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Russ Kick, ed., The Graphic Canon: The World's Great Literature as Comics and Visuals [2012-3]

202 entries: 122 monographical, 80 otherwise

Unranked—arranged chronologically, except for nos. 1 and 36-38, included in the front matter of the first and second volumes, respectively, and nos. 71, 77, 81, and 122, randomly placed within the third volume

Publishers Weekly named The Graphic Canon the event of the year (2012, when the first and second volumes came out) in the realm of comic/ graphic/ sequential literature. If anything, this accolade is an understatement, as this project does not just offer its own list of great works of literature—specifically referring to them as a canon, which many of our "great books" compilers decline to do—it also offers excerpts from those books, those excerpts being interpretations of the works in a new medium. The quality of the visual work is at times remarkable; and the selection of works is diverse. More recently, the same editor has published The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature.

  1. William Shakespeare

    2. Hamlet
    1602—English

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  2. Sha Naqba Imuru
    The Epic of Gilgamesh; He Who Saw the Deep
    Eighteenth-Tenth centuries B C—Sumerian; Akkadian

    • Dayton Edmonds

    3. 'Coyote and the Pebbles'
    illustrations by Micah Farritor; part of Trickster: Native American Tales, 2010, edited by Matt Dembicki—English

    Homer
  3. Iliad

    4. ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B C—Greek

  4. Odýsseia
    The Odyssey
    ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B C—Greek

    • Sappho

    5. Poems
    late Seventh-early Sixth centuries B C—Greek

  5. Euripides

    6. Mēdeia
    Medea
    431 B C—Greek

  6. Aristophanes
    Lysistrate
    Lysistrata
    411 B C—Greek

    --
    • The Book of Esther

    7. part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

  7. Plato

    8. Symposium
    early Fourth Century B C—Greek

  8. Lǎozǐ (Lao-tzu) (Laocius)

    9. Dàodéjǐng
    Tao te Ching
    ca. Sixth Century B C—Chinese

  9. Vyasa

    10. Mahabharata
    includes Bhagavad Gita; ca. Ninth Century B C-Fourth Century—Sanskrit

    Confucius (Kǒng Zǐ) (Kǒng Fūzǐ) (K'ung Fu-tzu)
  10. Analects
    Lún Yǔ
    written and compiled by the author's pupils; ca. Fifth Century B C-Second Century—Chinese

    • "Other writings"

    refers to the Five Classics of Confucianism, which incorporate the teachings of Confucius; Sixth-early Fifth centuries B C—Chinese

    --
    • The Book of Daniel

    11. part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

  11. Titus Lucretius Carus

    12. De Rerum Natura
    On the Nature of Things
    First Century B C—Latin

  12. Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
    Aeneid
    First Century B C—Latin

    --
    • The Book of Revelation

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    • Wang Han

    'Frontier Song'
    part of Three Hundred Tang Poems, compiled by Sun Zhu ca. 1763—Chinese

    • Cui Hu

    'A Village South of the Capital'
    part of Three Hundred Tang Poems, compiled by Sun Zhu ca. 1763—Chinese

    • Li Bai (Li Po)

    13. 'Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon'
    part of Three Hundred Tang Poems, compiled by Sun Zhu ca. 1763—Chinese

    --
  13. Beowulf

    14. ca. Eighth-Eleventh centuries—English

  14. Murasaki Shikibu

    15. Genji Monogatari
    The Tale of Genji
    ca. early Eleventh Century—Japanese

  15. Pierre Abélard
    Historia Calamitatum
    written ca. 1132; includes the letters of Abélard and Héloïse d'Argenteuil—Latin

    • Hildegard of Bingen

    'O Nobilissima Viriditas'
    part of Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum; Twelfth Century—Latin

    --
    • Kitab alf Laylah Wa-Laylah [excerpted]

    'The Fisherman and the Genie' and 'The Woman With Two Coyntes'; Ninth Century—Arabic

    • Rumi

    16. Poems
    Thirteenth Century—Persian

    Dante
  16. La Divina Commedia
    The Divine Comedy
    originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21—Italian

    • Inferno

    17. part of La Divina Commedia; written ca. 1308-21—Italian

  17. Padmasambhava
    Bardo Thodol
    The Tibetan Book of the Dead; Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State
    ca. Eighth Century—Tibetan

    • François Villon

    18. 'Ballade de Conclusion'
    'The Last Ballad'
    part of Le Grand Testament Villon et le Petit. Son Codicille. Le Jargon et Ses Ballades, 1489—French

  18. Geoffrey Chaucer

    19. Canterbury Tales
    1478—English

  19. Thomas Malory

    20. Le Morte d'Arthur
    1485; revised through sixth edition, 1634—English

    --
  20. Ollantay

    21. ca. 1770; attributed to Antonio Valdes; the original Quechua and German translation both published 1857—Quechua

  21. Shī Nài'ān

    22. Shuǐ Hŭ Zhuàn
    The Water Margin
    written Fourteenth Century—Chinese

    --
  22. Hagoromo

    23. Celestial Feather Robe; The Feather Mantle
    ca. early Sixteenth Century—Japanese

    --
  23. Popul Vuh

    24. —K'iche'

  24. Teresa of Ávila
    La Vida de Santa Teresa de Jesús
    1588—Spanish

    • George Peele

    25. 'Hot Sun, Cool Fire'
    excerpt from The Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe, 1599—English

  25. Wú Chéng-ēn (Ruzhong)

    26. Xi Yóu Jì
    Journey to the West; Monkey
    late Sixteenth Century—Chinese

  26. Edmund Spenser

    27. The Faerie Queene
    originally published in two volumes, 1590 and 1596—English

    William Shakespeare
  27. A Midsummer Night's Dream

    28. ca. 1595-1600—English

  28. King Lear

    29. 1606—English

  29. Miguel de Cervantes
    El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
    Don Quixote
    originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615—Spanish

    • William Shakespeare

    Sonnets [excerpted]
    nos. 18 and 20; complete work published 1609—English

    • John Donne

    'The Flea'
    part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]—English

    • Andrew Marvell

    'To His Coy Mistress'
    written ca. early 1650's—English

    • Aphra Behn

    30. 'Forgive Us Our Trespasses'
    part of Miscellany, 1685—English

  30. John Milton

    31. Paradise Lost
    1667; revised 1674—English

  31. Jonathan Swift

    32. Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships
    Gulliver's Travels
    1726; revised 1735—English

  32. Voltaire

    33. Candide, ou L'Optimisme
    1759—French

  33. Jonathan Swift
    A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public
    originally anonymously published 1729—English

    • Benjamin Franklin

    34. 'Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress'
    letter dated 25 June 1745—English

  34. James Boswell
    London Journal
    written 1762-63—English

    • Benjamin Franklin

    35. 'A Letter to the Royal Academy'
    'Fart Proudly'
    included in Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School, 1990—English

  35. Mary Wollstonecraft

    36. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
    1792—English

  36. Choderlos de Laclos

    37. Les Liaisons Dangereuses
    The Dangerous Liaisons
    1782—French

  37. Charles Dickens

    38. A Tale of Two Cities
    originally published serially Apr.-Nov. 1859 in All the Year Round—English

  38. Gustave Flaubert

    39. Madame Bovary
    originally published serially Oct. 1856-Dec. 1856 in La Revue de Paris—French

  39. Louisa M Alcott
    Little Women
    originally published in two volumes: Little Women, 1868; and Good Wives, 1869—English

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    • 'Kubla Khan, a Vision in a Dream'

    part of Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision in a Dream; The Pains of Sleep, 1816—English

    • 'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere'

    originally published in Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems, 1798; revised for inclusion in Sibylline Leaves, 1817—English

    • William Blake

    40. 'Auguries of Innocence'
    written ca. 1803; part of the Pickering Manuscript; originally published as part of Alexander Gilchrist's Life of William Blake, "Pictor Ignotus." With Selections From His Poems and Other Writings, 1863—English

  40. Jane Austen
    Pride and Prejudice
    originally anonymously published 1813—English

    • Lord Byron

    'She Walks in Beauty'
    part of Hebrew Melodies, 1815—English

    • Percy Bysshe Shelley

    'Ozymandias'
    originally published Jan. 1818 in the Examiner; included in Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; With Other Poems, 1818—English

    • William Wordsworth

    'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud'
    originally published as part of Poems in Two Volumes, 1807; revised for inclusion in Poems by William Wordsworth, 1815—English

    • John Keats

    41. 'O Solitude'
    originally published May 1816 in the Examiner—English

  41. Mary Shelley
    Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
    originally anonymously published 1818—English

    Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm
    • Stories

    Nineteenth Century—German

    • 'Das Tapfere Schneiderlein'

    'The Valiant Little Tailor'
    part of Kinder- und Hausmärchen—German

    • 'Hänsel und Gretel'

    'Hansel and Gretel'
    part of Kinder- und Hausmärchen—German

    • 'Schneewittchen'

    'Little Snow White'
    part of Kinder- und Hausmärchen—English

    • 'Sechse Kommen Durch die Ganze Welt'

    'How Six Made Good in the World'
    part of Kinder- und Hausmärchen—German

    • John Keats

    42. 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'
    originally published May 1820 in the Indictaor—English

  42. William Blake

    43. Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
    ca. 1820—English

  43. Nat Turner and Thomas B Gray
    The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Va. as Fully and Voluntarily Made to Thomas B Gray
    1831—English

    • Mary Shelley

    'The Mortal Immortal'
    originally published Dec. 1833 in the Keepsake for 1834—English

    • Hans Christian Andersen

    Fables
    Nineteenth Century—Danish

    • Leigh Hunt

    44. 'Rondeau'
    'Jenny Kiss'd Me'
    originally published Nov. 1838 in the Monthly Chronicle—English

  44. Charles Dickens
    Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress
    originally published under the pseudonym, Boz, serially Feb. 1837-April 1839 in Bentley's Miscellany—English

    • Edward Lear

    45. 'The Jumblies'
    part of Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets, 1870—English

  45. Heinrich Hoffmann
    Der Struwwelpeter
    1845—German

    Edgar Allan Poe
    • 'The Tell-Tale Heart'

    originally published Jan. 1843 in the Pioneer; revised for inclusion in the Broadway Journal, Aug. 1845—English

    • 'The Oblong Box'

    originally published Aug. 1844 in the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper and Sep. 1844 in Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book—English

    • 'The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether'

    originally published Nov. 1845 in Graham's—English

    • 'The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar'

    originally published Dec. 1845 in the Broadway Journal and in American Review: A Whig Journal—English

    • 'The Raven'

    originally published Jan. 1845 in the Evening Mirror; published under the pseudonym, Quarles, Feb. 1845 in the American Review; included in The Raven and Other Poems, 1845—English

    • 'The Pit and the Pendulum'

    originally published 1842 in The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843; revised for inclusion in the Broadway Journal, May 1845—English

    • 'The Masque of the Red Death'

    originally entitled 'The Mask of the Red Death', published May 1842 in Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine; retitled and revised for inclusion in the Broadway Journal, Jul. 1845—English

    • 'The Bells'

    46. originally published Oct. 1849 in the New York Tribune and Nov. 1849 in Sartain's Union Magazine—English

  46. Charlotte Brontë

    47. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
    originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell, 1847—English

  47. Emily Brontë

    48. Wuthering Heights
    originally published 1847 under the pseudonym, Ellis Bell; revised 1850—English

  48. Nathaniel Hawthorne

    49. The Scarlet Letter
    1850—English

  49. Herman Melville

    50. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
    1851—English

  50. Henry David Thoreau

    51. Walden; or, Life in the Woods
    1854—English

  51. Walt Whitman

    52. Leaves of Grass
    1855; expanded and revised through ninth edition, 1892—English

  52. Fitz Hugh Ludlow

    53. The Hasheesh Easter
    1857—English

  53. Charles Darwin
    On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
    1859—English

    • Frederick Douglass

    54. 'The Message From Mount Misery'
    selections from edited Aug. 1857 speech, originally published as part of Two Speeches, by Frederick Douglass; One on West India Emancipation, Delivered at Canandaigua, Aug. 4th, and the Other on the Dred Scott Decision, Delivered in New York on the Occasion of the Anniversary of the American Abolition Society, May, 1857, 1857—English

  54. Victor Hugo
    Les Misérables
    1862—French

    Emily Dickinson
    • 'Because I Could Not Stop for Death'

    part of Poems, 1890—English

    • 'I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed'

    55. part of Poems, 1890—English

  55. Gustave Flaubert; George Sand

    56. Lettres de Gustave Flaubert à George Sand
    1884; written 1863-80—French

    Lewis Carroll
  56. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    57. 1865—English

  57. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
    1871—English

    • 'Jabberwocky'

    58. part of Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, 1871—English

  58. Fyodor Dostoevsky

    59. Prestuplénie i Nakazániye
    Crime and Punishment
    originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian

  59. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
    Venus im Pelz
    Venus in Furs
    1870—German

    • Arthur Rimbaud

    60. 'Le Bateau Ivre'
    'The Drunken Boat'
    written 1871—English

  60. George Eliot

    61. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
    originally published serially Dec. 1871-Dec. 1872—English

  61. Lewis Carroll

    62. The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in 8 Fits
    1876—English

  62. Leo Tolstoy

    63. Anna Karenina
    published in part serially 1873-7 in Rússkij Véstnik; in its entirety, 1877—Russian

  63. Mark Twain

    64. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    1884—English

  64. Friedrich Nietzsche

    65. Also Sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen
    Thus Spake Zarathustra
    originally published in four volumes, 1883-85—German

  65. Robert Louis Stevenson
    Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    1886—English

    • Ambrose Bierce

    66. 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge'
    originally published Jul. 1890 in the San Francisco Examiner; included in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, 1891—English

  66. Oscar Wilde

    67. The Picture of Dorian Grey
    originally published Jul. 1890 in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine; revised and expanded 1891; alternate earlier version published 2011—English

  67. Joseph Conrad

    68. Heart of Darkness
    originally published serially Feb.-Apr. 1899 in Blackwood's—English

  68. Kate Chopin

    69. The Awakening
    1899—English

  69. Sigmund Freud

    70. Die Traumdeutung
    The Interpretation of Dreams
    1899—German

  70. L Frank Baum
    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
    1900—English

    • H G Wells

    'The New Accelerator'
    originally published Dec. 1901 in the Strand—English

    • Saki

    71. 'Reginald'
    part of Reginald, 1904—English

  71. E M Forster

    72. A Room With a View
    1908—English

  72. Maxim Gorky
    Mat'
    Mother
    1907—Russian

    • Rudyard Kipling

    73. 'If—'
    part of Rewards and Fairies, 1910—English

  73. Jack London
    John Barleycorn
    1913—English

    • James Joyce

    74. 'Araby'
    part of Dubliners, 1914—English

  74. Franz Kafka

    75. Die Verwandlung
    The Metamorphosis
    originally published 1915 in Die Weißen Blätter—German

  75. Virginia Woolf
    The Voyage Out
    1915—English

    • T S Eliot

    'The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock'
    originally published Jun. 1915 in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse; included in Prufrock and Other Observations, 1917—English

    • D H Lawrence

    'The Mowers'
    originally published in Some Imagist Poets, 1915—English

    • H D (Hilda Doolittle)

    'Sea Iris'
    part of Sea Garden, 1916—English

    • Ernest Hemingway

    76. 'A Matter of Colour'
    originally published Apr. 1916 in Tabula—English

  76. Kahlil Gibran

    77. The Madman
    1918—English

  77. J D Salinger
    Catcher in the Rye
    1951—English

    • Sherwood Anderson

    78. 'Hands'
    originally published Mar. 1916 in Masses; part of Winesburg, Ohio, 1919—English

  78. William Butler Yeats

    79. The Dreaming of the Bones
    originally published Jan. 1919 in the Little Review; included in Two Plays for Dancers, 1919, and its expanded version, Four Plays for Dancers, 1921—English

  79. Colette

    80. Cheri
    1920—French

  80. Edith Wharton
    The Age of Innocence
    1920—English

    • Wilfred Owen

    'Dulce et Decorum Est'
    part of Poems, 1920—English

    • William Butler Yeats

    'The Second Coming'
    originally published Nov. 1920 in both the Dial and the Nation; included in Michael Robartes and the Dancer, 1921—English

    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    • 'The Penitent'

    —English

    • 'The Singing-Woman From the Wood's Edge'

    —English

    Franz Kafka
    • 'Der Kreisel'

    'The Top'
    part of Beschreibung Eines Kampfes, 1936—German

    • 'Gibs Auf!'

    81. 'Give It Up!'
    part of Beschreibung Eines Kampfes, 1936—German

  81. Virginia Woolf
    To the Lighthouse
    1927 —English

    • Langston Hughes

    'The Negro Dreams of Rivers'
    originally published 1921 in Crisis; included in The Weary Blues, 1926—English

    • W Somerset Maugham

    82. 'Rain'
    part of Trembling of a Leaf, 1921—English

  82. James Joyce
    Ulysses
    published in part serially Mar. 1918-Dec. 1920 in the Little Review; in its entirety, 1922—English

    • Ernest Hemingway

    'Living on $1,000 a Year in Paris'
    originally entitled 'A Canadian with $1,000 a Year Can Live Very Comfortably and Enjoyably in Paris', published Feb. 1922 in the Toronto Star—English

    • Wallace Stevens

    'The Emperor of Ice-Cream'
    included in Harmonium, 1923—English

    • William Faulkner

    83. 'The Hill'
    originally published Mar. 1922 in the Mississippian—English

  83. Herman Hesse
    Siddhartha
    1922—German

    • T S Eliot

    84. 'The Waste Land'
    originally published Oct. 1922 in the Criterion—English

  84. F Scott Fitzgerald

    85. The Great Gatsby
    1925—English

  85. Herman Hesse

    86. Der Steppenwolf
    1927—German

  86. D H Lawrence

    87. Lady Chatterley's Lover
    abridged version, 1928; complete work, 1960—English

  87. William Faulkner

    88. The Sound and the Fury
    1929—English

  88. Rainer Maria Rilke

    89. Briefe an Einen Jungen Dichter
    Letters to a Young Poet
    1929—German

  89. Dashiell Hammett

    90. The Maltese Falcon
    1930—English

  90. Aldous Huxley

    91. Brave New World
    1932—English

  91. Zora Neale Hurston

    92. Poker!
    1931—English

  92. John G Neihardt
    Black Elk Speaks
    1932—English

    • Lewis Allan

    93. 'Strange Fruit'
    originally entitled 'Bitter Fruit', published Jan. 1937 in the New York Teacher; retitled and adapted for music by the author—English

  93. Jean-Paul Sartre

    94. La Nausée
    Nausea
    1938—French

  94. John Steinbeck
    The Grapes of Wrath
    1939—English

    • Jorge Luis Borges

    95. Ficciones [excerpted]
    'La Biblioteca de Babel'; 'El Jardín de Senderos que se Bifurcan'; 'Las Ruinas Circulares'—Spanish

  95. Albert Camus

    96. L'Étranger
    The Stranger
    1942—French

  96. George Orwell
    Animal Farm
    1945—English

    • Flannery O'Connor

    97. 'The Heart of the Park'
    originally published Feb. 1949 in Partisan Review; became part of Wise Blood, 1952; included in The Complete Stories, 1971—English

  97. George Orwell

    98. Nineteen Eighty-Four
    1949—English

  98. Nelson Algren
    The Man With the Golden Arm
    1949—English

    • Thomas Pynchon

    99. 'The Voice of the Hamster'
    originally published serially Nov. 1952-Feb. 1953 in the Oyster Bay High School Purple and Gold—English

  99. Samuel Beckett
    En Attendant Godot
    Waiting for Godot
    1953—French

    • Gabriela Mistral

    100. 'La Bailarina'
    'The Dancer'
    part of Lagar, 1954; English translation included in Madwomen: The Locas Mujeres Poems of Gabriela Mistral, 2008—Spanish

  100. William Golding

    101. Lord of the Flies
    1954—English

  101. Aldous Huxley

    102. The Doors of Perception
    1954—English

  102. Vladimir Nabokov

    103. Lolita
    1955—English

  103. Jack Kerouac

    104. On the Road
    1957; alternate version, 2007—English

  104. William S Burroughs

    105. Naked Lunch
    1959—English

  105. Ken Kesey

    106. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    1962—English

  106. Sylvia Plath

    107. The Bell Jar
    originally published under the pseudonym, Victoria Lucas, 1963—English

  107. Hubert Selby

    108. Last Exit to Brooklyn
    published in part, 1956, as 'The Queen Is Dead', in the Black Mountain Review; and 1961, as 'Tralala', in the Provincetown Review; in its entirety, 1964—English


  108. Anaïs Nin

    109. The Diaries of Anaïs Nin
    originally published in seven volumes, 1966-80—English

  109. Mikhail Bulgakov

    110. Mástyer i Margaríta
    The Master and Margarita
    published in part, 1966-67, in Moskva; in its entirety, 1973; revised 1989—Russian

  110. Gabriel García Márquez

    111. Cien Anõs de Soledad
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    1967—Spanish

  111. Richard Brautigan

    112. In Watermelon Sugar
    1968—English

  112. Thomas Pynchon

    113. Gravity's Rainbow
    1973—English

  113. J G Ballard
    Crash
    1973—English

    • Donald Barthelme

    'I Bought a Little City'
    originally published 1974 in the New Yorker; included in Sixty Stories, 1981—English

    • Raymond Carver

    114. 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Love'
    originally published 1981 in Antaeus; included in What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, 1981; alternate version entitled 'Beginners' published Dec. 2007 in the New Yorker and included in Beginners, 2009, and Raymond Carver: Collected Stories, 2009—English

  114. Kathy Acker

    115. Blood and Guts in High School
    1984—English

  115. Cormac McCarthy

    116. Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West
    1985—English

  116. Umberto Eco

    117. Il Pendolo di Foucault
    1988—Italian

  117. Barry Gifford

    118. Wild at Heart
    1990—English

  118. Ben Okri

    119. The Famished Road
    1991—English

  119. Alan Lightman

    120. Einstein's Dreams
    1992—English

  120. Murakami Haruki

    121. Nejimaki-Dori Kuronikuru
    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
    originally published in three volumes, 1994-5—Japanese

  121. David Foster Wallace

    122. Infinite Jest
    1996—English

  122. Thomas Mann

    123. Der Tod in Venedig
    Death in Venice
    1911—German