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Reservoir Bitches

Dahlia de la Cerda 2024

Love and Virtue

Diana Reid · 2021

All the Lovers in the Night

Mieko Kawakami · 2011

Selected as one of The Oprah Daily's Best Books of 2022The acclaimed and bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and Heaven returns with a blistering, shocking and poetic story set in contemporary Tokyo.Shy, lonely and introverted Fuyuko lives alone and fills her days with her job as a freelance proofreader. About to turn thirty-five, she cannot imagine ever having any emotional or successful relationship in her life as it currently stands. She is regularly haunted by encounters of the past.But Fuyuko loves the light and goes out on the night of her birthday, Christmas Eve, to count the lights.Her only friend, Hijiri, offers some light in her life, but it is a chance encounter with another man, Mr. Mitsutsuka, a physics teacher, who offers her access from another dimension to light.Pulsing, poetic, modern and shocking, All The Lovers in The Night is the third novel from internationally bestselling author Mieko Kawakami.Translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd.

Madonna in a Fur Coat

Sabahattin Ali · 1943

Convenience Store Woman

Sayaka Murata · 2016

Fair Play

Tove Jansson · 1989

Hunchback

Saou Ichikawa · 2023

White Nights

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1848

A Perfect Day to Be Alone

Nanae Aoyama · 2025

<b>The English-language debut of a prize-winning Japanese author, this touching, subtly funny novel evokes the daily struggles and hopes of two women from different generations.</b><br><br>When her mother emigrates to China for work, 20-year-old Chizu moves in with 71-year-old Ginko, an eccentric distant relative, taking a room in her ramshackle Tokyo home, with its two resident cats and the persistent rattle of passing trains.<br><br>Living their lives in imperfect symmetry, they establish an uneasy alliance, stress tested by Chizu’s flashes of youthful spite. As the four seasons pass, Chizu navigates a series of tedious part-time jobs and unsatisfying relationships, before eventually finding her feet and salvaging a fierce independence from her solitude.<br><br><i>A Perfect Day to Be Alone</i> is a moving, microscopic examination of loneliness and heartbreak. With flashes of deadpan humor and a keen eye for poignant detail, Aoyama chronicles the painful process of breaking free from the moorings of youth.

Sweet Bean Paste

Durian Sukegawa · 2017

The Tatami Time Machine Blues

Tomihiko Morimi · 2023

<br> <br> <p>In the boiling heat of summer, a broken remote control for an air conditioner threatens life as we know it in this reality-bending, time-slipping sequel to The Tatami Galaxy.</p> <p>During a scorching August in Kyoto, our protagonist and his worst friend, Ozu, are locked in a glaring contest in a four-and-a-half-tatami-mat room. Ozu has spilled Coke on the air conditioner's remote control--the only AC in Shimogamo Yusuisuiso, their famously shabby sweatbox of an apartment building. Vengeful and despairing, our protagonist discusses countermeasures with his secret crush, the reliably blunt Akashi, when Tamura, a strange young man with a bad haircut, appears.</p> <p>Tamura claims to be a time traveler from 25 years in the future, and shows off the time machine he uses to travel. Our protagonist has a brilliant idea: the sweetest revenge would be to go back one day in time and retrieve the functioning remote control. His simple fix is complicated by Ozu and several others who are also eager to take a ride back in time. But in attempting to alter the past, our protagonist foresees the world's extinction. Even more troublingly, Akashi mentions she's bringing someone to the upcoming bonfire . . . and it's not him. Only one thing remains certain: it's going to be a very long month.</p> <p>Obliteration Salvation Coca-Cola Castella cake What does the time machine hold for our (not quite) heroes It all depends on which one gets there first.</p> <p>Translated from the Japanese by Emily Balistrieri</p>

The Tatami Galaxy (Nomad Edition) A Novel

Tomihiko Morimi · 2004

<br> <br> <p>SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE</p> <p>"Beautiful and satisfying."--Tor.com</p> <p>"A treat."--New York Times Book Review</p> <p>An unfulfilled college student hurtles through four parallel realities to explore the what-might've-been and the what-should-never-be in this Groundhog Day meets The Midnight Library-esque novel from one of Japan's most popular authors, now available in a convenient pocket-sized portable Nomad Edition.</p> <p>Our protagonist, an unnamed junior at a prestigious university in Kyoto, is on the verge of dropping out. After rebelling against the dictatorial jock president of the film club, he and his worst and only friend, the diabolical creep Ozu, are personas non grata on campus. For two years, our protagonist has made all the wrong decisions, and now he's about to make another mistake. He and Ozu are preparing for revenge--a fireworks attack at the film club's welcoming party for new members.</p> <p>Then, a chance encounter with a self-proclaimed god sets the confused and distraught young man on a new course. Destiny will bring him together with Akashi, the blunt but charming sophomore he has a crush on--if he's brave enough to make a move. Yet our protagonist cannot get beyond his profound disillusionment and the moment is lost. But what if there's a universe where he joined the club of his dreams, ditched Ozu for good, and was confident enough to get the girl A realm of possibility opens up for our protagonist as time rewinds, and from the four-and-a-half-mat tatami floor of his dorm room, he is plunged into a series of adventures that will take him to four parallel universes. In each universe, he is given the opportunity to start over as a freshman, in search of a rose-colored campus life.</p> <p>The inspiration behind the much-loved anime series, Tomihiko Morimi's contemporary classic is a fantastic journey through time and space, where a half-eaten castella cake, a photograph from Rome, and a giant cavity in a wisdom tooth hold the keys to self-discovery. A time-traveling romp that speaks to everyone who has wondered what if, The Tatami Galaxy will win your heart over . . . and over . . . and over again.</p> <p>Translated from the Japanese by Emily Balistrieri</p>

Days at the Torunka Café

Satoshi Yagisawa · 2025

Yolk

Mary H. K. Choi · 2021

<b>“Sneaks up on you with its insight and poignancy.” —<i>Entertainment Weekly</i></b><br> <br><b>From </b><b><i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi comes a funny and emotional story about two estranged sisters and how far they’ll go to save one of their lives—even if it means swapping identities.</b><br><br>Jayne and June Baek are nothing alike. June’s three years older, a classic first-born, know-it-all narc with a problematic finance job and an equally soulless apartment (according to Jayne). Jayne is an emotionally stunted, self-obsessed basket case who lives in squalor, has egregious taste in men, and needs to get to class and stop wasting Mom and Dad’s money (if you ask June). Once thick as thieves, these sisters who moved from Seoul to San Antonio to New York together now don’t want anything to do with each other.<br> <br>That is, until June gets cancer. And Jayne becomes the only one who can help her.<br> <br>Flung together by circumstance, housing woes, and family secrets, will the sisters learn more about each other than they’re willing to confront? And what if while helping June, Jayne has to confront the fact that maybe she’s sick, too?

East of Eden

John Steinbeck · 1952

East of Eden is a work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. Adapted for the 1955 film directed by Elia Kazan introducing James Dean and read by thousands as the book that brought Oprahʹs Book Club back, East of Eden has remained vitally present in American culture for over half a century.

Normal People

Sally Rooney · 2018

<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>

If Cats Disappeared from the World

Genki Kawamura · 2012

Writers & Lovers A Novel

Lily King · 2020

<p><b>#ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today</b></p><b><br><p>Emma Roberts Belletrist Book Club Pick</p><br></b><p><b>A New York Times Book Review's Group Text Selection</b></p> <p><p><b>"I loved this book not just from the first chapter or the first page but from the first paragraph... The voice is just so honest and riveting and insightful about creativity and life." --Curtis Sittenfeld</b></p> <p><p><b>An extraordinary new novel of art, love, and ambition from Lily King, the New York Times bestselling author of Euphoria</b></p> <p><p>Following the breakout success of her critically acclaimed and award-winning novel Euphoria, Lily King returns with another instant New York Times bestseller: an unforgettable portrait of an artist as a young woman.</p> <p><p>Blindsided by her mother's sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel she's been writing for six years. At thirty-one, Casey is still clutching onto something nearly all her old friends have let go of: the determination to live a creative life. When she falls for two very different men at the same time, her world fractures even more. Casey's fight to fulfill her creative ambitions and balance the conflicting demands of art and life is challenged in ways that push her to the brink.</p> <p><p>Writers & Lovers follows Casey--a smart and achingly vulnerable protagonist--in the last days of a long youth, a time when every element of her life comes to a crisis. Written with King's trademark humor, heart, and intelligence, Writers & Lovers is a transfixing novel that explores the terrifying and exhilarating leap between the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another.</p>

The Restaurant of Lost Recipes

Hisashi Kashiwai · 2024

<p><b><i>The Restaurant of Lost Recipes</i>, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the second book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series for fans of <i>Before the Coffee Gets Cold</i>, and follows on from <i>The Kamogawa Food Detectives</i>.</b><br><br>Tucked away down a Kyoto backstreet lies the extraordinary Kamogawa Diner. Running this unique establishment are a father-daughter duo who serve more than just mouth-watering feasts.<br><br>The pair have reinvented themselves as 'food detectives', offering a service that goes beyond traditional dining. Through their culinary sleuthing, they reconstruct beloved dishes from the memories of their customers, creating a connection to cherished moments from the past.<br><br>Among those who seek an appointment include: a one-hit wonder pop star, finally ready to leave Tokyo and give up on her singing career, wants to try the tempura that she ate to celebrate her only successful record and a budding Olympic swimmer who desires the bento lunch box that his estranged father used to make him. The Kamogawa Diner doesn't just serve meals – it revives lost recipes and rekindles forgotten memories. It's a doorway to the past through the miracle of delicious food.</p>

Either/Or

Elif Batuman · 2022

Almond

Won-Pyung Sohn · 2020

Sula

Toni Morrison · 1973

Giovanni’s Room

James Baldwin · 1956

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: sehr gut, University of Leipzig (Institut für Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: This paper on adultery in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room and Stewart O’Nan’s Everyday People and their adulterous characters David and Harold was commenced by a seminar on the representation of adultery in the novel. Even though the discussions in class touched upon various aspects of the crime of infidelity, such as different historical and literary periods or cultural aspects and developments, however, to my understanding it lacked an important facet. Out of convention, probably, adultery was only discussed in the constellation of heterosexual extramarital affairs, that is, either a husband was unfaithful to his wife with another woman, or a wife with another man. Apparently, the awareness of the two novels that I will discuss in this paper and their specific rendering of the issue of adultery contributed to or even nourished my feelings of missing the essential aspect of same-sex adultery. In my research for this paper I realized that my opinion was justified, for homosexual affairs outside of heterosexual marriages have also concerned jurisdiction, legislation, and public opinion on a larger scale and still do. In this paper, however, I will only discuss these aspects marginally, for the focus lies upon the examination of adultery in literature.

Beautiful World, Where Are You

Sally Rooney · 2021

Heaven

Mieko Kawakami · 2009

The Vegetarian A Novel

Han Kang · 2007

Tokyo Ueno Station

Yu Miri · 2014

Kitchen

Banana Yoshimoto · 1988

More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

Satoshi Yagisawa · 2023

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

Satoshi Yagisawa · 2010

What You are Looking for is in the Library

Michiko Aoyama · 2020

The Convenience Store by the Sea

Sonoko Machida · 2024

<p><i>'</i>The Convenience Store by the Sea <i>makes magic from life's simple moments . . . an unexpected treasure revealing what's truly important in life. I will hold it close for when I need a reminder!'</i> <b>Laurie Gilmore, bestselling author of</b> <b>The Pumpkin Spice Cafe</b><br> <br> <i>'If you loved</i> Before The Coffee Gets Cold <i>you will love this!'<br> <br> 'A perfect, feel-good story about finding joy in unexpected connections, ideal for those who love a cosy, heartwarming escape!'</i><br> <br> <i>'Bubble bath fiction'</i> <b><i>The Herald</i></b><br> <br> <i>'A delightful tale of community and connection'</i> <b>My</b> <b>Weekly</b><br> <br> <b>Welcome to Tenderness!</b><br> <br> A quaint seaside town in Kitakyushu, Mojiko is full of hidden delights. And one unexpected treasure is the 24/7 convenience store, Tenderness.<br> <br> At first glance, it's a store like any other.<br> <br> Sure, it's a bit odd that the handsome manager has his own fan club. And perhaps the customers are somewhat eccentric. But there's a warmth about Tenderness that draws you in.<br> <br> The bright lights are always on. The employees know you by name. And the shelves are stacked with delicious treats, from strong hot coffee to sweet parfaits, egg sandos to ramen, crispy fried chicken to refreshing soba.<br> <br> After a while, you get the feeling that whatever you need might just be waiting for you here...<br> <br> <b><i>The Convenience Store by the Sea</i> is</b> <b>the heartwarming international bestseller from award-winning Japanese author Sonoko Machida. A a series of interconnected vignettes set in a 24/7 Japanese convenience store, the novel tells the delightfully quirky and heartfelt stories of the store's customers and employees, offering us all a unique recipe for a good, fulfilling life<i>.</i> Translated by Bruno Navasky.</b></p>

I Am a Cat

Soseki Natsume · 1906

Twisted Love

Ana Huang · 2021

<p>From New York Times bestselling author and BookTok sensation Ana Huang comes a billionaire brother's best friend romance!</p> <p>He has a heart of ice...but for her, he'd burn the world</p> <p>A diverse new adult steamy romance from Tiktok sensation and USA Today bestselling author Ana Huang.</p> <p>Alex Volkov is a devil blessed with the face of an angel and cursed with a past he can't escape.</p> <p>Driven by a tragedy that has haunted him for most of his life, his ruthless pursuits for success and vengeance leave little room for matters of the heart.</p> <p>But when he's forced to look after his best friend's sister, he starts to feel something in his chest:</p> <p>A crack.</p> <p>A melt.</p> <p>A fire that could end his world as he knew it.</p> <p>***</p> <p>Ava Chen is a free spirit trapped by nightmares of a childhood she can't remember.</p> <p>But despite her broken past, she's never stopped seeing the beauty in the world...including the heart beneath the icy exterior of a man she shouldn't want.</p> <p>Her brother's best friend.</p> <p>Her neighbor.</p> <p>Her savior and her downfall.</p> <p>Theirs is a love that was never supposed to happen-but when it does, it unleashes secrets that could destroy them both...and everything they hold dear.</p> <p>Twisted Love is a contemporary brother's best friend/grumpy sunshine romance. It's book one in the Twisted series but can be read as a standalone.</p>

Love and Other Words

Christina Lauren · 2018

Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

Hwang Bo-reum · 2022

<p><b>**AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER**</b><br> <b>WATERSTONES BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2023 PICK</b><br> <b>W<i>OMAN & HOME</i> NOVEMBER BOOK OF THE MONTH</b><br> <b><i>iPaper</i> TOP FICTION PICK</b><br> <b><br> 'An absolutely charming novel that all bookworms will adore'</b> Red<br> <b><br> 'A balm for the soul and a glorious love letter to books and reading'</b> <i>iPaper</i><br> <br> <b><i>There was only one thing on her mind.</i></b><br> <br> <b><i>'I must start a bookshop.'</i></b><br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> <b>A heart-warming story about finding comfort and acceptance in your life - and the healing power of books.</b><br> <b><br> 'Delightful, reflective and heart-warming'</b> <i>Woman's Weekly</i><br> <br> <b>'Profound and healing ... a beautiful story at its heart'</b> <i>Woman & Home</i><br> <br> <b>'An incredibly exciting debut novel. At once gentle and invigorating. I devoured it'</b> Sarah Crossan, author of <i>Here is the Beehive</i><br> <br> Reader Reviews:<br> <br> <i>'Love love love this book! Cosy, heart warming, wholesome...Will be recommending this to everyone. It makes me smile when I think about it!'</i><br> <br> <i>'Such a beautiful book, I adored the story and characters, The writing style was gorgeous. 100% recommend.'</i><br> <br> <i>'A love letter to books, bookshops and all who love them'</i><br> <br> <i>'Such a warm and cosy read! Was completely here for it...and the appreciation for books was magical'</i><br> <br> <i>'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'.'</i></p>

Just Last Night

Mhairi McFarlane · 2021

One Italian Summer A Novel

Rebecca Serle · 2022

Monstrilio A Novel

Gerardo Sámano Córdova · 2023

Your Utopia

Bora Chung · 2024

<p>By the internationally acclaimed author of <i>Cursed Bunny</i>, in another thrilling translation from the Korean by Anton Hur, <i>Your Utopia</i> is full of tales of loss and discovery, idealism and dystopia, death and immortality. 'Nothing concentrates the mind like Chung's terrors, which will shrivel you to a bouillon cube of your most primal instincts' (<i>Vulture</i>), yet these stories are suffused with Chung's inimitable wry humour and surprisingly tender moments, too–often between unexpected subjects. Chung's writing is 'haunting, funny, gross, terrifying–and yet when we reach the end, we just want more' (Alexander Chee). If you haven't yet experienced the fruits of this singular imagination, <i>Your Utopia</i> is waiting.</p>

Perfume and Pain

Anna Dorn · 2024

Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar · 2024

<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • ONE OF <i>THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S </i>10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR <b>• <b>A<b> <i>TIME</i> MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR</b></b> • </b>A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying, funny, and wholly original<i>, Martyr!</i> heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction.<br><br>“Kaveh Akbar is one of my favorite writers. Ever.” —Tommy Orange, Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of <i>There There</i><br><br>“The best novel you'll ever read about the joy of language, addiction, displacement, martyrdom, belonging, homesickness.” —Lauren Groff, best-selling author of <i>Matrix</i> and <i>Fates and Furies</i></b><br><br>Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed.<br><br>Kaveh Akbar’s <i>Martyr!</i> is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others.

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre · 1938

The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Yukio Mishima · 1963

Earthlings

Sayaka Murata · 2018

Snow Country

Yasunari Kawabata · 1948

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Malinda Lo · 2021

Pachinko

Min Jin Lee · 2017

Carmilla

J. Sheridan LeFanu · 1872

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier · 1938

Water Moon

Samantha Sotto Yambao · 2025

The Way of Kings

Brandon Sanderson · 2010

<p><b>From #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, <i>The Way of Kings</i>, Book One of the Stormlight Archive begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion.</b></p><p>Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.</p><p>It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them.</p><p>One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.</p><p>Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called <i>The Way of Kings</i>. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.</p><p>Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar's niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan's motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.</p><p>The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, <i>The Way of Kings</i> is but the opening movement of the Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in the making.</p><p>Speak again the ancient oaths:</p><p><b>Life before death.</b><br><b></b><b>Strength before weakness.</b><br><b></b><b>Journey before Destination.</b><br><b></b><br><b></b>and return to men the Shards they once bore.</p><p>The Knights Radiant must stand again.</p><p><b>Other Tor books by Brandon Sanderson</b></p><p> <b>The Cosmere</b><br> <b></b><br><b> The Stormlight Archive</b><br> <i>The Way of Kings</i><br> <i>Words of Radiance</i><br> <i>Edgedancer </i>(Novella)<br> <i>Oathbringer</i> (forthcoming)<b></b><br><b> </b><br><b> The Mistborn trilogy</b><br> <i>Mistborn: The Final Empire</i><br><i> The Well of Ascension</i><br><i> The Hero of Ages</i><br><i> </i><br><i> </i><b>Mistborn: The Wax and Wayne series</b><br> <i>Alloy of Law</i><br><i> Shadows of Self</i><br><i> Bands of Mourning</i></p><p> <b>Collection</b><br> <i>Arcanum Unbounded</i></p><p> <b>Other Cosmere novels</b><br> <i>Elantris</i><br> <i>Warbreaker</i></p><p> <b>The Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians series</b><br> <i>Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians</i><br> <i>The Scrivener's Bones</i><br> <i>The Knights of Crystallia</i><br> <i>The Shattered Lens</i><br> <i>The Dark Talent</i></p><p> <b>The Rithmatist series</b><br><b> </b><i>The Rithmatist</i></p><p> <b>Other books by Brandon Sanderson</b><br><b></b><br><b> The Reckoners</b><br> <i>Steelheart</i><br> <i>Firefight</i><br> <i>Calamity</i></p>

Vicious

V. E. Schwab · 2013

The Lantern of Lost Memories

Sanaka Hiiragi · 2024

<p><b>From acclaimed Japanese author </b><b>Sanaka Hiigari comes a heartwarming, life-affirming novel about a magical photo studio, where people go after they die to view key moments from their life--and relive one precious memory before they pass into the afterlife.</b><br> <br> <br> <br> <i>The hands and pendulum of the old wooden clock on the wall were motionless. Hirasaka cocked his head to listen, but the silence inside the photo studio was almost deafening. His leather shoes sank softly into the aging red carpet as he strode over to the arrangement of flowers on the counter and carefully adjusted the angle of the petals...</i></p> <p>This is the story of the peculiar and magical photo studio owned by Mr. Hirasaka, a collector of antique cameras. In the dimly lit interior, a paper background is pulled down in front of a wall, and in front of it stands a single, luxurious chair with an armrest on one side. On a stand is a large bellows camera. On the left is the main studio; photos can also be taken in the courtyard.<br> <br> <br> <br> Beyond its straightforward interior, however, is a secret. The studio is, in fact, the door to the afterlife, the place between life and death where those who have departed have a chance--one last time--to see their entire life flash before their eyes via Mr. Hirasaka's "spinning lantern of memories."<br> <br> <br> <br> We meet Hatsue, a ninety-two year old woman who worked as a nursery teacher, the rowdy Waniguchi, a yakuza overseer in his life who is also capable of great compassion, and finally Mitsuru, a young girl who has died tragically young at the hands of abusive parents. <br> <br> <br> <br> Sorting through the many photos of their lives, Mr. Hirasaka also offers guests a second gift: a chance to travel back in time to take a photo of one particular moment in their lives that they wish to cherish in a special way.<br> <br> <br> <br> Full of charm and whimsy, <i>The Lantern of Lost Memories</i> will sweep you away to a world of nostalgia, laughter, and love.</p>

Half a Soul

Olivia Atwater · 2020

Before Your Memory Fades

Toshikazu Kawaguchi · 2018

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Toshikazu Kawaguchi · 2015

The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood · 1985

1984

George Orwell · 1949

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.

Farenheit 451

Ray Bradbury · 1953

The Bradbury classic about a future crisis in intellectual freedom and book burning.

The Singularity

Dino Buzzati · 1960

In this prophetic allegory about artificial intelligence by a renowned figure of twentieth-century Italian literature, a modest university professor becomes involved in a remote and enigmatic project in the middle of the Cold War. At the beginning of Dino Buzzati’s The Singularity, Ermanno Ismani, an unassuming university professor, is summoned by the minister of defense to accept a two-year, top-secret mission at a mysterious research center, isolated from the world among forests, plunging cliffs, and high mountains. What’s he supposed to do there? Not clear. How long will he be there? No saying. Still, Ismani takes the mystifying job and, accompanied by his no-nonsense wife, Elisa, heads to the so-called Experimental Camp of Military Zone 36, wondering whether, in the midst of the Cold War, it’s some sort of nuclear project he’s been assigned to. But no, the colleagues the couple meets on arrival assure them, it’s nothing like that. It’s much, much more powerful. At the center of the research complex is strange, shining, at times murmurous, white wall. Behind it, a deep gorge drops away, full of wires and radio towers and mobile sensors and a host of eccentric structures. A question begins to dawn: Could this be the shape of consciousness itself? And if so, whose? Buzzati's novella of 1960, a pioneering work of Italian science fiction, is published here in a brisk new translation by Anne Milano Appel. In it, Buzzati explores his favorite themes of love and longing while offering a startlingly prescient parable of artificial intelligence.

I Who Have Never Known Men

Jacqueline Harpman · 1995

<p><b>SISTERHOOD. SECRETS. SURVIVAL.</b><br> <br> <b>Discover the haunting, heart-breaking post-apocalyptic TikTok sensation, now available in a beautiful hardback gift edition.</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>

In the Miso Soup

Ryu Murakami · 2006

The Follow Up To In The Miso Soup, Piercing Confirms Ryu Murakami As The Master Of The Psycho-Thriller Every Night, Kawashima Masayuki Creeps From His Bed And Watches Over His Baby Girl S Crib While His Wife Sleeps. But This Is No Ordinary Domestic Scene. He Has An Ice Pick In His Hand, And A Barely Controllable Desire To Use It. Deciding To Confront His Demons, Kawashima Sets Into Motion A Chain Of Events Seeming To Lead Inexorably To Murder&

Strange Pictures

Uketsu · 2025

Strange Houses

Uketsu · 2025

Butter

Asako Yuzuki · 2024

<p>THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SENSATION</p> <p>WINNER OF WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024</p> <p>SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2025</p> <p>SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION DAGGER AWARD 2025</p> <p>A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK</p> <p>'A full-fat, Michelin-starred treat' SUNDAY TIMES</p> <p>'A cult phenomenon' iNEWS</p> <p>'Took the literary world by storm' BBC</p> <p>'A killer Japanese novel' THE TIMES</p> <p>'I have been glued to Butter' NIGEL SLATER</p> <p>The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story, and translated by Polly Barton.</p> <p>There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine.</p> <p>Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, who she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has captured the nation's imagination but Kajii refuses to speak with the press. That is, until journalist Rika Machida writes a letter asking for her recipe for beef stew and Kajii can't resist writing back.</p> <p>Rika, the only woman in her news office, works late each night, rarely cooking more than ramen. As the visits unfold between her and the steely Kajii, they are closer to a masterclass in food than journalistic research. Rika hopes this gastronomic exchange will help her soften Kajii but it seems that she might be the one changing. With each meal she eats, something is awakening in her body. Might she and Kaji have more in common than she once thought?</p> <p>Inspired by the real case of the convicted con woman and serial killer, 'The Konkatsu Killer', Asako Yuzuki's Butter is a vivid, gripping exploration of misogyny, obsession and the transgressive pleasures of food in Japan.</p> <p>'It isn't entirely clear whether to read the novel or devour it' OBSERVER</p> <p>'Readers around the world are finding themselves utterly captivated' DAILY MAIL</p> <p>'I really enjoyed it' MEERA SYAL, on BBC Between the Covers</p> <p>'Compelling, delightfully weird' PANDORA SYKES</p> <p>'Unputdownable, breathtakingly original' ERIN KELLY</p> <p>'You'll be craving rice, butter and soy sauce in no time' STYLIST</p> <p>'Nothing short of ingenious' iNEWS</p> <p>'Ambitious and unsettling' GUARDIAN</p> <p>'Luscious ... I devoured this' IMOGEN CRIMP</p> <p>'A salty morsel with one hell of a bite' ALICE SLATER</p>

The Man Who Died Seven Times

Yasuhiko Nishizawa · 1995

A Wild Sheep Chase

Haruki Murakami · 1982

Vanishing World

Sayaka Murata · 2015

"As a girl, Amane realizes with horror that her parents "copulated" in order to bring her into the world, rather than using artificial insemination, which became the norm in the mid-twentieth century. Amane strives to get away from what she considers an indoctrination in this strange "system" by her mother, but her infatuations with both anime characters and real people have a sexual force that is undeniable. As an adult in an appropriately sexless marriage--sex between married couples is now considered as taboo as incest--Amane and her husband Saku decide to go and live in a mysterious new town called Experiment City or Paradise-Eden, where all children are raised communally, and every person is considered a Mother to all children. Men are beginning to become pregnant using artificial wombs that sit outside of their bodies like balloons, and children are nameless, called only "Kodomo-chan." Is this the new world that will purify Amane of her strangeness once and for all?"-- Uitgever.

Recursion A Novel

Blake Crouch · 2019

Tuesdays with Morrie

Mitch Albom · 1997

Why Fish Don't Exist

Lulu Miller · 2020

Rental Person Who Does Nothing

Shoji Morimoto · 2023

Osamu Dazai No Longer Human

Osamu Dazai · 1948

Everything I Know about Love

Dolly Alderton · 2018

<p>New York Times Bestseller</p> <p>Like Bridget Jones' Diary but all true-- a wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking memoir from the funny, sharp British journalist and podcast host, who Elizabeth Gilbert calls "a sparkling Roman candle of talent."</p> <p>"The older you get, the more baggage you carry. When you date at twenty-five, everyone walks into the bar with a very neat, light carry-on. When you date from thirty onwards, get ready to meet someone absolutely brimming with history, complications and demands."</p> <p>When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming an adult, writer Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, finding a job, getting drunk, getting dumped, and that absolutely no one can ever compare to her best girlfriends. Everything I Know About Love is about bad dates, good friends and--above all else-- realizing that you are enough.</p> <p>Glittering with wit and insight, heart and humor, Dolly Alderton's unforgettable debut weaves together personal stories, satirical observations, a series of lists, recipes, and other vignettes that will strike a chord of recognition with women of every age.</p>

Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up

Naya Rivera · 2016