Minefield
By: Lola Arias
3.77
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
In Minefield six Falklands/Malvinas war veterans who once faced each other across a battlefield now…
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1. The Minister's Black Veil
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.73
Format: 37 pages, Paperback
The sexton stood in the porch of Milford meeting-house, pulling busily at the bell-rope. The old pe… read more
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"The grass of many years has sprung up and withered on that grave, the burial-stone is mossgrown, and good Mr. Hooper’s face is dust; but awful is still the thought that it mouldered beneath the black…"-Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minister's Black Veil
"Mr. Hooper spent a long life, irreproachable in outward act, yet shrouded in dismal suspicions; kind and loving, though unloved, and dimly feared; a man apart from men, shunned in their health and jo…"-Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minister's Black Veil
2. The Hand That First Held Mine
By: Maggie O'Farrell
4.04
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, an… read more
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"There on the landing sits the typewriter. It is clogged with dust, the ribbon dried and flimsy. Looking at it gives Felix a feeling close to vertigo. He realises he can replicate in his head the exac…"-Maggie O'Farrell, The Hand That First Held Mine
"The women we become after children, she typed, then stopped to adjust the angle of the paper....We change shape, she continued, we buy low-heeled shoes, we cut off our long hair, We begin to carry in…"-Maggie O'Farrell, The Hand That First Held Mine
3. Bliss
By: Katherine Mansfield
3.72
Format: 70 pages, Mass Market Paperback
But in her bosom there was still that bright glowing place—that shower of little sparks coming from… read more
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"But the pear tree was as lovely as ever and as full of flower and as still."-Katherine Mansfield, Bliss
"¿Es que no puede haber una forma de manifestarlo sin parecer “beodo o trastornado"-Katherine Mansfield, Bliss
"I am so glad you like them', said he, staring at his feet. 'They seem to have got so much whiter since the moon rose.' And he turned his lean sorrowful long face to Bertha. 'There is a moon, you know…"-Katherine Mansfield, Bliss
4. A Streetcar Named Desire
By: Tennessee Williams
3.98
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more
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"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
5. Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w… read more
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"a raven's heart within a dove."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"I pity you That's a degree to love"-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
6. The Black Cat
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.40
Format: 300 pages,
"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black… read more
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7. Elizabeth Is Missing
By: Emma Healey
4.02
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this darkly riveting debut novel--a sophisticated psychological mystery that is also a heartbrea… read more
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8. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more
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9. Another Time, Another Place
By: Jessie Kesson
3.52
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Another Time, Another Placemovingly portrays the tragic consequences of a clash of cultures in a ha… read more
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10. City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4)
By: Cassandra Clare
4.44
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Mortal War is over, and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all… read more
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11. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
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"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
12. The Death of Ivan Ilych
By: Leo Tolstoy , Aylmer Maude
4.13
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of I… read more
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"If you look for the working classes in fiction, and especially English fiction, all you find is a hole."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"And the further he departed from childhood and the nearer he came to the present the more worthless and doubtful were the joys."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"In the depths of his heart he knew that he was dying but, so far from growing used to the idea, he simply did not and could not grasp it."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!"-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
13. Hamlet
By: William Shakespeare , Richard Andrews , Rex Gibson
4.02
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
Among Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role o… read more
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"Therein lies the rub."-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"Brevity is the soul of wit."-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear."-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
14. Desiree's Baby
By: Kate Chopin , None
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Audiobook
Kate Chopin was an American author of short stories and novels, mostly with a Louisiana Creole back… read more
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15. Look Back in Anger
By: John Osborne
3.80
Format: 25 pages, Paperback
The text of the play, first performed in London in 1956, depicts the despair of post-war youth. read more
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16. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
By: Alison Bechdel
4.08
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more
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"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
17. Giovanni’s Room
By: James Baldwin
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Set in the contemporary Paris of American expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds h… read more
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"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
18. Young Goodman Brown
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.17
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
Hawthorne's classic tale of a young Puritan's meeting with the Devil. read more
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19. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel
4.50
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more
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20. 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
21. The Sister
By: Poppy Adams
4.11
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From her lookout in the crumbling mansion that was her childhood home, Ginny watches and waits for … read more
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22. Washington Square
By: Henry James , Michael Cunningham
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
The plot of Washington Squarehas the simplicity of old-fashioned melodrama: a plain-looking, good-h… read more
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23. Dreams Of Anne Frank: A Play For Young People
By: None
3.85
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Time Out award for best children's production during its London premiere, this imagin… read more
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24. The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more
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25. Sunset Song (A Scots Quair, #1)
By: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
4.95
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Divided between her love of the land and the harshness of farming life, young Chris Guthrie finally… read more
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26. You Should See Me in a Crown
By: Leah Johnson
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Liz Lighty has always believed she's too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, … read more
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"The best education is one you get in the world."-Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown
"I don’t believe in putting a question mark where God put a period."-Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown
"Did you know you have the chance to be the first black queen in Campbell history?"-Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown
"Just because it could be worse doesn't mean you don't get to acknowledge how much it sucks, you know."-Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown
27. 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
28. The Gloaming
By: Kirsty Logan
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Mara’s island is one of stories and magic. She knows she’ll eventually end her days atop the cliff,… read more
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"We can't carry our whole lives with us everywhere we go. Memories have weight, and no one can lift them all at once. We have to leave some of them behind."-Kirsty Logan, The Gloaming
"Why would you think that I would only like you when you’re nice? I like you like this,’ she said, ‘and I like you not like this, and I like you every way you can possibly be."-Kirsty Logan, The Gloaming
"When I was a child, sadness was the islands- rocky, yes, but small and containable, easy to leave. Now sadness was the sea. So I went in... I knew the water was cold, but to me it felt warm. No-that'…"-Kirsty Logan, The Gloaming
"What bothered her most was how mundane it all was. This terrible thing had happened - this huge, life-changing thing that meant the world would never be the same. But outside their house, whose life …"-Kirsty Logan, The Gloaming
29. Adèle
By: Leïla Slimani
3.39
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Adèle appears to have the perfect life: She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a beau… read more
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"People who are never satisfied destroy everything around them."-Leïla Slimani, Adèle
30. Some Girls Do
By: Jennifer Dugan
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
In this YA contemporary queer romance from the author of Hot Dog Girl, an openly gay track star fal… read more
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"You're just really full of surprises." And yeah. I kind of like the sound of that"-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do
"My whole life might be a never-ending series of question marks right now, but this I'm sure of. This I want."-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do
"Wow", she breathes when I'm finally done. And I think I want to live here, in the space of that "wow," In that one little syllable she's managed to stuff so full of adoration and joy."-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do
"[...] but activism isn't something that happens in just one way or in just one place. There will always be more battles, and beating yourself up about not being able to do it all, all at once, doesn'…"-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do
31. Minefield
By: Lola Arias
3.77
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
In Minefield six Falklands/Malvinas war veterans who once faced each other across a battlefield now… read more
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