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Reading
The Complete Short Stories of Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka • 2024
The Idiot
Elif Batuman • 2017
Men Without Women: Stories
Murakami Haruki • 2017
<p><b>DISCOVER THE SHORT STORY COLLECTION THAT GAVE THE WORLD <i>DRIVE MY CAR, </i> THE BAFTA AND OSCAR WINNING FILM</b> <p><b>A dazzling <i>Sunday Times </i>bestselling collection of short stories from the beloved internationally acclaimed Haruki Murakami.</b> <p> Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all. <p> Marked by the same wry humour that has defined his entire body of work, in this collection Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic.<br> <b><br> 'Supremely enjoyable, philosophical and pitch-perfect new collection of short stories...Murakami has a marvelous understanding of youth and age' <i>Observer</i></b><br> <b><br> 'Murakami at his whimsical, romantic best' <i>Financial Times</i></b></p>
To Read
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David Graeber • 2021
<p><b>INSTANT </b><b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER</b> <br><br><b>A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.<br></b><br>For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself.<br><br>Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume.<br><br><i>The Dawn of Everything</i> fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action.<br><br><b>Includes Black-and-White Illustrations</b></p>
Man's Search For Meaning
Viktor E Frankl • 2013
Excellent Women (Penguin Classics)
Barbara Pym • 2006
The Phantom of the Opera
Varga Tomi • 2020
Normal People
Sally Rooney • 2019
NOW AN EMMY-NOMINATED HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • “A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships” (People) from the author of Conversations with Friends, “a master of the literary page-turner” (J. Courtney Sullivan). “[A] novel that demands to be read compulsively, in one sitting.”—The Washington Post ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY’S TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: People, Slate, The New York Public Library, Harvard Crimson Connell and Marianne grew up in the same small town, but the similarities end there. At school, Connell is popular and well liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation—awkward but electrifying—something life changing begins. A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. And as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other. Normal People is the story of mutual fascination, friendship, and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find that they can’t. WINNER: The British Book Award, The Costa Book Award, The An Post Irish Novel of the Year, Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Vogue, Esquire, Glamour, Elle, Marie Claire, Vox, The Paris Review, Good Housekeeping, Town & Country
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton • 1996
Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
Jane Austen • 2003
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf • 2004
The Kreutzer Sonata
Count Leo Tolstoy • 2014
A Tale of Two Cities - by Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens • 2012
Orlando Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf • 2016
Babel
R. F. Kuang • 2023
Bonjour Tristesse
Francoise Sagan • 2001
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Random House Large Print)
John Green • 2021
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf • 2003
Mary
Vladimir Nabokov • 1989
1Q84
Haruki Murakami • 2011
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov • 2018
Men Without Women: Stories
Murakami Haruki • 2017
<p><b>DISCOVER THE SHORT STORY COLLECTION THAT GAVE THE WORLD <i>DRIVE MY CAR, </i> THE BAFTA AND OSCAR WINNING FILM</b> <p><b>A dazzling <i>Sunday Times </i>bestselling collection of short stories from the beloved internationally acclaimed Haruki Murakami.</b> <p> Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all. <p> Marked by the same wry humour that has defined his entire body of work, in this collection Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic.<br> <b><br> 'Supremely enjoyable, philosophical and pitch-perfect new collection of short stories...Murakami has a marvelous understanding of youth and age' <i>Observer</i></b><br> <b><br> 'Murakami at his whimsical, romantic best' <i>Financial Times</i></b></p>
Either/Or
Elif Batuman • 2022
Osamu Dazai's The Setting Sun
Osamu Dazai • 2024
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.
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini • 2004
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt • 2013
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky • 2012
“A timeless story for every young person who needs to understand that they are not alone.” —Judy Blume<br/><br/>“Once in a while, a novel comes along that becomes a generational touchstone. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is one of those books.” —R. J. Palacio, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wonder<br/><br/>This #1 New York Times bestselling coming-of-age story with millions of copies in print takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its glory.<br/><br/>The critically acclaimed debut novel from Stephen Chbosky follows observant “wallflower” Charlie as he charts a course through the strange world between adolescence and adulthood. First dates, family drama, and new friends. Sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Devastating loss, young love, and life on the fringes. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it, Charlie must learn to navigate those wild and poignant roller-coaster days known as growing up.<br/><br/>A #1 New York Times bestseller for more than a year, adapted into a major motion picture starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson (and written and directed by the author), and an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults (2000) and Best Book for Reluctant Readers (2000), this novel for teen readers (or wallflowers of more-advanced age) will make you laugh, cry, and perhaps feel nostalgic for those moments when you, too, tiptoed onto the dance floor of life.
The Daily Laws
Robert Greene • 2021
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar • 2019
The Poppy War
R. F. Kuang • 2018
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas • 1998
The Moon
K. Tolnoe • 2020
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
Charles Dickens • 2017
Das Kapital
Karl Marx • 2012
The Words I Wish I Said
caitlin kelly • 2018
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde • 2024
The Complete Novels
Franz Kafka • 1992
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen • 1980
Emma: Jane Austen
Jane Austen • 2016
The Enchanted Castle
E. Nesbit • 2013
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle • 2017
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin • 2024
Septology
Jon Fosse • 2023
When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labatut • 2020
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro • 2006
<b>NOBEL PRIZE WINNER <b>•</b> From the acclaimed, bestselling author of <i>The Remains of the Day</i> comes “a Gothic tour de force" (<i>The New York Times</i>) with an extraordinary twist—a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic.<br><br>One of <i>The New York Times</i>’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century • A <i>Kirkus Reviews </i>Best Fiction Book of the Century • A <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years</b><br><br>As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. <br><br>Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special—and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together.
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>
The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafón • 2005
Carlos Ruiz Zafón's literary thriller set in postwar Barcelona, centered around a mysterious book and its author.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera • 2005
Milan Kundera's philosophical novel set in Czechoslovakia, examining love, politics, and identity.
The God of Small Things: A Novel
Arundhati Roy • 2008
Arundhati Roy's Booker Prize-winning novel about family, forbidden love, and social discrimination in India.
Anne of Avonlea
Lucy Maud Montgomery • 2004
East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
John Steinbeck • 1952
Orbital
Samantha Harvey • 2024
Finished
White Nights: By Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Illustrated
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2017
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins • 2008
The Book Thief
Zusak Markus • 2016
Circe
Madeline Miller • 2020
"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller is "both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right" (Alexandra Alter, The New York Times). In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts, and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus. But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love. With unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and page-turning suspense, Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world. #1 New York Times bestseller -- named one of the best books of the year by NPR, the Washington Post, People, Time, Amazon, Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Newsweek, the A.V. Club, Christian Science Monitor, Refinery 29, BuzzFeed, Paste, Audible, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Thrillist, NYPL, Self, Real Simple, Goodreads, Boston Globe, Electric Literature, BookPage, the Guardian, Book Riot, Seattle Times, and Business Insider
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.
Norwegian Wood (Vintage International)
Haruki Murakami • 2010
On the Banks of Plum Creek
Laura Ingalls Wilder • 1937
Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett • 2016
