The Man Without Qualities
Unfinished modernist novel in three volumes and various drafts, by the Austrian writer Robert Musil
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Lolita
1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov
A House for Mr. Biswas
1961 novel by V. S. Naipaul, significant as Naipaul’s first work to achieve acclaim worldwide
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Post-apocalyptic social science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller Jr., first published in 1959. Set in a Catholic monastery in the desert of the southwestern United States after a devastating nuclear war, the book spans thousands of years as civilization rebuilds itself
A Fine Balance
Second novel by Rohinton Mistry, published in 1995. Set in “an unidentified city” in India, initially in 1975 and later in 1984 during the turmoil of The Emergency, the book concerns four characters from varied backgrounds Dina Dalal, Ishvar Darji, his nephew Omprakash Darji and the young student Maneck Kohlah who come together and develop a bond
The Pursuit of Love
Novel by Nancy Mitford, first published in 1945. It is the first in a trilogy about an upper-class English family in the interwar period focusing on the romantic life of Linda Radlett, as narrated by her cousin, Fanny Logan
The Magic Mountain
Novel by Thomas Mann, first published in German in November 1924. It is widely considered to be one of the most influential works of twentieth-century German literature
Wolf Hall
2009 historical novel by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate, named after the Seymour family’s seat of Wolfhall, or Wulfhall, in Wiltshire
The Infatuations
National Novel Prize-winning novel by Javier Maras, published in 2011. The translation into English by Margaret Jull Costa was published by Hamish Hamilton in 2013.It was shortlisted for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award .== References ==
Life of Pi
Canadian philosophical novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist is Piscine Molitor “Pi” Patel, an Indian Tamil boy from Pondicherry who explores issues of spirituality and metaphysics from an early age