| Zeno's Conscience | Italo Svevo (pseudonym of Ettore Schmitz) | The doctor with whom I discussed the question told me to begin my
work with a historical analysis of my smoking habit. | Buy | |
| Zorba the Greek | Nikos Kazantzakis | I first met him in Piraeus. | Buy | |
| Zoya | Danielle Steel | Zoya closed her eyes again as the troika flew across the icy
ground, the soft mist of snow leaving tiny damp kisses on her
cheeks, and turning her eyelashes to lace as she listened to the
horses' bells dancing in her ears like music. | Buy | |
| Zuleika Dobson | Sir Max Beerbohm | That old bell, presage of a train, had just sounded through Oxford station; and the undergraduates who were waiting there, gay figures in tweed or flannels, moved to the margin of the platform and gazed idly up the line. | Buy | |