|
|
|
Austen, Jane
Emma
As daughter of the richest, most important man in the small provincial village of Highbury, Emma Woodhouse is firmly convinced that it is her right--perhaps even her "duty"--to arrange the lives of others.
495 p. 1815
Adult Fiction Book AUSTEN
Other formats available |
|
Bronte, Emily
Wuthering Heights
The passionate, doomed love of Catherine and Heathcliff mirrors the powerful moods of the Yorkshire moors.
427 p. 1847
Adult Fiction Book
|
|
Cather, Willa
My Antonia
This 1918 novel evokes the Nebraska prairie life of the author's childhood, and touchingly commemorates the spirit and courage of the immigrant pioneers who settled the land.
272 p. 1918
Adult Fiction Book CATHER
|
|
Cooper, James Fenimore
The Last of the Mohicans
Cooper's famous adventure brings the wilds of the American frontier and the drama of the French-Indian war to vivid life.
350 p. 1826
Adult Fiction Book COOPER
|
|
Du Maurier, Daphne
Rebecca
The young second wife of a widower comes to realize the evil surrounding Rebecca, his first wife.
376 p. 1938
Adult Fiction Book DU MAUR
Other formats available |
|
Golding, William
Lord of the Flies
William Golding's novel of savagery and survival begins after a plane wreck deposits a group of English school boys on an isolated tropical island. Their struggle to survive and impose order quickly evolves from a battle against nature into a battle against their own primitive instincts.
182 p. 1954
Adult Fiction Book
|
|
Hardy, Thomas
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Tess is hopelessly torn between her desire for two men.
407 p. 1999
Adult Fiction Book HARDY
|
|
Hurston, Zora Neale
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Hurston's beloved classic follows the fortunes of Janie Crawford, a woman who is married three times and is tried for the murder of one of her husbands in the black town of Eaton, Florida.
219 p. 1937
Adult Fiction Book HURSTON
|
|
Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World
Brave New World is a thought-provoking, darkly satiric vision of a future where humans are genetically engineered and kept obedient to the government through a combination of entertainment and pharmaceuticals. It's as relevant today as it was when it was first published.
259 p. 1932
Adult Fiction Book HUXLEY
|
|
Kerouac, Jack
On the Road
On the Road tells the story of two friends whose four cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience.
307 p. 1957
Adult Fiction Book KEROUAC
Other formats available |
|
Lee, Harper
To Kill a Mockingbird
Told through the eyes of young Scout Finch, this is the story of what happens to a town when a black man is accused of and put on trial for the rape of a white woman in the 1930s deep south.
323 p. 1960
Adult Fiction Book LEE
Other formats available |
|
McCullers, Carson
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
John Singer is the character at the center of this tale of moral isolation in a small southern mill town in the 1930s. Both deaf and mute, Singer becomes the confidant for various town misfits yearning for escape from small-town life.
359 p. 1940
Adult Fiction Book MCCULLE
|
|
Orwell, George
1984
Thought Police. Big Brother. Orwellian. These words have entered our vocabulary because of George Orwell's classic dystopian novel, 1984. The story of one man's nightmare odyssey as he pursues a forbidden love affair through a world ruled by warring states and a power structure that controls not only information, but also individual thought and memory.
328 p. 1949
Adult Fiction Book
|
|
Remarque, Erich Maria
All Quiet On the Western Front
Follows the journey of a group of bewildered teenaged German soldiers who had no idea what they were signing up for when they agreed to fight in the trenches of the First World War.
1929
Adult Fiction Book
|
|
Salinger, J. D.
The Catcher in the Rye
Kicked out of his private school but wanting to keep it a secret from his parents, Holden Caulfield spends three days wandering around New York City and forming his thoughts about life.
277 p. 1951
Adult Fiction Book SALINGE
|
|
Shelley, Mary
Frankenstein
In trying to create life, young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control--setting into motion a tragic chain of events that brings him to the very brink of madness. Shelley's timeless gothic novel presents the epic battle between one man and the "monster" he creates.
273 p. 1818
Adult Fiction Book SHELLEY
|
|
Sinclair, Upton
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair’s muckraking masterpiece The Jungle centers on Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant working in Chicago’s infamous Packingtown. Instead of finding the American Dream, Rudkus and his family inhabit a brutal, soul-crushing urban jungle dominated by greedy bosses, pitiless con-men, and corrupt politicians.
350 p. 1906
Adult Fiction Book SINCLAI
|
|
Smith, Betty
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Young Francie Nolan, having inherited both her father's romantic and her mother's practical nature, struggles to survive and thrive growing up in the slums of Brooklyn in the early twentieth century.
493 p. 1943
Adult Fiction Book SMITH
|
|
Swift, Jonathan
Gulliver's Travels
Through a series of shipwrecks and misguided voyages, Gulliver is captured by miniature people who wage war because of a disagreement over how to crack eggs; visits a floating island; and decides that the society of horses is better than that of his fellow man.
318 p. 1726
Adult Fiction Book
|
|
Thoreau, Henry David
Walden
In Walden, Thoreau interweaves details of his daily life on the shores of Walden Pond with his thoughts on individual freedom, society, government, and other topics.
275 p. 1854
Adult Nonfiction Book
|
Print this list
Email this list
