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The Ballad of Never After
Stephanie Garber · 2022
A Curse For True Love
Garber Stephanie · 2024
The Priory of the Orange Tree
Samantha Shannon · 2020
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar · 2020
The Secret History
Donna Tartt · 1992
<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 Girls I've Been
Tess Sharpe · 2021
The Cheerleaders
Kara Thomas · 2018
Normal People
Sally Rooney · 2020
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh · 2018
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible A New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century “One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.” — Entertainment Weekly “Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.” —Vogue From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.
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.
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen · 1812
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen · 1813
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen · 1818
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson · 1959
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 1818
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath · 1963
<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 Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · 1890
If You Still Recognise Me
Cynthia So · 2022
She Gets the Girl
Rachael Lippincott, Alyson Derrick · 2022
The Lucky List
Rachael Lippincott · 2021
One Last Stop
Casey McQuiston · 2021
<p><b>*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*<br>*INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER*<br>*INSTANT #1 INDIE BESTSELLER*</b><br><b><br>From the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Red, White & Royal Blue</i> comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks...</b><br><br>For cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and cinematic love stories don’t exist, and the only smart way to go through life is alone. She can’t imagine how waiting tables at a 24-hour pancake diner and moving in with too many weird roommates could possibly change that. And there’s certainly no chance of her subway commute being anything more than a daily trudge through boredom and electrical failures.<br><br>But then, there’s this gorgeous girl on the train. <br><br>Jane. Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane. Jane with her rough edges and swoopy hair and soft smile, showing up in a leather jacket to save August’s day when she needed it most. August’s subway crush becomes the best part of her day, but pretty soon, she discovers there’s one big problem: Jane doesn’t just look like an old school punk rocker. She’s literally displaced in time from the 1970s, and August is going to have to use everything she tried to leave in her own past to help her. Maybe it’s time to start believing in some things, after all.<br><br>Casey McQuiston’s <i>One Last Stop </i>is a magical, sexy, big-hearted romance where the impossible becomes possible as August does everything in her power to save the girl lost in time.<br><br><b>"A dazzling romance, filled with plenty of humor and heart." - <i>Time Magazine</i>, "The 21 Most Anticipated Books of 2021"<br><br></b><b>"Dreamy, other worldly, smart, swoony, thoughtful, hilarious - all in all, exactly what you'd expect from Casey McQuiston!" - Jasmine Guillory, <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>The Proposal </i>and</b><i><b> Party for Two</b></i></p>
Don't Want You Like a Best Friend
Emma R. Alban · 2024
A swoon-worthy debut queer Victorian historical romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from having to seek husbands by setting up their widowed parents, and instead find their perfect match in each other—the lesbian Bridgerton/Parent Trap you never knew you needed! Gwen has a brilliant beyond brilliant idea. It’s 1857, and anxious debutante Beth has just one London debutante season to snag a wealthy husband, or she and her mother will be out on the street. But playing the blushing ingenue makes Beth’s skin crawl and she’d rather be anywhere but here. Gwen, on the other hand, is on her fourth season and counting, with absolutely no intention of finding a husband, possibly ever. She figures she has plenty of security as the only daughter of a rakish earl, from whom she’s gotten all her flair, fun, and less-than-proper party games in this charming sapphic historical romance. “Let’s get them together,” she says. It doesn’t take long for Gwen to hatch her latest scheme: rather than surrender Beth to courtship, they should set up Gwen’s father and Beth’s newly widowed mother. Let them get married instead. “It’ll be easy” she says. There’s just…one, teeny, tiny problem. Their parents kind of seem to hate each other. But no worries. Beth and Gwen are more than up to the challenge of a little twenty-year-old heartbreak. How hard can parent-trapping widowed ex-lovers be? Of course, just as their plan begins to unfold, a handsome, wealthy viscount starts calling on Beth, offering up the perfect, secure marriage. Beth’s not mature enough for this… Now Gwen must face the prospect of sharing Beth with someone else, forever. And Beth must reckon with the fact that she’s caught feelings, hard, and they’re definitely not for her potential fiancé. That’s the trouble with matchmaking: sometimes you accidentally fall in love with your best friend in the process.
The Seven Year Slip
Ashley Poston · 2023
Written in the Stars: A Novel
Alexandria Bellefleur · 2020
A Lesson in Vengeance
Victoria Lee · 2022
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi · 2019
Once Upon a Broken Heart
Stephanie Garber · 2021
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo A Novel
Taylor Jenkins Reid • 2018
<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i></b><b> BESTSELLER</b><br> <br><b>“If you</b>’<b>re looking for a book to take on holiday this summer, <i>The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo</i> has got all the glitz and glamour to make it a perfect beach read.” —<i>Bustle</i></b><br> <br><b>From the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Daisy Jones & the Six</i>—an entrancing and “wildly addictive journey of a reclusive Hollywood starlet” (<i>PopSugar</i>) as she reflects on her relentless rise to the top and the risks she took, the loves she lost, and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine.</b><br><br>Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now?<br> <br>Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career.<br> <br>Summoned to Evelyn’s luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the ‘80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn’s story near its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways.<br> <br>“Heartbreaking, yet beautiful” (Jamie Blynn, <i>Us Weekly</i>), <i>The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo </i>is “Tinseltown drama at its finest” (<i>Redbook</i>): a mesmerizing journey through the splendor of old Hollywood into the harsh realities of the present day as two women struggle with what it means—and what it costs—to face the truth.
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka • 2009
Letters to Milena
Franz Kafka • 2018
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 2002
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2017
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.
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia • 2020
The Drowning Girl
Caitlin R. Kiernan • 2012
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou • 2009
All the Bright Places
Jennifer Niven • 2016
Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen • 2013
30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • 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" (The New York Times Book Review). WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR 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. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin · 2023
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens · 2021
There are Rivers in the Sky
Shafak Elif · 2025
The Nightingale: A Novel
Kristin Hannah · 2015
All the Light We Cannot See A Novel
Anthony Doerr · 2014
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong · 2019
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak · 2007
Wild Love (Rose Hill, 1)
Elsie Silver · 2024
Juniper Hill
Devney Perry · 2022
The Unhoneymooners
Christina Lauren · 2019
The Spanish Love Deception
Elena Armas · 2022
Love on the Brain
Ali Hazelwood · 2022
The Sun Is Also a Star
Nicola Yoon · 2019
From Lukov with Love
Mariana Zapata
Does It Hurt?
H. D. Carlton · 2022
One of Us Is Lying (One of Us Is Lying, 1)
Karen M. McManus · 2023
<b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY <i>ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • BUZZFEED • POPCRUSH</i></b><br><b><br>“Pretty Little Liars meets The Breakfast Club” (<i>Entertainment Weekly</i>) in this addictive mystery about what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive. </b><br> <br>Pay close attention and you might solve this.<br>On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention.<br><br> Bronwyn, <b>the brain</b>, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule.<br> Addy,<b> the beauty</b>, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess.<br> Nate, <b>the criminal</b>, is already on probation for dealing.<br> Cooper, <b>the athlete</b>, is the all-star baseball pitcher.<br> And Simon, <b>the outcast</b>, is the creator of Bayview High’s notorious gossip app.<br> <br>Only, Simon never makes it out of that classroom. Before the end of detention Simon's dead. And according to investigators, his death wasn’t an accident. On Monday, he died. But on Tuesday, he’d planned to post juicy reveals about all four of his high-profile classmates, which makes all four of them suspects in his murder. Or are they the perfect patsies for a killer who’s still on the loose?<br><br>Everyone has secrets, right? What really matters is how far you would go to protect them.<br><br><b><b>All the secrets of the Bayview Four will be revealed in the TV series now streaming on NBC's Peacock! <br><br><b>And don’t miss the #1 <i>New York Times </i>bestselling sequel, <i>One of Us is Next</i>!</b></b></b>
The First to Die at the End
The First to Die at the End
History Is All You Left Me: A Zoella Book Club 2017 Novel
History Is All You Left Me: A Zoella Book Club 2017 Novel
More Happy Than Not (Deluxe Edition)
More Happy Than Not (Deluxe Edition)
Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen • 2013
A memoir set in a psychiatric hospital, offering a raw and introspective look at mental illness and self-discovery.
All the Bright Places
Jennifer Niven • 2016
A young adult novel dealing with mental health, love, and loss, known for its emotional impact and melancholic tone.
The Drowning Girl
Caitlin R. Kiernan • 2012
A psychological horror novel with unreliable narration, exploring themes of identity, memory, and folklore.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou • 2009
An autobiographical classic that explores themes of racism, trauma, and resilience with profound emotional depth.
Atonement Camp for Unrepentant Homophobes
Evan J. Corbin • 2020
A poignant and complex novel exploring themes of love, war, class, and the power of storytelling, with a melancholic undertone.
Atonement Camp for Unrepentant Homophobes
Evan J. Corbin • 2020
A poignant and complex novel exploring themes of love, war, class, and the power of storytelling, with a melancholic undertone.
The Goldfinch A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Donna Tartt • 2015
A sprawling and emotionally rich novel about loss, art, and survival, with a melancholic and introspective narrative.
CIRCE
Madeline Miller • 2020
A mythological novel that reimagines the story of the witch Circe, offering a deeply emotional and introspective journey of self-discovery and resilience.
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier • 2013
A psychological gothic novel with a suspenseful plot, exploring themes of identity, jealousy, and the haunting presence of the past.
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte • 2002
A classic gothic novel known for its intense emotional depth, dark romance, and melancholic atmosphere, exploring themes of love, revenge, and social class.
The Reappearance of Rachel Price
Holly Jackson • 2024
As Good as Dead The Finale to A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson • 2023
Good Girl, Bad Blood The Sequel to A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson • 2022
A Thousand Boy Kisses
Tillie Cole • 2016
Looking for Alaska
John Green • 2006
Turtles All the Way Down
John Green • 2019
Intermezzo A Novel
Sally Rooney • 2024
The Prison Healer Trilogy
Lynette Noni · 2022
Graveyard Shift: A Novella
M. L. Rio · 2024
The author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night shift workers who meet in the local cemetery to unearth the secrets lurking in an open grave.<br/><br/>Every night, in the college’s ancient cemetery, five people cross paths as they work the late shift: a bartender, a rideshare driver, a hotel receptionist, the steward of the derelict church that looms over them, and the editor-in-chief of the college paper, always in search of a story.<br/><br/>One dark October evening in the defunct churchyard, they find a hole that wasn’t there before. A fresh, open grave where no grave should be. But who dug it, and for whom?<br/><br/>Before they go their separate ways, the gravedigger returns. As they trail him through the night, they realize he may be the key to a string of strange happenings around town that have made headlines for the last few weeks―and that they may be closer to the mystery than they thought.<br/><br/>Atmospheric and eerie, with the ensemble cast her fans love and a delightfully familiar academic backdrop, Graveyard Shift is a modern Gothic tale in If We Were Villains author M. L. Rio’s inimitable style.
Nocticadia: A Dark Academia Gothic Romance
Keri Lake · 2023
A dark, atmospheric tale of deadly secrets and forbidden love.<br/><br/>Mortui vivos docent.<br/>The dead teach the living.<br/><br/>After watching my mother succumb to a mysterious illness, I promised myself two things. I’d find the cure for what ravaged her. And leave the godforsaken city where she abandoned me.<br/><br/>Four years later, I receive an acceptance letter from Dracadia University, one of the oldest, most prestigious schools in the country. Nestled on a secluded island off the coast of Maine, it’s rumored to be haunted by the souls of the mental patients exiled there centuries before. Those whose bones are said to make up the island’s white sandy shores.<br/><br/>And restless ghosts aren’t even its most daunting peculiarity.<br/><br/>Devryck Bramwell, known on campus as Doctor Death, is a brilliant pathologist in charge of the midnight lab. He’s also my devastatingly handsome professor, who seems to loathe tenacious first-years, like me. Except, his dark and enigmatic gaze tells me all the ways he’d devour me if given the chance, and his stolen kisses burn my lips with forbidden jealousy.<br/><br/>I crave his authority.<br/>He aches for redemption.<br/>Together, we’re toxic. Delicious fodder for the prying eyes hellbent on exhuming the rotted skeletons of our pasts.<br/><br/>For the dead have much to teach, and it’s only a matter of time before Dracadia’s most depraved secret is resurrected.<br/><br/>Nocticadia is a standalone dark academia gothic romance.
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: Reese's Book Club
Gail Honeyman • 2017
Wonder
R. J. Palacio • 2012
A Monster Calls Inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd
Patrick Ness • 2013
Suicide Notes
Michael Thomas Ford • 2010
Finished
If We Were Villains
M. L. Rio · 2017
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee • 2002
Book Lovers
Emily Henry · 2022
Things We Never Got Over
Lucy Score · 2022
They Both Die at the End
Adam Silvera · 2018
Sia
Eden O'Neill • 2025
The Song of Achilles A Novel
Madeline Miller • 2012
A beautifully written mythological novel that reimagines the story of Achilles and Patroclus, focusing on their deep emotional bond and the tragedy of war.
Red, White & Royal Blue
Casey McQuiston • 2019
A popular contemporary romance featuring a queer love story between the First Son of the United States and a British prince, known for its emotional depth and charming characters.
Midnight Mass
Sierra Simone • 2022
Priest
Sierra Simone • 2022
Red Flags and Rishtas A Desi Rom Com
Radhika Agrawal • 2024
The Odds of You
Kate Dramis • 2026
Summer in the City (Deluxe Limited Edition) A Novel
Alex Aster • 2025
The Butcher's Empire: The first book in a new dark romance series (The Empire legacy)
C. O. Wheel • 2025
The Re-Do List
Denise Williams • 2026
People We Meet on Vacation
Emily Henry • 2021
His & Hers
Alice Feeney • 2020
Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition
George Orwell • 2004
Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica • 2020
A Family Matter
Claire Lynch • 2025
Call Me by Your Name A Novel
André Aciman • 2017
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson • 2020
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green • 2012
The Song of Achilles A Novel
Madeline Miller • 2012
I Hope This Finds You (An I Hope This Doesn't Find You Novella)
Ann Liang • 2025
I Hope This Doesn''t Find You
Ann Liang • 2024
Orbiting Jupiter
Gary D. Schmidt • 2015
The Oath We Give
Monty Jay • 2023
The Blood We Crave Part One
Monty Jay • 2022
The Lies We Steal
Monty Jay • 2021
The Truths We Burn
Monty Jay • 2021
The Blood We Crave Part Two
Monty Jay • 2023
Our Wives Under the Sea
Julia Armfield • 2022
What Moves the Dead
T. Kingfisher • 2022
Reading
Dept. of Speculation
Jenny Offill • 2014
13 Reasons Why
Jay Asher • 2017
The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters • 2023
Olga Dies Dreaming
Xochitl Gonzalez • 2022
First-Time Caller
B.K. Borison • 2025
The Cemetery of Untold Stories A Novel
Julia Alvarez • 2024
Say You Swear
Meagan Brandy • 2021
Her Body and Other Parties
Carmen Maria Machado • 2017
Everything I Know about Love
Dolly Alderton • 2019
Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson • 2011
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi • 2016
Funeral Songs for Dying Girls
Cherie Dimaline • 2024
Sisters in the Wind
Angeline Boulley • 2025
House of Hearts
Skyla Arndt • 2025
