One of the first "novels," the epic tale of the Knight of the Sorrowful Face.


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A vaguely-described game that symbolizes all human knowledge is the device for a boring fictional future biography.


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A hard-boiled detective story about gangsters, rich people, dames, drunks, adulterers, and writers.


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A very proper English butler reminisces, belatedly.


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Jilted by his childhood sweetheart, Florentino Ariza waits 50 years to proposition her again at her husband's funeral.


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An early satirical "Big House" novel about 18th century Ireland.


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Maxim Gorky's pioneering (boring) novel of (boring) "Socialist Realism" about a (boring) mother of the Russian revolution.


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Mars attacks! The granddaddy of all alien invasion stories.


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The sailor she rejected when he was poor is now rich, and she's unmarried at 27.


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Examining America's racial troubles in 1940, many of the author's words and Bigger Thomas's thoughts seem disturbingly contemporary.


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