Books still on my list
Discover the must-read books still on my list! Explore my curated collection of titles I can't wait to dive into—your next great read might be here.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
by James M. Cain
The bestselling sensation—and one of the most outstanding crime novels of the 20th century—that was banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and …
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
by Thornton Wilder
This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by …
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
The elegantly styled classic story of a young, unorthodox teacher and her special--and ultimately dangerous--relationship with six of her students.
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The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West
West fictionalizes the working class of Tinseltown, in this novel that studies several men working at the peripheral edge of the movie industry and their …
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Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler
An aging Bolshevik falls victim to the revolutionary dictatorship he has helped create.
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Go tell it on the mountain : [a novel]
by James Baldwin
This novel of Black life in America is written with an impartial attitude
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The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
FEATURING THE CHARACTER THAT INSPIRED THE AMC SERIES MONSIEUR SPADE STARRING CLIVE OWEN ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL …
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To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
The novel that established Virginia Woolf as a leading writer of the twentieth century, To the Lighthouse is made up of three powerfully charged visions …
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Ironweed
by William Kennedy
“[W]ith Ironweed, William Kennedy is making American literature.”—The Washington Post Book World Francis Phelan has hit bottom. More than twenty years ago, the ex-ballplayer, part-time …
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Ragtime
by E. L. Doctorow
Doctorow's big bestseller, made into a major movie and now repackaged, was first published in mass market paper by Bantam.
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Appointment in Samarra
by John O'Hara
A 20th century classic, "Appointment in Samarra" is the masterpiece by the writer Fran Leibowitz called "the real F. Scott Fitzgerald." With trademark verisimilitude, O'Hara …
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A High Wind in Jamaica
by Richard Hughes
Richard Hughes's celebrated short novel is a masterpiece of concentrated narrative. Its dreamlike action begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of …
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A Bend in the River
by V. S. Naipaul
Widely hailed as the Nobel Prize-winning author’s greatest work, this novel takes us into the life of a young Indian man who moves to an …
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As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
A true 20th-century classic from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Sound and the Fury: the famed harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across …
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather
From one of the most highly acclaimed novelists of the twentieth century: a truly remarkable book" (The New York Times), an epic story of a …
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The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Newland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of …
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Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
A darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue from one of the leading writers of the twentieth century, the acclaimed …
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