99 Novels - Anthony Burgess Part 4

Explore Anthony Burgess' literary legacy with Part 4 of '99 Novels,' featuring a curated list of his must-read books. Dive into Burgess' genius today!

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Gravity's Rainbow (Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Thomas Pynchon

A Penguin Classic Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half …
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Humboldt's Gift

by Saul Bellow

Charlie Citrine, suffering from steadily worsening troubles with women, career, and life, receives unexpected aid in the form of a belated bequest from his onetime …
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Staying On

by Paul Scott

Colonel Tusker and Lucy Smalley cling to their bungalow in the hills of Pankot after Indian independence deprives them of their colonial status. Lucy, fed …
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The Coup

by John Updike

Updike presents the story of a fictitious modern African state called Kush, narrated tongue-in-cheek by Kush's exiled president, Colonel Felix Ellellou.
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A Bend in the River

by V. S. Naipaul

Widely hailed as the Nobel Prize-winning author’s greatest work, this novel takes us into the life of a young Indian man who moves to an …
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Sophie's Choice

by William Styron

Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; …
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Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition

by Russell Hoban

This acclaimed story is set in an England that has suffered a nuclear holocaust. Society has regressed to an Iron Age, semi-literate state represented by …
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A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

Ignatius Reilly, the hero, is a grotesque Gargantua, in violent revolt against the entire 20th century and what he takes to be the manifold excesses …
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The Mosquito Coast

by Paul Theroux

In one of Theroux's most magnificent novels, the paranoid, brilliant, and self-destructive Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to …
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The Rebel Angels

by Robertson Davies

The death of eccentric art patron and collector Francis Cornish leads to a spectacle of theft, perjury, murder, scholarship, and love at a Canadian university.
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Ancient Evenings

by Norman Mailer

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