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The Rehearsal
Eleanor Catton · 2010
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2010
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami · 2006
The Color Purple
Alice Walker · 2011
East of Eden
John Steinbeck · 2002
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry · 2010
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote · 2013
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck · 2023
The Wishing Tree
William Faulkner
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 2020
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · 2018
The Iliad
Homer
In 2002, the University of Michigan Press published Rodney Merrill's translation of Homer's Odyssey, an interpretation of the classic that was unique in employing the meter of Homer's original. Praising Merrill's translation of the Odyssey, Gregory Nagy of Harvard wrote, Merrill's fine ear for the sound of ancient Greek makes the experience of reading his Homer the nearest thing in English to actually hearing Homer. The translator's English renders most faithfully the poet's ancient Greek--not only the words and meaning but even the voice. Merrill has now produced an edition of Homer's Iliad, following the same approach. This form of rendering is particularly relevant to the Iliad, producing a strong musical setting that many elements of the narrative require to come truly to life. Most notable are the many battle scenes, to which the strong meter gives an impetus embodying and making credible the war-lust in the deeds of the combatants. --University of Michigan Press.
The Odyssey
Homer
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie · 2001
Candide
Voltaire · 2009
Crime And Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2021
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2002
You Can't Go Home Again
Thomas Wolfe · 2022
Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri · 2002
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Slow Days, Fast Company
Eve Babitz · 2016
Black Swans
Eve Babitz · 2018
<b>"Babitz’s talent for the brilliant line, honed to a point, never interferes with her feel for languid pleasures." —<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><br>A new reissue of Babitz’s collection of nine stories that look back on the 1980s and early 1990s—decades of dreams, drink, and glimpses of a changing world. <i>Black Swans</i> further celebrates the phenomenon of Eve Babitz, cementing her reputation as the voice of a generation.<br><br>With an introduction by Stephanie Danler, bestselling author of <i>Sweetbitter</i>.<br><br><b>"On the page, Babitz is pure pleasure—a perpetual–motion machine of no–stakes elation and champagne fizz." —<i>The New Yorker</i><br></b>
The Red and the Black
Stendhal · 2015
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin · 2024
Evenings and Weekends
Oisín McKenna · 2024
Kairos
Jenny Erpenbeck · 2023
Blue Sisters
Coco Mellors · 2024
The Untethered Soul
Michael A. Singer · 2007
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Coco Mellors · 2022
<b>The smash National bestseller and Goodreads Choice Award finalist--perfect </b><b>for readers of <i>Modern Lovers</i> and <i>Conversations with Friends.</i> An addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple's impulsive marriage.</b><br><b><br></b>Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank. Twenty years older and a self-made success, Frank's life is full of all the excesses Cleo's lacks. He offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and the opportunity to apply for a Green Card. But their impulsive marriage irreversibly changes both their lives, and the lives of those close to them, in ways they never could've predicted.<br><br>Each compulsively readable chapter explores the lives of Cleo, Frank, and an unforgettable cast of their closest friends and family as they grow up and grow older. Whether it's Cleo's best friend struggling to embrace his gender queerness in the wake of Cleo's marriage, or Frank's financially dependent sister arranging sugar daddy dates to support herself after being cut off, or Cleo and Frank themselves as they discover the trials of marriage and mental illness, each character is as absorbing, and painfully relatable, as the last.<br><br>As hilarious as it is heartbreaking, entertaining as it is deeply moving, <i>Cleopatra and Frankenstein</i> marks the entry of a brilliant and bold new talent.
Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe · 2019
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
Nathan Thrall · 2023
Wild Houses
Colin Barrett · 2024
James
Percival Everett · 2024
The Alexandria Quartet
Lawrence Durrell · 2012
Gate of the Sun
Elias Khoury · 2012
The Glutton
A.K. Blakemore · 2023
The Doloriad
Missouri Williams · 2022
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
The Evidence of Things Not Seen
James Baldwin · 2023
The Idiot
Elif Batuman · 2018
<b>Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • <b>A <i>New York Times Book Review</i> Notable Book <b>• </b></b>Nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction<br><br>“Easily the funniest book I’ve read this year.” —<b><i>GQ<br></i></b><br>“Masterly funny debut novel . . . Erudite but never pretentious, <i>The Idiot</i> will make you crave more books by Batuman.” —<b>Sloane Crosley, </b><i><b>Vanity Fair</b></i><br><br>A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself.</b><br><br> The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings. <br> <br> At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer.<br><br> With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. <i>The Idiot</i> is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail.<br><br><b>Named one the best books of the year by Refinery29 <i>• </i>Mashable One <i>• Elle Magazine • The New York Times • </i>Bookpage <i>• Vogue • NPR • </i>Buzzfeed <i>•</i>The Millions</b>
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith · 2008
All Fours
Miranda July · 2024
Beloved
Toni Morrison · 2006
