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Hard Times

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.

From $7.50

Bleak House

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

From $11.50

Nicholas Nickleby

Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens's rousing tale of a young man's fight against cruelty and greed.

From $5.00

David Copperfield

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

From $10.50

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

Dickens’s fierce and unforgettable novel of poverty, criminal exploitation, and moral endurance in Victorian London.

From $8.50

A Christmas Carol

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.

From $6.00

Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park

Austen’s morally exacting novel of family influence, social ambition, performance, and the quiet resilience of Fanny Price.

From $8.00

Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen’s playful satire of Gothic fiction, following Catherine Morland from naïve fantasy toward sharper judgment.

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The Wind in the Willows

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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White Fang

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.

From $7.00

The Call of the Wild

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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The Prince

The Prince

Machiavelli’s concise and unsettling guide to power, statecraft, fear, reputation, and political survival.

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The Republic

The Republic

Plato’s enduring dialogue on justice, education, political order, and the shape of the good life.

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Les Misérables

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo’s vast and humane masterpiece of justice, mercy, revolution, and the moral lives that unfold under historical pressure.

From $13.50

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas's grand tale of betrayal, imprisonment, hidden treasure, and meticulous revenge.

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The Art of War

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.

From $6.50

The Yellow Wallpaper

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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The Secret Garden

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.

From $8.00

The Prophets

The Prophets

Robert Jones Jr.'s searing, lyrical debut.

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The Book of Disquiet

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

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

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

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Andrea Lawlor's exuberant, shape-shifting novel.

$16.00

The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair

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

$18.99

The Thirty Names of Night

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

Orlando

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

A Small Place

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

Detransition, Baby

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

The Argonauts

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

$15.95

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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

Giovanni's Room

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

$16.99

The Adventures of Pinocchio

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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Grimms' Fairy Tales

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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The Jungle Book

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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Peter Pan

Peter Pan

A boy who refuses to grow up leads children to a world of pirates, fairies, and endless adventure.

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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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Civil Disobedience

Civil Disobedience

In 'Civil Disobedience,' Thoreau’s impassioned essay challenges readers to question authority and act on conscience.

From $5.50

The Souls of Black Folk

The Souls of Black Folk

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From $5.00

Walden

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

From $5.00

Meditations

Meditations

A Roman emperor's private reflections on power, mortality, and inner freedom.

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Beyond Good and Evil

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.

From $5.00

Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Emerson’s 'Self-Reliance and Other Essays' is a clarion call to trust your instincts and defy conformity.

From $5.00

The Divine Comedy

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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The Odyssey

The Odyssey

Odysseus’ decade-long voyage home from the Trojan War is a tale of cunning, endurance, and the unyielding pull of Ithaca.

From $5.00

The Iliad

The Iliad

Homer’s epic tale of war, honor, and divine intervention unfolds with breathtaking intensity in Alexander Pope’s translation.

From $5.00

Shakespeare's Sonnets

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.

From $5.00

The Raven and Other Poems

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

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

Macbeth

A Scottish general’s ambition curdles into tyranny after a prophecy twists his fate.

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Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

Two star-crossed lovers ignite a forbidden passion that threatens to consume their warring families.

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Hamlet

Hamlet

A grieving prince spirals into doubt and delay after a ghostly accusation.

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Persuasion

Persuasion

Jane Austen’s final completed novel returns to love after loss, measuring regret, constancy, and second chances with extraordinary emotional poise.

From $8.00

Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables

A red-haired orphan’s whimsy turns a staid farmhouse upside down in this tale of mishaps and marvels.

From $5.00

Little Women

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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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

A respected doctor’s dangerous experiments unleash his hidden self, a creature of pure appetite.

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Treasure Island

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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The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds

When Martian tripods stride across Victorian England, humanity’s fragile dominance crumbles.

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The Time Machine

The Time Machine

In H.

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Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness

A steamboat captain’s journey into the Congo unravels into a haunting meditation on power, savagery, and the fragile veneer of civilization.

From $6.50