The Long Walk
Dystopian horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1979, under the pseudonym Richard Bachman
Novel
All Quiet on the Western Front
Novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers’ extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front
A Judgement in Stone
1977 novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, widely considered to be one of her greatest works.
Wide Sargasso Sea
1966 novel by Dominican-British author Jean Rhys
Interview with the Vampire
Gothic horror and vampire novel by American author Anne Rice, published in 1976. It was her debut novel
The Gormenghast Trilogy
Fantasy series by British author Mervyn Peake, about the inhabitants of Castle Gormenghast, a sprawling, decaying, Gothic structure
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