The Box Man
An eerie and evocative masterpiece with a nameless protagonist.
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Small Things Like These
An eventful Christmas in a small Irish town.
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To Have and Have Not
Hemingway's _To Have and Have Not_ is a commentary on the time of The Great
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Emma
Emma is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives; and her imagination and perceptions often lead her astray. So, it's fun.
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Sula
Set in the fictional town of Medallion, Ohio, the story spans several decades and explores the complex relationship between two Black-American women, Sula Peace and Nel Wright.
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Honeymoon
Having spent his adult life making documentary films about lost explorers, Jean suddenly decides to abandon his wife and career.
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Collected Stories by Donald Barthelme
His scrambled visions of history yield unexpected insights. And his genius for dialogue, parody, and collage, was for him a guiding light. Delight in his frequently subversive ideas, the pleasures of a consummate stylist whose sentences are worth marveling at and savoring like a well-marbled ribeye.
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Entropy
Explores the concept of disorder through a chaotic New Year's Eve party.
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The Midnight Library
…on a shelf somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe, there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality ()…
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Bad Monkey
_Bad Monkey_ is a wacky romp of a satirical detective story.
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Oh, William!
On every page of this novel we learn more about the quiet forces that hold
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Oranges
… a comprehensive exploration of the orange farming and processing business. The book offers a detailed and informative look at the history, science, and economics behind the cultivation, harvesting, and distribution of oranges.
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Missing Person
Guy Roland is an amnesiac detective who has lost his memory ten years before
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Both Flesh and Not
Apart from the essay on Roger Federer, the rest are Wallace hitting serves
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Grey Bees
…dramatizes the conflict in Ukraine through the adventures of a\_beekeeper and his frenemy in what seems to be in the Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine.
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A Confederate General from Big Sur
Before going their separate ways, narrator Jesse and his pal Lee Mellon converge, drink, and then go their separate ways.
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Exhalation - Stories
Chiang's collection tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine.
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The Promise
Set in South Africa, the story revolves around a family and their struggles with identity, secrets, and the legacy of apartheid.
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Cloud Cuckoo Land
_Cloud Cuckoo Land_ is the story of five characters spanning eight centuries.
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The Periodic Table
Primo Levi's _Periodic Table_ is a group of autobiographical episodes of the author's experiences as a Jewish-Italian doctoral-level chemist under the Fascist regime and afterward.
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Ravelstein
The novel is a roman à clef written as a memoir. The narrator is in Paris
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The Magic Mountain
The novel's setting is an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss
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Republic
Divided into ten books, each book of The "Republic" addresses different aspects of the ideal state.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The novel is about a deaf man, John Singer, and the people he encounters in a depression-era town in Georgia.
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Who Goes There?
The story revolves around a group of scientists in Antarctica, who discover an alien life form trapped in the ice.
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A Walker in the City
Alfred Kazin's classic portrait of immigrant life in the early decades of the twentieth century.
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Warlock
Tombstone, Arizona, during the 1880's is, in ways, our national Camelot
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The Three Body Problem
The novel begins during the Cultural Revolution in China, where a young astrophysicist named Ye Wenjie witnesses her father's death at the hands of Red Guards.
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Foucault's Pendulum
Foucault's Pendulum is Umberto Eco's novel of a few Milanese book editors who are bored with their work. To pass the time they cook up an elaborate hoax…
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Motherless Brooklyn
The novel tells the story of Lionel Essrog, a private detective with Tourette's syndrome
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