| Description | Title | Author |
| Both before and during the French Revolution, Charles Darnay is arrested on both sides of the English Channel; Sydney Carton saves his life while sacrificing his own. | |
| Comrades fight against the Cardinal Richelieu, and later Lady de Winter, in one of the most famous novels in French literature. | |
| Billy Pilgrim jumps back and forth in time to relive the horrors at the Battle of Dresden in World War II. So it goes. | |
| The title residence of the Pyncheon family has a terrible history: accusations of witchcraft, poverty, and the greedy Judge Pyncheon. | |
| Yossarian struggles with the irrationality surrounding the war in this novel, whose title became a common term for a logical paradox. | |
| Mysteries surrounding Tristero and its symbol of the muted post horn culminate in the auctioning of a special stamp collection | |
| Ships, trains, and hot air balloons help Phileas Fogg and Passepartout win a bet; the International Date Line saves the day! | |
| Civil wars and uprisings bring violence to the once peaceful and isolated city of Macondo. | |
| In a dystopian future, books are banned and burned upon discovery. At first, 'it was a pleasure to burn.' | |
| A collection of amazing stories about djinns, seven voyages, and forty thieves are woven together by Scheherazade. | |
| In a dystopian future (at the time of publication), the Party governs thought through the Two Minutes Hate, the concept of doublethink, and Room 101 for dissenters. | |
| Among the interconnected stories in this sprawling work are the murders of dozens of women in a Mexican border town, based on similar crimes at Ciudad Juarez | |
| Captain Nemo leads his crew against the threats of a sea monster and asphyxiation under the arctic ice. | |
| Accounts of drug and alcohol abuse are recounted in this 'memoir,' later found to be fiction and denounced by Oprah. | |