Book wishlist

Illustrated Encyclopedia of Arthurian Legends

Ronan Coghlan · 1995

The Gingerbread Age: A View of Victorian America

John Maass · 1983

The Birds of America

John James Audubon · 2021

Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas

Rebecca Solnit, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro · 2016

Duo

Colette · 2025

Viatge al passat

Stefan Zweig · 2025

El darrer gegant del mar

Iida Turpeinen · 2025

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.

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Daphne Du Maurier · 1997

A Game of Hide and Seek

Elizabeth Taylor · 2008

Great Granny Webster

Caroline Blackwood · 2002

Valley of the Dolls 50th Anniversary Edition

Jacqueline Susann · 2016

The Turmoil: by Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington · 2019

O Pioneers! (Vintage Classics)

Willa Cather · 1992

The Birds and Other Stories

Daphne du Maurier · 2013

Demon Copperhead A Novel

Barbara Kingsolver · 2022