Discounted for September 2026: Captivating Literary Books You Don’t Want to Miss!

From the man Stephen King calls “the 20th century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale,” enjoy this collection of six timeless stories. 

Chock-full of his signature supernatural terror and taste for the macabre, enjoys short fiction like “The Call of Cthuhlu,” “The Dunwich Horror,” and “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” and more.

As the younger brother of an English earl, Charles Egremont has grown up with every luxury he could hope for and a generous spirit. 

But in his rural village, the working class suffers greatly. Disguised as a reporter, he decides to learn more about the workers’ conditions, only to meet Sybil Gerard, a factory worker’s daughter. 

While his brother tries to set up an arranged marriage, Charles discovers his heart belongs to another.

Embodying “the essence of a genius,” Charles Baudelaire’s iconic work sparked scandal across France with its frank discussions of society (The Guardian). 

The collection includes some of his best-known poems, including “The Swan,” “The Little Old Women,” and “The Seven Old Men,” which touch on themes like beauty, death, and love.

The final novel of the Forsyte Chronicles tells “a social satire of epic proportions and one that does not suffer by comparison with Thackeray’s Vanity Fair” (New York Times). 

Jon Forsyte returns to Britain with his wife to find that his former love, Fleur Mont, is now married and expecting a child—yet remains preoccupied with him.

Their reunion will have far-reaching consequences among their friends and family, especially Fleur’s father, who will do anything to keep them apart. 

A once-banned book from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Julia Peterkin, Scarlet Sister Mary follows a woman in a Black community of the post-slavery South. 

Only fifteen, Mary has grown used to hard work, living off the land of what used to be a plantation. 

She is in love, soon to be married, and already with child. It is the “sin” she bears, and that will push her to forge her own path.  

Set to closely resemble the life of the artist as a young man, Mosquitoes is the Nobel Prize-winning author’s second novel. 

Set in the vibrant community of New Orleans, the reader is introduced to a host of fascinating characters: artists, social butterflies, and more. 

Offering a satirical look at the world in which Faulker came of age, it has “a brilliance that you can rightfully expect only in the writings of a few” (Lillian Hellman, New York Herald Tribune).

From the author of The Age of Innocence comes a fascinating satirical look at the Jazz Age, with its extravagance, infidelity, and family struggles. Nona Manford is in love, but the man’s wife won’t allow him to divorce. 

While trying to balance her own romantic struggles, she tries to help her stepbrother, Jim, save his marriage—but his wife, Lisa, longs to escape domesticity. 

As Miss Hannah Mole turns 40, she decides to move back to Radstowe, the city where she grew up. Unmarried, she works a string of household jobs to provide for herself. 

She takes a job as a housekeeper for an arrogant pastor and grows close to his two daughters, Ethel and Ruth, for whom she serves as a motherly figure. 

But while Miss Mole is busy making her life an adventure, a secret from her past threatens to come to light.