Books like Forever by Pete Hamill

Of Mice and Men follows two migrant ranch workers—George and Lennie—who dream of owning land while struggling with the hardships of the Great Depression; their friendship is tested by tragedy.

Harper Lee’s 1960 classic follows young Scout Finch in Depression‑era Alabama as her father, lawyer Atticus Finch, defends a black man accused of rape, confronting racism, prejudice, and the moral growth of a child.

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.

John Steinbeck's sweeping family saga set in California's Salinas Valley, spanning generations of the Trask and Hamilton families as they confront the struggle between good and evil, with biblical echoes of Cain and Abel.

A nonfiction novel chronicling the adventures of a group of friends on their cross-country journey of discovery, featuring characters like Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty as real-life friends Neal Casady.

The Bell Jar is the sole novel by Sylvia Plath, a psychologically intense and autobiographical look at a young woman’s decline into mental illness.

Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of jealousy and suspicion, presented in a comic‑book style.

Ernest Hemingway’s Louisiana‑born narrator takes readers through the 1920s Lost Generation—expatriates on Paris’s Left Bank, bullfights in Spain, and the era’s moral and spiritual unraveling.

A heart-wrenching coming-of-age story of poverty and resilience in 1930s Brooklyn.

Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy weaves three interlinked detective‑style narratives that explore identity and the city’s uncanny parallels, turning ordinary clues into profound questions of human existence.

180 p. ; 21 cm.1010L Lexile

A daughter of Italy’s mountain farms travels 3,000 miles to New York’s Hell’s Kitchen, where a strained marriage, six children, and the lure of crime test her resilience and the American dream.

A Modern-Day Gunfighter and a Woman's Touch in the Colorado Wilds

Their first meeting took place in a Laundromat when he talked her in to sharing a dryer. On their second meeting, he showed up on her doorstep with a brown paper bag holding two flimsy bras and a pair of lace panties. Mary Shields was the new girl in town, a transplanted New Yorker who had learned never to talk to strangers. But in this tiny Indiana town there were only friendly folk. And Mike Gibson certainly wanted to get friendly - after all, he was already intimate with her lingerie. But it wasn't the friendly part that worried Mary. After their first two meetings, she could only guess what their next rendezvous would be like.

"It took a lot of manpower and machinery to rescue Reggie from the clutches of Miguel Chavez and his henchmen, but Naomi, Damian and Foxx made it happen. Unfortunately, they are not out of the wood yet. They still have the Feds to watch out for. And now that Miguel is dead, Marco has put a huge bounty on everyone in Naomi and Damian's operation. So, a war is eminent. Nowhere to run but out west, Naomi's father Foxx solicited the help of a friend in Denver, Colorado. And when Foxx received the green light to relocate his family he took his friend up on his offer. Naomi was happy that everyone was back together and that they were going to start their lives over in a new place. But everyone wasn't so reluctant. Damian only tagged along because he wasn't going to leave Naomi. And Reggie had another agenda entirely. With this mindset, Reggie will create a windstorm and tear down everything Naomi and Foxx built..."--P. [4] of cover.

Matt Scudder, a seasoned New York private investigator, thinks his life is settled until a sudden, brutal crime forces him back into the city's gritty underworld, where past debts and hidden vendettas collide.

A remarkable friendship and its enduring journey of two remarkable women from the postwar era of the 1950s, told with vividly descriptive language and a relatable narrative.

A literary thriller about two men living in a world of fiction, words, scenes, characters, and the New York Times bestseller list, featuring a complex plot involving deception, envy, and the power of the written word.