The Library Book
A 1986 fire destroyed 400,000 books at the Los Angeles Central Library. Who set it and why? Susan Orlean investigates the unsolved mystery while celebrating libraries and the people who run them.
84, Charing Cross Road
A New York writer and a London bookseller exchange letters for 20 years, never meeting but forging an unforgettable friendship through their shared love of rare books.
A Gentleman in Moscow
A Russian aristocrat sentenced to house arrest in Moscow's grand Metropol Hotel for over 30 years finds unexpected friendship, romance, and purpose within its walls.
The Booklover's Library
A widow in WWII Nottingham finds work at a lending library, then must evacuate her daughter. Can books and community help her survive the Blitz and reunite her family?
A Moveable Feast
Hemingway's intimate memoir of 1920s Paris, where he lived poor but happy among literary giants like Fitzgerald, Stein, and Joyce while learning his craft.
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
A raw, unforgettable story of resilience and redemption. Four siblings raised by brilliant but alcoholic parents learn to survive poverty and neglect, then escape to build new lives.
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
Pulitzer Prize winner chronicles a childhood of crushing poverty, alcoholism, and hunger in 1930s Limerick, Ireland told with stunning humor and heartbreaking honesty.
Ready Player Two A Novel
Wade Watts uncovers a brain-interfacing technology that makes virtual reality dangerously addictive, triggering a deadly quest for seven shards as humanity's fate hangs in the balance.
Ready Player One A Novel
In 2045, a poor teenager hunts for a hidden Easter egg in a virtual reality world that promises a massive fortune and control of humanity's digital escape.
My Reading Life
Pat Conroy's intimate memoir reveals how books saved his sanity, shaped his soul, and transformed a lonely boy into one of America's most beloved storytellers.