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A. B. Guthrie Jr.    wrote    The Big Sky 1947. The first of A. B. Guthrie, Jr.'s, epic adventure novels of America's vast frontier. Guthrie wrote the Academy Award-nominated script to the landmark film Shane

A. B. Guthrie Jr.    wrote    The Way West 1949. Won Pulitzer prize

Aeschylus    wrote    The Oresteia A trilogy of Greek tragedies about the end of the curse on the House of Atreus. Though originally written as tetralogy, the fourth play, Proteus, a satyr play that would have been performed as finale, has not survived. The Oresteia was originally performed at the Dionysia festival in Athens in 458 BC, where it won first prize.

Aesopus    wrote    Aesop’s Fables Aesop (620–560 BC), was a slave and story-teller who lived in Ancient Greece. His fables are some of the most well known in the world. The fables remain a popular choice for moral education of children today.

Akhil Sharma    wrote    An Obedient Father Won the 2000 PEN/Hemingway Award and the 2001 Whiting Writers' Award.

Alain Robbe-Grillet    wrote    The Voyeur 1955. First published in French as 'Le Voyeur'.

Alasdair Gray    wrote    Lanark 1981. Subtitled "A Life in Four Books", the Scottish writer's first novel is now regarded as a classic, and was described by The Guardian as "one of the landmarks of 20th-century fiction."

Alan Bennett    wrote    The Uncommon Reader 2007. A novella.

Albert Camus    wrote    The Fall 1956. 'La Chute'

Albert Camus    wrote    A Happy Death 'La Mort heureuse' Written 1936-1938, published posthumously 1971

Albert Camus    wrote    The Plague 1947. 'La Peste'. An existentialist classic about suffering

Albert Camus    wrote    The Stranger 1942. 'L'Étranger', often translated as 'The Outsider'

Albert Cohen    wrote    Belle Du Seigneur 1968. Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie Française

Alberto Moravia    wrote    Il Conformista 1947. Anti-fascist novel which was the basis for the film 'The Conformist'

Alberto Moravia    wrote    I Racconti Won the Strega Prize (Premio Strega)

Alberto Moravia    wrote    La Romana 1947 'The Woman of Rome'

Aldous Huxley    wrote    After Many a Summer Dies the Swan 1939. This satire explores several philosophical and social issues, some of which would later take the forefront in his final novel Island. The title is taken from the Lord Tennyson poem Tithonus about a figure from Greek mythology to whom Aurora, the goddess of dawn, gave eternal life but not eternal youth. The book was awarded the 1939 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.

Aldous Huxley    wrote    Antic Hay 1923. A comic novel. The story takes place in London, and depicts the aimless or self-absorbed cultural elite in the sad and turbulent times following the end of World War I.

Aldous Huxley    wrote    Crome Yellow 1921. Crome Yellow is the first novel by Huxley. Huxley satirises the fads and fashions of the time.

Aldous Huxley    wrote    Eyeless in Gaza 1936. The chapters of the novel are not ordered chronologically.

Aldous Huxley    wrote    Point Counter Point 1928. Huxley's fourth novel. It is highly regarded: the Modern Library lists it in the top 100 novels of the 20th C.

Alejo Carpentier    wrote    Kingdom of This World A novel of the Haitian Revolution, in which he describes his vision of "lo real maravilloso" ("But what is the history of Latin America but a chronicle of magical realism?").

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn    wrote    Cancer Ward 1967. Semi-autobiographical novel by Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, banned in the Soviet Union in 1968

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn    wrote    The First Circle 1968. The novel details the life of the occupants of a gulag prison camp located in the Moscow suburbs, the Marfino sharashka. Many of the prisoners (zeks) are technicians or academics who have been arrested under Article 58 of the RSFSR Penal Code in Stalin's purges following the Second World War.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn    wrote    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 1962. One of the most chilling novels about the oppression of totalitarian regimes and the first to open Western eyes to the terrors of Stalin's prison camps; if Solzhenitsyn later became Russia's conscience in exile, this is the book with which he first challenged the brutal might of the Soviet Union.

Alessandro Baricco    wrote    Silk

Alessandro Manzoni    wrote    The Betrothed 1827. An Italian historical novel. It has been called the most famous and widely read novel of the Italian language.

Alexandre Dumas    wrote    The Count of Monte Cristo 1844 - 1886. An adventure story of justice, vengeance, mercy, and forgiveness based on a true story. It is often considered to be, along with The Three Musketeers, Dumas' most popular work. It is also among the highest selling books of all time.

Alexandre Dumas    wrote    La Reine Margot

Alexandre Dumas    wrote    The Three Musketeers 1844

Alfred Döblin    wrote    Berlin Alexanderplatz In a 2002 poll of 100 noted writers conducted by the Norwegian Book Clubs, the book was named among the top 100 books of all time.

Alan Garner    wrote    Thursbitch Named after the valley in the Pennines of England where the action occurs

Alan Hollinghurst    wrote    The Folding Star Won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1994. It was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Alan Hollinghurst    wrote    The Swimming-Pool Library Won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1989.

Alice Sebold    wrote    The Almost Moon 2007. The book is set in a single day

Alice Sebold    wrote    The Lovely Bones 2002. Sold over a million and remained on the New York Times hardback bestseller list for over a year.

Alice Walker    wrote    The Color Purple Pulitizer Prize and National Book Award, 1983

Alice Walker    wrote    Meridian

Alice Walker    wrote    Possessing the Secret of Joy

A. L. Kennedy    wrote    Day Costa Book of the Year Award 2007

A. L. Kennedy    wrote    Looking for the Possible Dance

Allen Drury    wrote    Advise and Consent Pulitizer Prize, 1960; died on his 80th birthday

Alan Paton    wrote    Cry, the Beloved Country A social protest against the structures of the society that would later give rise to apartheid. Cry, The Beloved Country was written before the implementation of the apartheid political system in South Africa. The novel was published in 1948, with apartheid becoming law later on that same year.

Alan Sillitoe    wrote    Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Alan Warner    wrote    Morvern Callar Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 1996

Amélie Nothomb    wrote    Fear and Trembling 1999. Awarded the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française 1999

Amos Tutuola    wrote    My Life in the Bush of Ghosts 1954; Nigerian writer, 1920-1997

Amos Tutuola    wrote    Palm-Wine Drinkard "and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town"

Amy Tan    wrote    The Joy Luck Club 1990. Bestseller

Amy Tan    wrote    The Kitchen God's Wife 1991

Amy Tan    wrote    Saving Fish From Drowning 2005. Multi-layered morality tale by the same author as The Joy Luck Club

André Breton    wrote    Arcane 17 A lyrical prophecy of a veritable emancipation of Woman, an affirmation of Breton's belief in youth and a championing of the three great causes of poetry, love, and liberty.

André Breton    wrote    Nadja Starts with the question "Who am I?"

André Gide    wrote    The Counterfeiters 1927. 'Les faux-monnayeurs'. Its main theme is that of the original and the copy, and what differentiates them – both in the external plot of the counterfeit gold coins and in the portrayal of the characters' feelings and their relationships.

André Gide    wrote    The Immoralist 'L'immoraliste'.

André Gide    wrote    Lafcadio's Adventures 1914. 'The Vatican Swindle'. Aka. 'Les caves du Vatican'. A humorous satire on bourgeois complacency, be it orthodox or anticlerical, and on relativism and chance.

André Gide    wrote    Strait is the Gate 'La Porte Étroite'. Probes some of the complexities and terrors of adolescence and growing up.

André Malraux    wrote    Man's Fate 1933; 'La Condition Humaine'. A novel about the failed communist revolution that took place in Shanghai in 1927, and the existential quandaries facing a diverse group of people associated with the revolution

Angela Carter    wrote    Nights at the Circus Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction

Angela Carter    wrote    The Passion of New Eve A magic realist post-feminist novel, in which the female characters dominate the males.

Angela Carter    wrote    Wise Children The fortunes of two chorus girls and their bizarre theatrical family

Anne Brontë    wrote    Agnes Grey A literary classic. Anne's two novels, written in a sharp and ironic style, are completely different from the romanticism followed by her sisters.

Anne Brontë    wrote    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne used the pen name Acton Bell.

Anne Rice    wrote    Interview With the Vampire

Anthony Burgess    wrote    1985 Inspired by, and was intended as a tribute to, George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Anthony Burgess    wrote    A Clockwork Orange 2008 - Prometheus Award (Hall of Fame Award). Chosen by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.Speculative fiction novel (1962) adapted to film in 1971 by Stanley Kubrick

Anthony Burgess    wrote    Earthly Powers Memoirs of an 81 year-old homosexual writer. Shortlisted for the Booker prize.

Anthony Burgess    wrote    Inside Mr Enderby Volume 1 of the best-selling Enderby Quartet

Anthony Burgess    wrote    Napoleon Symphony A fictional recreation of the life and world of Napoleon Bonaparte

Anthony Burgess    wrote    One Hand Clapping Originally published under the pseudonym Joseph Kell.

Anthony Powell    wrote    A Dance to the Music of Time A twelve-volume cycle of novels by Anthony Powell, inspired by the painting of the same name by Nicolas Poussin.

Anthony Trollope    wrote    Barchester Towers The second novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire". It is possibly Trollope's best known work.

Anthony Trollope    wrote    The Last Chronicle of Barset The author considered this his finest novel

Anthony Trollope    wrote    Phineas Finn

Anthony Trollope    wrote    The Warden (1855) This novel established Trollope's reputation as a writer and was the first in the Chronicles of Barsetshire series. It was Trollope's first novel.

Anthony Trollope    wrote    The Way We Live Now First published in serial form in 1864 and 1865. It is the first of six novels in the "Palliser" series. "The Pallisers', a 26-episode tv adaptation of all six Palliser novels, first broadcast in 1974

Antoine De Saint-Exupéry    wrote    The Little Prince French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's most famous novel. It has been translated into more than 180 languages and sold more than 80 million copies making it one of the best-selling books ever.

Antonio Tabucchi    wrote    Pereira Declares: A Testimony No. 126 on the list of '1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die' by Peter Boxall

Aphra Behn    wrote    Oroonoko 1688. Aphra Behn's Oroonoko is both one of the earliest English novels and one of the earliest by a woman.

Ardal O’Hanlon    wrote    The Talk of the Town Aka. 'Knick Knack Paddy Whack'. A comedy. Ardal O’Hanlon is an Irish comedian and actor, best known for his roles in television sitcoms as Father Dougal McGuire in Father Ted and George Sunday in My Hero.

Arnold Bennett    wrote    The Old Wives’ Tale Generally regarded as one of Bennett's finest works.

Arthur Golden    wrote    Memoirs of a Geisha 1997. Made into a movie of the same name.

Arthur Koestler    wrote    Darkness at Noon 1940. His most famous novel, it is set in 1938 during the Stalinist purges and Moscow show trials. It reflects the author's personal disillusionment with Communism

Arundhati Roy    wrote    The God of Small Things It is a story about the childhood experiences of a pair of fraternal twins who become victims of circumstance. The book is a description of how the small things in life build up, translate into people's behavior and affect their lives. The book won the Booker Prize in 1997.

A. S. Byatt    wrote    Possession Part historical and part contemporary fiction. 1990 The bestselling novel is a winner of the prestigious Man Booker Prize.

A. S. Byatt    wrote    Still Life 1985. 2nd book in the quartet that started with 'The Virgin in the Garden'. It won the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award

August Strindberg    wrote    By the Open Sea 1890. An English translation of Strindberg's novel "I havsbandet".

August Strindberg    wrote    Natives of Hemsö 1887. Hemsö is a fictional island, but it is based on Kymmendö where Strindberg had spent time in his youth. Strindberg wrote the book to combat his homesickness while living abroad in Germany and France.

August Strindberg    wrote    The Red Room 1879. This is the novel which brought Swedish author Strindberg fame. It has been translated into several languages.

Ayn Rand    wrote    Atlas Shrugged 1957. It was Rand's fourth, longest, and last novel, and she considered it her magnum opus in the realm of fiction writing.

Ayn Rand    wrote    The Fountainhead 1943. Rand's first major literary success. The book's title is a reference to Rand's statement that "man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress".

Barbara Kingsolver    wrote    Pigs in Heaven Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction.

Barbara Kingsolver    wrote    The Poisonwood Bible 1998. A bestselling novel about a missionary family, the Prices, who in 1959 move from Georgia to the fictional village of Kilanga in the Belgian Congo. Won the National Book Prize of South Africa, was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize

Baroness Emmuska Orczy    wrote    The Scarlet Pimpernel 1905. a classic play and adventure novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution.

Barry Hines    wrote    A Kestrel for a Knave The book was made into a film Kes and is often used in Key Stage 4 assessment in the UK, as part of GCSE English courses.

Benito Pérez Galdés    wrote    Fortunata and Jacinta No. 186 on the list of '1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die' by Peter Boxall

Benjamin Disraeli    wrote    Sybil . . . or, "The Two Nations" traces the plight of the working classes of England in 1844. The book is a roman à thèse, or a novel with a thesis — which was meant to create a propagandistic furor over the squalor that was plaguing England's working class cities.

Bernard Malamud    wrote    The Assistant 1957. The novel has been included in Time magazine's "All-Time 100 Novels"

Bernard Malamud    wrote    The Fixer Pulitizer Prize and National Book Award winner, 1967

Bernard Malamud    wrote    The Natural His first novel in 1952

Bernhard Schlink    wrote    The Reader Schlink's novel was a huge commercial success not only in his native country but in the English-speaking world, becoming the first German novel to top the New York Times bestseller list when it was translated two years later.

Bertolt Brecht    wrote    Threepenny Novel Evolved from 'The Threepenny Opera'

Bessie Head    wrote    A Question of Power Bessie Head is usually considered Botswana's most important writer.

Betty Smith    wrote    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn A nationwide best-seller that was distributed to servicemen overseas.

B. F. Skinner    wrote    Walden Two 1948. A utopian novel

Boccaccio    wrote    Decameron A collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353. It is a medieval allegorical work best known for its bawdy tales of love, appearing in all its possibilities from the erotic to the tragic.

Boris Pasternak    wrote    Doctor Zhivago As the book was frowned upon by the Soviet authorities, Doctor Zhivago was smuggled abroad by his friend Isaiah Berlin. In 1958 and 1959, the American edition spent 26 weeks at the top of The New York Times' bestseller list.

Bram Stoker    wrote    Dracula An epistolary novel told as a series of diary entries and letters. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, the novel's influence on the popularity of vampires has been singularly responsible for many theatrical, film and television interpretations throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.

Brendan Behan    wrote    Borstal Boy An autobiographical novel by Irish nationalist Brendan Behan, recounting his imprisonment at Hollesley Bay for carrying explosives into the United Kingdom, with intent to cause explosions on a mission for the I.R.A.. T

Bruce Chatwin    wrote    On the Black Hill Published in 1982 and winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for that year.

B. S. Johnson    wrote    Albert Angelo Published in 1964, the book achieved fame for having holes cut in several pages as a narrative technique.

B. S. Johnson    wrote    House Mother Normal A novel by the experimental writer B.S. Johnson. As is typical of Johnson's work the novel is written in an unorthodox style.

Carlo Levi    wrote    Christ Stopped at Eboli 1945. Gives an account of his exile from 1935-1936 to Aliano, a remote town in southern Italy, in the region of Lucania which is known today as Basilicata. In the book he gives the town the invented name 'Gagliano'.

Carol Shields    wrote    Larry's Party 1997 Winner of the Orange Prize, and the Prix de Livre

Carol Shields    wrote    The Stone Diaries Won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada.

Carol Shields    wrote    Unless 2002 winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, shortlisted for the 2003 Orange Prize

Carson McCullers    wrote    The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940. Made the best-seller lists in 1940. Time Magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.

Carson McCullers    wrote    Member of the Wedding The book has been adapted for the stage, motion pictures, and television.

Cees Nooteboom    wrote    All Souls Day A Dutch author. He has won the Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren, the P. C. Hooft Award, the Pegasus Prize, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the Constantijn Huygens Prize, and has frequently been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature.

Cees Nooteboom    wrote    The Following Story Het Volgende Verhaal". Won him the Aristeion Prize in 1993

Cesare Pavese    wrote    The Moon and the Bonfires An English translation of the novel 'La Luna e i Falò'. The book was written in Italian in 1949. It is considered Pavese's best novel. Pavese is an Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator; he is widely considered among the major authors of the 20th century in his home country.

Charles Bukowski    wrote    Factotum Factotum was adapted into a film of the same name starring Matt Dillon in 2005.

Charles Bukowski    wrote    Post Office His first novel, 1971. Post Office may be said to be an autobiographical account of Bukowski's later years.

Charles Dickens    wrote    Barnaby Rudge Historical novel with plot based on the "no-popery" or Gordon riots of 1780 in Great Britain

Charles Dickens    wrote    Bleak House Dicken's 9th novel is an assault on the flaws of the British judiciary system in the 1800's

Charles Dickens    wrote    A Christmas Carol Written as a potboiler to enable Dickens to pay off a debt

Charles Dickens    wrote    David Copperfield The most autobiographical of his novels, it comes at the mid-point of Dickens' career

Charles Dickens    wrote    Dombey and Son Deals with the then-prevalent practice of arranged marriages for financial gain or as a form of slavery

Charles Dickens    wrote    Great Expectations Criticized for its excessive use of words due, it is said, to the fact he was paid by installment for his serialised work

Charles Dickens    wrote    Hard Times The shortest of his novels, it was set in Coketown, not in London

Charles Dickens    wrote    The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Comic novel that takes aim at social injustices

Charles Dickens    wrote    Little Dorrit A satire on debtor's prisons - each issue of Little Dorrit's 19 installments cost one shilling (except the last which cost two)

Charles Dickens    wrote    Martin Chuzzlewit Depicts America satirically as a near wilderness filled with deceit

Charles Dickens    wrote    The Old Curiosity Shop Follows the life of Little Nell and her grandfather, residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London

Charles Dickens    wrote    Oliver Twist One of the first English language novels to feature a child protagonist

Charles Dickens    wrote    Our Mutual Friend Dickens' last completed novel; also the most challenging and complicated

Charles Dickens    wrote    The Pickwick Papers Dickens' first novel, written as a serial in 19 issues

Charles Dickens    wrote    A Tale of Two Cities A historical novel centering on the years leading up to the French Revolution

Charles Frazier    wrote    Cold Mountain National Book Award, 1997; made into a popular movie

Charles Frazier    wrote    Thirteen Moons 2006; his second novel after 'Cold Mountain'. Charles Frazier was given an advance payment of over $8 million for a proposal that became 'Thirteen Moons'. The book had an initial print run of 750,000 copies, but sold only approximately half of them. It is estimated that Random House lost $5.5 million on the advance

Charles Reznikoff    wrote    By the Waters of Manhattan Title exists in three different lives; as novel, anthology, and verse

Charles Webb    wrote    The Graduate Made into the very successful film 'The Graduate'.

Charlotte Brontë    wrote    Jane Eyre Classic romance novel about a governess whose employer falls in love with her

Charlotte Brontë    wrote    Shirley Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell). The novel's popularity led to Shirley becoming a woman's name. In the novel, Shirley Keeldar, the title character was given the name that her father had intended to give a son. Before the publication of the novel, Shirley was an uncommon - but distinctly male - name and would have been an unusual name for a woman.

Charlotte Brontë    wrote    Villette Villette is most commonly celebrated for its explorations of gender roles and repression.

Charlotte Lennox    wrote    The Female Quixote Lennox's second and most successful novel, 'The Female Quixote, or, The Adventures of Arabella'.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman    wrote    Herland A Utopian novel which describes an isolated society composed entirely of women who reproduce via parthenogenesis.

Chester Hines    wrote    Blind Man With a Pistol One of the Harlem Detective novels

Chinua Achebe    wrote    Anthills of the Savannah A finalist for the 1987 Booker Prize for Fiction, it has been described as the "most important novel to come out of Africa in the [1980s]

Chinua Achebe    wrote    Arrow of God It is Achebe's third novel following Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease. These three books are sometimes called The African Trilogy. Arrow of God won the first ever Jock Campbell/New Statesman Prize for African writing.

Chinua Achebe    wrote    A Man of the People 1966 satirical novel. It is Achebe's fourth novel.

Chinua Achebe    wrote    No Longer at Ease The book's title comes from the closing lines of T. S. Eliot's poem, The Journey of the Magi.

Chinua Achebe    wrote    Things Fall Apart It is a staple book in schools throughout Africa and widely read and studied in English-speaking countries around the world. It is seen as the archetypal modern African novel in English, and one of the first African novels written in English to receive global critical acclaim.

Christa Wolf    wrote    Patterns of Childhood Wolf is one of the best-known writers to emerge from the former East Germany.

Chuck Palahniuk    wrote    Fight Club Challenges the state of masculinity in American culture

Chuck Palahniuk    wrote    Survivor The book's chapters and page numbers are put into reverse order - it begins with Chapter 47 on page 289 and ends with Chapter 1 on page 1.

Cicero    wrote    On Old Age An essay written by Cicero in 44 BC on the subject of aging and death. In addition to its profound subject matter, it has remained popular because its clear and beautiful language have made it a useful example for teaching Latin to students.

Clarice Lispector    wrote    Near to the Wild Heart Won the prestigious Graça Aranha Prize.

Clarice Lispector    wrote    The Passion According to G.H. 1964. A mystical novel. The work takes the form of a monologue by a woman, identified only as G.H., telling of the crisis that ensued the previous day after she crushed a cockroach in the door of a wardrobe. Its canonical status was recognized in 1988 by its inclusion in the Arquivos Collection, the UNESCO series of critical editions of the greatest works of Latin American literature.

Colin MacInnes    wrote    Absolute Beginners He novel is the second of MacInnes' London Trilogy, coming after City Of Spades (1958) and before Mr. Love and Justice (1960). These novels are each self-contained, with no shared characters.

Colleen McCullough    wrote    The Thorn Birds 2004. Best-seller made into a very successful miniseries.

Colm Tóibín    wrote    The Blackwater Lightship Shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize and the 2001 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Colm Tóibín    wrote    The Master Won the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, was shortlisted for the 2004 Booker Prize, won the L.A. Times Novel of the Year, the Stonewall Book Award & the Lambda Literary Award, and was listed by The New York Times as one of the 10 most notable books of 2004.

Comte De Lautréaumont    wrote    The Songs of Maldoror Les Chants de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror) is a poetic novel (or a long prose poem) consisting of six cantos.

Cormac McCarthy    wrote    All the Pretty Horses National Book Award, 1992

Cormac McCarthy    wrote    Blood Meridian 1985. Was among Time Magazine's poll of 100 best English-language books published between 1923 and 2005 and he placed joint runner-up for a similar title in a poll taken in 2006 by The New York Times of the best American fiction published in the last 25 years.

Cormac McCarthy    wrote    The Road The novel was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006.

Daniel Defoe    wrote    A Journal of the Plague Year Thought by some to be non-fiction it is actually a fictionalised account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London.

Daniel Defoe    wrote    Moll Flanders A lower class woman travels among the wealthy and exposes their vanity and shallowness. The full title is 'The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, Etc. Who Was Born In Newgate, and During a Life of Continu'd Variety For Threescore Years, Besides Her Childhood, Was Twelve Year a Whore, Five Times a Wife [Whereof Once To Her Own Brother], Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon In Virginia, At Last Grew Rich, Liv'd Honest, and Died a Penitent. Written from her own Memorandums.'

Daniel Defoe    wrote    Robinson Crusoe Often regarded as the first novel in English, it is a fictional autobiography of an English castaway and his rescue. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest practitioners of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain, and is even referred to by some as one of the founders of the English novel.

Daniel Defoe    wrote    Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress The full title of the novel is 'Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress Or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess de Wintselsheim'.

Daphne Du Maurier    wrote    Jamaica Inn Best-seller. Made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock.

Daphne Du Maurier    wrote    Rebecca Best-seller with the famous opening line, "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." The classic, haunting story of love, and mystery.

Dashiell Hammett    wrote    The Glass Key The Glass Key award (Glasnyckeln) is named after the novel and is presented annually for the best crime novel by a Scandinavian author.

Dashiell Hammett    wrote    The Maltese Falcon The main character, Sam Spade, appears only in this novel and in three lesser known short stories, yet is widely cited as the crystallizing figure in the development of the hard-boiled private detective genre. Originally serialized in the magazine "Black Mask".

Dashiell Hammett    wrote    The Thin Man Basis for a successful film series and a 1950's television series

David Dabydeen    wrote    A Harlot's Progress James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction) (shortlist)

David Foster Wallace    wrote    Infinite Jest Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005 list.

David Jones    wrote    In Parenthesis Won the Hawthornden Prize. Written in a mixture of verse and prose: it defies categorization as either poem or novel, and critics still differ as to what term best applies.

David Leavitt    wrote    Lost Language of Cranes The first novel by David Leavitt, and deals primarily with the difficulties a young gay man, Philip, has in coming out to his parents

David Markson    wrote    Wittgenstein’s Mistress Though Markson's original manuscript was rejected 54 times, the book, when finally published it met with critical acclaim.

David Mitchell    wrote    Cloud Atlas A young Pacific islander witnesses the nightfall of science and civilisation, while questions of history are explored in a series of seemingly disconnected narratives. Cloud Atlas was shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

David Mitchell    wrote    Number9dream Shortlisted for the 2002 Man Booker Prize for fiction. It is set in modern day Tokyo and tells the story of Eiji Miyake's search for his father.

David Peace    wrote    Nineteen Seventy Seven Part of the Red-Riding Quartet comprises the novels Nineteen Seventy-Four (1999), Nineteen Seventy-Seven (2000), Nineteen Eighty (2001) and Nineteen Eighty-Three (2002), which deal with police corruption, set against a backdrop of the Yorkshire Ripper murders, and feature several recurring characters across the four books. Red Riding, a TV adaptation of the series, aired in the UK in 2009.

Denis Diderot    wrote    Jacques the Fatalist 'Jacques le Fataliste et Son Maître'

Denis Diderot    wrote    The Nun The novel was supposedly begun originally not as a work for literary consumption but as an elaborate practical joke aimed at luring the Marquis de Croismare, a companion of Diderot's, back to Paris. The novel is told in a series of letters purporting to be from a nun, Suzanne, who implores the Marquis to help her in renouncing her vows, and describes her intolerable life in the convent. Diderot later revised the letters into a novel and publicly revealed his role in the ruse.

Denis Diderot    wrote    Rameau’s Nephew Rameau's Nephew, or the Second Satire (French: Le Neveu de Rameau ou La Satire seconde) is an imaginary philosophical conversation

Dan Gerber    wrote    American Atlas Gerber's experiences are expressed in this novel, as with later novels such as Out of Control and A Voice from the River, through the story of man's search for meaning and purpose in life. In these works Gerber dramatizes his characters' reevaluations of career, family life, and values.

D. H. Lawrence    wrote    Lady Chatterley's Lover Its publication in 1928 caused a scandal due to its explicit sex scenes. Not printed in the UK until 1960.

D. H. Lawrence    wrote    The Rainbow Subject of an obscenity trial in 1915. Copies were seized and burned. Banned in UK for 11 years.

D. H. Lawrence    wrote    Sons and Lovers This autobiographical novel is 9th on the list of the 100 best novels in English of the 20th century (Modern Library)

D. H. Lawrence    wrote    Women in Love It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula.

Dino Buzzati    wrote    The Tartar Steppe Dino Buzzati Traverso was an Italian novelist, short story writer, painter and poet, as well as a journalist for Corriere della Sera. His worldwide fame is mostly due to this novel 'Il deserto dei Tartari'.

Djuna Barnes    wrote    Nightwood Nightwood became a cult work of modern fiction, helped by an introduction by T. S. Eliot. It stands out today for its portrayal of lesbian themes and its distinctive writing style.

Donald Barthelme    wrote    The Dead Father 1975. The Dead Father fully supports Barthelme's claim that in the contemporary age, physicist Werner Heisenberg's "uncertainty principle is our song of songs."

Donald Barthelme    wrote    King Clever anachronisms and mock-Arthurian diction mark this madcap, absurdist 20th-century parable, in which Barthelme transposes King Arthur and his Round Table to 1940s England under Nazi bombardment.

Donald Barthelme    wrote    Paradise Paradise touches on a wide variety of themes as it explores the experiences, thoughts, and memories of its central character, Simon. Marriage, sexual and economic power, midlife crisis, generation gaps, male inadequacy, male fantasy, the element of fear in urban life, the responsibility of the artist, feminism, and religious ideas of guilt and grace all appear

Donald Barthelme    wrote    Snow White Snow White re-contextualizes the famous fairy tale as a 1960s commune consisting of seven men and one woman, and satirizes the sociopolitical issues infesting that turbulent decade.

Don DeLillo    wrote    Libra It focuses on the life of Lee Harvey Oswald and offers a speculative account of the events that shaped the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Don DeLillo    wrote    Underworld Underworld was the runner-up on the New York Times' survey of the best work of American fiction in the last 25 years, announced in May 2006.

Don DeLillo    wrote    White Noise Won the National Book Award

Donna Tartt    wrote    The Little Friend The novel won the WH Smith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2003.

Doris Lessing    wrote    The Four Gated City Regarded as one of Lessing's most important works. The book, which finishes like a science fiction story with its bloody end to an epoch, created a stir upon publication, with claims that the novel promoted communism.

Doris Lessing    wrote    The Golden Notebook 1962. Time Magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005

Doris Lessing    wrote    The Good Terrorist The novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and received The W.H. Smith Literary Award (1985) and the Italian Mondello Prize (1985)

Doris Lessing    wrote    The Grass is Singing Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was described by the Swedish Academy as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny". Lessing is the 11th woman to win the prize in its 106-year history, and also the oldest person ever to win the literature award.

Dorothy Richardson    wrote    Pointed Roofs Novel 1 in the Pilgramage series. Richardson was the first writer to publish an English-language novel using what was to become known as the stream-of-consciousness technique. Her 13 novel sequence Pilgrimage is considered one of the great 20th C works of modernist and feminist literature in English.

Dan Sleigh    wrote    Islands This novel covers the first half-century or so of Dutch settlement at the Cape, opening with a view from the inside of a Khoi nation, the Goringhaicona, under the leadership of Autshumao, dubbed "chief Harry" by early English visitors.

E. Annie Proulx    wrote    Postcards Won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her first novel

E. Annie Proulx    wrote    The Shipping News National Book Award, 1993; Pulitizer Prize, 1994

Edgar Rice Burroughs    wrote    Tarzan of the Apes The first in a series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was first published in the pulp magazine All-Story Magazine

Edith Wharton    wrote    The Age of Innocence Won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize

Edith Wharton    wrote    Ethan Frome An unnamed narrator recounts his encounter with a man from Starkfield, Massachusetts (1911)

Edith Wharton    wrote    The House of Mirth 1905. A novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society. It is one of the first novels of manners in American literature.

Edith Wharton    wrote    Summer He story is one of only two novels by Wharton to be set in New England; Wharton was best known for her portrayals of upper class New York society.

Edmund White    wrote    A Boy’s Own Story The 1st of an autobiographical-fiction series that continued with 'The Beautiful Room Is Empty' and 'The Farewell Symphony', describing stages in the life of a gay man from boyhood to middle age.

Edna O’Brien    wrote    The Country Girls The first in a trilogy.

Edna O’Brien    wrote    Wild Decembers Made into a movie of the same name.

Edward Paul Abbey    wrote    The Monkey Wrench Gang Easily Abbey's most famous fiction work, the novel concerns the use of sabotage to protest environmentally damaging activities in the American Southwest, and was so influential that the term "monkeywrench" has come to mean, besides sabotage and damage to machines, any action to preserve wilderness and ecosystems.

Edwin Abbott    wrote    Onesimus Religious romance by the author of Flatland

Edwin Abbott    wrote    Philochristus Religious romance by the author of Flatland

Edwin Abbott    wrote    Sitanus Religious romance by the author of Flatland

E. E. Cummings    wrote    The Enormous Room Autobiographical novel by the poet and novelist E. E. Cummings about his temporary imprisonment in France during World War I.

E. L. Doctorow    wrote    Billy Bathgate Won the PEN/Faulkner Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and received the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for the best novel of the previous five-year period.

E. L. Doctorow    wrote    The Book of Daniel Nominated for a National Book Award, it fictionalized the story of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed in 1953 for allegedly giving nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union.

E. L. Doctorow    wrote    Ragtime Received the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

E. L. Doctorow    wrote    World's Fair National Book Award, 1986

Elfriede Jelinek    wrote    The Piano Teacher Translation of 'Die Klavierspielerin' by Joachim NeugroschelJelinek was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004.

Elias Canetti    wrote    Auto-da-Fé Canetti won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981. (Original title 'Die Blendung', 'The Blinding')

Elio Vittorini    wrote    In Sicily First appeared in serial form in 'Letteratura' in 1938, and was first published as the novel 'Nome e Lagrime'.

Elizabeth Bowen    wrote    The Death of the Heart Set between the two world wars. It is about a sixteen year old orphan, Portia Quayne, who moves to London to live with her half-brother Thomas and falls in love with Eddie, a friend of her sister-in-law. The novel was adapted into a 1986 TV miniseries.

Elizabeth Bowen    wrote    Eva Trout Her final novel.

Elizabeth Bowen    wrote    The House in Paris The novel has been called "one of Elizabeth Bowen's most artful and psychologically astute novels".

Elizabeth Bowen    wrote    The Last September Concerns life at the country mansion of Danielstown, Cork during the Irish War of Independence.

Elizabeth Gaskell    wrote    Cranford The best-known novel of the 19th century English writer. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the magazine Household Words, which was edited by Charles Dickens.

Elizabeth Gaskell    wrote    Mary Barton Her first novel. The story is set in the English city of Manchester during the 1830s and 1840s and deals heavily with the difficulties faced by the Victorian lower class.

Elizabeth Gaskell    wrote    North and South Originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens.

Elizabeth Gaskell    wrote    Wives and Daughters Story about Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a widowed doctor in a provincial English town in the 1830's. First published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866. When Mrs Gaskell died suddenly in 1865, it was not quite complete, and the last section was written by Frederick Greenwood.

Elizabeth Taylor    wrote    Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont Not of movie fame, Ms. Taylor was born and educated in Reading, lived in Buckinghamshire; was a governess and librarian

Elmore Leonard    wrote    Get Shorty The novel was adapted into a film of the same name.

E. M. Forster    wrote    Howards End A class struggle in turn-of-the-century England (1910)

E. M. Forster    wrote    A Passage to India Set during the Indian independence movement of the 1920's, it foreshadows the end of the British Raj.

E. M. Forster    wrote    A Room With A View The romance of a young woman in sexually repressed Edwardian England

E. M. Forster    wrote    Where Angels Fear to Tread Originally entitled 'Monteriano'. The title comes from a line in Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism: "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread".

Emily Brontë    wrote    Wuthering Heights Bronte's only novel is considered a classic of English literature (1847)

Erich Maria Remarque    wrote    All Quiet on the Western Front War novel. The book describes in graphic detail the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental duress experienced during fighting in this war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front.

Erica Jong    wrote    Fear of Flying This 1973 novel, controversial for its attitudes on female sexuality, played a role in the development of feminism

Erica Jong    wrote    Sappho's Leap B. 1942

Ernest Hemingway    wrote    A Farewell To Arms The novel is told through the point of view of Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American serving as an ambulance driver in the Italian army during World War I. The title is taken from a poem by 16th century English dramatist George Peele. Widely regarded to be amongst Hemingway's greatest works.

Ernest Hemingway    wrote    For Whom the Bell Tolls The title is taken from "Meditation XVII," a metaphysical poem by John Donne ("No man is an island," etc.). This novel is widely regarded to be amongst Hemingway's greatest works.

Ernest Hemingway    wrote    The Old Man and the Sea This novella is the last major work of fiction for Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway    wrote    The Sun Also Rises First significant novel by Hemingway centers on a group of expatriate Americans in Europe in the 1920's

Erskine Caldwell    wrote    God's Little Acre The novel was so controversial that a literary board in New York attempted to censor it, leading to the author's arrest and trial for obscenity. Exonerated after a jury trial, the author counter-sued the literary society for false arrest and malicious prosecution. It is laced throughout with racy innuendo, calling into question the issue of marital fidelity

Erskine Caldwell    wrote    Tobacco Road 1932. Tobacco Road is set in Augusta, Georgia during the worst years of the Great Depression.

Erskine Childers    wrote    The Riddle of the Sands Childers was an Irish nationalist, who was executed by the authorities of the nascent Irish Free State during the Irish Civil War. The Observer, in a "fundamentally English" list, listed the book as #37 on its list of "The 100 Greatest Novels" from the past 300 years.

Esther Freud    wrote    Hideous Kinky An autobiographical novel

Eudora Welty    wrote    A Curtain of Green Short story. Welty was the first living author to have her works published by the Library of America.

Eudora Welty    wrote    The Optimist's Daughter Pulitizer Prize, 1973

Evelyn Waugh    wrote    Brideshead Revisited 1945. Full title: 'Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder'.

Evelyn Waugh    wrote    Decline and Fall A social satire that employs the author's characteristic black humour in lampooning various features of British society in the 1920s.

Evelyn Waugh    wrote    A Handful of Dust It is included in Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels, and Time Magazine's 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. The title is an allusion to T. S. Eliot's 1922 poem The Waste Land.

Evelyn Waugh    wrote    Scoop Based partly on his experience working for the Daily Mail. Waugh scooped a story on Mussolini's invasion of Abyssinia.

Evelyn Waugh    wrote    Vile Bodies Satirises decadent young London society between World War I and World War II. The title comes from the Epistle to the Philippians 3:21.

Fanny Burney    wrote    Camilla Subtitled A Picture of Youth. Published in 1796

Fanny Burney    wrote    Cecilia Subtitled Memoirs of an Heiress. Set in 1779 and published in 1782.

Fanny Burney    wrote    Evelina Subtitled 'The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World'.

Fielding Dawson    wrote    A Great Day for a Ballgame 'A Great Day for a Ballgame: A Conscious Love Story'. A male-perspective love story.

Flannery O’Connor    wrote    The Violent Bear It Away Her 2nd and final novel. It is the story of Francis Tarwater, a fourteen-year-old boy who is trying to escape his destiny: the life of a prophet.

Flannery O’Connor    wrote    Wise Blood Her first novel.

Flann O’Brien    wrote    At Swim-Two-Birds It is widely considered to be O'Brien's masterpiece, and one of the most sophisticated examples of metafiction.

Flann O’Brien    wrote    The Third Policeman A novel by Irish author Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien. Was published after his death.

Ford Madox Ford    wrote    The Good Soldier It is set just before World War I and chronicles the tragedies of the lives of two seemingly perfect couples. Uses a series of flashbacks, a literary technique that Ford pioneered.

Ford Madox Ford    wrote    Parade’s End A tetralogy (four related novels) by Ford Madox Ford published between 1924 and 1928. It is set in England and on the Western Front in World War I, where Ford served as an officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. The four novels were originally published under the titles: Some Do Not... (1924), No More Parades (1925), A Man Could Stand Up (1926), and The Last Post (1928). The compilation was ranked at number 57 on the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels list.

Françoise Rabelais    wrote    Gargantua and Pantagruel A connected series of 5 novels written in the 16th C. It is the story of two giants, a father (Gargantua) and his son (Pantagruel) and their adventures, written in an amusing, extravagant, satirical vein. There is much crudity and scatological humor as well as a large amount of violence. Long lists of vulgar insults fill several chapters.

Françoise Sagan    wrote    Bonjour Tristesse Published in 1954, when the author was only eighteen, it caused an overnight sensation. The title is derived from a poem by Paul Éluard, "À peine défigurée,".

Françoise Sagan    wrote    Goodbye Again American version of Aimez-vous Brahms

François Mauriac    wrote    The Desert of Love 1925. 'Le Désert de l'amour'. Awarded the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française. Generally regarded as the best book of the Nobel Prize winning Mauriac.

François Mauriac    wrote    Therese 1927 His characters exist in a tortured universe; nature is evil and man eternally prone to sin.

François Mauriac    wrote    Vipers' Tangle 1941 His novels are imbued with his profound, though nonconformist, Roman Catholicism.

Franz Kafka    wrote    Amerika Also known as 'Der Verschollene' or 'The Man Who Disappeared', was the incomplete first novel of author Franz Kafka, published posthumously in 1927. The novel originally began as a short story titled The Stoker.

Franz Kafka    wrote    The Castle Dark and at times surreal, The Castle is about alienation, bureaucracy, and the seemingly endless frustrations of man's attempts to stand against the system.

Franz Kafka    wrote    Metamorphosis A novella about a traveling salesman who wakes transformed into a "montstrous vermin."

Franz Kafka    wrote    The Trial Josef K is arrested and subjected to the judicial process for an unspecified crime

Frederick Exley    wrote    A Fan's Notes 1968 Subtitled "A Fictional Memoir" and categorized as fiction, the book is somewhat autobiographical. The novel was nominated for the National Book Award. It also received the William Faulkner Award for best first novel, the Rosenthal Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and earned Exley a Rockefeller Foundation grant worth $10,000

Frederick Exley    wrote    Last Notes From Home 1988 The final novel of his semi-autobiographical trilogy.

Frederick Exley    wrote    Pages From a Cold Island 1975. The 2nd novel of his semi-autobiographical trilogy.

Frederick Manfred    wrote    Lord Grizzly Manfred's most successful book, and a finalist for the National Book Award in 1954.

Frederick Rolfe    wrote    Hadrian the Seventh Rolfe wrote under the pseudonym "Baron Corvo". Rolfe's most well known work, this novel of extreme wish-fulfilment developed out of an article he wrote on the Papal Conclave to elect the successor to Pope Leo XIII.

Frederic Manning    wrote    Her Privates We An expurgated version of 'The Middle Parts of Fortune'. The original publication of this edition credited authorship to "Private 19022", possibly a simple desire for anonymity or possibly a further pun on "private soldier" and "private parts"

Friedrich Hölderlin    wrote    Hyperion The full title is Hyperion oder Der Eremit in Griechenland. The work is composed of letters from Hyperion to his friends Bellarmin and the writer Diotima. It is set in Greece and deals with invisible forces, conflicts, beauty, and hope.

Friedrich Nietzsche    wrote    Thus Spoke Zarathustra 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None' is a philosophical novel.

F. Scott Fitzgerald    wrote    The Beautiful and the Damned 1922. The novel provides an excellent portrait of the Eastern elite as the Jazz Age begins its ascent, engulfing all classes into what will soon be known as Café Society. As with all of his other novels, it is a brilliant character study and is also an early account of the complexities of marriage and intimacy that were further explored in 'Tender Is the Night'.

F. Scott Fitzgerald    wrote    The Great Gatsby A chronical of the "Jazz Age". Time magazine's #7 in its list of the Ten Greatest Books of All Time.

F. Scott Fitzgerald    wrote    Tender is the Night 1934. It is ranked #28 on the Modern Library's list of the 100 Greatest Novels of the 20th Century.

F. Scott Fitzgerald    wrote    This Side of Paradise 1920. Fitzgerald's debut novel. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem 'Tiare Tahiti', the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth.

Fyodor Dostoevsky    wrote    The Brothers Karamazov Dostoyevsky intended it to be the first part in an epic story titled The Life of a Great Sinner, but he died less than four months after its publication.

Fyodor Dostoevsky    wrote    Crime and Punishment Story about the murder of a miserly pawnbroker, her younger sister, and the effects that follow.

Fyodor Dostoevsky    wrote    The Devils There are at least three popular translations: The Possessed, The Devils, and Demons.

Fyodor Dostoevsky    wrote    The Gambler The novella reflects Dostoevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for the book: Dostoevsky completed the novella under a strict deadline so he could pay off gambling debts.

Fyodor Dostoevsky    wrote    The Idiot Dostoyevsky's motives for writing The Idiot stem from his desire to depict the "positively good man".

Fyodor Dostoevsky    wrote    Notes from the Underground A short novel. It is considered by many to be the world's first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg.

Gabriel García Márquez    wrote    The Autumn of the Patriarch A "poem on the solitude of power" according to the author, the novel is a flowing tract on the life of an eternal dictator. The book is divided into six sections, each retelling the same story of the infinite power held by the archetypical Caribbean tyrant.

Gabriel García Márquez    wrote    Chronicle of a Death Foretold Novella. It tells, in the form of a pseudo-journalistic reconstruction, the story of the murder of Santiago Nasar by the two Vicario brothers.

Gabriel García Márquez    wrote    The General in His Labyrinth It is a fictionalized account of the last days of Simón Bolívar, liberator and leader of Gran Colombia. First published in 1989, the book traces Bolívar's final journey from Bogotá to the Caribbean coastline of Colombia in his attempt to leave South America for exile in Europe.

Gabriel García Márquez    wrote    Love in the Time of Cholera A fifty year love triangle about unrequited love and the nobility of suffering

Gabriel García Márquez    wrote    No One Writes to the Colonel A novella written by the Colombian novelist and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez.

Gabriel García Márquez    wrote    One Hundred Years of Solitude Metaphorically encompasses the history of Colombia. It was an immense commercial success, becoming the best-selling book in Spanish in modern history, after 'Don Quixote'

Geoffrey Chaucer    wrote    Canterbury Tales A collection of stories written in the 14th C (2 of them in prose, the remaining twenty-two in verse). The tales are contained inside a frame tale and told by a collection of pilgrims on a pilgrimage from Southwark to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.

George Eliot    wrote    Adam Bede A.k.a. Mary Ann Evans, this was her first novel in 1859

George Eliot    wrote    Daniel Deronda Many critics accuse the novel as a propaganda tool to encourage British patriation of Palestine to the Jews.

George Eliot    wrote    Middlemarch Victorian era novel and Time magazine's #10 in their list of "The 10 Greatest Books of All Time"

George Eliot    wrote    The Mill on the Floss A brother and sister grow up on the fictional river Floss in the 1820's

George Eliot    wrote    Silas Marner Written during the Industrial Revolution and may be a reaction against it. (1861)

George Gissing    wrote    Born in Exile Gissing was one of the most accomplished realists of the late-Victorian era.

George Gissing    wrote    New Grub Street Set in the literary and journalistic circles of 1880s London.

George Orwell    wrote    Animal Farm Famous satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism during the Stalin era.

George Orwell    wrote    Burmese Days A tale about the waning days of British imperialism after World War I.

George Orwell    wrote    Coming Up for Air It is the most culturally English of his novels with alarums of war mingling with images of an idyllic Thames-side Edwardian childhood. The novel is pessimistic - industrialism and capitalism have killed the best of Old England, and there are great, new external threats.

George Orwell    wrote    Keep the Aspidistra Flying It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is the protagonist's romantic ambition to give up money and status, and the dismal life that results.

Georges Bataille    wrote    The Abbot C Georges Bataille's first published novella. It is a work of dark eroticism, centred on the relationship between two nineteenth century brothers in a small French village, one of whom is a Catholic parish priest, while the other is a libertine. It explores issues of split subjectivity and existentialist bad faith.

Georges Bataille    wrote    Blue Noon A transgressive novella of erotic fiction

Georges Bataille    wrote    Story of the Eye A novella written by Georges Bataille and published in 1928 that details the increasingly bizarre sexual perversions of a pair of teenage lovers. It is narrated by the young man looking back on his exploits. It takes its title from an eye which the narrator extracts from the socket of one of his victims, and which is then used as a sexual fetish.

Georges Perec    wrote    Life: A User’s Manual An immensely complex and rich work; a tapestry of interwoven stories and ideas and literary and historical allusions, based on the lives of the inhabitants of a fictitious Parisian apartment block, 11 Rue Simon-Crubellier (no such street exists, although the quadrangle Perec claims Simon-Crubellier cuts through does exist in Paris XVII). It was written according to a complex plan of writing constraints, and is primarily constructed from several elements, each adding a layer of complexity.

Georges Perec    wrote    A Void A 300 page French lipogrammatic novel, written in 1969, entirely without the letter e (except for the author's name), following Oulipo constraints.

Georges Perec    wrote    W, or the Memory of Childhood Consists of alternating chapters of autobiography and of a fictional story, divided into two parts.

George & Weedon Grossmith    wrote    The Diary of a Nobody English comic novel spawning the word "Pooterism" to describe a tendency to take oneself too seriously.

Gert Hofmann    wrote    The Parable of the Blind Inspired by Parabel der Blinden (1568), a painting by artist Pieter Bruegel, the short novel tells the story of the work's creation from the point of view of the 6 blind men depicted in the painting.