Complete English Literature Syllabus For NET/SET/GATE/PSC
—Sahil Sharifdin Bhat
Introduction:
English Literature students in Jammu and Kashmir, as well as other parts of India, typically study only about 5% of the NET and SET syllabus at universities. The remaining 95% must be covered through self-study at home or with the assistance of coaching centers. Unfortunately, not all students can afford the expenses of coaching centers. To address this gap, I have made a humble effort to guide students on what to study in order to succeed in national and state-level exams in English Literature. However, before I delve into the details, there are a few important points I would like to share.
English literature is not just a subject; it is an ocean. Unlike other academic fields, it transcends mere study and enters the realm of art, where the primary purpose of all arts is to provide profound pleasure and evoke emotion. Moreover, English literature serves as a powerful instrument for shaping and challenging societal ideologies. In other words, it is the single substitute of various religions existing in the world. That is why, English literature is taught and studied seriously even in the present age of Internet, AI, science and technology. It is no surprise that a dedicated reader of English literature often questions all prevailing beliefs, including religions and critically examines them. A student of English literature does not follow the crowd like a sheep; instead, he roars like a lion, unafraid to confront new ideas.
It’s important to understand the distinction between English literature and the English language. One can learn to speak English in a year or less, gaining the ability to engage in conversations, debates and discussions confidently. The English language is a tool for communication. On the other hand, English literature is a treasure trove of communication which teaches what, why, when and how much to say.
In today’s world, you will find many people who can speak English fluently, yet few truly understand the depths of English literature. A sincere postgraduate student might read around 200 books to earn his degree, but English literature spans over one million works written across 67 countries in the last 1500 years. One may come across individuals holding a postgraduate degree in English literature who cannot tell the difference between an iambic foot and a trochaic foot or a ballad and a lyric. In modern era of YouTube and ChatGPT, superficial knowledge is common but and deep understanding is very rare.
With this in mind, I have decided to offer a glimpse of English literature to those who view it as just another subject. I have compiled a list of important writers and their notable works because I firmly believe that any student of English literature must read and understand these essential texts before they can claim genuine knowledge of the field:
A) Areas of English Literature:
• British Literature
• American literature
• Indian literature
• Contemporary English Literature
• Greek and Roman literature
• World Literature [ Russian, Chinese, French etc]
• Literature Criticism
• Fantasy/entertainment Literature
• [[ Literary terms / Figures of speech, literary movements, Linguistics and phonetics, English Grammar, Language teaching methods, literary Awards and honours, Famous terms and their inventors, Post-colonial Literature, Research methods and materials in English ETC]]
B) Important writers and works in British Literature
Note: A few writers are mentioned in multiple places or under different headings because they have made significant contributions to English literature in more than one domain. For instance, William Wordsworth is listed under both Romantic writers and English critics. This overlap is intentional and should not confuse students.
Old English Period (Celts to 1066 AD)
• Hymn of creation '’ by Caedmon.
• Beowulf : Its poet is not known
• The Dream of the Rood Poem
• The Wanderer Elegy
• The Battle of Maldon Poem
• The “Battle of Brunanburh” Poem
• The Seafarer Elegy
• The Wife’s Lament Poem
Middle English period ( 1066-1500 AD)
The Owl and the Nightingale Poet (12th Century) : Author unknown.
Geoffrey Chaucer ( 1340-1400)
His important works:
- The Canterbury Tales - The Legend of Good Women - The Book of the Duchess.
➢ Piers Plowman is a famous allegorical poem written in Middle English by William Langland.
➢ Confessio Amantis by John Gower
➢ The Kingis Quair by King James I of Scotland ➢ The Testament of Cresseid by Robert Henryson
➢ Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by the Pearl Poet
➢ Everyman (1530) : A morality play by an anonymous English author.
Modern English period (1500AD-2025AD)
Elizabeth To Restoration ages:
➢ Edmund Spenser (1552-1599):
His important works:
- The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596)
- The Shepherd's Calendar (1579)
- Amoretti (1595)
- Epithalamion (1595)
- The Complaints (1591)
- Prothalamion (1596)
- Faerie Queene (Spenser's Prose Works) (1590-1596)
- Elizabethan age to Restoration age
➢ Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86)
His important works:
Astrophel and Stella (1591)
The Defense of Poesy (1595)
➢ John Donne (1572-1631)
His important works:
- Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
- Songs and Sonnets (1633)
- Holy Sonnets (1609)
➢ Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
His important works:
- Doctor Faustus (c. 1592)
- The Jew of Malta (c. 1589)
- Tamburlaine the Great (c. 1587)
➢ William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
His important works:
- Hamlet (1600-1601)
- Macbeth (1606)
- Romeo and Juliet (1597)
Julius Caesar (1599)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)
- Othello (1603)
- King Lear (1605)
- The Tempest (1611)
- Much Ado About Nothing (1598)
- The Merchant of Venice (1596-1597)
- Twelfth Night (1601)
- Henry IV, Part 1 (1597)
- Henry V (1599)
- Richard III (1592-1593)
- As You Like It (1599)
➢ Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
His important works:
- Volpone (1606)
- The Alchemist (1610)
- Every Man in His Humour (1598)
➢ Thomas Kyd (1558-1594) His important works:
- The Spanish Tragedy (1587)
- Cornelia (1594, posthumous)
➢ John Webster (1580-1634) His important works:
- The Duchess of Malfi (1614)
- The White Devil (1612)
➢ Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1415-1471)
His important works:
Le Morte d'Arthur (1485)
➢ Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)
His important works:
- Utopia (1516)
- The History of King Richard III (c. 1513)
➢ Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
His important works:
- Essays (1597)
- The Advancement of Learning (1605)
- Novum Organum (1620)
➢ John Lyly (1553-1606) His important works:
- Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
- Euphues and His England (1580)
- Campaspe (1584)
➢ John Milton (1608-1674)
His important works: - Paradise Lost (1667)
- Paradise Regained (1671) - Samson Agonistes (1671)
- Areopagitica (1644)
➢ Thomas Dekker (c. 1572-1632) His important works:
- The Shoemaker's Holiday (1599) - The Honest Whore (1604)
The Wonder of a Kingdom (1604)
➢ Thomas Heywood (c. 1574-1641) His important works:
- A Woman Killed with Kindness (1607)
- The Four Prentices of London (1615)
- The Rape of Lucrece (1608)
➢ John Ford (1586-1639) His important works:
- 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1633)
- The Broken Heart (1633)
- Love's Sacrifice (1633)
➢ Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
His important works:
- To His Coy Mistress (1681)
- The Garden (1681)
- Upon Appleton House (1681)
➢ Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
His important works:
- The Mistress (1647)
- Pindaric Odes (1656)
- The Poems of Cowley (1668)
➢ Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
His important works:
- Hesperides (1648)
- Noble Numbers (1647)
➢ Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
His important works:
- Religio Medici (1643)
- Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658)
- Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646)
➢ John Dryden (1631-1700) His important works:
- Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
- Mac Flecknoe (1678)
- All for Love (1678)
- The Rival Ladies (1664)
➢ William Congreve (1670-1729) His important works:
- The Way of the World (1700)
- Love for Love (1695)
- The Mourning Bride (1697)
➢ Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
His important works:
- Hudibras (1663-1678)
- The Sermon on the Mount (1671)
- Posthumous Works (1726)
Augustan age:
➢ Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729) His important works:
- The Conscious Lovers (1722)
- The Tender Husband (1705)
- The Spectator (1709-1712)
➢ Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
His important works:
- Gulliver's Travels (1726)
- A Modest Proposal (1729)
- A Tale of a Tub (1704)
- The Battle of the Books (1704)
➢ Joseph Addison (1672-1719) His important works:
- The Spectator (1709-1712)
- Cato (1713)
- The Drummer (1716)
➢ Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) His important works:
- Robinson Crusoe (1719)
- Moll Flanders (1722)
- A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)
➢ Alexander Pope (1688-1744) His important works:
- The Rape of the Lock (1712)
- The Dunciad (1728)
- Essay on Criticism (1709)
- The Eloisa to Abelard (1717)
➢ Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) His important works:
- The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)
- She Stoops to Conquer (1773)
- The Deserted Village (1770)
➢ Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
His important works:
- A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
- The Lives of the Poets (1779-1781)
- Rasselas (1759)
➢ William Blake (1757-1827)
His important works:
- Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794)
- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)
- Jerusalem (1804-1820)
➢ Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)
His important works:
- Pamela (1740)
- Clarissa (1748)
- Sir Charles Grandison (1753)
➢ Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
His important works:
- Tom Jones (1749)
- Joseph Andrews (1742)
- Amelia (1751)
➢ Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)
His important works:
- Tristram Shandy (1759-1767)
- A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768)
➢ John Bunyan : The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678)
Romantic age
➢ William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
His important works:
- Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey (1798)
- I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (1807)
- The Prelude (1850)
- Lyrical Ballads (1798)
➢ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) His important works:
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798)
- Kubla Khan (1816)
- Biographia Literaria (1817)
➢ Lord Byron (1788-1824)
His important works:
- Don Juan (1819-1824)
- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-1818)
- She Walks in Beauty (1814)
➢ P.B. Shelley (1792-1822)
His important works:
- Ozymandias (1818)
- Prometheus Unbound (1820)
- Ode to the West Wind (1819)
➢ John Keats (1795-1821)
His important works:
- Ode on a Grecian Urn (1819)
- Ode to a Nightingale (1819)
- Endymion (1818)
➢ Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)
His important works:
- Nightmare Abbey (1818)
- Crotchet Castle (1831)
- The Misfortunes of Elphin (1829)
➢ Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
His important works:
- Essays of Elia (1823)
- Tales from Shakespeare (1807)
- The Adventures of Ulysses (1808)
➢ Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) His important works:
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821)
- On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth (1823)
- The English Mail-Coach (1849)
➢ William Hazlitt (1778-1830) His important works:
- The Spirit of the Age (1825)
- Essays (1817)
- The Characters of Shakespeare's Plays (1817)
➢ Walter Scott (1771-1832)
His important works:
- Ivanhoe (1819)
- Waverley (1814)
- Rob Roy (1817)
➢ Jane Austen (1775-1817) Her important works:
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Sense and Sensibility (1811)
- Emma (1815)
➢ Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) Her important works:
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
- A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)
- An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution (1794)
➢ Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
Her important works:
- Frankenstein (1818)
- The Last Man (1826)
- Valperga (1823)
Victorian age
➢ Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
His important works:
- In Memoriam (1850)
- Ulysses (1833)
- The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)
- The Lady of Shalott (1832)
- Idylls of the King (1859-1885)
➢ Robert Browning (1812-1889)
His important works:
- My Last Duchess (1842)
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1842)
- Dramatic Lyrics (1842)
- The Ring and the Book (1868-1869)
➢ Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
Her important works:
- Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
- Aurora Leigh (1856)
- The Cry of the Children (1843)
➢ Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
His important works:
- Dover Beach (1851)
- Culture and Anarchy (1869)
- The Scholar-Gypsy (1853)
➢ Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883) His important works:
- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859)
- The Complete Works of Edward Fitzgerald (1871)
➢ Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)
Her important works:
- Goblin Market (1862)
- The Poems of Christina Rossetti (1904)
- The Singing of the Madonna (1872)
➢ Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
His important works:
- The House of Life (1881)
- Poems (1870)
- The Early Italian Poets (1861)
➢ Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
His important works:
- A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
- Oliver Twist (1837-1839)
- Great Expectations (1860-1861)
- David Copperfield (1849-1850)
- Bleak House (1852-1853)
- Hard Times (1854)
- Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839)
- Little Dorrit (1855-1857)
- Barnaby Rudge (1841)
- The Pickwick Papers (1836-1837)
➢ William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
His important works:
- Vanity Fair (1847-1848)
- The History of Pendennis (1848-1850)
- The Newcomes (1853-1855)
- Henry Esmond (1852)
➢ Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)
Her important works:
- Jane Eyre (1847)
- Shirley (1849)
- Villette (1853)
➢ Emily Brontë (1818-1848) Her important works:
- Wuthering Heights (1847)
- Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846)
➢ George Eliot (1819-1880) Her important works:
- Middlemarch (1871-1872)
- Silas Marner (1861)
- Adam Bede (1859)
- The Mill on the Floss (1860)
➢ George Meredith (1828-1909) His important works:
- The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859)
- The Egoist (1879)
- Diana of the Crossways (1885)
➢ Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
His important works:
- Sybil (1845)
- Coningsby (1844)
- Tancred (1847)
➢ Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)
His important works:
- The Warden (1855)
- Barchester Towers (1857)
- He Knew He Was Right (1869)
- The Way We Live Now (1875)
- Doctor Thorne (1858)
➢ Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) His important works:
- The Woman in White (1859)
- The Moonstone (1868)
- No Name (1862)
- Armadale (1866)
➢ Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)
His important works:
- The Water-Babies (1863)
- Westward Ho! (1855)
- Hypatia (1853)
- Alton Locke (1849)
➢ R.L. Stevenson (1850-1894)
His important works:
- Treasure Island (1883)
- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
- Kidnapped (1886)
- A Child’s Garden of Verse (1885)
➢ Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865)
Her important works:
- North and South (1854-1855)
- Mary Barton (1848)
- Cranford (1851-1853)
- Wives and Daughters (1864-1866)
➢ John Ruskin (1819-1900) His important works:
- The Stones of Venice (1851-1853)
- Modern Painters (1843-1860)
- The King of the Golden River (1841)
- Sesame and Lilies (1865)
➢ Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
His important works:
- Sartor Resartus (1833-1834)
- The French Revolution (1837)
- Past and Present (1843)
- On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841)
Modern age:
➢ Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) His important works:
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)
- Jude the Obscure (1895)
- Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
- The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)
- The Return of the Native (1878)
- The Woodlanders (1887)
- Under the Greenwood Tree (1872)
- A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873)
- The Well-Beloved (1897)
- Desperate Remedies (1871)
➢ G.B. Shaw (1856-1950)
His important works:
- Pygmalion (1913)
- Man and Superman (1903)
- Saint Joan (1923)
- Major Barbara (1905)
- Candida (1898)
- Arms and the Man (1894)
- The Doctor's Dilemma (1906)
- Mrs. Warren's Profession (1902)
- The Apple Cart (1929)
- The Irrational Knot (1905)
- The Music-Cure (1911)
- Back to Methuselah (1921)
- The Millionairess (1936)
- The Black Girl in Search of a God (1932)
➢ Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
His important works:
- Heart of Darkness (1899)
- Lord Jim (1900)
- Nostromo (1904)
- The Secret Sharer (1910)
➢ H.G. Wells (1866-1946) His important works:
- The War of the Worlds (1898)
- The Time Machine (1895)
- The Invisible Man (1897)
- The First Men in the Moon (1901)
➢ James Joyce (1882-1941)
His important works:
- Ulysses (1922)
- Dubliners (1914)
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
- Finnegans Wake (1939)
➢ Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Her important works:
- Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
- To the Lighthouse (1927)
- Orlando (1928)
- A Room of One's Own (1929)
➢ George Moore (1852-1933)
His important works:
- A Modern Lover (1883)
- Esther Waters (1894)
- The Untilled Field (1903)
➢ George Robert Gissing (1857-1903)
His important works:
- New Grub Street (1891)
- The Odd Women (1893)
- The Nether World (1889)
- Demos (1886)
➢ Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)
His important works:
- The Old Wives' Tale (1908)
- Anna of the Five Towns (1902)
The Grand Babylon Hotel (1902)
The Card (1911)
➢ Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
His important works:
- The Jungle Book (1894)
- Kim (1901)
- Just So Stories (1902)
- Captains Courageous (1897)
➢ E.M. Forster (1879-1970) His important works:
- A Passage to India (1924)
- Howards End (1910)
- A Room with a View (1908)
- Maurice (1914)
➢ Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963)
His important works:
- Brave New World (1932)
- Point Counter Point (1928)
- The Doors of Perception (1954)
- Crome Yellow (1921)
➢ William Golding (1911-1993)
His important works:
- Lord of the Flies (1954)
- The Inheritors (1955)
- Free Fall (1959)
- The Spire (1964)
➢ George Orwell (1903-1950)
His important works:
- Animal Farm (1945)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
- Homage to Catalonia (1938)
- Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)
➢ Graham Greene (1904-1991) His important works:
- The Power and the Glory (1940)
- Brighton Rock (1938)
- The Heart of the Matter (1948)
- Our Man in Havana (1958)
➢ William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
His important works:
- The Tower (1928)
- The Winding Stair (1933)
- The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats (1933)
- The Lake Isle of Innisfree (1890)
➢ Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) His important works:
- The Wreck of the Deutschland (1876)
- God's Grandeur (1877)
- Spring and Fall (1880)
- The Windhover (1877)
➢ Doris Lessing (1919-2013) Her important works:
- The Golden Notebook (1962)
The Grass Is Singing (1950)
Shikasta (1979)
- The Summer Before the Dark (1973)
➢ T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) His important works:
- 1. Sweeney Agonistes (1932)
- 2. Murder in the Cathedral (1935)
- 3. The Family Reunion (1939)
- 4. The Cocktail Party (1949)
- 5. The Confidential Clerk (1953)
- 6. The Elder Statesman (1958)
- 7. The Rock (1934)
- 8. The Waste Land (1922)
- 9. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
- 10. Four Quartets (1943)
➢ W.H. Auden (1907-1973) His important works:
- The Age of Anxiety (1947)
- Funeral Blues (1936)
- The Shield of Achilles (1955)
- For the Time Being (1944)
➢ Ezra Pound (1885-1972) His important works:
- The Cantos (1925-1969)
- In a Station of the Metro (1913)
- Personae (1909)
- The Pisan Cantos (1948)
➢ Stephen Spender (1909-1995)
His important works:
- Poems (1933)
- The Still Centre (1949)
- World Within World (1951)
- The Temptation of St. Anthony (1949)
➢ Robert Bridges (1844-1930)
His important works:
- Poems (1890)
- The Testament of Beauty (1929)
- Shorter Poems (1906)
- The Growth of Love (1899)
➢ John Masefield (1878-1967) His important works:
- The Everlasting Mercy (1911)
- Salt-Water Ballads (1902) - The Midnight Folk (1927)
- The Box of Delights (1935)
➢ J.M. Synge (1871-1909)
His important works:
- The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
- Riders to the Sea (1904)
- The Tinker's Wedding (1909)
- In the Shadow of the Glen (1903)
➢ John Galsworthy (1867-1933) His important works:
- The Forsyte Saga (1906-1921)
- Strife (1909)
- The Man of Property (1906)
- The Dark Flower (1913)
➢ Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) His important works:
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
- The Canterville Ghost (1887)
- The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
➢ Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
His important works:
- The Birthday Party (1958)
- The Homecoming (1964)
- The Caretaker (1960)
- The Dumb Waiter (1957)
➢ J.B. Priestley (1894-1984)
His important works:
- An Inspector Calls (1945)
- The 39 Steps (1935)
- The Glass Cage (1942)
- Time and the Conways (1937)
➢ Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) His important works:
- Juno and the Paycock (1924)
- The Plough and the Stars (1926)
- The Shadow of a Gunman (1923)
- The Silver Tassie (1928
American Literature
Colonial Period (1607–1776):
1. Captain John Smith (1580–1631) – The General History of Virginia
2. Daniel Denton (1640–1705) – A Brief Description of New York
3. Thomas Ashe (1650–1695) – A Brief History of the Colony of New York
4. William Penn (1644–1718) – Some Fruits of Solitude
5. George Percy (1580–1632) – A True Relation of the Second Voyage to Virginia
6. William Strachey (1572–1621) – The History of Travaile into Virginia
7. Daniel Coxe (1640–1730) – A Description of the English Province of Carolina
8. Gabriel Thomas (1658–1723) – An Account of the Province of Pennsylvania
9. John Lawson (1674–1711) – A New Voyage to Carolina
10. Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784) – Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
11. Olaudah Equiano (1745–1797) – The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
12. Samson Occom (1723–1792) – A Sermon Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul
Revolutionary Period (1775–1783):
13. Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) – Poor Richard’s Almanack, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
14. Thomas Paine (1737–1809) – Common Sense, The American Crisis
Post-Independence Period (1783–1820):
15. Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) – The Declaration of Independence
16. Fisher Ames (1758–1808) – The Works of Fisher Ames
17. James Otis (1725–1783) – The Rights of the British Colonies
18. Patrick Henry (1736–1799) – Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Speech
19. Thomas Attwood Digges (1766–1841) – Letters on American Politics
20. William Hill Brown (1765–1793) – The Power of Sympathy
21. Susanna Rowson (1762–1824) – Charlotte Temple
22. Hannah Webster Foster (1758–1840) – The Coquette
23. Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810) – Wieland
24. Washington Irving (1783–1859) – Mahomet and his successors, The life of George Washington
25. Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748–1816) – Modern Chivalry
26. William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870) – The Partisan
27. Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880) – Bury the Dead
28. John Neal (1793–1876) – The Down-Easters
29. Catherine Maria Sedgwick (1789–1867) – Hope Leslie
30. James Kirke Paulding (1778–1860) – The Dutchman’s Fireside
31. Omar ibn Said (1770–1864) – Narrative of the Life of Omar Ibn Said
32. Robert Montgomery Bird (1806–1854) – The Gladiator
33. James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) – The Last of the Mohicans, The Deerslayer 34. George Tucker (1775–1861) – The Valley of the Shenandoah
19th Century (1800–1900):
35. Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) – The Raven
36. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) – Nature, Self-Reliance, Brahma
37. Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) – Walden, Civil Disobedience
38. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) – Uncle Tom’s Cabin
39. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) – The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables
40. Herman Melville (1819–1891) – Moby-Dick, Bartleby the Scrivener
41. Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835–1910) – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
42. O. Henry (1862–1910) – The Gift of the Magi, The Ransom of Red Chief
43. Henry James (1843–1916) – The Turn of the Screw, The Portrait of a Lady
44. Stephen Crane (1871–1900) – The Red Badge of Courage
45. H.W. Longfellow (1807–1882) – Paul Revere’s Ride, The Song of Hiawatha
46. Walt Whitman (1819–1892) – Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself
47. Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) – Because I Could Not Stop for Death, I Felt a Funeral in My Brain
48. T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) – The Waste Land, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
49. Robert Frost (1874–1963) – The Road Not Taken, Mending Wall
50. Langston Hughes (1902–1967) – The Weary Blues, I, Too
51. William Faulkner (1897-1962) – The sound and fury, As I lay dying
52. Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953)– The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape
53. John Barth – The Floating Opera
54. Henry Miller– Black Spring
55. J.D. Salinger– The Catcher in the Rye
56. Theodore Dreiser– Sister Carrie
57. Arthur Miller (1915-2005)— All my sons, Death of a salesman, the crucible, A view from the bridge.
Indian Literature
Anglo-Indian Writers:
➔ George Orwell
• 1984 & Animal Farm
➔ Rudyard Kipling
. The Jungle Book
• Kim
Pre-Independence Literature (1794-1947):
➔ Sake Dean Mahomed
• The Travels of Dean Mahomed
➔ Lal Behari Dey • The Hindu Widow’s Ordeal
➔ Krupabai Satthianandhan
• Saguna
➔ Toru Dutt
• Bianca
• A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields
➔ Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
• Rajmohan’s Wife
➔ Swami Vivekananda
• Lectures from Colombo to Almora
➔ Rabindranath Tagore
• Gitanjali
• The Home and the World
➔ Chittaranjan Das • Bipinchandra Pal
➔ Bal Gangadhar Tilak
• The Arctic Home in the Vedas
➔ Mahatma Gandhi
• My Experiments with Truth
➔ Subhas Chandra Bose • The Indian Struggle
➔ Kisari Mohan Ganguli – Mahabharata (English translation)
Post-Independence Literature (1947 – present):
➔ R.K. Narayan
Malgudi Days
The Guide
➔ Mulk Raj Anand
• Untouchable • Coolie
➔ Raja Rao
• Kanthapura
The Serpent and the Rope
➔ Kamala Markandaya
Nectar in a Sieve
• The Coffer Dams
➔ Manoj Das
• The Guru
• The Black Cobra
➔ Salman Rushdie • Midnight’s Children
➔ Nayantara Sehgal
• Rich Like Us • The Tiger’s Daughter
➔ Anita Desai
• Clear Light of Day • Fasting, Feasting
➔ Kiran Desai
• The Inheritance of Loss
➔ Ruskin Bond
• The Room on the Roof • The Blue Umbrella
➔ Vikram Seth
• A Suitable Boy
• The Golden Gate
➔ Amitav Ghosh
• The Glass Palace • The Hungry Tide
➔ Arundhati Roy
• The God of Small Things
• The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
➔ Shashi Tharoor
• The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone
• The Great Indian Novel
➔ Jhumpa Lahiri
• Interpreter of Maladies • The Namesake
➔ Vikram Chandra
• Sacred Games
• Red Earth and Pouring Rain
➔ Suketu Mehta • Maximum City
➔ Aravind Adiga • The White Tiger
➔ David Davidar
• The House of Blue Mangoes
• ➔ Shreekumar Varma
The Forgotten Woman
➔ Amit Chaudhuri
A Strange and Sublime Address
➔ Dilip Chitre
• The Abandoned British Cemetery
➔ Nissim Ezekiel
• The Unfinished Man
➔ Kamala Das
• My Story
• The Descendants
Contemporary English literature
Comprehensive List of Writers (Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Critical Works):
(These guys got literary awards recently — Nobel prize, Pulitzer prize, booker prize, sahitya academy award etc)
1. Jon Fosse (1959–Present) – Notable works: Septology, Melancholy
2. Abdulrazak Gurnah (1948–Present) – Notable works: Paradise, Afterlives
3. Kazuo Ishiguro (1954–Present) – Notable works: The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go
4. Bob Dylan (1941–Present) – Notable works: Chronicles: Volume One
5. Alice Munro (1931–Present) – Notable works: Dear Life, Runaway
6. J.M. Coetzee (1940–Present) – Notable works: Disgrace, Waiting for the Barbarians
7. V.S. Naipaul (1932–2018) – Notable works: A House for Mr. Biswas, In a Free State
8. Shehan Karunatilaka (1975–Present) – Notable works: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Chinaman
9. Bernardine Evaristo (1959–Present) – Notable works: Girl, Woman, Other, Mr. Loverman
10. Margaret Atwood (1939–Present) – Notable works: The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments
11. Eleanor Catton (1985–Present) – Notable works: The Luminaries, Birnam Wood
12. Arundhati Roy (1961–Present) – Notable works: The God of Small Things, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
13. Barbara Kingsolver (1955–Present) – Notable works: Demon Copperhead, The Poisonwood Bible
14. Colson Whitehead (1969–Present) – Notable works: The Underground Railroad, The Nickel Boys
15. Andrew Sean Greer (1970–Present) – Notable works: Less, The Confessions of Max Tivoli
16. Junot Díaz (1968–Present) – Notable works: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Drown
17. Marilynne Robinson (1943–Present) – Notable works: Gilead, Housekeeping
18. Namita Gokhale (1956–Present) – Notable works: Things to Leave Behind, Paro: Dreams of Passion
19. Anees Salim (1970–Present) – Notable works: The Blind Lady’s Descendants, Vanity Bagh
20. Radhika Swarup (Details Not Available) – Notable works: The Year of the Runaways
21. Georgi Gospodinov (1968–Present) – Notable works: Time Shelter, The Physics of Sorrow
22. David Diop (1966–Present) – Notable works: At Night All Blood is Black
23. Tess Gunty (1993–Present) – Notable works: The Rabbit Hutch
24. Aminatta Forna (1964–Present) – Notable works: The Memory of Love, Happiness
25. Edward Said (1935–2003) – Notable works: Orientalism, Culture and Imperialism
26. Susan Sontag (1933–2004) – Notable works: On Photography, Against Interpretation
27. Harold Bloom (1930–2019) – Notable works: The Western Canon, The Anxiety of Influence
28. Noam Chomsky (1928–Present) – Notable works: Manufacturing Consent, Hegemony or Survival
29. Judith Butler (1956–Present) – Notable works: Gender Trouble, Bodies That Matter
30. Toni Morrison (1931–2019) – Notable works: Playing in the Dark
31. bell hooks (1952–2021) – Notable works: Ain’t I a Woman?, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
32. Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) – Notable works: God Is Not Great, Hitch-22
33. Slavoj Žižek (1949–Present) – Notable works: The Sublime Object of Ideology, Living in the End Times
34. Naomi Klein (1970–Present) – Notable works: No Logo, The Shock Doctrine
35. Rebecca Solnit (1961–Present) – Notable works: Men Explain Things to Me, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
36. Pankaj Mishra (1969–Present) – Notable works: Age of Anger, From the Ruins of Empire
37. Ta-Nehisi Coates (1975–Present) – Notable works: Between the World and Me, We Were Eight Years in Power
38. Roxane Gay (1974–Present) – Notable works: Bad Feminist, Hunger
Greek And Roman Literature
Greek Poets
1. Homer – Author of Iliad and Odyssey (epic poetry).
2. Hesiod – Known for Theogony and Works and Days.
3. Sappho – Lyric poet, renowned for her emotional and personal poetry.
4. Pindar – Celebrated for his Epinician odes (victory odes).
5. Anacreon – Lyric poet, known for themes of love and wine.
6. Archilochus – One of the earliest Greek lyric poets.
Greek Dramatists
1. Aeschylus – Known as the “Father of Tragedy”; works include Prometheus Bound and The Oresteia.
2. Sophocles – Famous for Oedipus Rex and Antigone.
3. Euripides – Known for Medea, The Bacchae, and Hippolytus.
4. Aristophanes – Master of Old Comedy; works include Lysistrata and The Clouds.
5. Menander – A representative of New Comedy, known for Dyskolos (The Grouch).
Greek Critics
1. Aristotle – Author of Poetics, foundational work in literary criticism and theory.
2. Longinus – Known for On the Sublime, exploring the nature of greatness in literature.
3. Plato – Though primarily a philosopher, his works (Republic, Ion) offer critical views on literature and poetry.
Roman Poets
1. Virgil – Best known for The Aeneid, Georgics, and Eclogues.
2. Horace – Lyric poet famous for Odes, Satires and Epistles.
3. Ovid – Known for Metamorphoses and Ars Amatoria.
4. Lucretius – Wrote De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things).
5. Catullus – Lyric poet known for his deeply personal poetry.
6. Juvenal – A satirist known for Satires.
7. Propertius – Known for his Elegies.
Roman Dramatists
1. Plautus – Playwright of Roman comedy; works include Miles Gloriosus and Pseudolus.
2. Terence – Known for his refined comedies, such as Adelphoe and Eunuchus.
3. Seneca – Known for his tragedies, including Phaedra and Thyestes.
Roman Critics
1. Cicero – Though primarily an orator and statesman, his works touch on literary criticism (e.g., De Oratore).
2. Quintilian – Author of Institutio Oratoria, a foundational text on rhetoric and education.
3. Horace – Also contributed to literary criticism in Ars Poetica.
4. Vitruvius – Although focused on architecture, he discussed artistic and literary principles in De Architectura.
World Literatures :
➢ Australia
Patrick White (1912–1990)
Important works: Voss, The Tree of Man
Tim Winton (1960–)
Important works: Cloudstre, Breath
Peter Carey (1943–)
Important works: Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Gang
Colleen McCullough (1937–2015)
Important works: The Thorn Birds
Thomas Keneally (1935–)
Important works: Schindler’s Ark
➢ New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923)
Important works: The Garden Party, Bliss
Janet Frame (1924–2004)
Important works: Owls Do Cry, An Angel at My Table
Witi Ihimaera (1944–)
Important works: The Whale Rider
Maurice Gee (1931–)
Important works: Plumb, In My Father’s Den
Eleanor Catton (1985–)
Important works: The Luminaries
➢ Trinidad
V.S. Naipaul (1932–2018)
Important works: A House for Mr Biswas, The Enigma of Arrival
C.L.R. James (1901–1989)
Important works: Minty Alley, The Black Jacobins
Sam Selvon (1923–1994)
Important works: The Lonely Londoners, A Brighter Sun
Dionne Brand (1953–)
Important works: What We All Long For, At the Full and Change of the Moon
➢ Japan
Kazuo Ishiguro (1954–)
Important works: The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go
Haruki Murakami (1949–)
Important works: Norwegian Wood, Kafka on the Shore
Yukio Mishima (1925–1970)
Important works: The Sea of Fertility
Banana Yoshimoto (1964–)
Important works: Kitchen, Goodbye Tsugumi
➢ China
Ha Jin (1956–)
Important works: Waiting, A Free Life
Jung Chang (1952–)
Important works: Wild Swans
Amy Tan (1952–)
Important works: The Joy Luck Club
Gao Xingjian (1940–)
Important works: Soul Mountain, One Man’s Bible
➢ Middle East
Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931)
Important works: The Prophet
Hanan al-Shaykh (1945–)
Important works: Women of Sand and Myrrh, The Story of Zahra
Ahdaf Soueif (1950–)
Important works: The Map of Love
Marjane Satrapi (1969–)
Important works: Persepolis
➢ Pakistan
Mohsin Hamid (1971–)
Important works: The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Exit West
Kamila Shamsie (1973–)
Important works: Home Fire, Burnt Shadows
Bapsi Sidhwa (1938–)
Important works: Cracking India, The Crow Eaters
Nadeem Aslam (1966–)
Important works: Maps for Lost Lovers,The Golden Legend
➢ Bangladesh
Taslima Nasrin (1962–)
Important works: Lajja, My Girlhood
Monica Ali (1967–)
Important works: Brick Lane
➢ Turkey
Orhan Pamuk (1952–)
Important works: My Name is Red, Snow
Elif Shafak (1971–)
Important works: The Bastard of Istanbul, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
➢ North America
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
Important works: The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night
Toni Morrison (1931–2019)
Important works: Beloved, Song of Solomon
Margaret Atwood (1939–)
Important works: The Handmaid’s Tale, Oryx and Crake
Alice Munro (1931–)
Important works: Dear Life, Dance of the Happy Shades
➢ African Nations
Chinua Achebe (1930–2013)
Important works: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease
Wole Soyinka (1934–)
Important works: The Lion and the Jewel, Death and the King’s Horseman
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938–)
Important works: The River Between, A Grain of Wheat
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977–)
Important works: Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah
Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014)
Important works: Burger’s Daughter, July’s People
Ben Okri (1959–)
Important works: The Famished Road, Songs of Enchantment
Tsitsi Dangarembga (1959–)
Important works: Nervous Conditions, This Mournable Body
➢ Russian Writers
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)
Important works: War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881)
Important works: Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, Notes from Underground
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904)
Important works: The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, The Lady with the Dog
Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837)
Important works: Eugene Onegin, The Queen of Spades
Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852)
Important works: The Overcoat, Dead Souls, The Nose
Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883)
Important works: Fathers and Sons, Sketches from a Hunter’s Album
Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841)
Important works: A Hero of Our Time
Maxim Gorky (1868–1936)
Important works: Mother, The Lower Depths
Boris Pasternak (1890–1960)
Important works: Doctor Zhivago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008)
Important works: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The Gulag Archipelago
Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
Important works: Lolita, Pale Fire, Speak, Memory
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940)
Important works: The Master and Margarita
Andrei Platonov (1899–1951)
Important works: The Foundation Pit, Soul
Lyudmila Ulitskaya (1943–)
Important works: The Big Green Tent, Daniel Stein, Interpreter
Viktor Pelevin (1962–)
Important works: Generation P, The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
➢ French Writers
Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
Important works: Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)
Important works: Madame Bovary, Sentimental Education
Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
Important works: In Search of Lost Time
Albert Camus (1913–1960)
Important works: The Stranger, The Plague
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980)
Important works: Nausea, Being and Nothingness
Émile Zola (1840–1902)
Important works: Germinal, Thérèse Raquin
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944)
Important works: The Little Prince
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986)
Important works: The Second Sex, She Came to Stay
Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870)
Important works: The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers
Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
Important works: The Flowers of Evil
➢ German Writers
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
Important works: Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther
Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
Important works: The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice
Franz Kafka (1883–1924)
Important works: The Metamorphosis, The Trial, The Castle
Hermann Hesse (1877–1962)
Important works: Siddhartha, Steppenwolf
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)
Important works: The Threepenny Opera, Mother Courage and Her Children
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
Important works: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856)
Important works: Book of Songs, Germany. A Winter’s Tale
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926)
Important works: Letters to a Young Poet, The Duino Elegies
Günter Grass (1927–2015)
Important works: The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse
Stefan Zweig (1881–1942)
Important works: The World of Yesterday, Amok
Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970)
Important works: All Quiet on the Western Front
➢ Irish Writers:
1. James Joyce – Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
2. W.B. Yeats – The Tower, The Winding Stair
3. Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot, Endgame
4. Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest
5. Seamus Heaney – Death of a Naturalist, Field Work
6. Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal
7. George Bernard Shaw – Pygmalion, Man and Superman
8. Edna O’Brien – The Country Girls, The Light of Evening
9. John Banville – The Sea, The Book of Evidence
10. Brian Friel – Translations, Dancing at Lughnasa
➢ Canadian Writers:
1. Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale, Oryx and Crake
2. Leonard Cohen – Beautiful Losers, The Favourite Game
3. Alice Munro – Dear Life, Dance of the Happy Shades
4. Michael Ondaatje – The English Patient, Anil’s Ghost
5. Robertson Davies – Fifth Business, The Deptford Trilogy
6. Carol Shields – The Stone Diaries, Larry’s Party
7. Mordecai Richler – The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Barney’s Version
8. Anne Carson – Autobiography of Red, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
9. Margaret Laurence – The Stone Angel, A Jest of God
10. Timothy Findley – The Wars, Not Wanted on the Voyage
➢ Spanish writers
1. Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quixote
2. Lope de Vega – Fuenteovejuna
3. Federico García Lorca – Blood Wedding
4. Benito Pérez Galdós – Fortunata and Jacinta
5. Miguel de Unamuno – Abel Sánchez
6. Carlos Ruiz Zafón – The Shadow of the Wind
7. Arturo Pérez-Reverte – The Club Dumas
8. Javier Marías – A Heart So White
Literary Criticism :
1. Plato (427-347)
2. Aristotle (384-322)
3. Horace
4. Longinus
5. Renaissance Criticism
6. Sir Philip Sidney
7. Ben Jonson
8. John Dryden
9. Joseph Addison
10. Alexander Pope
11. Dr. Samuel Johnson
12. S.T. Coleridge
13. William Wordsworth
14. P.B. Shelley
15. Matthew Arnold
16. Walter Pater
17. T.S. Eliot
18. I.A. Richards
19. Structuralism
20. Post-Structuralism
21. Post Modernism
22. Psychological C.
23. Feminist C.
24. Lesbian C.
25. Marxist C.
26. New Historicism and Cultural materialism
27. Post-Colonialism
28. Stylistics
29. Narratology
30. Ecocriticism
Fantasy, entertainment and motivation literature: This genre is widely promoted on social media and attracts readers from various backgrounds. It is primarily read to pass the time, enjoy a brief escape or gain temporary motivation. Generally, you won’t encounter questions about this type of literature in academic exams. While it can help enhance your English language skills, it doesn’t typically qualify as “real” literature. Teenagers, in particular, are drawn to this genre for its light-hearted nature and engaging content.
1. Rich Dad Poor Dad
Author: Robert Kiyosaki
2. The Alchemist
Author: Paulo Coelho
3. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
Author: Robin Sharma
4. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Author: Stephen Covey
5. Stay Hungry Stay Foolish
Author: Rashmi Bansal
6. Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India
Author: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
7. The Magic of Thinking Big
Author: David J. Schwartz
8. ONE DAY, LIFE WILL CHANGE; A Story of Love and Inspiration to Win Life When It Hits You Hard
Author: Saranya Umakanthan
9. Life’s Amazing Secrets: How to Find Balance and Purpose in Your Life Author: Gaur Gopal Das
10. You Can Win
Author: Shiv Khera
11. Think and Grow Rich
Author: Napoleon Hill
12. The Power of Now
Author: Eckhart Tolle
13. Atomic Habits
Author: James Clear
14. The Secret
Author: Rhonda Byrne
15. Awaken the Giant Within
Author: Tony Robbins
16. The Power of Positive Thinking
Author: Norman Vincent Peale
17. How to Win Friends and Influence People
Author: Dale Carnegie
18. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Author: Mark Manson
19. The Four Agreements
Author: Don Miguel Ruiz
20. Make Your Bed
Author: Admiral William H. McRaven
21. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Author: Carol S. Dweck
22. Start with Why
Author: Simon Sinek
23. Unshakeable
Author: Tony Robbins
24. Principles: Life and Work
Author: Ray Dalio
25. Dare to Lead
Author: Brené Brown
26. The Art of Happiness
Author: Dalai Lama, Howard C. Cutler
27. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Author: Angela Duckworth
28. The Compound Effect
Author: Darren Hardy
29. Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing
Author: Robert Kiyosaki
30. The Science of Getting Rich
Author: Wallace D. Wattles
31. The Road Less Traveled
Author: M. Scott Peck
32. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Author: Marie Kondo
33. The One Thing
Author: Gary Keller, Jay Papasan
34. The Magic of Believing
Author: Claude M. Bristol
35. The Five Second Rule
Author: Mel Robbins
36. The Richest Man in Babylon
Author: George S. Clason
37. Do Epic Shit
Author: Ankur Warikoo
38. The Happiness Project
Author: Gretchen Rubin
39. Can’t Hurt Me
Author: David Goggins
40. The Millionaire Next Door
Author: Thomas Stanley, William Danko
41. The 48 Laws of Power
Author: Robert Greene
42. The Book Thief
Author: Markus Zusak
43. The Intelligent Investor
Author: Benjamin Graham
44. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Author: Daniel H. Pink
45. When Breath Becomes Air
Author: Paul Kalanithi
46. The Art of War
Author: Sun Tzu
47. The Greatest Secret
Author: Rhonda Byrne
48. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Author: Angela Duckworth
49. The Power of Full Engagement
Author: Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz
50. The Art of Thinking Clearly
Author: Rolf Dobelli
51. The Charisma Myth
Author: Olivia Fox Cabane
52. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Author: Greg McKeown
53. The Psychology of Achievement
Author: Brian Tracy
54. The Power of Habit
Author: Charles Duhigg
55. Who Moved My Cheese?
Author: Spencer Johnson
56. The Big Leap
Author: Gay Hendricks
57. Atomic Habits
Author: James Clear
58. The Last Lecture
Author: Randy Pausch
59. Live the Best Story of Your Life
Author: Mo Gawdat
60. The Untethered Soul
Author: Michael A. Singer
61. The Slight Edge
Author: Jeff Olson
62. The Power of Now
Author: Eckhart Tolle
63. A New Earth
Author: Eckhart Tolle
64. The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence
Author: Robert Anthony
65. Tools of Titans
Author: Tim Ferriss
66. Deep Work
Author: Cal Newport
67. The War of Art
Author: Steven Pressfield
68. The Success Principles
Author: Jack Canfield
69. The One-Minute Manager
Author: Ken Blanchard, Spencer Johnson
70. The Wisdom of Sundays
Author: Oprah Winfrey
71. Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant
Author: Robert Kiyosaki
72. Freakonomics
Author: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
73. Start with Why
Author: Simon Sinek
74. You Are a Badass
Author: Jen Sincero
75. The Life You Can Save
Author: Peter Singer
76. Outliers: The Story of Success
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
77. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
78. The Art of Learning
Author: Josh Waitzkin
79. The Lean Startup
Author: Eric Ries
80. The Purpose Driven Life
Author: Rick Warren
81. The Go-Giver
Author: Bob Burg, John David Mann
82. The 10X Rule
Author: Grant Cardone
83. The Road to Character
Author: David Brooks
84. Leaders Eat Last
Author: Simon Sinek
85. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Author: Dale Carnegie
86. Tuesdays with Morrie
Author: Mitch Albom
87. Start Something That Matters
Author: Blake Mycoskie
88. The Miracle Morning
Author: Hal Elrod
89. The Compound Effect
Author: Darren Hardy
90. No Excuses!
Author: Brian Tracy
91. The Emotion Thesaurus
Author: Angela Ackerman, Becca Puglisi
92. Principles of Success
Author: Jack Canfield
93. The Courage to Be Disliked
Author: Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
94. The 5 AM Club
Author: Robin Sharma
95. Rich Dad’s Increase Your Financial IQ
Author: Robert Kiyosaki
96. The Prosperous Coach
Author: Steve Chandler, Rich Litvin
97. The Power of Intention
Author: Wayne Dyer
98. The Science of Self-Discipline
Author: Peter Hollins
99. The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
Author: Deepak Chopra
100. The Art of Living
Author: Epictetus
Chetan Bhagat:
1. Five Point Someone
2. 2 States: The Story of My Marriage
3. Revolution 2020: Love, Corruption, Ambition
4. Half Girlfriend
5. One Indian Girl
6. The Girl in Room 105
7. The 3 Mistakes of My Life
8. What Young India Wants
9. India Positive
10. The One You Cannot Have
Colleen Hoover:
1. It Ends with Us
2. Verity
3. November 9
4. Ugly Love
5. Confess
6. Slammed
7. Hopeless
8. All Your Perfects
9. Regretting You
10. Without Merit
Ravinder Singh:
1. I Too Had a Love Story
2. Can Love Happen Twice?
3. Like It Happened Yesterday
4. Your Dreams Are Mine Now
5. The Belated Bachelor Party
6. This Love That Feels Right
7. The Secret of the Blue Glass
8. Love in the Time of No Filter
9. If It’s Not Forever... It’s Not Love
10. Tell Me Your Story
J.K. Rowling:
1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Philosopher’s Stone)
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
8. The Casual Vacancy
9. The Cuckoo’s Calling (written as Robert Galbraith)
10. The Silkworm (written as Robert Galbraith)
Yuval Noah Harari:
1. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
2. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
3. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
4. Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing
5. The World Since Yesterday
6. Homo Sapiens: A Graphic History
7. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – A Graphic Novel
Elif Shafak:
1. The Forty Rules of Love
2. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
3. The Bastard of Istanbul
4. The Island of Missing Trees
5. Black Milk
6. The Flea Palace
7. Three Daughters of Eve
8. The Happiness of the World
9. Miraculous Happenings
10. The Love of the Last Tycoon
Jules Verne:
1. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
2. Around the World in Eighty Days
3. Journey to the Center of the Earth
Kahlil Gibran:
1. The Prophet
2. Sand and Foam
3. The Broken Wings
4. The Madman
5. Spirits Rebellious
6. A Tear and a Smile
7. The Forerunner
8. The Garden of the Prophet
9. Jesus, The Son of Man
10. Kahlil Gibran: The Man and the Poet
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