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The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt
Format: Ebook

At thirteen, Theo survives a terrorist attack that kills his mother and leaves an art museum in ruins. In the rubble, he steals a painting of a goldfinch, and that painting follows him for the rest of his life, from Las Vegas to antique stores to Amsterdam and the underground art world....
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The Stand

Stephen King - Doubleday
Format: Book

This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent...
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A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara - Doubleday
Format: Ebook

When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born...
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The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Modern Library
Format: Hardcover

The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's crowning achievement, is a tale of patricide and family rivalry that embodies the moral and spiritual dissolution of an entire society (Russia in the 1870s) . It created a national furor comparable only to the excitement stirred by the publication,...
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House of Earth and Blood

Sarah J. Maas
Format: electronic resource

A #1 New York Times bestseller!Sarah J. Maas's brand-new CRESCENT CITY series begins with House of Earth and Blood: the story of half-Fae and half-human Bryce Quinlan as she seeks revenge in a contemporary fantasy world of magic, danger, and searing romance. Bryce Quinlan had the perfect...
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The Pillars of the Earth

Ken Follett - Signet
Format: Hardcover

Adventure saga of 12th century England, from a stone mason whose dream is to build a glorious cathedral to a man of God in a web of dangerous political intrigue.
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Middlemarch

George Eliot
Format: Ebook

Eliot rotates between a cast of characters in a small town. Dorothea Brooke is of the upper class with superior intellect and grace. Everyone is disappointed when she marries Mr. Casaubon, a man far older than she, in the hopes that he would help her intellect grow. Mr. Lydgate, a new doctor...
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The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K Le Guin - Saga Pr
Format: Print book

Every novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, an icon in American literature, collected for the first time - and introduced by the legendary author - in one breathtaking volume.Ursula K. Le Guin has won multiple prizes and accolades from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters...
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