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Frankenstein
By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley (contributor), Maurice Hindle (Editor, Introduction)
Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the...
I Know This Much Is True
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...
The Alchemist
By Paulo Coelho , Alan R. Clarke (Translator), Özdemir İnce (Translator)
Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His...
A Tale of Two Cities
By Charles Dickens, Richard Maxwell (Editor/Introduction), Saniye Güven, Sevil İnan Sönmez (Translator)
'Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; -- the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!' After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the...
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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...
A Short History of Nearly Everything
By Bill Bryson
In Bryson's biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand—and, if possible, answer—the oldest, biggest questions we have posed...
The Other Boleyn Girl
By Philippa Gregory
Two sisters competing for the greatest prize: The love of a kingWhen Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye...
A Light in the Attic
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...
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
By David Sedaris
It's early autumn 1964. Two straight-A students head off to school, and when only one of them returns home Chesney Yelverton is coaxed from...
The Silmarillion
By J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (Editor), Ted Nasmith (Illustrator)
The story of the creation of the world and of the First Age, this is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back and...