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"This is an exquisite love story about how a person can change another person's life."
Normal People, Sally Rooney
“An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light.”
A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara
“In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.”
Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi
“Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when...
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
“The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel. It was published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author's suicide.”
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
“The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is a mesmerizing journey through the splendour of old Hollywood into the harsh realities of the present day as two women struggle with what it means and what it costs to face the truth.”
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid
“A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup.”
Daisy Jones & The Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid
“Can the club and the individuality it inspires survive the pressure from authorities determined to destroy their dreams?”
Dead Poets Society, N.H. Kleinbaum
“Call Me By Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents Cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera.”
Call Me by Your Name, Andre Aciman
“A moving story about loss, forgetting and female friendship: two women on a road trip across Bosnia head towards a lost brother and a collision with the lies they've told themselves about where they're from.”
Catch the Rabbit, Lana Bastašić
"Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed “the nakedness of man faced with the absurd.”
The Stranger, Albert Camus
“One morning, ordinary salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant cockroach.”
Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
“A classic dystopian novel published in 1949, it is set in the eponymous year and focuses on a repressive, totalitarian regime.”
1984, George Orwell
“A brilliant political satire and a powerful and affecting story of revolutions and idealism, power and corruption. 'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.' ”
Animal Farm, George Orwell
“The story of an airman's discovery, in the desert, of a small boy from another planet - the Little Prince of the title - and his stories of intergalactic travel, while on the other hand it is a thought-provoking allegory of the human condition.”
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Crime and Punishment is a psychological novel that explores the moral dilemmas of a man who commits murder and struggles with guilt, redemption, and justice.”
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky