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yams rated Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing: 3 stars
yams rated The crying of lot 49: 4 stars

The crying of lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (Perennial fiction library)
The Crying of Lot 49 is a novel written by American author Thomas Pynchon and published in 1966. The shortest …
yams rated How to Be an Antiracist: 3 stars

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points …
yams rated The Odyssey: 4 stars

The Odyssey by Homer
The Odyssey (; Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia, Attic Greek: [o.dýs.sej.ja]) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to …
yams rated The Old Man and the Sea: 3 stars

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner classics)
The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and …
yams rated Invisible cities: 5 stars

Invisible cities by Italo Calvino (Harvest/HBJ book)
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but …
yams rated Giovanni's Room: 5 stars

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (Penguin Modern Classics)
Baldwin's haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature. In …
yams rated The Night Trilogy: 5 stars

The Night Trilogy by Elie Wiesel
The new translation of the bestselling memoir Night in one volume with its companion novels, Dawn and Day Night is …
yams rated The Stranger: 5 stars

The Stranger by Albert Camus, Jacques Ferrandez
The day his mother dies, Meursault notices that it is very hot on the bus that is taking him from …
yams rated The Biggest Bluff: 3 stars
yams rated McSweeney's Quarterly Issue 59: 5 stars

Libra by Don DeLillo
Libra is a 1988 novel by Don DeLillo that describes the life of Lee Harvey Oswald and his participation in …