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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte’s enduring romantic classic follows a young woman on her impassioned search for a life of greater width and breadth than women were traditionally afforded in Victorian society. |
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La Maravilla
by Alfredo Véa, Jr.
A nine-year-old boy searches for meaning amid the squatters and rusted cars of an impoverished Phoenix suburb in 1958. |
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Jonah’s Gourd Vine
by Zora Neale Hurston
Set in Eatonville, Florida, this first book by the noted novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist is based loosely on the lives of her parents. |
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The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
by Louise Erdrich
Erdrich returns to the setting of her previous novels, the reservation of Little No Horse, where she introduces a woman who feels driven by her spirit and beliefs to serve her community as a priest. |
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The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
A poignant tale of two motherless boys growing up in Kabul, Afghanistan, at the dawn of the Soviet invasion, life as an immigrant in the U.S., and one man’s confrontation with and reconciliation of his past. |
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Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
A fantastical and humorous adventure parable, Life of Pi is the story of a zookeeper’s son, Pi Patel, and his physical and spiritual survival in a lifeboat on the open sea with a Bengal tiger. |
