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To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Vintage Voyages)

This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years now …

Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott, Ian Stewart (Princeton science library)

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, though written in 1884, is still considered useful in thinking about multiple dimensions. It …

Dharma Bum's Guide to Western Literature by Dean Sluyter

The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm …

Rapportören by Sven Åke Hedström

The Island of Dr. Moreau (Tor Classics) by H. G. Wells

Doctor Faustus : The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn as Told by a Friend by Thomas Mann

A new translation of a 1948 novel by a German writer based on the Faust legend. The protagonist is Adrian …

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne

Phileas Fogg, a very punctual man had broken into an argument while conversing about the recent bank robbery. To keep …

Logicomix by Christos Papadimitriou, Apostolos Doxiadis, Apostolos K. Doxiadēs

Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth is a graphic novel about the foundational quest in mathematics, written by Apostolos Doxiadis, …

What Is Real? by Adam Becker

"Quantum mechanics is humanity's finest scientific achievement. It explains why the sun shines and how your eyes can see. It's …

Hunger by Knut Hamsun

Originally published in 1890, this classic of modern literature follows an impoverished Norwegian writer through the streets of Christiania (now …

Kejsarn av Portugallien by Selma Lagerlöf

The Emperor of Portugallia (Swedish: Kejsarn av Portugallien) is a novel by Nobel-laureate Selma Lagerlöf, published in 1914 with drawings …

Candide by Voltaire

Froth on the daydream by Boris Vian (Quartet encounters)

I'ts a supernatural story where very strange things happen. For exemple, a girl dies because a flower is growing in …

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera