20 Posthumous Works You Should Read Before You Die

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This list contains twenty notable books that were published after the death of their authors.

This list was originally published in 2008 and was added to this site about 1 year ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
81 The Castle Franz Kafka 1926 Czech German
203 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole 1980 American English
17152 Dead Street Mickey Spillane 2007 American English
466 A Death in the Family James Agee 1957 American English
113 The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank 1947 Dutch Dutch
17152 End Games Michael Dibdin 2007 British English
14985 Forward The Foundation Isaac Asimov 1993 American English
9774 The Garden Of Eden Ernest Hemingway 1986 American English
2178 The Love Of The Last Tycoon F. Scott Fitzgerald 1941 American English
855 A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1964 American English
1828 The Mysterious Stranger Mark Twain 1916 American English
590 Northanger Abbey Jane Austen 1817 British English
192 Persuasion Jane Austen 1817 British English
156 Poems of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson 1890 American English
152 The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli 1532 Italian Italian
17152 Pulp Charles Bukowski 1994 American English
17152 The Salmon Of Doubt Douglas Adams 2002 British English
3305 The Silmarillion J. R. R. Tolkien 1977 British English
1448 Suite Française Irène Némirovsky 2004 French French
21 The Trial Franz Kafka 1925 Czech German