Midnight’s Children
1981 novel by author Salman Rushdie
magic realism
The Famished Road
Novel by Nigerian author Ben Okri, the first book in a trilogy that continues with Songs of Enchantment and Infinite Riches . Published in London in 1991 by Jonathan Cape, the story of The Famished Road follows Azaro, an abiku or spirit child, living in an unnamed African, most likely Nigerian, city
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Novel published in 19941995 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami
Lolita
1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov
Life of Pi
Canadian philosophical novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist is Piscine Molitor “Pi” Patel, an Indian Tamil boy from Pondicherry who explores issues of spirituality and metaphysics from an early age
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Novel by Milan Kundera, published in France in 1979. It is composed of seven separate narratives united by some common themes
Angels in America
Two-part play by American playwright Tony Kushner
The Tin Drum
1959 novel by Gnter Grass
One Hundred Years of Solitude
1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel Garca Mrquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buenda family, whose patriarch, Jos Arcadio Buenda, founded the town of Macondo
Little, Big
Contemporary fantasy novel by John Crowley, published in 1981. It won the World Fantasy Award in 1982.