EL Doctorow   Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between...

Seamus DeaneA haunted childhood, lived out in two dimensions. One is legendary: the Sun-fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls...

Paul Christopher   From New York Times bestselling author Paul Christopher comes an international thriller delving into a Templar threat right at America’s doorstep.Retired Army Ranger John Holliday and his...

David Gibbins1351 BC:Akhenaten the Sun-Pharaoh rules supreme in Egypt... until the day he casts off his crown and mysteriously disappears into the desert, his legacy seemingly swallowed up by the...

Miguel DeCervantesDon Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits...

Susan Vreeland   From extraordinary highs - patronage by the Medicis, friendship with Galileo and, most importantly of all, beautiful and outstandingly original paintings - to rape by her father's...

William FaulknerThis novel, by Nobel Prize-winning William Faulkner, was published in 1948.It focuses on Lucas Beauchamp, a black farmer accused of murdering a white man. He is exonerated through the...

Richard FlanaganA novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love.What would you do if you saw the love of your life, whom you...

EL DoctorowIn 1930's New York, Billy Bathgate, a fifteen-year-old highschool dropout, has captured the attention of infamous gangster Dutch Schultz, who lures the boy into his world of racketeering. The...

Nathan EnglanderFrom its unforgettable opening scene in the darkness of a forgotten cemetery in Buenos Aires, Nathan Englander's debut novel The Ministry of Special Cases casts a powerful spell. In...

David Grossman   Aron Kelinfeld is the ringleader among the boys in his Jerusalem neighborhood, but as his 12-year-old friends begin to mature, Aaron remains imprisoned in the body of...

Shlomo DunourAdiel is a re-telling of the Old Testament story of the Bible, from the Creation of Adam and Eve through the ten generations that culminates with Noah and the...