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Build your taste profile and get better suggestions. You've rated 0 of 100 books. Want more suggestions? Launch Quick Rate- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
By J.K. Rowling, 2000
ISBN 0439139597
Throughout the three previous novels in the Harry Potter series, the main character, Harry Potter, has struggled with the difficulties that come with growing up and the added challenge of being a famous wizard. When Harry was a baby, Voldemort, the most powerful evil wizard in living memory, killed...
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
By J.K. Rowling, 1998
ISBN 054506967X
The debut novel from master storyteller J.K. Rowling tells the story of Harry Potter who, having endured 11 miserable years with his hideous aunt and uncle, is invited on his 11th birthday to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. There he learns of his distinguished wizard pedigree ...
- Twilight
By Stephenie Meyer, 2006
ISBN 0316015849
Isabella Swan's move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Isabella's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire...
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
By J.K. Rowling, 1999
ISBN 0439136369
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling. The book was published on 8 July 1999. The novel won the 1999 Whitbread Book Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the 2000 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, and was short-listed for other...
- Breaking Dawn
By Stephenie Meyer, 2008
ISBN 1905654294
Breaking Dawn is split into three separate parts. The first part details Bella's marriage and honeymoon with Edward, which they spend on a private island off the coast of Brazil. Two weeks into their honeymoon, Bella realizes that she is pregnant and that her condition is progressing at an...
- 1984
By George Orwell, 1949
ISBN 0451524934
Orwell's final novel, 1984, is the story of one man's struggle against the ubiquitous, menacing state power ("Big Brother") that tries to dictate nearly every aspect of human life. The novel is a classic in anti-utopian fiction, and a trenchant political satire that remains as relevant today as...
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
By Douglas Adams, 1979
ISBN 1400052920
In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (published in 1979), the characters visit the legendary planet Magrathea, home to the now-collapsed planet-building industry, and meet Slartibartfast, a planetary coastline designer who was responsible for the fjords of Norway. Through archival recordings, he...
- The Hobbit: or, There and Back Again
By J.R.R. Tolkien, 1937
ISBN 0395177111
There and Back Again, better known by its abbreviated title The Hobbit, is a fantasy novel written as a and children's book by J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published on September 21st, 1937 to wide critical acclaim, and was later nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York...
- Where the Wild Things Are
By Maurice Sendak, 1963
ISBN 0060254920
Where the Wild Things Are is a 1963 children's picture book by American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak, originally published by Harper & Row. The book tells the story of Max, who one evening plays around his home making "mischief" in a wolf costume. As punishment, his mother sends him to bed...
- To Kill a Mockingbird
By Harper Lee, 1960
ISBN 0060935464
One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize, has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, and been made into an enormously...
- Watchmen
By Alan Moore, 1987
ISBN 1401219268
This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the super-hero is dissected as the heroes are stalked by an unknown assassin.
- The Da Vinci Code
By Dan Brown, 2003
ISBN 0307474275
The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery-detective fiction novel written by an American author, Dan Brown. It follows symbologist Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu as they investigate a murder in Paris's Louvre Museum and discover a battle between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of...
- The Hunger Games
By Suzanne Collins, 2008
ISBN 0439023483
Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one...
- The Giving Tree
By Shel Silverstein, 2004
ISBN 0060586753
To say that this particular apple tree is a "giving tree" is an understatement. In Shel Silverstein's popular tale of few words and simple line drawings, a tree starts out as a leafy playground, shade provider, and apple bearer for a rambunctious little boy.
- Water for Elephants
By Sara Gruen, 2007
ISBN 0006391559
Orphaned and penniless at the height of the Depression, Jacob Jankowski escapes everything he knows by jumping on a passing train--and inadvertently runs away with the circus. So begins Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen's darkly beautiful tale about the characters who inhabit the less-than-greatest...
- The Lost Symbol
By Dan Brown, 2009
ISBN 0385504225
In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world's most popular thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling -- a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths -- all...
- The Help
By Kathryn Stockett, 2009
ISBN 0399155341
Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger.
- The Great Gatsby
By F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
ISBN 0140620184
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 his mysterious character.
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
By Stieg Larsson, 2005
ISBN 0307454541
An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel. Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared...
- Bridget Jones's Diary
By Helen Fielding, 1996
ISBN 0141000198
This laugh-out-loud chronicle charts a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a single girl on a permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement--in which she resolves to: visit the gym three times a week not merely to buy a sandwich, form a functional relationship with a responsible adult, and not fall...
- The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
By William Goldman, 1973
ISBN 0156035219
William Goldman's beloved novel has sold over one million copies. A movie, released twenty years ago, perfectly captured the spirit of the book and has introduced new fans to its pages ever since. In 1941 a young boy lies bedridden from pneumonia. His perpetually disheveled and unattractive father...
- The Catcher in the Rye
By J.D. Salinger, 1951
ISBN 0316769177
Originally published for adults, The Catcher in the Rye has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage confusion, angst, sexuality, alienation, and rebellion. It has been translated into almost all of the world's major languages. The novel's protagonist and antihero...
- The Lord of the Rings
By J.R.R. Tolkien, 1954
ISBN 0618640150
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others.
- Coraline
By Neil Gaiman, 2002
ISBN 0061139378
In Coraline's family's new flat there's a locked door. On the other side is a brick wall -- until Coraline unlocks the door...and finds a passage to another flat in another house just like her own. Only different. The food is better there. Books have pictures that writhe and crawl and shimmer.
- A Game of Thrones
By George R.R. Martin, 1996
ISBN 0553381687
Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond...
- The Girl Who Played with Fire
By Stieg Larsson, 2009
ISBN 0307269981
Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government.
- The Time Traveler's Wife
By Audrey Niffenegger, 2003
ISBN 015602943X
A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures...
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
By Anne Frank, 1947
ISBN 067175274X
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.
- Of Mice and Men
By John Steinbeck, 1937
ISBN 0142000671
Of Mice and Men is a novella written by Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937, it tells the tragic story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers during the Great Depression in California. Based on Steinbeck's own experiences as a bindlestiff in...
- Fahrenheit 451
By Ray Bradbury, 1953
ISBN 0345342968
Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him of a future where people could think.
- Confessions of a Shopaholic
By Sophie Kinsella, 2000
ISBN 0440244870
Rebecca Bloomwood lives in a flat in fashionable Fulham, London, thanks to her flatmate, Suze, being wealthy. Becky works as a financial journalist for the magazine Successful Savings, a job she says that no one who works there is very excited about, and they all say that they just "fell into,"...
- Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
By Elizabeth Gilbert, 2007
ISBN 0143038419
This heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life.
- Ender's Game
By Orson Scott Card, 1985
ISBN 0739464736
Orson Scott Card's first published science fiction was based on an idea that came to him when he was 16 years old. Inspired by Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Bruce Catton's Army of the Potomac, he got to thinking about a Battle Room, an environment where future soldiers would be trained for combat...
- American Gods
By Neil Gaiman, 2001
ISBN 0060558121
Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been killed; a mysterious stranger offers him a job. But Mr. Wednesday, who knows more about Shadow than is possible, warns that a storm is coming -- a battle for the very soul of America...and they are in its direct...
- The Lovely Bones
By Alice Sebold, 2002
ISBN 0316044938
"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on earth continue without her...
- Pride and Prejudice
By Jane Austen, 1813
ISBN 1848373104
Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen. It was begun in 1796, her second novel, but her first serious attempt at publication. However, it was not put out until 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education ...
- Neverwhere
By Neil Gaiman, 1996
ISBN 0060557818
Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks, and Richard...
- A Walk to Remember
By Nicholas Sparks, 1999
ISBN 0446693804
There was a time when the world was sweeter -- when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats. Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High.
- Crime and Punishment
By Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866
ISBN 0553211757
A desperate young man plans the perfect crime -- the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law -- if it will ultimately benefit humanity? So begins one of the...
- Hush, Hush
By Becca Fitzpatrick, 2009
ISBN 1416989412
For Nora Grey, romance was not part of the plan. She's never been particularly attracted to the boys at her school, no matter how much her best friend, Vee, pushes them at her. Not until Patch came along.With his easy smile and eyes that seem to see inside her, Nora is drawn to him against her...
- Room
By Emma Donoghue, 2010
ISBN 9780316098335
To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
By Seth Grahame-Smith, 2009
ISBN 9781594743344
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains." So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem.
- She's Come Undone
By Wally Lamb, 1992
ISBN 0671021001
In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years. Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye.
- Steve Jobs
By Walter Isaacson, 2011
ISBN 1451648537
Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, to Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah "John" Jandali, two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave their unnamed son up for adoption. His father, Abdulfattah Jandali, was a Syrian political science professor and his mother, Joanne Simpson...
- The Passage
By Justin Cronin, 2010
ISBN 9780345504968
First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the...
- Anna Karenina
By Leo Tolstoy, 1873
ISBN 0143035002
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century...
- The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth
By Jon Stewart, 2010
ISBN 044657922X
Where do we come from? Who created us? Why are we here? These questions have puzzled us since the dawn of time, but when it became apparent to Jon Stewart and the writers of The Daily Show that the world was about to end, they embarked on a massive mission to write a book that summed up the human...
- Everything Is Illuminated
By Jonathan Safran Foer, 2003
ISBN 0060529709
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior; and the...
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
By Rebecca Wells, 2004
ISBN 006075995X
When Siddalee Walker, oldest daughter of Vivi Abbott Walker, Ya-Ya extraordinaire, is interviewed in the New York Times about a hit play she's directed, her mother gets described as a "tap-dancing child abuser." Enraged, Vivi disowns Sidda. Devastated, Sidda begs forgiveness, and postpones her...
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
By Mark Haddon, 2004
ISBN 1400032717
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow.
- The Dead Zone
By Stephen King, 1980
ISBN 0451155750
John Smith awakens from an interminable coma with an accursed power-the power to see the future and the terrible fate awaiting mankind in...the dead zone.
- Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
By Chelsea Handler, 2008
ISBN 1416954120
When Chelsea Handler needs to get a few things off her chest, she appeals to a higher power -- vodka. You would too if you found out that your boyfriend was having an affair with a Peekapoo or if you had to pretend to be honeymooning with your father in order to upgrade to first class. Welcome to...
- An Object of Beauty
By Steve Martin, 2010
ISBN 0446573647
Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world by storm. Groomed at Sotheby's and hungry to keep climbing the social and career ladders put before her, Lacey charms men and women, old and young, rich and even richer with her magnetic charisma and liveliness. Her...
- Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
By Mitch Albom, 1997
ISBN 076790592X
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague -- someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.
- Safe Haven
By Nicholas Sparks, 2010
ISBN 044654759X
Every person's story has a beginning, middle and end, but the path that leads from one stage of life to the next is rarely predictable. Renee's journey begins when she is a carefree college student, studying in Italy with her best friend, Audrey. During that idyllic summer abroad, Renee meets a...
- Angela's Ashes
By Frank McCourt, 1999
ISBN 068484267X
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.
- Edge
By Jeffery Deaver, 2010
ISBN 1439156352
Behind the well-known U.S. security organizations -- the FBI and CIA among them -- lies a heavily guarded, anonymous government agency dedicated to intelligence surveillance and to a highly specialized brand of citizen protection. Shock waves of alarm ripple through the clandestine agency when...
- Running with Scissors
By Augusten Burroughs, 2006
ISBN 0312938853
RUNNING WITH SCISSORS is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the...
- A Reliable Wife
By Robert Goolrick, 2009
ISBN 1565125967
Rural Wisconsin, 1909. In the bitter cold, Ralph Truitt, a successful businessman, stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman"...
- Joy of Cooking
By Irma S. Rombauer, 2006
ISBN 0743246268
The much anticipated 75th anniversary edition of Irma Rombauer's kitchen classic Joy of Cooking promises to be as indispensable as past editions of this generational favorite. In addition to hundreds of brand-new recipes, this Joy is filled with many recipes from all previous editions, retested...
- Assholes Finish First
By Tucker Max, 2010
ISBN 1416938745
What do you do after you write a #1 bestselling book about your drunken, sexual misadventures that makes you rich and famous? Celebrate by getting more drunk and having insane amounts of sex, obviously. Stuffed full of ridiculous stories of bad decisions, debauchery, and sexual recklessness...
- The Complete Persepolis
By Marjane Satrapi, 2007
ISBN 0375714839
Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing...
- Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion
By Gary Vaynerchuk, 2009
ISBN 0061914177
Gary Vaynerchuk has captured attention with his pioneering, multi-faceted approach to personal branding and business. After primarily utilizing traditional advertising techniques to build his family's local wine business into a national industry leader, Gary rapidly leveraged social media tools...
- The Merchant of Venice
By William Shakespeare, 1598
ISBN 0743477561
Bassanio, a young Venetian, of noble rank but having squandered his estate, wishes to travel to Belmont to woo the beautiful and wealthy heiress Portia. He approaches his friend Antonio, a wealthy and generous merchant, who has previously and repeatedly bailed him out, for three thousand ducats...
- Little Bee
By Chris Cleave, 2009
ISBN 1416589635
From the author of the international bestseller "Incendiary" comes a haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers--one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London.
- The Things They Carried
By Tim O'Brien, 1990
ISBN 0618706410
The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and of course, the character Tim O'Brien who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three.
- Love in the Time of Cholera
By Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1988
ISBN 0307387143
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs -- yet he reserves his heart...
- The Scarlet Letter
By Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850
ISBN 1442140712
The Scarlet Letter is an 1850 romantic work of fiction in a historical setting, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is considered to be his magnum opus. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives through an adulterous affair...
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
By Susanna Clarke, 2004
ISBN 073945210X
It's 1808 and that Corsican upstart Napoleon is battering the English army and navy. Enter Mr. Norrell, a fusty but ambitious scholar from the Yorkshire countryside and the first practical magician in hundreds of years. What better way to demonstrate his revival of British magic than to change the...
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
By Michael Chabon, 2001
ISBN 0312282990
Samuel Klayman -- self-described little man, city boy, and Jew -- first meets Josef Kavalier when his mother shoves him aside in his own bed, telling him to make room for their cousin, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Prague. It's the beginning, however unlikely, of a beautiful friendship.
- The Body Farm
By Patricia Cornwell, 2007
ISBN 0425220176
"The Body Farm" is a remote facility in the foothills of Virginia where a team of experts assess how bodies deteriorate in various conditions. Dr Kay Scarpetta is in need of their knowledge when she and her police colleagues are asked to investigate the murder of a young girl.
- The Handmaid's Tale
By Margaret Atwood, 1985
ISBN 0307264602
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, for in a time of...
- Soulless
By Gail Carriger, 2009
ISBN 0316056634
Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette. Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently...
- Empire Falls
By Richard Russo, 2002
ISBN 0375726403
With Empire Falls Richard Russo cements his reputation as one of America�s most compelling and compassionate storytellers. Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self-respect.
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames
By David Sedaris, 2009
ISBN 0316154687
"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book.�Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers...
- Sin City
By Frank Miller, 1991
ISBN 1593072937
Sin City is the title for a series of comics by Frank Miller, told in a film noir-like style (now known as Neo noir). The first story originally appeared in "Dark Horse's Fifth Anniversary Special" (April, 1991), and continued in Dark Horse Presents #51-62 from May 1991 to June 1992, under the...
- Lost Souls
By Lisa Jackson, 2008
ISBN 0739494538
New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson delivers her most harrowing novel yet as a young woman's determined hunt for a serial killer draws her into a twisted psychopath's unspeakable crimes. Twenty-seven-year-old Kristi Bentz is lucky to be alive.
- High Fidelity
By Nick Hornby, 2005
ISBN 1594481784
Is it possible to share your life with someone whose record collection is incompatible with your own? Can people have terrible taste and still be worth knowing? Do songs about broken hearts and misery and loneliness mess up your life if consumed in excess? For Rob Fleming, thirty-five years old, a...
- Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
By Michael J. Fox, 2009
ISBN 1401303382
There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Actor. Husband. Father. Activist. But readers of Always Looking Up will soon add another to the list: Optimist. Michael writes about the hard-won perspective that helped him see challenges as opportunities.
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
By Erik Larson, 2004
ISBN 0375725601
Bringing Chicago circa 1893 to vivid life, Erik Larson's spellbinding bestseller intertwines the true tale of two men--the brilliant architect behind the legendary 1893 World's Fair, striving to secure America�s place in the world; and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his...
- Never Let Me Go
By Kazuo Ishiguro, 2006
ISBN 1400078776
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside.
- The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women
By James Ellroy, 2010
ISBN 0307593509
From �one of the great American writers of our time� (Los Angeles Times Book Review): a raw, explicit memoir as high-intensity and riveting as any of his novels.The year was 1958. James Ellroy was ten years old. His mother, Jean Hilliker, had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband.
- Little Women
By Louisa May Alcott, 2004
ISBN 0451529308
In picturesque nineteenth-century New England, tomboyish Jo, beautiful Meg, fragile Beth, and romantic Amy come of age while their father is off to war.
- Jane Eyre
By Charlotte Bronte, 1847
ISBN 1442168528
The novel goes through five distinct stages: Jane's childhood at Gateshead, where she is emotionally abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations; her time as the governess of Thornfield Manor, where she...
- The Bluest Eye
By Toni Morrison, 1970
ISBN 0307278441
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.
- The Reader
By Bernhard Schlink, 1997
ISBN 0307473465
When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover -- then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime.
- The Name of the Rose
By Umberto Eco, 1983
ISBN 0307264890
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate.When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and...
- The Mind's Eye
By Oliver Sacks, 2010
ISBN 9780307272089
From the author of the best-selling Musicophilia (hailed as "luminous, original, and indispensable" by The American Scholar), an exploration of vision through the case histories of six individuals -- including a renowned pianist who continues to give concerts despite losing the ability to read the...
- Kafka on the Shore
By Haruki Murakami, 2006
ISBN 1400079276
Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and...
- Shutter Island
By Dennis Lehane, 2003
ISBN 0061703257
The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new ?partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple-murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this barren island, despite...
- Freedom
By Jonathan Franzen, 2010
ISBN 0374158460
In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the...
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
By Junot D�az, 2007
ISBN 1594483299
Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who -- from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister -- dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants.
- The Shadow of the Wind
By Carlos Ruiz Zaf�n, 2005
ISBN 0143034901
Barcelona, 1945 -- A great world city lies shrouded in secrets after the war, and a boy mourning the loss of his mother finds solace in his love for an extraordinary book called The Shadow of the Wind, by an author named Julian Carax. When the boy searches for Carax's other books, it begins to dawn...
- Blindness
By Jose Saramago, 1997
ISBN 0156035588
A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" that spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and assaulting women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven...
- The History of Love
By Nicole Krauss, 2005
ISBN 0393328627
Leo Gursky is just about surviving, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive. But life wasn't always like this: sixty years ago, in the Polish village where he was born, Leo fell in love and wrote a book. And though Leo doesn't know it, that book...
- Spin
By Robert Charles Wilson, 2006
ISBN 076534825X
One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the...
- Nineteen Minutes
By Jodi Picoult, 2008
ISBN 0743496736
Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and The Tenth Circle, pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy.Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens--until the day its...
- The Night Circus
By Erin Morgenstern, 2011
ISBN 0385534639
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des R�ves, and it is only open at night.
- The Maze Runner
By James Dashner, 2009
ISBN 0385737947
When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. His memory is blank. But he�s not alone. When the lift�s doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade�a large, open expanse surrounded by stone walls.
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