A House for Mr. Biswas
by V. S. Naipaul | 
A Bend in the River
by V. S. Naipaul | 
Nectar in a Sieve
by Kamala Markandaya | 
Untouchable
by Mulk Raj Anand | 
The Light That Failed
by Rudyard Kipling | 
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck | 
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens | 
Room
by Emma Donoghue | 
Roots
by Alex Haley | 
Sophie's World
by Jostein Gaarder | 
If on a winter's night a traveler
by Italo Calvino | 
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway | 
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner | 
Breakfast at Tiffany's
by Truman Capote | 
Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee | 
Cat's Eye
by Margaret Atwood | 
As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner | 
Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton | 
Revolutionary Road
by Richard Yates | 
The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton |
Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning of his father, he yearns for a place he can call home. He marries into the Tulsi family, on whom he becomes dependent, but rebels and takes on a succession of occupations in a struggle to weaken their hold over him."