The Big Sleep
Hardboiled crime novel by American-British writer Raymond Chandler, the first to feature the detective Philip Marlowe
masterpiece
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in June 1926 in the United Kingdom by William Collins, Sons and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
1865 English children’s novel by Lewis Carroll
Their Finest Hour
Their finest hour by Winston Churchill
Silent Spring
Environmental science book by Rachel Carson
The Songlines
1987 book written by Bruce Chatwin, combining fiction and non-fiction
The Hunt for Red October
Debut novel by American author Tom Clancy, first published on October 1, 1984 by the Naval Institute Press
The Canterbury Tales
Collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. It is near-unanimously seen as Chaucer’s magnum opus