Browsing: Classics

A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess’s nightmare vision of the future,…

Thomas Covenant, a misanthropic writer, awakens after an accident to find himself transported to a Tolkienesque parallel world. A genre classic with over 15,200 five-star ratings on Goodreads!

One of the most famous science-fiction stories ever written, The War of the Worlds helped launch the entire genre by…

From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Talisman, “an intelligent…suspenseful page-turner” (The Wall Street Journal) from “two…

When a nuclear holocaust devastates the United States, one small town in Florida is miraculously spared… A gripping struggle for survival ensues in this classic with over 14,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads!

“Deserves a place on the same shelf as Lord of the Flies, Cat’s Cradle, and Catcher in the Rye” (The Christian Science Monitor): A New York Times bestselling author delivers a classic Beowulf adaptation told from the perspective of monster Grendel. “An extraordinary achievement” (The New York Times).

With over 28,000 five-star Goodreads ratings: Middle-aged postal worker Henry Chinaski grapples with the trials and tribulations of a stalled life in this “amazing, hilarious, and unfalteringly entertaining account of a man trapped in a kind of Catch 23” (The Sunday Times).

A “superlative book” (The Washington Post) from the author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s: In a Southern town, an orphaned boy and two elderly women decide to live in a tree house — and make surprising discoveries. Brimming with “eccentricities, warmth, and humor” (Booklist).

Considered lurid and shocking by mid-19th-century standards, Wuthering Heights was initially thought to be such a publishing risk that its…

Best known for the 1892 title story of this collection, a harrowing tale of a woman’s descent into madness, Charlotte…