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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee

Diary of a Bad Year is a book by South African-born Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee. It was released by …

The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe (Penguin classics)

From the book:UPON my return to the United States a few months ago, after the extraordinary series of adventure in …

The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

PAT CONROY has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning forty …

Lost in translation by Eva Hoffman, Eva Hoffman

The Implied Spider by Wendy Doniger

Pym by Mat Johnson

Recently canned professor of American literature Chris Jaynes has just made a startling discovery: the manuscript of a crude slave …

The Elements of Academic Style by Eric Hayot

The Winds of Winter by George R. R. Martin, Peter Reed (A Song of Ice and Fire, #6)

The Winds of Winter is the planned sixth novel in the epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire …

John Knowles's A separate peace by Neil Baldwin (Barron's book notes)

A guide to reading "A Separate Peace" with a critical and appreciative mind. Includes background on the author's life and …

Saturday by Ian McEwan

From the pen of a master -- the #1 bestselling, Booker Prize--winning author of Atonement -- comes an astonishing novel …

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

Animal's people by Indra Sinha

A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)

A comet the colour of blood and flame cuts across the sky. And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to …

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1) by Robin Sloan