The Catcher in the Rye #1 COMING OF AGE NOVEL The Catcher in the Rye "Holden Caulfield called everyone a phony in 1951 and hasn't stopped—J.D. Salinger's only novel remains the definitive text on adolescent alienation because it refuses to resolve into wisdom." Read Review
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle #1 FICTION The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle "A missing cat, a dry well, a war crime in Manchuria. The connections never resolve. That's the point." Read Review
Catch-22 #1 LITERARY FICTION Catch-22 "Joseph Heller wrote a war novel so funny it makes you forget you're reading about death, and then makes you remember." Read Review
God Only Knows: The Story of Brian Wilson #1 MUSIC BIOGRAPHY God Only Knows: The Story of Brian Wilson "Tom Leaf's oral history assembles the voices around Brian Wilson into a symphony of perspectives—finally, a Beach Boys book that understands pop genius as collaborative act." Read Review
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock #1 POETRY The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock "T.S. Eliot wrote a poem about paralysis that changed what poetry could do." Read Review
Persuasion #1 ROMANCE NOVEL Persuasion "Jane Austen's final completed novel is her quietest and her deepest—a story of second chances that understands what first chances cost." Read Review
Ready Player One #1 SCIENCE FICTION Ready Player One "Ernest Cline wrote a nostalgia delivery system so effective it became the thing it was nostalgic for." Read Review
In Cold Blood #1 TRUE CRIME BOOK In Cold Blood "Truman Capote invented the nonfiction novel by spending six years with two murderers—the result was a book that reads like fiction and haunts like fact." Read Review