry Fielding
• 1742 in literature - Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding
• 1741 in literature - Shamela - Henry Fielding
• 1740 in literature - Institutions de physique – Émilie du Châtelet

1730s

• 1739 in literature - A Treatise of Human Nature (to 1740) - David Hume
• 1738 in literature - Leonidas - Richard Glover
• 1737 in literature -
• 1736 in literature -
• 1735 in literature -
• 1734 in literature -
• 1733 in literature -
• 1732 in literature - Essay on Man (to 1744) - Alexander Pope
• 1731 in literature - Insel Felsenburg (to 1743) - Johann Schnabel
• 1730 in literature -

1720s

• 1729 in literature - A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
• 1728 in literature - Dunciad - Alexander Pope
• 1727 in literature -
• 1726 in literature - Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
• 1725 in literature - Odyssey (translation) - Alexander Pope
• 1724 in literature - Roxana - Daniel Defoe
• 1723 in literature - Henréiade - Voltaire
• 1722 in literature - Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
• 1721 in literature - Persian Letters - Montesquieu
• 1720 in literature

1710s

• 1719 in literature - Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
• 1718 in literature
• 1717 in literature - The Rape of the Lock - Alexander Pope
• 1716 in literature
• 1715 in literature - Iliad (translation; to 1720) - Alexander Pope
• 1714 in literature - Monadology - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• 1713 in literature - Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous - George Berkeley
• 1712 in literature - The Rape of the Lock - Alexander Pope
• 1711 in literature
• 1710 in literature - A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge - George Berkeley

1700s

• 1709 in literature
• 1708 in literature
• 1707 in literature
• 1706 in literature
• 1705 in literature - Nouveaux essais sur l'entendement humain ("New Essays on Human Understanding") - Gottfried Leibniz
• 1704 in literature - A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift
• 1703 in literature
• 1702 in literature
• 1701 in literature
• 1700 in literature

1690s

• 1699 in literature
• 1698 in literature
• 1697 in literature
• 1696 in literature
• 1695 in literature
• 1694 in literature
• 1693 in literature
• 1692 in literature
• 1691 in literature
• 1690 in literature

1680s

• 1689 in literature
• 1688 in literature
• 1687 in literature
• 1686 in literature
• 1685 in literature
• 1684 in literature
• 1683 in literature
• 1682 in literature
• 1681 in literature
• 1680 in literature

1670s

• 1679 in literature
• 1678 in literature
• 1677 in literature
• 1676 in literature
• 1675 in literature
• 1674 in literature
• 1673 in literature
• 1672 in literature
• 1671 in literature
• 1670 in literature

1660s

• 1669 in literature
• 1668 in literature
• 1667 in literature
• 1666 in literature
• 1665 in literature
• 1664 in literature
• 1663 in literature
• 1662 in literature
• 1661 in literature
• 1660 in literature

1650s

• 1659 in literature
• 1658 in literature
• 1657 in literature
• 1656 in literature
• 1655 in literature
• 1654 in literature
• 1653 in literature
• 1652 in literature
• 1651 in literature
• 1650 in literature

1640s

• 1649 in literature
• 1648 in literature
• 1647 in literature
• 1646 in literature
• 1645 in literature
• 1644 in literature
• 1643 in literature
• 1642 in literature
• 1641 in literature
• 1640 in literature

1630s

• 1639 in literature
• 1638 in literature
• 1637 in literature
• 1636 in literature
• 1635 in literature
• 1634 in literature
• 1633 in literature
• 1632 in literature
• 1631 in literature
• 1630 in literature

1620s

• 1629 in literature
• 1628 in literature
• 1627 in literature
• 1626 in literature
• 1625 in literature
• 1624 in literature
• 1623 in literature
• 1622 in literature
• 1621 in literature
• 1620 in literature

1610s

• 1619 in literature
• 1618 in literature
• 1617 in literature
• 1616 in literature
• 1615 in literature
• 1614 in literature
• 1613 in literature
• 1612 in literature
• 1611 in literature
• 1610 in literature

1600s

• 1609 in literature
• 1608 in literature
• 1607 in literature
• 1606 in literature
• 1605 in literature
• 1604 in literature
• 1603 in literature
• 1602 in literature
• 1601 in literature
• 1600 in literature

Pre 1600s

• 17th century in literature
• 16th century in literature
• 15th century in literature
• 14th century in literature - Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
• 13th century in literature
• 12th century in literature
• 11th century in literature
• 10th century in literature
• Early Medieval literature
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