1. Uncle Tom's cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe's best known novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), changed forever how Americans viewed slavery, the system that treated people as property
2. The perk of Being a wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Tells the story of an introvert freshman named Charlie who is taken on the wings by his friends Sam and Patrick, who welcome him to the world of sex, drugs and complicated relationships
3.Jane Eyre
There are numerous religious references in the text and religion comes into play several times in Jane's story. Religion is seen as both a sanctuary and a source of discomfort and hypocrisy in the text.
4. Rispondimi
The internationally bestselling author of Follow Your Heart uncovers hope in the midst of tragedy in these three utterly transfixing novellas set in Susanna Tamaro’s native Italy. In “Answer Me,” an orphaned girl with a troubled past desperately searches for a sign that she is loved while cultivating an inner strength that allows her to persevere. In “Hell Does Not Exist,” an abused wife attempts to protect her son, who becomes the source of her greatest joy and her most profound devastation. And in “The Burning Forest,” a widower recounts the unraveling of his marriage and seeks the forgiveness of his estranged daughter. Hauntingly powerful and exquisitely written, Answer Me is a spiritually galvanizing book by a writer of international stature.
5.Doctor Faustus
Faustus is a brilliant sixteenth-century scholar from Wittenberg, Germany, whose ambition for knowledge, wealth, and worldly might makes him willing to pay the ultimate price—his soul—to Lucifer in exchange for supernatural powers. Faustus’s initial tragic grandeur is diminished by the fact that he never seems completely sure of the decision to forfeit his soul and constantly wavers about whether or not to repent. His ambition is admirable and initially awesome, yet he ultimately lacks a certain inner strength. He is unable to embrace his dark path wholeheartedly but is also unwilling to admit his mistake.
6. The Time Keeper
the inventor of the world's first clock is punished for trying to measure God's greatest gift. He is banished to a cave for centuries and forced to listen to the voices of all who come after him seeking more days, more years. Eventually, with his soul nearly broken, Father Time is granted his freedom, along with a magical hourglass and a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two earthly people the true meaning of time. He returns to our world--now dominated by the hour-counting he so innocently began--and commences a journey with two unlikely partners: one a teenage girl who is about to give up on life, the other a wealthy old businessman who wants to live forever. To save himself, he must save them both. And stop the world to do so. Told in Albom's signature spare, evocative prose, this remarkably original tale will inspire readers everywhere to reconsider their own notions of time, how they spend it and how precious it truly is.
7. Nana by Emile Zola
Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was a perfect target for Zola's scathing denunciation of hypocrisy and fin-de-siecle moral corruption. In this new translation, the fate of Nana--the Helen of Troy of the second Empire, and daughter of the laundress in L'Assommoir--is now rendered in racy, stylish English.
8. To kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
In the novel, the mockingbird is a symbol of innocence or of a person who does not do anything wrong but is mocked, killed, or berated for doing the right thing.
9. Through a Glass Darkly
In this potent little story, Gaarder once again poses one of the biggest questions any human faces: What happens when we die? Bittersweet without being whiny or sappy in the least, this is a truly refreshing and thought provoking read.
10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
In the novel if you are of lower wealth then therefore you are of lower rank in society. The rich overlook the poor and see them as unimportant enough to converse with. Much as you see Mr. Collins trying to get on the good side of Mr.Darcy only because of his high stature you see the true humility of the social classes at this time. If you were not rich you basically were kept to but a minimal life with few social interaction and little adventure. Luckily for Miss Elizabeth Bennet she proves that true class is not obtained from the clothes you wear or the materrialistic objects you possess but by wearing your heart on your sleeve and treating everyone as equal. This is why she misconceives Mr. Darcy at first impression. Her rich person stereotypes forever spoiled their realtionship at first glance. But as you see his true benevolence you the reader, as well as Elizabeth begin to understand that only the true rich people are willing to share the wealth and not change their demeanor just because of an unbearable pride. Love emerges from the irony of social mobility at the time. We see Jane and Bingley's union is in jeopardy as is the theme of social mobility and class.
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