The Penguin Book of Limericks
By: Robin Jacques
3.63
Format: None pages, Paperback
Gathers a variety of tongue twisters and humorous poems about history, religion, politics, mathemat…
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1. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
By: None , H.T. Willetts , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
3.98
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet… read more
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"A couple of ounces ruled your life."-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
"It's all so arty there's no art left in it."-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
"Two roubles. Worn notes that didn't rustle."-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
"Гении не подгоняют трактовку под вкус тиранов!"-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
2. Sidney Chambers and the Perils of the Night (The Grantchester Mysteries #2)
By: James Runcie
3.78
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The loveable full time priest and part time detective Canon Sidney Chambers continues his sleuthing… read more
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"It is what often happens in the establishment. Inconvenient truths are left buried. If you don't ask too may questions of a gentlemen then you won't be disappointed." "And this is what makes us Briti…"-James Runcie, Sidney Chambers and the Perils of the Night (The Grantchester Mysteries #2)
3. The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)
By: Tana French
4.06
Format: 466 pages, Paperback
Still traumatised by her brush with a psychopath, Detective Cassie Maddox transfers out of the Murd… read more
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"And then there’s its hair,"-Tana French, The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)
"Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it."-Tana French, The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)
"I loved him, you know,' she said. 'I would have loved him as hard as he'd let me, for the rest of my life."-Tana French, The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)
"We’ve become a nation of defaulters: we buy on credit, and when the bill comes in, we’re so deeply outraged that we refuse even to look at it."-Tana French, The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)
4. Les Fleurs du Mal
By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard
4.20
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more
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- poetry
"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"I am the vampire at my own veins."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
5. Lysistrata
By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden
3.87
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more
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- humor
"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
6. 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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"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
7. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
By: Arthur Conan Doyle , Anne Perry , Sidney Paget , Maria Buitoni Duca
4.13
Format: 256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this, one of the most famous of Doyle's mysteries, the tale of an ancient curse and a savage gho… read more
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"The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?"-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
"Watson: "You may be right." Holmes: "The probability lies in that direction."-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
"It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull."-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
8. 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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9. The Black Friar (Damian Seeker, #2)
By: S.G. MacLean
4.38
Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition
'One of the best writers of Historical crime' Sunday TimesRebellion in the city, and a Royalist spy… read more
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10. Carmen
By: Prosper Mérimée
2.50
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Carmen is a novella by Prosper Merimee, written & 1st published in 1845. It has been adapted into a… read more
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11. The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In this beautiful and lucid guide, Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh offers gentle anecdotes and practical… read more
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12. Heartsnatcher
By: Raymond Queneau , Boris Vian , John Sturrock , Stanley Chapman
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in a bizarre and slightly sinister town where the elderly are auctioned off at an Old Folks Fai… read more
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13. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
14. 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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- humor
15. Spoon River Anthology
By: Edgar Lee Masters
4.05
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful sca… read more
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"Act well your part, there all the honor lies."-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
"Remember the acorn; It does not devour other acorns."-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
"the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth."-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
"The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul."-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
16. The Judas Pair (Lovejoy, #1)
By: Jonathan Gash
4.10
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Lovejoy knows that the legendary Judas Pair of flintlock pistols are just that--a legend. Or are th… read more
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17. A Red Herring Without Mustard (Flavia de Luce, #3)
By: Alan Bradley
4.47
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Alan Bradley returns with another beguiling novel starring the insidiously cle… read more
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18. Pyramids (Discworld, #7)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.92
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Being trained by the Assassin's Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not fit Teppic for the task assigned to h… read more
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- humor
"Seven thousand years is just one day at a time"-Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (Discworld, #7)
"The king nodded. “What are the priests doing about this?"-Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (Discworld, #7)
"Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something."-Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (Discworld, #7)
"Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped."-Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (Discworld, #7)
19. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
By: Yukio Mishima , John Nathan
3.85
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679750154 The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the… read more
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"إن الخطر، هو الحياة"-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
"To Ryuji the smile seemed as brittle as fine glass crystal and very dangerous"-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
"حتى وإن أبحرت سنوات عديدة، لن تعتاد يوماً على العواصف، وفي كل مرة تتساءل إن كنت ستودع الحياة"."-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
"The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast."-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
20. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
21. The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
By: Various , Jon Silkin
4.38
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Unrivaled in its range and intensity, the poetry of World War I continues to have a powerful effect… read more
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22. Bloodchild and Other Stories
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable B… read more
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24. The Complete Fairy Tales
By: Oscar Wilde
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde includes the two definitive story collections The Happy Pri… read more
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25. Leaves of Grass
By: Walt Whitman
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more
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26. The Thicket
By: Joe R. Lansdale
3.97
Format: 649 pages, Paperback
ALA Reading List Award for History, Short List Love and vengeance at the dark dawn of the East Texa… read more
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27. The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.33
Format: 75 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In The Light Fantasticonly one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortuna… read more
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28. Wyrd Sisters (Discworld, #6; Witches #2)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.33
Format: 75 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Kingdoms wobble, crowns topple and knives flash on the magical Discworld as the statutory three wit… read more
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29. The Twyford Code
By: Janice Hallett
3.62
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
It's time to solve the murder of the century... Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a … read more
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"A lot of talk inside about feelings. How feelings are like visitors with something to give you. If they knock on your door: answer. Let em in. Accept the gift. Say cheers, mate. Otherwise, they said,…"-Janice Hallett, The Twyford Code
30. The Penguin Book of Limericks
By: Robin Jacques
3.63
Format: None pages, Paperback
Gathers a variety of tongue twisters and humorous poems about history, religion, politics, mathemat… read more
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- humor
31. The Penguin Book of Elizabethan Verse
By: Edward Lucie-Smith
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Gathers poems by Shakespeare, Bacon, Marlowe, Marston, Ralegh, Sidney, Spenser, Donne, and Middleto… read more
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