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Rebellion & Revolution
Der Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse • 1991
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath • 2024
Animal Farm
George Orwell • 2024
"Animal Farm" by George Orwell is a classic allegorical novella depicting a farm where animals overthrow their human owner to establish a society based on equality and fairness. Led by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, the animals initially strive to create a utopian community free from human exploitation. However, power corrupts, and the pigs gradually betray the founding principles of equality, leading to oppression and inequality among the animals. Orwell's powerful critique of totalitarianism and political hypocrisy resonates through vivid characters and events, highlighting the dangers of unchecked power and the manipulation of ideology for personal gain.
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens • 2003
Notes from Underground and the Double
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2009
The Trial Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka • 2024
Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre • 2000
The Rebel
Albert Camus • 2012
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo • 2013
1984
George Orwell • 1950
<b>Written more than 70 years ago, <i>1984</i> was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...<br><br><b>• Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read •</i></b><br></b><br>“<i>The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.</i>”<br><br>Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching...<br><br>A startling and haunting novel, <i>1984</i> creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.
Femenism or Womanhood
The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan • 2013
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>
A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf · 2023
Caliban and the Witch Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Silvia Federici • 2021
Rights in general
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire • 2017
Individualism or Realization
The Courage to be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga · 2023
Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch Albom · 2007
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion · 2007
The Apple in the Dark
Clarice Lispector • 2023
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin • 1964
The ethics of ambiguity, tr
Simone de Beauvoir • 1962
Walden: The Original 1854 Edition (A Henry David Thoreau Classics)
Henry David Thoreau • 2023
Nihilism”’Exestencialism”’Absurdism
The Passion According to G.H
Clarice Lispector · 2022
Hour of the Star
Clarice Lispector · 2014
The Book Against Death
Elias Canetti · 2024
Morning and Evening
Charles Spurgeon · 2016
Orbital
Samantha Harvey · 2023
On The Calculation of Volume
Solvej Balle · 2025
The Stranger
Albert Camus • 2022
Novels
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison · 2007
Madonna in a Fur Coat
Sabahattin Ali · 2021
The starless sea
Erin Morgenstern · 2019
Cold Enough for Snow
Jessica Au · 2022
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky · 2010
Água Viva
Clarice Lispector · 2012
The Memory Police
Yoko Ogawa · 2020
It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
Anne De Marcken · 2024
A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness, Siobhan Dowd · 2012
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2006
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes · 1994
A Month in the Country
J.L. Carr · 2000
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone · 2020
Play It as It Lays
Joan Didion · 2017
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen · 2003
Homer and the Lliad
John Stuart · 2009
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · 2016
Beloved
Toni Morrison · 2004
Dracula
Bram Stoker · 2003
The Death of Ivan Llyich (Penguin Classics)
Leo Tolstoy • 2008
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov • 2001
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra • 2016
Cultural Critique
The White Album Essays
Joan Didion · 2009
Poetry
Bluets
Maggie Nelson
Blue Horses Poems
Mary Oliver · 2016
Hedonism
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · 2021
Memoir
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>
