The Sot-Weed Factor
Oversexed burlesque novel of colonial Maryland.
Novel
A Happy Boy
Novel of peasant life, by the Nobel laureate Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.
The Good Lord Bird
2013 novel by James McBride about Henry Shackleford, an enslaved person, who unites with John Brown in Brown’s abolitionist mission
The Overstory
Novel by Richard Powers about nine Americans whose unique life experiences with trees bring them together to address the destruction of forests.
Harriet the Spy
Children’s novel written and illustrated by Louise Fitzhugh that was published in 1964. It has been called “a milestone in children’s literature” and a “classic”. In the U.S. it ranked number 12 in The 50 Best Books for Kids and number 17 in The Top 100 Children’s Novels on two lists generated in 2012.It was followed by two sequels or “companion books”, The Long Secret and Sport .
The Education of Little Tree
Children’s novel about a half-Cherokee boy who is stolen away from his family by the US Government.
March
2006 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by by Geraldine Brooks that retells Alcott’s Little Women.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
American author Thornton Wilder’s second novel
Tarka the Otter
Novel by Henry Williamson, first published in 1927 by G.P. Putnam’s Sons with an introduction by the Hon
Pigs Have Wings
Novel by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared as a serial in Collier’s Weekly between 16 August and 20 September 1952. It was first published as a book in the United States on 16 October 1952 by Doubleday & Company, New York, and in the United Kingdom on 31 October 1952 by Herbert Jenkins, London