Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur GoldenAvailable
Nominated as one of America?s best-loved novels by PBS?s The Great American Read.This novel relates the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her...
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Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo IshiguroAvailable
The students of Hailsham boarding school are well tended and supported, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and...
Norwegian Wood
by Haruki MurakamiAvailable
A poignant story of one college student's romantic coming-of-age. Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young...
On Beauty
by Zadie SmithAvailable
Set on both sides of the Atlantic, Zadie Smith's third novel is a brilliant analysis of family life, the institution of marriage, intersections of the personal and political, and an honest look at...
Pachinko
by Min Jin LeeAvailable
In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers...
Purple Hibiscus
by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieAvailable
Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. Yet, as Kambili reveals, things are less perfect than they appear. Her Papa is fanatically religious and...
Roots
by Alex HaleyAvailable
Haley has done more than recapture the history of his own family. As the first black American writer to trace his origins back to their roots, he has told the story of 25,000,000 Americans of African...
Song of Solomon
by Toni MorrisonAvailable
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly...
Swing Time
by Zadie SmithAvailable
Two brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person...
The Hate U Give
by Angie ThomasAvailable
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when...
The Joy Luck Club
by Amy TanAvailable
In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck...
The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara KingsolverChecked Out
A story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe...
