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.
2000s - 1990s - 1980s - 1970s - 1960s - 1950s - 1940s - 1930s - 1920s - 1910s - 1900s - 1890s - 1880s - 1870s - 1860s - 1850s - 1840s - 1830s - 1820s - 1810s - 1800s - 1790s - 1780s - 1770s - 1760s - 1750s - 1740s - 1730s - 1720s - 1710s - 1700s - 1690s - 1680s - 1670s - 1660s - 1650s - Pre 1650s
2000s
- 2005 in literature
- 2004 in literature - Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories - Chuck Palahniuk
- 2003 in literature - The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown; Hegemony or Survival - Noam Chomsky
- 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
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 - 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 - Salmon Rushdie
- 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 - Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
- 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 - Der Besuch der alten Dame - Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- 1955 in literature - Tunnel in the Sky – Robert Heinlein
- 1954 in literature - Lord of the Flies - William G. Golding
- 1953 in literature - Casino Royale - Ian Fleming - First James Bond novel
- 1952 in literature - Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
- 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
- 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
- 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 - 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
- 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
- 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
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 (book)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 Shelly
- 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 -
- 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
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1690s
- 1699 in literature
- 1698 in literature
- 1697 in literature
- 1696 in literature
- 1695 in literature
- 1694 in literature
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- 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
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- 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
Pre 1650s
- 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.