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Becky Sharp climbs through Regency society without a heart; a novel without a hero.

A nature columnist sent by mistake to cover an African war; Waugh's Fleet Street satire.

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

Billy Pilgrim comes unstuck in time between Dresden and Tralfamadore; so it goes.

Ice-nine, a fake religion and the end of the world in a Caribbean republic; Vonnegut at his funniest.

A human raised by Martians comes to Earth and starts a church; grok.

Ignatius J. Reilly, hot-dog vendor and medievalist, against New Orleans; published eleven years after the author's suicide.

Time-travel adventure in a souped-up DeLorean (1985).