That's not their real name?!
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
London lawyer John Gabriel Utterson investigates strange occurrences between his old friend Henry and the evil Edward.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
This is an illustrated collection of poems. A few first copies were printed and illuminated by William Blake himself in 1789.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake
In 1942, with the Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding.
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
In 1960s Mississippi, Southern society girl Skeeter returns from college with dreams of being a writer. She turns her small town on its ear by choosing to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent white families.
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect."
The Metamorphpsis by Franz Kafka
This books is an effort to rationalize or rather "vindicate the ways of God to man" (l.16), a variation of John Milton's claim in the opening lines of Paradise Lost, that he will "justify the ways of God to men" (1.26).
An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope
The novel is set during World War II, from 1942 to 1944. It mainly follows the life of Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier.
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Inspired by his doctor's exasperated remark that insomnia is not suffering, the protagonist finds relief by impersonating a seriously ill person in several support groups. Then he meets a mysterious man named Tyler Durden and establishes an underground fighting club as radical psychotherapy.
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Clive Hamilton
C.S. Lewis
Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the train in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon, Mr. Samuel Edward Ratchett, lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Obsessed with discovering the cause of generation and life and bestowing animation upon lifeless matter, this science student assembles a human being from stolen body parts.
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it’s only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.
Never Let ME go by Kazuo Ishiguro
While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols.
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Human Typewriter (Two possible answers)
Isaac Asimov (Science fiction theory writer) or Giorgio Scerbanenco (crime writer)
This is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the "spice" melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness.
Dune by Frank Herbert
This 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts.
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself
The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his "World's Fair Hotel" just west of the fairgrounds.
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and the Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
A fairy tale adventure about a beautiful young woman, Buttercup, and her one true love. He must find her after a long separation and save her. They must battle the evils of the mythical kingdom of Florin to be reunited with each other.
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
O. Henry
William Sydney Porter
Fair, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person -- no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s.
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
"For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick." A satire.
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells grown onto a scale, they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons—as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The film, told in a flashback format, tells the story of Paul Edgecomb's life as a death row corrections officer during the U.S. Great Depression, and the supernatural events he witnessed there.
The Green Mile by Stephen King