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List of the 99 best books of all time!
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items READ TO LIVE! The list of 100 books that you should read in your lifetime can also be considered as a recommendation to make the right choice from the most diverse world and domestic literature. So, this is a list of the greatest literary pearls that...
War and Peace is a classic that should not be missed by anyone. Leo Tolstoy is a master story teller. The formatting of this ebook was masterful as well. Very professional and no errors. Worth every penny.
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WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
1984 a book by George Orwell and Erich Fromm
"Ulysses will immortalize its author with the same certainty that Gargantua immortalized Rabelais, and The Brothers Karamazov immortalized Dostoyevsky.... It comes nearer to being the perfect revelation of a personality than any book in existence." -...
Ulysses a book by James Joyce
The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze.
Lolita a book by Vladimir Nabokov
In the prose of William Faulkner (1897-1963), one of the most famous and widely read American writers, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1950, the American South is presented as an imaginary area called Joknapatofa. Faulkner declared himself the sole owne...
The Sound and the Fury a book by William Faulkner
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - In this deeply compelling novel and epic milestone of American literature, a nameless narrator tells his story from the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be.
Invisible Man a book by Ralph Ellison
The authorized, original edition of one of the great literary masterpieces of the twentieth century: a miraculous novel of family, love, war, and mortality, with a foreword from Eudora Welty. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a ne...
To the Lighthouse a book by Virginia Woolf
No home library is complete without the classics! Iliad & Odyssey brings together the two essential Greek epics from the poet Homer in an elegant, leather-bound, omnibus edition-a keepsake to be read and treasured. The Iliad and The Odyssey are t...
Iliad & Odyssey a book by Homer, Samuel Butler, and Stephanie Lynn Budin
Few have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet in Austen's beloved classic Pride and Prejudice. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is...
Pride and Prejudice (Revised) a book by Jane Austen, Vivien Jones, and Vivien Jones
An epic masterpiece and a foundational work of the Western canon, The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as his guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and reunion with his dead love, Beatrice; and, finally, his arrival in Hea...
The Divine Comedy a book by Dante Alighieri, Eric Drooker, and Robin Kirkpatrick
In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is...
The Canterbury Tales a book by Geoffrey Chaucer and Nevill Coghill
In Gulliver's Travels, the narrator represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just experienced. But how far can we rely on a narrator who has been impersonated by someone else? The work purports to be a travel book,...
Gulliver's Travels a book by Jonathan Swift, Claude Rawson, and Ian Higgins
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United ...
Bookkeeping: Introductory and Intermediate Course a book by George Washington Miner
Things Fall Apart is the debut novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, first published in 1958. It depicts pre-colonial life in the southeastern part of Nigeria and the invasion by Europeans during the late 19th century. It is seen as the archetypal ...
Things Fall Apart a book by Chinua Achebe
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, bu...
The Catcher in the Rye a book by J. D. Salinger
Since its original publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind--winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of the bestselling novels of all time--has been heralded by readers everywhere as The Great American Novel. Widely considered The Great American Novel, a...
Gone with the Wind a book by Margaret Mitchell
"One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. . . . Mr. Garcia Marquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is pr...
One Hundred Years of Solitude a book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach. Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing, and debating...
The Great Gatsby, by Francis Scott Fitzgerald a book by Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Catch-22, satirical novel by American writer Joseph Heller, published in 1961. The work centres on Captain John Yossarian, an American bombardier stationed on a Mediterranean island during World War II, and chronicles his desperate attempts to stay a...
Catch-22 a book by Joseph Heller and Christopher Buckley
With excerpts from interviews and reviews, an exploration of the historical documents and slave narrative traditions on which Morrison drew, and an insightful juxtaposition of psychoanalytic and postcolonial approaches to the novel, this guide places...
Toni Morrison: Beloved: Essays, Articles, Reviews a book by Carl Plasa
The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized--and sometimes outraged--millions of readers. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read A Penguin Classic
The Grapes of Wrath a book by John Steinbeck and Robert Demott
The iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to "a glittering novelist--one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling" (The New Yorker) WINNER OF THE BEST OF THE BOOKERS - SOON TO BE A NETF...
Midnight's Children (Anniversary) a book by Salman Rushdie
Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring masterwork must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit "A masterpiece. . . . One of the most prophetic dystopian works." --Wall Street Journal Aldous Huxley's profoundl...
Brave New World a book by Aldous Huxley
Mrs Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. Mrs Dalloway continues to be one of Woolf's best-known novels. Created from two short stories, "Mrs ...
Mrs Dalloway a book by Virginia Woolf
"If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son." - Henry Louis Gates Jr. "The most powerful American novel to appear sin...
Native Son a book by Richard Wright
An exclusive new translation of the most perceptive and influential book ever written about American politics and society--"the bible on democracy" (The Texas Observer) This Library of America volume presents de Tocqueville's masterpiece in an entire...
Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America (Loa #147): A New Translation by Arthur Goldhammer a book by Alexis De Tocqueville
On the Origin of Species (or, more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life) is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin that is considered to be the f...
On the Origin of Species by charles darwin a book by Charles Darwin
The History of Herodotus by Herodotus.... Herodotus was a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus in the Persian Empire (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey) and lived in the fifth century BC (c. 484-c. 425 BC), a contemporary of Thucydides, Socrates, an...
The History of Herodotus a book by Herodotus
"Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains. This man believes that he is the master of others, and still he is more of a slave than they are. How did that transformation take place? I don't know. How may the restraints on man become legitimat...
On the Social Contract a book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Few writers have had a more demonstrable impact on the development of the modern world than has Karl Marx (1818-1883). Born in Trier into a middle-class Jewish family in 1818, by the time of his death in London in 1883, Marx claimed a growing interna...
Capital: Volumes One and Two a book by Karl Marx, Tom Griffith, and Mark G. Spencer
Machiavelli's highly influential treatise on political power The Prince shocked Europe on publication with its advocacy of ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality. Niccoló Machiavelli drew on his own e...
The Prince a book by Niccolo Machiavelli, George Bull, and Anthony Grafton
his translation of Augustine's most popular work was done by Maria Boulding and is considered "of a different level of excellence from practically anything else on the market" (Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury). The Confessions of Saint Augus...
The Confessions a book by St Augustine, Maria Boulding, and John E. Rotelle
"During the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called Warre" Written during the turmoil of the English Civil War, Leviathan is an ambitious and highly original work of political philosoph...
Leviathan a book by Thomas Hobbes and Christopher Brooke
The Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.E.) was the greatest "disturbance" in Greek history to that time. The bitter rivalry between the two chief city-states, Athens and Sparta, and their respective allies ended with the ruin of Athens' naval hegemony an...
The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Revised) a book by Thucydides, Rex Warner, M. I. Finley, et al.
The complete four-book boxed set of the greatest fantasy epic of all time: The Lord of the Rings and its enchanting prequel, The Hobbit When Thorin Oakenshield and his band of dwarves embark upon a dangerous quest to reclaim the hoard of gold stolen ...
J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings: The Hobbit, the Fellowship of the Ring, the Two Towers, the Return of the King a book by J. R. R. Tolkien
Introducing Topanga Books & Journals, a book brand that combines the timeless classics with modern home decor. Our mission is to elevate the traditional reading experience by creating a uniform aesthetic for our book covers. Each design is carefu...
Winnie the Pooh a book by Alan Alexander Milne
Don't miss one of America's top 100 most-loved novels, selected by PBS's The Great American Read. A full-color paperback edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, book two in the classic fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition is...
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Full Color Edition a book by C. S. Lewis and Pauline Baynes
Ranked among the greatest novels of the twentieth century, "A Passage to India" is the classic account of the clash of cultures in British India after the turn of the century. With careful crafting, exquisite prose, and a well developed sense of iron...
A Passage to India a book by E. M. Forster
Few novels have had as profound an impact as On the Road, and Kerouac's vision continues to inspire: three generations of writers, musicians, artists, and poets cite their discovery of On the Road as the event that "set them free." This hardcover edi...
On the Road a book by Jack Kerouac
Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South--and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the most cherished st...
To Kill a Mockingbird a book by Harper Lee
Learn about the scriptures of the Old and New Testament in The Bible Book. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about the Bible in this overview guide to the...
The Bible Book a book by DK
In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his frie...
A Clockwork Orange a book by Anthony Burgess
From the Nobel Prize winner--one of the most highly acclaimed writers of the twentieth century--a novel set in the American South during Prohibition about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality. Light in August features some of Faulkner's most...
Light in August a book by William Faulkner
This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays, ...
The Souls of Black Folk a book by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois and W. E. B. Du Bois
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys's return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and be...
Wide Sargasso Sea a book by Jean Rhys and Edwidge Danticat
Chiltern creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before: the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colors of these remarkable covers make these books fe...
Madame Bovary a book by Gustave Flaubert
Paradise Lost has been justifiably called the greatest English epic poem. Milton takes us immediately into the action of the tale, gliding over what we all know from the Bible, developing the story's background as he goes. We learn how Satan came to ...
Paradise Lost by John Milton, Poetry, Classics, Literary Collections a book by John Milton
The must-have Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of one of the greatest Russian novels ever written Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as "flawless," Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair bet...
Anna Karenina: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Deluxe) a book by Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, et al.
Hamlet is Shakespeare's most popular, and most puzzling, play. It follows the form of a "revenge tragedy," in which the hero, Hamlet, seeks vengeance against his father's murderer, his uncle Claudius, now the king of Denmark. Much of its fascination,...Folger.edu.
Hamlet a book by William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, and Barbara a. Mowat
The authoritative edition of King Lear from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.Shakespeare's King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the...Folger.edu.
King Lear a book by William Shakespeare, Barbara a. Mowat, and Paul Werstine
The authoritative edition of Othello from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers. In Othello, Shakespeare creates powerful drama from a marriage between the exotic Moor Othello ...Folger.edu.
Othello a book by William Shakespeare, Barbara a. Mowat, and Paul Werstine
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United ...
The Sonnets of William Shakespeare a book by William Shakespeare
A timeless collection of hundreds of poems that resonate to the American spirit. Leaves of Grass is a timeless collection of poems and essays penned by influential nineteenth-century writer Walt Whitman. This profound compilation explores topics such...
Leaves of Grass a book by Walt Whitman and Ken Mondschein
The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen and a foreword by Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and The Republic of Imagination In recent years, neither the persisten...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn a book by Mark Twain, Azar Nafisi, and R. Kent Rasmussen
Kimball O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, spends his childhood on the bustling streets of Lahore, begging and running errands in order to survive. One day he meets an old Tibetan lama, and he decides to accompany him on his travels across...
Kim by Rudyard Kipling a book by Rudyard Kpling
This definitive 2014 edition includes the original Mary Shelley novel validated against multiple authentic sources, a short story inspired by Frnakenstein appearing here for the first time in print, an introspective into Frankenstein, a biography of ...
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 2014 Edition a book by Mary Shelley
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An official Oprah Winfrey's "The Books That Help Me Through" selection - The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story with this brilliantly imagined novel. Includes a new foreword by the author. Mi...
Song of Solomon a book by Toni Morrison
In this classic novel of the 1960's, Ken Kesey's hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other pa...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest a book by Ken Kesey
In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight, " "For Whom the Bell Tolls." The story of Robert Jord...
For Whom the Bell Tolls a book by Ernest Hemingway
Billy Pilgrim is the son of an American barber. He serves as a chaplain's assistant in World War II, is captured by the Germans, and he survives the largest massacre in European history--the fire bombing of Dresden. After the war Billy makes a great ...
Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel; 50th Anniversary Edition (Anniversary) a book by Kurt Vonnegut and Kevin Powers
Manor Farm is like any other English farm, expect for a drunken owner, Mr Jones, incompetent workers and oppressed animals. Fed up with the ignorance of their human masters, the animals rise up in rebellion and take over the farm. Led by intellectual...
Animal Farm by George Orwell a book by George Orwell
Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Y...
Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) a book by William Golding
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)--and haunted its author long after he finished writing it. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of ...
In Cold Blood a book by Truman Capote
The Golden Notebook is Doris Lessing's most important work and has left its mark upon the ideas and feelings of a whole generation of women. -- New York Times Book Review Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four noteb...
The Golden Notebook a book by Doris Lessing
In Search of Lost Time (French: À la recherche du temps perdu)-also translated as Remembrance of Things Past-is a novel by Marcel Proust (1871-1922). His most prominent work, it is known both for its length and its theme of involuntary memory, the mo...
In Search of Lost Time a book by Marcel Proust, Vincent Kelvin, and C. K. Scott Moncrieff
Raymond Chandler's first novel, published in 1939, introduces us to Philip Marlowe, a thirty-eight-old private detective moving through the seamy side of Los Angeles in the 1930s. The case involves a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic da...
The Big Sleep a book by Raymond Chandler
At the heart of this 1930 novel is the Bundren family's bizarre journey to Jefferson to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Faulkner lets each family member -- including Addie -- and others along the way tell their private responses to Addie's life.
As I Lay Dying a book by William Faulkner
Originally published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises is Ernest Hemingway's first novel and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style.A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduce...
The Sun Also Rises: The Authorized Edition a book by Ernest Hemingway
“I picked up the book in a bookstore one day. From the opening lines, I was completely hooked. It’s very funny in that way of English writers of a certain generation (to the extent that, inexcusably perhaps, I tend to get the author confused with Roa...
I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 a book by Robert Graves
The beloved classic that turned Carson McCullers into an overnight literary sensation and one of the Modern Library's top 20 novels of the 20th century. "A remarkable book...From the opening page, brilliant in its establishment of mood, character, an...
Heart Is a Lonely Hunter a book by Carson McCullers
Sons and Lovers is a highly autobiographical and compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence, and the price of family bonds. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude Morel devotes her life to her sons. But confli...
Sons and Lovers a book by D. H. Lawrence, Helen Baron, Helen Baron, et al.
The fully restored original text of the classic, ever-relevant story of a backcountry lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power--American literature's definitive political novel. All the King's Men traces the rise of fall of demagogue W...
All the King's Men (Restored) a book by Robert Penn Warren and Noel Polk
One of the most brilliant and provocative American writers of the twentieth century chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention in this "truly extraordinary" novel (Chicago Sun-Times). Baldwin's classi...
Go Tell It on the Mountain a book by James Baldwin
Don't miss one of America's top 100 most-loved novels, selected by PBS's The Great American Read. This beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect...
Charlotte's Web a book by E. B. White, Garth Williams, and Rosemary Wells
The Heart of Darkness is a powerful examination of the savage nature of western imperialism in the late 1890s. With stunning relevance to the politics and tribulations of today's society, Joseph Conrad's celebrated novel is just as important today as...
Heart of Darkness a book by Joseph Conrad and Mint Editions
A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie...
Night a book by Elie Wiesel and Marion Wiesel
"Brilliant and poignant...By his compassion, clarity of insight and crystal-bright prose, he makes Rabbit's sorrow his and our own." THE WASHINGTON POST Harry Angstrom was a star basketball player in high school and that was the best time of his life...
Rabbit, Run a book by John Updike
The Age of Innocence centers on one society couple's impending marriage and the introduction of a scandalous woman whose presence threatens their happiness. Though the novel questions the assumptions and mores of turn of the century New York society,...
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton a book by Edith Wharton and Paula Benitez
With a new Afterword by the author for the 25th Anniversary edition. "Touching as well as hilariously lewd.... Roth is vibrantly talented...as marvelous a mimic and fantasist as has been produced by the most verbal group in human history." --Alfred K...
Portnoy's Complaint a book by Philip Roth
An American Tragedy is a tour de force, one of the most important novels in the American cannon. Ripped from the headlines, it follows Clyde Griffiths, a handsome, ambitious man whose religious upbringing has left him unprepared to pay the price requ...
An American Tragedy a book by Theodore Dreiser
Admired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, and Dashiell Hammett, and hailed as one of the "Best 100 English-language novels" by Time magazine, The Day of the Locust continues to influence American writers, artists, and culture. Bob Dylan wrote t...
The Day of the Locust a book by Nathanael West
Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship ...
Tropic of Cancer a book by Henry Miller
Sam Spade, a slightly shop-worn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics, stars in Hammett's detective fiction, a novel that has haunted 2 generations of readers.BISAC Categories: Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled Classics Noir Mystery &a...
The Maltese Falcon a book by Dashiell Hammett
HIS DARK MATERIALS IS NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING DAFNE KEEN, RUTH WILSON, ANDREW SCOTT, AND LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA! The modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an "All-Time Greatest Novel" and Newsweek hailed as a "Top 100 Book of...
BISAC Categories: Action & Adventure - General People & Places - Europe Fantasy & Magic Fantasy - Epic Action & Adventure - Survival Stories Classics
BISAC Categories: Action & Adventure - General People & Places - Europe Fantasy & Magic Fantasy - Epic Action & Adventure - Survival Stories Classics
His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass (Book 1) a book by Philip Pullman
Death Comes for the Archbishop is a 1927 novel by American author Willa Cather. It concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in New Mexico Territory. The novel is based on the life of Jean-Baptiste Lamy (1814-1888...
Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather a book by Willa Cather
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is known as the "father of psychoanalysis" and his ideas, however controversial, were fundamental in shaping how the human mind has been studied. The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) is a seminal work; in it, Freud seeks to s...
BISAC Categories: Psychiatry - General Clinical Psychology History
BISAC Categories: Psychiatry - General Clinical Psychology History
The Interpretation of Dreams and Beyond the Pleasure Principle a book by Sigmund Freud
BISAC Categories: Historical United States - 19th Century History & Surveys - General
The Education of Henry Adams a book by Henry Adams and Henry Cabot Lodge
These lectures concerning the nature of religion were delivered at the University of Edinburgh between 1901 and 1902. Soon after its publication, the book found its way into the canon of psychology and philosophy, and has remained in print for over a...
The Varieties of Religious Experience William James a book by William James and Paula Benitez
Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, this "absolutely delightful" novel (New York Times) movingly and comically chronicles the breakdown of a marriage and the disintegration of English society in the years after Wo...
BISAC Categories: Classics Literary Satire
BISAC Categories: Classics Literary Satire
A Handful of Dust a book by Evelyn Waugh
First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. "Silent Spr...
BISAC Categories: Environmental Conservation & Protection - General Natural History Chemical & Biochemical Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)
BISAC Categories: Environmental Conservation & Protection - General Natural History Chemical & Biochemical Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)
Silent Spring (Anniversary) a book by Rachel Carson
Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship starts rapidly taking on water and disaster seems imminent, Jim joins his captain and other crew members in abandoni...
BISAC Categories: Action & Adventure Literary Classics General General
BISAC Categories: Action & Adventure Literary Classics General General
Lord Jim a book by Joseph Conrad
English novelist, poet, and essayist Graves, author of "I, Claudius" describes the break he made with his past in 1929. In chronicling his youth, World War I experiences, and years at Oxford, Graves gives parallel accounts of the end of his own innoc...
BISAC Categories: Literary Figures Historical Military
BISAC Categories: Literary Figures Historical Military
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (Revised) a book by Robert Graves and Paul Fussell
Galbraith's classic on the "economics of abundance" is, in the words of the New York Times, "a compelling challenge to conventional thought." With customary clarity, eloquence, and humor, Galbraith cuts to the heart of what economic security means (a...
BISAC Categories: Economics - General Economic Conditions Political Economy Economic History American Government - National
BISAC Categories: Economics - General Economic Conditions Political Economy Economic History American Government - National
The Affluent Society (Anniversary) a book by John Kenneth Galbraith
"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered." For more than a century, The Wind in the Willows and its endearing protagonists-Mole, Water Ra...
BISAC Categories: Action & Adventure - Survival Stories Animals - General Comics & Graphic Novels - Fantasy
BISAC Categories: Action & Adventure - Survival Stories Animals - General Comics & Graphic Novels - Fantasy
The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame: A World That Is Succeeding Generations of Readers a book by Kenneth Grahame
Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister...
BISAC Categories: Ethnic Studies - African American Studies Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General Islam - General Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - African American & Black Historical Political Religious Civil Rights
BISAC Categories: Ethnic Studies - African American Studies Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General Islam - General Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - African American & Black Historical Political Religious Civil Rights
The Autobiography of Malcolm X a book by Malcolm X
On Modern Library's list of 100 Best Non-Fiction books, "Eminent Victorians" marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also helped to crack the old myths of high Victorianism and to usher in a new spirit by which chauvinism, hypocrisy and the stiff...
BISAC Categories: Historical Classics
BISAC Categories: Historical Classics
Eminent Victorians a book by Lytton Strachey
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Alice Walker's iconic modern classic is now a Penguin Book. A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early ...
BISAC Categories: Classics Literary African American - General
BISAC Categories: Classics Literary African American - General
The Color Purple a book by Alice Walker
Winston S. Churchill's The Second World War is the definitive, Nobel Prize-winning history of World War II, universally acknowledged as a magnificent historical reconstruction and an enduring work of literature. From Britain's darkest and finest hour...
BISAC Categories: Military - World War II Military - General United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
BISAC Categories: Military - World War II Military - General United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
The Second World War a book by Winston S. Churchill
Crime and Punishment (1866) is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes by his action to set himself outside and above society. A novel of great physical and psychological tension, pervaded by Dostoevsky's sinister evocati...
BISAC Categories: Classics Crime World Literature - Russia - 19th Century Literary Psychological Ancient, Classical & Medieval Russian & Former Soviet Union Russian & Former Soviet Union General
BISAC Categories: Classics Crime World Literature - Russia - 19th Century Literary Psychological Ancient, Classical & Medieval Russian & Former Soviet Union Russian & Former Soviet Union General
Crime and Punishment a book by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, et al.