The centuries in which stories, fictional or non, took place in or began:
- -2000
- -1900
- Bible: Genesis 12-22
- -1800
- Bible – Genesis 23-26
- -1700
- Bible – Genesis 27-50
- -1600
- Bible – Genesis 50
- -1500
- -1400
- -1300
- Bible – Exodus
- -1200
- Homer – Iliad, Odyssey
- Vergil – Aeneid
- Shakespeare – Troilus & Cressida
- Bible – Joshua, Judges, Ruth
- -1100
- Bible – 1 & 2 Samuel, Psalms
- -1000
- Bible – 1 Kings 1-15, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon
- -900
- Bible – 1 Kings 15-22, 2 Kings 1-13
- -800
- Bible – 2 Kings 13-18, Tobit, Isaiah, Hosea, Amos, Jonah, Micah
- Shakespeare – King Lear
- Livy – Ab Urbe Condita, book 1
- Herodotus – History, book 1
- -700
- Bible – 2 Kings 18-24, Jeremiah, Zephaniah, Nahum, Habbakuk
- Livy – Ab Urbe Condita, book 1
- Herodotus – History, books 1,2
- -600
- Bible – 2 Kings 24-25, Ezra, Judith, Baruch, Daniel, Ezekiel, Lamentations, Haggai, Zechariah
- Livy – Ab Urbe Condita, book 2
- Herodotus – History, books 1,3-5
- -500
- Herodotus – History, books 5-9
- Livy – Ab Urbe Condita, books 2-5
- Bible – Nehemiah, Esther, Malachi
- Shakespeare – Coriolanus, Timon of Athens
- Thucydides – History
- Xenophon – Hellenika, books 1-3
- -400
- Xenophon – Hellenika, books 3-7
- L. Sprague de Camp – An Elephant for Aristotle
- Livy – Ab Urbe Condita, books 5-10
- -300
- Livy – Ab Urbe Condita, books 10-32
- -200
- Livy – Ab Urbe Condita, books 32-45
- Bible – 1 & 2 Maccabees, Sirach
- L. Sprague de Camp – The Golden Wind
- -100
- Cicero – De divinatione
- Shakespeare – Julius Caesar, Antony & Cleopatra
- 1
- Shakespeare – Cymbeline
- Bible – New Testament
- Q Gospel
- Signs Gospel
- 100
- 200
- Athanasius – Life of St Antony
- 300
- 400
- Giusto Traina – 428 AD
- Beowulf
- 500
- L. Sprague de Camp – Lest Darkness Fall
- Procopius – The Secret History
- 600
- UNESCO – General History of Africa, volume 3
- 700
- UNESCO – General History of Africa, volume 3
- 800
- Shakespeare – Hamlet
- UNESCO – General History of Africa, volume 3
- 900
- Michael Psellus – Chronographia, book 1
- UNESCO – General History of Africa, volume 3
- 1000
- Michael Psellus – Chronographia, books 1-7
- Shakespeare – Macbeth
- UNESCO – General History of Africa, volume 3
- Anna Comnena – The Alexiad, books 1-11
- 1100
- Anna Comnena – The Alexiad, books 11-15
- The Lion in Winter
- Shakespeare – King John
- UNESCO – General History of Africa, volume 4
- 1200
- Marco Polo – Travels
- UNESCO – General History of Africa, volume 4
- 1300
- Ibn Battuta – Travels
- Dante – The Divine Comedy
- Shakespeare – All’s Well That Ends Well, Romeo & Juliet, Richard II
- UNESCO – General History of Africa, volume 4
- 1400
- Columbus – Voyages
- Shakespeare – Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Richard III, Measure for Measure
- UNESCO – General History of Africa, volume 4
- 1500
- Shakespeare – Henry VIII, Othello, Taming of the Shrew, Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night
- Las Casas – Destruction of the Indies
- UNESCO – General History of Africa, volumes 4-5
- 1600
- Shakespeare – The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Tempest
- Samuel Pepys – Diary
- UNESCO – General History of Africa, volume 5
- 1700
- Lawrence Hill – The Book of Negroes
- UNESCO – General History of Africa, volume 5
- Belle
- 1800
- Octavia Butler – Kindred
- Frederick Douglass – Narrative
- Feast of All Saints
- Solomon Northup – 12 Years a Slave
- Amistad
- Django Unchained
- Toni Morrison – Beloved
- Dances With Wolves
- Spielberg’s Lincoln
- Laura Ingalls Wilder – Little House on the Prarie
- Jules Verne – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- UNESCO – General History of Africa, volumes 6-7
- 1900
- UNESCO – General History of Africa, volumes 7-8
- Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms, A Moveable Feast
- Nella Larsen – Passing
- Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye
- Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
- Churchill – Second World War
- A Lesson Before Dying
- Lorraine Hansberry – Raisin in the Sun
- The Butler
- Secret Life of Bees
- Crooklyn
- Claudine
- Orwell – 1984
- Michael Crichton – Sphere
- Amy Tan – Joy Luck Club
- Hotel Rwanda
- 2000
- Isaac Asimov – I, Robot.
- The Wire
- William Gibson – Pattern Recognition
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah
- Fruitvale Station
- John Brunner – Stand on Zanzibar
- Empire
- Philip K. Dick – Blade Runner
- Robert Heinlein – The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- 2100
- Arthur C. Clarke – Rendezvous with Rama
- Star Trek – Enterprise
- 2200
- Star Trek – The Original Series
- Arthur C. Clarke – Imperial Earth
- 2300
- Star Trek – The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager
- 2400
- Buck Rogers
- 2500
- 2600
- Larry Niven – Fleet of Worlds
- 2700
- 2800
- Larry Niven – Ringworld
- Jules Verne – The Year 2889
- 2900
- 3000
- 3100
- 3200
- 3300
- 3400
- 3500
- Asimov – Caves of Steel, etc.
- 3600
- 3700
- 3800
- 3900
- Planet of the Apes
- 4000
– Abagond, 2015, 2016.
See also:
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Those UNESCO General History of Africa i intend to invest in. Wish i had those for the Africa thread post we have been discussing.
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I was looking for “The Time Machine” by HG Wells (A.D. 802,701)
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What about early Hindu writings?
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Or early Egyptian writings….
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@ Paige
I was going to add the Bhagavad Gita, but there seems to be little agreement about when the events took place.
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I take it you don’t watch futurama
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@ Abagond.
Wow! Have you read most of these books?
I also would like to get my hands on UNESCO’s Histories of Africa.
How about?
1300- Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
1600/1900-Roots by Alex Haley.
1700- Tristram Shandy by Lawrence Sterne.
1800 – War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.
1800- Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
1900 – Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.
1900 – Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie.
1900- Ulysses, by James Joyce. Brendan Behan quotes: “Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.”
1900- A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.
1900- The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell.
1900- Maru, When Rainclouds Gather, A Question of Power by Bessie Head.
? One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
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21,267 – Dune
Or in the Dune universe, 10,191 A.G. (After Guild)
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@ Phil @ taosetan
Thanks!
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@ taosetan
I wish! I have all of them, I believe, and have read a good many, but hardly all of them.
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Toni Morrison 1970 : The Bluest Eye and 1982: Alice Walker, The Color Purple and 1937 Zora Neal Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God.
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1960 Harper Lee To Kill A Mocking Bird 1955 Flannery O’Conner, 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
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@Abagond: I see what you did with the books of the Bible you put them in chronological order. That’s cool.
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@Abagond.
Nevertheless, that is very impressive. Bows.
You overlooked Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare.
8th century BC-Mahabharata
6th century BC-Tao Te Ching by Lao- Tzu
5th century BC- Ramayana
-170- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
900-Shahname by Firdousi
1100-Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam
1600-Paradise Lost by John Milton
1900 – The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
1900- Ake: The Years of Childhood ,by Wole Soyinka
1900- Indaba, My Children by Credo Mutwa
1900-The Famished Road by Ben Okri
1900-Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
1900 – All of James Baldwins works
1900-All of Toni Morrisons works
1900- Native Son by Richard Wright.
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This is an awesome and thorough list! 😀
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1900-Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
1900- Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
1900- A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
1900- Rabbit Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington
1900- Ciudad de Dios( City of God)by Paulo Lins
1900?- Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
1900- Maps by Nuruddin Farah
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“1900- Ciudad de Dios( City of God)by Paulo Lins” @taotesan, YES!!!
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Small correction: Chinua Achebe’s is “Things Fall Apart”.
Great list. But thanks for dooming me to several months of trying to find the time to read the many, many books on your list and in the comments that I haven’t read yet 😦
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@ screwyhair
Correction made. Thanks.
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@Mz Nikita
Did you read the book and /or watch the film? I must confess to having watched the movie about five times, although I have not read the book.
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800- One Thousand and One Nights.
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900-The Sagas of Icelanders.
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1800- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.
1900- A day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
1900- Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
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?- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
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1800 – The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
1700 – Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift.
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1900-A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.
1900- Dubliners by James Joyce.
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2000- Doomi Golo The She-Monkey and the Little Ones) by Boris Boubakar Diop.
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