Stories of Edith Wharton
By: Edith Wharton
3.97
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Combining two volumes of Wharton's short stories in a brand new edition, this outstanding selection…
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1. A Lost Lady
By: Willa Cather , A.S. Byatt
3.72
Format: 167 pages, Paperback
Marian Forrester is the symbolic flower of the Old American West. She draws her strength from that … read more
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"Tears flashed into her eyes. "That's very dear of you. It's sweet to be remembered when one is away." In her voice there was the heart-breaking sweetness one sometimes hears in lovely, gentle old son…"-Willa Cather, A Lost Lady
"Under the bluffs that overhung the marsh he came upon thickets of wild roses, with flaming buds, just beginning to open. Where they had opened, their petals were stained with that burning rose-colour…"-Willa Cather, A Lost Lady
"He had seen the end of an era, the sunset of the pioneer. He had come upon it when already its glory was nearly spent. So in the buffalo times a traveller used to come upon the embers of a hunter's f…"-Willa Cather, A Lost Lady
2. Pygmalion
By: George Bernard Shaw
3.89
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and Ne… read more
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"What you are to do without me I cannot imagine."-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
"Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby"-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
"La vida no consiste en buscarse a sí mismo, sino en crearse a sí mismo"-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
"I'm willing to tell you. I'm wanting to tell you. I'm waiting to tell you."-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
3. Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses
By: Bruce Feiler
3.88
Format: 451 pages, Paperback
Both a heart-racing adventure and an uplifting quest, Walking the Bible describes one man's epic od… read more
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4. Madame Bovary
By: Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall
3.70
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The characte… read more
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"Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
5. Our Town
By: Thornton Wilder , Donald Margulies , Tappan Wilder
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
Our Townwas first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama… read more
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6. The Maltese Falcon
By: Dashiell Hammett
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a l… read more
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7. Walden
By: Henry David Thoreau
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David T… read more
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8. The Boys from Brazil
By: Ira Levin
4.06
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Alive and hiding in South America, Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for … read more
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"I say in my talks it takes two things to make it happen again, a new Hitler and social conditions like in the thirties. But that's not true. It takes three things: the Hitler, the conditions, and the…"-Ira Levin, The Boys from Brazil
9. Next
By: Michael Crichton
3.53
Format: 431 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to our genetic world.Fast, furious, and out of control.This is not the world of the future … read more
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"A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time."-Michael Crichton, Next
"Only assholes put a nickname on their business card."-Michael Crichton, Next
"Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other."-Michael Crichton, Next
"Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego."-Michael Crichton, Next
10. A Separate Peace
By: John Knowles
3.97
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peaceis timeless in its … read more
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11. My Ántonia
By: Willa Cather
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant … read more
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12. Silas Marner
By: George Eliot
3.68
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwa… read more
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"Love once, love always"-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
13. A Rogue's Life
By: Wilkie Collins
3.59
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
A delightful tale of thwarted ambition and forbidden love, A Rogue's Lifefollows the fortunes of an… read more
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14. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer--from its fir… read more
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15. Fingersmith
By: Sarah Waters
4.02
Format: 592 pages, ebook
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raise… read more
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"You pearl!"-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
"PIGEON MY ARSE!"-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
"It's a curious, wanting thing."-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
"She said, 'It is filled with all the words for how I want you."-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
16. Right Ho, Jeeves (Jeeves, #6)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
3.72
Format: 272 pages,
Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new… read more
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17. O Pioneers!
By: Willa Cather
3.90
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged ma… read more
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"Things away from home often look better than they are."-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
"There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before."-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
"Neither Oscar nor Lou has changed much; they have simply, as Alexandra said of them long ago, grown to be more and more like themselves."-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
"We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it -- for a little while."-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
18. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
By: Randall Munroe
4.14
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, … read more
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"A darkened Sun would liberate us from the parsnip threat."-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
"So Yoda sounds like our best bet as an energy source. But with world electricity consumption pushing 2 terawatts, it would take a hundred million Yodas to meet our demands. All things considered, swi…"-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
"But what about gender and sexual orientation? And culture? And language? We could keep using demographics to try to narrow things down further, but we would be drifting away from the idea of a random…"-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
19. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane
3.64
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more
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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
20. Cathedral
By: Raymond Carver
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
Raymond Carver's third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the cano… read more
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21. Disgrace
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee's searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a… read more
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22. The Portrait of a Lady
By: Henry James , Patricia Crick
3.79
Format: 797 pages, Paperback
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more
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"She has only one fault; too many ideas."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
23. Keep the Aspidistra Flying
By: George Orwell
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Near… read more
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24. Slaves in the Family
By: Edward Ball
3.93
Format: 265 pages,
Journalist Ball confronts the legacy of his family's slave-owning past, uncovering the story of the… read more
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25. Sipsworth
By: Simon Van Booy
4.26
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more
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26. The Best of Me
By: David Sedaris
4.21
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
“Genius… It is miraculous to read these pieces… You must read The Best of Me.” —Andrew Sean Greer, … read more
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"I can't bear to hear other people's dreams unless I myself am in them."-David Sedaris, The Best of Me
27. The Years
By: Annie Ernaux
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more
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"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
28. The House Is on Fire
By: Rachel Beanland
4.10
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
The author of Florence Adler Swims Forever returns with a masterful work of historical fiction abou… read more
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"If you want to help... any of us, then you get where you're going and you work hard and you find a way to take care of someone else the way your uncle has taken care of you."-Rachel Beanland, The House Is on Fire
29. Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
By: Sue Black
4.31
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Our bones are the silent witnesses to the lives we lead. Our stories are marbled into their marrow.… read more
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"Sometimes, a bone is just a coconut"-Sue Black, Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
30. Stories of Edith Wharton
By: Edith Wharton
3.97
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Combining two volumes of Wharton's short stories in a brand new edition, this outstanding selection… read more
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