Books everyone should read
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The second novel in J.K. Rowling's blockbuster Harry Potter fantasy series. The book returns the young wizard to school amid a new menace.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The fourth novel in J.K. Rowling's blockbuster Harry Potter fantasy series. The book darkens the saga as a deadly tournament unfolds.
The Art of War
An ancient Chinese treatise on strategy and one of the most influential military texts ever written. Sun Tzu's work is widely applied beyond warfare, in business, politics, and sport.
To Kill A Mockingbird
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of childhood and racial injustice in the American South. Harper Lee's book remains one of the most widely read and taught works in American education.
Red Rising
Pierce Brown's debut dystopian science fiction novel, published in 2014, reached the New York Times Best Seller list and won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Debut Author. It launched a six-book saga with a devoted readership, drew comparisons to The Hunger Games and Ender's Game, and attracted film and television adaptation interest.
The Alchemist
A bestselling allegorical novel by Paulo Coelho about destiny and following one's dreams. The book follows a shepherd's journey toward a far-off treasure.
The Man in the Iron Mask
The final volume of Alexandre Dumas's d'Artagnan Romances, concluding The Vicomte de Bragelonne. The book draws the aging Musketeers into a royal conspiracy.
The Martian
A bestselling work of hard science fiction by Andy Weir, a gripping survival story. The book strands an astronaut alone on Mars.
Cat's Cradle
A satirical novel by Kurt Vonnegut blending science fiction and dark comedy. The book follows a writer toward a doomsday substance and an invented religion.
Little Women
A beloved coming-of-age novel by Louisa May Alcott, among the most cherished in American literature. The book follows four sisters growing up in Civil War-era New England.
The Cat Who Robbed a Bank
In this Cat Who mystery by Lilian Jackson Braun, Pickax celebrates its Scottish heritage with the Highland Games, but the revelry is marred when a visiting jewelry dealer is found dead in his hotel room. With his assistant missing and a contest winner vanished, Qwilleran and his Siamese cats untangle the mysteries.
The Golem’s Eye
In the second Bartimaeus novel by Jonathan Stroud, the magician's apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteen and rising in the government, and the wisecracking djinni Bartimaeus travel to Prague. There they race to locate the source of a golem's power, a rampaging clay monster threatening to destroy London, before it can strike again.
Star Wars: The Wrath of Darth Maul
In this Star Wars young readers biography-novel by Ryder Windham, the shrouded story of Darth Maul is told in full. Taken as a child and forged by rage into the Sith apprentice, Maul trains in secret for the day he and his Master will take revenge on the Jedi Order.
Star Wars: Journal - The Fight for Justice
In this Star Wars young readers novel, told as Luke Skywalker's personal journal, the farm boy reels after the Empire destroys his home and family. Thrust into a galaxy-spanning struggle he always longed for, Luke records his first uncertain steps toward becoming a hero of the Rebellion.
The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare
In this Cat Who mystery by Lilian Jackson Braun, the death of the local paper's eccentric publisher looks like an accident, but to Qwilleran and his cats it smells like murder. As Koko's snooping turns up a shocking secret, the brilliant Siamese's curiosity threatens to prove catastrophic.
Shades Of Grey
In a future society rigidly stratified by the colors people can perceive, dutiful Eddie Russett's place seems secure, until he meets a rebellious lower-class girl. Jasper Fforde's satirical dystopia upends a world ruled by a Colortocracy.
The Talisman
Young Jack Sawyer journeys across a parallel world called the Territories to find a talisman that can save his dying mother. Stephen King and Peter Straub's epic dark fantasy adventure.