American Prometheus
Biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2005. Twenty-five years in the making, the book was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Skellig
Children’s novel by the British author David Almond, published by Hodder in 1998. It was the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year and it won the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year’s outstanding children’s book by a British author
The House of the Spirits
Debut novel of Isabel Allende
The Divine Comedy
Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Novel by Sherman Alexie written from the perspective of a Native American teenager
Little Women
Coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott .Originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869, Alcott wrote the book over several months at the request of her publisher
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Play by Edward Albee first staged in October 1962. It examines the complexities of the marriage of a middle-aged couple, Martha and George
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Book with text by American writer James Agee and photographs by American photographer Walker Evans, first published in 1941 in the United States