Bret Harte - "Susy, A Story of the Plains"

Sherwood Anderson - "Winesburg, Ohio"

Niccolo Machiavelli - "History Of Florence And Of The Affairs Of Italy"

H. Rider Haggard - "Queen Sheba's Ring"

Spidey saves Inauguration Day for Obama in comic
President-elect Barack Obama's mythic status as a saviour for the U.S. could be cemented by his appearance in a new Spider-Man comic from Marvel. A five-page story, added as a bonus feature in the latest Spidey installment coming out on Jan. 14, takes place in Washington D.C. on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20.

Publisher interested in fake Holocaust love memoir
A publishing house in New York state says it's in talks with the author of a fake Holocaust love memoir about issuing the story as a work of fiction.

Books about soldiers, assassins and sugar vie for non-fiction prize
A history of sugar, an account of Canadians fighting in the First World War and the unusual story of a young female assassin in Revolutionary Russia are finalists for the Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction.