Howl’s Moving Castle
There is a particular kind of enchantment that Diana Wynne Jones casts across her 1986 fairy-tale novel, and it is the enchantment of a writer…
Retailers that deliver to: USThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Arnold Spirit Jr. - Junior to everyone who matters - narrates his freshman year with the kind of voice that rarely survives the edit. He is…
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini's debut novel is a gut-punch of a book - one that weaves together personal guilt, fractured friendship, and the slow…
Speak
Speak opens on the first day of high school for Melinda Sordino, a girl who has already been cast out before she sets foot through the door. After…
Beloved
Beloved opens with one of the most arresting first lines in American fiction - "124 was spiteful" - and never lets up from there. Set in…
The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale is one of the most unsettling novels you will ever read - not because it trades in the grotesque…
The Color Purple
The Color Purple's opening - a stepfather's warning to a fourteen-year-old girl never to tell anyone but God what he has done to her -…
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Some books arrive with so much cultural weight attached that opening them feels less like reading than like entering a room everyone else has…
Slaughterhouse-Five
There are war novels that try to make sense of the thing, and then there is Slaughterhouse-Five, which gives up on sense entirely and is stronger…
The Catcher in the Rye
Returning to J.D. Salinger's 1951 novel decades after first encountering it in a high-school classroom is a disorienting experience, because…
Brave New World
Almost a century on from its 1932 publication, Brave New World remains one of the stranger, sharper dystopias in the Western canon - a novel that…
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing Reading and Life
There is a particular kind of book that arrives trailing the aura of a coveted classroom, and George Saunders' A Swim in a Pond in the Rain…
