Sentence examples for breakthrough book from inspiring English sources

As everyone has said, Bellow not least, "Augie March" was the breakthrough book.

Sontag, an old friend, had dedicated her breakthrough book, "Against Interpretation," to Thek in 1966.

It was a breakthrough book, and one that should have provided a foundation for further scholarship.

Ford's breakthrough book is a profoundly affecting study of deepening despair.

His breakthrough book, "Of Human Bondage" (1915), is still considered by many to be his best.

Infused with comedy and violence, Irving's breakthrough book chronicles the tragic life and death of the novelist T.S. Garp.

But we also included writers whose breakthrough books were still ahead of them.

Worse, it threatens to infantilize our writers, reducing them to the condition of permanent apprentices who grind steadily toward "maturity" as they prepare to write their "breakthrough" books.

In their breakthrough books, major writers of the women's movement - Betty Friedan, Kate Millett and Germaine Greer - barely mention Beauvoir, as if to deny the influence of a threatening mother figure.

Mr. Geis's breakthrough books were Helen Gurley Brown's "Sex and the Single Girl" and Jacqueline Susann's "Valley of the Dolls," which would spend 65 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list in the mid-1960s.

Can you point to books early in Harper Perennial's career that really established the brand, breakthrough books that made you confirm your direction?