Shelfology Book Pairing

by Cormac McCarthy

In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity. Reprint. Movie tie-in.

THE ICONIC PULITZER PRIZE WINNING NOVEL

by Toni Morrison

Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home, the farm where she was kept as a slave. Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there, she is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child, the daughter who died nameless and whose tombstone is etched with a single word, ‘Beloved’. A tale of brutality, horror and, above all, love at any cost, Beloved is Toni Morrison’s enduring masterpiece and best-known work. ‘Dazzling. . . Magical. . . An extraordinary work’ New York Times ‘Toni Morrison was a giant of her times and ours... Beloved is a heartbreaking testimony to the ongoing ravages of slavery, and should be read by all’ Margaret Atwood ‘An American masterpiece’ A. S. Byatt WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE **One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**