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items I am such a bookworm, I admit it. I love books, but not just any books, but some high quality ones. As someone who is not that much a fan ob booktok, I'm here to give you some classics with a dash of something different. So stay tuned and dive into t...
We can't be friends if you havent read this or ‘Emma’
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)|Paperback
My favourite Jane Austin's book, it just has a special place in my heart
Emma|Paperback
In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbr...
The Mayor of Casterbridge|Paperback
For sure one of his best works
A Tale of Two Cities|Paperback
Learn how to: stop wasting energy on things you can't control, stop comparing yourself to other people, break free from fear and self-doubt, release the grip of people's expectations, build the best friendships of your life, create the love you deser...
The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About|Hardcover
A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks ...
To Kill a Mockingbird (Pulitzer Prize Winner)|Paperback
Handsome young Dorian Gray sees a painter’s stunning portrait of him and becomes transfixed by his own beauty. Troubled by the knowledge that the painting will remain handsome while he himself will wither, Dorian exchanges his soul for eternal youth....
The Picture of Dorian Gray|Paperback
Having grown up an orphan in the home of her cruel aunt and at a harsh charity school, Jane Eyre becomes an independent and spirited survivor-qualities that serve her well as governess at Thornfield Hall. But when she finds love with her sardonic emp...
Jane Eyre|Paperback
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the y...
Love in the Time of Cholera|Paperback
A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a Black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.
A Lesson before Dying|Paperback
"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she...
The Lovely Bones|Paperback
Occupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside—and betrayal born within the close-knit community
The Moon Is Down|Paperback
When Mr. Earnshaw, master of Wuthering Heights, returns from a trip with an unkempt orphan in tow, he announces that the child, Heathcliff, is now a member of the family. While young Catherine Earnshaw becomes close with Heathcliff, her older brother...
Wuthering Heights (Signature Classics)|Paperback
I love Kafka more than life itself
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Signature Classics)|Paperback
Posthumously published in 1925, this short novel captures the confusion and distress of suffering persecution by an unseen, unknown and irresistible force. Blending reality and absurdity, violence and hope, this story has endured for a century for go...
The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text|Paperback
A harder read, but everyone should know Dostoevsky by heart
The Idiot|Paperback
Considered by many to be the greatest novel of all time. Set against the bopping back drop of the Jazz Age, the story of Jay Gatsby and his lover Daisy is truly timeless. Just as relevant now as when it was written, it's the story of class divides, m...
The Great Gatsby|Paperback
Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Dove is a book to make us la...
Lonesome Dove (Pulitzer Prize Winner)|Paperback
A young escape artist and budding magician named Joe Kavalier arrives on the doorstep of his cousin, Sammy Clay. While the long shadow of Hitler falls across Europe, America is happily in thrall to the Golden Age of comic books, and in a distant corn...
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Pulitzer Prize Winner)|Paperback
In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep.
The Snow Child|Paperback
Through Albom's inspiring characters and masterful storytelling, readers will newly appreciate those whom they love—and may have thought they'd lost—in their own lives.
For One More Day by Mitch Albom
Lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative, Tender Is the Night was one of the most talked-about books of the year when it was originally published in 1934, and is even more beloved by readers today.
Tender Is the Night: A Novel|Paperback
In 1965, Frances Adams is at an English country fair where a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. It is a prediction that sparks her life's work--trying to solve a crime that hasn't happened yet. Nearly ...
How to Solve Your Own Murder: A Novel|Paperback
Crime fiction by and about women, this mother-daughter narrative is satirical, emotional and chilling. It's packed with layers of meaning and complexities.
The Deepest Lake|Paperback
It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events: A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely ...
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce Series #1)|Paperback