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autobiography
The Lover
Marguerite Duras · 1998
classic
Madonna in a Fur Coat
Sabahattin Ali · 2017
The Pearl
John Steinbeck · 2000
<b>The classic novella from Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck explores the secrets of man's nature, the darkest depths of evil, and the luminous possibilities of love.</b><br><br>Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull's egg, as "perfect as the moon." With the pearl comes hope, the promise of comfort and of security....
A Breath of Life
Clarice Lispector · 2012
An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
Clarice Lispector · 2022
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin · 2013
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf · 1989
A Room of Ones Own
Virginia Woolf
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2024
East of Eden
John Steinbeck · 2002
The Stranger
Albert Camus · 2022
coming-of-age
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath · 2005
<p><i>The Bell Jar</i> chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made <i>The Bell Jar</i> a haunting American classic.</p> <p>This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.</p>
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison · 2007
japanese literature
All the Lovers in the Night
Mieko Kawakami · 2022
More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Satoshi Yagisawa · 2024
MP3 CD Format<br/>In this charming and emotionally resonant follow up to the internationally bestselling Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, Satoshi Yagisawa paints a poignant and thoughtful portrait of life, love, and how much books and bookstores mean to the people who love them.<br/>Set again in the beloved Japanese bookshop and nearby coffee shop in the Jimbochi neighborhood of Toyko, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop deepens the relationship between Takako, her uncle Satoru , and the people in their lives. A new cast of heartwarming regulars have appeared in the shop, including an old man who wears the same ragged mouse-colored sweater and another who collects books solely for the official stamps with the author's personal seal.<br/>Satoshi Yagisawa illuminates the everyday relationships between people that are forged and grown through a shared love of books. Characters leave and return, fall in and out of love, and some eventually die. As time passes, Satoru, with Takako's help, must choose whether to keep the bookshop open or shutter its doors forever. Making the decision will take uncle and niece on an emotional journey back to their family's roots and remind them again what a bookstore can mean to an individual, a neighborhood, and a whole culture.
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: A Novel
Satoshi Yagisawa · 2023
The Curious Kitten at the Chibineko Kitchen
Yuta Takahashi · 2025
If Cats Disappeared from the World
Genki Kawamura · 2019
Heaven: A Novel
Mieko Kawakami · 2022
What You Are Looking for is in the Library
Aoyama Michiko · 2024
Breasts and Eggs
Mieko Kawakami · 2020
Before We Forget Kindness
Toshikazu Kawaguchi · 2024
<p><b>The fifth book in the multi-million-copy bestselling series about a cosy Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.</b><br> <br> Curl up with the fifth book in the sensational Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, the cosy Tokyo café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests:<br> <br> - The father who could not allow his daughter to get married<br> - A woman who couldn't give Valentine's Day chocolates to her loved one<br> - A boy who wants to show his smile to his divorced parents<br> - A wife holding a child with no name . . .<br> <br> They must follow the café's strict rules, however, and come back to the present before their coffee goes cold.<br> <br> Another moving and heartwarming tale from Toshikazu Kawaguchi, in <i>Before We Forget Kindness</i> our new visitors wish to go back into their past to find closure and comfort so they can embark on a beautiful future.<br> <br> <b>'I don't want it to ever end. Emotional, heart-warming, hopeful'<br> - @samzreadsbooks on Instagram</b><br> <br> <b>Catch up on the rest of the series with <i>Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Tales from the Cafe, Before Your Memory Fades</i> and <i>Before We Say Goodbye.</i></b></p>
Before We Say Goodbye
Kawaguchi, Toshikazu
The regulars at the magical Cafe Funiculi Funicula are well acquainted with its famous legend and extraordinary, secret menu time travel offering. Many patrons have reunited with old flames, made amends with estranged family, and visited loved ones. But the journey is not without risks and there are rules to follow. Travellers must have visited the cafe previously and most importantly, must return to the present in the time it takes for their coffee to go cold.
Before Your Memory Fades
Kawaguchi Toshikazu · 2022
Tales from the Cafe
Toshikazu Kawaguchi · 2021
lit fic
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante · 2012
Martyr!
Akbar Kaveh · 2024
Intermezzo
Sally Rooney · 2024
Don't Cry for Me
Daniel Black · 2022
Evil Eye
Etaf Rum · 2023
Yellowface
Kuang Rebecca F. · 2024
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong · 2021
Sula
Toni Morrison · 2004
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt · 2015
Small Worlds
Caleb Azumah Nelson · 2023
Stoner
John Williams · 2006
They're Going to Love You
Meg Howrey · 2023
Two-Step Devil
Jamie Quatro · 2025
Rejection
Tony Tulathimutte · 2024
All-Night Pharmacy
Ruth Madievsky · 2023
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison · 1995
The Idiot: A Novel
Elif Batuman · 2018
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction<br/><br/>“Easily the funniest book I’ve read this year.” —GQ<br/><br/>“Masterly funny debut novel . . . Erudite but never pretentious, The Idiot will make you crave more books by Batuman.” —Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair<br/><br/>A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself.<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. The Idiot 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/>Named one the best books of the year by Refinery29 • Mashable One • Elle Magazine • The New York Times • Bookpage • Vogue • NPR • Buzzfeed •The Millions
Writers & Lovers: A Novel
Lily King · 2020
A Breath of Life
Clarice Lispector · 2012
mystery/psychological/thriller
The Secret History
Donna Tartt · 1992
<b><b><b><b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • </b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "a<b>n accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (<i>Village Voice</i>)</b>, f<b>rom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <i>The Goldfinch.<br><br></i></b></b></b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b><br><br>Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.<br><br><b>“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b>
The House Across the Lake: A Novel
Riley Sager · 2022
My Husband: A Novel
Maud Ventura · 2023
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk · 2020
non-fiction history
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
Philip Gourevitch · 1999
short stories
Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
Raphael Bob-Waksberg · 2020
Recitatif
Toni Morrison · 2022
historical fantasy
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?
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V. E. Schwab · 2023
historical fiction
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini · 2008
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Mornings in Jenin
Susan Abulhawa · 2010
The Great Believers
Rebecca Makkai · 2018
Beloved
Toni Morrison · 2004
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett · 2021
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Malinda Lo · 2021
The Great Alone: A Novel
Kristin Hannah · 2019
East of Eden
John Steinbeck · 2002
horror
Monstrilio
Gerardo Sámano Córdova · 2023
romance
Love and Other Words
Christina Lauren · 2018
Before We Were Strangers
Renée Carlino · 2015
Open Water
Caleb Azumah Nelson · 2021
Alone with You in the Ether
Olivie Blake · 2022
Seven Days in June
Tia Williams · 2022
Heart the Lover
Lily King · 2025
novella
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Stefan Zweig · 2013
Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto · 2015
self-help
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Susan Cain · 2013
All About Love
bell hooks · 2018
literacy science fiction
On the Calculation of Volume
Solvej Balle · 2024
contemporary
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman · 2017
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND THE PERFECT HOLIDAY GIFT A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick “Beautifully written and incredibly funny, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is about the importance of friendship and human connection. I fell in love with Eleanor, an eccentric and regimented loner whose life beautifully unfolds after a chance encounter with a stranger; I think you will fall in love, too!” —Reese Witherspoon No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond’s big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the smart, warm, and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes. . . The only way to survive is to open your heart.
Loved One
Aisha Muharrar · 2025
philosophical fiction
The Stranger
Albert Camus · 2022
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom · 2003
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig · 2020
memoir
Alligator Tears
Edgar Gomez · 2025
Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch Albom · 2007
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion · 2007
Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton · 2021
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls · 2006
So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Melissa Broder · 2016
political fiction
Animal Farm
George Orwell · 1996
queer/lgbtq+
These Letters End in Tears
Musih Tedji Xaviere · 2024
Swimming in the Dark: A Novel
Tomasz Jedrowski · 2021
Blessings
Chukwuebuka Ibeh · 2025
Lie with Me
Philippe Besson · 2020
narrative non-fiction
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Robert Kolker · 2021
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Patrick Radden Keefe · 2021
<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • A <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author of <i>Say Nothing.</i></b><br><br><b>"A real-life version of the HBO series <i>Succession</i> with a lethal sting in its tail…a masterful work of narrative reportage.” – Laura Miller, <i>Slate</i> </b><br><br>The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama—baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful. The Sackler name has adorned the walls of many storied institutions—Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, but the source of the family fortune was vague—until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis.<br><br><i>Empire of Pain</i> is the saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Cap d’Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. It follows the family’s early success with Valium to the much more potent OxyContin, marketed with a ruthless technique of co-opting doctors, influencing the FDA, downplaying the drug’s addictiveness. <i>Empire of Pain</i> chronicles the multiple investigations of the Sacklers and their company, and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used to evade accountability.<br><br>A masterpiece of narrative reporting, <i>Empire of Pain</i> is a ferociously compelling portrait of America’s second Gilded Age, a study of impunity among the super-elite and a relentless investigation of the naked greed that built one of the world’s great fortunes.
investigative drama
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey · 2020
science fiction
The Word for World is Forest
Ursula K. Le Guin · 2010
<p>The award-winning masterpiece by one of today's most honored writers, Ursula K. Le Guin!<br><br><i>The Word for World is Forest </i><br><br>When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters. <br><br>Desperation causes the Athsheans, led by Selver, to retaliate against their captors, abandoning their strictures against violence. But in defending their lives, they have endangered the very foundations of their society. For every blow against the invaders is a blow to the humanity of the Athsheans. And once the killing starts, there is no turning back.</p>
magical realism
Exit West: A Novel
Mohsin Hamid · 2018
dystopian literary fiction
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>
