My Bookshelf - Classics and more
Basically every book I’ve ever read
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Romance 💐🌹
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Truman Capote · 1993
<p><b><b><b>Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's.</b> In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape—her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm.</b><br></b><br>This volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories, “House of Flowers,” “A Diamond Guitar,” and “A Christmas Memory,” which the <i>Saturday Review</i> called “one of the most moving stories in our language.” It is a tale of two innocents—a small boy and the old woman who is his best friend—whose sweetness contains a hard, sharp kernel of truth.</p>
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë · 1848
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Becky Albertalli · 2015
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami · 2010
<b>From the bestselling author of <i>Kafka on the Shore: </i>A magnificent coming-of-age story steeped in nostalgia, “a masterly novel” (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>) blending the music, the mood, and the ethos that were the sixties with a young man’s hopeless and heroic first love.<br><br><b>Now with a new introduction by the author.</b> <br></b><br> Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. As Naoko retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman. <br><br> Stunning and elegiac, <i>Norwegian Wood</i> first propelled Haruki Murakami into the forefront of the literary scene.
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen · 1853
Drama 🐰
The War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells · 2012
The chilling novel account of a Martian invasion of London in the nineteenth century—a science fiction classic for all time. The War of the Worlds inspired the international bestseller The Map of the Sky by Félix J. Palma. As a gift to our readers, we are including an excerpt of The Map of the Sky in this eBook edition.
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2003
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell · 2021
"Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel", often published as "1984", is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, "Nineteen Eighty-Four" centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated. The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda. Great Britain, known as Airstrip One, has become a province of a totalitarian superstate named Oceania that is ruled by the Party who employ the Thought Police to persecute individuality and independent thinking. Big Brother, the leader of the Party, enjoys an intense cult of personality despite the fact that he may not even exist. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a diligent and skillful rank-and-file worker and Outer Party member who secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion. He enters into a forbidden relationship with a colleague, Julia, and starts to remember what life was like before the Party came to power.
The Martian
Andy Weir · 2014
Sputnik Sweetheart
Haruki Murakami · 2002
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh · 2024
The Secret History
Donna Tartt · 2011
<b><b><b>A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK <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 Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · 1908
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf · 2000
On a sunny day in June, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is getting ready for a party and exulting in the vibrant swell of London. As Clarissa's preparations take her from the golden morning to the glittering evening, she muses on the choices she made as a young woman, the romances that have enriched her life, and the passage of time. In another part of London, war hero Septimus Smith is suffering from shell shock - what we would now term PTSD - and is haunted by the death of his friend. He finds himself teetering on the brink of madness, unable to leave his wounds behind. Over the course of a single day, the lives of Clarissa and Septimus will interweave and finally converge as the party reaches its climax.
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Franz Kafka · 2008
This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes <i>Metamorphosis</i>, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; <i>Meditation</i>, a collection of his earlier studies; <i>The Judgement</i>, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; <i>The Stoker</i>, the first chapter of a novel set in America and a fascinating occasional piece, and <i>The Aeroplanes at Brescia</i>, Kafka's eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.
I One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · 2022
<p>Now a Netflix series adaptation starring Claudio Cataño, Jerónimo Barón, and Marco González</p><p>One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career.</p><p>The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.</p><p>Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.</p>
The Bell Jar
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>
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 2003
Dracula
Bram Stoker · 1897
Military 🪖
Catch-22
Joseph Heller · 2011
Winning Modern Wars
General Wesley K Clark · 2006
Bravo Two Zero
Andy McNab · 2012
Bio 💁♀️
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris · 2018
The Woman in Me
Britney Spears · 2023
<b><i>The Woman in Me</i></b><b> is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope.</b><br><br> In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others.<i> The Woman in Me</i> reveals for the first time her incredible journey—and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history.<br> <br> Written with remarkable candor and humor, Spears’s groundbreaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and love—and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last.
Children/young adult 🥷
Gone
Michael Grant · 2009
Uglies
Scott Westerfeld · 2011
The Divergent Series Complete Collection
Veronica Roth · 2013
The Hunger Games Trilogy
Suzanne Collins · 2011
The Tales of Beedle the Bard
· 2008
On the shelf/partially read 🪣
You Shouldn't Have Joined ...
Peter Cosgrove · 2020
The Odyssey
Homer
The 48 Laws Of Power
Robert Greene · 2010
The Republic
Plato, Sir Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee · 2003
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley · 2020
The Outsiders
S. E Hinton · 1967
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami · 2006
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · 1864
The Crossroad
Mark Donaldson · 2013
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood · 1998
Tender is the Night
Francis Scott Fitzgerald · 1962
Malioboro at midnight
· 2023
Chickenhawk
Robert Mason · 2005
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari · 2015
<p>#1 New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century • The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama and Bill Gates</p><p>Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout. </p><p>From renowned historian Yuval Noah Harari comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.”</p><p>One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one—homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us?</p><p>Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book that begins about 70,000 years ago with the appearance of modern cognition. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas.</p><p>Dr. Harari also compels us to look ahead, because over the last few decades humans have begun to bend laws of natural selection that have governed life for the past four billion years. We are acquiring the ability to design not only the world around us, but also ourselves. Where is this leading us, and what do we want to become?</p><p>Featuring 27 photographs, 6 maps, and 25 illustrations/diagrams, this provocative and insightful work is sure to spark debate and is essential reading for aficionados of Jared Diamond, James Gleick, Matt Ridley, Robert Wright, and Sharon Moalem.</p>
Dune
Frank Herbert
The Beautiful and Damned
Francis Scott Fitzgerald · 1922
Uncategorized
The Moonflower Monologues
Tess Guinery · 2022
From celebrated Australian artist Tess Guinery comes <i>The Moonflower Monologues</i>, her second book of beautifully designed poetry and prose. This collection is many things: an exploration of strength and femininity, an invitation to let things go wrong, a reminder that growth comes in many forms, and an acknowledgment that “some things can’t be written in sugar, only salt.” Some of the writings are extravagant, some are sparse, but all are infused with Guinery’s introspection, stillness, and kindness.<br>
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney · 2021
<p><b>AN INSTANT #1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b><br><b><i><br>Beautiful World, Where Are You</i> is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of <i>Normal People </i>and <i>Conversations with Friends</i>.</b><br><br>Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.<br><br>Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?</p>
Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery
Find Me
André Aciman · 2019
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.
Call Me by Your Name
André Aciman · 2008
<p><b>Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by Three-Time OscarTM Nominee James Ivory<br><br>The Basis of the Oscar-Winning Best Adapted Screenplay<br></b><b><br>A <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller<br>A <i>USA Today</i> Bestseller <br>A <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Bestseller<br>A <i>Vulture</i> Book Club Pick </b><br><br><b>An Instant Classic and One of the Great Love Stories of Our Time</b><br><br>Andre Aciman's <i>Call Me by Your Name</i> is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when, during the restless summer weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the charged ground between them. Recklessly, the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. It is an instant classic and one of the great love stories of our time.<br><br>Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Ficition<br><br>A <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book of the Year • A <i>Publishers Weekly </i>and <i>The Washington Post </i>Best Book of the Year • A <i>New York </i>Magazine "Future Canon" Selection • A <i>Chicago Tribune</i> and <i>Seattle Times</i> (Michael Upchurch's) Favorite Favorite Book of the Year</p>
Yerma
Federico García Lorca · 1934
The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides · 1993
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf · 1927
Catch-22
Joseph Heller · 1999
The story of a bombardier in World War II who is frantic and angry because thousands of people he does not know are trying to kill him.
