National Network for Equitable Library Service

Sherlock Holmes doesn’t actually wear a deerstalker hat in the original. Other fun fact: he’s addicted to cocaine.

Every single fairy tale is creepier than you remember.

Jane Eyre is alone in the world, orphaned and living off the charity of reluctant relatives. Hired as a governess, she enters a society of high glamour and dark family secrets.

The life of quiet bachelor Dr.

One of the funniest and strangest narrators in literature goes to sea with a maniacal captain on a doomed whaling voyage.

One of literature's great tragic heroines, beautiful Emma Bovary fights boredom with passionate excess, throwing herself into love affairs with a momentum that threatens to drag all around her

Sisters Dorothea and Cecilia live in genteel poverty in an English village.

A captain with wanderlust and remarkably bad luck with ships encounters tiny people, big people, hyper-rational horse, and the Japanese. A harrowing account of the days before online booking.

A square inhabiting a two-dimensional realm comes into contact with a mysterious sphere that opens his mind to the existence of higher dimensions and threatens to upend the rigid social order of hi

Tom Sawyer is a high-spirited but basically good kid growing up on the Mississippi River, pining for Becky Thatcher and getting into run-of-the-mill trouble.

Every feel like you’re not getting ahead at work? Does it seem like you can’t catch up on your bills? Well, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles have an answer for you: Communism!

Fanny Price, born to a large and struggling family, is taken to live at Mansfield Park with a wealthy aunt and uncle.

The greatest book about why you shouldn’t read books, weirdly written at a time when there weren’t that many books to read.

In ancient India a young man begins a spiritual journey that will take him into the company of the Buddha, the arms of a gorgeous courtesan and to the river that will ultimately teach him enlighten

The 15 unforgettable short stories that form this collection paint the portrait of a city through the eyes of its middle class residents.