A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MOST PEOPLE in the publishing and education industries agree that there are some books that everyone should read.

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

I’ll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imag...

Middlesex

by Jeffrey Eugenides

I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a t...

The Song of Achilles

by Madeline Miller

MY FATHER WAS A KING AND THE SON OF KINGS.

Stone Butch Blues

by Leslie Feinberg

Liebe Theresa, ich liege auf dem Bett und vermisse Dich.

The hours

by Michael Cunningham

There are still the flowers to buy.

The Hammer of Thor

by Rick Riordan

LESSON LEARNED: If you take a Valkyrie out for coffee, you'll get stuck with the check and a dead body.

And the Band Played on

by Randy Shilts

Tall sails scraped the deep purple night as rockets burst, flared, and flourished red, white, and blue over the stoic St...

Just Kids

by Patti Smith, Patti Smith

I was asleep when he died.

Drôle de garçon

by Shyam Selvadurai

"Besides Christmas and other festive occasions, spend-the-days were the days most looked forward to by all of us, counsi...

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

by David Sedaris

When my family first moved to North Carolina, we lived in a rented house three blocks from the school where I would begi...

The Boy in the Dress

by David Walliams

Fingersmith

by Sarah Waters

Will Grayson, Will Grayson

by John Green, David Levithan

Drama

by Raina Telgemeier

Fun Home

by Alison Bechdel, Alison Bechdel

LIKE MANY FATHERS, MINE COULD OCCASIONALLY BE PREVAILED ON FOR A SPOT OF "AIRPLANE."

Written on the Body

by Jeanette Winterson

The Line of Beauty

by Alan Hollinghurst

PETER CROWTHER'S BOOK on the election was already in the shops.

Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe

by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

CERTA NOITE DE VERÃO, CAÍ NO SONO DESEJANDO que o mundo fosse diferente quando eu acordasse.

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

by Ocean Vuong