Books im totally going to finish

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead: A Novel

Emily Austin · 2022

On the Road

Jack Kerouac · 1999

The legendary novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation, now in a striking new Pengiun Classics Deluxe Edition<br/><br/>Inspired by Jack Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naiveté and wild ambition and imbued with Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up.

Detransition, Baby

Torrey Peters · 2021

Just by Looking at Him: A Novel

Ryan O'Connell · 2022

<p>From the star of Peacock's Queer as Folk and the Netflix series Special comes a "funny, tender, and beautiful" ( Gary Janetti, New York Times bestselling author) novel following a gay TV writer with cerebral palsy as he fights addiction and searches for acceptance in an overwhelmingly ableist world. Elliott appears to be living the dream as a successful TV writer with a doting boyfriend. But behind his Instagram filter of a life, he's grappling with an intensifying alcohol addiction, he can't seem to stop cheating on his boyfriend with various sex workers, and his cerebral palsy is making him feel like gay Shrek.After falling down a rabbit hole of sex, drinking, and Hollywood backstabbing, Elliott decides to limp his way towards redemption. But facing your demons is easier said than done."With his singular voice and unforgettable wit" (Steven Rowley, author of The Guncle ), Ryan O'Connell presents a candid, biting, and refreshingly real commentary on gay life, laugh-out-loud exploration of self, and a rare insight into life as a person with disabilities.<br></p>

If on a Winters Night

Italo Calvina · 2002

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J.J. Abrams, Doug Dorst · 2014

The Joy Luck Club: A Novel

Amy Tan · 2006

“The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational.” —Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians<br/><br/>Amy Tan’s beloved, New York Times bestselling tale of mothers and daughters, now the focus of a new documentary Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir on Netflix<br/><br/>Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue.<br/><br/>With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.

The Outsiders

S. E. Hinton

When it was first published in 1967, The Outsiders defied convention with its immediate, deeply sympathetic portrayal of Ponyboy and his struggle to find a place for himself in a difficult world. Thirty years later, it speaks to teenagers as powerfully as ever.

The Life of Pi (Scholastic Readers)

Vv.Aa · 2016

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison · 1993

Little Weirds

Jenny Slate · 2020

Step into Jenny Slate's wild imagination in this "magical" (Mindy Kaling), "delicious" (Amy Sedaris), and "poignant" (John Mulaney) New York Times bestseller about love, heartbreak, and being alive -- "this book is something new and wonderful" (George Saunders).<br/><br/>You may "know" Jenny Slate from her Netflix special, Stage Fright, as the creator of Marcel the Shell, or as the star of "Obvious Child." But you don't really know Jenny Slate until you get bonked on the head by her absolutely singular writing style. To see the world through Jenny's eyes is to see it as though for the first time, shimmering with strangeness and possibility.<br/><br/>As she will remind you, we live on an ancient ball that rotates around a bigger ball made up of lights and gasses that are science gasses, not farts (don't be immature). Heartbreak, confusion, and misogyny stalk this blue-green sphere, yes, but it is also a place of wild delight and unconstrained vitality, a place where we can start living as soon as we are born, and we can be born at any time. In her dazzling, impossible-to-categorize debut, Jenny channels the pain and beauty of life in writing so fresh, so new, and so burstingly alive, we catch her vision like a fever and bring it back out into the bright day with us, where everything has changed.<br/><br/>One of Vanity Fair's Great Quarantine Reads.

Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke · 2018

<p>Facsimile of 1943 Edition. Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young, would-be poet on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Those letters, ten in all, remain a fresh source of inspiration and insight to the poetic sensibility to this day.</p>

Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers: Poems (National Poetry Series)

Skeets Jake · 2019

The Golden Notebook: A Novel

Doris Lessing · 2008

Nightbitch

Rachel Yoder · 2023

La laurea in un'università prestigiosa, un certo talento artistico, l'impiego come direttrice di una galleria locale. Poi, due anni fa, è arrivato il bambino. E dopo un disastroso tentativo di tornare al lavoro – il lavoro dei suoi sogni! – affidando il piccolo all'asilo nido, hanno deciso che era meglio se lei rimaneva a casa. E adesso il marito è sempre via per affari, la chiama da lontane stanze d'albergo, e lei si sente sola, esausta. Fino a che una notte succede qualcosa. Il suo corpo inizia a cambiare, la nuca si ricopre di una peluria sempre più folta. I canini si affilano. Sul fondoschiena le spunta una cosa che, sembra assurdo, pare proprio una coda… Sempre più smarrita e in preda a istinti animaleschi, la donna cerca informazioni su quello che le sta accadendo e si imbatte in uno strano libro, Guida illustrata alle donne magiche. Si trova così invischiata in un enigmatico gruppo di mamme che potrebbero non essere esattamente ciò che sembrano. Un romanzo scandalosamente originale che parla di arte, potere e femminilità sotto le vesti di una fiaba caustica. Un libro nel quale riconoscersi, che vi farà venir voglia di ululare. E dovreste farlo. Dovreste ululare quanto vi pare e piace.

The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Second Edition (African American Life Series)

Sam Greenlee · 2022

Interview with a Vampire

Anne Rice · 1987

The Gilda Stories

Jewelle L. Gómez · 2023

The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

Junauda Petrus · 2020

Handmaids Tale

Margaret Atwood · 1988

The Wolf Den

Elodie Harper · 2021

Hamlet ( Folger Library Shakespeare)

William Shakespeare · 1992

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë · 2024

A groundbreaking novel for its time, it narrates the life of Jane, an orphan who becomes a governess and falls in love with her employer, Mr. Rochester. Themes of independence, morality, and equality resonate throughout.

Parable of the Talents

Octavia E. Butler · 2023

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

John Green · 2025

Instant #1 New York Times bestseller! • #1 Washington Post bestseller! • #1 Indie Bestseller! • USA Today Bestseller!<br/><br/>John Green, award-winning author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.<br/><br/>“The real magic of Green’s writing is the deeply considerate, human touch that goes into every word.” –The Associated Press<br/><br/>“Told with the intelligence, wit, and tragedy that have become hallmarks of the author’s work.... This is the story of us.” –Slate<br/><br/>“Earnest and empathetic.” –The New York Times<br/><br/>Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.<br/><br/>In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, preventable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year.<br/><br/>In Everything Is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world—and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer · 2015

A New York Times Bestseller<br/>A Washington Post Bestseller<br/>Named a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary Hub<br/><br/>As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert).<br/><br/>Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings―asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass―offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.

Breathtaking: Inside the NHS

This Is Going to Hurt

Adam Kay · 2019

When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi · 2016

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question, What makes a life worth living? “Unmissable . . . Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, People, NPR, The Washington Post, Slate, Harper’s Bazaar, Time Out New York, Publishers Weekly, BookPage At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both. Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir

Six Months in Sudan

Dr. James Maskalyk · 2009

Being & Moral Persuasion: A Bolt of Inspiration

J. J. Bhatt PhD · 2017

Why Would Feminists Trust the Police?

Leah Cowan · 2024

Speak Out!: The Brixton Black Women's Group

Brixton Black Women's Group · 2023

Decolonization and Afro-feminism

Sylvia Tamale · 2020

To Exist is to Resist

Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande · 20190520

Feminism, Interrupted

Lola Olufemi · 2020

A Decolonial Feminism

Françoise Vergès · 2021

Sula

Toni Morrison · 2004

The Vagina Monologues

Eve Ensler · 2001

We Should All Be Feminists

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2015

Hood Feminism

Mikki Kendall · 2020

The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

Shon Faye · 2021

How to Read Lacan

Slavoj Zizek · 2007

The Communist Manifesto

M. Karl Marx, M. Friedrich Engels · 2014

Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing

Emily Lynn Paulson · 2023

Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

Jamie Loftus · 2023

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

Joe Vallese · 2022

Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer

Rax King · 2021

Make the Golf Course a Public Sex Forest

Lyn Corelle, Jimmy Cooper · 2023

Tomboy Survival Guide

Ivan Coyote · 2016

No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age

Jane F. McAlevey · 2018

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation

Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff · 2008

The Atlas of AI

Kate Crawford · 2021

Work Won't Love You Back

Sarah Jaffe · 2021

Emergent Strategy

Adrienne M. Brown · 2017

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Shoshana Zuboff · 2019

The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

Shon Faye · 2021

Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

Clarissa Pinkola Estés · 1996

My Country, Africa

Andrée Blouin · 2025

Assata An Autobiography

Assata Shakur · 2001

Black Power : The Politics of Liberation

Kwame Ture, Charles V. Hamilton · 1992

Sister Outsider

Audre Lorde · 2012

Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. “[Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware.”—The New York Times In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. This commemorative edition includes a new foreword by Lorde-scholar and poet Cheryl Clarke, who celebrates the ways in which Lorde's philosophies resonate more than twenty years after they were first published. These landmark writings are, in Lorde's own words, a call to “never close our eyes to the terror, to the chaos which is Black which is creative which is female which is dark which is rejected which is messy which is . . . ”

Abolition. Feminism. Now.

Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, Beth E. Richie · 2022

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

Ruby Hamad · 2020

S.C.U.M. manifesto

Valerie Solanas · 2019

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels · 1992

"A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism." So begins one of history's most important documents, a work of such magnitude that it has forever changed not only the scope of world politics, but indeed the course of human civilization. The Communist Manifesto was written in Friedrich Engels's clear, striking prose and declared the earth-shaking ideas of Karl Marx. Upon publication in 1848, it quickly became the credo of the poor and oppressed who longed for a society "in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."<br/><br/>The Communist Manifesto contains the seeds of Marx's more comprehensive philosophy, which continues to inspire influential economic, political, social, and literary theories. But the Manifesto is most valuable as an historical document, one that led to the greatest political upheaveals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and to the establishment of the Communist governments that until recently ruled half the globe.<br/><br/>This Bantam Classic edition of The Communist Manifesto includes Marx and Engels's historic 1872 and 1882 prefaces, and Engels's notes and prefaces to the 1883 and 1888 editions.

Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves

Sarah B. Pomeroy · 1975

When McKinsey Comes to Town

Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe · 2023

The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir · 2012

A Dying Colonialism

Frantz Fanon · 1994

Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

Lila Abu-Lughod · 2015

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin · 1992

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movementin the 1960s—and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. • "The finest essay I’ve ever read.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates<br/><br/>At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document from the iconic author of If Beale Street Could Talk and Go Tell It on the Mountain. It consists of two "letters," written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism.<br/><br/>Described by The New York Times Book Review as "sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle … all presented in searing, brilliant prose," The Fire Next Time stands as a classic of literature.

Women, Race and Class

Angela Y. Davis · 2000

In this classic work the famous communist activist, who was jailed for her beliefs, brings her passion and scholarship to confront three major crucial issues of feminism: women, race and class.

Gender Trouble

Judith Butler · 2016

Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

Toshio Meronek, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy · 2023

The Library at Mount Char

Scott Hawkins · 2016

“Wholly original . . . the work of the newest major talent in fantasy.”—The Wall Street Journal<br/><br/>“Freakishly compelling . . . through heart-thumping acts of violence and laugh-out-loud moments, this book practically dares you to keep reading.”—Atlanta Magazine<br/><br/>A missing God.<br/>A library with the secrets to the universe.<br/>A woman too busy to notice her heart slipping away.<br/><br/>Carolyn's not so different from the other people around her. She likes guacamole and cigarettes and steak. She knows how to use a phone. Clothes are a bit tricky, but everyone says nice things about her outfit with the Christmas sweater over the gold bicycle shorts.<br/><br/>After all, she was a normal American herself once.<br/><br/>That was a long time ago, of course. Before her parents died. Before she and the others were taken in by the man they called Father.<br/><br/>In the years since then, Carolyn hasn't had a chance to get out much. Instead, she and her adopted siblings have been raised according to Father's ancient customs. They've studied the books in his Library and learned some of the secrets of his power. And sometimes, they've wondered if their cruel tutor might secretly be God.<br/><br/>Now, Father is missing—perhaps even dead—and the Library that holds his secrets stands unguarded. And with it, control over all of creation.<br/><br/>As Carolyn gathers the tools she needs for the battle to come, fierce competitors for this prize align against her, all of them with powers that far exceed her own.<br/><br/>But Carolyn has accounted for this.<br/><br/>And Carolyn has a plan.<br/><br/>The only trouble is that in the war to make a new God, she's forgotten to protect the things that make her human.<br/><br/>Populated by an unforgettable cast of characters and propelled by a plot that will shock you again and again, The Library at Mount Char is at once horrifying and hilarious, mind-blowingly alien and heartbreakingly human, sweepingly visionary and nail-bitingly thrilling—and signals the arrival of a major new voice in fantasy.<br/><br/>Praise for The Library at Mount Char<br/><br/>An engrossing fantasy world full of supernatural beings and gruesome consequences."—Boston Globe<br/><br/>"Vivid . . . the dialogue sings . . . you'll spend equal time shuddering and chortling."—Dallas Morning News"

This Is How You Lose the Time War

Amal El-Mohtar · 2020

The Long Walk

Stephen King · 2016

In this #1 national bestseller, master storyteller Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, tells the tale of the contestants of a grueling walking competition where there can only be one winner—the one that survives.<br/><br/>Against the wishes of his mother, sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual grueling match of stamina and wits known as the Long Walk. One hundred boys must keep a steady pace of four miles per hour without ever stopping...with the winner being awarded “The Prize”—anything he wants for the rest of his life. But, as part of this national tournament that sweeps through a dystopian America year after year, there are some harsh rules that Garraty and ninety-nine others must adhere to in order to beat out the rest. There is no finish line—the winner is the last man standing. Contestants cannot receive any outside aid whatsoever. Slow down under the speed limit and you’re given a warning. Three warnings and you’re out of the game—permanently...

I Am Legend

Richard Matheson · 2011

I, Robot

Isaac Asimov · 2024

World War Z

Max Brooks · 2011

Soon to be a major motion picture!<br/><br/>The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.<br/><br/>Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War.<br/><br/>Most of all, the book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, “By excluding the human factor, aren’t we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isn’t the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as ‘the living dead’?”<br/><br/>Note: Some of the numerical and factual material contained in this edition was previously published under the auspices of the United Nations Postwar Commission.<br/><br/>Eyewitness reports from the first truly global war<br/><br/>“I found ‘Patient Zero’ behind the locked door of an abandoned apartment across town. . . . His wrists and feet were bound with plastic packing twine. Although he’d rubbed off the skin around his bonds, there was no blood. There was also no blood on his other wounds. . . . He was writhing like an animal; a gag muffled his growls. At first the villagers tried to hold me back. They warned me not to touch him, that he was ‘cursed.’ I shrugged them off and reached for my mask and gloves. The boy’s skin was . . . cold and gray . . . I could find neither his heartbeat nor his pulse.” —Dr. Kwang Jingshu, Greater Chongqing, United Federation of China<br/><br/>“‘Shock and Awe’? Perfect name. . . . But what if the enemy can’t be shocked and awed? Not just won’t, but biologically can’t! That’s what happened that day outside New York City, that’s the failure that almost lost us the whole damn war. The fact that we couldn’t shock and awe Zack boomeranged right back in our faces and actually allowed Zack to shock and awe us! They’re not afraid! No matter what we do, no matter how many we kill, they will never, ever be afraid!” —Todd Wainio, former U.S. Army infantryman and veteran of the Battle of Yonkers<br/><br/>“Two hundred million zombies. Who can even visualize that type of number, let alone combat it? . . . For the first time in history, we faced an enemy that was actively waging total war. They had no limits of endurance. They would never negotiate, never surrender. They would fight until the very end because, unlike us, every single one of them, every second of every day, was devoted to consuming all life on Earth.” —General Travis D’Ambrosia, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe<br/><br/>From the Hardcover edition.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia)

C. S. Lewis · 2008

The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin

Frequently reissued with the same ISBN, but with slightly differing bibliographical details.

The Left Hand of Darkness: 50th Anniversary Edition (Ace Science Fiction)

Ursula K. Le Guin · 2000

The Lathe of Heaven

Ursula K. Le Guin · 2023

Jade City (The Green Bone Saga Book 1)

Fonda Lee · 2017

Don't Let the Forest In

CG Drews · 2024

Fable for the End of the World Deluxe Limited Edition

Ava Reid · 2025

Infinity Alchemist

Kacen Callender · 2024

A Taste of Gold and Iron

Alexandra Rowland · 2022

Mistress of Lies

K. M. Enright · 2024

The Deep

Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes · 2019

The Sunbearer Trials

Aiden Thomas · 2022

Welcome to The Sunbearer Trials, where teen semidioses compete in a series of challenges with the highest of stakes, in this electric new Mexican-inspired fantasy from Aiden Thomas, the New York Times bestselling author of Cemetery Boys. “Only the most powerful and honorable semidioses get chosen. I’m just a Jade. I’m not a real hero.” As each new decade begins, the Sun’s power must be replenished so that Sol can keep traveling along the sky and keep the chaotic Obsidian gods at bay. Sol selects ten of the most worthy semidioses to compete in the Sunbearer Trials. The winner carries light and life to all the temples of Reino del Sol, but the loser has the greatest honor of all—they will be sacrificed to Sol, their body melted down to refuel the Sun Stones, protecting the world for another ten years. Teo, a seventeen-year-old Jade semidiós and the trans son of the goddess of birds, isn't worried about the Trials . . . at least, not for himself. His best friend, Niya is a Gold semidiós and a shoo-in for the Trials, and while he trusts her abilities, the odds of becoming the sacrifice is one-in-ten. But then, for the first time in over a century, the impossible happens. Sol chooses not one, but two Jade competitors. Teo, and Xio, the thirteen-year-old child of the god of bad luck. Now they must compete in five trials against Gold opponents who are more powerful and better trained. Worst of all, Teo’s annoyingly handsome ex-best friend and famous semidiós Hero, Aurelio is favored to win. Teo is determined to get himself and his friends through the trials unscathed—for fame, glory, and their own survival.

Dark Rise (Dark Rise, 1)

C. S. Pacat · 2022

Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame

Neon Yang · 2025

Severance

Ling Ma · 2018

Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine: her work, watching movies with her boyfriend, avoiding thoughts of her recently deceased Chinese immigrant parents. So she barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps the world. Candace joins a small group of survivors, led by the power-hungry Bob, on their way to the Facility, where, Bob promises, they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers? A send-up and takedown of the rituals, routines and missed opportunities of contemporary life, Severance is a moving family story, a deadpan satire and a heartfelt tribute to the connections that drive us to do more than survive.

The Blade Itself (The First Law Trilogy Book 1)

Joe Abercrombie · 2015

Reading the Gospel of John through Palestinian Eyes

Yohanna Katanacho · 2020

Faith in the Face of Empire: The Bible through Palestinian Eyes

Mitri Raheb · 2014

Christ in the Rubble: Faith, the Bible, and the Genocide in Gaza

Munther Isaac PhD · 2025

Theology for the End of the World

Marika Rose · 2023

Theology in the Capitalocene: Ecology, Identity, Class, and Solidarity (Dispatches)

Joerg Rieger · 2022

All Riches Come From Injustice: The Anti-mammon Witness of the Early Church & Its Anti-capitalist Relevance

Stephen D. Morrison · 2023

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston · 2006

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick<br/>“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie Smith<br/>One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years—due largely to initial audiences’ rejection of its strong black female protagonist—Hurston’s classic has since its 1978 reissue become perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde · 2024

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales

Robert Louis Stevenson · 2008

If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin · 2006

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.

The Bluest Eye (Vintage International)

Toni Morrison · 2007

The Lottery and Other Stories

Shirley Jackson · 1982

Raising Demons

Shirley Jackson · 2015

Dark Tales

Shirley Jackson · 2017

We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Shirley Jackson · 2006

<b>Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret</b><br><br>Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, <i>We Have Always Lived in the Castle</i> is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. This edition features a new introduction by Jonathan Lethem.<br><br>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 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.

Jane Eyre

CHARLOTTE. BRONTE, F H (Frederick Henry) Townsend · 2025

Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)

Emily Brontë, Pauline Nestor · 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.

The Complete Works of Jane Austen: (In One Volume) Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady ... Sandition, and the Complete Juvenilia

Jane Austen · 2021

Pride and Prejudice: (Special Edition) (Jane Austen Collection)

Jane Austen · 2018

War and Peace (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Leo Tolstoy · 2017

<b>A stunning clothbound Hardcover Classics edition of Tolstoy’s great novel, one of the undisputed masterpieces of world literature. <b>Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read</i></b></b><br>  <br> At a glittering society party in St. Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon’s army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey, and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from aristocrats and peasants, to soldiers and Napoleon himself. In <i>War and Peace</i>, Tolstoy entwines grand themes—conflict and love, birth and death, free will and fate—with unforgettable scenes of nineteenth-century Russia, to create a magnificent epic of human life in all its imperfection and grandeur.<br>  <br> For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 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.

The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes

James Joyce, Catherine Flynn · 2022

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)

Oscar Wilde · 1993

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde · 2022

The Importance of Being Earnest, in full The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, play in three acts by Oscar Wilde, performed in 1895 and published in 1899. A satire of Victorian social hypocrisy, the witty play is considered Wilde’s greatest dramatic achievement.<br/>Jack Worthing is a fashionable young man who lives in the country with his ward, Cecily Cardew. He has invented a rakish brother named Ernest whose supposed exploits give Jack an excuse to travel to London periodically to rescue him. Jack is in love with Gwendolen Fairfax, the cousin of his friend Algernon Moncrieff. Gwendolen, who thinks Jack’s name is Ernest, returns his love, but her mother, Lady Bracknell, objects to their marriage because Jack is an orphan who was found in a handbag at Victoria Station.

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1996

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration for the films Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049

Philip K. K. Dick · 1996

A masterpiece ahead of its time, a prescient rendering of a dark future, and the inspiration for the blockbuster film Blade Runner<br/><br/>One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years<br/><br/>By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can’t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. They’ve even built humans. Immigrants to Mars receive androids so sophisticated they are indistinguishable from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans can wreak, the government bans them from Earth. Driven into hiding, unauthorized androids live among human beings, undetected. Rick Deckard, an officially sanctioned bounty hunter, is commissioned to find rogue androids and “retire” them. But when cornered, androids fight back—with lethal force.<br/><br/>Praise for Philip K. Dick<br/><br/>“The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world.”—John Brunner<br/><br/>“A kind of pulp-fiction Kafka, a prophet.”—The New York Times<br/><br/>“[Philip K. Dick] sees all the sparkling—and terrifying—possibilities . . . that other authors shy away from.”—Rolling Stone

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka · 2009

"The Metamorphosis" (original German title: "Die Verwandlung") is a short novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into an insect.

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley · 2006

Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring masterwork must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit<br/>"A masterpiece. ... One of the most prophetic dystopian works." —Wall Street Journal<br/>Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine” (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New World likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.<br/>"Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." —Chicago Tribune

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë · 2021

Gems of literature in a luxurious and unique design by Marjolein Bastin. The Marjolein Bastin Classics Series is a chance to rediscover classic literature in collectible, luxuriously illustrated volumes. For the first time ever, the internationally celebrated artwork of Marjolein Bastin graces the pages of a timeless classic, Wuthering Heights, the story of Heathcliff and Catherine. Beyond bringing these stories to life, Bastin's series adds elaborately designed ephemera, such as four-color maps, letters, family trees, and sheet music. Whether an ideal gift for an Austen or Brontë devotee or a treat to yourself, the Marjolein Bastin Classics Series, as a set or individually purchased, is perfect for anyone who feels a connection to these enduring literary gems.

Come Close

Sappho · 2015

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

Sappho · 2003

Pig

Sam Sax · 2023

Rifqa

Mohammed El-Kurd · 2021

In the Presence of Absence

Mahmoud Darwish · 2011

Coeur de Lion

Ariana Reines · 2011

Black Girl, Call Home

Jasmine Mans · 2021

A Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Oprah Magazine • Time • Vogue • Vulture • Essence • Elle • Cosmopolitan • Real Simple • Marie Claire • Refinery 29 • Shondaland • Pop Sugar • Bustle • Reader's Digest<br/><br/>“Nothing short of sublime, and the territory [Mans'] explores...couldn’t be more necessary.”—Vogue<br/><br/>From spoken word poet Jasmine Mans comes an unforgettable poetry collection about race, feminism, and queer identity.<br/><br/>With echoes of Gwendolyn Brooks and Sonia Sanchez, Mans writes to call herself—and us—home. Each poem explores what it means to be a daughter of Newark, and America—and the painful, joyous path to adulthood as a young, queer Black woman.<br/><br/>Black Girl, Call Home is a love letter to the wandering Black girl and a vital companion to any woman on a journey to find truth, belonging, and healing.

So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

Jane Campion, John Keats · 2009

Serious Concerns

Wendy Cope · 1993

The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

William Shakespeare · 2010

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made him famous. The 154 sonnets - all but two of which are addressed to a beautiful young man or a treacherous 'dark lady' - contain some of the most exquisite and haunting poetry ever written, and deal with eternal subjects such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality, and the destruction wreaked by Time. Also included is A Lover's Complaint, originally published with the sonnets, in which a young woman is overheard lamenting her betrayal by a heartless seducer.

Leaves of Grass: Unabridged Deathbed Edition with 400 Poems

Walt Whitman · 2023

Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Ocean Vuong · 2016

<p>The New Yorker, The Best Books of Poetry of 2016 <br> New York Times, Critics Pick<br> Boston Globe, Best Books listing<br> Miami Herald, Best LGBTQ Books<br> San Francisco Chronicle, Top 100 Books of the Year<br> Library Journal, Best Books of 2016</p><br><p>"There is a powerful emotional undertow to these poems that springs from Mr. Vuong's sincerity and candor, and from his ability to capture specific moments in time with both photographic clarity and a sense of the evanescence of all earthly things."-New York Times</p><br><p>"From the outside, Vuong has fashioned a poetry of inclusion."--New Yorker</p><br><p>"Extraordinary."--Los Angeles Times</p><br><p>"Ecstatic, bawdy, haunted, and brilliant with the pressures of its arrival."--Boston Globe</p><br><p>Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--subjects of romance, family, memory, grief, war, and melancholia. None of these he allows to overwhelm his spirit or his poems, which demonstrate, through breath and cadence and unrepentant."</p><br><p>Torso of Air</p><br><p>Suppose you do change your life.<br> & the body is more than<br> a portion of night--sealed<br> with bruises. Suppose you woke<br> & found your shadow replaced<br> by a black wolf. The boy, beautiful<br> & gone. So you take the knife to the wall<br> instead. You carve & carve<br> until a coin of light appears<br> & you get to look in, at last, <br> on happiness. The eye<br> staring back from the other side--<br> Waiting.</p>

Feminine Gospels

Carol Ann Duffy · 2012

Crush

Richard Siken · 2019

Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry—an erotic, powerful collection<br/><br/>“One of the best books of contemporary poetry.”—Victoria Chang, Huffington Post<br/><br/>“Vital, immediate, and cinematic in scope.”—Library Journal (Best Poetry of 2005)<br/><br/>Selected by Nobel Prize laureate and competition judge Louise Glück as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, Richard Siken’s Crush is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession and love. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is striking.<br/><br/>In her introduction to the book, Glück hails the “cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, [and] purgatorial recklessness” of Siken’s poems. She notes, “Books of this kind dream big. . . . They restore to poetry that sense of crucial moment and crucial utterance which may indeed be the great genius of the form.”

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson · 2024

The Black Unicorn

Audre Lorde · 2019

Digte. A poetry collection that speaks of mothers and children, female strength and vulnerability, renewal and revenge, goddesses and warriors, ancient magic and contemporary America

Does Your Mama Know?: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories

· 1997

Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought

Briona Simone Jones · 2021

Winner, Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Anthology<br/>Winner, Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, Publishing Triangle Awards<br/>A Ms. magazine, Refinery29, and Lambda Literary Most Anticipated Read of 2021<br/><br/>A groundbreaking collection tracing the history of intellectual thought by Black Lesbian writers, in the tradition of The New Press's perennial seller Words of Fire<br/><br/>African American lesbian writers and theorists have made extraordinary contributions to feminist theory, activism, and writing. Mouths of Rain, the companion anthology to Beverly Guy-Sheftall's classic Words of Fire, traces the long history of intellectual thought produced by Black Lesbian writers, spanning the nineteenth century through the twenty-first century.<br/>Using “Black Lesbian” as a capacious signifier, Mouths of Rain includes writing by Black women who have shared intimate and loving relationships with other women, as well as Black women who see bonding as mutual, Black women who have self-identified as lesbian, Black women who have written about Black Lesbians, and Black women who theorize about and see the word lesbian as a political descriptor that disrupts and critiques capitalism, heterosexism, and heteropatriarchy. Taking its title from a poem by Audre Lorde, Mouths of Rain addresses pervasive issues such as misogynoir and anti-blackness while also attending to love, romance, “coming out,” and the erotic.<br/>Contributors include:<br/>Barbara Smith<br/>Beverly Smith<br/>Bettina Love<br/>Dionne Brand<br/>Cheryl Clarke<br/>Cathy J. Cohen<br/>Angelina Weld Grimke<br/>Alexis Pauline Gumbs<br/>Audre Lorde<br/>Dawn Lundy Martin<br/>Pauli Murray<br/>Michelle Parkerson<br/>Mecca Jamilah Sullivan<br/>Alice Walker<br/>Jewelle Gomez

Windward Heights

Maryse Conde · 2003

This Caribbean-set reimagining of Wuthering Heights “takes Emily Brontë’s cold-climate classic on obsessive love and makes it hot and lush” (USA Today).   Recasting the classic story of Cathy and Heathcliff into a tale of a love affair set against a historical backdrop of Cuba and Guadeloupe, Windward Heights retains the emotional power of the original while weaving in issues of race and colonialism, in “a narrative that seduces, evokes, and makes us think about the kinds of emotions that have moved human beings throughout our existence” (Chicago Tribune).   “Rich and colorful and glorious. It sprawls over continents and centuries to find its way into the reader’s heart.” —Maya Angelou   “Condé is a masterly storyteller.” —The New York Times Book Review

The Meursault Investigation

Kamel Daoud · 2015

The Seine Was Red: Paris, October 1961

Leïla Sebbar, Mildred Mortimer · 2008

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury · 2012

Harvest

Jim Crace · 2014

The Coin

Yasmin Zaher · 2024

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Andrea Lawlor · 2019