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Poetry
On Sun Swallowing
Dakota Warren · 2022
Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur · 2015
The Book Is Divided Into Four Chapters, And Each Chapter Serves A Different Purpose. Deals With A Different Pain. Heals A Different Heartache. Milk And Honey Takes Readers Through A Journey Of The Most Bitter Moments In Life And Finds Sweetness In Them Because There Is Sweetness Everywhere If You Are Just Willing To Look.
The Sun and Her Flowers
Rupi Kaur · 2017
Time Is a Mother
Ocean Vuong · 2023
"Take your time with these poems, and return to them often.” —The Washington Post<br/><br/>The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong<br/><br/>How else do we return to ourselves but to fold<br/>The page so it points to the good part<br/><br/>In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of personal and social loss, embodying the paradox of sitting in grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong contends with the meaning of family and the cost of being the product of an American war in America. At once vivid, brave, and propulsive, these poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicenter of the break.<br/><br/>The author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds, winner of the 2016 Whiting Award, the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize, and a 2019 MacArthur fellowship, Vuong writes directly to our humanity without losing sight of the current moment. These poems represent a more innovative and daring experimentation with language and form, illuminating how the themes we perennially live in and question are truly inexhaustible. Bold and prescient, and a testament to tenderness in the face of violence, Time Is a Mother is a return and a forging forth all at once.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong · 2021
Penguin's Poems by Heart
Laura Barber · 2009
Sci-Fi
Dune
Frank Herbert · 2003
Illuminae (The Illuminae Files Book 1)
Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff · 2015
Gemina
Meagan Spooner Amie Kaufman · 2021
Obsidio
Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff · 2018
Navigating The Stars by Maria V Snyder
Maria V. Snyder · 2018
Chasing the Shadows
Maria V. Snyder · 2019
Defending The Galaxy
Maria V. Snyder · 2020
'ya With A Pretty Strong Romantic Thread And Huge Adult Crossover Appeal. The Plot Is Fantastic, The Pacing Spectacular, The Intricacies, The Snark, The Banter...oh My! Go, Go, Go. You'll Love This!' Amanda Bouchet, Nyt Bestselling Author On The Sentinels Of The Galaxy Series. The Jaw-dropping Finale To New York Times Bestselling Author Maria V. Snyder's Ya Space Opera. Year 2522. Oh. My. Stars. Junior Officer Ara Lawrence Here, Reporting For Duty. Again. It's Situation Critical For The Security Team And Everyone In The Base - Including My Parents - With A New Attack From The Looters Imminent, A Possible Galaxy-wide Crime Conspiracy And An Unstoppable Alien Threat. But This All Pales In The Face Of My Mind-blowing Discovery About The Q-net. Of Course, No One Believes Me. I'm Not Sure I Believe Me. It Could Just Be A Stress-induced Delusion. That's What My Parents Seem To Believe... Their Concern For Me Is Hampering My Ability To Do My Job. I Know They Love Me, But With The Q-net In My Corner, I'm The Only One Who Can Help The Security Team Beat The Shadowy Aliens From The Pits We Discovered. We're Holding Them At Bay, For Now, But The Entire Milky Way Galaxy Is In Danger Of Being Overrun. With Battles On Too Many Fronts, It's Looking Dire. But One Thing I've Learned Is When People I Love Are In Jeopardy, I'll Never Give Up Trying To Save Them. Not Until My Dying Breath. Which Could Very Well Be Today... Praise For Sentinels Of The Galaxy: 'smart, Witty And Full Of Heart, Navigating The Stars Had Me Hooked From The Very First Page!' - Lynette Noni, Bestselling Author Of The Medoran Chronicles 'a Solidly Entertaining Read With A Delightful Heroine And Unpredictable Action-packed Plot. ' - Dreaming Of Cats 'maria V. Snyder Has A Way Of Writing Addictive Books And This Is No Exception. If You Like Indiana Jones, Tomb Raider, Sci-fi With Awesome Action And Subtle Romance This Series Is For You!' - Mashleas Reads
Aurora Rising
Amie Kaufman
Aurora Burning
Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff · 2020
Aurora's End
Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff · 2021
1984
George Orwell · 1983
75th ANNIVERSARY EDITION “Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece “1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s dystopian classic remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.
Ultra 85
Logic · 2024
Orbital
Samantha Harvey · 2024
A River Called Time: Courttia Newland
Courttia Newland · 2022
The Loneliest Girl in the Universe
Lauren James · 2018
LGBTQ
Red, White and Royal Blue
Casey McQuiston · 2021
One Last Stop
Casey McQuiston · 2021
<p><b>*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*<br>*INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER*<br>*INSTANT #1 INDIE BESTSELLER*</b><br><b><br>From the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Red, White & Royal Blue</i> comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks...</b><br><br>For cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and cinematic love stories don’t exist, and the only smart way to go through life is alone. She can’t imagine how waiting tables at a 24-hour pancake diner and moving in with too many weird roommates could possibly change that. And there’s certainly no chance of her subway commute being anything more than a daily trudge through boredom and electrical failures.<br><br>But then, there’s this gorgeous girl on the train. <br><br>Jane. Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane. Jane with her rough edges and swoopy hair and soft smile, showing up in a leather jacket to save August’s day when she needed it most. August’s subway crush becomes the best part of her day, but pretty soon, she discovers there’s one big problem: Jane doesn’t just look like an old school punk rocker. She’s literally displaced in time from the 1970s, and August is going to have to use everything she tried to leave in her own past to help her. Maybe it’s time to start believing in some things, after all.<br><br>Casey McQuiston’s <i>One Last Stop </i>is a magical, sexy, big-hearted romance where the impossible becomes possible as August does everything in her power to save the girl lost in time.<br><br><b>"A dazzling romance, filled with plenty of humor and heart." - <i>Time Magazine</i>, "The 21 Most Anticipated Books of 2021"<br><br></b><b>"Dreamy, other worldly, smart, swoony, thoughtful, hilarious - all in all, exactly what you'd expect from Casey McQuiston!" - Jasmine Guillory, <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>The Proposal </i>and</b><i><b> Party for Two</b></i></p>
Here the Whole Time
Vitor Martins · 2020
Only Mostly Devastated
Sophie Gonzales · 2020
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Malinda Lo · 2021
When Katie Met Cassidy
Camille Perri · 2018
You Should See Me in a Crown
Leah Johnson · 2021
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller · 2012
History Is All You Left Me
Adam Silvera · 2017
They Both Die at the End
Adam Silvera · 2017
The first book in the No. 1 global bestselling They Both Die at the End series. What if you could find out your death date from a single phone call? Death-Cast is calling . . . will you answer? ‘If They Both Die at the End broke your heart and put it back together again, be prepared for this novel to do the same. A tender, sad, hopeful and youthful story that deserves as much love as its predecessor.’ Culturefly '[A] heart-pounding story [full] of emotion and suspense.' Kirkus 'An extraordinary book with a riveting plot.' Booklist A love story with a difference - an unforgettable tale of life, loss and making each day count. On September 5th, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: they're going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they're both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: there's an app for that. It's called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure - to live a lifetime in a single day. Another beautiful, heartbreaking and life-affirming book from the brilliant Adam Silvera, author of More Happy Than Not, History Is All You Left Me, What If It's Us, Here's To Us and the Infinity Cycle series. PRAISE FOR ADAM SILVERA: 'There isn't a teenager alive who won't find their heart described perfectly on these pages.' Patrick Ness, author of The Knife of Never Letting Go 'Adam Silvera is a master at capturing the infinite small heartbreaks of love and loss and grief.' Nicola Yoon, author of Everything, Everything 'A phenomenal talent.' Juno Dawson, author of Clean and Wonderland 'Bold and haunting.' Lauren Oliver, author of Delirium
We Are Okay
Nina LaCour · 2017
Love Is For Losers
Wibke Brueggemann · 2021
What If It's Us
ADAM SILVERA & BECKY ALBERTALLI · 2018
She Gets the Girl
Rachael Lippincott · 2023
<b><i>She’s All That</i> meets <i>What If It’s Us</i> in this <i>New York Times </i>bestselling hate-to-love YA romantic comedy from the coauthor of <i>Five Feet Apart </i>Rachael Lippincott and debut writer Alyson Derrick.</b><br><br>Alex Blackwood is a little bit headstrong, with a dash of chaos and a whole lot of flirt. She knows how to get the girl. <i>Keeping</i> her on the other hand…not so much. Molly Parker has everything in her life totally in control, except for her complete awkwardness with just about anyone besides her mom. She knows she’s in love with the impossibly cool Cora Myers. She just…hasn’t actually talked to her yet. <br> <br>Alex and Molly don’t belong on the same planet, let alone the same college campus. But when Alex, fresh off a bad (but hopefully not permanent) breakup, discovers Molly’s hidden crush as their paths cross the night before classes start, they realize they might have a common interest after all. Because maybe if Alex volunteers to help Molly learn how to get her dream girl to fall for her, she can prove to her ex that she’s not a selfish flirt. That she’s ready for an actual commitment. And while Alex is the last person Molly would ever think she could trust, she can’t deny Alex knows what she’s doing with girls, unlike her. <br> <br>As the two embark on their five-step plans to get their girls to fall for them, though, they both begin to wonder if maybe they’re the ones falling…for each other.
Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl
Andrea Lawlor · 2019
It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines, and is a flâneur with a rich dating life. But Paul's also got a secret: he's a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from Riot Grrrl to leather cub, women's studies major to trade, Paul transforms his body at will in a series of adventures that take him from Iowa City to Boystown to Provincetown and finally to San Francisco - a journey through the deep queer archives of struggle and pleasure. Andrea Lawlor's debut novel offers a speculative history of early 90s identity politics during the heyday of ACT UP and Queer Nation.
Graphic novels
Heartstopper #1: A Graphic Novel (1)
Alice Oseman · 2020
<b>Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. A sweet and charming coming-of-age story that explores friendship, love, and coming out. <p><b>"Absolutely delightful. Sweet, romantic, kind. Beautifully paced. I loved this book." -- Rainbow Rowell, author of <i>Carry On</i></b></b><br></br>Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning. A warm and intimate friendship follows, and that soon develops into something more for Charlie, who doesn't think he has a chance. <p>But Nick is struggling with feelings of his own, and as the two grow closer and take on the ups and downs of high school, they come to understand the surprising and delightful ways in which love works.<br>
Heartstopper #2: A Graphic Novel (2)
Alice Oseman · 2020
Heartstopper #3: A Graphic Novel (3)
Alice Oseman · 2021
Heartstopper #4: A Graphic Novel (4)
Alice Oseman · 2022
"Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning. A warm and intimate friendship follows, and that soon develops into something more for Charlie, who doesn't think he has a chance. But Nick is struggling with feelings of his own, and as the two grow closer and take on the ups and downs of high school, they come to understand the surprising and delightful ways in which love works"--
A Monster Calls: Inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd
Patrick Ness · 2013
Lore Olympus: Volume One
Rachel Smythe · 2021
Lore Olympus: Volume Two
Rachel Smythe · 2022
Sheets
Brenna Thummler · 2018
Are You Listening?
Tillie Walden · 2019
<p><b>The graphic novel <i>Are You Listening?</i> is an intimate and emotionally soaring story about friendship, grief, and healing from Eisner Award winner Tillie Walden.</b><br><br>Bea is on the run. And then, she runs into Lou.<br><br>This chance encounter sends them on a journey through West Texas, where strange things follow them wherever they go. The landscape morphs into an unsettling world, a mysterious cat joins them, and they are haunted by a group of threatening men. To stay safe, Bea and Lou must trust each other as they are driven to confront buried truths. The two women share their stories of loss and heartbreak—and a startling revelation about sexual assault—culminating in an exquisite example of human connection.<br><br>This magical realistic adventure from the celebrated comics creator of <i>Spinning </i>and <i>On a Sunbeam</i> will stay with readers long after the final gorgeously illustrated page.<br><br><b>2020 Eisner Award Winner, Best Graphic Album--New</b><br><b>A</b><b> Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book of 2019</b><br><b>A National Public Radio (NPR) Best Book of 2019</b><br><b>An <i>O </i>Magazine Best LGBTQ Book of 2019</b><br><b>One of <i>The Comics Beat</i>'s Best Comics of 2019</b><br><b>A Lambda Literary Award Finalist</b><br><b>A Harvey Award nominee, Best Book of the Year</b></p>
Literary fiction
The Secret History
Donna Tartt · 1992
<b><b><b><b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • </b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "a<b>n accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (<i>Village Voice</i>)</b>, f<b>rom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <i>The Goldfinch.<br><br></i></b></b></b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b><br><br>Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.<br><br><b>“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b>
Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert · 2006
Pure Colour
Sheila Heti · 2023
Eileen
Ottessa Moshfegh · 2016
Second Place
Rachel Cusk · 2021
A haunting fable of art, family, and fate from the author of the Outline trilogy. A woman invites a famous artist to use her guesthouse in the remote coastal landscape where she lives with her family. Powerfully drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision might penetrate the mystery at the center of her life. But as a long, dry summer sets in, his provocative presence itself becomes an enigma—and disrupts the calm of her secluded household. Second Place, Rachel Cusk’s electrifying new novel, is a study of female fate and male privilege, the geometries of human relationships, and the moral questions that animate our lives. It reminds us of art’s capacity to uplift—and to destroy.
Call Me by Your Name: A Novel
André Aciman · 2017
<p><b>Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by Three-Time OscarTM Nominee James Ivory<br><br>The Basis of the Oscar-Winning Best Adapted Screenplay</b><b><br><br>A <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller<br>A <i>USA Today</i> Bestseller <br>A <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Bestseller<br>A <i>Vulture</i> Book Club Pick </b><br><br><b>An Instant Classic and One of the Great Love Stories of Our Time<br><br></b>Andre Aciman's <i>Call Me by Your Name</i> is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when, during the restless summer weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the charged ground between them. Recklessly, the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. It is an instant classic and one of the great love stories of our time.<br><br>Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Ficition<br><br>A <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book of the Year • A <i>Publishers Weekly </i>and <i>The Washington Post </i>Best Book of the Year • A <i>New York </i>Magazine "Future Canon" Selection • A <i>Chicago Tribune</i> and <i>Seattle Times</i> (Michael Upchurch's) Favorite Favorite Book of the Year</p>
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt · 2013
Mary B: A Novel
Katherine J. Chen · 2018
Past the Shallows
Favel Parrett · 2013
Something Bad is Going to Happen
Jessie Stephens
Autumn
Smith Ali · 2017
Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer.<br/><br/>Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever . . .
What I Have Written
John Scott · 2003
Historical Fiction
Betty
Tiffany McDaniel · 2020
The Luminaries: A Novel (Man Booker Prize)
Eleanor Catton · 2013
The Girl in the Letter: The most gripping, heartwrenching page-turner of the year
Emily Gunnis · 2018
Circe
Madeline Miller · 2020
"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller is "both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right" (Alexandra Alter, The New York Times). In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts, and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus. But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love. With unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and page-turning suspense, Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world. #1 New York Times bestseller -- named one of the best books of the year by NPR, the Washington Post, People, Time, Amazon, Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Newsweek, the A.V. Club, Christian Science Monitor, Refinery 29, BuzzFeed, Paste, Audible, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Thrillist, NYPL, Self, Real Simple, Goodreads, Boston Globe, Electric Literature, BookPage, the Guardian, Book Riot, Seattle Times, and Business Insider
All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
Anthony Doerr · 2014
*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).
Daisy Jones And The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2020
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Joan Lindsay · 1977
Jane Austen's The History of England
Jane Austen · 1993
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2018
<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i></b><b> BESTSELLER</b><br> <br><b>“If you</b>’<b>re looking for a book to take on holiday this summer, <i>The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo</i> has got all the glitz and glamour to make it a perfect beach read.” —<i>Bustle</i></b><br> <br><b>From the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Daisy Jones & the Six</i>—an entrancing and “wildly addictive journey of a reclusive Hollywood starlet” (<i>PopSugar</i>) as she reflects on her relentless rise to the top and the risks she took, the loves she lost, and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine.</b><br><br>Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now?<br> <br>Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career.<br> <br>Summoned to Evelyn’s luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the ‘80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn’s story near its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways.<br> <br>“Heartbreaking, yet beautiful” (Jamie Blynn, <i>Us Weekly</i>), <i>The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo </i>is “Tinseltown drama at its finest” (<i>Redbook</i>): a mesmerizing journey through the splendor of old Hollywood into the harsh realities of the present day as two women struggle with what it means—and what it costs—to face the truth.
Beyond the Door of No Return
David Diop · 2024
Ariadne
Jennifer Saint · 2021
The Bee and the Orange Tree
Melissa Ashley · 2019
The Girls: A Novel
Emma Cline · 2017
The Lost Apothecary: A Novel
Sarah Penner · 2021
All Our Shimmering Skies
The Dictionary of Lost Words
Pip Williams · 2020
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante · 2020
The Girl from Munich
Tania Blanchard · 2018
The Librarian of Auschwitz
Antonio Iturbe · 2017
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak · 2007
<b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • ONE OF <i>TIME</i> MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME <b>• A <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> READER TOP 100 PICK FOR BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY • A <i>KIRKUS REVIEWS</i> BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK OF THE CENTURY</b><br><br>The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times.</b><br><br><i>When Death has a story to tell, you listen.</i><br><br>It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.<br><br>Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. <br><br>In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of <i>I Am the Messenger,</i> has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.<br><br>“The kind of book that can be life-changing.” —<i>The New York Times</i><br><br>“Deserves a place on the same shelf with <i>The Diary of a Young Girl </i>by Anne Frank.” —<i>USA Today</i><br><br><b>DON’T MISS <i>BRIDGE OF CLAY</i>, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE <i>THE BOOK THIEF.</i></b>
The Girls Left Behind
Emily Gunnis · 2023
Classics
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh · 2012
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · 2021
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Truman Capote · 1993
The Great Gatsby: The Original 1925 Edition (A F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic Novel)
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2021
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby<br/>The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.<br/>A youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King, and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922 inspired the novel. Following a move to the French Riviera, he completed a rough draft in 1924. He submitted the draft to editor Maxwell Perkins, who persuaded Fitzgerald to revise the work over the following winter. After his revisions, Fitzgerald was satisfied with the text, but remained ambivalent about the book's title and considered several alternatives. The final title he desired was Under the Red, White, and Blue. Painter Francis Cugat's final cover design impressed Fitzgerald who incorporated a visual element from the art into the novel.<br/>Gatsby continues to attract popular and scholarly attention. The novel was most recently adapted to film in 2013 by director Baz Luhrmann, while contemporary scholars emphasize the novel's treatment of social class, inherited wealth compared to those who are self-made, race, environmentalism, and its cynical attitude towards the American dream. The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary masterpiece and a contender for the title of the Great American Novel.<br/>A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf!
Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
Emily Brontë, Pauline Nestor · 2002
<b>Coming soon to the big screen is Emerald Fennell’s feature film “<i>Wuthering Heights</i>,” which captures the spirit of this epic love story and stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Catherine and Heathcliff.<br></b><br>Emily Brontë's only novel endures as a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence. The Penguin Classics edition is the definitive version of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor.<br><br>Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before. What unfolds is the tale of the intense love between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrendered to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past. <br><br>In this edition, a new preface by Lucasta Miller, author of <i>The Brontë Myth</i>, looks at the ways in which the novel has been interpreted, from Charlotte Brontë onwards. This complements Pauline Nestor's introduction, which discusses changing critical receptions of the novel, as well as Emily Brontë's influences and background.
A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)
Tennessee Williams · 2004
Night
Elie Wiesel · 2012
A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man. Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Joan Lindsay · 2019
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott ·
I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith · 1999
One of the 20th century's most beloved novels is still winning hearts, Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle!<br/><br/>“This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met.” -- J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series<br/><br/>Adapted to a feature film in 2003, I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Here she strives, over six turbulent months, to hone her writing skills. She fills three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries. Her journals candidly chronicle the great changes that take place within the castle's walls, and her own first descent into love.<br/><br/>By the time she pens her final entry, she has "captured the castle"-- and the heart of the reader-- in one of literature's most enchanting entertainments.<br/><br/>Bonus: Reading Group Discussion Guide included in this edition
Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier · 1997
The Arabian Nights
Husain Haddawy · 2008
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran · 2022
Perfume: The Story of Murder
Patrick Suskind · 1986
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 2003
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath · 1966
Of A Boy
Sonya Hartnett · 2011
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood · 2011
A Room Of Ones Own : Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf · 2022
Labyrinths
Jorge Luis Borges · 2007
And The Ass Saw The Angel
Nick Cave · 2009
The Power of One
Bryce Courtenay · 2006
FranCoise Sagan Bonjour Tristesse (Penguin Modern Classics) /anglais
SAGAN FRANCOISE · 2013
Jane Eyre (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
Charlotte Bronte · 2009
The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction
Michel Foucault · 1990
Memoir
Everything I Know About Love
Dolly Alderton · 2019
Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen · 1994
<b>30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION <b>• </b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. Her memoir of the next two years is a "poignant, honest ... triumphantly funny ... and heartbreaking story" (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>). <br><br><b>WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR <br></b></b><br>The ward for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital was as renowned for its famous clientele—Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles—as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. <br><br><i>Girl, Interrupted</i> is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.
Contemporary
All This Has Nothing To Do With Me
Monica Sabolo · 2015
Normal People: A Novel
Sally Rooney · 2020
<b>NOW AN EMMY-NOMINATED HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • “A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships” (<i>People</i>) from the author of <i>Conversations with Friends,</i> “a master of the literary page-turner” (J. Courtney Sullivan).</b><br> <br><b>“[A] novel that demands to be read compulsively, in one sitting.”—<i>The Washington Post</i></b><br><br><b>ONE OF <i>ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY</i>’S TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE</b><br><br><b>TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: <i>People, Slate,</i> The New York Public Library, <i>Harvard Crimson</i></b><br><br>Connell and Marianne grew up in the same small town, but the similarities end there. At school, Connell is popular and well liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation—awkward but electrifying—something life changing begins.<br><br>A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. And as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other.<br><br><i>Normal People</i> is the story of mutual fascination, friendship, and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find that they can’t.<br> <br><b>WINNER: The British Book Award, The Costa Book Award, The An Post Irish Novel of the Year, <i>Sunday Times </i>Young Writer of the Year Award</b><br><br><b>BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>The New York Times Book Review, Oprah Daily, Time,</i> NPR, <i>The Washington Post, Vogue, Esquire, Glamour, Elle, Marie Claire, Vox, The Paris Review, Good Housekeeping, Town & Country</i></b>
Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You: A Novel
Sally Rooney · 2021
Intermezzo
Sally Rooney · 2024
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh · 2019
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible A New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century “One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.” — Entertainment Weekly “Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.” —Vogue From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.
If I Stay
Gayle Forman · 2014
Where She Went
Gayle Forman · 2012
Adam, now a rising rock star, and Mia, a successful cellist, reunite in New York and reconnect after the horrific events that tore them apart when Mia almost died in a car accident three years earlier.
The Conditions Of Will
Hastings, Jessa
The Midnight Library: A Novel
Matt Haig · 2020
The #1 New York Times bestselling WORLDWIDE phenomenon Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick | Independent (London) Ten Best Books of the Year "A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits."—The Washington Post The dazzling reader-favorite about the choices that go into a life well lived, from the acclaimed author of How To Stop Time and The Comfort Book. Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
Gabrielle Zevin · 2022
The Paper Palace
Miranda Cowley Heller · 2021
Yellowface
R.F. Kuang · 2024
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel
Gail Honeyman · 2017
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND THE PERFECT HOLIDAY GIFT A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick “Beautifully written and incredibly funny, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is about the importance of friendship and human connection. I fell in love with Eleanor, an eccentric and regimented loner whose life beautifully unfolds after a chance encounter with a stranger; I think you will fall in love, too!” —Reese Witherspoon No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond’s big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the smart, warm, and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes. . . The only way to survive is to open your heart.
Fantasy
If You Could See the Sun
Ann Liang · 2022
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V.E. Schwab · 2020
The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune · 2020
A Magical Island. A Dangerous Task. A Burning Secret. Linus Baker Leads A Quiet, Solitary Life. At Forty, He Lives In A Tiny House With A Devious Cat And His Old Records. As A Case Worker At The Department In Charge Of Magical Youth, He Spends His Days Overseeing The Well-being Of Children In Government-sanctioned Orphanages. When Linus Is Unexpectedly Summoned By Extremely Upper Management He's Given A Curious And Highly Classified Assignment: Travel To Marsyas Island Orphanage, Where Six Dangerous Children Reside: A Gnome, A Sprite, A Wyvern, An Unidentifiable Green Blob, A Were-pomeranian, And The Antichrist. Linus Must Set Aside His Fears And Determine Whether Or Not They're Likely To Bring About The End Of Days. But The Children Aren't The Only Secret The Island Keeps. Their Caretaker Is The Charming And Enigmatic Arthur Parnassus, Who Will Do Anything To Keep His Wards Safe. As Arthur And Linus Grow Closer, Long-held Secrets Are Exposed, And Linus Must Make A Choice: Destroy A Home Or Watch The World Burn. An Enchanting Story, Masterfully Told, The House In The Cerulean Sea Is About The Profound Experience Of Discovering An Unlikely Family In An Unexpected Place-and Realizing That Family Is Yours--
The Dark Tide
Alicia Jasinska · 2021
A gripping, dark enemies to lovers LGBTQ+ YA fantasy about two girls who must choose between saving themselves, each other, or their sinking island home.<br/>Every year on St. Walpurga's Eve, Caldella's Witch Queen lures a boy back to her palace. An innocent life to be sacrificed on the full moon to keep the island city from sinking.<br/>Lina Kirk is convinced her brother is going to be taken this year. To save him, she enlists the help of Thomas Lin, the boy she secretly loves, and the only person to ever escape from the palace. But they draw the queen's attention, and Thomas is chosen as the sacrifice.<br/>Queen Eva watched her sister die to save the boy she loved. Now as queen, she won't make the same mistake. She's willing to sacrifice anyone if it means saving herself and her city.<br/>When Lina offers herself to the queen in exchange for Thomas's freedom, the two girls await the full moon together. But Lina is not at all what Eva expected, and the queen is nothing like Lina envisioned. Against their will, they find themselves falling for each other as water floods Caldella's streets and the dark tide demands its sacrifice.<br/>Perfect for fans of: The Wicked Deep and A Curse So Dark and Lonely Witchy tales Dark fantasy fiction LGBTQ books Enemies to lovers romance<br/><br/>Praise for The Dark Tide:<br/>"Striking the perfect balance, The Dark Tide demands to be read in one held breath as its tide bears down on all."―Foreword, Starred Review<br/>"A dark scenic adventure, sensitively written for romantics, Jasinska's debut novel is a fantasy of promises, betrayal, unrequited love, and black magic."―School Library Journal, Starred Review<br/>"The Dark Tide is the dark, queer fantasy of your dreams that's part beauty and the beast, part something entirely new and original... a lush world that begs to be lived in... It's beautiful, and fast paced, and everything I ever want from a fairy tale."―Cat VanOrder, Bookmarks (Winston-Salem, NC)<br/>"Fans of the enemies-to-lovers trope will be ecstatic with this book...The Dark Tide offers an exciting and immersive story with a strong feminist slant that subverts common YA tropes and forges its own original path."―The Nerd Daily
A Winter's Promise
Christelle Dabos · 2018
The absorbing first instalment in the bestselling French fantasy series The Mirror Visitor Quartet—winner of the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire.
The Missing of Clairdelune
Christelle Dabos, Hildegarde Serle · 2019
The Memory of Babel
Christelle Dabos · 2020
The Storm of Echoes: Book Four of the Mirror Visitor Quartet
Christelle Dabos · 2021
Shadow and Bone (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy Book 1)
Leigh Bardugo · 2012
Siege and Storm
Leigh Bardugo · 2013
Ruin and Rising
Leigh Bardugo · 2015
Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo · 2015
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, 2)
Leigh Bardugo · 2018
Rule of Wolves
Leigh Bardugo · 2023
King of Scars (King of Scars Duology, 1)
Leigh Bardugo · 2019
Our Violent Ends (2) (These Violent Delights Duet)
Chloe Gong · 2021
These Violent Delights (1) (These Violent Delights Duet)
Chloe Gong · 2020
<b>An Instant <i>New York Times </i>Bestseller!</b><br> <b>A <i>BuzzFeed</i> Best Young Adult Book of 2020</b><br> <br><b>Perfect for fans of <i>The Last Magician </i>and <i>Serpent & Dove</i>, this heart-stopping debut is an imaginative <i>Romeo and Juliet </i>retelling set in 1920s Shanghai, with rival gangs and a monster in the depths of the Huangpu River.</b><br><br>The year is 1926, and Shanghai hums to the tune of debauchery.<br> <br>A blood feud between two gangs runs the streets red, leaving the city helpless in the grip of chaos. At the heart of it all is eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, a former flapper who has returned to assume her role as the proud heir of the Scarlet Gang—a network of criminals far above the law. Their only rivals in power are the White Flowers, who have fought the Scarlets for generations. And behind every move is their heir, Roma Montagov, Juliette’s first love…and first betrayal.<br> <br>But when gangsters on both sides show signs of instability culminating in clawing their own throats out, the people start to whisper. Of a contagion, a madness. Of a monster in the shadows. As the deaths stack up, Juliette and Roma must set their guns—and grudges—aside and work together, for if they can’t stop this mayhem, then there will be no city left for either to rule.
A Curse So Dark and Lonely (The Cursebreaker Series Book 1)
Brigid Kemmerer · 2019
Eighteen For The Three Hundred Twenty-seventh Time, Prince Rhen Despairs Of Breaking The Curse That Turns Him Into A Beast At The End Of Each Day Until Feisty Harper Enters His Life.
A Heart So Fierce and Broken (The Cursebreaker Series Book 2)
Brigid Kemmerer · 2020
A Vow So Bold and Deadly (The Cursebreaker Series)
Brigid Kemmerer · 2022
Cinderella Is Dead
Kalynn Bayron · 2020
"Wholly original and captivating." - Brigid Kemmerer, New York Times bestselling author of A Curse So Dark and Lonely Girls team up to overthrow the kingdom in this unique and powerful retelling of Cinderella from a stunning new voice that's perfect for fans of Dhonielle Clayton and Melissa Albert. It's 200 years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men of the kingdom select wives based on a girl's display of finery. If a suitable match is not found, the girls not chosen are never heard from again. Sixteen-year-old Sophia would much rather marry Erin, her childhood best friend, than parade in front of suitors. At the ball, Sophia makes the desperate decision to flee, and finds herself hiding in Cinderella's mausoleum. There, she meets Constance, the last known descendant of Cinderella and her step sisters. Together they vow to bring down the king once and for all--and in the process, they learn that there's more to Cinderella's story than they ever knew . . . This fresh take on a classic story will make readers question the tales they've been told, and root for girls to break down the constructs of the world around them.
This Poison Heart
Kalynn Bayron · 2022
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air Book 1)
Holly Black · 2018
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black, comes the first book in a stunning new series about a mortal girl who finds herself caught in a web of royal faerie intrigue. Of course I want to be like them. They're beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever. And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe. Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King. To win a place at the Court, she must defy him--and face the consequences. In doing so, she becomes embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, discovering her own capacity for bloodshed. But as civil war threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.
The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air Book 2)
Holly Black · 2019
<b>The enchanting and bloodthirsty sequel to the <i>New York Times </i>bestselling novel <i>The Cruel Prince.</i></b><br><i>You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring.</i><i><br></i><i>The first lesson is to make yourself strong.</i><i><br></i>After the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her brother safe. To do so, she has bound the wicked king, Cardan, to her, and made herself the power behind the throne. Navigating the constantly shifting political alliances of Faerie would be difficult enough if Cardan were easy to control. But he does everything in his power to humiliate and undermine her even as his fascination with her remains undiminished.<br>When it becomes all too clear that someone close to Jude means to betray her, threatening her own life and the lives of everyone she loves, Jude must uncover the traitor and fight her own complicated feelings for Cardan to maintain control as a mortal in a Faerie world.
The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air Book 3)
Holly Black · 2019
<b>A powerful curse forces the exiled Queen of Faerie to choose between ambition and humanity in this highly anticipated and jaw-dropping finale to The Folk of the Air trilogy from a #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author.</b><br><br><i>He will be the destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne</i><br><br>Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power.<br><br>Now as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is powerless and left reeling from Cardan's betrayal. She bides her time determined to reclaim everything he took from her. Opportunity arrives in the form of her twin sister, Taryn, whose life is in peril.<br><br>Jude must risk venturing back into the treacherous Faerie Court, and confront her lingering feelings for Cardan, if she wishes to save her sister. But Elfhame is not as she left it. War is brewing. As Jude slips deep within enemy lines she becomes ensnared in the conflict's bloody politics.<br><br>And, when a dormant yet powerful curse is unleashed, panic spreads throughout the land, forcing her to choose between her ambition and her humanity . . .<br>
The Queen's Assassin
Melissa de la Cruz · 2020
The Queen's Secret
Melissa de la Cruz · 2021
How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air)
Holly Black · 2020
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas · 2015
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, 2)
Sarah J. Maas · 2020
A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, 3)
Sarah J. Maas · 2020
A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses, 4)
Sarah J. Maas · 2020
A Court of Silver Flames (A Court of Thorns and Roses, 5)
Sarah J. Maas · 2022
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle)
Tracy Deonn · 2022
The Assassin's Blade
Sarah J. Maas · 2014
Celaena Sardothien is Adarlan's most feared assassin. As part of the Assassins' Guild, her allegiance is to her master, Arobynn Hamel, yet Celaena listens to no one and trusts only her fellow killer-for-hire, Sam. In these action-packed prequel novellas - together in one edition for the first time - Celaena embarks on five daring missions. They take her from remote islands to hostile deserts, where she fights to liberate slaves and seeks to avenge the tyrannous. But she is acting against Arobynn's orders and could suffer an unimaginable punishment for such treachery ...Explore the dark underworld of this kick-ass heroine and find out how the legend begins in the five page-turning prequel novellas to the New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series.
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, 1)
Sarah J. Maas · 2023
<p><b>Lethal. Loyal. Legendary.</b> <br><br><b>Enter the world of Throne of Glass with the first book in this complete, #1 bestselling series by Sarah J. Maas, author of the Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR) series.</b> <br><br>In a land without magic, an assassin is summoned to the castle. She has no love for the vicious king who rules from his throne of glass, but she has not come to kill him. She has come to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three murderers, thieves, and warriors in a competition, she will be released from prison to serve as the King's Champion. <br><br>Her name is Celaena Sardothien. <br><br>The Crown Prince will provoke her. The Captain of the Guard will protect her. And a princess from a faraway country will befriend her. But something rotten dwells in the castle, and it's there to kill. When her competitors start dying mysteriously, one by one, Celaena's fight for freedom becomes a fight for survival-and a desperate quest to root out the evil before it destroys her world. <br><br>Thrilling and fierce, <i>Throne of Glass</i> is the first book in the #1 bestselling series that has captivated readers worldwide. <br><br>Other books in this series include: <br><i>Crown of Midnight</i> <br><i>Heir of Fire</i> <br><i>Queen of Shadows</i> <br><i>Empire of Storms</i> <br><i>Tower of Dawn</i> <br><i>Kingdom of Ash</i> <br><i>The Assassin's Blade </i>(prequel novellas)</p>
Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, 2)
Sarah J. Maas · 2023
Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass, 3)
Sarah J. Maas · 2023
Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass, 3)
Sarah J. Maas · 2023
Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass, 4)
Sarah J. Maas · 2023
Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass, 4)
Sarah J. Maas · 2023
Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass, 5)
Sarah J. Maas · 2023
Tower of Dawn (Throne of Glass, 6)
Sarah J. Maas · 2023
Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass, 7)
Sarah J. Maas · 2023
Ninth House (Alex Stern, 1)
Leigh Bardugo · 2020
Vicious (Villains Book 1)
V. E. Schwab · 2013
Vengeful (Villains Book 2)
V. E. Schwab · 2018
*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*<br/>*2018 GOOD READS CHOICE AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION CATEGORY*<br/><br/>A super-powered collision of extraordinary minds and vengeful intentions―#1 New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab returns with the thrilling follow-up to Vicious.<br/><br/>Magneto and Professor X. Superman and Lex Luthor. Victor Vale and Eli Ever. Sydney and Serena Clarke. Great partnerships, now soured on the vine.<br/><br/>But Marcella Riggins needs no one. Flush from her brush with death, she’s finally gained the control she’s always sought―and will use her new-found power to bring the city of Merit to its knees. She’ll do whatever it takes, collecting her own sidekicks, and leveraging the two most infamous EOs, Victor Vale and Eli Ever, against each other.<br/><br/>With Marcella's rise, new enmities create opportunity--and the stage of Merit City will once again be set for a final, terrible reckoning.<br/><br/>Entertainment Weekly's 27 Female Authors Who Rule Sci-Fi and Fantasy Right Now<br/><br/>“Readers won't be able to put down this dark and riveting tale of power and revenge.”―Kirkus Reviews, starred<br/><br/>Praise for Vicious<br/><br/>“Schwab's characters feel vital and real, never reduced to simple archetypes...In a genre that tends toward the flippant or pretentious, this is a rare superhero novel as epic and gripping as any classic comic. Schwab's tale of betrayal, self-hatred, and survival will resonate with superhero fans as well as readers who have never heard of Charles Xavier or Victor von Doom.”―Publishers Weekly (starred review)<br/><br/>"V. E. Schwab's Vicious is the superhero novel I've been waiting for: fresh, merciless, and yes, vicious. Wow."―Mira Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Blackout<br/><br/>Villians<br/>#1 Vicious<br/>#2 Vengeful<br/>"Warm Up" (short story)
Babel
R.F. Kuang · 2022
The Priory of the Orange Tree
Samantha Shannon · 2019
The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library Novel Book 1)
Genevieve Cogman · 2016
A Darker Shade of Magic: A Novel (Shades of Magic Book 1)
V. E. Schwab · 2015
A Gathering of Shadows: A Novel (Shades of Magic, 2)
V. E. Schwab · 2017
A Conjuring of Light: A Novel (Shades of Magic Book 3)
V. E. Schwab · 2017
We Are Bound by Stars
Kesia Lupo · 2020
We Are Blood & Thunder
Kesia Lupo · 2020
House of Hollow
Krystal Sutherland · 2022
The Gilded Wolves: A Novel
Roshani Chokshi · 2019
Immortal Longings
Chloe Gong · 2023
We Hunt the Flame
Hafsah Faizal · 2019
We Free the Stars (Sands of Arawiya, 2)
Hafsah Faizal · 2022
The Final Empire: Mistborn Book One
Brandon Sanderson · 2009
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern · 2012
The Reckless Afterlife of Harriet Stoker
James Lauren · 2020
A Strange and Stubborn Endurance
Foz Meadows · 2022
Middle Grade
Withering-By-Sea
Judith Rossell · 2014
Wormwood Mire
Judith Rossell · 2016
Wakestone Hall (Stella Montgomery, #3)
Judith Rossell · 2019
Playing Beatie Bow
Ruth Park · 1984
Alice in Wonderland: The Original 1865 Edition With Complete Illustrations By Sir John Tenniel (A Classic Novel of Lewis Carroll)
Lewis Carroll · 2021
Matilda
Roald Dahl · 2007
Cogheart
Peter Bunzl · 2019
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum · 2022
Iris and the Tiger
Leanne Hall · 2016
Japanese translation
What You Are Looking for is in the Library
Aoyama Michiko · 2024
Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata · 2019
Never Let Me Go
Ishiguro Kazuo · 2010
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami · 2003
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
Hwang Bo-reum · 2023
WATERSTONES BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2023 PICK WOMEN & HOME NOVEMBER BOOK OF THE MONTH iPaper TOP FICTION PICK 'An absolutely charming novel that all bookworms will adore' Red 'A balm for the soul and a glorious love letter to books and reading' iPaper There was only one thing on her mind. 'I must start a bookshop.' Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, and follows her dream. She opens a bookshop. In a quaint neighbourhood in Seoul, surrounded by books, Yeongju and her customers take refuge. From the lonely barista to the unhappily married coffee roaster, and the writer who sees something special in Yeongju - they all have disappointments in their past. The Hyunam-dong Bookshop becomes the place where they all learn how to truly live. A heart-warming story about finding comfort and acceptance in your life – and the healing power of books. 'Delightful, reflective and heart-warming' Woman's Weekly 'Profound and healing … a beautiful story at its heart' Woman & Home 'An incredibly exciting debut novel. At once gentle and invigorating. I devoured it' Sarah Crossan, author of Here is the Beehive Reader Reviews: 'Love love love this book! Cosy, heart warming, wholesome...Will be recommending this to everyone. It makes me smile when I think about it!' 'Such a beautiful book, I adored the story and characters, The writing style was gorgeous. 100% recommend.' 'A love letter to books, bookshops and all who love them' 'Such a warm and cosy read! Was completely here for it...and the appreciation for books was magical' 'A heart-warming cosy read that makes you think about how important it is to be happy, and that we can all find a place to call 'home'.'
Young Adult
We Are the Ants
Shaun David Hutchinson · 2017
Turtles All the Way Down
John Green · 2019
I'll Give You the Sun
Jandy Nelson · 2014
We All Looked Up
Tommy Wallach · 1810
The Places I've Cried in Public
Holly Bourne · 2019
The Sky Is Everywhere
Jandy Nelson · 2011
The Ivory Rose
Belinda Murrell · 2015
The Lost Sapphire
Belinda Murrell · 2016
Anna and the French Kiss
Stephanie Perkins · 2011
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Sáenz · 2014
Now a major motion picture starring Max Pelayo, Reese Gonzales, and Eva Longoria!<br/>A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)<br/><br/>This Printz Honor Book is a “tender, honest exploration of identity” (Publishers Weekly) that distills lyrical truths about family and friendship.<br/><br/>Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship—the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves and the kind of people they want to be.
Solitaire
Alice Oseman · 2023
Amelia Westlake
Erin Gough · 2018
Ace of Spades
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé · 2023
I Was Born for This
Alice Oseman · 2022
From the bestselling creator of HEARTSTOPPER and LOVELESS, a deeply funny and deeply moving exploration of identity, friendship, and fame.<br/><br/>For Angel Rahimi life is about one thing: The Ark -- a boy band that's taking the world by storm. Being part of The Ark's fandom has given her everything she loves -- her friend Juliet, her dreams, her place in the world. Her Muslim family doesn't understand the band's allure -- but Angel feels there are things about her they'll never understand.<br/>Jimmy Kaga-Ricci owes everything to The Ark. He's their frontman -- and playing in a band with his mates is all he ever dreamed of doing, even it only amplifies his anxiety. The fans are very accepting that he's trans -- but they also keep shipping with him with his longtime friend and bandmate, Rowan. But Jimmy and Rowan are just friends -- and Rowan has a secret girlfriend the fans can never know about. Dreams don't always turn out the way you think and when Jimmy and Angel are unexpectedly thrust together, they find out how strange and surprising facing up to reality can be.<br/>A funny, wise, and heartbreakingly true coming of age novel. I Was Born for This is a stunning reflection of modern teenage life, and the power of believing in something -- especially yourself.
Radio Silence
Alice Oseman · 2019
Loveless
Alice Oseman · 2022
Perks of Being a Wallflower
Chbosky Stephen · 2009
Elsewhere: A Novel
Gabrielle Zevin · 2007
A TIME MAGAZINE BEST YA BOOK OF ALL TIME<br/><br/>Beloved by generations of readers, Elsewhere is an original, moving novel about love, loss, and the meaning of it all from the New York Times–bestselling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry.<br/><br/>Is it possible to grow up while getting younger?<br/><br/>Welcome to Elsewhere. The beaches are marvelous. It’s quiet and peaceful. You can’t get sick, and you’ll never turn even a day older . . .<br/><br/>This is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she has died. It is a place so like Earth yet completely different. Here, Liz will age backward from the day of her death until she becomes a baby and returns to Earth.<br/><br/>But Liz wants to turn sixteen, not fourteen again. She wants to get her driver’s license. She wants to graduate from high school and go to college. Now that she’s dead, though, Liz is forced to live a life she doesn’t want with a grandmother she has never met before. And it isn’t going well. How can Liz let go of the only life she has ever known and embrace a new one? Is it possible that a life lived in<br/>reverse is no different from a life lived forward?<br/><br/>A book that transcends genre and category, Elsewhere is a modern YA classic.
Non-Fiction
In Cold Blood (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books)
Truman Capote · 2013
Girl, Interrupted.
Susanna Kaysen · 2000
Around the World in 80 Plants
Jonathan Drori · 2021
The Murder of John Lennon
Fenton Bresler · 1990
Netflicks (paperback)
Tony Hughes-d'aeth · 2024
Mystery/Thriller
The Flowers in the Attic Saga (Boxed Set): Flowers in the Attic/Petals on the Wind; If There Be Thorns/Seeds of Yesterday; Garden of Shadows (Dollanganger)
V.C. Andrews · 2016
Force of Nature: A Novel
Jane Harper · 2018
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens · 2018
Verity
Colleen Hoover · 2021
<b>#1 <i>New York Times</i></b><b> Bestseller</b><br> <br> <b><i>USA Today</i> Bestseller<br> <br> <i>The Globe and Mail</i> Bestseller<br> <br> <i>Publishers Weekly</i> Bestseller<br> <br> <br> <br> <i>Whose truth is the lie? </i>Stay up all night reading the sensational psychological thriller that has readers obsessed, from the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>It Ends With Us</i>.</b><br> <br> <br> <br> Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish.<br> <br> <br> <br> Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of the night her family was forever altered.<br> <br> <br> <br> Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents could devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen's feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife's words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue loving her.
Bunny
Mona Awad · 2019
Gone Girl: A Novel
Gillian Flynn · 2012
Agatha Christie - Evil Under The Sun
Agatha Christie · 2021
Partners in Crime
AGATHA CHRISTIE · 2010
I Have Some Questions For You
Rebecca Makkai · 2023
If We Were Villains
M.L. Rio · 2023
If We Were Villains: A Novel
M. L. Rio · 2018
<p><b>“Much like Donna Tartt’s <i>The Secret History</i>, M. L. Rio’s sparkling debut is a richly layered story of love, friendship, and obsession...will keep you riveted through its final, electrifying moments.”<br>—Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Nest<br></i></b><br><b>"Nerdily (and winningly) in love with Shakespeare...Readable, smart.”</b><br><b>—<i>New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><br>On the day Oliver Marks is released from jail, the man who put him there is waiting at the door. Detective Colborne wants to know the truth, and after ten years, Oliver is finally ready to tell it.<br><br>A decade ago: Oliver is one of seven young Shakespearean actors at Dellecher Classical Conservatory, a place of keen ambition and fierce competition. In this secluded world of firelight and leather-bound books, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress, ingénue, extras. <br><br>But in their fourth and final year, good-natured rivalries turn ugly, and on opening night real violence invades the students’ world of make-believe. In the morning, the fourth-years find themselves facing their very own tragedy, and their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, each other, and themselves that they are innocent. <br><br><i>If We Were Villains</i> was named one of Bustle's Best Thriller Novels of the Year, and <i>Mystery Scene</i> says, "A well-written and gripping ode to the stage...A fascinating, unorthodox take on rivalry, friendship, and truth."</p>
Dystopia
Waking Romeo
Kathryn Barker · 2022
The Selection 5-Book Box Set: The Complete Series
Kiera Cass · 2017
Red Queen
Victoria Aveyard · 2015
<p>The #1 New York Times bestselling series!</p><p>Red Queen, by #1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Aveyard, is a sweeping tale of power, intrigue, and betrayal, perfect for fans of Lauren Robert's Powerless and George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series.</p><p>Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood—those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities. Mare is a Red, scraping by as a thief in a poor, rural village, until a twist of fate throws her in front of the Silver court. Before the king, princes, and all the nobles, she discovers she has an ability of her own.</p><p>To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons. As Mare is drawn further into the Silver world, she risks everything and uses her new position to help the Scarlet Guard—a growing Red rebellion—even as her heart tugs her in an impossible direction.</p><p>One wrong move can lead to her death, but in the dangerous game she plays, the only certainty is betrayal.</p><p>Discover more wonders in the world of Red Queen with Broken Throne: A Red Queen Collection, a companion novel with stories from fan favorites and new voices, featuring never-before-seen maps, flags, bonus scenes, journal entries, and much more exclusive content!</p>
Glass Sword (Red Queen, 2)
Victoria Aveyard · 2018
King's Cage (Red Queen, 3)
Victoria Aveyard · 2019
War Storm (Red Queen)
Victoria Aveyard · 2020
The Tripods Collection (Boxed Set): The White Mountains; The City of Gold and Lead; The Pool of Fire; When the Tripods Came
John Christopher · 2014
Scary Monsters
Michelle De Kretser · 2022
Sleep Donation
Russell, Karen · 2023
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith · 2009
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith · 2009
Green Rising
Lauren James · 2021
The Quiet at the End of the World
Lauren James · 2019
Romance
One Day. David Nicholls
David Nicholls · 2009
The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy
Megan Bannen · 2022
"A uniquely charming mixture of whimsy and the macabre that completely won me over. If you ever wished for an adult romance that felt like Howl's Moving Castle, THIS IS THAT BOOK." —Helen Hoang, author of The Kiss Quotient Hart is a marshal, tasked with patrolling the strange and magical wilds of Tanria. It’s an unforgiving job, and Hart’s got nothing but time to ponder his loneliness. Mercy never has a moment to herself. She’s been single-handedly keeping Birdsall & Son Undertakers afloat in defiance of sullen jerks like Hart, who seems to have a gift for showing up right when her patience is thinnest. After yet another exasperating run-in with Mercy, Hart finds himself penning a letter addressed simply to “A Friend”. Much to his surprise, an anonymous letter comes back in return, and a tentative friendship is born. If only Hart knew he’s been baring his soul to the person who infuriates him most—Mercy. As the dangers from Tanria grow closer, so do the unlikely correspondents. But can their blossoming romance survive the fated discovery that their pen pals are their worst nightmares—each other? Set in a world full of magic and demigods, donuts and small-town drama, this enchantingly quirky, utterly unique fantasy is perfect for readers of The House in the Cerulean Sea and The Invisible Library. "Truly outstanding romantic fantasy." —India Holton "An unabashedly offbeat adventure." —Freya Marske "I cried twice and smiled plenty." —Olivia Atwater "A little sweet, a little spicy, a little sharp and entirely moreish!" —Davinia Evans "I showed up for the fantastic, fun fantasy setting but it was Hart and Mercy that kept me reading." —Ruby Dixon
Horror
Our Wives Under The Sea
Julia Armfield · 2022
Of Love and Evil
Anne Rice · 2011
