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The following is a list of works that were published posthumously. An asterisk indicates the author is listed in multiple subsections. ( Philip Sidney appears in four.)


Literature


Novels and short stories

* Douglas Adams* — '' The Salmon of Doubt'' (an incomplete novel, but also essays) *
James Agee James Rufus Agee ( ; November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, writing for ''Time Magazine'', he was one of the most influential film critics in the United States. ...
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A Death in the Family ''A Death in the Family'' is an autobiographical novel by author James Agee, set in Knoxville, Tennessee. He began writing it in 1948, but it was not quite complete when he died in 1955 (with reputedly many portions having been written in the hom ...
'' (initial publication assembled by David McDowell; alternate assembly later published by Michael Lofaro) * Shmuel Yosef Agnon — '' Shira'' *
Louisa May Alcott Louisa May Alcott (; November 29, 1832March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel ''Little Women'' (1868) and its sequels ''Little Men'' (1871) and ''Jo's Boys'' (1886). Raised in ...
— '' A Long Fatal Love Chase'' *
Horatio Alger Horatio Alger Jr. (; January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was an American author who wrote young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through good works. His wri ...
— over thirty-five short novels after his death in 1899 *
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Forward the Foundation ''Forward the Foundation'' is a novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, published posthumously in 1993. It is the second of two prequels to the ''Foundation'' Series. It is written in a format similar to that of the original book, ''Foundation'', ...
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Jane Austen Jane Austen (; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots of ...
— '' Northanger Abbey'', ''
Persuasion Persuasion or persuasion arts is an umbrella term for Social influence, influence. Persuasion can influence a person's Belief, beliefs, Attitude (psychology), attitudes, Intention, intentions, Motivation, motivations, or Behavior, behaviours. ...
'', '' Sanditon'', and ''
Lady Susan ''Lady Susan'' is an epistolary novella by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871. This early complete work, which the author never submitted for publication, describes the schemes of the title character. Synopsis ...
'' * William Baldwin — '' Beware the Cat'' * L. Frank Baum — '' The Magic of Oz'' and '' Glinda of Oz'' * John Bellairs — ''The Ghost in the Mirror'', ''The Vengeance of the Witch-finder'', ''The Drum, the Doll, and the Zombie'' and ''The Doom of the Haunted Opera'' (all with Brad Strickland) * Cyrano de Bergerac — ''The Other World: The States and Empires of the Moon'' and ''The States and Empires of the Sun'' *
Marlon Brando Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor. Considered one of the most influential actors of the 20th century, he received numerous accolades throughout his career, which spanned six decades, including two Academ ...
and Donald Cammell — ''Fan Tan'' (with David Thomson) * Roberto Bolaño — ''
2666 ''2666'' is the last novel by Roberto Bolaño. It was released in 2004, a year after Bolaño's death. It is over 1100 pages long in Spanish, and almost 900 in its English translation, it is divided into five parts. An English-language translat ...
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A Little Lumpen Novelita ''A Little Lumpen Novelita'' (''Una novelita lumpen'' in Spanish) is a 2002 novel by the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño. A translation from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer was published by New Directions in September 2014. The book is divided int ...
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The Secret of Evil ''The Secret of Evil'' (''El Secreto del Mal'', 2007) is a collection of short stories and recollections or essays by the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003). The English translation by Chris Andrews was published by New Directions in 201 ...
'', '' The Third Reich'', and ''
Woes of the True Policeman ''Woes of the True Policeman'' (''Los sinsabores del verdadero policía'' in Spanish) is a novel written by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño and published posthumously. The novel was first released in Spanish in 2011. Larry Rohter in his review of ...
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Richard Brautigan Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30, 1935 – c. September 16, 1984) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. A prolific writer, he wrote throughout his life and published ten novels, two collections of short stories, and four bo ...
— '' An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey'' * Charlotte Brontë — '' The Professor'' * Charles Bukowski* — over twenty books of poetry and short stories after his death in 1994 *
Mikhail Bulgakov Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov ( rus, links=no, Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪvʲɪtɕ bʊlˈɡakəf; – 10 March 1940) was a Soviet writer, medical doctor, and playwright active in the fir ...
— '' The Master and Margarita'' *
Edgar Rice Burroughs Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and fantasy genres. Best-known for creating the characters Tarzan and John Carter, he ...
— '' John Carter of Mars'', '' Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins'', ''
Tarzan and the Madman ''Tarzan and the Madman'' is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the twenty-third in his series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. Written from January to February 1940, the story was never published in Burroughs' ...
'', '' Tarzan and the Castaways'', '' Tarzan: The Lost Adventure'', '' Savage Pellucidar'', ''
The Wizard of Venus ''The Wizard of Venus'' is a science fiction novella by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, as well as the title of a collection in which it was later published together with an unrelated story. "The Wizard of Venus" is the final story in Burrou ...
'', '' I am a Barbarian'', '' Minidoka: 937th Earl of One Mile Series M'', ''
Pirate Blood ''The Wizard of Venus'' is a science fiction novella by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, as well as the title of a collection in which it was later published together with an unrelated story. "The Wizard of Venus" is the final story in Burro ...
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Forgotten Tales of Love and Murder ''Forgotten Tales of Love and Murder'' is a collection of short stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs, edited by Patrick H. Adkins and illustrated by Danny Frolich. It was first published in hardcover in 2001 by Guidry & Adkins, a publishing partner ...
'', '' Brother Men'' * William S. Burroughs and
Jack Kerouac Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Of French-Canadian a ...
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And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks ''And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks'' is a novel by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. It was written in 1945, a full decade before the two authors became famous as leading figures of the Beat Generation, and remained unpublished in co ...
'' * Octavia E. Butler — '' Seed to Harvest'' * Samuel Butler — '' The Way of All Flesh'' * Albert Camus* — ''
A Happy Death ''A Happy Death'' (original title ''La mort heureuse'') is a novel by absurdist French writer-philosopher Albert Camus. The existentialist topic of the book is the "will to happiness," the conscious creation of one's happiness, and the need of ti ...
'', '' The First Man'' * Xueqin Cao (trad.) — '' Dream of the Red Chamber'' * Angela Carter* — ''
American Ghosts and Old World Wonders ''American Ghosts and Old World Wonders'' is a posthumously published anthology of short fiction by Angela Carter. It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1993 by Chatto & Windus Ltd. and contains a collection of nine stories, one half o ...
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Burning Your Boats ''Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories'' (1995 in literature, 1995) is a List of works published posthumously, posthumously-published collection of short story, short stories by English writer Angela Carter. It includes stories previous ...
'' (including six previously unpublished short stories) *
Raymond Chandler Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive durin ...
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Poodle Springs ''Poodle Springs'' is the eighth Philip Marlowe novel. It was started in 1958 by Raymond Chandler, who left it unfinished at his death in 1959. The four chapters he had completed, which bore the working title ''The Poodle Springs Story'', were ...
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Robert B. Parker Robert Brown Parker (September 17, 1932 – January 18, 2010) was an American writer, primarily of fiction within the mystery/detective genre. His most famous works were the 40 novels written about the fictional private detective Spenser. AB ...
) * Bruce Chatwin* — '' Anatomy of Restlessness'' (a collection of short stories and travel tales, as well as essays and articles) *
Geoffrey Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer (; – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for ''The Canterbury Tales''. He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He wa ...
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The Canterbury Tales ''The Canterbury Tales'' ( enm, Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. It is widely regarded as Chaucer's ''Masterpiece, ...
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Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictiona ...
— '' Sleeping Murder'' and notebooks * Tom Clancy — '' Command Authority'' (with Mark Greaney) * Wilkie Collins — '' Blind Love'' (with Walter Besant) *
Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, ; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Poles in the United Kingdom#19th century, Polish-British novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in t ...
— ''Suspense: A Napoleonic Novel'' * Robert Cormier — ''
The Rag and Bone Shop ''The Rag and Bone Shop'' (2001) is Robert Cormier's final novel, published October 9, 2001, eleven months after his death. The novel takes its name from the final line of William Butler Yeats's poem "The Circus Animals' Desertion "The Circus ...
'' * Hannah Crafts — '' The Bondwoman's Narrative'' * Stephen Crane — ''The O'Ruddy'' (with Robert Barr) *
Michael Crichton John Michael Crichton (; October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American author and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His literary works heavily feature tech ...
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Pirate Latitudes ''Pirate Latitudes'' is an action adventure novel by Michael Crichton, the sixteenth novel to be published under his own name and first to be published after his death, concerning 17th-century piracy in the Caribbean. HarperCollins published th ...
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'', '' Dragon Teeth'' * René Daumal — ''
Mount Analogue ''Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing'' is a classic allegorical adventure novel by the early 20th-century French novelist René Daumal. The novel describes an expedition undertaken by ...
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James De Mille James De Mille (23 August 1833 – 28 January 1880) was a professor at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, and an early Canadian novelist who published numerous works of popular fiction from the late 1860s through the 1870s. Life De Mille w ...
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A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder ''A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder'' is the most popular book by the Canadian writer James De Mille. It was serialized posthumously and anonymously in ''Harper's Weekly'', and published in book form by Harper and Brothers of New ...
'' * Michael Dibdin — ''
End Games ''End Games'' is a 2007 novel by Michael Dibdin. It is the 11th and last entry in the Aurelio Zen Michael Dibdin (21 March 1947 – 30 March 2007) was a British crime writer, best known for inventing Aurelio Zen, the principal character in 1 ...
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Philip K. Dick Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928March 2, 1982), often referred to by his initials PKD, was an American science fiction writer. He wrote 44 novels and about 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his l ...
— '' Gather Yourselves Together'', ''
Radio Free Albemuth ''Radio Free Albemuth'' is a dystopian novel by Philip K. Dick, written in 1976 and published posthumously in 1985. Originally titled ''VALISystem A'', it was his first attempt to deal in fiction with his experiences of early 1974. When his pu ...
'', ''Humpty Dumpty in Oakland'', '' Voices from the Street'' * Charles Dickens — '' The Mystery of Edwin Drood'' *
Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation o ...
— '' Falconet'' * Siobhan Dowd — ''
Bog Child ''Bog Child'' is a historical novel by Siobhan Dowd published by David Fickling (UK) and Random House Children's Books (US) on 9 September 2008, more than a year after her death. Set in the 1980s amid the backdrop of the Troubles of Northern I ...
'', ''Solace of the Road'' * Gardner Dozois — ''Book of Magic'' (editor) *
Alexandre Dumas Alexandre Dumas (, ; ; born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (), 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas père (where '' '' is French for 'father', to distinguish him from his son Alexandre Dumas fils), was a French writer ...
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The Knight of Sainte-Hermine ''The Knight of Sainte-Hermine'' (published in France in 2005 under the title ''Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine'', and translated to English under the title ''The Last Cavalier'') is an unfinished historical novel by Alexandre Dumas, believed to ...
'' (with Claude Schopp) * G.B. Edwards — '' The Book of Ebenezer Le Page'' *
E. R. Eddison Eric Rücker Eddison, CB, CMG (24 November 1882 – 18 August 1945) was an English civil servant and author, writing epic fantasy novels under the name E. R. Eddison. His notable works include ''The Worm Ouroboros'' (1922) and the Zimiamvian T ...
— '' The Mezentian Gate'' *
Harlan Ellison Harlan Jay Ellison (May 27, 1934 – June 28, 2018) was an American writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave speculative fiction and for his outspoken, combative personality. Robert Bloch, the author of '' Psycho'' ...
— ''Blood’s a Rover'' * Ralph Ellison — '' Juneteenth'', '' Three Days Before the Shooting...'' *
Hans Fallada Hans Fallada (; born Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen; 21 July 18935 February 1947) was a German writer of the first half of the 20th century. Some of his better known novels include '' Little Man, What Now?'' (1932) and ''Every Man Dies Alone'' ...
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Every Man Dies Alone ''Every Man Dies Alone'' or ''Alone in Berlin'' (german: Jeder stirbt für sich allein) is a 1947 novel by German author Hans Fallada. It is based on the true story of working-class husband and wife Otto and Elise Hampel who, acting alone, beca ...
'' * Louise Fitzhugh — ''Sport'' * F. Scott Fitzgerald — '' The Last Tycoon'' * Gustave Flaubert* — '' Bouvard et Pécuchet'' *
Ian Fleming Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was a British writer who is best known for his postwar ''James Bond'' series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., a ...
— '' The Man with the Golden Gun'', '' Octopussy and The Living Daylights'' *
C. S. Forester Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare, such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series depicting a Roya ...
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Hornblower and the Crisis ''Hornblower and the Crisis'' is a 1967 historical novel by C. S. Forester. It forms part of the Horatio Hornblower series, and as a result of Forester's death in 1966, it was left unfinished. There is a one-page summary of the last several ch ...
'', " The Last Encounter", ''Gold from Crete'', ''The Pursued'' * E. M. Forster — '' Maurice'' * William Gaddis — ''
Agapē Agape ''Agapē Agape'' is a novel by William Gaddis. Published posthumously in 2002 by Viking with an afterword by Joseph Tabbi, ''Agapē Agape'' was Gaddis' fifth and final novel. It was published in Great Britain with the contents of '' The Rush for S ...
'' * Romain Gary* — ''Vie et Mort d'Émile Ajar'', ''L'homme à la Colombe'', ''L'orage'' * Hugo Gernsback — ''Ultimate World'' * William Golding — '' The Double Tongue'' * René Goscinny — '' Asterix in Belgium'' (with Albert Uderzo) *
H. Rider Haggard Sir Henry Rider Haggard (; 22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925) was an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. He was also involved in land reform ...
— '' The Treasure of the Lake'', ''
Allan and the Ice-gods ''Allan and the Ice-Gods'' is a novel by H. Rider Haggard featuring his recurring character Allan Quatermain, based on an idea given to Haggard by Rudyard Kipling. The story details Quatermain's past life regression to a Stone Age ancestor and ...
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Mary of Marion Isle ''Mary of Marion Isle'' is a 1929 novel by H Rider Haggard. It was his penultimate novel and was published posthumously Posthumous may refer to: * Posthumous award - an award, prize or medal granted after the recipient's death * Posthumous pu ...
'', '' Belshazzar'' *
Alex Haley Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book '' Roots: The Saga of an American Family.'' ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and a ...
— '' Queen: The Story of an American Family'' (with David Stevens) * Kenneth Halliwell — ''Lord Cucumber'' and ''The Boy Hairdresser'' (with
Joe Orton John Kingsley Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967), known by the pen name of Joe Orton, was an English playwright, author, and diarist. His public career, from 1964 until his death in 1967, was short but highly influential. During this brie ...
) * Jean Harlow — ''
Today is Tonight ''Today Is Tonight'' is a novel written by Hollywood actress Jean Harlow in the mid-1930s but not published until 1965. Publication Harlow's friend Ruth Luise Hamp inherited the rights to the unpublished manuscript, ''Today Is Tonight'', when Ha ...
'' (with Carey Wilson) *
E. Lynn Harris E. Lynn Harris ( Everette Lynn Jeter; June 20, 1955 – July 23, 2009) was an American author. Openly gay, he was best known for his depictions of African-American men who were on the down-low and closeted. He authored ten consecutive books th ...
— '' Mama Dearest'' * Jaroslav Hašek — ''The Glorious Licking Continues'' (''Pokračování slavného výprasku''), the unfinished fourth volume of '' The Good Soldier Švejk'' * Robert A. Heinlein — '' For Us, the Living'', '' Variable Star'' (with Spider Robinson), ''The Pursuit of the Pankera'' * Joseph Heller — ''
Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man ''Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man'' is a novel by Joseph Heller, published posthumously in 2000. His final work, it depicts an elderly author as he tries to write a novel that is as successful as his earlier work, mirroring Heller's own ca ...
'' * Ernest Hemingway* — '' Islands in the Stream'', '' The Garden of Eden'', ''
True at First Light 250px, alt=Bookcover showing a photograph of Mt. Kilimanjaro in the background and a green plain in the foreground , First edition (publ. Scribner) ''True at First Light'' is a book by American novelist Ernest Hemingway about his 1953–54 East ...
'', '' The Dangerous Summer'', and ''
Under Kilimanjaro ''Under Kilimanjaro'' is a non-fiction novel by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style—which he ...
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Frank Herbert Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. (October 8, 1920February 11, 1986) was an American science fiction author best known for the 1965 novel '' Dune'' and its five sequels. Though he became famous for his novels, he also wrote short stories and worked a ...
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High-Opp ''High-Opp'' is a science fiction novel by American writer Frank Herbert, written between ''The Dragon in the Sea'' (1955) and ''Dune (novel), Dune'' (1965), and published posthumously in 2012. It contains a foreword by Kevin J. Anderson, who co- ...
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Angels' Fall ''Angels' Fall'' is an adventure fiction, adventure/thriller (genre), thriller novel written by Frank Herbert in 1957 and published posthumously in 2013. Plot summary After crashing in the Amazon rainforest, pilot Jeb Logan leads his small group ...
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A Game of Authors ''A Game of Authors'' is a thriller novel written by Frank Herbert between ''The Dragon in the Sea'' (1955) and ''Dune A dune is a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand. It typically takes the form of a mound, ridge, or hill. ...
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A Thorn in the Bush ''A Thorn in the Bush'' is a thriller (genre), thriller novel written by Frank Herbert and published posthumously in 2014. Plot summary Expatriate American Mrs. Ross is living a quiet life in San Juan, Mexico when an ambitious American painter ar ...
'' * Hergé — '' Tintin and Alph-Art'' (assembled by Benoît Peeters, Michel Bareau, and Jean-Manuel Duvivier) * Winifred Holtby — '' South Riding'' (with Vera Brittain) *
Robert E. Howard Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906June 11, 1936) was an American writer. He wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subge ...
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A Gent from Bear Creek ''A Gent from Bear Creek'' is a collection of Western fiction, Western short stories by Robert E. Howard. It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1937 in literature, 1937 by Herbert Jenkins. The first United States edition was published ...
'', '' Almuric'' * Deborah Howe — '' Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery'' * Shirley Jackson"Paranoia" (short story) * Brian Jacques — ''
The Rogue Crew ''The Rogue Crew'' is the 22nd book of the Redwall series by Brian Jacques James Brian Jacques (, as in "Jakes"; 15 June 1939 – 5 February 2011) was an English novelist known for his '' Redwall'' series of novels and '' Castaways of the F ...
'' * Tove Jansson — ''The True Deceiver'' and ''Traveling Light'', ''et al.'' *
Alfred Jarry Alfred Jarry (; 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907) was a French symbolist writer who is best known for his play ''Ubu Roi'' (1896). He also coined the term and philosophical concept of 'pataphysics. Jarry was born in Laval, Mayenne, France, ...
— '' Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician'' * W. E. Johns — '' Biggles Does Some Homework'', '' Biggles: Air Ace'' * Robert Jordan — '' The Gathering Storm'', '' Towers of Midnight'', and '' A Memory of Light'' (all with
Brandon Sanderson Brandon Winn Sanderson (born December 19, 1975) is an American author of high fantasy and science fiction. He is best known for the Cosmere fictional universe, in which most of his fantasy novels, most notably the ''Mistborn'' series and ''The ...
) * Franz Kafka — '' The Trial'', '' The Castle'', and '' Amerika'', as well as many short stories * Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa* — '' The Leopard'' *
Stieg Larsson Karl Stig-Erland "Stieg" Larsson (, ; 15 August 1954 – 9 November 2004) was a Swedish writer, journalist, and activist. He is best known for writing the ''Millennium'' trilogy of crime novels, which were published posthumously, starting in 2 ...
— '' The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'', '' The Girl Who Played with Fire'', and ''
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest ''The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest'' (original title in sv, Luftslottet som sprängdes, lit=The castle in the air that blew up) is the third novel in the best-selling ''Millennium'' series by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson.; It was pub ...
'' * John le Carré — ''
Silverview ''Silverview'' is a novel by British writer John le Carré, published posthumously on 12 October 2021. The book was completed for publication by his son Nick Cornwell. In the afterword, he noted that the process was "more like retouching a pain ...
'' * Ursula K. Le Guin — ''Firelight'', ''The Daughter of Odren'', ''Pity and Shame'' * Fritz Leiber — ''The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich'' * Édouard Levé — ''
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Jerry of the Islands ''Jerry of the Islands: A True Dog Story'' is a novel by American writer Jack London. ''Jerry of the Islands'' was initially published in 1917 and is one of the last works by Jack London. The novel is set on the island of Malaita, a part of the S ...
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Michael, Brother of Jerry ''Michael, Brother of Jerry'' is a novel by Jack London released in 1917. This novel is loosely connected to his previous novel ''Jerry of the Islands'', also released in 1917. Each book tells the story of one of two dog siblings, Jerry and Micha ...
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Hearts of Three ''Hearts of Three'' is an adventure novel by Jack London. The novel was finished right before the writer's death and released in 1919–1920 in the ''New York Journal''. The novel is based on an idea by Charles Goddard. Plot Young descendant of ...
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Robert L. Fish Robert Lloyd Fish (August 21, 1912 – February 23, 1981) was an American writer of crime fiction. Biography Early life Fish was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and studied engineering at Case School of Applied Science, where he graduated in 1933 ...
) * Huey Long — '' My First Days in the White House'' * Robert Ludlum — '' The Janson Directive'' * Katherine Mansfield — ''
The Doves' Nest ''The Doves' Nest and Other Stories'' is a 1923 collection of short stories by the writer Katherine Mansfield, published by her husband John Middleton Murry after her death. Murry wrote in his introductory note that this volume contains all th ...
'' * William March — '' Poor Pilgrim, Poor Stranger'', '' 99 Fables'' * Bruce Marshall — ''
An Account of Capers ''An Account of Capers'' is a novel by Scottish writer Bruce Marshall. His last book, it was published posthumously in 1988. Plot summary Set against the background of an Italy poised on the brink of war with Abyssinia in 1935, the story focu ...
'' * George du Maurier — '' The Martian'' * Anne McCaffrey — '' Sky Dragons'' (with Todd McCaffrey) * Michael McDowell — ''Candles Burning'' *
James A. Michener James Albert Michener ( or ; February 3, 1907 – October 16, 1997) was an American writer. He wrote more than 40 books, most of which were long, fictional family sagas covering the lives of many generations in particular geographic locales and ...
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Matecumbe Matecumbe is a neighborhood within the village of Islamorada in Monroe County, Florida, United States. It is located in the upper Florida Keys on the island of Upper Matecumbe Key. Geography It is located at , its elevation . Matecumbe consists ...
'' * Walter M. Miller Jr. — ''
Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman ''Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman'' (1997) is a science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller Jr. It is a follow-up to Miller's 1959 book ''A Canticle for Leibowitz''. Miller wrote the majority of the novel before his death i ...
'' (with Terry Bisson) * Yukio Mishima — '' The Decay of the Angel'' * Margaret Mitchell — '' Lost Laysen'' * Vladimir Nabokov — ''
The Original of Laura ''The Original of Laura'' is an incomplete novel by Vladimir Nabokov, which he was writing at the time of his death in 1977. It was published by Nabokov's son Dmitri Nabokov in 2009, despite the author's request that the work be destroyed upon his ...
'' * Irène Némirovsky — '' Suite française'' * Frank Norris — '' The Pit: A Story of Chicago'', ''Vandover and the Brute'' * Patrick O'Brian — ''
The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey ''The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey'' is the unfinished twenty-first historical novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series by English author Patrick O'Brian, first published in its incomplete form in 2004. It appeared in the United States of ...
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Flann O'Brien Brian O'Nolan ( ga, Brian Ó Nualláin; 5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966), better known by his pen name Flann O'Brien, was an Irish civil service official, novelist, playwright and satirist, who is now considered a major figure in twentieth cen ...
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The Third Policeman ''The Third Policeman'' is a novel by Irish writer Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien. It was written in 1939 and 1940, but after it initially failed to find a publisher, the author withdrew the manuscript from circulation ...
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Robert C. O'Brien Robert Charles O'Brien Jr. (born June 18, 1966) is an American attorney who served as the 27th United States national security advisor from 2019 to 2021. He was the fourth and final person to hold the position during the presidency of Donald Tru ...
— '' Z for Zachariah'' (with Sally M. Conly and Jane Leslie Conly) *
Joe Orton John Kingsley Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967), known by the pen name of Joe Orton, was an English playwright, author, and diarist. His public career, from 1964 until his death in 1967, was short but highly influential. During this brie ...
— ''Head to Toe'', ''Lord Cucumber'', and ''The Boy Hairdresser'' (the latter two with Kenneth Halliwell) *
Robert B. Parker Robert Brown Parker (September 17, 1932 – January 18, 2010) was an American writer, primarily of fiction within the mystery/detective genre. His most famous works were the 40 novels written about the fictional private detective Spenser. AB ...
— '' Split Image'' * Mervyn Peake — '' Titus Awakes'' *
Petronius Gaius Petronius Arbiter"Gaius Petronius Arbiter"
Satyricon'' * Edgar Allan Poe* — '' The Light-House'' *
Karel Poláček Karel Poláček (22 March 1892 – 21 January 1945) was a Czech writer, humorist and journalist of Jewish descent. Life He was born in Rychnov nad Kněžnou into the family of a Jewish merchant. He attended the gymnasium there, but did poor ...
— ''There Were Five of Us'' ( Czech: ''Bylo nás pět'') * Jan Potocki — '' The Manuscript Found in Saragossa'' * Terry Pratchett — '' The Shepherd's Crown'', '' The Long Utopia'', '' The Long Cosmos'' (the latter two with Stephen Baxter) * Mario Puzo — '' Omertà''; ''
The Family A family is a domestic or social group. Family or The Family may also refer to: Mathematics *Family of curves, a set of curves resulting from a function with variable parameters *Family of sets, a collection of sets *Indexed family, a family wh ...
'' *
Arthur Ransome Arthur Michell Ransome (18 January 1884 – 3 June 1967) was an English author and journalist. He is best known for writing and illustrating the ''Swallows and Amazons'' series of children's books about the school-holiday adventures of childre ...
— '' Coots in the North'' * Dr. Seuss — '' Daisy-Head Mayzie'', ''
My Many Colored Days ''My Many Colored Days'' is a children's book written by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss. Accompanying a manuscript Geisel wrote in 1974 was a letter outlining his hopes of finding "a great color artist who will not be dominated by ...
'', ''
Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! ''Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!'' is a children's book credited to Dr. Seuss "with some help from Jack Prelutsky and Lane Smith". The book is based on verses and sketches created by Seuss before his death in 1991, and was expanded to book length ...
'' (with Jack Prelutsky), ''
What Pet Should I Get? ''What Pet Should I Get?'' is a Dr. Seuss children's book, posthumously published in 2015. Believed to have been written between 1958 and 1962, the book chronicles the adventures of Jay and Kay from Seuss' ''One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish ...
'' *
Yaakov Shabtai Yaakov Shabtai ( he, יעקב שבתאי; March 8, 1934 – August 4, 1981) was an Israeli novelist, playwright, and translator. Biography Shabtai was born in 1934 in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine. In 1957, after completing military service, he ...
— '' Past Perfect'' * M. P. Shiel — ''The New King'' * Nevil Shute — ''
Trustee from the Toolroom ''Trustee from the Toolroom'' is a novel written by Nevil Shute. Shute died in January 1960; ''Trustee'' was published posthumously later that year. Plot summary The plot of the novel hinges on the actions of a modest technical journalist, Ke ...
'' * Philip Sidney* — '' The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia'' * Shel Silverstein* — '' Runny Babbit'' *
Thorne Smith James Thorne Smith, Jr. (March 27, 1892 – June 20, 1934) was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith. He is best known today for the two ''Topper'' novels, comic fantasy fiction involving s ...
— '' The Passionate Witch'' (with Norman H. Matson) * Theodore Sturgeon — ''
Godbody ''Godbody'' is a science fiction novel by American writer Theodore Sturgeon, published posthumously in 1986. A foreword, "Agape and Eros: The Art of Theodore Sturgeon", was contributed by Robert A. Heinlein and an afterword was contributed by S ...
'' *
James Tiptree Jr. Alice Bradley Sheldon (born Alice Hastings Bradley; August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author better known as James Tiptree, Jr., a pen name she used from 1967 to her death. It was not publicly known un ...
— ''Come Live With Me'', ''Backward, Turn Backward'', ''The Earth Doth Like a Snake Renew'' * J. R. R. Tolkien — '' The Silmarillion'' (assembled by
Christopher Tolkien Christopher John Reuel Tolkien (21 November 1924 – 16 January 2020) was an English academic editor, becoming a French citizen in later life. The son of author and academic J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien edited much of his father' ...
), '' The Children of Húrin'' (published 35 years after his death; also assembled by
Christopher Tolkien Christopher John Reuel Tolkien (21 November 1924 – 16 January 2020) was an English academic editor, becoming a French citizen in later life. The son of author and academic J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien edited much of his father' ...
). Other posthumous publications can be found here. * Leo Tolstoy* — '' Hadji Murat'' * John Kennedy Toole — '' A Confederacy of Dunces'', ''
The Neon Bible ''The Neon Bible'' is John Kennedy Toole's first novel, written at the age of 16. The novel is a bildungsroman about a callow youth named David in rural Mississippi during the late 1930s to early 1950s. He learns of religious, racial, social, a ...
'' *
Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has p ...
— '' The Mysterious Stranger'' *
Jules Verne Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraor ...
— '' The Lighthouse at the End of the World'', '' The Golden Volcano'', ''
The Thompson Travel Agency ''The Thompson Travel Agency'' (french: L’Agence Thompson and Co, literally ''The Agency Thompson & Co.'') is a 1907 novel attributed to Jules Verne but written by his son Michel Verne. Plot The novel begins in London, where the impoverished ...
'', ''
The Chase of the Golden Meteor ''The Chase of the Golden Meteor'' (french: La Chasse au météore) is a novel by Jules Verne. It was one of the last novels written by the prolific French hard science fiction pioneer. The book, however, is seen as less an early example of har ...
'', ''
The Danube Pilot ''The Danube Pilot'' (french: Le Pilote du Danube) is a novel by Jules Verne. It was first published in 1908, three years after his death, and like most of the books published posthumously, had been extensively revised by his son, Michel. Part o ...
'', ''
The Survivors of the "Jonathan" ''The Survivors of the "Jonathan"'',Les Voyages Extraordinaires
from epguides.com. In French, ''Magel ...
'', '' The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz'', " The Eternal Adam", '' The Barsac Mission'', '' Paris in the Twentieth Century'', ''
Backwards to Britain ''Backwards to Britain'' (french: Voyage à reculons en Angleterre et en Ecosse) is a autobiographical novel, semi-autobiographical novel by the French writer Jules Verne, written in the fall and winter of 1859–1860 and not published until 1989. ...
'' * Kurt Vonnegut* — '' Armageddon in Retrospect'', '' Look at the Birdie'', ''
Sucker's Portfolio ''Sucker's Portfolio'', by Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American writer known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. In a career spanning over 50 years, he published fourteen novels, th ...
'', '' While Mortals Sleep'' * David Foster Wallace — '' The Pale King'' (assembled by Michael Pietsch) * Edward Lewis Wallant — ''
The Tenants of Moonbloom ''The Tenants of Moonbloom'' is a novel by the Jewish American writer Edward Lewis Wallant (1926–1962). Wallant died of an aneurysm aged 36 with only two books published - '' The Human Season'' and ''The Pawnbroker''. ''The Tenants of Moonbloo ...
'', ''The Children at the Gate'' * Edward Noyes Westcott — '' David Harum'' (published version assembled by Ripley Hitchcock) * Thomas Wolfe — ''The Web and the Rock'', '' You Can't Go Home Again'', ''The Hounds of Darkness'', ''The Hills Beyond'' (all assembled by Maxwell Perkins and Edward Aswell) * Mary Wollstonecraft — '' Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman'' (later chapters assembled by
William Godwin William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism. Godwin is most famous for ...
) * Virginia Woolf — '' Between the Acts'' * John Wyndham — ''
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'', ''
Exiles on Asperus ''Exiles on Asperus'' is a collection of science fiction short stories by British writer John Wyndham, writing as John Beynon, published in 1979 after his death by Coronet Books. Contents The collection contains: *"Exiles on Asperus" (1933) *" ...
'', '' No Place Like Earth'' * Roger Zelazny — '' Donnerjack'', '' Lord Demon'' (with Jane Lindskold)


Plays

* Angela Carter* — ''
The Curious Room ''The Curious Room'' () is a book collecting various plays and scripts by English writer Angela Carter. Its full title is ''The Curious Room: Plays, Film Scripts and an Opera''. The book contains her original screenplays for the films ''The Com ...
'' (also scripts) * Federico García Lorca* — '' The House of Bernarda Alba'', ''
The Public In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichkei ...
'' * Alexander Griboyedov — '' Woe from Wit'', ''A Georgian Night'' *
Sarah Kane Sarah Kane (3 February 1971 – 20 February 1999) was an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre director. She is known for her plays that deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture—both physical and psychological ...
— ''
4.48 Psychosis ''4.48 Psychosis'' is the final play by British playwright Sarah Kane. It was her last work, first staged at the Royal Court's Jerwood Theatre Upstairs on 23 June 2000, directed by James Macdonald, nearly one and a half years after Kane's deat ...
'' * Philip Sidney* — '' The Lady of May'' * Leo Tolstoy* — '' The Living Corpse''


Poetry

* Richard Beckinsale — ''With Love'' * Charles Bukowski* — over twenty books of poetry and short stories * Emily Dickinson* — virtually all of her poems * Federico García Lorca* — ''Diván del Tamarit'', '' Poet in New York'', '' Yerma'', '' Sonnets of Dark Love'' * Mikhail Lermontov — ''
Demon A demon is a malevolent supernatural entity. Historically, belief in demons, or stories about demons, occurs in religion, occultism, literature, fiction, mythology, and folklore; as well as in media such as comics, video games, movies, ani ...
'', ''
The Princess of the Tide "The Princess of the Tide" (Russian: Морская царевна) is one of the last ballads by Mikhail Lermontov Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (; russian: Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ˈjurʲjɪvʲɪt ...
'', '' Valerik'' *
Christopher Marlowe Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (; baptised 26 February 156430 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe is among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights. Based upon the ...
— '' Hero and Leander'' (with George Chapman), '' The Passionate Shepherd to His Love'' * Thomas Overbury — ''A Wife'', ''Characters'', ''The Remedy of Love'', ''Observations in Foreign Travels'' * Wilfred Owen — almost all of his poems, the first edition being ''24 Poems'' (1920) * Persius — ''Satires'' * Sylvia Plath — '' Ariel'', '' Ennui'' * Edgar Allan Poe* — '' The Bells'', '' Annabel Lee'', ''
Alone ALONE is a charity organization in Ireland which was set-up to highlight the issues facing older people living alone. Founded in 1977 by Willie Bermingham, the charity seeks to help elderly people living on their own who may feel isolated and lone ...
'', '' An Acrostic'' * Philip Sidney* — '' Astrophel and Stella'' * Shel Silverstein* — ''Every Thing On It'' * Virgil — '' Aeneid'' * Đoàn Thị Điểm — ''Nữ Trung Tùng Phận''


Non-fiction


Autobiographies, biographies, memoirs, diaries and letters

:''The best-known writings of Holocaust victims are listed here, but for a more complete catalog, see List of posthumous publications of Holocaust victims.'' *
Julius Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar (; ; 12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, and ...
— '' Commentarii de Bello Civili'' * Hélène Berr — ''The Journal of Hélène Berr'' *
Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictiona ...
— '' Agatha Christie: An Autobiography'' *
Rachel Corrie Rachel Aliene Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003) was an American activist and diarist. A member of the pro-Palestinian group International Solidarity Movement (ISM), she was crushed to death by an armored bulldozer of the Israel ...
— '' Let Me Stand Alone'' * Adam Czerniaków — ''The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom'' * Emily Dickinson* — her letters * Verrier Elwin — ''
The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin ''The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin'' is an autobiography of anthropologist Verrier Elwin published by Oxford University Press. The book was published posthumously in May 1964, three months after the death of Elwin. It was awarded the Sahitya A ...
'' * Richard Feynman — ''
What Do You Care What Other People Think? ''"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character'' is an edited collections of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. Released in 1988, the book covers several instances in Feyn ...
'' *
Moshe Flinker Moshe Ze'ev Flinker (Maurice Wolf Flinker) was a Jewish youth born in The Hague on October 9, 1926 and killed in Bergen Belsen by the Nazi Germany, Nazi regime in 1944. He was the son of Eliezer Noah Flinker of Poland, who had migrated to the Neth ...
— '' Young Moshe's Diary: The Spiritual Torment of a Jewish Boy in Nazi Europe'' * Anne Frank — '' The Diary of a Young Girl'' * Julius Fučík — ''
Notes from the Gallows ''Notes from the Gallows'' (also published as ''Report from the Gallows'') is a collection of notes written by the anti-Nazi, communist journalist, Julius Fučík (journalist), Julius Fučík, originally on pieces of cigarette paper, while impri ...
'' * Frankie Gaye — ''Marvin Gaye: My Brother'' *
Petr Ginz Petr Ginz (1 February 1928 – 28 September 1944) was a Czechoslovak boy of partial Jewish background who was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp (known as Terezín, in Czech) during the Holocaust. He was murdered at the age of si ...
— ''The Diary of Petr Ginz'' * Archibald Gracie IV — ''The Truth About the Titanic'' (assembled and published by Mitchell Kennerley) * Ernest Hemingway* — '' A Moveable Feast'' *
Etty Hillesum Esther (Etty) Hillesum (15 January 1914 – 30 November 1943) was the Dutch author of confessional letters and diaries which describe both her religious awakening and the persecutions of Jewish people in Amsterdam during the German occupation. I ...
— ''An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943'' *
David Koker The Jewish student David Koker (27 November 1921 - 23 February 1945) lived with his family in Amsterdam until he was captured on the night of 11 February 1943 and transported to camp Vught. David was forced to halt his studies in philosophy and ...
— ''At the Edge of the Abyss: A Concentration Camp Diary, 1943-1944'' * Janusz Korczak — ''Ghetto Diary'' *
Sergei Kourdakov Sergei Nikolayevich Kourdakov (Russian: Сергей Николаевич Курдаков; March 1, 1951 – January 1, 1973) was a former KGB agent and naval officer who from his late teen years carried out more than 150 raids in underground ...
— ''
The Persecutor ''The Persecutor'', also known as ''Forgive Me Natasha'' and less commonly as ''Sergei'', is the autobiography of Sergei Kourdakov, a former KGB agent who persecuted Christians in the Soviet Union in the 1970s, but defected to Canada in 1971 and co ...
'' (autobiography) *
Rutka Laskier Rut "Rutka" Laskier (12 June 1929 – December 1943) was a Jewish Polish diarist who is best known for her 1943 diary chronicling the three months of her life during the Holocaust in Poland. She was murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp in 19 ...
— ''Rutka's Notebook'' *
Kim Malthe-Bruun Kim Malthe-Bruun (8 July 1923 – 6 April 1945) was a Canadian-born seaman and a member of the Danish resistance executed by the Nazi Germany, German occupying power. Biography He was born in Edmonton, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and baptized ...
— ''Heroic Heart: The Diary and Letters of Kim Malthe-Bruun'' (titled ''Kim'' in Denmark) * Manning Marable — '' Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention'' * Eliot Ness — '' The Untouchables'' (with Oscar Fraley) *
Pliny the Younger Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo (61 – c. 113), better known as Pliny the Younger (), was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate ...
— ''Letters, Book Ten'' (to and from the Roman Emperor Trajan) *
Oskar Rosenfeld Oskar Rosenfeld (13 May 1884 – August 1944) was an Austrian-Jewish writer killed at Auschwitz concentration camp. Biography Early life and education Oskar Rosenfeld was born on 13 May 1884 in Koryčany, Moravia to Jeanette Rosenfeld (Jellin ...
— ''In the Beginning Was the Ghetto: Notebooks from Lodz'' * Yitskhok Rudashevski — ''Diary of the Vilna Ghetto'' * Philip Slier — ''Hidden Letters'' * Malcolm X — '' The Autobiography of Malcolm X'' (with
Alex Haley Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book '' Roots: The Saga of an American Family.'' ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and a ...
)


Philosophy

* Marcus Aurelius — '' Meditations'' * Walter Benjamin — '' Theses on the Philosophy of History'', '' Arcades Project'' (assembled by Rolf Tiedemann; translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin) * David Hume — ''
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion ''Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion'' is a philosophical work by the Scottish philosopher David Hume, first published in 1779. Through dialogue, three philosophers named Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes debate the nature of God's existence. W ...
'' * Edmund Husserl — ''Experience and Judgment'' (edited by Ludwig Landgrebe) *
Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger (; ; 26 September 188926 May 1976) was a German philosopher who is best known for contributions to phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. He is among the most important and influential philosophers of the 20th centur ...
— ''
Contributions to Philosophy ''Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event)'' (german: Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis)) is a work by German philosopher Martin Heidegger. It was first translated into English by Parvis Emad and Kenneth Maly and published by Indiana Unive ...
'', ''Insight Into What Is'' * Søren Kierkegaard — ''The Point of View of My Work as an Author'', ''Writing Sampler'', ''Judge for Yourselves!'' * Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — ''Monadology, The Monadology'' * Friedrich Nietzsche — ''The Will to Power (manuscript), The Will to Power'' (assembled by Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche and Heinrich Köselitz) * Baruch Spinoza — ''Ethics (Spinoza book), Ethics'' * Ludwig Wittgenstein — ''Philosophical Investigations'' (edited and translated by G. E. M. Anscombe)


Other non-fiction

* Georgius Agricola — ''De re metallica'' * Douglas Adams* — '' The Salmon of Doubt'' (essays, as well as an incomplete novel) * Albert Camus* — nine publications of notebooks and collected essays *
Geoffrey Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer (; – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for ''The Canterbury Tales''. He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He wa ...
* — ''A Treatise on the Astrolabe'' * Carl von Clausewitz — ''On War'' * Bruce Chatwin* — ''Photographs and Notebooks'', '' Anatomy of Restlessness'' (a collection of essays and articles, as well as short stories and travel tales), ''Winding Paths'' * Roald Dahl — ''Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety'' * David James Davies — ''Towards Welsh Freedom'' * Gustave Flaubert* — ''Dictionary of Received Ideas'' * Wilson Follett — ''Follett's Modern American Usage'' * Gabriel García Márquez — ''The Scandal of the Century: Selected Journalistic Writings, 1950–1984'' * Romain Gary — ''L'affaire Homme'' * Lauren Grandcolas — ''You Can Do It!: The Merit Badge Handbook for Grown-Up Girls'' * C. L. R. James — ''American Civilization'' * Humphrey Jennings — ''Pandaemonium (Jennings book), Pandaemonium, 1660-1886: The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observer'' * Joseph Joubert — ''Recueil des pensées de M. Joubert'' * Carl Jung — ''The Red Book (Jung), The Red Book'' * Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa* — ''Stories'', ''Lessons on Stendhal'', ''Introduction to Sixteenth Century French Literature'' * Niccolò Machiavelli — ''The Prince'' * Thomas Overbury — ''Observations in Foreign Travels'' * Carl Sagan — ''Billions and Billions'' * Philip Sidney* — ''An Apology for Poetry'' * Edmund Spenser — ''Edmund Spenser#A View of the Present State of Ireland, A View of the Present State of Ireland'' * Kurt Vonnegut* — '' Armageddon in Retrospect'', ''
Sucker's Portfolio ''Sucker's Portfolio'', by Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American writer known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. In a career spanning over 50 years, he published fourteen novels, th ...
'' (essays and short stories)


See also

* Unfinished work * List of films released posthumously * List of music released posthumously * List of television performers who died during production * List of entertainers who died during a performance {{DEFAULTSORT:Posthumous Works published posthumously, Literature lists