It was the best of beards, it was the worst of beards: Charles Dickens.
- Charles Dickens, England, 1861, Great Expectations
- Ivan Turgenev, Russia, 1862, Fathers and Sons
- Feodor Dostoevskii, Russia, 1866, Crime and Punishment
- George Eliot, England, 1871, Middlemarch
- Arthur Rimbaud, France, 1873, A Season in Hell
- Leo Tolstoi, Russia, 1877, Anna Karenina
- Frederick Nietzsche, Germany, 1880, Al Sprake Zarathustra
- Mark Twain, US, 1884, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Emil Zola, France, 1885, Germinal
- Henrik Ibsen, Norway, 1890, Hedda Gabler
- Emily Dickinson, US, 1890, Poems
- Thomas Hardy, England, 1895, Jude the Obscure
- Anton Chekhov, Russia, 1898, Uncle Vanya
- Joseph Conrad, England, 1902, Heart of Darkness
- William James, Us, 1902, Varieties of Religious Experience
- Max Weber, Germany, 1904, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- Marcel Proust, France, 1913, Swann’s Way
- DH Lawrence, England, 1913, Sons and Lovers
- Natsume Soseki, Japan, 1914, Kokoro
- WB Yeats, Ireland, 1917, The Swans at Coole
- Siegfried Sassoon, England, 1919, War Poems
- TS Eliot, US, 1921, The Waste Land
- James Joyce, Ireland, 1922, Ulysses
- Thomas Mann, Germany, 1924, The Magic Mountain
- F Scott FitzGerald, US, 1925, The Great Gatsby
- Franz Kafka, Czechoslovakia, 1925, The Trial
- Martin Heidegger, Germany, 1927, Being and Time
- Virginia Woolf, England, 1927, Mrs. Dalloway
- Berthold Brecht, Germany, 1928, The Threepenny Opera
- William Faulkner, US, 1929, The Sound and the Fury
