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One of my favorite books ever
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
one for crying (A LOT)
White nights|Paperback - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Barnes & Noble
inspiring read
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse - Penguin Random House
read before/after yellowjackets
Lord of the Flies by William Golding - Penguin Random House
I heart Shakespeare
Richard III by William Shakespeare - Penguin Random House
favorite Camus work
A Happy Death
childhood favorite
The Fellowship of the Ring
amazing 2nd part of the trilogy
The Two Towers
hands down the best last part of the book ever written
The Return of the King
an amazing journey that started it all
The Hobbit
The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicles the irreconcilable conflict between the desire for solitude and the need for love—in rich, imaginative prose that has come to define an entire genre...
One Hundred Years of Solitude
1948 is based on a dystopian vision of the future where the freedom of the individual is subjugated to the conformity of society. The novel focuses on Winston Smith, who works for the Ministry of Truth, a branch of the government responsible for the ...
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Hamlet is melancholy, bitter, and cynical, full of hatred for his uncle's scheming and disgust for his mother's sexuality. A reflective and thoughtful young man who has studied at the University of Wittenberg, Hamlet is often indecisive and hesitant,...
Hamlet - Penguin Books
It is a truth universally acknowledged that when most people think of Jane Austen they think of this charming and humorous story of love, difficult families and the tricky task of finding a handsome husband with a good fortune.
Pride and Prejudice (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)
One of the greatest and most prescient dystopian novels ever written, this should be on everyone’s must-read list
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
One of literature’s steeliest heroines, in her short life Jane Eyre has overcome a traumatic childhood only to be challenged by secrets, strange noises and mysterious fires in her new home of Thornfield Hall. All while falling in love with her employ...
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Hardcover | Barnes & Noble®
The Stranger tells the story of the assassination of an Arab man who is never named. This story demonstrates the depths of human apathy as the main character, Meursault, is put on trial for the murder of the man.
The Stranger by Albert Camus, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
It is a tragic, vividly painted story of life in postwar Japan. The narrator is Kazuko, a young woman born to gentility but now impoverished. Though she wears Western clothes, her outlook is Japanese; her life is static, and she recognizes that she i...
The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
one of the biggest must reads when it comes to Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Paperback
Every book that has been written about artificial intelligence since Frankenstein owes something to Mary Shelley.
Frankenstein (Signature Classics) - Mary Shelley - Barnes & Noble
No other novel has made me feel so much for the main characters, so deeply depicted by the author. I felt like an orphan when I finished it and it's the only novel I've re-read several times.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Paperback
This is the masterpiece of Mikhail Bulgakov, his magnum opus. About life and death in Communist Russia, and also about greater things: the power of forgiveness and eternal life.
The Master and Margarita (Mirra Ginsburg Translation)
Bram Stoker's novel is told by multiple narrators in a series of diary entries, letters, newspaper articles and ships’ logs; an old folklore tale becomes a frightening reality for solicitor Jonathan Harker and his friends after he visits Count Dracul...
Dracula (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)|Paperback
This book is not only important as a literary masterpiece and an evocative story - it also has universal appeal as, unfortunately, many children in today's world undergo the same suffering as Pip.
Great Expectations (Signature Classics)|Paperback - Barnes & Noble
In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s and '30s. In the character of its protagonist, P...
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov, Paperback