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The Loser
Thomas Bernhard • 2010
The Reign of Greed
Jose Rizal • 2020
Intermezzo
Sally Rooney • unde
East of Eden
John Steinbeck • 2003
The Republic
Plato • 2023
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2017
The Decay of Lying
Oscar Wilde • 2016
Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo • 2020
Katabasis
R.F. Kuang • 2025
The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso)
Dante Alighieri • 2003
Don Quixote
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra • 2018
Paradise Lost
John Milton • 2003
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1994
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2004
The Rules of Attraction
Bret Easton Ellis • 2010
Beneath the Wheel
Hermann Hesse • 1999
The Bellwether Revivals
Benjamin Wood • 2012
Black Chalk
Christopher J. Yates • 2015
The Maidens
Alex Michaelides • 2021
The Course of the Heart
Michael John Harrison • 1993
One Thousand and One Arabian Nights
Geraldine McCaughrean • 1999
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte • 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.
Maurice A Novel
Edward Morgan Forster • 1971
Vita Nostra
Marina & Sergey Dyachenko • 2018
The Magicians
Lev Grossman • 2009
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Marisha Pessl • 2006
Vicious
V. E. Schwab • 2018
A Separate Peace
John Knowles • 2014
In the Café of Lost Youth
Patrick Modiano • 2016
The Likeness A Novel
Tana French • 2009
Finished
If We Were Villains
M. L. Rio • 2017
Faust: Part One
J. W. von Goethe • 2008
Othello
William Shakespeare • 2015
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
Jane Austen • 1813
Re-reading
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>
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry • 2000
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1993
<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.
Bought/TBR
The Meek One
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2015
Heimsuchung Roman
Jenny Erpenbeck • 2018
Babel
R. F. Kuang • 2022
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 Iliad
Homer • 2017
The Odyssey
Homer • 2018
Stoner
John Williams • 2006
Dead Poets Society
N. H. Kleinbaum • 2006
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott • 1983
The Art of Loving
Erich Fromm • 2006
