Literary
Carter Beats the Devil
By: Glen David Gold
Instead of going to Yale, Charles Carter becomes a professional magician. This novel is a recreation of his life, including his rapid rise to the top of his profession, the rumor that he was involved in the death of President Warren Harding, and many...
Published: Sep 2002
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 483
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
By: Daniel Quinn
The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned office with a full-grown gorilla who is...
Published: May 1995
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 272
If I Ruled the World
By: Joy
Twenty-six-year-old Harlem Jones, an independent young woman with her own home and her own business who grew up the hard way with a crack-addicted mother and foster home uringing until she moved in with her grandmother, is confronted by a difficult...
Published: Jul 2005
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 289
One Hundred Years of Solitude
By: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. One...
Published: Jan 2004
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 417
Cold Mountain
By: Charles Frazier
This unabridged audio version of Cold Mountain, read by author Charles Frazier, deserves at least as much acclaim as the bestselling print edition, which won the National Book Award. The tale chronicles a Confederate army deserter's search for home...
Published: Sep 1998
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 464
The Beloved Land (Song of Acadia)
By: Janette Oke
Book 5 of Song of Acadia. In their own incomparable style, Janette Oke and T. Davis Bunn paint a portrait both lavish and poignant of the colorful, chaotic world of the American Revolution, where danger is rife and political views run deep. And once...
Published: Sep 2002
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 288
The Red Scarf
By: Kate Furnivall
The Russian Concubine dazzled readers. Now, its gifted author delivers another sweeping historical novel. Davinsky Labor Camp, Siberia, 1933: Only two things in this wretched place keep Sofia from giving up hope: the prospect of freedom, and...
Published: Jun 2008
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 496
The Uncommon Readerla
By: Alan Bennett
A deliciously funny novella that celebrates the pleasure of reading. When the Queen, in pursuit of her wandering corgis, stumbles upon a mobile library she feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Aided by Norman, a young man from the palace kitchen who...
Published: Sep 2008
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 128
A Happy Marriage
By: Rafael Yglesias
A Happy Marriage is both intimate and expansive: It is the story of Enrique Sabas and his wife, Margaret, a novel that alternates between the romantic misadventures of the first weeks of their courtship and the final months of Margaret's life as she...
Published: Aug 2010
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 384
Girl in Translation
By: Jean Kwok
Unabridged CDs, 8 CDs, 10 hours Read by TBA Introducing a fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice, Girl in Translation is an inspiring debut about a young immigrant in America, a smart girl who, living a double life between school...
Published: May 2011
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 320
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
By: Vladimir Nabokov
Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest. But more: it is also at once a fairy...
Published: Feb 1990
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 624
And on the Eighth Day She Rested
By: J. D. Mason
After her mother's death, Ruth went from her cruel grandmother's house to an abusive husband--married at 18 but finally, in her late 20s, finding the courage to leave. With the help of some close women friends, she makes a new life for herself that...
Published: Mar 2003
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 288
Broken Trail
By: Alan Geoffrion
This heartfelt novel traces the intertwined fates of a pair of honest horse wranglers and a group of kidnapped Chinese women during the late 1800s. Based on historical documents and more than five years of research, Broken Trail is the basis for the...
Published: Jun 2006
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 248
Conversations With Professor Y
By: Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Here's the truth, simply stated ... bookstores are suffering from a serious crisis of falling sales.' So begins the imaginary interview that comprises this novel. Professor Y, the interviewing academic, asks questions that allow Celline, a character...
Published: Jun 2006
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 153
Foucault's Pendulum
By: Umberto Eco
Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up 'the Plan,' a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers...
Published: Dec 1990
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 656
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
By: Haruki Murakami
Japan's most widely-read and controversial writer, author of A Wild Sheep Chase, hurtles into the consciousness of the West with this narrative about a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and...
Published: Mar 1993
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 416
Hunger Point
By: Jillian Medoff
'My parents may love me, but I also know they view me as a houseguest who is turning a weekend stay into an all-expense-paid, lifelong residency, and who (to their horror) constantly forgets to flush the toilet and shut off the...
Published: Oct 2002
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 384
Platform
By: Michel Houellebecq
In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world teetering between satiety and fanaticism, to create one of the most shocking, hypnotic, and intelligent novels in years.In his early forties,...
Published: Jul 2004
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 252
Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord
By: Louis De Bernieres
A young philosophy professor becomes a national hero when he dares to denounce his South American country's cocaine mafia, whose attempts to assassinate him backfire with supernatural regularity. By the author of Corelli's Mandolin. Reprint. 25,000...
Published: Mar 1998
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 331
The Book of Night Women
By: Marlon James
A true triumph of voice and storytelling, The Book of Night Women rings with both profound authenticity and a distinctly contemporary energy. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth...
Published: Feb 2010
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 448
The Elementary Particles
By: Michel Houellebecq
This French best seller is a novel about a pair of half-brothers--same irresponsible hippie mother, different fathers--who meet in later life. Raised apart by two sets of grandparents, they are remarkably dissimilar: one is a mentally unstable failed...
Published: Nov 2001
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 272
The Girl Next Door
By: Elizabeth Noble
From the #1 international bestselling author of The Reading Group, a new novel about the inhabitants of a New York City coop.
Published: Dec 2009
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 352
The Girl with the White Flag
By: Tomika Higa
A spellblnng account of love and Courage in wartime Okinawa. This book tells the story Tomiko Higa, who at the age of seven was separated from her family in the confusion and horror of World War II, and how she struggled to survive on the battlefield...
Published: Mar 2003
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 144
The Glass Room
By: Simon Mawer
Honeymooners Viktor and Liesel Landauer are filled with the optimism and cultural vibrancy of central Europe of the 1920s when they meet modernist architect Rainer von Abt. He builds for them a home to embody their exuberant faith in the future, and...
Published: Oct 2009
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 405
The Seventh Sentinel (Dragonlance Defenders of Magic, Vol. 3)
By: Mary Kirchoff
Shadow of the past!A wizard sacrificed himself to preserve the secrets of magic. Centuries later, the survival of magic is again in question. The key is a young lord whose heritage is tied to the tuatha dundarael, faerie folk who practice...
Published: Aug 1995
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Where Darkness Lives
By: Robert Ross
When a whirlwind affair with a gorgeous financier leads to a hasty marriage, Kate Colson soon discovers that her new husband is not what he seems after she arrives at his family's estate and begins seing disturbing visions, which causes her to make a...
Published: Jul 2002
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 384
26a
By: Diana Evans
The Hunter family lives at 26 Waifer Avenue in North London, and includes Aubrey and Ida (his Nigerian wife), two older daughters, and the identical twins Georgia and Bessi, who have dubbed their attic sleeping loft "26A.' Diana Evans’s...
Published: Sep 2006
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 304
A Bend in the River
By: V. S. Naipaul
In the 'brilliant novel' (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man—an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly...
Published: Mar 1989
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 279
A Christmas Carol, The Chimes & The Cricket on the Hearth (Barnes & Noble Classi
By: Charles Dickens
Generations of readers have been enchanted by Dickens’s A Christmas Carol—the most cheerful ghost story ever written, and the unforgettable tale of Ebenezer Scrooge’s moral regeneration. Written in just a few weeks, A Christmas...
Published: Mar 2004
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 275
A Prayer for Owen Meany
By: John Irving
I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a...
Published: Apr 1990
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 656