Zora Neale HurstonOne of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling...

Wallace Stenger Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America's western...

Michael Ondaatje With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize-winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language...

Leo TolstoyAcclaimed by many as the world's greatest novel, Anna Karenina provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in Russia and of humanity in general. In it Tolstoy uses his...

Alison Weir Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the little-known story of Henry VIII’s fourth wife, as a grieving king chooses a bride sight unseen in the fourth...

Sebastian Barry "Annie's passionate observations and shifting moods-rendered in dense prose that's close to poetry-fuel this fine novel."— The New York Times Book ReviewSebastian Barry's latest novel,  Days Without End...

Jacqueline WoodsonRunning into a long-ago friend sets memories from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything—until it wasn’t. For...

John Hersey A saga of a magnificent violin, Antonietta, named after a beautiful woman who was the inspiration of Antonio Stradivari's later years. As Hersey brings Mozart, Berlioz, and Stravinsky...

Colleen McCullough   A sweeping epic of ancient Rome from the #1 bestselling author of The Thorn BirdsIn this breathtaking follow-up to The October Horse, Colleen McCullough turns her attention...

William BoydLogan Gonzago Mountstuart, writer, was born in 1906, and died of a heart attack on October 5, 1991, aged 85. William Boyd's novel Any Human Heart is his disjointed...

Susan Fromberg SchaefferAffaire royale: Amnesiac princess Gabriella needs protection against scheming kidnappers and finds herself in the company of bodyguard Reeve MacGee. Command performance: Prince Alexander falls for someone from...

Madeline BakerAPACHE CAPTIVERuthless and cunning, Ryder Fallon could deal cards and death in the same breath. Yet when the Indians took him prisoner, he was in danger of being sent...