A Hodgepode of my Favorites from Last Year

Explore a delightful hodgepodge of last year's favorite books in this curated collection. Discover top reads and hidden gems that captivated my imagination!

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The Essential Tales of Chekhov

by Anton Chekhov

Of the two hundred stories that Anton Chekhov wrote, the twenty stories that appear in this extraordinary collection were personally chosen by Richard Ford--an accomplished …
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Welcome to the Monkey House

by Kurt Vonnegut

“[Kurt Vonnegut] strips the flesh from bone and makes you laugh while he does it. . . . There are twenty-five stories here, and each …
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Nine Stories

by J.D. Salinger

The "original, first-rate, serious, and beautiful" short fiction (New York Times Book Review) that introduced J. D. Salinger to American readers in the years after …
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Equus

by Peter Shaffer

Story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological fascination with horses
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Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dream Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized …
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Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Hailed by Washington Post Book World as “the best [translation] currently available" when it was first published, this second edition of Crime and Punishment has …
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The Trial

by Franz Kafka

From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis: Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year …
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Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

Huxley's story shows a futuristic World State where all emotion, love, art, and human individuality have been replaced by social stability. An ominous warning to …
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Player Piano

by Kurt Vonnegut

“A funny, savage appraisal of a totally automated American society of the future.”—San Francisco Chronicle Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer …
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Watership Down

by Richard Adams

One of the most beloved novels of our time, Richard Adams's Watership Down takes us to a world we have never truly seen: to the …
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The Wings of a Falcon

 

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The Only Alien on the Planet

by Kristen D. Randle

After moving to the East Coast, Ginny enters her senior year of high school and uncovers the secret behind a new friend's refusal to speak.
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

by Samuel P. Huntington

Based on the author's seminal article in Foreign Affairs, Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order is a provocative …
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