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Cementerio de animales
Stephen King • 2021
Louis lo había comprobado: el gato estaba muerto, y por eso lo había enterrado. Aun así, incomprensiblemente, el gato había vuelto a casa.<br/>Church estaba allí otra vez, como Louis Creed temía y deseaba. Porque su hijita Ellie le había encomendado que cuidara del gato, y Church había muerto atropellado. Louis lo había comprobado: el gato estaba muerto, incluso lo había enterrado más allá del cementerio de animales. Sin embargo, Chruch había regresado, y sus ojos eran más crueles y perversos que antes. Pero volvía a estar allí y Ellie no lo lamentaría.<br/>Louis Creed sí lo lamentaría. Porque más allá del cementerio de animales, más allá de la valla de troncos que nadie se atrevía a traspasar, más allá de los cuarenta y cinco escalones, el maligno poder del antiguo cementerio indio le reclamaba con macabra avidez...
Salems lot
Stephen King • 1993
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov • 1989
Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in <b>Lolita</b>, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. <b>Lolita</b> is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
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.
Misery
Stephen King • 2016
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>
Los renglones torcidos de Dios
LUCA DE TENA • 1900
A Court of Wings and Ruin
Sarah J. Maas • 2020
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, 2)
Sarah J. Maas • 2020
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas • 2020
<p><b>The sexy, action-packed first book in the #1 bestselling Court of Thorns and Roses series from </b><b>global phenomenon</b><b> Sarah J. Maas.</b><br><br>When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world. <br><br>At least, he's not a beast all the time. <br><br>As she adapts to her new home, her feelings for the faerie, Tamlin, transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie she's been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But something is not right in the faerie lands. An ancient, wicked shadow is growing, and Feyre must find a way to stop it, or doom Tamlin-and his world-forever.<br><br>From bestselling author Sarah J. Maas comes a seductive, breathtaking book that blends romance, adventure, and faerie lore into an unforgettable read.</p>
DONDE LOS ARBOLES CANTAN
GALLEGO,LAURA • 2012
Mas Fuerte Que El Odio (Spanish Edition)
Tim Guenard • 1781
Tres años. Abandonado en una cuneta - Cuatro años. En la caseta del perro - Cinco y seis años. Silencio, hospital - Siete años. En el zoco de los huérfanos - Ocho años. La cárcel de los locos - Nueve años. Las garras de la nodriza - Diez años. La dicha en llamas - Once años. En el correccional, sección "duros de pelar"--Doce años. Fuga y asco - Trece años. Chulo de putas - Catorce años. Gigoló en Montparnasse - Quince años. La vuelta al mundo con el señor León - El viejo y la muerte - Carta abierta a mi padre el presidente de la República - Dieciséis años. Bailando con golpes - Dieciocho años. Tras la pista de los extraterrestres - El electrochoque del perdón - Veintiún años. Mi primer regalo de cumpleaños - Veintidós años. La chica de la casa de la felicidad - Veintitrés años. La boda del hijo pródigo - Veinticuatro años. En Lourdes, en las manos de María.
Oedipus the King
Sophocles • 2005
The Final Girl Support Group
Grady Hendrix • 2021
Fearless
Lauren Roberts • 2025
Reckless
Lauren Roberts • 2024
Powerless
Lauren Roberts • 2023
Normal People A Novel
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
Animal Farm
George Orwell • 1996
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Coco Mellors • 2022
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My Dark Vanessa
Kate Elizabeth Russell • 2020
Kasher in the Rye The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16
Moshe Kasher • 2023
Interview with a Vampire
Anne Rice • 1987
Vladimir: A Novel
Julia May Jonas • 2022
Heaven
Mieko Kawakami • 2022
Things We Say in the Dark
Kirsty Logan • 2019
A Certain Hunger
Chelsea G. Summers • 2021
Phenomenology of Spirit (Galaxy Books)
G. W. F. Hegel • 1977
Powers of Horror
Julia Kristeva • 2024
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Stuart Turton • 2018
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt • 2013
Hamlet
William Shakespeare • 2012
Hamlet is Shakespeare's most popular, and most puzzling, play. It follows the form of a "revenge tragedy," in which the hero, Hamlet, seeks vengeance against his father's murderer, his uncle Claudius, now the king of Denmark. Much of its fascination, however, lies in its uncertainties.<br/><br/>Among them: What is the Ghost--Hamlet's father demanding justice, a tempting demon, an angelic messenger? Does Hamlet go mad, or merely pretend to? Once he is sure that Claudius is a murderer, why does he not act? Was his mother, Gertrude, unfaithful to her husband or complicit in his murder?<br/><br/>The authoritative edition of Hamlet from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes:<br/><br/>-Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play<br/>-Newly revised explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play<br/>-Scene-by-scene plot summaries<br/>-A key to the play's famous lines and phrases<br/>-An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language<br/>-An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play<br/>-Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books<br/>-An up-to-date annotated guide to further reading<br/><br/>Essay by Michael Neill
The Silence of the Lambs
Thomas Harris • 1991
The Night Stalker The Disturbing Life and Chilling Crimes of Richard Ramirez
Philip Carlo • 2016
Homesick for Another World: Stories
Ottessa Moshfegh • 2017
Hit Parade of Tears Stories
Izumi Suzuki • 2023
Bad Behaviour
Mary Gaitskill • 2019
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories
Mariana Enriquez • 2022
The Woman Destroyed
Simone De Beauvoir • 1987
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Carmen Maria Machado • 2017
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami • 2006
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami • 2010
Lapvona A Novel
Ottessa Moshfegh • 2022
Despair
Vladimir Nabokov • 1989
White Oleander (Oprah's Book Club)
Janet Fitch • 2000
Girls Against God: A Novel
Jenny Hval • 2020
When Women Kill
Alia Trabucco Zerán • 2022
Carmilla
J. Sheridan LeFanu • 2018
Penpal
Dathan Auerbach • 2012
Crush (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
Richard Siken • 2005
Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen • 2000
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>
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis • 1991
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx • 2025
Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn • 2007
Coraline
Neil Gaiman • 2012
The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics)
Shirley Jackson • 2006
The Song of Achilles A Novel
Madeline Miller • 2012
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky • 2010
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn • 2014
The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides • 2021
<p><b>**THE INSTANT #1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER**</b><br><br>"An unforgettable—and Hollywood-bound—new thriller... A mix of Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and Greek tragedy."<br><b>—<i>Entertainment Weekly</i></b><br><br><b><i>The Silent Patient</i> is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.</b><br><br>Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word.<br><br>Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London.<br><br>Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....</p>
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
John Boyne • 2007
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury • 2013
"Sixty years after the original publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel 'Fahrenheit 451' stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. This sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman ; personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author ; a wealth of critical essays and reviews by Nelson Algren, Harold Bloom, Margaret Atwood, and others ; rare manuscript pages and sketches from Ray Bradbury's personal archive ; and much more. Here, at last, is the definitive edition of a classic of world literature."--taken from back cover.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation A Novel
Ottessa Moshfegh • 2019
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.
The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides • 2002
Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
Elizabeth Wurtzel • 2017
The Setting Sun (New Directions Book)
Osamu Dazai • 1968
Men Who Hate Women
Laura Bates • 2020
<b>***Laura Bates' new book <i>Fix the System, Not the Women </i>is out now in paperback***</b><br> <br> '<b>A fascinating, mind-blowing and deeply intelligent book that should be recommended reading for every person on our planet'</b> SCARLETT CURTIS<br> <br> <b>'Laura Bates puts out books that perfectly describe growing problems and possible solutions. She's a proper hero at the coal mouth'</b> CAITLIN MORAN<br> <br> <b>'Brilliantly fierce and eye-opening' </b><i>OBSERVER</i><br> ________________________________________________________<br> <br> <b>The extremism nobody talks about</b><br> <b>And how it affects us all</b><br> <br> Imagine a world in which a vast network of incels and other misogynists are able to operate, virtually undetected. These extremists commit deliberate terrorist acts against women. Vulnerable teenage boys are groomed and radicalised.<br> <br> You don't have to imagine that world. You already live in it. Perhaps you didn't know, because we don't like to talk about it. But it's time we start.<br> <br> In this urgent and groundbreaking book, Laura Bates, bestselling author and founder of The Everyday Sexism Project, goes undercover to expose vast misogynist networks and communities. It's a deep dive into the worldwide extremism nobody talks about.<br> <br> Interviews with former members of these groups and the people fighting against them gives unique insights on how this movement operates. Ideas are spread from the darkest corners of the internet - via trolls, media and celebrities - to schools, workplaces and the corridors of power, becoming a part of our collective consciousness.<br> <br> <b>Uncensored, and sometimes both shocking and terrifying - this is the uncomfortable truth about the world we live in. And what we must do to change it.</b><br> _________________________________________________________<br> <br> <b>'Passionate and forensic, Bates produces a powerful feminist clarion call. The world needs to take notice. Things must change'</b><b> </b>ANITA ANAND<br> <br> <b>'This is how change is made: by looking at uncomfortable things directly in the eye and not turning away. This book is a rallying cry to end suffering, for both women AND men'</b> EMMA GANNON<br> <br> <b>'Laura Bates is showing us the path to both intimate and global survival'</b> GLORIA STEINEM
The End of Loneliness: A Novel
Benedict Wells • 2019
Rouge
Awad Mona • 2023
Natural Beauty
Ling Ling Huang • 2023
Paradise Rot: A Novel
Jenny Hval • 2018
Water Shall Refuse Them
Lucie McKnight Hardy • 2019
The Turn Of The Screw
Henry James • 2021
Starve Acre
Andrew Michael Hurley • 2019
The Discomfort of Evening
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld • 2020
Parallel Hells
Leon Craig • 2022
Gender Trouble
Judith Butler • 2002
Females
Andrea Long Chu • 2019
Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence
Adrienne Cecile Rich • 1981
Women, Race and Class
Angela Davis • 1982
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley • 2006
Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring masterwork must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit<br/>"A masterpiece. ... One of the most prophetic dystopian works." —Wall Street Journal<br/>Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine” (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New World likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.<br/>"Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." —Chicago Tribune
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger • 2001
The Only Woman in the Room: A Novel
Marie Benedict • 2019
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
Harlan Ellison • 1983
La biblioteca de la medianoche
Matt Haig • 2021
Entre la vida y la muerte hay una biblioteca. Y los estantes de esa biblioteca son infinitos. Cada libro da la oportunidad de probar otra vida que podrías haber vivido y de comprobar cómo habrían cambiado las cosas si hubieras tomado otras decisiones... ¿Habrías hecho algo de manera diferente si hubieras tenido la oportunidad? Nora Seed aparece, sin saber cómo, en la Biblioteca de la Medianoche, donde se le ofrece una nueva oportunidad para hacer las cosas bien. Hasta ese momento, su vida ha estado marcada por la infelicidad y el arrepentimiento. Nora siente que ha defraudado a todos, y también a ella misma. Pero esto está a punto de cambiar. Los libros de la Biblioteca de la Medianoche permitirán a Nora vivir como si hubiera hecho las cosas de otra manera. Con la ayuda de una vieja amiga, tendrá la opción de esquivar todo aquello que se arrepiente de haber hecho (o no haber hecho), en pos de la vida perfecta. Pero las cosas no siempre serán como imaginó que serían, y pronto sus decisiones enfrentarán a la Biblioteca y a ella misma en un peligro extremo. Nora deberá responder una última pregunta antes de que el tiempo se agote: ¿cuál es la mejor manera de vivir?
The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories
Yukiko Motoya • 2018
Breasts and Eggs
Mieko Kawakami • 2021
I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman • 1998
The Blood Of Others
Simone de Beauvoir • 2002
Just Kids: A National Book Award Winner
Patti Smith • 2010
<p> It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. </p> <p> Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to Forty-second Street, and eventually to the celebrated round table of Max's Kansas City, where the Andy Warhol contingent held court. In 1969, the pair set up camp at the Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and infamous—the influential artists of the day and the colorful fringe. It was a time of heightened awareness, when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and exploding. In this milieu, two kids made a pact to take care of each other. Scrappy, romantic, committed to create, and fueled by their mutual dreams and drives, they would prod and provide for one another during the hungry years. </p> <p> <i>Just Kids</i> begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists' ascent, a prelude to fame. </p>
Last Summer in the City A Novel
Gianfranco Calligarich • 2022
In the Cafe of Lost Youth
Patrick Modiano • 2016
Slow Days, Fast Company The World, The Flesh, and L.A.
Eve Babitz • 2016
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert M. Sapolsky • 2018
El arte de amar (Spanish Edition)
Erich Fromm • 2015
El arte de amar es una obra con la que Erich Fromm ha ayudado a varias generaciones a reflexionar sobre el amor y a responder a algunas preguntas aparentemente sencillas: ¿Qué significa amar? ¿Cómo desprendernos de nosotros mismos para experimentar este sentimiento? El amor no es solo una relación personal, es un rasgo de madurez que se manifiesta en diversas formas: amor erótico, amor fraternal, amor filial, amor a uno mismo... El amor no es algo pasajero y mecánico, como a veces nos induce a creer la sociedad de hoy. Muy al contrario, el amor es un arte, el fruto de un aprendizaje. Por ello, si queremos aprender a amar, debemos actuar como lo haríamos si quisiéramos aprender cualquier otro arte, ya sea música, pintura, carpintería o el arte de la medicina. O, por lo menos, no dedicar nuestra energía a buscar éxito y dinero, prestigio y poder, sino a cultivar el verdadero arte de amar.<br>
Villette
Charlotte Brontë • 2019
If I Had Your Face: A Novel
Frances Cha • 2020
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke • 2018
<p>Facsimile of 1943 Edition. Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young, would-be poet on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Those letters, ten in all, remain a fresh source of inspiration and insight to the poetic sensibility to this day.</p>
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf • 1990
Read People Like a Book How to Analyze Understand, and Predict People's Emotions, Throughts, Intentions, and Behaviors
Patrick King (Social interaction specialist) • 2021
The Courage to be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi • 2023
Girlhood
Melissa Febos • 2021
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Jia Tolentino • 2019
Sister Outsider Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde • 2007
Eileen A Novel
Ottessa Moshfegh • 2016
The People in the Trees
Hanya Yanagihara • 2014
Acts of Desperation
Megan Nolan • 2021
Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica • 2020
<b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER</b><br> <br><b>Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore.</b><br><br>His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing.<br> <br>Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.
The Poet X
Elizabeth Acevedo • 2020
Wilderness Tips
Margaret Atwood • 2011
The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso)
Dante Alighieri • 2003
Dangerous Liaisons
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos • 2022
The Long Walk
Stephen King • 2016
Stoner
John Williams • 2010
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>
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Animal: A Novel
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The Godfather
Mario Puzo • 1969
<b>The unforgettable saga of an American crime family that became a #1 bestseller and global phenomenon. </b><br> <br> Since its release in 1969, <i>The Godfather </i>has made an indelible mark on American crime fiction. From the mind of master storyteller Mario Puzo, it traces the Corleone family, whose brilliant and brutal portrayal illuminated the violent and seductive allure of power in American society. A tale of family and loyalty, law and order, obedience and rebellion, it has stood the test of time as the definitive novel of the Mafia underworld. <br> <br> Beyond the bestselling novel, Francis Ford Coppola’s incomparable film adaptation and Academy Award winner for Best Picture cemented <i>The Godfather</i>’s reputation as a triumph in storytelling and a seminal classic for the ages. With a legacy of blood and honor, it is a cultural touchstone that has resonated for generations, and still mesmerizes readers to this day.
A Collection of Essays
George Orwell • 1970
The Monstrous-feminine
Barbara Creed • 1993
Most critical writings on horror films conceptualise woman as victim. Creed challenges this view with a feminist psychoanalytic critique, discussing films such as Alien, I Spit on Your Grave and Psycho.
Only Dull People are Brilliant at Breakfast
Oscar Wilde • 2016
The Gentle Spirit
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2016
The Flowers of Buffoonery
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The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene • 2000
The Art of Seduction
Robert Greene • 2003
The Eyes Are the Best Part
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The Library of Babel
Jorge Luis Borges • 2000
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank • 2010
<b>THE DEFINITIVE EDITION <b>•</b> Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, the remarkable diary that has become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.<br></b><br><b>Updated for the 75th Anniversary of the <i>Diary</i>’s first publication with a new introduction by Nobel Prize–winner Nadia Murad<br><br>“The single most compelling personal account of the Holocaust ... remains astonishing and excruciating.”—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><br>In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the “Secret Annex” of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and amusing, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.
The Shining
Stephen King • 2013
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood • 2011
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
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Hungerstone
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Blood on Her Tongue
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The Little Friend
Donna Tartt • 2003
<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <i>The Goldfinch</i> comes an utterly riveting novel set in Mississippi of childhood, innocence, and evil. • “Destined to become a special kind of classic.” —<i>The New York Times Book Review<br></i></b><br>The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin’s sister Harriet—unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town’s rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family’s history of loss. Filled with hairpin turns of plot and “a bustling, ridiculous humanity worthy of Dickens” (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>), <i>The Little Friend</i> is a work of myriad enchantments by a writer of prodigious talent.
Atmosphere
Jenkins Reid Taylor • 2025
Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA's space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space. Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston's Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and easygoing even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warmhearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane. As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe. Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, it all changes in an instant. [payot.ch]
The Life of a Stupid Man
Ryunosuke Akutagawa • 2015
Reading
Indigno de ser humano
Osamu Dazai • 2010
Nightbitch
Yoder Rachel • 2022
<b>*NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING AMY ADAMS*<br> <br> Are you looking for a book with bite?</b><br> <br> <b>'OUTRAGEOUS, SMART, FUN' Bonnie Garmus, <i>Sunday Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Lessons in Chemistry</i></b><br> <br> <b>'BRILLIANT' <i>Stylist</i></b><br> <br> <b><i>One day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else...</i></b><br> <br> At home full-time with her two-year-old son, an artist finds she is struggling. She is lonely and exhausted. Her husband, always travelling for his work, calls her from faraway hotel rooms. One more toddler bedtime, and she fears she might lose her mind.<br> <br> Instead, she starts gaining things, surprising things that happen one night when her child will not sleep. New appetites, new instincts. And from deep within herself, a new voice...<br> <br> <b>'INCREDIBLE' Carmen Maria Machado</b><br> <br> <b>'I TORE THROUGH IT' Lisa McInerney</b><br> <br> <b>'FUNNY AND UNNERVING AS HELL' Jenny Offill</b><br> <br> <b>'The spiritual successor to Angela Carter' <i>Evening Standard</i></b>
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Bunny: A Novel
Mona Awad • 2020
Lord of the Flies
William Golding • 1954
The Second Sex
Simone De Beauvoir • 2012
If We Were Villains A Novel
M. L. Rio • 2018
<p><b>“Much like Donna Tartt’s <i>The Secret History</i>, M. L. Rio’s sparkling debut is a richly layered story of love, friendship, and obsession...will keep you riveted through its final, electrifying moments.”<br>—Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Nest<br></i></b><br><b>"Nerdily (and winningly) in love with Shakespeare...Readable, smart.”</b><br><b>—<i>New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><br>On the day Oliver Marks is released from jail, the man who put him there is waiting at the door. Detective Colborne wants to know the truth, and after ten years, Oliver is finally ready to tell it.<br><br>A decade ago: Oliver is one of seven young Shakespearean actors at Dellecher Classical Conservatory, a place of keen ambition and fierce competition. In this secluded world of firelight and leather-bound books, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress, ingénue, extras. <br><br>But in their fourth and final year, good-natured rivalries turn ugly, and on opening night real violence invades the students’ world of make-believe. In the morning, the fourth-years find themselves facing their very own tragedy, and their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, each other, and themselves that they are innocent. <br><br><i>If We Were Villains</i> was named one of Bustle's Best Thriller Novels of the Year, and <i>Mystery Scene</i> says, "A well-written and gripping ode to the stage...A fascinating, unorthodox take on rivalry, friendship, and truth."</p>
A Court of Silver Flames
Sarah J. Maas • 2022
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 Hunchback of Notre Dame
Victor Hugo • 2021
Set in medieval Paris, Victor Hugo's powerful historical romance has resonated with succeeding generations ever since its publication in 1837. It tells the story of the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, condemned as a witch by the tormented archdeacon Claude Frollo, who lusts after her. Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, having fallen in love with the kindhearted Esmeralda, tries to save her by hiding her in the cathedral's tower. When a crowd of Parisian peasants, misunderstanding Quasimodo's motives, attacks the church in an attempt to liberate her, the story ends in tragedy.
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2001
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.
La Hora de las Brujas
Anne Rice • 2004
El Lobo Estepario
Hermann Hesse • 2017
