My Family and Other Animals
Autobiographical book by British naturalist Gerald Durrell
Novel
The Alexandria Quartet
Tetralogy of novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between 1957 and 1960. A critical and commercial success, the first three books present three perspectives on a single set of events and characters in Alexandria, Egypt, before and during the Second World War
The Name of the Rose
1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco
The Worm Ouroboros
Heroic high fantasy novel by English writer E. R. Eddison, first published in 1922. The book describes the protracted war between the domineering King Gorice of Witchland and the Lords of Demonland in an imaginary world that appears mainly medieval and partly reminiscent of Norse sagas
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
Novel by Gerald Basil Edwards first published in the United Kingdom by Hamish Hamilton in 1981, and in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf in the same year
A Visit from the Goon Squad
2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning work of fiction by American author Jennifer Egan
Middlemarch
Novel by the English author Mary Anne Evans, who wrote as George Eliot
Invisible Man
Novel by Ralph Ellison, published by Random House in 1952. It addresses many of the social and intellectual issues faced by African Americans in the early twentieth century, including black nationalism, the relationship between black identity and Marxism, and the reformist racial policies of Booker T. Washington, as well as issues of individuality and personal identity
As I Lay Dying
1930 Southern Gothic novel by American author William Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom!
Novel by the American author William Faulkner, first published in 1936. Taking place before, during, and after the American Civil War, it is a story about three families of the American South, with a focus on the life of Thomas Sutpen.