10,885
11K
1994
1994
by
Achebe, Chinua
texts
eye 10,885
favorite 54
comment 1
[This book is] a simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger ...Uniquely ...African, at the same time it reveals [the author's] ... awareness of the human qualities common to men of all times and places.-Back cover
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Igbo (African people), British, Men, Race relations
5,648
5.6K
texts
eye 5,648
favorite 48
comment 1
"Book One of the After series--the Internet sensation with millions of readers. Tessa didn't plan on meeting H. during her freshman year of college. But now that she has, her life will never be the same"--
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Man-woman relationships, FICTION, FICTION, Man-woman relationships
5,425
5.4K
1978
1978
by
King, Stephen, 1947-
texts
eye 5,425
favorite 56
comment 0
June 16, 1985. That is when the horror began--the evil that started in a laboratory and took over America
Topics: Biological warfare, Biological warfare
5,121
5.1K
1986
1986
by
Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
texts
eye 5,121
favorite 28
comment 0
"This visionary novel. in which God and Government are joined, and America is run as a Puritanical Theoracy, can be read as a companion volume to Orwell's 1984-its verso, in fact. It gives you the same degree of chill, even as it suggests the varieties of tyrannical experience; it evokes the same kind of horror even as its mordant wit makes you smile." E.L.Doctorow
Topics: Man-woman relationships, Misogyny, Women
4,355
4.4K
2012
2012
by
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
texts
eye 4,355
favorite 63
comment 1
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 10,...
4,255
4.3K
1993
1993
by
Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-
texts
eye 4,255
favorite 28
comment 1
In his first novel in ten years, Ernest Gaines, the highly acclaimed author of the best-selling The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, brings us a wrenching story of death and identity in a small Cajun Louisiana community in the late 1940s. A young black named Jefferson is a reluctant party in a shoot-out in a liquor store in which the three other men involved are all killed, including the white store owner. Jefferson, the only survivor, is accused of murder. At the trial, the essence of the...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: African American men, Death row inmates, Race relations, Friendship, Roman américain
3,708
3.7K
2006
2006
by
Riordan, Rick
texts
eye 3,708
favorite 30
comment 1
Demi-god Percy Jackson and his friends must journey into the Sea of Monsters to save their camp. But first Percy will discover a secret that makes him wonder whether being claimed as Poseidon's son is an honor or a cruel joke
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Mythology, Greek, Camps, Friendship, Fathers and sons, Poseidon (Greek deity), Hades (Greek deity),...
3,245
3.2K
1998
1998
by
Margaret Atwood
texts
eye 3,245
favorite 46
comment 0
Topics: Man-woman relationships -- Fiction, Misogyny -- Fiction, Women -- Fiction
3,212
3.2K
1986
1986
by
King, Stephen, 1947-
texts
eye 3,212
favorite 13
comment 0
x, 1138 pages ; 24 cm
Topics: Horror stories, Horror tales, Good and evil -- Fiction, Maine -- Fiction, Horror fiction
2,988
3.0K
2004
2004
by
Hosseini, Khaled
texts
eye 2,988
favorite 40
comment 2
An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption, and it is also...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: Male friendship, Social classes, Betrayal, Boys
2,966
3.0K
1989
1989
by
Dangarembga, Tsitsi
texts
eye 2,966
favorite 15
comment 0
"This U.S. edition first published in 1989 by Seal Press"--T.p. verso
Topic: Women
2,921
2.9K
1987
1987
by
King, Stephen, 1947-
texts
eye 2,921
favorite 19
comment 1
In 1985, six men and one woman are called back together to search for a creature of unspeakable evil that had stalked them as children
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12
2,678
2.7K
1994
1994
by
Oliver, Mary, 1935-
texts
eye 2,678
favorite 45
comment 0
"A Harvest original."
Topics: English language, American poetry, English poetry, Poetry
2,646
2.6K
1998
1998
by
Thomas Scanlon
texts
eye 2,646
favorite 20
comment 0
Topics: Right and wrong, Judgment (Ethics)
2,581
2.6K
2007
2007
by
Riordan, Rick
texts
eye 2,581
favorite 9
comment 0
When the goddess Artemis disappears while hunting a rare, ancient monster, a group of her followers joins Percy and his friends in an attempt to find and rescue her before the winter solstice, when her influence is needed to sway the Olympian Council regarding the war with the Titans
Topics: Mythology, Greek, Artemis (Greek deity), Animals, Mythical, Monsters, Titans (Mythology),...
2,531
2.5K
2004
2004
by
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940
texts
eye 2,531
favorite 26
comment 0
Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers. But the first edition contained a number of errors resulting from Fitzgerald's...
Topics: Traffic accidents, First loves, Rich people, Mistresses, Revenge
2,494
2.5K
2011
2011
by
King, Stephen, 1947-
texts
eye 2,494
favorite 13
comment 0
Watershed moment -- The janitor's father -- Living in the past -- Sadie and the general -- 11/22/63 -- The green card man
Topics: Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 10,...
2,485
2.5K
texts
eye 2,485
favorite 10
comment 0
137 p. ; 22 cm
Topics: World War, 1939-1945 -- Denmark -- Juvenile fiction, World War, 1939-1945 -- Denmark -- Fiction,...
2,371
2.4K
2014
2014
by
Doerr, Anthony, 1973- author
texts
eye 2,371
favorite 41
comment 0
"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her...
Topics: Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12
2,336
2.3K
1958
1958
by
Uris, Leon, 1924-2003
texts
eye 2,336
favorite 9
comment 0
A novel of Israel
Topics: Exodus 1947 (Ship), Jews, Holocaust survivors, Jewish refugees, Juifs
2,306
2.3K
1996
1996
by
Nicholas Sparks
texts
eye 2,306
favorite 12
comment 0
Topics: Oral reading -- Fiction, Older people -- Fiction, North Carolina -- Fiction
2,245
2.2K
1992
1992
by
Cameron, Julia; Bryan, Mark A
texts
eye 2,245
favorite 24
comment 0
"A Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam Book"--t.p
Topics: Creative ability, Self-actualization (Psychology), Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
2,220
2.2K
1994
1994
by
Santiago, Esmeralda; Santiago, Esmeralda. Almost a woman
texts
eye 2,220
favorite 17
comment 0
Continued by: Almost a woman
Topics: Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12
2,159
2.2K
1981
1981
by
Gardner, Eldon J. (Eldon John), 1909-1989; Snustad, D. Peter, joint author
texts
eye 2,159
favorite 14
comment 0
Includes bibliographies and index
Topics: Genetics, Génétique, Genetica, Genetics
2,138
2.1K
2009
2009
by
Cullen, David, 1961-
texts
eye 2,138
favorite 26
comment 1
Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-403) and index
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Columbine High School (Littleton, Colo.), Littleton (Colo.), Columbine High School Massacre,...
2,131
2.1K
1984
1984
by
Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001
texts
eye 2,131
favorite 6
comment 0
Revised versions of 3 lectures delivered at Harvard University in Apr. 1983
Topics: Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001, Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001, Authors, American, Fiction in English American...
2,110
2.1K
1993
1993
by
Kaysen, Susanna, 1948-
texts
eye 2,110
favorite 32
comment 0
Topics: Kaysen, Susanna, 1948-, Kaysen, Susanna, 1948-, Psychiatric hospital patients, Commitment of...
2,075
2.1K
2011
2011
by
Ellen DeGeneres
texts
eye 2,075
favorite 7
comment 1
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Television personalities, Comedians, Biography
2,052
2.1K
2000
2000
by
hooks, bell, 1952-
texts
eye 2,052
favorite 37
comment 0
"A visionary and accessible book, bell hooks's All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love. Here, hooks, one of our most acute social critics, takes the themes that put her on the map - the relationship between love and sexuality, and the interconnectedness between the public and the private - and challenges the prevailing notion that romantic love is more important than all other bonds." "All About Love is a blueprint for finding myriad types of love, which hold...
Topics: Love, Feminist ethics, Feminist ethics, Love
2,035
2.0K
1976
1976
by
Anderson, E. Ruth, 1928-
texts
eye 2,035
favorite 7
comment 0
Topics: Composers, Compositeurs, Komponist, Biographie
1,963
2.0K
2007
2007
by
Hosseini, Khaled
texts
eye 1,963
favorite 11
comment 0
Topics: Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 11,...
1,911
1.9K
2005
2005
by
Steven D. Levitt
texts
eye 1,911
favorite 33
comment 0
Topics: Economics -- Psychological aspects, Economics -- Sociological aspects
1,898
1.9K
1996
1996
by
Chevallier, Andrew
texts
eye 1,898
favorite 34
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references (p. 322) and indexes
Topics: Materia medica, Vegetable, Medicinal plants, Herbs
1,861
1.9K
1973
1973
by
Pynchon, Thomas, b. 1947
texts
eye 1,861
favorite 27
comment 0
760 p. 23 cm
Topics: World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction, Americans -- Europe -- Fiction, Rockets (Ordnance) -- Fiction,...
1,828
1.8K
1985
1985
by
Achebe, Chinua; Innes, Catherine Lynette
texts
eye 1,828
favorite 20
comment 0
A collection of stories by African writers which deal with life and customs in African society
Topics: Short stories, African (English), Short stories, African, Manners and customs, Short stories,...
1,787
1.8K
1977
1977
by
Orwell, George, 1903-1950
texts
eye 1,787
favorite 12
comment 0
"1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 ..."--Back paperback cover
Topics: Orwell, George, 1903-1950, Totalitarianism, Cautionary tales and verse, Science fiction, English,...
1,779
1.8K
1981
1981
by
Cook, David A
texts
eye 1,779
favorite 22
comment 0
Bibliography: p. 671-692
Topics: Motion pictures, Filmkunst, Cinéma, Motion pictures, Film
1,778
1.8K
1985
1985
by
Auel, Jean M
texts
eye 1,778
favorite 5
comment 0
Map on lining papers
Topics: Prehistoric peoples, Ayla (Fictitious character), Glacial epoch
1,756
1.8K
2007
2007
by
Riordan, Rick
texts
eye 1,756
favorite 11
comment 0
When the goddess Artemis goes missing, she is believed to have been kidnapped. And now it's up to Percy and his friends to find out what happened. Who is powerful enough to kidnap a goddess? They must find Artemis before the winter solstice, when her influence on the Olympian Council could swing an important vote on the war with the titans. Not only that, but first Percy will have to solve the mystery of a rare monster that Artemis was hunting when she disappeared -- a monster rumored to be so...
Topics: Artemis (Greek deity), Jackson, Percy (Fictitious character), Titans (Mythology), Missing persons,...
1,745
1.7K
1975
1975
by
Watts, Alan, 1915-1973; Huang, Al Chung-liang
texts
eye 1,745
favorite 27
comment 0
Bibliography: p. 129-134
Topics: Taoism, Chinese language
1,722
1.7K
1969
1969
by
Kurt Vonnegut
texts
eye 1,722
favorite 42
comment 0
Topic: World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
1,705
1.7K
1977
1977
by
Alexander, Christopher; Ishikawa, Sara; Silverstein, Murray
texts
eye 1,705
favorite 33
comment 0
xliv, 1171 p. : 21 cm
Topics: Symbolism in architecture, Semiotics
1,685
1.7K
2000
2000
by
Buchanan, Bob B; Gruissem, Wilhelm; Jones, Russell L
texts
eye 1,685
favorite 19
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references (p. 1319-1341)
Topics: Botanical chemistry, Plant molecular biology
1,676
1.7K
2007
2007
by
Riordan, Rick
texts
eye 1,676
favorite 15
comment 0
When the goddess Artemis goes missing, she is believed to have been kidnapped. And now it's up to Percy and his friends to find out what happened. Who is powerful enough to kidnap a goddess? They must find Artemis before the winter solstice, when her influence on the Olympian Council could swing an important vote on the war with the titans. Not only that, but first Percy will have to solve the mystery of a rare monster that Artemis was hunting when she disappeared -- a monster rumored to be so...
Topics: Artemis (Greek deity), Jackson, Percy (Fictitious character), Titans (Mythology), Missing persons,...
1,639
1.6K
1951
1951
by
Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010
texts
eye 1,639
favorite 22
comment 0
277 p. ; 21 cm
Topics: Caulfield, Holden (Fictitious character) -- Fiction, Runaway teenagers -- Fiction, New York (N.Y.)...
1,632
1.6K
2012
2012
by
Landay, William
texts
eye 1,632
favorite 6
comment 0
Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. When a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: his fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student. As the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son, Andy will face a trial of his own-- between loyalty and justice, between truth and allegation, between a past he's tried to bury and a future he...
Topics: Public prosecutors, Murder
1,625
1.6K
1980
1980
by
Endo, Shusaku, 1923-1996
texts
eye 1,625
favorite 21
comment 0
Translation of Chimmoku
Topic: Christians
1,616
1.6K
2007
2007
by
Beah, Ishmael, 1980-
texts
eye 1,616
favorite 8
comment 0
"Sarah Crichton Books."
Topics: Beah, Ishmael, 1980-, Child soldiers, Boy soldiers
1,616
1.6K
2011
2011
by
Murakami, Haruki, 1949-
texts
eye 1,616
favorite 31
comment 1
925 pages ; 24 cm
favorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Man-woman relationships -- Fiction, FICTION -- Dystopian, FICTION -- Literary, FICTION -- Magical...
1,582
1.6K
1996
1996
by
Lumet, Sidney. aut
texts
eye 1,582
favorite 16
comment 1
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topic: film
1,563
1.6K
1987
1987
by
Morrison, Toni
texts
eye 1,563
favorite 24
comment 0
Published also by New American Library, Plume, Vintage and Penguin
Topics: Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12
1,532
1.5K
1986
1986
by
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940
texts
eye 1,532
favorite 15
comment 0
On Long Island in the early 1920s the mysterious Jay Gatsby tries to rekindle his romance with Daisy, a young woman who has married another man, the wealthy and cruel Tom Buchanan
Topics: Non-Classifiable, Classics, Literature - Classics / Criticism, Fiction, Traffic accidents, Married...
1,507
1.5K
1985
1985
by
King, Stephen, 1947-
texts
eye 1,507
favorite 12
comment 0
With an introduction, "Why I was Bachman."
Topic: Horror tales, American
1,507
1.5K
1986
1986
by
Clancy, Tom, 1947-
texts
eye 1,507
favorite 3
comment 0
652 p. ; 24 cm
Topics: World War III -- Fiction, Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction
1,492
1.5K
2006
2006
by
Hurston, Zora Neale
texts
eye 1,492
favorite 19
comment 0
1080
Topics: Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12
1,488
1.5K
1982
1982
by
Mandelbrot, Benoit B
texts
eye 1,488
favorite 19
comment 0
Rev. ed. of: Fractals. c1977
Topics: Geometry, Mathematical models, Stochastic processes, Fractals
1,467
1.5K
texts
eye 1,467
favorite 17
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references, discography, filmography, and index
Topics: Rap (Music), Hip-hop, Music, Rap (Musique), Hip-hop, Musique, Hip-hop, Music, Rap (Music), Hip-Hop,...
1,467
1.5K
1997
1997
by
Gavin De Becker
texts
eye 1,467
favorite 19
comment 0
Topics: Violence -- Psychological aspects, Victims of violent crimes -- Psychology, Women -- Crimes...
1,438
1.4K
1996
1996
by
Prem Shankar Jha
texts
eye 1,438
favorite 8
comment 0
Topics: Jammu and Kashmir (India) -- History, India -- Foreign relations -- Pakistan, Pakistan -- Foreign...
1,397
1.4K
1999
1999
by
Andrew, Christopher M; Mitrokhin, Vasili, 1922-2004
texts
eye 1,397
favorite 13
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references and index
Topics: Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoæi bezopasnosti, Intelligence service, Secret service
1,390
1.4K
2015
2015
by
King, Stephen, 1947-
texts
eye 1,390
favorite 15
comment 0
"A master storyteller at his best--the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection he assembles, for the first time, recent stories that have never...
Topics: Horror tales, American, Guilt, FICTION, FICTION, Horror tales, American, Future life
1,386
1.4K
1997
1997
by
Vogel, Paula
texts
eye 1,386
favorite 8
comment 0
Topics: Academic Literacy, Reading Level-Adult
1,377
1.4K
1981
1981
by
Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001
texts
eye 1,377
favorite 32
comment 0
"First Pocket Books printing October, 1981."
Topics: Science Fiction - Adventure, Fiction / Science Fiction / General, Fiction - Science Fiction, Dent,...
1,377
1.4K
1974
1974
by
Gregory, Dick
texts
eye 1,377
favorite 20
comment 0
Bibliography: p. 161-164
Topics: Vegetarianism, Natural foods, Fasting
1,372
1.4K
1989
1989
by
Murakami, Haruki, 1949-
texts
eye 1,372
favorite 8
comment 0
Translation of: Hitsuji o meguru boken
Topic: Japanese fiction
1,367
1.4K
1990
1990
by
Kincaid, Jamaica
texts
eye 1,367
favorite 12
comment 0
Lucy has left the West Indies for a job in New York, but she discovers that her employers' perfect lives are not what they seem
Topics: West Indian Americans, Women household employees
1,365
1.4K
2003
2003
by
Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna, 1947-
texts
eye 1,365
favorite 17
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-389) and index
Topic: Indic literature (English)
1,335
1.3K
1994
1994
by
Lamott, Anne
texts
eye 1,335
favorite 39
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239)
Topic: Authorship
1,331
1.3K
2004
2004
by
Chernow, Ron
texts
eye 1,331
favorite 18
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references (p. [780]-788) and index
Topics: Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804, Statesmen
1,331
1.3K
2013
2013
by
King, Stephen, 1947-
texts
eye 1,331
favorite 13
comment 1
The now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) must save a very special twelve-year-old girl from a tribe of murderous paranormals
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Psychic ability, Good and evil
1,319
1.3K
1985
1985
by
Kincaid, Jamaica
texts
eye 1,319
favorite 7
comment 0
Episodes from the young life of Annie John, aged 10 to 17, as she grows up on the Caribbean Island of Antigua. This is a magical coming-of-age tale, ripe with the special ambience of its tropical setting and sustained by Annie's far from naive awareness of the world around her. Death, illness, and poverty intrude on the narrator's perceptive sensibility from time to time, but even these experiences instruct her and expand her understanding of life and its shifting reality. Although Annie leaves...
Topics: Mothers and daughters, Teenage girls, Coming of age
1,316
1.3K
2007
2007
by
Emecheta, Buchi
texts
eye 1,316
favorite 9
comment 0
Topics: Motherhood -- Nigeria -- Fiction, Nigeria -- Fiction
1,315
1.3K
1984
1984
by
Iacocca, Lee A; Novak, William
texts
eye 1,315
favorite 8
comment 0
Includes index
Topics: Iacocca, Lee A, Iacocca, Lee A., 1924-, Automobile industry and trade, Businesspeople,...
1,313
1.3K
1991
1991
by
Rushdie, Salman
texts
eye 1,313
favorite 11
comment 0
1,309
1.3K
1970
1970
by
Agatha Christie
texts
eye 1,309
favorite 6
comment 0
Topics: Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character) -- Fiction, Detective and mystery stories
