David GatesFrom Holden Caulfield to Moses Herzog, our best literature has been narrated by malcontents. To this lineage add Peter Jernigan, who views the world with ferocious intelligence, grim rapture,...

Wesley StaceLord Loveall, heretofore heirless lord of the sprawling Love Hall, is the richest man in England. He arrives home one morning with a most unusual package - a baby...

Victoria Hislop A beautiful and epic novel that spans nearly a hundred years, The Thread is a magnificent story of a friendship and a love that endures through the catastrophes...

Alan LightmanA modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant...

Ernest HemingwayThe quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style....

Sandra GullandIn this first of three books inspired by the life of Josephine Bonaparte, Sandra Gulland has created a novel of immense and magical proportions. We meet Josephine in the...

Philippa Gregory   Three Women Who Share One Fate: The Boleyn InheritanceAnne of ClevesShe runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a throne whose...

Anita Shreve   In a Nazi-occupied Belgian village, Claire Daussois, the wife of a resistance worker, shelters a wounded American bomber pilot in a secret attic hideaway. As she nurses...

Alan GoldAn ancient golden amulet with a history of violence and death. A highly organised group of killers who will do anything to keep secret their past identities and their...

Katherine KingsleyCALL DOWN THE MAGICWith a shadowy past and only dreams for her future, Meggie Bloom was tending the lost souls at Woodbridge Sanitarium when the handsome stranger's cobalt gaze...

Marge Piercy   Post–Civil War New York City is the battleground of the American dream. In this era of free love, emerging rights of women, and brutal sexual repression, Freydeh,...

Ken Follett   World Without End (Kingsbridge #2)   World Without End takes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic...