By Diane Setterfield
Sometimes, when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.Reclusive author Vida Winter, famous for her collection of twelve...
By Alan Paton
Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton’s...
By Henry James,
Patricia Crick (Annotations)
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But...
By H.G. Wells,
Greg Bear (Introduction), Carlo Pagetti (Foreword)
“I’ve had a most amazing time....”So begins the Time Traveller’s astonishing firsthand account of his journey 800,000 years beyond his own era—and...
By Carlos Ruiz Zafón,
Lucia Graves (Translator)
The international literary sensation, about a boy's quest through the secrets and shadows of postwar Barcelona for a mysterious author whose book has...
By Audrey Niffenegger
A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who involuntarily travels through...
By George R.R. Martin
Alternate cover editions can be found here, here and here. In this eagerly awaited sequel to A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin has created a work...
By Stephenie Meyer
About three things I was absolutely positive.First, Edward was a vampire.Second, there was a part of him—and I didn't know how dominant that part...
By John Steinbeck
The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers.First published in 1939,...
By Bernhard Schlink,
Carol Brown Janeway (translator)
Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and...