5 must-read classics books like Acts of Light : Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

Acts of Light : Emily Dickinson

By: Emily Dickinson

4.04

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A collection of eighty poems by the 19th-century poet accompanied by paintings and drawings.

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Cover of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

1. Their Eyes Were Watching God

By: Zora Neale Hurston

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries … read more

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  • classics
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2. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

By: Bryan Stevenson

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our bro… read more

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3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

By: Mark Twain , John Seelye , Guy Cardwell

3.92

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer revolves around the youthful adventures of the novel's schoolboy prota… read more

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  • classics
"Tom!"

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"Company would be a palpable improvement"

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"But old fools is the biggest fools there is."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Cover of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, E.W. Kemble, John Seelye, Guy Cardwell

4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

By: Mark Twain , E.W. Kemble , John Seelye , Guy Cardwell

3.83

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down t… read more

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  • classics
"งั้นก็เอาละ เราจะลงนรก..."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"Confound it, it's foolish, Tom"

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"He had a dream and it shot him."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"All right, then, I'll go to hell."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

5. Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

3.99

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more

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6. Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

By: Chinua Achebe

3.73

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is wr… read more

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  • classics
"Let us not reason like cowards,"

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

"There is no story that is not true."

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

"عندما يضئ القمر يشعر الكسيح برغبة قوية إلى المشي"

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

"إذا نظر امرؤ إلى فم ملك, ظن أنه لم يرضع قط من ثدي أمه"

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

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7. My Best Friend's Exorcism

By: Grady Hendrix

3.94

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fifth grade, when they bonded over a shared love of … read more

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"Are you going to do it?"

-Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

"Abby Rivers was a certified grown-up because she'd finally cried at a movie."

-Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

"I love you, Gretchen Lang. You are my reflection and my shadow and I will not let you go. We are bound together forever and ever! Until Halley’s Comet comes around again. I love you dearly and I love…"

-Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

"Brother Lemon and Abby looked at each other, eyes gleaming in the shadows, and then he stood up. Rummaging in one of his duffle bags, he pulled out an athletic cup and slid it down the front of his p…"

-Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

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8. The Overstory

By: Richard Powers

4.12

Format: 502 pages, Paperback

The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning ev… read more

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"Human history was the story of increasingly disoriented hunger."

-Richard Powers, The Overstory

"The confirmation of others: a sickness the entire race will die of."

-Richard Powers, The Overstory

"Civilized yards are all alike. Every wild yard is wild in its own way."

-Richard Powers, The Overstory

"Trees fall with spectacular crashes. Planting is silent and growth invisible."

-Richard Powers, The Overstory

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9. The Candy House

By: Jennifer Egan

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our time and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, an e… read more

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"A new remote and unfamiliar place can make the prior remote and unfamiliar place seem like home."

-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

"Mysteries that are destroyed by measurement were never truly mysterious; only our ignorance made them seem so."

-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

"Nothing is free! Only children expect otherwise even as myths and fairy tales warn us: Rumpelstiltskin, King Midas, Handsel and Gretel. Never trust a candy house! It was only a matter of time before …"

-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

Cover of The Hummingbirds' Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings by Sy Montgomery

10. The Hummingbirds' Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings

By: Sy Montgomery

4.14

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Hummingbirds fascinate people around the world. The lightest birds in the sky, hummingbirds are cap… read more

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11. Acts of Light : Emily Dickinson

By: Emily Dickinson

4.04

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A collection of eighty poems by the 19th-century poet accompanied by paintings and drawings. read more

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