Novel

Kiss the Girls

Psychological thriller novel by American writer James Patterson, the second to star his recurring main character Alex Cross, an African-American psychologist and policeman

The Gormenghast Trilogy

Fantasy series by British author Mervyn Peake, about the inhabitants of Castle Gormenghast, a sprawling, decaying, Gothic structure

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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

A Glastonbury Romance

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

Ringworld

1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe and considered a classic of science fiction literature

Master and Commander

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

At Swim-Two-Birds

1939 novel by Irish writer Brian O’Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O’Brien

The Things They Carried

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