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Young-adult
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
Hwang Bo-Reum · 2023
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Satoshi Yagisawa • 2023
Tuesdays with Morrie An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson, 25th Anniversary Edition
Mitch Albom · 2002
Mystery
The Mysterious Affair at Styles A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Warbler Classics)
Agatha Christie • 2020
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie · 2004
Groomed For Murder
Annie Knox · 2014
<b>Izzy McHale wants her new Trendy Tails Pet Boutique in Merryville, Minnesota, to be the height of canine couture and feline fashions. But in a week of wedding bells, someone is about to hold their peace…</b><br><br>forever. Love is in the air, and Izzy is hard at work coordinating two special weddings at Trendy Tails. First, Izzy’s friend and mentor, Ingrid, will be tying the knot with her old flame. And a week later, Izzy will host “pupptials” for two lovable dogs.<br><br>But even with the hullabaloo, the Trendy Tails crew is intrigued by Daniel, an enigmatic writer boarding above the shop who’s caught the attention of Izzy’s zany aunt Dolly, who gossips like most people breathe.<br><br>Unfortunately, it’s Daniel who stops breathing when he drops dead at the altar on Ingrid’s wedding day. Then Dolly is found at the scene with the murder weapon, and it’s up to Izzy, her Trendy Tails pals, and her scrappy pets, Packer and Jinx, to find a killer before the two affianced doggies bark down the aisle….
The Twisted Ones
T. Kingfisher · 2019
Strange Houses
Uketsu
Strange Pictures
Uketsu • 2025
<p>"Uketsu's strange riddles are chilling and addictive - I couldn't put it down." --R. F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface</p> <p>"Delightfully macabre and fiendishly clever. Seemingly unconnected stories tie themselves into a complicated knot, which Uketsu masterfully unravels."--G. T. Karber, author of the national bestseller Murdle</p> <p>"Wonderfully complex and carefully crafted . . . Uketsu keeps readers guessing until the very end." --New York Times Book Review</p> <p>The spine-tingling "triumphant international debut" (Publishers Weekly starred review) that has taken Japan by storm--an eerie fresh take on mystery-horror in which a series of seemingly innocent pictures draws you into a disturbing web of unsolved mysteries and shattered psyches.</p> <p>An exploration of the macabre, where the seemingly mundane takes on a terrifying significance. . . .</p> <p>A pregnant woman's sketches on a seemingly innocuous blog conceal a chilling warning.</p> <p>A child's picture of his home contains a dark secret message.</p> <p>A sketch made by a murder victim in his final moments leads an amateur sleuth down a rabbithole that will reveal a horrifying reality.</p> <p>Structured around these nine childlike drawings, each holding a disturbing clue, Uketsu invites readers to piece together the mystery behind each and the over-arching backstory that connects them all. Strange Pictures is the internationally bestselling debut from mystery horror YouTube sensation Uketsu--an enigmatic masked figure who has become one of Japan's most talked about contemporary authors.</p> <p>Translated from the Japanese by Jim Rion.</p> <p>Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.</p>
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson · 2011
To Read
Butter
Asako Yuzuki 2024
The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene · 2000
If We Were Villains
M. L. Rio · 2023
The Secret History
Donna Tartt · 2004
East of Eden
John Steinbeck · 2003
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 2002
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1992
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · 2021
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer · 2003
Non-fiction
Some People Need Killing
Patricia Evangelista
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into fascism, through harrowing stories of the Philippines' state-sponsored assassinations of its citizens.
Surgeons Do Not Cry On Becoming a Doctor in the Philippines
Ting Tiongco · 2008
Some Days You Can't Save Them All
Ronnie E. Baticulon · 2020
Classics
Shout Against the Wind ; Illustrated by Peter Branfield
Mary Ray • 1970
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2021
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas · 2003
The Way of All Flesh
Samuel Butler · 2013
No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai · 2022
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 2006
One of the world's greatest novels, <b>Crime and Punishment</b> is the story of a murder and its consequences—an unparalleled tale of suspense set in the midst of nineteenth-century Russia's troubled transition to the modern age. <p>In the slums of czarist St. Petersburg lives young Raskolnikov, a sensitive, intellectual student. The poverty he has always known drives him to believe that he is exempt from moral law. But when he puts this belief to the test and commits murder, there results unbearable suffering. Crime and punishment, the novel reminds us, “grow from the same seed.”</p> <p>“No other novelist,” wrote Irving Howe of Dostoyevsky, “has dramatized so powerfully the values and dangers, the uses and corruptions of systematized thought.” But Sigmund Freud and others saw the Russian's work in a different light. Said Freud, “He might have been a liberator of mankind. Instead he chose to be its jailer.”</p> <p>“He is the only psychologist I have anything to learn from.”—Friedrich Nietzsche</p> <p></p>
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka • 2025
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 1988
Notes from Underground (Everyman's Library)
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2004
The Great Gatsby
Francis Scott Fitzgerald • 2022
Reading
Whiskey Island
Emilie Richards · 2012
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte · 2002
Crime
Undercover Cowboy
Laura Scott · 2013
Political
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.
Animal Farm
George Orwell · 2023
Gothic
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson · 2006
Children
Lord of the Flies
William Golding · 2003
Science Fiction
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 1994
Psychological
The Yellow Wall-paper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Elaine Hedges · 1892
