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White Nights

Fyodor Dostoyevsky ● 1848

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas père ● 1846

Beware of Pity

Stefan Zweig ● 1939

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez ● 1967

The Master and the Margarita

Michail Bulgakov ● 1967

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath ● 1963

Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. Classics)

Eve Babitz ● 1977

The Wretched of the Earth

Frantz Fanon ● 1961

The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Alan Watts ● 1966

Women Who Run with the Wolves

Clarissa Pinkola Estés ● 1996

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde ● 1890

The Bird's Nest

Shirley Jackson ● 1954

Lady of the Camellias

Alexandre Dumas ● 1848

The Best of Everything

Rona Jaffe ● 1958

The Morgesons

Elizabeth Stoddard ● 1862

The Well of Loneliness

Radclyffe Hall ● 1928

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Joanne Greenberg ● 1964

The multimillion-copy bestselling modern classic of autobiographical fiction about a young woman’s struggle with mental health, featuring a new foreword by Esmé Weijun Wang, the New York Times bestselling author of The Collected Schizophrenias, and a new afterword by the author<br/><br/>A Penguin Classic<br/><br/>After making an attempt on her own life, sixteen-year-old Deborah Blau is diagnosed with schizophrenia. With the reluctant and fearful consent of her parents, she enters a psychiatric hospital many hours from her home in suburban Chicago. Here she will spend the next three years, trying, with the help of a gifted psychiatrist, to find a path back to her “normal” life, and to emerge from the imaginary Kingdom of Yr in which she has sought refuge.<br/><br/>A semiautobiographical novel originally published under the pen name Hannah Green just a year after Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar--a very different portrait of psychological breakdown--I Never Promised You a Rose Garden remains, more than half a century later, a timeless and ultimately hopeful book, ripe for rediscovery by a new generation eager to erase the stigma of mental illness.<br/><br/>For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Pleasure (Penguin Classics)

Gabriele D'Annunzio ● 1889

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett ● 1911

A Room of Ones Own

Virginia Woolf ● 1929

Persuasion

Jane Austen ● 1817

Anne of Green Gables

Lucy Maud Montgomery ● 1908

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare ● 1594

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott ● 1868

The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux ● 1910

East of Eden

John Steinbeck ● 1952

Metamorphoses

Franz Kafka ● 1915

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë ● 1847

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald ● 1991

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë ● 1847

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen ● 1980

Beloved

Toni Morrison ● 1987

Grown Women

Sarai Johnson ● 2024

In Search of Our Mothers' Garden

Alice Walker ● 1983

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison ● 1970

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

Honoree Fanonne Jeffers ● 2021

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston ● 1937

Kindred

Octavia E. Butler ● 1979

The Color Purple

Alice Walker ● 1982

If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin ● 1974

From one of the most important writers of the twentieth century comes a stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime—"a moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless" (The New York Times Book Review).<br/><br/>"One of the best books Baldwin has ever written—perhaps the best of all." —The Philadelphia Inquirer<br/><br/>Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin’s story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions—affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche.

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler ● 1993

The Groomer

Jon Athan ● 2020

COWS

Matthew Stokoe ● 1998

The Bug Collector

Wrath James White ● 2024

The Black Farm

Elias Witherow ● 2017

Tales from the hollow place

Patrick Wells ● 2025

Dead Inside

Chandler Morrison ● 2015

No One Rides For Free: An Extreme Novella

Judith Sonnet ● 2022

The Silent Patient

Alex Michaelides ● 2019

The Housemaid

Freida McFadden ● 2022

Kim Ji-young, Born 1982

Cho Nam-Joo ● 2016

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Gail Honeyman ● 2017

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND THE PERFECT HOLIDAY GIFT  A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick “Beautifully written and incredibly funny, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is about the importance of friendship and human connection. I fell in love with Eleanor, an eccentric and regimented loner whose life beautifully unfolds after a chance encounter with a stranger; I think you will fall in love, too!” —Reese Witherspoon No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine.  Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.  But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond’s big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the smart, warm, and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes. . .   The only way to survive is to open your heart.