Browsing: Classics

With nearly 5,000 five-star Goodreads ratings: Eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark looks innocent — but wherever she goes, disaster soon follows. “William March knows where human fears and secrets are buried… Nowhere is this gift better displayed than in The Bad Seed” (The New York Times).

The vampire novel that defined a genre by tapping into our deepest fears and darkest fantasies A junior solicitor travels…

A Nebula Award winner from “a towering figure in science fiction and fantasy” (NPR): To invite the planet Winter into an intergalactic union, human Genly Ai must bridge the gap between their alien society and his own. This classic is “a jewel of a story” (Frank Herbert, author of Dune).

In this haunting, introspective classic from a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, Esther Greenwood wins a prestigious internship — and grapples with her mental health. “As clear and readable as it is witty and disturbing” (The New York Times).

“Dazzling” (Time): In this enthralling science fiction classic, a spacecraft from Earth travels to Saturn on a hazardous mission to investigate signs of alien intelligence. “Full of poetry, scientific imagination, and typical wry Clarke wit” (The New Yorker), with over 111,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads.

This immortal novel of the sea tells the story of a British sailor haunted by a single youthful act of…