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
From the moment of his adoption by the Earnshaws, the foundling boy Heathcliff devotes himself to their young daughter Catherine. Growing up together, the two share a love that blossoms into romance, until Catherine's hurtful betrayal. But Heathcliff's emotions know no bounds and acknowledge no...
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
Paper Book
'Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.' 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 mortally divided and a people forever changed....
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
Highly collectable hardback Puffin Classics with stunningly beautiful cover designs. 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...
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
Ebook
'They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.' This is the story of Rahel and Estha, twins growing up among the banana jam vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother's...
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
Paper Book
One of our hand-picked classics that no home should be without, now with Beya Rebaï's beautifully atmospheric artwork.
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
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's tender and magical classic fable, adapted for picture book readers for the very first time! Please - draw me a sheep. I blinked. The voice belonged to a charming little prince. The characters of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's...
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
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online. Titles...
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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