Reader's Club
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The Soldier's Art - Anthony Powell
The Soldier's Art has been described as among the best novels about the British experience in the Second World War.[3] The Soldier’s Art opens in 1941. Nick Jenkins’ Division is still in Northern Ire ...
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The Sheltering Sky - Bowles, Paul
The Sheltering Sky is a 1949 novel of alienation and existential despair by American writer and composer Paul Bowles. Plot The story centers on Port Moresby and his wife Kit, a married couple origina ... -
The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1907.[1] The story is set in London in 1886 and deals with Mr. Adolf Verloc and his work as a spy for an unnamed country ... -
The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence
The Rainbow is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence, first published by Methuen & Co. in 1915. It follows three generations of the Brangwen family living in Nottinghamshire,[2] focusing particular ... -
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a novel by Muriel Spark, the best known of her works.[1] It was first published in The New Yorker magazine and was published as a book by Macmillan in 1961. The charac ...
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The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain
The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1934 crime novel by American writer James M. Cain. The novel was successful and notorious upon publication. It is considered one of the most outstanding crime novel ... -
The Old Wives' Tale - Arnold Bennett
The Old Wives' Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1908. It deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, following their stories from their youth, ... -
The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer
The Naked and the Dead is a novel written by Norman Mailer. Published by Rinehart & Company in 1948, when he was 25, it was his debut novel. It depicts the experiences of a platoon during World War II ... -
The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
The Moviegoer is the debut novel by Walker Percy, first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf in 1961.[2] It won the U.S. National Book Award.[3] Time included the novel in its "Time 100 B ... -
The Military Philosophers - Anthony Powell
The Military Philosophers is the ninth of Anthony Powell's twelve-novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time. First published in 1968, it covers the latter part of Nicholas Jenkins' service in World ...
