a list of classics with a focus on global and marginalised authors.
created by aliyahmk
last updated April, 2026
Carol
Patricia Highsmith
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Paradise
Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Well of Loneliness
Radclyffe Hall
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Pablo Neruda
The Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu
In the City a Mirror Wandering
Upendranath Ashk
The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei: Vol. One: The Gathering
Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng
Home to Harlem
Claude McKay
Omeros
Derek Walcott
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel GarcĂa MĂĄrquez
The Palm-Wine Drinkard
Amos Tutuola
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Famished Road
Ben Okri
The Tunnel
Ernesto Sabato
East Goes West (Penguin Vitae)
Younghill Kang
RashĆmon and Seventeen Other Stories
Ryƫnosuke Akutagawa
Wynema: A Child of the Forest
Sophia Alice Callahan
Don't Take Your Love to Town
Ruby Langford Ginibi
The Discovery of Heaven
Harry Mulisch
Ulysses
James Joyce
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Wake in Fright
Kenneth Cook
So Long a Letter
Mariama BĂą
The Invention of Morel
Adolfo Bioy Casares
this looks like such a great list đ
thank you miranda
yesss, I was hoping that pb club post would become a list!!
yes! it was so serendipitous - iâd been chipping away at the list and then that post kicked me into gear haha
Oooh I appreciate how chonky this list is!
haha i had to force myself to stop at 50! it was so fun to put together
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