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Top 40 Essential Reads

A list of our Top 40 best-selling, best-loved PG-15 titles.



This is a selection of our current Top 40 Essential Reads titles. To find other titles or authors, or just to browse, please use the search box.

The Girls' Guide To Hunting And Fishing - trade paperback
By Melissa Bank - $20.00 - add to cart

These short stories map the progress of Jane Rosenal as she sets out on a spirited expedition through the perilous terrain of sex, love, relationships, and ...

 

Dune - mass market paperback
By Frank Herbert - $8.99 - add to cart

Set on the desert planet Arakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family — an...

 

The Handmaid's Tale - mass market paperback
By Margaret Atwood - $11.99 - add to cart

It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and his wife. She is allowed out once a day to the food market, she is not permitted to read, and she is ho...

 

Never Let Me Go - trade paperback
By Kazuo Ishiguro - $21.00 - add to cart

Shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that ...

 

Sloppy Firsts - young adult softcover
By Megan Mccafferty - $21.00 - add to cart

"Banning me from the phone and restricting my computer privileges are the most tyrannical parental gestures I can think of. Don't they realize that Hope's the only one who keeps me sane?" Jessica...

 

In Search of April Raintree : Critical Edition - trade paperback
By Beatrice Mosionier - $24.00 - add to cart

The powerful and moving life stories of two Metis sisters who suffer the breakdown of their family relations and the injustices of the social services system. Ten critical essay accompany on the be...

 

Walk To Remember - mass market paperback
By Nicholas Sparks - $9.50 - add to cart

Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in lov...

 

Lord Of The Flies - trade paperback
By William Golding - $11.99 - add to cart

Originally published in 1954, William Golding's Lord of the Flies is one of the most disturbing and celebrated novels of modern times. A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors are ...

 

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - mass market paperback
By Douglas Adams - $9.99 - add to cart

One Thursday lunchtime the Earth is unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this seems already to ...

 

A Great and Terrible Beauty - young adult softcover
By Libba Bray - $12.99 - add to cart

Gemma Doyle isn't like other girls. Girls with impeccable manners, who speak when spoken to, who remember their station, and who will lie back and think of England when it's required of them. No,...

 

The History of Love - trade paperback
By Nicole Krauss - $13.95 - add to cart

Shortlisted for the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction.A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness....

 

The Perks of Being a Wallflower - young adult softcover
By Stephen Chbosky - $15.50 - add to cart

Standing on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor. This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. p...

 

The Lottery - children's paperback
By Beth Goobie - $9.95 - add to cart

In this tense, complex novel Beth Goobie demonstrates once again that she is one of Canada's finest writers of teen fiction. The Lottery is her sixteenth book and follows the best selling Before W...

 

Junk - young adult softcover
By Melvin Burgess - $10.99 - add to cart

Winner of Britain's Carnegie Medal and Guardian prize for fiction, Junk is a timely and searing novel about the ecstasies and horrors of heroin use. Few books in recent years have caused as much...

 

The Road - trade paperback
By Cormac Mccarthy - $21.00 - add to cart

Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothi...

 

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