my essential books list

Letter From An Unknown Woman

Stefan Zweig · 2019

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.

Mirall trencat

Mercè Rodoreda · 2018

H Is for Hawk

Helen Macdonald · 2015

Romancero gitano

Federico García Lorca · 2002

Una de las obras capitales de la poesía del siglo XX, que unida a Poeta en Nueva York, donde García Lorca canta a los negros con la misma emoción humana con que antes cantó a los gitanos, forman un conjuro poético indispensable para ahuyentar los espantos de la civilización del automatismo, de los esquemas y de la deshumanización globalizadora.

My Cousin Rachel

Daphne du Maurier · 2009

Ex-Wife

Ursula Parrott · 2023

Goodbye to Berlin

Christoph Isherwood · 1977

Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (FSG Classics)

Joan Didion · 2008

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>

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer · 2015

East of Eden, John Steinbeck Centennial Edition

John Steinbeck · 2002

La casa de Bernarda Alba

Federico García Lorca · 2021

Atonement: A Novel

Ian McEwan · 2003

Momentos Estelares De La Humanidad

Stefan Zweig · 2023

The Lottery and Other Stories (FSG Classics)

Shirley Jackson · 2005

LE SILENCE DE LA MER

Vercors · 1981

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Joan Lindsay · 2014

Angels In America

Tony Kushner · 1995

A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare · 2021

L'amic retrobat

Fred Uhlman · 2012

Call Me by Your Name: A Novel

André Aciman · 2008

Mar i cel

Àngel Guimerà · 2014

One Day. David Nicholls

David Nicholls · 2009

Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell · 2021

The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics)

Shirley Jackson · 2006

Tender is the Night: A Novel

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2003

<b>A modern classic, this edition has been restored by Fitzgerald scholar James L.W. West III and features a personal foreword by Fitzgerald’s great-granddaughter Blake Hazard and a new introduction by bestselling Amor Towles.</b><br><br>Set in the south of France in the late 1920s, <i>Tender Is the Night</i> is the tragic tale of a young actress, Rosemary Hoyt, and her complicated relationship with the alluring American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth pushed him into a glamorous lifestyle, and whose growing strength highlights Dick’s decline.<br> <br>Lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative, <i>Tender Is the Night</i> was one of the most talked-about books of the year when it was originally published in 1934, and is even more beloved by readers today.

Testament of Youth (Penguin Classics)

Vera Brittain · 2005

A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

Ernest Hemingway · 2010

The Joy Luck Club: A Novel

Amy Tan · 2006

East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

John Steinbeck · 1952

Maurice: A Novel

E. M. Forster · 2005

Brideshead Revisited

Evelyn Waugh · 2012

Jardi vora el mar

Mercè , 1908-1983 Rodoreda · 1981

The Feast

Margaret Kennedy · 2023

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton · 2022

The Great Gatsby: The Original 1925 Edition (A F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic Novel)

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2021