OffbeatPulse rated The Secret History: 5 stars
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college …
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OffbeatPulse rated Journey to the center of the Earth: 4 stars
Journey to the center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Journey to the Center of the Earth (French: Voyage au centre de la Terre), also translated with the variant titles …
OffbeatPulse rated The God of Small Things: 4 stars
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the …
OffbeatPulse rated A Confederacy of Dunces: 3 stars
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero is one Ignatius J. Reilly, "huge, obese, …
OffbeatPulse rated The Odyssey: 4 stars
The Odyssey by Homer
The Odyssey (; Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia, Attic Greek: [o.dýs.sej.ja]) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to …
OffbeatPulse rated Kafka on the Shore: 5 stars
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore (海辺のカフカ, Umibe no Kafuka) is a 2002 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. Its 2005 English …
OffbeatPulse rated Cat's Cradle: 4 stars
OffbeatPulse rated Don't Panic: 5 stars
Don't Panic by Neil Gaiman, David K. Dickson, M. J. Simpson, and 1 other
'It's all absolutely devastatingly true -- except the bits that are lies' Douglas Adams
Don't Panic celebrates the life of …
OffbeatPulse rated The Robots of Dawn: 4 stars
The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov (Robot, #3)
A millennium into the future two advances have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and …
OffbeatPulse rated The Old Man and the Sea: 4 stars
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner classics)
The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and …
OffbeatPulse rated Independence Day: 4 stars
OffbeatPulse rated The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: 4 stars
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in …
OffbeatPulse rated Middlesex: 4 stars
OffbeatPulse rated The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini: 4 stars
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini by Khaled Hosseini
1970s Afghanistan: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help …
OffbeatPulse rated The Time Traveler's Wife: 5 stars
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, Laurel Lefkow, William Hope
The Time Traveler's Wife is the debut novel by the American author Audrey Niffengger, published in 2003. It is a …