1901-1918
The Fin de siècle movement of the Belle Époque persisted into the 20th century, but was brutally cut short with the outbreak of World War I (an effect depicted e.g. in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, published 1924). The Dada movement of 1916-1920 was at least in part a protest against the bourgeois nationalist and colonialist interests which many Dadaists believed were the root cause of the war; the movement heralded the Surrealism movement of the 1920s.
1900
- Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (Poland, England)
Genre fiction
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (USA)
1901
- Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann (Germany)
- The Inheritors by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford (Germany, England)
- Kim by Rudyard Kipling (India, England)
Genre fiction
- The Purple Cloud by M. P. Shiel (Montserrat, England)
- The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells (England)
1902
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- The Immoralist by André Gide (France)
- The Wings of the Dove by Henry James (USA, England)
- The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett (England)
Genre fiction
- The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (Scotland)
- Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
Plays
- Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw (Ireland)
1903
- Romance by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford
- The Ambassadors by Henry James
- The Pit by Frank Norris (USA)
- In Wonderland by Knut Hamsun (Norway)
Genre fiction
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London (USA)
- The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers (England, Ireland)
1904
- The Golden Bowl by Henry James
- Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
- The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G. K. Chesterton (England)
Genre fiction
- The Food of the Gods by H. G. Wells
- The Sea Wolf by Jack London
- Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson (Argentina, England)
Plays
- John Bull's Other Island by George Bernard Shaw
1905
- Hadrian VII by Frederick Rolfe aka Baron Corvo (England, Italy)
- Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster (England)
- Kipps by H. G. Wells
- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (USA)
- The Club of Queer Trades by G. K. Chesterton
1906
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (USA)
- The Confusions of Young Torless by Robert Musil (Austria)
Genre fiction
- Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling
- Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J. M. Barrie (Scotland)
- Time and the Gods by Lord Dunsany (Ireland, England)
- White Fang by Jack London
Plays
- The Aran Islands by John Millington Synge (Ireland)
1907
- The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
- The Longest Journey by E. M. Forster
Genre fiction
- The Listener and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood (England) - contains The Willows, one of the first 'cosmic horror' stories
- The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen (England)
Plays
- Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge
Poetry
- Cautionary Tales for Children by Hilaire Belloc (France, England)
1908
- The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
- A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
- The Iron Heel by Jack London
- Hell by Henri Barbusse (France, Russia)
- The Magician by Somerset Maugham (England, France) - based on the author's meeting with Aleister Crowley
Genre fiction
- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (England)
Poetry
- Personae by Ezra Pound (USA, England, Italy) - one of the first examples of 'modernist' poetry
1909
- Martin Eden by Jack London
- Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells
- Three Lives by Gertrude Stein (USA, France)
Poetry
- Exultations by Ezra Pound
- Poems by William Carlos Williams (USA)
Plays
- The Blue Bird by Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgium)
1910
- Howard's End by E. M. Forster
- The Card by Arnold Bennett
- The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. Wells
1911
- Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm (England)
- In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield (England) - short stories
- Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
- The White Peacock by D. H. Lawrence (England)
- Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser (USA)
1912
- Petersburg by Andrei Bely (Russia)
- The Trespasser by D. H. Lawrence
- Death In Venice by Thomas Mann (Germany)
Genre fiction
- Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey (USA)
- The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs (USA)
Plays
- Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
1913
- Swann's Way by Marcel Proust (France)
- Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier (France)
- Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
- Chance by Joseph Conrad
Genre fiction
- A Prisoner in Fairyland by Algernon Blackwood - adapted into a play, it later became the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Starlight Express
- The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu by 'Sax Rohmer' (England)
Poetry
- Alcools by Guillaume Apollinaire (Poland, France) - dada poems
- Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
1914
- Dubliners by James Joyce (Ireland, France, Italy) - short stories
- The Prussian Officer by D. H. Lawrence - short stories
- The Vatican Cellars by André Gide
- Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
- The Golem by Gustav Meyrink (Czechoslovakia)
- Maurice by E. M. Forster - unpublished
- Sinister Street by Compton MacKenzie (Scotland, Greece)
- The Flying Inn by G. K. Chesterton
Poetry
- North of Boston by Robert Frost (USA)
1915
- The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
- The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
- Victory by Joseph Conrad
- Pointed Roofs by Dorothy Richardson
- The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf (England)
- Vainglory by Ronald Firbank (England)
- Rashōmon by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Genre fiction
- The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (Scotland, Canada)
1916
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- Women In Love by D. H. Lawrence - initially banned, published in 1920
Genre fiction
- Greenmantle by John Buchan
Poetry
- Salt-Water Poems and Ballads by John Masefield (England)
- Mountain Interval by Robert Frost
1917
- Under Fire by Henri Barbusse (France, Russia)
- Walpurgis Night by Gustav Meyrink
- Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
- The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad
- Caprice by Ronald Firbank
Poetry
- Dulce et Decorum Est and Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen (England) - published posthumously
- Prufrock and Other Observations by T. S. Eliot (USA, England)
1918
- Tarr by Wyndham Lewis (Canada, England)
- Man of Straw by Heinrich Mann (Germany)
Poetry
- Calligrammes by Guillaume Apollinaire - dada poetry
Non-fiction
- Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey (England)
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