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• The Tale of GenjiMurasaki ShikibuLocalBooks Classics

  Genji, the gifted son of an emperor and a low-ranking consort, grows up at the Heian court in old Kyoto and spends his youth in love affairs that bring him beauty, grief and scandal. Disgrace sends him into exile on the lonely shore at Suma.

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• The Three MusketeersAlexandre DumasLocalBooks Classics

  Young d'Artagnan arrives in Paris hoping to join the King's Musketeers and promptly challenges three of them, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, to duels. Instead they become inseparable friends, caught up in the intrigues of Cardinal Richelieu and the dangerous Milady de Winter.

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• The Time MachineH. G. WellsLocalBooks Classics

  A Victorian inventor tells his dinner guests where he has been: hundreds of thousands of years in the future, among the gentle Eloi in the sunlit world above and something very different underground.

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• The Triumph of the EggSherwood AndersonLocalBooks Classics

  Sherwood Anderson's next book of stories after Winesburg, Ohio: small-town and farm lives in the Midwest, among them "The Egg," about a family's hopeless chicken farm and roadside restaurant near Bidwell, Ohio, "I Want to Know Why," a boy's disillusionment at the racetrack, and "Brothers."

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• The True Story of Ah QLu XunLocalBooks Classics

  Ah Q, a poor laborer in a small village, turns every humiliation into an imagined victory, until the turmoil of the 1911 revolution sweeps him up. Lu Xun's sharp satire of the Chinese national character.

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• The Turn of the BalanceBrand WhitlockLocalBooks Classics

  Written while Brand Whitlock was the reform mayor of Toledo, this long novel takes on the criminal justice system of its day: the story of Archie Koerner, a young ex-soldier drawn into crime, and of the wealthy Ward family, whose lives cross his in the courts and prisons of a Midwestern city. One of the major protest novels of the Progressive Era.

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• The War of the WorldsH. G. WellsLocalBooks Classics

  Cylinders fall on the English countryside, and what climbs out is not friendly. Told by a man trying to get home through the chaos, Wells's invasion story set the pattern for a century of alien attacks.

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• The Wealth of NationsAdam SmithLocalBooks Classics

  Beginning with a pin factory where ten workers divided the labour and made thousands of pins a day, Smith explains how markets, prices, wages and trade make a country rich. He goes on to attack the trade monopolies and colonial policies of his day and to ask what a government should actually do.

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• The Wind in the WillowsKenneth GrahameLocalBooks Classics

  Mole leaves his spring cleaning for the riverbank and befriends Ratty, who loves boats, wise old Badger, and the rich, reckless Toad, whose crazes for caravans and motor-cars lead to disaster.

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• The Wonderful Wizard of OzL. Frank BaumLocalBooks Classics

  A cyclone carries Dorothy and her dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz, where she sets out on the yellow brick road with a Scarecrow, a Tin Woodman and a Cowardly Lion to ask the great Wizard to send her home.

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• This Side of ParadiseF. Scott FitzgeraldLocalBooks Classics

  Amory Blaine, handsome, self-absorbed and sure he is destined for something, goes through Princeton, the First World War and a string of romances. Fitzgerald's first novel made him famous at twenty-three.

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• Through the Looking-GlassLewis CarrollLocalBooks Classics

  Alice climbs through the mirror over the fireplace into a world that runs backwards, where the countryside is a giant chessboard and she can become a queen if she reaches the eighth square.

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• Thus Spoke ZarathustraFriedrich NietzscheLocalBooks Classics

  After ten years alone on a mountain, the prophet Zarathustra comes down to tell people that God is dead and that humanity is something to be overcome. Written in bursts on the Ligurian coast, in Nice and in the Swiss Alps, it is a book of speeches, parables and songs rather than arguments.

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• To the LighthouseVirginia WoolfLocalBooks Classics

  The Ramsay family and their guests spend summers on the Isle of Skye, where young James longs to sail to the lighthouse. Woolf's novel crosses ten years in which the war and loss come between that wish and its fulfillment.

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• Treasure IslandRobert Louis StevensonLocalBooks Classics

  Young Jim Hawkins finds a treasure map in a dead pirate's sea chest and sails to find it, on a ship whose friendly one-legged cook, Long John Silver, may have plans of his own.

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• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeasJules VerneLocalBooks Classics

  A professor, his servant and a hot-tempered harpooner are taken aboard the Nautilus, a submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo. Their voyage beneath the world's oceans passes coral forests, polar ice and the ruins of drowned Atlantis.

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• UlyssesJames JoyceLocalBooks Classics

  Over a single June day in 1904, Leopold Bloom, an advertising canvasser, walks Dublin: breakfast, a funeral, a newspaper office, pubs, a maternity hospital and the night streets, while young Stephen Dedalus drifts on a path that will cross his. Each episode is told in a different style, ending with Molly Bloom's famous unpunctuated night thoughts.

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• Uncle Tom's CabinHarriet Beecher StoweLocalBooks Classics

  In Kentucky, Eliza escapes with her small son across the ice of the Ohio River, while the faithful Tom is sold down the river to Louisiana. Harriet Beecher Stowe drew on her eighteen years in Cincinnati, across the river from slavery, where she met people who had escaped it. The bestselling novel of the 19th century, it changed how much of the North saw slavery.

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• Viața la țarăDuiliu ZamfirescuLocalBooks Classics

  Pe moșiile din Bărăgan, lângă Ciulnița, tânărul boier Matei Damian se întoarce de la Paris să-și lucreze singur pământul și se îndrăgostește de Sașa, nepoata vecinului Murguleț. Între ei stă arendașul Tănase Scatiu, un parvenit lacom pe care vechii boieri îl disprețuiesc, dar nu-l pot ține departe.

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• WaldenHenry David ThoreauLocalBooks Classics

  In 1845 Thoreau built a one-room cabin by a pond outside Concord, Massachusetts, and lived there for two years, keeping careful accounts of every nail and bean. His record of those seasons moves from ice-cutting, loons and ants at war to sharp questions about how much a life really needs.

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• War and PeaceLeo TolstoyLocalBooks Classics

  Russia during the Napoleonic Wars, through five aristocratic families: the restless Pierre, the proud Prince Andrei and the lively Natasha, swept from Moscow ballrooms to the battle of Borodino and the burning of Moscow.

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• White BuildingsHart CraneLocalBooks Classics

  Hart Crane's first book of poems, in his dense, musical modernist style: "Black Tambourine," "Chaplinesque," "My Grandmother's Love Letters," "Praise for an Urn" for a painter friend from his Cleveland days, and "Voyages," six love poems to the sea and to a sailor he loved in Brooklyn.

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• White FangJack LondonLocalBooks Classics

  Born in the Yukon wilderness, a wolf-dog cub learns early that the world is hard. Passing from Native owners to a cruel dog-fighter to a man who shows him kindness, he has to decide what he will become.

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• Winesburg, OhioSherwood AndersonLocalBooks Classics

  Linked stories of a small Ohio town around 1900, seen through young reporter George Willard, whom the town's lonely, frustrated people confide in. A landmark of American fiction, based on Anderson's own hometown of Clyde.

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