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Out
Natsuo Kirino · 2022
<b> <b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME <b>• </b>Winner of Japan's Grand Prix for Crime Fiction • Edgar Award Finalist • Nothing in Japanese literature prepares us for the stark, tension-filled, plot-driven realism of Natsuo Kirino’s award-winning literary mystery <i>Out</i></b><i><b>.</b></i><br> </b><i> <br> </i>This mesmerizing novel tells the story of a brutal murder in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works the night shift making boxed lunches strangles her abusive husband and then seeks the help of her coworkers to dispose of the body and cover up her crime. The coolly intelligent Masako emerges as the plot’s ringleader, but quickly discovers that this killing is merely the beginning, as it leads to a terrifying foray into the violent underbelly of Japanese society. <br><br> At once a masterpiece of literary suspense and pitch-black comedy of gender warfare, <i>Out </i>is also a moving evocation of the pressures and prejudices that drive women to extreme deeds, and the friendships that bolster them in the aftermath.
Revenge
Yoko Ogawa · 2020
The Monk
Matthew Lewis · 2016
<p> 'He was deaf to the murmurs of conscience, and resolved to satisfy his desires at any price.' The Monk (1796) is a sensational story of temptation and depravity, a masterpiece of Gothic fiction and the first horror novel in English literature. The respected monk Ambrosio, the Abbot of a Capuchin monastery in Madrid, is overwhelmed with desire for a young girl; once having abandoned his monastic vows he begins a terrible descent into immorality and violence. His appalling fall from grace embraces blasphemy, black magic, torture, rape, and murder, and places his very soul in jeopardy. Lewis's extraordinary tale drew on folklore, legendary ghost stories, and contemporary dread inspired by the terrors of the French Revolution. Its excesses shocked the reading public and it was condemned as obscene. The novel continues to beguile and shock readers today with its gruesome catalogue of iniquities, while at the same time giving a profound insight into the deep anxieties experienced by British citizens during one of the most turbulent periods in the nation's history. 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.</p>
The Door
Magda Szabo · 2015
Madonna in a Fur Coat
Sabahattin Ali · 2021
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James · 2021
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote · 1994
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson · 2006
Notes of a Crocodile
Qiu Miaojin · 2017
Beloved Pulitzer Prize Winner
Toni Morrison · 2004
Paradise Rot A Novel
Jenny Hval · 2018
Dead-End Memories Stories
Banana Yoshimoto · 2022
The Shadow of the Gods
John Gwynne · 2021
The City of Brass A Novel
S. A. Chakraborty · 2017
The Will of the Many
James Islington · 2023
Slewfoot A Tale of Bewitchery
Brom · 2023
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2024
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · 2003
Charlotte Brontë characterized the eponymous heroine of her 1847 novel as being "as poor and plain as myself." Presenting a heroine with neither great beauty nor entrancing charm was an unprecendented maneuver, but Brontë's instincts proved correct, for readers of her era and ever after have taken Jane Eyre into their hearts. The author drew upon her own experience to depict Jane's struggles at Lowood, an oppressive boarding school, and her troubled career as a governess. Unlike Jane, Brontë had the advantage of a warm family circle that shared and encouraged her literary pursuits. She found immediate success with this saga of an orphan girl forced to make her way alone in the world, from Lowood School to Thornfield, the estate of the majestically moody Mr. Rochester, and beyond. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka · 2009
The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe · 1983
Flush
Virginia Woolf · 2017
Picture of Dorian Grey
Oscar Wilde
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy · 1981
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - the Original 1886 Classic (Reader's Library Classics)
Robert Louis Stevenson · 2022
If We Were Villains
M. L. Rio
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 Goldfinch A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Donna Tartt · 2015
Heavenly Bodies
Imani Erriu · 2021
Blood Over Bright Haven A Novel
M. L. Wang · 2024
Lost in the Garden
Adam S. Leslie · 2024
Things We Say in the Dark
Kirsty Logan · 2019
The Earth is Falling
Carmen Pellegrino · 2024
We Love You, Bunny
Mona Awad · 2025
<b>The highly-anticipated follow up to the viral sensation </b><i><b>Bunny</b></i><b>, a brilliantly written, laugh-out-loud funny, dark and delirious novel set in the Bunny-verse – a world that Margaret Atwood declared ‘soooo genius’.</b><br> <br>In the cult classic novel <i>Bunny</i>, Samantha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England, was first ostracised and then seduced by a clique of her saccharine sweet, rich girl cohort (who call one another ‘Bunny’). An invitation to the Bunnies’ Smut Salon leads Samantha down a dark rabbit hole (pun intended) into the violently surreal world of their off-campus Workshops where monstrous creations are conjured with wondrous yet deadly consequences.<br><br>When <i>We Love You, Bunny</i> opens, Sam has just published her first novel to critical acclaim. But at a New England stop on her book tour, her one-time frenemies, furious at the way they’ve been portrayed, kidnap her. Now a captive audience, it’s her (and our) turn to hear the Bunnies’ side of the story. One by one, they take turns holding the axe, and recount the birth throes of their unholy alliance, their discovery of their unusual creative powers — and the phantasmagoric adventure of conjuring their first creation. With a bound and gagged Sam, we embark on a wickedly intoxicating journey into the heart of dark academia: a fairy tale slasher that explores the wonder and horror of creation itself. Not to mention the transformative powers of love and friendship, Bunny. <i>Frankenstein </i>by way of <i>Heathers</i>, <i>We Love You, Bunny</i> is a prequel and a sequel, and an unabashedly wild and totally complete standalone novel. Open your hearts, Bunny, to a dazzlingly original and darkly hilarious romp in the Bunny-verse from the queen of the fever dream, Mona Awad.<br><br>‘Fresh yet nostalgic, darkly funny and a complete page-turner’ - <i><b>Daily Mirror</b></i><br><br>A goofy, overblown flower of a book with lots of thorns that pleasurably scratch’ – <i><b>Guardian</b></i><br><br>‘Unhinged in the best way’ <i><b>– i paper</b></i>
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.
Alchemy of Secrets
Stephanie Garber · 2026
Katabasis
R.F. Kuang · 2025
The True Heart
Sylvia Townsend Warner · 2022
Jamaica Inn
Daphne Du Maurier · 2015
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.
The Vet's Daughter
Barbara Comyns · 2003
Down Below
Leonora Carrington · 2017
<b>A stunning work of memoir and a<b>n unforgettable depiction of the brilliance and madness by</b> one of Surrealism's most compelling figures</b><br><br>In 1937 Leonora Carrington—later to become one of the twentieth century’s great painters of the weird, the alarming, and the wild—was a nineteen-year-old art student in London, beautiful and unapologetically rebellious. At a dinner party, she met the artist Max Ernst. The two fell in love and soon departed to live and paint together in a farmhouse in Provence. <br><br> In 1940, the invading German army arrested Ernst and sent him to a concentration camp. Carrington suffered a psychotic break. She wept for hours. Her stomach became “the <i>mirror</i> of the earth”—of all worlds in a hostile universe—and she tried to purify the evil by compulsively vomiting. As the Germans neared the south of France, a friend persuaded Carrington to flee to Spain. Facing the approach “of robots, of thoughtless, fleshless beings,” she packed a suitcase that bore on a brass plate the word <i>Revelation</i>.<br><br> This was only the beginning of a journey into madness that was to end with Carrington confined in a mental institution, overwhelmed not only by her own terrible imaginings but by her doctor’s sadistic course of treatment. In <i>Down Below</i> she describes her ordeal—in which the agonizing and the marvelous were equally combined—with a startling, almost impersonal precision and without a trace of self-pity. Like Daniel Paul Schreber’s <i>Memoirs of My Nervous Illness</i>, <i>Down Below</i> brings the hallucinatory logic of madness home.
Great Granny Webster
Caroline Blackwood · 2002
Corrigan
Caroline Blackwood · 2012
Laughter in the Dark
Vladimir Nabokov · 1989
The Bird's Nest
Shirley Jackson · 2014
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
Barbara Comyns · 2010
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh · 2012
Hangsaman
Shirley Jackson · 2013
Abigail
Magda Szabo · 2020
The Doll's Alphabet
Camilla Grudova · 2017
Perfume The Story of a Murderer
Patrick Suskind · 2001
You Know You Want This
Kristen Roupenian · 2019
Cardiff, by the Sea
Joyce Carol Oates · 2021
Don't Look Now
Daphne Du Maurier
Ghosts
Edith Wharton · 2021
Dracula
Bram Stoker · 2017
When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries about his client and his castle. Soon afterwards, a number of disturbing incidents unfold in England: an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby; strange puncture marks appear on a young woman's neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the imminent arrival of his 'Master'. In the ensuing battle of wits between the sinister Count Dracula and a determined group of adversaries, Bram Stoker created a masterpiece of the horror genre, probing deeply into questions of human identity and sanity, and illuminating dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.
The Crucible
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.
Vilette
Charlotte Brontë · 2022
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen · 1992
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Radcliffe · 2008
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier · 2013
