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Olive Kitteridge
By Elizabeth Strout
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the...
The Bonesetter's Daughter
By Amy Tan
Ruth Young and her widowed mother, LuLing, have always had a tumultuous relationship. Now, before she succumbs to forgetfulness, LuLing gives Ruth...
The Catcher in the Rye
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...
The Shipping News
By Annie Proulx
At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just deserts. He...
Anansi Boys
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...
Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
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,...
The Shining
By Stephen King
Jack Torrance's new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he'...
Ethan Frome
By Edith Wharton
Literary Thoughts editionpresentsEthan Fromeby Edith Wharton------"Ethan Frome" is a novel written in 1911 by Pulitzer Prize-winning American...
The Elements of Style
By William Strunk Jr., E.B. White, Roger Angell (Foreword)
New York Times: "Buy it, study it, enjoy it. It's as timeless as a book can be in our age of volubility." Boston Globe: "No book in shorter space,...
Different Seasons
By Stephen King
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption--the most satisfying tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape since The Count of Monte Cristo.Apt Pupil...