The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
The shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out for the one and only date of their lives. Twenty years on, their enigmatic personalities are embalmed in the memories of the boys who worshipped them and who now recall their shared adolescence- the brass ...Show more
Dubliners by James Joyce; Colm Toibin (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
Dubliners by James Joyce. Worldwide literature classic, among top 100 literary novels of all time. A must read for everybody.In the 1980s, Italo Calvino (the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death) said in his essay "Why Read the Classics?" that "a classic is a book that ha ...Show more
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words o ...Show more
Class Trip by Emmanuel Carrère
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Editions Ser.
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ADVERSARY Little Nicolas is a delicate, timid schoolboy, with an excitable, if morbid imagination - the child of an overbearing father. So, two weeks away on the class trip is already enough to fill him with dread. But when a child goes missing, Nicolas' mind turns to ...Show more
The Stranger by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Albert Camus's spare, laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in Algeria is famous for having diagnosed, with a clarity almost scientific, that condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. Possessing both the force of a ...Show more
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
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Category: Fiction
Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. I like to keep my body rolled away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, tell the whole story. I didn't k ...Show more
Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
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Category: Erotica | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A young woman anxiously waits for her date on a street corner in New York City; he sits in a pizza parlour across the street, watching her discomfort. A middle-aged woman returns to a New York that is haunted by the passion and intensity of her former relationship with her estranged best friend. A secre ...Show more
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials
'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.' Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lo ...Show more
Vernon Subutex One by Virginie Despentes
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Category: Fiction | Series: MacLehose Press Editions Ser.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018. WHO IS VERNON SUBUTEX? An urban legend. A fall from grace. The mirror who reflects us all. Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Bastille. His legend spread throughout Paris. But by the 2000s his shop is str ...Show more
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places; brilliant and pl ...Show more
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A HELLO SUNSHINE x REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--the real-life story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: ...Show more
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: Faber Modern Classics by Mario Vargas Llosa
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Category: Classics | Series: Faber Modern Classics Ser.
Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals. The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirtee ...Show more