Pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by Franois Rabelais, telling the adventures of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel . The work is written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein, features much erudition, vulgarity, and wordplay, and is regularly compared with the works of William Shakespeare and James Joyce
Psychological thriller novel by American writer James Patterson, the second to star his recurring main character Alex Cross, an African-American psychologist and policeman
Fantasy series by British author Mervyn Peake, about the inhabitants of Castle Gormenghast, a sprawling, decaying, Gothic structure
Book by Robert M. Pirsig first published in 1974. It is a work of fictionalized autobiography, and is the first of Pirsig’s texts in which he explores his “Metaphysics of Quality”.Pirsig received 121 rejections before an editor finally accepted the book for publicationand he did so thinking it would never generate a profit
Written by John Cowper Powys in rural upstate New York and first published by Simon and Schuster in New York City in March 1932. An English edition published by John Lane followed in 1933. It is the second of Powys’s Wessex novels, along with Wolf Solent , Weymouth Sands and Maiden Castle . Powys was an admirer of Thomas Hardy and these novels are set in Somerset and Dorset, parts of Hardy’s mythical Wessex
1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe and considered a classic of science fiction literature
Nautical historical novel by the English author Patrick O’Brian, first published in 1969 in the US and 1970 in the UK. The book proved to be the start of the 20-novel AubreyMaturin series, set largely in the era of the Napoleonic Wars, on which O’Brian continued working until his death in 2000.The novel is set at the turn of the 19th century
2015 novel by Irish author Edna O’Brien, who was 85 at the time of publication
1939 novel by Irish writer Brian O’Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O’Brien
Collection of linked short stories by American novelist Tim O’Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War
