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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Motherless Brooklyn
The novel tells the story of Lionel Essrog, a private detective with Tourette's syndrome
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The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
Bras Cubas is one of the weirdest books I've read in a while and it doesn't feel like it was written in the 19th century.
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A Confederacy of Dunces
A disastrous job interview and a confrontation with the police force Ignatius to find real work as a hotdog vendor.
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
A post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller Jr., first published in 1959.
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Uncle Vanya
Vanya is a middle-aged professor who feels disillusioned with his life and bitter about his wasted potential.
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Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro sets _Klara and the Sun_ in a dystopian future when some children are genetically engineered for enhanced academic ability.
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City on the Edge of Forever
The initial Star Trek episode as intended and not the one aired.
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Why I Live at the PO
a first-person narrative that revolves around the character known as Sister. She recounts the events leading up to her decision to leave her family home.
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The Cyberiad
_The Cyberiad_ are the stories of Trurl and Klapaucius, master inventors and engineers known as “constructors,” who have created marvels for kingdoms.
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Ragtime
_Ragtime_ combines fictional narratives with real-life events, blurring the lines between fact and fiction. Think Zelig.
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Intimations
The essays in "Intimations" touch on a range of topics, including the impact of the pandemic, racial injustice, social inequality, and the role of art in times of crisis.
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The History of Rasselas
Rasselas enlists the help of an artist who is also known as an engineer to help with his escape from the Valley
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My Wicked, Wicked Ways
Known to millions as the preeminent swashbuckler of the silver screen, Errol Flynn was a complex man who lived a life far more adventurous than any of his films.
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White Noise
Professor Jack Gladney teaches Hitler studies at a small liberal arts college in rural New York…
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William Trevor's Last Stories
The story about the piano teacher has stayed and will stay with me for a while…
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Humboldt's Gift
explores the changing relationship between art and power in a materialist America. This theme is addressed through the contrasting careers of two writers…
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Time's Arrow
Tod T. Friendly has a secret.