Angelou, Maya

Letter to My Daughter: Inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers.

Benioff, David

City of Thieves: A coming-of-age story brilliantly amplified by its war-torn backdrop.

Canin, Ethan

America, America: A young working-class man who goes to work for a powerful family and ends up entangled in a political debacle.

Dave, Laura

The Divorce Party: A multi-generational story about what it means to share a life with someone.

Diaz, Junot

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wo: The story of a lonely outsider with zest rather than pathos. 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Eng, Tan Twan

The Gift of Rain: Saga of intrigue that flashes back to a darkly opulent WWII-era Malaya.

Englander, Nathan

The Ministry of Special Cases: The tale of Jews threatened by Argentina's "Dirty War" of the 1970s and '80s.

Galloway, Steven

The Cellist of Sarajevo: Three people trying to survive in a city rife with extreme fear and the cellist who plays undaunted in their mist.

Harris, Thomas

The Silence of the Lambs: An instant classic of chilling psychological suspense.

Harvey, John

Cold in Hand: Valentine’s Day, and a dispute between rival gangs leaves a teenage girl dead.

Ishiguro, Kauzuo

Never Let Me Go: An ambitious scientific experiment wreaks horrendous toll in this disturbingly eloquent novel.

Jordan, Hilary

Mudbound: A compelling family tragedy, a confluence of romantic attraction and racial hatred that eventually falls like an avalanche.

Lahiri, Jhumpa

Unaccustomed Earth: Eight dazzling stories that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life.

Larsen, Erik

The Devil in the White City: Bringing Chicago to vivid life, this true tale of two men behind the legendary 1893 World's Fair.

Lipman, Elinor

Then She Found Me: The story a Latin teacher's quiet life when her biological mother, a flamboyant talk-show hostess, decides to track down her daughter after having given her up for adoption.

McCarthy, Cormac

The Road: Profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love.

Oates, Joyce Carol

The Falls: Set against the mythic historic backdrop of Niagara Falls the mid-twentieth century American family is explored in crisis.

Pamuk, Orhan

Black Book: A stunning tapestry of Middle Eastern and Islamic culture. Richly atmospheric and Rabelaisian in scope, a labyrinthine novel suffused with sights, sounds, and scents of Istanbul as it plumbs the mystery of identity, fiction, and reality.

Pamuk, Orhan

My Name is Red: A kaleidoscopic journey to the intersection of art, religion, love, sex and power.

Pamuk, Orhan

Snow: A Turkish poet who spent 12 years as a political exile in Germany witnesses firsthand the clash between radical Islam and Western ideals.

Preston, Douglas J.

The Monster of Florence: The true story of their search for--and identification of--a likely suspect, and their chilling interview with that man.

Russo, Richard

Bridge of Sighs: A moving novel about small-town America.

Russo, Richard

Empire Falls: The blue-collar heart of America in a work that overflows with hilarity, heartache, and grace. 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Smith, Tom Rob

Child 44: A gripping novel about one man's dogged pursuit of a serial killer against the opposition of Stalinist state security forces.

Stein, Garth

The Art of Racing in the Rain: A dog is the narrator in this tear-jerker about an aspiring race-car driver who suffers more woes than Job but never mistreats his dog.

Updike, John

The Witches of Eastwick: A tale of what life would be like for three divorced and bored housewives, who happen to be witches, living in the fictitious Eastwick, Rhode Island in the late 1960's.

Updike, John

Terrorist: A radically alienated Egyptian-Irish-American teenager falls under the thrall of a New Jersey storefront jihadist.

Weir, Alison

Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey: Historical expertise marries page-turning fiction in this novel, breathing new life into one of the most significant and tumultuous periods of the English monarchy.

Wiesel, Elie

Night: A candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.

Wroblewski, David

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A captivating story about a mute boy and his dogs.

Yates, Richard

Revolutionary Road: A bright, beautiful, and talented couple who have lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner.