2025 Book List
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The Art of Travel
Alain De Botton · 2008
Modern Brazil A Very Short Introduction
Anthony W. Pereira · 2020
The Anxious Generation How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt · 2025
A Tale of Two Cities: (150th Anniversary Edition) (Signet Classics)
Charles Dickens · 2007
<b>The French Revolution comes to vivid life in Charles Dickens's famous novel about the best of times and the worst of times...</b><br><br>The storming of the Bastille…the death carts with their doomed human cargo…the swift drop of the guillotine blade—this is the French Revolution that Charles Dickens vividly captures in his famous work <i>A Tale of Two Cities</i>. With dramatic eloquence, he brings to life a time of terror and treason, a starving people rising in frenzy and hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent regime. With insight and compassion, Dickens casts his novel of unforgettable scenes with some memorable characters: the sinister Madame Defarge, knitting her patterns of death; the gentle Lucie Manette, unswerving in her devotion to her broken father; Charles Darnay, the lover with a secret past; and dissolute Sydney Carton, whose unlikely heroism gives his life meaning.<br><br><b>With an Introduction by Frederick Busch <br>and an Afterword by A. N. Wilson</b>
Making It Up As I Go Along
Marian Keyes · 2016
Seveneves: A Novel
Neal Stephenson · 2015
Think and Grow Rich!
Napoleon Hill · 2004
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson, 25th Anniversary Edition
Mitch Albom · 2002
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A special 25th anniversary edition of the beloved book that has changed millions of lives with the story of an unforgettable friendship, the timeless wisdom of older generations, and healing lessons on loss and grief—featuring a new afterword by the author<br/><br/>“A wonderful book, a story of the heart told by a writer with soul.”—Los Angeles Times<br/><br/>“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”<br/><br/>Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.<br/><br/>For Mitch Albom, that person was his college professor Morrie Schwartz.<br/><br/>Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn’t you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger?<br/><br/>Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man’s life. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final “class”: lessons in how to live. “The truth is, Mitch,” he said, “once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”<br/><br/>Tuesdays with Morrie is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie’s lasting gift with the world.
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley · 2006
Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring masterwork must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit<br/>"A masterpiece. ... One of the most prophetic dystopian works." —Wall Street Journal<br/>Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine” (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New World likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.<br/>"Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." —Chicago Tribune
Animal Farm
George Orwell · 1996
<b>George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism.<br><br>SOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM!<br><br></b><i>“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”</i><br><br>A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned—a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. <br><br> When <i>Animal Farm</i> was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.
Yellowface
R.F. Kuang · 2024
Che male può fare uno pseudonimo? Juniper Song ha scritto un libro di enorme successo. Però forse non è esattamente chi vuole far credere di essere. June Hayward e Athena Liu, giovani scrittrici, sembrano destinate a carriere parallele: si sono laureate insieme, hanno esordito insieme. Solo che Athena è subito diventata una star mentre di June non si è accorto nessuno. Quando assiste alla morte di Athena in uno strano incidente, June ruba il romanzo che l'amica aveva appena finito di scrivere ma di cui ancora nessuno sa nulla, e decide di pubblicarlo come fosse suo, rielaborato quel tanto che basta. La storia, incentrata sul misconosciuto contributo dei cinesi allo sforzo bellico inglese durante la Prima guerra mondiale, merita comunque di essere raccontata. L'importante è che nessuno scopra la verità. Quando però qualcosa comincia a trapelare, June deve decidere fino a che punto è disposta a spingersi pur di mantenere il proprio segreto. Un romanzo spassosamente tagliente che parla di diversità, razzismi, privilegi e appropriazione culturale. E dei limiti che non si dovrebbero mai superare.
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
In the Distance
Hernan Diaz · 2017
