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A Bend in the River
A Bend in the River, V. S. Naipaul's 1979 Booker-shortlisted novel (André Deutsch; Knopf US), narrated by Salim, an East African Indian trader in an unnamed Congo-like post-independence African state.
A Difficult Young Man
A Difficult Young Man is a 1955 novel by the Australian writer Martin Boyd, the second of the Langton Quartet, narrated by Guy Langton about his reckless older brother Dominic.
A Fringe of Leaves
A Fringe of Leaves is a 1976 novel by the Australian writer Patrick White, his tenth, about an English gentlewoman shipwrecked and held captive by Aborigines.
A House for Mr Biswas
A House for Mr Biswas is V.S. Naipaul's 1961 novel about Mohun Biswas, an Indian-Trinidadian modeled on Naipaul's father, whose lifelong quest to own a house in colonial Trinidad ends in debt and death.
A Man of the People
A Man of the People is a 1966 political satire novel by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, about corruption and a military coup in a newly independent African country.
A Many-Splendoured Thing
A Many-Splendoured Thing (瑰宝) is a 1952 autobiographical novel by Han Suyin, based on her Hong Kong affair with Times correspondent Ian Morrison, who died covering the Korean War.
A Question of Power
A Question of Power is a semi-autobiographical 1973 novel by South African-born writer Bessie Head, portraying the mental breakdown of Elizabeth, a mixed-race South African exile in Botswana.
A Separate Peace
A Separate Peace (1959) is John Knowles's coming-of-age novel about Gene Forrester and Phineas at the Devon School, New Hampshire, during World War II; expanded from the short story "Phineas," it won the Faulkner Foundation Award and was filmed in 1972.
A Spy in the House of Love
A Spy in the House of Love is Anaïs Nin's 1954 novel about Sabina, a New York wife leading secret adulterous affairs, collected in Cities of the Interior; her most popular book, over 100,000 copies sold by 1957.
All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers
All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers is Larry McMurtry's 1972 Simon & Schuster novel, second of his Houston books, following young writer Danny Deck from Texas to San Francisco after sudden literary success.
All the King's Men
All the King's Men is Robert Penn Warren's 1946 Harcourt novel, winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, about Southern governor Willie Stark, modeled on Huey Long, narrated by Jack Burden, adapted into the Oscar-winning 1949 film.
Angle of Repose
Angle of Repose is Wallace Stegner's 1971 Doubleday novel, winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, narrated by historian Lyman Ward and based on Mary Hallock Foote's letters, with a lasting plagiarism controversy.
Another Roadside Attraction
Another Roadside Attraction is Tom Robbins's 1971 debut novel (Doubleday), a countercultural seriocomic thriller in which Marx Marvelous, Amanda, John Paul Ziller, and Plucky Purcell run a hot dog stand wildlife preserve hiding Christ's corpse abducted from the Vatican.
Arrow of God
Arrow of God is a 1964 novel by the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, his third, portraying the collision between Igbo religion and British colonial rule in 1920s Nigeria.
As for Me and My House
As for Me and My House is a 1941 novel by Canadian writer Sinclair Ross, a diary kept by a minister's wife during a drought year on the Saskatchewan prairie.
Borstal Boy
Borstal Boy is a 1958 autobiographical novel by the Irish writer Brendan Behan, recounting his 1939 arrest in Liverpool and three years in English borstal institutions.
Breakfast of Champions
Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday, is Kurt Vonnegut's 1973 seventh novel, set in Midland City, where Pontiac dealer Dwayne Hoover meets science fiction writer Kilgore Trout; published by Delacorte, adapted to film in 1999.
Brother Man
Brother Man is a 1954 novel by the Jamaican writer Roger Mais, telling of an honest Rastafarian healer caught up in intrigue and betrayal in West Kingston.
Brown Girl, Brownstones
Brown Girl, Brownstones is Paule Marshall's 1959 first novel, following Selina Boyce, daughter of Barbadian immigrants, growing up in Brooklyn in the 1930s and 1940s.
Burger's Daughter
Burger's Daughter is a 1979 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer about Rosa Burger, daughter of a white revolutionary who died in prison fighting apartheid.
Careful, He Might Hear You
Careful, He Might Hear You is a 1963 debut novel by Sumner Locke Elliott about a custody battle between two sisters over a six-year-old boy, winner of the Miles Franklin Award.
Child of God
Child of God is a 1973 novel by Cormac McCarthy, his third, set in Sevier County, Tennessee, in the early 1960s, following outcast Lester Ballard into violence and murder.
Cry, the Peacock
Cry, the Peacock is a 1963 psychological novel by Anita Desai, her first, about a hypersensitive young wife whose mind disintegrates under an astrologer's prophecy of death.
Efuru
Efuru is a 1966 novel by the Nigerian writer Flora Nwapa, the first novel by an African woman published by a major international house, following an independent Igbo trader.
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (novel)
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is Tom Robbins's 1976 counterculture novel about Sissy Hankshaw, a hitchhiker with enormous thumbs, the Rubber Rose Ranch cowgirls, and its poorly received 1994 Gus Van Sant film.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream is Hunter S. Thompson's 1971 gonzo journalism book, serialized in Rolling Stone as 'Raoul Duke', published by Random House in 1972, illustrated by Ralph Steadman, and filmed by Terry Gilliam in 1998.
Fear of Flying (novel)
Fear of Flying is a 1973 debut novel by Erica Jong, whose frank account of the poet Isadora Wing became a #1 bestseller and sold over 20 million copies.
Fifth Business
Fifth Business is a 1970 novel by the Canadian writer Robertson Davies and the first volume of the Deptford Trilogy, narrated by retired schoolmaster Dunstan Ramsay.
Go Tell It on the Mountain (novel)
Go Tell It on the Mountain is James Baldwin's 1953 debut novel, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story of John Grimes, a fourteen-year-old in Harlem and stepson of a Pentecostal storefront preacher, adapted as a 1984 TV film.
Hawaii (novel)
Hawaii (1959) by James A. Michener is a 937-page epic historical novel tracing the islands from volcanic formation through Polynesian settlement, missionaries, and Asian immigration to 1959 statehood, researched with Clarice Taylor and adapted to film in 1966.