The Novel Cure: From Abandonment to Zestlessness: 751 Books to Cure What Ails You (83 page)

The Family Fang
(Kevin Wilson),
108

Family Matters
(Rohinton Mistry),
13

Fanny Hill
(John Cleland),
282

A Far Cry from Kensington
(Muriel Spark),
275

Farewell, My Lovely
(Raymond Chandler),
364

Far from the Madding Crowd
(Thomas Hardy),
230

Fathers and Sons
(Ivan Turgenev),
345

The Fault in Our Stars
(John Green),
91

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
(Hunter S. Thompson),
314

Fever Pitch
(Nick Hornby),
108

Fingersmith
(Sarah Waters),
283

First Love
(Ivan Turgenev),
230

The Fit
(Philip Hensher),
178

Flowers in the Attic
(Virginia Andrews),
282

Flush
(Virginia Woolf),
64

Forever Amber
(Kathleen Winsor),
376

For Whom the Bell Tolls
(Ernest Hemingway),
386

Frankenstein
(Mary Shelley),
334

Franny and Zooey
(J. D. Salinger),
43

The French Lieutenant’s Woman
(John Fowles),
350

The Friday Night Knitting Club
(Kate Jacobs),
366

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
(Fannie Flagg),
108

Gabriel’s Angel
(Mark Radcliffe),
185

Galatea
2
.2
(Richard Powers),
272

A Game of Thrones
(George R. R. Martin),
261

The Garlic Ballads
(Mo Yan),
395

The Gathering
(Anne Enright),
77

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
(Anita Loos),
188

Gilead
(Marilynne Robinson),
132

The Ginger Tree
(Oswald Wynd),
259

Girl,
20
(Kingsley Amis),
245

Girl with a Pearl Earring
(Tracy Chevalier),
233

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
(Stieg Larsson),
157

The Glass Bead Game
(Hermann Hesse),
280

The Glass Palace
(Amitav Ghosh),
386

The Go-Between
(L. P. Hartley),
314

The Golden Ass
(Apuleius),
83

Gone Girl
(Gillian Flynn),
179

Gone with the Wind
(Margaret Mitchell),
376

Goodbye, Columbus
(Philip Roth),
372

The Good Earth
(Pearl S. Buck),
159

Good Morning, Midnight
(Jean Rhys),
386

Goodnight, Nebraska
(Tom McNeal),
304

Good Omens
(Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett),
184

The Good Soldier
(Ford Madox Ford),
89

The Grapes of Wrath
(John Steinbeck),
53
,
269

The Graveyard Book
(Neil Gaiman),
5

Gravity’s Rainbow
(Thomas Pynchon),
282
,
368

Great Expectations
(Charles Dickens),
19

The Great
Fire
(Shirley Hazzard),
67
,
255

The Great Gatsby
(F. Scott Fitzgerald),
47
,
270
,
389

The Group
(Mary McCarthy),
372

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
(Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows),
180

The Guide
(R. K. Narayan),
269

Gulliver’s Travels
(Jonathan Swift),
280

Gun, with Occasional Music
(Jonathan Lethem),
320

Half-Broke Horses
(Jeannette Walls),
199

A Handful of Dust
(Evelyn Waugh),
159

Haroun and the Sea of Stories
(Salman Rushdie),
261

Harp of Burma
(Michio Takeyama),
395

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
(J. K. Rowling),
270

The Hearing Trumpet
(Leonora Carrington),
279
,
332

Heartburn
(Nora Ephron),
46

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
(Carson McCullers),
180

Heart of Darkness
(Joseph Conrad),
313

The Heart of the Matter
(Graham Greene),
134

A Heart So White
(Javier Marías),
159

Heligoland
(Shena Mackay),
253

The Help
(Kathryn Stockett),
336

Henderson the Rain King
(Saul Bellow),
205

Here Is Where We Meet
(John Berger),
98

Herzog
(Saul Bellow),
108

High Fidelity
(Nick Hornby),
45
,
46

A High Wind in Jamaica
(Richard Hughes),
333

History of a Pleasure Seeker
(Richard Mason),
325

The History of Love
(Nicole Krauss),
334

The History of Mr. Polly
(H. G. Wells),
141

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
(Douglas Adams),
323
,
363

The Hobbit
(J. R. R. Tolkien),
261
,
339

The Holy Sinner
(Thomas Mann),
246

Home
(Marilynne Robinson),
371

Home Land
(Sam Lipsyte),
188

Hopscotch
(Julio Cortázar),
313

The Hotel New Hampshire
(John Irving),
273

The Hours
(Michael Cunningham),
180

House-Bound
(Winifred Peck),
186

A House for Mr Biswas
(V. S. Naipaul),
180

The House in
Paris
(Elizabeth Bowen),
132

House of Day, House of Night
(Olga Tokarczuk),
395

The House of Mirth
(Edith Wharton),
53

The House of Paper
(Carlos María Domínguez),
181

The House of Sleep
(Jonathan Coe),
201

The House of the Spirits
(Isabel Allende),
294

How I Live Now
(Meg Rosoff),
344

How Stella Got Her Groove Back
(Terry McMillan),
77

Hunger
(Knut Hamsun),
189

The
Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window
and Disappeared
(Jonas Jonasson),
280
,
326

The Hunger Games
(Suzanne Collins),
179

The Hunters
(James Salter),
342

I Am Legend
(Richard Matheson),
147

I Cannot Get You Close Enough
(Ellen Gilchrist),
372

I Capture the Castle
(Dodie Smith),
108
,
394

I, Claudius
(Robert Graves),
223

The Idea of Perfection
(Kate Grenville),
283
,
337

I Don’t Know How She Does It
(Allison Pearson),
250

The Idiot
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky),
195

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
(Jon McGregor),
266

An Imaginary Life
(David Malouf),
64

Immortality
(Milan Kundera),
280

I’m Not Scared
(Niccolò Ammaniti),
157

I’m Not Stiller
(Max Frisch),
193

The Imperfectionists
(Tom Rachman),
357

Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry
(Leanne Shapton),
46

I’m the King of the Castle
(Susan Hill),
148

Incendiary
(Chris Cleave),
97

Independent People
(Halldór Laxness),
389

Indecision
(Benjamin Kunkel),
196

The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
(Angela Carter),
324

Infinite Jest
(David Foster Wallace),
368

The Inimitable Jeeves
(P. G. Wodehouse),
207

In One Person
(John Irving),
179

In Praise of Older Women
(Stephen Vizinczey),
171

In Praise of the Stepmother
(Mario Vargas Llosa),
220

The Interestings
(Meg Wolitzer),
259

In the Country of Men
(Hisham Matar),
386

In the Cut
(Susanna Moore),
371

In the Skin of a Lion
(Michael Ondaatje),
110

In the Woods
(Tana French),
157

Intimacy
(Hanif Kureishi),
119

The Invisible
Bridge
(Julie Orringer),
153

Invisible Cities
(Italo Calvino),
112

Invisible Man
(Ralph Ellison),
301

In Youth Is Pleasure
(Denton Welch),
4

Is Just a Movie
(Earl Lovelace),
386

Island Beneath the
Sea
(Isabel Allende),
375

The Island of Doctor Moreau
(H. G. Wells),
168

I Still Miss My Man But My Aim Is Getting Better
(Sarah Shankman),
320

Jack Maggs
(Peter Carey),
375

Jamaica Inn
(Daphne du Maurier),
76

Jamrach’s Menagerie
(Carol Birch),
290

Jane and Prudence
(Barbara Pym),
334

Jane Eyre
(Charlotte Brontë),
50

Jitterbug Perfume
(Tom Robbins),
11

John Dies at the End
(David Wong),
320

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
(Susanna Clarke),
261

Joshua Spassky
(Gwendoline Riley),
257

Journey to the End of the Night
(Louis-Ferdinand Céline),
77

Journey to the River Sea
(Eva Ibbotson),
76

Joy in the Morning
(P. G. Wodehouse),
189

The Jungle
(Upton Sinclair),
366

The Jungle Book
(Rudyard Kipling),
5

Kangaroo
(D. H. Lawrence),
386

A Kestrel for a Knave
(Barry Hines),
328

The Kindness of Women
(J. G. Ballard),
159

Kingfishers Catch
Fire
(Rumer Godden),
137

Kiss of the Spider Woman
(Manuel Puig),
91

Kristin Lavransdatter
(Sigrid Undset),
368

Labyrinth
(Kate Mosse),
157

Lady Chatterley’s
Lover
(D. H. Lawrence),
282

Lady: My Life as a Bitch
(Melvin Burgess),
39

Lanark
(Alasdair Gray),
368

Last Exit to Brooklyn
(Hubert Selby, Jr.),
77
,
108

The Last Hundred Days
(Patrick McGuinness),
113

Last Orders
(Graham Swift),
345

The Last Samurai
(Helen DeWitt),
344

The Left Hand of Darkness
(Ursula K. Le Guin),
323

Legend of a Suicide
(David Vann),
179
,
344

Le Grand Meaulnes
(Alain-Fournier),
116

The
Leopard
(Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa),
29

Les Enfants Terribles
(Jean Cocteau),
198

Les Liaisons Dangereuses
(Choderlos de Laclos),
325

Les Misérables
(Victor Hugo),
238

Less Than Zero
(Bret Easton Ellis),
124

A Lesson Before Dying
(Ernest J. Gaines)
,
91

The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
(Fay Weldon),
335

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
(Laurence Sterne),
21

Life: A User’s Manual
(Georges Perec),
294

Life of Pi
(Yann Martel),
207

Life-Size
(Jenefer Shute),
129

Like People in History
(Felice Picano),
78

Like Water for Chocolate
(Laura Esquivel),
132

The Line of Beauty
(Alan Hollinghurst),
361

Little Children
(Tom Perrotta),
186

The Little Girl and the Cigarette
(Benoît Duteurtre),
237

Little House on the Prairie
(Laura Ingalls Wilder),
74

A Little of What You Fancy
(H. E. Bates),
279

The Little Prince
(Antoine de Saint-Exupéry),
65

A Little Princess
(Frances Hodgson Burnett),
350

The Little White Car
(Danuta de Rhodes),
171