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Jane Eyre: The Original 1847 Edition With Illustrations (A Classic Illustrated Novel of Charlotte Brontë)
Jane Eyre: The Original 1847 Edition With Illustrations (A Classic Illustrated Novel of Charlotte Brontë)
The Stranger
Albert Camus · 1989
My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel
Ottessa Moshfegh · 2019
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible A New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century “One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.” — Entertainment Weekly “Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.” —Vogue From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.
Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics)
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1993
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka · 2009
East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
John Steinbeck · 1952
The Bell Jar
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>
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka · 2018
The Metamorphosis is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed (metamorphosed) into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. The cause of Samsa's transformation is never revealed, and Kafka himself never gave an explanation. The rest of Kafka's novella deals with Gregor's attempts to adjust to his new condition as he deals with being burdensome to his parents and sister, who are repulsed by the horrible, verminous creature Gregor has become.
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf • 1989
Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
Emily Brontë • 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.
Political
The Handmaids Tale
The Handmaids Tale
The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried
Beloved
Beloved
The Memory Police
The Memory Police
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2014
Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica · 2020
How Democracies Die
Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt · 2018
Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran
Shahrnush Parsipur · 2012
12 Years a Slave
Solomon Northup · 2014
The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood · 1987
Nineteen Eighty-four
George Orwell • 2017
Animal Farm
George Orwell • 1996
A Discourse on Inequality (Penguin Classics)
Rousseau's 'A Discourse on Inequality' explores how civilization erodes natural happiness and freedom, creating artificial inequalities of wealth and power. He argued that while primitive man was equal, sophisticated societies empower the strong, and constitutions often perpetuate these imbalances. This work was a highly influential and revolutionary critique of 18th-century social conditions. Penguin Classics, a leading publisher for over 70 years, offers authoritative texts like this, enhanced by scholarly insights and modern translations, making global literary masterpieces accessible to readers.
Madness and Civilization
Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.
The Gulag Archipelago
This Nobel Prize winner's masterpiece, hailed as the "BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY" by Time, is a searing record of four decades of Soviet terror and oppression. Drawing on his own 11 years of incarceration, testimonies from over 200 prisoners, and Soviet archives, Solzhenitsyn powerfully exposes the entire apparatus of Soviet repression. Through vivid portraits of victims, he reveals secret police operations, labor camps, and the extermination of populations, while also showcasing astounding moral courage. This abridged, authorized volume, with a new foreword by Anne Applebaum, transforms a grisly indictment into a literary miracle that profoundly shaped the late 20th century's political and moral consciousness.
Fiction
The Silence that Binds Us
The Silence that Binds Us
Days of Distraction
Days of Distraction
Elysian Fields
Elysian Fields
Don't Let The Forest In
Don't Let The Forest In
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Girl in Pieces
Girl in Pieces
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War “Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one; one that grabs colonial history and the Industrial Revolution, turns it over, and shakes it out.” -- Shannon Chakraborty, bestselling author of The City of Brass From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel. Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as its knowledge serves the Empire’s quest for colonization. For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide… Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence?
The Poppy War: A Novel (The Poppy War, 1)
The Poppy War: A Novel (The Poppy War, 1)
Katabasis: A Novel
Katabasis: A Novel
Yellowface: A Novel
Yellowface: A Novel
The Dragon Republic
The Dragon Republic
The Burning God
The Burning God
Paradise Rot
Paradise Rot
Thousand Splendid Suns
Thousand Splendid Suns
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Mistborn
Mistborn
The Sword of Kaigen: A Theonite War Story (the Theonite Series)
The Sword of Kaigen: A Theonite War Story (the Theonite Series)
Red Rising (Red Rising Series Book 1)
Red Rising (Red Rising Series Book 1)
The House in the Cerulean Sea
The House in the Cerulean Sea
A Darker Shade of Magic
A Darker Shade of Magic
Vicious (Villains Book 1)
Vicious (Villains Book 1)
A Gathering of Shadows: A Novel (Shades of Magic Book 2)
A Gathering of Shadows: A Novel (Shades of Magic Book 2)
Gallant
Gallant
Masters of Death: A Novel
Masters of Death: A Novel
Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go
Near To The Wildheart
Near To The Wildheart
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Sorrows of Young Werther
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi • 2016
Notes of a Crocodile
Notes of a Crocodile
The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos)
The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos)
A Woman Is No Man: A Novel
A Woman Is No Man: A Novel
Our Wives Under The Sea
Our Wives Under The Sea
The Starless Sea: A Novel
The Starless Sea: A Novel
The Night Circus
The Night Circus
The Midnight Library: A Novel
The Midnight Library: A Novel
The #1 New York Times bestselling WORLDWIDE phenomenon Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick | Independent (London) Ten Best Books of the Year "A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits."—The Washington Post The dazzling reader-favorite about the choices that go into a life well lived, from the acclaimed author of How To Stop Time and The Comfort Book. Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
The Idiot: A Novel
The Idiot: A Novel
Nightbitch: A Novel
Rachel Yoder · 2022
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke · 2020
White Teeth A Novel
Zadie Smith · 2000
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey · 2008
We Were Liars
E. Lockhart • 2018
The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides • 2019
Looking for Alaska
John Green • 2006
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho · 2015
The Stranger in the Lifeboat
Mitch Albom • 2021
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess • 2019
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone · 2020
Not Quite Dead Yet
Holly Jackson · 2025
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab · 2025
No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai · 1973
<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>
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak · 2010
Short Reads
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Yellow Wall-Paper
The Yellow Wall-Paper
A Nervous Breakdown
A Nervous Breakdown
A Moveable Feast
A Moveable Feast
The Shielding of Mrs Forbes: Faber Stories
The Shielding of Mrs Forbes: Faber Stories
I Who Have Never Known Men
I Who Have Never Known Men
<p><b>SISTERHOOD. SECRETS. SURVIVAL.</b><br> <br> <b>Discover the haunting, heart-breaking post-apocalyptic TikTok sensation.</b><br> <br> Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus?<br> <br> Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. But, as the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone an outcast in the corner.<br> <br> Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground. The woman who will never know men.<br> <br> <b>WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE MACKINTOSH, BOOKER PRIZE-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF THE <i>WATER CURE</i><br> <br> **<i>Orlanda</i>, the next sensation from Jacquline Harpman, is available now**</b></p>
Dostoevsky
Demons
Demons
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov
Notes from Underground (Vintage Classics)
Notes from Underground (Vintage Classics)
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoevsky
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 2024
Poetry
Letters to a Young Poet
Letters to a Young Poet
Rumi: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
Rumi: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
The Prophet: The Original 1923 Edition With Complete Illustrations (A Classics Kahlil Gibran Novel)
The Prophet: The Original 1923 Edition With Complete Illustrations (A Classics Kahlil Gibran Novel)
Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit
Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit
Milk and Honey
Milk and Honey
The The Sun And Her Flowers
The The Sun And Her Flowers
The Strength In Our Scars
The Strength In Our Scars
A Gentle Reminder
A Gentle Reminder
Whispers of the Beloved
Whispers of the Beloved
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Neil Gaiman · 2021
Horror
The Last House on Needless Street
The Last House on Needless Street
No Longer Human (Junji Ito)
Junji Ito • 2019
Uncategorized
The Practice of Not Thinking
Former monk Ryunosuke Koike's international bestseller offers practical Zen practices to reconnect with your senses and live more peacefully. By retraining your brain and body, you can reduce anxiety, improve interactions, and find calm in daily life. Learn to breathe, listen, speak, laugh, love, and sleep in new ways to appreciate more by thinking less.
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad's "One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" explores the disillusionment of Black, brown, and indigenous Americans—and a new generation—with western ideals, especially amid global crises like Gaza. Blending personal experience and cultural critique, El Akkad delivers a powerful, timely reckoning with the west's failures and the growing desire for something better.
Kafka on the Shore
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, one of the world’s greatest storytellers, comes “a relentless metaphysical puzzle” (The New Yorker) about a runaway teenager and a simple old man. Now with a new introduction by the author. Meet 15-year-old Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, whose lives intersect in a world where cats talk, fish rain from the sky, and spirits leave their bodies to love or kill.
Bunny: A Novel
A darkly funny, surreal novel about outsider Samantha Mackey, a scholarship student in a selective MFA program, who is drawn into the sinister clique of rich girls called "Bunnies." As she joins their bizarre rituals, reality blurs and her friendships are tested in dangerous ways. Bunny explores loneliness, belonging, and the power of imagination. Soon to be a major motion picture and named a Best Book of 2019 by multiple outlets.
Dark Matter: A Novel
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch is a bestselling speculative thriller about Jason Dessen, who is kidnapped and wakes up in a world where his life is completely different—his wife and son are gone, and he's a renowned genius. As Jason struggles to understand which reality is real, he must fight to return to the family he loves. The story explores choices, alternate lives, and the lengths we'll go for our dreams.
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes: A Novel
From "master of horror" Clay McLeod Chapman, a social horror novel where a demonic possession epidemic spreads through media, turning loved ones violent. Noah Fairchild finds his parents entranced by far-right news, then attacked. With his nephew Marcus, he must flee to Brooklyn before succumbing to the violent hordes. A searing commentary on our divided nation, for fans of The Last of Us.
The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish
Katya Apekina, originally from Moscow and now in Los Angeles, has published stories in top literary journals, co-wrote the film New Orleans, Mon Amour, and contributed translations to Night Wraps the Sky. Her debut novel, The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish, explores two sisters facing family trauma with dark humor and a distinctive style.
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Over 2.7 million copies sold! • “A deeply spiritual book [that] honors what is tough, smart and untamed in women.”—The Washington Post Book World. Book club pick for Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf. Every woman has a powerful force inside—good instincts, passionate creativity, and timeless wisdom. Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés uses myths and stories to help women reconnect with their wild, visionary nature and understand the Wild Woman within.
