Read The Catcher in the Rye

Esther Greenwood's summer in New York and the breakdown after; Plath's only novel.

A boy walks out of a bombed museum with a Dutch painting; 800 pages and a Pulitzer.

Experience the Jazz Age tale by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A nameless Black narrator from a Southern college to Harlem, in a basement lit by 1,369 bulbs.

Charlie Gordon's IQ goes from 68 to 185 and back, in his own progress reports.

Four stories of a Bronx tenement; Will Eisner coined the term graphic novel for it.

A girl raised alone in the North Carolina marsh and a murder trial; the bestseller of the 2010s.

David Copperfield retold in opioid Appalachia; Kingsolver's Pulitzer.