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* The Female American (anon., 1767)
* Iphigenia in Tauris (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1787) (based on Iphigeneia in Tauris by Euripides)
* The Swiss Family Robinson (Johann David Wyss, 1812)
* Masterman Ready, or the Wreck in the Pacific (Frederick Marryat, 1841)
* The Coral Island (R.M. Ballantyne, 1857)
* L'Oncle Robinson (Jules Verne, 1870; unpublished until 1991)
* The Mysterious Island (L'Île mystérieuse) (Jules Verne, 1874)
* Godfrey Morgan (L'École des Robinsons) (Jules Verne, 1881)
* Two Years' Vacation (Deux ans de vacances) (Jules Verne, 1888)
* The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling, 1894) - the Mowgli stories
* I Robinson italiani (Emilio Salgari, 1896)
* Baby Island (Carol Ryrie Brink, 1937)
* Lord of the Flies (William Golding, 1954)
* Tunnel in the Sky (Robert A. Heinlein, 1955)
* Pincher Martin (William Golding, 1956)
* Danny Dunn on a Desert Island (Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams, 1957)
* The Survivors (Tom Godwin, 1958)
* Island of the Blue Dolphins (Scott O'Dell, 1960)
* Transit (Edmund Cooper, 1964)
* A Far Sunset (Edmund Cooper, 1967)
* Friday (Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique) (Michel Tournier, 1967)
* The Other Side of the Mountain (La Montagne morte de la vie) (Michel Bernanos, 1967)
* Providence Island (Calder Willingham, 1969)
* Concrete Island (J. G. Ballard, 1973)
* Shipwreck (Charles Logan, 1975)
* Friday and Robinson (Vendredi ou la Vie sauvage) (Michel Tournier, 1977)
* The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel, 1980)
* Foe (J. M. Coetzee, 1986),
* Hatchet, (Gary Paulsen, 1987)
* The Island of the Day Before (Umberto Eco, 1994)
* Life of Pi (Yann Martel, 2001)