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As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Written in stream-of-consciousness style with multiple narrators, the story follows a journey wherein the family of a dead woman try …

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Extraordinary Voyages, #6) by Jules Verne

Light in August by William Faulkner (Vintage international)

One of Faulkner's most admired and accessible novels, "Light in August reveals the great American author at the height of …

To Kill a Mockingbird by Fred Fordham, Harper Lee

The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke

The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories, published in October 2006, is a collection of eight short stories by …

The grass harp by Truman Capote

Set in a small Southern town in the 1930s, this classic work tells the story of three endearing misfits--an orphaned …

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (Modern Library Books -- 187)

In many ways this was an experimental novel, using several differing narrative styles. Divided into four parts, the author relates …

Around the world in eighty days by Jules Verne (Penguin classics)

Phileas Fogg, a very punctual man had broken into an argument while conversing about the recent bank robbery. To keep …

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Boxed Three Volume Collector's Edition by Susanna Clarke

Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Its …

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It …

Sandwalk adventures : an adventure in evolution told in five chapters by Jay S Hosler

The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis