novels

March

2006 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by by Geraldine Brooks that retells Alcott’s Little Women.

The Boxcar Children

Children’s book series originally created and written by the American first-grade school teacher Gertrude Chandler Warner

The Death of Ivan Ilych

Novella by Leo Tolstoy, considered one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s.
Widely considered to be one of the finest novellas ever written, The Death of Ivan Ilyich tells the story of a high-court judge in 19th-century Russia and his sufferings and death from a terminal illness.

The Red and the Black

Historical psychological novel in two volumes by Stendhal, published in 1830. It chronicles the attempts of a provincial young man to rise socially beyond his modest upbringing through a combination of talent, hard work, deception, and hypocrisy

Swallows and Amazons

Children’s adventure novel by English author Arthur Ransome and first published on 21 July 1930 by Jonathan Cape

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Book by Robert M. Pirsig first published in 1974. It is a work of fictionalized autobiography, and is the first of Pirsig’s texts in which he explores his “Metaphysics of Quality”.
Pirsig received 121 rejections before an editor finally accepted the book for publicationand he did so thinking it would never generate a profit