Rory Gilmore

Julius Cesar

William Shakespeare · 2013

The Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger · 2024

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri · 1998

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Rebecca Wells · 2002

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman · 2003

Everything Is Illuminated

Jonathan Safran Foer · 2015

Extravagance: A Novel

Gary Krist · 2002

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury · 2003

The Official Fahrenheit 9-11 Reader

Michael Moore · 2004

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Mitch Albom · 2003

Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

James Joyce · 1999

Flowers For Algernon

Daniel Keyes · 2005

The Fortress of Solitude

Jonathan Lethem · 2004

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Penguin Classics)

Mary Shelley · 2018

Franny and Zooey

J. D. Salinger · 1991

Galapagos: A Novel (Delta Fiction)

Kurt Vonnegut · 1999

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge Classics)

Judith Butler · 2006

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.

The Gnostic Gospels

Elaine Pagels · 1989

The Godfather

Mario Puzo · 1969

The God of Small Things: A Novel

Arundhati Roy · 2008

Gone With the Wind

Margaret Mitchell · 1996

The Good Soldier

Ford Madox Ford · 2020

The Graduate

Charles Webb · 2002

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck · 2006

The Great Gatsby: The Original 1925 Edition (A F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic Novel)

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2021

Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)

Charles Dickens · 2002

The Group

Mary McCarthy · 1991

Hamlet ( Folger Library Shakespeare)

William Shakespeare · 1992

Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire

J K Rowling

Harry Potter And The Sorcerers Stone

J. K. Rowling · 2003

A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius

Dave Eggers · 2013

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad · 2019

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry · 2001

Henry IV, Part Two (Henry IV, Part II)

William Shakespeare · 1988

Henry IV, Part 1 (Folger Shakespeare Library)

William Shakespeare · 2020

Henry V (Folger Shakespeare Library)

William Shakespeare · 2020

High Fidelity

Nick Hornby · 1996

Holidays on Ice

David Sedaris · 2010

The Holy Barbarians

Lawrence Lipton · 2022

House of Sand and Fog: A Novel

Andre Dubus III · 2018

The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion · 2005

The Yearling

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings · 2011

Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte · 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.

The Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum · 2012

Wicked The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Gregory Maguire · 1996

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Revised by the Author

Edward Albee · 2006

Who Moved My Cheese

Spencer Johnson · 1998

When the Emperor Was Divine

Julie Otsuka · 2003

When the Emperor Was Divine

Julie Otsuka · 2003

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Henry Farrell · 2013

We Owe You Nothing The Collected Interviews

Daniel Sinker · 2019

War and Peace (AmazonClassics Edition)

Leo Tolstoy · 2019

Walden Or, Life in the Woods

Henry David Thoreau · 2017

Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett · 2010

The Virgin Suicides A Novel

Jeffrey Eugenides · 2015

The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico

Joe Harvard · 2004

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray · 1992

The Vanishing Newspaper

Meyer, Philip

Valley of the Dolls

Jacqueline Susann · 2016

Unless

Carol Shields

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Harriet Stowe · 2021

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath · 2000

ULYSSES

James Joyce, HB Classics · 2022

Tuesdays with Morrie An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson, 25th Anniversary Edition

Mitch Albom · 2002

Truth & Beauty A Friendship

Ann Patchett · 2005

The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters

Elisabeth Robinson · 2005

The Trial A New Translation Based on the Restored Text

Franz Kafka · 1999

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Betty Smith · 2005

The Tragedy of Richard III

William Shakespeare · 1996

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee · 2002

To Have and Have Not

Ernest Hemingway · 1965

Time and Again

Jack Finney · 1995

The Time Traveler’s Wife

Audrey Niffenegger

Have you ever wondered why that 13-digit number on the back of a book costs $125 in the United States but is completely free in Canada and India? This book, The Global ISBN Handbook, is your 2025 guide to the International Standard Book Number. It explains everything about this global "fingerprint" for books. The ISBN is the most important cornerstone of the publishing industry. It started as a simple warehouse tool in the 1960s. Now, it is a complex digital identifier used in over 200 countries. This handbook deconstructs the entire system. It uses 15 distinct national case studies to do this. You will learn how the old 10-digit system changed to the new 13-digit one. We break down the five parts of the ISBN, from the "Bookland" prefix to the final check digit. The book explores the global governance framework, starting with the International ISBN Agency. Then, it dives deep into how different countries run their systems. You'll see the privatized, high-cost model in the United States. You'll compare it to Canada's free, government-run system. We explore the industry-led models in Brazil and Germany. We look at government-run systems in Mexico and India. We even cover the unique case of China, where the ISBN is not a simple identifier but a state-controlled publication license. The book also examines the systems in the UK , France , Russia , Japan , Australia , South Africa , Nigeria , and Egypt. Many books and websites can tell you how to get an ISBN. This handbook is the only resource that explains why the process is so different everywhere you look. It moves beyond a simple "how-to" and provides a true global analysis. It directly compares the privatized, for-profit models in the US and UK against the free, public-good systems in Canada and South Africa. You won't just learn the price; you will understand the cultural policies, market structures, and legal philosophies that shape that price. This book shows how the ISBN is a "global mirror". It reveals how a simple number can be a commercial product in one nation , a tool of cultural policy in another , and an instrument of state control in a third. This comparative insight is the missing piece for any author, publisher, or researcher trying to navigate the complex international publishing market. Disclaimer: This handbook is an independently produced resource for commentary and analysis. The author has no affiliation with the International ISBN Agency, R.R. Bowker, Library and Archives Canada, the National Press and Publication Administration, or any other national ISBN agency. This work is independently produced under the principle of nominative fair use.

Terms of Endearment

Larry mcmurtry · 1975

Tender is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2003

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens · 2007

Sybil

Flora Rheta Schreiber · 2009

Swimming With Giants: My Encounters With Whales, Dolphins, and Seals

Anne Collet, Marc Sich · 2000

Swann’s Way

Marcel Proust · 2023

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway, Pocket Classic · 2022

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams · 2004

The Story of My Life

Helen Keller · 1996

Stiff The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach · 2021

Speak, Memory An Autobiography Revisited

Vladimir Nabokov · 1989

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner · 1959

Sophie’s Choice

William Styron

Have you ever wondered why that 13-digit number on the back of a book costs $125 in the United States but is completely free in Canada and India? This book, The Global ISBN Handbook, is your 2025 guide to the International Standard Book Number. It explains everything about this global "fingerprint" for books. The ISBN is the most important cornerstone of the publishing industry. It started as a simple warehouse tool in the 1960s. Now, it is a complex digital identifier used in over 200 countries. This handbook deconstructs the entire system. It uses 15 distinct national case studies to do this. You will learn how the old 10-digit system changed to the new 13-digit one. We break down the five parts of the ISBN, from the "Bookland" prefix to the final check digit. The book explores the global governance framework, starting with the International ISBN Agency. Then, it dives deep into how different countries run their systems. You'll see the privatized, high-cost model in the United States. You'll compare it to Canada's free, government-run system. We explore the industry-led models in Brazil and Germany. We look at government-run systems in Mexico and India. We even cover the unique case of China, where the ISBN is not a simple identifier but a state-controlled publication license. The book also examines the systems in the UK , France , Russia , Japan , Australia , South Africa , Nigeria , and Egypt. Many books and websites can tell you how to get an ISBN. This handbook is the only resource that explains why the process is so different everywhere you look. It moves beyond a simple "how-to" and provides a true global analysis. It directly compares the privatized, for-profit models in the US and UK against the free, public-good systems in Canada and South Africa. You won't just learn the price; you will understand the cultural policies, market structures, and legal philosophies that shape that price. This book shows how the ISBN is a "global mirror". It reveals how a simple number can be a commercial product in one nation , a tool of cultural policy in another , and an instrument of state control in a third. This comparative insight is the missing piece for any author, publisher, or researcher trying to navigate the complex international publishing market. Disclaimer: This handbook is an independently produced resource for commentary and analysis. The author has no affiliation with the International ISBN Agency, R.R. Bowker, Library and Archives Canada, the National Press and Publication Administration, or any other national ISBN agency. This work is independently produced under the principle of nominative fair use.

Sonnets from the Portuguese Love Sonnets

Elizabeth Browning · 2014

The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint

William Shakespeare · 2010

The Little Locksmith

Katharine Hathaway (Butler) · 1943

Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens · 2020

Life of Pi: A Novel

Yann Martel · 2002

Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

Al Franken · 2004

Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke · 2018

Less Than Zero

Bret Easton Ellis · 1998

The Legend of Bagger Vance

Steven Pressfield · 2000

Leaves Of Grass: 1855

Walt Whitman · 2018

The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000

Gore Vidal · 2002

Lady Chatterley's Lover

D. H. Lawrence · 2023

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini · 2013

The Kitchen Boy

Robert Alexander · 2008

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Anthony Bourdain · 2000

Just a Couple of Days

Tony Vigorito · 2001

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair · 2019

The Jumping Frog

Mark Twain · 1998

The Joy Luck Club: A Novel

Amy Tan · 2006

Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)

Charlotte Brontë · 2003

It Takes a Village

Hillary Rodham Clinton · 2006

It Takes a Village

Hillary Rodham Clinton · 2006

Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Drama of the Greatest Courtroom Clash of the Century

Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee · 2003

The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso)

Dante Alighieri · 2003

In Cold Blood

Truman Capote · 1994

I'm with the Band

Pamela Des Barres, Dave Navarro · 2005

The Iliad

Homer · 2017

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Victor Hugo · 2014

Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets, No. 4)

Allen Ginsberg · 1959

How The Light Gets In

M.J. Hyland · 2010

How to Breathe Under Water : Stories

Julie Orringer · 2005

The House of the Spirits: A Novel

Isabel Allende · 2015

The Little Match Girl

Hans Christian Andersen · 2001

Little Women (Puffin in Bloom)

Louisa May Alcott · 2014

<b>Louisa May Alcott's classic tale of four sisters in a deluxe hardcover edition, with beautiful cover illustrations by Anna Bond, the artist behind world-renowned stationery brand Rifle Paper Co.<br></b><br>Grown-up Meg, tomboyish Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. The four March sisters couldn't be more different. But with their father away at war, and their mother working to support the family, they have to rely on one another. Whether they're putting on a play, forming a secret society, or celebrating Christmas, there's one thing they can't help wondering: Will Father return home safely?

Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Woman Living History

Karen Blumenthal · 2016

Lord of the Flies

William Golding · 2003

The Lottery and Other Stories (FSG Classics)

Shirley Jackson · 2005

Songbook

Nick Hornby · 2003

Song of the Simple Truth The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos

Julia de Burgos · 1995

The Song Reader

Lisa Tucker · 2003

The Song of Names

Norman Lebrecht · 2004

Small Island A Novel

Andrea Levy · 2010

Slaughter House Five

Kurt Vonnegut · 1991

S is for Silence A Kinsey Millhone Novel

Sue Grafton · 2006

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse · 2022

The Shining

Stephen King · 1977

Shane

Jack Schaefer · 2014

The Shadow of the Wind

Carlos Ruiz Zafon · 2005

Sexus

Henry Miller · 2015

A Separate Peace

John Knowles · 2003

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen · 2003

Selected Letters Of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965

Dawn Powell / Tim Page · 2000

Secrets of the Flesh A Life of Colette

Judith Thurman • 2011

The Secret Life of Bees

Sue Monk Kidd • 2003

The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir • 1993

Seabiscuit An American Legend

Laura Hillenbrand • 2002

The Scarlett Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne • 1850

The Scarecrow of Oz

L. Frank Baum • 1997

Daisy Miller

Henry James • 1995

Savage Beauty The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Nancy Milford • 2001

Sanctuary

William Faulkner • 1993

The Lovely Bones

Alice Sebold · 2004

Love Story

Erich Segal · 2020

Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)

William Shakespeare · 2003

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert · 2014

Marathon Man

William Goldman · 1974

the manticore

robertson davies · 1979

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Simone De Beauvoir, Simone de Beauvoir · 1974

The Master and Margarita: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Mikhail Bulgakov · 2016

The Memoirs Of General William T. Sherman

William T. Sherman · 2014

The Merry Wives of Windsor (Folger Shakespeare Library)

William Shakespeare · 2016

A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing

H.L. Mencken · 1982

The Meaning of Consuelo

Judith Ortiz Cofer · 2003

Me Talk Pretty One Day

David Sedaris · 2001

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka · 2009

The Miracle Worker: A Play

William Gibson · 2008

Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)

Jeffrey Eugenides · 2002

Moby Dick: Herman Melville's Original Adventure Classic

Herman Melville · 2024

The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion

Jim Irvin · 2008

Molière, a Biography

H. C. Chatfield-Taylor · 2020

Sacred Time

Ursula Hegi • 2005

Rosemary's Baby

Ira Levin • 2017

A Room with a View

Edward Morgan Forster • 2020

Rosemary's Baby

Ira Levin • 2017

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf • 1989

Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)

William Shakespeare • 2004

Roman Fever

Edith Wharton • 2014

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

Stephen King • 2020

R is for Ricochet

Sue Grafton • 2016

The Return Of The King

J.R.R. Tolkien • 2012

Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad

Virginia Holman • 2003

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier • 2013

The Red Tent - 20th Anniversary Edition A Novel

Anita Diamant • 2007