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A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens During the French Revolution a young Englishman gives up his life to save the husband of the woman…
The Jungle Book
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 9+ The unforgettable story of Mowgli—a boy raised by a pack of wolves—as he learns indelible lessons about the laws…
Great Expectations
Great Expectations Charles Dickens Ages 12+ In this unflaggingly suspenseful story of aspirations and moral redemption, humble, orphaned Pip, a ward of his short-tempered older…
Wonderstruck
Wonderstruck Brian Selznick Ages 8-11 Ben and Rose secretly wish their lives were different. Ben longs for the father he has never known. Rose dreams…
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
The Invention of Hugo Cabret Brian Selznick Ages 8+ Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station,…
Muggie Maggie
Muggie Maggie Beverly Cleary Ages 8-9 At first, Maggie is just feeling plain stubborn when she declares she won’t learn cursive. What’s wrong with print, anyway?…
Graceling Realm Series (Books 1-5)
Graceling Realm Series (Books 1-5) Kristin Cashore Ages 14+ Graceling tells the story of the vulnerable-yet-strong Katsa, who is smart and beautiful and lives in…
Daughters of the Moon Series (books 1-13)
Daughters of the Moon Series (books 1-13) Lynne Ewing Ages 12+ Vanessa, who has always had the special power to become invisible, discovers that she…
Anonymous Diaries (Books 1-7)
Anonymous Diaries (Books 1-7) The author of this diary began journaling on her sixteenth birthday. She lived in an upper middle class neighborhood in Santa…
Watersong Series (Books 1-4)
Watersong Series (Books 1-4) Amanda Hocking Ages 12-18 An ancient curse robbed Gemma Fisher of everything that matters most―her friends, her family and the guy…
Septimus Heap Series (Books 1-7)
Septimus Heap Series (Books 1-7) Angie Sage Ages 8-11 Septimus Heap, the seventh son of the seventh son, disappears the night he is born, pronounced…
A Wrinkle in Time Series (Books 1-5)
A Wrinkle in Time Series (Books 1-5) Madeleine L’Engle Ages 9+ A Wrinkle in Time―One of the most significant novels of our time. This fabulous,…
The Art of Keeping Cool
The Art of Keeping Cool Janet Taylor Lisle Ages 10-13 Set during World War II, young Robert worries about his cousin who, an artist himself,…
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie Ages 11+ Junior is a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined…
My Brother’s Keeper
My Brother’s Keeper Ages 10-11 Patricia McCormick When their father leaves, the Malone family falls into despair and the middle child, Toby, is suddenly left…
Boy 21
Boy 21 Matthew Quick Basketball has always been an escape for Finley. He lives in broken-down Bellmont, a town ruled by the Irish mob, drugs,…
1984
1984 George Orwell Winston Smith and Julia, whose falling in love is also an act of rebellion against the Party. Opposing them are the massed…
All the Bright Places
All the Bright Places Jennifer Niven Ages 15+ Theodore Finch is fascinated by death. Every day he thinks of ways he might kill himself, but…
The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum Ages 8+ Classics Discover the magical journey of Dorothy, Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly…
The Black Stallion
The Black Stallion Walter Farley Ages 7-11 First published in 1941, Walter Farley’s best-selling novel for young readers is the triumphant tale of a boy…
Rascal
Rascal Sterling North Ages 8-11 Nothing’s surprising in the North household, not even Sterling’s new pet raccoon. Rascal is only a baby when Sterling brings…
Pax
Pax Sara Pennypacker Ages 8+ Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. But one day, the unimaginable happens:…
Old Yeller
Old Yeller Fred Gipson Classics When his father sets out on a cattle drive toward Kansas for the summer, fourteen-year-old Travis Coates is left to…
Little House on the Prairie
Little House on the Prairie Laura Ingalls Wilder Classics Laura Ingalls and her family are heading to Kansas! Leaving behind their home in the Big Woods…
Beginnings
Beginnings Carol Lynn Pearson There is joy in beginning, in toddling forward? In searching? In touching light.
Talks for Tots
Talks for Tots Joyce Bowen Maughan Suggested stories and poems for short inspirational talks.
Faith Is Not Blind
Faith Is Not Blind Bruce C. Hafen Enhance both your gospel study and your personal journaling efforts. The Gospel Classics Journal Editions provide large, faintly…
The Note
The Note Angela Hunt Newspaper columnist Peyton MacGruder’s advice column, The Heart Healer, is floundering–and so is she. Once passionate about helping others, Peyton now…
21 Days Closer to Christ
21 Days Closer to Christ Emily Freeman Nestled between the covers of this beautifully illustrated book is an invitation–an invitation to come closer to Christ…
Texas Hold ‘EM
Texas Hold ‘EM Kinky Friedman The irrepressible, future Governor of Texas is back with a crusade to stop the wussification of the Lone Star State….
My Story: Elizabeth Smart
My Story: Elizabeth Smart In this memoir, Elizabeth Smart reveals how she survived and the secret to forging a new life in the wake of…
Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother’s Murder, John Du Pont’s Madness and the Quest for Olympic Gold
Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother’s Murder, John Du Pont’s Madness and the Quest for Olympic Gold Mark Schultz On January 26, 1996, Dave…
The Boys in the Boat
The Boys in the Boat Daniel James Brown It was an unlikely quest from the start. With a team composed of the sons of loggers,…
Chords of Strength
Chords of Strength David Archuleta In Chords of Strength David shares his unexpected and inspiring journey, including how he overcame vocal cord paralysis to achieve…
Ex Libras: Confessions of a Common Reader
Ex Libras: Confessions of a Common Reader Anne Fadiman This witty collection of essays recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language. For Fadiman,…
O Pioneers!
O Pioneers! Willa Cather O Pioneers! is a classic novel by Willa Cather, first published in 1913. It tells the story of the Bergsons, a…
Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe’s critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic…
The Burning Side
The Burning Side Sarah Damoff When April and Leo’s house burns in the middle of the night, they escape with their two young children and…
The Alexandria Quartet
The Alexandria Quartet Lawrence Durrell In this world of corrupt glamour, L. G. Darley attempts to reconcile himself to the end of his affair with…
The Kitchen God’s Wife
The Kitchen God’s Wife Amy Tan A Chinese immigrant who is convinced she is dying threatens to celebrate the Chinese New Year by unburdening herself…
Code Name Helene
Code Name Helene Ariel Lawhon It is 1936 and Nancy Wake is an intrepid Australian expat living in Paris who has bluffed her way into…
The Plantagenets
The Plantagenets Dan Jones The first Plantagenet kings inherited a blood-soaked realm from the Normans and transformed it into an empire that stretched at its…
The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization
The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization Bryan Ward-Perkins Was the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness…
The Crusades
The Crusades Thomas Asbridge Nine hundred years ago, a vast Christian army, summoned to holy war by the Pope, rampaged through the Muslim world of…
Churchill: Walking with Destiny
Churchill: Walking with Destiny Andrew Roberts When we seek an example of great leaders with unalloyed courage, the person who comes to mind is Winston…
Engineering in the Ancient World
Engineering in the Ancient World J.G. Landels In his classic book, J. G. Landels describes the technological advances of the Greeks and Romans with erudition…
Blind Man’s Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
Blind Man’s Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew For decades, only a select and powerful few knew the…
The Financial Armor of God
The Financial Armor of God Murray J. Lee, CPA In The Financial Armor of God, retired CPA and former partner at two of the world’s…
The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe Dr. Steven Novella It is intimidating to realize that we live in a world overflowing with misinformation, bias, myths,…
My Voice Will Go With You
My Voice Will Go With You Sidney Rosen Milton H. Erickson has been called the most influential hypnotherapist of our time. Part of his therapy…
Reset Your Child’s Brain
Reset Your Child’s Brain Victoria L. Dunckley, MD Increasing numbers of parents grapple with children who are acting out without obvious reason. Revved up and…
The Automatic Millionaire Homeowner
The Automatic Millionaire Homeowner David Bach Owning a home has always been the American Dream, and in The Automatic Millionaire Homeowner, David Bach shows that…
The Home Edit
The Home Edit Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin Believe this: every single space in your house has the potential to function efficiently and look great….
How To Read A Book
How To Read A Book Monica Wood In this emotional book club fiction, Violet Powell, a twenty-two-year-old from Abbott Falls, Maine, is being released from…
The Bookseller of Inverness
The Bookseller of Inverness S.G. McLean After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drummossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally slashed, he survived only…
The Littlest Library
The Littlest Library Poppy Alexander Romance A little red telephone box full of stories, a chance to change her life… Jess Metcalf is perfectly content…
The Dictionary of Lost Words
The Dictionary of Lost Words Pip Williams Historical Fiction Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood…
The Book Woman’s Daughter
The Book Woman’s Daughter Kim Michele Richardson Historical Fiction In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old…
The Midnight Library
The Midnight Library Matt Haig Fantasy Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books,…
By Any Other Name
By Any Other Name Jodi Picoult Historical Fiction Young playwright Melina Green has just written a new work inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor Emilia Bassano. But seeing…
The Frozen River
The Frozen River Ariel Lawhon Historical Fiction Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine…
The House Girl
The House Girl Tara Conklin Historical Fiction Two remarkable women, separated by more than a century, whose lives unexpectedly intertwine . . . 2004: Lina Sparrow is an ambitious young…
A Song to Drown Rivers
A Song to Drown Rivers Ann Liang Fantasy Her beauty hides a deadly purpose. Xishi’s beauty is seen as a blessing to the villagers of Yue―convinced that the best fate…
All The Colors of the Dark
All The Colors of the Dark Chris Whitaker Mystery Thriller 1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Mohammed Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And…
City of Night Birds
City of Night Birds Juhea Kim Historical Fiction On a White Night in 2019, prima ballerina Natalia Leonova returns to St. Petersburg two years after a devastating accident that stalled…
The Help
The Help Kathryn Stockett Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who’s always taken orders quietly, but lately she’s unable to hold her…
Peace Like a River
Peace Like a River Leif Enger Raised on tales of cowboys and pirates, eleven-year-old Reuben Land has little doubt that miracles happen all around us,…
Churchill’s Secret Messenger
Churchill’s Secret Messenger Alan Hlad Historical Fiction London, 1941: In a cramped bunker in Winston Churchill’s Cabinet War Rooms, underneath Westminster’s Treasury building, civilian women…
What She Left Behind
What She Left Behind Ellen Marie Wiseman Historical Fiction Ten years ago, Izzy Stone’s mother fatally shot her father while he slept. Devastated by her…
All the Forgivenesses
All the Forgivenesses Elizabeth Hardinger Historical Fiction Growing up on their hardscrabble farm in rural Kentucky, fifteen-year-old Albertina “Bertie” Winslow has learned a lot from…
The Good Lord Bird
The Good Lord Bird James McBride Historical Fiction Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1856–a battleground between anti- and…
When Eight Bells Toll
When Eight Bells Toll Alistair MacLean Millions of pounds in gold bullion are being pirated in the Irish Sea. Investigations by the British Secret Service,…
The Lovely Bones
The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold “My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6,…
Gone Girl
Gone Girl Gillian Flynn On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being…
The Chemist
The Chemist Stephanie Meyer She used to work for the U.S. government, but very few people ever knew that. An expert in her field, she…
Dog On It: Chet and Bernie Mysteries (Books 1-17)
Dog On It: Chet and Bernie Mysteries (Books 1-17) Spencer Quinn Chet, the wise and lovable canine narrator of Dog on It, and Bernie, a…
Heartwood
Heartwood Amity Gaige In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished…
Joe Nuthin’s Guide To Life
Joe Nuthin’s Guide To Life Helen Fisher Fiction Joe-Nathan likes the two parts of his name separate, just like dinner and dessert. Mean Charlie at…
The Last Story Of Mina Lee
The Last Story Of Mina Lee Nancy Jooyoun Kim Fiction Margot Lee’s mother is ignoring her calls. Margot can’t understand why, until she makes a…
Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow
Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin Fiction On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a…
Lucy By The Sea
Lucy By The Sea Elizabeth Strout Fiction As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled…
Olive Kitteridge
Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher,…
Little Fires Everywhere
Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng Adult Fiction In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned – from the layout of the…
The Restaurant
The Restaurant Pamela Kelley Mandy, Emma and Jill are as close as three sisters who live hundreds of miles apart can be. They grew up…
Deep Cuts
Deep Cuts Holly Brickley It’s a Friday night in a campus bar in Berkeley, fall of 2000, and Percy Marks is pontificating about music again….
Off-Campus Series (books 1-5)
Off-Campus Series (books 1-5) Elle Kennedy Hannah Wells has finally found someone who turns her on. But while she might be confident in every other…
The Actor and the Housewife
The Actor and the Housewife Shannon Hale An utterly satisfying novel that asks the question: Can a seemingly normal, happily married Mormon mother of four…
The Lucky One
The Lucky One Nicholas Sparks After U.S. Marine Logan Thibault finds a photograph of a smiling young woman buried in the dirt during his tour…
Nights in Rodanthe
Nights in Rodanthe Nicholas Sparks Adrienne Willis is 45 and has been divorced for three years, abandoned by her husband for a younger woman. The…
Interview With a Vampire
Interview With a Vampire Anne Rice Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly sensual, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty…
The Dragon Lords Trilogy
The Dragon Lords Trilogy Jon Hollins It’s not easy to live in a world ruled by dragons. The taxes are high and their control is…
Dragon Ages (Books 1-6)
Dragon Ages (Books 1-6) David Gaider After his mother, the beloved Rebel Queen, is betrayed and murdered by her own faithless lords, young Maric becomes…
The Eight
The Eight Katherine Neville Computer expert Cat Velis is heading for a job to Algeria. Before she goes, a mysterious fortune teller warns her of…
The Host
The Host Stephenie Meyer Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their…
The Host
The Host Stephenie Meyer Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their…
The Guardian and the Thief
The Guardian and the Thief Megha Majumdar In a near-future Kolkata, Ma, her two-year-old daughter, and her elderly father are just days from leaving the…
Red Rising Trilogy
Red Rising Trilogy Pierce Brown Dystopia Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his…
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Suzanne Collins Dystopia It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games….
The Road
The Road Cormac McCarthy Dystopia A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on…
Animal Farm
Animal Farm George Orwell Dystopia Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell that satirizes the events of the Russian Revolution and the emergence…
1984
1984 George Orwell Dystopia George Orwell’s seminal work, *1984*, presents a chilling dystopia set in a totalitarian regime that surveils and controls every aspect of…