Books and Authors #1 Flashcards
1984
George Orwell
2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke
a 1968 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke. It was developed concurrently with Stanley Kubrick’s film version and published after the release of the film.
87th Precinct
Ed mcBain
a series of police procedural novels and stories written by Ed McBain. McBain’s 87th Precinct works have been adapted, sometimes loosely, into movies and television on several occasions
Absalom, Absalom
William Faulker
- Taking place before, during, and after the Civil War, it is a story about three families of the American South, with a focus on the life of Thomas Sutpen
Adam Bede
George Eliot
pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859
The Accidental Tourist
Anny Tyler
a 1985 novel
finalist for the Pulitzer Prize adapted into a 1988 award-winning film starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, and Geena Davis, for which Davis won an Academy Award
Adonias
Percy Shelly
is a pastoral elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats in 1821, and widely regarded as one of Shelley’s best and most well-known works
The Admirable Crichton
James Barrie (1902)
Comic Stage Play
The Advancement of Learning
Francis Bacon
1605 book by Francis Bacon.
It inspired the taxonomic structure of the highly influential Encyclopédie by Jean le Rond d’Alembert and Denis Diderot.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark TWain (set around 1845)
Advise and Consent
Allen Drury (Pulitzer)
a 1959 political novel by Allen Drury that explores the United States Senate confirmation of controversial Secretary of State nominee Robert Leffingwell, who is a former member of the Communist Party. The novel spent 102 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960 and was adapted into a successful 1962 film starring Henry Fond
The Aeneid
Virgil
The African Queen
CS Forester
a 1935 novel written by English author C. S. Forester, which was adapted to the 1951 film with the same name
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making it the first novel written by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and thus Wharton the first woman to win the prize.[1] The story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s.
The Age of Reason
Jean-Paul Sartre
a 1945 novel by Jean-Paul Sartre. It is the first part of the trilogy The Roads to Freedom. The novel, set in the bohemian Paris of the late 1930s, focuses on three days in the life of a philosophy teacher named Mathieu who is seeking money to pay for an abortion for his mistress, Marcelle.
(Also name of a book by Thomas Paine)
Ageless Body, Timeless Mind
Deepak Chopra
Chopra’s Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old was published in 1993.[9] The book and his friendship with Michael Jackson gained him an interview on July 12 that year on Oprah, which made him a household name
“controversial New-Age guru
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Irving Stone (bio of Michealangelo 1961)
Geography
Ptolemy
Ptolemy’s other main work is his Geography (also called the Geographia). This also is a compilation of what was known about the world’s geography in the Roman Empire during his time
Tales of the Alhambra
Washington Irving (he lived in Spain for a time – 1829) Grenada
Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll (1865)
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque (1928)
The book and its sequel, The Road Back, were among the books banned and burned in Nazi Germany.
In 1930, the book was adapted as an Oscar-winning film of the same name, directed by Lewis Milestone.
All the Kings Men
Robert Penn Warren
first published in 1946. Its title is drawn from the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. In 1947 Warren won the Pulitzer Prize for All the King’s Men. It was adapted for film in 1949 and 2006; the 1949 version won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Huey P. Long
Along Came a Spider
James Patterson (Alex Cross)
It was adapted into a movie of the same name in 2001, starring Morgan Freeman as Cross. About Af Am Forensic Psychologist
Alphabet Mysteries
Sue Grafton
The Ambassadors
Henry James (1903)
The American
Henry James
originally published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1876–1877 and then as a book in 1877. The novel is an uneasy combination of social comedy and melodrama concerning the adventures and misadventures of Christopher Newman, an essentially good-hearted but rather gauche American businessman on his first tour of Europe.
The American Crisis
Thomas Paine
pamphlet series by 18th century Enlightenment philosopher and author Thomas Paine, originally published from 1776 to 1783 during the American Revolution.
American Dictionary of the English Language
Noah Webster (First of many starting around 1828)
The American Language
HL Mencken
919, is H. L. Mencken’s book about the English language as spoken in the United States.
Inspired by Mark Twain
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser (1925)
Analects
Confucius
Andersonville
Mackinlay Kantor (PUlitzer 1956)
And Quiet Flows the Don
Mikhail Sholokhov (1965 Nobel) depicts the lives and struggles of Don Cossacks during the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and Russian Civil War.
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
n epic poem written by Dante Alighieri between c. 1308 and his death in 1321. It is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian literature
Angela’s Ashes
Frank McCourt
Angela’s Ashes was published in 1996 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. A sequel to the book, ‘Tis, was published in 1999, and was followed by Teacher Man in 2005
Angels and Demons
Dan Brown
a 2000 bestselling mystery-thriller novel written. The novel introduces the character Robert Langdon, who is also the protagonist of Brown’s subsequent 2003 novel, The Da Vinci Code; his 2009 novel, The Lost Symbol; and the 2013 novel Inferno.
Anne of Green Gables
LM Montgomery (1908)
Anna and the King of Siam
Margaret Landon
a 1944 semi-fictionalized biographical novel by Margaret Landon.In the early 1860s, Anna Leonowens, a widow with two young children, was invited to Siam (now Thailand) by King Mongkut (Rama IV), who wanted her to teach his children and wives the English language and introduce them to British customs. Her experiences during the five years she spent in the country served as the basis for two memoirs, The English Governess at the Siamese Court (1870) and Romance of the Harem (1872).
Adapted into 1951 Stage Musical King and I
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy (1873-1877)
Anne of the Thousand Days
Maxwell Anderson
a hit on the stage in 1948, but did not reach movie screens for 21 years. It opened on Broadway starring Rex Harrison and Joyce Redman, and became a 1969 movie with Richard Burton and Geneviève Bujold. Margaret Furse won an Oscar for the film’s costume designs
Answered Prayers
Truman Capote
n unfinished novel by American author Truman Capote, published posthumously in 1986 in England and in 1987 in the United States
Antigone
Sophocles
A tragedy by Sophocles written in or before 441 BCE.
Chronologically, it is the third of the three Theban plays but was written first
Armies of the Night
Norman Mailer (Pulitzer nonfic 1968) split into historicized and novelized accounts of the October 1967 March on the Pentagon.
Around the World in 80 Days
Jules Verne
is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (roughly £1.6 million today) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne’s most acclaimed works
Arrowsmith
Dodworth
Elmer Gantry
Sinclair Lewis (Pulitzer - unaccepted 1926)
American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature,
The art of happinesss
Dalai Lama
The art of war
Sun Tzu
As I lay dying
William Faulkner
s a 1930
The title derives from Book XI of Homer’s The Odyssey, wherein Agamemnon speaks to Odysseus: “As I lay dying, the woman with the dog’s eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades.”
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
s a 1957 novel by Ayn Rand. Rand’s fourth and last novel, it was also her longest, and the one she considered to be her magnum opus in the realm of fiction writing
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein
a 1933 book by Gertrude Stein, written in the guise of an autobiography authored by Alice B. Toklas, who was her lover.
The bad seed
William March
1954 novel by William March, the last of his major works published before his death.
Nominated for the 1955 National Book Award for Fiction, The Bad Seed tells the story of a mother’s realization that her young daughter has committed a murder
Ball Four
Jim Bouton (The book is a diary of Bouton’s 1969 season, spent with the Seattle Pilots (during the club’s only year in existence) and then the Houston Astros following a late-season trade.
Barchester Towers
Anthony Trollope (Barsetshire series)
ublished in 1857, is the second novel in Anthony Trollope’s series known as the “Chronicles of Barsetshire”. Among other things it satirises the then raging antipathy in the Church of England between High Church and Evangelical adherents.
The Basketball Diaries
Jim Carroll (1978)
The book was made into a film of the same name in 1995 starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Jim Carroll and Mark Wahlberg as Mickey.
Battlefield earth
L Ron Hubbard
a 1982 science fiction novel written by the Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. He also composed a soundtrack to the book called Space Jazz.
The subsequent film adaptation, released in 2000, was a commercial failure and was criticized as one of the “worst films ever made”
Be My Guest
Conrad Hilton (1957 Autobiography)
The Bad Luck of Barry Lyndon
William Makepeace Thackeray (Vanity Fair)
a picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in serial form in 1844, about a member of the Irish gentry trying to become a member of the English aristocracy.
The Beautiful and the Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald
first published by Scribner’s in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s second novel. It portrays the Eastern elite during the Jazz Age, exploring New York café society. As in Fitzgerald’s other novels, the characters are complex, especially with respect to marriage and intimacy. The book is believed to be largely based on Fitzgerald’s relationship with Zelda Fitzgerald.
Being There
Jerzy Kosinski
a satirical novel by the Polish born writer Jerzy Kosinski, first published in 1970.[1] Set in America, the story concerns Chance, a simple gardener who unwittingly becomes a much sought-after political pundit and commentator on the vagaries of the modern world
Adapted into a Move in 1979. Melvin Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Peter Sellers was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre
s a 1943 book by philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.[1] Sartre’s main purpose is to assert the individual’s existence as prior to the individual’s essence. His overriding concern in writing the book was to demonstrate that free will exists
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
s the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath. Originally published under the pseudonym “Victoria Lucas” in 1963, the novel is semi-autobiographical,
Bellefleur
Joyce Carol Oates (1980)
a magic realist novel by Joyce Carol Oates about the generations of an upstate New York family. It is the first book in Oates’ “Gothic Saga
Beloved
Toni MOrrison (Pulitzer)
a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Set after the American Civil War (1861–1865), it is inspired by the story of an African-American slave, Margaret Garner, who temporarily escaped slavery during 1856 in Kentucky by fleeing to Ohio, a free state. A posse arrived to retrieve her and her children under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which gave slave owners the right to pursue slaves across state borders. Margaret killed her two-year-old daughter rather than allow her to be recaptured.
The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988[2] and was a finalist for the 1987 National Book Award.[3] It was adapted during 1998 into a movie of the same name starring Oprah Winfrey.
Ben-Hur
General Lew Wallace
- Considered “the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century”
The story recounts in descriptive detail the adventures of Judah Ben-Hur, a fictional Jewish prince from Jerusalem, who is enslaved by the Romans at the beginning of the 1st century and becomes a charioteer and a Christian
Ben-Hur was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and won an unprecedented 11. As of 2012, only Titanic in 1998 and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2004 have matched the film’s wins
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche (1886)
It draws on and expands the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but with a more critical and polemical approach.
Billions and Billions
Carl Sagan (scientific communicator) – phrase from series “Cosmos”
Billy Bathgate
E. L. Doctorow
is a 1989 novel by author E. L. Doctorow that won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle award for fiction for 1990[1] and the 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction,[2] and was the runner up for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize[3] and the 1989 National Book Award.[4] The story is told in the first person by Billy “Bathgate” Behan, a fifteen-year-old boy who first becomes the gofer and then surrogate son of mobster Dutch Schultz
Made into a movie in 1991 with Dustin Hoffman
Billy Budd
Herman Melville
is a novella by American writer Herman Melville, first published posthumously in London in 1924. Melville began writing the work in November 1888, but left it unfinished at his death in 1891.
he best-known adaptation is the opera, Billy Budd, with a score by Benjamin Britten and a libretto by E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier. It follows the earlier text of 1924. Since its premiere in December 1951, the opera has become a regular production at the Metropolitan Opera house in New York City. The libretto takes many creative liberties with elements of the novella’s plot.
The Birds of America
John J. Audubon
It was first published as a series in sections between 1827 and 1838, in Edinburgh and London.
The work consists of hand-coloured, life-size prints, made from engraved plates,
The Birds (Modern)
Daphne Du Maurier
novelette by British writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in her 1952 collection The Apple Tree. It is the story of a farmhand, his family, and his community that are attacked by flocks of seabirds in kamikaze missions. The story is set in du Maurier’s native Cornwall shortly after the end of World War II. By the end of the story it has become clear that all of Britain is under aerial assault.
The Birds (Ancient)
Aristophanes
a comedy by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. It was performed in 414 BC at the City Dionysia where it won second prize.
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house as an invalid
The Black Stallion
Walter Farley
1940s bestselling series about the stallion and his young owner, Alec Ramsay. The series chronicles the story of an Arab sheikh’s prized stallion after it comes into Alec’s possession, although later books furnish the Black’s backstory.
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
published in 20 monthly instalments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens’s finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. The story is told partly by the novel’s heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by a mostly omniscient narrator.
The Blind Side
Michael Lewis
2006 Book about American Football. Basis for 2009 book
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
is a 1985 Western (or anti-Western[1][2]) novel
Blue Back Speller
Noah Webster
Bluebeard
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
s a 1987 novel by best-selling author Kurt Vonnegut. It is told as a first person narrative and describes the late years of fictional Abstract Expressionist painter Rabo Karabekian, who first appeared, rather briefly, in Breakfast of Champions. Circumstances of the novel bear rough resemblance to the fairy tale of Bluebeard popularized by Charles Perrault.
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Thomas Wolfe
s a 1987 novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City
The novel was originally conceived as a serial in the style of Charles Dickens’ writings; it ran in 27 installments in Rolling Stone starting in 1984.
A book of common Prayer
Joan Didion
The novel is a story of both personal and political tragedy in the fictional Central American country of “Boca Grande.” 1977
Boris Godunov
Alexander Pushkin
was written in 1825, published in 1831, but not approved for performance by the censor until 1866. Its subject is the Russian ruler Boris Godunov, who reigned as Tsar from 1598 to 1605. It consists of 25 scenes and is written predominantly in blank verse
Opera based on it.
The Border Trilogy
Cormac McCarthy
All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain.
Boston Cooking School Cook Book
Fannie Farmer
1896) by Fannie Farmer is a 19th-century general reference cookbook which is still available both in reprint and in updated form. It was particularly notable for a more rigorous approach to recipe writing than had been common up to that point.
The Bostonians
Henry James
published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885–1886 and then as a book in 1886. This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters
The Boys on the Bus
Timothy Crouse
1973) is author Timothy Crouse’s seminal non-fiction book detailing life on the road for reporters covering the 1972 United States presidential campaign.
The Boys of Summer
Roger Kahn
is a 1972 non-fiction baseball book by Roger Kahn. After recounting his childhood in Brooklyn and his life as a young reporter on the New York Herald Tribune, the author relates some history of the Brooklyn Dodgers up to their victory in the 1955 World Series. He then tracks the lives of the players over the subsequent years as they aged. The title of the book is taken from a Dylan Thomas poem that describes “the boys of summer in their ruin”
Brave new World
Aldous Huxley
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Truman Capote
Breakfast at Tiffany’s is a novella by Truman Capote published in 1958. The main character, Holly Golightly, is one of Capote’s best-known creations.
Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
Set in the fictional town of Midland City, it is the story of “two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.” One of these men, Dwayne Hoover, is a normal-looking but deeply deranged Pontiac dealer and Burger Chef franchise owner who becomes obsessed with the writings of the other man, Kilgore Trout, taking them for literal truth. Trout, a largely unknown pulp science fiction writer who has appeared in several other Vonnegut novels, looks like a crazy old man but is in fact relatively sane. As the novel opens, Trout journeys toward Midland City to appear at a convention where he is destined to meet Dwayne Hoover and unwittingly inspire him to run amok.
Breathing lessons
Anny Tyler (Pulitzer 1988)
The story describes the joys and pains of the ordinary marriage of Ira and Maggie Moran as they travel from Baltimore to attend a funeral and back home again in one day.
Brideshead Revisted
Evenlyn Waugh
1945- Film version in 2008 with Emma Thompson
Charles Ryder reads history at the University of Oxford, where he befriends the flamboyant and wealthy Lord Sebastian Flyte. Sebastian’s family, the noble Marchmains, strongly disapprove of both proclivities. When Sebastian takes him home to visit his nanny, Charles is enthralled by the grandeur of the Marchmain family estate, known as Brideshead, and he is entranced by its residents, including the devout Catholic Lady Marchmain and her other children, Sebastian’s elder brother Bridey and his sisters Julia and Cordelia.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder (Pulitzer 1928)
story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge
The Bridge OVer the River Kwai
Pierre Boulle
The story is fictional but uses the construction of the Burma Railway, in 1942–43, as its historical setting. The novel deals with the plight of World War II British prisoners of war forced by the Imperial Japanese Army to build a bridge for the “Death Railway”,
1957 movie starring alex guinness (Obi-Wan)– won Best Picture and Best Actor (
The Bridges of Madison County
James Waller
a 1992 best-selling novel by Robert James Waller that tells the story of a married but lonely Italian woman living in 1960s Madison County, Iowa. She engages in an affair with a National Geographic photographer from Bellingham, Washington, who is visiting Madison County to create a photographic essay on the covered bridges in the area.
1995 film by Eastwood staring eastwood and Meryle Streep – who got Oscar nom
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
The Bronze Horseman
Alexander Pushkin
is a narrative poem written by Alexander Pushkin in 1833 about the equestrian statue of Peter the Great in Saint Petersburg. Widely considered to be Pushkin’s most successful narrative poem, “The Bronze Horseman” has had a lasting impact on Russian literature.
Pushkin wrote his most famous play, the drama Boris Godunov. His novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, was serialized between 1825 and 1832.
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Burden of Proof
Scott Turow
Butterfield 8
John O’Hara (Taylor, then 28 years old, won her first Academy Award for her performance in a leading role
The Caballero’s Way
O Henry (William Sydney Porter)
The Caine Mutiny
Herman Wouk (Pulitzer 1951)
grew out of Wouk’s personal experiences aboard a destroyer-minesweeper in the Pacific in World War II and deals with, among other things, the moral and ethical decisions made at sea by the captains of ships. The mutiny of the title is legalistic, not violent, and takes place during a historic typhoon in December 1944. The court-martial that results provides the dramatic climax to the plot
Call for the Dead
John Le Carre (1961)
Introduces George Smily, the most famous of Le Carre’s recurring characters – in a story about East German spies in GB
He is a central character in the novels Call for the Dead, A Murder of Quality, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, and Smiley’s People, and a supporting character in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Looking Glass War and The Secret Pilgrim.
AKA David John Moore Conwell
He is a central character in the novels Call for the Dead, A Murder of Quality, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, and Smiley’s People, and a supporting character in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Looking Glass War and The Secret Pilgrim.
Call of the Wild
Jack London
The Camera Never Blinks
Dan Rather
American journalist and the former news anchor for the CBS Evening News.
Camille
Alexandre Dumas
and Giuseppe Verdi immediately set about putting the story to music. His work became the 1853 opera La Traviata, with the female protagonist, Marguerite Gautier, renamed Violetta Valéry.
Love Story, published by Eric Segal in 1970, has essentially the same plot updated to contemporary New York. The conflict here centres on the relative economic classes of the central characters.
Cancer Ward
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The novel tells the story of a small group of cancer patients in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in the post-Stalinist Soviet Union. It explores the moral responsibility — symbolized by the patients’ malignant tumors — of those implicated in the suffering of their fellow citizens during Stalin’s Great Purge
Candide
Voltaire
Cannery Row
John Steinbeck
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
Captain Horatio Hornblower
CS Forester
His most notable works were the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen (1935; filmed in 1951 by John Huston)
Captains Courageous
Rudyard Kipling
is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic.
Carrie
Cujo
Dolores Clairborne
Stephen King
The cask of amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe
The cat in the hat
Dr Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel
Cat Stories
James Herriot
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye
JD Salinger
Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins
Cat’s Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut Jr
The Celebrated Jumping Frong of Calaveras County
Mark Twain
The Centaur
John Updike (mostly known for Rabbit)
The Century
Peter Jennings
He was the sole anchor of ABC’s World News Tonight from 1983 until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer.
Tales of the South Pacific Alaska The Bridges at Toko-Ri Caribbean Centennial The Covenant
James Michener (1948 Pulitzer for SP)
an American author of more than 40 books, the majority of which were fictional, lengthy family sagas covering the lives of many generations in particular geographic locales and incorporating solid history
Very popular
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl
A Child’s Christmas in Wales
Dylan Thomas (do not go gentle)
Charlotte’s Web
EB White
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Ian Fleming
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
The Chronicles of Narnia
CS Lewis
The Cider House Rules
John Irving
Cimarron
Edna Ferber (also wrote Show Boat)
Cimarron the Film won best pic in 1931 (RKO Pictures)
Circle of Friends
Maeve Binchy
City of God
EL Doctorow
Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
Clear and Present Danger
Crimson Tide
The Cardinal of the Kremlin
Tom Clancy (espionage thrillers)
The Client
The Chamber
John Grisham (legal Thrillers)
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Stephen Spielberg
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Coming of Age in Samoa
Margaret Mead (cultural anthropologist)
Common Sense
Thomas Paine
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx
The Compleat Angler
Izaak Walton
A confederacy of dunces
John Kennedy Toole (posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981)
The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron (Pulitzer 1967) led a slave rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 white deaths
Cosmos
Carl Sagan
Congo
The Andromeda Strain
Disclosure
Michael Crichton (science fiction, medical fiction, and thriller genres.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Mark Twain
The Corsair
Lord Byron
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
The Country Girl
Play - Clifford Odets
Cover her face
PD James (English crime writer. She rose to fame for her series of detective novels starring police commander and poet Adam Dalgliesh.[2]
The Cradle Will Fall, A Cry in the Night
Mary Higgins Clark (American Suspense Writer)
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
Crossing the Threshold of Hope
Pope John Paul II
Cry the Beloved Country
Alan Payton
Daisy Miller
The Ambassadors
The Americans
The Bostonians
Henry James
one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism
American who lived in GB
A dance with dragons
George RR Martin
Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury
Darkness at Noon
Arthur Koestler (USSR show trials)
Das Kapital
Karl Marx
David Copperfield
Charles DIckens
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West
Dazzle
Judith Krantz
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol
Death in Venice
Thomas Mann
Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie
Death in the Afternoon
Ernest Hemingway
Death in the Family
James Agee (1958 Pulitzer)
Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio
The Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
Deliverance
James Dickey (basis for 1972 film)
The Deerslayer
James Fennimore Cooper
The Devil’s Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce
The book offers reinterpretations of terms in the English language, lampooning cant and political doublespeak, as well as other aspects of human foolishness and frailty
Dialogues
Plato
The Diary of Anne Frank
Anne Frank
A Dictionary of the English Language
Samuel Johnson
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Basis for Blade Runner
Phillip K Dick
The Dogs of War
Frederick Forsyth
A Doll’s House
Henrik Ibsen
Dombey and Son
Charles Dickens
Don Quixote
Miguel De Cervantes
Dr. Dolittle (the Story of Dr. Dolittle)
Hugh Lofting
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Doctor Faustus
Thomas mann
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
Double Indemnity
James. M. Cain
a highly influential 1943 crime novel, written by American journalist-turned-novelist James M. Cain
Dracula
Bram Stoker
The Dragonriders of Pern
Anne McCaffrey
Dragon’s Teeth
Upton Sinclair (Pulitzer)
was an American author who wrote nearly 100 books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle
Dubliners
James Joyce
Dune
Frank Herbert
Earth in the Balance
Al Gore
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert
Ego and the Id
Sigmund Freud
The Elements
Euclid
Ender’s Game
Orson Scott Card
Elvis and me
Priscilla Presley
