The Glass Palace
2000 historical novel by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh
Novel
Tender Is the Night
Fourth and final novel completed by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cold Comfort Farm
Comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as Mary Webb.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
1774 epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which appeared as a revised edition in 1787. It was one of the main novels in the Sturm und Drang period in German literature, and influenced the later Romantic movement
Sentimental Education
Novel by Gustave Flaubert
Dead Souls
Novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature
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