Main Street in the Bookshop

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

"Now and then I have, for my books or myself, been somewhat warmly denounced — there was one good pastor in California who upon reading my Elmer Gantry desired to lead a mob and lynch me, while another holy man in the state of Maine wondered if there was no respectable and righteous way of putting me in jail." - Sinclair Lewis

 

Arrival in the Bookshop

Arrival by Ted Chiang 
(aka Stories of Your Life and Others)

"Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know." - Ted Chiang