The Telemachy in Homer's Odyssey (8th century BC) Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, by Ibn Tufail (12th century)[2] The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, by Henry Fielding (1749)[3] The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Laurence Sterne (1759)[3] Candide, by Voltaire (1759) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce[4] The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger (1951) The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath (1964) A Day No Pigs Would Die, by Robert Newton Peck