Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy who travels the country in a quest for spiritual enlightenment in the time of Guatama Buddha. …
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is the first of six books in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction “hexalogy” by Douglas Adams. The novel is an adaptation of the first four …
The Lost World is a 1995 techno-thriller novel written by Michael Crichton, and the sequel to his 1990 novel [Jurassic Park](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46881W). It is his tenth novel under his ow…
The Thorn Birds is a 1977 best-selling novel by Australian author Colleen McCullough. Set primarily on Drogheda – a fictional sheep station in the Australian Outback named after Drogheda, Ireland – th…