Pat ConroyThe piercing, iconic semi-autobiographical novel of a domineering father and ambitious son, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Prince of TidesStep into the powerhouse life...

Natalie BabbitDoomed to - or blessed with - eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they...

Anita ShreveIn the wet sand by her foot, a bit of colour catches her eye. The glass is green, pale and cloudy, the colour of lime juice that has been...

Lois LenskiIndian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison is a Newbery Honor Book perfect for young adults ages 12-13 years old. Set in Colonial America, Little Mary is a little...

Jeffrey ArcherOn the heels of the international bestseller Only Time Will Tell, Jeffrey Archer picks up the sweeping story of the Clifton Chronicles.Only days before Britain declares war on Germany,...

Chinua Achebe   More than two million copies of Things Fall Apart have been sold in the United States since it was first published here in 1959. Worldwide, there are...

Sol T PlaatjeMhudi, the first full-length novel in English by a black South African, was written in the late 1910s. A romantic epic set in the first half of the...

AS Byatt Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of...

Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex tells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor...

David MaloufThe year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One, Carney, an illiterate Irishman,...

Nikos KazanyzakisThe classic novel, international sensation, and inspiration for the film starring Anthony Quinn explores the struggle between the aesthetic and the rational, the inner life and the life of...

Tracy Chevalier   From internationally bestselling author Tracy Chevalier, a riveting drama of a pioneer family on the American frontier1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their wagon got...