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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath · 2000

White Nights

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2024

Lord of the Flies

William Golding · 2003

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

Harlan Ellison · 1984

The Brothers Karamazov Bicentennial Edition

Fyodor Dostoevsky • 2021

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche · 2003

Of Strangers and Bees

Hamid Ismailov, Shelley Fairweather-Vega · 2019

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 2012

Kokoro - Natsume Soseki

Natsume Soseki

Comemadre

Roque Larraquy · 2018

Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami · 2006

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Omar El Akkad · 2025

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1866

To a God Unknown

John Steinbeck · 1995

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Joanne Greenberg · 2022

A Dog’s Heart

Mikhal Bulgakov

Everything I Know About Love

Dolly Alderton · 2020

Fahrenheit 451 A Novel

Ray Bradbury · 2012

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Mitch Albom · 2006

The Girl with the Louding Voice A Novel

Abi Daré · 2020

White Fang

Jack London · 2021

Jerry of the Island

Jack London · 2023

The Chalice and the Blade Our History, Our Future

Riane Eisler · 1988

The Books of Jacob

Olga Tokarczuk · 2022

The Library at Night

Alberto Manguel · 2005

No Longer Human

Osamu Dazai · 2023

How Do You Live?

Genzaburo Yoshino · 2021

Animal Farm

George Orwell · 2023

The Stranger

Albert Camus

Why Fish Dont Exist A Story of Loss, Love and the Hidden Order of Life

Lulu Miller

1984

George Orwell · 2021

Edizione originale in lingua inglese, con nota introduttiva in italiano<br/><br/>”Il potere non è un mezzo, è un fine. Non si stabilisce una dittatura nell’intento di salvaguardare una rivoluzione; ma si fa una rivoluzione nell’intento di stabilire una dittatura. Il fine della persecuzione è la persecuzione. Il fine della tortura è la tortura. Il fine del potere è il potere.”<br/><br/>Il romanzo, pubblicato pochi anni dopo la conclusione del secondo conflitto mondiale, è una spietata e profetica riflessione sul potere. È considerato una delle più lucide rappresentazioni del totalitarismo e anche uno dei primi e più importanti esempi di romanzo distopico. L’azione si svolge infatti in un futuro prossimo del mondo (l’anno 1984) in cui il potere si concentra in tre immensi superstati: Oceania (con capitale Londra), Eurasia ed Estasia. Al vertice del potere politico in Oceania c’è il Grande Fratello (“Big Brother”), onnisciente e infallibile, che nessuno ha visto di persona ma di cui ovunque sono visibili grandi manifesti. Il Ministero della Verità, nel quale lavora il protagonista Smith, ha il compito di censurare libri e giornali non in linea con la politica ufficiale, di alterare la storia e di ridurre le possibilità espressive della lingua. Per quanto sia tenuto sotto controllo da telecamere, Smith comincia però a condurre un'esistenza “sovversiva”.<br/><br/>“Big Brother is watching you”: con questo slogan l’autore britannico ha mostrato la propria lungimiranza, ponendo l’accento su uno dei temi più caldi al giorno d’oggi: il controllo del potere sull’opinione pubblica perpetrato mediante i mezzi di comunicazione. Pietra miliare della letteratura inglese, 1984 è uno dei romanzi più conosciuti e forse più controversi del secolo scorso. Un romanzo in grado di smuovere le coscienze e di portare il lettore a riflettere sul passato, sul presente e soprattutto sul futuro.<br/><br/>George Orwell è lo pseudonimo di Eric Arthur Blair, nato in India da una famiglia scozzese nel 1903 e morto a Londra nel 1950. Giornalista culturale, saggista, critico letterario, Orwell è oggi considerato uno dei maggiori autori di lingua inglese del Novecento.<br/><br/>Con nota introduttiva.<br/>Collana Il Disoriente - Luoghi della lettura

A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess · 2019

Men who Hate Women & the Women who Love Them

Susan Forward, Joan Torres · 1986

A Happy Death

Albert Camus · 2002

The Book of Tea

Okakura Kakuzō · 2022

The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzō gets right to the heart of the cultural significance and historical importance of a well-loved beverage. The work is one of cultural outreach, breaking down boundaries with foreign cultures and acting as an ambassador between the West and the burgeoning nation of Japan post-Meiji Restoration.<br/><br/>Writing in English, Okakura sought to educate Western audiences on the purity, harmony and clarity of the tea ceremony within Japanese philosophy and identity. However, this goes far beyond a simple love of tea drinking. In 1905, Japan defeated Russia in open conflict, resulting in an explosion of prejudice, disinformation and racism with regard to Japanese culture, politics and lifestyle. Writing less than one year later, Okakura sought to redress this balance in a meaningful way, building bridges between nations and ushering in an age of newfound parity between the East and the West.<br/><br/>The result is a book that remains fascinating today, over a century later, giving tea drinkers and non-tea drinkers alike something to think about. Okakura went on writing for another seven years until his death in 1913, but it is The Book of Tea for which he is best remembered.

Religion for Atheists

Alain De Botton · 2012

What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved forward by Alain de Botton’s inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are entirely false—but that it still has some very important things to teach the secular world.   Religion for Atheists suggests that rather than mocking religion, agnostics and atheists should instead steal from it—because the world’s religions are packed with good ideas on how we might live and arrange our societies. Blending deep respect with total impiety, de Botton (a non-believer himself) proposes that we look to religion for insights into how to, among other concerns, build a sense of community, make our relationships last, overcome feelings of envy and inadequacy, inspire travel and reconnect with the natural world.   For too long non-believers have faced a stark choice between either swallowing some peculiar doctrines or doing away with a range of consoling and beautiful rituals and ideas. At last, in Religion for Atheists, Alain de Botton has fashioned a far more interesting and truly helpful alternative.

The First Man

Albert Camus · 1996

Butter A Novel of Food and Murder

Asako Yuzuki · 2024

Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

Clay McLeod Chapman · 2025

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley · 1818

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2006

Until the Shadows Lengthen

Hannah Clayton · 2023

Infernal Devices

K. W. Jeter · 2017

Masters of Death A Novel

Olivie Blake · 2023

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde · 2021

The Phantom of the Opera The Original Novel

Gaston Leroux · 2010

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2003

The Trial

Frank Kafka · 1925

Killing Commendatore

Haruki Murakami

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee · 2002

Bunny A Novel

Mona Awad · 2020

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

Mikhail Bulgakov · 2016

Ghost Story

Peter Straub · 2015

The Trial

Franz Kafka · 2012

Strange Houses

Uketsu · 2025

Strange Pictures

Uketsu · 2025

The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins · 2003

Foul Lady Fortune

Chloe Gong · 2022

Livid

Patricia Cornwell · 2022

If We Were Villains

M. L. Rio

The Secret History

Donna Tartt · 1993

In the Miso Soup

Ryu Murakami · 2006

The Little Friend

Donna Tartt · 2005

Hallowe'en Party Filmed as A Haunting in Venice

Agatha Christie

The Magical Language of Others

E. J. Koh · 2020

The Outsiders

S. E. Hinton · 1967

Dead Poets Society

N. H. Kleinbaum · 2006 Classics, Dark Academia

A Lite Too Bright

Samuel Miller · 2018

The Country Will Bring Us No Peace

Matthieu Simard · 2019

Death in Venice

Thomas Mann

The Strange Library

Haruki Murakami · 2014

Project Hail Mary A Novel

Andy Weir · 2022

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle A Novel

Haruki Murakami · 1998

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville • 2003

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak · 2007 Classics, Young Adult

The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2010

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky · 2010

The Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger · 2001

Sputnik Sweetheart

Haruki Murakami · 2002

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas · 2003

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy · 2014

The Adventure of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain · 2020

Tales from the Cafe

Toshikazu Kawaguchi · 2020

Before the Coffee Gets Cold A Novel

Toshikazu Kawaguchi · 2020

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

Maddie Mortimer · 2022

We All Looked Up

Tommy Wallach · 2015

Heaven

Mieko Kawakami · 2008

Greek Lessons

Han Kang · 2023

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop A Novel

Satoshi Yagisawa · 2023

On Earth We Re Briefly Gorgeous Notebook University Graduation Gift : Lined Notebook / Journal Gift, 120 Pages, 6x9, Soft Cover, Matte Finish

Ocean Vuong · 2020

Spring Snow

Yukio Mishima · 2013

The Housekeeper and the Professor A Novel

Yoko Ogawa · 2009

The Confessions of Lady Nijo

Nakanoin Masatada no musume · 1973

The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish

Katya Apekina · 2018

In Memoriam A novel

Alice Winn · 2023

Territory of Light

Yuko Tsushima · 2019

Life of Pi A Novel

Yann Martel · 2002

The Odyssey

Homer

The Iliad

Homer • 2024

Heaven Official’s Blessing A Novel

Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint A Novel

Sings Shong

Their Broken Knees

Aleena Rose

Travel Light

Naomi Mitchison · 1987

The Hummingbird Coven

Augusta Owens · 2022

The Lunar Chronicles Boxed Set: Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, Fairest, Stars Above, Winter

Marissa Meyer · 2020

Six Crimson Cranes

Elizabeth Lim · 2021

The Burning God

R. F. Kuang · 2020

The Dragon Republic

R. F. Kuang · 2019

The Poppy War

R. F. Kuang · 2018

The Lights of Prague

Nicole Jarvis · 2021

Daughter of the Moon Goddess

Sue Lynn Tan · 2022

Six of Crows

Leigh Bardugo · 2015

Scythe

Neal Shusterman · 2016

The Atlas Six

Olivie Blake · 2021

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

V. E. Schwab · 2023

A Venom Dark and Sweet

Judy I. Lin · 2022

A Magic Steeped in Poison

Judy I. Lin · 2022

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Andrew Butler · 2014

Babel

R. F. Kuang · 2022

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War   “Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one; one that grabs colonial history and the Industrial Revolution, turns it over, and shakes it out.” -- Shannon Chakraborty, bestselling author of The City of Brass From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel. Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as its knowledge serves the Empire’s quest for colonization. For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide… Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence?

When I Sing, Mountains Dance

Irene Solà · 2022

The Full Moon Coffee Shop

Mai Mochizuki · 2024

East of Eden

John Steinbeck · 2003

Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon

Mizuki Tsujimura · 2025

The Will of the Many

James Islington · 2023

Demon Copperhead A Novel

Barbara Kingsolver · 2022

The Silence of the Girls

Pat Barker · 2019

Stone Blind

Natalie Haynes · 2023

Laertes A Hamlet Retelling

Carly Stevens · 2023

CIRCE

Madeline Miller · 2018

The Priory of the Orange Tree

Samantha Shannon · 2020

The Song of Achilles A Novel

Madeline Miller · 2012

If Orpheus Was a Carp A Novel

Malaika W. Kamau · 2025

Martyr! A novel

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.

The Lantern and the Night Moths

Yilin Wang · 2024

Merriam Webster's Vocabulary Builder

Merriam-Webster, Inc. Staff, Mike Logan

The Song Of The Cell

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Hidden Guests

Lise Barnéoud · 2025

The Japanese Myths

Joshua Frydman · 2022

The Practice of Not Thinking A Guide to Mindful Living

Ryunosuke Koike · 2021

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

George Saunders · 2021

The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia

Candace Fleming · 2014

Fundamentals in Nuclear Physics

Jean-Louis Basdevant, James Rich, Michael Spiro · 2006

Against Empathy The Case for Rational Compassion

Paul Bloom · 2016

All That Remains A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes

Sue Black · 2020

Astrobiology The Search for Life Elsewhere in the Universe

Andrew May · 2019

Is Consciousness Everywhere?

Philip Goff, Alex Moran · 2022

Why We Sleep Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

Matthew Walker · 2018

Alice in Quantumland An Allegory of Quantum Physics

Robert Gilmore · 1995

A Little History of Religion

Richard Holloway · 2017

Genes Vs Cultures Vs Consciousness A Brief Story of Our Computational Minds

Andres Campero · 2019

Before There Was a Bible

Lee Martin McDonald · 2023

The Whale

Philip Hoare · 2016

Hunt for Vulcan, The

Thomas Levenson · 2016

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

Christopher Paolini · 2020

The Beauty of Physics: Patterns, Principles, and Perspectives

A. R. P. Rau · 2014

The Moon A History for the Future

Oliver Morton, The Economist · 2019

Japanese Houses: Pattern for Living

Kiyoyuki Nishihara · 1973

Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

Werner Heisenberg · 2007

An Introduction to Yōkai Culture Monsters, Ghosts, and Outsiders in Japanese History

Kazuhiko Komatsu · 2017

Strange Behavior Tales of Evolutionary Neurology

Harold L. Klawans · 2001

God A Human History of Religion

Reza Aslan · 2018

The Soul of an Octopus

Sy Montgomery · 2016

Emotional Intelligence Why it can matter more than IQ

Daniel Goleman

The Growth of Personality: From Infancy to Old Age

Gordon R. Lowe · 1972

How Religion Evolved

Robin Dunbar · 2022

The Science of Rapid Skill Acquisition Advanced Methods to Learn, Remember, and Master New Skills and Information

Peter Hollins · 2019

The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience

Mikel Dufrenne · 1973

The Anatomy of Violence The Biological Roots of Crime

Adrian Raine · 2014