And China Has Hands (Asian-American Heritage Collection)
By: H.T. Tsiang
3.78
Format: 131 pages, Paperback
Tsiang, H. T., Cheung, Floyd
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1. In the Name of Salome
By: Julia Alvarez
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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2. A Tale for the Time Being
By: Ruth Ozeki
4.06
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and h… read more
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"Maketa,"-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
"Live. For Now. For the time being."-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
"True freedom comes from being unknown."-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
"Forget the clock. It has no power over time."-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
3. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
By: Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Margaret R. Higonnet
3.83
Format: 518 pages, Paperback
Alternate covers can be found here and here. When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty t… read more
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"Bless thy simplicity, Tess"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"One thing he certainly was— sincere."-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"The roof was a gymnasium for the winds"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"Tess was carried along the wings of the hours"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
4. America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
By: Carlos Bulosan , Carey McWilliams
3.91
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
First published in 1946, this autobiography of the well known Filipino poet describes his boyhood i… read more
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5. To the Lighthouse
By: Virginia Woolf
3.80
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more
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"I have had my vision."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"Well, we must wait for the future to show."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
6. The Bluest Eye
By: Toni Morrison
4.12
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
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"Lonely was much better than alone."-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
"Maybe that was love. Choking sounds and silence."-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
"She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons"-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
"Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do."-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
7. Cane
By: Jean Toomer , Darwin Turner
3.83
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evo… read more
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"Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"Her own glowing is too rich a thing to let her feel the slimness of his diluted passion."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"I like to feel that something deep in me responded to the trees, the young trees that whinnied like colts impatient to be let free…"-Jean Toomer, Cane
8. 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
9. The Buddha in the Attic
By: Julie Otsuka
3.70
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Julie Otsuka’s long-awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine is a tour de force of economy … read more
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"„Niekas nelaimi karo.Visi pralaimi"-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
"We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting."-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
"Or was their guilt written plainly, and for all the world to see, across their face? Was it their face, in fact, for which they were guilty?"-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
"Soon we could barely recognize them. They were taller than we were, and heavier. They were loud beyond belief. I feel like a duck that's hatched goose's eggs."-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
10. Wide Sargasso Sea
By: Jean Rhys
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more
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"When trouble comes, close ranks"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought I'd try to write her a life"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
11. Citizen 13660 (Classics of Asian American Literature)
By: Mine Okubo , Christine Hong
4.03
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Miné Okubo was one of more than a hundred thousand people of Japanese descent - nearly two-thirds o… read more
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12. The Myth of Sisyphus
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien , James Wood , Justin Obrien
4.18
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
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"A fate is not a punishment."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"there are truths but no truth"-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"To will is to stir up paradoxes"-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"Le suicide est une solution à l'absurde."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
13. I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
By: Angela Y. Davis , Maryse Condé , Richard Philcox
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
"Stunning...Maryse Conde's imaginative subversion of historical records forms a critque of contempo… read more
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14. We
By: Yevgeny Zamyatin , Clarence Brown
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst exce… read more
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"Her smile was a bite, and I was its target."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"There is no final one; revolutions are infinite."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
15. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
This startling novel describes the adolescence of a ferociously bright and rebellious orphan adopte… read more
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16. No-No Boy
By: John Okada
4.33
Format: 242 pages,
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17. The Turn of the Screw
By: Henry James
3.39
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
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"When I'm bad I am bad !"-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"He fairly glittered in the gloom."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"There was something between them." "There was everything."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
18. Oroonoko
By: Aphra Behn , Janet Todd
3.78
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, th… read more
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19. The Merchant of Venice
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , None
3.78
Format: 247 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the … read more
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"He will fence with his own shadow."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"i buy a thousand pound a year! i buy a rope!"-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
20. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
By: Arna Bontemps , James Weldon Johnson
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
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21. Nightwood
By: T.S. Eliot , Jeanette Winterson , Djuna Barnes
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
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23. ... y no se lo tragó la tierra ... and the Earth Did Not Devour Him
By: None , Tomás Rivera
3.94
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Tomas Rivera's original Spanish-language novel plus a new translation into English by Evangelina Vi… read more
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"I recall that one time he told the people to read the poems out loud because the spoken word was the seed of love in the darkness."-None, ... y no se lo tragó la tierra ... and the Earth Did Not Devour Him
24. Dear Cyborgs
By: Eugene Lim
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A fractal fable about the possibility and power of protest as told by three superheroes on their lu… read more
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25. Paradise Lost
By: John Milton , John Leonard
3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
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"What hath night to do with sleep?"-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
26. Passing
By: Nella Larsen
3.93
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netfl… read more
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"Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it"-Nella Larsen, Passing
"I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew."-Nella Larsen, Passing
27. There There
By: Tommy Orange
3.98
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375. Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel foll… read more
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"Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere."-Tommy Orange, There There
"...nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do."-Tommy Orange, There There
28. Sunburn
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4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Selected as an Evening Standard 'one to watch in 2023' It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish vi… read more
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"It's a shame that you can't even come out to me."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"People say 'lesbian' sometimes, they say 'dyke' more."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"I hope your bed is warm and you sleep well. See you tomorrow, Lucy x"-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"My heart lurches, as if it wants to leave my awful body and go make a home in her."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
29. The Undocumented Americans
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
4.39
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her f… read more
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"I am a one-trick pony, unable to comfort with anything other than grades."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
"I respect the role of God in the lives of people who suffer, but basically only in the lives of people who suffer."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
"I think every immigrant in this country knows that you can eat English and digest it so well that you shit it out, and to some people, you will still not speak English."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
"There are white moms who threw stones at the little girls in Little Rock and there are white moms who wish Andres and Omar and Elias and Greta's mom will be deported too."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
30. America Is Not the Heart
By: Elaine Castillo
3.98
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
Three generations of women from one immigrant family trying to reconcile the home they left behind … read more
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"There are mercies, and there are mercies."-Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart
"A name had a lifespan like anything else."-Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart
"You know what it's like to have a fate; you also know what it's like to escape one."-Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart
"You don’t ever really stop having a song. It’s easier to stop having a person than to stop having a song."-Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart
31. And China Has Hands (Asian-American Heritage Collection)
By: H.T. Tsiang
3.78
Format: 131 pages, Paperback
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