The Gormenghast Trilogy
Fantasy series by British author Mervyn Peake, about the inhabitants of Castle Gormenghast, a sprawling, decaying, Gothic structure
Novel
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
In Search of Lost Time
Novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust
The Golden Compass
Young-adult fantasy novel by Philip Pullman, published in 1995 by Scholastic UK. Set in a parallel universe, it follows the journey of Lyra Belacqua to the Arctic in search of her missing friend, Roger Parslow, and her imprisoned uncle, Lord Asriel, who has been conducting experiments with a mysterious substance known as “Dust”.Northern Lights is the first book of the trilogy, His Dark Materials . Alfred A. Knopf published the first US edition April 1996, under the name The Golden Compass, under which title it was adapted as a 2007 feature film and as a companion video game
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
The Little Red Chairs
2015 novel by Irish author Edna O’Brien, who was 85 at the time of publication
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