Lists and Suggestions

List: Celebrity Narrators

A provocative imagining of the later years of the mother of Jesus finds her living a solitary existe...

O'Brien, Tim

The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mit...

Lee, Harper

Go Set a Watchman features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later...

Greene, Graham

In London, just after World War II, a love flourishes between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah Miles. Witho...

Motion, Andrew

"In the eastern reaches of the Thames lies the Hispaniola, an inn kept by Jim Hawkins and his s...

Taylor, John

John Taylor presents a collection of short stories featuring legendary sleuth Sherlock Holmes....

Mandela, Nelson

Presents 22 tales, chiefly from South Africa and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, as written a...

Waugh, Evelyn

Waugh's classic and most widely read novel is brought to life by acclaimed actor Jeremy Irons. ...

Dylan, Bob

Bob Dylan's Chronicles: Volume One explores the critical junctions in his life and career....

Ephron, Delia

A collection of nonfiction essays featuring a story about the author's sister, Nora Ephron....

Black, Benjamin,

In the debut crime novel from the Booker Prize-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corp...

Kerouac, Jack

"On the Road "chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent ...

Giffin, Emily

When plastic surgeon Nick Russo takes the case of a six-year-old burn victim, he becomes attracted t...

Lee, Harper

Scout Finch, daughter of the town lawyer Atticus, has just started school; but her carefree days com...

Willingham, Bill

"When an unspeakable tragedy befalls a family of traveling minstrels, they become stranded and ...

Hardy, Thomas

A young beauty who feels trapped living in the country with her grandfather plots her escape with a ...

Homer

Homer's best-loved epic, recounting Odysseus's wanderings after the Trojan War. With wit a...

Laurie, Hugh

Cold-blooded murder just isn't Thomas Lang's cup of tea. Offered a bundle to assassinate a...

Vonnegut, Kurt

When an American is captured by German soldiers during World War II, he becomes unstuck in time and ...

Collins, Max Allan

This follow-up to "Road to Perdition" begins in 1942, and young Michael O'Sullivan, t...

Chabon, Michael

A physician and an ex-soldier travelling through the Caucasus Mountains, circa a.d. 950, meet a prin...

Horowitz, Anthony

It is 1890. A year after Holmes's death, Watson--now in a retirement home--narrates a tale of S...

Johnson, Nelson

"Through most of the 20th century, Atlantic City was controlled by a powerful partnership of lo...

Hemingway, Ernest

A story of expatriate Americans and British living in Paris after the First World War....

Moriarty, Laura

A novel about the friendship between an adolescent, pre-movie-star Louise Brooks, and the 36-year-ol...

Rendell, Ruth

Fifty-year-old Eugene Wren inherited from his father an art gallery near an arcade that now sells ca...

Richards, Keith

The lead guitarist for The Rolling Stones recounts his life, from a youth obsessed with Chuck Berry ...

Marlantes, Karl

In the monsoon season of 1968-69 at a fire support base called Matterhorn, located in the remote mou...

Adams, Douglas,

Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off th...

Haygood, Wil

When acclaimed Washington Post writer Wil Haygood had an early hunch that Obama would win the 2008 e...