Contact

by Carl Sagan

By human standards it could not possibly have been artificial: It was the size of a world.

Blankets

by Craig Thompson

"SHARED" is the sugar-coated way of saying We were TRAPPED in the same bed, as we were children and had no say in the ma...

Purple Hibiscus

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal acro...

Night Watch

by Terry Pratchett

Sam Vimes sighed when he heard the scream, but he finished shaving before he did anything about it.

Maskerade

by Terry Pratchett

The wind howled.

The Bachman Books (Long Walk / Rage / Roadwork / Running Man...

by Stephen King

Blaze

by Stephen King

Then She Was Gone

by Lisa Jewell

Stoner

by John Williams

This book is dedicated to my friends and former colleagues in the Department of English at the University of Missouri.

Small Gods

by Terry Pratchett, Ray Friesen

NOW CONSIDER THE TORTOISE AND the eagle.

The Host

by Stephenie Meyer

Pretty Girls

by Karin Slaughter

Women

by Charles Bukowski

I was 50 years old and hadn't been to bed with a woman for four years.

Soul Music

by Terry Pratchett

This is a story about memory.

Redeeming Love

by Francine Rivers

Angel pushed the canvas flap back just enough to look out at the mud street.

Wolf Hall

by Hilary Mantel

The Passage

by Justin Cronin

Going Postal

by Terry Pratchett

THEY SAY that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the...

The Poisonwood Bible

by Barbara Kingsolver, Dean Robertson

IMAGINE A RUIN so strange it must never have happened.

Network Effect

by Martha Wells