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Classics

Our Mutual Friend

by Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens's last completed novel, a dark and dazzling panorama of money, identity and the London river.

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Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

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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Bleak House

by Charles Dickens

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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Adventure

Nicholas Nickleby

by Charles Dickens

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

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David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

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

by Charles Dickens

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

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Children

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

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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Mansfield Park

by Jane Austen

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

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Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

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

by Kenneth Grahame

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

by Jack London

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

by Jack London

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

by Niccolò Machiavelli

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

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Non-fiction

The Republic

by Plato

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

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Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

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

by Alexandre Dumas

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

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Non-fiction

The Art of War

by Sun Tzu

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

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

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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.

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Emerging Voices

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Andrea Lawlor's exuberant, shape-shifting novel.

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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.

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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

$15.95

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

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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

by Carlo Collodi

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

by Brothers Grimm

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

by Rudyard Kipling

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

by J. M. Barrie

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

by L. Frank Baum

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

by Lewis Carroll

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

by Henry David Thoreau

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

by W. E. B. Du Bois

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Nature & Environment

Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

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

by Marcus Aurelius

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

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Beyond Good and Evil

by Friedrich Nietzsche

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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Self-Reliance and Other Essays

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

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

by Homer (tr. Butler)

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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The Iliad

by Homer (tr. Pope)

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

by William Shakespeare

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

by Edgar Allan Poe

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

by Walt Whitman

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

by William Shakespeare

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

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Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

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

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Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

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

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Persuasion

by Jane Austen

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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Anne of Green Gables

by L. M. Montgomery

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

by Louisa May Alcott

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

by Mark Twain

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

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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Adventure

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

by H. G. Wells

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

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The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

In H.

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