Some authors have one or two books for which they are so famous that hardly anyone is aware that they ever wrote anything else. Well, now you have no excuse not to be aware. Read on to learn about eight books by famous authors that you probably never knew existed.
1. Victor Hugo – Ninety-three
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Hugo is best known for Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. This book, the last novel he ever wrote, is about counter-revolutionary revolts in 1793 during the French Revolution.
2. Mary Shelley – The Last Man
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Although Shelley is most famous for writing Frankenstein, she did write other books. This one is a post-apocalyptic novel about a world ravaged by plague.
3. F. Scott Fitzgerald – Tender Is the Night
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Everybody knows about Fitzgeralds’s The Great Gatsby, sometimes referred to as the Great American Novel. However, he wrote many other lesser-known books. This novel, based heavily on his own relationship with his wife Zelda, is the story of a tragic romance between a psychiatrist and his wife.
4. Jack London – People of the Abyss
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You probably know London for his novels Call of the Wild and White Fang. But you should consider checking out his nonfiction books. This one is a memoir of his time living and working as a part of the urban poor in London at the beginning of the twentieth century.
5. Louisa May Alcott – Work: A Story of Experience
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Alcott is best known for Little Women, but this is not the only time she focused on women and the gender constraints they faced. This book is a semi-autobiographical novel about a young woman trying to support herself by working during the new industrial era that occurred in the nineteenth century.
6. Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Blithedale Romance
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Although Hawthorne is known for The Scarlet Letter, not all of his books were quite so bleak. This novel, which is about a group of Utopians who try to create an ideal community, is possibly the lightest of his rather sober works of fiction.
7. George Orwell – Keep the Aspidistra Flying
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Particularly after its surge in popularity last year, everyone remembers Orwell for his dystopian novel 1984. While this novel is not as disturbing, Orwell is still as socially critical as ever in this book about a man’s struggle to escape a materialistic existence that worships respectability and money.
8. Salman Rushdie – Haroun and the Sea of Stories
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Rushdie is known for Midnight’s Children, a work of magical realism. This book, although targeted at a younger audience, still contains that same magical realism. It is the tale of a boy who sets out to restore the sea of stories after his father loses his storytelling abilities.
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