Among Others
2011 fantasy novel written by Welsh-Canadian writer Jo Walton, published originally by Tor Books
Novel
The Boxcar Children
Children’s book series originally created and written by the American first-grade school teacher Gertrude Chandler Warner
All the King’s Men
1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Novella by Leo Tolstoy, considered one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s.Widely considered to be one of the finest novellas ever written, The Death of Ivan Ilyich tells the story of a high-court judge in 19th-century Russia and his sufferings and death from a terminal illness.
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