The 39 Steps
★★★★★
The original spy-thriller; a mining engineer on vacation is caught up in an international conspiracy involving assassinations, disguises, shady backroom dealings and shifty Germans
Rendezvous With Rama
★★★★★
A gigantic cylinder-shaped structure whizzes through the solar system on a celestial journey. Humanity calls the structure "Rama", and sends a team on a ship to investigate it.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
★☆☆☆☆
A study into how we live, and how to be better at living, set around a narrative of a father-son motorcycle trip across the American Northwest.
The Turn of the Screw
★☆☆☆☆
A young governess is sent to a remote estate to care for two beautiful children, who are oddly distant and wholly disconcerting...
The Stars My Destination (Tiger! Tiger!)
★★★★★
In a far future universe where people travel by thought, a barely articulate menial survivor from an inter-planetary vessel escapes jail to wreak havoc, and change the world...
Endless Night
★★★★★
Some are born to sweet delights, and some are born to the night that will engulf all, even those aforementioned, born to sweet delights
The Haunting of Hill House
★★★★☆
A scientist studying the paranormal ropes in a few people to live in a "haunted" house. All is quiet, until the house starts acting up...
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
★★★★★
A deeply moving tale of a scientist forced to confront the ethical and moral implications of his research, and pay the price for disregarding those implications.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
★★★★☆
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born in the slums of 18th-century France, with an extraordinary gift of smell. Working as a perfumer, he starts the grisly task of bottling up.. the essence of women.
I Am Legend
★★★★★
A plague has struck, and Robert Neville is the last man alive, and the rest of the world are undead vampires, thirsting for Neville's blood. He hunts them by day, and barricades himself by night. But how long will this continue...
A Canticle for Leibowitz
★★★★★
A ruined post-apocalyptic world is slowly nursed back to civilization by a group of cloistered monks, following the teachings of a blessed Saint Leibowitz, a Jewish military engineer from before the fall.
All Quiet on the Western Front
★★★★★
A young soldier in WW1 recounts his moving story of horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches.
The Secret Garden
★★★☆☆
An orphaned girl is sent to live with a reclusive uncle, where she finds a secret garden which changes the lives of herself and everyone around her
Slaughterhouse-Five
★★★★★
Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, the story follows the life of Billy Pilgrim. as he reflects on the events of his life across time and space.