Browsing: Classics

From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author, this bestselling masterwork inspired the acclaimed film starring Meryl Streep. The heartrending tale follows a young man who befriends Sophie — a beautiful Holocaust survivor with a devastating secret…

From the acclaimed author of Fahrenheit 451: Over the course of a summer, young Douglas explores his small Midwestern town — and learns the joys and pains of growing up. “A haunting, nostalgic novel… Among the best of his earthbound works” (The Washington Post).

Barbara Kingsolver’s fifth novel is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature…

A feature film in 2012 starring Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, and Paul Rudd and written and directed by the author…

Glen Runciter runs a lucrative business — deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security…

A New York Times bestseller: In post–World War II New England, a young boy hits a foul ball that kills his best friend’s mother — an accident that will change the course of their lives. “A remarkable novel… Readers will come to the end feeling sorry to leave” (Stephen King).

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts’ halfway house and a tennis…

Anyone who lived through the 1980s may find it impossible—inconceivable, even—to equate The Princess Bride with anything other than the…

Hailed as “one of the greatest American novels” (The New Yorker), this classic follows Francie Nolan as she comes of age in 20th-century New York. “Cuts right to the heart of life… If you miss A Tree Grows in Brooklyn you will deny yourself a rich experience” (The New York Times).

“Immensely original” (Library Journal): When Charlie is invited to take part in an experiment to increase his IQ, he meets the extraordinary lab mouse, Algernon, who’s undergone the same operation. But as Algernon begins an unexpected deterioration, will Charlie face the same fate?