Read Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Fragments about travel, anatomy and a Chopin's heart smuggled to Warsaw; Tokarczuk's Booker International.

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

A murder among Ottoman miniaturists in 1591 Istanbul, told by everyone including the colour red.

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.

Expatriates drink through Paris and Pamplona; Hemingway's lost generation.

The Joads drive from the Dust Bowl to California; Steinbeck's angriest and best.

George and Lennie and the farm they will never have; a hundred pages every school reads.