Novel

The End of the Affair

Novel

1951 novel by British author Graham Greene, as well as the title of two feature films that were adapted from the novel

Howards End

Novel

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

Novel

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

A Lesson Before Dying

Novel

Ernest J. Gaines’ eighth novel succeeding a decade after A Gathering of Old Men, published in 1993. His fictional work that was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award, is based on the true story of Willie Francis, a young black American man best known for surviving a failed execution by a malfunctioned electrocution in the state of Louisiana, during 1945 and 1947.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

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1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel Garca Mrquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buenda family, whose patriarch, Jos Arcadio Buenda, founded the town of Macondo

The Spare Room

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novel by Australian writer Helen Garner, set over the course of three weeks while the narrator, Helen, cares for a friend dying of bowel cancer