Margaux's bookshelf: all en-US Sat, 12 Apr 2025 14:57:37 -0700 60 Margaux's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg The Writing of Fiction 61242865
The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton contains brilliant advice on writing from the first woman ever to win a Pulitzer Prize -- for her novel The Age of Innocence. In The Writing of Fiction, Wharton provides general comments on the roots of modern fiction, the various approaches to writing a piece of fiction, and the development of form and style. She also devotes entire chapters to the telling of a short story, the construction of a novel, and the importance of character and situation in the novel. Not only a valuable treatise on the art of writing, The Writing of Fiction also allows readers to experience the inimitable but seldom heard voice of one of America's most important and beloved writers, and includes a final chapter on the pros and cons of Marcel Proust.]]> 128 Edith Wharton 0684845318 Margaux 3 essays, nonfiction 3.58 1925 The Writing of Fiction
author: Edith Wharton
name: Margaux
average rating: 3.58
book published: 1925
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/12
date added: 2025/04/12
shelves: essays, nonfiction
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]]> <![CDATA[Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West]]> 53328405 'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you...'

At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat - and sapphist - Vita Sackville-West. Virginia wrote in her diary that she didn't think much of Vita's conversation, but she did think very highly of her legs. It was to be the start of almost twenty years of flirtation, friendship, and literary collaboration. Their correspondence ended only with Virginia's tragic death in 1941.

Intimate and playful, these selected letters and diary entries allow us to hear these women's constantly changing feelings for each other in their own words. Eavesdrop on the affair that inspired Virginia to write her most fantastical novel, Orlando, and glimpse into their extraordinary lives: from Vita's travels across the globe, to Virginia's parties with the Bloomsbury set; from their shared love of dogs and nature, to their grief at the beginning of the Second World War. Discover a relationship that - even a hundred years later - feels radical and relatable.

WITH AN ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION FROM ALISON BECHDEL, AUTHOR OF FUN HOME AND CREATOR OF THE BECHDEL TEST.]]> 280 Virginia Woolf 1784876720 Margaux 0 4.53 1926 Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
author: Virginia Woolf
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.53
book published: 1926
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/04/12
shelves: nonfiction, physical-tbr, currently-reading
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]]> Recursion 42046112 Memory makes reality.

That's what NYC cop Barry Sutton is learning, as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome—a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived.

That's what neuroscientist Helena Smith believes. It's why she's dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious memories. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first kiss, the birth of a child, the final moment with a dying parent.

As Barry searches for the truth, he comes face to face with an opponent more terrifying than any disease—a force that attacks not just our minds, but the very fabric of the past. And as its effects begin to unmake the world as we know it, only he and Helena, working together, will stand a chance at defeating it.

But how can they make a stand when reality itself is shifting and crumbling all around them?

At once a relentless pageturner and an intricate science-fiction puzzlebox about time, identity, and memory, Recursion is a thriller as only Blake Crouch could imagine it—and his most ambitious, mind-boggling, irresistible work to date.]]> 326 Blake Crouch 1524759783 Margaux 4 science-fiction, thriller 4.15 2019 Recursion
author: Blake Crouch
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2025/04/12
date added: 2025/04/12
shelves: science-fiction, thriller
review:

]]> Why I Write 136057
Contents:
"Why I Write", first published 1946
"The Lion and the Unicorn", first published 1940
"A Hanging", first published 1931
"Politics and the English Language", first published 1946]]> 120 George Orwell 014101900X Margaux 2 essays, politics 4.02 1946 Why I Write
author: George Orwell
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1946
rating: 2
read at: 2025/04/10
date added: 2025/04/10
shelves: essays, politics
review:
I expected more about the craft and less about politics.
]]> Messenger (Giver Quartet, 3) 37570449 187 Lois Lowry 1328466205 Margaux 2 3.96 2004 Messenger (Giver Quartet, 3)
author: Lois Lowry
name: Margaux
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2004
rating: 2
read at: 2025/04/10
date added: 2025/04/10
shelves: fantasy, middle-grade, dystopia
review:

]]> The Castle 58836704 'He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him' Vladimir Nabokov

The story of K. and his arrival in a village where he is never accepted, and his relentless, unavailing struggle with authority in order to gain entrance to the castle that seems to rule it. K.'s isolation and perplexity, his begging for the approval of elusive and anonymous powers, epitomises Kafka's vision of twentieth-century alienation and anxiety.]]> 304 Franz Kafka 074939952X Margaux 3 classics, literary-fiction 3.47 1926 The Castle
author: Franz Kafka
name: Margaux
average rating: 3.47
book published: 1926
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/09
date added: 2025/04/09
shelves: classics, literary-fiction
review:

]]> Le avventure di Pinocchio 54173861
Dopo Il giardino segreto, Alice e Il Libro della Giungla, ecco il quarto volume della collana MinaLima Classics: troverete una marionetta di Pinocchio con il naso che si allunga, il teatro dei burattini, la casa della fata Turchina e tanto altro ancora! MinaLima Design è stato fondato da Miraphora Mina e Eduardo Lima, noti per la loro decennale partecipazione ai film della saga di Harry Potter, di cui hanno plasmato l'identità grafica. Dal loro stile londinese hanno continuato a raccontare storie attraverso progetti grafici dedicati all’editoria o a film come Sweeney Todd, The Imitation Game e Animali fantastici. Da poco, i due hanno ideato questa collana di grande pregio, volta a rivisitare i classici della letteratura per ragazzi con l'inserzione di elementi interattivi strabilianti.]]> 288 Carlo Collodi 886722493X Margaux 3 childrens, classics 4.10 1883 Le avventure di Pinocchio
author: Carlo Collodi
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1883
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/07
date added: 2025/04/07
shelves: childrens, classics
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]]> Gathering Blue 23009902
Orphaned and physically flawed in a civilization that shuns and discards the weak, Kira faces a frightening uncertain future.

When she is summoned by the Council if Guardians, Kira prepares to fight for her life, but the Council has unexpected plans for her. Now Kira faces new responsibilities. On her quest for truth, she discovers things that will change her life forever.]]> 241 Lois Lowry 0007597266 Margaux 2 dystopia, middle-grade 3.61 2000 Gathering Blue
author: Lois Lowry
name: Margaux
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2000
rating: 2
read at: 2025/04/05
date added: 2025/04/05
shelves: dystopia, middle-grade
review:

]]> The Giver (The Giver, #1) 18812101
Everyone is the same.

Except Jonas.

At the Ceremony of Twelve, the community's twelve-year-olds eagerly accept their predetermined Life Assignments. But Jonas is chosen for something special. He begins instruction in his life's work with a mysterious old man known only as The Giver. Gradually, Jonas learns that power lies in feelings. But when his own power is put to the test -- when he must try to save someone he loves -- he may not be ready. Is it too soon? Or too late?]]> 225 Lois Lowry 0544336267 Margaux 3 dystopia, middle-grade 4.17 1993 The Giver (The Giver, #1)
author: Lois Lowry
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1993
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/04
date added: 2025/04/04
shelves: dystopia, middle-grade
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Atlas Paradox (Atlas Series, 2)]]> 154985845
Six magicians were presented with the opportunity of a lifetime.
Five are now members of the Society.
Two paths lay before them.

All must pick a side.

Alliances will be tested, hearts will be broken, and The Society of Alexandrians will be revealed for what it a secret society with raw, world-changing power, headed by a man whose plans to change life as we know it are already under way.

" The Atlas Six introduced six of the most devious, talented, and flawed characters to ever find themselves in a magical library, and then sets them against one another in a series of stunning betrayals and reversals. As much a delicious contest of wit, will, and passion as it is of magic...half mystery, half puzzle, and wholly a delight."―Holly Black, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Night

Also by Olivie Blake
Alone With You in the Ether
One For My Enemy
Masters of Death]]> 432 Olivie Blake 1250855101 Margaux 1 fantasy 3.48 2022 Atlas Paradox (Atlas Series, 2)
author: Olivie Blake
name: Margaux
average rating: 3.48
book published: 2022
rating: 1
read at: 2025/04/03
date added: 2025/04/03
shelves: fantasy
review:

]]> Last Letter to a Reader 59096039 144 Gerald Murnane 1913505421 Margaux 0 to-read 4.07 2021 Last Letter to a Reader
author: Gerald Murnane
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/31
shelves: to-read
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]]> Emma 7181805 474 Jane Austen 014119247X Margaux 3 4.15 1815 Emma
author: Jane Austen
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1815
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/31
date added: 2025/03/31
shelves: classics, literary-fiction, romance
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night: Poems]]> 57998991 120 Morgan Parker Margaux 2 poetry 3.67 2015 Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night: Poems
author: Morgan Parker
name: Margaux
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2015
rating: 2
read at: 2025/03/29
date added: 2025/03/29
shelves: poetry
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Principle of Rapid Peering]]> 220391035 96 Sylvia Legris 1472158865 Margaux 2 poetry 2.00 The Principle of Rapid Peering
author: Sylvia Legris
name: Margaux
average rating: 2.00
book published:
rating: 2
read at: 2025/03/27
date added: 2025/03/27
shelves: poetry
review:
That was a very specific book. Unfortunately, I enjoyed the titles of the poems more than their content. They are, anyway, “titled directly or as paraphrases after passages in� other authors� works. Overall, I only found the last two poems interesting. Too bad, the cover art was beautiful, and it misled me.
]]> Katabasis 226933409 Two graduate students must set aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul, perhaps at the cost of their own.

Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality—her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world—that is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault.

Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands, and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams. Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the same conclusion.]]> 560 R.F. Kuang Margaux 0 to-read 4.05 2025 Katabasis
author: R.F. Kuang
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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just read the first chapter at the end of my copy of “Yellowface� and i can’t wait to eat this book up.
]]> Inferno 8563674
Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of seven deadly sins. As he descends through nine concentric circles of increasingly agonising torture, Dante encounters doomed souls including the pagan Aeneas, the liar Odysseus, the suicide Cleopatra, and his own political enemies, damned for their deceit. Led by leering demons, the poet must ultimately journey with Virgil to the deepest level of all. For it is only by encountering Satan, in the heart of Hell, that he can truly understand the tragedy of sin.]]> 462 Dante Alighieri 0141195878 Margaux 0 to-read, classics, poetry 3.93 1320 Inferno
author: Dante Alighieri
name: Margaux
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1320
rating: 0
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]]> Bleak House 11840642 Bleak House is one of Dickens's most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums.]]> 1037 Charles Dickens 0141198354 Margaux 0 to-read, classics 4.06 1853 Bleak House
author: Charles Dickens
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1853
rating: 0
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shelves: to-read, classics
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]]> Sylvia, Shakespeare & Co 219401711 Elle a changé l’histoire de la littérature européenne du XXe siècle.

Cette femme, c’est Sylvia Beach, une Américaine, amoureuse des livres et de Shakespeare depuis son plus jeune âge. Installée à Paris à l’aube des années 1920, elle rencontre la libraire Adrienne Monnier, qui devient sa compagne et l’introduit dans le monde intellectuel de l’entre-deux-guerres.

Adrienne tient une librairie rue de l’Odéon. Sylvia ouvre la sienne juste en face. Derrière la porte de Shakespeare and Company, on croise Hemingway, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, mais aussi André Gide, Paul Valéry ou Louis Aragon, en quête des chefs-d’oeuvre de la littérature anglo-saxonne. C’est aussi là qu’en 1922, dans ce refuge des écrivains d’avant-garde, est publiée l’édition originale du sulfureux Ulysse de James Joyce, contre les vents et les marées de la censure.

De son enfance américaine aux heures sombres de l’Occupation, défile l’odyssée douce et délicate d’une femme d’exception, dont l’engagement a ouvert de nouveaux horizons à toute une génération d’écrivains et de lecteurs.]]> 176 Emilia Cinzia Perri 2311151681 Margaux 5 4.25 Sylvia, Shakespeare & Co
author: Emilia Cinzia Perri
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.25
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/26
date added: 2025/03/26
shelves: biography, graphic-novels, nonfiction
review:

]]> The Accident: An Account 49798977 84 Anne de Marcken 1949966712 Margaux 4 poetry 3.79 The Accident: An Account
author: Anne de Marcken
name: Margaux
average rating: 3.79
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/02
date added: 2025/03/25
shelves: poetry
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]]> <![CDATA[Quand je ne dis rien je pense encore]]> 58258175 Quand je ne dis rien je pense encore explore en poésie ces moments où la conversation s'interrompt et où les choses à dire restent en nous, parce qu’elles nous apparaissent trop incertaines ou trop particulières pour être partagées. Ces instants où ce qu’on pense se sépare de ce qu’on dit, où parfois notre visage dit des choses que nous préférerions garder pour nous, où il nous arrive de parler en retard. Entre ce qui se manifeste en nous-mêmes, ce que nous montrons et ce qui est perçu se créent des écarts, que nous tendons toujours plus à taire qu’� expliciter. Chacune, chacun, se retrouvera dans la fragilité de ces instants si rarement nommés.]]> 105 Camille Readman Prud'homme 2924652359 Margaux 4 poetry 4.44 Quand je ne dis rien je pense encore
author: Camille Readman Prud'homme
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.44
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/25
date added: 2025/03/25
shelves: poetry
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]]> <![CDATA[It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over]]> 209622883 It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, she notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. And even if she has forgotten her name and much of what connects her to her humanity, she remembers with an implacable and nearly unbearable longing the place where she knew herself and was known—where she loved and was loved. Traveling across the landscapes of time and of space, heading always west, and carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest, our undead narrator encounters and loses parts of her body and her self in one terrifying, hilarious, and heartbreaking situation after another. A tale for our dispossessed times, and one of the sharpest and funniest novels of recent years, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over plumbs mortality and how it changes everything, except possibly love.]]> 132 Anne de Marcken 1804270741 Margaux 5 3.83 2024 It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
author: Anne de Marcken
name: Margaux
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2024
rating: 5
read at: 2024/12/27
date added: 2025/03/24
shelves: literary-fiction, horror, favorites
review:

]]> Autobiography of Red 183932746 Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.

Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile, tormented soul in an autobiography he begins at the age of five. As he grows older, Geryon escapes his abusive brother and affectionate but ineffectual mother, finding solace behind the lens of his camera and in the arms of a young man named Herakles, a cavalier drifter who leaves him at the peak of infatuation. When Herakles reappears years later, Geryon confronts again the pain of his desire and embarks on a journey that will unleash his creative imagination to its fullest extent. By turns whimsical and haunting, erudite and accessible, richly layered and deceptively simple, Autobiography of Red is a profoundly moving portrait of an artist coming to terms with the fantastic accident of who he is.

"A profound love story . . . sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and tender." -- The New York Times Book Review

"A deeply odd and immensely engaging book. . . . [Carson] exposes with passionate force the mythic underlying the explosive everyday." -- The Village Voice

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

National book Critics Circle Award Finalist]]> 160 Anne Carson 1784879029 Margaux 5 3.99 1998 Autobiography of Red
author: Anne Carson
name: Margaux
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1998
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/24
date added: 2025/03/24
shelves: mythology, poetry, favorites, literary-fiction
review:

]]> Later 54798187
Later is Stephen King at his finest, a terrifying and touching story of innocence lost and the trials that test our sense of right and wrong. With echoes of King's classic novel IT, Later is a powerful, haunting, unforgettable exploration of what it takes to stand up to evil in all the faces it wears.]]> 264 Stephen King 1789096499 Margaux 4 mystery, thriller 3.98 2021 Later
author: Stephen King
name: Margaux
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/22
date added: 2025/03/22
shelves: mystery, thriller
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore]]> 123170231 264 Italo Calvino 880477214X Margaux 3 classics, literary-fiction 4.08 1979 Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore
author: Italo Calvino
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1979
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/20
date added: 2025/03/20
shelves: classics, literary-fiction
review:

]]> Persuasion 11758566
This edition is part of the Penguin Classics Clothbound series designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.]]> 250 Jane Austen 0141197692 Margaux 2 classics, literary-fiction 4.24 1817 Persuasion
author: Jane Austen
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1817
rating: 2
read at: 2025/03/17
date added: 2025/03/17
shelves: classics, literary-fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Hamlet (Macmillan Collector's Library)]]> 26883506 Hamlet's combination of violence and introspection is unusual among Shakespeare's tragedies. It is also full of curious riddles and fascinating paradoxes, making it one of his most widely discussed plays.

Illustrated throughout by Sir John Gilbert (1817-1897), famous for his depictions of historical scenes. As well as Shakespeare, he illustrated works of Sir Walter Scott, Cervantes, Wilkie Collins and Wordsworth.

With an Introduction by Dr Robert Mighall.

Designed to appeal to the book lover, Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound hardback gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.]]> 159 William Shakespeare 1909621862 Margaux 3 classics, drama, plays 4.16 1601 Hamlet (Macmillan Collector's Library)
author: William Shakespeare
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1601
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/15
date added: 2025/03/15
shelves: classics, drama, plays
review:

]]> Billy Summers 56852407
How about everything...]]> 517 Stephen King 1982173610 Margaux 5 crime, thriller 4.11 2021 Billy Summers
author: Stephen King
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/15
date added: 2025/03/15
shelves: crime, thriller
review:

]]> Circe 35959740
Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts, and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus.

But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from or with the mortals she has come to love.]]> 393 Madeline Miller 0316556343 Margaux 3 fantasy, mythology 4.22 2018 Circe
author: Madeline Miller
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2018
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/13
date added: 2025/03/13
shelves: fantasy, mythology
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass]]> 54019416
�Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass" is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many. Some of which came to me in their entirety, which I dictated and then typed out, and some that I worked laboriously picking apart each word to make the perfect poem. They are eclectic and honest and not trying to be anything other than what they are and for that reason I’m proud of them, especially because the spirit in which they were written was very authentic.� —Lana Del Rey

Lana’s breathtaking first book solidifies her further as “the essential writer of her times� (The Atlantic). This beautiful hardcover edition showcases Lana’s typewritten manuscript pages alongside her original photography. The result is an extraordinary poetic landscape that reflects the unguarded spirit of its creator.]]> 128 Lana Del Rey 1982167289 Margaux 0 to-read 3.85 2020 Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
author: Lana Del Rey
name: Margaux
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/10
shelves: to-read
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]]> The Scarlet Letter 15990681 'Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, - stern and wild ones, - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss'

Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals Nathaniel Hawthorne's concerns with the tension between the public and the private selves. Publicly disgraced and ostracized, Hester Prynne draws on her inner strength and certainty of spirit to emerge as the first true heroine of American fiction. Arthur Dimmesdale stands as a classic study of a self divided; trapped by the rules of society, he suppresses his passion and disavows his lover, Hester, and their daughter, Pearl.]]> 270 Nathaniel Hawthorne 0141199458 Margaux 1 classics, literary-fiction 3.10 1850 The Scarlet Letter
author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
name: Margaux
average rating: 3.10
book published: 1850
rating: 1
read at: 2025/03/10
date added: 2025/03/10
shelves: classics, literary-fiction
review:

]]> Imogen, Obviously 61896624 New York Times bestseller Becky Albertalli explores the nuances of sexuality, identity, and friendship.

Imogen Scott may be hopelessly heterosexual, but she’s got the World’s Greatest Ally title locked down.

She's never missed a Pride Alliance meeting. She knows more about queer media discourse than her very queer little sister. She even has two queer best friends. There's Gretchen, a fellow high school senior, who helps keep Imogen's biases in check. And then there's Lili—newly out and newly thriving with a cool new squad of queer college friends.

Imogen's thrilled for Lili. Any ally would be. And now that she's finally visiting Lili on campus, she's bringing her ally A game. Any support Lili needs, Imogen's all in.

Even if that means bending the truth, just a little.

Like when Lili drops a tiny queer bombshell: she's told all her college friends that Imogen and Lili used to date. And none of them know that Imogen is a raging hetero—not even Lili’s best friend, Tessa.

Of course, the more time Imogen spends with chaotic, freckle-faced Tessa, the more she starts to wonder if her truth was ever all that straight to begin with. . .]]> 432 Becky Albertalli 0063045877 Margaux 2 4.20 2023 Imogen, Obviously
author: Becky Albertalli
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2023
rating: 2
read at: 2025/03/07
date added: 2025/03/07
shelves: contemporary, romance, young-adult
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)]]> 23157059
For Mary Morstan has received several large pearls - one a year for the last six years - and now a mystery letter telling her she is a wronged woman. If she would seek justice she is to meet her unknown benefactor, bringing with her two companions.

But unbeknownst to them all, others stalk London's fog-enshrouded streets: a one-legged ruffian with revenge on his mind - and his companion, who places no value on human life . . .]]> 146 Arthur Conan Doyle 0141395486 Margaux 1 classics, mystery, crime 3.42 1890 The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
author: Arthur Conan Doyle
name: Margaux
average rating: 3.42
book published: 1890
rating: 1
read at: 2025/03/05
date added: 2025/03/05
shelves: classics, mystery, crime
review:

]]> The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 26027451
The Penguin Classics edition of Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall has been designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith and is edited with an introduction and notes by the novelist Stevie Davies.]]> 576 Anne Brontë 024119895X Margaux 4 4.20 1848 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
author: Anne Brontë
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1848
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/05
date added: 2025/03/05
shelves: classics, literary-fiction, romance, feminism
review:

]]> The Perfect Marriage 223688351 Would you defend your husband if he was accused of killing his mistress?

Sarah Morgan is a successful and powerful defense attorney in Washington D.C. At 33 years old, she is a named partner at her firm and life is going exactly how she planned.

The same cannot be said for her husband, Adam. He is a struggling writer who has had little success in his career. He begins to tire of his and Sarah’s relationship as she is constantly working.

Out in the secluded woods, at Adam and Sarah’s second home, Adam engages in a passionate affair with Kelly Summers.

Then, one morning everything changes. Adam is arrested for Kelly’s murder. She had been found stabbed to death in Adam and Sarah’s second home.

Sarah soon finds herself playing the defender for her own husband, a man accused of murdering his mistress.

But is Adam guilty or is he innocent?]]> 352 Jeneva Rose Margaux 3 crime, mystery, thriller 4.00 2020 The Perfect Marriage
author: Jeneva Rose
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/02
date added: 2025/03/02
shelves: crime, mystery, thriller
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]]> The Queen of Spades 60758181 Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.

Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.

A countess with a card trick; love letters filled with deception; a desperate man with a pistol. The Queen of Spades, one of Pushkin's most popular and chilling stories, is accompanied here by the thrilling Dubrovsky and unforgettable Tales of Belkin.]]> 259 Alexander Pushkin 0241573769 Margaux 0 3.90 1834 The Queen of Spades
author: Alexander Pushkin
name: Margaux
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1834
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Great Expectations (Penguin Clothbound Classics)]]> 6296632
Pip doesn't expect much from life...His sister makes it clear that her orphaned little brother is nothing but a burden on her. But suddenly things begin to change. Pip's narrow existence is blown apart when he finds an escaped criminal, is summoned to visit a mysterious old woman and meets the icy beauty Estella. Most astoundingly of all, an anonymous person gives him money to begin a new life in London.
Are these events as random as they seem? Or does Pip's fate hang on a series of coincidences he could never have expected?]]> 514 Charles Dickens 014104036X Margaux 3 classics, literary-fiction 3.96 1861 Great Expectations (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
author: Charles Dickens
name: Margaux
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1861
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/28
date added: 2025/02/28
shelves: classics, literary-fiction
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]]> We Should All Be Feminists 23301805
What does “feminismâ€� mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a personal, eloquently-argued essay â€� adapted from her much-viewed Tedx talk of the same name â€� by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of â€Americanahâ€� and â€Half of a Yellow Sunâ€�. With humour and levity, here Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century â€� one rooted in inclusion and awareness. She shines a light not only on blatant discrimination, but also the more insidious, institutional behaviours that marginalise women around the world, in order to help readers of all walks of life better understand the often masked realities of sexual politics. Throughout, she draws extensively on her own experiences â€� in the U.S., in her native Nigeria â€� offering an artfully nuanced explanation of why the gender divide is harmful for women and men, alike. Argued in the same observant, witty and clever prose that has made Adichie a best-selling novelist, here is one remarkable author’s exploration of what it means to be a woman today â€� and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.]]> 52 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 0008115273 Margaux 0 to-read, physical-tbr 4.37 2012 We Should All Be Feminists
author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/02/17
shelves: to-read, physical-tbr
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]]> <![CDATA[One of Us Is Back (One of Us Is Lying, #3)]]> 57932307 The global phenomenon returns with the third book in the One of Us Is Lying series, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen M. McManus. When someone from the Bayview Four’s past resurfaces, history begins to repeat itself—and the consequences are deadly.

The third time’s a charm.

It’s been almost two years since Simon died in detention, and the aftermath has been hard to shake. First the Bayview Four had to prove they weren’t killers. Then a new generation outwitted a vengeful copycat. Now the entire Bayview Crew is back home for the summer, and everyone is trying to move on.

Only, this is Bayview, and life is never that simple.

At first the mysterious billboard seems like a bad Time for a new game, Bayview. But when a member of the Bayview Crew disappears, it’s clear this “game� is serious—and whoever’s in charge isn’t sharing the rules. Or maybe there aren’t any.

Bronwyn. Cooper. Addy. Nate. Maeve. Phoebe. Knox. Luis. Kris. Everyone’s a target. And now that someone unexpected has returned to Bayview, things could start getting deadly.

The thing is, Simon was right about secrets—they all come out eventually. And Bayview has a lot it’s still hiding.]]> 368 Karen M. McManus 0593485033 Margaux 3 mystery, young-adult 3.96 2023 One of Us Is Back (One of Us Is Lying, #3)
author: Karen M. McManus
name: Margaux
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2023
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/06
date added: 2025/02/06
shelves: mystery, young-adult
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]]> <![CDATA[One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)]]> 44654627 Come on, Bayview, you know you've missed this.

A ton of copycat gossip apps have popped up since Simon died, but in the year since the Bayview four were cleared of his shocking death, no one's been able to fill the gossip void quite like he could. The problem is no one has the facts.

Until now.

This time it's not an app, though—it's a game.

Truth or Dare.

Phoebe's the first target. If you choose not to play, it's a truth. And hers is dark.

Then comes Maeve and she should know better—always choose the dare.

But by the time Knox is about to be tagged, things have gotten dangerous. The dares have become deadly, and if Maeve learned anything from Bronwyn last year, it's that they can't count on the police for help. Or protection.

Simon's gone, but someone's determined to keep his legacy at Bayview High alive. And this time, there's a whole new set of rules.

The highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling thriller everyone is talking about, One of Us Is Lying! There's a new mystery to solve at Bayview High, and there's a whole new set of rules.]]> 377 Karen M. McManus 0525707964 Margaux 3 mystery, young-adult 3.90 2020 One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)
author: Karen M. McManus
name: Margaux
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/04
date added: 2025/02/04
shelves: mystery, young-adult
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]]> <![CDATA[One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1)]]> 32682118
Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule.
Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess.
Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing.
Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher.
And Simon, the outcast, is the creator of Bayview High's notorious gossip app.

Only, Simon never makes it out of that classroom. Before the end of detention, Simon's dead. And according to investigators, his death wasn't an accident. On Monday, he died. But on Tuesday, he'd planned to post juicy reveals about all four of his high-profile classmates, which makes all four of them suspects in his murder. Or are they the perfect patsies for a killer who's still on the loose?

Everyone has secrets, right? What really matters is how far you would go to protect them.

One of Us Is Lying is the story of what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive. Everyone is a suspect, and everyone has something to hide.

An alternate cover edition for this book can be found here.]]> 361 Karen M. McManus Margaux 4 mystery, young-adult 3.95 2017 One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1)
author: Karen M. McManus
name: Margaux
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/29
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves: mystery, young-adult
review:

]]> The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1) 50520939
Enter the latest round of six: Libby Rhodes and Nico de Varona, unwilling halves of an unfathomable whole, who exert uncanny control over every element of physicality. Reina Mori, a naturalist, who can intuit the language of life itself. Parisa Kamali, a telepath who can traverse the depths of the subconscious, navigating worlds inside the human mind. Callum Nova, an empath easily mistaken for a manipulative illusionist, who can influence the intimate workings of a person’s inner self. Finally, there is Tristan Caine, who can see through illusions to a new structure of reality—an ability so rare that neither he nor his peers can fully grasp its implications.

When the candidates are recruited by the mysterious Atlas Blakely, they are told they will have one year to qualify for initiation, during which time they will be permitted preliminary access to the Society’s archives and judged based on their contributions to various subjects of impossibility: time and space, luck and thought, life and death. Five, they are told, will be initiated. One will be eliminated. The six potential initiates will fight to survive the next year of their lives, and if they can prove themselves to be the best among their rivals, most of them will.

Most of them.]]> 376 Olivie Blake Margaux 3 fantasy 3.56 2020 The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
author: Olivie Blake
name: Margaux
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2025/01/26
date added: 2025/01/26
shelves: fantasy
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]]> Dandelion Wine 836678 Ray Bradbury's moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author's most deeply personal work, a semi-autobiographical recollection of a magical small-town summer in 1928.

Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding knows Green Town, Illinois, is as vast and deep as the whole wide world that lies beyond the city limits. It is a pair of brand-new tennis shoes, the first harvest of dandelions for Grandfather's renowned intoxicant, the distant clang of the trolley's bell on a hazy afternoon. It is yesteryear and tomorrow blended into an unforgettable always. But as young Douglas is about to discover, summer can be more than the repetition of established rituals whose mystical power holds time at bay. It can be a best friend moving away, a human time machine who can transport you back to the Civil War, or a sideshow automaton able to glimpse the bittersweet future.

Come and savor Ray Bradbury's priceless distillation of all that is eternal about boyhood and summer.

]]> 0 Ray Bradbury 0553242199 Margaux 2 classics, literary-fiction 4.15 1957 Dandelion Wine
author: Ray Bradbury
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1957
rating: 2
read at: 2025/01/23
date added: 2025/01/23
shelves: classics, literary-fiction
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]]> <![CDATA[The Accomplice (Eddie Flynn, #7)]]> 60189904
The Sandman killings have been solved. Daniel Miller murdered fourteen people before he vanished. His wife, Carrie, now faces trial as his accomplice. The FBI, the District Attorney, the media and everyone in America believe she knew and helped cover up her husband's crimes.

THE LAWYER

Eddie Flynn won't take a case unless his client is innocent. Now, he has to prove to a jury, and the entire world, that Carrie Miller was just another victim of the Sandman. She didn't know her husband's dark side and she had no part in the murders. But so far, Eddie and his team are the only ones who believe her.

THE FORMER FBI AGENT

Gabriel Lake used to be a federal agent, before someone tried to kill him. Now, he's an investigator with a vendetta against the Sandman. He's the only one who can catch him, because he believes that everything the FBI knows about serial killers is wrong.

THE KILLER

With his wife on trial, the Sandman is forced to come out of hiding to save her from a life sentence. He will kill to protect her and everyone involved in the case is a target.

Even Eddie Flynn...]]> 352 Steve Cavanagh Margaux 4 mystery, thriller 4.47 2022 The Accomplice (Eddie Flynn, #7)
author: Steve Cavanagh
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/22
date added: 2025/01/22
shelves: mystery, thriller
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]]> The Handmaid's Tale 27430358 'It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge'

Offred is a Handmaid. She has only one function: to breed. If she refuses to play her part she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. She may walk daily to the market and utter demure words to other Handmaids, but her role is fixed, her freedom a forgotten concept.

Offred remembers her old life - love, family, a job, access to the news. It has all been taken away. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire.

Includes exclusive content: In The 'Backstory' you can read Margaret Atwood's account of how she came to write this landmark dystopian novel.]]> 479 Margaret Atwood 1784871443 Margaux 3 dystopia, literary-fiction 4.15 1985 The Handmaid's Tale
author: Margaret Atwood
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1985
rating: 3
read at: 2025/01/19
date added: 2025/01/19
shelves: dystopia, literary-fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar]]> 13152194 The Rumpus, now revealed as Cheryl Strayed, author of the bestselling memoir Wild - is the person thousands turn to for advice.
Tiny Beautiful Things brings the best of Dear Sugar in one place and includes never-before-published columns and a new introduction by Steve Almond.  Rich with humor, insight, compassion - and absolute honesty - this book is a balm for everything life throws our way.]]> 354 Cheryl Strayed Margaux 0 to-read 4.26 2012 Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
author: Cheryl Strayed
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Clothbound Classics)]]> 53246181 355 George Orwell 0241453518 Margaux 5 classics, dystopia, favorites 4.26 1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
author: George Orwell
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1949
rating: 5
read at: 2024/03/15
date added: 2025/01/06
shelves: classics, dystopia, favorites
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Make Believe: Poems for Hoping Again]]> 214986279 An exquisite poetry collection from the creator of The Daily Victorian that celebrates the hidden versions of ourselves, unveiling the healing power of nostalgia, imagination, and hope

They say you can’t make yourself believe in things, and they might be right. But you can take a walk with optimism. You can hear her out when she tells you the universe is conspiring in your favor. You can keep your eyes peeled for signs that she’s right.

Somewhere in the future, the next version of you is waiting. Are you ready to stop hiding and go seek them? Viral poet Victoria Hutchins’s first book, Make Believe, is a reclamation of childlike wonder and an invitation to stop hiding from your joy. These poems pave a path of reconnection to our bodies, our past, our wanting, and our wonder--ultimately asking, how do you find hope in a world full of pain?

Make Believe is for anyone who is embarrassed about how long they've been hiding from themselves, who is one bad day away from thinking the world is a terrible place, whose body feels like an enemy to their soul, or who is struggling to stick around. Hutchins challenges readers to reimagine struggles as superpowers and uses the power of confession and nostalgia to create a world of hope. Make Believe will inspire readers to go out looking, heart in hand, for joy, purpose, and healing.

With her trademark sensory and evocative language throughout, this book contains Hutchins's viral spoken-word pieces with tons of never-shared-before writing. Ultimately pointing readers towards transformation, Hutchins asks us to dig deep and discover, what would happen if you allowed yourself to believe again--in dreams and miracles, but mostly, in yourself?]]> 144 Victoria Hutchins 0593735714 Margaux 0 to-read, poetry 4.56 Make Believe: Poems for Hoping Again
author: Victoria Hutchins
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.56
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]]> The Woman in Me 63133205 The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope.

In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey—and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history.

Written with remarkable candor and humor, Spears’s groundbreaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and love—and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last.]]> 288 Britney Spears 1668009048 Margaux 4 memoir, nonfiction, biography 3.83 2023 The Woman in Me
author: Britney Spears
name: Margaux
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/05
date added: 2025/01/05
shelves: memoir, nonfiction, biography
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]]> The Midnight Library 52578297
When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change.

The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently. With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every one of her regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. But things aren't always what she imagined they'd be, and soon her choices place the library and herself in extreme danger.

Before time runs out, she must answer the ultimate question: what is the best way to live?]]> 288 Matt Haig 0525559477 Margaux 2 contemporary 3.96 2020 The Midnight Library
author: Matt Haig
name: Margaux
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2020
rating: 2
read at: 2023/12/18
date added: 2025/01/05
shelves: contemporary
review:
I liked the story, but I had an underlying feeling throughout that this book lacked editing (when the main character Nora called another character by her own name, this rating almost lost a star). The characters were quite shallow, which is unfortunate when the premise was really interesting, and there were a lot of cringe-worthy lines in there. I’m also not the biggest fan of self-help/motivational content, but it was still quite enjoyable overall.
]]> <![CDATA[The Devil's Advocate (Eddie Flynn, #6)]]> 60064757 A deadly prosecutor

They call him the King of Death Row. Randal Korn has sent more men to their deaths than any district attorney in the history of the United States.

A twisted ritualistic killing

When a young woman, Skylar Edwards, is found murdered in Buckstown, Alabama, a corrupt sheriff arrests the last person to see her alive, Andy Dubois. It doesn't seem to matter to anyone that Andy is innocent.

A small town boiling with rage

Everyone in Buckstown believes Andy is guilty. He has no hope of a fair trial. And the local defense attorney assigned to represent him has disappeared.

A former con-artist

Hot shot New York lawyer Eddie Flynn travels south to fight fire with fire. He plans to destroy the prosecutors case, find the real killer and save Andy from the electric chair.

But the murders are just beginning.

Is Eddie Flynn next?]]> 408 Steve Cavanagh 1409185907 Margaux 5 mystery, thriller 4.38 2021 The Devil's Advocate (Eddie Flynn, #6)
author: Steve Cavanagh
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at: 2025/01/04
date added: 2025/01/04
shelves: mystery, thriller
review:

]]> <![CDATA[A Year with Rilke: Daily Readings from the Best of Rainer Maria Rilke]]> 6341300 Letters to a Young Poet, and his reflections on the divine and our place in the world are disarmingly profound. A Year with Rilke provides the first ever reading from Rilke for every day of the year, including selections from his luminous poetry, his piercing prose, and his intimate letters and journals. Rilke is a trusted guide amid the bustle of our daily experience, reflecting on such themes as impermanence, the beauty of creation, the voice of God, and the importance of solitude. With new translations from the editors, whose acclaimed translation of Rilke's The Book of Hours won an ardent readership, this collection reveals the depth and breadth of Rilke's acclaimed work.]]> 384 Anita Barrows 006185400X Margaux 0 currently-reading 4.36 2009 A Year with Rilke: Daily Readings from the Best of Rainer Maria Rilke
author: Anita Barrows
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2009
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/01/01
shelves: currently-reading
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Regrettably, I am About to Cause Trouble]]> 63946988 370 Amie McNee 0645190535 Margaux 3 historical-fiction 3.90 2022 Regrettably, I am About to Cause Trouble
author: Amie McNee
name: Margaux
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/31
date added: 2024/12/31
shelves: historical-fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Secret Garden (Macmillan Collector's Library)]]> 29939281
Mary Lennox is sent from an India as an orphan to live at Misselthwaite Manor. She arrives as a sour-faced, sickly and ill-tempered little madam but becomes friends with local lad Dickon and her poorly cousin Colin. In their restoration of a secret garden all their lives are changed for the better.

With an Afterword by Anna South.]]> 288 Frances Hodgson Burnett 1509827765 Margaux 4 classics, literary-fiction 4.29 1911 The Secret Garden (Macmillan Collector's Library)
author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1911
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/29
date added: 2024/12/29
shelves: classics, literary-fiction
review:

]]> The Hobbit 26098210
Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an unexpected journey â€there and back againâ€�. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragonâ€�

The prelude to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit has sold many millions of copies since its publication in 1937, establishing itself as one of the most beloved and influential books of the twentieth century.]]> 305 J.R.R. Tolkien Margaux 5 classics, fantasy 4.30 1937 The Hobbit
author: J.R.R. Tolkien
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1937
rating: 5
read at: 2024/12/27
date added: 2024/12/27
shelves: classics, fantasy
review:

]]> Ethan Frome 5246
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena's vivacious cousin enters their household as a hired girl, Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent.

In one of American fiction's finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves this ill-starred trio toward their tragic destinies. Different in both tone and theme from Wharton's other works, Ethan Frome has become perhaps her most enduring and most widely read book.]]> 99 Edith Wharton Margaux 4 classics, literary-fiction 3.42 1911 Ethan Frome
author: Edith Wharton
name: Margaux
average rating: 3.42
book published: 1911
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/26
date added: 2024/12/26
shelves: classics, literary-fiction
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]]> The Machine Stops 9243302 "You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that."

E.M. Forster is best known for his exquisite novels, but these two affecting short stories brilliantly combine the fantastical with the allegorical. In 'The Machine Stops', humanity has isolated itself beneath the ground, enmeshed in automated comforts, and in 'The Celestial Omnibus' a young boy takes a trip his parents believe impossible.

This book contains The Machine Stops and A Celestial Omnibus.]]> 96 E.M. Forster 0141195983 Margaux 4 4.00 1909 The Machine Stops
author: E.M. Forster
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1909
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/25
date added: 2024/12/25
shelves: classics, dystopia, science-fiction, short-stories
review:

]]> A Christmas Carol 28260626 A Christmas Carol was first published in 1843 it was an overnight success, and set a precedent that was to be followed by other Christmas books, including The Chimes (1844) and The Cricket (1845). Each book was published at the same time of year, in the same format, and extolled similar values about the virtues of love, charity and the family unit. But none would achieve the cult status of A Christmas Carol, a book so popular it has become part of the landscape of the traditional Christmas, or produce a character as extraordinarily memorable. A celebration of Christmas, a tale of redemption and a critique on Victorian society, Dickensâ€� atmospheric novella follows the miserly, penny-pinching Ebenezer Scrooge who views Christmas as â€humbugâ€�. It is only through a series of eerie, life-changing visits from the ghost of his deceased business partner Marley and the spirits of Christmas past, present and future that he begins to see the error of his ways. With heart-rending characters, rich imagery and evocative language, the message of A Christmas Carol remains as significant today as when it was first published.

Original illustrations by John Leech, with an afterword by Anna South.

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.]]> 144 Charles Dickens 1509825444 Margaux 4 classics 2024 re-read: I still get emotional at the end, Scrooge you little scoundrel!]]> 4.27 1843 A Christmas Carol
author: Charles Dickens
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1843
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/25
date added: 2024/12/25
shelves: classics
review:
2023: that was such a sweet little tale to enjoy on Christmas day. I don't regret waiting for December 25th to read it and caught myself wearing a big smile when I finished it.
2024 re-read: I still get emotional at the end, Scrooge you little scoundrel!
]]> To the Lighthouse 38193010 To the Lighthouse, considered by many to be Virginia Woolf's finest novel, is a remarkably original work, showing the thoughts and actions of the members of a family and their guests on two separate occasions, ten years apart. The setting is Mr and Mrs Ramsay's house on a Scottish island, where they traditionally take their summer holidays, overlooking a bay with a lighthouse.

An experimental work that pushes the limits of what we know about the world and ourselves, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse is one of the most beautifully crafted of all novels written in the English language.

This Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by Sam Gilpin.

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.]]> 248 Virginia Woolf 1509844546 Margaux 3 classics, literary-fiction 4.00 1927 To the Lighthouse
author: Virginia Woolf
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1927
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/25
date added: 2024/12/25
shelves: classics, literary-fiction
review:

]]> Crossing the Water 295148 64 Sylvia Plath 0060907894 Margaux 2 poetry 4.12 1971 Crossing the Water
author: Sylvia Plath
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1971
rating: 2
read at: 2024/12/24
date added: 2024/12/24
shelves: poetry
review:

]]> To Bedlam and Part Way Back 197698 67 Anne Sexton 0395081793 Margaux 5 poetry 4.25 1960 To Bedlam and Part Way Back
author: Anne Sexton
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1960
rating: 5
read at: 2024/12/23
date added: 2024/12/23
shelves: poetry
review:

]]> The Broken Wings 291 132 Kahlil Gibran 0806501901 Margaux 4 classics, poetry, romance 4.11 1912 The Broken Wings
author: Kahlil Gibran
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1912
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/22
date added: 2024/12/22
shelves: classics, poetry, romance
review:

]]> As You Like It 29547840 224 William Shakespeare 014139627X Margaux 0 to-read 3.80 1599 As You Like It
author: William Shakespeare
name: Margaux
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1599
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/12/22
shelves: to-read
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]]> Much Ado About Nothing 40607254
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features illustrations by renowned artist Sir John Gilbert and a new introduction from Professor Tiffany Stern.

Whilst Beatrice and Benedick both despise love, exchanging insults and mockery rather than vows, for Hero and Claudio it is love at first sight. But as their marriage preparations begin, so too do Don John’s dirty tricks. Can his scheming get in the way of true love? And can an elaborate plan to bring fiery Beatrice and cynical Benedick closer together really come off? In Much Ado About Nothing, one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, nothing is quite what it seems.]]> 192 William Shakespeare 1509889779 Margaux 0 to-read 4.16 1598 Much Ado About Nothing
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]]> Hot wings and tenders 143376208 48 Marl BRUN 2493534123 Margaux 5 poetry 4.53 Hot wings and tenders
author: Marl BRUN
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.53
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]]> <![CDATA[The Last Tale of the Flower Bride]]> 61150759
Once upon a time, a man who believed in fairy tales married a beautiful, mysterious woman named Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada. He was a scholar of myths. She was heiress to a fortune. They exchanged gifts and stories and believed they would live happily ever after—and in exchange for her love, Indigo extracted a promise: that her bridegroom would never pry into her past.

But when Indigo learns that her estranged aunt is dying and the couple is forced to return to her childhood home, the House of Dreams, the bridegroom will soon find himself unable to resist. For within the crumbling manor’s extravagant rooms and musty halls, there lurks the shadow of another girl: Azure, Indigo’s dearest childhood friend who suddenly disappeared. As the house slowly reveals his wife’s secrets, the bridegroom will be forced to choose between reality and fantasy, even if doing so threatens to destroy their marriage . . . or their lives.

Combining the lush, haunting atmosphere of Mexican Gothic with the dreamy enchantment of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride is a spellbinding and darkly romantic page-turner about love and lies, secrets and betrayal, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive.]]> 289 Roshani Chokshi Margaux 3 gothic, fantasy, mystery 3.68 2023 The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
author: Roshani Chokshi
name: Margaux
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2023
rating: 3
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]]> The Wild Iris 76546 Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise GlĂĽck, a stunningly beautiful collection of poems that encompasses the natural, human, and spiritual realms

Bound together by the universal themes of time and mortality and with clarity and sureness of craft, Louise GlĂĽck's poetry questions, explores, and finally celebrates the ordeal of being alive.]]> 65 Louise GlĂĽck 0880013346 Margaux 3 poetry 4.22 1992 The Wild Iris
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name: Margaux
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1992
rating: 3
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]]> What the Living Do: Poems 206472 91 Marie Howe 0393318869 Margaux 3 poetry 4.32 1997 What the Living Do: Poems
author: Marie Howe
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1997
rating: 3
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a heartbreaking take on grief - very heavy, intense and overwhelming with sorrow. i was not a huge fan of the writing style, but the stories touched me. to the readers who may expect a queer book because of the tags: you're in the wrong place.
]]> <![CDATA[The Journals of AnaĂŻs Nin : Volume One (1931-34)]]> 43256026 This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 0-7043-3076-8 / 978-0-7043-3076-4.

This celebrated volume begins when Nin is about to publish her first book and ends when she leaves Paris for New York. Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Tuhlmann; Index.
]]> 377 AnaĂŻs Nin Margaux 0 to-read 4.67 The Journals of AnaĂŻs Nin : Volume One (1931-34)
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]]> The Undressing: Poems 35187158 96 Li-Young Lee 039306543X Margaux 2 poetry 3.75 2018 The Undressing: Poems
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name: Margaux
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2018
rating: 2
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]]> The Martian Chronicles 10480387
The Martian Chronicles tells the story of humanity’s repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. The first men were few. Most succumbed to a disease they called the Great Loneliness when they saw their home planet dwindle to the size of a fist. They felt they had never been born. Those few that survived found no welcome on Mars. The shape-changing Martians thought they were native lunatics and duly locked them up.

But more rockets arrived from Earth, and more, piercing the hallucinations projected by the Martians. People brought their old prejudices with them � and their desires and fantasies, tainted dreams. These were soon inhabited by the strange native beings, with their caged flowers and birds of flame.

Contents:
Rocket Summer
Ylla
The Summer Night
The Earth Men
The Taxpayer
The Third Expedition
-And the Moon Be Still As Bright
The Settlers
The Green Morning
The Locusts
Night Meeting
The Shore
Interim
The Musicians
Way in the Middle of the Air
The Naming of Names
Usher II
The Old Ones
The Martian
The Luggage Store
The Off Season
The Watchers
The Silent Towns
The Long Years
There Will Come Soft Rains
The Million Year Picnic]]> 268 Ray Bradbury 006207993X Margaux 4 4.18 1950 The Martian Chronicles
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average rating: 4.18
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rating: 4
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]]> The Passion According to G.H. 17573206 208 Clarice Lispector 0141197358 Margaux 0 to-read 3.95 1964 The Passion According to G.H.
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]]> The Listeners 56988057
January 1942. The Avallon Hotel & Spa has always offered elegant luxury in the wilds of West Virginia, its mountain sweetwater washing away all of high society’s troubles.

Local girl-turned-general manager June Porter Hudson has guided the Avallon skillfully through the first pangs of war. The Gilfoyles, the hotel’s aristocratic owners, have trained her well. But when the family heir makes a secret deal with the State Department to fill the hotel with captured Axis diplomats, June must persuade her staff—many of whom have sons and husbands heading to the front lines—to offer luxury to Nazis. With a smile.

Meanwhile FBI Agent Tucker Minnick, whose coal tattoo hints at an Appalachian past, presses his ears to the hotel’s walls, listening for the diplomats� secrets. He has one of his own, which is how he knows that June’s balancing act can have dangerous consequences: the sweetwater beneath the hotel can threaten as well as heal.

June has never met a guest she couldn’t delight, but the diplomats are different. Without firing a single shot, they have brought the war directly to her. As clashing loyalties crack the Avallon’s polished veneer, June must calculate the true cost of luxury.]]> 400 Maggie Stiefvater 0593655508 Margaux 0 to-read 4.04 2025 The Listeners
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]]> The Emperor of Gladness 219848315 Ocean Vuong returns with a big-hearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive

One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual reckoning, and heartbreak, with the power to alter Hai’s relationship to himself, his family, and a community at the brink.

Following the cycles of history, memory, and time, The Emperor of Gladness shows the profound ways in which love, labor, and loneliness form the bedrock of American life. At its heart is a brave epic about what it means to exist on the fringes of society and to reckon with the wounds that haunt our collective soul. Hallmarks of Vuong’s writing � formal innovation, syntactic dexterity, and the ability to twin grit with grace through tenderness � are on full display in this story of loss, hope, and how far we would go to possess one of life’s most fleeting mercies: a second chance.]]> 416 Ocean Vuong 059383187X Margaux 0 to-read 4.37 2025 The Emperor of Gladness
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]]> My Friends 217163697 #1ĚýNew York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a stranger’s life twenty-five years later.

Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it’s just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an artist herself, knows otherwise and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures.

Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their difficult home lives by spending their days laughing and telling stories out on a pier. There’s Joar, who never backs down from a fight; quiet and bookish Ted who is mourning his father; Ali, the daughter of a man who never stays in one place for long; and finally, there’s the artist, a boy who hoards sleeping pills and shuns attention, but who possesses an extraordinary gift that might be his ticket to a better life. These four lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning, a reason to dream.

Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that will unexpectedly be put into eighteen-year-old Louisa’s care. As she struggles to decide what to do with this bequest, she embarks on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to learn the story of how the painting came to be. The closer she gets to the painting’s birthplace, the more she feels compelled to unleash her own artistic spirit, but happy endings don’t always take the form we expect in this fresh testament to the transformative power of friendship and art.]]> 448 Fredrik Backman 1982112824 Margaux 0 to-read 4.59 2025 My Friends
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]]> Dream Count 219521090 A publishing event ten years in the making�a searing, exquisite new novel by the best-selling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists�the story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires.

Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until � betrayed and brokenhearted � she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor, Chiamaka’s bold, outspoken cousin, is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to question how well she knows herself. And Kadiatou, Chiamaka’s housekeeper, is proudly raising her daughter in America � but faces an unthinkable hardship that threatens all she has worked to achieve.

In Dream Count, Adichie trains her fierce eye on these women in a sparkling, transcendent novel that takes up the very nature of love itself. Is true happiness ever attainable or is it just a fleeting state? And how honest must we be with ourselves in order to love, and to be loved? A trenchant reflection on the choices we make and those made for us, on daughters and mothers, on our interconnected world, Dream Count pulses with emotional urgency and poignant, unflinching observations on the human heart, in language that soars with beauty and power. It confirms Adichie’s status as one of the most exciting and dynamic writers on the literary landscape.]]> 416 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 059380273X Margaux 0 to-read 3.97 2025 Dream Count
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]]> Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 6149 Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby.

Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison.]]> 325 Toni Morrison Margaux 0 to-read 3.96 1987 Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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average rating: 3.96
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]]> <![CDATA[White Nights (Little Clothbound Classics)]]> 62026012 Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.

Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.

Regarded as one of world literature's foremost novelists, Fyodor Dostoevsky's short stories are also some of the best ever written. 'White Nights' tells of love and loss on the streets of St. Petersburg, 'A Nasty Business' presents the hilarious tale of a general dropping in on the wedding of a subordinate, while 'The Meek One' is an existentialist tale of marriage and tragedy.]]> 240 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0241619785 Margaux 4 classics 4.13 1848 White Nights (Little Clothbound Classics)
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average rating: 4.13
book published: 1848
rating: 4
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]]> Fifty-Fifty (Eddie Flynn, #5) 53129042 WHO DO YOU BELIEVE?

'911 what's your emergency?'

'My dad's dead. My sister Sofia killed him. She's still in the house. Please send help.'

'My dad's dead. My sister Alexandra killed him. She's still in the house. Please send help.'

One of them is a liar and a killer.

But which one?]]> 351 Steve Cavanagh 1409185869 Margaux 5 crime, thriller 4.28 2020 Fifty-Fifty (Eddie Flynn, #5)
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name: Margaux
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2020
rating: 5
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]]> Passing 60758180 158 Nella Larsen 0241573742 Margaux 0 classics, literary-fiction 3.96 1929 Passing
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name: Margaux
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1929
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Down and Out in Paris and London]]> 57177441
Orwell's first published book, Down and Out in Paris and London, is at once a very personal account, an exposé of poverty stricken lives between the wars, and a call for social and economic reform. This edition is introduced by writer Lara Feigel.

Towards the end of the 1920s, whilst living in Paris, Orwell's few remaining funds are stolen and he falls into a life of severe poverty. Living hand to mouth, with barely a centime to his name, he shares squalid lodgings with Russian­born Boris and for a while finds tedious and backbreaking work as a 'plongeur' - washing up in the bowels of Paris restaurants. Back in England he lives as a tramp finding occasional shelter in dangerous and filthy doss houses.

Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, pocket sized classics with ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.]]> 256 George Orwell 1529032709 Margaux 0 to-read 3.73 1933 Down and Out in Paris and London
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]]> C+nto and Othered Poems 56827391
The female body is a political space. C+nto enters the private lives of characters from the butch counterculture, telling the inside story of the protests these women led to reclaim their bodies as their own - for self-expression and against hatred. History, magic, rebellion, party and sermon vibrate through Joelle Taylor's cantos, which celebrate these underground communities throughout the '90s.]]> 128 Joelle Taylor 1908906480 Margaux 0 to-read 4.24 2021 C+nto and Othered Poems
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average rating: 4.24
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]]> Ecce Homo 479356 144 Friedrich Nietzsche 0140445153 Margaux 0 to-read 3.87 1908 Ecce Homo
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name: Margaux
average rating: 3.87
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]]> <![CDATA[A Little Princess (Macmillan Collector's Library)]]> 31450984
When young Sara Crewe is brought from India to London by her doting father to join Miss Minchin's school, she can have little idea of the changes in circumstance that lie ahead. While at first her life of privilege continues, the tragic death of her father and failure of his business alters everything. In a dramatic reversal of the tradition fictional 'rags to riches' formula, Sara plunges from privilege to penury in the space of one day. Now she is no longer a princess but a beggar, and must depend on the power of her imagination, and the kindness of strangers, to lift her above the misery of her circumstances. She is cast out from the comfort of her rooms as Miss Minchin's 'show pupil' into the chill despair of a lonely garret, and set to endure back-breaking work in the school. But if humility, patience and dignity are virtues to be rewarded, will Sara perhaps experience another reversal in her fortunes? A Little Princess is a timeless and gripping drama about the transformative power of positive thought and the imagination.]]> 280 Frances Hodgson Burnett 1509827986 Margaux 5 classics, literary-fiction 4.65 1905 A Little Princess (Macmillan Collector's Library)
author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
name: Margaux
average rating: 4.65
book published: 1905
rating: 5
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]]> Wives and Daughters 15994523 "Eh, miss, but that be a rare young lady! She do have such pretty coaxing ways ..."

Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson worships her widowed father. But when he decides to remarry, Molly's life is thrown off course by the arrival of her vain, shallow and selfish stepmother. There is some solace in the shape of her new stepsister Cynthia, who is beautiful, sophisticated and irresistible to every man she meets. Soon the girls become close, and Molly finds herself cajoled into becoming a go-between in Cynthia's love affairs. But in doing so, Molly risks ruining her reputation in the gossiping village of Hollingford - and jeopardizing everything with the man she is secretly in love with.]]> 794 Elizabeth Gaskell 014138946X Margaux 0 to-read 4.27 1866 Wives and Daughters
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average rating: 4.27
book published: 1866
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]]> <![CDATA[The Touchstone (Alma Classics 101 Pages)]]> 42373019
The first of Edith Wharton's works depicting life in “old New York�, The Touchstone is an acutely observed novella , and an exploration of the tension between self-serving opportunism and the desire to live a moral life.]]> 128 Edith Wharton 1847497934 Margaux 0 to-read 3.70 1900 The Touchstone (Alma Classics 101 Pages)
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average rating: 3.70
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]]> Summer 62978911
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 240 Edith Wharton 0241630819 Margaux 0 to-read 3.65 1917 Summer
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]]> Sense and Sensibility 6147464 Alternate covers for this ISBN can be found here and here.
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love - and its threatened loss - the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.]]> 409 Jane Austen 0141040378 Margaux 0 to-read 4.06 1811 Sense and Sensibility
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]]> The Room in the Dragon Volant 17063845 190 J. Sheridan Le Fanu 1447466357 Margaux 0 to-read 3.00 1872 The Room in the Dragon Volant
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]]> The Return of the Soldier 38210200
His wife, Kitty, with her cold, moonlight beauty, and his devoted cousin Jenny wait in their exquisite home on the crest of the Harrow-weald.

Margaret Allington, his first and long-forgotten love, is nearby in the dreary suburb of Wealdstone.

But the soldier is shell-shocked and can only remember the Margaret he loved fifteen years before, when he was a young man and she an inn-keeper's daughter.

His cousin he remembers only as a childhood playmate; his wife he remembers not at all.

The women have a choice - to leave him where he wishes to be, or to 'cure' him.]]> 160 Rebecca West 0349010382 Margaux 0 to-read 3.68 1918 The Return of the Soldier
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]]> <![CDATA[Quicksand (The Penguin English Library)]]> 183932772
Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself. As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all-black school in the South, but even here she feels different. Moving to Harlem and eventually to Denmark, she attempts to carve out a comfortable life and place for herself, but ends up back where she started, choosing emotional freedom that quickly translates into a narrow existence.

Nella Larsen's powerful first novel, has intriguing autobiographical parallels and at the same time invokes the international dimension of African American culture of the 1920s. Slow, moving and reflective, Quicksand is a detailed and evocative portrayal of a biracial woman's inner life.]]> 160 Nella Larsen 0241652650 Margaux 0 to-read 3.80 1928 Quicksand (The Penguin English Library)
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]]> The Princess 1040441 108 Alfred Tennyson 1406823317 Margaux 0 to-read 4.00 1847 The Princess
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]]> The Portrait of a Lady 22934766 Henry James's great masterpiece

When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy her freedom, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. Then she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond. Charming and cultivated, Osmond sees Isabel as a rich prize waiting to be taken. In this portrait of a 'young woman affronting her destiny', Henry James created one of his most magnificent heroines, and a story of intense poignancy.

This edition is based on the earliest published copy of the novel: this is the version that was read first and loved by most readers in James's lifetime. It also includes an introduction, notes and other editorial materials by leading James scholar Philip Horne.]]> 768 Henry James 0141394668 Margaux 0 to-read 3.83 1881 The Portrait of a Lady
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]]> The Odd Women 5164636 The Odd Women reflects the major sexual and cultural issues of the late nineteenth century. Unlike the "New Woman" novels of the era which challenged the idea that the unmarried woman was superfluous, Gissing satirizes that image and portrays women as "odd" and marginal in relation to an ideal. Set in a grimy, fog-ridden London, Gissing's "odd" women range from the idealistic, financially self-sufficient Mary Barfoot to the Madden sisters who struggle to subsist in low paying jobs and little chance for joy. With narrative detachment, Gissing portrays contemporary society's blatant ambivalence towards its own period of transition. Judged by contemporary critics to be as provocative as Zola and Ibsen, Gissing produced an "intensely modern" work as the issues it raises remain the subject of contemporary debate.

About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
]]> 432 George Gissing 0199538301 Margaux 0 to-read 3.94 1893 The Odd Women
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]]> The Letters of Jane Austen 64083736 278 Jane Austen 1528771613 Margaux 0 to-read 0.0 1908 The Letters of Jane Austen
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]]> Lady Audley's Secret 14800164
A huge success in the nineteenth century, the book revels in an anti-heroine - with her good looks and hidden past - who embodied perfectly the concerns of the Victorian age with morality and madness.]]> 490 Mary Elizabeth Braddon 0141198842 Margaux 0 to-read 3.84 1862 Lady Audley's Secret
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]]> <![CDATA[The Island: Or Christian and His Comrades]]> 11735836 74 Lord Byron 1143384970 Margaux 0 to-read 3.37 1823 The Island: Or Christian and His Comrades
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]]> <![CDATA[Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself]]> 597671
A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final escape and emancipation, Harriet Jacobs's classic narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published pseduonymously in 1861, tells firsthand of the horrors inflicted on slaves. In writing this extraordinary memoir, which culminates in the seven years she spent hiding in a crawl space in her grandmother's attic, Jacobs skillfully used the literary genres of her time, presenting a thoroughly feminist narrative that portrays the evils and traumas of slavery, particularly for women and children.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 320 Harriet Ann Jacobs 0140437959 Margaux 0 to-read 4.18 1861 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself
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]]> Idylls of the King 393636 384 Alfred Tennyson Margaux 0 to-read 3.96 1885 Idylls of the King
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]]> Howards End 15822373
Frequently cited as E. M. Forster's finest work, Howards End brilliantly explores class warfare, conflict and the English character.]]> 382 E.M. Forster 0141199407 Margaux 0 to-read 3.91 1910 Howards End
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]]> The House of the Vampire 44054034 106 George Sylvester Viereck 1528710665 Margaux 0 to-read 3.89 1907 The House of the Vampire
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