Song of Solomon

Pedro Paramo Juan Rulfo

A man travels to a Mexican ghost town to find his father and finds only the dead, still whispering.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami

An ordinary Tokyo man searches for his missing cat and descends into a labyrinth of violence, dreams, and collective Japanese memory.

The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway

A group of expatriates drift through Paris and Pamplona in the 1920s, circling a woman none of them can have and a wound none of them will name.

Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami

A teenage runaway and an old man who makes fish rain from the sky are pulled toward each other by forces neither can name.

East of Eden John Steinbeck

Two families in California's Salinas Valley play out an epic struggle between good and evil across multiple generations -- and one word, timshel, changes everything.