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Author, Title
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Death
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Date
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120. Harold
Pinter, Death etc.
119. Monique
Truong, The Book of Salt
118. Alice Sebold,
The Lovely Bones
117. Barbara Kingsolver,
The
Poisonwood Bible
116. Charles Frazier,
Cold Mountain
115. Jennifer Lash,
Blood Ties
114. Jose΄ Saramago,
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
113. Michael
Ondaatje, The English Patient
112. Sebastien
Japrisot, A Very Long Engagement
111. Adam Zameenzad, My Friend Matt
110. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
109. Toni
Morrison, Beloved
108. John le Carre',
Smiley’s People
107. Eva Figes,
Waking
106. Ray Bradbury,
Dandelion Wine
105. C.S. Lewis,
A Grief Observed
104. Joseph
Heller, Catch 22
103. Nevil Shute,
Trustee from the Tool Room
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Anonymous Body
Mother and Pigeon
Susie Salmon
African Gray Parrot
Inman
Birkin
Death of Jesus
English Patient
French Soldiers
Golam et.al.
Dr. Juveral Urbino
Sethe
Leipzig
Woman in Old Age
Great-grandma
Wife, Helen Joy
Snowden
John Dermott and wife
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2005
2003
2002
1998
1997
1997
1994
1992
1991
1988
1988
1987
1982
1981
1975
1961
1961
1960
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102. Carson McCullers,
Clock Without Hands
101. Truman Capote
A Christmas Memory
In Cold Blood
100. Farley Mowat,
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be
99. Flannery O’Connor,
Wise Blood
98. Harold Robbins,
A Stone For Danny Fisher
97. Conrad
Richter, The Town
96. Simone De
Beauvoir, She Came to Stay
95. Albert Camus,
The Stranger
94. Irene Nemirovsky
David
Golder
Suite Francaise
93. Eudora Welty,
Death of a Traveling Salesman
92. Caroline
Slade, The Triumph of Willie Pond
91. Zora Neale
Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
90. John
Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
89. Radclyffe
Hall, Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself
88. Audous Huxley
Brave
New World
Brave New World
87. Joseph Roth
The Radetzky March
The Tale of the 1002nd
Night
86. Katherine Anne
Porter
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Ship of Fools
85. Vita
Sackville-West, All Passion Spent
84. Helen Zenna
Smith, Not so Quiet on the Western Front
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J. T.
Malone
Cousin
Hickock
Mutt
Mr.
Motes
Danny
Fisher
Mother
Sayward
Xaviere
The Arab
David Golder
Charlie Langelet
R. J.
Bowman
Willie
Pond
Tea Cake
Lenny
Miss
Ogilvy
Linda
Savage
Emperor Francis Joseph
Von Taittinger
Granny
Adam
Echegaray, The Basque
Lady
Slane
Women -
WWI
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1960
1958
1965
1957
1952
1951
1950
1943
1942
1929
1941
1941
1940
1938
1937
1934
1932
1932
1932
1939
1929
1936
1945
1931
1930
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83. William
Faulkner
As I Lay Dying
Light in August
Delta Autumn
82.
Erich M. Remarque, All Quiet On the Western Front
81.
Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop
80.
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
79. F.
Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
78.
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
77.
Katherine Mansfield,
The Canary/ Dove’s Nest
76.
Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie
An American Tragedy
75.
James Joyce, Ulysses
74.
Marcel Proust, Guermantes Way
73.
John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga
72.
Thomas Mann
Death in Venice
Magic Mountain
71.
Franz Kafka
Metamorphosis
The Trial
70. D.H. Lawrence,
Sons and Lovers
69.
Mark Twain, The Death of Jean
68.
Anton Chekhov, The Bishop
67.
Steven Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
66.
Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands
65.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Addie
Joe
Christmas
McCaslin
French
Soldier
Fa. Jean
Marie Latour
Bull
Gatsby
Septimus
The Canary
Hurstwood
Roberta
& Clyde
Patty
Digham’s Funeral
Grandmother
Old
Jolyon & Balthasar
Gustav
Aschenbach
Joachim
Ziemssen
Gregor
Samsa
Herr K
Mother
Jean,
Daughter
The Bishop
The Tall
Soldier
Willems
Dorian
Gray
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1929
1932
1940
1928
1927
1926
1925
1925
1923
1900
1925
1925
1921
1918
1915
1925
1915
1925
1913
1904
1902
1896
1895
1890
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64.
Leo Tolstoy
War
and Peace
Anna Karenina
Death of Ivan Ilych
63.
Henry James, Portrait of a Lady
62.
Emile Zola, Nana
61.
Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now
60.
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
59.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime & Punishment,
Friend
Crime & Punishment,
Pawnbroker
Crime & Punishment, Pawnbroker’s Sister
58.
Walt Whitman, Death of a Pennsylvania Soldier
57.
George Eliot, Mill on the Floss
56.
Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
1852
55.
Herman Melville,
Moby Dick
54. Gustave Flaubert,
Madame Bovary
53.
Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
52.
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
51. Charlotte Bronte,
Jane Eyre
50.
Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-Seller
49. Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions
48.
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
The Old Curiosity Shop
47.
Alexander Pushkin, Queen of Spades
46.
Victor Hugo, Hunchback of Notre Dame
45.
Marie Henri Beyle (Stendhal), Red & Black
44.
James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans
43.
Mary Shelley, The Last Man
42. Sir
Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor
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Prince
Andrey
Anna
Karenina
Ivan
Ilych
Ralph
Touchett
Nana
Melmotte
Beth
Marmeladov
Alena
Ivanovna
Lizaveta
Frank H.
Irwin
Tom &
Maggie
Little Eva
Death of Old Whale
Madame
Bovary
Arthur
Huntingdon
Catherine
Bertha
Rochester
Match-girl
Lucien/
Suicide Thoughts
Nancy
Little
Nell
Countess
& Ghost
Priest &
Esmerelda
Julien
Sorel
Cora &
Magua
Son &
Wife
Lucy
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1869
1877
1886
1881
1880
1875
1869
1867
1867
1867
1865
1860
1852
1849
1848
1848
1847
1847
1846
1843
1838
1841
1834
1831
1830
1826
1826
1818
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41.
Wolfgang Von Goethe,
Sorrows of Young Werther
40. Johathan Swift,
Gulliver’s Travel’s
39.
John Milton, Paradise Lost
38.
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
37.
Shakespeare
Richard II
Othello
Hamlet
Henry V
Anthony & Cleopatra
King Lear
Macbeth
36.
Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
35. Sir
Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur
34.
Geoffrey Chaucer, Knight’s Tales
33.
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron
32.
Dante Alighieri, La Vita Nuova
31. J. Bedieren,
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
30.
The Sagas of the Icelanders, Viga Glum’s Saga
29.
Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias
28. Omar
Khayyam, Rubaiyat
27.
Unknown, Chanson de Roland
26. Snirru Sturluson, Prose Edda,
The Death of Balder
25.
Beowulf
24.
The Battle of Maldon
23. Roswitha, Dulcitus
22.
Arabian Nights, Angel of Death
21.
Legends of Charlemagne
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Werther
Burial
Rites
Redeemer
Don
Quixote
Richard
Othello & Desdemona
Ophelia
Falstaff
Cleopatra
Lear/Cordelia
Lady
Macbeth
Faustus
King
Arthur
Arcite
Salvestra & Girolamo
Beatrice
Tristan & Iseult
Thorvald
Tafald
Martyrs
Omar
Khayyam
Roland
Balder
Beowulf
Brythnoth
Irena
The
Proud, The Devout
Rinaldo
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1774
1726
1674
1615
1597
1601
1603
1605
1605
1606
1606
1588
1469
1387
1348
1292
1209
1200’s
1141
1115
1090
1015
1000
991
965
850
768
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20.
Plutarch,
Moralia
19.
The Holy Qur’an
18.
Jacob of Sarug, The Fall of the Idols
17.
John of Apamea, Ecclesiastical History (Fragments)
16.
Theodoret, Of the Massacre of Thessalonica
15.
Gregory of Nyssa, Life of Macrina
14.
Hippolytus, The Story of a Maiden of Cornith
13.
King James, New Testament
Gospel
According to Mathew 27:35 – 28:20
Gospel
According to John 20: 1 – 18
Gospel
According to Mark 15:24 – 16:20
12.
Ovid, Metamorphoses
11.
Gaius, Velerius Catullus, # 101
10.
Plato, Phaedo
9.
Euripides,
Alcestis
(Translation Richard Aldington)
Medea
The Trojan Women
(Translation, Murray)
8.
Sophocles,
Oedipus The King
(Translation, Green)
Oedipus, The King
(Translation, Murray)
7.
Thucydides, Pericles, The Funeral Speech
6.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
5.
Homer, The Iliad
The Trojan Wars
(Translation, Pope, 1760)
The
Trojan Wars
(Translation, Fitzgerald, 1974)
4.
Unknown, Book of J. 177 & 178
3.
King James, The Bible, Ecclesiastes
9 & 12
2.
King James, The Bible, Deuteronomy 32 &
34
1.
Unknown, Gilgamesh
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Daughter
Believers
Martyr
Soldiers
Towns’
people
Macrina
Nobel
Youth
Jesus
Jesus
Jesus
Pyramus
& Thisbe
Brother
Socrates
Alcestis
Her
Children
Astyanax
Jocasta
Jocasta
Greek Soldiers
Agamemnon
Patroklos
Sarpedon
Sarpedon
Moses
Humankind
Moses
Enkidu
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611
610-632
500-521
448-449
419 Est.
375 Est.
240
Est.
50
80-90
140
1
57 BCE
360
417
430
428
427
427
431
458
720
680
680
900
931
1405
3000 BCE
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