Samuel Beckett was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical works feature bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense. Beckett is widely regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century, credited with transforming modern theatre. For his foundational contribution to both literature and theatre, Beckett received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation."

- Dream of Fair to Middling Women 1932 novel desire, alienation, youth en

- Echo's Bones 1933 short-stories death, afterlife, absurdity en

- Dante and the Lobster 1934 short-stories death, cruelty, suffering en

- More Pricks Than Kicks 1934 short-stories suffering, bewilderment en

- Murphy 1938 novel alienation, madness en

- Molloy 1951 novel identity, wandering, decay en

- Waiting for Godot 1952 drama waiting, absurdity, friendship en

- The Unnamable 1953 novel memory, minimalism en

- Watt 1953 novel logic, war, absurdity en

- Stories and Texts for Nothing 1955 short-stories minimalism en

- Malone Dies 1956 novel death, isolation, storytelling en

- All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Scre 1957 drama radio-drama, memory, mortality en

- Endgame 1957 drama minimalism en

- Three Novels 1958 novel trilogy, identity, modernism en

- Comment C'est/How It Is & L'image 1959 novel isolation, suffering, fragmentation en,fr

- Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces 1959 drama en

- Happy Days 1961 drama existance, minimalism en

- How It Is 1964 novel pessimism, memory en

- Mercier and Camier 1970 novel friendship, wandering, absurdity en

- Ends and Odds 1976 drama minimalism, fragmentation, silence en

- I Can't Go On, I'll Go On 1976 anthology drama, literary criticism, poetry en

- Collected Poems in English and French 1977 poetry bilingual, exile en

- First Love and Other Shorts 1980 short-stories alienation, death, absurdity en

- The Expelled The Calmative The End with First Lo 1980 short-stories memory, identity en

- Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Sti 1981 short-stories isolation, memory, darkness, minimalism en

- Disjecta: Miscellaneous Writings and a Dramatic 1983 non-fiction essays, literary criticism, letters en

- Nohow On 1984 anthology consciousness, minimalism en

- The Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett 1984 drama minimalism, experimental, absurdity en

- The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett 1984 anthology drama, absurdity, waiting, silence en

- Eleutheria 1995 drama freedom, family, conflict en

- The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929 1995 short-stories fragmentation, isolation, memory en

- Selected Poems 1930-1988 1999 poetry minimalism en

- Rockabye and Other Short Pieces 2007 drama minimalism en