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List of years in literature
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year in literature
pages. Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point.
Table of contents
1 2000s
2 1990s
3 1980s
4 1970s
5 1960s
6 1950s
7 1940s
8 1930s
9 1920s
10 1910s
11 1900s
12 1890s
13 1880s
14 1870s
15 1860s
16 1850s
17 1840s
18 1830s
19 1820s
20 1810s
21 1800s
22 1790s
23 1780s
24 1770s
25 1760s
26 1750s
27 1740s
28 1730s
29 1720s
30 1710s
31 Pre 1710s
2000s
2003 in literature
-
2002 in literature
-
Atonement
-
Ian McEwan[?]
2001 in literature
-
Life of Pi[?]
-
Yann Martel
2000 in literature
- Final original
Peanuts
comic strip is published, and creator
Charles Schulz
dies soon after
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
1995 in literature
-
The Celestine Prophecy[?]
-
James Redfield[?]
1994 in literature
-
The Stone Diaries[?]
-
Carol Shields
1993 in literature
-
Pleading Guilty[?]
-
Scott Turow
1992 in literature
-
The English Patient
-
Michael Ondaatje
1991 in literature
-
Such a Long Journey[?]
-
Rohinton Mistry
1990 in literature
-
Jurassic Park
-
Michael Crichton
1980s
1989 in literature
-
The Satanic Verses
-
Salman Rushdie
1988 in literature
-
Oscar and Lucinda
-
Peter Carey
1987 in literature
-
Beloved[?]
-
Toni Morrison
1986 in literature
-
The Old Devils[?]
-
Kingsley Amis
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
-
Hotel New Hampshire[?]
-
John Irving
1980 in literature
-
A Confederacy of Dunces[?]
-
John Kennedy Toole
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
-
Humboldt's Gift[?]
-
Saul Bellow
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
-
Valley of the Dolls[?]
-
Jacqueline Susann[?]
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
-
Wise Blood[?]
-
Flannery O'Connor
1961 in literature
-
Catch-22
-
Joseph Heller
1960 in literature
-
To Kill A Mockingbird
-
Harper Lee
1950s
1959 in literature
-
Hawaii[?]
-
James A. Michener
1958 in literature
-
Masters of Deceit[?]
-
J. Edgar Hoover
1957 in literature
-
The Cat in the Hat
-
Dr. Seuss
1956 in literature
-
Les racines du ciel[?]
-
Romain Gary
1955 in literature
-
A Good Man is Hard to Find[?]
-
Flannery O'Connor
1954 in literature
-
Lord of the Flies
-
William G. Golding
1953 in literature
-
The High and the Mighty[?]
-
Ernest K. Gann[?]
1952 in literature
-
Waiting for Godot
-
Samuel Beckett
1951 in literature
-
The Catcher in the Rye
-
J.D. Salinger
1950 in literature
-
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
-
C. S. Lewis
1940s
1949 in literature
-
Nineteen Eighty-Four
-
George Orwell
1948 in literature
-
The Naked and the Dead[?]
-
Norman Mailer
1947 in literature
-
The Diary of Anne Frank
1946 in literature
-
The Iceman Cometh[?]
-
Eugene O'Neill
1945 in literature
-
Gigi
-
Colette
1944 in literature
-
Our Lady of the Flowers[?]
-
Jean Genet
1943 in literature
-
The Fountainhead
-
Ayn Rand
1942 in literature
-
The Stranger
-
Albert Camus
1941 in literature
-
The Screwtape Letters
-
C.S. Lewis
1940 in literature
-
Native Son
-
Richard Wright
1930s
1939 in literature
-
The Grapes of Wrath
-
John Steinbeck
1938 in literature
-
Out of the Silent Planet[?]
-
C. S. Lewis
1937 in literature
-
Of Mice and Men
-
John Steinbeck
1936 in literature
-
Life magazine
is first published
1935 in literature
-
Treasure of the Sierra Madre[?]
-
B. Traven[?]
1934 in literature
-
I, Claudius
-
Robert Graves
1933 in literature
-
God's Little Acre[?]
-
Erskine Caldwell[?]
1932 in literature
-
Brave New World
-
Aldous Huxley
1931 in literature
-
The Good Earth
-
Pearl S. Buck
1930 in literature
-
Not Without Laughter[?]
-
Langston Hughes
1920s
1929 in literature
-
A Room of One's Own[?]
-
Virginia Woolf
1928 in literature
-
Lady Chatterley's lover[?]
-
D.H. Lawrence
1927 in literature
-
A la recherche du temps perdu
(final installment) -
Marcel Proust
1926 in literature
-
The Sun Also Rises[?]
-
Ernest Hemingway
1925 in literature
-
The Great Gatsby
-
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1924 in literature
-
Billy Budd, Foretopman[?]
-
Herman Melville
1923 in literature
-
The House at Pooh Corner[?]
-
A.A. Milne
1922 in literature
-
Ulysses
-
James Joyce
1921 in literature
-
The Mistress of Husaby[?]
-
Sigrid Undset
1920 in literature
-
The Age of Innocence[?]
-
Edith Wharton
1910s
1919 in literature
-
In the Penal Colony[?]
-
Franz Kafka
1918 in literature
- First
Pulitzer Prizes
awarded
1917 in literature
-
Under Fire[?]
-
Henri Barbusse
1916 in literature
-
Relativity
-
Albert Einstein
1915 in literature
-
Of Human Bondage[?]
-
W. Somerset Maugham
1914 in literature
-
Mending Wall[?]
-
Robert Frost
1913 in literature
-
Tarzan of the Apes[?]
-
Edgar Rice Burroughs
1912 in literature
-
Death in Venice
-
Thomas Mann
1911 in literature
-
Encyclopædia Britannica
published
1910 in literature
-
Howards End
-
E. M. Forster
1900s
1909 in literature
-
Balthazar[?]
-
Anatole France
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 Virginian[?]
-
Owen Wister[?]
1901 in literature
- First
Nobel Prize for Literature
awarded to
Sully Prudhomme
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
-
1892 in literature
-
The Yellow Wallpaper[?]
-
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
1891 in literature
-
Diary of a Pilgrimage[?]
-
Jerome K. Jerome
1890 in literature
-
At Fault[?]
-
Kate Chopin
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[?]
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
-
Under the Greenwood Tree[?]
-
Thomas Hardy
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
-
Great Expectations
-
Charles Dickens
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
1855 in literature
-
Westward Ho![?]
-
Charles Kingsley
1854 in literature
-
The Newcomers
-
William Makepeace Thackeray
1853 in literature
-
The Countess de Charny[?]
-
Alexandre Dumas, père
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
1840s
1849 in literature
-
The Oregon Trail[?]
-
Francis Parkman[?]
1848 in literature
-
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
-
Anne Bronte
1847 in literature
-
Wuthering Heights
-
Emily Bronte
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[?]
-
Honore 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
-
Oliver Twist
-
Charles Dickens
1837 in literature
-
Live and Let Live[?]
-
Catharine Maria Sedgwick[?]
1836 in literature
-
Poems[?]
-
Oliver Wendell Holmes
1835 in literature
-
Mademoiselle de Maupin[?]
-
Theophile Gautier
1834 in literature
-
Sartor Resartus[?]
-
Thomas Carlyle
1833 in literature
-
Gamiani[?]
-
Alfred de Musset
1832 in literature
-
Castle Dangerous[?]
-
Sir Walter Scott
1831 in literature
-
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
-
Victor Hugo
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
-
Ivanhoe
-
Sir Walter Scott
1810s
1819 in literature
-
The Sketch Book[?]
-
Washington Irving
1818 in literature
-
Frankenstein
-
Mary Shelly
1817 in literature
-
Ormond and Harrington[?]
-
Maria Edgeworth
1816 in literature
-
Headlong Hall[?]
-
Thomas Love Peacock
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
-
The Wild Irish Boy[?]
-
Charles Robert Maturin[?]
1807 in literature
-
Tales from Shakespeare[?]
-
Charles Lamb
&
Mary Lamb[?]
1806 in literature
-
Zofloya[?]
-
Charlotte Dacre[?]
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
-
Castle Rackrent
-
Maria Edgeworth
1790s
1799 in literature
-
1798 in literature
-
Lyrical Ballads[?]
-
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
and
William Wordsworth
1797 in literature
-
1796 in literature
-
1795 in literature
-
1794 in literature
-
1793 in literature
-
1792 in literature
-
1791 in literature
-
1790 in literature
-
Reflections on the Revolution in France[?]
-
Edmund Burke
1780s
1789 in literature
-
Songs of Innocence[?]
-
William Blake
1788 in literature
-
1787 in literature
-
1786 in literature
-
1785 in literature
-
1784 in literature
-
1783 in literature
-
1782 in literature
-
1781 in literature
-
1780 in literature
-
1770s
1779 in literature
-
1778 in literature
-
1777 in literature
-
1776 in literature
-
1775 in literature
-
1774 in literature
-
1773 in literature
-
1772 in literature
-
1771 in literature
-
1770 in literature
-
1760s
1769 in literature
-
1768 in literature
-
1767 in literature
-
1766 in literature
-
1765 in literature
-
1764 in literature
-
1763 in literature
-
1762 in literature
-
1761 in literature
-
1760 in literature
-
1750s
1759 in literature
-
1758 in literature
-
1757 in literature
-
1756 in literature
-
1755 in literature
-
1754 in literature
-
1753 in literature
-
1752 in literature
-
1751 in literature
-
1750 in literature
-
1740s
1749 in literature
-
Tom Jones
-
Henry Fielding
1748 in literature
-
1747 in literature
-
1746 in literature
-
1745 in literature
-
1744 in literature
-
1743 in literature
-
1742 in literature
-
1741 in literature
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1740 in literature
-
1730s
1739 in literature
-
1738 in literature
-
1737 in literature
-
1736 in literature
-
1735 in literature
-
1734 in literature
-
1733 in literature
-
1732 in literature
-
1731 in literature
-
1730 in literature
-
1720s
1729 in literature
-
1728 in literature
-
1727 in literature
-
1726 in literature
-
Gulliver's Travels
-
Jonathan Swift
1725 in literature
-
1724 in literature
-
1723 in literature
-
1722 in literature
-
1721 in literature
- First English Dictionary Published.
1720 in literature
-
1710s
1719 in literature
-
Robinson Crusoe
-
Daniel Defoe
1718 in literature
1717 in literature
1716 in literature
1715 in literature
1714 in literature
1713 in literature
1712 in literature
1711 in literature
1710 in literature
Pre 1710s
1700s in literature
17th century in literature
16th century in literature
15th century in literature
14th century in literature
-
Canterbury Tales
-
Geoffrey Chaucer
13th century in literature
Pre 13th century in literature
- Religious, philosophical texts written.
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