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This page gives a chronological list of years in literature (descending order), with notable publications listed with their respective years. The time covered in individual years covers Renaissance, Baroque and Modern literature, while Medieval literature is resolved by century.

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21st century

Main article: 21st century in literature

2000s

• 2008 in literature - Duma Key - Stephen King;
• 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 - No Logo - Naomi Klein

20th century

Main article: 20th century in literature

1990s

• 1999 in literature - Chocolat - Joanne Harris; Disgrace - J M Coetzee
• 1998 in literature - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling
• 1997 in literature - Harry Potter and the Sorceror'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; The Black Echo - Michael Connelly
• 1991 in literature - The Firm - John Grisham; Such a Long Journey - Rohinton Mistry
• 1990 in literature - Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton; Vertigo - W.G. Sebald; The Hebrew Goddess - Raphael Patai

1980s

• 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; Ancient Evenings - Norman Mailer; Shame - Salman Rushdie
• 1982 in literature - The Color Purple - Alice Walker; La casa de los espíritus (The House of the Spirits) - Isabel Allende
• 1981 in literature - The Blue Bicycle - Régine Deforges; Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie; Red Dragon - Thomas Harris
• 1980 in literature - Smiley's People - John le Carré; Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose) - Umberto Eco; Thy Neighbor's Wife - Gay Talese

1970s

Main article: 1970s in literature

• 1979 in literature - Sophie's Choice - William Styron; The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer; Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer; A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul, Heatherley -Flora Thompson
• 1978 in literature - The World According to Garp - John Irving; The Stand - Stephen King
• 1977 in literature - The Sea, the Sea - Iris Murdoch; Song of Solomon (novel) - Toni Morrison; The Shining - Stephen King
• 1976 in literature - Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice; The Final Days - Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein; Triton - Samuel R. Delany; Roots: The Saga of an American Family - Alex Haley
• 1975 in literature - Shogun - James Clavell; Salem's Lot - Stephen King; The Book of Sand - Jorge Luis Borges; Dhalgren - Samuel R. Delany; Ragtime - E. L. Doctorow
• 1974 in literature - All the President's Men - Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward; Carrie - Stephen King; Jaws - Peter Benchley; Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
• 1973 in literature - Burr - Gore Vidal; Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
• 1972 in literature - Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson; The Stepford Wives - Ira Levin
• 1971 in literature - A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan - Carlos Castenada; The Happy Hooker: My Own Story - Xaviera Hollander; The End of Summer - Rosamunde Pilcher
• 1970 in literature - Deliverance - James Dickey; Blue Movie - Terry Southern; Ball Four - Jim Bouton

1960s

• 1969 in literature - The Godfather - Mario Puzo; Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth; Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut; Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle - Vladimir Nabokov
• 1968 in literature - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe; Airport - Arthur Hailey; Belle du Seigneur - Albert Cohen The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge - Carlos Castenada
• 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; The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects - Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore; The Death of a President - William Manchester; Nicholas and Alexandra - Robert K. Massie
• 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; Last Picture Show - Larry McMurtry
• 1965 in literature - The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley, Herzog - Saul Bellow; An American Dream - Norman Mailer; The Magus - John Fowles; Little Trulsa - Ester Ringnér-Lundgren
• 1964 in literature - Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man - Marshall McLuhan, Little Big Man - Thomas Berger; Flowers for Hitler - Leonard Cohen; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
• 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; Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein; A House for Mr. Biswas - V. S. Naipaul
• 1960 in literature - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William L. Shirer; To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

1950s

Main article: 1950s literature

• 1959 in literature - The Last of the Just - André Schwarz-Bart; The Magic Christian - Terry Southern; 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 - Exodus - Leon Uris; Candy - Terry Southern; The Grass - Claude Simon; The Guide - R. K. Narayan
• 1957 in literature - On the Road - Jack Kerouac; Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand; Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov; Voss - Patrick White
• 1956 in literature - Peyton Place - Grace Metalious; 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 Diaries of a Dying Man William Soutar
• 1953 in literature - Casino Royale - Ian Fleming - First James Bond novel; The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow, Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451, Battle Cry - Leon Uris
• 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 Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury; The Bald Soprano - Eugène Ionesco; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis

1940s

• 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 Still Glides the Stream Flora Thompson
• 1947 in literature - The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
• 1946 in literature - The Iceman Cometh - Eugene O'Neill
• 1945 in literature - Cannery Row - John Steinbeck; A History of Western Philosophy And Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day - Bertrand Russell; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is sentenced to eight years in a labour camp for criticism of Stalin. Lark Rise to Candleford - Flora Thompson
• 1944 in literature - No Exit - Jean-Paul Sartre; Our Lady of the Flowers - Jean Genet; A Bell for Adano – John Hersey
• 1943 in literature - Anti-Semite and Jew - Jean-Paul Sartre; The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand; T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets published together for the first time; Das Glasperlenspiel (The Glass Bead Game) - Hermann Hesse
• 1942 in literature - The Myth of Sisyphus (Le Mythe de Sisyphe), and The Stranger - Albert Camus; Mythology - Edith Hamilton
• 1941 in literature - Death of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf; 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; Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler

1930s

• 1939 in literature - Finnegans Wake - James Joyce; The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West; The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck; How Green Was My Valley - Richard Llewellyn; The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler, Lark Rise - Flora Thompson
• 1938 in literature - Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller; 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 - Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell; Jamaica Inn - Daphne du Maurier; First issue of Life magazine
• 1935 in literature - Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder; Penguin Books publishes the first paperback
• 1934 in literature - Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller; Lust for Life - Irving Stone; I, Claudius - Robert Graves; The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett; Goodbye, Mr. Chips - James Hilton; Tender Is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald; Supernatural Horror in Literature - H. P. Lovecraft -year completed (1925-34); The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain
• 1933 in literature - The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein; Lost Horizon - James Hilton; 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; Journey to the East - Hermann Hesse
• 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

1920s

• 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; All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
• 1927 in literature - Elmer Gantry - Sinclair Lewis; Envy - Yuri Olesha; The Snake Pit - Sigrid Undset; To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf; The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle; In Search of Lost Time (final installment) - Marcel Proust
• 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 - Death of Franz Kafka; Billy Budd, Foretopman - Herman Melville; A Passage to India - E. M. Forster; Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain) - Thomas Mann
• 1923 in literature - The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran; Lord Peter Wimsey makes his first appearance in print.
• 1922 in literature - Ulysses - James Joyce; The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot; Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse; 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 - This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald; Main Street - Sinclair Lewis; The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton; Women in Love - D. H. Lawrence

1910s

• 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 - Ambrose Bierce vanishes in Mexico; Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich - Stephen Leacock
• 1913 in literature - The Return of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs; Alcools - Guillaume Apollinaire, Petersburg - Andrei Bely; Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence; Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
• 1912 in literature - Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs; Death in Venice - Thomas Mann; The Lost World - Arthur Conan Doyle
• 1911 in literature - Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton; The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux; The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce; 11th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica published
• 1910 in literature - Howards End - E. M. Forster; The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Hanns Heinz Ewers

1900s

• 1909 in literature - The Road to Oz - L.Frank Baum; 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 Jungle - Upton Sinclair; The House of Souls - Arthur Machen; Time and the Gods - [[Lord Dunsany
• 1905 in literature - White Fang - Jack London; The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
• 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 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L.Frank Baum; Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad; Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser; The Flame of Life - Gabriele d'Annunzio

19th century

Main article: 19th century in literature

1890s

• 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; The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells; The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
• 1897 in literature - Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling; Dracula - Bram Stoker; Divagations -Stéphane Mallarmé; the Beetle - Richard Marsh; The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells
• 1896 in literature - The Island of Doctor Moreau - H. G. Wells; The Well at the World's End - William Morris; Shapes in the Fire - M.P. Shiel
• 1895 in literature - The Time Machine - H. G. Wells; Almayer's Folly - Joseph Conrad; Pharaoh - Bolesław Prus; Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy; The Three Impostors - Arthur Machen
• 1894 in literature - The Jungle Books - Rudyard Kipling; 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; Gunga Din - Rudyard Kipling

• 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; An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - Ambrose Bierce

1880s

• 1889 in literature - Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche; The Doll - Bolesław Prus; The Child of Pleasure - Gabriele d'Annunzio
• 1888 in literature - The Man Who Would Be King - Rudyard Kipling; Confessions of a Young Man - George A. Moore
• 1887 in literature - She - Henry Rider Haggard; Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle; Thelma - Marie Corelli
• 1886 in literature - L'Œuvre (The Masterpiece) - Emile Zola; Little Lord Fauntleroy - Frances Hodgson Burnett; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson; The Outpost - Bolesław Prus; The Bostonians - Henry James
• 1885 in literature - King Solomon's Mines - Henry Rider Haggard; 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 Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain; The Naval War of 1812 - Theodore Roosevelt
• 1881 in literature - The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James; The Black Robe - Wilkie Collins
• 1880 in literature - Workers in the Dawn - George Gissing; Nana - Émile Zola; The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky

1870s

• 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 - Povídky malostranské ("Tales of the Little Quarter") - Jan Neruda; Under the Lilacs - Louisa May Alcott; Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy; L'Assommoir - Emile Zola

• 1876 in literature - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain; 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 - Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne; The Poison Tree - Bankim Chatterjee
• 1872 in literature - The Birth of Tragedy - Friedrich Nietzsche
• 1871 in literature - Middlemarch - George Eliot; Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
• 1870 in literature - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne; Venus in Furs - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

1860s

• 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; From the Earth to the Moon - Jules Verne
• 1864 in literature - Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne; Renee Mauperin - Edmond de Goncourt
• 1863 in literature - Capitan Fracassa - Theophile Gautier
• 1862 in literature - Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
• 1861 in literature - Silas Marner - George Eliot; 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

1850s

• 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 - The Grandmother - Božena Němcová; 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 Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne; Household Words edited by Charles Dickens begins publication

1840s

• 1849 in literature - David Copperfield - Charles Dickens; 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 - The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Alexandre Dumas, père; Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë; Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë; Evangeline - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• 1846 in literature - Cousin Bette - Honoré de Balzac; The Children of the Night - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
• 1845 in literature - The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas, père; Twenty Years After - Alexandre Dumas, père; La Reine Margot - Alexandre Dumas, père; Stages on Life's Way - Søren Kierkegaard