My Brilliant Career
1901 novel written by Miles Franklin
Novel
The Recognitions
1955 debut novel of US author William Gaddis
A Lesson Before Dying
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
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
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
The Glass Palace
2000 historical novel by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh
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