A satirical beast fable written in 1943–44 and published in August 1945 after multiple publishers refused it for fear of offending Britain's wartime Soviet allies. Its instant success made Orwell famous; it won a Retrospective Hugo Award in 1996, was banned across the Soviet bloc, and remains one of the most widely taught political allegories in the English language.

Robert Kiyosaki's landmark personal-finance classic contrasts the money lessons of his own highly educated but financially struggling 'poor dad' with those of his best friend's wealthy, investment-savvy 'rich dad.' It challenges conventional wisdom about money, work, and assets, urging readers to make money work for them.

One of the most influential dystopian novels ever written and the source of terms like Big Brother and doublethink. George Orwell's vision of total surveillance shaped modern thinking about authoritarianism.

One of the bestselling self-improvement books of all time. Dale Carnegie's classic offers timeless advice on dealing with people.

The foundational work of modern epic fantasy and one of the best-selling novels ever written. J. R. R. Tolkien's saga defined the genre and shaped fantasy literature for generations.

An international bestseller offering a sweeping account of human history. Yuval Noah Harari's book became a global phenomenon and shaped popular discussion of humanity's past and future.

One of the bestselling books on habit formation. James Clear offers a practical system for building good habits and breaking bad ones.

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.

A monumental work of science fiction and one of the bestselling novels of the genre. Frank Herbert created an epic of politics, religion, and ecology.

An epic of Russian society during the Napoleonic Wars, blending historical narrative with a philosophy of history. Leo Tolstoy's vast novel is a defining achievement of nineteenth-century realism.

A psychological novel that helped define modern fiction's interest in guilt and conscience. Fyodor Dostoevsky's study of morality, suffering, and redemption is among the most influential works of Russian literature.

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.

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.

A foundational dystopian novel that imagines control through pleasure rather than fear. Aldous Huxley's vision of engineered contentment remains a central reference point in debates about technology and freedom.

The first novel in Cixin Liu's acclaimed Three-Body Problem trilogy of hard science fiction. The book opens humanity's first contact with an alien civilization.

Lewis Carroll's enduring classic of literary nonsense and a cornerstone of children's literature. The book follows a curious girl down a rabbit hole into a topsy-turvy world.

A classic fantasy novel by J.R.R. Tolkien and the beloved prelude to The Lord of the Rings. The book sends a comfort-loving hobbit on an unexpected adventure.

A landmark book on judgment and decision-making by a Nobel Prize-winning psychologist. Daniel Kahneman's work synthesized decades of research on how the mind works.

The third novel in J.K. Rowling's blockbuster Harry Potter fantasy series. The book introduces darker themes and a dangerous fugitive.

One of the most widely read accounts of the Holocaust. Anne Frank's diary has become a defining personal testimony of the period and is read around the world.

The first novel in the acclaimed epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire. George R.R. Martin's book launched a phenomenon of political fantasy.

The fourth novel in J.K. Rowling's blockbuster Harry Potter fantasy series. The book darkens the saga as a deadly tournament unfolds.

A bestselling science-fiction novel by Ernest Cline steeped in 1980s pop culture. The book follows a teenager's quest through a vast virtual world.

A novel by Sally Rooney tracing an intense, on-and-off relationship over several years. The book follows two young people from school into adulthood.

A sprawling philosophical novel by Ayn Rand dramatizing her objectivist philosophy. The book follows a railroad executive as society's great minds vanish.

An anti-war novel that blends science fiction, satire, and trauma narrative. Kurt Vonnegut's work, drawn from his experience of the Dresden firebombing, is a classic of American postmodern fiction.

A 1997 memoir by Mitch Albom, written partly to cover his dying professor's medical bills, it became a cultural phenomenon after an Oprah Winfrey endorsement sent it to the top of the New York Times bestseller list, where it remained for over four years. Adapted into an Emmy-winning 1999 TV film and a stage play produced worldwide since 2002, it ranks among the bestselling memoirs of all time.

Agatha Christie's debut novel and the first case for the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The book opens a country-house murder during the First World War.

A Jazz Age novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published on 10 April 1925 to mixed reviews and modest sales. A commercial disappointment in his lifetime, it was reappraised after World War II distribution to American troops and became a staple of high-school curricula, now widely regarded as among the greatest American novels ever written.

Jane Austen's most celebrated novel and a defining work of English literature. A precise social comedy that dissects class, marriage, and female agency in Regency England through irony and sharp dialogue.

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.

A defining novel of adolescent alienation that became a touchstone of postwar American culture. J. D. Salinger's first-person narration shaped generations of coming-of-age fiction.

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.

Uncompromising architect Howard Roark refuses to betray his vision to a conformist world, even as it costs him everything. Ayn Rand's influential novel dramatizes her philosophy of individualism and integrity.

One of the bestselling personal development books ever published. Stephen R. Covey's framework shaped modern thinking about effectiveness and character.

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.

A bestselling memoir about education, family, and self-invention. Tara Westover's account of leaving a survivalist household for university became a widely read story of transformation.

The first novel in J.K. Rowling's blockbuster Harry Potter fantasy series, one of the bestselling books of all time. The book introduces a young wizard's world.

A defining work of magical realism and a landmark of Latin American literature. Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel was central to his Nobel Prize and reshaped the global novel.

A satirical novel by Kurt Vonnegut blending science fiction and social commentary. The book collides an aging pulp writer with an unstable car dealer in middle America.

A dystopian novel about censorship and mass media in which books are outlawed and burned. Ray Bradbury's work is a defining statement on intellectual freedom and the dulling power of entertainment.

The first novel in James Islington's Hierarchy series, a bestselling work of dark academia fantasy. The book follows a hidden prince infiltrating an elite academy.

Alexandre Dumas's swashbuckling historical classic of seventeenth-century France. The book follows a hot-blooded youth who joins the king's legendary musketeers.

A landmark dystopian novel known for its invented slang and moral questions. Anthony Burgess explores free will, violence, and state control.

The seventh and final novel in J.K. Rowling's blockbuster Harry Potter fantasy series. The book brings the saga's central conflict to its climax.

A classic horror novel by Stephen King, a landmark of psychological terror. The book traps a fragile family in a haunted, isolated hotel.

The first novel in Brandon Sanderson's monumental Stormlight Archive, the cornerstone of his Cosmere universe. The book launches an epic of war and awakening magic.

The first novel in Dan Simmons's acclaimed Hyperion Cantos, a landmark of modern science fiction. The book frames an epic through interwoven travelers' tales.

A beloved Chronicles of Narnia novel by C. S. Lewis, the gateway to its magical world. The book sends four children through a wardrobe into an enchanted land.

A landmark science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, developed alongside Stanley Kubrick's film. The book traces humanity from its dawn to a mission beyond Earth.

A bestselling work of hard science fiction by Andy Weir, a gripping survival story. The book strands an astronaut alone on Mars.

A major novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived as a portrait of a wholly good man. The book sets his innocent prince against the cruelty of Russian society.

A bestselling memoir and self-improvement book by a former Navy SEAL and endurance athlete. David Goggins's account became popular for its message about mental toughness.

A treatise on acquiring and holding political power, advising rulers to be pragmatic rather than bound by conventional morality. Foundational to political realism, it gave rise to the term 'Machiavellian.'.

Fyodor Dostoevsky's final and most ambitious novel, a philosophical drama of faith, doubt, and moral responsibility. Widely regarded as one of the supreme achievements of world literature.

A classic adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and a defining pirate tale. The book follows a young boy who finds a treasure map and sets sail for a distant island.

Chuck Palahniuk's incendiary debut novel, a touchstone of transgressive fiction. The book follows an insomniac office worker drawn into an underground fight club and its anarchic aftermath.

A bestselling book on the value of focused, distraction-free work. Cal Newport argues that deep concentration is increasingly rare and valuable.

bell hooks's passionate, personal treatise reframes love not as romance but as an active practice of care, compassion, and justice. Diagnosing a culture of lovelessness, she offers a new ethic for healing ourselves and our communities.

A bestselling book on the behavioral side of personal finance. Morgan Housel argues that financial success depends more on behavior than on knowledge.

A foundational text of Stoic philosophy and a rare record of a Roman emperor's private reflections. Marcus Aurelius's writings have endured as a guide to resilience and self-mastery.

A landmark collection of short stories that reshaped modern fiction with its labyrinths, paradoxes, and invented texts. Jorge Luis Borges's work made him one of the century's most influential writers.

Don Miguel Ruiz distills ancient Toltec wisdom into four simple agreements for living with integrity and freedom: be impeccable with your word, take nothing personally, make no assumptions, and always do your best. A bestselling guide to self-transformation.

Charles Dickens's celebrated historical novel of London and Paris in the age of the French Revolution. The book builds toward one of literature's most famous acts of sacrifice.

Jack Kerouac's defining Beat Generation novel follows Sal Paradise and the restless Dean Moriarty across America in pursuit of freedom and experience.

A widely influential work that pairs a Holocaust memoir with a school of psychology. Viktor Frankl's book has shaped popular thinking about purpose and resilience.

A bestselling debut novel by Delia Owens blending coming-of-age, nature writing, and murder mystery. The book follows an outcast girl in the coastal marshes.

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.

A novel by Haruki Murakami blending coming-of-age story with surreal, dreamlike mystery. The book interlaces two strange and converging journeys.

A bestselling memoir by the co-founder of Nike. Phil Knight's candid account became a widely read story of entrepreneurship and risk.

Brandon Sanderson's debut novel and the first work set in his interconnected Cosmere universe. The book is a self-contained epic fantasy of a cursed city.

A landmark adventure novel of betrayal and revenge, among the most popular works of French Romanticism. Alexandre Dumas's tale of wrongful imprisonment has shaped the revenge narrative ever since.

A philosophical novel of spiritual seeking set in ancient India. Hermann Hesse's work became widely influential, especially among readers drawn to Eastern thought and the search for self-knowledge.

A vast, posthumously published novel regarded as Roberto Bolano's masterpiece. An ambitious, fragmentary work that anchors a sprawling narrative in the unsolved murders of women in a Mexican border city.

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.

Ryan Holiday's Stoic-inspired guide argues that ego is the great saboteur of success at every stage, in ambition, achievement, and failure alike. Drawing on figures from history and sport, he urges humility, discipline, and clear-eyed self-awareness.

A foundational work of history and political analysis, admired for its rigor and realism. Thucydides's account of the war between Athens and Sparta shaped the study of power and conflict.

The first volume of Peter F. Hamilton's sprawling Commonwealth Saga. The book opens with a vanishing star that draws a wormhole-linked civilization toward an ancient threat.

An influential book on building companies under uncertainty. Eric Ries introduced a methodology that reshaped how startups and businesses approach product development.

A classic Hercule Poirot mystery by Agatha Christie, set aboard a Nile cruise. The Belgian detective must unmask a killer among the passengers.

Louis Sachar's Newbery Medal-winning novel follows a boy unjustly sent to a desert detention camp, where digging holes uncovers a long-buried family curse.

An audiobook edition of a Chronicles of Narnia novel by C. S. Lewis, narrated by Michael Hordern. The book follows a wondrous sea voyage to the world's edge.

A classic of philosophical science fiction by Stanislaw Lem. The book sends a psychologist to a remote station orbiting a planet covered by a sentient ocean.

A pioneering dystopian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin and a forerunner to 1984 and Brave New World. The book follows a loyal mathematician who discovers he has a soul.

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.

A bestselling and irreverent self-help book. Mark Manson argues for choosing carefully what to care about rather than relentless positivity.

The first novel in the bestselling Dungeon Crawler Carl series of LitRPG science fiction and fantasy. Matt Dinniman launched a hugely popular dungeon adventure.

Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel follows Jason Taverner, a famous singer and TV star who wakes one day in a world where he has never existed, his identity erased from every record. Set in a post-civil-war police state, it spirals into a haunting meditation on identity and reality.

As the prophet Almustafa prepares to leave the city where he has lived for twelve years, he shares poetic wisdom on love, work, freedom, and the human condition. Kahlil Gibran's beloved book of lyrical essays.

The second novel in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series, following 2001. The book returns to Jupiter to uncover the fate of the lost Discovery and HAL 9000.

A satirical war novel that gave the language a phrase for absurd, self-contradictory rules. Joseph Heller's dark comedy is a landmark of postwar American fiction.

A landmark science fiction novel and the basis for the film Blade Runner. Philip K. Dick probes the boundary between human and machine.

A satirical and fantastical novel suppressed under Soviet censorship and now a classic of twentieth-century Russian literature. Mikhail Bulgakov's book weaves political satire with metaphysical fable.

Ernest Hemingway's classic novel of the Spanish Civil War follows a young American volunteer on a perilous mission behind enemy lines, where war, love, and duty collide.

The first novel in Patrick Rothfuss's acclaimed Kingkiller Chronicle series, prized for its lyrical prose. The book recounts a legendary figure narrating his own past.

A bestselling book on the hidden factors behind success. Malcolm Gladwell argues that achievement depends on more than individual talent and effort.

The first novel in Douglas Adams's beloved comic science-fiction series. The book launches an ordinary man on an absurd journey across the cosmos.

An influential and accessible book that popularized a gene-centered view of evolution. Richard Dawkins's work shaped public and scientific thinking about natural selection.

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.

A biography drawing on a decade of archival work and unprecedented interviews with Mao's inner circle, this book presents a critical reassessment of his life, motivations, and the human cost of his rule.

David Deida's influential guide challenges men to live with purpose and integrity, navigating the demands of career, intimacy, and spirituality without collapsing into either the macho jerk or the sensitive wimp. Through direct advice and practical body-based exercises, it maps a 'way' of masculine consciousness rooted in the union of heart and spine.

An 1884 French novel, a foundational text of the Decadent movement, also translated as Against Nature and À rebours. Joris-Karl Huysmans traces an aristocrat’s retreat into rarefied aesthetic obsession, and the book scandalized critics, shaped Oscar Wilde’s fiction, and was later cited at his trial.

An influential book on the psychology of morality and politics. Jonathan Haidt's work explores why people are divided by ideology and religion.

A book on global trends and cognitive bias by Hans Rosling, with Ola and Anna Rosling. The book argues the world is better than instinct suggests, if read by the facts.

A short philosophical essay drawn from a 1945 Paris lecture and published the following year, among the most accessible statements of existentialist thought. Written partly to answer critics, it popularized Sartre’s ideas for a general audience, though he later judged it too simplified.

A bestselling book on business strategy and market creation. The work by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne urges firms to escape competition by creating new markets.

An Arabic novel exploring an intense and unequal relationship between Hala El-Wafi, an Algerian singer marked by political violence, and Talal Hashem, a wealthy Lebanese businessman determined to win her affection.

A semi-autobiographical Beat novel published in 1958, the year after On the Road made Kerouac famous, and one of his most popular books. Rooted in mid-1950s San Francisco and the Pacific Northwest wilderness, it helped carry Beat ideals into the 1960s counterculture and broadened popular awareness of Zen Buddhism in the West.

A bestselling historical novel by Markus Zusak set in Nazi Germany and narrated by Death. The book follows a young girl who finds solace in stolen books.

A poetic fable that became one of the best-selling and most translated books ever published. Antoine de Saint-Exupery's slim tale is read by children and adults as a meditation on love.

The fourth and final novel in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series. The book revives a long-lost astronaut into a transformed human future menaced by the monoliths.

In a colonized solar system numbed by hallucinogenic drugs, the return of industrialist Palmer Eldritch with a reality-warping substance blurs the boundaries of existence. Philip K. Dick's mind-bending SF.

The first novel in Dennis E. Taylor's Bobiverse series of comedic science fiction. The book reincarnates a software engineer as a self-replicating space probe.

The fifth novel in J.K. Rowling's blockbuster Harry Potter fantasy series. The book follows the young wizard amid official denial and rising danger.

The first novel in J.R.R. Tolkien's landmark The Lord of the Rings, the cornerstone of modern fantasy. The book sets a fellowship on a quest to destroy a perilous ring.

Donella Meadows offers a clear, accessible primer on systems thinking, showing how to understand the complex, interconnected structures that shape our world. A foundational text in systems analysis.

In this novel by Kurt Vonnegut, the eccentric millionaire Eliot Rosewater abandons high society to dispense love and money to the down-and-out of small-town Indiana through his family foundation. As a scheming lawyer plots to have him declared insane and seize the fortune, Vonnegut skewers wealth, philanthropy, and the value America places on a human being.

A short late novel that helped secure Ernest Hemingway's Nobel Prize and embodies his spare, understated style. A parable of endurance widely read as a meditation on struggle and dignity.

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.

A historical and political novel set during the final years of Mamluk rule in Egypt. Through chronicles, official proclamations, eyewitness accounts and intelligence reports, it depicts the rise of Zayni Barakat, a seemingly virtuous but ruthless governor who controls Cairo through an extensive system of surveillance and informers.

A bestselling work of hard science fiction by Andy Weir, blending survival thriller with first contact. The book strands a lone astronaut on a desperate mission to save Earth.

A celebrated novel by Gabriel García Márquez tracing more than fifty years of unrequited love along the Caribbean coast. The book is a sweeping meditation on devotion and aging.

An influential and widely read case for Bitcoin as sound money. Saifedean Ammous situates the cryptocurrency within the history of money.

A landmark 1961 novel by Robert A. Heinlein. The book follows a human raised by Martians who returns to Earth as a stranger to his own species.

A bestselling novel set in Afghanistan over several decades of upheaval. Khaled Hosseini follows the lives of two women bound together by circumstance.

A satirical lexicon that grew from newspaper columns Ambrose Bierce began in 1881, first collected as The Cynic’s Word Book in 1906 and expanded under its preferred title in 1911. Its caustic redefinitions of everyday words remain widely quoted and secured Bierce’s standing as a master of American satire.

A classic short novel by John Steinbeck set during the Great Depression. The book follows two migrant workers chasing a fragile dream.

This volume pairs two bookends of Kurt Vonnegut's career: his previously unpublished first novella, Basic Training, and the unfinished final novel he was working on at his death. Together they frame a lifetime of satirical genius, from a young writer's apprenticeship to a master's last words.

A 2010 novel that won the Prix Goncourt, France’s foremost literary award, following a contemporary artist through fame, solitude, and the art market. Michel Houellebecq writes himself into the story as a murdered character, in a book widely read as a calmer, more reflective turn after his earlier provocations.

The seventh and final novel in C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia. The book carries its enchanted world to a sweeping, apocalyptic end.

The third novel in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series. The book sends Heywood Floyd back into the solar system as two expeditions converge.

Nikolai Gogol's satirical masterpiece follows the schemer Chichikov as he travels rural Russia buying up 'dead souls', deceased serfs still listed as property, to game the system. A darkly comic, unfinished epic, it skewers the greed and folly of a stagnant society.

A controversial classic of military science fiction by Robert A. Heinlein. The book follows a young recruit through boot camp and interstellar war against the alien Bugs.

A Chronicles of Narnia novel by C. S. Lewis that reveals its world's origins. The book follows two children present at the creation of Narnia.

A Hugo Award-winning alternate history by Philip K. Dick, imagining a 1962 America under Axis rule. The book follows life beneath occupation and a forbidden novel that destabilizes reality.

An American children's book and highly acclaimed bedtime story.

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.

A history of lands between Germany and Russia, where the Nazi and Soviet regimes killed roughly thirteen million people over thirteen years. Drawing on sources in all the relevant languages and the records, it reexamines the two regimes as rivals whose pursuit of similar goals doomed millions of innocents.

The first novel in Suzanne Collins's blockbuster Hunger Games trilogy of dystopian fiction. The book pits a teenage girl in a televised fight to the death.

Umberto Eco's labyrinthine intellectual thriller follows three Milanese editors who, as a joke, invent an elaborate conspiracy theory linking the Knights Templar to a secret plan for world domination. To their horror, real occultists begin to believe, and pursue, their fabricated Plan.

One of the bestselling popular science books ever published. Stephen Hawking's work brought cosmology and theoretical physics to a general readership.

A standalone novel in Iain M. Banks's Culture series of space opera. The book sends a master game-player into a brutal empire where a single game decides who rules.

The first novel in the bestselling Inheritance Cycle of young-adult epic fantasy. Christopher Paolini launched his saga of dragons and rebellion.

A comic novel first published in 1960 as What We Did to Father, later reissued as The Evolution Man and, eventually, How I Ate My Father. Roy Lewis frames human prehistory as a domestic farce of invention, and it endured as a cult favorite championed by writers such as Terry Pratchett.

This collection gathers twenty-five short stories by Kurt Vonnegut, spanning science fiction, satire, and tender comedy from across his early career. From the overpopulated dystopia of the title story to 'Harrison Bergeron' and 'EPICAC,' the tales showcase Vonnegut's wit, humanity, and unmistakable voice.

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.

A 1947 novel by Boris Vian, a central work of postwar French fiction blending wordplay, jazz, and invented contraptions with tragedy. A longtime cult favorite among French students, it has appeared in English as Mood Indigo and Foam of the Daze, and been adapted for film more than once.

The first novel in Rick Riordan's bestselling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. The book launches a modern demigod on a mythic quest.

In this part-memoir, part-writing-guide by Kurt Vonnegut and his former student Suzanne McConnell, the celebrated novelist's lessons on the craft of writing are gathered and illuminated. Blending Vonnegut's own words with McConnell's reflections, it offers practical wisdom and a warm portrait of the teacher behind the books.

One of the bestselling mystery novels of all time. Agatha Christie crafts a tense and ingenious tale of strangers trapped and dying one by one.

A bestselling work of spiritual self-help. Eckhart Tolle's book promotes living in the present moment as a path to peace.

Erich Maria Remarque's classic anti-war novel set in the trenches of the First World War. The book follows a young German soldier whose idealism is destroyed by combat.

A foundational essay on the philosophy of the absurd. Albert Camus's work remains a central statement on finding meaning in a world without inherent purpose.

An ambitious work on knowledge, science, and progress by a pioneering physicist. David Deutsch's book argues for the unlimited potential of human explanation.

The first novel in Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs series, a hard-edged cyberpunk noir. The book sets a resleeved ex-soldier to solve a billionaire's murder.

A classic novel by Ken Kesey set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital. The book pits a rebellious newcomer against the ward's tyrannical authority.

A bestselling debut novel by Khaled Hosseini set against decades of Afghan history. The book traces a haunted friendship and a long road to redemption.

A Chronicles of Narnia adventure by C. S. Lewis. Centuries after their first visit, the four Pevensie children are pulled back into a Narnia conquered by invaders. Summoned by young Prince Caspian's magic horn, they join the fight to restore the old magic and the rightful rule of the land.

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 sixth novel in J.K. Rowling's blockbuster Harry Potter fantasy series. The book deepens the saga's mysteries as war approaches.

A thoroughly researched work of World War II nonfiction, this book reveals how the Nazi regime, despite preaching purity, became saturated with drugs, from methamphetamines fueling German soldiers to the chemical cocktails administered to Hitler himself.

Steinbeck’s first novel, published in 1929, a historical romance loosely based on the seventeenth-century buccaneer Henry Morgan. It stands apart from the social realism that defined his later career, and the author himself came to view this early venture into legend and adventure as flawed apprentice work.

A best-selling novel about creativity, friendship, and video game design. Gabrielle Zevin's work was widely praised for treating game-making as a serious artistic and emotional subject.

A novella in Tahereh Mafi's Shatter Me series, set after Imagine Me, as Juliette and Warner try to claim the future they fought for amid a fragile new world.

A philosophical novel by Milan Kundera set against the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague. The book follows two couples as it weighs love, fate, and the meaning of a life.

A novella that became a defining text of literary modernism and the source of the term Kafkaesque. Franz Kafka's parable of alienation is among the most analyzed works of its century.

An experimental war novel depicting a woman trapped in her Beirut apartment during the early months of the Lebanese Civil War. Told through 197 interconnected “nightmares”, it combines diary-like realism, hallucination, symbolism and surrealism to portray the psychological and social devastation caused by war.

A landmark of philosophy written in a poetic, prophetic style. Friedrich Nietzsche's work introduced ideas that became central to modern thought and culture.

Longevity expert Dr. Peter Attia challenges conventional medicine and lays out a science-based approach to living longer and healthier. He offers strategies for nutrition, exercise, sleep, and emotional well-being to prevent the diseases of aging.

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.

A landmark of empiricist philosophy that remains central to debates about knowledge and causation. David Hume's work profoundly influenced later philosophy and science.

J.M. Barrie's classic 1911 novel, drawn from his beloved play, tells of Peter Pan, the boy who would never grow up, who whisks the Darling children away to Neverland. Amid fairies, mermaids, Lost Boys, and the villainous Captain Hook, their adventures capture the wonder and wildness of childhood.

Lewis Carroll's sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland sends its heroine through a mirror into a dreamlike world arranged as a giant chess game.

A long short story published in 1880 in the collective volume Les Soirées de Médan, set during the Franco-Prussian War. It made Maupassant’s reputation almost overnight, drew lavish praise from his mentor Flaubert, and is often cited as one of the finest examples of French naturalist short fiction.

In this Star Wars: The Last of the Jedi novel by Jude Watson, the former Jedi Ferus Olin walks among the Empire's elite as parts of a secret weapon are built on the planet Belassa. Under the watchful eyes of Darth Vader and Tarkin, Ferus must guard the secret of his true allegiance or be consumed by the dark side.

In this novel by Kurt Vonnegut, the hapless Walter F. Starbuck, a minor Watergate conspirator, is released from a minimum-security prison into a strange new chapter of his life. As his past collides with the gigantic RAMJAC Corporation and an old labor-organizer love, Vonnegut spins a comic, mournful meditation on American idealism, capitalism, and failure.

This posthumous collection gathers twelve previously unpublished writings by Kurt Vonnegut on war and peace, with an introduction by his son Mark. Drawing on his own experience as a POW who survived the firebombing of Dresden, the stories and essays range from fantasy to fact in Vonnegut's enduring meditation on the absurdity and horror of war.

In this autobiographical collage by Kurt Vonnegut, the author stitches together essays, speeches, letters, reviews, and a self-interview into what he calls a 'blivit,' surveying his life and his opinions. Ranging from his German-American roots to censorship, religion, and the craft of writing, it offers a candid, freewheeling self-portrait of the man behind the novels.

A crime thriller published in 2015, the twenty-third entry in James Patterson's long-running Alex Cross series, which has repeatedly topped the New York Times bestseller list and sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide. The Alex Cross character later inspired the Amazon Prime Video streaming series Cross.

In the fourth Ripley novel by Patricia Highsmith, a troubled young American runaway named Frank, guilty of murder, arrives at Tom Ripley's French estate seeking shelter from a fellow killer. As Ripley becomes the boy's protector, a friendship forms, drawing them into the seedy underworld of Berlin and its kidnapping plots.