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1. Just William
by Richmal Crompton
Just William makes his mark in this hilarious collection of twelve classic stories. Whether it's trying to arrange a marriage for his sister or ... More
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2. The Saturdays: A Novel in the Melendy Quartet
by Elizabeth Enright
Meet the Melendys. Mona, the eldest at 13, has decided to become an actress and can recite poetry at the drop of a hat. Rush is 12 and a bit ... More
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3. The Adventurous Four: Shipwrecked!
by Enid Blyton
A wartime adventure for the four children who are shipwrecked miles off course from their destination. They discover planes and submarines belonging ... More
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4. The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck's powerful evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision of the struggle for the ... More
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5. 1984
by George Orwell
Satire on the possible horrors of a totalitarian regime in England in 1984.
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6. Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
Cover design by Harlem renaissance artist Lois Mailou Jones When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother ... More
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7. Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian, a hero who ... More
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8. A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the ... More
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9. True Grit
by Charles Portis
There is no knowing what lies in a man's heart. On a trip to buy ponies, Frank Ross is killed by one of his own workers. Tom Chaney shoots him down ... More
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10. Native Son
by Richard Wright
Bigger Thomas, a black boy, has to die in the electric chair before he can feel alive. He has to kill before he finds a reason to live - kill the ... More
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11. The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whole cycle of life: its terrors, its passions, its ambitions and rewards. Beloved by millions of readers ... More
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12. For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has ... More
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13. Kindred
by Octavia E Butler
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California ... More
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14. The Chosen
by Chaim Potok
Following a baseball game that nearly became a religious war, two Jewish boys become friends. Danny comes from the strict Hasidic sect that keeps him ... More
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15. The Crying of Lot 49
by Thomas Pynchon
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humour, "The Crying of Lot 49" opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has ... More
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16. The painted veil
by W. Somerset Maugham
Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, "The Painted Veil" is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers ... More
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17. A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry
Set in mid-1970s India, "A Fine Balance" is a subtle and compelling narrative about four unlikely characters who come together in circumstances no ... More
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18. Bastard Out of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison
Carolina in the 1950s, and Bone - christened Ruth Anna Boatwright - lives a happy life, in and out of her aunt's houses, loving her little sister ... More
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19. Franny and Zooey
by J D Salinger
Franny Glass is a pretty, effervescent college student on a date with her intellectually confident boyfriend, Lane. They appear to be the perfect ... More
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20. Riders of the Purple Sage
by Zane Grey
Jane ran her cattle business and bossed the cowboys who rode the expanse of purple sage around her prosperous Utah ranch. Then she dared disobey the ... More
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21. Johnny Got His Gun
by Dalton Trumbo
It was the war to end all wars, the global struggle that would finally make the world safe for democracy - at any cost. But one American soldier has ... More
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22. Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather
In 1848 three Cardinals and a missionary decide the fate of a parish priest, Jean Marier Latour. He is to go to New Mexico to win for Catholicism the ... More
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23. The Monkey Wrench Gang
by Edward Abbey
Audacious, controversial and hilarious, The Monkey Wrench Gang is Edward Abbey's masterpiece - a big, boisterous and unforgettable novel about ... More
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24. Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis
Businessman George F. Babbitt loves the latest appliances, brand names and the Republican party. In fact, he loves being a solid citizen even more ... More
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25. Roughing It
by Mark Twain
Mark Twain's "imaginative interpretation" of his experience as a prospector, miner, journalist in the West in Nevada, California, and the Sandwich ... More
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