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Postwar
Explore 60 works associated with Postwar in The Western Canon. This page is generated from reviewed catalog classifications and links directly to each featured work.
Featured works
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · Postwar · Novel
Catch-22
Joseph Heller · Postwar · Novel / satire
Life: A User’s Manual
Georges Perec · Postwar · Novel / experimental writing
Tropisms
Nathalie Sarraute · Postwar · Novel / criticism
The Naked and the Dead
Norman Mailer · Postwar · Novel / reportage
Selected Poems
Ingeborg Bachmann · Postwar · Poetry / fiction
Wise Blood
Flannery O’Connor · Postwar · Stories / novel
The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow · Postwar · Novel
Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis · Postwar · Novel / satire
Under the Net
Iris Murdoch · Postwar · Novel / philosophy
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Flannery O’Connor · Postwar · Stories / novel
The Age of Suspicion
Nathalie Sarraute · Postwar · Novel / criticism
Jealousy
Alain Robbe-Grillet · Postwar · Novel
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Truman Capote · Postwar · Fiction / reportage
Memento Mori
Muriel Spark · Postwar · Novel
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
Heinrich Böll · Postwar · Novel
Rabbit, Run
John Updike · Postwar · Novel / stories
Solaris
Stanislaw Lem · Postwar · Science fiction
Mother Night
Kurt Vonnegut · Postwar · Novel / satire
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark · Postwar · Novel
Cat and Mouse
Günter Grass · Postwar · Novel
The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick · Postwar · Science fiction
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Ken Kesey · Postwar · Novel
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess · Postwar · Novel
Cat’s Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut · Postwar · Novel / satire
Herzog
Saul Bellow · Postwar · Novel
The Ravishing of Lol Stein
Marguerite Duras · Postwar · Novel / memoir
Everything That Rises Must Converge
Flannery O’Connor · Postwar · Stories / novel
Dune
Frank Herbert · Postwar · Science fiction
The Cyberiad
Stanislaw Lem · Postwar · Science fiction
The Magus
John Fowles · Postwar · Novel
Things
Georges Perec · Postwar · Novel / experimental writing
Closely Watched Trains
Bohumil Hrabal · Postwar · Novel
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote · Postwar · Fiction / reportage
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick · Postwar · Science fiction
The Armies of the Night
Norman Mailer · Postwar · Novel / reportage
Portnoy’s Complaint
Philip Roth · Postwar · Novel
Ubik
Philip K. Dick · Postwar · Science fiction
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
John Fowles · Postwar · Novel
The Sovereignty of Good
Iris Murdoch · Postwar · Novel / philosophy
Rabbit Redux
John Updike · Postwar · Novel / stories
Malina
Ingeborg Bachmann · Postwar · Poetry / fiction
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino · Postwar · Fiction
Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut · Postwar · Novel / satire
Something Happened
Joseph Heller · Postwar · Novel / satire
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Heinrich Böll · Postwar · Novel
Humboldt’s Gift
Saul Bellow · Postwar · Novel
Fatelessness
Imre Kertész · Postwar · Novel
Patterns of Childhood
Christa Wolf · Postwar · Novel / essays
Too Loud a Solitude
Bohumil Hrabal · Postwar · Novel
The Sea, the Sea
Iris Murdoch · Postwar · Novel / philosophy
Earthly Powers
Anthony Burgess · Postwar · Novel
Rabbit Is Rich
John Updike · Postwar · Novel / stories
Cassandra
Christa Wolf · Postwar · Novel / essays
The Witches of Eastwick
John Updike · Postwar · Novel / stories
The Lover
Marguerite Duras · Postwar · Novel / memoir
Sabbath’s Theater
Philip Roth · Postwar · Novel
American Pastoral
Philip Roth · Postwar · Novel
The Human Stain
Philip Roth · Postwar · Novel