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The Neon Bible
The Neon Bible is John Kennedy Toole's first novel, written at 16 for a literary contest and published posthumously by Grove Press in 1989; a Southern coming-of-age story of David and Aunt Mae, adapted by Terence Davies in 1995.
The Palace of the Peacock
The Palace of the Peacock is a 1960 novel by Wilson Harris, his first, opening the Guyana Quartet, following Captain Donne's multiracial crew up a Guyanese rainforest river.
The River Between
The River Between is a 1965 novel by Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, published under his earlier name James Ngugi, about two rival Gikuyu villages in colonial Kenya.
The Sea, the Sea
The Sea, the Sea is a 1978 novel by Irish-born British writer Iris Murdoch, her nineteenth, following retired director Charles Arrowby; it won the 1978 Booker Prize.
The Solid Mandala
The Solid Mandala is a 1966 novel by the Australian writer Patrick White about the twin brothers Waldo and Arthur Brown, set in the fictional Sydney suburb of Sarsaparilla.
The Stone Angel
The Stone Angel is a 1964 novel by the Canadian writer Margaret Laurence, following ninety-year-old Hagar Shipley as she resists a nursing home and recalls her life in Manawaka, Manitoba.
The Tree of Man
The Tree of Man is a 1955 novel by Australian writer Patrick White following the pioneering couple Stan and Amy Parker across half a century of rural life.
The Ugly American
The Ugly American is a 1958 political novel by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick set in fictional Sarkhan, critiquing US Cold War diplomacy; its title character Homer Atkins is virtuous, giving the phrase an ironic, reversed afterlife.
The Unknown Industrial Prisoner
The Unknown Industrial Prisoner is a 1971 novel by Australian writer David Ireland about oil refinery workers, and the first of his three Miles Franklin Award winners.
The Woman Who Had Two Navels
The Woman Who Had Two Navels is a 1961 English-language novel by Filipino writer Nick Joaquín about a young Manila woman who believes she has two navels.
The Women in Black
The Women in Black is a 1993 novel by Australian author Madeleine St John, her first book, following women in a Sydney department store in the late 1950s.
The World According to Garp
The World According to Garp, John Irving's 1978 breakout novel from E. P. Dutton about T. S. Garp, son of feminist Jenny Fields; National Book Award 1980, ten million copies in print, 1982 Robin Williams film.
The Year in San Fernando
The Year in San Fernando is a 1965 coming-of-age novel by Trinidadian writer Michael Anthony, following twelve-year-old Francis through a year working in the city of San Fernando.
Tirra Lirra by the River
Tirra Lirra by the River is a 1978 novel by the Australian writer Jessica Anderson, following Nora Porteous as she returns to Brisbane and reconstructs her life through memory.
To the Islands
To the Islands is a 1958 novel by Australian writer Randolph Stow about an elderly missionary who flees into the desert after believing he killed an Aboriginal man.
Too Late the Phalarope
Too Late the Phalarope is a 1953 novel by South African author Alan Paton about a white police lieutenant ruined by breaking apartheid's law against interracial relations.
Tropic of Cancer (novel)
Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's 1934 semi-autobiographical Paris novel published by Obelisk Press with an Anaïs Nin preface, was banned in the US for 27 years until Grove Press's 1961 edition and the 1964 Supreme Court ruling in Grove Press v. Gerstein.
Under the Net
Under the Net is a comic novel by Iris Murdoch, her first, published in London in 1954. It follows hack writer Jake Donaghue through picaresque adventures in London and Paris.
V.
V. is Thomas Pynchon's first novel, published in 1963, an open-ended, fragmented narrative of about 150 characters centered on Herbert Stencil's quest for the mysterious V.; it won the William Faulkner Foundation best first novel award and stands among Pynchon's 'big four' novels.
Waiting for the Rain
Waiting for the Rain is a 1975 novel in English by the Zimbabwean writer Charles Mungoshi, published by Heinemann in London, depicting the fragmentation of a Shona family.
Why Are We So Blest?
Why Are We So Blest? is a 1972 novel by the Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah, about a Ghanaian student at Harvard who seeks to join an African revolution.
Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys's 1966 novel published by André Deutsch, is a prequel to Jane Eyre telling the story of Bertha Mason as Antoinette Cosway in post-emancipation 1830s Jamaica; a foundational neo-Victorian and postcolonial text.
Winter in the Blood
Winter in the Blood is a 1974 novel by James Welch about an alienated Blackfeet man on a Montana reservation, a key work of the Native American Renaissance.
Wise Blood
Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's 1952 first novel (Harcourt, Brace), follows Hazel Motes, preacher of the Church Without Christ in Taulkinham; John Huston filmed it in 1979.