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The Little Prince
novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)
The Catcher in the Rye
1951 novel by J. D. Salinger
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "Ellis Bell". It concerns two extensive upland estates and their landowning families on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons; and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' foster son, Heathcliff. Driven by themes of love, possession, revenge, and reconciliation, the novel is influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction. It is considered a classic of English literature.
Lolita
Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian and American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The protagonist and narrator is a French literature professor who moves to New England and writes under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert. He details his obsession with and victimization of a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, whom he describes as a "nymphet". Humbert kidnaps and sexually abuses Dolores after becoming her stepfather. Privately, he calls her "Lolita", the Spanish diminutive for Dolores. The novel was written in English, but fear of censorship in the U.S. (where Nabokov lived) and Britain led to it being
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1884 novel by Mark Twain
To Kill a Mockingbird
novel by Harper Lee
Great Expectations
1861 novel by Charles Dickens
In Search of Lost Time
novel sequence by Marcel Proust
Heart of Darkness
1899 novella by Joseph Conrad
Fight Club
1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk
A Clockwork Orange
1962 novel by Anthony Burgess
Life of Pi
2001 novel by Yann Martel
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
1926 novel by Agatha Christie
Slaughterhouse-Five
'''''Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death''''' is a 1969 semi-autobiographic science fiction–infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut. It follows the life experiences of Billy Pilgrim, from his early years, to his time as an American soldier and chaplain's assistant during World War II, to the post-war years. Throughout the novel, Billy frequently travels back and forth through time. The protagonist deals with a temporal crisis as a result of his post-war psychological trauma. The text centers on Billy's capture by the German Army and his survival of the Alli
The Sound and the Fury
1929 novel by William Faulkner
We
1924 novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Remains of the Day
1989 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Tin Drum
1959 novel by Günter Grass
Never Let Me Go
2005 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
American Psycho
1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
2003 novel by Mark Haddon
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
novel by Laurence Sterne
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
novel by Ken Kesey
Atonement
2001 novel by Ian McEwan
The Moonstone
novel by Wilkie Collins
Baudolino
Baudolino is a novel by Umberto Eco about the adventures of a man named Baudolino in the known and mythical Christian world of the 12th century.
The Girl on the Train
2015 novel by Paula Hawkins
No Longer Human
novel by Osamu Dazai
The Turn of the Screw
1898 novella by Henry James
Endless Night
1967 novel by Agatha Christie
Forrest Gump
1986 novel by Winston Groom
Pale Fire
novel, in the form of a commentary on a poem, by Vladimir Nabokov
The Star Rover
novel by Jack London
I Am a Cat
satirical novel by Natsume Sōseki
The Sense of an Ending
2011 novel by Julian Barnes
Psycho
novel by Robert Bloch (1959)
Middlesex
novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
Gone Girl
2012 novel by Gillian Flynn
A Pale View of Hills
1982 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Golem
novel by Gustav Meyrink
Dom Casmurro
1899 novel by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Season of Migration to the North
1966 novel by Tayeb Salih
Shutter Island
2003 novel by Dennis Lehane
Mother Night
novel by Kurt Vonnegut
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
2009 crime novel by Olga Tokarczuk
Pnin
1957 novel by Vladimir Nabokov
Room
2010 novel by Emma Donoghue
We Need to Talk About Kevin
2003 novel by Lionel Shriver
House of Leaves
2000 novel by Mark Z. Danielewski
When We Were Orphans
novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Luck of Barry Lyndon
book by William Makepeace Thackeray
Despair
novel by Vladimir Nabokov
Surfacing
1972 novel by Margaret Atwood
The Good Soldier
1915 novel by Ford Madox Ford
Jazz
novel by Toni Morrison
The Player of Games
1988 novel by Iain M. Banks
The Woman in the Window
novel by A. J. Finn
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
novel by Shirley Jackson
The Unconsoled
1995 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Book of the New Sun
novel series by Gene Wolfe