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Reading
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy • 2002
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig • 2021
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry • 2000
<p>This beloved, world-famous allegorical classic about a young prince on a quest for knowledge is an essential read for every home library.</p> <p>Combining Richard Howard's translation with restored original full-color art, this definitive English-language edition of The Little Prince will capture the hearts of readers of all ages.</p> <p>Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. When a pilot crashes in the Sahara Desert, he meets a little boy who asks him to draw a sheep. Gradually the Little Prince reveals more about himself: He comes from a small asteroid, where he lived alone until a rose grew there.</p> <p>But the rose grew demanding, and he was confused by his feelings about her. The story unfolds further from one planet to the next in a thoughtful philosophical exploration of love and the ephemeral.</p>
No Longer Human
太宰治 • 1958
<p> Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. </p><p>Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. His attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a "clown" to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness.</p><p>Still one of the ten bestselling books in Japan, No Longer Human is an important and unforgettable modern classic: "The struggle of the individual to fit into a normalizing society remains just as relevant today as it was at the time of writing." (The Japan Times)</p>
To Read
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Harper Lee • 2000
Animal Farm
George Orwell • 2025
Doctor Zhivago
Pasternak Boris • 2018
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara • 2015
Finished
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë • 2003
This is Me Letting You Go
Heidi Priebe • 2021
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway • 2020
The Metamorphosis: by Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka • 2021
Home Fire
Kamila Shamsie • 2017
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2017
