Catch-22
Satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller
comedy
Cold Comfort Farm
Comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as Mary Webb.
The Master and Margarita
Novel by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940 during Stalin’s regime
Waiting for Godot
Play by Samuel Beckett in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon , engage in a variety of discussions and encounters while awaiting the titular Godot, who never arrives
The Divine Comedy
Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature
Lucky Jim
Novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz