List #7: Lesser-Known Books from Some Big(gish) Names (part 1 of 2)

1. Author: Douglas Adams
Best known for: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Rec. #42)
Also check out: The Salmon of Doubt (Rec. #4) and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Rec #162)

2. Author: James Baldwin

Best known for: Go Tell It on the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son

Also check out: Going to Meet the Man (Rec. #23)

3. Author: A.S. Byatt

Best known for: Possession

Also check out: On Histories and Stories (Rec. #154)

4. Author: Charles Dickens

Best known for: Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist

Also check out: Our Mutual Friend (Rec. #88)

5. Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Best known for: One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera

Also check out: Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Rec. #64)

6. Author: Elizabeth Gaskell

Best known for: Cranford, Wives and Daughters

Also check out: Mary Barton (Rec. #57)

7. Author: Edward Gorey

Best known for: The Gashlycrumb Tinies

Also check out: Ascending Peculiarity (Rec. #80)

8. Author: Mark Haddon

Best known for: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Also check out: A Spot of Bother (Rec. #27)

9. Author: Shirley Jackson

Best known for: "The Lottery"

Also check out: Just an Ordinary Day (Rec. #134)

10. Author: Peter Lovesey

Best known for: the Peter Diamond series

Also check out: The Reaper (Rec. #21)


[Continue to Part 2 here.]