To Kill a Mockingbird
A novel set in the United States in the 1930s. It masterfully describes the atmosphere of the time, albeit with a universal vision: it shows how the life of a family...
1984
This is the nightmare scenario of a totalitarian state where Winston Smith kicks against the machine before buckling under the pressure and accepting it. The hero...
The Catcher in the Rye
One of the greatest American novels of all time, The Catcher in the Rye is a classic coming-of-age story: an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the...
Lord of the Flies
An aeroplane full of schoolboys crash in a desert island and only the boys survive. Led by Ralph and Piggy, the boys organise themselves by setting up a...
The Lord of the Rings
The world created by Tolkien can already be considered among the classics of the 20th century. After celebrating his birthday, Bilbo disappears again. His nephew...
The Seven Narnia Chronicles (II): The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, during the Second World War, are sent to a big house in the countryside. In it, they will find a mysterious wardrobe that will take...
Fahrenheit 451
451 degrees centigrade is the temperature that paper in a book catches fire. The story focuses on the fireman Montag who is unhappy with his work burning books in a...
Animal Farm
The animals of Mr. Jones' farm led by the pigs, revolt and drive him out. Napoleon is the leader and, corrupted by this power, sets up a new tyranny under the slogan...
The Grapes of Wrath
I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied. Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of...
White Fang
Born in the wilds of the freezing cold Yukon, White Fang - half-dog, half-wolf - is the only animal in the litter to survive. He soon learns the harsh laws of nature...
The Secret Garden
A selfish and unbearable girl is sent for a country house in the Yorkshire, and left to herself. Starting to explore the house she finds out a sick boy hidden from...
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh, in this his most famous novel, shows his fascination by both the Catholic faith and the English aristocracy. It is narrated by the architectural painter...
A Good Man is Hard to Find
A Good Man Is Hard to Find is the author's most famous and most discussed story. O'Connor herself singled it out by making it the title piece of her first...
Momo
At the edge of the city, in the ruins of an old amphitheatre, there lives a little homelss girl called Momo. Momo has a special talent which she uses to help all her...
The Neverending Story
This unique book contains two seemingly parallel stories (each written in a different color): the first, in the real world, begins when Bastian finds a book called "...
The Tartar Steppe
This novel, one of the masterpieces of Dino Buzzati and of 20th century Italian literature, tells the story of Giovanni Drogo. The protagonist is introduced to us as...