Books where the author dropped a banger and disappeared. Or just never hit the same level of success ever again.
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last updated September, 2026
Trainspotting (Mark Renton, #2)
Irvine Welsh
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
Battle Royale
Koushun Takami
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
The Help
Kathryn Stockett
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman
Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Carol Rifka Brunt
Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen
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