The 100 Essential Novels

This extraordinary book does in 120 pages what it would take most people a treatise to do - deliver a clear-eyed and devastating takedown of authoritarianism and, more specifically, Soviet-style […]

Another one none of us had heard of! Appointment in Samarra is John O'Hara's acclaimed 1934 novel about the rapid, self-destructive downfall of Julian English, a wealthy young man in […]

THIS BOOK CLUB HAS BEEN MOVED UP ONE WEEK FROM MAY 13. Stop us if you've heard this before: At Swim-Two-Birds is a 1939 postmodern, metafictional novel by Irish author Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan) that explores the nature of storytelling through multiple, nested narratives, blending Irish folklore, satire, and modernist techniques. The plot centers on […]