All Books

The fifth and final book Douglas Adams wrote in the Hitchhiker's Guide series — which he subtitled 'the fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Trilogy.' Arthur Dent searches for a home across parallel Earths while a darker, more fatalistic comedy takes hold.

Pauline Réage's notorious 1954 French erotic novel. A Parisian fashion photographer known only as O submits to extreme sexual and psychological domination in the name of love — a controversial, elegantly written, and deeply unsettling exploration of desire, submission, and the erasure of the self.

Thornton Wilder's debut novel — a young American writer arrives in Rome and is drawn into the orbit of a secretive aristocratic circle whose members may be the old gods of Olympus in disguise.

A historical novel about Perkin Warbeck, the pretender who claimed to be Richard, Duke of York — the younger of the two Princes in the Tower — and whose attempt to claim the English throne from Henry VII ended in defeat and execution. Shelley treats Warbeck as a genuine prince, making the novel a sustained meditation on legitimacy, loyalty, and the human cost of failed causes.

Rupert Sent Leger inherits a fortune and travels to a Balkan land called the Land of the Blue Mountains, where he encounters a mysterious woman in a shroud who may be a vampire — or a princess in disguise. Gothic horror merges with Ruritanian adventure in Stoker's politically ambitious late novel.

Michael Crichton's satirical thriller weaves together multiple storylines involving biotech corporations, genetic patents, talking transgenic animals, and the researchers, lawyers, and patients caught in the commercialization of the human genome. It is a darkly comedic indictment of an industry racing ahead of its own ethics.

Four north Londoners — each shaped by the same council estate — navigate adulthood differently. Smith's most formally adventurous novel abandons the warm sociability of White Teeth for fragmented, pressured prose that tries to catch consciousness in the act.

A man is beaten into a coma on the London Underground and wakes into a world he cannot trust — uncertain whether he is conscious, dreaming, or still under. A short, unsettling meditation on consciousness and reality.

Sophie Honeywell inherits a house on Scribbly Gum Island from her great-aunt Connie — an island famous for the unsolved Munro Baby Mystery of 1932 — and finds herself drawn into a community of women keeping secrets that have lasted for generations.

The long-awaited sequel to Shantaram, returning to Lin and the Bombay underworld for another epic of crime, philosophy, love, and the city that never lets its inhabitants go.

In a near-future America where women are restricted to 100 words per day by government-issued wrist counters, neurolinguist Dr. Jean McClellan must rediscover her voice when the regime suddenly needs her expertise.