The Master and Margarita
Novel by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940 during Stalin’s regime
Novel
A Little Princess
Children’s novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, first published as a book in 1905. It is an expanded version of the short story “Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin’s”, which was serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine from December 1887, and published in book form in 1888. According to Burnett, after she composed the 1902 play A Little Un-fairy Princess based on that story, her publisher asked that she expand the story as a novel with “the things and people that had been left out before”. The novel was published by Charles Scribner’s Sons with illustrations by Ethel Franklin Betts and the full title A Little Princess: Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe Now Being Told for the First Time.
The Secret Garden
Novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911, after serialisation in The American Magazine . Set in England, it is one of Burnett’s most popular novels and seen as a classic of English children’s literature
The Tartar Steppe
Novel by Italian author Dino Buzzati, published in 1940.The novel tells the story of a young officer, Giovanni Drogo, and his life spent guarding the Bastiani Fortress, an old, unmaintained border fortress
Invisible Cities
Novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino
The First Man
Albert Camus’ unfinished final novel
In Cold Blood
Non-fiction novel by American author Truman Capote, first published in 1966. It details the 1959 murders of four members of the Clutter family in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas
The Sheltering Sky
1949 novel of alienation and existential despair by American writer and composer Paul Bowles.
Ender’s Game
1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card
The Ascent of Rum Doodle
Short 1956 novel by W. E. Bowman . It is a parody of the non-fictional chronicles of mountaineering expeditions that were popular during the 1950s, as many of the world’s highest peaks were climbed for the first time