༄˖°.☕️.ೃ࿔📚*:･ Autumn/Winter TBR ⋆𐙚❅*°⋆❆.ೃ࿔*:
Books I’m going to try and read during Autumn Winter
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To Read
The Secret History
Donna Tartt · 2011
<b><b><b>A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK <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>
Bliss Montage
Ling Ma · 2022
Dear Enemy
Jean Webster · 1915
Sophie's World
Jostein Gaarder · 2007
Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan · 2021
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien · 2012
Dead Poets Society
N.H. Kleinbaum · 2012
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.
Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
Helen Czerski · 2017
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin · 2016
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
Michiko Aoyama · 2023
CLEOPATRA AND FRANKENSTEIN.
COCO. MELLORS · 2022
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Satoshi Yagisawa · 2023
<b>The Japanese bestseller: a tale of love, new beginnings, and the comfort that can be found between the pages of a good book.</b><br><br>When twenty-five-year-old Takako's boyfriend reveals he's marrying someone else, she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle Satoru's offer to live rent-free in the tiny room above his shop.<br><br>Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo, the Morisaki Bookshop is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building, the shop is filled with hundreds of second-hand books. It is Satoru's pride and joy, and he has devoted his life to the bookshop since his wife left him five years earlier.<br><br>Hoping to nurse her broken heart in peace, Takako is surprised to encounter new worlds within the stacks of books lining the shop.<br><br>And as summer fades to autumn, Satoru and Takako discover they have more in common than they first thought. The Morisaki bookshop has something to teach them both about life, love, and the healing power of books.<br><br><b>Quirky, beautifully written, and movingly profound, <i>Days at the Morisaki Bookshop</i> will appeal to readers of <i>Before The Coffee Gets Cold, The Cat Who Saved Books</i>, and anyone who has had to recover from a broken heart.</b><br><b></b><br><b>PRAISE FOR DAYS AT THE MORISAKI BOOKSHOP:</b><br>'Brims with genuine charm . . . evokes powerful feelings that any book lover will recognize' <b>Japan Times</b><br>'Ozawa's translation gracefully captures the author's whimsical and tender voice. Yagisawa has the right touch for lifting a reader's mood' <b>Publishers Weekly</b><br>'Readers will want to linger in this world' <b>Booklist</b><br>'A familiar romance about books and bookstores, told with heart and humor' <b>Kirkus</b><br>'A slender book, but one rich in experience, exactly like the tiny, crammed Morisaki bookshop itself' <b>New York Journal of Books </b><br><b></b>
Reread
Normal People
Sally Rooney · 2019
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky · 2012
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger · 2019
<b>The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (<i>The New Yorker</i>) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books.</b> <i>"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."</i> The hero-narrator of <i>The Catcher in the Rye</i> is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami · 2010
<b>From the bestselling author of <i>Kafka on the Shore: </i>A magnificent coming-of-age story steeped in nostalgia, “a masterly novel” (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>) blending the music, the mood, and the ethos that were the sixties with a young man’s hopeless and heroic first love.<br><br><b>Now with a new introduction by the author.</b> <br></b><br> Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. As Naoko retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman. <br><br> Stunning and elegiac, <i>Norwegian Wood</i> first propelled Haruki Murakami into the forefront of the literary scene.
Finished
Breasts and Eggs
Mieko Kawakami · 2020
<b>A novel that “considers the agency . . . women exert over their bodies and charts the emotional underpinnings of physical changes . . . with humor and empathy” (<i>The New Yorker</i>).</b><br><br>On a sweltering summer day, Makiko travels from Osaka to Tokyo, where her sister Natsu lives. She is in the company of her daughter, Midoriko, who has lately grown silent, finding herself unable to voice the vague yet overwhelming pressures associated with adolescence. Over the course of their few days together in the capital, Midoriko’s silence will prove a catalyst for each woman to confront her fears and family secrets.<br><br>On yet another summer’s day eight years later, Natsu, during a journey back to her native city, confronts her anxieties about growing old alone and childless.<br><br>Bestselling author Mieko Kawakami mixes stylistic inventiveness and riveting emotional depth to tell a story of contemporary womanhood in Japan.<br><br>“Took my breath away.” —Haruki Murakami, #1 <i>New York Times–</i>bestselling author <i>The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle</i><br><br>“Kawakami lobbed a literary grenade into the fusty, male-dominated world of Japanese fiction with <i>Breast and Eggs</i>.” —<i>The Economist</i><br><br>“A sharply observed and heartbreaking portrait of what it means to be a woman.” —<i>TIME</i><br><br>“Raw, funny, mundane, heartbreaking.” —<i>The Atlantic</i><br><br>“A bracing, feminist exploration of daily life in Japan.” —<i>Entertainment Weekly</i><br><br>“Timely feminist themes; strange, surreal prose; and wonderful characters will transcend cultural barriers and enchant readers.” —<i>The New York Observer</i><br><br>“Bracing and evocative, tender yet unflinching.” —<i>Publishers Weekly</i><br><br>“Kawakami writes with unsettling precision about the body—its discomforts, its appetites, its smells and secretions. And she is especially good at capturing its longings.” —<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>
