The Boxcar Children
Children’s book series originally created and written by the American first-grade school teacher Gertrude Chandler Warner
Novel
All the King’s Men
1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren
The Loved One
Short, satirical novel by British novelist Evelyn Waugh about the funeral business in Los Angeles, the British expatriate community in Hollywood, and the film industry.
War and Peace
Literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published serially, then published in its entirety in 1869. It is regarded as one of Tolstoy’s finest literary achievements and remains an internationally praised classic of world literature.The novel chronicles the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families
A Confederacy of Dunces
Picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which reached publication in 1980, eleven years after Toole’s suicide
The Warden
Novel by English author Anthony Trollope published by Longman in 1855. It is the first book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire series, followed by Barchester Towers.
The Great Railway Bazaar
Travelogue by American novelist Paul Theroux, first published in 1975. It recounts Theroux’s four-month journey by train in 1973 from London through Europe, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, and his return via the Trans-Siberian Railway
Lark Rise to Candleford
Trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels by Flora Thompson about the countryside of north-east Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, England, at the end of the 19th century
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1971 novel by Hunter S. Thompson and illustrated by Ralph Steadman
The Hobbit
Children’s fantasy novel by English author J. R. R. Tolkien