The Monkey King escorts a monk to India in a hundred chapters; the Chinese classic behind every Goku.
A 17-year-old on the Riviera destroys her father's engagement; Sagan wrote it at 18.
A quiet Missouri professor's uneventful life; the forgotten novel that became a bestseller fifty years on.
Three generations of a Cairo family from 1917 to 1944; Mahfouz's Nobel work.
The Torrances winter at the Overlook Hotel; King's haunted house, different from Kubrick's.
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.
Earth is demolished for a bypass; 42 and a towel.
Four children through a wardrobe into Narnia, and Aslan on the Stone Table.
Pessoa's assistant bookkeeper Bernardo Soares and his fragments; the anti-novel of Lisbon.
Okonkwo and his Igbo village as the missionaries arrive; the African novel.
A boy and a talking horse flee Calormen across the desert; the Narnia book without the Pevensies.
A Zulu pastor goes to Johannesburg to find his son; South Africa in 1948.
The Pevensies return a thousand Narnian years later to a usurped throne.
Oskar stops growing at three and drums through Danzig's twentieth century; Grass's Nobel.
An ape, a donkey in a lion skin and the end of Narnia.
A Sudanese man returns from Europe to a village on the Nile and meets a stranger with a past; Salih's classic.
Eustace turned into a dragon and the sea to the end of the world.
An American ambulance driver and an English nurse in the Italian war; the retreat from Caporetto.
Roquentin in a Normandy town discovers that existence is absurd, starting with a chestnut root.
A poet-doctor and Lara through the revolution and civil war; smuggled out and given the Nobel.
Richard Hannay hunted across Scotland by spies in 1914; the chase thriller begins.
Seven years in a Davos sanatorium arguing about Europe before 1914.
A wooden puppet who lies, the Fox and the Cat and the belly of the shark; darker than Disney.
A Brahmin's son leaves the Buddha to find his own way, and finds it at a river.
Billy Pilgrim comes unstuck in time between Dresden and Tralfamadore; so it goes.
Three generations of the Trotta family and the last decades of the Habsburg empire.
The second Mrs de Winter at Manderley in the shadow of the first; "last night I dreamt".
Schoolboys on an island, a conch and a pig's head on a stick; civilisation lasts a week.
Dorothy, the yellow brick road and a wizard who is a fraud; the American fairy tale.
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