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Historical Fiction >
Fields of Fire
Novel that follows the lives of several Marines serving in the Vietnam War
Memoirs of Hadrian
Novel by the Belgian-born French writer Marguerite Yourcenar about the life and death of the…
War and Peace
Literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy,…
Children’s Fiction
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
Series of children’s books by Hugh Lofting
Goodnight Moon
American children’s book written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd
Harriet the Spy
Children’s novel written and illustrated by Louise Fitzhugh that was published in 1964. It has…
Memoir >
Run With The Hunted
Anthology of stories, novels, and poems.
Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir
D. J. Waldie’s account of growing up in the 1950s in Lakewood, then California’s largest…
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Autobiography based on a series of in-depth interviews journalist Alex Haley conducted between 1963 and…
YA Fiction >
The Education of Little Tree
Children’s novel about a half-Cherokee boy who is stolen away from his family by the…
The Once and Future King
Work by T. H. White loosely based upon the 1485 book Le Morte d’Arthur by…
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Classic science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne
Science Fiction >
The Complete Cosmicomics
2009 book that collects almost all of the Cosmicomic stories by Italian postmodern writer Italo…
Stories of Your Life and Others
Collection of short stories by American writer Ted Chiang originally published in 2002 by Tor…
The Day of the Triffids
1951 post-apocalyptic novel by the English science fiction author John Wyndham
Books on Writing >
The Modern Researcher
The classic manual on all aspects of research and writing.
The Modern Library Writer’s Workshop
The Art of Fiction
1983 book by John Gardner