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The Poppy War A Novel
R. F. Kuang • 2019
Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)
Min Jin Lee • 2017
Priority TBR
Solaris
Solaris
Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
Emily Brontë • 2002
<b>Coming soon to the big screen is Emerald Fennell’s feature film “<i>Wuthering Heights</i>,” which captures the spirit of this epic love story and stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Catherine and Heathcliff.<br></b><br>Emily Brontë's only novel endures as a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence. The Penguin Classics edition is the definitive version of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor.<br><br>Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before. What unfolds is the tale of the intense love between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrendered to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past. <br><br>In this edition, a new preface by Lucasta Miller, author of <i>The Brontë Myth</i>, looks at the ways in which the novel has been interpreted, from Charlotte Brontë onwards. This complements Pauline Nestor's introduction, which discusses changing critical receptions of the novel, as well as Emily Brontë's influences and background.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel
Ocean Vuong • 2021
Notes from Underground (Vintage Classics)
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1994
<b>Award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us a brilliantly faithful rendition of this classic novel, in all its tragedy and tormented comedy. In this second edition, they have updated their translation in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth.</b> <br><br>One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator of Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man’s essentially irrational nature.
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov • 1989
Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in <b>Lolita</b>, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. <b>Lolita</b> is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed.)
Ayn Rand • 2005
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina
Babel
Babel
Pachinko
Pachinko
Windward Heights
Windward Heights
Little Rot
Akwaeke Emezi • 2024
The Passion According to G.H. (New Directions Books)
Clarice Lispector • 2012
Agua viva
Clarice Lispector • 2020
The Bluest Eye (Vintage International)
Toni Morrison • 2007
Beloved
Toni Morrison • 2004
The God of the Woods
Liz Moore • 2024
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini • 2008
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Piranesi
Susanna Clarke • 2021
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Vintage International)
Patrick Suskind • 2014
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston • 1990
The Raven Scholar
Antonia Hodgson • 2025
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath • 2000
The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso)
Dante Alighieri • 2003
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth Book 1)
N. K. Jemisin • 2015
Best Served Cold
Joe Abercrombie • 2010
The Sword of Kaigen: A Theonite War Story (the Theonite Series)
M. L. Wang • 2019
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar • 2020
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy Book 1)
James Islington • 2023
The Nightingale: A Novel
Kristin Hannah • 2015
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson, 25th Anniversary Edition
Mitch Albom • 2002
A Little Life
A Little Life
<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.
Blood Over Bright Haven: A Novel
M. L. Wang • 2024
Yellowface: A Novel
R. F. Kuang • 2023
The book theif
Markus Zusak
Have you ever wondered why that 13-digit number on the back of a book costs $125 in the United States but is completely free in Canada and India? This book, The Global ISBN Handbook, is your 2025 guide to the International Standard Book Number. It explains everything about this global "fingerprint" for books. The ISBN is the most important cornerstone of the publishing industry. It started as a simple warehouse tool in the 1960s. Now, it is a complex digital identifier used in over 200 countries. This handbook deconstructs the entire system. It uses 15 distinct national case studies to do this. You will learn how the old 10-digit system changed to the new 13-digit one. We break down the five parts of the ISBN, from the "Bookland" prefix to the final check digit. The book explores the global governance framework, starting with the International ISBN Agency. Then, it dives deep into how different countries run their systems. You'll see the privatized, high-cost model in the United States. You'll compare it to Canada's free, government-run system. We explore the industry-led models in Brazil and Germany. We look at government-run systems in Mexico and India. We even cover the unique case of China, where the ISBN is not a simple identifier but a state-controlled publication license. The book also examines the systems in the UK , France , Russia , Japan , Australia , South Africa , Nigeria , and Egypt. Many books and websites can tell you how to get an ISBN. This handbook is the only resource that explains why the process is so different everywhere you look. It moves beyond a simple "how-to" and provides a true global analysis. It directly compares the privatized, for-profit models in the US and UK against the free, public-good systems in Canada and South Africa. You won't just learn the price; you will understand the cultural policies, market structures, and legal philosophies that shape that price. This book shows how the ISBN is a "global mirror". It reveals how a simple number can be a commercial product in one nation , a tool of cultural policy in another , and an instrument of state control in a third. This comparative insight is the missing piece for any author, publisher, or researcher trying to navigate the complex international publishing market. Disclaimer: This handbook is an independently produced resource for commentary and analysis. The author has no affiliation with the International ISBN Agency, R.R. Bowker, Library and Archives Canada, the National Press and Publication Administration, or any other national ISBN agency. This work is independently produced under the principle of nominative fair use.
Katabasis: A Novel
R. F Kuang • 2025
The Jasad Heir (The Scorched Throne, 1)
Sara Hashem • 2023
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
Zoulfa Katouh • 2022
Minor Detail
Adania Shibli • 2020
A searing, beautiful novel meditating on war, violence, memory, and the sufferings of the Palestinian people Finalist for the National Book Award Longlisted for the International Booker Prize Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba—the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people—and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Negev desert, and among their victims they capture a Palestinian teenager and they rape her, kill her, and bury her in the sand. Many years later, in the near-present day, a young woman in Ramallah tries to uncover some of the details surrounding this particular rape and murder, and becomes fascinated to the point of obsession, not only because of the nature of the crime, but because it was committed exactly twenty-five years to the day before she was born. Adania Shibli masterfully overlays these two translucent narratives of exactly the same length to evoke a present forever haunted by the past.
ON THE SAVAGE SIDE
Tiffany McDaniel • 2023
Six women – mothers, daughters, sisters – gone missing. When the first is found floating dead in the river, it reveals the disturbing truth of a small Ohio town. Inspired by the unsolved murders of the Chillicothe Six, this harrowing and haunting novel tells the story of two sisters, both of whom could be the next victims. From the internationally-bestselling author of Betty.<br/><br/>Arcade and Daffodil are twin sisters born one minute apart. With their fiery red hair and thirst for an escape, they forge an unbreakable bond nurtured by both their grandmother’s stories and their imaginations. Together, they create a world where a patch of grass reveals an archaeologist's dig, the smoke emerging from the local paper mill becomes the dust rising from wild horses galloping in the ground, and an abandoned 1950s convertible transforms into a time machine that can take them anywhere.<br/><br/>But the two sisters can’t escape the generational chaos that grips their family. Growing up in the shadow of the town, the sisters cling tight to one another. As an adult, Arcade wrestles with these memories of her life, just as a local woman is discovered drowned in the river. Soon, more bodies are found. While her friends disappear around her, Arcade is forced to reckon with the past while the killer circles ever closer. Arcade’s promise to keep herself and her sister safe becomes increasingly desperate while the powerful riptide of the savage side becomes more difficult to resist.<br/><br/>Drawing from the true story of women killed in her native Ohio, acclaimed novelist and poet Tiffany McDaniel has written a powerful literary testament and fearless elegy for missing women everywhere.
Monstrilio: A Novel
Gerardo Sámano Córdova • 2023
Clytemnestra: A Novel
Costanza Casati • 2023
If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin • 2006
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi • 2017
Seven Days in June
Tia Williams • 2021
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski • 2000
The Starless Sea
Erin Morgenstern • 2019
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels Book 1)
Elena Ferrante • 2012
The Wolf Den
Elodie Harper • 2021
Alone with You in the Ether
Olivie Blake • 2022
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow ...
Bonnie L. Heintz • 1974
North Woods
North Woods
The Library at Mount Char: A Novel
The Library at Mount Char: A Novel
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, 1)
N. K. Jemisin · 2015
Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky Book 1)
Rebecca Roanhorse • 2020
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • 2008
Annie John: A Novel
Jamaica Kincaid • 1997
The Book of Night Women
Marlon James • 2010
The Tainted Cup: A Novel
Robert Jackson Bennett • 2024
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel • 2015
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy)
Robin Hobb • 2023
Binti
Nnedi Okorafor • 2015
Prepare To Fall In Love With Binti. —neil Gaiman Winner Of The Hugo Award And The Nebula Award For Best Novella! Her Name Is Binti, And She Is The First Of The Himba People Ever To Be Offered A Place At Oomza University, The Finest Institution Of Higher Learning In The Galaxy. But To Accept The Offer Will Mean Giving Up Her Place In Her Family To Travel Between The Stars Among Strangers Who Do Not Share Her Ways Or Respect Her Customs. Knowledge Comes At A Cost, One That Binti Is Willing To Pay, But Her Journey Will Not Be Easy. The World She Seeks To Enter Has Long Warred With The Meduse, An Alien Race That Has Become The Stuff Of Nightmares. Oomza University Has Wronged The Meduse, And Binti's Stellar Travel Will Bring Her Within Their Deadly Reach. If Binti Hopes To Survive The Legacy Of A War Not Of Her Making, She Will Need Both The Gifts Of Her People And The Wisdom Enshrined Within The University, Itself — But First She Has To Make It There, Alive. The Binti Series Book 1: Binti Book 2: Binti: Home Book 3: Binti: The Night Masquerade Praise For Binti Binti Is A Supreme Read About A Sexy, Edgy Afropolitan In Space! It's A Wondrous Combination Of Extra-terrestrial Adventure And Age-old African Diplomacy. Unforgettable! — Wanuri Kahiu, Award-winning Kenyan Film Director Of Punzi And From A Whisper At The Publisher's Request, This Title Is Being Sold Without Digital Rights Management Software (drm) Applied.
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Oprah's Book Club Novel
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers • 2021
A Kirkus "Best Book of the 21st Century" An instant New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today Bestseller • AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB SELECTION • ONE OF THE ATLANTIC'S "GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS" • BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021 • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times • Time • Washington Post • Oprah Daily • People • Boston Globe • BookPage • Booklist • Kirkus • Atlanta Journal-Constitution • Chicago Public Library Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel • Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction • Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction • Nominee for the NAACP Image Award "Epic. . . . I was just enraptured by the lineage and the story of this modern African-American family. . . . I’ve never read anything quite like it. It just consumed me." —Oprah Winfrey The NAACP Image Award-winning poet makes her fiction debut with this magisterial epic—an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing; Sing, Unburied, Sing; and The Water Dancer—that chronicles the journey of one American family, from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to our own tumultuous era. The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about the Problem of race in America, and what he called “Double Consciousness,” a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Bois’s words all too well. Bearing the names of two formidable Black Americans—the revered choreographer Alvin Ailey and her great grandmother Pearl, the descendant of enslaved Georgians and tenant farmers—Ailey carries Du Bois’s Problem on her shoulders. Ailey is reared in the north in the City but spends summers in the small Georgia town of Chicasetta, where her mother’s family has lived since their ancestors arrived from Africa in bondage. From an early age, Ailey fights a battle for belonging that’s made all the more difficult by a hovering trauma, as well as the whispers of women—her mother, Belle, her sister, Lydia, and a maternal line reaching back two centuries—that urge Ailey to succeed in their stead. To come to terms with her own identity, Ailey embarks on a journey through her family’s past, uncovering the shocking tales of generations of ancestors—Indigenous, Black, and white—in the deep South. In doing so Ailey must learn to embrace her full heritage, a legacy of oppression and resistance, bondage and independence, cruelty and resilience that is the story—and the song—of America itself.
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: A Novel
Olga Tokarczuk • 2020
Flights
Olga Tokarczuk • 2019
The Auschwitz Photographer: The Forgotten Story of the WWII Prisoner Who Documented Thousands of Lost Souls
Luca Crippa • 2021
Dawn (Lilith's Brood, 1)
Octavia E. Butler • 2021
Rental House
Weike Wang • 2024
<b>DAKOTA JOHNSON’S TEATIME PICTURES DECEMBER BOOK CLUB PICK <br><br>ONE OF NPR’S “BOOKS WE LOVE” 2024<br><br>“One of the most nuanced, astute critiques of America now I’ve read in years. And it’s also frequently hilarious.<b>”<br><b>—<i>Los Angeles Times</i><br><br><b>“A funny, perceptive look at what it means to defy societal expectations…timeless.”<i> <br><b>—</b>Washington Post</i></b><br><br><b>“</b>[For] basically anyone who is breathing, <i>Rental House</i> is a must-read."<br><i>—San Francisco Chronicle<br></i></b><br></b> “Sharp, insightful, occasionally heartbreaking, and incredibly relatable.”<br><b>—Gabrielle Zevin, author of <i>Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow</i><br><br>“For anyone who’s experienced demanding parents, misunderstanding in-laws, a vacation-gone-wrong, or mid-life questions about how to reconcile your own personality liabilities with those of the person you love most.”<br>—Elif Batuman, author of <i>The Idiot</i></b><br><br>From the award-winning author of <i>Chemistry, </i>a sharp-witted, insightful novel about a marriage as seen through the lens of two family vacations</b><br> <b> </b><br> Keru and Nate are college sweethearts who marry despite their family differences: Keru’s strict, Chinese, immigrant parents demand perfection (“To use a dishwasher is to admit defeat,” says her father), while Nate’s rural, white, working-class family distrusts his intellectual ambitions and his “foreign” wife. <br> <br> Some years into their marriage, the couple invites their families on vacation. At a Cape Cod beach house, and later at a luxury Catskills bungalow, Keru, Nate, and their giant sheepdog navigate visits from in-laws and unexpected guests, all while wondering if they have what it takes to answer the big questions: How do you cope when your spouse and your family of origin clash? How many people (and dogs) make a family? And when the pack starts to disintegrate, what can you do to shepherd everyone back together?<br><br> With her “wry, wise, and simply spectacular” style (<i>People</i>) and “hilarious deadpan that recalls Gish Jen and Nora Ephron” (<i>O, The Oprah Magazine), </i>Weike Wang offers a portrait of family that is equally witty, incisive, and tender.
The Shadow of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Trilogy Book 1)
John Gwynne • 2021
Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag)
China Miéville • 2001
Delta of Venus
Anais Nin • 2004
Speaking Bones
Ken Liu • 2023
Katabasis: A Novel
R. F Kuang • 2025
Committed
Suzanne Scanlon • 2024
<b>A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad—and doing both at once.<br></b> <br> When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her mother—feeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable pain—she made a suicide attempt that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute.<br> <br> After nearly three years and countless experimental treatments, Suzanne left the ward on shaky legs. In the decades it took her to recover from the experience, Suzanne came to understand her suffering as part of something larger: a long tradition of women whose complicated and compromised stories of self-actualization are reduced to “crazy chick” and “madwoman” narratives. It was a thrilling discovery, and she searched for more books, more woman writers, as the journey of her life converged with her journey through the literature that shaped her.<br> <br> Transporting, honest, and graceful, <i>Committed</i> is a story of discovery and recovery, reclaiming the idea of the madwoman as a template for insight and transcendence through the works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Janet Frame, Audre Lorde, Shulamith Firestone, and others.
Near to the Wild Heart (Ndp; 1225)
Clarice Lispector • 2012
Lonesome Dove A Novel
Larry McMurtry • 1986
Chronicles a cattle drive in the nineteenth century from Texas to Montana, and follows the lives of Gus and Call, the cowboys heading the drive, Gus's woman, Lorena, and Blue Duck, a sinister Indian renegade.
The Master and Margarita 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Mikhail Bulgakov • 2016
11/22/63
Stephen King • 2012
Madonna in a Fur Coat A Novel
Sabahattin Ali • 2017
The Book of Night Women
Marlon James • 2010
Finding Chika
Mitch Albom • 2020
Remarkably Bright Creatures A Novel
Shelby Van Pelt • 2022
The Wire-Walker
James Janko • 2025
Annie John: A Novel
Annie John: A Novel
The Frolic of the Beasts
Yukio Mishima • 2023
PRIORITY TBR NONFICTION
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
bell hooks • 2014
Pornography
Pornography
Women, Race & Class
Angela Y. Davis • 1983
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Random House Large Print)
John Green • 2021
How Democracies Die
How Democracies Die
A Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel
Marlon James • 2014
All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation)
bell hooks • 2018
Assata An Autobiography
Assata Shakur • 2001
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde • 2007
The Myth of Sisyphus And Other Essays
Albert Camus · 2012
How To Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie • 2010
The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality
Angela Saini • 2023
Against the Loveless World: A Novel
Susan Abulhawa • 2021
Arab American Book Award Winner<br/>2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist<br/>2020 Athenaeum Literary Award Finalist<br/>2020 Palestine Book Awards Winner<br/>Longlisted for Rathbones Folio Prize<br/><br/>“Susan Abulhawa possesses the heart of a warrior; she looks into the darkest crevices of lives, conflicts, horrendous injustices, and dares to shine light that can illuminate hidden worlds for us.” —Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize–winning author<br/><br/>In this “beautiful...urgent” novel (The New York Times), Nahr, a young Palestinian woman, fights for a better life for her family as she travels as a refugee throughout the Middle East.<br/><br/>As Nahr sits, locked away in solitary confinement, she spends her days reflecting on the dramatic events that landed her in prison in a country she barely knows. Born in Kuwait in the seventies to Palestinian refugees, she dreamed of falling in love with the perfect man, raising children, and possibly opening her own beauty salon. Instead, the man she thinks she loves jilts her after a brief marriage, her family teeters on the brink of poverty, she’s forced to prostitute herself, and the US invasion of Iraq makes her a refugee, as her parents had been. After trekking through another temporary home in Jordan, she lands in Palestine, where she finally makes a home, falls in love, and her destiny unfolds under Israeli occupation. Nahr’s subversive humor and moral ambiguity will resonate with fans of My Sister, The Serial Killer, and her dark, contemporary struggle places her as the perfect sister to Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties.<br/><br/>Written with Susan Abulhawa’s distinctive “richly detailed, beautiful, and resonant” (Publishers Weekly) prose, this powerful novel presents a searing, darkly funny, and wholly unique portrait of a Palestinian woman who refuses to be a victim.
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Naomi Klein • 2008
<p>In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free-market economic revolution, Naomi Klein challenges the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory. From Chile in 1973 to Iraq today, Klein shows how Friedman and his followers have repeatedly harnessed terrible shocks and violence to implement their radical policies. As John Gray wrote in <i>The Guardian, </i>"There are very few books that really help us understand the present. <i>The Shock Doctrine</i> is one of those books."</p>
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Walter Rodney • 2018
<b>The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis</b><br><br>In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated.<br><br>In his magnum opus, <i>How Europe Underdeveloped Africa</i>, Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the west and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. This meticulously researched analysis of the abiding repercussions of European colonialism on the continent of Africa has not only informed decades of scholarship and activism, it remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today.
Merriam-Webster’s Everyday Language Reference Set: Includes: The Merriam-Webster Dictionary, The Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, and The Merriam-Webster Vocabulary Builder
Merriam-Webster • 2016
Conversations on Love
Natasha Lunn • 2022
Can the Subaltern Speak?
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak · 2020
TBR
The Art of Thinking Clearly
The Art of Thinking Clearly
Farenheit 451
Farenheit 451
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
In Memoriam: A novel
Alice Winn • 2023
Orbital
Samantha Harvey • 2024
The Lover
Marguerite Duras • 1998
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>
Paradise Rot: A Novel
Jenny Hval • 2018
Intermezzo: A Novel
Sally Rooney • 2024
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Series)
Neil de Grasse Tyson • 2017
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Anonymous • 1960
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh · 2019
Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire
Jehad Abusalim • 2022
Imagining the future of Gaza beyond the cruelties of occupation and Apartheid, Light in Gaza is a powerful contribution to understanding Palestinian experience.<br/><br/>Gaza, home to two million people, continues to face suffocating conditions imposed by Israel. This distinctive anthology imagines what the future of Gaza could be, while reaffirming the critical role of Gaza in Palestinian identity, history, and struggle for liberation.<br/><br/>Light in Gaza is a seminal, moving and wide-ranging anthology of Palestinian writers and artists. It constitutes a collective effort to organize and center Palestinian voices in the ongoing struggle. As political discourse shifts toward futurism as a means of reimagining a better way of living, beyond the violence and limitations of colonialism, Light in Gaza is an urgent and powerful intervention into an important political moment.
Children of Blood and Bone Sneak Peek
Tomi Adeyemi • 2017
Omeros
Derek Walcott • 1992
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood • 1998
<b><b><b><b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER </b>• An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (<i>The New York Times</i>) • The sixth and final season of the award-winning Hulu series starring Elisabeth Moss is now streaming</b><br><br>Look for <i>The Testaments</i>, the <b>bestselling, award-winning</b> sequel to <i>The Handmaid’s Tale<br></i></b></b><br>In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred is one of these, a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead’s commanders. Deprived of her husband, her child, her freedom, and even her own name, Offred clings to her memories and her will to survive. At once a scathing satire, an ominous warning, and a tour de force of narrative suspense, <i>The Handmaid’s Tale </i>is a modern classic.<br><br><b>Includes an introduction by Margaret Atwood</b>
Little Women
Louis May Alcott • 2023
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler • 2012
Caraval (Caraval, 1)
Stephanie Garber • 2018
<p><b>Welcome, welcome to <i>CARAVAL</i>, Stephanie Garber’s enchanting, <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> bestselling fantasy debut about two sisters swept up in a mysterious competition filled with magic, heartbreak, and danger</b><br><br>Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister, Tella, live with their powerful and cruel father. Now Scarlett’s father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval, the far-away, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show, are over.<br><br> But this year, Scarlett's long-dreamt-of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor, Tella whisks Scarlett away to attend. Only, as soon as they arrive, Tella is kidnapped by Caraval’s mastermind organizer, Legend. It turns out that this season's Caraval revolves around Tella, and whoever finds her first is the winner. <br><br>Scarlett has been told that everything that happens during Caraval is only an elaborate performance. But whether Caraval is real or not, she must find Tella before the five nights of the game are over, and her sister disappears forever.<br><br>Continue the adventure in <i>Legendary </i>and <i>Finale—</i>out now!</p>
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
Camille T Dungy • 2023
My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel
Oyinkan Braithwaite • 2019
Almond: A Novel
Won-pyung Sohn • 2021
Flowers For Algernon
Daniel Keyes • 2005
The City of Brass: A Novel (The Daevabad Trilogy)
S. A. Chakraborty • 2017
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Library Journal | Vulture | The Verge | SYFYWire Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. A. Chakraborty perfect for fans of The Golem and the Jinni, The Grace of Kings, and Uprooted, in which the future of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom rests in the hands of a clever and defiant young con artist with miraculous healing gifts. On the streets of eighteenth-century Cairo, Nahri is a con woman of unsurpassed skill. She makes her living swindling Ottoman nobles, hoping to one day earn enough to change her fortunes. But when Nahri accidentally summons Dara, an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior, during one of her cons, she learns that even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences. Forced to flee Cairo, Dara and Nahri journey together across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire and rivers where the mythical marid sleep, past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises and mountains where the circling birds of prey are more than what they seem, to Daevabad, the legendary city of brass. It’s a city steeped in magic and fire, where blood can be as dangerous as any spell; a city where old resentments run deep and the royal court rules with a tenuous grip; a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound—and where her very presence threatens to ignite a war that has been simmering for centuries. *Finalist for the World Fantasy Award: Best Novel *Nominated for the Locus Award: Best First Novel *Finalist for the British Fantasy Award: Best Newcomer Featuring a stepback and extra content including a bonus scene and an excerpt from The Kingdom of Copper.
Exit West: A Novel
Mohsin Hamid • 2018
Martyr!: A novel
Kaveh Akbar • 2024
<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • ONE OF <i>THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S </i>10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR <b>• <b>A<b> <i>TIME</i> MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR</b></b> • </b>A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying, funny, and wholly original<i>, Martyr!</i> heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction.<br><br>“Kaveh Akbar is one of my favorite writers. Ever.” —Tommy Orange, Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of <i>There There</i><br><br>“The best novel you'll ever read about the joy of language, addiction, displacement, martyrdom, belonging, homesickness.” —Lauren Groff, best-selling author of <i>Matrix</i> and <i>Fates and Furies</i></b><br><br>Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed.<br><br>Kaveh Akbar’s <i>Martyr!</i> is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others.
Freshwater
Akwaeke Emezi • 2018
Project Hail Mary: A Novel
Andy Weir • 2021
The Idiot: A Novel
Elif Batuman • 2018
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction<br/><br/>“Easily the funniest book I’ve read this year.” —GQ<br/><br/>“Masterly funny debut novel . . . Erudite but never pretentious, The Idiot will make you crave more books by Batuman.” —Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair<br/><br/>A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself.<br/><br/>The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings.<br/><br/>At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer.<br/><br/>With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail.<br/><br/>Named one the best books of the year by Refinery29 • Mashable One • Elle Magazine • The New York Times • Bookpage • Vogue • NPR • Buzzfeed •The Millions
If We Were Villains: A Novel
M. L. Rio • 2018
<p><b>“Much like Donna Tartt’s <i>The Secret History</i>, M. L. Rio’s sparkling debut is a richly layered story of love, friendship, and obsession...will keep you riveted through its final, electrifying moments.”<br>—Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Nest<br></i></b><br><b>"Nerdily (and winningly) in love with Shakespeare...Readable, smart.”</b><br><b>—<i>New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><br>On the day Oliver Marks is released from jail, the man who put him there is waiting at the door. Detective Colborne wants to know the truth, and after ten years, Oliver is finally ready to tell it.<br><br>A decade ago: Oliver is one of seven young Shakespearean actors at Dellecher Classical Conservatory, a place of keen ambition and fierce competition. In this secluded world of firelight and leather-bound books, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress, ingénue, extras. <br><br>But in their fourth and final year, good-natured rivalries turn ugly, and on opening night real violence invades the students’ world of make-believe. In the morning, the fourth-years find themselves facing their very own tragedy, and their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, each other, and themselves that they are innocent. <br><br><i>If We Were Villains</i> was named one of Bustle's Best Thriller Novels of the Year, and <i>Mystery Scene</i> says, "A well-written and gripping ode to the stage...A fascinating, unorthodox take on rivalry, friendship, and truth."</p>
Acts of Desperation
Megan Nolan • 2022
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (1) (The Mara Dyer Trilogy)
Michelle Hodkin • 2012
Giovanni’s Room
The Odyssey
Homer · 2018
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe • 2020
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro • 2006
<b>NOBEL PRIZE WINNER <b>•</b> From the acclaimed, bestselling author of <i>The Remains of the Day</i> comes “a Gothic tour de force" (<i>The New York Times</i>) with an extraordinary twist—a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic.<br><br>One of <i>The New York Times</i>’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century • A <i>Kirkus Reviews </i>Best Fiction Book of the Century • A <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years</b><br><br>As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. <br><br>Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special—and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together.
The Road
Cormac McCarthy • 2006
Ninth House (Alex Stern, 1)
Leigh Bardugo · 2020
Boy Parts
Eliza Clark · 2020
A Certain Hunger
Chelsea G. Summers · 2021
The Vegetarian
Han Kang · 2016
<b>FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE</b><br><br><b>“[Han Kang’s] intense poetic prose . . . exposes the fragility of human life.”—The Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize</b><br><br><b><i>A NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b><br><b>WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE </b><br><b>ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY<br>A <i>KIRKUS REVIEWS </i>BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY</b><br><br><b>“Ferocious.”—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> (Ten Best Books of the Year)</b><br><b>“Both terrifying and terrific.”—Lauren Groff</b><br><b>“Provocative [and] shocking.”—<i>The Washington Post</i></b><br><br>Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams—invasive images of blood and brutality—torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It’s a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that’s become sacred to her. Soon their attempts turn desperate, subjecting first her mind, and then her body, to ever more intrusive and perverse violations, sending Yeong-hye spiraling into a dangerous, bizarre estrangement, not only from those closest to her, but also from herself. <br><br>Celebrated by critics around the world, <i>The Vegetarian</i> is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.<br><b><br>A Best Book of the Year: <i>BuzzFeed, Entertainment Weekly, Wall Street Journal, Time, Elle, The Economist, HuffPost, Slate, Bustle, The St. Louis Dispatch, Electric Literature, Publishers Weekly</i></b>
Lapvona: A Novel
Ottessa Moshfegh · 2022
Big Swiss: A Novel
Jen Beagin · 2023
Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica · 2020
<b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER</b><br> <br><b>Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore.</b><br><br>His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing.<br> <br>Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.
Nightbitch
Rachel Yoder • 2023
Hello Beautiful (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
Ann Napolitano • 2023
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
2014
Vampires of El Norte
Isabel Cañas • 2024
Stay True: A Memoir
Hua Hsu • 2022
Daughter of No Worlds
Carissa Broadbent • 2020
Madonna in a Fur Coat: A Novel
Sabahattin Ali • 2017
The Idiot: A Novel
Elif Batuman • 2018
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction<br/><br/>“Easily the funniest book I’ve read this year.” —GQ<br/><br/>“Masterly funny debut novel . . . Erudite but never pretentious, The Idiot will make you crave more books by Batuman.” —Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair<br/><br/>A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself.<br/><br/>The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings.<br/><br/>At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer.<br/><br/>With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail.<br/><br/>Named one the best books of the year by Refinery29 • Mashable One • Elle Magazine • The New York Times • Bookpage • Vogue • NPR • Buzzfeed •The Millions
Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica • 2020
A Certain Hunger
Chelsea G. Summers · 2022
The Spear Cuts Through Water: A Novel
Simon Jimenez • 2023
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell: A Novel
Nadia Hashimi • 2014
Afghan-American Nadia Hashimi's literary debut novel is a searing tale of powerlessness, fate, and the freedom to control one's own fate that combines the cultural flavor and emotional resonance of the works of Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Lisa See. In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school, and can rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young Rahima to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age. As a son, she can attend school, go to the market, and chaperone her older sisters. But Rahima is not the first in her family to adopt this unusual custom. A century earlier, her great-great grandmother, Shekiba, left orphaned by an epidemic, saved herself and built a new life the same way. Crisscrossing in time, The Pearl the Broke Its Shell interweaves the tales of these two women separated by a century who share similar destinies. But what will happen once Rahima is of marriageable age? Will Shekiba always live as a man? And if Rahima cannot adapt to life as a bride, how will she survive?
Strange the Dreamer
Laini Taylor • 2017
One Dark Window
Rachel Gillig • 2022
The Final Strife
Saara El-Arifi • 2022
'Epic in scope, its worldbuilding as intricate as filigree. The Final Strife sings of rebellion, love, and the courage it takes to stand up to tyranny, following three women whose journeys will keep you gripped to the last' --Samantha Shannon, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree<br> <br> The Empire rules by blood<br> <br> <br> <br> Red is the blood of the elite, of magic, of control.<br> <br> <br> <br> Blue is the blood of the poor, of workers, of the resistance.<br> <br> <br> <br> Clear is the blood of the servants, of the crushed, of the invisible.<br> <br> <br> <br> The Aktibar - a set of trials held every ten years to find the next Ember rulers of the Empire - is about to begin.<br> <br> <br> <br> All can join but not just anyone can win; it requires great skill and ingenuity to become the future wardens of Strength, Knowledge, Truth and Duty.<br> <br> <br> <br> Sylah was destined to win the trials and be crowned Warden of Strength. Stolen by blue-blooded rebels she was raised with a Duster's heart; forged as a weapon to bring down from within the red-blooded Embers' regime of cruelty. But when her adopted family were brutally murdered those dreams of a better future turned to dust.<br> <br> <br> <br> However, the flame of hope may yet be rekindled because Sylah wasn't made to sparkle, she was born to burn.<br> <br> <br> <br> And it's up to her whether she rules the empire or destroys it.
Iron Widow
Xiran Jay Zhao • 2021
The Shadow of What Was Lost (The Licanius Trilogy, 1)
James Islington • 2017
Fairydale
Veronica Lancet • 2023
The Left Hand of Darkness: 50th Anniversary Edition (Ace Science Fiction)
Ursula K. Le Guin • 2000
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss • 2008
<b>Discover #1 <i>New York Times</i>-bestselling Patrick Rothfuss’ epic fantasy series, The Kingkiller Chronicle.</b><br><b> </b><br>“I just love the world of Patrick Rothfuss.” —Lin-Manuel Miranda<br> <br>OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD!<br><b> </b><br><b>DAY ONE: THE NAME OF THE WIND</b><br> <br><i>My name is Kvothe.</i><br><i> </i><br><i>I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.</i><br><i> </i><br><i>You may have heard of me.</i><br> <br>So begins a tale unequaled in fantasy literature—the story of a hero told in his own voice. It is a tale of sorrow, a tale of survival, a tale of one man’s search for meaning in his universe, and how that search, and the indomitable will that drove it, gave birth to a legend.
Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales Book 1)
Olivia Atwater • 2022
Short story TBR
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Bad Behavior: Stories
Mary Gaitskill • 2009
The Woman Destroyed
Simone De Beauvoir • 1987
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Carmen Maria Machado • 2017
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Mariana Enriquez
Mariana Enriquez • 2022
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE<br/><br/>'Beautiful, horrible... the most exciting discovery I've made in fiction for some time' Kazuo Ishiguro<br/><br/>'Smoky, carnal, dazzling' Lauren Groff<br/><br/>Welcome to Buenos Aires, a place of nightmares and twisted imaginings, where missing children come back from the dead and unearthed bones carry terrible curses.<br/><br/>Thrumming with murderous intentions, family betrayals and morbid desires, these stories shine a light on a violent city gripped by urban madness; giving voice to the lost, the oppressed and the forgotten. Lucid and darkly poetic, unsettling and otherworldly, these tales of revenge, witchcraft and fetishes are a masterpiece of contemporary Gothic and a bewitching exploration of the dark inclinations that threaten to lead us over the edge.<br/><br/>'There is some serious power in this writing' Daisy Johnson
Homesick for Another World: Stories
Ottessa Moshfegh • 2017
Complete Stories
Clarice Lispector • 2018
The Illustrated Man
Ray Bradbury • 2012
Black Swans: Stories
Eve Babitz • 2018
Pizza Girl
Frazier Jean Kyoung • 2021
She's Always Hungry
Eliza Clark • 2024
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Ken Liu • 2016
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang • 2016
Bliss Montage: Stories
Ling Ma • 2022
salt slow
Julia Armfield • 2019
Audiobook TBR
Project Hail Mary: A Novel
Andy Weir • 2021
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V. E. Schwab · 2023
POETRY TBR
The Wild Iris
Louise Gluck • 1993
The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
EMILY DICKINSON • 2015
Finished
Caraval
Stephanie Garber • 2018
<p><b>Welcome, welcome to <i>CARAVAL</i>, Stephanie Garber’s enchanting, <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> bestselling fantasy debut about two sisters swept up in a mysterious competition filled with magic, heartbreak, and danger</b><br><br>Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister, Tella, live with their powerful and cruel father. Now Scarlett’s father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval, the far-away, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show, are over.<br><br> But this year, Scarlett's long-dreamt-of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor, Tella whisks Scarlett away to attend. Only, as soon as they arrive, Tella is kidnapped by Caraval’s mastermind organizer, Legend. It turns out that this season's Caraval revolves around Tella, and whoever finds her first is the winner. <br><br>Scarlett has been told that everything that happens during Caraval is only an elaborate performance. But whether Caraval is real or not, she must find Tella before the five nights of the game are over, and her sister disappears forever.<br><br>Continue the adventure in <i>Legendary </i>and <i>Finale—</i>out now!</p>
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
Jane Austen • 2002
Throne of Glass eBook Bundle: An 8 Book Bundle
Sarah J. Maas • 2020
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka • 2009
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami • 2022
Shatter Me Series 6-Book Box Set: Shatter Me, Unravel Me, Ignite Me, Restore Me, Defy Me, Imagine Me
Tahereh Mafi • 2021
<p>Juliette can kill with a touch--will she wield her power for good, or will it turn her into the monster she's always feared she truly is? Find out in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Shatter Me series--all six novels are now available in this paperback box set!</p> <p>One touch is all it takes. One touch, and Juliette Ferrars can bring a grown man to his knees, begging for mercy. One touch, and she can kill.</p> <p>No one knows why Juliette has such incredible power. It feels like a curse, like too great a burden for one person alone to bear. But The Reestablishment sees her as an opportunity. As a deadly weapon. And they'll stop at nothing to shape her into what they want.</p> <p>Juliette has never fought for herself before. But when she's reunited with the one person who ever cared about her, she finds a strength she never knew she had.</p> <p>This bestselling series from powerhouse author Tahereh Mafi showcases relentlessly thrilling action, heart stopping romance, and a war-torn world in which rebellion is the only path to freedom.</p>
A Court of Thorns and Roses Paperback Box Set (5 books)
Sarah J. Maas • 2022
Legendborn
Tracy Deonn • 2020
Beach Read
Emily Henry • 2020
<b><b>FROM THE #1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF <i>FUNNY STORY</i>!<br><br>A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.<br><br>As featured in <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> ∙ <i>Entertainment Weekly</i> ∙ <i>Oprah Magazine</i> ∙ Betches ∙ Shondaland ∙ Good Morning America ∙ <i>The New York Post</i> ∙ <i>Good Housekeeping</i> ∙ CNN ∙ and more!</b></b><br><br>Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. <br><br>They’re polar opposites. <br><br>In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block.<br><br>Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, 1)
Holly Black · 2018
The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, 2)
Holly Black · 2019
The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, 3)
Holly Black · 2019
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, 1)
Sarah J. Maas · 2015
The Selection 5-Book Box Set: The Complete Series
Kiera Cass • 2017
Bloodmarked (2) (The Legendborn Cycle)
Tracy Deonn • 2022
Oathbound
Tracy Deonn • 2025
My astrophysicsy stuff
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking • 1998
Cosmos
Carl Sagan • 2013
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil deGrasse Tyson • 2017
The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli • 2019
Until the End of Time Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
Brian Greene • 2021
