Scottish Literature

Scots are generally very proud of their country's literary tradition, which stretches as far back as 6th century and has produced a number of works that have achieved national or international acclaim. This index includes works by Scottish authors, as well as some titles that are not set primarily in Scotland but that can still be considered Scottish in their content and character.

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Works

• Another Time, Another Place
• As The Apple Ripens
• At the Back of the North Wind
• The Black Arrow
• The Black Douglas
• "The Brown Bear of the Green Glen"
• The Cone Gatherers
• Consider Phlebas
• The Coral Island
• The Dark o' the Moon
• Dolphin Boy
• "Eric The Pie"
• The Glitter Of Mica
• The Grey Man
• Guy Mannering
• Halting State
  • Rule 34
• Ivanhoe
• Jessica's Ghost
• John Macnab
• Jokes Cracked By Lord Aberdeen
• Kidnapped
• A Kind of Spark
• Lads' Love
• The Light Princess
• Lilith (1895)
• Lochinvar
• The Lost Princess
• Love and Death on Long Island
• The Master of Ballantrae
• Men of the Moss Hags
• The Mermaid Summer
• The Monastery
• Morvern Callar
• Old Mortality
• Murder of a Lady
• "The Pavilion on the Links"
• Peter Pan
• Phantastes
• The Pirate
• Presidential
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
• The Princess and the Goblin
  • The Princess and Curdie
• The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
• Quite Ugly One Morning
• The Raiders
• Rebus
• Rob Roy
• Shuggie Bain
• Silver Sand
• The Sopranos (Not to be confused with the tv show of the same name.)
  • The Stars in the Bright Sky
• The Stolen
• The Story of Valentine and His Brother
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Striking and Picturesque Delineations
• Sunset Song
• The Thirty-Nine Steps
  • Greenmantle
  • Mr. Standfast
  • The Three Hostages
  • The Island of Sheep
• Trainspotting
  • Porno
  • Skagboys
  • The Blade Artist
  • Dead Men's Trousers
• Treasure Island
• "Uncle Cornelius His Story"
• The Wasp Factory
• Whit
• The White Bird Passes
• Whuppity Stoorie

Authors

• Iain Banks
• Christopher Brookmyre
• John Buchan
• Robert Burns
• Thomas Carlyle
• Samuel Rutherford Crockett
• Norman Grassic Gibbon
• James Hogg
• Robin Jenkins
• Jessie Kesson
• George MacDonald
• Robert McNair Wilson
• Margaret Oliphant
• Ian Rankin
• Walter Scott
• Muriel Spark
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• Alan Warner
• Irvine Welsh^note Not actually Welsh.