The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin · Contemporary · Speculative fiction
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Contemporary
Explore 92 works associated with Contemporary in The Western Canon. This page is generated from reviewed catalog classifications and links directly to each featured work.
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A Theory of Justice
John Rawls · Contemporary · Political philosophy
Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie · Contemporary · Novel
The Color Purple
Alice Walker · Contemporary · Novel / essays
The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood · Contemporary · Dystopian novel
Beloved
Toni Morrison · Contemporary · Novel
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro · Contemporary · Novel
Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee · Contemporary · Novel
The Grass Is Singing
Doris Lessing · Contemporary · Novel
Madness and Civilization
Michel Foucault · Contemporary · Philosophy / history
The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing · Contemporary · Novel
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John le Carré · Contemporary · Spy fiction
The Order of Things
Michel Foucault · Contemporary · Philosophy / history
Babel-17
Samuel R. Delany · Contemporary · Science fiction
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Tom Stoppard · Contemporary · Drama
Of Grammatology
Jacques Derrida · Contemporary · Philosophy / criticism
Writing and Difference
Jacques Derrida · Contemporary · Philosophy / criticism
A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin · Contemporary · Speculative fiction
Selected Stories
Alice Munro · Contemporary · Short stories
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison · Contemporary · Novel
The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Peter Handke · Contemporary · Novel / drama
The Lathe of Heaven
Ursula K. Le Guin · Contemporary · Speculative fiction
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
Peter Handke · Contemporary · Novel / drama
Sula
Toni Morrison · Contemporary · Novel
Diving into the Wreck
Adrienne Rich · Contemporary · Poetry / essays
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin · Contemporary · Speculative fiction
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John le Carré · Contemporary · Spy fiction
Discipline and Punish
Michel Foucault · Contemporary · Philosophy / history
North
Seamus Heaney · Contemporary · Poetry
Dhalgren
Samuel R. Delany · Contemporary · Science fiction
Correction
Thomas Bernhard · Contemporary · Novel / drama
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1
Michel Foucault · Contemporary · Philosophy / history
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison · Contemporary · Novel
The Dream of a Common Language
Adrienne Rich · Contemporary · Poetry / essays
Missing Person
Patrick Modiano · Contemporary · Novel
The Bloody Chamber
Angela Carter · Contemporary · Fiction
Field Work
Seamus Heaney · Contemporary · Poetry
Suttree
Cormac McCarthy · Contemporary · Novel
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera · Contemporary · Novel / essays
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler · Contemporary · Speculative fiction
Waiting for the Barbarians
J. M. Coetzee · Contemporary · Novel
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson · Contemporary · Novel / essays
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
August Wilson · Contemporary · Drama
Life & Times of Michael K
J. M. Coetzee · Contemporary · Novel
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens
Alice Walker · Contemporary · Novel / essays
Nights at the Circus
Angela Carter · Contemporary · Fiction
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera · Contemporary · Novel / essays
Woodcutters
Thomas Bernhard · Contemporary · Novel / drama
White Noise
Don DeLillo · Contemporary · Novel
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy · Contemporary · Novel
Fences
August Wilson · Contemporary · Drama
An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro · Contemporary · Novel
A Perfect Spy
John le Carré · Contemporary · Spy fiction
Dawn
Octavia E. Butler · Contemporary · Speculative fiction
The Piano Lesson
August Wilson · Contemporary · Drama
The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie · Contemporary · Novel
Cat’s Eye
Margaret Atwood · Contemporary · Novel / poetry
Libra
Don DeLillo · Contemporary · Novel
Jazz
Toni Morrison · Contemporary · Novel
The Wild Iris
Louise Glück · Contemporary · Poetry
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