My taste in books

Animal Farm

George Orwell · 2023

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky · 2010

After Dark

Haruki Murakami · 2007

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Ottessa Moshfegh · 2018

South of the Border, West of the Sun A Novel

Haruki Murakami · 2000

Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Coco Mellors · 2022

Beautiful Boy A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

David Sheff · 2018

The 48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene · 2000

The Secret History A Novel

Donna Tartt · 1992

Looking for Alaska

John Green · 2008

Homesick for Another World Stories

Ottessa Moshfegh · 2017

The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 2015

No Longer Human

太宰治 · 1958

<p> Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. </p><p>Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. His attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a "clown" to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness.</p><p>Still one of the ten bestselling books in Japan, No Longer Human is an important and unforgettable modern classic: "The struggle of the individual to fit into a normalizing society remains just as relevant today as it was at the time of writing." (The Japan Times)</p>

The Castle A New Translation Based on the Restored Text

Franz Kafka · 1998

Men Without Women Stories

Haruki Murakami · 2018

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger · 1991

Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami · 2006

Norwegian Wood

Haruki Murakami · 2010

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius · 2003

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.

Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)

Jane Austen · 1813

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen · 2003

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>

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka · 2009

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway · 1995

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara · 2015

Territory of Light

Yuko Tsushima · 2019

The Last Unicorn

Peter S. Beagle · 1991

Eragon Book I

Christopher Paolini · 2005

The Odyssey

Homer · 2018

The Maze Runner (Maze Runner, Book One)

James Dashner · 2009

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Pablo Neruda · 2021

Good Girl, Bad Blood The Sequel to A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

Holly Jackson · 2022

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

Holly Jackson · 2019

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

J.K. Rowling · 2015

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

J.K. Rowling · 2015

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

J.K. Rowling · 2015

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

J.K. Rowling · 2015

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

J.K. Rowling · 2015

<p><i>'Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard. Just stick out your wand hand, step on board and we can take you anywhere you want to go.'</i><br><br>When the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and screeches to a halt in front of him, it's the start of another far from ordinary year at Hogwarts for Harry Potter. Sirius Black, escaped mass-murderer and follower of Lord Voldemort, is on the run - and they say he is coming after Harry. In his first ever Divination class, Professor Trelawney sees an omen of death in Harry's tea leaves... But perhaps most terrifying of all are the Dementors patrolling the school grounds, with their soul-sucking kiss...<br><br><br><i>Having become classics of our time, the Harry Potter eBooks never fail to bring comfort and escapism. With their message of hope, belonging and the enduring power of truth and love, the story of the Boy Who Lived continues to delight generations of new readers.</i></p>

Der Welten-Express (Der Welten-Express 2) Zwischen Licht und Schatten

Anca Sturm · 2019

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

J.K. Rowling · 2015

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

J.K. Rowling · 2015

<p><i>Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'.</i><br><br>Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!<br><br><br><i>Having become classics of our time, the Harry Potter eBooks never fail to bring comfort and escapism. With their message of hope, belonging and the enduring power of truth and love, the story of the Boy Who Lived continues to delight generations of new readers.</i></p>

Magiczny ekspres

Anca Sturm · 2021

New Moon

Stephenie Meyer · 2007

Twilight

Stephenie Meyer · 2022

Dead Poets Society

N. H. Kleinbaum · 2006

Girl in Pieces

Kathleen Glasgow · 2018

Antigone

Sophocles · 2005

Fight Club A Novel

Chuck Palahniuk · 2018

I Hate and I Love

Gaius Valerius Catullus · 2015

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · 2000

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway · 2024