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Historical Fiction >
Novel by the Belgian-born French writer Marguerite Yourcenar about the life and death of the Roman Emperor Hadrian.
Literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published serially, then published in its entirety in 1869. …
Children’s Fiction
Children’s novel written and illustrated by Louise Fitzhugh that was published in 1964. It has been called “a milestone in children’s literature” and a “classic”. …
American children’s book written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd
Memoir >
D. J. Waldie’s account of growing up in the 1950s in Lakewood, then California’s largest planned suburb.
Autobiography based on a series of in-depth interviews journalist Alex Haley conducted between 1963 and Malcolm X’s 1965 assassination.
YA Fiction >
Children’s novel about a half-Cherokee boy who is stolen away from his family by the US Government.
Work by T. H. White loosely based upon the 1485 book Le Morte d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction
Science Fiction >
2009 book that collects almost all of the Cosmicomic stories by Italian postmodern writer Italo Calvino
Collection of short stories by American writer Ted Chiang originally published in 2002 by Tor Books
1951 post-apocalyptic novel by the English science fiction author John Wyndham