Home›Realist and Literary Fiction›Composition Year›By Century›20th centuryBrowse By20th centuryComposition year places a literary work in the year it was actually written, which can differ sharply from when it was published. Wikipedia notes Pride and Prejudice was "written when she was aged 20-21," roughly 1796, though it was not published until 1813. Browsing by composition year shows how long a finished work can wait before reaching readers.20th centuryComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)20th centuryFilter Results59 entriesAuthorAllAlbert Camus (2)Amos Tutuola (1)Andreas Steinhöfel (1)André Schwarz-Bart (1)Ayi Kwei Armah (1)Ba Jin (1)Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1)Chinua Achebe (1)D. H. Lawrence (1)E. Nesbit (1)Ernest Hemingway (1)Ferenc Molnár (1)Fernando Pessoa (1)Flora Nwapa (1)Gabriel García Márquez (1)Giannina Braschi (1)Halldór Laxness (1)Haruki Murakami (1)Henry James (1)Hermann Hesse (2)Isabel Allende (1)Italo Calvino (1)J. D. Salinger (1)J. M. Coetzee (1)Jack Kerouac (1)James Baldwin (1)James Joyce (1)Jean-Paul Sartre (1)Jerzy Kosiński (1)John Steinbeck (1)Juan Rulfo (1)Julio Cortazar (1)Kazuo Ishiguro (1)Kim Jin-myung (1)Marcel Proust (2)Mariama Bâ (1)Mario Vargas Llosa (1)Mulk Raj Anand (1)Munshi Premchand (1)Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1)Rómulo Gallegos (1)Salman Rushdie (1)Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1)Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1)Simone de Beauvoir (1)Sylvia Plath (1)Tayeb Salih (1)Thomas Mann (1)Tsitsi Dangarembga (1)Virginia Woolf (1)Vladimir Nabokov (1)Yaşar Kemal (1)Yukio Mishima (2)Zee Edgell (1)Zora Neale Hurston (1)GenreAllBildungsroman (4)Children Literature (1)Historical Fiction (1)Short Fiction (2)The Novel (52)Young Adult Fiction (1)AudienceAllAdult (1)Children's (4)General (51)Young Adult (3)Original LanguageAllArabic (1)Bengali (2)Chinese (1)Danish (1)English (28)Finnish (1)French (8)German (5)Hebrew (1)Hindi (1)Hungarian (1)Icelandic (1)Italian (2)Japanese (3)Korean (1)Portuguese (1)Spanish (7)Turkish (1)Ukrainian (1)AwardAllBancarella Literary Prize (1)Booker Prize (3)Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Africa Region) (1)James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1)Noma Award for Publishing in Africa (1)Prix Goncourt (2)Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (1)Rómulo Gallegos Prize (1)Varlik Prize (1)Yomiuri Prize (1)Country of OriginAllArgentina (2)Belize (1)Chile (1)China (1)France (9)Germany (4)Ghana (1)Hungary (1)Iceland (1)India (4)Israel (1)Italy (1)Japan (3)Kenya (1)Mexico (1)Nigeria (2)Peru (1)Portugal (1)Senegal (1)South Africa (1)South Korea (1)Sudan (1)Switzerland (1)Turkey (1)United Kingdom (7)United States (10)Venezuela (1)Zimbabwe (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 59Beka Lamb20th centuryConfessions of a Mask20th centuryDevdas (novel)20th centuryDisgrace20th centuryDoña Bárbara20th centuryEfuru20th centuryFamily (Ba Jin novel)20th centuryGo Tell It on the Mountain20th centuryGodaan20th centuryHopscotch20th centuryIn Search of Lost Time20th centuryIndependent People20th centuryInvisible Cities20th centuryLolita20th centuryMemed, My Hawk20th centuryMidnight's Children20th centuryMrs Dalloway20th centuryNausea20th centuryNervous Conditions20th centuryNorwegian Wood20th centuryOn the Road20th centuryOne Hundred Years of Solitude20th centuryOnly Yesterday (novel)20th centuryPather Panchali (novel)20th centuryPedro Páramo20th centurySeason of Migration to the North20th centurySiddhartha20th centurySo Long a Letter20th centurySteppenwolf20th centurySwann's Way20th centuryThe Beast in the Jungle20th centuryThe Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born20th centuryThe Bell Jar20th centuryThe Book of Disquiet20th centuryThe Catcher in the Rye20th centuryThe Center of the World20th centuryThe Grapes of Wrath20th centuryThe House of the Spirits20th centuryThe Last of the Just20th centuryThe Magic Mountain20th centuryThe Mandarins20th centuryThe Painted Bird20th centuryThe Palm-Wine Drinkard20th centuryThe Paul Street Boys20th centuryThe Plague20th centuryThe Railway Children20th centuryThe Remains of the Day20th centuryThe Rose of Sharon Blooms Again20th centuryThe Stranger20th centuryThe Sun Also Rises20th centuryThe Temple of the Golden Pavilion20th centuryThe Time of the Hero20th centuryThe Virgin and the Gypsy20th centuryTheir Eyes Were Watching God20th centuryThings Fall Apart20th centuryUlysses20th centuryUntouchable (novel)20th centuryWeep Not, Child20th centuryYo-Yo Boing!20th centuryComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.