By Donna Tartt
It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father,...
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 Rick Riordan
Alternate Cover Edition.All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds are against them. Kronos is...
By Isabel Allende
Here, in an astonishing debut by a gifted storyteller, is the magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through...
By Daniel Defoe,
Gerald McCann (Illustrator), Virginia Woolf (Introduction)
Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three decades. An ordinary man struggling to survive in...
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 John Steinbeck
The compelling story of two outsiders striving to find their place in an unforgiving world. Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded...
By Jon Stewart (Editor/Contributor),
Samantha Bee (Contributor), Rich Bloomquist (Contributor), Steve Bodow (Contributor), Tim Carvell (Contributor), Stephen Colbert (Contributor), Rob Corddry (Contributor), Eric Drysdale (Contributor)
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From Publishers WeeklyCheeky, irreverent and playfully ingenuous, this abbreviated history of democracy is everything one would expect from the...
By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra,
Edith Grossman (Translator), Harold Bloom (Introduction)
Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the...