By Wally Lamb
On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother, Thomas, entered the Three Rivers, Connecticut, public library, retreated to one of the rear...
By Oliver Sacks
In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of...
By Shel Silverstein
Alternate-cover 25th Anniversary reissue edition can be found hereLast night while I lay thinking hereSome Whatifs crawled inside my earAnd pranced...
By Isaac Asimov
They mustn't harm a human being, they must obey human orders, and they must protect their own existence...but only so long as that doesn't violate...
By Ovid,
David Raeburn (Translation), Denis Feeney (Contributor)
Prized through the ages for its splendor and its savage, sophisticated wit, The Metamorphoses is a masterpiece of Western culture--the first attempt...
By J.D. Salinger
The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that...
By Neil Gaiman
God is dead. Meet the kids.Fat Charlie Nancy's normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn't know...
By Art Spiegelman
Maus is the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father,...
By Betty Smith
The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a poignant and...
By Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis, first published in 1915, is the most famous of Kafka's works, along with The Trial and The Castle. The story begins when a...