Every now and then there is a book with a character so well-written, so well-developed, that you instantly fall in love with them. 1.The Lonesome Dove series: "I would read a hundred books about those ...

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There is a strange comfort in meeting a character on the page and feeling as if you already know them. Readers often speak of Elizabeth Bennet, Pip, Jane Eyre, Meursault or Raskolnikov with the ...

This is a fictional story about an actual historical event that took place in 1846. It is an intriguing novel that weaves family history, mystery, and romance together, telling the stories of three ...

A fireproof edition of Margaret Atwood's prescient and often-banned book "The Handmaids Tale." It is one of the greatest works of speculative fiction. Speculative fiction, often referred to as spec ...

We know characters in fiction as well as we know many, and perhaps most, of the people around us. Yet fictional characters are often sketched remarkably lightly. In the more than 800 pages of ...