By David Sedaris
Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its proverbial ear,...
By Giovanni Boccaccio,
G.H. McWilliam (Editor, Translator, Introduction), L.A.J. Burgersdijk (Editor)
The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death. The stories are told in a country...
By John Steinbeck
They are an unlikely pair: George is “small and quick and dark of face”; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they...
By Junji Ito,
Yuji Oniki (Translator)
Spirals... this town is contaminated with spirals...Kurouzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito,...
By Bill Martin Jr.,
Eric Carle (Illustrator)
A big happy frog, a plump purple cat, a handsome blue horse, and a soft yellow duck--all parade across the pages of this delightful book. Children...
By Charlie Mackesy
From the revered British illustrator, a modern fable for all ages that explores life’s universal lessons, featuring 100 color and black-and-white...
By Frank Herbert
Here is the novel that will be forever considered Frank Herbert's triumph of the imagination.Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of...
By William Golding,
E.L. Epstein (afterword)
Librarian's note: Alternate cover editions can be found here, here, here and here.When a plane crashes on a remote island, a small group of...
By Elie Wiesel,
Marion Wiesel (Translator),
François Mauriac (Foreword)
Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to Auschwitz...
By Ray Bradbury,
Neil Gaiman (Introduction)
Sixty years after its publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a...