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Day 12 – British Novels: From Elizabethan to Romantics

Sir Thomas More- Utopia

Sir Thomas Malory- Le Morte d’Arthur

John Bunyan- Pilgrim Progress

Jonathan Swift- Gulliver’s Travels

Daniel Defoe- Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe- Moll Flanders

Samuel Richardson- Pamela

Lawrence Sterne- Tristram Shandy

Jane Austen- Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen- Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen- Mansfield Park

Mary Shelley- Frankenstein

Horace Walpole- The Castle of Otranto

Fanny Burney- Evelina

Day 13 – British Novels: Victorian Period

Charles Dickens- Great Expectations

Charles Dickens- David Copperfield
William Makepeace Thackeray- Vanity Fair

George Eliot- Mill on the Floss

George Eliot- Middlemarch

Charlotte Bronte- Jane Eyre

Emily Bronte- Wuthering Heights

Thomas Hardy- Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy- Mayor of the Casterbridge

Thomas Hardy- Jude The Obscure
Lewis Carroll- Alice in Wonderland

Wilkie Collins- The Woman in White

Day 14 – British Novels: Modern & Postmodern Period

Joseph Conrad- Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad- Lord Jim

George Orwell- 1984

James Joyce- Ulysses

James Joyce- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Virginia Woolf- To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf- Mrs. Dalloway

D.H Lawrence- Sons and Lovers

D.H Lawrence- Women in Love

Aldous Huxley- Brave New World

Graham Greene- The Power and the Glory

E.M Forster- A Passage to India

H.G Wells- The Invisible Man

Rudyard Kipling- The Man Who Would Be King

Jeanette Winterson- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

William Golding- Lord of the Flies
Martin Amis- Lucky Jim
John Fowles- The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Muriel Spark- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Day 15 – American Novels

Herman Melville- Moby Dick

Louisa May Alcott- Little Woman

Nathaniel Hawthrone- The Scarlet Letter

Mark Twain- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Henry James- The Portrait of a Lady

Theordore Dreiser- Sister Carrie

William Faulkner- Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner- As I Lay Dying

Ernest Hemingway- A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway- The Old Man and the Sea
F. Scott Fitzgerald- The Great Gatsby

Day 16 – Post Colonial Novels

Toni Morrison- Beloved

Zora Neale Hurston- Their Eyes Are Watching God

Alice Walker- The Color Purple

Ralph Ellison- Invisible Man

Jean Rhys- Wide Sargasso Sea

Kazuo Ishiguro- Never Let me Go

Salman Rushdie- Midnight’s Children

V.S Naipaul- A House for Mr. Biswas

Sam Selvon- Lonely Londoners

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie- Half of a Yellow Sun

Chinua Achebe- Things Fall Apart

J.M Coetzee- Disgrace

Michael Ondaatje- The English Patient

Margaret Atwood- The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood- Surfacing
Shyam Selvadurai- Funny Boy
David Malouf- Fly Away Peter
Gabriel Garcia Marquez- One Hundred Years of Solitude

Day 17 – European Novels

Fyodor Dostoevsky- The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky- Crime and Punishment
Leo Tolstoy- Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy- War and Peace

Alexander Pushkin- Eugene Onegin

Boris Pasternak- Dr Zhivago

Ivan Turgenev- Fathers and Sons
Vladimir Nabokov- Lolita

Thomas Mann- Death in Venice

Franz Kafka- The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka- The Trial

Hermann Hesse- Siddhartha

Günther Grass- The Tin Drum
Gustave Flaubert- Madame Bovary
Albert Camus- The Plague

Albert Camus- The Stranger

Alexandre Dumas- The Three Musketeers

Pearl S Buck- The Good Earth

Day 18 – Indian Novels

R K Narayan- The Guide

R K Narayan- Swami and Friends

Raja Rao- Kanthapura

Kamala Markandaya- Nectar in a Sieve

Khushwant Singh- Train to Pakistan

Anita Desai- Fasting Feasting

Kiran Desai- The Inheritance of Loss

Arundhati Roy- The God of Small Things

Jhumpa Lahiri- The Namesake

Amitav Ghosh- The Shadow Lines

Amitav Ghosh- Hungry Tide

Aravind Adiga- The White Tiger