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Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune, #1)

Dune is a 1965 science-fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials in Analog magazine. …

Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton

Fifty Sounds is a personal dictionary of the Japanese language, recounting her life as an outsider in Japan. Irreverent, humane, …

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo

A fierce international bestseller that launched Korea’s new feminist movement, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman’s psychic deterioration in …

Not to Read by Alejandro Zambra, Megan McDowell

Roadside Picnic by Борис Натанович Стругацкий, Boris Strugatsky (S. F. Masterworks)

A troubled man leads a writer and a scientist into "The Zone", a mysterious area where the laws of physics …

The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder

A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor …

The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino

On beauty by Zadie Smith

"Howard Belsey is an Englishman abroad, an academic teaching in Wellington, a college town in New England. Married young, thirty …

When Nietzsche wept by Irvin D. Yalom

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and …

Years by Annie Ernaux, Annie Ernaux

Flights by Olga Tokarczuk

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

White Teeth is a 2000 novel by the British author Zadie Smith. It focuses on the later lives of two …

The wave in the mind by Ursula K. Le Guin