A Game of Thrones
First novel in A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of fantasy novels by the American author George R. R. Martin
Novel
Tales of the City
Series of nine novels written by American author Armistead Maupin from 1978 to 2014
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Debut novel by the American author Carson McCullers; she was 23 at the time of publication
Lonesome Dove
1985 Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry
Moby-Dick
1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville
Betsy-Tacy
Series of semi-autobiographical novels by American novelist and short-story writer Maud Hart Lovelace , which were originally published between 1940 and 1955 by the Thomas Y. Crowell Co
Under the Volcano
Novel by English writer Malcolm Lowry published in 1947. The novel tells the story of Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic British consul in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac, on the Day of the Dead in November 1939. The book takes its name from the two volcanoes, Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl, that overshadow Quauhnahuac and the characters
The Armies of the Night
Nonfiction novel recounting the October 1967 March on the Pentagon written by Norman Mailer and published by New American Library in 1968. It won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction and the National Book Award in category Arts and Letters
Independent People
Epic novel by Nobel laureate Halldr Laxness, originally published in two volumes in 1934 and 1935; literally the title means “Self-standing [i.e. self-reliant] folk”. It deals with the struggle of poor Icelandic farmers in the early 20th century, only freed from debt bondage in the last generation, and surviving on isolated crofts in an inhospitable landscape
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1963 Cold War spy novel by the British author John le Carr