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Heat and Dust
Heat and Dust is a 1975 novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala that won the Booker Prize and tells parallel stories about English women in India fifty years apart.
Henderson the Rain King
Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow's 1959 fifth novel (Viking Press), follows Eugene Henderson, a 55-year-old American millionaire, to imaginary African tribes, the Arnewi and Wariri, driven by an inner cry of "I want, I want."
Herzog (novel)
Herzog, Saul Bellow's sixth novel (Viking, 1964), follows Moses Herzog, an academic writing unsent letters to the living and dead after his wife's affair; it won the 1965 National Book Award.
House Made of Dawn
House Made of Dawn is a 1968 novel by N. Scott Momaday about Abel, a Jemez Pueblo veteran, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
House of Mist
House of Mist is a 1947 novel in English by the Chilean writer María Luisa Bombal, published in New York by Farrar, Straus and Company.
In the Castle of My Skin
In the Castle of My Skin is the 1953 debut novel of Barbadian writer George Lamming, following a boy from age nine to seventeen in a Barbadian village.
In the First Circle
In the First Circle (В круге первом) is an autobiographical novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, his first full-length novel, based on his imprisonment in a Soviet prison for scientists near Moscow.
Jagua Nana
Jagua Nana is a 1961 novel by the Nigerian writer Cyprian Ekwensi, first published in London, following an aging Lagos prostitute in the turbulent years before Nigerian independence in 1960.
Kane and Abel (novel)
Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer's 1979 historical novel, follows William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, born the same day, whose rivalry over a bank and hotel empire spans sixty years.
Leaves of the Banyan Tree
Leaves of the Banyan Tree is a 1979 novel by Samoan writer Albert Wendt, following three generations of a family in Western Samoa under colonial rule.
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies, William Golding's 1954 Faber novel, follows schoolboys stranded on a Pacific island who descend into savagery. A deliberate reversal of Ballantyne's The Coral Island, it borrows the names Ralph and Jack, is a canonical school text, and was first adapted for television by Jack Thorne in 2026.
Major Major Major Major
Major Major Major Major is a character in Joseph Heller's 1961 novel Catch-22, squadron commander of Yossarian in World War II; named Major Major Major by his father's joke, he was promoted to major by an IBM machine on his first day in the Army.
Mine Boy
Mine Boy is a 1946 novel by the South African writer Peter Abrahams, following Xuma, a rural migrant who becomes a gold mine worker in Johannesburg.
Mother Night
Mother Night is Kurt Vonnegut's 1962 third novel, the prison memoir of Howard W. Campbell Jr., an American Nazi propagandist claiming to have been a US double agent, famous for the moral "We are what we pretend to be."
Muriel at Metropolitan
Muriel at Metropolitan, published abroad as Between Two Worlds, is a 1975 debut novel by Miriam Tlali, narrated by a black woman working in a white-owned Johannesburg shop.
My Brother Jack
My Brother Jack is a 1964 novel by George Johnston about two brothers growing up in working-class Melbourne; it won the 1965 Miles Franklin Award.
Naked Came the Stranger
Naked Came the Stranger, by "Penelope Ashe" (Mike McGrady and about two dozen Newsday journalists), a deliberately bad 1969 hoax sex novel that became a bestseller and sold more after its television exposure.
No Longer at Ease
No Longer at Ease is a 1960 novel by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, the sequel to Things Fall Apart and second in his African Trilogy, following Obi Okonkwo.
Nothing but the Night (novel)
Nothing but the Night, John Williams's 1948 debut novel from Alan Swallow, follows Arthur Maxley through one day of drinking and trauma; Williams disowned it, and NYRB reissued it in 2019.
On the Road
On the Road, Jack Kerouac's 1957 Viking Press novel of Beat Generation travels, typed as a 120-foot scroll in April 1951, starring Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, over four million copies sold.
Owls Do Cry
Owls Do Cry is the first novel by New Zealand writer Janet Frame, published in 1957, tracing twenty years in the life of the Withers family.
Petals of Blood
Petals of Blood is a 1977 novel by Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, his last written in English, set in the fictional village of Ilmorog.
Peyton Place (novel)
Peyton Place is Grace Metalious's 1956 debut novel about the hidden sexual and social secrets of a small, respectable New England town, and a huge best seller.
Pnin (novel)
Pnin (Пнин), Vladimir Nabokov's 1957 novel, follows Russian émigré professor Timofey Pnin at fictional Waindell College through an unreliable narrator; serialized in The New Yorker, it brought Nabokov his first National Book Award nomination.
Power Without Glory
Power Without Glory is a 1950 novel by Australian writer Frank Hardy tracing John West, a thinly disguised John Wren, from a Melbourne slum to political power through bribery and fear.
Requiem for a Dream (novel)
Requiem for a Dream, Hubert Selby Jr.'s 1978 novel (Rekviem za sen, Réquiem por un sueño), follows Sara Goldfarb, her son Harry, Marion, and Tyrone as dreams of TV fame and heroin wealth collapse into addiction; adapted faithfully by Darren Aronofsky in 2000.
Riders in the Chariot
Riders in the Chariot is Patrick White's sixth novel, published in 1961, following four lonely outsiders in a Sydney suburb who share a visionary experience of Ezekiel's chariot.
Second-Class Citizen
Second-Class Citizen is a 1974 novel by Nigerian-born writer Buchi Emecheta, following Adah, an Igbo woman who moves to 1960s London and faces racism and sexism.
Sons for the Return Home
Sons for the Return Home is a 1973 novel by the Samoan writer Albert Wendt, telling of a Samoan family's migration to New Zealand and a doomed interracial love affair.
Surfacing
Surfacing is Margaret Atwood's second novel, published in 1972, about an unnamed artist whose search for her missing father in northern Quebec becomes a psychological breakdown.