The Kite Runner; by Khaled Hosseini

Great book !! haven't finished yet

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats

The National Library of Ireland
presentsThe Life and Works of William Butler Yeats
• Online Exhibition •
(Broadband and Flash Required . When you enter the tour you can scan through 200 artifacts & manuscripts and “attend” three in-depth tutorials exploring the evolution of three major poems (‘Sailing to Byzantium’; ‘Leda and the Swan’ and ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’). You can also listen to Yeats; one of Ireland’s towering poets; reciting his famous poem ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree.’ To listen; click “Areas” on the bottom navigation; then click “Verse and Vision” on the center menu; and then the audio will begin to play. You can read the text of the poem here

Some towns in germany have "Open libraries", bookshelves in the open. Good idea, i think:
Random Libraries

The Periodic Table: Primo Levi's elementals of life, suffering and death

As a survivor of Auschwitz, Levi offers fiction, non-fiction, allegory and reality wrapped in a metaphor of chemistry to brings us a layered vision of his world. Tim Radford wonders if The Periodic Table can be called science writing, but has no doubt about its merit

was awarded – in a very informal vote – the title of the best science book ever written

but what makes it a science book at all? Levi was a working chemist, but the title is a metaphor and even this figure of speech is sometimes a little strained to comply with the book's scheme.
Some of it is personal memoir, and chapter headings such as Argon, and Iron, seem barely justified by the reflections that follow. Some stories are overtly fiction, which is surely the antithesis of science writing. One or two are attempts to address the process of industrial science from, so to speak, the floor: Sulphur is a compelling account of a wartime factory hand's hours on the night shift, but what is he making, and why does he need such temperatures, such vacuum readings?..