Fiction books: My favourites
Discover my top picks of favorite fiction books! Explore captivating stories, must-read novels, and timeless classics in this curated list of beloved reads.
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The Marble Faun
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Murder and romance, innocence and experience dominate this sinister novel set in mid-19th-century Rome. Three young American artists and their friend, an Italian count, find …
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Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels (LOA #10)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Written in a richly suggestive style, Hawthorne’s five world-famous novels are permeated by his own history as well as America’s In The House of the …
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Tales and Sketches
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
An authoritative edition of all the tales and sketches in a single comprehensive volume.
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The Norton Shakespeare
by William Shakespeare
Upon publication in 1997, The Norton Shakespeare set a new standard for teaching editions of Shakespeare's complete works.
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Moby-Dick, Or, The Whale
by Herman Melville
A classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale who defied capture.
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Bartleby the Scrivener, And, Benito Cereno
by Herman Melville
Melville's enigmatic 'Bartleby the Scrivener', perhaps America's best-know short story, is presented here along with 'Benito Cereno', a Gothic tale of slavery and rebellion at …
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Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi (LOA #1)
by Herman Melville
This first volume of The Library of America's three-volume edition of the complete prose works of Herman Melville includes three romances of the South Seas. …
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Herman Melville: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick (LOA #9)
by Herman Melville
Well over a century after its publication, Moby-Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic. It is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing …
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Moby-Dick, Billy Budd, and Other Writings
by Herman Melville
Herman Melville's brilliant works remain vital and provocative for their dark ebullience and visionary power. The sweep of his writings- encompassing ferocious social satire, agonized …
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The Complete Tales of Winnie-The-Pooh
by A. A. Milne
This exquisite, deluxe edition contains the complete illustrated texts of both Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner. In full-color and featuring a satin ribbon …
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Invisible Cities
by Italo Calvino
In Kublai Khan's garden, at sunset, the young Marco Polo diverts the aged emperor from his obsession with the impending end of his empire with …
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
by Laurence Sterne
A novel about writing a novel is the subject of this complex classic which has been described as the greatest shaggy dog story in the …
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
by Tobias Smollett
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Tobias Smollett's last published novel and most celebrated work, appeared in June 1771, three months before the author's death. A …
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The Betrothed
by Alessandro Manzoni
“The great plague novel.” —The New Yorker Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two …
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At Swim-Two-Birds
by Flann O'Brien
A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, "At Swim-Two-Birds" is the story of a young, lazy, and frequently drunk Irish college student who …
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An Imaginary Life
by David Malouf
In the first century A.D., Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverent poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the …
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The Decameron
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Set against the backdrop of the fourteenth-century Black Death, an anthology of one hundred interlinked tales presents a variety of works recounted by the citizens …
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The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers
by Henry James
A literary historian develops a scheme to gain possession of love letters written by an American poet, and a governess tries to protect the two …
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The Complete Stories of Noël Coward
by Noël Coward
"This one-volume edition contains the complete collection of Coward's short stories, twenty in all, spanning fifty years of his life. Originally published as To Step …
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The Home Girls
by Olga Masters
A collection of short stories examines the lives of the people of the Depression-era Australian outback, probing notions of broken bonds of love and family …
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I'm Not Scared
by Niccolò Ammaniti
In the summer of 1978 in a small Italian village, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano loses his innocence of childhood when he accidentally uncovers a dark secret …
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The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
by Vladimir Nabokov
From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a …
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Tales from the Drones Club
by P. G. Wodehouse
The Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets of the Drones Club tell all, in 21 stories as lively as a Boat Race Night party.
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The Incredible Shrinking Man
by Richard Matheson
Affected by radiation, the main character, a family man in suburbia begins to shrink so that the safe and comforting aspects of home become ever …
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Dawn Attack
by Brian Callison
A British commando raid on a Nazi outpost spotlights the universal motives and fears of soldiers.
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The Soloist
by Mark Salzman
As a child, Renne showed promise of becoming one of the world's greatest cellists. Now, years later, his life suddenly is altered by two events: …
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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
Catch-22 is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a …
