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It follows the story of 17 year-old nothing, Sally Fawn, through ink sketches, poetry, and intimate narrative as she returns to her abandoned childhood home with only the desire to disappear. Home was on the derelict Highway 340 in rural Nova Scotia, Canada. Home was dirt, centipedes, and sad dogs, but not Mom. Home was Desiree, who she abruptly had to leave in 5th grade after Dad disappeared into the black Atlantic. That summer, Sally discovers that her home now belongs to someone else. A forcefully charming man named Leon Vaughn, and his jealous dog, Lady. Sally tells him that she's 18. 17 is close enough, right? Leon tells Sally that she's 19.

Something Happened Here reveals the untold story of an invisible girl in an invisible town in rural Nova Scotia, where crime is underreported and when someone disappears, they are forgotten forever. Something Happened Here echoes the voices of women and girls who have been silenced by abuse.

Your voice echoes, and it carries power.]]> 247 Felicity Meadow elisa 0 to-read 4.18
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]]> 59808607 A gripping, heartbreaking new novel about female friendship, art, and memory by the award-winning author of Where Reasons End.

Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised--the place that Fabienne helped Agnès escape ten years ago. Now, Agnès is free to tell her story.

As children in a war-ravaged, backwater town, they'd built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves--until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnès on an epic trajectory through fame, fortune, and terrible loss.

A magnificent, beguiling tale winding from the postwar rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school to to the quiet Pennsylvania home where Agnès can live without her past, The Book of Goose is a haunting story of friendship, art, exploitation, and memory by the celebrated author Yiyun Li.]]> 348 Yiyun Li 037460634X elisa 0 to-read 3.67 2022
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]]> 212999707 168 Deborah Levy elisa 0 to-read 4.04 2018
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]]> 61439040
Alternate cover edition can be found here.]]> 368 George Orwell 0452284236 elisa 0 4.21 1949
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]]> 45892276 Who listens to you?

New York Times contributor Kate Murphy asked people on five continents this question, and the response was typically a long, awkward pause. People struggled to come up with someone, anyone, who truly listened to them without glazing over, glancing down at a phone, or jumping in to offer an opinion. Many admitted that they, themselves, weren’t very good listeners, and most couldn’t even describe what it meant to be a good listener.

Despite living in a world where technology allows constant digital communication and opportunities to connect, it seems no one is really listening or even knows how. And it’s making us lonelier, more isolated, and less tolerant than ever before. A listener by trade, Murphy wanted to know how we got here.

In this illuminating and often humorous deep dive, Murphy explains why we’re not listening, what it’s doing to us, and how we can reverse the trend. She makes accessible the psychology, neuroscience, and sociology of listening while also introducing us to some of the best listeners out there (including a CIA agent, focus-group moderator, bartender, radio producer, and top furniture salesman).

While listening is often regarded as talking’s meek counterpart, Murphy discovered it’s actually the more powerful position in communication. We learn when we listen. It’s how we connect, cooperate, empathize, and fall in love. Listening is something we do or don’t do every day. While we might take listening for granted, how well we listen, to whom, and under what circumstances determines who we are and the paths we take in life.

Equal parts cultural observation, scientific exploration, and rousing call to action that’s full of practical advice, You’re Not Listening is to listening what Susan Cain’s Quiet was to introversion. It’s time to stop talking and start listening.]]> 278 Kate Murphy 1250297192 elisa 0 to-read 4.08 2020
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]]> 5472 This edition features George Orwell’s best-known novels��1984 and Animal Farm—with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens.

In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith joins a secret revolutionary organisation called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.

Animal Farm is Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution - an account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones’s Manor Farm into Animal Farm - a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. But are they? AUTHOR: George Orwell (1903-1950) was born in India and served with the Imperial Police in Burma before joining the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. Orwell was the author of six novels as well as numerous essays and nonfiction works.]]> 400 George Orwell elisa 0 to-read, da-leggere-per-forza 4.29 1949
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]]> 60811826 Deep underground, forty women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before.


As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl—the fortieth prisoner—sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.


Jacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1929, and fled to Casablanca with her family during WWII. Informed by her background as a psychoanalyst and her youth in exile, I Who Have Never Known Men is a haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic novel of female friendship and intimacy, and the lengths people will go to maintain their humanity in the face of devastation. Back in print for the first time since 1997, Harpman’s modern classic is an important addition to the growing canon of feminist speculative literature.]]> 208 Jacqueline Harpman 1945492600 elisa 0 to-read, da-leggere-per-forza 4.13 1995
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]]> 41817486 A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition, and Burgess’s introduction, “A Clockwork Orange Resucked.”]]> 240 Anthony Burgess 0393341763 elisa 0 to-read, da-leggere-per-forza 4.04 1962
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]]> 3636 208 Lois Lowry 0385732554 elisa 0 to-read, da-leggere-per-forza 4.12 1993
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]]> 34454589 320 Margaret Atwood 1328879941 elisa 0 to-read, da-leggere-per-forza 4.31 1985
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]]> 6334
Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it’s only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.

Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date.]]> 288 Kazuo Ishiguro 1400078776 elisa 0 to-read, da-leggere-per-forza 3.85 2005
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]]> 56302573 208 Ray Bradbury elisa 0 to-read, da-leggere-per-forza 3.77 1953
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]]> 32620332
Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career.

Summoned to Evelyn’s luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the ��80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn’s story nears its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways.]]> 389 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1501139231 elisa 0 4.39 2017
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]]> 59795331 312 Ankur Warikoo 9391165486 elisa 0 to-read 3.67 2021
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]]> 57280624 Overcome negative thought patterns, reduce stress, and live a worry-free life.Overthinking is the biggest cause of unhappiness. Don't get stuck in a never-ending thought loop. Stay present and keep your mind off things that don't matter, and never will.Break free of your self-imposed mental prison.Stop Overthinking is a book that understands where you’ve been through,the exhausting situation you’ve put yourself into, and how you lose your mind in the trap of anxiety and stress. Acclaimed author Nick Trenton will walk you through the obstacles with detailed and proven techniques to help you rewire your brain, control your thoughts, and change your mental habits.What’s more, the book will provide you scientific approaches to completely change the way you think and feel about yourself by ending the vicious thought patterns.Stop agonizing over the past and trying to predict the future.Nick Trenton grew up in rural Illinois and is quite literally a farm boy. His best friend growing up was his trusty companion Leonard the dachshund. RIP Leonard. Eventually, he made it off the farm and obtained a BS in Economics, followed by an MA in Behavioral Psychology.Powerful ways to stop ruminating and dwelling on negative thoughts.-How to be aware of your negative spiral triggers-Identify and recognize your inner anxieties-How to keep the focus on relaxation and action-Proven methods to overcome stress attacks-Learn to declutter your mind and find focusUnleash your unlimited potential and start living. No more self-deprecating talk. No more sleepless nights with racing thoughts. Free your mind from overthinking and achieve more, feel better, and unleash your potential. Finally be able to live in the present moment. Live a stress-free life and conquer overthinking -- BUY NOW.]]> 191 Nick Trenton elisa 0 to-read 3.76 2021
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]]> 7144 671 Fyodor Dostoevsky elisa 0 to-read 4.26 1866
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]]> 5129 Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine�� (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New Worldd likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.

"Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." —Chicago Tribune]]> 268 Aldous Huxley 0060929871 elisa 0 to-read 3.99 1932
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]]> 41057294
A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years in college, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. Then, as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other.

Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.]]> 273 Sally Rooney 1984822179 elisa 0 to-read 3.81 2018
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]]> 9949287 314 Daniel Keyes elisa 0 to-read 4.38 1966
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]]> 25160612 Momenti di trascurabile felicità, Francesco Piccolo torna a raccontare l'allegria degli istanti di cui è fatta la vita, ma questa volta prova a prenderli dalla parte sbagliata. Setacciando le giornate fino a scoprire come ogni contrattempo, anche il più seccante, nasconda qualcosa di impagabile: una scintilla folgorante di divertimento e di vitalità. Che si tratti di condividere l'ombrello con qualcuno, strappandoselo di mano per gentilezza fino a ritrovarsi entrambi bagnati fradici. O di ammettere che non ci ricordiamo più niente di quello che abbiamo imparato a scuola, che le recite dei bambini sono una noia mortale, e che non amiamo i nostri figli nello stesso modo, semplicemente perché sono diversi. Per non parlare dell'obbligo morale di farsi la doccia appena si arriva ospiti da un amico, che se ne abbia voglia o meno - in fondo soltanto per rassicurare l'altro sul fatto che ci si lava. Oppure delle persone troppo cortesi che ti tengono aperto il portone, costringendoti ad affrettare il passo. Ciascuno sperimenta ogni giorno mille forme trascurabili (e non irrilevanti) di infelicità. Ma sorge il dubbio che sia «come i bastoncini dello shangai: se tirassi via la cosa che meno mi piace della persona che amo, se ne verrebbe via anche quella che mi piace di più».]]> 143 Francesco Piccolo 8806225421 elisa 0 to-read 3.36 2015
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]]> 60840422
With honest lessons learned from rock bottom, Donna Ashworth's writing helps us to find courage in chaos and rise to every challenge.

Sparking joy, surprise, and gratitude on each page, this collection will soothe your soul, strengthen your spirit, and help you find your own unique voice.]]> 192 Donna Ashworth 1785303791 elisa 0 to-read 4.20 2022
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]]> 11297
A magnificent blending of the music, the mood, and the ethos that was the sixties with the story of one college student's romantic coming of age, Norwegian Wood brilliantly recaptures a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love.]]> 296 Haruki Murakami 0375704027 elisa 0 currently-reading 4.01 1987
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]]> 6984358 117 Banana Yoshimoto 8807814218 elisa 0 3.49 1993
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]]> 1938243 Con Sonno profondo, Banana Yoshimoto indaga nel cuore di tre giovanni donne e ne trae ombre plastiche, insinuanti, che echeggiano il vuoto della notte e la paura della solitudine. Vicina al germogliare segreto delle emozioni, la scrittice disegna con le parole un mondo sfuggente e tuttavia concreto, che accompagna il lettore in un'avventura dell'anima di straordinaria incisività.]]> 139 Banana Yoshimoto 8807813327 elisa 0 3.54 1989
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]]> 35068705
When Rin aced the Keju—the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies—it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin’s guardians, who believed they’d finally be able to marry her off and further their criminal enterprise; and to Rin herself, who realized she was finally free of the servitude and despair that had made up her daily existence. That she got into Sinegard—the most elite military school in Nikan—was even more surprising.

But surprises aren’t always good.

Because being a dark-skinned peasant girl from the south is not an easy thing at Sinegard. Targeted from the outset by rival classmates for her color, poverty, and gender, Rin discovers she possesses a lethal, unearthly power—an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism. Exploring the depths of her gift with the help of a seemingly insane teacher and psychoactive substances, Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive—and that mastering control over those powers could mean more than just surviving school.

For while the Nikara Empire is at peace, the Federation of Mugen still lurks across a narrow sea. The militarily advanced Federation occupied Nikan for decades after the First Poppy War, and only barely lost the continent in the Second. And while most of the people are complacent to go about their lives, a few are aware that a Third Poppy War is just a spark away . . .

Rin’s shamanic powers may be the only way to save her people. But as she finds out more about the god that has chosen her, the vengeful Phoenix, she fears that winning the war may cost her humanity . . . and that it may already be too late.]]> 545 R.F. Kuang 0062662597 elisa 0 to-read 4.16 2018
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]]> 57253000 304 Jude Ellison S. Doyle 8831498258 elisa 0 to-read 3.99 2019
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]]> 11021493 127 Antonio Gramsci 8861901743 elisa 0 to-read 4.13 2007
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]]> 3847936 La padrona di casa, una scrittrice inadatta ad affrontare i problemi della vita quotidiana, fatica a capire il rigido moralismo di Emerenc, ne subisce le spesso indecifrabili decisioni, non sa cosa pensare dell'alone di mistero che ne circonda l'esistenza e soprattutto la casa, con quella porta che nessuno può varcare. In un crescendo di rivelazioni scopre che le scelte spesso bizzarre e crudeli, ma sempre assolutamente coerenti dell'anziana donna, affondano in un destino segnato dagli avvenimenti piú drammatici del Novecento.
Pubblicato in Ungheria nel 1987, ma in qualche modo disperso negli anni della transizione politica, La porta è il romanzo che ha rivelato la piú grande scrittrice ungherese contemporanea.]]> 248 Magda Szabó 8806186175 elisa 0 to-read 4.08 1987
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]]> 57801243
Questo libro contiene:

1. Un uomo e una donna che saltano tutte le fermate della metropolitana della loro vita in attesa dell’occasione giusta. Due sposi costretti dai parenti a sacrificare caproni per assicurarsi la felicità futura. Uno scienziato che fa avanti e indietro da un universo parallelo in cui ha fatto solo le scelte giuste.

2. E altri quindici racconti pieni di umorismo, romanticismo, stravagante surrealismo e sincerità.

3. Una scatenata comicità che nasconde una verità sgradevole che fingiamo di non vedere che a sua volta cela un’amara ironia che svela il dolore di cui siamo composti che prepara il sorriso dell’accettazione bagnato dalle lacrime per l’essere vivi.

4. Elenchi puntati.

5. Chiunque abbia visto qualche puntata di BoJack Horseman sa che il talento di Raphael Bob-Waksberg si sviluppa in una cifra unica, personalissima: quella in cui l’ironia piú amara diventa un bisturi affilatissimo che taglia i nodi delle relazioni umane. Le nostre fragilità, il desiderio di essere amati, di essere riconosciuti dall’altro, la nostra ricerca di qualcosa che illumini le ombre che ci portiamo dentro.

6. Leggendo questi racconti preparatevi a essere devastati e ricostruiti pezzo a pezzo.]]> 280 Raphael Bob-Waksberg 8806236903 elisa 0 to-read 3.68 2019
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]]> 35892650 Atti umani è il coro polifonico dei vivi e dei morti di una carneficina mai veramente narrata in Occidente. Conosciamo il quindicenne Dong-ho, alla ricerca di un amico scomparso; Eun-sook, la redattrice che ha assaggiato il «rullo inchiostratore» della censura e i «sette schiaffi» di un interrogatorio; l’anonimo prigioniero che ha avuto la sfortuna di sopravvivere; la giovane operaia calpestata a sangue da un poliziotto in borghese. Dopo il massacro, ancora anni di carcere, sevizie, delazioni, dinieghi; al volgere del millennio stentate aperture, parziali ammissioni, tardive commemorazioni. Han Kang, con il terso, spietato lirismo della sua scrittura, scruta tante vite dilaniate, racconta oggi l’indicibile, le laceranti dissonanze di un passato che si voleva cancellato.]]> 205 Han Kang 884593201X elisa 0 to-read 4.32 2014
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]]> 277296
Sullo sfondo della guerra e della lotta partigiana, Alba de Céspedes compone un romanzo stupefacente per la varietà delle situazioni, l'esattezza dei ritratti, la ricchezza dei toni. Un sofisticato gioco di specchi dal quale emerge la presa di coscienza di una donna che, in un mondo sempre più dominato dagli uomini, riesce a trasformare la rassegnazione in ribellione.]]> Alba de Céspedes elisa 0 to-read 4.30 1949
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]]> 205457579 Premiato come miglior libro dell’anno dai librai norvegesi, bestseller letterario trascinato da una scrittura sferzante, teso come un thriller e commovente come una storia d’amore, La mia Ingeborg è l’intenso racconto di una famiglia che, capeggiata da un uomo distruttivo, va in pezzi.]]> 173 Tore Renberg elisa 0 to-read 3.72 2020
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]]> 213924164
Venâncio e Dalva, marito e moglie, si amano di un amore totale. La loro è un’unione inestricabile di anima e corpo; amano parlarsi, toccarsi, guardarsi, abbandonarsi completamente l’uno all’altra. Lui e lei, lei e lui. Fino al giorno in cui la tragedia irrompe nella loro vita incrinando questa simbiosi perfetta. Nelle crepe di un amore che all’improvviso sembra svanito si insinua Lucy, prostituta orgogliosa che invade le loro esistenze a testa alta. È la più desiderata della città, desiderata da tutti ma non da Venâncio, che inizialmente non la degna di uno sguardo. E si sa, non esiste miccia più potente dell�� il disinteresse di Venâncio accende Lucy di una passione irrefrenabile. La giovane farà di tutto per averlo, ma solo il giorno in cui, per puro caso, compierà un gesto che gli ricorda la moglie, riuscirà a farlo suo. E ogni cosa cambierà per sempre. Perché l’amore, come un fiume, è inarrestabile, e il suo flusso ininterrotto plasma le vicende dei protagonisti assumendo le forme più inaspettate.

Amore, odio, L’amore è un fiume è un romanzo esplosivo, traboccante di vita e sensualità, un inno all’amore vissuto liberamente e una condanna esplicita della doppia morale patriarcale. Con una scrittura magistrale, che è al contempo densa e delicata, lirica e carnale, Carla Madeira al suo romanzo d’esordio dimostra un’abilità che soltanto i grandi scrittori possiedono.

«L’amore, quando nasce forte, ha fretta di diventare eterno. Non considera di essere fatto di carne madida. Quei due presero a vivere il loro desiderio impreparati a qualunque limite, badavano sempre meno alle regole, agli altri, all’obbligo della compunzione. Gli interessava solo la vertigine. E si sa, ignorare il resto del mondo dà noia al mondo, così incapace di sopportare una dose troppo abbondante di felicità».]]> 180 Carla Madeira elisa 0 to-read 3.77 2014
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]]> 168963978 0 Sylva Plath elisa 0 to-read 0.0
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]]> 18619684 537 Audrey Niffenegger 1939126010 elisa 0 to-read 4.07 2003
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]]> 4865
Since its release in 1936, How to Win Friends and Influence People has sold more than 30 million copies. Dale Carnegie's first book is a timeless bestseller, packed with rock-solid advice that has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives.

As relevant as ever before, Dale Carnegie's principles endure, and will help you achieve your maximum potential in the complex and competitive modern age.

Learn the six ways to make people like you, the twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking, and the nine ways to change people without arousing resentment.]]> 288 Dale Carnegie elisa 0 to-read 4.22 1936
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]]> 93981 630 Sigmund Freud 1566195764 elisa 0 to-read 3.86 1899
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]]> 28257707 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062457738

In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.

For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected American society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.

Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited��"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek.

There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.]]> 212 Mark Manson elisa 0 to-read 3.88 2016
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]]> 40745 A newer edition of this book can be found here.

After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities. People with a fixed mindset �� those who believe that abilities are fixed �� are less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset �� those who believe that abilities can be developed. Mindset reveals how great parents, teachers, managers, and athletes can put this idea to use to foster outstanding accomplishment.

In this edition, Dweck offers new insights into her now famous and broadly embraced concept. She introduces a phenomenon she calls false growth mindset and guides people toward adopting a deeper, truer growth mindset. She also expands the mindset concept beyond the individual, applying it to the cultures of groups and organizations. With the right mindset, you can motivate those you lead, teach, and love �� to transform their lives and your own.]]> 276 Carol S. Dweck elisa 0 to-read 4.09 2006
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]]> 28815
You'll learn the six universal principles, how to use them to become a skilled persuader—and how to defend yourself against them. Perfect for people in all walks of life, the principles of Influence will move you toward profound personal change and act as a driving force for your success.]]> 320 Robert B. Cialdini 006124189X elisa 0 to-read 4.21 1984
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]]> 11468377 Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities—and also the faults and biases—of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior. The impact of loss aversion and overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the challenges of properly framing risks at work and at home, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning the next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions.

Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Thinking, Fast and Slow will transform the way you think about thinking.]]> 499 Daniel Kahneman 0374275637 elisa 0 to-read 4.17 2011
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]]> 1311731 320 Ian Littlewood 1405122854 elisa 0 to-read 3.36 2005
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]]> 5755 The classic book on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind.

In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published.]]> 448 Steven Pinker 0060958332 elisa 0 to-read 4.01 1994
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]]> 60748 Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE]
ACE #1

This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games—games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave; and no longer a boy, but an "it." Dave's bed was an old army cot in the basement, and his clothes were torn and raunchy. When his mother allowed him the luxury of food, it was nothing more than spoiled scraps that even the dogs refused to eat. The outside world knew nothing of his living nightmare. He had nothing or no one to turn to, but his dreams kept him alive—dreams of someone taking care of him, loving him and calling him their son.]]> 184 Dave Pelzer elisa 0 to-read 4.13 1995
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]]> 150373 Women Without Men in her native Iran, Shahrnush Parsipur was arrested and jailed for her frank and defiant portrayal of women’s sexuality. Now banned in Iran, this small masterpiece was eventually translated into several languages and introduces U.S. readers to the work of a brilliant Persian writer. With a tone that is stark, and bold, Women Without Men creates an evocative allegory of life for contemporary Iranian women. In the interwoven destinies of five women, simple situations such as walking down a road or leaving the house become, in the tumult of post-WWII Iran, horrific and defiant as women escape the narrow confines of family and society only to face daunting new challenges.

Now in political exile, Shahrnush Parsipur lives in the Bay Area. She is the author of several short story collections including Touba and the Meaning of Night.]]> 192 Shahrnush Parsipur 1558614524 elisa 0 to-read 3.83 1973
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]]> 208536125 Con rabbia, ma mai con rassegnazione, con coraggio, lucidità e speranza, in Aprite il cervello Davide Mazzotta traccia il triste panorama dell'Italia di oggi - anche attraverso il confronto con la situazione degli altri Paesi -, prova a immaginare un futuro migliore e ci chiama a raccolta per costruirlo insieme. Nella convinzione che è dal basso, dal vissuto quotidiano di ognuno di noi, che può e deve nascere il cambiamento. La stessa convinzione che ha decretato il successo del suo profilo Instagram, che ha raggiunto attualmente quasi 800.000 follower e che costituisce, per tantissime persone di tutte le età, una sorta di imprescindibile rassegna stampa, un commento puntuale e autorevole ai principali fatti politici del giorno, un baluardo contro la deriva del nostro Paese in termini di perdita di diritti civili, disuguaglianze, rigurgiti fascisti, razzisti e omofobi.]]> 227 Davide Mazzotta 8831814257 elisa 5 4.24
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]]> 22822858
Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he’ll not only be unable to overcome—but that will define his life forever.]]> 720 Hanya Yanagihara 0385539258 elisa 0 to-read 4.28 2015
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]]> 123362598 560 Holly Jackson 8831811088 elisa 3 4.30 2021
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]]> 62453415 Ma improvvisamente il fratello del suo amico Connor sparisce. La polizia non vuole fare nulla a riguardo, E Pippa si ritrova immersa in una nuova indagine, che mai avrebbe immaginato potesse portare a galla segreti tanto loschi. E questa volta, tutti sono in ascolto. Ma riuscirà a trovarlo prima che sia troppo tardi?]]> 391 Holly Jackson 8831809458 elisa 4 4.34 2020
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]]> 56492272 463 Holly Jackson 8817147842 elisa 4 4.33 2019
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]]> 17981035 La verità sul caso Harry Quebert è un fiume in piena, travolge il lettore e lo calamita dalla prima all’ultima pagina. è il giallo salutato come l’evento editoriale degli ultimi anni: geniale, divertente, appassionante, capace di stregare prima la Francia, poi il mondo intero.]]> 779 Joël Dicker 8845273288 elisa 2 4.32 2012
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]]> 46126661 231 Ottessa Moshfegh 8858835956 elisa 5 3.48 2018
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]]> 50786753 192 Genki Kawamura 885843157X elisa 4 3.84 2012
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]]> 3828372 Mattia pensava che lui e Alice erano così, due primi gemelli, soli e perduti, vicini ma non abbastanza per sfiorarsi davvero. A lei non l'aveva mai detto.

Alice ha sette anni e odia la scuola di sci, ma suo padre la obbliga ad andarci. È una mattina di nebbia fitta, lei ha freddo e il latte della colazione le pesa sullo stomaco. In cima alla seggiovia si separa dai compagni e, nascosta nella nebbia, se la fa addosso. Per la vergogna decide di scendere a valle da sola, ma finisce fuori pista, spezzandosi una gamba. Resta sola, incapace di muoversi, al fondo di un canalone innevato, a domandarsi se i lupi ci sono anche in inverno.
Mattia è un ragazzino intelligente con una gemella ritardata, Michela. La presenza costante della sorella umilia Mattia di fronte ai suoi coetanei. Per questo, la prima volta che un compagno di classe li invita entrambi alla sua festa, Mattia decide di lasciare Michela nel parco, con la promessa che tornerà presto da lei.
Questi due episodi iniziali, con le loro conseguenze irreversibili, saranno il marchio impresso a fuoco nelle vite di Alice e di Mattia, adolescenti, giovani e infine adulti. Le loro esistenze, così profondamente segnate, si incroceranno e i due protagonisti si scopriranno strettamente uniti eppure invincibilmente divisi. Come quei numeri speciali, che i matematici chiamano primi gemelli: due numeri primi separati da un solo numero pari, vicini ma mai abbastanza per toccarsi davvero.
Questo romanzo è la storia dolorosa e commovente di Alice e di Mattia, e dei personaggi che li affiancano nel loro percorso. Paolo Giordano tocca con sguardo lucido e profondo, con una scrittura di sorprendente fermezza e maturità, una materia che brucia per le sue implicazioni emotive. E regala ai lettori un romanzo capace di scuotere per come alterna momenti di durezza e di spietata tensione a scene più rarefatte e di trattenuta emozione, piene di sconsolata tenerezza e di tenace speranza.]]> 304 Paolo Giordano 8804577029 elisa 5 3.52 2008
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]]> 25457360 344 Christiane V. Felscherinow 8817073504 elisa 0 4.34 1978
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]]> 58649456 420 Taylor Jenkins Reid 8804740280 elisa 0 4.35 2017
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]]> 18758671 112 Michele Serra 8807018349 elisa 3 3.13 2013
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]]> 32916360 Quando scoprono il paesino di Grana, ai piedi del Monte Rosa, sentono di aver trovato il posto giusto: Pietro trascorrerà tutte le estati in quel luogo «chiuso a monte da creste grigio ferro e a valle da una rupe che ne ostacola l'accesso» ma attraversato da un torrente che lo incanta dal primo momento. E lí, ad aspettarlo, c'è Bruno, capelli biondo canapa e collo bruciato dal sole: ha la sua stessa età ma invece di essere in vacanza si occupa del pascolo delle vacche.
Iniziano cosí estati di esplorazioni e scoperte, tra le case abbandonate, il mulino e i sentieri piú aspri. Sono anche gli anni in cui Pietro inizia a camminare con suo padre, «la cosa piú simile a un'educazione che abbia ricevuto da lui». Perché la montagna è un sapere, un vero e proprio modo di respirare, e sarà il suo lascito piú vero: «Eccola lí, la mia eredità: una parete di roccia, neve, un mucchio di sassi squadrati, un pino». Un'eredità che dopo tanti anni lo riavvicinerà a Bruno.
Paolo Cognetti, uno degli scrittori piú apprezzati dalla critica e amati dai lettori, entra nel catalogo Einaudi con un libro magnetico e adulto, che esplora i rapporti accidentati ma granitici, la possibilità di imparare e la ricerca del nostro posto nel mondo.]]> 208 Paolo Cognetti 880622672X elisa 2 4.18 2016
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]]> 40597810 Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now.

Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n�� roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.

Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.

Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.

The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.]]> 368 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1524798622 elisa 2 4.20 2019
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]]> 9649335 187 Banana Yoshimoto 880770224X elisa 0 to-read 3.41 2006
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]]> 144707422
Sloane Hart is a hopeless romantic who always believed her great love story was out there, until her parents�� divorce shattered that dream. She swears off dating and is determined to graduate college, become a writer and move to New York City. Until she meets Ethan. Ethan Brady is guarded and mysterious, unwilling to talk about his past or let anyone get too close.

As they start dating without labels, they both know it can’t last forever. Sloane imagines a future with Ethan but he can’t give her the commitment she needs. Will she be able to convince Ethan to take a chance on it? Or will she have to learn the hard way that some things just aren’t meant to be?

Sloane and Ethan’s story is a bittersweet tale of love and self-discovery that explores the complexities of relationships and the challenges of moving on.]]> 257 Alissa DeRogatis elisa 0 currently-reading 3.36 2023
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]]> 9700386 142 Fyodor Dostoevsky 8807821206 elisa 3 4.08 1864
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]]> 45974 The Book of Disquiet, an astonishing work that, in George Steiner's words, "gives to Lisbon the haunting spell of Joyce's Dublin or Kafka's Prague." Published for the first time some fifty years after his death, this unique collection of short, aphoristic paragraphs comprises the "autobiography" of Bernardo Soares, one of Pessoa's alternate selves. Part intimate diary, part prose poetry, part descriptive narrative, captivatingly translated by Richard Zenith, The Book of Disquiet is one of the greatest works of the twentieth century.]]> 544 Fernando Pessoa 0141183047 elisa 0 to-read 4.46 1982
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]]> 43306206
The Courage to Be Disliked shows you how to unlock the power within yourself to become your best and truest self, change your future and find lasting happiness. Using the theories of Alfred Adler, one of the three giants of 19th-century psychology alongside Freud and Jung, the authors explain how we are all free to determine our own future free of the shackles of past experiences, doubts and the expectations of others. It’s a philosophy that’s profoundly liberating, allowing us to develop the courage to change, and to ignore the limitations that we and those around us can place on ourselves.

The result is a book that is both highly accessible and profound in its importance. Millions have already read and benefited from its wisdom. Now that The Courage to Be Disliked has been published for the first time in English, so can you.]]> 288 Ichiro Kishimi elisa 0 to-read 3.90 2013
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]]> 9654557 150 Osamu Dazai 8807721252 elisa 0 to-read 3.91 1948
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]]> 9663013 Quella sera dorata, chiedono solo di essere letti. Anticipare le avventure e i pensieri di James rischierebbe di mettere in ombra la singolare grazia che pervade questo libro, e da cui ci si lascia avvolgere molto prima di riconoscere, nella sua ironia inquieta e malinconica, qualcosa che pochi sanno raccontare: l'aria del tempo.]]> 206 Peter Cameron 8845921816 elisa 0 to-read 3.71 2007
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]]> 6702408 210 Haruki Murakami 880781708X elisa 0 to-read 3.76 1992
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]]> 25684046 feuilletons che compongono la Cronaca di Pietroburgo, vero e proprio laboratorio per la scrittura dostoevskiana. Lo stretto legame tra pubblicistica e letteratura, che accompagnerà Dostoevskij negli anni della maturità, viene così a manifestarsi fin quasi dal suo esordio. Il racconto Le notti bianche ha ispirato il film omonimo di Luchino Visconti (1957), con Marcello Mastroianni e Maria Schell, e il film Quattro notti di un sognatore di Robert Bresson (1971).]]> 176 Fyodor Dostoevsky 8807901870 elisa 0 to-read 3.97 1848
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]]> 99561 Before. Miles “Pudge�� Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps�� even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . .
After. Nothing is ever the same.]]> 221 John Green 1435249151 elisa 5 3.97 2005
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]]> 4097499 "Chi è pesante non può fare a meno di innamorarsi perdutamente di chi vola lievemente nell'aria, tra il fantastico e il possibile: mentre i leggeri sono respinti dai loro simili e trascinati dalla 'com-passione' verso i corpi e le anime possedute dalla pesantezza. Così accade nel romanzo: Tomáš ama Tereza, Tereza ama Tomáš: Franz ama Sabina, Sabina (almeno per qualche mese) ama Franz; quasi come nelle «Affinità elettive» si forma il perfetto quadrato delle affinità amorose." (Pietro Citati)]]> 336 Milan Kundera 8845906868 elisa 0 to-read 4.07 1984
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]]> 40515567
Esther describes in detail several seriocomic incidents that occur during her internship, kicked off by an unfortunate but amusing experience at a banquet for the girls held by the staff of Ladies' Day magazine. She reminisces about her friend Buddy, whom she has dated more or less seriously, and who considers himself her de facto fiancé. She also muses about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who are scheduled for execution. She returns to her Massachusetts home in low spirits. She has been hoping for another scholarly opportunity once she is back in Massachusetts, a writing course taught by a world-famous author, but on her return her mother immediately tells her she was not accepted for the course. She decides to spend the summer potentially writing a novel, although she feels she lacks enough life experience to write convincingly. All of her identity has been centered upon doing well academically; she is unsure of what to make of her life once she leaves school, and none of the choices presented to her (motherhood, as exemplified by the vacuous, prolific child-bearer Dodo Conway, or stereotypical female careers such as stenography) appeal to her.

Esther becomes increasingly depressed, and finds herself unable to sleep. Her mother encourages, or perhaps forces, her to see a psychiatrist, Dr. Gordon, whom Esther mistrusts because he is attractive and seems to be showing off a picture of his charming family rather than listening to her. He prescribes electroconvulsive therapy (ECT); and afterward, she tells her mother that she will not go back.

Esther's mental state worsens. She makes several half-hearted attempts at suicide, including swimming far out to sea, before making a serious attempt. She leaves a note saying she is taking a long walk, then crawls into the cellars and swallows about 50 sleeping pills that had been prescribed for her insomnia. In a very dramatic episode, the newspapers presume her kidnapping and death, but she is discovered under her house after an indeterminate amount of time. She survives and is sent to a different mental hospital, where she meets Dr. Nolan, a female therapist.]]> 244 Sylvia Plath elisa 0 to-read 4.00 1963
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]]> 22072036 263 Haruki Murakami 8806219774 elisa 0 to-read 3.91 2013
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]]> 22628 offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see
what it looks like from the dance floor.

This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction: The Perks of Being A WALLFLOWER

This is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it puts him on a strange course through uncharted territory. The world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends. The world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that the perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite.

Through Charlie, Stephen Chbosky has created a deeply affecting coming-of-age story, a powerful novel that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller coaster days known as growing up.

(back cover)]]> 213 Stephen Chbosky elisa 5 4.24 1999
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]]> 23128304
The story of a lonely boy, a mysterious girl, and a tormented sheep man plotting their escape from a nightmarish library, the book is like nothing else Murakami has written. Designed by Chip Kidd and fully illustrated in full color throughout, this small format, 96-page volume is a treat for book lovers of all ages.]]> 96 Haruki Murakami 0385354304 elisa 0 to-read 3.58 2005
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]]> 9667139 236 Haruki Murakami 8806175009 elisa 0 to-read 3.76 1999
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]]> 50144 Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, is an enchantingly original and deeply affecting book about mothers, love, tragedy, and the power of the kitchen and home in the lives of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan. Mikage, the heroine of Kitchen, is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away. Grieving, she is taken in by her friend Yoichi and his mother (who was once his father), Eriko. As the three of them form an improvised family that soon weathers its own tragic losses, Yoshimoto spins a lovely, evocative tale that recalls early Marguerite Duras. Kitchen and its companion story, "Moonlight Shadow," are elegant tales whose seeming simplicity is the ruse of a writer whose voice echoes in the mind and the soul.]]> 160 Banana Yoshimoto 0802142443 elisa 0 to-read 3.91 1988
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]]> 2751097 248 J.D. Salinger 8806296604 elisa 0 to-read 3.77 1951
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]]> 13616389 Così Dostoevskij presenta La mite, pubblicata nel 1876 all'interno del Diario di uno scrittore. Il racconto registra, in forma quasi stenografica, come sotto dettatura, le riflessioni contraddittorie di un uomo che prima si discolpa, quindi accusa, rivolgendosi ora a sé ora a un giudice immaginario. Con ritmo incalzante il protagonista si pone domande fasulle e si dà risposte evasive, mentre viene sempre più in luce il carattere tutt'altro che "mite" della giovane donna.]]> 72 Fyodor Dostoevsky 8807821435 elisa 0 to-read 3.84 1876
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]]> 9711843 Memorie dal sottosuolo (1864) è il libro che annuncia i capolavori della maturità (Delitto e castigo uscirà appena due anni dopo). Già inconfondibilmente dostoevskiana è la voce che procede allo scandaglio dell'animo umano senza risparmiarsi nella e senza indietreggiare davanti alle verità più amare. Con i suoi tratti ampiamente autobiografici, il protagonista delle memorie è un uomo timido, senza risorse e protezioni, che la brutalità della vita sociale respinge nel sottosuolo, e a cui non resta che cercare uno sfogo provvisorio tormentando chi sta ancora più in basso di lui: Liza, misera prostituta alle prime armi, incontrata in una sera di neve bagnata.]]> 136 Fyodor Dostoevsky 8806177095 elisa 0 to-read 4.06 1864
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]]> 341879 Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship, Smith brings the same unique, lyrical quality to Just Kids as she has to the rest of her formidable body of work--from her influential 1975 album Horses to her visual art and poetry.]]> 304 Patti Smith elisa 0 to-read 4.19 2010
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]]> 406235 178 James Baldwin elisa 0 to-read 4.40 1956
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]]> 35031085 This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780143131847.

Mary Shelley's seminal novel of the scientist whose creation becomes a monster.

This edition is the original 1818 text, which preserves the hard-hitting and politically charged aspects of Shelley's original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice. This edition also includes a new introduction and suggestions for further reading by author and Shelley expert Charlotte Gordon, literary excerpts and reviews selected by Gordon and a chronology and essay by preeminent Shelley scholar Charles E. Robinson.]]> 260 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 0143131842 elisa 0 to-read 4.02 1818
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]]> 890 “I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.��

They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. But George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own.

While the powerlessness of the laboring class is a recurring theme in Steinbeck's work of the late 1930s, he narrowed his focus when composing Of Mice and Men, creating an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. But though the scope is narrow, the theme is universal: a friendship and a shared dream that makes an individual's existence meaningful.

A unique perspective on life's hardships, this story has achieved the status of timeless classic due to its remarkable success as a novel, a Broadway play, and three acclaimed films.]]> 107 John Steinbeck 0142000671 elisa 0 to-read 3.88 1937
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]]> 15686 'The sky seemed to rip apart from end to end to pour fire down upon me'

Meursault will not conform. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach, his lack of remorse only compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and law.

Albert Camus' portrayal of a man confronting the absurdity of human life became an existentialist classic. Yet it is also a book filled with quiet joy in the "tender indifference" of the physical world, and Sandra Smith's new translation based on listening to a recording of Camus reading aloud, sensitively renders the subtleties and dreamlike atmosphere of The Outsider.]]> 119 Albert Camus 0141182504 elisa 0 to-read 4.02 1942
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]]> 10210 Alternate editions can be found here and here.

A gothic masterpiece of tempestuous passions and dark secrets, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is edited with an introduction and notes by Stevie Davis in Penguin Classics.

Charlotte Brontë tells the story of orphaned Jane Eyre, who grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, enduring loneliness and cruelty. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she finds employment as a governess to the young ward of Byronic, brooding Mr Rochester. As her feelings for Rochester develop, Jane gradually uncovers Thornfield Hall's terrible secret, forcing her to make a choice. Should she stay with Rochester and live with the consequences, or follow her convictions - even if it means leaving the man she loves? A novel of intense power and intrigue, Jane Eyre dazzled readers with its passionate depiction of a woman's search for equality and freedom.]]> 532 Charlotte Brontë 0142437204 elisa 0 to-read 4.14 1847
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]]> 1885 Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print." The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. And Jane Austen's radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679783268]]> 279 Jane Austen 1441341706 elisa 0 to-read 4.28 1813
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]]> 12483882 Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the prevalent social structures of a lost time, as well as the struggle of the individual against "them" -- a theme that occupied Dazai's life both personally and professionally. This new translation preserves the playful language of the original and offers the reader a new window into the mind of one of the greatest Japanese authors of the 20th century.]]> 103 Osamu Dazai 1935548085 elisa 0 to-read 4.02 1939
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]]> 5113 ‘Everything everybody does is so—I don’t know—not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and—sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you’re conforming just as much only in a different way.��

First published in The New Yorker as two sequential stories, ‘Franny�� and ‘Zooey�� offer a dual portrait of the two youngest members of J. D. Salinger’s fictional Glass family.

Franny Glass is a pretty, effervescent college student on a date with her intellectually confident boyfriend, Lane. They appear to be the perfect couple, but as they struggle to communicate with each other about the things they really care about, slowly their true feelings come to the surface. The second story in this book, ‘Zooey��, plunges us into the world of her ethereal, sophisticated family. When Franny’s emotional and spiritual doubts reach new heights, her older brother Zooey, a misanthropic former child genius, offers her consolation and brotherly advice.

Written in Salinger’s typically irreverent style, these two stories offer a touching snapshot of the distraught mindset of early adulthood and are full of the insightful emotional observations and witty turns of phrase that have helped make Salinger’s reputation what it is today.]]> 201 J.D. Salinger 0316769029 elisa 0 to-read 3.97 1957
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]]> 54275373 104 Banana Yoshimoto 8807033984 elisa 0 to-read 3.65 2011
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]]> 485894 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes."

With it's startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."]]> 201 Franz Kafka 0553213695 elisa 0 to-read 3.90 1915
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]]> 2156 249 Jane Austen 0192802631 elisa 0 to-read 4.15 1817
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]]> 170448 Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.

A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned –a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.
When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.]]> 141 George Orwell 0451526341 elisa 0 to-read 4.07 1945
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]]> 298230 An alternate cover edition can be found here.

Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Brontë wrote Agnes Grey in an effort to represent the many 19th Century women who worked as governesses and suffered daily abuse as a result of their position.

Having lost the family savings on risky investments, Richard Grey removes himself from family life and suffers a bout of depression. Feeling helpless and frustrated, his youngest daughter, Agnes, applies for a job as a governess to the children of a wealthy, upper-class, English family.

Ecstatic at the thought that she has finally gained control and freedom over her own life, Agnes arrives at the Bloomfield mansion armed with confidence and purpose. The cruelty with which the family treat her however, slowly but surely strips the heroine of all dignity and belief in humanity.

A tale of female bravery in the face of isolation and subjugation, Agnes Grey is a masterpiece claimed by Irish writer, George Moore, to be possessed of all the qualities and style of a Jane Austen title. Its simple prosaic style propels the narrative forward in a gentle yet rhythmic manner which continuously leaves the listener wanting to know more.

Anne Brontë, the somewhat lesser known sister, was in fact the first to finish and publish Agnes Grey under the pseudonym of Acton Bell. Charlotte and Emily followed shortly after with Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.

As Anne passed away from what is now known to be pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of just 29, she only published one further title; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. As feminist in nature as Agnes Grey, Anne's brave voice resonates and permeates during one of the most prejudiced and patriarchal times of English history.]]> 226 Anne Brontë 0140432108 elisa 0 to-read 3.71 1847
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]]> 7784887 153 Georges Simenon elisa 0 to-read 3.84 1964
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]]> 110457
The principal narrative is an account of the author's relationship with a girl in the city of Paris, the story of an obsessional presence haunting his life. The first-person narrative is supplemented by forty-four photographs which form an integral part of the work -- pictures of various surreal people, places, and objects which the author visits or is haunted by in naja's presence and which inspire him to mediate on their reality or lack of it. The Nadja of the book is a girl, but, like Bertrand Russell's definition of electricity as not so much a thing as a way things happen, Nadja is not so much a person as the way she makes people behave. She has been described as a state of mind, a feeling about reality, k a kind of vision, and the reader sometimes wonders whether she exists at all. yet it is Nadja who gives form and structure to the novel.]]> 160 André Breton 0802150268 elisa 0 to-read 3.57 1928
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]]> 41880609 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born �� a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam �� and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one's own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard.

With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years.]]> 246 Ocean Vuong 0525562028 elisa 0 to-read 4.06 2019
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]]> 2195464
Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and takes us to places ranging from Tokyo’s Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston among young women who outpace him. Through this marvelous lens of sport emerges a panorama of memories and insights: the eureka moment when he decided to become a writer, his greatest triumphs and disappointments, his passion for vintage LPs, and the experience, after fifty, of seeing his race times improve and then fall back.

By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is rich and revelatory, both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly private writer and for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in running.]]> 188 Haruki Murakami elisa 0 to-read 3.87 2007
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]]> 9553323 163 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 8804506652 elisa 0 to-read 3.65 1774
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]]> 91950 The Myth of Sisyphus transformed twentieth-century philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a world without religious meaning.]]> 192 Albert Camus 0141182008 elisa 0 to-read 4.25 1942
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]]> 36661653 "Finalmente Zeus ebbe un'idea e disse: Credo di aver trovato il modo perché gli uomini possano continuare ad esistere rinunciando però, una volta diventati più deboli, alle loro insolenze. Adesso li taglierà in due uno per uno, e così si indeboliranno, e nel contempo, raddoppiando il loro numero, diventeranno pi utili a noi; e cammineranno eretti su due gambe"
“E fece sì che grazie ad esse generassero gli uni negli altri, mediante il sesso maschile dentro quello femminile, allo scopo che, nell'amplesso, se un uomo si imbatteva in una donna, generassero e ne avesse origine la discendenza; se invece si imbatteva in un altro uomo, si ingenerasse sazietà dello stare assieme e si staccassero per volgersi all'azione e per occuparsi delle altre necessità dell'esistenza"
"E ciascuno di noi, in quanto è stato tagliato come si fa con le sogliole, è la metà , il contrassegno, di un singolo essere; e naturalmente ciascuno cerca il contrassegno di sé stesso"
Platone, Simposio.]]> 93 Plato elisa 0 to-read 4.33 -380
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