A poet returns to Kars in a blizzard as girls kill themselves over headscarves; Pamuk's political novel.
A murder among Ottoman miniaturists in 1591 Istanbul, told by everyone including the colour red.
Three generations of a Cairo family from 1917 to 1944; Mahfouz's Nobel work.
A Sudanese man returns from Europe to a village on the Nile and meets a stranger with a past; Salih's classic.
A Zulu pastor goes to Johannesburg to find his son; South Africa in 1948.
A Cape Town professor loses his job and moves to his daughter's farm; Coetzee's second Booker.
Okonkwo and his Igbo village as the missionaries arrive; the African novel.
The Biafran war through twins, a houseboy and an Englishman.
A Nigerian woman in America and the man she left in Lagos; Adichie on hair, race and home.
Two women in Kabul across thirty years of war; Hosseini's second.
Two boys in Kabul, a kite tournament and a betrayal that follows one to America.
A boy in postwar Barcelona finds a novel in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and someone is burning every copy.
A boy and a tiger in a lifeboat for 227 days, and the second story at the end.
A 15-year-old with Asperger's investigates a dead poodle and finds out about his mother.
Two teenagers with cancer fall in love and fly to Amsterdam to meet an author.
Charlie's letters through his first year of high school; the tunnel song.
Death narrates a girl stealing books in Nazi Germany.
Salander in hospital, on trial and vindicated; the last book Larsson finished.
Lisbeth Salander framed for three murders and her father's secret.
A disgraced journalist and a hacker investigate a forty-year-old disappearance; Larsson's Millennium trilogy begins.
An ape, a donkey in a lion skin and the end of Narnia.
Jill and Eustace underground to free a prince from a green witch.
Eustace turned into a dragon and the sea to the end of the world.
The Pevensies return a thousand Narnian years later to a usurped throne.
A boy and a talking horse flee Calormen across the desert; the Narnia book without the Pevensies.
How Narnia was made and where the lamp-post came from; the prequel.
Four children through a wardrobe into Narnia, and Aslan on the Stone Table.
Daenerys in Meereen, Tyrion on a boat and Jon at the Wall; the last published volume, from 2011.
Cersei rules, Brienne searches and half the cast is elsewhere.
The Red Wedding and the Purple Wedding; the best of the series.
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