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Candide
' ( , ) is a French satire written by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment, first published in 1759. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: or, The Optimist (1762); and Candide: Optimism''''' (1947). A young man, Candide, lives a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise, being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism by his mentor, Professor Pangloss. This lifestyle is abruptly ended, followed by Candide's slow and painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire
The Kite Runner
2003 novel by Khaled Hosseini
A Clockwork Orange
1962 novel by Anthony Burgess
Demons
novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Kafka on the Shore
2002 novel by Haruki Murakami
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2005 novel by Stieg Larsson
The Green Mile
1996 novel by Stephen King
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
1891 novel by Thomas Hardy
American Psycho
1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis
Atonement
2001 novel by Ian McEwan
Diamonds Are Forever
1956 novel by Ian Fleming
Justine
1791 erotic novel by the Marquis de Sade
The Jungle
novel by Upton Sinclair
Bag of Bones
1998 novel by Stephen King
The House of the Spirits
1982 novel by Isabel Allende
The Lovely Bones
2002 novel by Alice Sebold
The Color Purple
1982 novel by Alice Walker
Disgrace
Disgrace is a 1999 novel by South African author J. M. Coetzee. It won the Booker Prize. The writer was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature four years after its publication.
Gravity's Rainbow
1973 novel by Thomas Pynchon
Wicked (Maguire novel)
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is a 1995 dark fantasy novel by American writer Gregory Maguire, with illustrations by Douglas Smith. It is the first novel in The Wicked Years series, and was followed by Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz.
A Little Life
2015 novel by Hanya Yanagihara
Juliette
1797 novel by Marquis de Sade
The Bluest Eye
novel by Toni Morrison
Philosophy in the Bedroom
1795 novel by Marquis de Sade
The Stars My Destination
1956 novel by Alfred Bester
Flowers in the Attic
novel by V. C. Andrews
The Word for World Is Forest
science fiction novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1972; first published in English as a book, 1976, presumably expanded
Sanctuary
novel by William Faulkner
Zabibah and the King
romance novel by Saddam Hussein
A Time to Kill
1989 novel by John Grisham
The Piano Teacher
1983 Novel by Elfriede Jelinek
Room
2010 novel by Emma Donoghue
Clarissa
18th century epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson
Herland
1915 novel by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Big Little Lies
2014 novel by Liane Moriarty
The Sheik
1919 novel by Edith Maude Hull
Go ask Alice
1971 novel by Beatrice Sparks
The Penelopiad
book by Margaret Atwood
Woman at Point Zero
1975 novel by Nawal El Saadawi
Story of the Eye
book by Georges Bataille
Next
2006 novel by Michael Crichton
The Rules of Attraction
1987 novel by Bret Easton Ellis
I Spit on Your Graves
novel by Vernon Sullivan
The Marquise of O
1808 Novel by Heinrich von Kleist
The Redeemer
2005 novel by Jo Nesbø
Zorro
2005 novel by Isabel Allende
Parable of the Sower
1993 science fiction novel by Octavia E. Butler
The Clansman
1905 novel by Thomas Dixon Jr.
Speak
1999 young-adult novel by Laurie Halse Anderson
Peyton Place
1956 novel by Grace Metalious
The Executioners
1957 novel by John D. MacDonald
Deliverance
1970 novel by James Dickey
Two Women
1958 Italian-language novel by Alberto Moravia
Beartown
2016 novel by Fredrik Backman
Minor Detail
2017 novel by Palestinian author Adania Shibli
Pygmy
2009 novel by Chuck Palahniuk
Myra Breckinridge
1968 novel by Gore Vidal
The Forest House
1993 novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Diana L. Paxson
Push
1996 novel by Sapphire
My Friend Dahmer
Graphic novel and memoir about serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, by the artist Derf