The Novel Cure: From Abandonment to Zestlessness: 751 Books to Cure What Ails You (84 page)

Little Women
(Louisa May Alcott),
341

Live and Let Die
(Ian Fleming),
222

Logan’s Run
(William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson),
11

Lolita
(Vladimir Nabokov),
391

London Fields
(Martin Amis),
366

Looking for Alaska
(John Green),
364

Lord Jim
(Joseph Conrad),
132

The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
(Eva Rice),
77

Love in the Time of Cholera
(Gabriel García Márquez),
334

The Lovely Bones
(Alice Sebold),
157

The Love of My Youth
(Mary Gordon),
46

Love on a Branch Line
(John Hadfield),
67

Lucky Jim
(Kingsley Amis),
188
,
210

Madame Bovary
(Gustave Flaubert),
7

The Magic Mountain
(Thomas Mann),
389

The Magus
(John Fowles),
157

Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
(Helen Simonson),
108
,
390

The Man Who Loved Children
(Christina Stead),
87

The Man Who Planted Trees
(Jean Giono),
355

The Man Without Qualities
(Robert Musil),
346

The Map of Love
(Ahdaf Soueif),
290

A Map of the World
(Jane Hamilton),
294

The Marriage Plot
(Jeffrey Eugenides),
104

The Master and Margarita
(Mikhail Bulgakov),
165

The Master of Go
(Yasunari Kawabata),
132

Mating
(Norman Rush),
290

The Mating Season
(P. G. Wodehouse),
269

Maurice
(E. M. Forster),
183

May We Be Forgiven
(A. M. Homes),
159

Me Before You
(Jojo Moyes),
227

The Member of the Wedding
(Carson McCullers),
217

Memoirs of a Geisha
(Arthur Golden),
376

Metamorphoses
(Ovid),
126

Metamorphosis
(Franz Kafka),
193

The Mezzanine
(Nicholson Baker),
179

Microserfs
(Douglas Coupland),
272

Middlemarch
(George Eliot),
259
,
270

Middlesex
(Jeffrey Eugenides),
114
,
366

Midnight’s Children
(Salman Rushdie),
37

Mildred
Pierce
(James M. Cain),
30

The Millstone
(Margaret Drabble),
370

The Miracle at Speedy Motors
(Alexander McCall Smith),
314

Miss Garnet’s Angel
(Salley Vickers),
243

Miss Mackenzie
(Anthony Trollope),
366

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
(Winifred Watson),
108

Moby-Dick
(Herman Melville),
277
,
389

Money
(Martin Amis),
47

A Monster Calls
(Patrick Ness),
61

A Month in the Country
(J. L. Carr),
326

Moon Tiger
(Penelope Lively),
334

The Mosquito Coast
(Paul Theroux),
386

Motherless
Brooklyn
(Jonathan Lethem),
270

Mr. Bridge
(Evan S. Connell),
334

Mr. Chartwell
(Rebecca Hunt),
104

Mr. Norris Changes Trains
(Christopher Isherwood),
67

Mr. Pye
(Mervyn Peake),
185

Mrs. Bridge
(Evan S. Connell),
334

Mrs. Dalloway
(Virginia Woolf),
248

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
(Agatha Christie),
155

Murder on the Orient Express
(Agatha Christie),
67

Musashi
(Eiji Yoshikawa),
380

My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You
(Louisa Young),
91

My Ántonia
(Willa Cather),
122

My Name Is Asher Lev
(Chaim Potok),
84

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
(Michael Chabon),
372

The Name of the Rose
(Umberto Eco),
272

The Namesake
(Jhumpa Lahiri),
181

Nausea
(Jean-Paul Sartre),
77

Neuromancer
(William Gibson),
323

Never Let Me Go
(Kazuo Ishiguro),
280
,
323

Neverwhere
(Neil Gaiman),
77

New Finnish Grammar
(Diego Marani),
193

Night Flight
(Antoine de Saint-Exupéry),
156

Nightmare Abbey
(Thomas Love Peacock),
269

Nights at the Circus
(Angela Carter),
261

The Nine Tailors
(Dorothy L. Sayers),
223

The No.
1
Ladies’ Detective Agency
(Alexander McCall Smith),
275

Nobody’s Fool
(Richard Russo),
345

Northern Lights
(Philip Pullman),
223

Notes from an Exhibition
(Patrick Gale),
370

Notes from the Underground
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky),
312

The Notebook
(Nicholas Sparks),
91

Nowhere Man
(Aleksandar Hemon),
112

Oblomov
(Ivan Goncharov),
77

The Odyssey
(Homer),
204

Of Human Bondage
(W. Somerset Maugham),
366

Of Mice and Men
(John Steinbeck),
184

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
(Allan Gurganus),
280

Old Filth
(Jane Gardam),
278

The Old Man and the
Sea
(Ernest Hemingway),
22
,
269
,
270

Old Man Goriot
(Honoré de Balzac),
372

The Once and Future King
(T. H. White),
261

Once a Runner
(John L. Parker, Jr.),
16

Once Upon a River
(Bonnie Jo Campbell),
395

One Day
(David Nicholls),
91
,
227

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
(Ken Kesey),
330

One Hundred Years of Solitude
(Gabriel García Márquez),
96
,
372

On the Road
(Jack Kerouac),
281
,
313

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
(Jeanette Winterson),
78

Oroonoko
(Aphra Behn),
38

Oryx and Crake
(Margaret Atwood),
323

Oscar and Lucinda
(Peter Carey),
285

Our Lady of the Flowers
(Jean Genet),
283

Our Mutual Friend
(Charles Dickens),
350

Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
(Barbara Comyns),
250

Out Stealing Horses
(Per Petterson),
345

The Painted Bird
(Jerzy Kosinski),
179

Parade’s End
(Ford Madox Ford),
132

A Passage to India
(E. M. Forster),
290

The Passion
(Jeanette Winterson),
324

Patience
(John Coates),
7

Peace Like a River
(Leif Enger),
341

Pearl
(The Gawain Poet),
126

The Pearl
(John Steinbeck),
166

Pereira Maintains
(Antonio Tabucchi),
275

A Perfect Spy
(John le Carré),
223

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
(Patrick Süskind),
273

The Perks of Being a Wallflower
(Stephen Chbosky),
364

Persuasion
(Jane Austen),
273

Peter
Pan
(J. M. Barrie),
221

The Piano Tuner
(Daniel Mason),
273

The Picture of Dorian Gray
(Oscar Wilde),
376

Plainsong
(Kent Haruf),
1

Please Look After
Mom
(Kyung-sook Shin),
226

Pobby and Dingan
(Ben Rice),
211

The Poisonwood Bible
(Barbara Kingsolver),
58

The Portrait of a Lady
(Henry James),
26

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(James Joyce),
356

Possession
(A. S. Byatt),
67

The Postman Always Rings Twice
(James M. Cain),
28

A Prayer for Owen Meany
(John Irving),
272

Prep
(Curtis Sittenfeld),
239

The Price of Salt
(Patricia Highsmith),
232

Pride and Prejudice
(Jane Austen),
30
,
357

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
(Muriel Spark),
364

The Princess Bride
(William Goldman),
76

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
(Rebecca Miller),
243
,
283

The Pursuit of Love
(Nancy Mitford),
257

Q & A
(Vikas Swarup),
395

Rabbit, Run
(John Updike),
213

The Rachel Papers
(Martin Amis),
93

The Radetzky March
(Joseph Roth),
389

Ragtime
(E. L. Doctorow),
399

The Railway Children
(Edith Nesbit),
67

The Razor’s Edge
(W. Somerset Maugham),
386

The Reader
(Bernhard Schlink),
211

Rebecca
(Daphne du Maurier),
328

The Recognitions
(William Gaddis),
389

The Rector’s Daughter
(F. M. Mayor),
366

The Red Tent
(Anita Diamant),
294

Remainder
(Tom McCarthy),
242

The Remains of the Day
(Kazuo Ishiguro),
180
,
297

Remembrance of Things Past
(Marcel Proust),
368

Requiem for a Dream
(Hubert Selby, Jr.),
48

Restoration
(Rose Tremain),
131

The Return of the Native
(Thomas Hardy),
270

The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
(Jonathan Evison),
313

Revolutionary Road
(Richard Yates),
108

The Riddle of the Sands
(Erskine Childers),
280

The River Between
(Ngugi wa Thiong’o),
174

The River King
(Alice Hoffman),
269

A River Runs Through It
(Norman Maclean),
269

A River Sutra
(Gita Mehta),
269

The River Why
(David James Duncan),
269

The Road
(Cormac McCarthy),
148
,
226

Robinson Crusoe
(Daniel Defoe),
292

A Room with a View
(E. M. Forster),
273

Rosemary’s Baby
(Ira Levin),
179

The Round House
(Louise Erdrich),
294

Roxana
(Daniel Defoe),
215

Rules of Civility
(Amor Towles),
350

Run
(Ann Patchett),
5

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
(Paul Torday),
143

The Same Sea
(Amos Oz),
389

Sanctuary Line
(Jane Urquhart),
132

The Satanic Verses
(Salman Rushdie),
153

The Savage Detectives
(Roberto Bolaño),
290

The Scarlet Letter
(Nathaniel Hawthorne),
199

Schindler’s
Ark
(Thomas Keneally),
179

The Sea, the Sea
(Iris Murdoch),
334

Second Star to the Right
(Deborah Hautzig),
129

The Secret Garden
(Frances Hodgson Burnett),
191

The Secret History
(Donna Tartt),
372

The Secret Life of Bees
(Sue Monk Kidd),
77

The Secret Scripture
(Sebastian Barry),
269

See Under: Love
(David Grossman),
395

Seize the Day
(Saul Bellow),
159

Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord
(Louis de Bernières),
179

Sense and Sensibility
(Jane Austen),
350

The Sense of an Ending
(Julian Barnes),
310
,
345

Sexing the Cherry
(Jeanette Winterson),
372

The Shadow of the Wind
(Carlos Ruiz Zafón),
157

Shane
(Jack Schaefer),
291

Shantaram
(Gregory David Roberts),
86

The Shape of Water
(Andrea Camilleri),
222