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...
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 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...
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...
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 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...
By Dr. Seuss
Back in 1957, Theodor Geisel responded to an article in Life magazine that lamented the use of boring reading primers in schools. Using the pseudonym...
By Jennifer Egan
Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly...
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...