Booklist 2026<3
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To Kill a Mockingbird 40th
Harper Lee · 1999
Sense And Sensibility
Jane Austen · 2012
Emma
Jane Austen · 2003
Atonement
Ian McEwan · 2002
The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Donna Tartt · 2013
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky • 1999
The Bell Jar
Harold Bloom • 2009
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen • 2001
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy • 2014
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck • 2018
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert • 2004
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.
The Secret History
Donna Tartt · 1992
<b><b><b><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>
My Dark Vanessa
Kate Elizabeth Russell · 2020
Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen · 1993
<b>30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION <b>• </b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. Her memoir of the next two years is a "poignant, honest ... triumphantly funny ... and heartbreaking story" (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>). <br><br><b>WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR <br></b></b><br>The ward for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital was as renowned for its famous clientele—Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles—as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. <br><br><i>Girl, Interrupted</i> is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.
Just Kids
Patti Smith · 2010
<p> It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. </p> <p> Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to Forty-second Street, and eventually to the celebrated round table of Max's Kansas City, where the Andy Warhol contingent held court. In 1969, the pair set up camp at the Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and infamous—the influential artists of the day and the colorful fringe. It was a time of heightened awareness, when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and exploding. In this milieu, two kids made a pact to take care of each other. Scrappy, romantic, committed to create, and fueled by their mutual dreams and drives, they would prod and provide for one another during the hungry years. </p> <p> <i>Just Kids</i> begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists' ascent, a prelude to fame. </p>
Agua viva
Clarice Lispector · 2020
The Idiot A Novel
Elif Batuman • 2018
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion · 2007
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels Book 1)
Elena Ferrante · 2012
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath · 2000
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf · 2000
The Odyssey
Homer · 2018
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott · 1983
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke · 2014
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
Jane Austen · 1813
The Lover
Marguerite Duras · 1998
The Stranger
Albert Camus · 2022
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen · 2015
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf · 1989
Madonna in a Fur Coat
Sabahattin Ali · 2021
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 2003
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy · 2003
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas · 2003
The Master and Margarita 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Mikhail Bulgakov · 2016
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Mary Shelley · 2018
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>
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2019
Finished
The Metamorphosis: by Franz Kafka | Deluxe Edition
Franz Kafka · 2021
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Oscar Wilde · 2022
Alice in Wonderland The Original 1865 Edition with Complete Illustrations by Sir John Tenniel (a Classic Novel of Lewis Carroll)
Lewis Carroll · 2021
Animal Farm 75th Anniversary Edition
George Orwell · 2004
The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2010
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 2015
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
Leo Tolstoy · 2008
The Great Gatsby
Francis Scott Fitzgerald · 2021
The Trial
Franz Kafka · 1999
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte · 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.
