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Isaac Asimov    wrote    Nightfall and Other Stories 1969. Sci Fi short story collection.

Isabel Allende    wrote    City of the Beasts 2002

Isabel Allende    wrote    The House of the Spirits 1982; b. 1942, Chile

Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)    wrote    Out of Africa

Ismail Kadare    wrote    Broken April

Ismail Kadare    wrote    Spring Flowers, Spring Frost

Italo Calvino    wrote    The Baron in the Trees 1957

Italo Calvino    wrote    The Castle of Crossed Destinies

Italo Calvino    wrote    The Cloven Viscount 1951

Italo Calvino    wrote    If On a Winter's Night a Traveler It's about a reader trying to read a book

Italo Calvino    wrote    Invisible Cities 1972

Italo Calvino    wrote    Mr. Palomar 1983

Italo Calvino    wrote    The Non-Existent Knight 1959

Italo Calvino    wrote    Our Ancestors

Italo Calvino    wrote    The Path to the Nest of Spiders

Italo Svevo    wrote    Zeno’s Conscience

Ivan Goncharov    wrote    Oblomovka

Ivo Andrio    wrote    The Bridge on the Drina

Ivan Turgenev    wrote    Fathers and Sons

Ivan Turgenev    wrote    King Lear of the Steppes

Ivan Turgenev    wrote    On the Eve

Ivan Turgenev    wrote    Spring Torrents

Ivan Turgenev    wrote    Virgin Soil

Jack Kerouac    wrote    Doctor Sax The great alchemist is ultimately revealed to be quite ordinary

Jack Kerouac    wrote    On the Road Typed on one long scroll of teletype paper in three weeks with no margins, singlespaced, and no paragraph breaks

Jack Kerouac    wrote    The Subterraneans Semi-fictional account of the author's romance with an African American woman named Alene Lee

Jack London    wrote    The Call of the Wild Novella about a domesticated dog whose primordial instincts return when he becomes a sled dog

Jack London    wrote    The Iron Heel

Jack London    wrote    Martin Eden

Jack London    wrote    Sea Wolf

Jack London    wrote    To Build a Fire Short story about a man and his dog and the attempt to survive in the frigid Yukon

Jack London    wrote    White Fang

Jacob Abbott    wrote    Rollo at Play

Jacob Abbott    wrote    Rollo at Work

Jacob Abbott    wrote    Rollo in Europe

Jacques Prévert    wrote    Paroles Prévert: 1900-1977

James Agee    wrote    A Death in the Family Pulitizer Prize, 1958, won posthumously

James Agee    wrote    Let Us Now Praise Famous Men 1941

James Baldwin    wrote    Giovanni’s Room

James Baldwin    wrote    Go Tell It On the Mountain 1953; autobiographical novel

James Baldwin    wrote    Notes of a Native Son 1955

James Baldwin    wrote    Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone 1968

James Boswell    wrote    Life of Johnson

James Ellroy    wrote    The Black Dahlia

James Ellroy    wrote    LA Confidential Crime novel about police corruption in Los Angeles

James Fenimore Cooper    wrote    The Last of the Mohicans

James Hogg    wrote    The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

James Jones    wrote    From Here to Eternity National Book Award, 1952; made into a movie, 1953

James Jones    wrote    Some Came Running

James Jones    wrote    The Thin Red Line

James Joyce    wrote    Dubliners

James Joyce    wrote    Finnegan's Wake Joyce's last novel took seventeen years to complete

James Joyce    wrote    Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man A semi-autobiographical novel published as a serial in "The Egoist" from 1914 to 1915

James Joyce    wrote    Ulysses A massive novel of 250,000 words; first on a list of the 100 best English novels of the 20th century by "Modern Library"

James Kelman    wrote    The Bus Conductor Hines

James Kelman    wrote    A Disaffection

James Kelman    wrote    How Late It Was, How Late

James M. Cain    wrote    The Postman Always Rings Twice

James Michener    wrote    Hawaii

James Michener    wrote    Tales of the South Pacific

James Plunkett    wrote    The Trusting and the Maimed

James Stephens    wrote    The Charwoman’s Daughter

James T. Farrell    wrote    Studs Lonigan

James Thurber    wrote    The 13 Clocks

James Thurber    wrote    The Wonderful “O”

James Wright    wrote    The Branch Shall Not Break 1963

James Wright    wrote    Shall We Gather At the River 1968

James Wright    wrote    Two Citizens 1973; Wright, 1927-1980

Jamie O’Neill    wrote    At Swim, Two Boys

Jane Austen    wrote    Emma Comic novel about the perils of misconstrued romance

Jane Austen    wrote    Mansfield Park

Jane Austen    wrote    Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen    wrote    Persuasion

Jane Austen    wrote    Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen    wrote    Sense and Sensibility

Jane Goodall    wrote    In the Shadow of Man 1971

Janet Fitch    wrote    Paint It Black 2006. Two women divided and then united by grief

Janet Fitch    wrote    White Oleander 1998

Janet Frame    wrote    Faces in the Water

Janet Frame    wrote    Owls Do Cry 1957

Janice Galloway    wrote    The Trick is to Keep Breathing

Jaroslav Hašek    wrote    The Good Soldier Švejk

Javier Marias    wrote    A Heart So White

Jàchym Topol    wrote    City Sister Silver

J. D. Salinger    wrote    The Catcher In the Rye

J. D. Salinger    wrote    Franny and Zooey

Jeanette Winterson    wrote    Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Jeanette Winterson    wrote    The Passion

Jeanette Winterson    wrote    Sexing the Cherry

Jeanette Winterson    wrote    Written on the Body

Jean-Jacques Rousseau    wrote    Confessions

Jean-Jacques Rousseau    wrote    Julie; Or, the New Eloise

Jean-Jacques Rousseau    wrote    Émile; Or, On Education

Jean-Jacques Rousseau    wrote    Reveries of a Solitary Walker

Jean-Paul Sartre    wrote    Being and Nothingness

Jean-Paul Sartre    wrote    Existentialism and Humanism

Jean-Paul Sartre    wrote    Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre    wrote    No Exit

Jean-Paul Sartre    wrote    The Words

Jean Cocteau    wrote    Les Enfants Terribles

Jeffrey Eugenides    wrote    Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides    wrote    The Virgin Suicides

Jean Genet    wrote    The Balcony 1956

Jean Genet    wrote    Our Lady of the Flowers 1963; original Notre Dame des Fleurs, 1944

Jean Genet    wrote    The Thief's Journal 1965; original Journal du Voleur, 1949

Jean Rhys    wrote    Quartet

Jean Rhys    wrote    Wide Sargasso Sea

Jerome K. Jerome    wrote    Three Men in a Boat

Jerzy Kosinski    wrote    Being There

Jerzy Kosinski    wrote    Blind Date

Jerzy Kosinski    wrote    Cockpit

Jerzy Kosinski    wrote    The Devil Tree 1973

Jerzy Kosinski    wrote    The Painted Bird

Jerzy Kosinski    wrote    Passion Play

Jerzy Kosinski    wrote    Steps National Book Award, 1969

Jean Toomer    wrote    Cane

J. G. Ballard    wrote    The Atrocity Exhibition

J. G. Ballard    wrote    Cocaine Nights

J. G. Ballard    wrote    Crash

J. G. Ballard    wrote    The Drowned World

J. G. Ballard    wrote    Empire of the Sun

J. G. Ballard    wrote    High Rise

J. G. Ballard    wrote    Super-Cannes

J. G. Farrell    wrote    The Siege of Krishnapur

J. G. Farrell    wrote    The Singapore Grip

J. G. Farrell    wrote    Troubles

Jim Crace    wrote    Arcadia

Jim Dodge    wrote    Stone Junction

Jim Harrison    wrote    The Beast God Forgot to Invent

Jim Harrison    wrote    Dalva

Jim Harrison    wrote    Legends of the Fall

Jim Harrison    wrote    Letter to Yesenin

Jim Harrison    wrote    Locations

Jim Harrison    wrote    The Raw and the Cooked Adventures of a Roving Gourmand

Jim Harrison    wrote    Sundog

Jim Harrison    wrote    True North

Jim Harrison    wrote    The Woman Lit by Fireflies

Jim Thompson    wrote    The Killer Inside Me

J. M. Coetzee    wrote    Disgrace

J. M. Coetzee    wrote    Dusklands

J. M. Coetzee    wrote    Elizabeth Costello

J. M. Coetzee    wrote    Foe

J. M. Coetzee    wrote    In the Heart of the Country

J. M. Coetzee    wrote    The Life and Times of Michael K

J. M. Coetzee    wrote    The Master of Petersburg

J. M. Coetzee    wrote    Slow Man

J. M. Coetzee    wrote    Waiting for the Barbarians

J. M. Coetzee    wrote    Youth

Joan Didion    wrote    A Book of Common Prayer 1977

Joan Didion    wrote    Play It As It Lays 1970

Joan Didion    wrote    The Year of Magical Thinking 2005; American, b. 1934

Jodi Picoult    wrote    My Sister's Keeper's 2004

Jodi Picoult    wrote    Nineteen Minutes 2007. A school shooting changes a girl's life forever.

Jodi Picoult    wrote    The Pact 1998

Jodi Picoult    wrote    The Tenth Circle 2006. An exploration of the lengths a parent will go to in order to protect their child.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe    wrote    Elective Affinities

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe    wrote    Faust

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe    wrote    The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe    wrote    Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship

John Banville    wrote    The Book of Evidence

John Banville    wrote    The Newton Letter

John Banville    wrote    The Sea

John Banville    wrote    Shroud

John Banville    wrote    The Untouchable

John Barth    wrote    Chimera National Book Award, 1973

John Barth    wrote    The End of the Road

John Barth    wrote    The Floating Opera 1957

John Barth    wrote    The Friday Book Essays and Other Nonfiction

John Barth    wrote    Giles Goat-Boy 1966

John Barth    wrote    The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor

John Barth    wrote    Lost in the Funhouse

John Barth    wrote    Sabbatical A Romance

John Barth    wrote    The Sot Weed Factor

John Barth    wrote    The Tidewater Tales

John Berger    wrote    G

John Berryman    wrote    Delusions, Etc 1972

John Berryman    wrote    The Dream Songs 1969

John Berryman    wrote    His Toy, His Dream, His Rest 1968

John Buchan    wrote    The Thirty-Nine Steps

John Bunyan    wrote    Pilgrim's Progress

John Cheever    wrote    The Wapshot Chronicle National Book Award, 1958

John Christopher    wrote    The Tripods Trilogy

John Cleland    wrote    Fanny Hill

John Dos Passos    wrote    Manhattan Transfer

John Dos Passos    wrote    U.S.A.

John F. Kennedy    wrote    Profiles in Courage 1956

John Fowles    wrote    The Collector

John Fowles    wrote    The Ebony Tower

John Fowles    wrote    The French Lieutenant's Woman

John Fowles    wrote    A Maggot

John Fowles    wrote    The Magus

John Galsworthy    wrote    The Forsyte Saga

John Gardner    wrote    The Art of Fiction Notes on Craft for Young Writers

John Gardner    wrote    The Art of Living Stories

John Gardner    wrote    Grendel

John Gardner    wrote    In the Suicide Mountains

John Gardner    wrote    Jason and Medeia

John Gardner    wrote    The King’s Indian

John Gardner    wrote    Mickelsson’s Ghosts

John Gardner    wrote    On Moral Fiction

John Gardner    wrote    The Resurrection

John Gardner    wrote    Stillness and Shadows

John Gardner    wrote    The Sunlight Dialogues

John Gardner    wrote    The Wreckage of Agathon

John Hersey    wrote    A Bell for Adano Pulitizer Prize winner, 1945

John Hersey    wrote    Hiroshima His most widely read book; an account of the aftermath of the first atomic bomb used on humans

John Irving    wrote    The Cider House Rules

John Irving    wrote    The Hotel New Hampshire

John Irving    wrote    A Prayer for Owen Meany

John Irving    wrote    The World According to Garp

John Kennedy Toole    wrote    Confederacy of Dunces

John Kenneth Galbraith    wrote    The Affluent Society 1958

John Le Carré    wrote    Absolute Friends First published 2003

John Le Carré    wrote    The Constant Gardener

John Le Carré    wrote    Smiley’s People

John Le Carré    wrote    The Spy Who Came In From the Cold

John Le Carré    wrote    Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy First published 1974

John Locke    wrote    Concerning Toleration 1689

John Lyly    wrote    Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit

John McGahern    wrote    Amongst Women

John McGahern    wrote    That They May Face the Rising Sun

John Milton    wrote    Paradise Lost

John O'Hara    wrote    Appointment in Samarra

John O'Hara    wrote    Butterfield 8

John O'Hara    wrote    Ten North Frederick

John Steinbeck    wrote    Cannery Row 1945

John Steinbeck    wrote    East of Eden 1952

John Steinbeck    wrote    The Grapes of Wrath Pulitizer Prize winner, 1940. Also viewed as an impassioned defense for (or a dire prophecy regarding) the inevitable rise of the American Communist Party.

John Steinbeck    wrote    Of Mice and Men First published 1937

John Steinbeck    wrote    The Pearl 1947

John Steinbeck    wrote    The Red Pony 1933

John Steinbeck    wrote    Travels With Charlie

John Steinbeck    wrote    The Winter of Our Discontent 1961

John Stevens Cabot Abbott    wrote    The Mother at Home

John Stuart Mill    wrote    Utilitarianism

John Updike    wrote    Brazil

John Updike    wrote    The Centaur National Book Award, 1964

John Updike    wrote    Rabbit at Rest 1990; winner, Pulitizer Prize, 1991

John Updike    wrote    Rabbit is Rich Pulitizer Prize and National Book Award, 1982

John Updike    wrote    Rabbit Redux

John Updike    wrote    Rabbit, Run

John Updike    wrote    Seek My Face 2002

John Updike    wrote    Terrorist

John Updike    wrote    Villages 2004

John Updike    wrote    The Witches of Eastwick

John Wyndham    wrote    Chocky

John Wyndham    wrote    The Day Of The Triffids

John Wyndham    wrote    The Midwich Cuckoos

Jo Jung-rae    wrote    The Taebek Mountains

Jonathan Coe    wrote    What a Carve Up!

Jonathan Franzen    wrote    The Corrections

Jonathan Safran Foer    wrote    Everything is Illuminated

Jonathan Swift    wrote    Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift    wrote    A Modest Proposal

Jonathan Swift    wrote    A Tale of a Tub

Jorge Amado    wrote    Tent of Miracles

Jorge Luis Borges    wrote    The Aleph and Other Stories

Jorge Luis Borges    wrote    Dreamtigers

Jorge Luis Borges    wrote    Ficciones Argentinian, 1899-1986

Jorge Luis Borges    wrote    Labyrinths 1962

Jorg Luis Borges    wrote    Labyrinths

Joris-Karl Huysmans    wrote    Against the Grain

Joseph Campbell    wrote    The Hero With a Thousand Faces

Joseph Campbell    wrote    The Masks of God In four volumes

Joseph Campbell    wrote    Myths to Live By

Joseph Campbell    wrote    A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake

Joseph Conrad    wrote    Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad    wrote    Lord Jim

Joseph Conrad    wrote    Nostromo

Joseph Conrad    wrote    The Secret Agent

Joseph Conrad    wrote    The Secret Sharer

Joseph Conrad    wrote    The Shadow Line

Joseph Heller    wrote    Catch-22 First published 1961

Joseph Heller    wrote    God Knows

Joseph Heller    wrote    Good As Gold

Joseph Heller    wrote    Picture This

Joseph Heller    wrote    Portrait of the Artist As an Old Man

Joseph Heller    wrote    Something Happened

Joseph Roth    wrote    The Radetzky March

José Saramago    wrote    The Double

José Saramago    wrote    The History of the Siege of Lisbon

José Saramago    wrote    The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

Joyce Carol Oates    wrote    Bellefleur 1980

Joyce Carol Oates    wrote    Black Water

Joyce Carol Oates    wrote    Blonde

Joyce Carol Oates    wrote    Childwold 1976

Joyce Carol Oates    wrote    The Gravedigger's Daughter 2007

Joyce Carol Oates    wrote    Marya

Joyce Carol Oates    wrote    The Seduction and Other Stories 1975

Joyce Carol Oates    wrote    Them National Book Award, 1970

Joyce Carol Oates    wrote    We Were the Mulvaneys 1996

Joyce Carol Oates    wrote    With a Shuddering Fall 1964; author's first novel

Joyce Carol Oates    wrote    Wonderland 1971

Joyce Cary    wrote    The Horse's Mouth 1944

Jules Verne    wrote    Around the World in Eighty Days

Jules Verne    wrote    Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Julian Barnes    wrote    Flaubert’s Parrot

Julien Gracq    wrote    The Opposing Shore

Jung Chang    wrote    Wild Swans

Karl Kraus    wrote    The Last Days of Humanity

Karl Marx    wrote    Das Kapital "Of one thing I am certain - I am not a Marxist." - Karl Marx

Kate Chopin    wrote    The Awakening Kate Chopin: 1851-1904

Katherine Mansfield    wrote    The Doll's House D.H. Lawrence used Mansfield as the model for Gudrun in ‘Women in Love’.

Katherine Mansfield    wrote    The Garden Party

Katherine Mansfield    wrote    Mrs Brill Katherine Mansfield was the pen name of Kathleen Mansfield Murry

Kathy Acker    wrote    Blood and Guts in High School

Kazuo Ishiguro    wrote    An Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro    wrote    A Pale View of Hills

Kazuo Ishiguro    wrote    Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro    wrote    The Unconsoled

Keith Waterhouse    wrote    Billy Liar

Ken Kesey    wrote    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey    wrote    Sometimes a Great Notion

Kenzaburo Oe    wrote    Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring

Keri Hulme    wrote    The Bone People Won the 1984 New Zealand Book Award for Fiction and the Booker Prize in 1985.

Khaled Hosseini    wrote    The Kite Runner 2003

Khaled Hosseini    wrote    A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007. The story of the unusual and lifelong friendship between two Afghan women spanning many decades and political events.

Khalil Gibran    wrote    The Prophet

Kim Edwards    wrote    The Memory Keeper's Daughter 2005. A story of a decision that will haunt a family forever.

Kingsley Amis    wrote    The Green Man

Kingsley Amis    wrote    Lucky Jim

Kingsley Amis    wrote    The Old Devils

Kiran Desai    wrote    The Inheritance of Loss 2006 Booker Prize Winner

Knut Hamsun    wrote    Growth of the Soil

Knut Hamsun    wrote    Hunger

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.    wrote    Bluebeard 1987. 'Bluebeard, the Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1916-1988)'

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.    wrote    Breakfast of Champions

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.    wrote    Deadeye Dick

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.    wrote    Galapagos

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.    wrote    God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.    wrote    Hocus Pocus

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.    wrote    Jailbird

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.    wrote    A Man Without a Country

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.    wrote    Palm Sunday

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.    wrote    The Sirens of Titan 1959. Hugo Award-nominated novel which involves issues of free will, omniscience, and the overall purpose of human history.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.    wrote    Timequake

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.    wrote    Welcome to the Monkey House

Lao-Tzu    wrote    Tao Te Ching

Lao-Tzu    wrote    The Way and Its Power

Larry Brown    wrote    Dirty Work

Larry Brown    wrote    Father and Son

Larry McMurtry    wrote    All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers

Larry McMurtry    wrote    Cadillac Jack 1982

Larry McMurtry    wrote    The Evening Star 1992; continuation of the story begun in Terms of Endearment

Larry McMurtry    wrote    Horseman, Pass By

Larry McMurtry    wrote    The Last Picture Show

Larry McMurtry    wrote    Lonesome Dove Pulitizer Prize winner, 1986

Larry McMurtry    wrote    Terms of Endearment Made into a popular film

Larry McMurtry    wrote    Texasville

Larry Woiwode    wrote    Beyond the Bedroom Wall

Larry Woiwode    wrote    Born Brothers

Larry Woiwode    wrote    Indian Affairs

Larry Woiwode    wrote    Poppa John

Larry Woiwode    wrote    What I'm Going to Do, I Think

Laurence Sterne    wrote    A Sentimental Journey

Laurence Sterne    wrote    Tristram Shandy "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman"

Laura Esquivel    wrote    Like Water for Chocolate

Laurie Lee    wrote    Cider With Rosie

Lawrence Durrell    wrote    The Alexandria Quartet 1957

Lawrence Durrell    wrote    The Black Book

Lawrence Durrell    wrote    Justine

Lawrence Durrell    wrote    Livia 1978; the second of the Avignon Quintet

Lawrence Durrell    wrote    Monsieur The first of the Avignon Quintet set of novels, 1974

Leonard Cohen    wrote    Beautiful Losers

Leonard Cohen    wrote    The Favorite Game

Leonard Cohen    wrote    Flowers For Hitler

Leonardo Da Vinci    wrote    Notebooks

Leonid Tsypkin    wrote    Summer in Baden-Baden

Leo Tolstoy    wrote    Anna Karenina