Four decades ago, Erica Jong revolutionized the way we look at love, marriage and sex. Her world-wide bestseller, Fear of Dying by Erica Jong opened the doors for writers from Jennifer Weiner to Lena Dunham.

The novel Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn – by Mark Twain is redolent of life in the Mississippi River towns in the 19th century, in which Mark Twain spent his own youth.

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin‘s haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality and a classic of gay literature.

This is a human story Money Power Love by Joss Sheldon: A tale about people like ourselves, cajoled by the whimsy of circumstance, who find themselves performing the most beautiful acts as well as the most vulgar.

Occupied by Joss Sheldon is a step into a world which is both magically fictitious and shockingly real, to follow the lives of Tamsin, Ellie, Arun and Charlie; a refugee, native, occupier and economic migrant. Watch them grow up during a halcyon past, an everyday present, and a dystopian future. And be prepared to be amazed.

The House of Mirth shocked the New York society it so deftly chronicles, portraying the moral, social and economic restraints on a woman who dared to claim the privileges of marriage without assuming the responsibilities.