Boy bites off more than he's willing to chew as the Receiver of knowledge

What if the roles of humans and apes were reversed?

One of my favorite novels of all time - death narrates this story about a German girl growing up during the Holocaust

Jewish handyman wrongly imprisoned in Kiev in the early 1900s in this (multi) award-winning book

About a boy in Afghanistan

Tracy Kidder does a wonderful job of telling the story of do-gooder Dr. Paul Farmer

Manguso's no-holds barred recounting of her experiences with a debilitating illness is really good

You'll never think of Chernobyl the same way after reading these oral histories about those affected by the nuclear disaster.

Capote set the standard for this genre, writing about the men behind the a family's senseless murder.

One wonders what to call this genre - short stories, historical fiction? Either way, author Tim O'Brien has put together a different kind of book about the Vietnam War.

Superb stories for the science-minded.

Controversial among Russians because of its trying-to-avoid-work main character, this is a masterful, short story about one day in the life of prisoner of the GULAG.

A clinic on how to develop characters and a plot

This mystery is really long, but worth every minute spent following its fabulously developed characters and un-figure-out-able plot.

I love the cleverness of the author in creating this book out of another, Mrs. Dalloway, which should be read prior.

I cry every time I get to the end of this book about the changing relationship over the years between a boy and a tree.

Fun for foodies young and old

My favorite book by the King of this genre

“They never stop, these Stepford wives…They work like robots all their lives.”

As performed by Victor Garber, with spot on voices for Harold the dog and Chester the cat especially, this set of three stories on CD about a vampire bunny is to die for mwahahaha.