The Golden Notebook
1962 novel by the British writer Doris Lessing
Novel
The Grass Is Singing
First novel, published in 1950, by the British author Doris Lessing
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1950. It is the first published and best known of seven novels in The Chronicles of Narnia . Among all the author’s books, it is also the most widely held in libraries
The Call of the Wild
Short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand
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
A Wizard of Earthsea
Fantasy novel written by American author Ursula K. Le Guin and first published by the small press Parnassus in 1968. It is regarded as a classic of children’s literature and of fantasy, within which it is widely influential
On the Road
1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States
11/22/63
Novel by Stephen King about a time traveller who attempts to prevent the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, which occurred on November 22, 1963 . It is the 60th book published by Stephen King, his 49th novel and the 42nd under his own name
The Poisonwood Bible
Best-selling novel about a missionary family, the Prices, who in 1959 move from the U.S. state of Georgia to the village of Kilanga in the Belgian Congo, close to the Kwilu River