| |
| 1. | | Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
Price: Audio Download ($17.22) | Audio CD ($23.96) | Audio Cassette
An adventure tale in its purest form. A thrilling and elegantly told account of a group of British schoolboys marooned on a tropical island. |
| |
| 2. | | The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Price: Audio Download ($7.99)
When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote THE GREAT GATSBY in the early 1920s, the American Dream was already on the skids. |
| |
| 3. | | Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Price: Audio Download ($13.95) | Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette ($19.95) | MP3 CD ($29.95)
Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury's classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as it was when it was first published more than 50 years ago. |
| |
| 4. | | The Go-Getter
by Peter B. Kyne
Price: Audio Download ($9.95)
Originally published by William Randolph Hearst in 1921, Peter Kyne's The Go Getter has become a continual source of inspiration for salesman, entrepreneurs and employers. |
| |
| 5. | | The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
Price: Audio Download ($27.55) | Audio CD ($39.96) | Audio Cassette
The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring... |
| |
| 6. | | Ceremony
by Leslie Marmon Silko
Price: Audio Download ($17.49)
Leslie Marmon Silko’s sublime Ceremony is almost universally considered one of the finest novels ever written by an American Indian. It is the poetic, dreamlike tale of Tayo, a mixed-blood Laguna Pueblo and veteran of World War II. |
| |
| 7. | | The Paris Letter
by Jon Robin Baitz
Price: Audio Download ($4.95) | Audio CD ($23.36)
Jon Robin Baitz has been praised as one of America's foremost playwrights on themes of conscience. |
| |
| 8. | | The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
Price: Audio Download ($4.95) | Audio CD ($20.76)
In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town. |
| |
| 9. | | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
Price: Audio Download ($9.95)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a personal account of the life of the famous American statesman, businessman, philosopher, inventor and scientist. |
| |
| 10. | | Plato's Ion and Meno
by Plato
Price: Audio Download ($10.00) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
Socrates questions Ion, an actor, about his ability to interpret the poetry of Homer. In the Meno, the topic is whether goodness can be taught. Both dialogues provide more questions than answers. |
| |
| 11. | | Plato's Gorgias
by Plato
Price: Audio Download ($14.00) | Audio CD
Gorgias of Leontini, who teaches rhetoric, is in Athens, to instruct potential leaders in politics and business. A group has gathered at Callicles' house where Socrates questions him in his usual way. |
| |
| 12. | | Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
Price: Audio Download ($20.19) | Audio CD ($23.96) | Audio Cassette
Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming... |
| |
| 13. | | Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
Price: Audio Download ($49.95) | Audio CD ($53.96) | MP3 CD ($62.96)
Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club. |
| |
| 14. | | Paradise Lost
by John Milton
Price: Audio Download ($16.98) | Audio CD ($24.28)
This epic poem, considered the greatest in the English language, as John Milton seeks to “justify the ways of God to men” through relating the story of Satan’s rebellion in Heaven, the deception and fall of Man, and the presaged event of Redemption through Jesus, the Son of God…the “Second Adam.” |
| |
| 15. | | The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
Price: Audio Download ($23.95) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, "The Kite Runner" is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. |
| |
| 16. | | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
Price: Audio Download ($15.27) | Audio CD ($18.40) | Audio Cassette
An unforgettable memoir of growing up black in the 1930s and 1940s in a tiny Arkansas town where Angelou's grandmother's store was the heart of the community and white people seemed as strange as aliens from another planet. |
| |
| 17. | | Plato's Symposium
by Plato
Price: Audio Download ($10.00) | Audio CD
The dramatic nature of Plato's dialogues is delightfully evident in the Symposium. The marriage between character and thought bursts forth as the guests gather at Agathon's house and talk about love. |
| |
| 18. | | The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Price: Audio Download ($19.98) | Audio CD ($31.98) | MP3 CD ($29.98)
Fyodor Dostoevsky's crowning life work, The Brothers Karamazov, stands among the greatest novels in world literature. His exploration of faith, doubt, morality, and the place of suffering in life are equaled in no other work of literature, save the Bible. |
| |
| 19. | | Detective Fiction
by M. Lee Alexander
Price: Audio Download ($34.95)
From mysterious origins, through the Victorian sleuths and the "Golden Age" of the genre (the 1920s through the 1940s), and to the present day, detective fiction, mysteries, and spy thrillers have consistently topped best-seller lists around the world. |
| |
| 20. | | Animal Farm
by George Orwell
Price: Audio Download ($11.95) | Audio CD ($13.46) | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
George Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture. |
| |
| 21. | | Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Price: Audio Download ($13.75) | Audio CD ($19.96) | Audio Cassette
The tragic romance of Verona's two too-young star-crossed lovers, loving each other in spite of their parents' spite, told in beautiful imagery and poetry. |
| |
| 22. | | A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
Price: Audio Download ($23.95) | Audio CD ($31.96)
The best American novel to emerge from World War I," A Farewell to Arms" is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. |
| |
| 23. | | Tartuffe
by Moliere
Price: Audio Download ($4.95)
Initially banned in France by King Louis, Molière's celebrated social satire Tartuffe exposes false piety and hypocrisy in the Catholic Church. When a pious fraud worms his way into a wealthy family |
| |
| 24. | | The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
Price: Audio Download ($20.95) | Audio CD ($27.96)
Simultaneously releasing with the 80th anniversary paperback edition, Hemingway's first great novel makes its regal debut in an all-new, unabridged recording. |
| |
| 25. | | Antigone
by Jean Anouilh
Price: Audio Download ($4.95)
The body of Polynices, Antigone's brother, has been ordered to remain unburied by Creon, the new king of Thebes. Antigone defies the law, sealing her fate. |