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1. The Phantom of the Opera
By: Gaston Leroux , Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
3.96
Format: 360 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published in French as a serial in 1909, The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that re… read more
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"He laid at my feet his immense, tragic love."-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
"All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)"-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
"My lies were as hideous as the monster that had inspired them"-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
"I am the little boy who went into the sea to rescue your scarf"-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
2. Sonny's Blues
By: James Baldwin
4.30
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Part of the Penguin 60s series, issued to celebrate 60 years of Penguin books. This collects "Sonny… read more
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- short stories
"It's the only light we've got in all this darkness"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"All that hatred down there," he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart."-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"You don't know how much I needed to hear from you. I wanted to write you many a time but I dug how much I must have hurt you and so I didn't write. But now I feel like a man who's been trying to clim…"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do wh…"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
3. Uzumaki
By: Junji Ito , Yuji Oniki
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Kurozu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the… read more
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4. The Story of an Hour
By: Kate Chopin
4.07
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of … read more
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- short stories
"Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be…"-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
"there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- so…"-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
5. 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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"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
6. The Lottery
By: Shirley Jackson
4.05
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more
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"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
7. Gyo
By: Junji Ito
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Something is rotten in Okinawa... The floating smell of death hangs over the island. What is it? A … read more
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8. The Tell-Tale Heart
By: Edgar Allan Poe , Byron Glaser , None
4.24
Format: 31 pages, Library Binding
A man confronts himself and an unknown listener with his desire to murder an old man. In this cl… read more
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"would a madman have been so wise as this?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"Basta ya de fingir, malvados! -aullé-. ¡Confieso que lo maté! ¡Levanten esos tablones! ¡Ahí… ahí! ¡Donde está latiendo su horrible corazón!"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
9. Everyday Use
By: Alice Walker , Barbara T. Christian
3.74
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Alice Walker's early story, "Everyday Use," has remained a cornerstone of her work. Her use of quil… read more
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- short stories
10. Babylon Revisited
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.33
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
F. Scott Fitzgerald's stories defined the 1920s 'Jazz Age' generation, with their glittering dreams… read more
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11. 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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12. The Fall of the House of Usher
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.87
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely re… read more
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"[Son] cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. — De Béranger "-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"Er is geen twijfel mogelijk dat mijn bewustzijn van de snelle groei van mijn bijgeloof (want waarom zou ik het niet zo noemen?) de groei alleen maar scheen te versnellen. Dat is, zoals ik al lange ti…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
13. The Most Dangerous Game
By: Richard Connell
3.94
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
The Most Dangerous Game features a big-game hunter from New York who becomes shipwrecked on an isol… read more
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"But you can’t mean—"-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
"The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees."-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
"Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have."-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
14. A&P: Lust in the Aisles
By: John Updike
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
"A & P" is a comic short story written by John Updike in 1961 in which the hero and first person na… read more
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15. Girl
By: Jamaica Kincaid
3.97
Format: 480 pages,
Girlwas originally published in the June 26, 1978 issue of The New Yorkerand subsequently included … read more
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16. The Destructors
By: Graham Greene
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Do your students enjoy a good laugh? Do they like to be scared? Or do they just like a book with a … read more
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17. Once Upon a Time
By: Nadine Gordimer , Alex Kingston
3.53
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Once Upon a Time by Nadine Gordimer is anything but a fairy tale. It's more of a dystopian fantasy … read more
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18. A Family Supper
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
4.42
Format: None pages, Unbound
First published in Firebird 2, ed. T J Binding (Penguin, 1983). read more
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19. 呪術廻戦 1 [Jujutsu Kaisen 1]
By: Gege Akutami
4.52
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
類稀な身体能力を持つ高校生・虎杖悠仁は、病床に伏せる祖父の見舞いを日課にしていた。だがある日学校に眠る「呪物」の封印が解かれ、化物が現れてしまう。取り残された先輩を救う為、校舎へ乗り込む虎杖だが!? read more
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20. The Promise
By: Damon Galgut
3.86
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
The Promise , winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, charts the crash and burn of a white South African f… read more
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"A smile quickly cut his face and then healed up."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Give him a taboo and he feels the need to break it."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Children still, on the verge of not being children any more."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Her own voice sounds echoey, as if somebody else is speaking."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
21. The Woman in the Purple Skirt
By: Natsuko Imamura
3.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A bestselling, prizewinning novel of obsession and psychological intrigue about two enigmatic unmar… read more
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22. Women Don't Owe You Pretty
By: Florence Given
3.72
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
WOMEN DON'T OWE YOU PRETTY will tell you to...love sex, hate sexism,protect your goddamn energy,lif… read more
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"Promise yourself to stop buying into people’s potential. You’re not a start-up investor."-Florence Given, Women Don't Owe You Pretty
"Imagine all of the past versions of yourself, standing right in front of you. They are all smiling, looking back at you. They are so proud of you."-Florence Given, Women Don't Owe You Pretty
"Up until now we have been bombarded with the same stories that either make us subconsciously hate ourselves or hate others. It’s time to change the narrative, and the power lies in your hands. Consum…"-Florence Given, Women Don't Owe You Pretty
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23. 呪術廻戦 2 [Jujutsu Kaisen 2]
By: Gege Akutami
4.48
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
少年院内に、突如呪胎が発生。取り残された人間を救助する為、虎杖ら高専1年が派遣された! だが特級呪霊へ変態した呪胎に襲撃を受け、ピンチに陥る一行。虎杖は宿儺と入れ替わり、呪霊を倒そうと試みるが……!? read more
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"Non sono un eroe. Sono uno stregone."-Gege Akutami, 呪術廻戦 2 [Jujutsu Kaisen 2]
"HAHA DAIJOUBU DESHOU, DATTE KIMI YOWAI MO"-Gege Akutami, 呪術廻戦 2 [Jujutsu Kaisen 2]
"That's why I've never regretted saving you. Not even for a moment."-Gege Akutami, 呪術廻戦 2 [Jujutsu Kaisen 2]
24. Frankenstein
By: Junji Ito
4.01
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Junji Ito meets Mary Shelley! The master of horror manga bends all his skill into bringing the a… read more
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25. Recitatif
By: Toni Morrison
4.31
Format: 19 pages, Audiobook
A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more
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"Difficult to “move on"-Toni Morrison, Recitatif
26. 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)
27. Things My Son Needs to Know About the World
By: Fredrik Backman
3.99
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Things My Son Needs to Know About the World collects the personal dispatches from the front lines o… read more
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"Remember, a good friend helps you move, but a great friend helps you move a dead body."-Fredrik Backman, Things My Son Needs to Know About the World
"There is plenty that can be said about your grandfathers' generation of men, but they wouldn't have had time to learn about everything in the world if the women of their generation hadn't taken care …"-Fredrik Backman, Things My Son Needs to Know About the World
"And I hope that you’ll never get it into your head that just because a woman deserves every opportunity you do, you have to stop holding the door open for her when you can. That you'll never think it…"-Fredrik Backman, Things My Son Needs to Know About the World
"That whole first year, jeez, your entire life revolves around poop. The presence of poop. The absence of poop. The discovery of poop. The aromatic sensation of poop. The waiting for poop. Seriously, …"-Fredrik Backman, Things My Son Needs to Know About the World
28. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
By: Katherine Anne Porter
3.24
Format: None pages, None
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29. Hills Like White Elephants
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.85
Format: 6 pages, Kindle Edition
A conversation in a Spanish cafe between a man and a woman that is not as simple as it seems. Hi… read more
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30. Cannibalism in the Cars
By: Mark Twain
3.39
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Mark Twain's brilliant tale of a train stuck on the prairie in a snowdrift, where the starving pass… read more
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