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Mockingjay (Hunger Games, Book Three)

Suzanne Collins · 2010

Catching Fire (Hunger Games, Book Two)

Suzanne Collins · 2010

The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, Book One)

Suzanne Collins · 2009

This Special Edition of <i>The Hunger Games</i> includes the most extensive interview Suzanne Collins has given since the publication of <i>The Hunger Games</i>; an absorbing behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the series; and an engaging archival conversation between Suzanne Collins and YA legend Walter Dean Myers on writing about war. The Special Edition answers many questions fans have had over the years, and gives great insight into the creation of this era-defining work.<p></p>In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to death before-and survival, for her, is second nature. Still, if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis · 2007

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka · 2009

Animal Farm

George Orwell · 1996

The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)

Sylvia Plath · 2005

<p><i>The Bell Jar</i> chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made <i>The Bell Jar</i> a haunting American classic.</p> <p>This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.</p>

Tuesdays with Morrie

Mitch Albom · 2006

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.

Dead Poets Society

N.H. Kleinbaum · 2012

Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how different life is since their new English professor, the flamboyant John Keating, has challenged them to "make your lives extraordinary! Inspired by Keating, the boys resurrect the Dead Poets Society--a secret club where, free from the constraints and expectations of school and parents, they let their passions run wild. As Keating turns the boys on to the great words of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, they discover not only the beauty of language, but the importance of making each moment count. Can the club and the individuality it inspires survive the pressure from authorities determined to destroy their dreams? But the Dead Poets pledges soon realize that their newfound freedom can have tragic consequences. Can the club and the individuality it inspires survive the pressure from authorities determined to destroy their dreams?

The Silence of the Lambs

Thomas Harris · 1998

Alchemised #1 New York Times bestseller

Alchemised #1 New York Times bestseller

The Virgin Suicides A Novel (Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition)

Jeffrey Eugenides • 2018

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky • 2009

Girl, Interrupted

Susanna Kaysen • 2000

The Great Gatsby:

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2021

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho · 2015

The Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger • 1951

Atonement

Ian McEwan • 2001

1984

George Orwell • 1949

<b>Written more than 70 years ago, <i>1984</i> was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...<br><br><b>• Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read •</i></b><br></b><br>“<i>The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.</i>”<br><br>Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching...<br><br>A startling and haunting novel, <i>1984</i> creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.

The Maze Runner Trilogy: The Death Cure / the Scorch Trials / the Maze Runner

James Dashner · 2013

Call Me by Your Name

André Aciman

Twilight Breaking Dawn

Twilight Eclipse

Twilight New Moon

Twilight

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare · 1973

Don Quixote

miguel-de-cervantes-saavedra · 2013

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read<br/><br/>Don Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray—he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants—Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together-and together they have haunted readers' imaginations for nearly four hundred years.<br/><br/>With its experimental form and literary playfulness, Don Quixote has been generally recognized as the first modern novel. This Penguin Classics edition, with its beautiful new cover design, includes John Rutherford's masterly translation, which does full justice to the energy and wit of Cervantes's prose, as well as a brilliant critical introduction by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarriá.

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

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.

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)

Leo Tolstoy · 2002

Anne of Green Gables

Lucy Maud Montgomery • 2022

East of Eden

John Steinbeck · 1952

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley: 1818

The Stranger

Albert Camus · 1989

Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf · 2008

Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics)

Charles Dickens · 2003

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens · 2021

Dracula

Bram Stoker · 2017

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries about his client and his castle. Soon afterwards, a number of disturbing incidents unfold in England: an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby; strange puncture marks appear on a young woman's neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the imminent arrival of his 'Master'. In the ensuing battle of wits between the sinister Count Dracula and a determined group of adversaries, Bram Stoker created a masterpiece of the horror genre, probing deeply into questions of human identity and sanity, and illuminating dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.

North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell · 1994

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain • 1884

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll • 1865

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott · 1983

Good Wives

Louisa May Alcott · 2016

Les Misérables

Les Misérables

The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)

The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)

Northanger Abby

Northanger Abby

Emma: Jane Austen

Jane Austen · 2018

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Penguin Classics)

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Penguin Classics)

Demons (Vintage Classics)

Demons (Vintage Classics)

The Gambler

The Gambler

Notes from Underground (Vintage Classics)

Notes from Underground (Vintage Classics)

<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.

The Idiot

The Idiot

White Nights

White Nights

The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov

Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics)

Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics)

<b>Hailed by <i>Washington Post Book World</i> as “the best [translation] currently available" when it was first published, this second edition of <i>Crime and Punishment </i>has been updated in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth. • <b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME</b></b><br><br>With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i> the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of <i>Crime and Punishment, </i>Dostoevsky's astounding pyschological thriller, newly revised for his bicentenniel. <br><br>In <i>Crime and Punishment</i>, when Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that is almost unequalled in world literature for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth of characterization and vision. Dostoevsky’s drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman’s murder into the nineteenth century’s profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel.

Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)

Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)

Mansfield Park Jane Austen

Mansfield Park Jane Austen

To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird

War and Peace

War and Peace

Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina

Jane Eyre: The 1847 English Literature Classic

Charlotte Brontë · 2023

Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)

Jane Austen · 2002