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a small library of associated reads
This page serves as a paramount source for most, if not all, of the site author's corresponding literature that he has read, or at the least, examined over the course of his lifetime.
These books are some of the most memorable and nostalgic in popular literature all across the world. You will also find some that are less frequented from that of your average book enthusiast.
Enjoy!
 Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond Ph.DWinner of the Pulitzer Prize • New York Times Bestseller • Over Two Million Copies Sold by Jared Diamond Ph.D. (Author) A major landmark in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way in which the modern world, and its inequalities, came to be. |  Philosophy in Minutes by Marcus Weeks200 key concepts explain in an instant. |  October Sky by Homer HickamThe true story, originally published as Rocket Boys, that inspired the Universal Pictures film. It was 1957, the year Sputnik raced across the Appalachian sky, and the small town of Coalwood, West Virginia, was slowly dying... |
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 Perelandra by C.S. LewisThe intrepid professor Dr. Ransom must take on an evil force to save a utopian planet in Perelandra, the second book in C.S. Lewis’s classic science fiction Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength. |  Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy) by C.S. LewisFrom C.S. Lewis, the acclaimed author of The Chronicles of Narnia, comes the first book in the classic science fiction Space Trilogy following the resourceful Dr. Ransom as he is abducted and taken by spaceship to Mars. |  The Outsiders by S.E. HintonTHE ICONIC INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WITH OVER 25 MILLION COPIES SOLD • The inspiration for the Tony Award–winning Broadway musical! A heroic coming-of-age novel revolving around friendship, belonging, and brotherhood that has touched the hearts of readers for generations. |
 Fahrenheir 451 by Ray BradburyNearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before. |  Jane Eyre by Charlotte BronteCharlotte Brontë’s romantic gothic novel, featuring one of literature’s most memorable heroines. |  The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthornehe Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850... |
 The Odyssey by HomerHomer’s great epic of a hero’s journey home―inspiration for the major motion picture by Christopher Nolan―in a bold, contemporary, and refreshingly readable translation. |  Epic of Gilgamesh by HomerGilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient literature of Babylon, immortalized in this epic poem that dates back to the third millennium BC... |  To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper LeeHarper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime. |
 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainMark Twain created the memorable characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn drawing from the experiences of boys he grew up with in Missouri. |  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainIn recent years, neither the persistent effort to “clean up” the racial epithets in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel’s wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. |  The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckFirst published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. |
 Slaughter-House FiveKurt Vonnegut's classic anti-war novel, blending science fiction, satire, and autobiography to tell the story of Billy Pilgrim, a WWII veteran who becomes "unstuck in time" after being abducted by aliens. |  Animal Farm by George OrwellGeorge Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire of a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism. |
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