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Han Kang
The Vegetarian
Han Kang · 2016
<b>FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE</b><br><br><b>“[Han Kang’s] intense poetic prose . . . exposes the fragility of human life.”—The Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize</b><br><br><b><i>A NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b><br><b>WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE </b><br><b>ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY<br>A <i>KIRKUS REVIEWS </i>BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY</b><br><br><b>“Ferocious.”—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> (Ten Best Books of the Year)</b><br><b>“Both terrifying and terrific.”—Lauren Groff</b><br><b>“Provocative [and] shocking.”—<i>The Washington Post</i></b><br><br>Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams—invasive images of blood and brutality—torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It’s a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that’s become sacred to her. Soon their attempts turn desperate, subjecting first her mind, and then her body, to ever more intrusive and perverse violations, sending Yeong-hye spiraling into a dangerous, bizarre estrangement, not only from those closest to her, but also from herself. <br><br>Celebrated by critics around the world, <i>The Vegetarian</i> is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.<br><b><br>A Best Book of the Year: <i>BuzzFeed, Entertainment Weekly, Wall Street Journal, Time, Elle, The Economist, HuffPost, Slate, Bustle, The St. Louis Dispatch, Electric Literature, Publishers Weekly</i></b>
John Green
Looking for Alaska
John Green · 2005
<p><b>The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 international bestselling author of <i>Turtles All the Way Down </i>and <i>The Fault in Our Stars<br></i></b><br>Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award • A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist • A <i>New York Times </i>Bestseller • A <i>USA Today </i>Bestseller • NPR’s Top Ten Best-Ever Teen Novels • <i>TIME </i>magazine’s 100 Best Young Adult Novels of All Time • A PBS Great American Read Selection • Millions of copies sold!<br><br> <br><b>First drink. First prank. First friend. First love.<br></b><br><b>Last words. </b><br> <br>Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words—and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet François Rabelais called “The Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps. <br><i> </i><br><i>Looking for Alaska </i>brilliantly chronicles the indelible impact one life can have on another. A modern classic, this stunning debut marked #1 bestselling author John Green’s arrival as a groundbreaking new voice in contemporary fiction.<br><br></p>
Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen · 1833
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen · 1992
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen · 2008
'This perfect indifference, and your pointed dislike, make it so delightfully absurd!' Pride and Prejudice has delighted generations of readers with its unforgettable cast of characters, carefully choreographed plot, and a hugely entertaining view of the world and its absurdities. With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr and Mrs Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out and menide down. Pride encounters prejudice, upward-mobility confronts social disdain, and quick-wittedness challenges sagacity, as misconceptions and hasty judgements lead to heartache and scandal, but eventually to true understanding, self-knowledge, and love. In this supremely satisfying story, Jane Austen balances comedy with seriousness, and witty observation with profound insight. If Elizabeth Bennet returns again and again to her letter from Mr Darcy, readers of the novel are drawn even more irresistibly by its captivating wisdom. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Persuasion
Jane Austen · 2004
What happens when we listen to others instead of our heart? That is the subject of Jane Austen's final novel, and her most mature work. After Anne Elliot heeds the advice of her dearest friend and breaks off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, happiness eludes her. Eight years later, Anne remains unmarried, and her father's spendthrift ways have brought her family down materially in the world. When a newly wealthy Frederick returns from the Napoleonic Wars, Anne realizes her feelings remain unchanged. But will Frederick forgive her and offer Anne a second chance at love?
Osamu Dazai
No Longer Human
太宰治 · 1958
<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>
Setting Sun, The
Osamu Dazai · 1981
No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai · 1973
<p>The poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas.</p> <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>
Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dolloway
Virginia Woolf
Direct and vivid in its telling of the details of a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, the novel manages ultimately to deliver much more. It is the feelings that loom behind those daily events--the social alliances, the shopkeeper's exchange, the fact of death--that give Mrs. Dalloway texture and richness. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf · 2008
'Fear no more the heat of the sun.' Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent's Park chattering in Greek. There seems to be nothing, except perhaps London, to link Clarissa and Septimus. She is middle-aged and prosperous, with a sheltered happy life behind her; Smith is young, poor, and driven to hatred of himself and the whole human race. Yet both share a terror of existence, and sense the pull of death. The world of Mrs Dalloway is evoked in Woolf's famous stream of consciousness style, in a lyrical and haunting language which has made this, from its publication in 1925, one of her most popular novels. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Mieko Kawakami
Heaven
Mieko Kawakami · 2021
Walter Tevis
The Queen''s Gambit
Walter Tevis · 2014
<p><b>Netflix’s most watched limited series to date! The thrilling novel of one young woman’s journey through the worlds of chess and drug addiction. </b><br><br> When eight-year-old Beth Harmon’s parents are killed in an automobile accident, she’s placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Plain and shy, Beth learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a prodigy. Though penniless, she is desperate to learn more—and steals a chess magazine and enough money to enter a tournament. Beth also steals some of her foster mother’s tranquilizers to which she is becoming addicted.<br><br> At thirteen, Beth wins the chess tournament. By the age of sixteen she is competing in the US Open Championship and, like Fast Eddie in <i>The Hustler</i>, she hates to lose. By eighteen she is the US champion—and Russia awaits . . .<br><br> Fast-paced and elegantly written, <i>The Queen’s Gambit </i>is a thriller masquerading as a chess novel—one that’s sure to keep you on the edge of your seat.<br><br> “<i>The Queen’s Gambit</i> is sheer entertainment. It is a book I reread every few years—for the pure pleasure and skill of it.” —Michael Ondaatje, Man Booker Prize–winning author of <i>The English Patient</i></p>
James Baldwin
Giovanni''s Room
James Baldwin · 2016
Donna Tartt
The Secret History
Donna Tartt · 1992
Storytelling in the grand manner, The Secret History is a debut remarkable for its hypnotic erudition and acute psychological suspense, and for the richness of its emotions, ideas, and language. These are the confessions, years afterward, of a young man who found at a small Vermont college the life of privilege and intellect he'd long coveted - and rarely has the glorious experience of youth infatuated with knowledge and with itself been so achingly realized. Then, amazed, Richard Papen is drawn into the ultimate inner circle: five students, worldly and self-assured, selected by a charismatic classics professor to participate in the search for truth and beauty. Together they study the mysteries of ancient Greek culture and spend long weekends at an old country house, reading, boating, basking in an Indian summer that stretches late into autumn.
Min Jin Lee
Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Yoko Ogawa
The Housekeeper and the Professor
Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder · 2009
Kate Elizabeth Russell
My Dark Vanessa
Kate Elizabeth Russell · 2020
Joana Didion
Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion · 2005
Peter H. Reynolds
The Dot
Peter H. Reynolds · 2022
Chris Colfer
The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell
Chris Colfer · 2012
Barbara Park
Junie B. Jones #14: Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentime
Barbara Park · 2010
Ann M. Martin
The Long Way Home (Family Tree #2)
Ann M. Martin · 2013
Kate DiCamillo
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Kate DiCamillo, Bagram Ibatoulline · 2009
Thanhha Lai
Inside Out & Back Again
Thanhha Lai · 2013
<p>Moving to America turns H&à's life inside out. For all the 10 years of her life, H&à has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by, and the beauty of her very own papaya tree. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. H&à and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, H&à discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food, the strange shape of its landscape, and the strength of her very own family. This is the moving story of one girl's year of change, dreams, grief, and healing as she journeys from one country to another, one life to the next.
R. J. Palacio
Wonder
R. J. Palacio · 2012
<b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • A <i>PARADE</i> BEST KIDS BOOK OF ALL TIME • Millions of people have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face</b>—<b>who shows us that kindness brings us together no matter how far apart we are. Read the book that inspired the Choose Kind movement, a major motion picture, and the critically acclaimed graphic novel <i>White Bird.</i><br><br>And don't miss R.J. Palacio's highly anticipated new novel, <i>Pony, </i>available now!<br></b><br><i>I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.</i> <br><br>August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid—but his new classmates can’t get past Auggie’s extraordinary face. Beginning from Auggie’s point of view and expanding to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others, the perspectives converge to form a portrait of one community’s struggle with empathy, compassion, and acceptance. In a world where bullying among young people is an epidemic, this is a refreshing new narrative full of heart and hope.<br><br>R.J. Palacio has called her debut novel “a meditation on kindness” —indeed, every reader will come away with a greater appreciation for the simple courage of friendship. Auggie is a hero to root for, a diamond in the rough who proves that you can’t blend in when you were born to stand out. <i><br></i>
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 2014
<p>Look for The Land of Sweet Forever, a posthumous collection of newly discovered short stories and previously published essays and magazine pieces by Harper Lee, coming October 21, 2025.</p><p>Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read</p><p>Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred</p><p>One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.</p>
Ruta Sepetys
Between Shades of Gray
Ruta Sepetys · 2011
E.B. White
Charlotte’s Web
E. B. White · 2015
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2020
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925
Jennifer Brown
Hate List
Jennifer Brown · 2009
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Paper Palace
Miranda Cowley Heller · 2021
Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · 2017
Villette
Charlotte Brontë · 2020
Charlotte Brontë's classic tale of Lucy Snowe, a young British woman who, after suffering a family tragedy, travels to the fictional French village of Villette, where she teaches English at a boarding school. It's a story of endurance, suspense, love, hope, and tragedy. Considered by some to be a gothic novel, Villette known for Lucy's encounters with a frightening apparition: the possible ghost of a nun who was buried alive for having broken her vow of chastity. Villette was the third and final novel that Brontë published during her lifetime, published after Jane Eyre.
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · 1991
Leo Tolstoy
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
Leo Tolstoy · 2012
Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an 'awkward mixture of fact and fiction', generations of readers have not agreed, finding the novel to be a charming and insightful portrait of inner growth against the background of a world limned with extraordinary clarity, grace and colour. Evident too in its brilliant account of a young person's emerging awareness of the world and of his place within it are many of the stances, techniques and themes that would come to full flower in the immortal War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and in the other great works of Tolstoy's maturity.
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy · 2014
Love... it means too much to me, far more than you can understand. At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral values that bind the society around her. The love affair of Anna and Vronsky is played out alongside the developing romance of Kitty and Levin, and in the character of Levin, closely based on Tolstoy himself, the search for happiness takes on a deeper philosophical significance. One of the greatest novels ever written, Anna Karenina combines penetrating psychological insight with an encyclopedic depiction of Russian life in the 1870s. The novel takes us from high society St Petersburg to the threshing fields on Levin's estate, with unforgettable scenes at a Moscow ballroom, the skating rink, a race course, a railway station. It creates an intricate labyrinth of connections that is profoundly satisfying, and deeply moving. Rosamund Bartlett's translation conveys Tolstoy's precision of meaning and emotional accuracy in an English version that is highly readable and stylistically faithful. Like her acclaimed biography of Tolstoy, it is vivid, nuanced, and compelling.
R F Kuang
The Poppy War
R F Kuang
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The House of the Dead and Poor Folk (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2004
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Illustrated
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky · 2021
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1999
In the stories in this volume Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality and also his own ambiguous attitude to utopianism, themes central to many of his great novels. In White Nights the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement from 'living life'. Despite his sentimental friendship with Nastenka, his final withdrawal into the world of the imagination anticipates the retreat into the 'underground' of many of Dostoevsky's later intellectual heroes. A Gentle Creature and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man show how such withdrawal from reality can end in spiritual desolation and moral indifference and how, in Dostoevsky's view, the tragedy of the alienated individual can be resolved only by the rediscovery of a sense of compassion and responsibility towards fellow human beings. This new translation captures the power and lyricism of Dostoevsky's writing, while the introduction examines the stories in relation to one another and to his novels.
Demons
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 2008
Notes from the Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2024
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2002
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1998
The Idiot (1868), written under the appalling personal circumstances Dostoevsky endured while travelling in Europe, not only reveals the author's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, but also affords his most powerful indictment of a Russia struggling to emulate contemporary Europe while sinking under the weight of Western materialism. It is the portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society in which a "positively good man" clashes with the emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate his moral idealism. Meticulously faithful to the original, this new translation includes explanatory notes and a critical introduction by W.J. Leatherbarrow.
Crime and Punishment (Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction by Nathan B. Fagin)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Homer
The Iliad
Homer · 2007
In 2002, the University of Michigan Press published Rodney Merrill's translation of Homer's Odyssey, an interpretation of the classic that was unique in employing the meter of Homer's original. Praising Merrill's translation of the Odyssey, Gregory Nagy of Harvard wrote, Merrill's fine ear for the sound of ancient Greek makes the experience of reading his Homer the nearest thing in English to actually hearing Homer. The translator's English renders most faithfully the poet's ancient Greek--not only the words and meaning but even the voice. Merrill has now produced an edition of Homer's Iliad, following the same approach. This form of rendering is particularly relevant to the Iliad, producing a strong musical setting that many elements of the narrative require to come truly to life. Most notable are the many battle scenes, to which the strong meter gives an impetus embodying and making credible the war-lust in the deeds of the combatants. --University of Michigan Press.
The Iliad of Homer
Homer · 2011
Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 1989
<b>The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze.<br><br>“The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind.”<i>—<b>The New Yorker</b></i><br></b><br><b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b><br><br>Awe and exhilaration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abound in Lolita, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsession for the nymphet Dolores Haze. <i>Lolita </i>is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. <br><br>Most of all, it is a meditation on love—love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
Samuel Beckett
First Love and Other Novellas
Samuel Beckett · 2000
Irmgard Keun
The Artificial Silk Girl
Irmgard Keun · 2011
After Midnight
Irmgard Keun · 2011
Erich Kastner
Going to the Dogs
Erich Kastner · 2012
Christopher Isherwood
Goodbye to Berlin
Christopher Isherwood · 1939
Elizabeth Von Arnim
Elizabeth and Her German Garden
Elizabeth Von Arnim · 1900
Saul Bellow
Herzog
Saul Bellow · 2012
Lorrie Moore
Self-Help
Lorrie Moore · 2012
Dolly Alderton
Good Material: A Read with Jenna Pick
Dolly Alderton · 2024
<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER • ONE OF <i>THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S </i>10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK • From the best-selling author of <i>Ghosts</i> and <i>Everything I Know About Love:</i> a story of heartbreak and friendship and how to survive both<br><br>“Like Nora Ephron, with a British twist….Delivers the most delightful aspects of classic romantic comedy—snappy dialogue, realistic relationship dynamics, humorous meet-cutes and misunderstandings—and leaves behind the clichéd gender roles and traditional marriage plot.” <br>—<i>The New York Times</i></b><br><br>Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy. And he can't work out why she stopped.<br><br>Now he is. . .<br><br>Without a home<br><br>Waiting for his stand-up career to take off<br><br>Wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown up while he wasn't looking<br><br>Set adrift on the sea of heartbreak, Andy clings to the idea of solving the puzzle of his ruined relationship. Because if he can find the answer to that, then maybe Jen can find her way back to him. But Andy still has a lot to learn, not least his ex-girlfriend's side of the story…<br><br>In this sharply funny and exquisitely relatable story of romantic disaster and friendship, Dolly Alderton offers up a love story with two endings, demonstrating once again why she is one of the most exciting writers today, and the true voice of a generation.
Alexandra Tanner
Worry
Alexandra Tanner · 2024
Sally Rooney
Intermezzo
Sally Rooney · 2024
<b>THE INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER <i>• </i>Shortlisted for the British Book Awards 2025 • Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year <i>•</i></b> <b>Foyles Book of the Year • Best Book of the Year:</b><i><b> The</b> </i><b><i>New Yorker • The New York Times • The Globe and Mail • TIME • The Winnipeg Free Press • The Guardian • The Independent • </i>NPR • <i>Dazed • VOX • People • Kirkus Reviews • Publishers Weekly • </i>An exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.</b><br><br>Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.<br><br>Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties – successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women – his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.<br><br>Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.<br><br>For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude – a period of desire, despair and possibility – a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.
Paul Auster
Baumgartner
Paul Auster · 2023
Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson · 2006
<b>The greatest haunted house story ever written, the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton</b><br><br> First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's <i>The Haunting of Hill House</i> has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.<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.
Francoise Sagan
Bonjour Tristesse
Francoise Sagan · 2001
Daphne du Mourier
Rebecca
Daphne du Mourier · 2001
Sophocles
The Theban Plays
Sophocles · 2009
Elif Batuman
The Idiot
Elif Batuman · 2018
<b>Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • <b>A <i>New York Times Book Review</i> Notable Book <b>• </b></b>Nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction<br><br>“Easily the funniest book I’ve read this year.” —<b><i>GQ<br></i></b><br>“Masterly funny debut novel . . . Erudite but never pretentious, <i>The Idiot</i> will make you crave more books by Batuman.” —<b>Sloane Crosley, </b><i><b>Vanity Fair</b></i><br><br>A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself.</b><br><br> The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings. <br> <br> At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer.<br><br> With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. <i>The Idiot</i> is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail.<br><br><b>Named one the best books of the year by Refinery29 <i>• </i>Mashable One <i>• Elle Magazine • The New York Times • </i>Bookpage <i>• Vogue • NPR • </i>Buzzfeed <i>•</i>The Millions</b>
Susanna Kaysen
Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen · 2013
<b>30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION <b>• </b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. Her memoir of the next two years is a "poignant, honest ... triumphantly funny ... and heartbreaking story" (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>). <br><br><b>WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR <br></b></b><br>The ward for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital was as renowned for its famous clientele—Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles—as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. <br><br><i>Girl, Interrupted</i> is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.
Jacqueline Harpman
I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman · 1997
A work of fantasy, I Who Have Never Known Men is the haunting and unforgettable account of a near future on a barren earth where women are kept in underground cages guarded by uniformed groups of men. It is narrated by the youngest of the women, the only one with no memory of what the world was like before the cages, who must teach herself, without books or sexual contact, the essential human emotions of longing, loving, learning, companionship, and dying. Part thriller, part mystery, I Who Have Never Known Men shows us the power of one person without memories to reinvent herself piece by piece, emotion by emotion, in the process teaching us much about what it means to be human.
Patti Smith
Just kids
Patti Smith · 2010
Simone De Beauvoir
The Woman Destroyed
Simone De Beauvoir · 2013
<b>One of the most influential thinkers of her generation<i> </i>draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises in these three “immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion” (<i>The Sunday Herald Times</i>).</b><br><br>Suffused with de Beauvoir’s remarkable insights into women, <i>The Woman Destroyed </i>gives us a legendary writer at her best. Includes "The Age of Discretion," "The Monologue," and "The Woman Destroyed."<br><br>"Witty, immensely adroit...These three women are believable individuals presented with a wry mixture of sympathy and exasperation." —<i>The Atlantic</i>
Jeffrey Eugenides
The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides · 2011
sylvia plath
the bell jar
sylvia plath · 1971
The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)
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>
Sandra Cisneros
The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros · 2013
<b> <b>A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK </b><br><br>NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2025 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle.<br><b><br>“Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><br></b><i>The House on Mango Street</i> is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting."<br><br>Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s <i>Main Street</i> or Toni Morrison’s <i>Sula,</i> it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from. <br><b><br><br><br><br></b>
Albert Camus
The Stranger
Albert Camus · 1989
Robert Greene
The Art of Seduction
Robert Greene · 2003
Mastery
Robert Greene · 2013
The Laws of Human Nature
Robert Greene · 2018
The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene · 2000
The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy, and Human Nature
Robert Greene · 2021
Wade E. Pickren
The Bedside Book of Psychology
Wade E. Pickren · 2021
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz · 2011
Sun Tzu
The Art Of War
Sun Tzu · 2007
J.K. Huysmans
The Damned (Wiseblood Classics)
J.K. Huysmans · 2014
THE DAMNED (Là-bas) follows Durtal, a sensitive, spiritually-attuned man who is writing a biography of the fifteenth-century child-murderer Gilles de Rais (the supposed model for "Bluebeard"). Durtal scorns the bored embrace of commonplace reality so characteristic of his age, and, rejecting this banality, he searches for spiritual intensity by immersing himself in another age. The grotesque Madame Chantelouve leads him into the underground world of Satanism in fin-de-siècle Paris, and it is there, in utter darkness, that he begins to see the light. Wiseblood Books fosters works of fiction and non-fiction, poetry and philosophy that find redemption in uncanny places and people; wrestle us from the tyranny of boredom; mock the pretensions of respectability; engage the hidden mysteries of the human heart, be they sources of either violence or courage; articulate faith and doubt in their incarnate complexity; dare an unflinching gaze at human beings as "political animals"; and suffer through this world's trials without forfeiting hope. Visit us at www.wisebloodbooks.com We are wide-eyed for new epiphanies of beauty.
Ling Ma
Severance: A Novel
Ling Ma · 2018
Zora Neale Hurston
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.
Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo''s Nest
Ken Kesey · 2007
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck · 2006
Mary Oliver
A Poetry Handbook
Mary Oliver · 1994
Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury · 2012
Arthur Miller
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts
Arthur Miller · 2003
<b>A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural community<br><br>A Penguin Classic</b><br> <br> "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to <i>The Crucible</i>, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria.<br> <br> In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town's most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminate the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence.<br> <br> Written in 1953, <i>The Crucible</i> is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy's "witch-hunts" in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing: "Political opposition...is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence."<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.
Charles Dickens
Hard Time Illustrated
Charles Dickens · 2020
Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Original 1890 Edition (A Oscar Wilde Classic Novel)
Oscar Wilde · 2023
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray<br/><br/>The Picture of Dorian Gray is a 1891 gothic and philosophical novel by Irish writer and playwright Oscar Wilde. First published as a serial story in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, the editors feared the story was indecent, and without Wilde's knowledge, deleted five hundred words before publication.<br/><br/>Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding the public morality. In response, Wilde aggressively defended his novel and art in correspondence with the British press.<br/><br/>Wilde revised and expanded the magazine edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) for publication as a novel; the book edition (1891) featured an aphoristic preface — an apologia about the art of the novel and the reader. The content, style and presentation of the preface made it famous in its own literary right, as social and cultural criticism. In April 1891, the editorial house Ward, Lock and Company published the revised version of The Picture of Dorian Gray.<br/><br/>A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf!
George Orwell
Animal Farm
George Orwell · 2025
Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell that satirizes the events of the Russian Revolution and the emergence of Stalinism. It is a story that unfolds on a farm where animals, led by pigs, revolt against the tyrannical owner and assume control of a farm that symbolizes an egalitarian society. However, when the pigs do gain power, they turn out to be as tyrannical as their former masters, the oppressive humans. Or perhaps Orwell is attacking political corruption and inequality but also corrupting power -its abuse or how an idealistic movement can be destroyed by greed and manipulative people. In its deceptively simple yet profund narrative, George Orwell paints a powerful commentary of the dangers of totalitarianism in Animal Farm.
1984 George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four - Paperback
George Orwell · 1949
Franz Kafka
Metamorphosis and Other Stories: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Franz Kafka · 2008
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Alexander Solzhenitsyn · 2009
Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara · 2016
<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (<i>NPR</i>) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.<br></b><br><b><b><b><b><b><b><b>NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST <b><b><b>•</b></b></b></b> MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST <b>• <b><b><b><b><b> WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE</b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b><br><br><i>A Little Life</i> follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.
Patrick Suskind
Perfume: The Story of Murder
Patrick Suskind · 1986
Laura Shepherd-Robinson
The Square of Sevens
Laura Shepherd-Robinson · 2024
Olivia Laing
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
Olivia Laing · 2017
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism<br/><br/>#1 Book of the Year from Brain Pickings<br/><br/>Named a best book of the year by NPR, Newsweek, Slate, Pop Sugar, Marie Claire, Elle, Publishers Weekly, and Lit Hub<br/><br/>A dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism on the subject of loneliness, told through the lives of iconic artists, by the acclaimed author of The Trip to Echo Spring.<br/><br/>When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by the most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving from Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks to Andy Warhol’s Time Capsules, from Henry Darger’s hoarding to David Wojnarowicz’s AIDS activism, Laing conducts an electric, dazzling investigation into what it means to be alone, illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be resisted and redeemed.<br/><br/>Humane, provocative, and moving, The Lonely City is a celebration of a strange and lovely state, adrift from the larger continent of human experience, but intrinsic to the very act of being alive.
Mariana Enriquez
Our Share of Night: A Novel
Mariana Enriquez · 2023
Viv Albertine
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.: A Memoir
Viv Albertine · 2014
N.H. Kleinbaum
Dead Poets Society
N.H. Kleinbaum · 2012
Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how different life is since their new English professor, the flamboyant John Keating, has challenged them to "make your lives extraordinary! Inspired by Keating, the boys resurrect the Dead Poets Society--a secret club where, free from the constraints and expectations of school and parents, they let their passions run wild. As Keating turns the boys on to the great words of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, they discover not only the beauty of language, but the importance of making each moment count. Can the club and the individuality it inspires survive the pressure from authorities determined to destroy their dreams? But the Dead Poets pledges soon realize that their newfound freedom can have tragic consequences. Can the club and the individuality it inspires survive the pressure from authorities determined to destroy their dreams?
Henri Alain-Fournier
The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) (Penguin Classics)
Henri Alain-Fournier · 2007
<p><b>'I read it for the first time when I was seventeen and loved every page. I find its depiction of a golden time and place just as poignant now as I did then' Nick Hornby<br></b><b><br><i>The Lost Estate </i>is Robin Buss's translation of Henri Alain-Fournier's poignant study of lost love, <i>Le Grand Meaulnes</i>.</b><br><br>When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and charisma. But when Meaulnes disappears for several days, and returns with tales of a strange party at a mysterious house - and his love for the beautiful girl hidden within it, Yvonne de Galais - his life has been changed forever. In his restless search for his Lost Estate and the happiness he found there, Meaulnes, observed by his loyal friend Francois, may risk losing everything he ever had. Poised between youthful admiration and adult resignation, Alain-Fournier's compelling narrator carries the reader through this evocative and unbearably poignant portrayal of desperate friendship and vanished adolescence. <br><br>Robin Buss's translation of <i>Le Grand Meaulnes</i> sensitively and accurately renders Alain-Fournier's poetically charged, expressive and deceptively simple style. In his introduction, <i>New Yorker </i>writer Adam Gopnik discusses the life of Alain-Fournier, who was killed in the First World War after writing this, his only novel.<br><br>If you liked <i>Le Grand Meaulnes</i>, you might enjoy Gustave Flaubert's <i>Sentimental Education</i>, also available in Penguin Classics.</p>
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott · 2016
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.” ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women Little Women is a children’s classic novel that still enthralls adult audiences. Telling the story of the March families trials and triumphs, Little Women is a story of love, friendship and family.
Sabahattin Ali
Madonna in a Fur Coat
Sabahattin Ali · 2020
The bestselling Turkish classic of love and longing in a changing world, available in English for the first time. 'It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. And what a pity that is: a dash of curiosity is all it takes to stumble upon treasures we never expected.' A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade in 1920s Berlin. The city's crowded streets, thriving arts scene, passionate politics and seedy cabarets provide the backdrop for a chance meeting with a woman, which will haunt him for the rest of his life. Emotionally powerful, intensely atmospheric and touchingly profound, Madonna in a Fur Coat is an unforgettable novel about new beginnings and the unfathomable nature of the human soul. 'Passionate but clear . . . Ali's success [is in ] his ability to describe the emergence of a feeling, seemingly straightforward from the outside but swinging back and forth between opposite extremes at its core, revealing the tensions that accompanies such rise and fall.' Atilla Özkirimli, writer and literary historian
Stefan Zweig
Beware of Pity
Stefan Zweig
Text: English, German (translation)
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The Homeric Hymns
· 2012
