The Seaman’s Guide: How to Live Comfortably at Sea by John Cochrane
How to live comfortably at sea… complete directions for baking bread.
Category: Classics
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
A luminous and haunting novel.
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
With it’s startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter’s life is miserable. His parents are dead and he’s stuck with his heartless relatives, who force him to live in a tiny closet under the stairs.
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
The Book of Five Rings was composed in 1643 by the famed duelist and undefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi.
Journey to the Center of the Earth (Extraordinary Voyages #3) by Jules Verne
The intrepid Professor Liedenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano…
Canoeing in the Wilderness by Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau’s poetic yet realistic observations of the landscape are accompanied by his accounts of day-to-day events.
Voltaire Candide, or Optimism by Voltaire
Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in “the best of all possible worlds.”
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army of World War I.
Hawaii by James A. Michener
Pulitzer Prize–winning author James A. Michener brings Hawaii’s epic history vividly to life in a classic saga.
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse.
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations…