Flowers for Algernon
By: Daniel Keyes
4.21
Format: 311 pages, Paperback
Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, the powerful, classic story about a man who receives an …
Want to Read $ 14.99"I’m “exceptional"-Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"Punctuation, is? fun!"-Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"I may not have all the time I thought I had..."-Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"Why am I always looking at life through a window?"-Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
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1. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
By: None , H.T. Willetts , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
3.98
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet… read more
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- classics
- school
- literature
- fiction
- novels
"A couple of ounces ruled your life."-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
"It's all so arty there's no art left in it."-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
"Two roubles. Worn notes that didn't rustle."-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
"Гении не подгоняют трактовку под вкус тиранов!"-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
2. The Stranger
By: Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None
4.02
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
Published in 1942 by French author Albert Camus, The Stranger has long been considered a classic of… read more
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- classics
- school
- literature
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- novels
"It is better to burn than to disappear."-Albert Camus, The Stranger
"Everything is true, and nothing is true!"-Albert Camus, The Stranger
"After awhile you could get used to anything."-Albert Camus, The Stranger
"To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing."-Albert Camus, The Stranger
3. The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
By: Liu Cixin , Joel Martinsen
4.41
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
This is the second novel in "Remembrance of Earth’s Past", the near-future trilogy written by China… read more
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- science fiction
- novels
- fiction
4. Slaughterhouse-Five
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2.60
Format: None pages,
Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Fiveintroduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who beco… read more
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- classics
- literature
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- science fiction
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5. Never Let Me Go
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.84
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
A tale of deceptive simplicity that slowly reveals an extraordinary emotional depth and resonance -… read more
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- science fiction
- classics
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6. Flowers for Algernon
By: Daniel Keyes
4.21
Format: 311 pages, Paperback
Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, the powerful, classic story about a man who receives an … read more
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- classics
- school
- literature
- psychology
- young adult
- read for school
- fiction
- science fiction
- novels
- adult
"I’m “exceptional"-Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"Punctuation, is? fun!"-Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"I may not have all the time I thought I had..."-Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"Why am I always looking at life through a window?"-Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
7. The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
By: Ken Liu , Liu Cixin
4.08
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals in… read more
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- science fiction
- novels
- adult
- fiction
"It’s easy to be led to the abyss."-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
"Your lack of fear is based on your ignorance."-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
"Intellectuals always make a fuss about nothing."-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
"A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything."-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
8. East of Eden
By: John Steinbeck
4.42
Format: 601 pages, Paperback
In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed … read more
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- literature
- novels
- classics
- fiction
"All great and precious things are lonely."-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
"Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.."-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
"No one who is young is ever going to be old."-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
"A man without words is a man without thought."-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
9. Fahrenheit 451
By: Ray Bradbury
3.96
Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition
Sixty years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenhe… read more
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- classics
- school
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- read for school
- fiction
- science fiction
- novels
"Are you happy?"-Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
"It was a pleasure to burn."-Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
"Those who don't build must burn."-Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
"The sun burnt every day. It burnt time."-Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
10. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
By: Ken Kesey
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this classic of the 1960s, Ken Kesey's hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, … read more
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11. Of Mice and Men
By: John Steinbeck
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
The compelling story of two outsiders striving to find their place in an unforgiving world. Drifter… read more
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12. The Bell Jar
By: Sylvia Plath
4.06
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented… read more
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- literature
- psychology
- fiction
- novels
- adult
"I woke to the sound of rain."-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
"I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come."-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
"When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know."-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
"If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed."-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
13. The Metamorphosis
By: Franz Kafka , Stanley Corngold
3.88
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690 "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning fr… read more
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- school
- literature
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"Oh, God"-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
"I only fear danger where I want to fear it."-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
"What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream."-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
"It was half past six and the hands were quietly moving forwards."-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
14. Brave New World
By: Aldous Huxley
3.99
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vi… read more
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- school
- literature
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- science fiction
- novels
"Pain was a fascinating horror"-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Ending is better than mending."-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"The more stitches, the less riches."-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"If one's different, one's bound to be lonely."-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
15. The Road
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.99
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece. A father and … read more
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- literature
- novels
- fiction
- science fiction
"Carry the fire."-Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"If only my heart were stone."-Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"You have my whole heart. You always did."-Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"There is no God and we are his prophets."-Cormac McCarthy, The Road
16. Stoner
By: John Williams , John McGahern
4.34
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming famil… read more
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- literature
- novels
- classics
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"Annesi, hayatını sabırla kabullenmişti, katlanmak zorunda olduğu uzun bir anmışçasına."-John Williams, Stoner
"Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve."-John Williams, Stoner
"But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before."-John Williams, Stoner
"While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time."-John Williams, Stoner
17. Cat's Cradle
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.29
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Told with deadpan humour & bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on o… read more
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18. I Who Have Never Known Men
By: Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
"As far back as I can recall, I have been in the bunker." A young woman is kept in a cage underg… read more
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- adult
"Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death."-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror"-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"Look at them. They’re pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first."-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"Only now, I tell myself that what I'd felt for her, the trust that slowly built up, the constant preference for her company and the joy each time I was reunited with her after an expedition were prob…"-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
19. Piranesi
By: Susanna Clarke
4.23
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls … read more
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- adult
- fiction
"In my mind are all the tides, their seasons, their ebbs and their flows."-Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
"May your Paths be safe, your Floors unbroken and may the House fill your eyes with Beauty."-Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
"The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of Itself. It is not the means to an end."-Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
"It does not matter that you do not understand the reason. You are the Beloved Child of the House. Be comforted. And I am comforted."-Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
20. Yellowface
By: R.F. Kuang
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
21. Babel
By: R.F. Kuang
4.18
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a historical fantasy epic that grapples with stu… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"It is astounding, in truth, how much of academia’s perceived resource scarcity is artificially constructed."-R.F. Kuang, Babel
"Grief suffocated. Grief paralysed. Grief was a cruel, heavy boot pressed so hard against his chest that he could not breathe."-R.F. Kuang, Babel
"languages aren't just made of words. they're modes of looking at the world. They're the keys to civiliation. And that's knowledge worth killing for"-R.F. Kuang, Babel
"It revealed the sheer dependence of the British, who, astonishingly, could not manage to do basic things like bake bread or get safely from one place to another without words stolen from other countr…"-R.F. Kuang, Babel
