Books like Escape by Ethel Vance

Mark Twain’s classic novel follows the first-person narration of Huckleberry "Huck" Finn as he journeyes down the Mississippi River in 19th‑century America, exploring adventure, friendship and the era’s social issues.

Candide: A Tale of Conviviality and Optimism in a Wretched World

Edith Grossman's acclaimed English translation of Miguel de Cervantes’ classic "Don Quixote" brings the famed knight-errant and his loyal squire Sancho Panza to life in 16th‑century Spain.

Hard‑boiled detective Sam Spade races to recover a priceless, gem‑encrusted statuette while double‑crosses and danger creep from every corner.

A pioneering English detective story in which a priceless diamond, once stolen from a Hindu idol and presented to a young woman on her eighteenth birthday, disappears again, sparking intrigue and danger.

John Bunyan’s classic allegory follows the spiritual journey of Christian, who overcomes trials such as the Valley of the Shadow of Death and Vanity Fair to reach Beulah Land.

Walter Hartright, a drawing master, becomes entangled with Laura Fairlie, Sir Percival Glyde, and the scheming Count Fosco as questions of identity and madness intertwine in 19th‑century England.

Tom Ripley is hired to travel to Italy and persuade a wayward son to return home, but he becomes obsessed with taking the boy’s life, identity and wealth.

Alys, a sheltered convent sister and half‑sister to Richard the Fair, is thrust into a world of intrigue when she is sent to marry Simon of Navarre, a formidable lord known for his mastery of the black arts.

A 19th‑century French novel by Stendhal that situates a young Italian aristocrat amid the social, political, and romantic upheavals of Napoleonic Europe.

A fast-paced historical romance set in early America, featuring the legendary Natty Bumppo and a love story set against the backdrop of the French and Indian War.

A dark New England mansion, the House of the Seven Gables, casts an ancestral curse over the Pyncheon family, revealing secrets, mysterious deaths, and a complex mix of gothic, historical, and moral themes.

In a quiet English setting, a curious woman and her companion seek a hidden book, moving through rooms, gardens, and lofts in search of a mysterious narrative that seems to appear and disappear with the houses' doors.

Selma Lagerlöf’s 1904 adventure novel follows Scottish mercenaries in 16th‑century Bohuslän who break out of prison, murder a family to seize a treasure chest, and one is left drawn to the sole survivor.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

Testimony of former British and American prisoners of war who survived death marches in Nazi‑occupied Europe as World War II closed.

In a Republic riddled with class divides, a military prodigy and a wanted criminal are thrown together by a sibling’s murder, forcing them to confront secrets that threaten their families and the nation.