My Own Dear Darling Boy: The Letters of Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas
By: Oscar Wilde
4.40
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
One of the greatest playwrights in the English language, Oscar Wilde was also a legendary wit and a…
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1. The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)
By: Anne Rice
3.75
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
In a gripping feat of storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that b… read more
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"The Vampire Lestat here."-Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)
"God is love. But I'm not sure God is absolutely brilliant."-Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)
"One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world."-Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)
"What in hell was mortality? Shitting, pissing, eating, and then the same cycle all over again!"-Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)
2. The Merciless (The Merciless, #1)
By: Danielle Vega
3.60
Format: 279 pages, Hardcover
Forgive us, Father, for we have sinned Brooklyn Stevens sits in a pool of her own blood, tied up an… read more
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"I'm allowed to be afraid, I remind myself, taking a deep breath of the hot, stale hallway air. I'm just not allowed to run away."-Danielle Vega, The Merciless (The Merciless, #1)
3. The Yellow Wall-Paper
By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges
4.08
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendenc… read more
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"Its time we woke up,"-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper
"This was not life, this was a nightmare."-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper
"John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage."-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper
"It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so."-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper
4. Howl and Other Poems
By: William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg
4.13
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
A beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotec… read more
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"You too must seek the sun..."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"America this is quite serious"-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"The beauty is in the eye of the beholder."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
5. The Virgin Suicides
By: Jeffrey Eugenides
3.79
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
The shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out… read more
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"She was the still point in the turning world."-Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
"During a warm winter rain ... the basins of her collarbones collected water."-Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
"In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life."-Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
"Aloft, he looked frail, diseased, and temperamental, as we expected a European to look."-Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
6. The Raven
By: Edgar Allan Poe , Gustave Doré
4.29
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
In Gustave Doré, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late 19h century,… read more
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"Quoth the raven nevermore."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
"Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
"La ciencia no nos a enseñado aun si la locura es o no lo mas sublime de la inteligencia"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted Nevermore"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
7. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey
3.95
Format: 298 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysa… read more
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"My soul is in the sky."-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"Farewell, sweet playfellow."-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"How now, spirit! Whither wander you?"-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
8. Maurice
By: E.M. Forster
3.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist… read more
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9. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
By: Robert Louis Stevenson , Mervyn Peake , Vladimir Nabokov , Dan Chaon
4.03
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
In this harrowing tale of good and evil, the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll develops a potion that unleas… read more
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10. Ethan Frome
By: Edith Wharton
2.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his dif… read more
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11. Julius Caesar
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill
3.70
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more
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"Et tu, Brute?"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Beware the ides of March."-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
12. Death of a Salesman
By: Arthur Miller
3.57
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you t… read more
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"I’m tired to the death."-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"LINDA [with infinite patience]"-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"Be liked and you will never want."-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?"-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
13. Complete Works
By: Arthur Rimbaud , Paul Schmidt
3.49
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Arthur Rimbaud is remembered as much for his volatile personality and tumultuous life as he is for … read more
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14. Herland
By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Ann J. Lane
3.68
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
An all-female society is discovered somewhere in the distant reaches of the earth by three male exp… read more
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15. 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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16. Call Me by Your Name
By: André Aciman
3.94
Format: 450 pages, Paperback
Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolesc… read more
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17. Oscar Wilde
By: George Bernard Shaw , Frank Harris
3.95
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Literary editor and author Frank Harris played the perfect Boswell to Wilde's Johnson in the London… read more
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18. Selected Poems
By: Emily Dickinson
3.85
Format: None pages,
Emily Dickinson was born into a prominent New England family. Sociable as a child, she grew increas… read more
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19. Galatea
By: Madeline Miller
4.09
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
In Ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his master… read more
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20. The Waste Land and Other Poems
By: T.S. Eliot
3.62
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century… read more
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21. The Road to Wigan Pier
By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more
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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
22. Garlic and the Vampire
By: Bree Paulsen
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A farm-fresh debut graphic novel starring a heroine who is braver than she realizes. Garlic feel… read more
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23. Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3)
By: Ashley Herring Blake
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. Her best friends are all coupled up, her siblings have partn… read more
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24. The Moth Keeper
By: Kay O'Neill
4.08
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
Being a Moth Keeper is a huge responsibility and a great honor, but what happens when the new Moth … read more
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25. Notes on ‘Camp’
By: Susan Sontag
3.97
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.' These two classic essays were the f… read more
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- essays
"Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a 'lamp'; not a woman, but a 'woman'."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine…"-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
26. 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
27. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
By: Angela Chen
4.36
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attra… read more
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"Representation not only reflects, but actually changes reality."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"It is a failure of society if anyone needs to say “I have a partner"-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"Loving another person should never mean forfeiting bodily autonomy."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"Aces aren't a puzzle with a missing piece. Everyone is their own full puzzle."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
28. Find Me (Call Me By Your Name, #2)
By: André Aciman
3.26
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Elio believes he has left behind his first love - but as an affair with an older man intensifies, h… read more
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"It belongs to the past,"-André Aciman, Find Me (Call Me By Your Name, #2)
"Oh, but we do age. We don’t grow up."-André Aciman, Find Me (Call Me By Your Name, #2)
"If I could, I would kiss your voice."-André Aciman, Find Me (Call Me By Your Name, #2)
"It's not death I refuse, but extinction."-André Aciman, Find Me (Call Me By Your Name, #2)
29. Oscar: A Life
By: Matthew Sturgis
4.29
Format: 740 pages, Hardcover
The fullest, most textural, most accurate--most human--account of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling… read more
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30. Oscar Wilde
By: André Gide
3.74
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Gide, in this first English translation, defended a poet named Oscar Wilde when other poets threate… read more
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31. My Own Dear Darling Boy: The Letters of Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas
By: Oscar Wilde
4.40
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
One of the greatest playwrights in the English language, Oscar Wilde was also a legendary wit and a… read more
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- essays
