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The Stranger
Albert Camus · 1989
Beloved
Toni Morrison · 2004
The Church and the Second Sex
Mary Daly · 1986
As I Lay Dying (Vintage International)
William Faulkner · 2011
Madonna in a Fur Coat
Sabahattin Ali · 2017
The Nun
Denis Diderot · 2008
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2003
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
Christina Sharpe · 2016
Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, new edition: Collected Stories (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)
Cookie Mueller · 2022
Pulp
Charles Bukowski · 2002
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote · 1994
On the Road
Jack Kerouac · 1999
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
James W. Loewen · 2018
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Penguin Classics)
Mary Shelley · 1818
<b>Mary Shelley’s classic novel, presented in its original 1818 text, with an introduction from National Book Critics Circle award-winner Charlotte Gordon</b><br> <br> <b>Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read</i></b><br> <br>The original 1818 text of <i>Frankenstein</i> preserves the hard-hitting and politically-charged aspects of Shelley’s original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice. This edition also emphasizes Shelley’s relationship with her mother—trailblazing feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, who penned <i>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman</i>—and demonstrates her commitment to carrying forward her mother’s ideals, placing her in the context of a feminist legacy rather than the sole female in the company of male poets, including Percy Shelley and Lord Byron.<br> <br> This edition includes a new introduction and suggestions for further reading by National Book Critics Circle award-winner and Shelley expert Charlotte Gordon, literary excerpts and reviews selected by Gordon, and a chronology and essay by preeminent Shelley scholar Charles E. Robinson. <br> <br>Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing 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.
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton · 1920
An elegant portrait of desire and betrayal in Old New York. In the highest circle of New York social life during the 1870's, Newland Archer, a young lawyer, prepares to marry the docile May Welland. Before their engagement is announced, he meets May's cousin, the mysterious, nonconformist Countess Ellen Olenska, who has returned to New York after a long absence.
East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
John Steinbeck · 1952
Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre · 1993
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1996
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion · 2008
I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography
Richard Hell · 2014
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. (New York Review Books Classics)
Eve Babitz · 2016
The Woman Destroyed
Simone De Beauvoir · 1987
Reading
Paradise Lost
John Milton · 2003
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1993
2025
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>
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Centuryppppppppp
Timothy Snyder · 2017
The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Novel
Oscar Wilde · 2015
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson
Mitch Albom · 1997
Bad Taste
Nathalie Olah · 2024
I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman · 2019
<p><b>SISTERHOOD. SECRETS. SURVIVAL.</b><br> <br> <b>Discover the haunting, heart-breaking post-apocalyptic TikTok sensation.</b><br> <br> Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus?<br> <br> Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. But, as the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone an outcast in the corner.<br> <br> Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground. The woman who will never know men.<br> <br> <b>WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE MACKINTOSH, BOOKER PRIZE-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF THE <i>WATER CURE</i><br> <br> **<i>Orlanda</i>, the next sensation from Jacquline Harpman, is available now**</b></p>
Sex and Rage: A Novel
Eve Babitz · 2017
1984: 75th Anniversary
George Orwell · 1961
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger · 2001
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Kay Redfield Jamison
The Great Gatsby: The Original 1925 Edition (A F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic Novel)
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2021
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Kristin Kobes Du Mez · 2021
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<br/>The “paradigm-influencing” book (Christianity Today) that is fundamentally transforming our understanding of white evangelicalism in America.<br/>Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism―or in the words of one modern chaplain, with “a spiritual badass.”<br/>As acclaimed scholar Kristin Du Mez explains, the key to understanding this transformation is to recognize the centrality of popular culture in contemporary American evangelicalism. Many of today’s evangelicals might not be theologically astute, but they know their VeggieTales, they’ve read John Eldredge’s Wild at Heart, and they learned about purity before they learned about sex―and they have a silver ring to prove it. Evangelical books, films, music, clothing, and merchandise shape the beliefs of millions. And evangelical culture is teeming with muscular heroes―mythical warriors and rugged soldiers, men like Oliver North, Ronald Reagan, Mel Gibson, and the Duck Dynasty clan, who assert white masculine power in defense of “Christian America.” Chief among these evangelical legends is John Wayne, an icon of a lost time when men were uncowed by political correctness, unafraid to tell it like it was, and did what needed to be done.<br/>Challenging the commonly held assumption that the “moral majority” backed Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020 for purely pragmatic reasons, Du Mez reveals that Trump in fact represented the fulfillment, rather than the betrayal, of white evangelicals’ most deeply held values: patriarchy, authoritarian rule, aggressive foreign policy, fear of Islam, ambivalence toward #MeToo, and opposition to Black Lives Matter and the LGBTQ community. A much-needed reexamination of perhaps the most influential subculture in this country, Jesus and John Wayne shows that, far from adhering to biblical principles, modern white evangelicals have remade their faith, with enduring consequences for all Americans. 15 black-and-white illustrations
Animal Farm
George Orwell · 1996
Farenheit 451
Ray Bradbury · 2004
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho · 2015
The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2010
2026
Hollywood
Charles Bukowski · 1989
The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics)
Shirley Jackson · 2006
Girl on Girl
Sophie Gilbert · 2025
