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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece examines the glittering yet hollow glamour of the Roaring Twenties as the enigmatic Jay Gatsby pursues love, wealth, and identity across the social divide.

After being murdered at fourteen, Susie Salmon watches from heaven as her family, friends, and killer grapple with grief and justice, revealing how love and forgiveness shape a family's future.

Stoner traces the quiet, all‑day life of William Stoner, an unremarkable university professor, and his quiet struggles in marriage, campus politics, and his enduring love of literature.

Jennifer Egan’s interlocking narratives weave the lives of Bennie Salazar, a former punk rocker turned record executive, and Sasha, a restless young woman, across decades and continents, exploring music, memory and the fragile threads that bind us.

In 1983 London, twenty‑year‑old Nick Guest, a recent Oxford graduate, becomes entangled in the lavish, politically charged world of MP Gerald Feddens, his wife Rachel, and their family, discovering love, ambition, and the temptations of an era in sharp, humor‑laden prose.

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Michael Cunningham’s lyrical novel weaves Virginia Woolf’s final days with contemporary tales of love, inheritance, hope, and despair, centering on poet Richard and his friend Clarissa as they navigate fame and personal fulfillment.

Three sisters struggle to reconcile their faith with the world outside the convent.

A 1973 suburban family is rocked by a violent ice storm, revealing the cracks in their lives and the broader cultural turbulence of the era.

From bestselling author, Donna Hill comes an evocative, unforgettable novel about love, friendship, marriage, adultery... Asha and Lisa have been best friends since grade school and they have always shared everything. A beautiful and accomplished photographer, Asha never seems to lack excitement or a man to share it with. Yet, for a woman who appears to have it all there is always "that something" she needs to make her feel whole. Lisa, "the good girl," has always dreamed of the perfect marriage to the perfect husband. Now she has both with Ross Davis and she has their future planned to the last, perfect detail. Ross didn't want to believe that he and Lisa had married too soon. He didn't want to believe that each day the man he thought himself to be was being stripped away by the woman he loved--leaving him feeling like a kept man instead of the man of the house. And then--betrayal. No one knows how it happened, how they could have done this to each other. But now, they each want to tell their side of the story. An Ordinary Woman is about the betrayal of the most sacred of trusts. It is about the that one moment when a single choice will change lives forever. It is a cautionary tale that dares to look deep inside the hearts and minds of the characters involved. Most importantly, An Ordinary Woman attempts to answer the question: How?

A brilliant midwestern professor, Abe Ravelstein, embraces a sudden rise to wealth after publishing a philosophical book, and later confronts AIDS while reflecting on friendship, mortality, and intellectual life with his close friend Chick.

In Lee Smith’s novel, a group of women who grew up in the South navigate adulthood, career, and friendship as college graduates, each grappling with personal choices and the lingering weight of past rebellions.

Peter Brooks explains the architecture of narrative, tracing how plot is designed, ordered, and imbued with meaning through academic analysis of novels and plays.

An African‑American woman confronts blatant workplace discrimination while her marriage fractures and a close friend betrays her trust, turning a story of resilience and female friendship into a powerful narrative of triumph.

Two families waiting for their Korean‑adopted babies meet at the airport, and their lives become intertwined at an annual welcome party. As the families navigate friendship, grief and cultural tension, a widowed Donaldson courts Maryam, an Iranian‑American whose values are challenged.

Henry Skrimshander, a baseball star at the small Lake Michigan school Westish College, faces self‑doubt when a routine throw goes awry, unsettling the lives of five people.

After a divorce and financial setback, Candida Wilton moves to London and discovers a windfall that propels her to pursue a lifelong dream: a journey with six women friends to Tunis, Naples, and Pompeii.