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| Facial Justice | Leslie Poles Hartley | In the not very distant future, after the Third World War, Justice had made great strides. Legal Justice, Economic Justice, Social Justice, and many other forms of justice, of which we do not know the names, had been attained; but there still remained spheres of human relationship and activity in which Justice did not reign. | Buy | |
| Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family | Howard Phillips Lovecraft | Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous. Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species--if separate species we be--for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world. | Buy | |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | It was a pleasure to burn. | Buy | |
| Fail-Safe | Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler | Peter Buck walked up to the N Street entrance of the While House. It was one of the hard, deceptive, crystal days of early spring. The obelisk of the Washington Monument was white and glittering. Tourists hurried rather than shuffled past the White House. Official limousines went by with their windows rolled up and their back-seat occupants thumbing through papers, their chesterfield collars up. The air was marvelously clear and full of sun, but it was cold. | Buy | |
| Fair Weather | Richard Peck | It was the last day of our old lives, and we didn't even know it. I didn't. It looked like any old day to me, a sultry summer morning hot enough to ruffle the roofline. But then, any little thing could come as a surprise to us. We were just plain country people. I suppose we were poor, but we didn't know it. | Buy | |
| Fairy Tale | Alice Thomas Ellis | The eyes of the watchers were cold and flat and incurious and the watchers were still. | Buy | |
| Falstaff | Robert Nye | I was begotten on the giant of Cerne Abbas. | Buy | |
| Family Album | Danielle Steel | The heat of the jungle was so oppressive that just standing in one place was almost like swimming through thick, dense air. It was a presence you could feel and smell and touch, and yet the men pressed forward wanting to see her . . . to get closer . . . to see more. . . . Their shoulders were tightly compressed, as they sat there, side by side, cross-legged on the ground. In the front, way up front, they had folding chairs, but they had run out of chairs hours before. The men had been sitting since sundown, baking, sweating, waiting. | Buy | |
| Family Values | KC Constantine | Balzic sat stiffly in the first row of straight-backed wooden chairs in the Conemaugh County Courthouse Annex chambers of District Ralph Parma, except Parma wasn't sitting in his chair. | Buy | |
| Fang and Claw | Frank Buck | Life in the jungle is a constant struggle for the survival of the fittest. | Buy | |
| Fanshawe | Nathaniel Hawthorne | In an ancient though not very populous settlement, in a retired corner of one of the New England states, arise the walls of a seminary of learning, which, for the convenience of a name, shall be entitled "Harley College." | Buy | |
| Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy | When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun. | Buy | |
| Faraway | J B Priestly | It was Tuesday evening and so William's friend, Greenlaw, from the Buntingham Grammar School, was there. | Buy | |
| Farewell Companions | James Plunkett (a/k/a James Plunkett Kelly) | The photograph album on the table beside the window lay on a brown velvet cloth and was the inseparable companion of the geranium. | Buy | |
| Farewell, My Lovely | Raymond Chandler | It was one of the mixed blocks over on Central Avenue, the blocks that are not yet all Negro. | Buy | |
| Father of the Bride | Edward Streeter | No matter what Kay might have done about marriage it would not have been looked upon with any great favor by Mr. Stanley Banks, merely because he happened to be fonder of his first-born than he realized. | Buy | |
| Fathers and Sons | Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev | "Well, Piotr, not in sight yet?" was the question asked on May the 20th, 1859, by a gentleman of a little over forty, in a dusty coat and checked trousers, who came out without his hat on to the low steps of the posting station at S-----. He was addressing his servant, a chubby young fellow, with whitish down on his chin, and little, lack-lustre eyes. | Buy | |
| Fear | L. Ron Hubbard | Lurking, that lovely spring day, in the office of Dr. Chalmers, Atworthy College Medical Clinic, there might have been two small spirits of the air, pressed back into the dark shadow behind the door, avoiding as far as possible the warm sunlight which fell gently upon the rug. | Buy | |
| Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Hunter S. Thompson | We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive. . . ." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. | Buy | |
| Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream | Hunter S Thompson | We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. | Buy | |
| Fear of Flying | Erica Jong | There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. | Buy | |
| Felix O'Day | Francis Hopkinson Smith | Broadway on dry nights, or rather that part known as the Great White Way, is a crowded thoroughfare, dominated by lofty buildings, the sky-line studded with constellations of colored signs pencilled in fire. Broadway on wet, rain-drenched nights is the fairy concourse of the Wonder City of the World, its asphalt splashed with liquid jewels afloat in molten gold. | Buy | |
| Festival at Farbridge | J B Priestly | On a bleak and gusty Saturday afternoon in March, the 2.45 bus from Market Square, Farbridge, arrived at the corner of Mayton Park Avenue, and stopped just long enough to allow a young woman carrying a portable typewriter to descend, which she did gracefully but grumpily. | Buy | |
| Ficciones | Jorge Luis Borges | I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia. | Buy | |
| Fifth Business | Robertson Davies | My lifelong involvement with Mrs. Dempster began at 5.58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old. | Buy | |
| Fifth Business | Robertson Davies | My lifelong involvement with Mrs. Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock P.M. on the 27th of December, 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old. | Buy | |
| Fighting Man | Frank Gruber | He was twenty-six years old, a tow-head with washed-out blue eyes. | Buy | |
| Figures of Earth | James Branch Cabell | They of Poictesme narrate that in the old days, when miracles were as common as fruit pies, young Manuel was a swineherd, living modestly in attendance upon the miller's pigs. | Buy | |
| Final Cut | Eric Wright | The St. Lawrence Market in Toronto consists of two buildings separated by Front Street. | Buy | |
| Final Notice | Joe Gores | She was a willowy girl wearing a skirt that was too short. | Buy | |
| Finch's Fortune | Mazo de la Roche | Nicholas and Ernest Whiteoak were having tea together in Ernest's room. Ernest thought he felt one of his colds coming on and he feared to expose himself to the drafts of passage and hall in such weather. He had had tea brought up to him, therefore, and had asked Nick to join him. | Buy | |
| Find This Woman | Richard S Prather | She still had all her clothes on and was standing in the blue light from a baby spot when I came in, but I knew it wasn't going to last because the way she was moving I could tell it was that kind of dance. | Buy | |
| Fine Things | Danielle Steel | It was almost impossible to get to Lexington and Sixty-third Street. The wind was howling, and the snow drifts had devoured all but the largest cars. The buses had given up somewhere around Twenty-third Street, where they sat huddled like frozen dinosaurs, as one left the flock only very rarely to venture uptown, lumbering down the paths the snowplows left, to pick up a few brave travelers who would rush from doorways frantically waving their arms, sliding wildly to the curb, hurling themselves over the packed snowbanks, to mount the buses with damp eyes and red faces, and in Bernie's case, icicles on his beard. | Buy | |
| Fingersmith | Sarah Waters | My name, in those days, was Susan Trinder. People called me Sue. | Buy | |
| Finity | John Barnes | I am not an imaginative or adventurous person. | Buy | |
| Finnegans Wake | James Joyce | riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. | Buy | |
| Fire in the Steppe | Henryk Sienkiewicz | It was on one of those glowing Autumn afternoons that Pan Andrei Kmita sat sipping his after-dinner mead in the cool shade of a summerhouse, gazing fondly through the crisscross bars of the leafy arbor at his wife who strolled long the clean-swept orchard avenue before him. | Buy | |
| Fire Sale | Sara Paretsky | I was halfway down the embankment when I saw the red-orange flash. | Buy | |
| Firebreak | Richard Stark | When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man. | Buy | |
| Firestarter | Stephen King (used pseudonym Richard Bachman) | "Daddy, I'm tired," the little girl in the red pants and the green
blouse said fretfully. "Can't we stop." "Not yet, honey." | Buy | |
| Fisherman's Hope | David Feintuch | 'But Vasily's a Russian, and we're short on Eurasians.' | Buy | |
| Five Days in Paris | Danielle Steel | The weather in Paris was unusually warm as Peter Haskell's plane landed at Charles de Gaulle Airport. The plane taxied neatly to the gate, and a few minutes later, briefcase in hand, Peter was striding through the airport. | Buy | |
| Flashfire | Richard Stark | When the dashboard clock read 2:40, Parker drove out of the drugstore parking lot and across the sunlit road to the convenience store/gas station. | Buy | |
| Flashforward | Robert J Sawyer | A slice through spacetime... | Buy | |
| Flashman and the Tiger | George MacDonald Fraser | You don't know Blowitz, probably never heard of him even, which is your good luck, although I dare say if you'd met him you'd have thought him harmless enough. | Buy | |
| Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions | Edwin Abbott Abbott | I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space. | Buy | Read |
| Flaubert's Parrot | Dan Kavanagh | Six North Africans were playing boules beneath Flaubert's statue. Clean cracks sounded over the grumble of jammed traffic. With a final, ironic caress from the fingertips, a brown hand dispatched a silver globe. It landed, hopped heavily, and curved in a slow scatter of hard dust. The thrower remained a stylish, temporary statue: knees not quite unbent, and the right hand ecstatically spread. | Buy | |
| Floodtide | Frank Yerby | Ross Pary stood on the deck of the steamboat Crescent City, staring out over the Mississippi. | Buy | |
| Flower Fables | Louisa May Alcott | The summer moon shone brightly down upon the sleeping earth, while far away from mortal eyes danced the Fairy folk. | Buy | |
| Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes | Dr Strauss says I should rite down what I think and remembir and evrey thing that happins to me from now on. I dont no why but he says its importint so they will see if they can use me. I hope they use me becaus Miss Kinnian says mabye they can make me smart. I want to be smart. | Buy | |
| Flyaway | Desmond Bagley | We live in the era of instancy. | Buy | |
| Fools Die | Mario Puzo | "Listen to me. I will tell you the truth about a man's life. I will tell you the truth about his love for women. That he never hates them. Akready you think I'm on the wrong track. Stay with me. Really--I'm a master of magic." | Buy | |
| For Murder I Charge More | Frank McAuliffe | As long as those dunderheads at the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C., fail to maintain a proper file there will be a continuing need for journals of this nature. | Buy | |
| For My Country's Freedom | Alexander Kent | Lady Catherine Somervell reined in the big mare and patted her neck with a gloved hand. | Buy | |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway | He lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees. The mountainside sloped gently where he lay; but below it was steep and he could see the dark of the oiled road winding through the pass. There was a stream alongside the road and far down the pass he saw a mill beside the stream and the falling water of the dam, white in the summer sunlight. | Buy | |
| Forever Amber | Kathleen Winsor | Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years. | Buy | |
| Forgive Us Our Trespasses | Lloyd Cassell Douglas | The new-laid harvest straw beneath the faded red carpet rustled crisply under Martha's shapeless felt slippers as she padded across the living-room to the cluttered mantle. | Buy | |
| Foundation | Isaac Asimov | His name was Gaal Dornick and he was just a country boy who had never seen Trantor before. | Buy | |
| Foundation and Empire | Isaac Asimov | Bel Riose traveled without escort, which is not what court etiquette prescribes for the head of a fleet stationed in a yet-sullen stellar system on the Marches of the Galactic Empire. | Buy | |
| Four Blind Mice | James B. Patterson | The District Attorney for Cumberland County, North Carolina, Marc Sherman, pushed the old wooden captain's chair away from the prosecution table, and it made a harsh, scrapping eeek in the nearly silent courtroom. | Buy | |
| Four Letters of Love | Niall Williams | When I was twelve years old God spoke to my father for the first time. | Buy | |
| Four Past Midnight | Stephen King (used pseudonym Richard Bachman) | Brian Engle rolled the American Pride L1011 to a stop at Gate 22 and flicked off the FASTEN SEATBELL light at exactly 11:14 P.M. He let a long sigh hiss through his teeth and unfastened his shoulder harness. | Buy | |
| Framley Parsonage | Anthony Trollope | When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent a disposition. | Buy | |
| Fran | John Breckenridge Ellis | Fran knocked at the front door. It was too dark for her to find the bell; however, had she found it, she would have knocked just the same. | Buy | |
| Frank Fairlegh | Francis "Frank" Edward Smedley | "Never forget, under any circumstances, to think and act like a gentleman, and don't exceed your allowance," said my father. | Buy | |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | I am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic | Buy | |
| Frankenstein | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. | Buy | |
| Frankenstein | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | To Mrs. Saville, England St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17-- You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking. | Buy | |
| Franny and Zooey | J.D. Salinger | Though brilliantly sunny, Saturday morning was overcoat weather again, not just topcoat weather, as it had been all week and as everyone hoped it would stay for the big weekend--the weekend of the Yale game. | Buy | |
| Freaky Deaky | Elmore Leonard | Chris Mankowski's last day on the job, two in the afternoon, two hours to go, he got a call to dispose of a bomb. | Buy | |
| Frederic and Elfrida | Jane Austen | The Uncle of Elfrida was the Father of Frederic; in other words, they were first cousins by the Father's side. | Buy | |
| Free | Todd Komarnicki | The shots were loud and dull, like a stripper I used to know. | Buy | |
| Free Fall in Crimson | John D MacDonald | We talked past midnight, sat in the deck chairs on the sun deck of the Busted Flush with the starry April sky overhead, talked quietly, and listened to the night. | Buy | |
| Freedom and Necessity | Steven Brust and Emma Bull | Mr Roebuck also begged to enter his protest against this ill-considered and crude piece of legislation, which he described as the result of a species of cant which was almost as dangerous as vice. | Buy | |
| From a Buick 8 | Stephen King (used pseudonym Richard Bachman) | Curt Wilcox's boy came around the barracks a lot the year after his father died, I mean a lot, but nobody ever told him get out of the way or asked him what in hail he was doing there again. | Buy | |
| From Here to Eternity | James Jones | When he finished packing, he walked out on to the third-floor porch of the barracks brushing the dust from his hands, a very neat and deceptively slim young man in the summer khakis that were still early morning fresh. | Buy | |
| From the Earth to the Moon | Jules Verne | During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was
established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland.
It is well known with what energy the taste for military matters
became developed among that nation of ship-owners, shopkeepers,
and mechanics. Simple tradesmen jumped their counters to become
extemporized captains, colonels, and generals, without having
ever passed the School of Instruction at West Point;
nevertheless; they quickly rivaled their compeers of the old continent, and, like them, carried off victories by dint of lavish expenditure in ammunition, money, and men. | Buy | |
| From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | E L Konigsburg | Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running-away. | Buy | |
| From the Terrace | John O'Hara | There are alive today hundreds of men who saw Samuel Eaton, who accepted wages from him, envied him, hated him, laughed at him behind his back, worked hard for him, cheated him, and never addressed him except as Mr. Eaton or Mr. Samuel. | Buy | |
| Fugitive Pieces | Anne Michaels | Time is a blind guide. | Buy | |
| Full Circle | Danielle Steel | On the afternoon of Thursday, December 11, 1941, the country was still in a daze. The casualty list was complete, the names of those killed had already been released, and slowly, slowly, in the past few days, the monster of vengeance was raising its head. In almost every American breast pounded a pulse that had been unknown before. It had finally hit us at home, and it wasn't simply a matter of Congress declaring war. There was much more to it than that, much, much more. | Buy | |
| Full Dress Gray | Lucian Truscott | It was the day after Labor Day, and it was hot. | Buy | |
| Funeral Games | Mary Renault | The ziggurat of Bel-Marduk has been half-ruinous for a century and a half, ever since Xerxes had humbled the gods of rebellious Babylon. | Buy | |
| Further Tales Of The City | Armistead Maupin | There were outlanders, of course, who continued to insist that San Fransisco was a city without seasons, but Mrs. Madrigal paid no heed to them. | Buy | |
| Fuzz | Ed McBain | Oh boy, what a week. | Buy |