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A Confederacy of Dunces

1980 novel by John Kennedy Toole

A Dance to the Music of Time

A Farewell to Arms

1929 novel by Ernest Hemingway

A House for Mr Biswas

1961 book by V. S. Naipaul

A Passage to India

1924 novel by E. M. Forster

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

1916 novel by James Joyce

A Room with a View

1908 novel by E. M. Forster

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (novel)

1943 semi-autobiographical novel by Betty Smith

Absalom, Absalom!

1936 novel by William Faulkner

All the King's Men

1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren

And Quiet Flows the Don

Epic novel in four volumes by Russian writer Michail Sholokhov

Novel by William Faulkner

Beloved (novel)

1987 novel by Toni Morrison

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Book by Alfred Döblin

1947 novel by Albert Camus

1985 epic historical novel by Cormac McCarthy

Brideshead Revisited

1945 book by Evelyn Waugh

Cry, the Beloved Country

Book by Alan Paton

Darkness at Noon

1940 novel by Arthur Koestler

Diary of a Madman

1918 short story by Lu Xun

Doctor Faustus (novel)

1947 novel written by Thomas Mann

1914 short story collection by James Joyce

Novella by Edith Wharton

Short story collection by Jorge Luis Borges

1939 novel by James Joyce

Fortress Besieged

Novel by Qian Zhongshu

Henderson the Rain King

Novel by Saul Bellow

The novel is about Herzog, who faces the cruelty of marriage and ruins his life. Although Herzog struggles to get the things right. The novel also exposes the harsh reality of relationships.

How the Steel Was Tempered

Socialist realist novel written by Nikolai Ostrovsky

If on a winter's night a traveler

1979 novel by Italo Calvino

In Search of Lost Time

1913–1927 novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust

Independent People

Novel by Halldór Laxness (1934, 1935)

1996 novel by David Foster Wallace

1952 novel by Ralph Ellison

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

1960s story by Richard Bach

Journey to the End of the Night

Novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Picaresque novel by Rudyard Kipling

Lady Chatterley's Lover

1928 novel by D. H. Lawrence

Light in August

1932 novel by William Faulkner

Natural language processing system developed at Durham University, England

Lord of the Flies

1954 novel by William Golding

Novel by Kingsley Amis

Main Street (novel)

1920 novel by Sinclair Lewis

Midnight's Children

1981 novel by Salman Rushdie

Novel by Samuel Beckett

1925 novel by Virginia Woolf

1940 novel by Richard Wright

Norwegian Wood (novel)

Fifth novel by Haruki Murakami

Novel by Joseph Conrad

Of Human Bondage

Novel by William Somerset Maugham

Of Mice and Men

Novella by John Steinbeck

1957 novel by Jack Kerouac

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel)

1962 novel by Ken Kesey

One Hundred Years of Solitude

1967 novel by Gabriel García Márquez

1962 novel by Vladimir Nabokov

Novel by Juan Rulfo

Portnoy's Complaint

1969 book by Philip Roth

Possession (Byatt novel)

1990 A.S. Byatt novel, Booker prize winner

Novel by John Updike

Red Sorghum (novel)

Chinese language 1986 novel by Mo Yan

Chinese novel by Lao She

Season of Migration to the North

1966 novel by Tayeb Salih

Siddhartha (novel)

Novel by Hermann Hesse

Novel by Yasunari Kawabata

Song of Solomon (novel)

1977 novel by Toni Morrison

Sons and Lovers

1913 novel by DH Lawrence

1991 novel by Jostein Gaarder

Steppenwolf (novel)

Novel by Hermann Hesse

Book by Pai Hsien-yung

Tender Is the Night

1934 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Adventures of Augie March

Novel by Saul Bellow

The Age of Innocence

Novel by Edith Wharton

The Alchemist (novel)

Novel by Paulo Coelho

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Novel by Michael Chabon, published in 2000; awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001

The Ambassadors

1903 novel by Henry James

1963 novel by Sylvia Plath

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Novel by Tom Wolfe

The Book of Disquiet

1982 book by Fernando Pessoa

The Call of the Wild

1903 novel by Jack London

The Castle (novel)

Novel by Franz Kafka

The Catcher in the Rye

1951 novel by J. D. Salinger

The Color Purple

1982 novel by Alice Walker

The Forsyte Saga

Three novels by John Galsworthy

1955 novel by J. P. Donleavy

The Golden Notebook

Novel by Doris Lessing

The Good Soldier

1915 novel by Ford Madox Ford

The Good Soldier Švejk

1921–23 novel by Jaroslav Hašek

The Grapes of Wrath

1939 American realist novel by John Steinbeck

The Great Gatsby

1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

1940 novel by Carson McCullers

The House of Mirth

1905 novel by Edith Wharton

The House of the Spirits

Novel by Isabel Allende

The Joy Luck Club (novel)

1989 novel by Amy Tan

The Last Samurai (novel)

Novel by Helen DeWitt

1958 novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

The Magic Mountain

1924 novel by Thomas Mann

The Man Without Qualities

Unfinished novel by Robert Musil

1961 novel by Walker Percy

The Old Man and the Sea

Short novel by Ernest Hemingway

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (novel)

Novella by Muriel Spark

The Remains of the Day

Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Satanic Verses

1988 novel by Salman Rushdie

The Sea of Fertility

Series of novels by Yukio Mishima

The Sound and the Fury

1929 novel by William Faulkner

The Stranger (Camus novel)

1942 novel by Albert Camus

The Sun Also Rises

1926 novel by Ernest Hemingway

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Novel by Yukio Mishima

The Thorn Birds

1977 novel by Colleen McCullough

1959 novel by Günter Grass

1925 novel by Franz Kafka

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

1984 Czech novel by Milan Kundera

1931 novel by Virginia Woolf

The Way of All Flesh

Semi-autobiographical Novel (1959) by Samuel Butler

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

1994–1995 novel by Haruki Murakami

The World According to Garp

Novel by John Irving

Their Eyes Were Watching God

1937 novel by Zora Neale Hurston

Things Fall Apart

Novel by Chinua Achebe

Till We Have Faces

1956 novel by C. S. Lewis

To Kill a Mockingbird

1960 novel by Harper Lee

To the Lighthouse

1927 novel by Virginia Woolf

Tropic of Cancer (novel)

1934 novel by Henry Miller

U.S.A. (trilogy)

Series of novels written by John Dos Passos

Ulysses (novel)

Novel by James Joyce (1922)

Under the Volcano

Novel by Malcolm Lowry

White Noise (novel)

Novel by Don DeLillo

2000 novel by Zadie Smith

Wide Sargasso Sea

Novel by Jean Rhys

1920 novel by D. H. Lawrence

Zeno's Conscience

Book by Italo Svevo

Zorba the Greek

Novel by Nikos Kazantzakis