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My favourite authors and their books that I have read so far.

Thomas Mann (1875-1955)

Photograph of Thomas Mann

Buddenbrooks (1901)
Death in Venice (1912)
The Magic Mountain (1924)
Lotte in Weimar (1939)
Doctor Faustus (1947)
Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (1954)

James Joyce (1882-1941)

Photograph of James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
Ulysses (1922)
The Works of James Joyce (Poetry)

Franz Kafka (1883-1924)

Photograph of Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (1915)
The Trial
America
The Castle

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)

Photograph of Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Double (1846)
The Insulted and Humiliated (1861)
Notes from the Underground (1864)
The Gambler (1866)
Crime and Punishment (1866)
The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
Stories

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)

Photograph of Vladimir Nabokov

Despair (1936)
Laughter in the Dark (1938)
The Enchanter (1939)
Lolita (1955)
Pnin (1957)
Pale Fire (1962)
Speak, Memory (1966)
Ada (1969)

Somerset Maugham (1874-1966)

Photograph of Somerset Maugham

Of Human Bondage (1915)
The Moon and Sixpence (1919)
Cakes and Ale (1930)
The Razor’s Edge (1944)

John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

Photograph of John Steinbeck

To a God Unknown (1933)
The Red Pony (1937)
Of Mice and Men (1937)
The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

Photograph of F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise (1920)
The Beautiful and Damned (1922)
The Great Gatsby (1925)
Tender is the Night (1934)
The Diamond as Big as The Ritz and Other Stories

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928-)

Photograph of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

No One Writes to the Colonel (1958)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981)
Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
The General in His Labyrinth (1989)
Of Love and Other Demons (1994)

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

Photograph of Aldous Huxley

Antic Hay (1923)
Point Counter Point (1928)
Brave New World (1932)
The Genius and the Goddess (1955)

Henry James (1843-1916)

Photograph of Henry James

The Aspern Papers (1888)
The Turn of the Screw (1898)
The Wings of the Dove (1902)
The Ambassadors (1903)
The Golden Bowl (1904)

J. D. Salinger (1919-)

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The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
Franny and Zooey (1961)
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour—An Introduction (1963)

Kurt Vonnegut (1922-)

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Cat’s Cradle (1963)
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)
Salughterhouse-Five (1969)
Slapstick (1976)
Bluebeard (1987)

Anita Desai (1937-)

Photograph of Anita Desai

Cry, the Peacock (1963)
Voices in the City (1965)
Bye-bye, Blackbird (1971)
Where Shall We Go This Summer? (1975)
Fire on the Mountain (1977)
Clear Light of Day (1980)
The Village by the Sea (1982)
In Custody (1984)

Raja Rao (1908-2006)

Photograph of Raja Rao

Kanthapura (1938)
The Cat and Shakespeare (1965)

William Faulkner (1897-1962)

Photograph of William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury (1929)
As I Lay Dying (1930)
Light in August (1932)
Absalom, Absalom! (1936)

Joseph Heller (1923-1999)

Photograph of Joseph Heller

Catch-22 (1961)
Something Happened (1974)

Saul Bellow (1915-2005)

Photograph of Saul Bellow

The Adventures of Augie March (1953)
Mr. Sammler’s Planet (1970)
Humboldt’s Gift (1975)

V. S. Naipaul (1932-)

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The Mystic Masseur (1957)
The Suffrage of Elvira (1958)
Miguel Street (1959)
A House for Mr. Biswas (1961)
The Middle Passage (1962)
Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion (1963)
An Area of Darkness (1964)
The Mimic Men (1967)
The Loss of El Dorado (1969)
In A Free State (1971)
Guerrillas (1975)
India: A Wounded Civilization (1977)
A Bend in the River (1979)
Among the Believers (1981)
The Enigma of Arrival (1987)
A Turn in the South (1989)
India: A Million Mutinies Now (1990)
A Way in the World (1994)
Beyond Belief (1998)
Half a Life (2001)
Magic Seeds (2004)

William Styron (1925-)

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Lie Down in Darkness (1951)
The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967)
Sophie’s Choice (1979)

Philip Roth (1933-)

Photograph of Philip Roth

Goodbye, Columbus (1959)
Portnoy’s Complaint (1969)
Operation Shylock (1993)

Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

Photograph of Ayn Rand

Night of January 16th (1934)
We the Living (1936)
Anthem (1937)
The Fountainhead (1943)
Atlas Shrugged (1957)
The Virtue of Selfishness (1965)

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

Photograph of Thomas Hardy

Under the Greenwood Tree (1872)
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
The Return of the Native (1878)
The Trumpet-Major (1880)
The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)
The Woodlanders (1887)
Tess of the D'ubervillies (1891)
Jude the Obscure (1895)

Richard Bach (1936-)

Photograph of Richard Bach

Stranger to the Ground (1963)
Nothing by Chance (1969)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
A Gift of Wings (1975)
Illusions (1977)
There’s No Such Place as Far Away (1979)
The Bridge Across Forever (1984)
One (1988)
Running from Safety (1994)