One Hit Wonders

20 notable books which were the only books ever written and published by their authors. Our compiler has attempted to avoid the only-novel-but-plenty-of-other-stuff trap, so no Wilde, Salinger, or Plath, to name but a few. And before anyone gets shirty, "Go Set a Watchman" is now held to be a rough draft of "To Kill a Mockingbird ", not a sequel, and Ellison's "Juneteenth" as a posthumous cutdown of material Ellison never would have published.

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The Atheist's Tragedy (Tourneur)

The Atheist's Tragedy

1

Tourneur

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (Richard Fariña)

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

2

Richard Fariña

Black Beauty (Anna Sewell)

Black Beauty

3

Anna Sewell

Brut (Layamon)

Brut

4

Layamon

A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)

A Confederacy of Dunces

5

John Kennedy Toole

Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)

Doctor Zhivago

6

Boris Pasternak

Gargantua and Pantagruel (François Rabelais)

Gargantua and Pantagruel

7

François Rabelais

Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)

Gone With the Wind

8

Margaret Mitchell

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Mary Ann Shaffer)

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

9

Mary Ann Shaffer

The Help (Kathryn Stockett)

The Help

10

Kathryn Stockett

Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)

Invisible Man

11

Ralph Ellison

Le Morte D'Arthur (Sir Thomas Malory)

Le Morte D'Arthur

12

Sir Thomas Malory

Leaving Las Vegas (John O'Brien)

Leaving Las Vegas

13

John O'Brien

The Man Outside (Wolfgang Borchert)

The Man Outside

14

Wolfgang Borchert

Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)

Memoirs of a Geisha

15

Arthur Golden

The Monk (Matthew Lewis)

The Monk

16

Matthew Lewis

Piers Plowman

Piers Plowman

17

Raintree County (Ross Lockridge)

Raintree County

18

Ross Lockridge

To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

To Kill a Mockingbird

19

Harper Lee

Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)

Wuthering Heights

20

Emily Brontë

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