GREAT BOOKS

Captain Ahab's adventures on the ship PEQUOD are the focus of Herman Melville's classic 1851 novel told by Ishmael.

This 1961 Joseph Heller novel tells the story of WWII bombadier named John Yossarian who wants out of WWII.

Truman Capote's 1958 novel set in New York City includes an unnamed narrator telling the story of Holly Golightly.

Nick Carroway comes to live in West Egg New York in the summer of 1922 & meets the title character of Fitzgerald's novel

John Ray receives the manuscript detailing the life of Humbert Humbert & his strange life w/ titular teen AKA Delores.

Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote this novel about Rodion Raskolnikov's murder of Alyona Ivanovna and Nikolai's false confession.

This 1960 novel, John Updike tells the story of Harry Angstrom who leaves his pregnant wife Janice and loses his child.

The PILOT's airplane crashes in the desert, and he meets this titular character of Antoine de Saint Auxpery's 1943 work

Ian Feming, who wrote the JAMES BOND novels, wrote this 1964 children's book about a flying car and the Potts family.

Holden Caufield finds his little sister Phoebe in the park in J. D. Salinger's 1951 novel about the life of a teenager

Marlow, a sailor travels to Africa and up the Congo river to meet Kurtz, in Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella.

The 1960 Harper Lee classic that brought us Atticus, Jem, & Scout Finch in Macomb, Alabama in the early 1930s.

Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel tells the story of Clarissa, the titular character, and characters like Sally & Septimus.

This 1922 James Joyce novel tells the stories of Stephen Dedalus, Molly & Leopold Bloom on June 16 - 17, 1904 in Dublin.

Author wrote about STEPHEN DEDALUS, his alter ego, in two novels, Portait of an Artist as a Young Man & Ulysses.

The story of Bigger Thomas, living in poverty in 1930s Chicago, and his boss, Mr. Dalton, was written by Richard Wright.

The 1902 novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that introduced the world to Dr. Watson & detective Sherlock Holmes.