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by John Webster
3.6(12,616)
A powerful duchess defies her brothers' tyranny and incestuous desires, leading to her brutal murder and their descent into madness in this Jacobean tragedy.
by Edwidge Danticat
3.7(12,429)
Danticat shows how love, loss, and memory span generations and borders, revealing the fragile threads that hold Haitian families together even as life threatens to unravel them.
by Adrian Tomine
3.6(12,272)
A graphic novel follows Ben Tanaka, a cynical Japanese American, as he navigates rocky relationships, racial hang-ups, and his own self-loathing in a cross-country quest for an elusive ideal woman and contentment.
by Jason F. Wright
4.0(12,048)
A determined reporter's quest to uncover the origins of anonymous 'Christmas Jars' filled with money for the needy leads her to a heartwarming discovery about community, compassion, and her own forgotten past.
by Raina Telgemeier
3.8(11,996)
To help her ailing sister connect with spectral residents, a skeptical girl new to town must face her fear of ghosts, who are believed to hold the key to her family's healing.
by Aeschylus
4.0(11,811)
Chained to a desolate peak for defying Zeus and giving humanity fire and knowledge, the Titan Prometheus endures eternal torment, showing humanity's defiant spirit against an unforgiving cosmos.
by Stephen Fry
3.7(11,711)
A clever young liar finds himself in a world of spies, murder, and a strange device after seeing a brutal killing in Salzburg, making him face truths more complex than his own deceptions.
by Italo Calvino
3.4(11,580)
In a castle where speech is forbidden, silent travelers tell their stories using tarot cards, weaving a narrative of human experience.
by Alfred Doblin
3.8(11,406)
Fresh from prison and vowing to go straight, Franz Biberkopf is repeatedly battered by the brutal, indifferent forces of Weimar Berlin, each blow chipping away at his resolve until fate itself seems to conspire against his very soul.
by August Strindberg
3.5(11,314)
On a single Midsummer's Eve, the aristocrat Miss Julie and her father's valet, Jean, start a class and gender struggle that leads to a devastating end.
by Dorothy Parker
4.3(11,251)
Dorothy Parker's sharp verse, biting short stories, and incisive journalism dissect the human condition with wit and poignant observations.
by Nawal El Saadawi
4.1(11,176)
Firdaus, an Egyptian woman born into poverty, defies a harsh world of male control and social hypocrisy, finding a bitter freedom in wanting nothing, fearing nothing, and hoping for nothing.
by Multatuli
3.5(10,857)
A Dutch idealist in 19th-century Java confronts the brutal hypocrisy of colonial rule and the corrupt coffee trade, sacrificing his own career to expose the systemic oppression of the native people.
by Jan Karon
4.2(10,818)
A retired Episcopal priest, Father Tim, returns to his Mississippi birthplace after receiving a mysterious note, uncovering long-held family secrets and finding new connections that change his idea of 'home'.
by Oscar Wilde
3.9(10,749)
In a Victorian country estate, a mother's carefully constructed life unravels when her son's new patron is revealed to be the very man who fathered him and abandoned them both years ago, threatening to expose a scandal that could destroy them all.
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3.9(10,649)
Explore the poems where Wordsworth and Coleridge began English Romanticism, featuring their 1798 debut and the expanded 1802 edition with Wordsworth's famous preface.
by Mark Greaney
4.4(10,345)
A decorated close protection agent, hobbled by a devastating injury and relegated to mall security, gets one last shot at redemption protecting a UN peace mission in Mexico's deadly 'Devil's Spine' against ruthless drug cartels.
by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
4.1(10,253)
Akutagawa's Japan mixes ancient tales of moral uncertainty and feudal life with the author's raw, modernist descent into sadness and madness, all told with a master stylist's clear prose.
by Bertolt Brecht
4.0(10,251)
In Victorian London's underworld, a charming gangster's marriage to a naive heiress starts a satirical, jazz-infused show that exposes society's hypocrisy.
by J.M. Coetzee
3.5(10,177)
An aging, celebrated novelist travels the world, grappling with fame and her struggle to articulate her deepest beliefs.
by Arto Paasilinna
3.6(10,090)
After hitting a hare with his car, a disillusioned journalist abandons his old life to wander the Finnish wilderness with the rabbit, embarking on a series of uproarious, life-affirming misadventures.
by Witold Gombrowicz
3.9(10,087)
A writer is forcibly regressed to schoolboy antics by a diabolical professor, plunging him into a hilariously grotesque world that skewers the absurdities of conformity and immaturity.
by Vladimir Sorokin
3.7(9,768)
In 2028 Moscow, an elite enforcer navigates a day of executions, lavish parties, and drug-fueled excess, all while serving a czar who blends futuristic technology with the terror of Ivan the Terrible.
by Naguib Mahfouz
4.3(9,714)
As Egypt moves toward an uncertain future, the aging al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad watches his grandsons embrace communism, fundamentalism, and political intrigue, shattering his traditions.