One and Done

Books from authors that who published but one novel. Some might surprise you!
Updated September 19, 2022
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Paper Book
Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South--and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the most cherished stories of all time, To...
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Paper Book
Wuthering Heights was Emily Bronte's only novel, a gothic tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between the orphan who became the master of Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff, and Catherine Earnshaw, the daughter of his benefactor.
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
Paper Book
A special edition of Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell reissued with a bright retro design to celebrate Pan's 70th anniversary. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Civil War, Margaret Mitchell's magnificent historical epic is an unforgettable tale of love and loss, of a nation...
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer
Paper Book
The most heartwarming, glorious and gorgeous novel that you will read all year.
Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse
Anna Sewell
Paper Book
Black Beauty is a handsome, sweet-tempered colt with a strong spirit. As a young colt he is free to gallop in the fresh green meadows with his beloved mother, Duchess, and their kind master. But when his owners are forced to sell him, Black Beauty goes from a life of comfort and kindness to one of...
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
Paper Book
The Asian literary phenomenon of the 90s. More magical than Mistry, more of a rollicking good read than Rushdie, more nerve-tinglingly imagined than Naipaul, here, perhaps, is the greatest Indian novel by a woman. Arundhati Roy has written an astonishingly rich, fertile novel, teeming...
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
Paper Book
I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. Sylvia Plath's groundbreaking semi-autobiographical novel offers an intimate, honest and often wrenching glimpse into mental illness. The...
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
Paper Book
J. D. Salinger wrote one of the most famous books ever written, The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger wrote many stories and, in 1941, after several rejections, Salinger finally cracked The New Yorker, with a story, "Slight Rebellion Off Madison," that was an early sketch of what became a scene in "The...
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Paper Book
Translated by Irene Testot-Ferry. The Little Prince is a classic tale of equal appeal to children and adults. On one level it is the story of an airman's discovery, in the desert, of a small boy from another planet - the Little Prince of the title - and his stories of...
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Audiobook
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Ralph Elllison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them...
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
Paper Book
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'My favourite book of all time... it stays with you long after you have read it - for your whole life, in fact' Billy Connolly A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and...
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Paper Book
With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting...
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
David Wroblewski
Ebook
'I flat-out loved The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. I don't re-read many books, because life is too short. I will be re-reading this one.' Stephen King An International Bestseller Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life on his family's farm in remote...

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