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Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar • 2024
<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • ONE OF <i>THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S </i>10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR <b>• <b>A<b> <i>TIME</i> MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR</b></b> • </b>A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying, funny, and wholly original<i>, Martyr!</i> heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction.<br><br>“Kaveh Akbar is one of my favorite writers. Ever.” —Tommy Orange, Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of <i>There There</i><br><br>“The best novel you'll ever read about the joy of language, addiction, displacement, martyrdom, belonging, homesickness.” —Lauren Groff, best-selling author of <i>Matrix</i> and <i>Fates and Furies</i></b><br><br>Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed.<br><br>Kaveh Akbar’s <i>Martyr!</i> is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini • 2008
Poetry
Love That Dog
Sharon Creech • 2014
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Ocean Vuong • 2016
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson • 2003
The Hurting Kind
Ada Limón • 2022
The Moons of August
Danusha Lameris • 2014
Time Is a Mother
Ocean Vuong • 2023
If Not, Winter Fragments of Sappho
Sappho • 2003
Fierce Fairytales
Nikita Gill • 2018
Devotions The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver • 2017
Dearly
Margaret Atwood • 2020
Manga
Magical Girl Site Vol. 1
Kentaro Sato • 2017
My Neighbor Totoro Film Comic: All-in-One Edition
Hayao Miyazaki • 2024
solanin
Inio Asano • 2008
Takopi's Original Sin
Taizan5 • 2023
The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún Deluxe Edition I
Nagabe • 2022
The Gods Lie
Kaori Ozaki • 2016
To Your Eternity 1
Yoshitoki Oima • 2017
Tomie
Junji Ito • 2016
Wist A Graphic Novel
Steve M. Robertson • 2023
Durarara!!
Ryohgo Narita • 2012
Box of Light Vol. 1
Seiko Erisawa • 2022
Non-fiction
Life Lessons
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross • 2000
Los cuatro acuerdos
Don Miguel Ruiz • 2011
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius • 2003
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu • 2022
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. • 2014
Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson • 2008
Islam
Karen Armstrong • 2007
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer • 2015
Aztec Myths
J.K. Jackson • 2019
Quiet The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Susan Cain • 2013
Memoir/Biography
Letter to My Daughter
Maya Angelou • 2012
Know My Name
Chanel Miller • 2019
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath • 2007
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi • 2016
Written by Herself: Volume I
Jill Ker Conway • 2011
Yearning for Home While I'm at Home
Ra-Bin Kwon • 2022
I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki
Baek Sehee • 2024
Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner • 2021
Beyond the Story
BTS; Myeongseok Kang • 2023
Essays
Upstream
Mary Oliver • 2016
A Room of One′s Own
Virginia Woolf • 2025
Scripts
The Quite Nice & Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book
Neil Gaiman • 2019
Fleabag: The Scriptures
Phoebe Waller-Bridge • 2019
Letters
Letters to Milena
Franz Kafka • 2015
Science Fiction
Dune
Frank Herbert • 2003
Fantasy
Hush, Hush
Becca Fitzpatrick • 2009
Fiction
Severance
Ling Ma • 2018
Normal People
Sally Rooney • 2019
Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan • 2021
All the Lovers in the Night
Mieko Kawakami • 2022
If Cats Disappeared from the World
Genki Kawamura • 2019
Uncategorized
The Chosen One
Carol Lynch Williams • 2010
Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto • 2018
La tregua
Mario Benedetti • 2010
Latitudes of Longing
Shubhangi Swarup • 2020
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman • 2018
Les Miserables
Victor Hugo • 2013
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott • 2014
Lizard
Banana Yoshimoto • 1996
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf • 1990
My Brilliant Life
Ae-ran Kim • 2021
Niebla
Miguel De Unamuno • 2019
No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai • 2022
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck • 1994
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong • 2019
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee • 2017
Pedro Paramo
Juán Rulfo • 2004
Pieces of You
타블로 • 2009
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke • 2020
Please Look After Mom
Kyung-Sook Shin • 2011
Shadowbahn
Steve Erickson • 2017
She Who Became the Sun
Shelley Parker-Chan • 2021
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse • 1999
Six Crimson Cranes
Elizabeth Lim • 2021
Sola
Maria Jose de Chopitea
Have you ever wondered why that 13-digit number on the back of a book costs $125 in the United States but is completely free in Canada and India? This book, The Global ISBN Handbook, is your 2025 guide to the International Standard Book Number. It explains everything about this global "fingerprint" for books. The ISBN is the most important cornerstone of the publishing industry. It started as a simple warehouse tool in the 1960s. Now, it is a complex digital identifier used in over 200 countries. This handbook deconstructs the entire system. It uses 15 distinct national case studies to do this. You will learn how the old 10-digit system changed to the new 13-digit one. We break down the five parts of the ISBN, from the "Bookland" prefix to the final check digit. The book explores the global governance framework, starting with the International ISBN Agency. Then, it dives deep into how different countries run their systems. You'll see the privatized, high-cost model in the United States. You'll compare it to Canada's free, government-run system. We explore the industry-led models in Brazil and Germany. We look at government-run systems in Mexico and India. We even cover the unique case of China, where the ISBN is not a simple identifier but a state-controlled publication license. The book also examines the systems in the UK , France , Russia , Japan , Australia , South Africa , Nigeria , and Egypt. Many books and websites can tell you how to get an ISBN. This handbook is the only resource that explains why the process is so different everywhere you look. It moves beyond a simple "how-to" and provides a true global analysis. It directly compares the privatized, for-profit models in the US and UK against the free, public-good systems in Canada and South Africa. You won't just learn the price; you will understand the cultural policies, market structures, and legal philosophies that shape that price. This book shows how the ISBN is a "global mirror". It reveals how a simple number can be a commercial product in one nation , a tool of cultural policy in another , and an instrument of state control in a third. This comparative insight is the missing piece for any author, publisher, or researcher trying to navigate the complex international publishing market. Disclaimer: This handbook is an independently produced resource for commentary and analysis. The author has no affiliation with the International ISBN Agency, R.R. Bowker, Library and Archives Canada, the National Press and Publication Administration, or any other national ISBN agency. This work is independently produced under the principle of nominative fair use.
Territory of Light
Yuko Tsushima • 2019
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho • 2014
The Book of Longings
Sue Monk Kidd • 2020
The Crucible
Arthur Miller • 2003
The Dove in the Belly
Jim Grimsley • 2022
The Future Saints
Ashley Winstead • 2026
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
Axie Oh • 2022
The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness
Kyung-Sook Shin • 2015
The Giver
Lois Lowry • 2018
The Great Gatsby
Francis Scott Fitzgerald • 2022
The Keeper
Jessica Moor • 2020
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini • 2004
The Lake
Banana Yoshimoto • 2011
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry • 2000
<p>This beloved, world-famous allegorical classic about a young prince on a quest for knowledge is an essential read for every home library.</p> <p>Combining Richard Howard's translation with restored original full-color art, this definitive English-language edition of The Little Prince will capture the hearts of readers of all ages.</p> <p>Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. When a pilot crashes in the Sahara Desert, he meets a little boy who asks him to draw a sheep. Gradually the Little Prince reveals more about himself: He comes from a small asteroid, where he lived alone until a rose grew there.</p> <p>But the rose grew demanding, and he was confused by his feelings about her. The story unfolds further from one planet to the next in a thoughtful philosophical exploration of love and the ephemeral.</p>
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
Keigo Higashino • 2021
The Naked Tree
Pak Wan-So • 2011
花樣年華 HYYH The Notes 1
Big Hit Entertainment • 2019
The Overstory
Richard Powers • 2018
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde • 2021
The Premonition
Banana Yoshimoto • 2023
The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd • 2003
The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides • 2021
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller • 2012
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
Leslye Walton • 2014
The Tale of Despereaux
Kate DiCamillo • 2009
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Alix E. Harrow • 2019
The Traveling Cat Chronicles
Arikawa Hiro • 2019
The Unreal and the Real
Ursula K. Le Guin • 2016
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>
The White Book
Han Kang • 2019
The Woman in the White Kimono
Ana Johns • 2019
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston • 2006
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee • 2014
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
Christopher Paolini • 2020
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy • 2010
We Do Not Part
Han Kang • 2025
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Raymond Carver • 1989
What You are Looking for is in the Library
Michiko Aoyama • 2024
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens • 2019
White Ivy
Susie Yang • 2020
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 2024
Wonder
Rachel Vail • 1993
Writers & Lovers
Lily King • 2020
your name. (light novel)
Makoto Shinkai • 2017
The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali • 2024
Good People
Patmeena Sabit • 2026
The Death of Vivek Oji
Akwaeke Emezi • 2020
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Cho Nam-Joo • 2021
Kaikeyi
Vaishnavi Patel • 2022
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte • 2009
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (Light Novel)
Yoru Sumino • 2018
Human Acts
Han Kang • 2017
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski • 2000
Grimms' Fairy Tales
Brothers Grimm • 2011
Greek Lessons
Han Kang • 2023
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens • 2003
Goodbye Tsugumi
Banana Yoshimoto • 2018
Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen • 2013
Freak the Mighty
W. Rodman Philbrick • 2001
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley • 2018
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury • 2012
Eve of Man
Giovanna Fletcher • 2018
El laberinto de la soledad
Octavio Paz • 1993
East of Eden
John Steinbeck • 2003
Drifting House
Krys Lee • 2012
Don Quijote de la Mancha / Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes • 2019
Divergent
Veronica Roth • 2014
Disoriental
Négar Djavadi • 2018
Dead-End Memories
Banana Yoshimoto • 2022
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2002
Coraline
Neil Gaiman • 2009
Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata • 2019
Clockwork Angel
Cassandra Clare • 2010
CIRCE
Madeline Miller • 2020
Cien años de soledad
Gabriel GarcÍA MÁRquez • 2014
Blue Sisters
Coco Mellors • 2025
The three Blue sisters are exceptionaland exceptionally different. Avery, the eldest and a recovering heroin addict turned strait-laced lawyer, lives with her wife in London; Bonnie, a former boxer, works as a bouncer in Los Angeles following a devastating defeat; and Lucky, the youngest, models in Paris while trying to outrun her hard-partying ways. They also had a fourth sister, Nicky, whose unexpected death left the family reeling. A year later, as they each navigate grief, addiction, and ambition, they find they must return to New York to stop the sale of the apartment they were raised in. But coming home is never as easy as it seems. As the sisters reckon with the disappointments of their childhood and the loss of the only person who held them together, they realize that the greatest secrets theyve been keeping might not have been from one another but from themselves. Imbued with Coco Mellorss signature combination of humor and heart, Blue Sisters is a story of what it takes to keep living after lossand, ultimately, to fall in love with life again.[Bokinfo].
Black Woods, Blue Sky
Eowyn Ivey • 2025
Before I Fall
Lauren Oliver • 2010
Be With You
Takuji Ichikawa • 2008
Awaken
Katie Kacvinsky • 2011
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand • 1999
Asleep
Banana Yoshimoto • 2017
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy • 2002
Anansi Boys
Neil Gaiman • 2006
Almond
Won-pyung Sohn • 2020
All the Bright Places
Jennifer Niven • 2016
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan • 2010
A Semi-definitive List of Worst Nightmares
Krystal Sutherland • 2017
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Becky Chambers • 2021
A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness • 2012
