America's most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on American history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption. This is a taut and tortured story … [Read more...] about Home by Toni Morrison
American Fiction
God Bless You, Mr Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965) presents Eliot Rosewater, an itinerant, semi-crazed millionaire wandering the country in search of heritage and philanthropic outcome. This book introduces the … [Read more...] about God Bless You, Mr Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
The Force by Don Winslow
This is the great cop novel of our time and a book only Don Winslow could write: a haunting story of greed and violence. The Force is a masterpiece of urban realism full of shocking and surprising … [Read more...] about The Force by Don Winslow
Kerrigan’s Copenhagen by Thomas Kennedy
Kerrigan, the eponymous hero of this novel, has been flattened many times in this journey, but in re-awakening, re-emerging in the place of his heart--the beating heart that is Copenhagen--the … [Read more...] about Kerrigan’s Copenhagen by Thomas Kennedy
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in … [Read more...] about The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
Sula by Toni Morrison
The great American novelist, Toni Morrison, died yesterday. We are featuring her novel Sula. This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood in a … [Read more...] about Sula by Toni Morrison
The Memory of Running Ron McLarty
Every decade seems to produce a novel that captures the public's imagination with a story that sweeps readers up and takes them on a thrilling, unforgettable ride. The Memory of Running is this … [Read more...] about The Memory of Running Ron McLarty
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath's shocking, realistic, and intensely emotional novel about a woman falling into the grip of insanity. Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but … [Read more...] about The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Where the Sea Used to Be by Rick Bass
The first full-length novel by one of America's fiction writers. Where the Sea Used to Be tells the story of a struggle between a father and his daughter for the souls of two men, Matthew and … [Read more...] about Where the Sea Used to Be by Rick Bass
IT by Stephen King
Welcome to Derry, Maine ... It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real ... They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon … [Read more...] about IT by Stephen King