Benjamin von Stuckrad Barre (1975) Soloalbum

William Sutcliffe (1971) Are you experienced?

Naomi Klein (1970) No Logo

Alexander von Schönburg (1969) Die Kunst des stilvollen Verarmens

Christian Kracht (1966) Faserland

Eckart Nickel (1966) Was ich davon halte

Waris Dirie (1965) Desert Flower

Bret Easton Ellis (1964) American Psycho

Elke Naters (1963), Sven Lager (1965)

Douglas Coupland (1961) Generation X

Chuck Palahniuk (1961) Fight Club

Irvine Welsh (1961) Trainspotting

Robert Schneider (1961) Schlafes Bruder

Maxim Biller (1960) die Tempojahre

Seth Godin (1960)

Michel Houellebecq (1958) Rester vivant

Nick Hornby (1957) High Fidelity

Peter Glaser (1957) Geschichte von Nichts

Rainald Goetz (1954) Rave

Jostein Gaarder (1952) Sophie's World

Douglas Adams (1952) the Hitch- Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Anne Carson (1950) Eros the Bittersweet

Patrick Süßkind (1949) das Parfüm

T.C. Boyle (1948) Drop City

Salman Rushdie (1947) the Satanic Verses

Elfriede Jelinek (1946) the Piano Teacher

Howard Marks (1945) Mr Nice

Annie Dillard (1945) Teaching a stone to talk

Bernhard Schlink (1944) der Vorleser

Alice Walker (1944)

Peter Handke (1942) die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter

Erica Jong (1942)

Hans-Günter Wallraff (1942) Ganz unten

Sten Nadolny (1942) Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit

Jack Herer (1939) the Emperor wears no clothes

Joyce Carol Oates (1938) We Were the Mulvaneys

Thomas Pynchon (1937) Gravity's Rainbow

Hunter S Thompson (1937-2005) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Richard Bach (1936) Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Ken Kesey (1935-2001) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

John Updike (1932) Rabbit, Run

Umberto Eco (1932) the Name of the Rose

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) the It-Doesn't-Matter-Suit

Horst Eckert (1931) Janosch

Tom Wolfe (1930) The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Slawomir Mrozek (1930) Out at sea

Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965)

Hans Markus Enzensberger (1929) Mittelmaß und Wahn

George Steiner (1929) Grammatik der Schöpfung

Anne Frank (1929-1945) the Diary of Anne Frank

Milan Kundera (1929) the Unbearable Lightness of Being

Robert Pirsig (1928) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928) One Hundred Years of Solitude

Guenther Grass (1927) die Blechtrommel

Martin Walser (1927) ein springender Brunnen

Ingeborg Bachmann (1926) Gedichte

Harper Lee (1926) to Kill a Mockingbird

Dario Fo (1926) Mistero Buffo

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) Howl and Other Poems

René Goscinny (1926-1977) Astérix, Lucky Luke

Zig Ziglar (1926) See you at the top

Gore Vidal (1925) Palimpsest

Carlos Castaneda (1925-1998) the Teachings of Don Juan

Truman Capote (1924-1984) In Cold Blood

Ephraim Kishon (1924-2005) Noah's Ark, Tourist Class

Otfried Preußler (1923) der Räuber Hotzenplotz

Norman Mailer (1923) the Naked and the Dead

Stan Lee (1922) Spiderman

Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) Peanuts

Kurt Vonnegut (1922) Cat's Cradle

Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) On the road

Alex Haley (1921-1992)

Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990) der Besuch der alten Dame

Wolfgang Borchert (1921-1947) Draussen vor der Tür

Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) Post Office

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) War of the worlds

J. D. Salinger (1919) Catcher in the Rye

Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)

Primo Levi (1919-1987) If This is a Man

Pulitzer Prizes (1917)

Heinrich Böll (1917-1985) the Clown

Roald Dahl (1916-1990) Matilda

Arthur Miller (1915-2005) Death of a Salesman

John Seymour (1914-2004) the Complete Book of Self Sufficiency

William S Burroughs (1914-1997) the Naked Lunch

Jerry Siegel (1914-1996) Joe Shuster (1914-1992) Superman

James Baldwin (1924-1987) Go tell it on the mountain

Ralph Ellison (1913-1994)

Albert Camus (1913-1960) L'etranger

William Golding (1911) the Lord of the Flies

Max Frisch (1911-1991) Andorra

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) a Streetcar named Desire

Paul Bowles (1910-1999) the Sheltering Sky

Ian Fleming (1909-1964) James Bond

Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) Pippi Longstockings

Hergé (1907-1983) les aventures de Tintin et Milou

Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) Waiting for Godot

Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991) And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street

Graham Greene (1904-1991)

George Orwell (1903-1950) 1984

John Steinbeck (1902-1968) Of mice and men

Jacques Prévert (1900-1977) les enfants du paradis

Antoine de St. Exupéry (1900-1940) Le petit prince

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) the Old Man and the Sea

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) Lolita

Erich Kästner (1899-1974) Emil und die Detektive

Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970) Im Westen nichts Neues

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) the Good Person of Szechwan

Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías

William Faulkner (1897-1962) the sound and the fury

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) the Great Gatsby

Ernst Jünger (1895-1998) Eumeswil

e.e. cummings (1894-1962) the enormous room, poems

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) the Lord of the Rings

Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) Dr. Zhivago

Agatha Christie (1890-1976) the Murder at the Vicarage

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) at the Mountains of Madness

Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935) Schloss Gripsholm

Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) les Enfants Terribles

T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) the Waste Land

Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961) Helen in Egypt

Gottfried Benn (1886-1956) Morgue und andere Gedichte

Hugh Lofting (1886-1947) Dr. Doolittle

Marc Bloch (1886-1944) l'étrange défaite

Ezra Pound (1885-1972) the Cantos

Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937)

Johnston McCulley (1883-1958) Zorro: The Curse of Capistrano

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) the Prophet

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) the Metamorphosis

Joachim Ringelnatz (1883-1934) Kuttel Daddeldu

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Mrs. Dalloway

James Joyce (1882-1941) Ulysses

Alan Alexander Milne (1882-1956) Winne-the-Pooh

John Neihardt (1881-1973)

Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) die Welt von Gestern

Helen Keller (1880-1968) Light in my Darkness

Robert Musil (1880-1942) the Man Without Qualities

Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) les Onze Mille Verges

Gorch Fock (1880-1916) Seefahrt ist not

Alfred Döblin (1878-1957) Berlin Alexanderplatz

Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) the Glass Bead Game

Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938)

Jack London (1876-1916) the call of the Wild

Thomas Mann (1875-1955) der Zauberberg

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) Tarzan

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Duino Elegies

Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) the four just men

William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) of Human Bondage

Robert Frost (1874-1963) New Hampshire

Arthur Lovejoy (1873-1962) the Great Chain of Being

Harold Bell Wright (1872-1944) the Shepherd of the Hills

Heinrich Mann (1871-1950) der Untertan

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) La Recherche du Temps Perdu

Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914) Galgenlieder

André Gide (1869-1951) l'Immoraliste

Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945)

Makszim Gorkij (1868-1936) Detstvo

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) the War of the Worlds

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) the Celtic Twilight

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) the Jungle Book

Frank Wedekind (1864-1918) Frühlings Erwachen

Richard Fenton Outcault (1863-1928) the Yellow Kid

John Fox Jr. (1863-1919) the Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, A Mountain Europa,

Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946) die Weber

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) the Seagull

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) Sherlock Holmes

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Pygmalion

L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) the Wizard of Oz

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) the picture of Dorian Gray

Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) a season in hell

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Weir of Hermiston

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) Boule de Suif

August Strindberg (1849-1912)

Grant Allen (1848-1899) the Woman Who Did

Gertrude Stein (1847-1946) the Autobiography of Alice B Toklas

Andrew Lang (1844-1912) Christabel

Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) Chanson d'automne

Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914) Waffen nieder!

Karl May (1842-1912) Winnetou

Émile Zola (1840-1902) l'Oeuvre, J'accuse

Mark Twain (1835-1910) the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Samuel Butler (1835-1902) Erewhon

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) Alice in Wonderland

Wilhelm Busch (1832-1896) Max and Moritz

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916)

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) the wild duck

Jules Verne (1828-1905) le tour du monde en 80 jours, 20000 leagues under the seas

Carlo Collodi (1826-1890) Pinocchio

Joseph Victor von Scheffel (1826-1886) der Heini von Steier

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) Madame Bovary

Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) les Miserables

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Leaves of Grass

Theodor Fontane (1819-1898) Effie Briest

Gottfried Keller (1819-1890) Kleider machen Leute

John Ruskin (1819-1900) Fors Clavigera

Herman Melville (1819-1891) Moby Dick

Mary Ann Evans, aka George Eliot (1819-1880) Middlemarch

Theodor Storm (1817-1888) Der Schimmelreiter

Georg Büchner (1813-1837) Woyzeck

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) Uncle Tom's Cabin

Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) at Home and Abroad

Heinrich Hoffmann (1809-1894) Der Struwwelpeter

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

Nyikolaj Vasziljevich Gogol (1809-1852) the Government Inspector

Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) the Raven

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) Evangeline, Christus: A mystery

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) Sonnets from the Portuguese

Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) the Emperor's New Clothes, the Snow Queen and other fairy tales

George Sand (1804-1876) Indiana

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

Karl Joseph Simrock (1802-1876)

Eduard Mörike (1804-1875) Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) les Miserables

Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) the Three Musketeers

Wilhelm Hauff (1802-1827) der Mann im Mond

Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) la Comédie humaine

Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837) Eugene Onegin

Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798-1874) das Lied der Deutschen

Annette von Droste Hülshoff (1797-1848) die Judenbuche

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) Deutschland: Ein Wintermärchen

Jeremias Gotthelf (1796-1854) die schwarze Spinne

Anna Jameson (1794-1860) Sacred and Legendary Art

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872) der Traum, ein Leben

Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788-1857) Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts

Lord Byron (1788-1824) Don Juan

David Crockett (1786-1836) A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett

Jacob Grimm (1785-1863), Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859) Fairy Tales

Achim von Anima (1781-1831) des Knaben Wunderhorn

Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777-1843) Undine

Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) der zerbrochne Krug

Sir Walter Scott (1777-1810) Ivanhoe

Sophie Gay (1776-1852)

ETA Hoffmann (1776-1822) Mademoiselle de Scudery

Jane Austen (1775-1817) Emma

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) Kubla Khan and other poems

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) the Prelude

Chateaubriand (1768-1848)

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (1766-1817) Corinne ou Italie

Jean Paul (1763-1825) Flegeljahre

August von Kotzebue (1761-1819)

William Blake (1757-1827) Jerusalem and other prophetic books

Georg Forster (1754-1794) Ansichten vom Niederrhein

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Faust

Johann David Wyss (1743-1818)

Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) the 120 Days of Sodom

Rudolf Erich Raspe (1736-1794) Baron Münchhausens Erzählungen seiner wundersamen Reisen

Christopher Martin Wieland (1733-1813) Agathon

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) the Marriage of Figaro

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) Nathan the wise, Emilia Galotti

Casanova (1725-1798) the Story of My Life

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724-1803) the Messiah

Ts'ao Chan (1715-1763)

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Henry Fielding (1707-1754) Tom Jones

Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) Clarissa

Pierre de Marivaux (1688-1763) le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard

Alexander Pope (1688-1744) an Essay on Man

Bernard de Mandeville (1670-1733)

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Gulliver's Travels

Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) Robinson Crusoe

William Wycherley (1640-1716)

Aphra Behn (1640-1689)

Jean Racine (1639-1699) Athalie

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711) l'art poétique

John Dryden (1631-1700) All for Love

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, dit Molière (1622-1673) Dom Juan, le Misanthrope

Jean de la Fontaine (1621-1695) les Fables

Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) Mémoires, Maximes

John Milton (1608-1674) Paradise lost

Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) le Cid

Martin Opitz von Boberfeld (1597-1639)

Jean Chapelain (1595-1674) la Pucelle

John Donne (1572-1631) Divine Poems

Marie de Gournay (1565-1645) the equality of men and women

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

John Ford (1586-1640)

Lope de Vega (1562-1635) la Arcadia

Francois de Malherbe (1555-1628) Consolation a Duperier

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) Don Quixote

Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)

Jean Antoine de Baïf (1532-1589) founded

the Pléiade, and the Académie française

Olivier de Magny (1530-1561) les Amours, les Soupirs

Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585) Amours, Sonnets pour Hélène

Louise Labé (1524-1566) Sonnets,

Nostradamus (1503-1566) les Propheties

John Heywood (1497-1580)

Francois Rabelais (1494-1553) la Vie de Gargantua et Pantagruel

Hans Sachs (1494-1576) das bittersüße eheliche Leben

Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) the Heptameron

Sebastian Brant (1457-1521) das Narrenschiff

Très Riches Heures (15th century)

François Villon (1431-1463) le testament

Alain Chartier (1390-1440) Bréviaire des nobles

Christine de Pizan (1364 -1430)

Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) Canterbury Tales

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) the Decameron

Guillaume Tirel (1310-1395) le Viander

Kao Ming (1310-1380)

Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) Canzoniere,

celebrated as the father of humanism

Don Juan Manuel (1282-1349)

Immanuel the Roman (1270-1330)

Jean de Meun (1250-1305)

Guillaume de Lorris (1210-1237) Romance of the rose

der Tannhäuser (1205-1267)

Snorri Sturluson (1178-1241)

Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170-1220) Parzival

Chrestien de Troyes (1135-1190) Le conte du graal

André le Chapelain (1130-1200) Les préceptes d'amour

Abraham ibn Ezra (1092-1167)

Turold (fl 1075) Chanson de Roland

Moses ibn Ezra (1070-1138)

Frau Ava (1060-1127)

Shikibu Murasaki (973-1025)

Abu l-Qasem-e Ferdousi (940-1020) Schahnameh

Hrotsvit von Gandersheim (940-990)

Walahfried Strabo (808-849)

The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (8th century)

Han Yu (768-824)

Li Po (701-762)

Wang Wei (699-759)

Nonnos (400-476) Dionysiaca

Quintus Smyrnaeus (fl 460) Posthomerica

Hsi K'ang (223-262)

Mesomedes (fl150) the Invention of Glass

Lucius Apuleius (120-180) the Golden Ass

Pausanias (115-190) Description of Greece

Herodes Atticus (102-177) orator

Suetonius (75-160) the Lives of the First Twelve Caesars

Juvenal (60-140) satirist, coined the phrase "panem et circenses"

Gaius Cornelius Tacitus (55-117) the Annals, the Histories

Martial (40-104) Epigrams

Quintilian (35-95) rhetorican

Persius Flaccus (34-62) satirist

Petronius (27-66) Satyricon

Ovid (43bc-18ad) the Metamorphoses

Propertius (50-16 bc) Elegies

Tibullus (54-19 bc) Life

Horace (65-8 bc) Satires, Epodes, Odes, Epistles

Virgil (70-19 bc) the Aeneid

Maecenas (74-8 bc) Patron of Arts

Varro (82-35 bc) Bellum Sequanicum

Catullus (84-54 bc) Carmina

Sallust (86-34 bc) De conjuratione Catilinae, Historiae

Terence (190-159 bc) playwright

Moschos (fl 150 bc) the Europa

Ennius (239-169 bc) Father of Roman poetry, Annales

Plautus (254-184 bc) Comedies

Callimachus (294-235 bc) became the organizer of the great library at Alexandria

Apollonios (295-215 bc)

Simias of Rhodes (300 bc) Technopaegnia

Aratus (315-240 bc)

Menander (342-291 bc) the bad-tempered man

Aristophanes (448-385 bc) the Clouds, the Knights

Thucydides (455-395 bc) History of the Peloponnesian War

Hermippus (fl. 430 bc)

Euripides (480- 406 bc) Medea, Hippolytus

Herodot (482-429 bc) the Histories of Herodotus

Ion of Chios (490-421 bc) began biographical literature

Sophocles (497-406 bc) Oedipus Rex, Antigone

Bacchylides (516-451 bc) Odes

Pindar (518-438 bc) Odes

Aeschylus (525-456 bc) Agamemnon

Epicharmus (540-450 bc)

Hipponax (fl 540 bc) considered the inventor of parody

Sun Tzu (6th century bc)

Simonides (556-468 bc) Elegies

Anacreon (570-485 bc) Poems

Erinna (fl. 600 bc) the Distaph

Sappho (612-580 bc) Poems

Aesop (620-563 bc) Fables

Alkaios (620-580 bc)

the Epic of Gilgamesh (7th century bc)

Arion (656-587 bc)

Archilochos (680-645 bc) Poems

Hesiod (fl. 700 bc) Theogony, The Works and Days

Callinus (728-660 bc) regarded as the creator of the classical Greek song

Homer (900-850 bc) The Odyssey, Iliad

Enheduanna (2300-2225 bc) The Sumerian Temple Hymns