The following is a list of works that were published posthumously. An asterisk indicates the author is listed in multiple subsections. (For example,

Philip Sidney Sir Philip Sidney (30 November 1554 – 17 October 1586) was an English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan era, Elizabethan age. His works include a sonnet sequence, ' ...

appears in four.)

Literature

Novels and short stories

* Douglas Adams* — '' The Salmon of Doubt'' (an incomplete novel, but also essays) * James Agee — '' A Death in the Family'' (initial publication assembled by David McDowell; alternate assembly later published by Michael Lofaro) * Shmuel Yosef Agnon — '' Shira'' * Louisa May Alcott — '' A Long Fatal Love Chase'' * Horatio Alger — over thirty-five short novels after his death in 1899 *

Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov ( ; – April 6, 1992) was an Russian-born American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. H ...

— '' Forward the Foundation'' *

Jane Austen Jane Austen ( ; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for #List of works, her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment on the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century ...

— ''

Northanger Abbey ''Northanger Abbey'' ( ) is a coming-of-age novel and a satire of Gothic fiction, Gothic novels written by the English author Jane Austen. Although the title page is dated 1818 and the novel was published posthumously in 1817 with ''Persuasio ...

'', ''

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'', '' Sanditon'', and '' Lady Susan'' * 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'' * Enid Blyton — ''Any Time Tales'', ''The Dog with the Long Tail, and other stories'', '' More Wishing-Chair Stories'', '' The Young Adventurers'' * Marlon Brando and Donald Cammell — ''Fan Tan'' (with David Thomson) * Roberto Bolaño — '' 2666'', '' A Little Lumpen Novelita'', '' The Secret of Evil'', '' The Third Reich'', and '' Woes of the True Policeman'' * Richard Brautigan — '' An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey'' * Charlotte Brontë — '' The Professor'' *

Charles Bukowski Henry Charles Bukowski ( ; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, ; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German Americans, German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambien ...

* — over twenty books of poetry and short stories after his death in 1994 * Mikhail Bulgakov — ''

The Master and Margarita ''The Master and Margarita'' () is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940. A censored version, with several chapters cut by editors, was published posthumously in ''Moscow (magazine), Moscow'' magazine in ...

'' *

Edgar Rice Burroughs Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American writer, best known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and fantasy genres. Best known for creating the characters Tarzan (who appeared in ...

— '' John Carter of Mars'', '' Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins'', '' Tarzan and the Madman'', '' Tarzan and the Castaways'', '' Tarzan: The Lost Adventure'', '' Savage Pellucidar'', '' The Wizard of Venus'', '' I am a Barbarian'', ''Minidoka: 937th Earl of One Mile Series M'', '' Pirate Blood'', '' Forgotten Tales of Love and Murder'', ''Brother Men'' * William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac — '' And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks'' * Octavia E. Butler — '' Seed to Harvest'' * Samuel Butler — '' The Way of All Flesh'' * Albert Camus* — '' A Happy Death'', '' The First Man'' * Xueqin Cao (trad.) — '' Dream of the Red Chamber'' *

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 ...

* — '' American Ghosts and Old World Wonders'', '' Burning Your Boats'' (including six previously unpublished short stories) * Raymond Chandler — '' Poodle Springs'' (with Robert B. Parker) * 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 w ...

* — '' The Canterbury Tales'' *

Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English people, English author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving ...

* — '' Sleeping Murder'' and notebooks *

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 ...

— '' Command Authority'' (with Mark Greaney) * Wilkie Collins — '' Blind Love'' (with Walter Besant) * Joseph Conrad — ''Suspense: A Napoleonic Novel'' * Robert Cormier — '' The Rag and Bone Shop'' * 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, screenwriter and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His literary works heavil ...

— '' Pirate Latitudes'', '' Micro'', '' Dragon Teeth'' * René Daumal — '' Mount Analogue'' * James De Mille — '' A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder'' * Ella Cara Deloria — ''Waterlily'' (1980) * Michael Dibdin — '' End Games'' * Philip K. Dick — '' Gather Yourselves Together'', '' Radio Free Albemuth'', ''Humpty Dumpty in Oakland'', '' Voices from the Street'' *

Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and Social criticism, social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by ...

— '' The Mystery of Edwin Drood'' *

Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman, Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a ...

— '' Falconet'' * Siobhan Dowd — '' Bog Child'', ''Solace of the Road'' *

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 Fict ...

— ''Book of Magic'' (editor), ''City Under the Stars'' (with Michael Swanwick) *

Alexandre Dumas Alexandre Dumas (born Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas , was a French novelist and playwright. His works have been translated into many languages and he is one of the mos ...

— '' The Knight of Sainte-Hermine'' (with Claude Schopp) * G.B. Edwards — '' The Book of Ebenezer Le Page'' * E. R. Eddison — '' 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 science fiction, New Wave speculative fiction and for his outspoken, combative personality. His published wo ...

— ''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. Ellison wrote '' Shadow and Act'' (1964), a co ...

— '' Juneteenth'', '' Three Days Before the Shooting...'' * Hans Fallada — '' Every Man Dies Alone'' * Louise Fitzhugh — ''Sport'' * F. Scott Fitzgerald — '' The Last Tycoon'' * Gustave Flaubert* — '' Bouvard et Pécuchet'' * Ian Fleming — '' Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang'', '' The Man with the Golden Gun'', '' Octopussy and The Living Daylights'' * C. S. Forester — '' Hornblower and the Crisis'', " The Last Encounter", ''Gold from Crete'', ''The Pursued'' * E. M. Forster — '' Maurice'' * William Gaddis — '' Agapē Agape'' * Gabriel García Márquez — ''Until August'' * 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 René Goscinny (; ; 14 August 1926 – 5 November 1977) was a French comic editor and writer, who created the ''Asterix, Astérix'' comic book series with illustrator Albert Uderzo. Born in France to a Jewish family from Poland, he spent his chil ...

— '' Asterix in Belgium'' (with Albert Uderzo) * H. Rider Haggard — '' The Treasure of the Lake'', '' Allan and the Ice-gods'', '' Mary of Marion Isle'', '' Belshazzar'' * Alex Haley — '' Queen: The Story of an American Family'' (with David Stevens) * Kenneth Halliwell — ''Lord Cucumber'' and ''The Boy Hairdresser'' (with Joe Orton) *

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 ...

— '' Today is Tonight'' (with Carey Wilson) * E. Lynn Harris — '' 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'', ''

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'' (with Spider Robinson), ''The Pursuit of the Pankera'' * Joseph Heller — '' 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. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized fo ...

* — '' Islands in the Stream'', ''

The Garden of Eden In Abrahamic religions, the Garden of Eden (; ; ) or Garden of God ( and ), also called the Terrestrial Paradise, is the biblical paradise described in Book of Genesis, Genesis 2–3 and Book of Ezekiel, Ezekiel 28 and 31.. The location of Ede ...

'', '' True at First Light'', '' The Dangerous Summer'', and '' Under Kilimanjaro'' *

Frank Herbert Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. (October 8, 1920February 11, 1986) was an American science-fiction author, best known for his 1965 novel Dune (novel), ''Dune'' and its five sequels. He also wrote short stories and worked as a newspaper journalist, ...

— '' 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'' (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) *

Brian Jacques James Brian Jacques (, as in "Jakes"; 15 June 1939 – 5 February 2011), known professionally as Brian Jacques, was an English author known for his ''Redwall'' series of children's fantasy novels and ''Castaways of the Flying Dutchman'' series. ...

— '' The Rogue Crew'' * M. R. James — " The Fenstanton Witch" * Tove Jansson — ''The True Deceiver'' and ''Traveling Light'', ''et al.'' * Alfred Jarry — '' Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician'' *

W. E. Johns William Earl Johns (5 February 189321 June 1968) was an English First World War pilot, and writer of adventure stories, usually written under the pen name Capt. W. E. Johns: best known for creating the fictional air-adventurer ''Biggles''. Earl ...

— '' 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 December19, 1975) is an American author of high fantasy, science fiction, and young adult books. He is best known for the Cosmere fictional universe, in which most of his fantasy novels, most notably the '' Mistb ...

) *

Franz Kafka Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a novelist and writer from Prague who was Jewish, Austrian, and Czech and wrote in German. He is widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of Litera ...

— '' The Trial'', '' The Castle'', and '' 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 — ''

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'' *

Jack London John Griffith London (; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors t ...

— '' 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 Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer and critic who was an important figure in the Literary modernism, modernist movement. Her works are celebrated across the world and have been ...

— '' The Doves' Nest'' * William March — '' Poor Pilgrim, Poor Stranger'', '' 99 Fables'' * Bruce Marshall — '' An Account of Capers'' *

George du Maurier George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier (6 March 1834 – 8 October 1896) was a Franco-British cartoonist and writer known for work in ''Punch (magazine), Punch'' and a Gothic fiction, Gothic novel ''Trilby (novel), Trilby'', featuring the char ...

— '' The Martian'' *

Anne McCaffrey Anne Inez McCaffrey (1 April 1926 – 21 November 2011) was an American writer known for the ''Dragonriders of Pern'' science fiction series. She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction (Best Novella, ''Weyr Search'', 1968) an ...

— '' Sky Dragons'' (with Todd McCaffrey) * Michael McDowell — ''Candles Burning'' * James A. Michener — '' 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'' * Frank Norris — '' 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 — '' Z for Zachariah'' (with Sally M. Conly and Jane Leslie Conly) * Joe Orton — ''Head to Toe'', ''Lord Cucumber'', and ''The Boy Hairdresser'' (the latter two with Kenneth Halliwell) * Robert B. Parker — '' Split Image'' * Mervyn Peake — '' Titus Awakes'' * Petronius — ''

Satyricon The ''Satyricon'', ''Satyricon'' ''liber'' (''The Book of Satyrlike Adventures''), or ''Satyrica'', is a Latin work of fiction believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius in the late 1st century AD, though the manuscript tradition identifi ...

'' *

Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe (; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. He is widely re ...

* — '' The Light-House'' * Karel Poláček — ''There Were Five of Us'' ( Czech: ''Bylo nás pět'') * Jan Potocki — '' The Manuscript Found in Saragossa'' *

Terry Pratchett Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author, humorist, and Satire, satirist, best known for the ''Discworld'' series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983 and 2015, and for the Apocalyp ...

— '' The Shepherd's Crown'', '' The Long Utopia'', '' The Long Cosmos'' (the latter two with Stephen Baxter) *

Mario Puzo Mario Francis Puzo (; ; October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was an American author and screenwriter. He wrote crime novels about the Italian-American Mafia and Sicilian Mafia, most notably ''The Godfather (novel), The Godfather'' (1969), which h ...

— '' Omertà''; '' 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 — ''

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'' * Mary Ann Shaffer (and Annie Barrows) — '' The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society'' * M. P. Shiel — ''The New King'' * Nevil Shute — '' Trustee from the Toolroom'' *

* — '' The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia'' * Shel Silverstein* — '' Runny Babbit'' * Thorne Smith — '' The Passionate Witch'' (with Norman H. Matson) *

Theodore Sturgeon Theodore Sturgeon (; born Edward Hamilton Waldo, February 26, 1918 – May 8, 1985) was an American author of primarily fantasy fiction, fantasy, science fiction, and Horror fiction, horror, as well as a critic. He wrote approximately 400 ...

— '' Godbody'' * James Tiptree Jr. — ''Come Live With Me'', ''Backward, Turn Backward'', ''The Earth Doth Like a Snake Renew'' *

J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (, 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings''. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson ...

— '' The Silmarillion'' (assembled by

Christopher Tolkien Christopher John Reuel Tolkien (21 November 1924 – 16 January 2020) was an English and naturalised French academic editor and writer. The son of the author and academic J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher edited 24 volumes based on his father's P ...

), ''

The Children of Húrin ''The Children of Húrin'' is an epic fantasy novel which forms the completion of a tale by J. R. R. Tolkien. He wrote The Lay of the Children of Húrin, the original version of the story in the late 1910s, revising it several times later, but ...

'' (published 35 years after his death; also assembled by

). Other posthumous publications can be found here. *

Leo Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy Tolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; ,Throughout Tolstoy's whole life, his name was written as using Reforms of Russian orthography#The post-revolution re ...

* — '' Hadji Murat'' * John Kennedy Toole — '' A Confederacy of Dunces'', '' The Neon Bible'' * Robert Tressell — '' The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists'' *

Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Fau ...

— '' 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 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 Kurt Vonnegut ( ; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author known for his Satire, satirical and darkly humorous novels. His published work includes fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfict ...

* — '' Armageddon in Retrospect'', '' Look at the Birdie'', '' Sucker's Portfolio'', '' 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'' *

H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, hist ...

— ''The Desert Daisy'', ''The Haunted Ceiling'' * Edward Noyes Westcott — '' David Harum'' (published version assembled by Ripley Hitchcock) * Donald E. Westlake — ''

Memory Memory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time for the purpose of influencing future action. If past events could not be remembe ...

'' * 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 Adeline Virginia Woolf (; ; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device. Vir ...

— '' Between the Acts'' * John Wyndham — '' Web'', '' Exiles on Asperus'', '' No Place Like Earth'' * Roger Zelazny — '' Donnerjack'', '' Lord Demon'' (with Jane Lindskold)

Plays

* — '' The Curious Room'' (also scripts) *

Federico García Lorca Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936) was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27, a g ...

* — '' The House of Bernarda Alba'', '' The Public'' * 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'' *

* — '' The Lady of May'' *

* — '' The Living Corpse''

Poetry

Richard Beckinsale Richard Arthur Beckinsale (6 July 1947 – 19 March 1979) was an English actor. He played Lennie Godber in the BBC British sitcom, sitcom ''Porridge (1974 TV series), Porridge'' (along with its sequel series ''Going Straight'') and Alan Moore ...

— ''With Love'' *

* — over twenty books of poetry and short stories * Emily Dickinson* — virtually all of her poems *

* — ''Diván del Tamarit'', '' Poet in New York'', '' Yerma'', '' Sonnets of Dark Love'' *

Mikhail Lermontov Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov ( , ; rus, Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, , mʲɪxɐˈil ˈjʉrʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲerməntəf, links=yes; – ) was a Russian Romanticism, Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called ...

— ''

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'', '' The Princess of the Tide'', '' Valerik'' *

Christopher Marlowe Christopher Marlowe ( ; Baptism, baptised 26 February 156430 May 1593), also known as Kit Marlowe, was an English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe is among the most famous of the English Renaissance theatre, Eli ...

— '' Hero and Leander'' (with

George Chapman George Chapman ( – 12 May 1634) was an English dramatist, translator and poet. He was a classical scholar whose work shows the influence of Stoicism. Chapman is seen as an anticipator of the metaphysical poets of the 17th century. He is ...

), '' 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'' *

* — '' The Bells'', '' Annabel Lee'', '' Alone'', '' An Acrostic'' *

* — '' Astrophel and Stella'' * Shel Silverstein* — ''Every Thing On It'' *

Virgil Publius Vergilius Maro (; 15 October 70 BC21 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil ( ) in English, was an ancient Rome, ancient Roman poet of the Augustan literature (ancient Rome), Augustan period. He composed three of the most fa ...

— ''

Aeneid The ''Aeneid'' ( ; or ) is a Latin Epic poetry, epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Troy, Trojan who fled the Trojan War#Sack of Troy, fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Ancient Rome ...

'' * 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 or 13 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 Caesar's civil wa ...

— '' Commentarii de Bello Civili'' * Hélène Berr — ''The Journal of Hélène Berr'' *

* — '' 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: The Spiritual Torment of a Jewish Boy in Nazi Europe'' *

Anne Frank Annelies Marie Frank (, ; 12 June 1929 – February or March 1945)Research by The Anne Frank House in 2015 revealed that Frank may have died in February 1945 rather than in March, as Dutch authorities had long assumed"New research sheds new li ...

— ''

The Diary of a Young Girl ''The Diary of a Young Girl'', commonly referred to as ''The Diary of Anne Frank'', is a book of the writings from the Dutch language, Dutch-language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Neth ...

'' * Julius Fučík — '' 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) *

* — '' 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 Eliot Ness (April 19, 1903 – May 16, 1957) was an American Bureau of Prohibition, Prohibition agent known for his efforts to bring down Al Capone while enforcing Prohibition in the United States, Prohibition in Chicago. He was leader of a team ...

— '' The Untouchables'' (with Oscar Fraley) * Pliny the Younger — ''Letters, Book Ten'' (to and from the Roman Emperor

Trajan Trajan ( ; born Marcus Ulpius Traianus, 18 September 53) was a Roman emperor from AD 98 to 117, remembered as the second of the Five Good Emperors of the Nerva–Antonine dynasty. He was a philanthropic ruler and a successful soldier ...

) * 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 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus ( ; ; 26 April 121 – 17 March 180) was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoicism, Stoic philosopher. He was a member of the Nerva–Antonine dynasty, the last of the rulers later known as the Five Good Emperors ...

— ''

Meditations ''Meditations'' () is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 161–180 AD, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy. Composition Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 books of the ''Meditations'' i ...

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Walter Benjamin Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin ( ; ; 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German-Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist. An eclectic thinker who combined elements of German idealism, Jewish mysticism, Western M ...

— '' Theses on the Philosophy of History'', '' Arcades Project'' (assembled by Rolf Tiedemann; translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin) *

Antonio Gramsci Antonio Francesco Gramsci ( , ; ; 22 January 1891 – 27 April 1937) was an Italian Marxist philosophy, Marxist philosopher, Linguistics, linguist, journalist, writer, and politician. He wrote on philosophy, Political philosophy, political the ...

— '' Prison Notebooks'' *

David Hume David Hume (; born David Home; – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist who was best known for his highly influential system of empiricism, philosophical scepticism and metaphysical naturalism. Beg ...

— '' Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion'' *

Edmund Husserl Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (; 8 April 1859 – 27 April 1938) was an Austrian-German philosopher and mathematician who established the school of Phenomenology (philosophy), phenomenology. In his early work, he elaborated critiques of histori ...

— ''Experience and Judgment'' (edited by Ludwig Landgrebe) *

Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger (; 26 September 1889 – 26 May 1976) was a German philosopher known for contributions to Phenomenology (philosophy), phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. His work covers a range of topics including metaphysics, art ...

— '' Contributions to Philosophy'', '' Insight Into What Is'' *

Søren Kierkegaard Søren Aabye Kierkegaard ( , ; ; 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danes, Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. He wrote critical tex ...

— '' The Point of View of My Work as an Author'', '' Writing Sampler'', '' Judge for Yourselves!'' *

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (or Leibnitz; – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat who is credited, alongside Sir Isaac Newton, with the creation of calculus in addition to ...

— '' The Monadology'' *

Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher. He began his career as a classical philology, classical philologist, turning to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, aged 24, Nietzsche bec ...

— '' The Will to Power'' (assembled by Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche and Heinrich Köselitz) * Baruch Spinoza — ''

Ethics Ethics is the philosophy, philosophical study of Morality, moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates Normativity, normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branches inclu ...

'' *

Ludwig Wittgenstein Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ( ; ; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. From 1929 to 1947, Witt ...

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Philosophical Investigations ''Philosophical Investigations'' () is a work by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, published posthumously in 1953. ''Philosophical Investigations'' is divided into two parts, consisting of what Wittgenstein calls, in the preface, ''Bemer ...

'' (edited and translated by G. E. M. Anscombe)

Other non-fiction

Georgius Agricola Georgius Agricola (; born Georg Bauer; 24 March 1494 – 21 November 1555) was a German Humanist scholar, mineralogist and metallurgist. Born in the small town of Glauchau, in the Electorate of Saxony of the Holy Roman Empire, he was b ...

— '' 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 * Heinz Cassirer — God's New Covenant: A New Testament Translation *

* — '' A Treatise on the Astrolabe'' *

Carl von Clausewitz Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz ( , ; born Carl Philipp Gottlieb Clauswitz; 1 July 1780 – 16 November 1831) was a Kingdom of Prussia, Prussian general and Military theory, military theorist who stressed the "moral" (in modern terms meani ...

— '' 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 (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British author of popular children's literature and short stories, a poet, screenwriter and a wartime Flying ace, fighter ace. His books have sold more than 300 million copies ...

— '' Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety'' * David James Davies — ''Towards Welsh Freedom'' * Ferdinand de Saussure* — '' Cours de linguistique générale'' 1916, edited by Charles Bally & Albert Sechehaye * 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, 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'' * Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa* — ''Stories'', ''Lessons on Stendhal'', ''Introduction to Sixteenth Century French Literature'' *

Niccolò Machiavelli Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was a Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance. He is best known for his political treatise '' The Prince'' (), writte ...

— '' The Prince'' *

Isaac Newton Sir Isaac Newton () was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author. Newton was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment that followed ...

— '' The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended'', '' Method of Fluxions'' * Barbara Olson — ''The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House'' * Thomas Overbury — ''Observations in Foreign Travels'' * Carl Sagan — '' Billions and Billions'' *

* — '' An Apology for Poetry'' *

Edmund Spenser Edmund Spenser (; – 13 January 1599 Old Style and New Style dates, O.S.) was an English poet best known for ''The Faerie Queene'', an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the House of Tudor, Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is re ...

— '' A View of the Present State of Ireland'' *

* — '' Armageddon in Retrospect'', '' Sucker's Portfolio'' (essays and short stories)

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