A woman's life in 14th-century Norway in three volumes; Undset's Nobel.
Stalkers loot an alien Zone for artefacts; the Strugatskys' novel behind Tarkovsky's film.
Psychohistory predicts the fall of the Galactic Empire and Hari Seldon plans for it; Asimov's trilogy begins.
A man arrives in Comala looking for his father and finds a town of the dead; the book that taught Garcia Marquez.
Bjartur of Summerhouses and his sheep against everything; Laxness's Icelandic epic.
Everyone in town knows the twins will kill Santiago Nasar and nobody stops it.
A French girl and a Chinese man in colonial Saigon; Duras at 70 remembering.
Florentino waits fifty-one years, nine months and four days for Fermina; Garcia Marquez's romance.
The Pevensies return a thousand Narnian years later to a usurped throne.
Okonkwo and his Igbo village as the missionaries arrive; the African novel.
A Zulu pastor goes to Johannesburg to find his son; South Africa in 1948.
Four children through a wardrobe into Narnia, and Aslan on the Stone Table.
A boy and a talking horse flee Calormen across the desert; the Narnia book without the Pevensies.
A 17-year-old on the Riviera destroys her father's engagement; Sagan wrote it at 18.
The Torrances winter at the Overlook Hotel; King's haunted house, different from Kubrick's.
Three generations of a Cairo family from 1917 to 1944; Mahfouz's Nobel work.
Eustace turned into a dragon and the sea to the end of the world.
An ape, a donkey in a lion skin and the end of Narnia.
Pessoa's assistant bookkeeper Bernardo Soares and his fragments; the anti-novel of Lisbon.
Earth is demolished for a bypass; 42 and a towel.
A quiet Missouri professor's uneventful life; the forgotten novel that became a bestseller fifty years on.
How Narnia was made and where the lamp-post came from; the prequel.
Jill and Eustace underground to free a prince from a green witch.
A Sudanese man returns from Europe to a village on the Nile and meets a stranger with a past; Salih's classic.
Oskar stops growing at three and drums through Danzig's twentieth century; Grass's Nobel.
A Brahmin's son leaves the Buddha to find his own way, and finds it at a river.
Harry Haller, half man and half wolf, and the Magic Theatre; Hesse's midlife crisis.
Franz Biberkopf out of prison in 1928 Berlin; Doblin's montage novel of the city.
Richard Hannay hunted across Scotland by spies in 1914; the chase thriller begins.
An orphan and her grandfather in the Swiss Alps; the book that invented Alpine tourism.
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