The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English, Vol. 2
By: Sandra M. Gilbert
4.15
Format: 1573 pages, Paperback
Long the standard teaching anthology, the landmark Norton Anthology of Literature by Women has intr…
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1. Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
By: Susan Beth Pfeffer
3.89
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
Miranda’s disbelief turns to fear in a split second when a meteor knocks the moon closer to the ear… read more
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"People see what they want to see"-Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
"People see what they want to see."-Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
"I have no privacy. But I feel so alone."-Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
"I wonder if I cry whether my tears would be gray."-Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
2. Jane Eyre
By: Charlotte Brontë , Michael Mason
4.15
Format: 532 pages, Paperback
Alternate editions can be found here and here. A gothic masterpiece of tempestuous passions and … read more
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- classics
- school
"Never,"-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
"You are human and fallible."-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
"Conventionality is not morality."-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
"Beauty is in the eye of the gazer."-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
3. A Room of One’s Own
By: Virginia Woolf
4.21
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October,… read more
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- classics
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- womens
"Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped."-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
"Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems."-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
4. Top Girls
By: Caryl Churchill
3.58
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a seminal play of the modern theatre, revealing a wor… read more
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- feminism
- classics
- school
5. 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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- feminism
- classics
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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
6. The Chrysalids
By: John Wyndham
3.93
Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A world paralysed by genetic mutation John Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of … read more
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- classics
- school
"We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that."-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
"Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for"-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
"The living form defies evolution at its peril; if it does not adapt, it will be broken. The idea of completed man is the supreme vanity: the finished image is a sacrilegious myth."-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
"... the more complex they made their world, the less capable they were of dealing with it. They had no means of consensus. They learnt to co-operate constructively in small units; but only destructiv…"-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
7. Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes
By: Rick Riordan , John Rocco
3.68
Format: 265 pages, Hardcover
Who cut off Medusa's head? Who was raised by a she-bear? Who tamed Pegasus? It takes a demigod to k… read more
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8. Villette
By: Charlotte Brontë , A.S. Byatt , Μαρία Λαϊνά , Ignes Sodre
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Bronte's final novel … read more
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- classics
9. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
By: Anne Brontë , Stevie Davies
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
Note: Editions of The Tenant that start with: "You must go back with me..." are incomplete. Actual … read more
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- feminism
10. David Copperfield
By: Charles Dickens , Jeremy Tambling
4.03
Format: 882 pages, Paperback
David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impov… read more
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- classics
"Trifles make the sum of life. "-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"the sight of me is good for sore eyes"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him."-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
11. Ravensong
By: Lee Maracle
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Lee Maracle, author of the best-selling I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism,… read more
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- school
12. Bloodchild
By: Octavia E. Butler
5.00
Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition
Contains the short story Bloodchild only. Years ago a group known as the Terrans left Earth in sear… read more
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- short stories
- school
13. Indian Horse
By: Richard Wagamese
4.42
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he’s a reluctant reside… read more
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- school
"I discovered that being someone you are not is often easier than living with the person you are."-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse
"We need mystery. Creator in her wisdom knew this. Mystery fills us with awe and wonder. They are the foundations of humility, and humility is the foundation of all learning. So we do not seek to unra…"-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse
"Benjamin and I sat in the middle of one of the large canoes with our grandmother in the stern, directing us past shoals and through rapids and into magnificent stretches of water. One day the clouds …"-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse
"We were hockey gypsies, heading down another gravel road every weekend, plowing into the heart of that magnificent northern landscape. We never gave a thought to being deprived as we travelled, to be…"-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse
14. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
By: Dr. Seuss
3.82
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
"The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season! Now, please don't ask why. No one quite kn… read more
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15. Quicksand
By: Nella Larsen , Thadious M. Davis
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has … read more
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16. The Angel at the Grave
By: Edith Wharton
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Angel at the Grave is a short story by Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton ( born Edith Newbold Jones;… read more
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17. 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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18. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. C: The Restoration & the Eighteenth Century
By: M.H. Abrams , Stephen Greenblatt , James Simpson , Alfred David , Barbara Kiefer Lewalski , Katharine Eisaman Maus , Jack Stillinger , Jon Stallworthy , Lawrence Lipking , Jahan Ramazani , Carol T. Christ , George M. Logan , Deidre Shauna Lynch , Catherine Robson , James Noggle
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies thorough and helpful introducto… read more
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19. The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
By: Christopher Paul Curtis
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Newbery Honor-winning American classic, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 , celebrates 20 year… read more
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20. The Awakening
By: Kate Chopin
3.68
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female mar… read more
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- feminism
- classics
- school
"The morning was full of sunlight and hope."-Kate Chopin, The Awakening
"She had resolved to never take another step backward."-Kate Chopin, The Awakening
"She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear."-Kate Chopin, The Awakening
"She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly."-Kate Chopin, The Awakening
21. On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
By: Adrienne Rich
4.33
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
At issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, … read more
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22. The Norton Field Guide to Writing with Readings and Handbook
By: Richard Bullock , Francine Weinberg , None
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Norton Field Guide to Writinis available with a handbook, an anthology, or both -- and all vers… read more
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23. Novelist as a Vocation
By: Haruki Murakami
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels. Haruki Mura… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
24. Foul Lady Fortune (Foul Lady Fortune, #1)
By: Chloe Gong
4.23
Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition
The first book in a captivating new duology following an ill-matched pair of spies posing as a marr… read more
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"Lie first; figure out the rest later."-Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune (Foul Lady Fortune, #1)
"Do you think of me as some all-controlling harpy wife?"-Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune (Foul Lady Fortune, #1)
"Beautiful. Arrogant. Conniving. In this decade, who wasn't?"-Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune (Foul Lady Fortune, #1)
"What is family for if not to love us and then break our hearts?"-Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune (Foul Lady Fortune, #1)
25. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
By: Nikole Hannah-Jones
4.62
Format: 590 pages, Hardcover
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a revealing vision of the American past and present. … read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
26. All Boys Aren’t Blue
By: George M. Johnson
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explor… read more
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- nonfiction
"History has an interesting way of painting."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
"The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
"We are not as different as you think, and all our stories deserve to be celebrated and told."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
"When people ask me how I got into activism, I often say, “The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
27. Secrets and Masks
By: Emerald_Slytherin
4.42
Format: 1399 pages, ebook
9 years after the battle of Hogwarts, the war still rages on and everyone is much changed since the… read more
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"Don’t you die on me!"-Emerald_Slytherin, Secrets and Masks
"You're always there- like a fucking ghost. Won't leave me alone - haunting - everywhere I look."-Emerald_Slytherin, Secrets and Masks
"Hermione painted for hours and hours, and she so enthralled in her artwork, so transfixed as she covered the once cream wall in vibrant shades of blue and jade, that she never felt a pair of curious …"-Emerald_Slytherin, Secrets and Masks
"Granger kept him guessing, dancing on the edge of the blade. He didn't think he would ever get tired of their game. He could do this forever, dance with her for eternity while the rest of the world t…"-Emerald_Slytherin, Secrets and Masks
28. Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver
By: Mary Oliver
4.52
Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio
A celebration of the beloved, award-winning poet Mary Oliver, narrated by actress and activist Soph… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- essays
29. NSFW
By: Isabel Kaplan
3.48
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Blisteringly sharp, hypersmart, and compulsively readable―meet Isabel Kaplan’s searing debut novel … read more
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- feminism
- womens
30. The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English, Vol. 2
By: Sandra M. Gilbert
4.15
Format: 1573 pages, Paperback
Long the standard teaching anthology, the landmark Norton Anthology of Literature by Women has intr… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- school
- feminism
- anthologies
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- womens
- textbooks
31. Introducing the New Sexuality Studies
By: Steven Seidman
3.94
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
Breaking new ground, both substantively and stylistically, Introducing the New Sexuality Studies, … read more
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- nonfiction
