Creating Anna Karenina: Tolstoy and the Birth of Literature's Most Enigmatic Heroine
By: Bob Blaisdell
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Anna Karenina is one of the most nuanced characters in world literature and we return to her, and t…
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1. Agnes Grey
By: Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau
3.71
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover edition can be found here. Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Bro… read more
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- literature
"Dakle,"-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"No one cares for the exterior."-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"But, God knows best, I concluded."-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"If you require perfection, you never will"-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
2. The Man in the Brown Suit
By: Agatha Christie
3.95
Format: 381 pages, Paperback
Pretty, young Anne came to London looking for adventure. In fact, adventure comes looking for her—a… read more
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"A man who has shot lions in large quantities has an unfair advantage over other men."-Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit
"You know I want you. You know that I’d give my soul to pick you up in my arms and keep you here, hidden away from the world, forever and ever."-Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit
"I wonder if husbands know as much about their wives as they think they do. If I had a husband, I should hate him to bring home orphans without consulting me first."-Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit
"But his face should really inspire you with confidence, my dear lady. No self-respecting murderer would ever consent to look like one. Crippen now, I believe was one of the pleasantest fellows imagin…"-Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit
3. Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
By: Agatha Christie
3.96
Format: 324 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A flamboyant party host is murdered in full view of a roomful of bridge players! Mr. Shaitana wa… read more
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"I have always disapproved of murder."-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
"Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don’t you?"-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
"Hercule Poirot spread out his hands in his most foreign manner."-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
"There is the natural liar...Always says the thing that sounds best."-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
4. A Thousand Acres
By: Jane Smiley
3.82
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
Aging Larry Cook announces his intention to turn over his 1,000-acre farm—one of the largest in Zeb… read more
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- literature
"Seeing him somewhere was always a pleasure, like taking a drink of water."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
"Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
"At sixty miles per hour, you could pass our farm in a minute, on County Road 686, which ran due north into the T intersection at Cabot Street Road."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
"I had a burden lift off me that I hadn't even felt the heaviness of until then, and it was the burden of having to wait and see what was going to happen."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
5. Here is Your War
By: Ernie Pyle , Carol Johnson , Orr Kelly
4.39
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
A wonderful and enduring tribute to American troops in the Second World War, Here Is Your War is Er… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"[O]ur segment of the picture consists only of tired and dirty soldiers who are alive and don't want to die; of long darkened convoys in the middle of the night; of shocked silent men wandering back d…"-Ernie Pyle, Here is Your War
"Yesterday a sand snake crawled by just outside my tent door, and for the first time in my life I looked upon a snake not with a creeping phobia but with a sudden and surprising feeling of compassion.…"-Ernie Pyle, Here is Your War
6. Death in the Clouds (Hercule Poirot, #12)
By: Agatha Christie
3.96
Format: 325 pages, Paperback
A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passeneger plane... F… read more
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7. The Kreutzer Sonata
By: Doris Lessing , Leo Tolstoy , Isai Kamen
3.87
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partne… read more
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- russia
- russian literature
"In a large city the unhappy feel their sadness less acutely."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"Yes, man is much worse than the animal when he does not live like a man."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"Удивительное дело, какая полная бывает иллюзия того, что красота есть добро."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
8. Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)
By: Agatha Christie
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
Among the towering red cliffs of Petra sits the corpse of Mrs Boynton, a tiny puncture mark on her … read more
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9. Go Tell It on the Mountain
By: James Baldwin
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiog… read more
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- literature
10. Demons
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.30
Format: 733 pages, Paperback
Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a… read more
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- literature
- russia
- russian literature
"God is the pain of the fear of death"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
11. Can You Forgive Her? (Palliser, #1)
By: Anthony Trollope , Stephen Wall
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright… read more
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- literature
12. The Consolation of Philosophy
By: Boethius , None
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
13. Laughter in the Dark
By: Vladimir Nabokov
4.01
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
"Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, h… read more
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"Death often is the point of life's joke."-Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark
"[S]urely the Cupid serving him was lefthanded, with a weak chin and no imagination."-Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark
"Death," he had said on another occasion, "seems to be merely a bad habit, which nature is at present powerless to overcome."-Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark
"A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s w…"-Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark
14. Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
By: Leo Tolstoy , Rosemary Edmonds
5.00
Format: 398 pages, Paperback
Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, in his early twenties. Although he would … read more
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- russia
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15. Lady Windermere's Fan
By: Oscar Wilde
3.66
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
Beautiful, aristocratic, an adored wife and young mother, Lady Windermere is 'a fascinating puritan… read more
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16. Third Girl (Hercule Poirot, #35)
By: Agatha Christie
3.78
Format: 377 pages, Paperback
Poirot is approached by a girl who shared a flat with two other girls in London. She is convinced s… read more
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17. Hickory Dickory Dock (Hercule Poirot, #30)
By: Agatha Christie , Hugh Fraser
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Audio CD
An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the sort of crime that aroused Herc… read more
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18. After the Funeral (Hercule Poirot, #29)
By: Agatha Christie
3.78
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Hercule Poirot is called on to investigate the murder of a brother and sister in this classic from … read more
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19. Resurrection
By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude
4.00
Format: None pages,
Resurrection (1899) is the last of Tolstoy's major novels. It tells the story of a nobleman's attem… read more
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20. Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
By: C.S. Lewis
3.93
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic… read more
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"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"There I drank life because death was in the pool. That was the best of drinks save one."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
21. Dumb Witness (Hercule Poirot, #16)
By: Agatha Christie
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Everyone blamed Emily's accident on the stairs on her dog, but she was convinced someone was trying… read more
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22. Notes from Underground
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None
4.17
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more
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- russia
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"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
23. The House of the Dead
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Ergin Altay
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Paperback
Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of h… read more
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24. Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
By: Stephanie Land
3.62
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling m… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
25. The Iliad
By: Homer
3.91
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more
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"I say no wealth is worth my life."-Homer, The Iliad
"These were the colloquies in heaven."-Homer, The Iliad
"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."-Homer, The Iliad
"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"-Homer, The Iliad
26. Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
By: Melissa L. Sevigny
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the Colorado River, acc… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
27. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)
By: Colm Tóibín
3.82
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more
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28. The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece
By: Kevin Birmingham
4.28
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of THE MOST DANGEROUS BOOK, the true story behind the cr… read more
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- history
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- literature
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29. Creating Anna Karenina: Tolstoy and the Birth of Literature's Most Enigmatic Heroine
By: Bob Blaisdell
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Anna Karenina is one of the most nuanced characters in world literature and we return to her, and t… read more
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- history
- biography
- russian literature
- literature
- nonfiction
- 21st century
- books about books
30. Framing Anna Karenina: Tolstoy, the Woman Question, and the Victorian Novel (The Theory and Interpretation of Narrative)
By: Amy Mandelker
3.62
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
Amy Mandelker's feminist reinterpretation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina challenges prevailing critical… read more
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- nonfiction
31. Anna Karenina in our time
By: Gary Saul Morson
4.38
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In this invigorating new assessment of Anna Karenina , Gary Saul Morson overturns traditional inter… read more
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