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Douglas Adams Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author and screenwriter, best known for ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''. Originally a 1978 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series), BBC radio comedy, ''The H ...
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The Salmon of Doubt ''The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time'' is a posthumous collection of previously published and unpublished material by Douglas Adams. It consists largely of essays, interviews, and newspaper/magazine columns about technolo ...
'' (an incomplete novel, but also essays) * James Agee — ''
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 ...
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon Shmuel Yosef Agnon ( he, שמואל יוסף עגנון; July 17, 1888 – February 17, 1970) was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew literature. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon (). In English, his works are published und ...
— '' Shira'' * Louisa May Alcott — ''
A Long Fatal Love Chase ''A Long Fatal Love Chase'' is a 1866 novel by Louisa May Alcott published posthumously in 1995. Two years before the publication of '' Little Women'', Alcott uncharacteristically experimented with the style of the thriller and submitted the resu ...
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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 ...
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Northanger Abbey ''Northanger Abbey'' () is a coming-of-age Coming of age is a young person's transition from being a child to being an adult. The specific age at which this transition takes place varies between societies, as does the nature of the ...
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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. ...
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Sanditon ''Sanditon'' (1817) is an unfinished novel by the English writer Jane Austen. In January 1817, Austen began work on a new novel she called ''The Brothers'', later titled ''Sanditon'', and completed eleven chapters before stopping work in mid- ...
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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 ...
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William Baldwin William Joseph Baldwin (born February 21, 1963), Note: While birthplace is routinely listed as Massapequa, that town has no hospital, and brother Alec Baldwin was born in nearby Amityville, which does. known also as Billy Baldwin,is an American ...
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Beware the Cat ''Beware the Cat'' (1561) is an English satire written by the printer's assistant and poet William Baldwin (author), William Baldwin (sometimes called Gulielmus Baldwin), in early 1553. It has been claimed by some academics to be List of claimed f ...
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L. Frank Baum Lyman Frank Baum (; May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author best known for his children's books, particularly ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' and its sequels. He wrote 14 novels in the ''Oz'' series, plus 41 other novels (not includ ...
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The Magic of Oz ''The Magic of Oz '' is the thirteenth Land of Oz book written by L. Frank Baum. Published on June 7, 1919, one month after the author's death, ''The Magic of Oz'' relates the unsuccessful attempt of the Munchkin boy Kiki Aru and former Nome Ki ...
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Glinda of Oz ''Glinda of Oz'' is the fourteenth Land of Oz book written by children's author L. Frank Baum, published on July 10, 1920. It is the last book of the original Oz series, which was later continued by other authors. Like most of the Oz books, the p ...
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John Bellairs John Anthony Bellairs (January 17, 1938 – March 8, 1991) was an American author best known for his fantasy novel ''The Face in the Frost'' and many Gothic mystery novels for children featuring the characters Lewis Barnavelt, Rose Rita Pottin ...
— ''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 William Bradley Strickland (born October 27, 1947) is an American writer known primarily for fantasy and science fiction. His speculative fiction is published under the name Brad Strickland except for one novel written as Will Bradley. By a wide ...
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Cyrano de Bergerac Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac ( , ; 6 March 1619 – 28 July 1655) was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian, and duelist. A bold and innovative author, his work was part of the libertine literature of the first half of the 17th cen ...
— ''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 ...
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Donald Cammell Donald Seton Cammell (17 January 1934 – 24 April 1996) was a Scottish painter, screenwriter, and film director. He has a cult reputation largely due to his debut film '' Performance'', which he wrote the screenplay for and co-directed ...
— ''Fan Tan'' (with David Thomson) *
Roberto Bolaño Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (; 28 April 1953 – 15 July 2003) was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist. In 1999, Bolaño won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel ''Los detectives salvajes'' ('' The Savage Detectives ...
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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 ...
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The Third Reich Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...
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Charlotte Brontë Charlotte Brontë (, commonly ; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She enlisted i ...
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Charles Bukowski Henry Charles Bukowski ( ; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, ; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted ...
* — over twenty books of poetry and short stories after his death in 1994 * Mikhail Bulgakov — ''
The Master and Margarita ''The Master and Margarita'' (russian: Мастер и Маргарита) is a novel by Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940 during Stalin's regime. A censored version, with several chapters cut by ...
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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 ...
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John Carter of Mars John Carter of Mars is a fictional Virginian soldier who acts as the initial protagonist of the Barsoom stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs. A veteran of the American Civil War, he is transported to the planet Mars, called Barsoom by its inhabi ...
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Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins ''Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins'' is a collection of two Tarzan novellas by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, for younger readers. It was originally published as two children's books, ''The Tarzan Twins'' by Voland in October 1927, and ''Tarzan ...
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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' ...
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Tarzan and the Castaways Tarzan (John Clayton II, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungle by the Mangani great apes; he later experiences civilization, only to reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adv ...
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Savage Pellucidar ''Savage Pellucidar'' is a 1963 fantasy story collection by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the seventh and final book in his series about the fictional " hollow earth" land of Pellucidar. It was published twelve years after Burroughs's d ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Brother Men A brother is a man or boy who shares one or more parents with another; a male sibling. The female counterpart is a sister. Although the term typically refers to a familial relationship, it is sometimes used endearingly to refer to non-familia ...
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William S. Burroughs William Seward Burroughs II (; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist, widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular cultur ...
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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 ...
— '' And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks'' *
Octavia E. Butler Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction author and a multiple recipient of the Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowshi ...
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Seed to Harvest The ''Patternist'' series (also known as the ''Patternmaster'' series or ''Seed to Harvest'') is a group of science fiction novels by Octavia E. Butler that detail a secret history continuing from the Ancient Egyptian period to the far future tha ...
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The Way of All Flesh ''The Way of All Flesh'' (sometimes called ''Ernest Pontifex, or the Way of All Flesh'') is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler that attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the ...
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Albert Camus Albert Camus ( , ; ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, and journalist. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His work ...
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The First Man ''The First Man'' (french: Le Premier homme) is Albert Camus' unfinished final novel. On January 4, 1960, at the age of forty-six, Camus died in a car accident. The incomplete manuscript of ''The First Man'', the autobiographical novel Camus wa ...
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Dream of the Red Chamber ''Dream of the Red Chamber'' (''Honglou Meng'') or ''The Story of the Stone'' (''Shitou Ji'') is a novel composed by Cao Xueqin in the middle of the 18th century. One of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, it is known for ...
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Angela Carter Angela Olive Pearce (formerly Carter, Stalker; 7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992), who published under the name Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picar ...
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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 ...
'', '' Burning Your Boats'' (including six previously unpublished short stories) * Raymond Chandler — ''
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 ...
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Bruce Chatwin Charles Bruce Chatwin (13 May 194018 January 1989) was an English travel writer, novelist and journalist. His first book, ''In Patagonia'' (1977), established Chatwin as a travel writer, although he considered himself instead a storyteller, ...
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Anatomy of Restlessness ''Anatomy of Restlessness'' was published in 1997 and is a collection of unpublished essays, articles, short stories, and travel tales. This collection spans the twenty years of Bruce Chatwin Charles Bruce Chatwin (13 May 194018 January 1989) ...
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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 ...
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Sleeping Murder ''Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple's Last Case'' is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1976 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edit ...
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Tom Clancy Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. (April 12, 1947 – October 1, 2013) was an American novelist. He is best known for his technically detailed espionage and military science, military-science storylines set during and after the Cold War. Seventeen of ...
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Command Authority ''Command Authority'' is a techno-thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy and co-written with Mark Greaney, and published on December 3, 2013. It is Clancy's last major work of fiction and was released posthumously two months after his death. Set du ...
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Mark Greaney Mark Greaney (born 23 June 1980) is an Irish musician. He is best known as the singer and guitarist in the alternative rock band JJ72, which he fronted from 1996 until 2006. He was later the frontman of Concerto for Constantine and describes ...
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Wilkie Collins William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known especially for ''The Woman in White (novel), The Woman in White'' (1859), a mystery novel and early "sensation novel", and for ''The Moons ...
— '' Blind Love'' (with
Walter Besant Sir Walter Besant (14 August 1836 – 9 June 1901) was an English novelist and historian. William Henry Besant was his brother, and another brother, Frank, was the husband of Annie Besant. Early life and education The son of wine merchant Will ...
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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 Robert Edmund Cormier (January 17, 1925 – November 2, 2000) was an American author and journalist, known for his deeply pessimistic novels, many of which were written for young adults. Recurring themes include abuse, mental illness, violence, ...
— '' The Rag and Bone Shop'' *
Hannah Crafts Hannah Bond, also known by her pen name Hannah Crafts (born 1830s), was an American writer who escaped from Slavery in the United States, slavery in North Carolina about 1857 and went to the North. Bond settled in New Jersey, likely married Tho ...
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The Bondwoman's Narrative ''The Bondwoman's Narrative'' is a novel by Hannah Crafts who claimed to have escaped from slavery in North Carolina. The manuscript was not authenticated and properly published until 2002. Some scholars believe that the novel was written betw ...
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Stephen Crane Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism an ...
— ''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 ''Dragon Teeth'' is a novel by Michael Crichton, the eighteenth under his own name and third to be published after his death, written in 1974 and published on May 23, 2017. A historical fiction forerunner to ''Jurassic Park (novel), Jurassic Par ...
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René Daumal René Daumal (; 16 March 1908 – 21 May 1944) was a French spiritual para-surrealist writer, critic and poet, best known for his posthumously published novel '' Mount Analogue'' (1952) as well as for being an early, outspoken practitioner ...
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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 ...
— '' A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder'' *
Michael Dibdin Michael Dibdin (21 March 1947 – 30 March 2007) was a British crime writer, best known for inventing Aurelio Zen, the principal character in 11 crime novels set in Italy. Early life Dibdin was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire (now West M ...
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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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Gather Yourselves Together ''Gather Yourselves Together'' is an early novel by the science fiction author Philip K. Dick, written around 1948–1950, and published posthumously by WCS Books in 1994. As with many of his early books which were considered unsuitable for publi ...
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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 ...
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Voices from the Street ''Voices From The Street'' is an early realist novel by American science fiction author Philip K. Dick, written in the early 1950s. Unpublished at the time, it was released on January 23, 2007, by Tor Books for the first time. As with many of ...
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Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian e ...
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood ''The Mystery of Edwin Drood'' is the final novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in 1870. Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, it focuses more on Drood's uncle, John Jasper, a precentor, choirmaster and opium ...
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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 ...
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Siobhan Dowd Siobhan Dowd (4 February 1960 – 21 August 2007) was a British writer and activist. The last book she completed, '' Bog Child'', posthumously won the 2009 Carnegie Medal from the professional librarians, recognising the year's best book fo ...
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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 ...
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Gardner Dozois Gardner Raymond Dozois ( ; July 23, 1947 – May 27, 2018) was an American science fiction author and editor. He was the founding editor of ''The Year's Best Science Fiction'' anthologies (1984–2018) and was editor of '' Asimov's Science Fictio ...
— ''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 ''The Book of Ebenezer Le Page'' is a novel by English writer Gerald Basil Edwards first published in the United Kingdom by Hamish Hamilton in 1981, and in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf in the same year. It has since been published by Pe ...
'' * E. R. Eddison — ''
The Mezentian Gate ''The Mezentian Gate'' is a fantasy novel by English writer E. R. Eddison, the third in his Zimiamvian Trilogy. It is primarily a history of the rule of the fictional King Mezentius (the Tyrant of Fingiswold), and his methods of gaining and hold ...
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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 Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994) was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel '' Invisible Man'', which won the National Book Award in 1953. He also wrote ''Shadow and Act'' (1964), a collec ...
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Juneteenth Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. Deriving its name from combining "June" and "nineteenth", it is celebrated on the anniversary of General Order No. 3, i ...
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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'' ...
— '' Every Man Dies Alone'' *
Louise Fitzhugh Louise Fitzhugh (October 5, 1928 – November 19, 1974) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books, known best for the novel ''Harriet the Spy'' and its sequels, '' The Long Secret'' and ''Sport''. Biography Early life Fitzhugh ...
— ''Sport'' *
F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term he popularize ...
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The Last Tycoon ''The Last Tycoon'' is an unfinished novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In 1941, it was published posthumously under this title, as prepared by his friend Edmund Wilson, a critic and writer. According to ''Publishers Weekly,'' the novel is "generally ...
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Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert ( , , ; 12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist. Highly influential, he has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flauber ...
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Bouvard et Pécuchet ''Bouvard et Pécuchet'' is an unfinished satirical novel by Gustave Flaubert, published in 1881 after his death in 1880. Background Although it was conceived in 1863 as ''Les Deux Cloportes'' ("The Two Woodlice"), and partially inspired by a ...
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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 ...
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Octopussy and The Living Daylights ''Octopussy and The Living Daylights'' (sometimes published as ''Octopussy'') is the 14th and final James Bond book written by Ian Fleming in the Bond series. The book is a collection of short stories published posthumously in the United Ki ...
'' * C. S. Forester — ''
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 ...
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The Last Encounter "The Last Encounter" is a short story by C. S. Forester, notable as providing the final chapter in the life of his fictional naval hero, Horatio Hornblower. It was published together with the unfinished novel ''Hornblower and the Crisis'' and ano ...
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E. M. Forster Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English author, best known for his novels, particularly ''A Room with a View'' (1908), ''Howards End'' (1910), and ''A Passage to India'' (1924). He also wrote numerous short stori ...
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Maurice Maurice may refer to: People * Saint Maurice (died 287), Roman legionary and Christian martyr * Maurice (emperor) or Flavius Mauricius Tiberius Augustus (539–602), Byzantine emperor *Maurice (bishop of London) (died 1107), Lord Chancellor and ...
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William Gaddis William Thomas Gaddis, Jr. (December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998) was an American novelist. The first and longest of his five novels, '' The Recognitions'', was named one of TIME magazine's 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005 and two oth ...
— '' Agapē Agape'' *
Romain Gary Romain Gary (; 2 December 1980), born Roman Kacew (, and also known by the pen name Émile Ajar), was a French novelist, diplomat, film director, and World War II aviator. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt under two names. He i ...
* — ''Vie et Mort d'Émile Ajar'', ''L'homme à la Colombe'', ''L'orage'' *
Hugo Gernsback Hugo Gernsback (; born Hugo Gernsbacher, August 16, 1884 – August 19, 1967) was a Luxembourgish–American editor and magazine publisher, whose publications including the first science fiction magazine. His contributions to the genre as publ ...
— ''Ultimate World'' *
William Golding Sir William Gerald Golding (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel ''Lord of the Flies'' (1954), he published another twelve volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980 ...
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The Double Tongue ''The Double Tongue'' is a novel by William Golding. It was found in draft form after his death and published posthumously. Golding's final novel tells the story of the Pythia, the priestess of Apollo at Delphi. Arieka prophesies in the shadowy ...
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René Goscinny René Goscinny (, ; 14 August 1926 – 5 November 1977) was a French comic editor and writer, who created the ''Astérix'' comic book series with illustrator Albert Uderzo. Raised largely in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he attended French schoo ...
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Asterix in Belgium ''Asterix in Belgium'' (french: Astérix chez les Belges, lit=Asterix among the Belgians/ Belgae) is the twenty-fourth volume of the Asterix comic book series, by René Goscinny (story) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations). It is noted as the last ...
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Albert Uderzo Alberto Aleandro Uderzo (; ; 25 April 1927 – 24 March 2020), better known as Albert Uderzo, was a French comic book artist and scriptwriter. He is best known as the co-creator and illustrator of the '' Astérix'' series in collaboration with ...
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The Treasure of the Lake ''The Treasure of the Lake'' is one of the two posthumously published novels by H. Rider Haggard featuring Allan Quatermain. Plot Outline Allan Quatermain finds a village in the middle of the Dark Continent ruled by a huge, pale man with a stran ...
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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 t ...
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Belshazzar Belshazzar (Babylonian cuneiform: ''Bēl-šar-uṣur'', meaning "Bel, protect the king"; ''Bēlšaʾṣṣar'') was the son and crown prince of Nabonidus (556–539 BC), the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Through his mother he might h ...
'' * Alex Haley — '' Queen: The Story of an American Family'' (with David Stevens) *
Kenneth Halliwell Kenneth Leith Halliwell (23 June 1926 – 9 August 1967) was a British actor, writer and collagist. He was the mentor, boyfriend and murderer of playwright Joe Orton. Childhood Halliwell was born in Bebington. He was very close to his moth ...
— ''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 ...
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Jean Harlow Jean Harlow (born Harlean Harlow Carpenter; March 3, 1911 – June 7, 1937) was an American actress. Known for her portrayal of "bad girl" characters, she was the leading sex symbol of the early 1930s and one of the defining figures of the ...
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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 Har ...
'' (with Carey Wilson) * E. Lynn Harris — ''
Mama Dearest 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 ...
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Jaroslav Hašek Jaroslav Hašek (; 1883–1923) was a Czech writer, humorist, satirist, journalist, bohemian and anarchist. He is best known for his novel '' The Fate of the Good Soldier Švejk during the World War'', an unfinished collection of farcical inc ...
— ''The Glorious Licking Continues'' (''Pokračování slavného výprasku''), the unfinished fourth volume of ''
The Good Soldier Švejk ''The Good Soldier Švejk'' () is an unfinished satirical dark comedy novel by Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek, published in 1921–1923, about a good-humored, simple-minded, middle-aged man who pretends to be enthusiastic to serve Austria-Hungar ...
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Robert A. Heinlein Robert Anson Heinlein (; July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer. Sometimes called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was among the first to emphasize scientific accu ...
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For Us, the Living ''For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs'' is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. It was written in 1938 and published for the first time in 2003. Heinlein admirer and science fiction author Spider Robinson title ...
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Variable Star A variable star is a star whose brightness as seen from Earth (its apparent magnitude) changes with time. This variation may be caused by a change in emitted light or by something partly blocking the light, so variable stars are classified as ...
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Spider Robinson Spider Robinson (born November 24, 1948) is an American-born Canadian science fiction author. He has won a number of awards for his hard science fiction and humorous stories, including the Hugo Award 1977 and 1983, and another Hugo with his co-a ...
), ''The Pursuit of the Pankera'' *
Joseph Heller Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is the 1961 novel ''Catch-22'', a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for ...
— '' Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man'' *
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 termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fic ...
* — '' Islands in the Stream'', ''
The Garden of Eden In Abrahamic religions, the Garden of Eden ( he, גַּן־עֵדֶן, ) or Garden of God (, and גַן־אֱלֹהִים ''gan-Elohim''), also called the Terrestrial Paradise, is the biblical paradise described in Genesis 2-3 and Ezekiel 28 an ...
'', ''True at First Light'', ''The Dangerous Summer'', and ''Under Kilimanjaro'' * Frank Herbert — ''High-Opp'', ''Angels' Fall'', ''A Game of Authors'', ''A Thorn in the Bush'' * Hergé — ''Tintin and Alph-Art'' (assembled by Benoît Peeters, Michel Bareau, and Jean-Manuel Duvivier) * Winifred Holtby — ''South Riding (novel), South Riding'' (with Vera Brittain) * Robert E. Howard — ''A Gent from Bear Creek'', ''Almuric'' * Deborah Howe — ''Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery'' * Shirley Jackson — Paranoia (short story), "Paranoia" (short story) * Brian Jacques — ''The Rogue Crew'' * Tove Jansson — ''The True Deceiver'' and ''Traveling Light'', ''et al.'' * Alfred Jarry — ''Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician'' * W. E. Johns — ''Biggles, Biggles Does Some Homework'', ''Biggles, Biggles: Air Ace'' * Robert Jordan — ''The Gathering Storm (novel), The Gathering Storm'', ''Towers of Midnight'', and ''A Memory of Light'' (all with Brandon Sanderson) * Franz Kafka — ''The Trial'', ''The Castle (novel), The Castle'', and ''Amerika (novel), Amerika'', as well as many short stories * Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa* — ''The Leopard'' * Stieg Larsson — ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'', ''The Girl Who Played with Fire'', and ''The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest'' * John le Carré — ''Silverview'' * Ursula K. Le Guin — ''Firelight'', ''The Daughter of Odren'', ''Pity and Shame'' * Fritz Leiber — ''The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich'' * Édouard Levé — ''Suicide (novel), Suicide'' * Jack London — ''Jerry of the Islands'', ''Michael, Brother of Jerry'', ''The Red One'', ''Hearts of Three'', ''The Assassination Bureau, Ltd'' (with Robert L. Fish) * Huey Long — ''My First Days in the White House'' * Robert Ludlum — ''The Janson Directive'' * Katherine Mansfield — ''The Doves' Nest'' * William March — ''William March#Death, Poor Pilgrim, Poor Stranger'', ''99 Fables'' * Bruce Marshall — ''An Account of Capers'' * George du Maurier — ''The Martian (du Maurier novel), The Martian'' * Anne McCaffrey — ''Sky Dragons'' (with Todd McCaffrey) * Michael McDowell (author), Michael McDowell — ''Candles Burning'' * James A. Michener — ''Matecumbe (novel), Matecumbe'' * Walter M. Miller Jr. — ''Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman'' (with Terry Bisson) * Yukio Mishima — ''The Decay of the Angel'' * Margaret Mitchell — ''Lost Laysen'' * Vladimir Nabokov — ''The Original of Laura'' * Irène Némirovsky — ''Suite française (Némirovsky novel), Suite française'' * Frank Norris — ''The Pit (Norris novel), The Pit: A Story of Chicago'', ''Vandover and the Brute'' * Patrick O'Brian — ''The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey'' * Flann O'Brien — ''The Third Policeman'' * Robert C. O'Brien (author), Robert C. O'Brien — ''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 Kenneth Leith Halliwell (23 June 1926 – 9 August 1967) was a British actor, writer and collagist. He was the mentor, boyfriend and murderer of playwright Joe Orton. Childhood Halliwell was born in Bebington. He was very close to his moth ...
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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 ...
— ''Split Image (novel), Split Image'' * Mervyn Peake — ''Titus Awakes'' * Petronius — ''Satyricon'' * Edgar Allan Poe* — ''The Light-House'' * Karel Poláček — ''There Were Five of Us'' (Czech language, 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 (author), Stephen Baxter) * Mario Puzo — ''Omertà (novel), Omertà''; ''The Family (Puzo novel), The Family'' * Arthur Ransome — ''Coots in the North'' * Dr. Seuss — ''Daisy-Head Mayzie'', ''My Many Colored Days'', ''Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!'' (with Jack Prelutsky), ''What Pet Should I Get?'' * Yaakov Shabtai — ''Past Perfect (novel), Past Perfect'' * M. P. Shiel — ''The New King'' * Nevil Shute — ''Trustee from the Toolroom'' *
Philip Sidney Philip, also Phillip, is a male given name, derived from the Greek language, Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominent Philip ...
* — ''The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia'' * Shel Silverstein* — ''Runny Babbit'' * Thorne Smith — ''Thorne Smith#Works, The Passionate Witch'' (with Norman H. Matson) * Theodore Sturgeon — ''Godbody'' * James Tiptree Jr. — ''Come Live With Me'', ''Backward, Turn Backward'', ''The Earth Doth Like a Snake Renew'' * J. R. R. Tolkien — ''The Silmarillion'' (assembled by Christopher Tolkien), ''The Children of Húrin'' (published 35 years after his death; also assembled by Christopher Tolkien). Other posthumous publications can be found J. R. R. Tolkien bibliography#Posthumous publications, here. * Leo Tolstoy* — ''Hadji Murat (novel), Hadji Murat'' * John Kennedy Toole — ''A Confederacy of Dunces'', ''The Neon Bible'' * Mark Twain — ''The Mysterious Stranger'' * Jules Verne — ''The Lighthouse at the End of the World'', ''The Golden Volcano'', ''The Thompson Travel Agency'', ''The Chase of the Golden Meteor'', ''The Danube Pilot'', ''The Survivors of the "Jonathan"'', ''The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz'', "The Eternal Adam", ''The Barsac Mission'', ''Paris in the Twentieth Century'', ''Backwards to Britain'' * Kurt Vonnegut* — ''Armageddon in Retrospect'', ''Look at the Birdie'', ''Sucker's Portfolio'', ''While Mortals Sleep (short story collection), While Mortals Sleep'' * David Foster Wallace — ''The Pale King'' (assembled by Michael Pietsch) * Edward Lewis Wallant — ''The Tenants of Moonbloom'', ''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) * Virginia Woolf — ''Between the Acts'' * John Wyndham — ''Web (novel), Web'', ''Exiles on Asperus'', ''No Place Like Earth'' * Roger Zelazny — ''Donnerjack'', ''Lord Demon'' (with Jane Lindskold)


Plays

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Angela Carter Angela Olive Pearce (formerly Carter, Stalker; 7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992), who published under the name Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picar ...
* — ''The Curious Room'' (also scripts) * Federico García Lorca* — ''The House of Bernarda Alba'', ''The Public (play), The Public'' * Alexander Griboyedov — ''Woe from Wit'', ''A Georgian Night'' * Sarah Kane — ''4.48 Psychosis'' *
Philip Sidney Philip, also Phillip, is a male given name, derived from the Greek language, Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominent Philip ...
* — ''The Lady of May'' * Leo Tolstoy* — ''The Living Corpse''


Poetry

* Richard Beckinsale — ''With Love'' *
Charles Bukowski Henry Charles Bukowski ( ; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, ; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted ...
* — 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 (poem), Demon'', ''The Princess of the Tide'', ''Valerik (poem), Valerik'' * Christopher Marlowe — ''Hero and Leander (poem), 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 (poetry collection), Ariel'', ''Ennui (sonnet), Ennui'' * Edgar Allan Poe* — ''The Bells (poem), The Bells'', ''Annabel Lee'', ''Wikisource:Alone (Poe), Alone'', ''Poems by Edgar Allan Poe#An Acrostic (1829), An Acrostic'' *
Philip Sidney Philip, also Phillip, is a male given name, derived from the Greek language, Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominent Philip ...
* — ''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 — ''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 — ''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'' * Richard Feynman — ''What Do You Care What Other People Think?'' * Moshe Flinker — ''Young Moshe's Diary, Young Moshe's Diary: The Spiritual Torment of a Jewish Boy in Nazi Europe'' * Anne Frank — ''The Diary of a Young Girl'' * Julius Fučík (journalist), Julius Fučík — ''Julius Fučík (journalist)#Notes from the Gallows, Notes from the Gallows'' * Frankie Gaye — ''Marvin Gaye: My Brother'' * Petr Ginz — ''The Diary of Petr Ginz'' * Archibald Gracie IV — ''The Truth About the Titanic'' (assembled and published by Mitchell Kennerley) *
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 termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fic ...
* — ''A Moveable Feast'' * Etty Hillesum — ''An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943'' * David Koker — ''At the Edge of the Abyss: A Concentration Camp Diary, 1943-1944'' * Janusz Korczak — ''Ghetto Diary'' * Sergei Kourdakov — ''The Persecutor'' (autobiography) * Rutka Laskier — ''Rutka's Notebook'' * Kim Malthe-Bruun — ''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 (1957 book), The Untouchables'' (with Oscar Fraley) * Pliny the Younger — ''Letters, Book Ten'' (to and from the Roman Emperor Trajan) * Oskar Rosenfeld — ''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)


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'' * Edmund Husserl — ''Experience and Judgment'' (edited by Ludwig Landgrebe) * Martin Heidegger — ''Contributions to Philosophy'', ''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 Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author and screenwriter, best known for ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''. Originally a 1978 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series), BBC radio comedy, ''The H ...
* — ''
The Salmon of Doubt ''The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time'' is a posthumous collection of previously published and unpublished material by Douglas Adams. It consists largely of essays, interviews, and newspaper/magazine columns about technolo ...
'' (essays, as well as an incomplete novel) *
Albert Camus Albert Camus ( , ; ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, and journalist. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His work ...
* — 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 Charles Bruce Chatwin (13 May 194018 January 1989) was an English travel writer, novelist and journalist. His first book, ''In Patagonia'' (1977), established Chatwin as a travel writer, although he considered himself instead a storyteller, ...
* — ''Photographs and Notebooks'', ''
Anatomy of Restlessness ''Anatomy of Restlessness'' was published in 1997 and is a collection of unpublished essays, articles, short stories, and travel tales. This collection spans the twenty years of Bruce Chatwin Charles Bruce Chatwin (13 May 194018 January 1989) ...
'' (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 Gustave Flaubert ( , , ; 12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist. Highly influential, he has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flauber ...
* — ''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 Romain Gary (; 2 December 1980), born Roman Kacew (, and also known by the pen name Émile Ajar), was a French novelist, diplomat, film director, and World War II aviator. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt under two names. He i ...
— ''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 Philip, also Phillip, is a male given name, derived from the Greek language, Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominent Philip ...
* — ''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'' (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