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by Tennessee Williams
3.7(111,716)
In a St. Louis apartment, a faded Southern belle, her restless son, and his painfully shy sister with her collection of glass animals, grapple with shattered dreams and the suffocating grip of memory.
by John le Carré
4.1(106,909)
A disgraced spymaster comes out of retirement to find a Soviet mole in the British Secret Service, forcing him to betray a colleague to save his country.
by Henrik Ibsen
3.7(106,062)
Nora Helmer's realization that her marriage is a 'doll's house' leads her to leave her family, challenging 19th-century expectations for women.
by Yoko Ogawa
4.0(99,692)
A math professor, whose memory resets every eighty minutes, forms an unexpected family with his perceptive housekeeper and her son, finding connection in numbers.
by Jodi Picoult
3.7(97,341)
A desperate hostage negotiator faces his worst nightmare when his own daughter is trapped inside a women's reproductive health clinic under siege by a gunman. An intense countdown reveals the interwoven lives that led everyone to that fateful, divided day.
by Allen Ginsberg
4.1(93,609)
Ginsberg's electrifying collection is a raw, impassioned scream against the conformity and destruction of his generation, a jazz-infused lament for the 'best minds' driven to madness.
by Sarah Orne Jewett
4.1(91,500)
A summer visitor to a remote Maine fishing village discovers the quiet dignity, lasting friendships, and solitude in the lives of its resilient, sea-weathered inhabitants.
by Hwang Bo-reum
3.9(89,088)
Burnt out and disillusioned, Yeongju abandons her high-flying career to open a cozy bookshop in Seoul, where she and a diverse cast of customers find solace, healing, and a renewed sense of purpose amidst the quiet power of literature.
by Sosuke Natsukawa
3.7(88,042)
A shy boy and a talking cat go on magical trips to rescue beloved books from those who would misuse them, discovering the deep power of stories and connection.
by Charles Bukowski
4.1(83,524)
In Depression-era Los Angeles, a perpetually bruised and pimply Henry Chinaski navigates an adolescence of alcohol, fleeting women, and the unexpected solace of D.H. Lawrence, all while grappling with the brutal absurdity of simply existing.
by Edwin Abbott Abbott
3.8(78,306)
A humble square's encounter with a sphere in a two-dimensional world shatters his reality, revealing the humorous limits of his flat existence.
by Paul Beatty
3.7(75,557)
A young Black man, raised as a psychological experiment, tries to save his erased hometown by bringing back slavery and segregation, leading to a funny, absurd Supreme Court trial that criticizes American racial politics.
by Jodi Picoult
3.7(70,335)
After a devastating accident leaves their father comatose, two estranged siblings must face their hidden truths and the ethical dilemma of ending his life, forcing a family already fractured by obsession to make an impossible choice.
by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
4.0(69,008)
An Indian mother's sacrifice to save her daughter's life affects an infertile American doctor and the child who later searches for her origins.
by Honore De Balzac
3.9(67,705)
In 19th-century Paris, an old father sacrifices everything for his ungrateful daughters, while a young student tries to climb the city's ruthless social ladder.
by Shirley Jackson
4.1(63,627)
Shirley Jackson's unsettling collection shows how ordinary towns and homes hide chilling rituals and cruel acts, revealing the darkness beneath everyday life.
by Choderlos de Laclos
4.0(59,508)
In pre-revolutionary France, two jaded aristocrats wage a cruel war of seduction and betrayal through letters, orchestrating the downfall of innocents only to find their deceptions leading to an unforeseen, deadly reckoning.
by John Grisham
3.5(56,863)
A weary couple's attempt to ditch the holiday chaos for a Caribbean cruise backfires spectacularly when their suburban community rebels against their Christmas-skipping scheme.
by William S. Burroughs
3.8(55,571)
A young man's descent into heroin addiction in post-WWII New York City and Mexico City shows the truth of the junkie's life, from scrounging for a fix to fleeting highs.
by Tennessee Williams
4.1(52,414)
On a sweltering Mississippi Delta plantation, a dying patriarch's birthday ignites a brutal family battle for inheritance, exposing the raw wounds of a marriage suffocated by unspoken desires and the scorching heat of mendacity.
by Mark Greaney
4.2(51,612)
A legendary assassin, now hunted, must use his skills against the shadowy organizations that created him to survive.
by Charles Baudelaire
4.3(49,287)
Baudelaire's 1857 masterpiece, a work of decadent beauty and startling depravity, is now available in its first complete American translation, presented alongside the original French.
by Carlos Castañeda
3.9(45,545)
An anthropologist apprentices with a Yaqui sorcerer, revealing a world where reality is fluid and ancient wisdom unlocks perception.
by T.S. Eliot
4.1(42,721)
T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land' is a fragmented poem, presented here with critical notes that explain its many allusions and its path from controversial debut to lasting twentieth-century interpretations.