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Classics
Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens's last completed novel, a dark and dazzling panorama of money, identity and the London river.
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Classics
Hard Times
Charles Dickens's Hard Times is a concentrated industrial novel of education, class, labor, and emotional damage in the fact-driven world of Coketown.
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$7.50

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Bleak House
Charles Dickens's sprawling masterpiece revolves around an endless court case that consumes everyone it touches, binding a foggy London of lords, orphans and lawyers in one of fict
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$11.50

Adventure
Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens's rousing tale of a young man's fight against cruelty and greed.
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David Copperfield
Charles Dickens follows an orphaned boy from a cruel childhood to hard-won maturity, in the sweeping, deeply personal novel its author called his favorite child, filled with unforg
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Oliver Twist
Dickens’s fierce and unforgettable novel of poverty, criminal exploitation, and moral endurance in Victorian London.
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$8.50

Children
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a timeless Christmas classic about Ebenezer Scrooge, redemption, memory, generosity, and the moral imagination of the holiday season.
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$6.00

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Mansfield Park
Austen’s morally exacting novel of family influence, social ambition, performance, and the quiet resilience of Fanny Price.
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Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen’s playful satire of Gothic fiction, following Catherine Morland from naïve fantasy toward sharper judgment.
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Children
The Wind in the Willows
A beloved children’s classic of riverbank friendship, comic trouble, and pastoral adventure with Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad.
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Adventure
White Fang
A fierce companion to The Call of the Wild, tracing a wolf-dog’s path from violence and fear toward trust and domestication.
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Adventure
The Call of the Wild
Jack London’s iconic Yukon adventure follows Buck from domestic comfort into brutal struggle, instinct, and wilderness.
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Non-fiction
The Prince
Machiavelli’s concise and unsettling guide to power, statecraft, fear, reputation, and political survival.
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Non-fiction
The Republic
Plato’s enduring dialogue on justice, education, political order, and the shape of the good life.
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Classics
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo’s vast and humane masterpiece of justice, mercy, revolution, and the moral lives that unfold under historical pressure.
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Adventure
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas's grand tale of betrayal, imprisonment, hidden treasure, and meticulous revenge.
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$12.50

Non-fiction
The Art of War
The Art of War by Sun Tzu is the classic strategy text on planning, discipline, deception, leadership, and winning through intelligence rather than brute force.
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Horror
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's chilling short story of a woman confined for her health, whose narrowing world comes to fixate on the pattern of her room's wallpaper.
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Children
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved story of a sour, orphaned girl, a hidden walled garden, and the quiet magic of tending living things.
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Emerging Voices
The Prophets
Robert Jones Jr.'s searing, lyrical debut.
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Essays
The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa's fragmentary masterpiece gathers the musings of a Lisbon clerk into an unclassifiable anti-novel, a shimmering diary of solitude, dream and the strangeness of simp
$18.50

Biography & Memoir
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Audre Lorde's groundbreaking memoir, which she called a biomythography, weaves memory and myth to tell the story of a Black lesbian poet coming into herself in mid-century America.
$15.95

Emerging Voices
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
Andrea Lawlor's exuberant, shape-shifting novel.
$16.00

Mystery
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
Joël Dicker's twisting literary thriller sends a blocked young novelist to clear his mentor of a decades-old murder, unspooling a small New England town's buried secrets one revela
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Fiction
The Thirty Names of Night
Zeyn Joukhadar's luminous novel braids a closeted Syrian American trans artist, a vanished painter, and a rare bird into a story of grief, transformation and finding the name that
$16.95

Fantasy
Orlando
Virginia Woolf's giddy, genre-defying romp follows one poet across four centuries and two genders, turning biography into a love letter and a sly interrogation of identity itself.
$14.00

Essays
A Small Place
Jamaica Kincaid's blistering book-length essay turns the tourist's gaze back on itself, laying bare the wreckage of colonialism and corruption in her native Antigua with unforgetta
$12.50

Emerging Voices
Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters's bold, funny and tender novel about three people, a surprise pregnancy, and the question of what it means to make a family.
$17.99

Biography & Memoir
The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson's genre-crossing memoir braids queer love, pregnancy and gender transition with sharp philosophical inquiry, making a fierce, tender case for a life that refuses easy
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Fiction
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong's luminous debut novel takes the form of a letter from a son to his mother who cannot read it, tracing family, immigration, first love and survival in prose of extraord
$17.00

Fiction
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin's spare, aching Paris novel follows an American adrift between a fiancée and a bartender named Giovanni, anatomising shame, desire and the ruin that self-denial leave
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Children
The Adventures of Pinocchio
A wooden puppet’s journey from mischievous marionette to real boy is a darkly enchanting tale of folly, transformation, and the cost of growing up.
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Children
Grimms' Fairy Tales
A lantern-lit path through the dark woods of storytelling, where every rustling leaf hides a lesson and every cottage door creaks with consequence.
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Adventure
The Jungle Book
A boy raised by wolves learns the laws of the jungle, navigating a world where danger and wonder are inseparable.
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Children
Peter Pan
A boy who refuses to grow up leads children to a world of pirates, fairies, and endless adventure.
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Children
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
A cyclone carries Dorothy from Kansas to Oz, a land of technicolor wonders and peculiar companions.
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Children's
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
A girl chases a pocket-watch-wielding rabbit into a realm where logic unravels like a ball of yarn.
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Non-fiction
Civil Disobedience
In 'Civil Disobedience,' Thoreau’s impassioned essay challenges readers to question authority and act on conscience.
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Essays
The Souls of Black Folk
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Nature & Environment
Walden
Thoreau's 'Walden' is a quiet rebellion against the noise of civilization, a year spent in deliberate solitude by a pond where time bends to the rustle of leaves and the call of lo
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Classics
Meditations
A Roman emperor's private reflections on power, mortality, and inner freedom.
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Classics
Beyond Good and Evil
Nietzsche’s 'Beyond Good and Evil' is a searing critique of morality, truth, and power that refuses to offer easy answers.
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Classics
Self-Reliance and Other Essays
Emerson’s 'Self-Reliance and Other Essays' is a clarion call to trust your instincts and defy conformity.
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Classics
The Divine Comedy
Dante’s epic pilgrimage through the afterlife remains a staggering work of imagination, where every sin and virtue takes vivid, often terrifying form.
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Adventure
The Odyssey
Odysseus’ decade-long voyage home from the Trojan War is a tale of cunning, endurance, and the unyielding pull of Ithaca.
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Classics
The Iliad
Homer’s epic tale of war, honor, and divine intervention unfolds with breathtaking intensity in Alexander Pope’s translation.
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
Shakespeare's Sonnets are love letters to the human condition—each verse a razor-sharp meditation on desire, mortality, and the ache of time.
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The Raven and Other Poems
Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Raven and Other Poems' is a shadowed journey through love, loss, and the macabre.
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Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' is a wild, uncontainable ode to life itself, a celebration of the individual and the infinite.
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Macbeth
A Scottish general’s ambition curdles into tyranny after a prophecy twists his fate.
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Romeo and Juliet
Two star-crossed lovers ignite a forbidden passion that threatens to consume their warring families.
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Hamlet
A grieving prince spirals into doubt and delay after a ghostly accusation.
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Persuasion
Jane Austen’s final completed novel returns to love after loss, measuring regret, constancy, and second chances with extraordinary emotional poise.
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Classics
Anne of Green Gables
A red-haired orphan’s whimsy turns a staid farmhouse upside down in this tale of mishaps and marvels.
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Adventure
Little Women
Four sisters come of age in a world of scraped knees and secret ambitions, where the warmth of family cushions every fall.
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Adventure
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer’s world is sunlit and sly, where fence-painting becomes a con and treasure hunts turn treacherous.
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Classics
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
A respected doctor’s dangerous experiments unleash his hidden self, a creature of pure appetite.
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Adventure
Treasure Island
A boy’s adventure becomes a brutal education in deception when a pirate’s map leads to mutiny, buried gold, and the unforgettable Long John Silver.
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Classics
The War of the Worlds
When Martian tripods stride across Victorian England, humanity’s fragile dominance crumbles.
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Classics
The Time Machine
In H.
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