The Good Earth
Author:
Pearl S. Buck
“The Good Earth” by Pearl S. Buck is a historical fiction novel published in 1931 that tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer, Wang Lung, and his wife, O-lan, as they navigate the challenges and triumphs of family l...
The Haunting of Hill House
Author:
Shirley Jackson
Genre:
Novel
It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a “haunting”; Theodora, the lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a ...
The Remains of the Day
Author:
Kazuo Ishiguro
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, a long-serving butler at Darlington Hall, decides to take a motoring trip through the West Country. The six-day excursion becomes a journey into the past of Stevens and England, a past that takes in f...
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Author:
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” is a short novel by the Russian writer and Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It was first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir. The story is se...
The Once and Future King
Author:
T. H. White
Genre:
Novel, Historical Fiction
T.H White′s masterful retelling of the Arthurian legend is an abiding classic. Here all five volumes that make up the story are published in one volume, as White himself always wished. Exquisite comedy offsets the tragedy of Arthur′...
The Notebook
The love story to end all love stories
Author:
Nicholas Sparks
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks is a love story about Noah Calhoun and Allie Hamilton, who meet in 1940 at a carnival in Seabrook Island, South Carolina. Noah is a working-class lumber mill worker, while Allie is the daughter of a w...
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Author:
Sally Rooney
Genre:
Literary fiction, Novel
Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has know...
