By William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and...
By Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very...
By Unknown,
Seamus Heaney (Translator), Francis Barton Gummere
The earliest extant poem in a modern European language, "Beowulf" is an epic that reflects a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters,...
By Anita Diamant
A New York Times BestsellerA decade after the publication of this hugely popular international bestseller, Picador releases the tenth anniversary...
By Orson Scott Card
THE DESTRUCTION OF LUSITANIA DRAWS NEAR The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos; a large colony of humans; and the...
By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
Richard Howard (Translator)
Moral allegory and spiritual autobiography, The Little Prince is the most translated book in the French language. With a timeless charm it tells the...
By David Sedaris
David Sedaris became a star autobiographer on public radio, onstage in New York, and on bestseller lists, mostly on the strength of SantaLand Diaries...
By Roald Dahl,
Quentin Blake (Illustrator)
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“The Trunchbull” is no match for Matilda!Matilda is a sweet, exceptional...
By Alice Walker
The Color Purple is a classic. With over a million copies sold in the UK alone, it is hailed as one of the all-time 'greats' of literature, inspiring...
By Azar Nafisi
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her...