11 must-read classics books like Novels 1901–1902: The Sacred Fount / The Wings of the Dove by Henry James

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Novels 1901–1902: The Sacred Fount / The Wings of the Dove

By: Henry James

4.44

Format: 713 pages, Hardcover

This Library of America volume brings together The Sacred Fount (1901), one of Henry James’s most u…

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Cover of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by None, H.T. Willetts, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

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2. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright

4.39

Format: 957 pages, Paperback

The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more

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"...every social class has its own pathology..."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

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3. Mrs. Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more

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"Life stand still here."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"To love makes one solitary."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What a lark! What a plunge!"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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4. The Waves

By: Virginia Woolf

4.15

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six chara… read more

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"Death is woven in with the violets,"

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing."

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing."

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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5. The Remains of the Day

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

4.14

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 0571225381 here. In the summer of 1956, St… read more

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"The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

"One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

"If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

"شاید بهتر بود خداوند مارا هم مثل گیاهان خلق می‌کرد، یعنی پایمان محکم توی زمین باشد. آن‌وقت هیچ‌کدام از این کثافت‌کاری مربوط به جنگ و مرز و این چیزها اصلاً پیش نمی‌آمد."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

Cover of In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, Richard Howard, None, Terence Kilmartin, D.J. Enright, Andreas Mayor

6. In Search of Lost Time

By: Marcel Proust , Richard Howard , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright , Andreas Mayor

4.34

Format: 4211 pages, Paperback

On the surface a traditional "Bildungsroman" describing the narrator’s journey of self-discovery, t… read more

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"Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us."

-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

"Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter."

-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

"I had spent the New Year's Day of old men, who differ on that day from their juniors, not because people have ceased to give them presents but because they themselves have ceased to believe in the Ne…"

-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

"Only, we must allow time. But our demands as far as time is concerned are no less exorbitant than those which the heart requires in order to change. For one thing, time is the very thing that we are …"

-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

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7. Nightmare Alley

By: William Lindsay Gresham , Nick Tosches

3.83

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a carnival-show geek—alcoholic and abje… read more

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"Also Dad said it was a shame to go to bed early and miss everything when you could sleep late the next day and catch up..."

-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

"Beyond that elfin face, the steady eyes, there was something breathing, something that was fed blood from a tiny heart beating under pointed breasts. But is was cobweb under the fingers. Cobweb in th…"

-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

"Hoatley - First Carnival Owner: Now this creature - There he is, THE GEEK! He has puzzled the foremost scientists of Europe and America. Is he the missing link? Is he man or beast? Some have pronounc…"

-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

"The speech fascinated him. His ear caught the rhythm of it and he noted their idioms and worked some of them into his patter. He had found the reason behind the peculiar, drawling language of the old…"

-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

Cover of In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2) by Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast, James Grieve

8. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)

By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Floweris Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolesc… read more

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9. Mating

By: Norman Rush

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

The narrator of this splendidly expansive novel of high intellect and grand passion is an American … read more

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Cover of Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West by Michael Punke

10. Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West

By: Michael Punke

2.90

Format: 96 pages,

In the last three decades of the nineteenth century, an American buffalo herd once numbering 30 mil… read more

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11. Time Regained (In Search of Lost Time, #7)

By: Marcel Proust , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright , Andreas Mayor

3.70

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

The final volume of In Search of Lost Time chronicles the years of World War I, when, as M. de Char… read more

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12. Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author

By: None

3.62

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In 1822, after having been discharged from the British navy, deserted by his wife, and as good as d… read more

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13. Dissipatio H.G.

By: Guido Morselli

3.80

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

From his solitary buen retiro in the mountains, the last man on earth drives to the capital Chrysop… read more

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"Il pessimismo radicale sconfina nell'ottimismo."

-Guido Morselli, Dissipatio H.G.

"Morire biologicamente, è il perfezionarsi di uno stato in cui ci troviamo già ora."

-Guido Morselli, Dissipatio H.G.

"Ho paura dell'uomo, come dei topi e delle zanzare, per il danno e il fastidio di cui è produttore inesausto."

-Guido Morselli, Dissipatio H.G.

"Quello che abbiamo posseduto, ce lo possiamo mettere dietro le spalle, confinarlo nel passato, nel già-fatto."

-Guido Morselli, Dissipatio H.G.

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14. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis

4.15

Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback

«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more

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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

15. The Years

By: Virginia Woolf

4.33

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The most popular of Virginia Woolf's novels during her lifetime, The Yearsis a savage indictment of… read more

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16. Shadow Country

By: Peter Matthiessen

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER Peter Matthiessen's great American epic-Killing Mister Watson, Lost… read more

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17. Damascus Gate

By: Robert Stone

3.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

On the cusp of the millennium, Jerusalem has become a battleground in the race for redemption. Amer… read more

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18. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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19. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more

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"I would like to belong but I dont."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

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20. When We Cease to Understand the World

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.14

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more

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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

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21. The Trees

By: Percival Everett

4.06

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi… read more

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"Unknown Male is a name,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same."

-Percival Everett, The Trees

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22. Novels 1901–1902: The Sacred Fount / The Wings of the Dove

By: Henry James

4.44

Format: 713 pages, Hardcover

This Library of America volume brings together The Sacred Fount (1901), one of Henry James’s most u… read more

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15 must-read literature books like Novels 1901–1902: The Sacred Fount / The Wings of the Dove by Henry James

Transform Your Habits

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

None , H.T. Willetts , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Waves

Virginia Woolf

4.15

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Trust

Hernan Diaz

3.83

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The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

Cormac McCarthy

3.58

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Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

4.18

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

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