Melville's Moby Dick. It can be about adventure, about whaling, about the fellowship of man, about mortality... Intruder in the Dust, the best of William Faul

Melville's Moby Dick. It can be about adventure, about whaling, about the fellowship of man, about mortality... Intruder in the Dust, the best of William Faulkner's "young adult" novels. The short story collection Knight's Gambit is also well worth a look.