Against Nature, also known as Against The Grain, is a wildly original fin-de-siècle novel that follows the journey of its sole character, Des Esseintes. He is a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where he indulges his taste for luxury and excess.

Veering between nervous excitability and debilitating ennui, he gluts his aesthetic appetites with classical literature and art, exotic jewels (with which he fatally encrusts the shell of his tortoise), rich perfumes, and a kaleidoscope of sensual experiences.

The novel is known as the original handbook of decadence and has enjoyed a cult readership from its publication to the present day.

Christina Goering, eccentric and adventurous, meets the anxious but equally enterprising Mrs. Copperfield at a party. Two serious ladies who wish to live outside of themselves, they embark on a quest for salvation. Mrs. Copperfield visits Panama with her husband, finding solace among the women who live and work in its brothels, while Miss Goering engages with various men. At the end, the two women meet again, each transformed by her experiences.

Mysterious, profound, anarchic, and very funny, Two Serious Ladies is a daring, original work that defies analysis.

The Day of the Jackal is a classic thriller that stands as a benchmark in the genre, earning its place among other notable works such as The Manchurian Candidate and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. It is often compared to the mysteries of the Hardy Boys for its depth and complexity.

The narrative centers around the Jackal, a mysterious and professional assassin. Described as a tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes, he is at the top of his profession. Unknown to any secret service in the world, he is tasked with a contract to kill the world's most heavily guarded man.

Armed with just a rifle, the Jackal has the power to change the course of history. His mission is so secretive that not even his employers know his name. As the minutes tick down to the final act of execution, it becomes apparent that no power on earth can stop the Jackal.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is described as a dazzling entertainment that is arousing on every level—political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous. It calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography. It can call itself whatever it wants to, because the whole is genius.

Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, this novel brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than just its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.