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ExWhoDoesntCare

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8. At the risk of getting yelled at
Sun Aug 6, 2023, 03:40 AM
Aug 2023

Here are some other debuts that are masterpieces, in no particular order:

Murasaki Shikibu - The Tale of Genji

Souseki Natsume - I Am a Cat

Yoshimoto Banana - Kitchen

Viet Thanh Nguyen - The Sympathizer

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights

Anne Brontë - Agnes Grey

JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace

Stephen King - Carrie

Norman Mailer - The Naked and the Dead

James Jones - From Here to Eternity

Lucy Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables

James Cain - The Postman Always Rings Twice

Dorothy Sayers - Whose Body?

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Agatha Christie - The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep

Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises

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

Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Bret Easton Ellis - Less Than Zero

Mary Shelley - Frankenstein

JK Rowling - Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone

Ken Kesey - One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar

F Scott Fitzgerald - This Side of Paradise

Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose

Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind

Thomas Pynchon - V

William Gibson - Neuromancer

Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train

Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island

Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland

Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet

Charles Dickens - The Pickwick Papers

Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind

Frank Herbert - Dune

JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit

Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner

Eileen Chang - Half a Lifelong Romance

Qiu Xiaolong - Death of a Red Heroine

Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer

Madeleine L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time

James Baldwin - Go Tell It on the Mountain

Marcel Proust - Swann's Way

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Thank you. I've read several and this put a couple more on my to read list ( a very long list). MLAA Jun 2023 #1
Likewise hermetic Jun 2023 #4
Those stacks of books. Ring comfort even if we never to them. MLAA Jun 2023 #7
Trivia: blm Jun 2023 #2
Interesting hermetic Jun 2023 #5
Thank you! Ponietz Jun 2023 #3
You are most welcome. hermetic Jun 2023 #6
At the risk of getting yelled at ExWhoDoesntCare Aug 2023 #8
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