Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories (1971) includes some of Kafka's most notable stories, such as "Before the Law," "The Judgement," "The Metamorphosis," and "In the Penal Colony."

The Trial: A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text (1998) is a recent translation and is said to be a more accurate rendition of Kafka's original manuscript. The story is about Joseph K., who is interrogated by unidentified government officials and accused of an unnamed crime. He becomes entangled in a legal and bureaucratic maze from which there seems to be no exit.

Max Brod's Franz Kafka, a Biography (1937) is an early biography by Kafka's close friend and literary executor.

Letters to Friends, Family and Editors (1977) contains selections from Kafka's extensive letter- writing.

Kafka's Clothes: Ornament and Aestheticism in the Habsburg Fin de Siecle (1992), by Mark Anderson, discusses Kafka's social milieu of fashionable Prague...