Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood (1996)
Grace Marks, a 19th-century maid convicted of murder, tells her enigmatic story, blurring the lines between truth, memory, and manipulation.
Classics
Historical
Mystery
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Classics
Supernatural
The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan (1678)
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is an allegory of Christian salvation, following Christian’s journey from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City.
Fantasy
Science Fiction
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World – Haruki Murakami (1985)
A data agent’s mind splits between a noir Tokyo and a surreal walled town, where memory, identity, and reality dissolve into a haunting, dreamlike mystery.
Romance
South of the Border, West of the Sun – Haruki Murakami (1992)
A man haunted by the echoes of a lost childhood love drifts through memory, desire, and regret in search of the elusive piece that might finally make him whole.
Adventure
Classics
Historical
Cannery Row – John Steinbeck (1945)
A quirky community of misfits in Depression-era Monterey, California, finds beauty in life’s imperfections in this humorous and heartfelt novel.
Classics
Historical
Romance
Sweet Thursday – John Steinbeck (1954)
In post-war Monterey, Doc returns to Cannery Row and finds love, friendship, and change in this charming sequel to Cannery Row.
Psychological
Romance
Tender is the Night – F Scott Fitzgerald (1934)
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald explores the rise and fall of psychiatrist Dick Diver and his troubled wife Nicole amid the allure of 1920s expatriate life.
Classics
Fantasy
Young Adult
Dandelion Wine – Ray Bradbury (1957)
In 1928 Green Town, Illinois, Douglas Spaulding experiences a transformative summer filled with joy, nostalgia, and the fleeting nature of youth.
Adventure
Historical
Romance
The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Emma Orczy (1905)
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emma Orczy is a swashbuckling adventure about an English nobleman secretly rescuing aristocrats from the French Revolution.
Classics
Historical
All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy (1992)
A young cowboy rides into Mexico chasing freedom, love, and honor - only to find a world where beauty and brutality ride side by side beneath an unflinching sky.