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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
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Certain Smile
Rebecca
Daphne du Mourier · 2001
Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath · 2006
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2002
Elizabeth Finch
Julian Barnes · 2024
No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai · 1973
<p>The poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas.</p> <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>
Maurice
E. M Forster · 2024
For One More Day
Mitch Albom · 2009
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton · 1922
The Stranger
Albert Camus · 2012
Swimming in the Dark
Tomasz Jedrowski · 2020
The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom · 2018
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Mitch Albom · 2009
Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch Albom · 2007
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 2024
Sunburn
Chloe Michelle Howarth · 2023
The Secret History
Donna Tartt · 2004
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin · 2016
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 1989
<b>The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze.<br><br>“The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind.”<i>—<b>The New Yorker</b></i><br></b><br><b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b><br><br>Awe and exhilaration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abound in Lolita, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsession for the nymphet Dolores Haze. <i>Lolita </i>is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. <br><br>Most of all, it is a meditation on love—love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 2013
<p>Few creatures of horror have seized readers' imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley's <i>Frankenstein</i>. The story of Victor Frankenstein's terrible creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers of horror and suspense. Considering the novel's enduring success, it is remarkable that it began merely as a whim of Lord Byron's.<br>"We will each write a story," Byron announced to his next-door neighbors, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley. The friends were summering on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland in 1816, Shelley still unknown as a poet and Byron writing the third canto of <i>Childe Harold</i>. When continued rains kept them confined indoors, all agreed to Byron's proposal.<br>The illustrious poets failed to complete their ghost stories, but Mary Shelley rose supremely to the challenge. With <i>Frankenstein,</i> she succeeded admirably in the task she set for herself: to create a story that, in her own words, "would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror — one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart."
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · 1908
The Cat Who Saved Books
Sosuke Natsukawa · 2021
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh · 2024
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy · 2020
