Modern Classics

Try these books if you're looking for:

• modern classics
• adventure stories
• historical fiction
• dystopian fiction

Wolf Hall 
By Hilary Mantel
F MANTEL
A detailed look into the life and times of Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII in the 1520s, in particular the events leading up to the King's marriage to Anne Boleyn and the role Cromwell played in those events.

Handmaid’s Tale 
By Margaret Atwood
F ATWOOD
In a future world where the birth rate has declined, fertile women are rounded up, indoctrinated as handmaids, and forced to bear children to prominent men.

Rules of Civility 
By Amor Towles
F TOWLES
A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, and a single-minded widow.