Patrick O'Brian
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Isolation ward
Authors that did not make the list of cult authors, but are list with one work, 67 books which "have won enough acclaim, abuse or affection to earn them - but not necessarily their authors - cult status".
- ‘‘253’’by Geoff Ryman (1998)
- ‘‘A Rebours’’by J. K. Huysmans (1884)
- ‘‘The Aerodrome: A Love Story’’by Rex Warner (1941)
- ‘‘All The King's Men’’by Robert Penn Warren (1946)
- ‘‘Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter’’by Mario Vargas Llosa (1977)
- ‘‘Black List, Secton H’’by Francis Stuart (1972)
- ‘‘The Blind Owl’’by Sadlegh Hedayat (1937)
- ‘‘Carter Beats the Devil’’by Glen Gould (2001)
- ‘‘Catch-22’’by Joseph Heller (1961)
- ‘‘Chateau D'Argol’’by Julien Gracq (1938)
- ‘‘Christ Stopped at Eboli’’by Carlo Levi (1947)
- ‘‘A Clockwork Orange’’by Anthony Burgess (1962)
- ‘‘A Conferderacy of Dunces’’by John Kennedy Toole (1980)
- ‘‘Confessions of Zeno’’by Italo Svevo (1923)
- ‘‘Corner Boy’’by Herbert Simmons (1957)
- ‘‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time’’by Mark Haddon (2003)
- ‘‘The Death of Napoleon’’by Simon Leys (2002)
- ‘‘Delano’’by John Orozco (1998)
- ‘‘Distant Star’’by Roberto Bolano (1996)
- ‘‘Elvis and the Apocalypse’’by Steve Werner (2001)
- ‘‘Everything is Illuminated’’by Jonathon Safran Foer (2002)
- ‘‘A Fan's Notes’’by Frederick Exley (1968)
- ‘‘Fast One’’by Paul Cain (1932)
- ‘‘Funnymen’’by Ted Heller (2002)
- ‘‘Greek Love’’by Katherine Dunn (2002)
- ‘‘The Golem’’by Gustav Meyrink (1915)
- ‘‘A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain’’by Robert Olen Butler (1992)
- ‘‘Hadrian VII’’by Baron Corvo (1904)
- ‘‘Hangover Square’’by Patrick Hamilton (1941)
- ‘‘Hear of Darkness’’by Joseph Conrad (1902)
- ‘‘Heartland’’by Wilson Harris (1964)
- ‘‘A Hero of Our Time’’by Mikhail Lermontov (1840)
- ‘‘The History Man’’by Malcolm Bradbury (1975)
- ‘‘The History of Luminous Motion’’by Scott Bradfield (1989)
- ‘‘Homeboy’’by Seth Morgan (1990)
- ‘‘I am Still the Greatest Says Johnny Angelo’’by Nik Cohn (1967)
- ‘‘In the Heart of the Heart of the Country’’by William H. Gass (1969)
- ‘‘The Invention of Morel’’by Adolfo Bioy Casares (1940)
- ‘‘The Land of Green Plums’’by Herta Muller (1996)
- ‘‘The Leopard’’by Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa (1958)
- ‘‘Little Big Man’’by Thomas Berger (1964)
- ‘‘Lost Horizon’’by James hilton (1933)
- ‘‘The Magic Christian’’by Terry Southern (1959)
- ‘‘The Man Who Was Thursday’’by G. K. Chesterton (1908)
- ‘‘The Man Without Qualities’’by Robert Musil (1930)
- ‘‘The Manuscript Found in Saragossa’’by Jan Potocki (1815)
- ‘‘Moscow Stations’’by Venedikt Yerofeev (1997)
- ‘‘Pavane’’by Keith Roberts (1968)
- ‘‘The Pilot's Wife’’by Anita Shreve (1998)
- ‘‘The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner’’by James Hogg (1824)
- ‘‘Q’’by Luther Blissett (1999)
- ‘‘The Riddle of the Sands’’by Erskine Childers (1903)
- ‘‘Rock Salt and Glissandos’’by Steve Fisher (1991)
- ‘‘Some Hope: The Patrick Melrose Trilogy’’by Edard St Aubyn (1998)
- ‘‘Sppon River Anthology’’by Edgar Lee Masters (1915)
- ‘‘The Tin Drum’’by Gunter Grass (1959)
- ‘‘Too Loud a Solitude’’by Bohumil Hrabal (1976)
- ‘‘The Tribe of Palos Verdes’’by Joy Nicholson (1997)
- ‘‘The True Story of a Vampire’’by Eric Stenbock (1894)
- ‘‘Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture’’by Apostolos Doxiadis (1992)
- ‘‘Valley of the Dolls’’by Jacqueline Susann (1966)
- ‘‘Vernon God Little’’by D. B. C. Pierre (2003)
- ‘‘The Vulture’’by Gil Scott-Heron (1969)
- ‘‘We’’by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1920)
- ‘‘The Wind in the Willows’’by Kenneth Grahame (1908)
- ‘‘Wonder Boys’’by Michael Chabon (1996)
- ‘‘Wonderful, Wonderful Times’’by Elfriede Jelinek (1980)
--list via <a href="http://callumjames.blogspot.com/2006/07/cult-fiction.html">Callum James</a>