Read Never Let Me Go

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

An artificial friend watches over a sick girl; Ishiguro after the Nobel.

Schoolboys on an island, a conch and a pig's head on a stick; civilisation lasts a week.

A city goes blind and is quarantined; Saramago without punctuation.

The pigs take over the farm; all animals are equal, but some more than others.

A father and son push a shopping cart through a burned America; the ending is why people read it.

Four generations of a Lubeck merchant family in decline; Mann's Nobel novel at 26.

Seven years in a Davos sanatorium arguing about Europe before 1914.