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by Emile Zola
3.7(39,210)
Trapped in a suffocating marriage, Thérèse Raquin's affair with her husband's friend sparks a spiral of passion, murder, and inescapable guilt.
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
4.3(39,170)
From the worm's-eye view of his own grave, a delightfully disagreeable aristocrat recounts his meandering life of failed ambitions and half-hearted loves, all while gleefully dissecting the absurdities of existence.
by Fernando Pessoa
4.4(38,297)
Explore the mind of a Lisbon clerk as everyday life turns into a maze of existential dread, dreams, and personal discovery.
by Armistead Maupin
4.0(37,087)
Mary Ann Singleton's move to 1970s San Francisco throws her into a whimsical, heartwarming, and often scandalous world of quirky neighbors, unexpected loves, and the ever-evolving search for belonging at 28 Barbary Lane.
by Alain de Botton
4.0(35,356)
A chance meeting on a flight turns into a love story, where every feeling and shared moment is examined through philosophy.
by Aristophanes
3.9(35,205)
Tired of endless war, Athenian woman Lysistrata leads a city-wide sex strike to end the Peloponnesian conflict, sparking a funny and serious battle of the sexes that exposes war's foolishness and power dynamics in ancient Greece.
by Haruki Murakami
3.5(34,780)
This two-sided volume features Haruki Murakami's first two novels, offering an early look at his stories of alienated youth, mysterious women, and the quiet strangeness that defines his writing.
by Anna Quindlen
3.9(34,326)
After an act of violence shatters her family, a mother must navigate grief and rebuild a life she never anticipated.
by Jorge Luis Borges
4.4(33,999)
Libraries are infinite, dreams are reality, and every mirror reflects a maze of philosophical questions.
by Nora Ephron
3.6(33,471)
A pregnant cookbook author navigates the hilarious and heartbreaking wreckage of her perfect marriage crumbling due to her husband's affair, all while sharing recipes and plotting comical revenge.
by Mark Haddon
3.5(32,698)
As his family falls apart around a chaotic wedding, the reserved George Hall finds a suspicious spot and quietly descends into a polite madness.
by Rita Mae Brown
3.9(32,386)
Molly Bolt, a strong, spirited young woman, makes her own way through 1950s America, embracing her lesbian identity with joy and a refusal to conform, all while defying societal expectations.
by Gregg Hurwitz
4.2(32,074)
Orphan X, the legendary Nowhere Man, faces his ultimate challenge when he is captured, turning the hunter into the hunted as he plans a brutal escape.
by Henrik Ibsen
3.8(30,212)
Trapped in a suffocating marriage, Hedda Gabler manipulates those around her with destructive elegance, seeking beauty and influence, but ultimately becoming entangled in her own web.
by Brian Azzarello
4.0(29,969)
Fresh out of Arkham, the Joker begins a brutal, neon-soaked rampage across Gotham to reclaim his criminal empire, leaving chaos and blood.
by Anton Chekhov
3.7(29,447)
A Russian aristocratic family clings to their cherry orchard, a symbol of their past, as a new world threatens to uproot them.
by Mario Vargas Llosa
4.2(28,983)
In a Peruvian military academy, cadets led by the Jaguar rebel against harsh hazing and strict rules. Their pranks turn into a tragic cycle of betrayal, murder, and revenge, revealing deep corruption within the institution and society.
by Colson Whitehead
3.2(27,541)
In post-pandemic New York, a civilian sweeper clears residual zombies and confronts the weight of a fallen world over three surreal days.
by Sebastian Barry
4.0(27,310)
Two young soldiers, bound by love and trauma in 19th-century America, form an unconventional family with an orphaned Indian girl, seeking peace in a world set against them.
by Marina Lewycka
3.4(27,128)
When their 84-year-old father falls for a glamorous Ukrainian divorcée half his age, two estranged sisters must unite to save him from her mercenary intentions, uncovering a comedic and moving history of family secrets and European upheaval.
by Nikolai Gogol
4.1(27,010)
A lowly clerk's life unravels into a darkly comedic and tragic obsession with a new overcoat, only to find himself haunting the streets of St. Petersburg in its spectral pursuit.
by Honore De Balzac
3.8(26,074)
In a French town, a sheltered heiress's love for her cousin clashes with her miserly father's obsession with gold, leading to tragedy.
by Charles Bukowski
4.1(25,812)
by Elmore Leonard
4.0(25,547)
When a Miami loan shark chases a debt to Hollywood, he discovers his true calling might just be producing movies, proving that the cutthroat world of film isn't so different from the mob after all.