Books like The company by Arabella Edge

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

The Clan of the Cave Bear is a 1980 prehistoric fiction novel that explores the world of Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon humans during the Glacial epoch.

The Godfather is a crime novel by Mario Puzo that follows the rise of the fictional Corleone Mafia family in New York City and Long Beach between 1945 and 1955.

Michael Lewis explains how the 2008 financial crisis unfolded, focusing on subprime mortgages, CDOs, and the people who bet against the collapsing market.

In Dan Simmons’ chilling historical adventure, the Franklin expedition’s steamships Terror and Erebus are trapped in the Arctic for two years, where crew face starvation, mutiny, and a nameless terror lurking in the ice.

The Firm, released in 1991, is John Grisham’s second novel and his first widely popular legal thriller, delving into tax evasion, money laundering, organized crime, and the inner workings of law firms under the RICO Act.

The Corporation exposes how corporate structures shape society, highlighting governance, ethics, and widespread influence.

From the bestselling author of Tulipomania comes Batavia's Graveyard, the spellbinding true story of mutiny, shipwreck, murder, and survival.It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company's flagship, was loaded with a king's ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java. The Batavia was the pride of the Company's fleet, a tangible symbol of the world's richest and most powerful commercial monopoly. She set sail with great fanfare, but the Batavia and her gold would never reach Java, for the Company had also sent along a new employee, Jeronimus Corneliszoon, a bankrupt and disgraced man who possessed disarming charisma and dangerously heretical ideas. With the help of a few disgruntled sailors, Jeronimus soon sparked a mutiny that seemed certain to succeed--but for one unplanned event: In the dark morning hours of June 3, the Batavia smashed through a coral reef and ran aground on a small chain of islands near Australia. The commander of the ship and the skipper evaded the mutineers by escaping in a tiny lifeboat and setting a course for Java--some 1,800 miles north--to summon help. Nearly all of the passengers survived the wreck and found themselves trapped on a bleak coral island without water, food, or shelter. Leaderless, unarmed, and unaware of Jeronimus's treachery, they were at the mercy of the mutineers.Jeronimus took control almost immediately, preaching his own twisted version of heresy he'd learned in Holland's secret Anabaptist societies. More than 100 people died at his command in the months that followed. Before long, an all-out war erupted between the mutineers and a small group of soldiers led by Wiebbe Hayes, the one man brave enough to challenge Jeronimus's band of butchers.Unluckily for the mutineers, the Batavia's commander had raised the alarm in Java, and at the height of the violence the Company's gunboats sailed over the horizon. Jeronimus and his mutineers would meet an end almost as gruesome as that of the innocents whose blood had run on the small island they called Batavia's Graveyard.Impeccably researched and beautifully written, Batavia's Graveyard is the next classic of narrative nonfiction, the book that secures Mike Dash's place as one of the finest writers of the genre.From the Hardcover edition.

In the 1740s, the brigantine Wager, separated from Commodore Anson’s squadron, is wrecked off Cape Horn; its crew survives a harsh ordeal on the coast of Chile before reaching Valparaíso.

A comprehensive collection of William Shakespeare’s major works, including 38 plays—from tragedies like Hamlet and Macbeth to comedies such as Twelfth Night—and 5 poems, sonnets, and occasional lyric pieces.

Contains 37 plays by William Shakespeare, including classics like Hamlet, Julius Caesar, and Macbeth.

A harrowing tale of survival on a remote island after the 1710 wreck of the merchant ship Nottingham, where stranded crew endure harsh winter, scarce supplies, and extreme measures before rescue.

A curated anthology of world literature featuring poems, short stories, plays and essays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Joyce, Neruda, and many other classic and contemporary authors.