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Kerouac Jack by Jack Kerouac

Described as everything from a "last gasp" of romantic fiction to a founding text of the Beat Generation movement, this …

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas …

Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger, Jr. (Ragged Dick series -- 1)

"Ragged Dick" was contributed as a serial story to the pages of the Schoolmate, a well-known juvenile magazine, during the …

Flintlock and Tomahawk New England in King Philip's War by Douglas Edward Leach, Samuel Morison

Bad Gays by Huw Lemmey, Ben Miller

Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the …

The Last Samurai by Helen Dewitt

Sibylla, an American-at-Oxford turned loose on London, finds herself trapped as a single mother after a misguided one-night stand. High-minded …

A Passage to India by Edward Morgan Forster

A Passage to India is a 1924 novel by English author E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the …

Palaces for the People by Eric Klinenberg

How can we bring people together?

Sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg introduces a transformative and powerfully uplifting new …

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, Richard Matheson (duplicate)

I Am Legend is a 1954 post-apocalyptic horror novel by American writer Richard Matheson that was influential in the modern …

Of one blood, or, The hidden self by Pauline E. Hopkins, Pauline Hopkins (The Givens collection)

You Have a New Memory by Aiden Arata

Call It Sleep by Henry Roth, Alfred Kazin

No-No Boy by John Okada

A Japanese-American decides not to serve in the war. The book unfolds the societal and familial consequences he faces for …

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

McTeague by Frank Norris

It was Sunday, and, according to his custom on that day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon …