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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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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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
As Sapolsky explains, most of us do not lie awake at night worrying about whether we have leprosy or malaria. Instead, the diseases we fear are illnesses brought on by the slow accumulation of damage.
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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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Black Rain
The novel is based on historical records of the devastation caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
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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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Cowboy Graves
A collection of short stories.
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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 Alchemist
Santiago's journey takes him from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a hidden treasure.
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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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The Silmarillion
There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.
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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.