The Novel

The protagonist's descent into mental illness parallels Plath's own experiences with what may have been clinical depression.

The short epistolary novel Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, or The Sorrows of Young Werther

The thirteenth novel in Emile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart, published in 1885.

A novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, serialized in twelve monthly installments in The Russian Messenger during 1866 and published as a separate edition in 1867.

On the Road is a 1957 novel by American author Jack Kerouac, inspired by his travels across the United States.

Hopscotch (Spanish: Rayuela) is a novel by Argentine writer Julio Cortazar.

The Time of the Hero (Original title: La ciudad y los perros) is a 1963 novel by Peruvian writer and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa.

Weep Not, Child is the 1964 debut novel by Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o, one of the first major English-language novels published by an East African writer.

Midnight's Children is the second novel by Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie, published in 1981.

is a novel, first published in book form in 1878, by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy

is the second novel by Japanese author Yukio Mishima

is a 1987 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami

is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by the Russian and American novelist Vladimir Nabokov

Go Tell It on the Mountain is a 1953 semi-autobiographical novel by James Baldwin

is a German novel written by Thomas Mann, published in November 1924

is a 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse

is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939

Serial novel

a novel by Mark Twain published on June 9, 1876

the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert

Autobiographical, novel, existential

Postmodern novel

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion...is a novel by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima.

Modernist novels

Swann's Way (French: Du cote de chez Swann) is the first of the seven volumes making up Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

a 2002 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami

Autobiographical novel, Magical realism