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Waiting Written by Ha Jin Ha Jin's novel Waiting was the winner of the 1999 winner of the National Book Award for Fiction. This quietly poignant novel of love and repression in Communist China begins in 1966 when Lin Kong, an army doctor, falls in love... Read More The Wake of the Wind Written by J. California Cooper In a South devastated by the Civil War, African Americans and whites alike faced the awesome task of adjusting to a new social and economic order. The Wake of the Wind focuses on Lifee, a beautiful, educated former house slave, and... Read More Walking Into the Night Written by Olaf Olafsson Christian Benediktsson has led a quiet life as William Randolph Hearst’s butler for twenty years. No one knows his past, that he was once a husband, father, businessman, lover. His days are filled with the rituals of caring for a grand... Read More War and Peace Written by Leo Tolstoy Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky War and Peace, on which Tolstoy spent “five years of ceaseless and exclusive labor,” from 1863 to 1868, is generally acknowledged to be one of the greatest novels ever written. It centers broadly on the effects of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia... Read More War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning Written by Chris Hedges In the introduction to his searing portrait of war, Chris Hedges writes, “I have been in ambushes on desolate stretches of Central American roads, shot at in the marshes of southern Iraq, imprisoned in the Sudan, beaten by Saudi military police... Read More War Trash Written by Ha Jin When Yu Yuan, a seventy-three-year-old Chinese man, visits his son and grandchildren in America he writes a memoir to leave as a legacy for them. War Trash is that memoir: it describes the time he spent as a Communist “volunteer” soldier... Read More The Wasted Vigil Written by Nadeem Aslam The Wasted Vigil takes readers into the very heart of Afghanistan, revealing the impact of the large historical and religious forces—the decades of war, exploitation, and fundamentalist repression—on the lives of five remarkable characters. Marcus, an English doctor who has lived... Read More The Water's Lovely Written by Ruth Rendell In Ismay's dreams about the day her stepfather was murdered, she opens the door of the upstairs bathroom and sees his naked body floating in the tub, his dead eyes full of fear. She hears her mother screaming at her not... Read More A Way From Home Written by Nancy Clark When Becky and Alden Lowe move to Prague along with their teenage daughter, all bets are off in this village comedy gone global. Nancy Clark has given us a fresh take on Americans abroad in her funny yet sharp account of... Read More The Wedding Written by Dorothy West In February 1995 Dorothy West, the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, published The Wedding, her first novel in 47 years. Hailed as a triumph by critics and readers alike, the book spent most of 1995 at the top of... Read More What Is the What Written by Dave Eggers In the preface to What Is the What, Valentino Achak Deng calls the book “the soulful account of my life: from the time I was separated from my family in Marial Bai to the thirteen years I spent in Ethiopian and... Read More When Bad Things Happen to Good People Written by Harold S. Kushner As a young theology student, Harold Kushner puzzled over the Book of Job. As a small-town rabbi he counseled other people through pain and grief. But not until he learned that his three-year-old son Aaron would die in his early teens... Read More When Madeline Was Young Written by Jane Hamilton When Aaron Maciver’s beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers a head injury in a bicycle crash, she is left with the mental capabilities of a six-year-old. In the years that follow, Aaron and his second wife care for Madeline with deep tenderness... Read More When the Emperor Was Divine Written by Julie Otsuka Julia Otsuka’s quietly disturbing novel opens with a woman reading a sign in a post office window. It is Berkeley, California, the spring of 1942. Pearl Harbor has been attacked, the war is on, and though the precise message on the... Read More When We Were Orphans Written by Kazuo Ishiguro The maze of human memory--the ways in which we accommodate and alter it, deceive and deliver ourselves with it--is territory that Kazuo Ishiguro has made his own. In his previous novels, he has explored this inner world and its manifestations in... Read More When We Were Romans Written by Matthew Kneale Unfolding through the eyes of a perceptive little boy, When We Were Romans showcases the captivating storytelling power of award-winning novelist Matthew Kneale. Narrating a trip you will not soon forget, nine-year-old Lawrence describes the day his mother whisked him from... Read More While My Sister Sleeps Written by Barbara Delinsky A master storyteller, bestselling author Barbara Delinsky has captivated millions of readers worldwide with her emotionally powerful novels. While My Sister Sleeps takes the intensity to new heights. This is the story of a family forced to confront difficult truths, while... Read More A Whistling Woman Written by A.S. Byatt Frederica Potter is leading the life of an independent single mother during a time of great social change in Britain in the late 1960s. Television is still an intimidating and powerful new phenomenon; psychoanalysis and genetics present new challenges to students... Read More White Teeth Written by Zadie Smith The story begins on New Year's morning 1975 when Archie Jones, disheartened by a failed marriage, seals up the windows of his car and waits for the exhaust fumes to end his life. Archie's suicide is interrupted by a Muslim butcher... Read More The White Written by Deborah Larsen In the spring of 1758 Mary Jemison and her family were taken captive by a Shawnee raiding party near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. While the rest of her family was killed by the Shawnee, Mary was chosen for adoption by a Seneca family... Read More Who Will Write Our History? Written by Samuel D. Kassow In one of the most remarkable and audacious endeavors of World War II, a group of historians, writers, rabbis, social workers, and teachers in the Warsaw Ghetto dedicated themselves to creating a record of Jewish life under the Nazi occupation. Established... Read More The Whole World Over Written by Julia Glass Greenie Duquette, a Greenwich Village pastry chef and the mother of a young boy, is the force at the heart of this rich novel about the choices we make in love and marriage. When a piece of her coconut cake is... Read More The Whore's Child Written by Richard Russo A jaded Hollywood moviemaker uncovers a decades-old flame he never knew he’d harbored. A precocious fifth grader puzzles over life, love, and baseball as he watches his parents’ marriage dissolve. Another child is forced into a harrowing cross-country escape whose actual... Read More Wickett's Remedy Written by Myla Goldberg Set in Boston in the early years of the twentieth century, Wickett’s Remedy follows the shifting fortunes of Lydia Kilkenny, who dreams of rising above the limitations of Southie, the hardscrabble Irish working- class neighborhood where she was born. When Lydia takes... Read More Wintering Written by Kate Moses Wintering is the story of a woman forging a new life for herself after her marriage has foundered. She shuts up her beloved Devonshire house and makes a home for her two young children in London, elated at completing the collection... Read More Woman Written by Natalie Angier In this extraordinarily wide-ranging exploration, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times science writer Natalie Angier lifts the veil of secrecy from that most enigmatic of evolutionary masterpieces, the female body, exploring the essence of what it means to be a woman. Witty... Read More [ Back to top ] |
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Wildly suspenseful...an intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller."
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