List of years in literature

This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point.

Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 2000s 2 1990s 3 1980s 4 1970s 5 1960s 6 1950s 7 1940s 8 1930s 9 1920s 10 1910s 11 1900s 12 1890s 13 1880s 14 1870s 15 1860s 16 1850s 17 1840s 18 1830s 19 1820s 20 1810s 21 1800s 22 1790s 23 1780s 24 1770s 25 1760s 26 1750s 27 1740s 28 1730s 29 1720s 30 1710s 31 Pre 1710s

2000s

• 2003 in literature -
• 2002 in literature - Atonement - Ian McEwan[?]
• 2001 in literature - Life of Pi[?] - Yann Martel
• 2000 in literature - Final original Peanuts comic strip is published, and creator Charles Schulz dies soon after

1990s

• 1999 in literature - Chocolat - Joanne Harris
• 1998 in literature - A Man in Full[?] - Tom Wolfe
• 1997 in literature - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J. K. Rowling
• 1996 in literature - Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
• 1995 in literature - The Celestine Prophecy[?] - James Redfield[?]
• 1994 in literature - The Stone Diaries[?] - Carol Shields
• 1993 in literature - Pleading Guilty[?] - Scott Turow
• 1992 in literature - The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
• 1991 in literature - Such a Long Journey[?] - Rohinton Mistry
• 1990 in literature - Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton

1980s

• 1989 in literature - The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
• 1988 in literature - Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
• 1987 in literature - Beloved[?] - Toni Morrison
• 1986 in literature - The Old Devils[?] - Kingsley Amis
• 1985 in literature - The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
• 1984 in literature - White Noise[?] - Don DeLillo
• 1983 in literature - On Wings of Eagles[?] - Ken Follett
• 1982 in literature - The Color Purple - Alice Walker
• 1981 in literature - Hotel New Hampshire[?] - John Irving
• 1980 in literature - A Confederacy of Dunces[?] - John Kennedy Toole

1970s

• 1979 in literature - Kane and Abel[?] - Jeffrey Archer
• 1978 in literature - The World According to Garp - John Irving
• 1977 in literature - The Sea, The Sea[?] - Iris Murdoch
• 1976 in literature - Triton - Samuel R. Delany
• 1975 in literature - Humboldt's Gift[?] - Saul Bellow
• 1974 in literature - Carrie - Stephen King
• 1973 in literature - Burr - Gore Vidal
• 1972 in literature - Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
• 1971 in literature - The End of Summer[?] - Rosamunde Pilcher
• 1970 in literature - Deliverance - James Dickey

1960s

• 1969 in literature - Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
• 1968 in literature - Airport[?] - Arthur Hailey
• 1967 in literature - Wild Season[?] - Allan W. Eckert
• 1966 in literature - Valley of the Dolls[?] - Jacqueline Susann[?]
• 1965 in literature - Herzog[?] - Saul Bellow
• 1964 in literature - Little Big Man[?] - Thomas Berger[?]
• 1963 in literature - Planet of the Apes (La Planete des Singes) - Pierre Boulle
• 1962 in literature - Wise Blood[?] - Flannery O'Connor
• 1961 in literature - Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
• 1960 in literature - To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

1950s

• 1959 in literature - Hawaii[?] - James A. Michener
• 1958 in literature - Masters of Deceit[?] - J. Edgar Hoover
• 1957 in literature - The Cat in the Hat - Dr. Seuss
• 1956 in literature - Les racines du ciel[?] - Romain Gary
• 1955 in literature - A Good Man is Hard to Find[?] - Flannery O'Connor
• 1954 in literature - Lord of the Flies - William G. Golding
• 1953 in literature - The High and the Mighty[?] - Ernest K. Gann[?]
• 1952 in literature - Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
• 1951 in literature - The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
• 1950 in literature - The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis

1940s

• 1949 in literature - Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
• 1948 in literature - The Naked and the Dead[?] - Norman Mailer
• 1947 in literature - The Diary of Anne Frank
• 1946 in literature - The Iceman Cometh[?] - Eugene O'Neill
• 1945 in literature - Gigi - Colette
• 1944 in literature - Our Lady of the Flowers[?] - Jean Genet
• 1943 in literature - The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
• 1942 in literature - The Stranger - Albert Camus
• 1941 in literature - The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
• 1940 in literature - Native Son - Richard Wright

1930s

• 1939 in literature - The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
• 1938 in literature - Out of the Silent Planet[?] - C. S. Lewis
• 1937 in literature - Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
• 1936 in literature - Life magazine is first published
• 1935 in literature - Treasure of the Sierra Madre[?] - B. Traven[?]
• 1934 in literature - I, Claudius - Robert Graves
• 1933 in literature - God's Little Acre[?] - Erskine Caldwell[?]
• 1932 in literature - Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
• 1931 in literature - The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
• 1930 in literature - Not Without Laughter[?] - Langston Hughes

1920s

• 1929 in literature - A Room of One's Own[?] - Virginia Woolf
• 1928 in literature - Lady Chatterley's lover[?] - D.H. Lawrence
• 1927 in literature - A la recherche du temps perdu (final installment) - Marcel Proust
• 1926 in literature - The Sun Also Rises[?] - Ernest Hemingway
• 1925 in literature - The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• 1924 in literature - Billy Budd, Foretopman[?] - Herman Melville
• 1923 in literature - The House at Pooh Corner[?] - A.A. Milne
• 1922 in literature - Ulysses - James Joyce
• 1921 in literature - The Mistress of Husaby[?] - Sigrid Undset
• 1920 in literature - The Age of Innocence[?] - Edith Wharton

1910s

• 1919 in literature - In the Penal Colony[?] - Franz Kafka
• 1918 in literature - First Pulitzer Prizes awarded
• 1917 in literature - Under Fire[?] - Henri Barbusse
• 1916 in literature - Relativity - Albert Einstein
• 1915 in literature - Of Human Bondage[?] - W. Somerset Maugham
• 1914 in literature - Mending Wall[?] - Robert Frost
• 1913 in literature - Tarzan of the Apes[?] - Edgar Rice Burroughs
• 1912 in literature - Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
• 1911 in literature - Encyclopædia Britannica published
• 1910 in literature - Howards End - E. M. Forster

1900s

• 1909 in literature - Balthazar[?] - Anatole France
• 1908 in literature - Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maude Montgomery
• 1907 in literature - The City of Pleasure[?] - Arnold Bennett
• 1906 in literature - The House of Souls[?] - Arthur Machen
• 1905 in literature - White Fang[?] - Jack London
• 1904 in literature - Nostromo[?] - Joseph Conrad
• 1903 in literature - The Souls of Black Folk[?] - W. E. B. DuBois
• 1902 in literature - The Virginian[?] - Owen Wister[?]
• 1901 in literature - First Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to Sully Prudhomme
• 1900 in literature - Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser

1890s

• 1899 in literature - The School and Society[?] - John Dewey
• 1898 in literature - Paris[?] - Emile Zola
• 1897 in literature - Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling
• 1896 in literature - The Well at the World's End[?] - William Morris
• 1895 in literature - Almayer's Folly[?] - Joseph Conrad
• 1894 in literature - The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope
• 1893 in literature -
• 1892 in literature - The Yellow Wallpaper[?] - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• 1891 in literature - Diary of a Pilgrimage[?] - Jerome K. Jerome
• 1890 in literature - At Fault[?] - Kate Chopin

1880s

• 1889 in literature - Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
• 1888 in literature - Confessions of a Young Man[?] - George A. Moore
• 1887 in literature - Thelma[?] - Marie Corelli
• 1886 in literature - Little Lord Fauntleroy - Frances Hodgson Burnett
• 1885 in literature - Marius the Epicurean[?] - Walter Pater[?]
• 1884 in literature - Miss Bretherton[?] - Mary Augusta Ward
• 1883 in literature - Une Vie[?] - Guy de Maupassant
• 1882 in literature - The Naval War of 1812[?] - Theodore Roosevelt
• 1881 in literature - The Black Robe[?] - Wilkie Collins
• 1880 in literature - Workers in the Dawn[?] - George Gissing[?]

1870s

• 1879 in literature - The Red Room[?] - August Strindberg
• 1878 in literature - Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
• 1877 in literature - Under the Lilacs[?] - Louisa May Alcott
• 1876 in literature - The Shadow of the Sword[?] - Robert Buchanan[?]
• 1875 in literature - The Goldsmith's Wife[?] - William Harrison Ainsworth
• 1874 in literature - Les Diaboliques[?] - Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
• 1873 in literature - The Poison Tree[?] - Bankim Chatterjee[?]
• 1872 in literature - Under the Greenwood Tree[?] - Thomas Hardy
• 1871 in literature - Middlemarch - George Eliot
• 1870 in literature - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne

1860s

• 1869 in literature - War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
• 1868 in literature - Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
• 1867 in literature - Cometh Up as a Flower[?] - Rhoda Broughton
• 1866 in literature - Surry of Eagle's-Nest[?] - John Esten Cooke[?]
• 1865 in literature - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
• 1864 in literature - Renee Mauperin[?] - Edmond de Goncourt
• 1863 in literature - Capitan Fracassa[?] - Theophile Gautier
• 1862 in literature - Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
• 1861 in literature - Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
• 1860 in literature - The Fall of the Alamo[?] - R.M. Potter[?]

1850s

• 1859 in literature - A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
• 1858 in literature - A House of Gentlefolk[?] - Ivan Turgenev
• 1857 in literature - Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
• 1856 in literature - The Daisy Chain[?] - Charlotte Mary Yonge
• 1855 in literature - Westward Ho![?] - Charles Kingsley
• 1854 in literature - The Newcomers - William Makepeace Thackeray
• 1853 in literature - The Countess de Charny[?] - Alexandre Dumas, père
• 1852 in literature - Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
• 1851 in literature - Moby Dick - Herman Melville
• 1850 in literature - The Arabian Nights - Sir Richard Burton

1840s

• 1849 in literature - The Oregon Trail[?] - Francis Parkman[?]
• 1848 in literature - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
• 1847 in literature - Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
• 1846 in literature - The Children of the Night[?] - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
• 1845 in literature - The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas, père
• 1844 in literature - Les Paysans[?] - Honore de Balzac
• 1843 in literature - Windsor Castle[?] - William Harrison Ainsworth
• 1842 in literature - Dead Souls[?] - Nikolai Gogol
• 1841 in literature - The Bronze Horseman[?] - Alexander Pushkin
• 1840 in literature - Two Years Before the Mast[?] - Richard Henry Dana, Jr.[?]

1830s

• 1839 in literature - The Voyage of the Beagle[?] - Charles Darwin
• 1838 in literature - Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
• 1837 in literature - Live and Let Live[?] - Catharine Maria Sedgwick[?]
• 1836 in literature - Poems[?] - Oliver Wendell Holmes
• 1835 in literature - Mademoiselle de Maupin[?] - Theophile Gautier
• 1834 in literature - Sartor Resartus[?] - Thomas Carlyle
• 1833 in literature - Gamiani[?] - Alfred de Musset
• 1832 in literature - Castle Dangerous[?] - Sir Walter Scott
• 1831 in literature - The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
• 1830 in literature - The Red and the Black[?] - Stendhal

1820s

• 1829 in literature - The Misfortunes of Elphin[?] - Thomas Love Peacock
• 1828 in literature - The Birds of America[?] - John James Audubon
• 1827 in literature - Book of Songs[?] (poetry) - Heinrich Heine
• 1826 in literature - Cinq-Mars[?] - Alfred de Vigny
• 1825 in literature - The Betrothed[?] - Alessandro Manzoni
• 1824 in literature - Our Village[?] - Mary Russell Mitford[?]
• 1823 in literature - Posthumous Poems[?] - Percy Bysshe Shelley
• 1822 in literature - Trilby[?] - Charles Nodier[?]
• 1821 in literature - Confessions of an English Opium Eater[?] - Thomas De Quincey[?]
• 1820 in literature - Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott

1810s

• 1819 in literature - The Sketch Book[?] - Washington Irving
• 1818 in literature - Frankenstein - Mary Shelly
• 1817 in literature - Ormond and Harrington[?] - Maria Edgeworth
• 1816 in literature - Headlong Hall[?] - Thomas Love Peacock
• 1815 in literature - The Pastor's Fireside[?] - Jane Porter[?]
• 1814 in literature - The Wanderer[?] - Fanny Burney
• 1813 in literature - The Swiss Family Robinson[?] - Johann David Wyss
• 1812 in literature - The Milesian Chief[?] - Charles Robert Maturin[?]
• 1811 in literature - Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
• 1810 in literature - The Houses of Osma and Almeria[?] - Regina Maria Roche[?]

1800s

• 1809 in literature - The Martyrs[?] - François-René de Chateaubriand
• 1808 in literature - The Wild Irish Boy[?] - Charles Robert Maturin[?]
• 1807 in literature - Tales from Shakespeare[?] - Charles Lamb & Mary Lamb[?]
• 1806 in literature - Zofloya[?] - Charlotte Dacre[?]
• 1805 in literature - The Wonder of the Village[?] - Mary Meeke[?]
• 1804 in literature - Jerusalem[?] (poetry) - William Blake
• 1803 in literature - St. Clair of the Isles[?] - Elisabeth Helme[?]
• 1802 in literature - Delphine[?] - Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
• 1801 in literature - The Wizard and the Sword[?] - Henry Summersett[?]
• 1800 in literature - Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth

1790s

• 1799 in literature -
• 1798 in literature - Lyrical Ballads[?] - Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth
• 1797 in literature -
• 1796 in literature -
• 1795 in literature -
• 1794 in literature -
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• 1791 in literature -
• 1790 in literature - Reflections on the Revolution in France[?] - Edmund Burke

1780s

• 1789 in literature - Songs of Innocence[?] - William Blake
• 1788 in literature -
• 1787 in literature -
• 1786 in literature -
• 1785 in literature -
• 1784 in literature -
• 1783 in literature -
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1770s

• 1779 in literature -
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1760s

• 1769 in literature -
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1750s

• 1759 in literature -
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1740s

• 1749 in literature - Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
• 1748 in literature -
• 1747 in literature -
• 1746 in literature -
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1730s

• 1739 in literature -
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1720s

• 1729 in literature -
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• 1727 in literature -
• 1726 in literature - Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
• 1725 in literature -
• 1724 in literature -
• 1723 in literature -
• 1722 in literature -
• 1721 in literature - First English Dictionary Published.
• 1720 in literature -

1710s

• 1719 in literature - Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
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• 1711 in literature
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Pre 1710s

• 1700s in literature
• 17th century in literature
• 16th century in literature
• 15th century in literature
• 14th century in literature - Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
• 13th century in literature
• Pre 13th century in literature - Religious, philosophical texts written.