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Sunday, July 1, 2012

One Hit Wonders in the Literary World

All these writers either published only one complete book ever or only one of their complete books have stood the test of time. Making them a one hit wonder.

* some authors have had writings taken from their possession after their death.  This has been happening more and more frequently.  I do not count these books in my listings. *

Published only one complete book:

"Autobiography of a Face" by Grealy
"Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me" by Farina 
"Beer in the Snooker Club" by Ghali 
"Behold a Pale Horse" by Cooper
"The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
"Black Beauty" by Sewell
"The Blind Owl" by Hedayat 
"The Bone People" by Hulme 
"The Book of Ebenezer La Page" by G.B. Edwards 
"By the Sound" by Dorn 
"The Catcher in the Rye" by Salinger
"Diary of Anne Frank" by Frank
"Doctor Zhivago" by Pasternak
"Eating Chinese Food Naked" by Ng
"The End of the Story" by Davis 
"Fall Quarter" by Kees 
"Fat City" by Gardner 
"The First Third" by Cassady 
"The Girl Who Owned a City" by Nelson
"Gone With the Wind" by Mitchell
"The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Shaffer 
"House of Earth" by Gunthrie 
"Invisible Man" by Ellison
"In the Memory of the Forest" by Powers 
"Jonoah and the Green Stone" by Dumas 
"Leaving Las Vegas" by John O'Brien 
"The Lemon Jelly Cake" by Babcock-Smith
"Lives of Girls and Women" by Munro 
"The Lost Estate" (Le Grand Meaulnes) by Henri Alain-Fournier 
"Memoirs of a Geisha" by Golding
"Miss MacIntosh, My Darling" by Young 
"The Moonflower Vine" by Carleton
"The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" by Poe 
"The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge" by Rilke 
"Oreo" by Fran Ross 
"The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster 
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Wilde
"Raintree County" by Lockridge 
"Reading in the Dark" by Deane 
"Save Me the Waltz" by Z. Fitzgerald
"The Shutter of Snow" by Coleman 
"Suite Francaise" by Nemirovsky
"The Swiss Family Robinson" by Wyss
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Lee
"Wonder When You'll Miss Me" by Davis
"Wuthering Heights" by E. Bronte


The one complete book that is renown:

"The Able McLaughlins" by Wilson 
"All Quiet on the Western Front" by Remarque
"Black Like Me" by Griffin
"Catch-22" by Heller
"A Clockwork Orange" by Burgess
"Confederacy of Dunces" by Toole
"Death Be Not Proud" by Gunther
"Don Quixote" by Cervantes
"Dracula" by Stoker
"Flowers for Algernon" by Keyes
"Frankenstein" by Shelley
"Gulliver's Travels" by Swift
"Heidi" by Spyri
"His Family" by Ernest Poole
"Lamb in His Bosom" by Miller 
"Laughing Boy" by La Farge 
"Lolita" by Nabokov
"Madame Bovary" by Flaubert
"McTeague" by Norris
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Kesey
"The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Chbosky
"Peter Pan" by Barrie
"Phantom of the Opera" by Leroux
"The Prophet" by Gibran
"Raisin in the Sun" by Hansberry
"Scarlett Sister Mary" by Peterkin 
"A Separate Peace" by Knowles
"The Store" by T.S. Stribling 
"Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Hurston
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Smith
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Stowe
"Walden" by Thoreau
"Watership Down" by Adams
"The Wind in the Willows" by Grahame
"The Yearling" by Rawlings 
"A Yellow Raft in Blue Water" by Dorris