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Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan (Penguin Modern Classics) — written at eighteen, published to enormous scandal in 1954, this perfect short novel follows seventeen-year-old Cécile as she sets in motion a scheme to protect her summer that destroys something she did not know she valued. One of the sharpest analyses ever written of adolescent cruelty — cool, precise, and slightly amused by its narrator. Published by Penguin Modern Classics.

Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave (Picador) — a novel of extraordinary atmospheric power set in seventeenth-century northern Norway, where a Scottish witch-hunter, a survivor of a devastating storm, and the hunter’s wife are drawn into a triangle of desire, power, and accusation. Renders the Arctic darkness and cold with physical precision — a deeply moving, beautifully written historical novel. Published by Picador.

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (Penguin) — Gregor Samsa wakes to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect, and his first thought is whether he will make it to work. In this fresh, acclaimed Penguin edition, Kafka’s most famous story recovers its capacity to surprise — to feel immediate and strange rather than merely canonical. One hundred pages that contain more than most novels manage in three hundred. Published by Penguin.

Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka (Penguin Modern Classics) — the definitive Kafka collection, including The Metamorphosis, ‘In the Penal Colony’, ‘The Judgment’, and other masterworks of the form. These stories of complete formal confidence — each premise impossible, each logic inexorable — remain as disturbing and as necessary as when they were written. Published by Penguin Modern Classics.

The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector (Penguin Modern Classics) — Lispector’s third novel follows Lucrécia Neves as a new road transforms her small Brazilian town, in a novel about consciousness and place written in a prose style of radical formal ambition. One of the most formally adventurous works of its era, now finally available in English. Essential Lispector. Published by Penguin Modern Classics.

Life for Sale by Yukio Mishima (Penguin Modern Classics) — a darkly comic, satirical novel in which a young man places an advertisement offering to live anyone else’s life for a price. Mishima at his most playful and his most philosophically serious about identity — proof of his extraordinary range. Newly available in English for the first time. Published by Penguin Modern Classics.

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Penguin) — Dostoevsky’s most delicate and lyrical work, a novella of romantic longing set during the luminous white nights of St Petersburg. A young man meets Nastenka on a bridge and falls into the most intense four nights of his life — a perfect introduction to Dostoevsky in a beautiful Penguin Little Black Classic edition.

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (Penguin Classics) — the great American novel. Captain Ahab’s monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale drives one of fiction’s most gripping narratives — simultaneously an account of nineteenth-century whaling, a study of obsession, and a philosophical inquiry into the limits of human knowledge. Written in prose of unmatched power. Essential world literature.

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (Penguin Modern Classics) — one of the most affecting short novels in American literature. George and Lennie’s shared dream of their own land in Depression-era California is one of literature’s most moving visions of human solidarity — and its most devastating tragedies. A masterpiece of economy and emotional power.