(Books are ordered alphabetically by original publication date)

• 11th-century
• 17th-century
• 19th-century
• 20th-century
  • 1900s | 1910s | 1920s | 1930s | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s
• 21st-century
  • 2000s | 2010s

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11th-century

1008 – 1010

• The Diary of Lady Murasaki, by Murasaki Shikibu, tr. Richard Bowring, 2005 (紫式部日記 –Murasaki Shikibu Nikki, 1008-1010)
• The Tale of Genji ((源氏物語 Genji monogatari), translated by (I) Arthur Waley (Tuttle Publishing, 2010, 1155 p.); (II) Edward G. Seidensticker (Alfred A. Knopf, 1993, 1224 p.); (III) Royall Tyler (Penguin Classics, 2002, 1216 p.); (IV) Dennis Washburn’s (W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, 1360 p.);
  • Reading notes on Tyler’s translation:
    • Chapters 1 to  8

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1060

• Sarashina Nikki (更級日記)
  • The Sarashina diary: a woman’s life in eleventh-century Japan,  tr. Sonja Arntzen & Itō Moriyuki, 2014
  • As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan, tr. Ivan Morris, 1971

17th-century books

1681 – 1693

• Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz: Selected Works, Juana Inés de la Cruz, tr. Edith Grossman , 2015 (Ballads 1-2, 24, 44, Redondillas 87, 91 – 92, Epigrams 93 – 97, Decimas 102-103, 106-107, 109, 125, Sonnets 145-149, 152, 164-165, 173, 177, 179, 186-189, 205, El divino Narciso – 1688,  Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz – 1691, Primero sueño – 1692)

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19th-century books

1818

• Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley (1818)

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20th-century books

1900’s

• Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1908)

1910s

1914

• Kokoro, by Natsume Soseki, tr. Meredith McKinney, 2010 (こころ – Kokoro, 1914)

1917 – 1982

• Smoke and Other Early Stories, by Djuna Barnes (1982)

1920s

1920

• Fear, by Stefan Zweig, translated by Anthea Bell, 2010 (Angst, 1920)

1920 – 1933

• What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920-1933, by Joseph Roth, trans. by Michael Hofmann, 2002.

1922

• Letter from an Unknown Woman,  by Stefan Zweig, translated by Paul Eden and Paul Cedar, 1999 (Brief einer Unbekannten,1922)

1924

• The Constant Nymph, by Margaret Kennedy (1924)
• Naomi, by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, tr. Anthony H. Chambers, 2001 (痴人の愛 – Chijin no Ai, lit. A Fool’s Love, 1924)

1927

• Aphra Behn: the Incomparable Astrea, by Vita Sackville-West (1927)
• Dusty Answer, by Rosamond Lehmann (1927)
• Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman, by Stefan Zweig, translated by Anthea Bell, 2003 (Vierundzwanzig Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau, 1927)
• The Wandering Jews, by Joseph Roth, tr. Michael Hofmann, 2000 (Juden auf Wanderschaft, 1927)

1927-1983

• The Complete Poems: 1927–1979 by Elizabeth Bishop (1983)

1928

• Orlando, by Virginia Woolf (1928)
• Quicksand, by Nella Larsen (1928)

1930s

1930

• The Edwardians, by Vita Sackville-West (1930)

1931

• Gilgi, by Irmgard Keun, tr. Geoff Wilkes, 2013 (Gilgi, eine von uns, 1931)

1933

• Frost in May, by Antonia White (1933)

1934

• The Triumph of Love II (short-story), by Belcampo (from the book “De Verhalen”, 1934)

1936

• Deborah, by Esther Kreitman, tr. Maurice Carr, 1946 (Der Shaidim Tantz, 1936)
• Nightwood by Djuna Barnes (1936)
• Novel on Yellow Paper, by Stevie Smith (1936)

1938

• The Death of the Heart, by Elizabeth Bowen (1938)
• Manja, by Anna Gmeyner, tr. Kate Phillips, Persephone Books, 2003 (Manja: Ein Roman um 5 Kinder, 1938)
• Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier (1938)

1940s

1940 – 1977

• The Complete Stories, by Clarice Lispector, tr. Katrina Dodson (New Directions/ Penguin Classics, 2015. Stories published from 1940 to 1977)
  • The Triumph & Obsession

1944

• There Were No Windows, by Norah Hoult (1944)
• Transit, by Anna Seghers, tr. by Margot Bettauer Dembo, 2013 (Transit, 1944)

1946

• The Snake Pit, by Mary Jane Ward (1946)
• The Street, by Ann Petry (1946)

1947

• The Blank Wall, by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding (1947)
• Hetty Dorval, by Ethel Wilson (1947)

1948

• The Foolish Gentlewoman, by Margery Sharp (1948)

1949

• Two Worlds and Their Ways, by Ivy Compton-Burnett (1949)

1950s

1950

• The World My Wilderness, by Rose Macaulay (1950)

1951

• A Game of Hide and Seek, by Elizabeth Taylor (1951)

1953

• The Charioteer, by Mary Renault (1953)

1954

• The Bird’s Nest, by Shirley Jackson (1954)

1955

• The Simple Truth, by Elizabeth Hardwick (1955)

1956

• Giovanni’s Room, by James Baldwin (1956)
• Tea at Four O’Clock, by Janet McNeill (1956)

1957

• Deep Water, by Patricia Highsmith (1957)

1958

• Masks, by Fumiko Enchi, tr. Juliet Winters Carpenter, 1983 (女面, Onna Men, 1958)

1960s

1961

• The Forgotten Smile, by Margaret Kennedy (1961)

1962

• We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson(1962)

1963-1988

• But What: Selected Poems, by Judith Herzberg, transl. by Shirley Kaufman (1988)

1964

• Beauty and Sadness, by Yasunari Kawabata, transl. by Howard Hibbett, 1996 (美しさと哀しみと – Utsukushisa to Kanashimi to, 1964)

1965

• Stoner, by John Williams (1965)

1969

• The Fire-Dwellers, by Margaret Laurence (1969)

1970s

1970

• Desperate Characters, by Paula Fox (1970)

1972

• Harriet Said…, by Beryl Bainbridge (written in 1958 and published in1972)

1974

• The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, by Heinrich Böll, transl. Leila Vennewitz, 1994 (Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum, 1974)

1977

• Anne Sexton: A Self Portrait in Letters, written by Anne Sexton, edited by Linda Gray Sexton and Lois Ames (1977; posthumous)

1980s

1980

• Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson (1980)

1981

• Good Behaviour, by Molly Keane (1981)

1982

• In Night’s City, by Dorothy Nelson (1982).

1984

• Good Daughters, by Mary Hocking (1984)

1987

• The Door, by Magda Szabo, tr. Len Rix, 2005 (Az ajtó, 1987)

1990s

1994

• Chorus of Mushrooms, by Hiromi Goto (1994)

1999

• The Dark Bride, by Laura Restrepo, transl. Stephan Lytle, 2003 (La Novia Oscura, 1999)
• Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta, by Aglaja Veteranyi, transl. by Vincent Kling, 2012 (Warum das Kind in der Polenta kocht, 1999)

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21st-century

2000s

2000

• The Visitor, by Maeve Brennan (2000, originally written in the 1940’s)

2001

• Symphony in White, by Adriana Lisboa, tr. Sarah Green, 2010 (Sinfonia em branco, 2001)

2002

• Das blaue Kleid, by Doris Dörrie, not translated yet (“The blue dress”, 2002)

2003

• Purple Hibiscus, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2003

2004

• Runaway, by Alice Munro, 2004

2007

• The House in Smyrna, by Tatiana Salem Levy, tr. Alison Entrekin ( Scribe, 2015, 160 p. Original title: A chave de casa, 2007)
• Hut of Fallen Persimmons, by Adriana Lisboa, tr. Sarah Green, 2011 (Rakushisha, 2007)

2008

• Adam and Evelyn, by Ingo Schulze, transl. John E. Woods, 2011 (Adam und Evelyn, 2008)
• The Sorrows of an American, by Siri Hustvedt (2008)

2009

• The Bigness of the World, by Lori Ostlund (2009;  2016)
• Burnt Shadows, by Kamila Shamsie (2009)

2010s

2010

• Annabel, by Kathleen Winter (2010)
• Crow Blue, by Adriana Lisboa (Bloomsbury. Translated by Alison Entrekin, 2013. Original title: Azul corvo, 2010)

2011

• The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka (2011)
• Swimming Home, by Deborah Levy (2011)
• There But For The, by Ali Smith (2011)

2012

• 1914: a novel, by Jean Echenoz, tr. Linda Coverdale, 2014 (14, 2012)

2013

• A girl is a half-formed thing ,by Eimear McBride (2013)
• We Need New Names, by NoViolet Bulawayo (2013)

2014

• The Blazing World, by Siri Hustvedt (2014)
• How to Be Both, by Ali Smith (2014)

2015

• Eileen, by Ottessa Moshfegh (2015)
• Miss Emily, by Nuala O’Connor (2015)
• The Past, by Tessa Hadley (2015)
• Public Library and Other Stories, by Ali Smith (2015)

2016

• The Girls, by Emma Cline (2016)
• Hag-Seed, by Margaret Atwood (2016)
• Hot Milk, by Deborah Levy (2016)
• Mischling, by Affinity  Konar (2016)
• Modern Lovers, by Emma Straub (2016)
• Vinegar Girl, by Anne Tyler (2016)

2017

• Always Happy Hour, by Mary Miller
• See What I Have Done, by Sarah Schmidt (2017)