800 BC* - The Iliad (Homer)

800 BC* - The Odyssey (Homer)

630 BC/612 BC (-570 BC*) - Sappho
624 BC* (-546 BC*) - Thales
610 BC* (-546 BC*) - Anaximander
585 BC (-528 BC) - Anaximenes
535 BC* (-475 BC*) - Heraclitus
525 BC/524 BC (-456 BC/455 BC) - Aeschylus
500 BC* (-428 BC) - Anaxagoras
497 BC/496 BC (-406 BC/405 BC) - Sophocles
490 BC* (-420 BC) - Protagoras
490 BC* (-430 BC*) - Empedocles
490 BC* (-430 BC*) - Zeno
485 BC* (-380 BC*) - Gorgias
480 BC* (-406 BC) - Euripides
469 BC* (-399 BC) - Socrates
460 BC* (-370 BC*) - Democritus
429 BC* - Oedipus the King (Sophocles)
428 BC/427 BC (-348 BC/347 BC) - Plato
384 BC (-322 BC) - Aristotle
341 BC (-270 BC) - Epicurus
99 BC* (-55 BC*) - Lucretius
70 BC (-19 BC) - Virgil
43 BC (-17/18) - Ovid
19 BC - The Aeneid (Virgil)
8 - Metamorphoses (Ovid)
450 (-1066) - Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period
1066 (-1500) - Middle English Period
1288* (-1348*) - William of Ockham
1304 (-1374) - Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)
(1308-1321) - The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
1313 (-1375) - Giovanni Boccaccio
1343* (-1400) - Geoffrey Chaucer
1353 - The Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
1390* - The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
1452 (-1519) - Leonardo da Vinci
1485 (-1603) - Tudor Period
1494* (-1553) - François Rabelais
1500 (-1600) - Renaissance (Early Modern) Period
1503 (-1542) - Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder
1517 (-1547) - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
1528 - The Book of the Courtier (Baldassare Castiglione)
1530 (-1566) - Sir Thomas Hoby
1547 (-1616) - Miguel de Cervantes
1552* (-1599) - Edmund Spenser
1554 (-1586) - Sir Philip Sidney
1558 (-1603) - Elizabethan Era
1560 (-1621) - Thomas Harriot
1564 (-1593) - Christopher Marlowe
1564 (-1616) - William Shakespeare
1567 - Gargantua And Pantagruel
1572 (-1631) - John Donne
1572 (-1637) - Ben Johnson
1579* (-1647) - Thomas Morton
1592 (-1655) - Pierre Gasendi
1593 (-1633) - George Herbert
1596 (-1650) - René Descartes
(1599-1601) - Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
1600 (-1785) - Neo-classical Period
 1603 (-1714) - Stuart Period
1603 (-1625) - Jacobean Era
(1603-1606) - King Lear (William Shakespeare)
1604 - Doctor Faustus (Christopher Marlowe)
1608 (-1674) - John Milton
(1610-1611) - The Tempest (William Shakespeare)
1615 - Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes)
1621 (-1678) - Andrew Marvell
1621 (-1683) - Anthony Ashley Cooper, First Earl of Shaftesbury
1622 (-1673) - Molière
1623 - First Folio (William Shakespeare)
1623 (-1662) - Blaise Pascal
1624 - Emotions upon Emergent Occasions (John Donne)
1625 (-1642) - Caroline Era
1628 (-1688) - John Bunyan
1631 (-1700) - John Dryden
1632 (-1677) - Baruch Spinoza
1632 (-1704) - John Locke
1637 - Discourse on the Method (René Descartes)
1640 (-1689) - Aphra Behn
1643 (-1727) - Isaac Newton
1646 (-1716) - Gottfried Leibniz
1647 (-1680) - John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester
1649 (-1660) - Commonwealth Period (Interregnum)
1660* (-1731) - Daniel Defoe
1660 (-1800) - Neoclassicism
1660 (-1700) - Restoration Period
1663 (-1728) - Cotton Mather
1666 - The Misanthrope (Molière)
1667 - Paradise Lost (John Milton)
1667 (-1745) - Jonathan Swift
1672 (-1729) - Sir Richard Steele
1672 (-1719) - Joseph Addison
1677 - Ethics (Baruch Spinoza)
1678 - The Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan)
1682 - Absalom And Achitophel (John Dryden)
1684 (-1754) - Ludvig Holberg
1685 (-1732) - John Gay
1685 (-1753) - George Berkeley
1688 (-1744) - Alexander Pope
1689 (-1755) - Montesquieu
1694 (-1778) - Voltaire
1700 (-1745) - Augustan Period
1706 (-1790) - Benjamin Franklin
1709 (-1784) - Samuel Johnson
1710 (-1796) - Thomas Reid
1711 (-1776) - David Hume
1712 (-1778) - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1714 (-1830) - Georgian Era
1719 - Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
1722 - Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe)
1726 - Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
1728 - The Beggar's Opera (John Gay)
1729 (-1797) - Edmund Burke
1735 (-1813) - J. Hector St. Jean de Crèvecœur
1737 (-1809) - Thomas Paine
1743 (-1826) - Thomas Jefferson
1745 (-1783) - Age of Sensibility
1749 (-1832) - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1756 (-1836) - William Godwin
1757 (-1827) - William Blake
1759 (-1797) - Mary Wollstonecraft
1759 (-1796) - Robert Burns
1762 (-1814) - Johan Gottlieb Fichte
1767 (-1845) - August Wilhelm Schlegel
1770 (-1850) - William Wordsworth
1770 (-1831) - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1771 (-1832) - Sir Walter Scott
1772 (-1834) - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772 (-1829) - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
1772 (-1801) - Novalis
1774 (-1843) - Robert Southey
1775 (-1817) - Jane Austen
1779 (-1850) - Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger
1783 (-1859) - Washington Irving
1785 (-1830) - Romanticism
1785 (-1859) - Thomas De Quincy
1788 (-1824) - George Gordon, Lord Byron
1788 (-1860) - Arthur Schopenhauer
1791 - Rights of Man (Thomas Paine)
1792 (-1822) - Percy Bysshe Shelley
1794 - Songs of Innocence And of Experience (William Blake)
1794 (-1878) - William Cullen Bryant
1795 (-1886) - Leopold von Ranke
1795 (-1821) - John Keats
1795 (-1881) - Thomas Carlyle
1797 (-1851) - Mary Shelley
1798 (-1857) - August Comte
1798 - Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth, Coleridge)
1799 (-1837) - Alexander Pushkin
1799 (-1850) - Honoré de Balzac
1804 (-1864) - Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804 (-1872) - Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
1807 (-1882) - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1807 (-1892) - John Greenleaf Whittier
1809 (-1849) - Edgar Allan Poe
1809 (-1892) - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
1809 (-1882) - Charles Darwin
1811 (-1820) - British Regency
1811 (-1896) - Harriet Beecher Stowe
1812 (-1870) - Charles Dickens
1812 (-1889) - Robert Browning
1813 (-1883) - Richard Wagner
1813 (-1855) - Søren Kierkegaard
1813 - Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
1814 - Mansfield Park (Jane Austen)
1814 (-1876) - Mikhail Bakunin
1815 (-1882) - Anthony Trollope
1816 (-1855) - Charlotte Brontë
1817 (-1862) - Henry David Thoreau
1818 (-1897) - Jacob Burckhardt
1818 (-1848) - Emily Brontë
1818 (-1895) - Frederick Douglass
1819 - Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott)
1819 (-1891) - James Russell Lowell
1819 (-1892) - Walt Whitman
1819 - The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (Washington Irving)
1819 (-1880) - George Eliot
1819 (-1891) - Herman Melville
1819 (-1900) - John Ruskin
1820 (-1895) - Friedrich Engels
1821 (-1881) - Fyodor Dostoevsky
1821 (-1880) - Gustave Flaubert
1821 (-1867) - Charles Baudelaire
1821 - Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Thomas De Quincey)
1822 (-1888) - Matthew Arnold
1824 - Don Juan (George Gordon, Lord Byron)
1828 (-1910) - Leo Tolstoy
1828 (-1906) - Henrik Ibsen
1828 (-1865) - American Romantic Period
1830 (-1886) - Emily Dickinson
1830 (-1894) - Christina Rossetti
1830 (-1860) - American Renaissance
1832 (-1917) - Edward Burnett Tylor
1835 (-1910) - Mark Twain
1836 - Nature (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
1837 (-1901) - Victorian Era
1837 (-1909) - Algernon Charles Swinburne
1839 (-1894) - Walter Pater
1840 (-1928) - Thomas Hardy
1840 (-1902) - Émile Zola
1842 (-1927) - Georg Brandes
1842 (-1910) - William James
1843 (-1916) - Henry James
1844 (-1924) - Anatole France
1844 (-1889) - Gerard Manley Hopkins
1844 (-1900) - Friedrich Nietzsche
1847 - Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
1847 - Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
1847 (-1912) - Bram Stoker
1848 (-1860) - Pre-Raphaelites
1850 - The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
1850 (-1894) - Robert Louis Stevenson
1851 - Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
1852 - Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
1853 - Hard Times (Charles Dickens)
1854 (-1900) - Oscar Wilde
(1855-1867) - The Chronicles of Barsetshire (Anthony Trollope)
1855 (-1924) - Marie Corelli
1856 (-1950) - George Bernard Shaw
1856 (-1939) - Sigmund Freud
1856 (-1915) - Booker T. Washington
1857 (-1913) - Ferdinand de Saussure
1857 (-1924) - Joseph Conrad
1859 (-1938) - Edmund Husserl
1859 - On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)
1859 - A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
(1860-1861) - Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
1860 (-1935) - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
1860 (-1904) - Anton Chekhov
1861 (-1932) - Frederick Jackson Turner
1862 (-1943) - David Hilbert
1865 (-1936) - Rudyard Kipling
1865 (-1939) - William Butler Yeats
1866 - Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
1866 (-1946) - H. G. Wells
1868 (-1954) - Chapman Cohen
1869 - War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
1871 (-1945) - Theodore Dreiser
1871 (-1900) - Stephen Crane
1871 (-1922) - Marcel Proust
1872 (-1898) - Aubrey Beardsley
1872 (-1970) - Bertrand Russell
1874 (-1936) - G. K. Chesterton
1874 (-1963) - Robert Frost
1874 - Middlemarch (George Eliot)
1874 (-1946) - Gertrude Stein
1875 (-1955) - Thomas Mann
1876 (-1941) - Sherwood Anderson
1876 (-1916) - Jack London
1877 (-1945) - Maurice Halbwachs
1877 - Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
1878 (-1968) - Upton Sinclair
1879 (-1955) - Albert Einstein
1879 - A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen)
1880 (-1901) - Aestheticism and Decadence
1880 (-1940) - Naturalism
1880 - The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
1881 (-1975) - P.G. Wodehouse
1882 (-1941) - James Joyce
1882 (-1941) - Virginia Woolf
1883 (-1924) - Franz Kafka
1883 (-1963) - William Carlos Williams
1885 - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
1885 (-1972) - Ezra Pound
1885 (-1930) - D.H. Lawrence
1886 - Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
1886 (-1961) - H.D.
1887 (-1915) - Rupert Brooke
1888 (-1965) - T.S. Eliot
1888 (-1953) - Eugene O'Neill
1889 (-1951) - Ludwig Wittgenstein
1889 (-1976) - Martin Heidegger
1890 (-1918) - Isaac Rosenberg
1891 (-1980) - Henry Miller
1892 (-1940) - Walter Benjamin
1893 (-1918) - Wilfred Owen
1893 - Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (Stephen Crane)
1894 - The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling)
1894 (-1963) - Aldous Huxley
1894 (-1940) - Isaak Babel
1895 (-1973) - Max Horkheimer
1895 - The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
1896 (-1940) - F. Scott Fitzgerald
1896 (-1970) - John Dos Passos
1896 (-1970) - Vera Brittain
1897 (-1962) - William Faulkner
1897 (-1975) - Thornton Wilder
1897 - Dracula (Bram Stoker)
1898 (-1979) - Herbert Marcuse
1898 - The Turn of the Screw (Henry James)
1898 (-1970) - Erich Maria Remarque
1898 (-1956) - Bertolt Brecht
1898 - The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells)
1899 (-1977) - Vladimir Nabokov
1899 (-1961) - Ernest Hemingway
1899 (-1986) - Jorge Luis Borges
1900 - Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser)
1901 (-1910) - Edwardian Era
1902 (-1994) - Karl Popper
1902 - Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
1902 (-1968) - John Steinbeck
1903 (-1969) - Theodor W. Adorno
1903 (-1950) - George Orwell
1903 (-1966) - Evelyn Waugh
1904 (-1990) - B. F. Skinner
1905 (-1989) - Robert Penn Warren
1905 (-1980) - Jean-Paul Sartre
1907 (-1973) - W.H. Auden
1911 (-1983) - Tennessee Williams
1911 (-1991) - Max Frisch
1912 (-1992) - John Cage
1912 (-1991) - Northrop Frye
1912 - The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
1913 (-1960) - Albert Camus
(1913-1927) - In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
1910 (-1925) - Modernism
1914 - Dubliners (James Joyce)
1914 (-1997) - William S. Burroughs
1915 (-2005) - Saul Bellow
1915 (-2005) - Arthur Miller
1919 - Winesburg, Ohio (Sherwood Anderson)
1919 (-1990) - Roald Dahl
1916 - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
1918 (-2008) - Aleksandr Solzhenitzyn
1919 (-2010) - J.D. Salinger
1921 (-1988) - Raymond Williams
1922 (-2007) - Kurt Vonnegut
1922 (-1998) - William Gaddis
1922 - Ulysses (James Joyce)
1922 - The Cantos (Ezra Pound)
1923 (-1999) - Joseph Heller
1923 (-1985) - Italo Calvino
1924 (-1998) - Jean-François Lyotard
1924 (-1984) - Truman Capote
1925 (-1964) - Flannery O'Connor
1925 (-1984) - Alexander Trocchi
1925 - Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
1925 - The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
1925 - The Trial (Franz Kafka)
1926 (-1984) - Michel Foucault
1926 - The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
1927 - To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
1928 (-2004) - Hubert Selby, Jr.
1928 (-2018) - Hayden White
1928 (-) - J. Hillis Miller
1928 (-) - Noam Chomsky
1928 - All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
1929 - The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
1929 (-) - Jürgen Habermas
1929 (-) - E.O. Wilson
1930 - As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
1930 (-2004) - Jacques Derrida
1930 (-) - John Barth
1931 (-) - E.L. Doctorow
1931 (-1989) - Donald Barthelme
1931 (-) - Toni Morrison
1931 (-1963) - Sylvia Plath
1932 (-) - Stuart Hall
1932 (-) - Robert Coover
1932 - Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
1933 (-) - Cormac McCarthy
1933 (-1991) - Jerzy Kosinski
1937 - Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
1937 (-) - Thomas Pynchon
1938 (-) - Anthony Giddens
1938 - Our Town (Thornton Wilder)
1938 (-) - Ishmael Reed
1939 (-) - Amos Oz
1939 - Finnegan's Wake (James Joyce)
1939 - The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
1940 - For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
1940 (-1992) - Angela Carter
1941 (-2002) - Stephen Jay Gould
1941 - Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges)
1945 - Postmodernism
1946 - All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren)
1947 (-) - Paul Auster
1947 (-1997) - Kathy Acker
1947 (-) - Salman Rushdie
1947 - The Plague (Albert Camus)
1947 - A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)
1948 (-) - Ian McEwan
1949 (-) - Tom Paulin
1949 - Nineteen Eighty-Four
1949 (-) - Patrick Süskind
1951 - The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
1952 (-) - Orhan Pamuk
1952 - The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
1952 (-2001) - Douglas Adams
1954 (-) - Steven Pinker
1955 - Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
1957 - Homo Faber (Max Frisch)
1958 (-) - Roddy Doyle
1961 - Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
1962 (-) - Chuck Palahniuk
1964 - Last Exit to Brooklyn (Hubert Selby, Jr.)
1967 (-) - Jhumpa Lahiri
1979 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
1981 - Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)