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The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection
Arthur Conan Doyle • 2017
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne • 1994
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara • 2016
<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (<i>NPR</i>) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.<br></b><br><b><b><b><b><b><b><b>NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST <b><b><b>•</b></b></b></b> MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST <b>• <b><b><b><b><b> WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE</b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b><br><br><i>A Little Life</i> follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.
Not Quite Dead Yet
Holly Jackson • 2025
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain • 1965
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee • 2002
Divergent
Veronica Roth • 2014
Bunny A Novel
Mona Awad • 2020
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 2024
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë • 2003
Fahrenheit 451 A Novel
Ray Bradbury • 2012
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn • 2012
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka • 2009
The Karamazov Brothers
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 2008
Notes from the Underground
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2023
The Hollow Man
John Dickson Carr • 2013
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle • 1962
The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus • 2018
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley • 2003
The Housemaid
Freida McFadden • 2022
Intermezzo A Novel
Sally Rooney • 2025
Finished
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.
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath • 2005
<p><i>The Bell Jar</i> chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made <i>The Bell Jar</i> a haunting American classic.</p> <p>This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.</p>
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger • 2001
The Shining
Stephen King • 2013
The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman • 2020
