Books by Letter J

Follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester, the brooding master of Thornfield Hall.

Its protagonist, Jude Fawley, is a working-class young man, a stonemason, who dreams of becoming a scholar.

Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves.

An American science fiction media franchise centered on a disastrous attempt to create a theme park of cloned dinosaurs.

Four Chinese American immigrant families in San Francisco who start a club, playing the Chinese game of mahjong for money while feasting on a variety of foods.

The plot centres on a young English orphan boy who enters a gigantic, magical peach, and has a wild and surreal cross-world adventure with seven magically-altered garden bugs he meets.

It tells the story of a great white shark that preys upon a small resort town and the voyage of three men trying to kill it.

Set in Rome in 44 BC, the play depicts the moral dilemma of Brutus as he joins a conspiracy led by Cassius to murder Julius Caesar to prevent him from becoming dictator of Rome

The stories describe how one animal or another acquired its most distinctive features, such as how the leopard got his spots.

The plot follows a group of murderous wreckers who run ships aground, kill the sailors and steal the cargo.

The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the centre of the Earth.

The book is about a magical board game that implements animals and other jungle elements as the game is played in real life.

It is set mainly in Manaus, Brazil early in the 20th century and conveys the author's vision of the Amazon River.