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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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

Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Bantam Classics) by Jules Verne

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 …

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville (New Crobuzon, #1)

Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and …

Meditations in green by Wright, Stephen

Infrastructure by Brian Hayes

A thread across the ocean by John Steele Gordon

"Today, in a world in which news flashes around the globe in an instant, time lags are inconceivable. In the …

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami