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Christine - Stephen King
Written by: Stephen King
Cover by: Craig DeCamps
Published: April 29, 1983
Number of pages: 526
“I find that the more I dislike adults, the more apt I am to call them Sir. “What?”
Written by: Edith Nesbit
Cover by: H.R. Miller
Published: 1904
Publisher: Newnes
Number of Pages: 289
"'I wish they taught magic at school,' Jane sighed. 'I believe if we could do a little magic it might make something happen."
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein
Written by: Robert A, Heinlem
Cover by: Irv Docktor
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Published: June 2, 1966
Number of pages: 362
“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
The Trial - Franz Kafka
Written by: Franz Kafka and Max Brod
Translated by: Willa Muir and Edwin Muir
Published: Verlag Die Schmiede
Published: April 26, 1925
Number of pages: 255
“Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.”
Once and Future King - T. H. White
Written by: T.H. White
Publisher: Collins
Published: 1958
Number of pages: 639
“It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.”
A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
Written by: Henrik Ibsen
Translated by: T. Weber, Cevat Memduh Altar, and Michael Meyer
Number of pages: 122
First performed: December 21, 1879
“I must make up my mind which is right, society or I.”
Antigone - Sophocles
Written by: Sophocles
First performed: 441 CE
Number of pages: 80
“Say I am mad and give my madness rein To wreck itself; the worst that can befall Is but to die an honorable death.”
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Written by: Ayn Rand
Published by: Bobbs-Merrill Company
Published: 1941
Number of pages: 702
“I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”
The Fountain - Darren Aronofsky,Kent Williams
Written by: Darren Aronosky
Illustrated by: Kent Williams
Published by: Vertigo and Titan Books
Published: November 2. 2005
Number of pages: 166
“It seems we struggle for a lifetime to become whole. Few of us ever do ... Most of us end up going out the same way we came in -- kicking and screaming. Most of us don't have the strength -- or the conviction. Most of us don't want to face our fears.”
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Written by: Mikhail Bulgakov
T atherine Tiernan O'Connor and Diana Lewis Burgin
Illustrated by Hans Fronius
Published by: YMCA Press
Published: 1966–67 (in serial form), 1967 (in single volume), 1973 (uncensored version)
Number of pages: 372
“I don't have any special talents, just an ordinary desire to live like a human being.”
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Hans Christian Andersen: The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories (Anchor Folktale Library)... - Erik Christian Haugaard,Hans Christian Andersen,Virginia Haviland
Publisher: C. A. Reitzel
Published: May 8,1835 – April 7, 1837
Number of pages: 806 pages
“Now he is certainly sailing above, he on whom my wishes hang, and in whose hand I should like to lay my life's happiness. I will dare everything to win him and an immortal soul.”
Beowulf - Anonymous
Written by: Anonymous
Written: Date disputed (c. 700–1000 AD)
Manuscript: Cotton Vitellius A. xv (c. 975–1010 AD)
First printed edition: Thorkelin (1815)
“And if death does take me, send the hammered mail of my armor to Higlac, return the inheritance I had from Hrethel, and he from Wayland. Fate will unwind as it must!”
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (Signet classics)... - Howard Pyle
Written by; Howard Pyle
Illustrated by: Howard Pyle
Published: 1883
Number of pages: 192
“Will you come with me, sweet Reader? I thank you. Give me your hand.”
Le Morte d'Arthur - Sir Thomas Malory
Written by: Sir Thomas Malory
Published: 1483
Publisher: William Caxton
Number of pages: 512
“Ah! fair damosel, said Balin, worthiness, and good tatches, and good deeds, are not only in arrayment, but manhood and worship is hid within man's person, and many a worshipful knight is not known unto all people, and therefore.”
Hansel and Gretel - Brothers Grimm,Martin Baynton
Written by: Jacob Grimm and Wilheim Grimm
Published: 1813 - 1857
“Nibble, nibble, where's the mouse? Who's that nibbling at my house?
Grimms' Fairy Tales: Sleeping Beauty and Other Tales v.2: Sleeping Beauty and Other Tales Vol 2 (Chi... - Jacob Grimm,Wilhelm Grimm
Written by: Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
Published: 1812
Number of pages: 32
“What is that thing that is so merrily bouncing about?" asked the girl, taking hold of the spindle, for she too wanted to spin.”
Cinderella - Charles Perrault
“Cendrillon ou la petite pantoufle de verre”
Written by: Charles Perrault
Published: 1697
Number of pages: 80
“Her godmother, who was a fairy, said, "You would like to go to the ball, is that not so?”
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There... - Lewis Carroll
Written by: Lewis Carroll
Illustrated by: John Tenniel
Publisher: Macmillan
Publication date: December 7, 1871
Number of pages: 208
“Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!"
“Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Written by: Lewis Carroll
Illustrated by: John Tenniel
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: November 1865
Number of pages: 96
“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
October Country - Ray Bradbury
Written by: Ray Bradbury
Illustrated by: Joseph Mugnaini
Published by: Ballantine Books
Published: November 16, 1955
Number of pages: 304
“Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.”
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The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
Written by: H.G. Wells
Publisher: William Heinemann (UK) and Harper & Bros (US)
Publication date: 1898
Number of pages: 287
“This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.”
The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzakis
Written by: Nikos Kazantzakis
Translator: Peter A. Bien
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (USA), Bruno Cassirer (UK)
Published: January 1, 1955
Number of pages: 506
“They had no fear of death, and whoever has no fear of death—the centurion had often meditated on this here in the East—whoever has no fear of death is immortal.”
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Written by: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cover by: Francis Cugat
Published: April 10, 1925
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Number of pages: 180
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
Written by: Salman Rushdie
Published: 1988
Published: Viking Press
Number of Pages: 546
"Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.”
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh (Aladdin Fantasy)... - Robert C. O'Brien
Written by: Robert C. O'Brien
Illustrated by: Zena Bernstein
Published: 1971
Published by: Antheneum Books
Number of Pages: 233
“When you’ve lived in a cage, you can’t bear not to run, even if what you’re running towards is an illusion.”
Heidi - Johanna Spyri
Written by: Johanna Spyri
Translated by: Nathan Haskell Dole
Published: 1881
Number of pages: 322
“Let's enjoy the beautiful things we can see, my dear, and not think about those we cannot.”
The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann Wyss
Written by: Johann Wyss
Illustrated by: Johann Wyss
Publisher: Johann Rudolph Wyss
Translated by: William H. G. Kingston
Published: 1812
“The friends of Columbus thought it very easy to make an egg stand upon its end when he had shown them how to do it.”
Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
Written by: Margaret Atwood
Covers by: T. M. Craan and Jamie Bennett
Published by: McClelland & Stewart
Number of pages: 462
“I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea. ”
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Written by: Margaret Atwood
Covers by: Tad Aronowicz and Gail Geltner
Published: McClelland & Stewart
Released: 1985
Number of pages: 311
“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3) - Suzanne Collins
Written by: Suzanne Collins
Cover by: Tim O'Brien
Published: August 24, 2010
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Number of Pages: 390
“Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!”
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Written by: Suzanne Collins
Cover by: Tim O'Brien
Published: September 4, 2008
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Number of Pages: 374
"Destroying things is much easier than making them.”
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, Book 2) - Suzanne Collins
Written by: Suzanne Collins
Cover by: Tim O'Brien
Published: September 1, 2009
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Number of Pages: 391
“Aim higher in case you fall short.”
Written by: Robert Greysmith
Published by: St. Martin’s Press
Published: 1986
Number of pages: 556
“Criminals strike close to home just as the average person chooses stores where he shops daily.”
Relic - Lincoln Child,Douglas Preston
Written by: Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston
Publication date: 1995
Publisher: Tor Books
Number of pages: 480
“You see, when someone says “it’s impossible,’ I have this very bad habit, I can’t help myself, I immediately contradict that person in the most positive terms possible. A very bad habit, but one that I find hard to break.”
“New York City had a short memory for violence,”
Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
Written by: Ray Bradbury
Cover by: Grey Foy
Published: 1962
Publishers: Simon & Schuster
Number of Pages: 293
“Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.”
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson - Emily Dickinson
Written by: Emily Dickinson
Edited by: Thomas H. Johnson, Mabel Loomis Todd, and Thomas Wentworth Higgins
Publisher: Liitle, Brown, & Company
Published: January 30, 1976
Number of pages: 716
“I've heard it in the chilliest land
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.”
Shoeless Joe - W.P. Kinsella
Written by: W.P. Kinsella
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1982
Number of pages: 285
“You have to make time, even for something as universal as staring at the stars.”
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Amelia Bedelia - Peggy Parish
Written by: Peggy Parish
Cover and illustrated by: Fritz Siebel
Published by: Harper & Row
Published: 1968
Number of pages: 38
“Oh, Amelia Bedelia, your first day of work, and I can't be here.”
Amelia: By Henry Fielding, Esq; in Four Volumes. ...... - Henry Fielding
Written by: Henry Fielding
Published: December, 1751
Number of pages: 687
Published by: Ulan Publishing
“Such indeed was her image, that neither could Shakespeare describe, nor Hogarth paint, nor Clive act, a fury in higher perfection.”
The Amityville Horror - Jay Anson
Written by: Jay Anson
Published: September 13, 1977
Published by: Bantam Books, Pretence Hall
Number of pages: 318
“His neck felt stiff and he rotated it, trying to work out the tight feeling. ‘It’s alright!’ he yelled back to Kathy. ‘Jodie’s not here!’ ‘There he is, daddy!’
Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
Written by: L. Frank Baum
Illustrated by: W.W. Denslow
Published: May 17, 1900
Publsher: George M. Hill Company
Number of pages: 184
“True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid...”
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders... - Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry
Written by: Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: January 1, 1974
Number of pages: 684
“All the stories had a common thread—that somehow the victims had brought the murders on themselves…”
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
Written by: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Translated by: Gregory Rabassa
Publisher: Editorial Sudamericana, Harper & Row (US), Jonathan Cape (UK)
Published: 1967, Published in English: 1970
Number of pages: 448
“One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!”
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Written by: Chinua Achebe
Published by: William Heinemann Ltd.
Published: 1958
Number of pages: 224
“If you don't like my story, write your own”
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Written by: William Shakespeare
First performed: 1599 - 1601
Number of pages: 128
“Conscience doth make cowards of us all.”
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Published: 1605, 1615, 1612, 1620
Publisher: Francisco de Robles
Number of pages: 992
“There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.”
Le Misanthrope - Moliere
Written by: Moliere
First performed: June 1, 1666
Number of pages: 104
“The world will not alter for all your meddling.”
King Lear - William Shakespeare
Written by: William Shakespeare
First performed: 1606
Number of pages: 384
“Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.“
Othello - William Shakespeare
Written by: William Shakespeare
First performed: 1603
Number of pages: 114
“Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.”
Leviathan (Penguin Classics) - C.B. Mac Pherson,Thomas Hobbes
Written by: Thomas Hobbes
Published: 1851
Number of pages: 468
“I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.”
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