Top 10 Greatest Novels of All Time

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  • Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    • ASIN: 0385333846
    • ISBN: 0812988523
    • Brand: Delta
    • Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback

    Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most.

  • A Hundred Summers

    • ASIN: 0425270033
    • ISBN: 0425270033
    • Brand: Berkley Publishing Group
    • Manufacturer: Berkley

    As the 1938 hurricane approaches Rhode Island, another storm brews in this New York Times bestselling beach read from the author of The Summer Wives and The Golden Hour. Lily Dane has returned to Seaview, Rhode Island, where her family has summered for generations. It’s an escape not only from New York’s social scene but from a heartbreak tha... [Read More]

  • Midnight's Children: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    • ASIN: 0812976533
    • ISBN: 9780812976533
    • Brand: Brand: Random House Trade Paperbacks
    • Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

    The iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to “a glittering novelist—one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling” (The New Yorker)WINNER OF THE BEST OF THE BOOKERS • SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time... [Read More]

  • Ragtime: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    • ASIN: 0812978188
    • ISBN: 9780812978186
    • Brand: Random House Trade
    • Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

    Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War.The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape... [Read More]

  • Invisible Man (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    • ASIN: 0679601392
    • ISBN: 9780679601395
    • Brand: Modern Library
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadInvisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestse... [Read More]

  • Deliverance (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    • ASIN: 038531387X
    • ISBN: 038531387X
    • Brand: Delta
    • Manufacturer: Delta

    “You're hooked, you feel every cut, grope up every cliff, swallow water with every spill of the canoe, sweat with every draw of the bowstring. Wholly absorbing [and] dramatic.”—Harper's Magazine The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing s... [Read More]

  • The 100 Best Novels in Translation

    • ASIN: 1903385679
    • ISBN: 1903385679
    • Manufacturer: Galileo Publishers

    The author's choice of the 100 best novels in translation drawn from all around the world. Each entry has a two page piece on the book in question. His selection is truly international, thought provoking and his critiques are brilliant.

  • One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

    • ASIN: 0060883286
    • ISBN: 9780060883287
    • Brand: Gabriel Garc 237 a M 225 rquez
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul -- this novel is a masterpiece... [Read More]

  • From Here to Eternity: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    • ASIN: 0812984315
    • ISBN: 0812984315
    • Brand: Dial Press
    • Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeTHE COMPLETE UNCENSORED EDITION • THE WORLD WAR II MASTERPIECE AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE READ • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD   Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the company’s ... [Read More]

  • Heart of Darkness & Selections from The Congo Diary

    • ASIN: 037575377X
    • ISBN: 037575377X
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadIntroduction by Caryl PhillipsCommentary by H. L. Mencken, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chinua Achebe, and Philip GourevitchOriginal... [Read More]

  • The Great American Read: The Book of Books: Explore America's 100 Best-Loved Novels

    • ASIN: B0796RJ84J
    • Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal

    A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series. What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series with a 2-hour special in May 2018 revealing America's 100 best-lo... [Read More]

  • Heart of Darkness: and Selections from The Congo Diary (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    • ASIN: B000FC1II6
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

  • One of Us Is Lying

    • ASIN: 1524714682
    • ISBN: 1524714682
    • Brand: DELACORTE
    • Manufacturer: Delacorte Press

    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!“Pretty Little Liars meets The Breakfast Club” (EW.com) in this “flat-out addictive” (RT Book Reviews) story of what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive.   Pay close attention and you might solve this.On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detentio... [Read More]

  • The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text with Faulkner's Appendix (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    • ASIN: 0679600175
    • ISBN: 0679600175
    • Brand: Modern Library
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeFrom the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner—also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, and Selected Short StoriesThe Sound and the Fury, first published in 1929, is perhaps William Fa... [Read More]

  • One, None and a Hundred Thousand

    • ASIN: 1684221080
    • ISBN: 1684221080
    • Manufacturer: Martino Fine Books

    2017 Reprint of 1933 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.  Pirandello began writing it in 1909. In an autobiographical letter, published in 1924, the author refers to this work as the "...bitterest of all, profoundly humoristic, about the decomposition of life….”  Vitangelo, the ... [Read More]

  • The One Hundred Nights of Hero: A Graphic Novel

    • ASIN: 0316259179
    • ISBN: 0316259179
    • Brand: Little Brown and Company
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

    A New York Times bestsellerAn NPR Best Book of 2016A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016In the tradition of The Arabian Nights, a beautifully illustrated tapestry of folk tales and myths about the secret legacy of female storytellers in an imagined medieval world.In the Empire of Migdal Bavel, Cherry is married to Jerome, a wicked man who makes a d... [Read More]

  • As I Lay Dying (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    • UPC: 880792745071
    • ASIN: 0375504524
    • ISBN: 0375504524
    • Brand: Modern Library
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeFrom the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner—also available are Snopes, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, and Selected Short StoriesOne of William Faulkner’s finest novels, As I Lay Dying, ori... [Read More]

  • The 100 Complete Boxed Set

    • ASIN: 0316551368
    • ISBN: 0316551368
    • Brand: Little Brown Books for Young Readers
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

    Read the books that inspired the CW show! All four thrilling novels in The 100 series are now available in this paperback boxed set.Ever since nuclear war destroyed our planet, humanity has been living on city-like spaceships hovering above the toxic surface. As far as anyone knows, no one has stepped foot on Earth in centuries--that is, until one ... [Read More]

  • To Kill a Mockingbird

    • ASIN: 0060935464
    • ISBN: 0060935464
    • Brand: Harper Perennial
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

    Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American ReadHarper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatredOne of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold m... [Read More]

  • Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper Books 1-3: Three complete novels

    • ASIN: B072W96S4N

    This set of three complete novels follows Ellie Jordan, a paranormal detective in the heavily haunted city of Savannah, Georgia. Ellie uses a combination of historical research, ghost-hunting technology, and stubborn toughness to protect her clients and remove dangerous entities from their homes.Included in this set:Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper (boo... [Read More]

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