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• 14th century in literature – Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
• 13th century in literature – Parzival – Wolfram von Eschenbach
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• 2007 in literature Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling;
• 2006 in literature Daniel Handler, The End, 13th and final book in A Series of Unfortunate Events; Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion
• 2005 in literature - Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk; Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
• 2004 in literature - Free Culture - Lawrence Lessig
• 2003 in literature - The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown; Hegemony or Survival - Noam Chomsky; Roman Triptych (Meditation) - John Paul II
• 2002 in literature - Atonement - Ian McEwan; Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World - Margaret MacMillan
• 2001 in literature - Seabiscuit: An American Legend – Laura Hillenbrand; Life of Pi - Yann Martel
• 2000 in literature - Naomi Klein, No Logo

• 1999 in literature - Chocolat - Joanne Harris
• 1998 in literature - J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• 1997 in literature - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J. K. Rowling; Underworld - Don DeLillo
• 1996 in literature - Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt; Left Behind - Tim Lahaye, Jerry B. Jenkins; The Nightmare Factory - Thomas Ligotti
• 1995 in literature - The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield; Blindness - José Saramago
• 1994 in literature - The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
• 1993 in literature - The Christmas Box – Richard Paul Evans; Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
• 1992 in literature - The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
• 1991 in literature - Such a Long Journey - Rohinton Mistry
• 1990 in literature - Vertigo - W.G. Sebald

• 1989 in literature - Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro; The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan; Songs of a Dead Dreamer - Thomas Ligotti
• 1988 in literature - Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey; The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie, Curriculum - Grazyna Miller
• 1987 in literature - Beloved - Toni Morrison
• 1986 in literature - Extinction - Thomas Bernhard
• 1985 in literature - The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood; Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez
• 1984 in literature - White Noise - Don DeLillo; The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
• 1983 in literature - On Wings of Eagles - Ken Follett; Shame - Salman Rushdie
• 1982 in literature - The Color Purple - Alice Walker
• 1981 in literature - The Blue Bicycle - Régine Deforges; Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
• 1980 in literature - Smiley's People - John le Carré; Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose) - Umberto Eco

• 1979 in literature - Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer; A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
• 1978 in literature - The World According to Garp - John Irving
• 1977 in literature - The Sea, the Sea - Iris Murdoch; Song of Soloman - Toni Morrison
• 1976 in literature - Triton - Samuel R. Delany
• 1975 in literature - The Book of Sand - Jorge Luis Borges
• 1974 in literature - Carrie - Stephen King
• 1973 in literature - Burr - Gore Vidal; Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
• 1972 in literature - Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
• 1971 in literature - The End of Summer - Rosamunde Pilcher
• 1970 in literature - Deliverance - James Dickey

• 1969 in literature - Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth; Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut; Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle - Vladimir Nabokov
• 1968 in literature - Airport - Arthur Hailey; Belle du Seigneur - Albert Cohen
• 1967 in literature - Wild Season - Allan W. Eckert; Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude) - Gabriel García Márquez; Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited - Vladimir Nabokov
• 1966 in literature - The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov; The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon; Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys; In Cold Blood - Truman Capote; Beautiful Losers - Leonard Cohen
• 1965 in literature - Herzog - Saul Bellow; An American Dream - Norman Mailer; The Magus - John Fowles
• 1964 in literature - Little Big Man - Thomas Berger; Flowers for Hitler - Leonard Cohen
• 1963 in literature - Planet of the Apes (La Planete des Singes) - Pierre Boulle; V - Thomas Pynchon; The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath; Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
• 1962 in literature - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey; Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov; One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing; Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
• 1961 in literature - Catch-22 - Joseph Heller; A House for Mr. Biswas - V. S. Naipaul
• 1960 in literature - To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

• 1959 in literature - In the Labyrinth - Alain Robbe-Grillet; The Tin Drum - Günter Grass; Billiards at Half-past Nine - Heinrich Boll; Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
• 1958 in literature - The Grass - Claude Simon; The Guide - R. K. Narayan
• 1957 in literature - On the Road - Jack Kerouac; Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov; Voss - Patrick White
• 1956 in literature - The Visit - Friedrich Dürrenmatt
• 1955 in literature - Tunnel in the Sky – Robert A. Heinlein; Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov; The Return of the King - J. R. R. Tolkien
• 1954 in literature - Lord of the Flies - William Golding; The Fellowship of the Ring - J. R. R. Tolkien; The Two Towers - J. R. R. Tolkien
• 1953 in literature - Casino Royale - Ian Fleming - First James Bond novel; The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow, Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451
• 1952 in literature - Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett; Charlotte's Web - E.B. White; The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
• 1951 in literature - The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger; Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
• 1950 in literature - The Bald Soprano - Eugène Ionesco; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis

• 1949 in literature - George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
• 1948 in literature - Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead and Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter
• 1947 in literature - The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
• 1946 in literature - The Iceman Cometh - Eugene O'Neill
• 1945 in literature - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is sentenced to eight years in a labour camp for criticism of Stalin.
• 1944 in literature - Our Lady of the Flowers - Jean Genet; A Bell for Adano – John Hersey
• 1943 in literature - T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets published together for the first time; Das Glasperlenspiel (The Glass Bead Game) - Hermann Hesse
• 1942 in literature - The Stranger - Albert Camus
• 1941 in literature - Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf
• 1940 in literature - Native Son - Richard Wright; For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway; The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers

• 1939 in literature - The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West; The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck; How Green Was My Valley - Richard Llewellyn
• 1938 in literature - La Nausée - Jean-Paul Sartre; The Sword in the Stone - T. H. White
• 1937 in literature - Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck; Journal d'un Curé de Campagne (Diary of a Country Priest) - Georges Bernanos
• 1936 in literature - Jamaica Inn - Daphne du Maurier
• 1935 in literature - Penguin Books publishes the first paperback
• 1934 in literature - I, Claudius - Robert Graves; Goodbye, Mr. Chips - James Hilton; Tender Is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald; Supernatural Horror in Literature - H. P. Lovecraft -year completed (1925-34)
• 1933 in literature - Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain; La Condition Humaine (Man's Fate) - André Malraux
• 1932 in literature - Brave New World - Aldous Huxley; Voyage au Bout de la Nuit (Journey to the End of the Night) - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
• 1931 in literature - The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck; first Maigret novel by Georges Simenon
• 1930 in literature - The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett; Luigi Pirandello's The Man With the Flower in His Mouth becomes the first broadcast television drama

• 1929 in literature - Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin; A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway; All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque; Goodbye to All That - Robert Graves; The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
• 1928 in literature - Lady Chatterley's Lover - D. H. Lawrence; The Threepenny Opera - Bertholt Brecht
• 1927 in literature - The Snake Pit - Sigrid Undset; To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
• 1926 in literature - Winnie-the-Pooh - A. A. Milne; The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway; Sean O'Casey's play, The Plough and the Stars
• 1925 in literature - The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald; Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf; Der Prozeß (The Trial) - Franz Kafka
• 1924 in literature - Billy Budd, Foretopman - Herman Melville; A Passage to India - E. M. Forster; Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain) - Thomas Mann
• 1923 in literature - Lord Peter Wimsey makes his first appearance in print.
• 1922 in literature - Ulysses - James Joyce; The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot; Marcel Proust dies - In Search of Lost Time completed ; The Worm Ouroboros - E.R. Eddison
• 1921 in literature - Karel Čapek's play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
• 1920 in literature - The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton; Women in Love - D. H. Lawrence

• 1919 in literature - The Moon and Sixpence - W. Somerset Maugham
• 1918 in literature - The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington; Eminent Victorians - Lytton Strachey
• 1917 in literature - Prufrock and Other Observations - T.S. Eliot; Moon Child - Aleister Crowley Completed
• 1916 in literature - Relativity - Albert Einstein; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
• 1915 in literature - The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
• 1914 in literature - Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich - Stephen Leacock
• 1913 in literature - Alcools - Guillaume Apollinaire, Petersburg - Andrei Bely; Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence
• 1912 in literature - Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
• 1911 in literature - 11th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica published
• 1910 in literature - Howards End - E. M. Forster; The Sorcerers Apprentice - Hanns Heinz Ewers

• 1909 in literature - The Song of Songs - Hermann Sudermann
• 1908 in literature - Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery; L'Île des Pingouins (Penguin Island) - Anatole France; The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
• 1907 in literature - The City of Pleasure - Arnold Bennett; The Listener and Other Stories - Algernon Blackwood
• 1906 in literature - The House of Souls - Arthur Machen; Time and the Gods - Lord Dunsany
• 1905 in literature - White Fang - Jack London
• 1904 in literature - Nostromo - Joseph Conrad; Ghost Stories of Antiquity - M.R. James
• 1903 in literature - The Souls of Black Folk - W. E. B. DuBois; The Ambassadors - Henry James; Jewel of the Seven Stars - Bram Stoker
• 1902 in literature - The Immoralist - André Gide; The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
• 1901 in literature - Death of Queen Victoria - Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann; The Purple Cloud - M.P. Shiel
• 1900 in literature - Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser; The Flame of Life - Gabriele d'Annunzio

• 1899 in literature - The School and Society - John Dewey; The Awakening - Kate Chopin; Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad; The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman;
• 1898 in literature - Paris - Emile Zola
• 1897 in literature - Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling; Dracula - Bram Stoker; Divagations -Stéphane Mallarmé; the Beetle - Richard Marsh
• 1896 in literature - The Well at the World's End - William Morris; Shapes in the Fire - M.P. Shiel
• 1895 in literature - Almayer's Folly - Joseph Conrad; Pharaoh - Bolesław Prus; Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy; The Three Impostors - Arthur Machen
• 1894 in literature - The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope ; Pan - Knut Hamsun; The Great God Pan - Arthur Machen; Studies of Death: Romantic Tales - Stanislaus Eric Stenbock
• 1893 in literature - The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde; The New Woman - Bolesław Prus
• 1892 in literature - Children of the Ghetto - Israel Zangwill
• 1891 in literature - Diary of a Pilgrimage - Jerome K. Jerome; Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
• 1890 in literature - Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen; Hunger - Knut Hamsun

• 1889 in literature - Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche; The Doll - Bolesław Prus; The Child of Pleasure - Gabriele d'Annunzio
• 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; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson; The Outpost - Bolesław Prus
• 1885 in literature - Marius the Epicurean - Walter Pater; Lord Alfred Tennyson completes Idylls of the King; Germinal - Émile Zola; George A. Moore - The Mummer's Wife; The Mikado - Gilbert and Sullivan
• 1884 in literature - Miss Bretherton - Mary Augusta Ward; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
• 1883 in literature - Une Vie - Guy de Maupassant; Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson; The Adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi
• 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; Nana - Émile Zola; The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky

• 1879 in literature - The Red Room - August Strindberg; A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
• 1878 in literature - H.M.S. Pinafore - Gilbert and Sullivan
• 1877 in literature - Under the Lilacs - Louisa May Alcott; Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
• 1876 in literature - The Shadow of the Sword - Robert Buchanan
• 1875 in literature - The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope
• 1874 in literature - Les Diaboliques - Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly; Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
• 1873 in literature - The Poison Tree - Bankim Chatterjee
• 1872 in literature - The Birth of Tragedy - Friedrich Nietzsche
• 1871 in literature - Middlemarch - George Eliot
• 1870 in literature - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne

• 1869 in literature - War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy; L'Education Sentimentale - Gustav Flaubert; The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky; Les Chants de Maldoror - Comte de Lautréamont
• 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; Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky; Poems and Ballads - Algernon Charles Swinburne
• 1865 in literature - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll; Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
• 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 - Framley Parsonage - Anthony Trollope; Great Expectations - Charles Dickens; East Lynne - Mrs Henry Wood
• 1860 in literature - Max Havelaar - Multatuli; The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot

• 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; Little Dorritt - Charles Dickens; Les Fleurs du mal - Charles Baudelaire
• 1856 in literature - The Daisy Chain - Charlotte Mary Yonge; Aurora Leigh - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• 1855 in literature - Westward Ho! - Charles Kingsley
• 1854 in literature - The Newcomers - William Makepeace Thackeray
• 1853 in literature - Bleak House is the first English novel to feature a detective
• 1852 in literature - Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
• 1851 in literature - Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
• 1850 in literature - The Arabian Nights - Household Words begins publication

• 1849 in literature - The Oregon Trail - Francis Parkman
• 1848 in literature - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë; Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackery; Eureka - Edgar Allan Poe -Completed
• 1847 in literature - Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë; Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
• 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 - Honoré 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.; Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque - Edgar Allan Poe

• 1839 in literature - The Voyage of the Beagle - Charles Darwin; Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens; Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
• 1838 in literature - The Birds of America - John James Audubon
• 1837 in literature - Live and Let Live - Catharine Maria Sedgwick; The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club - Charles Dickens
• 1836 in literature - Poems - Oliver Wendell Holmes; Gaspard de la nuit - Aloysius Bertrand
• 1835 in literature - Souvenirs - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun; Le Père Goriot - Honoré de Balzac
• 1834 in literature - Sartor Resartus - Thomas Carlyle
• 1833 in literature - Gamiani - Alfred de Musset; Eugene Onegin - Aleksandr Pushkin; Eugénie Grandet - Honoré de Balzac
• 1832 in literature - Valentine - George Sand; Faust Part Two - Goethe
• 1831 in literature - The Young Duke - Benjamin Disraeli; Notre-Dame de Paris - Victor Hugo
• 1830 in literature - The Red and the Black - Stendhal

• 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 - Méditations Poétiques - Lamartine

• 1819 in literature - The Sketch Book - Washington Irving; Ode to a Nightingale - John Keats
• 1818 in literature - Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
• 1817 in literature - Ormond and Harrington - Maria Edgeworth
• 1816 in literature - Adolphe - Benjamin Constant; Emma - Jane Austen; The Sandman - E.T.A. Hoffman
• 1815 in literature - The Pastor's Fireside - Jane Porter
• 1814 in literature - The Wanderer - Fanny Burney; Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
• 1813 in literature - The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann David Wyss; Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
• 1812 in literature - The Milesian Chief - Charles Robert Maturin; Children's and Household Tales - The Brothers Grimm
• 1811 in literature - Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
• 1810 in literature - The Houses of Osma and Almeria - Regina Maria Roche

• 1809 in literature - The Martyrs - François-René de Chateaubriand
• 1808 in literature - Faust (Part One) - Goethe
• 1807 in literature - Tales from Shakespeare - Charles Lamb & Mary Lamb
• 1806 in literature - The Earthquake in Chile - Heinrich von Kleist
• 1805 in literature - The Wonder of the Village - Mary Meeke; Manuscript Found in Saragossa - Count Jan Nepomucen Potocki
• 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 - Hymns to the Night - Novalis

• 1799 in literature - Arthur Mervyn - Charles Brockden Brown
• 1798 in literature - Lyrical Ballads - Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• 1797 in literature - l'Histoire de Juliette - Marquis de Sade; Kubla Khan - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• 1796 in literature - Camilla - Fanny Burney
• 1795 in literature - Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (to 1796) - Goethe; The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
• 1794 in literature - The Age of Reason - Thomas Paine
• 1793 in literature - Songs of Experience - William Blake
• 1792 in literature - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft
• 1791 in literature - The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - James Boswell
• 1790 in literature - Reflections on the Revolution in France - Edmund Burke; Tam O'Shanter - Robert Burns

• 1789 in literature*Beginning of the French Revolution* - Songs of Innocence - William Blake
• 1788 in literature - Memoirs - Saint-Simon
• 1787 in literature - Don Carlos - Friedrich Schiller
• 1786 in literature - Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect - Robert Burns
• 1785 in literature - Anton Reiser (to 1790) - Karl Philipp Moritz
• 1784 in literature - Barham Downs - Robert Bage
• 1783 in literature - Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics - Immanuel Kant
• 1782 in literature - The Robbers - Friedrich Schiller Les Liaisons Dangereuses - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
• 1781 in literature - A Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant
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• 1779 in literature - Nathan the Wise - Gotthold Lessing; Fables and Parables - Ignacy Krasicki
• 1778 in literature - Evelina - Fanny Burney
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• 1776 in literature - Common Sense - Thomas Paine
• 1775 in literature - The Rivals - Richard Sheridan
• 1774 in literature - The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
• 1773 in literature - Der Messias (from 1749) - Klopstock; Jaques le fataliste - Denis Diderot
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• 1769 in literature - The History of Emily Montague - Frances Brooke
• 1768 in literature - Poems - Thomas Gray
• 1767 in literature - Minna von Barnhelm - Gotthold Lessing
• 1766 in literature - The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
• 1765 in literature - Beginning of the Sturm und Drang movement
• 1764 in literature - The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
• 1763 in literature - James Boswell is introduced to Samuel Johnson
• 1762 in literature - Émile - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• 1761 in literature - Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• 1760 in literature - Tristram Shandy (to 1770) - Laurence Sterne

• 1759 in literature - Candide - Voltaire
• 1758 in literature - Voltaire buys his estate at Ferney
• 1757 in literature - Pierre-Augustin Caron changes his surname to Beaumarchais
• 1756 in literature - Gilbert White becomes curate of Selborne, Hampshire
• 1755 in literature - Letter to Lord Chesterfield - Samuel Johnson
• 1754 in literature - The History of Great Britain (to 1762) - David Hume
• 1753 in literature - Sir Charles Grandison (to 1754) - Samuel Richardson
• 1752 in literature - Birth of Fanny Burney
• 1751 in literature - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard - Thomas Gray
• 1750 in literature - Rambler essays (to 1752) - Samuel Johnson

• 1749 in literature - Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
• 1748 in literature - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - David Hume
• 1747 in literature - Clarissa (to 1748) - Samuel Richardson
• 1746 in literature - Voltaire is elected to the French Academy
• 1745 in literature - Death of Jonathan Swift
• 1744 in literature - The Female Spectator is launched by Eliza Haywood
• 1743 in literature - The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great - Henry Fielding
• 1742 in literature - Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding
• 1741 in literature - Shamela - Henry Fielding
• 1740 in literature - Institutions de physique – Émilie du Châtelet

• 1739 in literature - A Treatise of Human Nature (to 1740) - David Hume
• 1738 in literature - Leonidas - Richard Glover
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• 1732 in literature - Essay on Man (to 1744) - Alexander Pope
• 1731 in literature - Insel Felsenburg (to 1743) - Johann Schnabel
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• 1729 in literature - Death of William Congreve
• 1728 in literature - Alexander Pope, The Dunciad
• 1727 in literature - Eliza Haywood, Philidore and Placentia
• 1726 in literature - Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
• 1725 in literature - Birth of Giacomo Casanova
• 1724 in literature - Voltaire, Henriade
• 1723 in literature - Births of Richard Price and Adam Smith; deaths of Susannah Centlivre and Marianna Alcoforado
• 1722 in literature - Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
• 1721 in literature - Montesquieu, Persian Letters
• 1720 in literature - Daniel Defoe, Memoirs of a Cavalier

• 1719 in literature - Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
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• 1715 in literature - Nicholas Rowe becomes Poet Laureate of Great Britain
• 1714 in literature - Bernard de Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees
• 1713 in literature - Birth of Laurence Sterne
• 1712 in literature - Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
• 1711 in literature - The Spectator is founded by Addison and Steele
• 1710 in literature - Colley Cibber becomes manager of Drury Lane

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• 1705 in literature - Nouveaux essais sur l'entendement humain ("New Essays on Human Understanding") - Gottfried Leibniz
• 1704 in literature - A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift
• 1703 in literature - The Storm - Daniel Defoe (released 1704)
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• 1691 in literature - Athalie - Jean Racine
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• 1688 in literature
• 1687 in literature - Isaac Newton - Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
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• 1679 in literature
• 1678 in literature - The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
• 1677 in literature - Phèdre - Jean Racine
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