Anna Karenina Author: Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky Some people say Anna Karenina is the single greatest novel ever written, which makes about as much sense to me as trying to determine the world's greatest color. But there is no doubt that ... read more
Atlas Shrugged (500) Author: Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff At last, Ayn Rand's masterpiece is available to her millions of loyal readers in trade paperback.
With this acclaimed work and its immortal query, "Who is John Galt?", Ayn Rand found ... read more
Crazy in Alabama (400) Author: Mark Childress Family tumult and nationwide social unrest converge to shake the world of 12-year-old orphan Peejoe Bullis in the summer of 1965, "when everybody went crazy in Alabama." This wise, funny ... read more
Dharma Bums (400) Author: Jack Kerouac One of the best and most popular of Kerouac's autobiographical novels, The Dharma Bums is based on experiences the writer had during the mid-1950s while living in California, after he'd ... read more
Great Expectations Author: Charles Dickens, Charlotte Mitchell In what may be Dickens’s best novel, humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman—and one day, under sudden and enigmatic ... read more
Holidays On Ice (400) Author: David Sedaris Holidays on Ice is a collection of three previously published stories matched with three newer ones, all, of course, on a Christmas theme. David Sedaris's darkly playful humor is another ... read more
Memoirs of a Geisha (350) Author: Arthur Golden According to Arthur Golden's absorbing first novel, the word 'geisha' does not mean 'prostitute,' as Westerners ignorantly assume--it means 'artisan' or 'artist.' To capture the geisha ... read more
