Literature
Novels and short stories
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- Douglas Adams* — The Salmon of Doubt (an incomplete novel, but also essays)
- James Agee — A Death in the Family (initial publication assembled by David McDowell; alternate assembly later published by Michael Lofaro)
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon — Shira
- Louisa May Alcott — A Long Fatal Love Chase
- Horatio Alger — over thirty-five short novels after his death in 1899
- Isaac Asimov — Forward the Foundation
- Jane Austen — Northanger Abbey , Persuasion , Sanditon , and Lady Susan
- William Baldwin — Beware the Cat
- L. Frank Baum — The Magic of Oz and Glinda of Oz
- John Bellairs —The Ghost in the Mirror, The Vengeance of the Witch-finder, The Drum, the Doll, and the Zombie and The Doom of the Haunted Opera (all with Brad Strickland)
- Cyrano de Bergerac —The Other World: The States and Empires of the Moon and The States and Empires of the Sun
- Enid Blyton —Any Time Tales, The Dog with the Long Tail, and other stories, More Wishing-Chair Stories , The Young Adventurers
- Marlon Brando and Donald Cammell —Fan Tan (with David Thomson)
- Roberto Bolaño — 2666 , A Little Lumpen Novelita , The Secret of Evil , The Third Reich , and Woes of the True Policeman
- Richard Brautigan — An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey
- Charlotte Brontë — The Professor
- Charles Bukowski* — over twenty books of poetry and short stories after his death in 1994
- Mikhail Bulgakov — The Master and Margarita
- Edgar Rice Burroughs — John Carter of Mars , Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins , Tarzan and the Madman , Tarzan and the Castaways , Tarzan: The Lost Adventure , Savage Pellucidar , The Wizard of Venus , I am a Barbarian , Minidoka: 937th Earl of One Mile Series M, Pirate Blood , Forgotten Tales of Love and Murder , Brother Men
- William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac — And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
- Octavia E. Butler — Seed to Harvest
- Samuel Butler — The Way of All Flesh
- Albert Camus* — A Happy Death , The First Man
- Xueqin Cao (trad.) — Dream of the Red Chamber
- Angela Carter* — American Ghosts and Old World Wonders , Burning Your Boats (including six previously unpublished short stories)
- Raymond Chandler — Poodle Springs (with Robert B. Parker)
- Bruce Chatwin* — Anatomy of Restlessness (a collection of short stories and travel tales, as well as essays and articles)
- Geoffrey Chaucer* — The Canterbury Tales
- Agatha Christie* — Sleeping Murder and notebooks
- Tom Clancy — Command Authority (with Mark Greaney)
- Wilkie Collins — Blind Love (with Walter Besant)
- Joseph Conrad —Suspense: A Napoleonic Novel
- Robert Cormier — The Rag and Bone Shop
- Hannah Crafts — The Bondwoman's Narrative
- Stephen Crane —The O'Ruddy (with Robert Barr)
- Michael Crichton — Pirate Latitudes , Micro , Dragon Teeth
- René Daumal — Mount Analogue
- James De Mille — A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
- Ella Cara Deloria —Waterlily (1980)
- Michael Dibdin — End Games
- Philip K. Dick — Gather Yourselves Together , Radio Free Albemuth , Humpty Dumpty in Oakland, Voices from the Street
- Charles Dickens — The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- Benjamin Disraeli — Falconet
- Siobhan Dowd — Bog Child , Solace of the Road
- Gardner Dozois —Book of Magic (editor), City Under the Stars (with Michael Swanwick)
- Alexandre Dumas — The Knight of Sainte-Hermine (with Claude Schopp)
- G.B. Edwards — The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
- E. R. Eddison — The Mezentian Gate
- Harlan Ellison —Blood’s a Rover
- Ralph Ellison — Juneteenth , Three Days Before the Shooting...
- Hans Fallada — Every Man Dies Alone
- Louise Fitzhugh —Sport
- F. Scott Fitzgerald — The Last Tycoon
- Gustave Flaubert* — Bouvard et Pécuchet
- Ian Fleming — Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang , The Man with the Golden Gun , Octopussy and The Living Daylights
- C. S. Forester — Hornblower and the Crisis , "The Last Encounter", Gold from Crete, The Pursued
- E. M. Forster — Maurice
- William Gaddis — Agapē Agape
- Gabriel García Márquez —Until August [1]
- Romain Gary* —Vie et Mort d'Émile Ajar, L'homme à la Colombe, L'orage
- Hugo Gernsback —Ultimate World
- William Golding — The Double Tongue
- René Goscinny — Asterix in Belgium (with Albert Uderzo)
- H. Rider Haggard — The Treasure of the Lake , Allan and the Ice-gods , Mary of Marion Isle , Belshazzar
- Alex Haley — Queen: The Story of an American Family (with David Stevens)
- Kenneth Halliwell —Lord Cucumber and The Boy Hairdresser (with Joe Orton)
- Jean Harlow — Today is Tonight (with Carey Wilson)
- E. Lynn Harris — Mama Dearest
- Jaroslav Hašek —The Glorious Licking Continues (Pokračování slavného výprasku), the unfinished fourth volume of The Good Soldier Švejk
- Robert A. Heinlein — For Us, the Living , Variable Star (with Spider Robinson), The Pursuit of the Pankera
- Joseph Heller — Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man
- Ernest Hemingway* — Islands in the Stream , The Garden of Eden , True at First Light , The Dangerous Summer , and Under Kilimanjaro
- Frank Herbert — High-Opp , Angels' Fall , A Game of Authors , A Thorn in the Bush
- Hergé — Tintin and Alph-Art (assembled by Benoît Peeters, Michel Bareau, and Jean-Manuel Duvivier)
- Winifred Holtby — South Riding (with Vera Brittain)
- Robert E. Howard — A Gent from Bear Creek , Almuric
- Deborah Howe — Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery
- Shirley Jackson — "Paranoia" (short story)
- Brian Jacques — The Rogue Crew
- M. R. James — "The Fenstanton Witch"
- Tove Jansson —The True Deceiver and Traveling Light, et al.
- Alfred Jarry — Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician
- W. E. Johns — Biggles Does Some Homework , Biggles: Air Ace
- Robert Jordan — The Gathering Storm , Towers of Midnight , and A Memory of Light (all with Brandon Sanderson)
- Franz Kafka — The Trial , The Castle , and Amerika , as well as many short stories
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa* — The Leopard
- Stieg Larsson — The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , The Girl Who Played with Fire , and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
- John le Carré — Silverview
- Ursula K. Le Guin —Firelight, The Daughter of Odren, Pity and Shame
- Fritz Leiber —The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich
- Édouard Levé — Suicide
- Jack London — Jerry of the Islands , Michael, Brother of Jerry , The Red One , Hearts of Three , The Assassination Bureau, Ltd (with Robert L. Fish)
- Huey Long — My First Days in the White House
- Robert Ludlum — The Janson Directive
- Katherine Mansfield — The Doves' Nest
- William March — Poor Pilgrim, Poor Stranger , 99 Fables
- Bruce Marshall — An Account of Capers
- George du Maurier — The Martian
- Anne McCaffrey — Sky Dragons (with Todd McCaffrey)
- Michael McDowell —Candles Burning
- James A. Michener — Matecumbe
- Walter M. Miller Jr. — Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman (with Terry Bisson)
- Yukio Mishima — The Decay of the Angel
- Margaret Mitchell — Lost Laysen
- Vladimir Nabokov — The Original of Laura
- Irène Némirovsky — Suite française
- Frank Norris — The Pit: A Story of Chicago , Vandover and the Brute
- Patrick O'Brian — The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey
- Flann O'Brien — The Third Policeman
- Robert C. O'Brien — Z for Zachariah (with Sally M. Conly and Jane Leslie Conly)
- Joe Orton —Head to Toe, Lord Cucumber, and The Boy Hairdresser (the latter two with Kenneth Halliwell)
- Robert B. Parker — Split Image
- Mervyn Peake — Titus Awakes
- Petronius — Satyricon
- Edgar Allan Poe* — The Light-House
- Karel Poláček —There Were Five of Us (Czech: Bylo nás pět)
- Jan Potocki — The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
- Terry Pratchett — The Shepherd's Crown , The Long Utopia , The Long Cosmos (the latter two with Stephen Baxter)
- Mario Puzo — Omertà ; The Family
- Arthur Ransome — Coots in the North
- Dr. Seuss — Daisy-Head Mayzie , My Many Colored Days , Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! (with Jack Prelutsky), What Pet Should I Get?
- Yaakov Shabtai — Past Perfect
- Mary Ann Shaffer (and Annie Barrows) — The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- M. P. Shiel —The New King
- Nevil Shute — Trustee from the Toolroom
- Philip Sidney* — The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
- Shel Silverstein* — Runny Babbit
- Thorne Smith — The Passionate Witch (with Norman H. Matson)
- Theodore Sturgeon — Godbody
- James Tiptree Jr. —Come Live With Me, Backward, Turn Backward, The Earth Doth Like a Snake Renew
- J. R. R. Tolkien — The Silmarillion (assembled by Christopher Tolkien), The Children of Húrin (published 35 years after his death; also assembled by Christopher Tolkien). Other posthumous publications can be found here.
- Leo Tolstoy* — Hadji Murat
- John Kennedy Toole — A Confederacy of Dunces , The Neon Bible
- Robert Tressell — The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
- Mark Twain — The Mysterious Stranger
- Jules Verne — The Lighthouse at the End of the World , The Golden Volcano , The Thompson Travel Agency , The Chase of the Golden Meteor , The Danube Pilot , The Survivors of the "Jonathan" , The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz , "The Eternal Adam", The Barsac Mission , Paris in the Twentieth Century , Backwards to Britain
- Kurt Vonnegut* — Armageddon in Retrospect , Look at the Birdie , Sucker's Portfolio , While Mortals Sleep
- David Foster Wallace — The Pale King (assembled by Michael Pietsch)
- Edward Lewis Wallant — The Tenants of Moonbloom , The Children at the Gate
- H. G. Wells —The Desert Daisy, The Haunted Ceiling
- Edward Noyes Westcott — David Harum (published version assembled by Ripley Hitchcock)
- Donald E. Westlake — Memory
- Thomas Wolfe —The Web and the Rock, You Can't Go Home Again , The Hounds of Darkness, The Hills Beyond (all assembled by Maxwell Perkins and Edward Aswell)
- Mary Wollstonecraft — Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman (later chapters assembled by William Godwin)
- Virginia Woolf — Between the Acts
- John Wyndham — Web , Exiles on Asperus , No Place Like Earth
- Roger Zelazny — Donnerjack , Lord Demon (with Jane Lindskold)
Plays
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- Angela Carter* — The Curious Room (also scripts)
- Federico García Lorca* — The House of Bernarda Alba , The Public
- Alexander Griboyedov — Woe from Wit , A Georgian Night
- Sarah Kane — 4.48 Psychosis
- Philip Sidney* — The Lady of May
- Leo Tolstoy* — The Living Corpse
Poetry
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- Richard Beckinsale —With Love
- Charles Bukowski* — over twenty books of poetry and short stories
- Emily Dickinson* — virtually all of her poems
- Federico García Lorca* —Diván del Tamarit, Poet in New York , Yerma , Sonnets of Dark Love
- Mikhail Lermontov — Demon , The Princess of the Tide , Valerik
- Christopher Marlowe — Hero and Leander (with George Chapman), The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
- Thomas Overbury —A Wife, Characters, The Remedy of Love, Observations in Foreign Travels
- Wilfred Owen — almost all of his poems, the first edition being 24 Poems (1920)
- Persius —Satires
- Sylvia Plath — Ariel , Ennui
- Edgar Allan Poe* — The Bells , Annabel Lee , Alone , An Acrostic
- Philip Sidney* — Astrophel and Stella
- Shel Silverstein* —Every Thing On It
- Virgil — Aeneid
- Đoàn Thị Điểm —Nữ Trung Tùng Phận