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Get Organized in the New Year
Organize your home, clear out your clutter, and simplify your life in 2014!
Organize your home, clear out your clutter, and simplify your life in 2014!
See 10 New Year’s Resolutions for more self-improvement ideas.
New Book Friday: January 2014
So, it’s a little late (huzzah for a snow day), but 2014 is already off to a great start in Teen Services! It might not look like a lot of books, but trust me, you’re guaranteed to lose yourself in one of them. So take one out for the next freezing cold day, and curl up with a warm cup of cocoa.
New York Times Notable Books of 2013: Nonfiction
Notable nonfiction selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.
Notable nonfiction selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.
After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead by Alan S. Blinder (eBook)
The former Fed vice chairman says confidence would have returned faster with better government communication about policy.
The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives by Sasha Abramsky
This ambitious study, based on Abramsky’s travels around the country meeting the poor, both describes and prescribes.
The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: the Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 by Bernard Bailyn
A noted Harvard historian looks at the chaotic decades between Jamestown and King Philip’s War.
The Billionaire’s Apprentice: The Rise of the Indian-American Elite and the Fall of the Galleon Hedge Fund by Anita Raghavan
Indian-Americans populate every aspect of this meticulously reported true-life business thriller.
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. Bass
Bass reveals the sordid White House diplomacy that attended the birth of Bangladesh in 1971.
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore
Ben Franklin’s sister bore 12 children and mostly led a life of hardship, but the two corresponded constantly.
The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood by Roger Rosenblatt
In his memoir, Rosenblatt recalls being a boy learning to see, and to live, in the city he scrutinizes.
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin (CD book, large print book)
Historical parallels in Goodwin’s latest time machine implicitly ask us to look at our own age.
The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine’s Deepest Mystery by George Johnson
Johnson’s fascinating look at cancer reveals certain profound truths about life itself.
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War by Max Hastings
This excellent chronicle of World War I’s first months by a British military historian dispels some popular myths.
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser
A disquieting but riveting examination of nuclear risk.
Country Girl: A Memoir by Edna O’Brien
O’Brien reflects on a fraught and distinguished life, from the restraints of her Irish childhood to literary stardom.
Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House by Peter Baker
Baker’s treatment of the George W. Bush administration is haunted by the question of who was in charge.
Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1858-1877 by Brenda Wineapple
A masterly Civil War-era history, full of foiled schemes, misfired plans and less-than-happy endings.
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang
Chang portrays Cixi as a proto-feminist and reformer in this authoritative account.
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
Digressive essays, loosely about storytelling, reflect a difficult year in Solnit’s life.
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink (CD book)
The case of a surgeon suspected of euthanizing patients during the Katrina disaster.
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prism of Belief by Lawrence Wright (eBook)
The author of “The Looming Tower” takes a calm and neutral stance toward Scientology, but makes clear it’s like no other church on earth.
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 by Rick Atkinson (large print book)
The final volume of Atkinson’s monumental war trilogy shows that the road to Berlin was far from smooth.
The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince by Jane Ridley
He was vain, gluttonous, promiscuous and none too bright, but “Bertie” emerges as an appealing character in Ridley’s superb book.
A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett (CD book)
A searing memoir of a young woman’s brutal kidnapping in Somalia.
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World by Leo Damrosch
A commanding biography by a Harvard professor.
Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death by Katy Butler
Butler’s study of the flaws in end-of-life care mixes personal narrative and tough reporting.
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson
By contextualizing T. E. Lawrence, Anderson is able to address modern themes like oil, jihad and the Arab-Jewish conflict.
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell (audio download, CD book, eBook)
The lesson conveyed loud and clear by the Facebook executive is that women should step forward and not doubt their ability to combine work and family.
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker
Cases of troubled young Internet prostitutes murdered on Long Island add up to a nuanced look at prostitution today.
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures by Mary Ruefle
The poet muses knowingly and merrily on language, writing and speaking sentences that last lifetimes.
Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson by Jeff Guinn
Guinn’s tour de force examines Manson’s rise and fall, the 1960s music industry and the decade’s bizarre ambience.
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life by Megan Marshall
Fuller’s extensive intellectual accomplishments are set in contrast with her romantic disappointments.
Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward
A raw, beautiful elegy for Ward’s brother and four male friends, who died young in Mississippi between 2000 and 2004.
Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance by Carla Kaplan
A remarkable look at the white women who sought a place in the Harlem Renaissance.
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor (audio download, CD book, eBook, large print book)
Mostly skirting her legal views, the Supreme Court justice’s memoir reveals much about her family, school and years at Princeton.
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel by Ari Shavit (CD book)
Shavit, a columnist for Haaretz, expresses both solidarity with and criticism of his countrymen in this important and powerful book.
Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper
The British wayfarer and travel writer is the subject of Cooper’s affectionate, informed biography.
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code by Margalit Fox
Focusing on an unheralded but heroic Brooklyn classics professor, Fox turns the decipherment of Linear B into a detective story.
The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking by Brendan I. Koerner (eBook)
Refusing to make ’60s avatars of the unlikely couple behind a 1972 skyjacking, Koerner finds a deeper truth about the nature of extremism.
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
A Cambridge professor offers a thoroughly comprehensible account of the polarization of a continent, without fixing guilt on one leader or nation.
The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way by Amanda Ripley
A look at countries that are outeducating us — Finland, South Korea, Poland — through the eyes of American high school students abroad.
Thank You for Your Service by David Finkel
Finkel tracks soldiers struggling to navigate postwar life, especially the psychologically wounded.
The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream by Thomas Dyja (eBook)
This robust cultural history weaves together the stories of the artists, styles and ideas that developed in Chicago before and after World War II.
This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral– Plus Plenty of Valet Parking!– in America’s Gilded Capital by Mark Leibovich
An entertaining and deeply troubling view of Washington.
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941 by Lynne Olson
The savage political dispute between Roosevelt and the isolationist movement, presented in spellbinding detail.
To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism by Evgeny Morozov
Digital-age transparency may threaten the spirit of democracy, Morozov warns.
To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care by Cris Beam
Beam’s wrenching study is a triumph of narrative reporting and storytelling.
Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and the American Strategy by Kenneth M. Pollack
The Mideast expert makes the case for living with a nuclear Iran and trying to contain it.
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer (audio download)
With a nod to John Dos Passos, Packer offers a gripping narrative survey of today’s hard times; the 2013 National Book Award winner for nonfiction.
The War that Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 by Margaret MacMillan
Why did the peace fail, a Canadian historian asks, and she offers superb portraits of the men who took Europe to war in the summer of 1914.
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala (eBook)
Deraniyagala’s unforgettable account of her struggle to carry on living after her husband, sons and parents were killed in the 2004 tsunami isn’t only as unsparing as they come, but also defiantly imbued with light.
Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America by Jon Mooallem (eBook)
Mooallem explores the haphazard nature of our efforts to protect endangered species.
Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Buruma
This lively history shows how the Good War turned out badly for many people and splendidly for others less deserving.
New Book Friday: December 2013
This holiday season, enjoy this fantastic blend of mysteries, graphic novels, comics, science-fiction, thrillers, extraterrestrials, and more!
New York Times Notable Books of 2013: Fiction & Poetry
Notable fiction and poetry selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.
Notable fiction and poetry selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.
The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates (audio download, eBook)
Oates’s extravagantly horrifying, funny and prolix postmodern Gothic novel purports to be the definitive account of a curse that infected bucolic Princeton, N.J., in 1905 and 1906.
All That Is by James Salter
Salter’s first novel in more than 30 years, which follows the loves and losses of a World War II veteran, is an ambitious departure from his previous work and, at a stroke, demolishes any talk of twilight.
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (eBook)
This witheringly trenchant novel scrutinizes blackness in America, Nigeria and Britain.
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Airliners crash not only into the twin towers but into a shaggy-dog tale involving a fraud investigator and a white-collar outlaw in this vital, audacious novel.
Children Are Diamonds: An African Apocalypse by Edward Hoagland
The adventure-seeking protagonist of Hoagland’s novel is swept up in the chaos of southern Sudan.
The Circle by Dave Eggers
In a disturbing not-too-distant future, human existence flows through the portal of a company that gives Eggers’s novel its title.
Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat
Danticat’s novel is less about a Haitian girl who disappears on her birthday than about the heart of a magical seaside village.
The Color Master: Stories by Aimee Bender
Physical objects help Bender’s characters grasp an overwhelming world.
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra (eBook)
Odds against survival are high for the characters of Marra’s extraordinary first novel, set in war-torn Chechnya.
The Dinner by Herman Koch (audio download, CD book, large print book)
In this clever, dark Dutch novel, two couples dine out under the cloud of a terrible crime committed by their teenage sons.
Dirty Love by Andre Dubus III
Four linked stories expose their characters’ bottomless needs and stubborn weaknesses.
Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem
Spanning 80 years and three generations, Lethem’s novel realistically portrays an enchanted — or disenchanted — garden of American leftists in Queens.
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King (CD book)
Now grown up, Danny, the boy with psycho-intuitive powers in “The Shining,” helps another threatened magic child in a novel that shares the virtues of King’s best work.
Duplex by Kathryn Davis
A schoolteacher takes an unusual lover in this astonishing, double-hinged novel set in a fantastical suburbia.
The End of the Point by Elizabeth Graver (eBook)
A summer house on the Massachusetts coast both shelters and isolates the wealthy family in Graver’s eloquent multigenerational novel.
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
In Kushner’s frequently dazzling second novel, an impressionable artist navigates the volatile worlds of New York and Rome in the 1970s.
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (CD book)
The “Goldfinch” of the title of Tartt’s smartly written Dickensian novel is a painting smuggled through the early years of a boy’s life — his prize, his guilt and his burden.
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
McBride’s romp of a novel, the 2013 National Book Award winner, is narrated by a freed slave boy who passes as a girl. It’s a risky portrait of the radical abolitionist John Brown in which irreverence becomes a new form of homage.
A Guide to Being Born: Stories by Ramona Ausubel
Ausubel’s fantastical collection traces a cycle of transformation: from love to conception to gestation to birth.
Half the Kingdom by Lore Segal
In Segal’s darkly comic novel, dementia becomes contagious at a Manhattan hospital.
I Want to Show You More: Stories by Jamie Quatro
Quatro’s strange, thrilling and disarmingly honest first collection draws from a pool of resonant themes (Christianity, marital infidelity, cancer, running) in agile recombinations.
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer (eBook)
A distraught woman inhabits different selves across the 20th century in Greer’s elegiac novel.
The Infatuations by Javier Marías
Amid a proliferation of alternative perspectives, Marías’s novel explores its female narrator’s relationship with the widow and the best friend of a murdered man.
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer (audio download, CD book, eBook, large print book)
Wolitzer’s enveloping novel offers a fresh take on the theme of self-invention, with a heroine who asks herself whether the ambitious men and women in her circle have inaccurately defined success.
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (audio download, CD book, large print book)
Atkinson’s heroine, born in 1910, keeps dying and dying again, as she experiences the alternate courses her destiny might have taken.
Local Souls: Novellas by Allan Gurganus
This triptych, set in Gurganus’s familiar Falls, N.C., showcases the increasing universality of his imaginative powers.
Longbourn by Jo Baker (CD book, large print book)
Baker’s charming novel offers an affecting look at the world of “Pride and Prejudice” from the point of view of the Bennets’ servants’ hall.
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff
Rakoff completed his novel-in-couplets, whose characters live the title’s verbs, just before his death in 2012.
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (CD book, large print book)
After his radical brother is killed, an Indian scientist brings his widow to join him in America in Lahiri’s efficiently written novel.
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
In her Booker Prize winner, a love story and mystery set in New Zealand, Catton has built a lively parody of a 19th-century novel, while creating something utterly new for the 21st.
Maddaddam by Margaret Atwood
The survivors of “Oryx and Crake” and “The Year of the Flood” await a final showdown, in a trilogy’s concluding entry.
A Marker to Measure Drift by Alexander Maksik (audio download)
Maksik’s forceful novel illuminates the life of a Liberian woman who flees her troubled past to seek refuge on an Aegean island.
Metaphysical Dog by Frank Bidart
To immerse oneself in these poems is to enter a crowd of unusual characters: artistic geniuses, violent misfits, dramatic self-accusers (including the poet himself).
Our Andromeda by Brenda Shaughnessy
In these emotionally charged and gorgeously constructed poems, Shaughnessy imagines a world without a child’s pain.
Schroder by Amity Gaige
In Gaige’s scenic novel, a man with a long-established false identity goes on the run with his 6-year-old daughter.
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert (CD book, large print book)
In this winning novel by the author of “Eat, Pray, Love,” a botanist’s hunger for explanations carries her through the better part of Darwin’s century, and to Tahiti.
Someone by Alice McDermott (CD book)
Through scattered recollections, this novel sifts the significance of an ordinary life.
The Son by Philipp Meyer (audio download, eBook)
Members of a Texas clan grope their way from the ordeals of the frontier to celebrity culture’s absurdities in this masterly multigenerational saga.
The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
This gripping Colombian novel, built on the country’s tragic history with the drug trade, meditates on love, fate and death.
Submergence by J.M. Ledgard
This hard-edged, well-written novel involves a terrorist hostage-taking and a perilous deep-sea dive.
Subtle Bodies by Norman Rush
Amid dark humor both mournful and absurd, former classmates converge on the hilltop estate of a friend who has died in a freak accident.
Tenth of December: Stories by George Saunders (audio download, CD book, eBook)
Saunders’s relentless humor and beatific generosity of spirit keep his highly moral tales from succumbing to life’s darker aspects.
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis (audio download, CD book, eBook,)
Mathis’s deeply felt first novel works at the rough edges of history, within a brutal and poetic allegory of a black family beset by tribulations after the Great Migration to the North.
The Two Hotel Francforts by David Leavitt
In Leavitt’s atmospheric novel of 1940 Lisbon, as two couples await passage to New York, the husbands embark on an affair.
The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan (CD book, large print book)
This wrenching novel by the author of “The Joy Luck Club” follows mother and daughter courtesans over four decades.
Want Not by Jonathan Miles
Linking disparate characters and story threads, Miles’s novel explores varieties of waste and decay in a consumer world.
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler (audio download)
This surreptitiously smart novel’s big reveal slyly recalls a tabloid headline: “Girl and Chimp Twinned at Birth in Psychological Experiment.”
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo (audio download)
A Zimbabwean moves to Detroit in Bulawayo’s striking first novel.
Woke Up Lonely by Fiona Maazel
Maazel’s restlessly antic novel examines the concurrent urges for solitude and intimacy.
The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud (audio download, CD book, eBook)
Messud’s ingenious, disquieting novel of outsize conflicts tells the story of a thwarted artist who finds herself bewitched by a boy and his parents.
Remembering John F. Kennedy
November 22 is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
November 22 is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
ONLINE RESOURCES
PBS: Remembering President John F. Kennedy, 50 years after assassination
C-SPAN: Coverage of the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum: November 22, 1963: Death of the President
National Archives: The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
NONFICTION
Camelot’s Court: Inside the Kennedy White House by Robert Dallek (large print)
Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the Kennedys by Kitty Kelley
Dallas 1963 by Bill Minutaglio & Steven L. Davis
Five Days in November by Clint Hill
If Kennedy Lived: The First and Second Terms of President John F. Kennedy: An Alternate History by Jeff Greenfield
Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero by Chris Matthews
JFK in the Senate: Pathway to the Presidency by John T. Shaw
JFK’s Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President by Thurston Clarke
The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy by Larry J. Sabato
The Letters of John F. Kennedy edited by Martin W. Sandler
Mrs. Paine’s Garage: And the Murder of John F. Kennedy by Thomas Mallon
November 22, 1963: Ordinary and Extraordinary People Recall Their Reactions When They Heard the News compiled by Jodie Elliott Hansen & edited by Laura Hansen
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi
These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie by Christopher Andersen
FICTION
11/22/63 by Stephen King (CD book, large print book, MP3 CD book)
High-school English teacher Jake Epping is enlisted by a friend to travel back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a mission for which he must reacclimate to 1960s culture and befriend troubled loner Lee Harvey Oswald.
The Importance of Being Kennedy by Laurie Graham
Becoming a servant for the Kennedys shortly after arriving in America from Ireland, young Nora Brennan is given charge of the family’s nine children, whom she offers solace from their harsh mother, their distant father, and the prying public.
Jack 1939 by Francine Mathews
Tapped by President Franklin Roosevelt to travel to Europe and learn what the Nazis are planning, 22-year-old John F. Kennedy, son of the U.S. ambassador to Britain, joins the president’s efforts to stop the flow of German money that is influencing the 1940 U.S. election.
Shift by Tim Kring & Dale Peck
Chandler Forrestal is drawn into a CIA experiment where a dose of LSD heightens his mental abilities, allowing him to uncover the plot to assassinate President Kennedy and resulting in a cross-country chase to change history.
The Third Bullet: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel by Stephen Hunter
A reimagining of the events surrounding the 1963 assassination of Kennedy finds Bob Lee Swagger drawing on old records, intelligence archives, and observations at the infamous site to investigate a new clue about a third bullet that mysteriously exploded.
Top Down: A Novel of the Kennedy Assassination by Jim Lehrer
A Secret Service agent who made the fateful decision to remove the security bubble from John F. Kennedy’s parade car struggles with suicidal feelings of guilt until a young reporter endeavors to determine the day’s outcome if the bubbletop had been in place.
Happy Halloween!
Celebrate Halloween with a scary movie!
Celebrate Halloween with a scary movie!
The Amityville Horror (1979)
The Amityville Horror (2005)
Friday the 13th (1980)
Friday the 13th (2009)
House of Wax (1953)
House of Wax (2005)
Or, enjoy a book about the paranormal and supernatural!
National Book Award Finalists 2013
The mission of the National Book Foundation and the National Book Awards is to celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of good writing in America. The 2013 Finalists are:
The mission of the National Book Foundation and the National Book Awards is to celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of good writing in America. The 2013 Finalists are:
FICTION
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (CD book)
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Tenth of December by George Saunders (audio download, CD book, eBook)
NONFICTION
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore
Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer (audio download)
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 by Alan Taylor
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright (eBook)
Banned Books Week 2013
September 22-28 is Banned Books Week! Celebrate the Freedom to Read with one of the banned and/or challenged books from the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century:
September 22-28 is Banned Books Week! Celebrate the Freedom to Read with one of the banned and/or challenged books from the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century:
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (audio download, CD book, large print book)
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (CD book)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (CD book)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker (audio download, eBook)
Ulysses by James Joyce (audio download, eBook)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (eBook)
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding (CD book, Playaway)
1984 by George Orwell (CD book, eBook)
Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov (audio download, CD book, eBook)
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (audio download)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (Playaway)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (audio download, eBook, CD book)
Animal Farm by George Orwell (audio download, eBook, Playaway)
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (CD book)
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (eBook)
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (CD book, eBook)
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (eBook)
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (eBook)
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (CD book)
Native Son by Richard Wright
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (CD book)
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (CD book, eBook)
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (Playaway)
The Call of the Wild by Jack London (audio download, CD book)
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (CD book)
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (audio download, eBook)
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence (audio download, Playaway)
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Awakening by Kate Chopin (audio download, CD book)
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (CD book)
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie (audio download, eBook)
Sophie’s Choice by William Styron (eBook)
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence (audio download)
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (CD book, eBook)
A Separate Peace by John Knowles (Playaway)
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs (audio download)
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (audio download, CD book)
Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence (audio download)
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (audio download, CD book)
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Rabbit, Run by John Updike (audio download)