Read Quo Vadis

Oskar stops growing at three and drums through Danzig's twentieth century; Grass's Nobel.

Jacob Frank, an 18th-century Jewish messiah, across Poland and Turkey in 900 pages numbered backwards.

A poet-doctor and Lara through the revolution and civil war; smuggled out and given the Nobel.

One ordinary day in a Siberian labour camp; the book that told the USSR about the Gulag.

Sethe, a runaway slave, and the ghost of the daughter she killed; Morrison's masterpiece.

A woman's life in 14th-century Norway in three volumes; Undset's Nobel.

Elie Wiesel at fifteen in Auschwitz and Buchenwald; a hundred pages that changed how the Holocaust is written.

A butler drives to Cornwall and considers what he gave up for a lord; Ishiguro's Booker.