For example, oldest I've read is Candide by Voltaire from 1759 vs newest I've read is Yellowface by Rebecca Kuang from 2023 by Lesbihun Related: Salem History books for 11 year old boy Book on the Mexican “Repatriation” in the 1930s. Looking for the most optimistic space story I can find Dark Fantasy / Vampires
boxer_dogs_dance on October 7, 2024 10:18 pm Oldest, lysistrata. Newest Slow productivity by Cal Newport
mint_pumpkins on October 7, 2024 10:25 pm Oldest – Picture of Dorian Grey (1890) Newest – The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern (Oct 2024)
__perigee__ on October 7, 2024 10:41 pm Oldest: *Don Quixote* by Miguel de Cervantes (1605/1615) Newest: *The Man Who Saw Seconds* by Alexander Boldizar (released May ’24)
iammewritenow on October 7, 2024 10:49 pm Oldest (completed book): probably one of the Shakespeare plays, I’m not looking up the order of release of them though. Oldest (unfinished): The Romance of the Three Kingdoms Newest: The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
PatchworkGirl82 on October 7, 2024 10:50 pm Oldest: The Odyssey (or if epic poems don’t count, than The Tale of Genji from the 11th century) Newest: probably The Secret Commonwealth by Phillip Pullman
Mirrorsupersymmetry on October 7, 2024 10:56 pm Oldest: Seneca, “Letters to Lucilius” (~ 65 AD) Newest: Knausgaard, “The Wolves of Eternity” (2023)
Past-Wrangler9513 on October 7, 2024 11:01 pm Oldest: The Odyssey Newest: Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune (Sept 10 2024)
MungoShoddy on October 7, 2024 11:05 pm I’m going for physical age, not date written. Oldest: a 14th century Latin manuscript on alchemy. I forget the author. Newest: Valentina Bellanova, *Turkish Folk Tunes for Recorder*, published in July of this year.
ehsteve87 on October 7, 2024 11:07 pm Oldest: The Book of Amos (~730 BC) Newest: The Sunlit Man (2023)
Taliaaas on October 7, 2024 11:16 pm Oldest: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Newest: Im Glad My Mom Died – Jennette McCurdy
Hoppy_Croaklightly on October 7, 2024 11:16 pm *The Epic of Gilgamesh* *Rat City: Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B. Calhoun* by Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden
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Oldest, lysistrata.
Newest Slow productivity by Cal Newport
Oldest – Picture of Dorian Grey (1890)
Newest – The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern (Oct 2024)
Oldest: The Illiad
Newest: Compound Fracture
Oldest: *Don Quixote* by Miguel de Cervantes (1605/1615)
Newest: *The Man Who Saw Seconds* by Alexander Boldizar (released May ’24)
Frankenstein 1818
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy 2022
Oldest (completed book): probably one of the Shakespeare plays, I’m not looking up the order of release of them though.
Oldest (unfinished): The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Newest: The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
Oldest: The Odyssey (or if epic poems don’t count, than The Tale of Genji from the 11th century)
Newest: probably The Secret Commonwealth by Phillip Pullman
Oldest: Seneca, “Letters to Lucilius” (~ 65 AD)
Newest: Knausgaard, “The Wolves of Eternity” (2023)
Oldest: The Odyssey
Newest: Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune (Sept 10 2024)
I’m going for physical age, not date written.
Oldest: a 14th century Latin manuscript on alchemy. I forget the author.
Newest: Valentina Bellanova, *Turkish Folk Tunes for Recorder*, published in July of this year.
Oldest: The Book of Amos (~730 BC)
Newest: The Sunlit Man (2023)
Oldest: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Newest: Im Glad My Mom Died – Jennette McCurdy
*The Epic of Gilgamesh*
*Rat City: Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B. Calhoun* by Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden