The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye

Each night Pecola prayed for blue eyes. In her eleven years, no one...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or as it is known in more recent editions,...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi...

All the king's men
All the king's men

An American Tragedy
An American Tragedy

The classic depiction of the harsh realities of American life, the dark side...

As I Lay Dying
As I Lay Dying

Written in stream-of-consciousness style with multiple narrators, the story follows a journey wherein...

The Awakening
The Awakening

The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set...

Beloved
Beloved

Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable...

Black Boy
Black Boy

Black Boy is a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of...

Brave New World
Brave New World

Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and...

The Call of the Wild
The Call of the Wild

As Buck, a mixed breed dog, is taken away from his home, instead...

Cat's Cradle
Cat's Cradle

Cat's Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness....

Catch-22
Catch-22

Catch-22 is like no other novel. It has its own rationale, its own...

The catcher in the rye
The catcher in the rye

Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism....

The Color Purple
The Color Purple

The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker...

A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms is about a love affair between the expatriate American...

For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls

High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares...

Go Tell It on the Mountain
Go Tell It on the Mountain

In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery...

The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck’s classic novel of the Great Depression is as vivid now as ever....

The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby

Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity...

Grendel
Grendel

The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early...

Invisible Man
Invisible Man

Invisible Man is the story of a young black man from the South...

The Jungle
The Jungle

Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the...

Lolita
Lolita

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The novel...

The Naked and the Dead
The Naked and the Dead

Based on Mailer’s own experience of military service in the Philippines during World...

Naked Lunch
Naked Lunch

Controversial and bizarre cult novel based on the author’s own experiences as a...

Native Son
Native Son

Native Son (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright....

Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men

The second book in John Steinbeck’s labor trilogy, Of Mice and Men is...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel written by Ken Kesey....

A prayer for Owen Meany
A prayer for Owen Meany

"I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice - not...