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The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath · 2005
<p><i>The Bell Jar</i> chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made <i>The Bell Jar</i> a haunting American classic.</p> <p>This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.</p>
1984
George Orwell · 2013
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.
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens · 2004
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde And Other Tales of Terror
Robert Louis Stevenson · 2024
Paradise Lost
John Milton · 2003
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare · 2004
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
Jane Austen · 1813
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1993
<b>Hailed by <i>Washington Post Book World</i> as “the best [translation] currently available" when it was first published, this second edition of <i>Crime and Punishment </i>has been updated in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth. • <b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME</b></b><br><br>With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i> the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of <i>Crime and Punishment, </i>Dostoevsky's astounding pyschological thriller, newly revised for his bicentenniel. <br><br>In <i>Crime and Punishment</i>, when Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that is almost unequalled in world literature for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth of characterization and vision. Dostoevsky’s drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman’s murder into the nineteenth century’s profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel.
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 2010
Alices Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll · 2021
The Bacchae and Other Plays
Euripides · 1954
The Metamorphoses of Ovid
Ovid · 1993
The Inferno
Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi · 1954
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman · 2009
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli · 2021
The Iliad
Homer · 2017
The Odyssey
Homer · 2018
The White Album
Joan Didion · 2009
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom · 2006
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>
Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition
George Orwell · 2004
My Friends
Fredrik Backman · 2025
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho · 2014
Slow Days, Fast Company The World, The Flesh, and L.A.
Eve Babitz · 2016
Just Kids
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>
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara · 2016
<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (<i>NPR</i>) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.<br></b><br><b><b><b><b><b><b><b>NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST <b><b><b>•</b></b></b></b> MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST <b>• <b><b><b><b><b> WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE</b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b><br><br><i>A Little Life</i> follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini · 2008
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi · 2016
All the Lovers in the Night
Mieko Kawakami · 2022
Heart Lamp Selected Stories
Banu Mushtaq · 2025
The Red Pony
John Steinbeck · 1994
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck · 1993
The Pearl
John Steinbeck · 1993
Tuesdays with Morrie An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson, 25th Anniversary Edition
Mitch Albom · 2002
Sweet Bean Paste The International Bestseller
Durian Sukegawa · 2017
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 2017
Only Dull People are Brilliant at Breakfast
Oscar Wilde · 2016
101 Essays that Will Change the Way You Think
Brianna Wiest · 2017
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Mark Manson · 2016
Finished
Indian Horse
Richard Wagamese · 2018
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey · 2007
The Great Gastby
F. Fitzgerald · 2017
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 2002
One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus · 2023
<b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY <i>ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • BUZZFEED • POPCRUSH</i></b><br><b><br>“Pretty Little Liars meets The Breakfast Club” (<i>Entertainment Weekly</i>) in this addictive mystery about what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive. </b><br> <br>Pay close attention and you might solve this.<br>On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention.<br><br> Bronwyn, <b>the brain</b>, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule.<br> Addy,<b> the beauty</b>, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess.<br> Nate, <b>the criminal</b>, is already on probation for dealing.<br> Cooper, <b>the athlete</b>, is the all-star baseball pitcher.<br> And Simon, <b>the outcast</b>, is the creator of Bayview High’s notorious gossip app.<br> <br>Only, Simon never makes it out of that classroom. Before the end of detention Simon's dead. And according to investigators, his death wasn’t an accident. On Monday, he died. But on Tuesday, he’d planned to post juicy reveals about all four of his high-profile classmates, which makes all four of them suspects in his murder. Or are they the perfect patsies for a killer who’s still on the loose?<br><br>Everyone has secrets, right? What really matters is how far you would go to protect them.<br><br><b><b>All the secrets of the Bayview Four will be revealed in the TV series now streaming on NBC's Peacock! <br><br><b>And don’t miss the #1 <i>New York Times </i>bestselling sequel, <i>One of Us is Next</i>!</b></b></b>
The Lunar Chronicles Boxed Set: Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, Fairest, Stars Above, Winter
Marissa Meyer · 2020
The Selection
Kiera Cass · 2012
Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas · 2012
Red Queen (Red Queen, 1)
Victoria Aveyard · 2015
They Both Die at the End
Adam Silvera · 2018
Looking for Alaska
John Green · 2006
Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery · 2018
The Second Life of Ava Rivers
Faith Gardner · 2018
All the Bright Places
Jennifer Niven · 2016
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V. E. Schwab · 2023
From Ant to Eagle
Alex Lyttle · 2017
The Gifts of Imperfection Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Brené Brown · 2022
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
Jane Austen · 1813
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Chinatown
Thuận · 2022
Bright
Duanwad Pimwana · 20190409
Friend
Paek Nam-nyong · 2020
Girls Lost
Jessica Schiefauer · 2020
I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman · 2022
Vladivostok Circus
Elisa Shua Dusapin · 2024
The Brahmadells
Jóanes Nielsen · 2017
The Age of Goodbyes
Li Zi Shu · 2022
The Unbearable Lightness of Being A Novel
Milan Kundera · 1999
Voices of the Lost
Hoda Barakat · 2021
Sister Deborah
Scholastique Mukasonga · 2024
The Dispersal
Inaam Kachachi · 2022
Killing Stella
Marlen Haushofer · 2025
Born and Bred in Myanmar A Book of Five Short Stories
Moe Moe Inya · 2022
Boulder
Eva Baltasar · 2022
So Long a Letter
Mariama Bâ · 2012
Cécé
Emmelie Prophète · 2025
Last Summer in the City
Gianfranco Calligarich · 2021
Four Minutes
Nataliya Deleva · 2021
Variations on the Body
María Ospina · 2021
What I'd Rather Not Think about
Jente Posthuma · 2023
We Computers
Hamid Ismailov, Shelley Fairweather-Vega · 2025
The Blue Sky
Galsan Tschinag · 2020
Woman of the Ashes
Mia Couto · 2021
By Night in Chile
Roberto Bolaño · 2024
Beyond the Rice Fields
Naivo · 2017
Paradise Rot A Novel
Jenny Hval · 2018
Mending Bodies
Lai-Chu Hon · 2025
How to Mend: Motherhood and Its Ghosts
Iman Mersal · 2017
Forgottenness: A Novel
Tanja Maljartschuk · 2024
Time of the Flies
Claudia Piñeiro · 2024
The Distance Between Us
Renato Cisneros · 2018
Fresh Dirt from the Grave
Giovanna Rivero · 2023
The Rooftop
Fernanda Trías · 2021
Resistance
Julián Fuks · 2018
Havana Year Zero
Karla Suárez · 2021
The Vinland Sagas (Penguin Classics)
Gisli Sigurosson · 2008
The Nine Cloud Dream
Kim Man-jung · 2019
Chernobyl Prayer Voices from Chernobyl
Svetlana Alexievich · 2016
Blind Owl
Sadeq Hedayat · 2022
An Apprenticeship Or the Book of Pleasures
Clarice Lispector · 2022
Madonna in a Fur Coat
Sabahattin Ali · 2017
Three Summers
Margarita Liberaki · 2019
In the Cafe of Lost Youth
Patrick Modiano · 2016
The True Deceiver
Tove Jansson · 2009
The Door
Magda Szabo · 2015
Notes of a Crocodile
Qiu Miaojin · 2017
The Invisibility Cloak
Ge Fei · 2016
Vivian
Christina Hesselholdt · 2019
Mild Vertigo
Mieko Kanai · 2023
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk · 2019
Insane
Rainald Goetz · 2017
What Have You Left Behind?
Bushra al-Maqtari · 2022
Minor Detail
ʻAdanīyah Shiblī · 2020
