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Book Reccommendations for Every Mood
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items Books to meet you in every mood. Whether you’re longing for comfort, craving intensity, seeking beauty, or simply wanting to disappear into another world for a while. Browse slowly, and find the story that fits the moment.
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Life-Changing
Dark Literature
Classics
On Beauty and Aesthetics
For the Creatives
Esoteric Girls
Life-Changing
In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the c...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being|Paperback
Dark Literature
Books that will have you reliving the childhood nights you stayed up with a flashlight under the covers
A riveting tale of a food critic whose appetite extends into the gruesome.
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers, Paperback
Born with the gift of an incredible sense of smell, Grenouille grows amongst the intoxicating scents of Paris, cataloguing all the wonderful scents he comes across. As he follows his nose around the city, a particular scent becomes his obsession and ...
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Dark and visceral, intense and poetic, beautifully haunting; This is must-read on how the power of one womans independent act to stop eating meat can disrupt the lives of an entire family.
The Vegetarian
Filled with dark humor and unexpected thrills, a woman faces the ghost of a vindictive mother-in-law, and a husband still grappling with the loss.
Motherthing
Highlighting all the insanities and hypocrisies of the modern world, from love to death, this is a memorable and unique story built around an unforgettable protagonist whose worldview sparks the conflict of the narrative.
Earthlings
In this haunting existential novella, exploring a subversive vision of eternity, taking the reader on a journey through the afterlife of a world where everything everyone believed in turns out to be wrong.
A Short Stay in Hell
In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obsessing over her perfect husband—but can their marriage survive her passionate love?
My Husband: A Novel
Classics
A doorway into the deepest questions of being human, and moments of beauty that have echoed across centuries
Emotionally powerful, intensely atmospheric, and touchingly profound, Madonna in a Fur Coat is an unforgettable novel about new beginnings, the relentless pull of family ties, and the unfathomable nature of the human soul.
Madonna in a Fur Coat: A Novel|Paperback
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s final novel, chronicles the bitter love-hate struggle between a larger-than-life father and his three very different sons
The Brothers Karamazov (Penguin Classics)|Paperback
One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendiá family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad and alive with unforgettable men and women—brimming with ...
One Hundred Years of Solitude|Paperback
Throughout this volume, Bloom includes extensive introductions to each poet and to many of the individual poems. More than any other anthology, this book provides readers who desire the pleasures of sublime art with nearly everything they need in a s...
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer through Robert Frost|Paperback
Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray makes a Faustian bargain to sell his soul in exchange for eternal youth and beauty. The Picture of Dorian Gray offers a disturbing portrait of an individual coming face to face with the reality of...
The Picture of Dorian Gray
As an experimental surgery to increase intelligence takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment appears to be a scientific breakthrough, until the tested lab mou...
Flowers For Algernon
On Beauty and Aesthetics
Rather than attempting to to exactly define beauty, Scruton leads through how beauty relates to us, and what the significance of that relationship is
Beauty: A Very Short Introduction|Paperback
With its direct appeal to the senses, beauty stops us, transfixes us, fills us with a "surfeit of aliveness." In so doing, it takes the individual away from the center of his or her self-preoccupation and thus prompts a distribution of attention outw...
On Beauty and Being Just|Paperback
On the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.
Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers|Paperback
An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descriptions of laquerware under candlelight and women i...
In Praise of Shadows
For the Creatives
What is art? Many of us think of the arts as entertainment—a luxury of some kind. In Your Brain on Art, authors Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross show how activities from painting and dancing to expressive writing, architecture, and more are essential to o...
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us|Paperback
“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled”
Ways of Seeing|Paperback
The book is a visually rich, thoughtfully organized reference that offers timeless and unique color palettes drawn from traditional Japanese design principles.
A Dictionary Of Color Combinations by Various, Paperback
Being an artist isn’t easy, but it gets a lot easier with Cameron’s coaching in The Artist’s Way. Digging into every stage of the creative process, from inspiration to recovery, you’ll find wisdom, insights, activities, activities, and more activitie...
The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition|Paperback
Esoteric Girls
The book was an unprecedented sensation — the discovery of a genius. Narrative epiphanies and interior monologue frame the life of Joana, from her middle-class childhood through her unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence, when she proc...
Near to the Wild Heart|Paperback
A mystical dialogue between a male author and his creation, this posthumous work has never before been translated, and is a book of particular beauty and strangeness.
A Breath of Life|Paperback
A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poetry.
Água Viva|Paperback
Clarice Lispector’s mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid’s room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door—crushing the cockroach—and then watches it die. At the e...
The Passion According to G. H.|Paperback
In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories, many from her own traditions, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this...
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype|Paperback
Fiction
James Baldwin’s classic novel delves into the mysteries of love and tells a deeply moving story that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.
Giovanni's Room
The devil comes to Ohio and murmurs follow him and tensions rise, along with the temperature as an unbearable heat wave rolls into town. As strange accidents start to occur, riled by the feverish heat, fanaticism drives the town to the brink of a cat...
The Summer That Melted Everything: A Novel