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The Secret History
Donna Tartt · 2004
<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>
Madonna in a Fur Coat
Sabahattin Ali · 2017
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Time of Your Life
Jessa Hastings · 2025
Maybe in Another Life
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2022
Blue Sisters
Coco Mellors · 2024
want to read
The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides · 2002
Play It as It Lays
Joan Didion · 2017
Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng · 2015
Favourite Daughter
Morgan Dick · 2025
A darkly funny debut novel about two estranged sisters who are unknowingly thrown together by their problematic father’s dying wish<br/><br/>Mickey and Arlo are half sisters. But they’ve never spoken and never met. Arlo adored her father—but always lived in the shadow of his magnetic personality and burdensome vices. Meanwhile, their father abandoned Mickey and her mother years ago, and Mickey has hated him since. When she receives news of her father’s passing, Mickey is shocked to learn that he’s left her his not-inconsiderable fortune. The Mickey must attend a series of therapy sessions before the money can be released.<br/><br/>Unbeknownst to either woman, the psychologist Mickey’s father has ensured she meets with is her half sister, Arlo. Having cared for her beloved father on his sickbed, Arlo is devastated to discover he’s cut her out of his will. She resolves to learn where the money went and why.<br/><br/>Working together as therapist and patient—with no idea that they’re in fact sisters—Arlo and Mickey soon get under each other’s skin. Arlo, eager to outrun a mistake in her professional past, is keen to redeem herself with her new client. But Mickey is far from the model patient. As Mickey’s personal and professional lives spiral out of control and Arlo uncovers the truth about who her new patient really is, the sisters find themselves on a crash course that will break—or save—them both.
Bad Taste
unknown author · 2024
Checkout 19
Bennett Claire-Loui · 2022
Night People
Mark Ronson · 2025
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Orbital
Samantha Harvey · 2024
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024<br/>Winner of the 2024 Hawthornden Prize<br/>Shortlisted for the 2024 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction<br/>Shortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction<br/>A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize-winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in 24 hours<br/>"Ravishingly beautiful." — Joshua Ferris, New York Times<br/>A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan—have left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth reels below. We glimpse moments of their earthly lives through brief communications with family, their photos and talismans; we watch them whip up dehydrated meals, float in gravity-free sleep, and exercise in regimented routines to prevent atrophying muscles; we witness them form bonds that will stand between them and utter solitude. Most of all, we are with them as they behold and record their silent blue planet. Their experiences of sixteen sunrises and sunsets and the bright, blinking constellations of the galaxy are at once breathtakingly awesome and surprisingly intimate.<br/>Profound and contemplative, Orbital is a moving elegy to our environment and planet.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky · 2012
“A timeless story for every young person who needs to understand that they are not alone.” —Judy Blume<br/><br/>“Once in a while, a novel comes along that becomes a generational touchstone. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is one of those books.” —R. J. Palacio, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wonder<br/><br/>This #1 New York Times bestselling coming-of-age story with millions of copies in print takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its glory.<br/><br/>The critically acclaimed debut novel from Stephen Chbosky follows observant “wallflower” Charlie as he charts a course through the strange world between adolescence and adulthood. First dates, family drama, and new friends. Sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Devastating loss, young love, and life on the fringes. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it, Charlie must learn to navigate those wild and poignant roller-coaster days known as growing up.<br/><br/>A #1 New York Times bestseller for more than a year, adapted into a major motion picture starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson (and written and directed by the author), and an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults (2000) and Best Book for Reluctant Readers (2000), this novel for teen readers (or wallflowers of more-advanced age) will make you laugh, cry, and perhaps feel nostalgic for those moments when you, too, tiptoed onto the dance floor of life.
Family of Liars
E. Lockhart · 2023
<b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • The addictive prequel to the TikTok phenomenon <i>We Were Liars</i>: the story of another summer, another generation, and the secrets that will haunt them for decades to come.</b><br><br><b>LOOK FOR E. LOCKHART’S NEW NOVEL IN THE WE WERE LIARS UNIVERSE, <i>WE FELL APART</i>, COMING NOVEMBER 4, 2025</b><br><br><b>"I anticipated that at some point a shocking twist would come. And, wow, does it ever." —<i>The New York Times</i></b><br><br><b>"A perfect beach read." —<i>The Boston Globe</i></b><br><br>A windswept private island off the coast of Massachusetts.<br>A hungry ocean, churning with secrets and sorrow.<br>A fiery, addicted heiress. An irresistible, unpredictable boy.<br>A summer of unforgivable betrayal and terrible mistakes.<br><br>Welcome back to the Sinclair family.<br>They were always liars.<br><br><b>Don’t miss any of the We Were Liars novels</b><br><b>WE WERE LIARS • FAMILY OF LIARS • WE FELL APART (Coming in November!)</b>
Imposter Syndrome
Joseph Knox · 2024
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 2002
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Magnolia Parks
Jessa Hastings · 2023
Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2021
Point of Retreat
Colleen Hoover · 2012
Slammed
Colleen Hoover · 2012
The Half of It
Madison Beer · 2023
Daisy Jones and The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2020
Carrie Soto Is Back
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2022
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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.
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Coco Mellors · 2024
We Were Liars
E. Lockhart · 2018
<b>NOW AVAILABLE AS THE ORIGINAL STREAMING SERIES <i>WE WERE LIARS—</i>AND LOOK FOR E. LOCKHART’S NEW NOVEL IN THE WE WERE LIARS UNIVERSE, <i>WE FELL APART</i>, COMING NOVEMBER 4, 2025<br><br>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • A <i>KIRKUS REVIEWS</i> BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK OF THE CENTURY • The modern, sophisticated suspense novel that became a runaway smash hit on TikTok and introduced the world to a family hiding a jaw-dropping secret.<br><br>"Thrilling, beautiful, and blisteringly smart, <i>We Were Liars</i> is utterly unforgettable." —John Green, #1<i> New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Fault in Our Stars</i><br><br></b>A beautiful and distinguished family.<br>A private island.<br>A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.<br>A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive.<br>A revolution. An accident. A secret.<br>Lies upon lies.<br>True love.<br>The truth.<br><br>Read it.<br>And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.<b><br><br>Don’t miss any of the We Were Liars novels<br>WE WERE LIARS • FAMILY OF LIARS • WE FELL APART (Coming in November!)<br></b>
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J.K. Rowling · 2015
<p><i>Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'.</i><br><br>Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!<br><br><br><i>Having become classics of our time, the Harry Potter eBooks never fail to bring comfort and escapism. With their message of hope, belonging and the enduring power of truth and love, the story of the Boy Who Lived continues to delight generations of new readers.</i></p>
What A Way To Go
Mackie Bella · 2025
Macbeth
William Shakespeare · 2003
Read Shakespeare’s plays in all their brilliance—and understand what every word means!<br/><br/>Don’t be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard’s plays accessible and enjoyable.<br/><br/>Each No Fear guide contains: The complete text of the original play A line-by-line translation that puts the words into everyday language A complete list of characters, with descriptions Plenty of helpful commentary
