The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison. The novel takes place in Lorain, Ohio (Morrison's hometown), and tells the story of a young African-American girl named Pecola who grew up following the Great Depression....
The Bluest Eye a book by Toni Morrison
Elena Ferante phenomenon 😍
The Neapolitan Novels Boxed Set a book by Elena Ferrante and Ann Goldstein
It is about one family's expirience living the American dream and their downfall. 1997 is the year of publishing but still very modern story, also winner of Pulitzer Prize
American Pastoral: American Trilogy (1) a book by Philip Roth
A Czech author Milan Kundera, wrote a book that belongs to different genres in the same time, a fairy tale, political tract, autobiography, literary criticism, one word- genius.
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting a book by Milan Kundera
This book is just like a beautiful melody for your ears and feels like a silk. You would love it, it is a short (plathonic) love story you will reread often.
Silk (Movie Tie-In Edition) a book by Alessandro Baricco, Ann Goldstein, and Ann Goldstein
My all time favorite author and his literature debut. An amnesiac writer's life of lies and false memories reaches a breaking point when he breaks up with his girlfriend. Dark past chases him and the only way out is confronting it. You are going to l...
Dark Mother Earth a book by Kristian Novak and Ellen Elias-Bursac
Education in 21st century is affordable, but ignoring the truth can be easier.
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine a book by Ilan Pappe
Milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look
Milk and Honey a book by Rupi Kaur
In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displace...
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 a book by Rashid Khalidi
It's amazing how the author of a very simple plot, the Lamberts family attempt to get together for Christmas dinner, managed to create a masterpiece. One trivial situation was enough for him to show his attitude about western consumer society through...
The Corrections a book by Jonathan Franzen and Jonathan Galassi
Every book of Jonathan Frenzen is like a treasure. Very rare talent, from a simple situation he can make a web of characters and their psychology is what amazes the readers over and over.
Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s (Loa #173): The Man in the High Castle / The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Do Androids Dream of Electri a book by Philip K. Dick, Jonathan Lethem, and Jonathan Lethem
Sabbath's Theater: National Book Award Winner a book by Philip Roth
Impactful writing, masterful storytelling. I am going to use one citation: "I killed Emerence. The fact that I was trying to save her rather than destroy her changes nothing." A beautiful story of women friendship, so subtle, imperfect, intense, comp...
The Door a book by Magda Szabo, Len Rix, and Ali Smith
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The Fawn a book by Magda Szabó and Len Rix
"Robert Perisic is a light bright with intelligence and twinkling with irony, flashing us the news that postwar Croatia not only endures but matters." said Jonathan Franzen
A Cat at the End of the World a book by Robert Perisic and Vesna Maric
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Horror and Huge Expenses a book by Robert Perisic and Will Firth
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Our Man in Iraq a book by Robert Perisic and Will Firth
This is a work of self-reflection, a painful realization and suppressed childhood traumas that have profound consequences on shaping young beings. Emotional, melancholic and tender.
Divided into three essay-like parts, this small work catches on and then there is no turning back. Namely, in the first two episodes, “Sin of Height” and “On level”, Barnes talks about flying balloons, making subtle allusions to love as one such mega...
Levels of Life: A Memoir a book by Julian Barnes
An enchanting novel that narrates a story of the land and a house through the lives of their owners. Most original idea and characters who could seem to be chosen by the place rather that the other way round. Epic story that spans over two centuries ...
North Woods a book by Daniel Mason
A lovely book of nesting stories, lightly connected to each other in various ways. It is a novel, particularly at the time of publication, unlike any other. In truth it is six novellas that are all connected in a multitude of differing ways.The six d...
Cloud Atlas a book by David Mitchell
The novel begins with the confession of the protagonist, actually the crimes of the famous painter Juan Pablo, the man who killed Maria, a woman he obsessively loves. This is an introduction to the dark chambers of the man's soul and the depravity of...
The Tunnel (Revised) a book by Ernesto Sabato, Margaret Sayers Peden, and Colm Toibin
A moving book in two words. In more then two words: there is no sympathy in Homeland, there are only ruined and sorrowful lives. The year is 2011, when the organization ETA announces an end to armed attacks. In the center of the incident are two Basq...
Homeland a book by Fernando Aramburu and Alfred J. MacAdam
