Diogenes the main character in its sequel, "Kushiel's Justice". The character Lucy Snowe in Charlotte Brontë's novel "Villette" is given the nickname Diogenes. Diogenes also features in Part Four of Elizabeth Smart's "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept". He is a figure in Seamus Heaney's "The Haw Lantern". In Christopher Moore's "", one of Jesus' apostles is a devotee of Diogenes, complete with his own pack of dogs which he refers to as his own disciples. His story opens the first chapter of Dolly Freed's 1978 book "Possum Living". The dog that Paul Dombey befriends in Charles Dickens'
Diogenes Verlag included religious texts such as "Die Bergpredigt. Aktuelle Texte aus dem Neuen Testament", poetry ("Die schönsten Gedichte von Bertolt Brecht"), philosophy such as Albert Camus' "Weder Opfer noch Henker. Über eine neue Weltordnung", letters such as Georges Simenon's "Brief an meine Mutter" and Albert Einstein/Sigmund Freud's "Warum Krieg?", and Eastern wisdom including "Worte großer Meister" and Krishnamurti's "Meditation". Authors published by Diogenes include: Joan Aiken, Margery Allingham, Eric Ambler, Alfred Andersch, Jakob Arjouni, Honoré de Balzac, Ray Bradbury, , Gwendoline Butler, Anton Chekhov, Raymond Chandler, Paulo Coelho, Andrea De Carlo, Charles De Coster, Luciano De Crescenzo, Charles Dickens, Philippe Djian,