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The logic of this post is to list some novels that the author could have published and that'd have been enough to set them up as major in the writing history, even if they do have lots of other great works. Like Cervantes with Don Quixote . I'm going with books published after 1950. Some of these will probably be the only good book the author really did (like  Catch 22). In no particular order: 10. The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel )- 1959- Germany - German by G ü nter Grass 9. One Hundred Years of Solitude ( Cien a ñ os de soledad) - 1967- Colombia- Spanish by  Gabriel Garcia Marquez  8. Midnight's Children -1981- United Kingdom - English by  Salman Rushdie 7.  On the Road - 1957 - United States of America- English by Jack Kerouac  6. Catch-22 -1961- United States of America- English by Joseph Heller 5. Lord of the Flies - 1954- United Kingdom- English  by  William Golding 4. Beloved - 1987- United States of...

The logic of this post is to list some novels that the author could have published and that'd have been enough to set them up as major in the writing history, even if they do have lots of other great works. Like Cervantes with  Don Quixote  . I'm going with books published after 1950. Some of these will probably be the only good book the author really did (like   Catch 22). In no particular order: 20.  The Catcher in the Rye - 1951 - United States of America - English by J.D. Salinger 19. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, or  : how violence develops and where it can lead ( Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann) - 1974- Germany - German by Heinrich B ö ll  18. The Master and Margarita - 1967 - Soviet Union - Russian by Mikhail Bulgakov 17. Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death - 1969- United States of America- English by...