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japanese literature

Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami · 2005

Child of Fortune
Yuko Tsushima · 2018

Kokoro
Natsume Soseki · 1996
Book by Natsume Soseki

The Memory Police: A Novel
Yoko Ogawa · 2020

Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2005
classics

Anna Karenina
graf Leo Tolstoy · 1995

The Picture of Dorian Gray The Original 1890 Edition
Oscar Wilde · 1890
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray<br/><br/>The Picture of Dorian Gray is a 1891 gothic and philosophical novel by Irish writer and playwright Oscar Wilde. First published as a serial story in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, the editors feared the story was indecent, and without Wilde's knowledge, deleted five hundred words before publication.<br/><br/>Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding the public morality. In response, Wilde aggressively defended his novel and art in correspondence with the British press.<br/><br/>Wilde revised and expanded the magazine edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) for publication as a novel; the book edition (1891) featured an aphoristic preface — an apologia about the art of the novel and the reader. The content, style and presentation of the preface made it famous in its own literary right, as social and cultural criticism. In April 1891, the editorial house Ward, Lock and Company published the revised version of The Picture of Dorian Gray.<br/><br/>A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf!

Stoner (New York Review Books Classics)
John Williams · 2006

East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
John Steinbeck · 1952

Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)
Charlotte Brontë · 2003
Charlotte Brontë characterized the eponymous heroine of her 1847 novel as being "as poor and plain as myself." Presenting a heroine with neither great beauty nor entrancing charm was an unprecendented maneuver, but Brontë's instincts proved correct, for readers of her era and ever after have taken Jane Eyre into their hearts. The author drew upon her own experience to depict Jane's struggles at Lowood, an oppressive boarding school, and her troubled career as a governess. Unlike Jane, Brontë had the advantage of a warm family circle that shared and encouraged her literary pursuits. She found immediate success with this saga of an orphan girl forced to make her way alone in the world, from Lowood School to Thornfield, the estate of the majestically moody Mr. Rochester, and beyond. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 2002

The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)
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>
literary fiction

Self-Portrait with Nothing
Aimee Pokwatka · 2022

on earth we’re briefly gorgeous

The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Donna Tartt · 2015
contemporary fiction

A Man Called Ove: A Nov
Fredrik Backman · 2015
psychological fiction

Notes from a Dead House
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2016

White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2024
romance

White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2024
philosophical fiction

The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2003

The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 2003

The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text (The Schocken Kafka Library)
Franz Kafka · 1999
<b>A brilliant translation of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, revealing a tale that is as full of energy and power as it was when it was first written. From the author of <i>The Metamorphosis.<br></i></b><br>Written in 1914, <i>The Trial</i> is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, Kafka's nightmare has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers. This new edition is based upon the work of an international team of experts who have restored the text, the sequence of chapters, and their division to create a version that is as close as possible to the way the author left it.
absurdist literature

The Tatami Galaxy
Tomihiko Morimi · 2022
dystopian fiction

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>
literary nonfiction

Slow Days, Fast Company The World, The Flesh, and L.A.
Eve Babitz · 2016
science fiction

Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes · 1994
nonfiction

The Anatomy of Violence
Adrian Raine · 2013
fantasy

The Sword of Kaigen A Theonite War Story
M. L. Wang

A Crane Among Wolves
June Hur · 2024

She Who Became the Sun
Shelley Parker-Chan · 2022

The Burning God
R. F. Kuang · 2021

The Dragon Republic
R. F. Kuang · 2019

The Poppy War
R. F. Kuang · 2018

A Magic Steeped in Poison
Judy I. Lin · 2022
