On the Road is a full-length novel written by American "Beat Generation" writer Jack Kerouac, published in 1957. The novel is largely autobiographical, based on the author's experience of traversing the American continent in the mid-20th century. Once it came out, it caused an uproar in public opinion, with both praise and blame. But it is recognized as the most classic and representative work of the hippie movement and the "Beat Generation" in the 1960s.

Walden (AKA: Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is one of the most famous nonfiction books, written by Henry David Thoreau and published in 1854. It is neither a novel nor a true autobiography, but a social critique of many parts of the contemporary Western world, including consumerist attitudes and distance and destruction from nature. What it advocates is subtraction for life and addition for thought.

Gargantua and Pantagruel (AKA: The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a full-length satiric novel written by the French Renaissance novelist François Rabelais. The whole book consists of five volumes, its publishing process was full of hardships and it was banned for many times. Anyway, it swept away the artificial writing style in aristocratic literature, and brought the literary world at that time a lively, close-to-life fresh air that suits both refined and popular tastes.

War and Peace (????? ? ???) is one of the greatest Russian litterateur in the late 19th century and early 20th century (also one of the most outstanding writers in the history of world literature) Leo Tolstoy's three representative works (the other two are: Anna Karenina and Resurrection), also his first full-length novel. Leo Tolstoy spent more than 10 years of time to complete this immortal classic in the literature world.

As a writing with important literature value, The Pilgrim's Progress became one of the most successful religious allegory in English literary works (without any narrow sectarianism). In the past 300+ years, it broke through the boundaries between nation, race, religion and culture, and swept around the world. So far, it has had as many as 200 kinds of translations around the world, and became the most widely spread book in addition to Bible.