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These Barren Leaves is a satirical novel that makes witty, but dangerously sharp social criticism on the cultural elite.

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American author Edgar Rice Burroughs is known best for his classic Tarzan novels. The Return of Tarzan is the second in his series, the direct sequel to The Return of Tarzan. These stories follow the adventures of a man raised by apes in the jungle, with themes such as Tarzan struggling to find his identity, racial superiority, and nature versus nurture. Along with his Tarzan stories, Burroughs is known for his speculative fiction and planetar...

Written by American author Edgar Rice Burroughs, the 1914 "Tarzan of the Apes" is the story of a man raised by apes in the jungle. "Tarzan of the Apes" is adventurous, romantic, and a little dangerous.

From "the father of science fiction, " H. G. Wells, "The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth" is a chilling tale on what happens when science tampers with nature.

H. G. Wells' "The Island of Doctor Moreau" is the tale of a shipwrecked Englishman who finds himself stranded on an island with the strange Doctor Moreau and a tribe of Beast Folk who seem to be hybrid monsters of animal and man.

Edna Ferber's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, "So Big, " tells of the highs and lows of Chicago's rural communities. Selina DeJong has big plans after her father suddenly dies but life brings more failures than she expected.

The King of Elfland's Daughter" is a heartbreaking tale of the love between a human and an elf princess and the trials they must face.

Prue Sarn, born with a blight known as a cleft lip, lives her comfortable life on the farm knowing there is little possibility for her because she is different.

From the author who told us about Baron Trump, comes another tale, this one lamenting the Democrat Party's "socialist" platform of 1896, and warning that the election of "Bryan" would be the last election for president..

From P. G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves is a collection of ten short stories involving Bertie Wooster and Jeeves.

By Willa Cather, The Professor's House is a look into the domestic life of a 1920s Midwestern town.

Forgotten and critically panned during his lifetime, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" is now considered the quintessential American novel.

A young captain named Nathaniel Plum lands on the shore of an island ruled by its self-appointed king, James Strang. Plum is a witness to the total collapse of one of the most tragic American cults.

Herland" prompts readers to consider the failures of men to create a utopia, and wonder if women could succeed where men did not.

Written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman of "The Yellow Wallpaper" fame in 1911, "Moving the Mountain" is a utopian novel where America has fulfilled its Progressive 'destiny.

One of Virginia Woolf's greatest works, Mrs. Dalloway is a look at the life of an upper-class woman in London.

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Eight Cousins was published in 1875 by American novelist Louisa May Alcott.

From L. M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs is about a girl destined to write.