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Point Counter Point
Point Counter Point is Aldous Huxley's 1928 satirical novel of ideas about 1920s English intellectual society, structured on the musical principle of counterpoint and written as a roman à clef featuring characters based on D. H. Lawrence, Oswald Mosley, and Huxley himself.
Right Ho, Jeeves
Right Ho, Jeeves, also known as Brinkley Manor, is a 1934 comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse and the second full-length Jeeves novel, set at Aunt Dahlia's Brinkley Court.
Scoop (novel)
Scoop is Evelyn Waugh's 1938 satirical novel of Fleet Street journalism, subtitled "A novel about journalists"; nature columnist William Boot is mistakenly sent to cover a war in fictional Ishmaelia for Lord Copper's Daily Beast, based on Waugh's 1935-36 Abyssinia reporting for the Daily Mail.
Some Prefer Nettles
Some Prefer Nettles (蓼喰ふ虫, Tade kuu mushi) is a 1929 novel by the Japanese writer Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, portraying a disintegrating Osaka marriage and marking his turn toward traditional Japanese aesthetics.
Steppenwolf (novel)
Der Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse's 1927 novel (S. Fischer Verlag), follows nearly-fifty-year-old outsider Harry Haller through crisis, Hermine, and the Magic Theater; it became a 1960s countercultural classic and named the rock band Steppenwolf.
Tender Is the Night
Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald's fourth novel (1934), follows psychiatrist Dick Diver and his wife Nicole among Riviera expatriates; known for its disputed flashback structure, 1951 Cowley chronological revision, and mixed reception.
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's 1920 novel of 1870s New York high society, following Newland Archer's love triangle with May Welland and Ellen Olenska; it won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, making Wharton the first woman to win it.
The Artificial Silk Girl
The Artificial Silk Girl is the English title of Das kunstseidene Mädchen, a 1932 novel by German writer Irmgard Keun about a young woman's pursuit of glamour in Berlin.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a 1927 Thornton Wilder novel in which a Peruvian bridge collapse kills five travelers and a monk asks why.
The Bridge on the Drina
The Bridge on the Drina (Na Drini ćuprija) is a 1945 novel by Ivo Andrić, spanning four centuries of life around the bridge at Višegrad, Bosnia.
The Buccaneers
The Buccaneers is Edith Wharton's unfinished final novel about 1870s American heiresses seeking English husbands; published posthumously in 1938, completed by Marion Mainwaring in 1993, and adapted for BBC (1995) and Apple TV+ (2023).
The Castle (novel)
The Castle (Das Schloss) is Franz Kafka's unfinished 1922 novel about land surveyor K., published posthumously by Max Brod in 1926; it depicts a snowbound village ruled by an inaccessible castle bureaucracy.
The Death of the Heart
The Death of the Heart, a 1938 novel by Irish-born writer Elizabeth Bowen, follows sixteen-year-old orphan Portia Quayne in her half-brother's emotionally sterile London home; her innocent love for Eddie ends in betrayal.
The Family of Pascual Duarte
The Family of Pascual Duarte (La familia de Pascual Duarte) is a 1942 novel by Camilo José Cela, in which an Extremaduran peasant recounts the violence that shaped him, the founding work of tremendismo.
The Fortnight in September
The Fortnight in September is R.C. Sherriff's 1931 first novel about the Stevens family's annual two-week holiday in Bognor Regis; praised by the Spectator, revived by Persephone and Scribner, recommended by Kazuo Ishiguro.
The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Ayn Rand following Howard Roark, a fiercely individualist architect, and the book that introduced her philosophy of objectivism.
The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game (Das Glasperlenspiel, Magister Ludi) is Hermann Hesse's final novel, published in Zurich in 1943 after being blocked in Nazi Germany; it won Hesse the 1946 Nobel Prize and depicts Josef Knecht, Master of a game synthesizing all knowledge in the scholarly province of Castalia.
The Good Soldier
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion, Ford Madox Ford's 1915 modernist novel originally titled The Saddest Story, narrated by the unreliable John Dowell about adultery among two couples at Nauheim.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck's 1939 Pulitzer-winning novel of the Joad family's Dust Bowl migration from Oklahoma to California; also called Steinbeck's masterpiece and a cornerstone of his 1962 Nobel Prize.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel published by Scribner's, narrated by Nick Carraway, follows Jay Gatsby's pursuit of Daisy Buchanan in Jazz Age New York; a commercial failure then, now a classic.
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers' 1940 debut novel, is a Southern Gothic story set in a Georgia mill town where a deaf man, John Singer, becomes confidant to four lonely misfits.
The Human Comedy
The Human Comedy is a 1943 novel by Armenian American writer William Saroyan, following the Macauley family in fictional Ithaca, California, during the early years of World War II.
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg) is Thomas Mann's 1924 novel in which engineer Hans Castorp's three-week visit to a Davos tuberculosis sanatorium becomes seven years of illness, debate, and education before World War I.
The Man Who Loved Children
The Man Who Loved Children is a 1940 novel by the Australian writer Christina Stead about the Pollit family's collapse in Washington, DC, rediscovered in 1965 through Randall Jarrell's praise.
The Messiah of the House of Joseph
The Messiah of the House of Joseph (Yiddish: Meshiekh ben Efrayim) is a 1924 novel by Moyshe Kulbak on the Talmudic legend of the 36 hidden just men.
The Moon and Sixpence
The Moon and Sixpence is W. Somerset Maugham's 1919 novel about Charles Strickland, a London stockbroker loosely modeled on Paul Gauguin who abandons his family to paint, narrated by a first-person writer-observer.
The Naked Year
The Naked Year (Golyy god; Голый год) is a 1922 novel by Boris Pilnyak portraying the revolutionary year 1919 in a fictional Russian provincial town, which brought him sudden fame.
The Power and the Glory
The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene's 1940 novel (US title The Labyrinthine Ways), follows a fugitive whisky priest in Tabasco, Mexico, during the anticlerical persecution of the Cristero era; it won the Hawthornden Prize and drew a 1953 Holy Office verdict.
The Rainbow
The Rainbow is D. H. Lawrence's fourth novel (Methuen, 30 September 1915), tracing three generations of the Brangwen family in the Nottinghamshire–Derbyshire Midlands. Banned for obscenity in November 1915; companion to Women in Love; adapted for BBC TV (1988) and film (1989).
The Razor's Edge
The Razor's Edge is W. Somerset Maugham's 1944 novel about American aviator Larry Darrell's spiritual quest from post-WWI Chicago to India under guru Shri Ganesha, told by Maugham as first-person narrator; distinguished from film versions by its Katha-Upanishad epigraph and 1944 publication.