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Established by Alfred Nobel's 1895 will, the first Nobel Prize in Literature was presented by the Swedish Academy in 1901. Nobel specified that the winning author must have bestowed "the greatest benefit on mankind in an ideal direction." The prize is not awarded for a single work but for an author’s entire body of writing. Therefore, this is a list of each book by a Nobel Laureate author that is available in English from Wolfner Library.

Books by 1905 winner Henryk Sienkiewicz:
Quo Vadis RC 22027
The Teutonic Knights RC 49021

Books by 1907 winner Rudyard Kipling:
Captains Courageous RC 24206, BR 5593
A Choice of Kipling's Verse RC 22891
Complete Just So Stories BR 9830
The Elephant’s Child RC 22171
How the Camel Got His Hump RC 25338
How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin RC 42463
The Jungle Book RC 40928, DV 136
Just So Stories RC 25503
Kim RC 35722
Kipling's Science Fiction Stories RC 41197
The Light That Failed RC 32530, BR 8642
Puck of Pook's Hill RC 28164
Rikki, Tikki, Tavi BR 11015
Short Stories: Volume 1, A Sahibs’ War and Other Stories BR 7310
Short Stories: Volume 2, Friendly Books and Other Stories BR 7311

Books by 1912 winner Gerhart Hauptmann:
Plays: Before Daybreak, The Weavers, The Beaver Coat RC 43116

Books by 1913 winner Rabindranath Tagore:
I Won't Let You Go BR 11370

Books by 1915 winner Romain Rolland:
Jean-Christophe RC 15044

Books by 1920 winner Knut Pedersen Hamsun:
Growth of the Soil RC 12751
Mysteries RC 32542, BR 1723
Victoria BR 1728
The Wanderer BR 3265
Wayfarers RC 15995
The Women at the Pump RC 12077

Books by 1921 winner Anatole France:
The Gods Will Have Blood BR 8692
Penguin Island RC 30906

Books by 1923 winner William Butler Yeats:
Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland RC 50702
Memoirs BR 2409
William Butler Yeats: Selected Poems BR 14124
The Yeats Reader: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama and Prose RC 49120

Books by 1925 winner George Bernard Shaw:
Androcles and the Lion RC 17431
Arms and the Man RC 17428, BR 3528
Back to Methuselah RC 16326
Caesar and Cleopatra RC 19129, BR 164
Candida RC 14386, BR 1035
The Devil's Disciple WOC 175
Man and Superman RC 19923
The Millionairess RC 20619
The Perfect Wagnerite BR 1314
Plays Unpleasant RC 19557
Pygmalion RC 25029, DV 327
Saint Joan RC 12654, BR 165
Selected One Act Plays RC 14206

Books by 1928 winner Sigrid Undset:
Kristin Lavransdatter series
1. The Bridal Wreath RC 40412, BR 10085
2. The Mistress of Husaby RC 40413, BR 10086
3. The Cross RC 40414, BR 10087
The Master of Hestviken RC 26230

Books by 1929 winner Thomas Mann:
The Beloved Returns RC 14895
The Black Swan RC 15890, BR 3616
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family RC 58992
Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years RC 16321
Death in Venice RC 60162, BR 9105
Doctor Faustus RC 50209
Joseph and His Brothers RC 16508
The Magic Mountain RC 48618, BR 6190

Books by 1930 winner Sinclair Lewis:
Ann Vickers RC 40317
Arrowsmith RC 12622
Babbitt RC 27929
Dodsworth RC 25832
Elmer Gantry RC 22114
If I Were Boss: The Early Business Stories of Sinclair Lewis BR 12463
It Can't Happen Here BR 10789
The Job: An American Novel BR 11513
Main Street RC 42189, BR 63

Books by 1932 winner John Galsworthy:
The Forsyte Saga RC 21183, BR 5891
Jocelyn RC 12615

Books by 1933 winner Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin:
The Gentleman from San Francisco BR 12728

Books by 1934 winner Luigi Pirandello:
The Late Mattia Pascal RC 28257
Naked Masks: Five Plays BR 5104
The Oil Jar and Other Stories RC 45668, BR 11531

Books by 1936 winner Eugene O'Neill:
Ah Wilderness! and Two Other Plays BR 75
Anna Christie RC 18599
The Emperor Jones, Anna Christie, The Hairy Ape RC 21182, BR 76
The Iceman Cometh RC 12758
Long Day's Journey into Night RC 19192, BR 9137
A Moon for the Misbegotten RC 16195
Selected Letters of Eugene O'Neill RC 29585
Three Plays of Eugene O'Neill RC 26392, BR 77

Books by 1938 winner Pearl S. Buck:
The Big Wave RC 18428, BR 50273
Come, My Beloved RC 11835
Dragon Seed RC 22857
East Wind, West Wind RC 11914, BR 1466
The Exile RC 26685
Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul RC 12846
Fourteen Stories RC 11373
The Hidden Flower RC 10849
House of Earth series
1. The Good Earth RC 37294, BR 9400
2. Sons RC 37612, BR 9578
3. A House Divided RC 43659, BR 10743
Imperial Woman: A Novel RC 34150
The Lovers and Other Stories RC 11976
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John BR 822
The Mother RC 38117, BR 9579
The New Year RC 13307
Once Upon a Christmas RC 27990
Pavilion of Women RC 32789
Peony RC 9091
The Rainbow: A Novel RC 8138, BR 2819
Secrets of the Heart: Stories RC 10045
The Story Bible RC 12630
The Three Daughters of Madame Liang RC 43147
The Woman Who Was Changed and Other Stories RC 14765

Books by 1939 winner Frans Eemil Sillanpää:
The Maid Silja RC 12976

Books by 1946 winner Hermann Hesse:
Demian; The Story of Emil Sinclair’s Youth RC 15706
The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse RC 43829
The Glass Bead Game RC 16088
Knulp; Three Tales from the Life of Knulp BR 1711
Peter Camenzind BR 1210
Rosshalde RC 16471
Siddhartha RC 16148, BR 13524
Steppenwolf RC 16547

Books by 1947 winner André Gide:
The Immoralist RC 15732, BR 11937
The Pastoral Symphony RC 13544, BR 4055

Books by 1948 winner T. S. Eliot:
The Cocktail Party RC 22859, BR 180
Collected Poems, 1909-1962 RC 19566
The Letters of T.S. Eliot RC 28721
Murder in the Cathedral RC 55554, BR 14494
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats RC 53190, BR 318
On Poetry and Poets: Essays RC 34111
The Waste Land and Other Poems BR 5751

Books by 1949 winner William Faulkner:
Absalom, Absalom! RC 27313, BR 7218
As I Lay Dying RC 49008, BR 12386
Big Woods: The Hunting Stories RC 40246
Brer Tiger and the Big Wind RC 41628
Collected Stories of William Faulkner RC 11539
The Days When the Animals Talked RC 12247
A Fable RC 42248, BR 551
Go Down, Moses RC 49005, BR 12488
The Hamlet RC 10726, BR 11482
Intruder in the Dust RC 37027, BR 1606
Knight's Gambit RC 16833
Light in August RC 20001, BR 11398
The Mansion RC 12122, BR 11541
Mosquitoes RC 45909
The Portable Faulkner RC 20453, BR 6460
Pylon RC 40165
The Reivers RC 31880, BR 8204
Requiem for a Nun RC 9511
Sanctuary RC 49007, BR 12478
Sartoris RC 50802
Selected Letters of William Faulkner RC 15173
Selected Short Stories RC 41229, BR 10343
Snopes RC 56745
Soldier’s Pay RC 11366
The Sound and the Fury RC 49885, BR 11402
The Town RC 11133, BR 11470
The Unvanquished RC 10576
The Wild Palms RC 40188

Books by 1950 winner Bertrand Russell:
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell RC 16613
The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell BR 9657
A History of Western Philosophy RC 52158, BR 9766
The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell RC 35825

Books by 1951 winner Pär Fabian Lagerkvist:
Barabbas RC 20792
The Death of Ahasuerus RC 20498
The Holy Land RC 18603
Pilgrim at Sea RC 19155
The Sibyl RC 17764

Books by 1952 winner François Mauriac:
The Desert of Love RC 32529

Books by 1953 winner Sir Winston Churchill:
Blood, Sweat, and Tears RC 16337
Green Republic: A History of America RC 50002
History of English-Speaking Peoples
1. The Birth of Britain RC 26348
2. The New World RC 26349
3. The Age of Revolution RC 26350
4. The Great Democracies RC 26351
The River War RC 46843
The Second World War
1. The Gathering Storm RC 23699
2. Their Finest Hour RC 23700
3. The Grand Alliance RC 23701
4. The Hinge of Fate RC 23702
5. Closing the Ring RC 23703
6. Triumph and Tragedy RC 23704

Books by 1954 winner Ernest Miller Hemingway:
Across the River and into the Trees RC 53810, BR 11204
The Complete Short Stories RC 48939, BR 12504
The Dangerous Summer RC 23406, BR 6332
Death in the Afternoon RC 54078, BR 14081
Ernest Hemingway, Selected Letters RC 17196
A Farewell to Arms RC 49506, BR 12510, DV 297
The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War RC 40905
For Whom the Bell Tolls RC 49108, BR 12455
The Garden of Eden RC 23035, BR 11272
Green Hills of Africa RC 49481, BR 12659
In Our Time RC 11522, BR 11224
Islands in the Stream RC 26762, BR 1630
Men Without Women WOD 799
A Moveable Feast RC 10643, BR 12344
The Nick Adams Stories RC 49189, BR 12500
The Old Man and the Sea RC 53792, BR 10599
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories RC 20451, BR 12314, DV 336
The Sun Also Rises RC 34114, BR 3615
To Have and Have Not RC 48441, BR 3595
The Torrents of Spring BR 12450
True at First Light RC 48757

Books by 1955 winner Halldór Kiljan Laxness:
Independent People RC 52256

Books by 1957 winner Albert Camus:
Exile and the Kingdom RC 48052
The Fall RC 32537
The First Man RC 41720
A Happy Death RC 22129
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays RC 54220, BR 11599
The Plague RC 32531, BR 12552
The Stranger RC 40902, BR 10394

Books by 1958 winner Boris Leonidovich Pasternak:
Doctor Zhivago RC 29532, BR 9814
The Voice of Prose RC 25506

Books by 1961 winner Ivo Andric:
The Bridge on the Drina RC 14216
Bosnian Chronicle RC 18175

Books by 1962 winner John Steinbeck:
Cannery Row RC 50061, BR 11086
Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry RC 12803, BR 3843
East of Eden RC 49676, BR 12565
The Grapes of Wrath RC 21574, BR 9954
In Dubious Battle RC 49209, BR 12516
The Long Valley RC 40027, BR 12102
The Moon Is Down RC 53392, BR 8785
Of Mice and Men RC 48515, BR 8851
Once There Was a War RC 15893, BR 12080
The Pastures of Heaven RC 48094
The Pearl RC 50037, BR 129
The Red Pony RC 34258, BR 10887
Sweet Thursday RC 10278, BR 11062
Tortilla Flat RC 54076, BR 10108
Travels with Charley RC 16094, BR 9952
The Wayward Bus RC 15215, BR 11090
The Winter of Our Discontent RC 13261, BR 12302

Books by winner Jean-Paul Sartre:
Being and Nothingness RC 34599
Nausea RC 15217, BR 1054
No Exit and Three Other Plays RC 20526
Witness to My Life RC 35824
The Words RC 21785

Books by 1965 winner Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov:
The Don Flows Home to the Sea RC 46675, BR 14491
And Quiet Flows the Don RC 45866, BR 8137

Books by 1966 winner Shmuel Yosef Agnon:
A Book That Was Lost and Other Stories RC 43007
A Simple Story RC 24342

Books by 1967 winner Miguel Angel Asturias:
The Green Pope RC 15188
Men of Maize RC 15373
The Mirror of Lida Sal RC 47278
The President BR 12322

Books by 1968 winner Yasunari Kawabata:
Beauty and Sadness RC 9221
The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories RC 46623
First Snow on Fuji BR 12780
The Lake BR 4158
The Master of Go BR 2080
The Old Capital RC 29341, BR 7012
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories RC 29066
Snow Country RC 48113
The Sound of the Mountain RC 16091

Books by 1969 winner Samuel Beckett:
Dream of Fair to Middling Women RC 38394
How It Is RC 52613
I Can't Go on, I'll Go on RC 15918
Murphy RC 53985
Samuel Beckett: The Complete Short Prose 1929-1989 RC 55580
Stories and Texts for Nothing RC 53908
Three Novels RC 45531
Waiting for Godot; A Tragicomedy in Two Acts RC 14653, BR 14
Watt RC 53416

Books by 1970 winner Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn:
August 1914 RC 47866, BR 2287
Cancer Ward RC 15883
The First Circle RC 22877
The Gulag Archipelago: Volume 1 RC 49269
The Gulag Archipelago: Volume 2 RC 49270
The Gulag Archipelago: Volume 3 RC 49271
November 1916 RC 47867
The Oak and the Calf RC 16348
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich RC 18001
Stories and Prose Poems RC 17456
Warning to the West RC 12777

Books by 1971 winner Pablo Neruda:
Extravagaria RC 18795
Selected Poems: A Bilingual Edition RC 53952
Twenty Poems BR 846

Books by 1972 winner Heinrich Böll:
The Casualty RC 26430
The Clown RC 15002
Eighteen Stories RC 7742
Group Portrait with a Lady RC 47116
Irish Journal BR 12595
The Mad Dog BR 11897
And Never Said a Word RC 14449
The Safety Net RC 19078
The Silent Angel RC 38985
The Stories of Heinrich Böll RC 24900
What's to Become of the Boy? Or, Something To Do With Books RC 22899
Women in a River Landscape BR 7649

Books by 1973 winner Patrick White:
The Cockatoos RC 9514
Flaws in the Glass RC 17670
Memoirs of Many in One by Alex Xenophon Demirjian Gray BR 6851
The Solid Mandala RC 12179
The Tree of Man RC 15128

Books by 1974 winner Eyvind Johnson:
The Days of His Grace RC 9844

Books by 1976 winner Saul Bellow:
The Actual RC 44636
The Adventures of Augie March RC 58799
The Bellarosa Connection RC 31466
Collected Stories RC 53855
The Dean's December RC 18115
Henderson, the Rain King RC 13757
Herzog RC 22553, BR 207
Him with His Foot in His Mouth RC 21563
Humboldt's Gift RC 41046, BR 2936
It All Adds Up: From a Dim Pass to the Uncertain Future RC 39131
More Die of Heartbreak RC 26011
Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories RC 10874
Mr. Sammler's Planet RC 25193
Ravelstein RC 50448
Seize the Day RC 14421
A Theft RC 29033, BR 7779
To Jerusalem and Back RC 12237
The Victim RC 51827

Books by 1978 winner Isaac Bashevis Singer:
The Certificate RC 37025
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer RC 17873
A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories RC 7019
The Death of Methuselah RC 28829
Enemies: A Love Story RC 25871
The Family Moskat RC 19413
Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories RC 14764
The Golem RC 19391
The Image and Other Stories RC 23636
The King of the Fields RC 28596
A Little Boy in Search of God RC 14446
Lost in America RC 19695
Love and Exile BR 6024
Meshugah RC 39067
More Stories from My Father's Court RC 53129
In My Father's Court RC 53128
Old Love RC 16132, BR 4259
Passions and Other Stories RC 9730, BR 3165
The Penitent WOD 48, BR 5647
Reaches of Heaven RC 17803
Satan in Goray RC 12293
Scum RC 33261
Shadows on the Hudson RC 45102
Short Friday and Other Stories BR 6
Shosha RC 14810
The Slave RC 12441
Stories for Children RC 22928
When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw BR 954
A Young Man in Search of Love RC 12892
Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories RC 25902

Books by 1980 winner Czeslaw Milosz:
The Collected Poems, 1931-1987 RC 33268
The Issa Valley RC 17192
The Land of Ulro RC 22402
Milosz's ABC's BR 13594
Road-Side Dog BR 12654

Books by 1981 winner Elias Canetti:
Auto-da-fe RC 19985
The Play of the Eyes RC 26414
The Tongue Set Free RC 18073
The Torch in My Ear RC 19363

Books by 1982 winner Gabriel García Márquez:
The Autumn of the Patriarch RC 21157
Chronicle of a Death Foretold RC 19217
Clandestine in Chile RC 26557
Collected Novellas RC 34384
Collected Stories RC 22862
The General in His Labryinth RC 32309
Living to Tell the Tale RC 57362
Love in the Time of Cholera RC 26981
News of a Kidnapping RC 44812
Of Love and Other Demons RC 40555
One Hundred Years of Solitude RC 25181
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor BR 6470
Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories RC 37754

Books by 1983 winner William Golding:
Close Quarters RC 26572
Darkness Visible RC 14865
The Double Tongue RC 40937
An Egyptian Journal RC 24231
Fire Down Below RC 29789
Lord of the Flies RC 48388, BR 9480
The Paper Men RC 22673
The Pyramid BR 662
Rites of Passage RC 18406
The Spire BR 195

Books by 1984 winner Jaroslav Seifert:
The Casting of Bells RC 23403
The Selected Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert RC 26586

Books by 1985 winner Claude Simon:
The World about Us RC 24230

Books by 1986 winner Wole Soyinka:
Aké: The Years of Childhood RC 47295, BR 5291
Isara, A Voyage around Essay RC 33185

Books by 1987 winner Joseph Brodsky:
Collected Poems in English RC 51984
Less Than One RC 24352, BR 8784
Nativity Poems BR 14350
On Grief and Reason: An Essay RC 42661
So Forth: Poems BR 10774
To Urania RC 28616
Watermark RC 35031

Books by 1988 winner Najib Mahfuz:
Adrift on the Nile BR 9307
Akhenaten BR 13296
Arabian Days and Nights RC 40394
The Begger RC 35744
The Beginning and the End RC 32147
Cairo series
1. Palace Walk RC 32132
2. Palace of Desire RC 32790
3. Sugar Street RC 34728
Children of Gebelawi RC 30231
Children of the Alley RC 42356
The Harafish RC 39705
Journey of Ibn Fattouma BR 9503
Midaq Alley RC 29330, BR 9609
Respected Sir RC 34452
The Search RC 34468
The Thief and the Dogs BR 8281
The Time and the Place & Other Stories RC 34469
Wedding Song RC 32793

Books by 1989 winner Camilo José Cela:
The Family of Pascual Duarte RC 32055

Books by 1990 winner Octavio Paz:
Convergences: Essay on Art and Literature RC 34571
The Double Flame RC 44327
In Light of India RC 45069
The Labyrinth of Solitude, The Other Mexico and Other Essays RC 24351, BR 6916

Books by 1991 winner Nadine Gordimer:
Burger's Daughter RC 16799
The Conservationist RC 16169
Crimes of Conscience RC 34916
The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics, and Places RC 29331
The House Gun RC 46196
July's People RC 17077, BR 11974
Jump and Other Stories RC 33662
My Son's Story RC 32346
None to Accompany Me RC 40225
Not for Publication and Other Stories BR 90
The Pickup RC 54086
Six Feet of the Country RC 26894
A Soldier's Embrace BR 4592
Something Out There: Stories RC 21353
A Sport of Nature RC 25989

Books by 1992 winner Derek Walcott:
Collected Poems, 1948-1984 RC 26220
Omeros RC 33192

Books by 1993 winner Toni Morrison:
Beloved RC 26026, BR 7074
The Bluest Eye RC 49914, BR 12618
Jazz RC 44374, BR 9346
Love RC 57353
Paradise RC 46272
Playing in the Dark RC 35135
Remember: The Journey to School Integration RC 58483
Song of Solomon RC 38330, BR 9632
Sula RC 54438, BR 9661
Tar Baby RC 16600, BR 4895

Books by 1994 winner Kenzaburo Oe:
An Echo of Heaven RC 44607
A Healing Family RC 44337
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids RC 42364
A Personal Matter BR 12589
A Quiet Life RC 46208
The Silent Cry RC 45460

Books by 1995 winner Seamus Heaney:
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation RC 49742, BR 12591
Field Work RC 15735
Seeing Things RC 35398
Selected Poems, 1966-1987 RC 33520

Books by 1996 winner Wislawa Szymborska:
Poems: New and Collected BR 12119
View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems RC 43576

Books by 1997 winner Dario Fo:
A Woman Alone and Other Plays RC 50682

Books by 1998 winner José Saramago:
All the Names BR 13452
Blindness RC 46904
The Cave RC 56575
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ RC 39140
The History of the Siege of Lisbon BR 12606
Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal’s History and Culture RC 54681
The Stone Raft BR 10693
The Trail of the Unknown Island BR 13254

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Books by 1999 winner Günter Grass:
The Call of the Toad RC 37446
Crabwalk RC 56519
Dog Years RC 17401
The Flounder RC 12961
Headbirths RC 19066
Local Anaesthectic BR 1215
The Meeting at Telgte RC 19289
My CenturyRC 50065
On Writing and Politics, 1967-1983 BR 6566
The Rat RC 26438, BR 7023
Show Your Tongue RC 30477
The Tin Drum RC 11512
Too Far Afield RC 51834
Two States, One Nation? RC 33323

Books by 2000 winner Gao Xingjian:
One Man’s Bible RC 56800
Soul Mountain RC 51463

Books by 2001 winner V.S. Naipaul:
Among the Believers RC 17364
A Bend in the River RC 48487
Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples RC 47472
The Enigma of Arrival RC 25650
Finding the Center RC 22268
Guerrillas RC 8789, BR 2883
Half a Life RC 53063
A House for Mr. Biswas RC 20604
India: A Million Mutinies Now RC 33396
India: A Wounded Civilization BR 3837
A Turn in the South RC 29348
A Way in the World RC 39376

Books by 2003 winner John Maxwell Coetzee:
Age of Iron RC 32435
Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life RC 46652
Disgrace RC 49263
Life and Times of Michael K. RC 20364
The Master of Petersburg RC 41525
Waiting for the Barbarians RC 17738
Youth RC 55842

Books by 2004 winner Elfriede Jelinek:
Wonderful Wonderful Times RC 33391
The Piano Teacher RC 30171

Books by 2005 winner Harold Pinter:
The Homecoming, A Play BR 660, RC 24336
Betrayal BR 13253
The Dwarfs BR 13265
Moonlight BR 13409