Something Happened
Joseph Heller’s second novel . Its main character and narrator is Bob Slocum, a businessman who engages in a stream of consciousness narrative about his job, his family, his childhood, his sexual escapades, and his own psyche.
Novel
Catch-22
Satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller
Madame Bovary
Debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The eponymous character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life
Lord of the Flies
1954 debut novel by Nobel Prize-winning British author William Golding
The Civil War: A Narrative
Three volume, 2,968-page, 1.2 million-word history of the American Civil War by Shelby Foote
Johnny Tremain
Work of historical fiction written in 1943 by Esther Forbes that is set in Boston prior to and during the outbreak of the American Revolution
The Good Soldier
1915 novel by the British writer Ford Madox Ford
A Passage to India
1924 novel by English author E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. It was selected as one of the 100 great works of 20th century English literature by the Modern Library and won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction
Howards End
Novel by E. M. Forster, first published in 1910, about social conventions, codes of conduct and relationships in turn-of-the-century England
The Day of the Jackal
Thriller novel by English author Frederick Forsyth about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French dissident paramilitary organisation, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.The novel received admiring reviews and praise when first published in 1971, and it received a 1972 Best Novel Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America