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Leslie | 59 comments Here's what I have so far:

Old School (1899 and earlier)

1600's: Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1603)
1610's:
1620's:
1630's:
1640's:
1650's:
1660's:
1670's:
1680's:
1690's:

1700's:
1710's:
1720's: The First Epistle of Clemens Romanus to the Church at Corinth by Pope Clement I (1728)
1730'S:
1740'S:
1750's:
1760'S:
1770's:
1780's:
1790's:

1800's: The Secrets of the Harem by Anonymous (1804)
1810's:
1820's:
1830's: The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen (1836)
1840's: The Business Man by Edgar Allan Poe (1840)
1850's: Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stifter (1853)
1860's: Tithonus by Alfred Tennyson (1860), Nelly's Hospital by Louisa May Alcott (1865)
1870's: A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert (1877)
1880's: How John Wilkes Booth Crossed the Potomac River by James L. Barbour (1884), A Dead Woman's Secret by Guy de Maupassant (1884), Among The Redwoods by E. R. Sill (1884). The Race for the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge (late 1800's), The Sphinx Without a Secret by Oscar Wilde (1887), Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
(1887), The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde (1888), A Ghost Story by Mark Twain (1888)
1890's: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce (1890), Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act by Oscar Wilde (1891)

New School (1900-1999)
1900's: The Conversion of Sum Loo by Willa Sibert Cather (1900)
1910's: The Dead by James Joyce (1914), In Berlin by Mary Boyle O’Reilly (1915), T.B. by Fannie Hurst (1915), Get Ready The Wreaths by Fannie Hurst (1917)
1920's: The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot (1922), The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1924), Short story "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston (1926)
1930's: The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway (1936)
1940's: Sweet Ermengarde by H.P. Lovecraft (1943), The Demon Lover by Elizabeth Bowen (1945), Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1948)
1950's: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (1954), Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958), The Sandbox by Edward Albee (1959)
1960's: Christ Comes to the Indians by Brother Raymond Papenfuss, C.S.C. (1960), Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger (1961), Saint Dymphna : Patron of the Nervous and Emotionally Disturbed by Lawrence G. Lovasik (1961), The Small Assassin by Ray Bradbury (1962), The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem (1965)
Door Into the Dark: Poems by Seamus Heaney (1969)
1970's: The Flowers by Alice Walker (1970), 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (1970), Collected Poems by Chinua Achebe (1971)
1980's: Am I Blue by Alice Walker (1986), Flossie and the Fox by Patricia C. McKissack (1986), To Hell With Dying by Alice Walker l Summary & Study Guide by Alice Walker (1988), So Much Water, So Close to Home by Raymond Carver (1989). And of Clay Are We Created by Isabel Allende (1989)
1990's: Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates (1994), And of Clay Are We Created by Isabel Allende (1994)

Unknown date: Death's Confessor: A Civil War Murder Mystery by Phillip Bryant

Modern School (2000 - present)
2000's: Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (2000), Massachusetts by Joan Leotta (2001), El Dia de Los Muertos by Mary Dodson Wade (2001), The Irish Famine: The Birth of Irish America by Tony Allan (2001), The Story of Ireland by Richard Brassey (2001), When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson by Pam Muñoz Ryan (2002), Ireland by Jean F. Blashfield (2002), The Not Forgotten War by Nicholas Dick Jr. (2003), Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative by Herbert Mason (2003), Runaway by Alice Munro (2003), Day of the Dead by Linda Lowery (2003), Collected Poems by Chinua Achebe (2004), The Secret Goldfish by David Means (2004), Clatter Bash!: A Day of the Dead Celebration by Richard Cleminson Keep (2004), Heroin by Aileen Weintraub 2005), Mother's Hitching Post by Pak Wan-So (2005), Day of the Dead: A Latino Celebration of Family and Life by Carol Gnojewski (2005), The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami (2005), Dia De Los Muertos / All Souls Day by Ann Heinrichs (2006),
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (2006)
Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Rode Off to Battle by Ann Kramer (2006), A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam (2007), Benedict XVI General Audience Paul VI Audience Hall Wednesday, 7 March 2007: St Clement, Bishop of Rome by Pope Benedict XVI
(2007), Bananas!: How The United Fruit Company Shaped the World by Peter Chapman (2007), All Stations! Distress!: April 15, 1912: The Day the Titanic Sank by Don Brown (2008),
Poems from the Women's Movement by Honor Moore (2009), Bayou Trackdown by Jon Sharpe (2009)

2010's: Girls At Play by Celeste Ng (2010), When Bob Met Woody: The Story of the Young Bob Dylan by Gary Golio (2011), The Wampanoag by Kevin Cunningham (2011), Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade by Melissa Sweet (2011), Bomb Sniffing Dogs by Meish Goldish (2012), The Great Molasses Flood: Boston, 1919 by Deborah Kops (2012), Click-Clack the Rattlebag by Neil Gaiman (2012),
Little Roja Riding Hood by Susan Middleton Elya (2013), George Washington: The Crossing by Jack E. Levin (2013), News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories by Jennifer Haigh (2013), What Was the First Thanksgiving? by Joan Holub (2013), Tenth of December by George Saunders (2013), The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: Core Events of an Industrial Disaster by Steven Otfinoski (2014), Agatha: The Real Life of Agatha Christie by Anne Martinetti (2014), Johnstown Flood by Marlene Targ Brill (2014), Shadow Catcher: How Edward S. Curtis Documented American Indian Dignity and Beauty by Michael Burgan (2015), Dia de Los Muertos by Roseanne Thong (2015), Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras by Duncan Tonatiuh (2015), Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai (2016), The Extraordinary Suzy Wright: A Colonial Woman on the Frontier by Teri Kanefield (2016), Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz by Michael Bornstein (2017), Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), book:Whereas|29875897] by Layli Long Soldier (2017), Where's Halmoni? by Julie Kim (2017), Sebastian and the Troll by Fredrik Backman (2018)
Letter from Tokyo A Theory of Relativity by Elif Batuman (2018), The Boundary by Jhumpa Lahiri (2018), Shaking the Foundations by Elizabeth Kolbert (2018)


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