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50 Famous Authors & Their Less Famous Novels

They can't all be winners. Some of these books are minor classics; others are justly forgotten; none of them have the hordes rushing to Goodreads to rate 'em out of five.
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A Modern Mephistopheles (Louisa May Alcott)
A Modern Mephistopheles
1
Louisa May Alcott
The Folks That Live on the Hill (Kingsley Amis)
The Folks That Live on the Hill
2
Kingsley Amis
Lady Susan (Jane Austen)
Lady Susan
3
Jane Austen
The Porcupine (Julian Barnes)
The Porcupine
4
Julian Barnes
The Dean's December (Saul Bellow)
The Dean's December
5
Saul Bellow
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith (Peter Carey)
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
6
Peter Carey
Shadow Dance (Angela Carter)
Shadow Dance
7
Angela Carter
Sapphira and the Slave Girl (Willa Cather)
Sapphira and the Slave Girl
8
Willa Cather
Passenger to Frankfurt (Agatha Christie)
Passenger to Frankfurt
9
Agatha Christie
Antonina (Wilkie Collins)
Antonina
10
Wilkie Collins
Rodney Stone (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Rodney Stone
11
Arthur Conan Doyle
Chance (Joseph Conrad)
Chance
12
Joseph Conrad
Players (Don Delillo)
Players
13
Don Delillo
Barnaby Rudge (Charles Dickens)
Barnaby Rudge
14
Charles Dickens
The Village of Stepanchikovo (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Village of Stepanchikovo
15
Fyodor Dostoevsky
I'll Never Be Young Again (Daphne Du Maurier)
I'll Never Be Young Again
16
Daphne Du Maurier
Felix Holt (George Eliot)
Felix Holt
17
George Eliot
Mosquitoes (William Faulkner)
Mosquitoes
18
William Faulkner
The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Gustave Flaubert)
The Temptation of Saint Anthony
19
Gustave Flaubert
The Twenty-Seventh City (Jonathan Franzen)
The Twenty-Seventh City
20
Jonathan Franzen
My Lady Ludlow (Elizabeth Gaskell)
My Lady Ludlow
21
Elizabeth Gaskell
It's a Battlefield (Graham Greene)
It's a Battlefield
22
Graham Greene
The Trumpet-Major (Thomas Hardy)
The Trumpet-Major
23
Thomas Hardy
Small G: A Summer Idyll (Patricia Highsmith)
Small G: A Summer Idyll
24
Patricia Highsmith
Confidence (Henry James)
Confidence
25
Henry James
The Boy in the Bush (D.H. Lawrence)
The Boy in the Bush
26
D.H. Lawrence
The Naive and Sentimental Lover (John Le Carre)
The Naive and Sentimental Lover
27
John Le Carre
The Black Swan (Thomas Mann)
The Black Swan
28
Thomas Mann
In Evil Hour (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
In Evil Hour
29
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Armageddon Rag (George R. R. Martin)
The Armageddon Rag
30
George R. R. Martin
The Bishop's Apron (W.Somerset Maugham)
The Bishop's Apron
31
W.Somerset Maugham
The Orchard Keeper (Cormac McCarthy)
The Orchard Keeper
32
Cormac McCarthy
The Cockroach (Ian McEwan)
The Cockroach
33
Ian McEwan
Israel Potter (Herman Melville)
Israel Potter
34
Herman Melville
Love (Toni Morrison)
Love
35
Toni Morrison
Look at the Harlequins! (Vladimir Nabokov)
Look at the Harlequins!
36
Vladimir Nabokov
A Clergyman's Daughter (George Orwell)
A Clergyman's Daughter
37
George Orwell
Our Gang (Philip Roth)
Our Gang
38
Philip Roth
Grimus (Salman Rushdie)
Grimus
39
Salman Rushdie
Lodore (Mary Shelley)
Lodore
40
Mary Shelley
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