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In the Beginning...was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the featured authors in Granta’s “Best of Young …

When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger

The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien

Joy Luck Club-O.M. by Amy Tan

Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In …

Dreaming in code by Scott Rosenberg

Little Fuzzy (Fuzzy Sapiens, #1) by H. Beam Piper

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Stephen Dedalus grows up in Dublin, feeling different from the other boys. His childhood and adolescence are shaped by bullying, …

Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune, #1)

Dune is a 1965 science-fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials in Analog magazine. …

Ulysses - Abridged by James Joyce, Michael Fallon

Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal action and controversy. The novel …

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Revised and Updated

The Annotated Lolita is the definitive annotated text of the modern classic, written by one of the …

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Catch-22 is like no other novel. It has its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth …

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young Italian star-crossed lovers …