Flowers For Algernon

A beloved modern classic, this novel tells the story of Charlie Gordon, a man with a developmental disability who is chosen for an experimental procedure designed to increase intelligence.

Through Charlie’s own diary entries, we follow his transformation as a surgical breakthrough dramatically raises his IQ, reshaping his relationships, his sense of self, and his understanding of the world around him. As his intellect grows to extraordinary levels, he begins to outthink even the scientists who performed the experiment.

But when Algernon, the laboratory mouse who underwent the same procedure, begins to deteriorate, Charlie is forced to confront an urgent and devastating question about the limits of the experiment—and his own future.