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Mythos
Stephen Fry • 2019
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2020
The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson • 2022
Perfume
Patrick Suskind • 2014
A Thousand Ships
Natalie Haynes • 2021
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V. E. Schwab • 2023
The Trial
Franz Kafka • 2009
Animal Farm
George Orwell • 2023
1984
George Orwell • 2013
75th ANNIVERSARY EDITION “Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece “1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s dystopian classic remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.
Farenheit 451
Ray Bradbury • 1977
The Glutton
A. K. Blakemore • 2024
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger • 2001
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini • 2008
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini • 2013
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong • 2019
I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman • 2019
<p><b>SISTERHOOD. SECRETS. SURVIVAL.</b><br> <br> <b>Discover the haunting, heart-breaking post-apocalyptic TikTok sensation.</b><br> <br> Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus?<br> <br> Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. But, as the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone an outcast in the corner.<br> <br> Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground. The woman who will never know men.<br> <br> <b>WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE MACKINTOSH, BOOKER PRIZE-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF THE <i>WATER CURE</i><br> <br> **<i>Orlanda</i>, the next sensation from Jacquline Harpman, is available now**</b></p>
The Secret History
Donna Tartt • 2004
<b><b><b><b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • </b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "a<b>n accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (<i>Village Voice</i>)</b>, f<b>rom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <i>The Goldfinch.<br><br></i></b></b></b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b><br><br>Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.<br><br><b>“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b>
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote • 1994
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck • 2006
East of Eden
John Steinbeck • 2003
The Stranger
Albert Camus • 2022
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas • 2003
The Iliad
Homer • 2017
The Odyssey
Homer • 2018
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde • 1993
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood • 1986
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2002
