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Terms of Endearment (novel)
Terms of Endearment is Larry McMurtry's 1975 Simon and Schuster novel (410 pages) about Houston widow Aurora Greenway and her daughter Emma, third of his Houston novels, later adapted into the Academy Award-winning film.
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born is Ayi Kwei Armah's first novel, published in 1968, following an unnamed railway clerk through the corruption of postcolonial Ghana.
The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel, published January 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, following Esther Greenwood's mental health crisis in 1953; republished under Plath's name in 1966 and in the US in 1971.
The Cardboard Crown
The Cardboard Crown is a 1952 novel by the Australian writer Martin Boyd, loosely based on his own family and the first of his four Langton novels.
The Carpetbaggers
The Carpetbaggers is Harold Robbins's 1961 roman à clef about aviation and Hollywood tycoon Jonas Cord Jr., modeled on Howard Hughes; it sold over eight million copies and was filmed in 1964.
The Conservationist
The Conservationist is a 1974 novel by South African writer Nadine Gordimer about a wealthy white industrialist whose farm outside Johannesburg cannot withstand Black inhabitants' land claims; it won the Booker Prize.
The Country Girls
The Country Girls is a 1960 novel by Irish writer Edna O'Brien, following Caithleen Brady from rural Clare to Dublin, and the first of her Country Girls trilogy.
The Dharma Bums
The Dharma Bums is a 1958 autobiographical novel by Jack Kerouac, following writer Ray Smith and mountaineer-poet Japhy Ryder through San Francisco parties and High Sierra climbs.
The Dragon Can't Dance
The Dragon Can't Dance is a 1979 novel by the Trinidadian writer Earl Lovelace that follows residents of Calvary Hill, Port of Spain, through annual Carnival and social change.
The Drifters (novel)
The Drifters is a 1971 Random House novel by James A. Michener about six young runaways of the Vietnam era drifting through Spain, Portugal, Morocco, and Mozambique, narrated by a sixty-one-year-old investment banker.
The End of the Affair
The End of the Affair (1951) is Graham Greene's fourth and final Catholic novel, narrated by jealous novelist Maurice Bendrix about lover Sarah Miles in Blitz-era London; based on Greene's affair with Catherine Walston, filmed in 1955 and 1999.
The Eye of the Storm
The Eye of the Storm is a 1973 novel by Australian writer Patrick White about wealthy dying matriarch Elizabeth Hunter, whose estranged children return from Europe to her deathbed.
The French Lieutenant's Woman
The French Lieutenant's Woman is John Fowles's 1969 postmodern Victorian novel about Charles Smithson and Sarah Woodruff in Lyme Regis, known for its intrusive narrator and alternative endings; adapted by Karel Reisz and Harold Pinter in 1981 with Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons.
The Ginger Man
The Ginger Man is J. P. Donleavy's 1955 debut novel, published by Olympia Press in Paris, about Sebastian Dangerfield, an American law student carousing in post-WWII Dublin. Banned in Ireland and elsewhere, it won a 21-year legal battle against publisher Maurice Girodias and is listed in the Modern Library's Best 100 Novels.
The Girls of Slender Means
The Girls of Slender Means is a 1963 novel by Muriel Spark, set in 1945 at the May of Teck Club, a London hostel for young women.
The Go-Between
The Go-Between is L. P. Hartley's 1953 novel about Leo Colston, a boy who carries messages between lovers Marian and Ted Burgess at Brandham Hall, Norfolk, in 1900; famous for its opening line and the Losey-Pinter 1971 Palme d'Or film.
The Golden Notebook
The Golden Notebook is a 1962 novel by Doris Lessing in which writer Anna Wulf keeps four color-coded notebooks she tries to combine into one golden notebook.
The Grass Is Singing
The Grass Is Singing is Doris Lessing's first novel, published in 1950, about a white farmer's wife in Southern Rhodesia murdered by her Black servant.
The House of God
The House of God (1978) is Samuel Shem's satirical novel, pen name of psychiatrist Stephen Bergman, about intern Roy Basch's year at a Boston hospital based on Beth Israel; famous for the Fat Man's 13 Laws, gomer slang, and influence on residency reform.
The Interpreters
The Interpreters is a 1965 novel by the Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, his first, following five young Nigerian intellectuals who return home to Lagos after independence.
The Last Picture Show (novel)
The Last Picture Show is Larry McMurtry's 1966 third novel, a coming-of-age story set in 1951–52 in fictional Thalia, Texas, modeled on his hometown Archer City; adapted into Peter Bogdanovich's Oscar-winning 1971 film and followed by Texasville.
The Last Tycoon
The Last Tycoon (The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western) is F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished Hollywood novel about producer Monroe Stahr, modeled on Irving Thalberg; begun 1939, published posthumously 1941, edited by Edmund Wilson.
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, published as Judith Hearne, is a 1955 first novel by Brian Moore about a lonely Belfast piano teacher whose marriage hopes collapse.
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (novel)
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is Sloan Wilson's 1955 Simon and Schuster bestseller about WWII veteran Tom Rath, a Westport, Connecticut commuter and PR man at United Broadcasting; its title became a byword for 1950s corporate conformity and it was filmed in 1956 with Gregory Peck.
The Man Who Cried I Am
The Man Who Cried I Am is a 1967 novel by John A. Williams, his most celebrated work, following a Black novelist and journalist across three continents.
The Matriarch
The Matriarch is a 1986 historical novel by New Zealand Māori writer Witi Ihimaera, narrated by Tamatea Mahana and winner of the 1986 Wattie Book of the Year.
The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea
The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea is a 1965 coming-of-age novel by the Australian writer Randolph Stow, set in Geraldton, Western Australia, during and after World War II.
The Mimic Men
The Mimic Men is a 1967 novel by the Trinidadian-born British writer V. S. Naipaul, told as the memoir of Ralph Singh, an exiled Caribbean politician in London.
The Moviegoer
The Moviegoer is Walker Percy's 1961 debut novel about Binx Bolling, a New Orleans stockbroker on a Mardi Gras 'search'; it won the 1962 National Book Award for Fiction.
The Mystic Masseur
The Mystic Masseur is a 1957 comic novel by V. S. Naipaul following Ganesh Ramsumair, a failed schoolteacher in 1940s Trinidad who becomes a healer and politician.