Browsing: Classics

A literary classic with over 555,000 five-star Goodreads ratings: When a plane full of schoolboys crashes on a deserted island, the young survivors create their own society — and reveal the brutality of human nature. “Exciting, relevant, and thought-provoking” (Stephen King).

The novel that introduced the first great American hero: the cowboyThe Virginian cuts an impressive figure when the unnamed narrator…

When Dreams Come True All her life, Valancy Stirling lived on a quiet little street in an ugly little house…

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Robert Penn Warren’s tale of ambition and power set in the Depression-era South is widely…

“Comes up bright and new every time I read it . . . it will continue to charm and delight…

In 2026, the largest spacecraft ever built transports the first colonists to Mars, beginning a multigenerational journey. A Nebula Award winner hailed as “staggering… The best novel on the colonization of Mars that has ever been written” (Arthur C. Clarke).

From the celebrated author of Slaughterhouse-Five: When obscenely wealthy Malachi is given the chance to travel through space, he embarks on an unbelievable journey. Hailed as Vonnegut’s “best book… He dares not only ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to answer it” (Esquire).

A National Book Award winner selected as one of America’s best-loved novels by The Great American Read: A nameless Black narrator navigates a hostile world in this “masterpiece” (Anthony Burgess) with over 52,000 five-star Goodreads ratings. “One of the most powerful and complex works in American fiction” (The New York Times).

The first and most successful in the Baroness’s series of books that feature Percy Blakeney, who leads a double life…

In this dazzling novel from a Nobel Prize–winning author, a scholar devotes his life to mastering a mysterious game. “One of the truly important books of the [20th] century, in any language” (The Times).