By John Steinbeck
They are an unlikely pair: George is “small and quick and dark of face”; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they...
By George Orwell,
Erich Fromm (Afterword)
1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still...
By Frank Herbert
Here is the novel that will be forever considered Frank Herbert's triumph of the imagination.Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of...
By Harper Lee
The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an...
By S.E. Hinton
Librarian note: See this edition record for the Laurel-Leaf Books/Dell edition that may have been published with ISBN 014240733X.No one ever said...
By Vaclav Smil
There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.--Bill Gates An essential guide to understanding how numbers reveal the true...
By William Golding,
E.L. Epstein (afterword)
Librarian's note: Alternate cover editions can be found here, here, here and here.When a plane crashes on a remote island, a small group of...
By Elie Wiesel,
Marion Wiesel (Translator),
François Mauriac (Foreword)
Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to Auschwitz...
By Ray Bradbury,
Neil Gaiman (Introduction)
Sixty years after its publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a...