E.M. Forster's novel A Passage to India builds on cultural misconceptions between the British and Indian communities

Scott FitzGerald publishes his novel The Great Gatsby, set in a contemporary world of lavish indulgence underpinned by crime

DuBose Heyward publishes his first novel, Porgy, set in Charleston's Catfish Row

Franz Kafka's novel The Trial is published posthumously

English writer Ivy Compton-Burnett finds her characteristic voice in her second novel, Pastors and Masters

Irish novelist Liam O'Flaherty publishes The Informer

Virgiinia Woolf publishes her novel Mrs Dalloway, in which the action is limited to a single day

Russian Jewish writer Isaac Babel publishes a collection of stories, Red Cavalry, based on his own experiences in the army

Soldiers Pay is the first published novel of the Mississippi author William Faulkner

French author André Gide publishes his only novel, The Counterfeiters

Franz Kafka's novel The Castle is published posthumously

US author Ernest Hemingway succeeds with his second novel, The Sun also Rises (also known as Fiesta)

French author François Mauriac publishes a novel of marital claustrophobia, Thérèse Desqueyroux

US author Thornton Wilder achieves world-wide success with his second novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Hermann Hesse publishes a mystical novel, Steppenwolf, based on the concept of a double personality

Anglo-Irish author Elizabeth Bowen publishes her first novel, The Hotel

Virginia Woolf uses a Hebridean holiday as the setting for her narrative in To The Lighthouse

Mysterious German author B. Traven writes a novel, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, about three Americans searching for a lost gold mine in Mexico

Caribbean-born author Jean Rhys publishes her first novel, Postures, based on her affair with the writer Ford Madox Ford

Russian author Mikhail Sholokhov publishes the first section of And Quiet Flows the Don

D.H. Lawrence's new novel, in which Lady Chatterley is in love with her husband's gamekeeper, is privately printed in Florence

Evelyn Waugh succeeds with a comic first novel, Decline and Fall

Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness is the first to deal openly with a lesbian subject

Sartoris is the first of 14 novels by William Faulkner set in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County

French author Jean Cocteau publishes Les Enfants Terribles, a novel about a brother and sister in a suffocatingly claustrophobic relationsip