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THE NOVEL CLUB BOOK LIST 1896-2020

This list contains all the books that have been read and discussed by the Novel Club of

Cleveland, over the years of the Club’s existence. Each listing contains the year or years that the

book was included. [Updated June 2019]

Achebe, Chinua 1970, 2003 Things Fall Apart

Ackroyd, Peter 2020 The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein

Adams, Henry 2007 The Education of Henry Adams

Adams, Richard 1975 Watership Down

Aeschylus 2013 The Libation Bearers (one of three Electra plays)

Adiga, Aravind 2011 The White Tiger

Agee, James 1961 A Death in the Family

Alain-Fournier 1953 The Wanderer (Le Grand Meaulnes)

Alarcon, Pedro Antonio de 1915 The Tall Woman

1916 El Capitan Veneno

1915 The Finale of Norma

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Alighieri, Dante (see Dante)

Allen, James Lane 1910 Flute and Violin

1910 Two Gentlemen of Kentucky

and Other Kentucky Tales

Allende, Isabel 1987, 2011 The House of the Spirits

Amado, Jorge 1975, 2001 Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon

Amis, Kingsley 1992 Lucky Jim

Ammers-Khuller, Jo van 1929 The Rebel Generation

Apuleius, Lucius 1962, 82 The Golden Ass

Aragon, Louis 1948 Aurelien

Asch, Sholem 1934 Three Critics

Asimov, Isaac 1978 Foundation

Atwood, Margaret 1989 Cat’s Eye

Auchincloss, Louis 1965 The Rector of Justin

1980 The Partners

Austen, Jane 1918, 1973 Emma

2018 Lady Susan

1896, 1942, 1987 Mansfield Park

1936 Northanger Abbey

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1957, 2005 Persuasion

1909 Pride and Prejudice

1922, 1997 Sense and Sensibility

Auster, Paul 2006 Oracle Night

Bagnold, Enid 1951 The Loved and Envied

Ballard, J. G. 1985 Empire of the Sun

Balzac, Honore de 1958 Cesar Birotteau

1897, 1940 The Country Doctor

1934, 1993 Cousin Bette

1897, 1947 Cousin Pons

1906 Eugenie Grandet

1927 The Lily in the Valley

1897 Louis Lambert

1897, 2015 Pere Goriot

1906 The Quest of the Absolute

Banks, Russell 1997 Continental Drift

Barker, Pat 2005 Regeneration

2016 The Ghost Road

Barnes, Julian 1986 Flaubert's Parrot

2008 England, England

2015 The Sense of an Ending

Barth, John 1970 The Sot-Weed Factor

Bassani, Giorgio 1969 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

Basso, Hamilton 1955 The View from Pompey's Head

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Baum, Vicki 1933 And Life Goes On

Bazin, Rene 1912 The Nun

Beauvoir, Simone de 1967 The Mandarins

Beckett, Samuel 1977 Murphy

1977 Waiting for Godot

Bedford, Sybille 1968 A Legacy

Beerbohm, Max 1956 Zuleika Dobson

Bellamy, Edward 1949 Looking Backward

Bellow, Saul 1965 Herzog

1984, 2010 Mr. Sammler's Planet

Bennett, Arnold 1949 Anna of the Five Towns

1928 The Clayhanger Trilogy

1958 Hilda Lessways

1931 Imperial Palace

1911, 1958, 2001 The Old Wives' Tale

1924 Riceyman Steps

Benson, Edward Frederick 1938 Queen Lucia

Bjornson, Bjornstjerne 1902 In God's Way

Black, William 1905 Madcap Violet

Blackwood, Algernon 1925 The Wave; An Egyptian Aftermath

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Blasco Ibanez, Vicente 1915 The Blood of the Arena

1919 Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Bloem, Walter 1914 The Iron Year

Bojer, Johan 1927 The Power of a Lie

Boll, Heinrich 1977 Billiards at Half Past Nine

1988 The Safety Net

Booth, Edward C. 1918 Fondie

Bordeaux, Henry 1912 The Parting of the Ways

Borges, Jorge Luis 2002 Labyrinths

Bourget, Paul 1912 The Heart of a Woman

Borgese, Giuseppe Antonio 1936 Rube

Bowen, Elizabeth 1939 The Death of the Heart

1936 The House in Paris

1955 A World of Love

Bowles, Paul 2002 The Sheltering Sky

Boyden, Joseph 2014 Through Black Spruce

Boyle, Kay 1961 Generation Without Farewell

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Brace, Gerald Warner 1948 The Garretson Chronicle

Bradbuy, Ray 2011 Fahrenheit 451

Bridge, Ann 1933 Peking Picnic

Bromfield, Louis 1943 Mrs. Parkington

1928 Possession

1938 The Rains Came

1929 The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg

Bronte, Anne 1923 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Bronte, Charlotte 1900 Jane Eyre

1897 Shirley

1962 Villette

Bronte, Emily 1919 Wuthering Heights

Brooks, Geraldine 2011 People of the Book

Brown, Charles Brockden 1903 Arthur Mervyn

Buchan, John 1931 Greenmantle

1906 The Half-hearted

Buck, Pearl 1942 Dragon Seed

1932 The Good Earth

Bulgakov, Mikhail 1970 The Master and Margarita

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Bulwer-Lytton, Edward 1896 Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes

Burgess, Anthony 1997 A Dead Man in Deptford

Burney, Fanny 1898, 1948 Evelina

Burt, Maxwell Struthers 1942 Along These Streets

1924 The Interpreter's House

Butler, Samuel 1916, 1957, 2010 The Way of All Flesh

Butor, Michel 1960 A Change of Heart

Byatt, A.S. 1995 Possession

Byrne, Donn 1969 Messer Marco Polo

Cabell, James Branch 1970 Jurgen: a Comedy of Justice

Cable, George W. 1907 Dr. Sevier

1903 John March, Southerner

1910 Madame Delphine/'Sieur George

Camus, Albert 1988 The Plague

1957, 2017 The Stranger

1999 The First Man

Canfield, Dorothy 1921 The Brimming Cup

Capote, Truman 1966 In Cold Blood

1948 Other Voices, Other Rooms

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Carey, Peter 1991 Oscar and Lucinda

2005 The True History of the Kelly Gang

2012 Parrot and Olivier in America

Carpentier, Alejo 1980 The Lost Steps

Carr, Caleb 1995 The Alienist

Carr, John Dickson 1944 The Peacock Feather Murders

Carroll, Gladys Hasty 1933 As the Earth Turns

Carroll, Lewis 1997 Alice in Wonderland and Through the

Looking Glass

Cary, Joyce 1958 Herself Surprised

Casey, John 1992 Spartina

Cather, Willa 1985, 2015 Death Comes for the Archbishop

1923 My Antonia

1967 Shadows on the Rock

1951 The Song of the Lark

2002 The Professor’s House

Cervantes, Miguel de 1915, 1950, 2017 Don Quixote

Chabon, Michael 2018 Moonglow

Chandler, Raymond 1998 The Big Sleep

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Chase, Mary Ellen 1935 Mary Peters

Chatwin, Bruce 1983 On the Black Hill

Cheever, John 1965 The Wapshot Chronicle

Chekhov, Anton 2000 Collected Stories

Chesterton, G. K. 1950, 1997 The Man Who Was Thursday

Christie, Agatha 1976 Curtain

1976 What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw

Cinelli, Delfino 1934 The Trap

Clavell, James 1980 Shogun

Clemens, Samuel (see Twain, Mark)

Clewes, Winston 1951 Journey Into Spring

Coetzee, J. M. 1987 Foe

Colette 1959 Cheri

Collins, Norman 1947 Dulcimer Street

Collins, Wilkie 1920, 1937, 1998 The Moonstone

1897, 1943 The Woman in White

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Compton-Burnett, Ivy 1949 Bullivant and the Lambs

Conrad, Joseph 1964 The Arrow of Gold

1916 Chance

1918 Lord Jim

1929, 1978 The Nigger of the Narcissus

1951 Nostromo

1939 The Shadow Line

1923, 1953 Under Western Eyes

1927, 1988 Victory

2003 The Secret Agent

2016 The Secret Sharer

Cooke, John Esten 1903 The Virginia Comedians

(or Old Days in the Old Dominion)

Cooper, James Fenimore 1903 The Spy

Couperus, Louis 1924 Old People and the Things That Pass

Cozzens, James Gould 1985 Guard of Honor

1957 The Just and the Unjust

Crane, Stephen 1956 The Red Badge of Courage

Craik, Dinah Maria 1924 John Halifax, Gentleman (Mulock)

Crawford, F. Marion 1950 Saracinesca

Crichton, Robert 1967 The Secret of Santa Vittoria

Crompton, Richmal 1935 The Old Man's Birthday

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Cronin, A. J. 1942 The Keys of the Kingdom

Crummey, Michael 2013 River Thieves

Daoud, Kamel 2017 The Meursault Investigation

Dane, Clemence 1932 Broome Stages (Winifred Ashton)

Dante 2000 The Inferno

Daudet, Alphonse 1902 The Last Class,The Story of a Little Alsatian

1902 Letters From My Mill

1912 The Nabob

1902 Sidonie

1907 Tartarin de Tarascon

Davenport, Marcia 1938 Of Lena Geyer

Davies, Robertson 1982 Fifth Business

1988 What's Bred in the Bone

1999 A Mixture of Frailties

Davis, Clyde Brion 1938 The Anointed

Defoe, Daniel 1898 Life of Colonel Jack

1974 Moll Flanders

DeForest, John Wm. 1940 Miss Ravenell's Conversion

de la Ramee, Louise 1907 Ariadne, the Story of a Dream

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DeLillo, Don 1985 White Noise

2003 Underworld

De Morgan, William F. 1945 Alice-For-Short

1908 Joseph Vance

1911 Somehow Good

Dennis, Nigel 2017 Cards of Identity

Diaz, Junot 2010 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Dickens, Charles 1905, 1930, 2000 Bleak House

1900, 2017 David Copperfield

1984 Dombey and Son

1904 Great Expectations

1953 Little Dorrit

1938, 1975, 2008 Martin Chuzzlewit

1913, 1945 The Mystery of Edwin Drood

1995 Oliver Twist

1897, 1970 Our Mutual Friend

1900 Pickwick Papers

1900 A Tale of Two Cities

Dinesen, Isak 1947 Angelic Avengers

(Karen Blixen or 1973 Seven Gothic Tales

Pierre Andrezel)

Disraeli, Benjamin 1901, 1968, 2004 Coningsby

1905 Lothair

Doctorow, E. L. 1976 Ragtime

Doerr, Anthony 2016 All the Light We Cannot See

Doerr, Harriet 1988 Stones for Iberra

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Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.) 1987 Bid Me to Live

Dorris, Michael 1991 A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

Dostoevski, Fyodor 1917, 1937, 1957, 2015 The Brothers Karamazov

1913 Crime and Punishment

1933, 1981 The Idiot

1947 The Possessed

2004 Notes from Underground

Douglas, Norman 1940 South Wind

Doyle, Arthur Conan 1987 A Study in Scarlet/The Final Problem

Drabble, Margaret 1993 The Radiant Way

2019 Dark Flood Rising

Dreiser, Theodore 1946 The Bulwark

1931 Sister Carrie

Duhamel, Georges 1935 Papa Pasquier

Duggan, Alfred Leo 1962 Family Favorites

Du Maurier, Daphne 1939 Rebecca

Dumas, Alexandre (Pere) 1961 La Dame de Monsoreau

1898 The Three Musketeers

1904 Twenty Years After

Durrell, Lawrence 1960 Justine

Eco, Umberto 1984 The Name of the Rose

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Edgerton, Clyde 1993 Walking Across Egypt

Edgeworth, Maria 1901 The Absentee

Edmonds, Walter Dumaux 1933 Erie Water

Edwards, G. B. 1982 The Book of Ebenezer Le Page

Egan, Jennifer 2018 Manhattan Beach

Eliot, George 1946 Adam Bede

(Mary Ann Evans) 1969, 2010 Daniel Deronda

1908, 1981 Felix Holt, the Radical

1897, 1956, 1991 Middlemarch

1900 The Mill on the Floss

1900 Romola

1904 Scenes of Clerical Life

Ellis, William Donohue 1953 The Bounty Lands

Ellison, Ralph 1961, 1997 Invisible Man

Eng, Tan Twan 2012 The Gift of Rain

Erdrich, Louise 1992 Love Medicine

Ertz, Susan 1934 The Proselyte

Ervine, St. John G. 1920 Changing Winds

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Eugenides, Jeffrey 2005 Middlesex

Euripedes 2013 Electra (one of three Electra plays)

Faulkner, William 1988 Absalom, Absalom

1950 Intruder in the Dust

1975 Light in August

1963 The Reivers

1954, 2011 The Sound and the Fury

1999 As I Lay Dying

Faulks, Sebastian 2015 Birdsong

Fedorova, Nina 1941 The Family

Ferrante, Elena 2018 My Brilliant Friend

Ferre, Rosario 2003 The House on the Lagoon

Feuchtwanger, Lion 1931 Power

Field, Rachel L. 1939 All This and Heaven Too

Fielding, Henry 1949 Joseph Andrews

1898, 1926 Tom Jones

Finney, Jack 1974 Time and Again

Fitzgerald, F. Scott 1937, 1961, 1992 The Great Gatsby

1952, 2003 Tender Is the Night

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Fitzgerald, Penelope 1994 The Gate of Angels

2016 The Blue Flower

Flanagan, Thomas J. B. 1980 The Year of the French

Flaubert, Gustave 1928, 1995 Madame Bovary

1982 Salammbo

1960 A Sentimental Education

Ford, Ford Maddox 1975 The Good Soldier

1951, 2019 Some Do Not

Ford, Richard 2014 Independence Day

Forster, E. M. 1989 Aspects of the Novel

1925, 1994, 13 Howard's End

1950 The Longest Journey

1939, 1979 A Passage to India

1927, 1959 A Room With a View

1970 Where Angels Fear to Tread

Forsythe, Frederick 1981 The Day of the Jackal

Fowles, John 1970 The French Lieutenant's Woman

2018 The Magus

France, Anatole 1906 The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

1926, 1962 Penguin Island

1912 Thais

Frankau, Gilbert 1921 Peter Jameson

1936 Three Englishmen

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Franzen, Jonathan 2009 The Corrections

Frayn, Michael 2001 Headlong

Freeman, Harold Webber 1934 Pond Hall's Progress

Freeman, Mary Eleanor 1903 A Humble Romance and Other Stories

Wilkins 1903 The Wind in the Rose Bush

Frenssen, Gustav 1914 Holyland

1908 Jorn Uhl

Freytag, Gustav 1905 The Lost Manuscript

Fuentes, Carlos 1 985, 2012 The Death of Artemio Cruz

Gaboriau, Emile 1916 Monsieur Lecoq

Gaddis, William 1977 The Recognitions

Gaines, Charles K. 1922 Gorgo, a Romance of Old Athens

Galsworthy, John 1922 The Forsyte Saga

1913 Fraternity

2001 The Man of Property

1971 The Man of Property/Indian Summer of a

Forsyte

1930 Swan Song

1925 White Monkey

Gardner, John 1975 Nickel Mountain

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Garland, Hamlin 1910 Cavanagh, Forest Ranger Romance of the

Mountain West (Supplementary reading)

Garrett, George 1973 Death of the Fox

Gary, Romain 1958 The Roots of Heaven

Gaskell, Elizabeth C. 1901 Mary Barton

Gessen, Keith 2020 A Terrible Country

Gide, Andre 1948, 2019 The Counterfeiters

1943 The Vatican Swindle

Gissing, George 1918, 1998 The New Grub Street

1904 The Odd Women

1955 Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

Glasgow, Ellen 1956 The Romantic Comedians

1972 Vein of Iron

Godden, Rumer 1958 An Episode of Sparrows

1985 Thursday's Children

Godwin, William 1898 Caleb Williams

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang 1965 Elective Affinities

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Gogol, Nikolai 1917 Dead Souls

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Golding, William 1963 Free Fall

1960 Lord of the Flies

Goldsmith, Oliver 1898 The Vicar of Wakefield

Goncharov, Ivan 1917, 1954 Oblomov

Gordimer, Nadine 1983 Burger's Daughter

Gorky, Maxim 1917 The Spy

Grant, Robert 1910 The Chippendales

Gras, Felix 1902 The Reds of the Midi

Grass, Gunter 1964 The Tin Drum

Grau, Shirley Ann 1969 The Keepers of the House

Graves, Robert 1972 I, Claudius

Green, Anna Katherine 1924 That Affair Next Door

(Mrs. Charles Rohlfs)

Green, Henry 2008 Loving

Green, Julian 1 930 The Dark Journey

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Greene, Graham 1963 A Burnt Out Case

2019 The End of the Affair

1956, 1989 The Heart of the Matter

1979 The Power and the Glory

2000 Travels with My Aunt

2012 The Quiet American

Gunnarsson, Gunnar 1936 Guest the One-Eyed

Guterson, David 1998 Snow Falling on Cedars

Guthrie, A.B., Jr. 1977 The Way West

Haase, Helle S. 1993 In a Darkwood Wandering

Haggard, Sir Henry Rider 1916 Brethren

Hamid, Mohsen 2010 The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Hammand, Esther B. 1941 Road to Endor

Hammett, Dashiell 2006 Woman in the Dark

Hamsun, Knut 1921 Growth of the Soil

Hansen, Ron 1999 Atticus

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Hardy, Arthur Sherburne 1916 Passe Rose

Hardy, Thomas 1925 Desperate Remedies

1932 Far from the Madding Crowd

1928 Jude the Obscure

1899, 1939, 1983, 2020 The Mayor of Casterbridge

1942 A Pair of Blue Eyes

1907, 1958 The Return of the Native

1918 Tess of the d'Urbervilles

1946 Two on a Tower

1905 Under the Greenwood Tree

1913 The Woodlanders

Harris, Robert 1994 Fatherland

Harrison, Mary St. L. 1908 The Gateless Barrier

Kingsley (Lucas Malet) 1909 The Wages of Sin

Harte, Bret 1899 Cressy

1910 Gabriel Conroy

1903 In a Hollow of the Hills

Hauptmann, Gerhart 1914 Atlantis

Hawley, Cameron 1956 Cash McCall

Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1920 The Blithedale Romance

1907 The House of the Seven Gables

1903, 1960, 2004 The Marble Faun

1973 The Scarlet Letter

Hay, John 1955 The Bread-Winners

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Haydn, Hiram 1944 By Nature Free

Hazzard, Shirley 1982 The Transit of Venus

Hebert, Ernest 1982 The Dogs of March

Heller, Joseph 1979 Catch 22

Hemingway, Ernest 1979, 2015 A Farewell to Arms

1943 For Whom the Bell Tolls

1964, 1995 The Sun Also Rises

Hemon, Louis 1922 Maria Chapdelaine

Hergesheimer, Joseph 1920 Java Head

1930 The Three Black Pennys

Hersey, John 1986 The Call

1957 A Single Pebble

Herzog, Rudolf 1914 The Story of Helga

Hesse, Herman 1951 Demian

1961 Magister Ludi

1970 Steppenwolf

Hewlett, Maurice 1911 Open Country

1908 The Queen's Quair

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Heyse, Paul 1899 In Paradise

1914 The Fury

Hilton, James 1935 Lost Horizon

Hoeg, Peter 1994 Smilla’s Sense of Snow

Hollinghurst, Alan 2008 The Line of Beauty

Holme, Constance 1944 The Old Road from Spain

Holmes, Oliver Wendell 1944 Elsie Venner

1905 The Guardian Angel

Homer 1998 The Odyssey

Hook, Theodore 1901 Jack Brag

Hosseini, Khaled 2007 The Kite Runner

Hostovsky, Egon 1945 The Hideout

Houghton, Claude 1935 I Am Jonathan Scrivener

(Claude Houghton Oldfield)

Howells, William Dean 1941 A Hazard of New Fortunes

1921, 2014 Indian Summer

1918 A Modern Instance

1899, 1991 The Rise of Silas Lapham

Hudson, W. H. 1921 Green Mansions

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Hughes, Richard 1962 The Fox in the Attic

1945 The Innocent Voyage (High Wind in

Jamaica)

Hugo, Victor 1957 The Man Who Laughs

1904 Ninety-three

1898 Notre-Dame de Paris

Hure, Anne 1966 The Two Nuns

Hutchinson, Arthur S. M. 1922 If Winter Comes

Hutchinson, Ray C. 1937 The Shining Scabbard

Huth, Angela 1998 Invitation to the Married Life

Huxley, Aldous 1940 After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

2017 Brave New World

1952 Point Counter Point

Irving, John 1992 A Prayer for Owen Meany

Ishiguro, Kazuo 1991 Remains of the Day

Isasi Angulo, Amando C. 1915 Lazarillo de Tormes

Jackson, Shirley 1964 We Have Always Lived in the Castle

James, Henry 1926, 1952, 2016 The Ambassadors

1919 The American

1909, 2001 The Bostonians

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1899 Daisy Miller

1947 The Europeans

1938, 1955, 1984 The Golden Bowl

1907, 1945 The Portrait of a Lady

1932, 1965 The Princess Casamassima

1904 Roderick Hudson

1923 The Spoils of Poynton

1916 The Tragic Muse

1911 The Turn of the Screw

1938 Washington Square

1937 What Maisie Knew

1931, 1972 The Wings of the Dove

James, P. D. 1978 Death of an Expert Witness

Japrisot, Sebastien 1996 A Very Long Engagement

Jarrett, Cora 1934 Night Over Fitch's Pond

Jewett, Sarah Orne 1962 Country of the Pointed Firs

1910 The Queen's Twin and Other Stories

Johnson, Diane 1999 Le Divorce

Johnson, Samuel 1898 Rasselas

Johnston, Sir Harry 1920, 1969 The Gay-Dombeys

1922 The Veneerings

Jokai, Mor 1899 Timar’s Two Worlds

1947 Black Diamonds

Jones, Edward P. 2005 The Known World

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Joyce, James 1947, 1972 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

1996 Ulysses

Kafka, Franz 1941 The Castle

1964 The Trial

2013 The Metamorphosis

Kawabata, Yasunari 1969 Snow Country

Kaye-Smith, Sheila 1926 Joanna Godden

Kazantzakis, Nikos 1997 The Last Temptation of Christ

Keller, Gottfried 1914 A Village Romeo and Juliet

Kennedy, Charles Rann 1909 The Servant in the House (drama)

Kennedy, Margaret 1925 The Constant Nymph

Kerouac, Jack 1960, 1913 On the Road

Kertesz, Imre 2006 Liquidation

King, Grace Elizabeth 1911 Monsieur Motte (Supplemental)

King, Lily 2017 Euphoria

Kingsley, Charles 1901 Alton Locke

1909 Westward Ho!

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Kingsley, Henry 1901 Ravenshoe

Kipling, Rudyard 1 1911, 2019 Kim

1899 The Light That Failed

1980 Short Story Anthology

Knowles, John 1963 A Separate Peace

Koestler, Arthur 1951 The Age of Longing 1

944 Arrival and Departure

1942, 1984 Darkness at Noon

Kovalevskaia, Sofia 1917 Vera Vorontzoff

Kundera, Milan 1989 The Art of the Novel

1985 The Unbearable Lightness of Being

La Farge, Christopher 1940 Each to the Other

La Farge, Oliver 1972 Laughing Boy

LaFayette, Mme. de . . . 1952 The Princess of Cleves

Lagerkvist, Par 1952 Barabbas

1971 The Sibyl/Death of Ahasuerus

2012 The Dwarf

Lagerlof, Selma 1923 The Story of Gösta Berling

1916 Jerusalem

1922 The Outcast

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Lampedusa, Giuseppe di 1961, 1988 The Leopard

Lawrence, D. H. 1987 The Rainbow

1931 Sons and Lovers

2008 Women in Love

LeCarre, John 1978 The Honourable Schoolboy

2007 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Wm. Lederer & E. Burdick 1960 The Ugly American

Lem, Stanislaw 1993 His Master’s Voice

2012 The Star Diaries

Leonard, Elmore 2013 Freaky Deaky

Lerner, Benjamin 2017 10:04

Lessing, Doris 1980 The Grass Is Singing

1989 A Proper Marriage (or Martha Quest)

2006 The Golden Notebook

Lever, Charles 1896 Charles O'Malley: The Irish Dragoon

Levi, Carlo 2013 Christ Stopped at Eboli

Lewis, C. S. 1958 Out of the Silent Planet

1976 That Hideous Strength

Lewis, Flannery 1940 Abel Dayton

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Lewis, Matthew G. 1898 Ambrosio, or the Monk

Lewis, Sinclair 1991 Arrowsmith

1930, 1979 Dodsworth

1921 Main Street

Lewis, Wyndham 1958 Tarr

Lewisohn, Ludwig 1930 The Island Within

Lincoln, Victoria 1936 February Hill

Lipp, Fred 1968 Rulers of Darkness

Lively, Penelope 1991, 2005 Moon Tiger

Llewellyn, Richard 1940 How Green Was My Valley

Llosa, Mario Vargas 1983 Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

Locke, William John 1908 The Beloved Vagabond

1927 Perella

1917 The Mountebank

1921 The Wonderful Year

Lockridge, Ross 1984 Raintree County

Lodge, David 2000 Changing Places

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Lord, Betty Bao 1982 Spring Moon

Loti, Pierre 1912 Disenchanted

Lowry, Malcolm 1968 Under the Volcano

Lurie, Alison 1987 Foreign Affairs

Macaulay, Rose 1974 The Towers of Trebizond

MacDonald, Ross 1972 The Goodbye Look

MacKaye, Percy 1909 Jeanne d'Arc/Mater (dramas)

Mackenzie, Compton 1920 Sinister Street/Youth's Encounter

MacLean, Alistair 1957 H.M.S. Ulysses

MacLean, Norman 1992 A River Runs Through It

Mahfouz, Naguib 1993,2013 Palace Walk

Mailer, Norman 1980 The Naked and the Dead

Makin, Andrei 1999 Dreams of My Russian Summers

Malamud, Bernard 2014 The Assistant

1981 Dubin's Lives

1964 A New Life

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Malraux, Andre 1952, 1989 Man's Fate

1939 Man's Hope

1969 The Royal Way

Mann, Thomas 1926, 1959 Buddenbrooks

1949, 1992 Doctor Faustus

1979 Joseph in Egypt

1937, 2010 The Magic Mountain

2016 Mario and the Magician

Mantel, Hilary 2010 Wolf Hall

Marais, Sandor 2003 Embers

Marquand, John P. 1937, 1978 The Late George Apley

1944 So Little Time

1939 Wickford Point

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia 1986 Chronicle of a Death Foretold

1989 Love in the Time of Cholera

1972, 2011 One Hundred Years of Solitude

Marryat, Frederick 1901 Mr. Midshipman Easy

Marshall, Archibald 1919 Exton Manor

Martin-du Gard, Roger 1978 The Thibaults

Matthiessen, Peter 1966 At Play in the Fields of the Lord

2006 Bone by Bone

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Maugham, Somerset 1973 Cakes and Ale

1926, 1956 Of Human Bondage

Maupassant, Guy de 1902 The Necklace/A Piece of String

1906 Pierre and Jean

1912 Stronger Than Death

Mauriac, Francois 1933 Therese

1953 The Unknown Sea

Mawer, Simon 2007 The Fall

Maxwell, William 2008 The Folded Leaf

McCann, Colum 2015 Let the Great World Spin

McCarthy, Cormac 1994 All the Pretty Horses

McCrone, Guy 1955 Red Plush

McCullers, Carson 1950 Member of the Wedding

McEwan, Ian 2000 Amsterdam

2018 Saturday

McFee, William 1929 Pilgrims of Adversity

McKenna, Richard 1964 The Sand Pebbles

McKenna, Stephen 1922 The Sixth Sense

1918 Sonia

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Melville, Herman 1979 Billy Budd

1944, 2007 Moby Dick

1994 The Confidence Man

Meredith, George 1901, 1923 Beauchamp's Career

1898 Diana of the Crossways

1904, 1927, 1947, 1998 The Egoist

1913 Adventures of Harry Richmond

1906 Rhoda Fleming

1905 The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

1934 Sandra Belloni

1941 Vittoria

Michener, James A. 1972 The Drifters

1961 Hawaii

Mishima, Yukio 1971 After the Banquet/The Sound of Waves

Mitchell, David 2012 The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Mitchell, Silas Weir 1910 The Red City

Mo Yan 2009 Life and Death are Wearing Me Out

Momaday, N. Scott 1970 House Made of Dawn

Monsarrat, Nicholas 1966 The Cruel Sea

Montague, C. E. 1928 Right Off the Map

Moore, Brian 1998 The Statement

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Moore, George 1925, 1935 Esther Waters

1913 Evelyn Innes

1913, 1942 Sister Teresa

Moore, John Cecil 1967 The Waters Under the Earth

Morand, Paul 1929 The Living Buddha

Morgan, Charles 1933 The Fountain

1952 The River Line

Morris, Wright 1977 The Field of Vision

Morrison, Toni 1988 Song of Solomon

Mortimer, John 1981 Rumpole of the Bailey

Mosher, Howard Frank 1985 Disappearances

Munro, Alice 2016 The View from Castle Rock

Muntz, Hope 1953 The Golden Warrior

Murakami, Haruki 2014 Kafka on the Beach

Murasaki, Lady 1976 Tale of Genji

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Murdoch, Iris 2003 The Bell

2017 The Black Prince

1985 The Sea, the Sea

1965 A Severed Head

Murfree, Mary Noailles 1903 he Despot of Broomsedge Cove

(C.E.Craddock) 1910 The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains

Murphy, Walter 1980 The Vicar of Christ

Nabokov, Vladimir 2009 Ada, or Ardor

1963, 2001 Pale Fire

1993 Lolita

2019 Pnin

Naipaul, V. S. 1983 A Bend in the River

1993 A House For Mr. Biswas

2001 A Way in the World

Nemirovsky, Irene 2009 Suite Francaise

Nguyen, Viet Thanh 2020 The Sympathizer

Niven, Frederick 1924 Justice of the Peace

O’Brian, Patrick 1997 Master and Commander

O’Brien, Kate 1954 Flower of May

1947 For One Sweet Grape

1945 The Lord of Spices

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O’Brien, Tim 1996 In the Lake of the Woods

O'Connor, Flannery 1977 The Complete Stories

O’Hara, John 1962 Ten North Frederick

2004 Appointment in Samarra

Ohta, Takashi and

Sperry, Margaret 1930 The Golden Wind

Old Testament 1974 Jeremiah

Oldfield, Houghton Claude 1935 I Am Jonathan Scrivener

Ondaatje, Michael 1995, 2019 The English Patient

O’Neill, Joseph 2009 Netherland

Orwell, George 1952, 1989 Burmese Days

Osaragi, Jiro 1955 Homecoming

Ouida, Louise de la Ramee 1907 Ariadne, the Story of a Dream

Oz, Amos 2020 Elsewhere, Perhaps

Page, Thomas Nelson 1903 In Ole Virginny; or Marse Chan

and Other Stories

Palacio Valdes, Armando 1915 The Marquis of Pednalta

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Pamuk, Orhan 2007 Snow

Pardo Bazan, Emilia 1915 A Wedding Trip

Parker, Sir Gilbert 1909 The Right of Way

1910 When Valmond Came to Pontiac

Pasternak, Boris 1959 Dr. Zhivago

Pater, Walter 1949 Marius, the Epicurian

Paton, Alan 1984 Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful

1949, 2019 Cry the Beloved Country

Pavese, Cesare 2006 The Moon and the Bonfires

Peacock, Thomas Love 1901, 1974 Crotchet Castle

Percy, Walker 1 1977 The Moviegoer

1999 The Second Coming

Perez Galdos, Benito 1915 Dona Perfecta

Philips, Marianne 1937 A House in Vienna

Phillpotts, Eden 1911 Children of the Mist

Pirandello, Luigi 1925 The Late Mattia Pascal

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Plunkett, James 1973 Strumpet City

Poole, Ernest 1919 His Family

Porter, Katherine Anne 1977 The Collected Stories

Powell, Anthony 1993 The Fisher King

1965 The Kindly Ones

1975 Temporary Kings

1984 What's Become of Waring

Powell, Dawn 1994 The Golden Spur

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