Poetry: The Basics
By: Jeffrey Wainwright
3.35
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
How do I read a poem? Do I really understand poetry? This comprehensive guide demystifies the world…
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1. Play It As It Lays
By: Joan Didion , David Thomson
3.92
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of a… read more
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"The letter is still in my makeup box but I am careful not to read it unless I am drunk"-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"Carter and Helene still believe in cause-effect. Carter and Helene also believe that people are either sane or insane."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is “nothing."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"She could remember it all but none of it seemed to come to anything. She had a sense the dream had ended and she had slept on."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
2. The Castle of Otranto
By: Horace Walpole
3.18
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more
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"My soul abhors a falsehood"-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"This life is but a pilgrimage."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
3. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
By: Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim
4.11
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a… read more
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- philosophy
"I want you to be weak. As weak as I am."-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
"Physical love is unthinkable without violence."-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
"Only the most naive of questions are truly serious."-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
"The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man."-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
4. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
By: Art Spiegelman
4.38
Format: 159 pages, Hardcover
The first installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting … read more
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- nonfiction
"Friends? Your friends? If you lock them together in a room with no food for a week…Then you could see what it is, friends! …"-Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
"Maybe your father needed to show that he was always right - that he could always SURVIVE - because he felt GUILTY about surviving."-Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
5. 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
6. North and South
By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Alan Shelston
4.15
Format: 521 pages, Paperback
When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her com… read more
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"No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother."-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
"One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly."-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
"But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be. "-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
"He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it."-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
7. The Poet X
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
4.38
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New … read more
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- poetry
"Pero, tú no eres fácil."-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
"Just because your father's present, doesn't mean he isn't absent."-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
"It's about any of the words that bring us together and how we can form a home in them."-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
"I close my eyes and let myself find in music what I've always searched for: a way away."-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
8. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
By: Arthur Conan Doyle , Anne Perry , Sidney Paget , Maria Buitoni Duca
4.13
Format: 256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this, one of the most famous of Doyle's mysteries, the tale of an ancient curse and a savage gho… read more
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"The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?"-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
"Watson: "You may be right." Holmes: "The probability lies in that direction."-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
"It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull."-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
9. 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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10. Poetics
By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more
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- poetry
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- writing
- literary criticism
11. Purple Hibiscus
By: None
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They … read more
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12. The Return of Sherlock Holmes
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
3.41
Format: 94 pages, Hardcover
The Return of Sherlock Holmesis a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in… read more
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13. The Sign of Four
By: Arthur Conan Doyle , Peter Ackroyd , Ed Glinert
4.00
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sher… read more
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14. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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- poetry
"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
15. 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
16. An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
By: Nicholas Royle , Andrew Bennett
4.16
Format: 422 pages, Paperback
Lively, original and highly readable, "An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory "is the … read more
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- nonfiction
- literary criticism
- criticism
- writing
17. The Prophet
By: Kahlil Gibran
4.01
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
Kahlil Gibran's masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Publishe… read more
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- poetry
- philosophy
18. Gilead (Gilead, #1)
By: Marilynne Robinson
3.85
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three gener… read more
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"How I wish you could have known me in my strength."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
19. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.25
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more
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- philosophy
"... “Dangerous!"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Freedom is never very safe."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Who do you think is lying to us?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
20. Grief is the Thing with Feathers
By: Max Porter
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their … read more
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21. The Turn of the Screw
By: Henry James
3.39
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format… read more
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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
22. The Valley of Fear
By: Arthur Conan Doyle , David Timson
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Audio CD
The Sherlock Holmes series read in unabridged form by David Timson is widely regarded as one of the… read more
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23. Othello
By: William Shakespeare
4.48
Format: None pages,
In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (betwee… read more
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24. Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
By: Chinua Achebe
3.73
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is wr… read more
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"Let us not reason like cowards,"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"There is no story that is not true."-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"عندما يضئ القمر يشعر الكسيح برغبة قوية إلى المشي"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"إذا نظر امرؤ إلى فم ملك, ظن أنه لم يرضع قط من ثدي أمه"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
25. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
4.21
Format: 539 pages, Hardcover
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of… read more
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26. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
By: Ocean Vuong
4.04
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when th… read more
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"It was beauty, I learned, that we risked ourselves for."-Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
"To look at something is to fill your whole life with it, if only briefly."-Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
"What were you before you met me?" "I think I was drowning" "And what are you now?" "Water"-Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
"A page, turning, is a wing lifted with no twin, and therefore no flight. And yet we are moved."-Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
27. Open Water
By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
4.04
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships … read more
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"Trauma makes you considerate."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
"You are more than the sum of your traumas"-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
"You do not want to die before you can live"-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
"...love was not always synonymous with care."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
28. The Confessions of Frannie Langton
By: Sara Collins
3.57
Format: 384 pages, ebook
A servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this astonishing hi… read more
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"What did Shakespeare know? Love must alter, or it can't survive."-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton
"there were two things I loved: all those books I read, and all the people who wrote them."-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton
"A man writes to separate himself from the common history. A woman writes to try to join it."-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton
"Only two types of white people in this world, chile, the ones doing shit to you and the ones wanting you to tell them ’bout the shit them other ones did."-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton
29. Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)
By: Stephen Fry
4.32
Format: 415 pages, Paperback
There are Heroes - and then there are Greek Heroes. Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such … read more
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- nonfiction
"You choose to submit to it. Such is the paradox of living. We willingly accept that we have no will."-Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)
"Wicked men never learn, for wicked men have no interest in myths, legends, and stories. If they had they would learn from them and triumph, so we must be glad of their ignorance and dullness of wits."-Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)
"You see?' said Prometheus. 'It is your fate to be Heracles the hero, burdened with labours, yet it is also your choice. You choose to submit to it. Such is the paradox of living. We willingly accept …"-Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)
"A fine statue of a naked Theseus stands proudly today in Athens' central place of assembly, the city's hub, Syntagma Square. Even today he is a focus of Athenian identity and pride. The ship he broug…"-Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)
30. Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
By: Stephen Fry
4.26
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Mythos is a modern collection of Greek myths, stylishly retold by legendary writer, actor, and come… read more
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- nonfiction
"Green fingers are better than gold."-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
"Goodness me. You don’t ask for the moon, do you?"-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
"Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable."-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
"For the world seems never to offer anything worthwhile without also providing a dreadful opposite."-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
31. Poetry: The Basics
By: Jeffrey Wainwright
3.35
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
How do I read a poem? Do I really understand poetry? This comprehensive guide demystifies the world… read more
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- poetry
- academic
- philosophy
- criticism
- nonfiction
- writing
- literary criticism
