lucette's bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 30 Apr 2025 01:54:31 -0700 60 lucette's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg The Alchemist 18144590 The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations.

Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, following our dreams.]]> 182 Paulo Coelho 0062315005 lucette 5 4.01 1988 The Alchemist
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wow depuis le temps que je devais le lire, il m’a fait du bien celui là
]]> Conversations on Love 60429220 289 Natasha Lunn lucette 0 currently-reading 4.17 2021 Conversations on Love
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]]> Baumgartner 214504233 A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning author and “one of the great American prose stylists of our time" (New York Times)


Paul Auster’s brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner -- phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor â€� has just forgotten on the stove.


Baumgartner’s life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals of memory and reminiscence, delineated in episodes spanning from 1968, when Sy and Anna meet as broke students working and writing in New York, through their passionate relationship over the next forty years, and back to Baumgartner’s youth in Newark and his Polish-born father’s life as a dress-shop owner and failed revolutionary.


Rich with compassion, wit, and Auster’s keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient moments of ordinary life, Baumgartner asks: Why do we remember certain moments, and forget others? In one of his most luminous works and his first novel since the Booker-shortlisted tour-de-force 4 3 2 1, Paul Auster captures several lifetimes.]]> 202 Paul Auster 0571384951 lucette 3 3.78 2023 Baumgartner
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]]> Sortir du ventre du loup 222571523 92 Charlotte Melly 2360122134 lucette 3 4.19 Sortir du ventre du loup
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]]> In Praise of Shadows 43890734
‘We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another createsâ€� Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.â€�

The slim book you are holding is in fact a portal. Opening it, you will be led by Junichiro Tanizaki’s light touch into a mysterious and tranquil world of darkness and shadows, where gold flashes in the gloom and a deep stillness reigns. If you are accustomed to equate light with clarity, the faded with the worthless and the dim with the dreary, prepare for a courteous but powerful realignment of your ideas.

In Praise of Shadows is a poetic paean to traditional Japanese aesthetics � in a free-ranging style that moves from architecture to No theatre, and from cookery to lighting, Tanizaki teaches us to see the beauty in tarnished metal, the sombre dignity in unglazed pottery, the primacy of organic materials that bear witness to the regular touch of human hands. It is also astonishingly prescient, offering a gentle warning against the quest for airbrushed perfection, and reminding us that too much light can pollute and obscure our natural world.

In this special edition, the text is accompanied by images, carefully chosen by Vintage Creative Director Suzanne Dean, to complement Tanizaki’s reflections and further illustrate the pattern and beauty of shadows.]]> 128 Jun'ichirƍ Tanizaki 1784875570 lucette 3 3.76 1933 In Praise of Shadows
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]]> Ariel 11739266 Secs, sans cavalier, les mots
Et leur galop infatigable
Quand
Depuis le fond de l'Ă©tang, les Ă©toiles
RĂ©gissent une vie.

« Ariel, gĂ©nie de l'air de La TempĂȘte, de Shakespeare, est aussi le nom du cheval blanc que montait Ă  l'aube dans le Devon, en Angleterre, l'un des plus extraordinaires poĂštes du XXe siĂšcle, Sylvia Plath, aux derniers mois de sa courte vie.
Ariel, borne décisive marquant un "avant" et un "aprÚs", parole intense jusqu'à la rage parfois, question de vie ou de mort.
Ariel, jusqu'au bout, l'extrémité du dernier souffle. »
Valérie Rouzeau.]]> 128 Sylvia Plath 2070441490 lucette 4 3.86 1965 Ariel
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]]> Son odeur aprĂšs la pluie 124030169
Ubac, c’est son nom (la recherche du juste nom est Ă  elle seule une aventure), n’est pas le personnage central de ce livre, CĂ©dric Sapin-Defour, son maĂźtre, encore moins. D’ailleurs, il ne veut pas qu’on le considĂšre comme un maĂźtre. Le hĂ©ros, c’est leur lien. Ce lien unique, Ă©vident et, pour qui l’a explorĂ©, surpassant tellement d’autres relations. Ce lien illisible et inutile pour ceux Ă  qui la compagnie des chiens n’évoque rien. Au grĂ© de treize annĂ©es de vie commune, le lecteur est invitĂ© Ă  tanguer entre la conviction des uns et l’incomprĂ©hension voire la rĂ©pulsion des autres ; mais nul besoin d’ĂȘtre un homme Ă  chiens pour ĂȘtre pris par cette histoire car si pareil Ă©change est inimitable, il est tout autant universel. Certaines pages, Ubac pue le chien, les suivantes, on oublie qu’il en est un et l’on observe ces deux ĂȘtres s’aimant tout simplement.

C’est bien d’amour dont il est question. Un amour incertain, sans rĂ©ponse mais qui, se passant de mots, nous tient en haleine. C’est bien de vie dont il est question. Une vie intense, inquiĂšte et rieuse oĂč tout va plus vite et qu’il s’agit de retenir. C’est bien de mort dont il est question. Cette chose dont on ne voudrait pas mais qui donne Ă  l’existence toute sa substance. Et ce fichu manque. Ces griffes que l’on croit entendre sur le plancher et cette odeur, malgrĂ© la pluie, Ă  jamais disparue.]]> 285 CĂ©dric Sapin-Defour 2234093961 lucette 0 to-read 3.70 Son odeur aprĂšs la pluie
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]]> Clémence en colÚre 199649548 224 Mirion Malle 2360121669 lucette 0 to-read 4.57 2024 Clémence en colÚre
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]]> Adieu triste amour 60672501 224 Mirion Malle 2360121529 lucette 0 to-read 4.39 2022 Adieu triste amour
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]]> Comme un frisson 196325110 0 unknown author 237936012X lucette 0 to-read 4.00 Comme un frisson
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]]> Comme une fleur 219521912 176 Anne Baraou 2413075798 lucette 0 to-read 3.00 Comme une fleur
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]]> No One Knows 214387887 No one really understands how we suffer. One day, when we’re adults, we may come to recall this suffering, this misery, as silly and laughable, but how are we to get through the long, hateful period until then? No one bothers to teach us that.

Osamu Dazai was a master raconteur who plumbed—in an addictive, easy style—the absurd complexities of life in a society whose expectations cannot be met without sacrificing one's individual ideals on the altar of conformity. The gravitational pull of his prose is on full display in these stories. In “Lantern,â€� a young woman, in love with a well-born but impoverished student, shoplifts a bathing suit for him—and ends up in the local newspaper indicted as a crazed, degenerate communist. In “Chiyojo,â€� a high-school girl shows early promise as a writer, but as her uncle and mother relentlessly push her to pursue a literary career, she must ask herself: Is this what I really want? Or am I a proxy for their own frustrated ambitions? In “Shame,â€� a young reader writes a fan letter to a writer she admires, only to find out, upon visiting him, that he’s a bourgeois sophisticate nothing like the desperate rebels he portrays, and decides (in true Dazai style): “Novelists are human trash. No, they’re worse than that; they’re demons â€� They write nothing but lies.â€�

This collection of 14 tales—a half-dozen of which have never before appeared in English—is based on a Japanese collection of “soliloquies by female narrators,â€� as Dazai described them. No One Knows includes the quietly brilliant long story “Schoolgirlâ€� and shows the fiction of this 20th-century genius in a fresh light.]]> 256 Osamu Dazai 0811239330 lucette 0 to-read 4.11 2025 No One Knows
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]]> Crossroads 55881796 Jonathan Franzen's gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads.

It's December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless--unless his wife, Marion, who has her own secret life, beats him to it. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem's sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high-school class, has sharply veered into the counterculture, while their brilliant younger brother Perry, who's been selling drugs to seventh graders, has resolved to be a better person. Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threatens to complicate.

Jonathan Franzen's novels are celebrated for their unforgettably vivid characters and for their keen-eyed take on contemporary America. Now, in Crossroads, Franzen ventures back into the past and explores the history of two generations. With characteristic humor and complexity, and with even greater warmth, he conjures a world that resonates powerfully with our own.

A tour de force of interwoven perspectives and sustained suspense, its action largely unfolding on a single winter day, Crossroads is the story of a Midwestern family at a pivotal moment of moral crisis. Jonathan Franzen's gift for melding the small picture and the big picture has never been more dazzlingly evident.]]> 592 Jonathan Franzen 0374181179 lucette 0 to-read 4.05 2021 Crossroads
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]]> <![CDATA[Dans mon cerveau comme à la maison]]> 210369254 J'ai placé l'égo devant le miroir de la salle de bains et les émotions dans les odeurs de la cuisine.
J'ai caché l'intime sous mon lit et j'ai soigneusement rangé les souvenirs au grenier.
C'est une maison que j'habite et qui m'habite aussi. Je n'en ai pas les clefs tous les jours mais je m'y sens bien.
Bienvenue à ma journée portes ouvertes.
Math]]> 224 Cht.am 2073075509 lucette 0 to-read 4.38 Dans mon cerveau comme Ă  la maison
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]]> Alouette 221411937 En eaux troubles

Avant de s’échouer sur une Ăźle Ă©trange, Alouette a fait un long voyage en mer enfermĂ©e dans un cercueil en bois. Seule, dĂ©sorientĂ©e, elle ne se souvient de rien Ă  part de Pilou, son petit frĂšre qui n’est pas Ă  ses cĂŽtĂ©s. Bien dĂ©cidĂ©e Ă  le retrouver, elle va d’abord devoir survivre ! Car cette terre est hostile et peuplĂ©es d’animaux inquiĂ©tants. LivrĂ©e Ă  elle-mĂȘme, sans repĂšres, Alouette est miraculeusement recueillie par les deux seuls habitants de l'ileÌę: un ancien capitaine de la navale un peu farfelu et une femme austĂšre qui cache un lourd secret. Cela fait bien longtemps qu’ils ont renoncĂ© Ă  l’idĂ©e de quitter cette Ăźle, trop dangereux. Pourtant Alouette garde espoir, elle sait que son frĂšre a besoin d’elleâ€� À mesure qu’elle s’acclimate, des bribes de souvenirs vont refaire surface, ces flashs lui rĂ©vĂšlent un passĂ© trouble oĂč la misĂšre et le froid vous transpercent les os. Mais qui est vraiment Alouette et d’oĂč vient-elle ? BientĂŽt la jeune fille va redoubler d’efforts pour construire un radeau. Elle n’a qu’un but, quitter cette maudite Ăźle oĂč hallucinations, rĂȘves et crĂ©atures hybrides se confondent. Mais rattrapĂ©e par ses souvenirs, elle devra faire face Ă  ses dĂ©mons et accepter son passĂ© si elle veut avancerâ€�
RĂ©cit aux allures survivalistes aux confins de la folie et du difficile chemin vers l’acceptation, Alouette nous surprend par sa fluiditĂ© narrative et la richesse de ses diffĂ©rents niveaux de lecture. Une Ɠuvre sensible et subtile pour un jeune dessinateur prometteur qui signe lĂ  son premier album solo.]]> AndrĂ©a Delcorte 2331085099 lucette 0 to-read 3.00 2025 Alouette
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]]> Post Office 40409718 162 Charles Bukowski lucette 0 to-read 3.89 1971 Post Office
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]]> Queer 228151030 208 William S. Burroughs 0141189916 lucette 0 to-read 3.22 1985 Queer
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]]> The Gentleman from Peru 222532762
Deeply atmospheric and sensual, The Gentleman From Peru weaves achingly poignant insight into a story of regret, fate and epic love.]]> 175 André Aciman 0571385125 lucette 0 to-read 3.66 2020 The Gentleman from Peru
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]]> Room on the Sea 222532824
What begins as a flirtation quickly evolves into something deeper, something Paul and Catherine must carry on in secret—and with the understanding that anything more than a casual crush is out of the question. But as the week draws to a close, the end of their rendezvous comes into focus, and Paul and Catherine are forced to decide whether to act on their feelings or leave the fantasy of what could have been to the annals of the past.

By turns scintillating and philosophical, Room on the Sea is a compulsively listenable story of love, fate, and last chances.

©2022 Andre Aciman (P)2022 Audible Originals, Inc.]]> 176 André Aciman 0571385141 lucette 0 to-read 3.67 2025 Room on the Sea
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]]> Cat's People 215805897 A stray cat brings together five strangers over the course of one fateful summer in this heartwarming novel about love, found family, and the power of connection.

NĂșria, a single-by-choice barista with a resentment for the “crazy cat ladyâ€� label, is a member of The Meow-Yorkers, a group in Brooklyn who takes care of the neighborhood’s stray cats. On one of her volunteering days, she starts finding Post-It notes from a secret admirer at the spot where her favorite stray lives—a black cat named Cat. Like most cats, he is rather curious and sly, so of course he knows who the notes are from. NĂșria, however, is clueless.

Are the notes from Collin, a bestselling author and self-professed hermit with a weakness for good coffee? Are they from Lily, a fresh-out-of-high school Georgia native searching for her long-lost half-sister? Are they from Omar, the beloved neighborhood mailman going through an early mid-life crisis? Or are they from Bong, the grieving widower who owns her favorite bodega? When Cat suddenly falls ill, these five strangers find themselves connected in their desire to care for him and discover that chance encounters can lead to the meaningful connections they've been searching for.]]> 304 Tanya Guerrero 059387384X lucette 0 to-read 4.23 2025 Cat's People
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]]> Connemara 59822795 Et pourtant le sentiment de gùchis est là, les années ont passé, tout a déçu.
Christophe, lui, vient de dĂ©passer la quarantaine. Il n’a jamais quittĂ© ce bled oĂč ils ont grandi avec HĂ©lĂšne. Il n’est plus si beau. Il a fait sa vie Ă  petits pas, privilĂ©giant les copains, la teuf, remettant au lendemain les grands efforts, les grandes dĂ©cisions, l’ñge des choix. Aujourd’hui, il vend de la bouffe pour chien, rĂȘve de rejouer au hockey comme Ă  seize ans, vit avec son pĂšre et son fils, une petite vie peinarde et indĂ©cise. On pourrait croire qu’il a tout ratĂ©.
Et pourtant il croit dur comme fer que tout est encore possible.
Connemara c’est cette histoire des comptes qu’on rĂšgle avec le passĂ© et du travail aujourd’hui, entre PowerPoint et open space. C’est surtout le rĂ©cit de ce tremblement au mitan de la vie, quand le dĂ©cor est bien plantĂ© et que l’envie de tout refaire gronde en nous. Le rĂ©cit d’un amour qui se cherche par-delĂ  les distances dans un pays qui chante Sardou et va voter contre soi.]]> 400 Nicolas Mathieu 2330159706 lucette 0 to-read 3.81 2022 Connemara
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]]> <![CDATA[Quelqu'un plus tard se souviendra de nous]]> 8663153 192 Sappho 2070437361 lucette 0 to-read 4.12 2010 Quelqu'un plus tard se souviendra de nous
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]]> Ma Maison en fleurs 177192750
Ma maison en fleurs, c'est l'intimitĂ© et la difficultĂ© d'ĂȘtre au monde parfois. C'est l'idĂ©e que l'on reste sa propre maison, mĂȘme dans l'incendie. Pauline Bilisari y parle du rapport Ă  soi, au corps, et Ă  tout ce que l'on est. Elle Ă©crit la santĂ© mentale, la souffrance de vivre, et la force que l'on porte en soi, mĂȘme lorsqu'on l'oublie. Elle y conte la puissance avec laquelle on peut se haĂŻr, mais surtout la façon dont on peut apprendre Ă  se connaĂźtre, s'accepter, et peut-ĂȘtre mĂȘme finir par s'aimer, un jour.

"Le chemin est long, semĂ© d'embĂ»ches, je le parcours moi-mĂȘme encore, mais je vous confie mon cƓur, dans sa vulnĂ©rabilitĂ©, sa sensibilitĂ© Ă  fleur de peau, et sa rĂ©silience."]]> 208 Pauline Bilisari 2221272552 lucette 0 to-read 4.32 Ma Maison en fleurs
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]]> <![CDATA[Le Fantastique voyage de Nicola au pays des démons T01]]> 219521448
Un voyage inattendu dans un monde rempli de merveilles digne de Tim Burton.]]> 208 Asaya Miyanaga 2373493098 lucette 0 to-read 4.18 Le Fantastique voyage de Nicola au pays des démons T01
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]]> Contes fabuleux de la nuit 208931501 208 Miyako Miiya 281020795X lucette 0 to-read 3.26 Contes fabuleux de la nuit
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]]> <![CDATA[La ForĂȘt magique de Hoshigahara, #1]]> 202951979 208 Hisae Iwaoka 2810207747 lucette 0 to-read 3.75 2011 La ForĂȘt magique de Hoshigahara, #1
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]]> Morgana and Oz, Vol. 1 198110742
Morgana belongs to a long line of witches, and Oz to the rival vampire clan. After a chance encounter . . . and maybe a few stray spells . . . these two need to find a way to work together, or risk all-out war between coven and clan.

It's a Romeo and Juliet story where a boy and a girl from two rival clans, one a vampire and one a witch, meet cute, like each other, but then the girl makes a serious mistake and turns the boy into a cute kitty.

Collecting episodes 1-19 of the hit fantasy WEBTOON series.]]> 320 Miyuli 1998854833 lucette 0 to-read 4.39 2024 Morgana and Oz, Vol. 1
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]]> <![CDATA[Comment les riches ravagent la planĂšte: Et comment les en empĂȘcher]]> 211868227 InspirĂ©e de Comment les riches dĂ©truisent la planĂšte, best-seller paru en 2007 et traduit en douze langues qui a largement contribuĂ© Ă  montrer l'articulation intime entre crise Ă©cologique et crise sociale, cette bande dessinĂ©e s'imposait pour en actualiser les donnĂ©es et le constat. Elle raconte comment, en bientĂŽt vingt ans, l'oligarchie a augmentĂ© sa passion destructrice et endossĂ© les nouveaux habits du capitalisme.
Dans ce livre, on rit, on pleure, on apprend, on mobilise : c'est un outil pour changer le monde. Il y a urgence.]]> 128 HervĂ© Kempf 2021552500 lucette 0 to-read 4.04 Comment les riches ravagent la planĂšte: Et comment les en empĂȘcher
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]]> Plantasia 222571349 144 Vincent Dock 2377318606 lucette 0 to-read 4.13 Plantasia
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]]> <![CDATA[Les femmes ne meurent pas par hasard]]> 220256441 189 Charlotte Rotman 2368468986 lucette 0 to-read 4.48 Les femmes ne meurent pas par hasard
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]]> AbĂźmes (French Edition) 231609391 178 Lucile Corbeille lucette 0 to-read 4.00 AbĂźmes (French Edition)
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]]> Chips aux oignons 219371463 112 Amicie PETREMENT 2377544045 lucette 0 to-read 3.67 Chips aux oignons
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]]> <![CDATA[La voix des harpies: Bienvenue sur l’Olympe en pleine rĂ©volution fĂ©ministe...]]> 222035751 128 NoĂ©mie Fachan lucette 0 to-read 4.82 La voix des harpies: Bienvenue sur l’Olympe en pleine rĂ©volution fĂ©ministe...
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]]> Fat Cop 219552648 Johnny Ryan 2487609133 lucette 0 to-read 0.0 2024 Fat Cop
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]]> <![CDATA[Daisy Haites (Magnolia Parks Universe, #2)]]> 59708060
As their romance blossoms into something neither were anticipating, Daisy, Christian, and Julian each have to come to terms with the fact that in this life everything comes at a price. As their relationships intersect and tangle, they all learn that sometimes life’s most worthwhile pursuits can only be paid in blood.]]> 436 Jessa Hastings lucette 5 omg 4.09 2021 Daisy Haites (Magnolia Parks Universe, #2)
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average rating: 4.09
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rating: 5
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]]> La fin des monstres 123281693
En 2020, Tal Madesta entame une transition de genre. En prenant ce chemin qui implique de redĂ©finir entiĂšrement son rapport Ă  soi, aux autres, au monde social, il va faire l’expĂ©rience dĂ©solante de la violence transphobe et du deuil. Mais Il va aussi dĂ©couvrir la joie d’aimer autrement et d’expĂ©rimenter avec intensitĂ© sa propre libertĂ©.

Entre rage et lumiĂšre, Tal Madesta livre le rĂ©cit d’une rĂ©volution intime, en mĂȘme temps qu’un plaidoyer passionnĂ© pour l’émancipation des personnes trans.]]> 92 Tal Madesta 2492300285 lucette 0 to-read 4.54 La fin des monstres
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]]> <![CDATA[Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?]]> 11395597
Jeanette Winterson's novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most admired books of the past few decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents that is now often required reading in contemporary fiction.

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a memoir about a life's work to find happiness. It's a book full of stories: about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night; about a religious zealot disguised as a mother who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the dresser, waiting for Armageddon; about growing up in an north England industrial town now changed beyond recognition; about the Universe as Cosmic Dustbin.

It is the story of how a painful past that Jeanette thought she'd written over and repainted rose to haunt her, sending her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her biological mother.]]> 230 Jeanette Winterson 0307401243 lucette 0 to-read 3.99 2011 Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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]]> <![CDATA[We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir]]> 59686816
A vocal and fearless opponent, Aziz resists under the British mandatory period, then under Jordan, and, finally, under Israel. As a young man, Raja fails to recognise his father's courage and, in turn, his father does not appreciate Raja's own efforts in campaigning for Palestinian human rights. When Aziz is murdered in 1985, it changes Raja irrevocably.

This is not only the story of the battle against the various oppressors of the Palestinians, but a moving portrait of a particular father and son relationship.]]> 160 Raja Shehadeh 1788169972 lucette 0 to-read 4.18 2023 We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir
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]]> Misogynie 60736138
From one of the finest writers working today, Keegan's new story asks if a lack of generosity might ruin what could be between men and women.]]> 45 Claire Keegan 2848054549 lucette 0 to-read 3.72 2023 Misogynie
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]]> <![CDATA[A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)]]> 60521937
This is my last love letter to you, though some would call it a confession. . .

Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger, Constanta is transformed from a medieval peasant into a bride fit for an undying king. But when Dracula draws a cunning aristocrat and a starving artist into his web of passion and deceit, Constanta realizes that her beloved is capable of terrible things.

Finding comfort in the arms of her rival consorts, she begins to unravel their husband's dark secrets. With the lives of everyone she loves on the line, Constanta will have to choose between her own freedom and her love for her husband. But bonds forged by blood can only be broken by death.]]> 292 S.T. Gibson 0316501077 lucette 3 3.91 2021 A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)
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not a favorite, but I got very attached to the characters. I think I’d have felt more in the mood if I'd read it in Autumn/winter period. Beyond this feeling linked to the reading period, the plot of re-imagining dracula's story through a queer and polyamorous reading from a female pov is exceptional and truly inspiring <3
]]> <![CDATA[The Nutcracker: Hoffmann and Dumas]]> 7230514 Read the full story of the gallant Nutcracker Prince, and revel in the magic of a delightful Christmas tradition.

The Nutcracker: The Classic Christmas Fantasy features two rare versions of the holiday tale that was adapted for Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet, The Nutcracker. E.T.A. Hoffmann’s original fairy tale, “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,â€� published in 1816 and Alexandre Dumas’s interpretation, “The History of a Nutcracker,â€� published in 1845.

Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of vintage drawings from the nineteenth century, this beautifully designed book kindles the spirit of the holidays through its timeless tale of an enchanted nutcracker made human through the love of a young girl, and the couple’s magical journey through exotic lands of sweets and spices.

The set also contains a decorative 8-inch nutcracker figurine!



]]> 224 E.T.A. Hoffmann 1435117131 lucette 0 to-read 3.63 The Nutcracker: Hoffmann and Dumas
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]]> <![CDATA[Dix raisons de vouloir ĂȘtre chat]]> 199583299
Qui n’a pas un jour voulu ĂȘtre chat ? Tout Ă  la fois gracieux, agile et indiffĂ©rent, le chat attire Ă  lui toutes les convoitises. 10 raisons de vouloir ĂȘtre chat sont autant de maniĂšres d’ĂȘtre convoquĂ©es pour Ă©chapper Ă  pas feutrĂ©s Ă  sa condition d’homme. Pour s’extirper d’un quotidien tapissĂ© d’obligations assommantes, pour vaincre la lassitude, s’offrir le luxe de se prĂ©lasser sans se prĂ©occuper du temps qui passe, pour dĂ©clarer un je t’aime sans bĂ©gayer, pour disposer de son corps sans contraintes, pour rĂ©gler ses problĂšmes de vue, se satisfaire de sa simple existence, et enfin pour le simple fait de l’écrire, parce que l’écrire c’est dĂ©jĂ  l’ĂȘtre un peu. Fin observateur des scĂšnes de la vie courante, l’auteur puise dans ses souvenirs, de l’enfant Ă  l’adulte, et revient sur les circonstances oĂč s’est exprimĂ© le dĂ©sir d’ĂȘtre chat.

Par sa langue rugueuse, son style impudique et juste, il nous fait part de son admiration pour cet animal tant fascinant qu’enjĂŽleur pour enfin s’extraire de la monotonie. En une tentative d’incarnation, ValĂ©rio RomĂŁo invite chacun Ă  quitter sa peau d’humain, l’espace d’un instant, le temps d’une lecture.]]> 96 ValĂ©rio RomĂŁo 2367322651 lucette 0 to-read 2.50 2015 Dix raisons de vouloir ĂȘtre chat
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]]> Howl and Other Poems 6295
Howl and Other Poems is a collection of Ginsberg's finest work, including "Howl," one of the principal works of the Beat Generation as well as "A Supermarket in California," "Transcription of Organ Music," "Sunflower Sutra," "America," "In the Baggage Room at Greyhound," and some of his earlier works.Ìę]]> 56 Allen Ginsberg 0872863107 lucette 0 to-read, rory-gilmore 4.14 1956 Howl and Other Poems
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average rating: 4.14
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]]> The Complete Poems 47730 Live or Die, as well as seven poems from her last years.]]> 622 Anne Sexton 0395957761 lucette 0 to-read, rory-gilmore 4.29 1981 The Complete Poems
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average rating: 4.29
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]]> <![CDATA[The Five People You Meet in Heaven]]> 3431
Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: "Why was I here?"]]> 196 Mitch Albom 0786868716 lucette 0 to-read, rory-gilmore 4.01 2003 The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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]]> <![CDATA[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]> 14940 272 Edward Albee 0451218590 lucette 0 4.07 1962 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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]]> <![CDATA[Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson]]> 6900
Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you?

Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying of ALS - or motor neurone disease - Mitch visited Morrie in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final 'class': lessons in how to live.]]> 210 Mitch Albom lucette 0 4.19 1997 Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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]]> The Year of Magical Thinking 7815
From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage–and a life, in good times and bad–that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.

Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later–the night before New Year's Eve–the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma.

This powerful book is Didion's attempt to make sense of the "weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself."]]> 227 Joan Didion 1400078431 lucette 0 3.94 2005 The Year of Magical Thinking
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]]> Tender Is the Night 46164 Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character, Tender Is the Night is lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative.]]> 430 F. Scott Fitzgerald lucette 0 3.81 1934 Tender Is the Night
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]]> <![CDATA[Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)]]> 228296
Suppose that only after you became pregnant did you begin to suspect the building harbored a diabolically evil group of devil worshippers who had mastered the arts of black magic and witchcraft.

Suppose that this satanic conspiracy set out to claim not only your husband but your baby.

Well, that's what happened to Rosemary... Or did it...?]]> 308 Ira Levin 0451194004 lucette 0 to-read, rory-gilmore 4.04 1967 Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
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average rating: 4.04
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]]> Flowers for Algernon 18373 Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, the powerful, classic story about a man who receives an operation that turns him into a genius...and introduces him to heartache.
Ìę
Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence � a procedure that has already been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon.

As the treatment takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment appears to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance, until Algernon suddenly deteriorates. Will the same happen to Charlie?]]> 311 Daniel Keyes 015603008X lucette 0 4.19 1966 Flowers for Algernon
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]]> A Room with a View 3087
Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her, until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Bertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son George.

Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and the repressed morals of Edwardian England, personified in her terminally dull fiancé Cecil Vyse. Will she ever learn to follow her own heart?]]> 119 E.M. Forster 1420925431 lucette 0 to-read, rory-gilmore 3.91 1908 A Room with a View
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]]> Oliver Twist 18254
The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the Artful Dodger, vicious burglar Bill Sikes, his dog Bull's Eye, and prostitute Nancy, all watched over by cunning master-thief Fagin. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.

This Penguin Classics edition of Oliver Twist is the first critical edition to faithfully reproduce the text as its earliest readers would have encountered it from its serialisation in Bentley's Miscellany, and includes an introduction by Philip Horne, a glossary of Victorian thieves' slang, a chronology of Dickens's life, a map of contemporary London and all of George Cruikshank's original illustrations.

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.]]> 608 Charles Dickens lucette 0 3.88 1838 Oliver Twist
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]]> A Room of One’s Own 18521 A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October, 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled Women and Fiction, and hence the essay, are considered nonfiction. The essay is seen as a feminist text, and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy.]]> 112 Virginia Woolf lucette 0 4.22 1929 A Room of One’s Own
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]]> The Virgin Suicides 10956 250 Jeffrey Eugenides 0747560595 lucette 0 3.81 1993 The Virgin Suicides
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)]]> 236093 Come along, Toto, she said. We will go to the Emerald City and ask the Great Oz how to get back to Kansas again.

Swept away from her home in Kansas by a tornado, Dorothy and her dog Toto find themselves stranded in the fantastical Land of Oz. As instructed by the Good Witch of the North and the Munchkins, Dorothy sets off on the yellow brick road to try and find her way to the Emerald City and the Wizard of Oz, who can help her get home. With her companions the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion, Dorothy experiences an adventure full of friendship, magic and danger. A much-loved children's classic, The Wizard of Oz continues to delight readers young and old with its enchanting tale of witches, flying monkeys and silver shoes.

]]> 154 L. Frank Baum 0140621679 lucette 0 4.00 1900 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
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]]> The Metamorphosis 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 lucette 0 3.90 1915 The Metamorphosis
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]]> One Hundred Years of Solitude 320 417 Gabriel GarcĂ­a MĂĄrquez lucette 0 to-read, rory-gilmore 4.10 1967 One Hundred Years of Solitude
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average rating: 4.10
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]]> Macbeth 8852
This shocking tragedy - a violent caution to those seeking power for its own sake - is, to this day, one of Shakespeare’s most popular and influential masterpieces.]]> 249 William Shakespeare 0743477103 lucette 0 3.90 Macbeth
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]]> Lord of the Flies 7624 182 William Golding 0140283331 lucette 0 3.70 1954 Lord of the Flies
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]]> <![CDATA[The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time]]> 1618 226 Mark Haddon 1400032717 lucette 0 to-read, rory-gilmore 3.89 2003 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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]]> Madame Bovary 2175 329 Gustave Flaubert 0192840398 lucette 0 3.70 1856 Madame Bovary
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]]> Rebecca 17899948 Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again...

The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives--presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.

First published in 1938, this classic gothic novel is such a compelling read that it won the Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Century.]]> 449 Daphne du Maurier 0316323705 lucette 0 to-read, rory-gilmore 4.28 1938 Rebecca
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]]> The Kite Runner 77203 371 Khaled Hosseini 159463193X lucette 0 to-read, rory-gilmore 4.34 2003 The Kite Runner
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]]> The Time Traveler's Wife 18619684 537 Audrey Niffenegger 1939126010 lucette 0 to-read, rory-gilmore 4.07 2003 The Time Traveler's Wife
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]]> Of Mice and Men 890 “I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.â€�

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 lucette 0 3.88 1937 Of Mice and Men
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]]> <![CDATA[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]> 2956 327 Mark Twain 0142437174 lucette 0 3.82 1884 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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]]> Northanger Abbey 50398 Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Austen's "Gothic parody." Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers give the story an uncanny air, but one with a decidedly satirical twist.

The story's unlikely heroine is Catherine Morland, a remarkably innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Catherine, a great reader of Gothic thrillers, lets the shadowy atmosphere of the old mansion fill her mind with terrible suspicions. What is the mystery surrounding the death of Henry's mother? Is the family concealing a terrible secret within the elegant rooms of the Abbey? Can she trust Henry, or is he part of an evil conspiracy? Catherine finds dreadful portents in the most prosaic events, until Henry persuades her to see the peril in confusing life with art.

Executed with high-spirited gusto, Northanger Abbey is a lighthearted, yet unsentimental commentary on love and marriage.]]> 260 Jane Austen 1593082649 lucette 0 3.85 1817 Northanger Abbey
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]]> Anna Karenina 15823480 Anna Karenina provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in Russia and of humanity in general. In it Tolstoy uses his intense imaginative insight to create some of the most memorable characters in all of literature. Anna is a sophisticated woman who abandons her empty existence as the wife of Karenin and turns to Count Vronsky to fulfil her passionate nature - with tragic consequences. Levin is a reflection of Tolstoy himself, often expressing the author's own views and convictions.

Throughout, Tolstoy points no moral, merely inviting us not to judge but to watch. As Rosemary Edmonds comments, 'He leaves the shifting patterns of the kaleidoscope to bring home the meaning of the brooding words following the title, 'Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.]]> 964 Leo Tolstoy 0345803922 lucette 0 4.11 1878 Anna Karenina
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]]> Emma 6969 The newest edition is here. Another alternate cover can be found here.

Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.]]> 474 Jane Austen 0141439580 lucette 0 4.05 1815 Emma
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]]> Gone with the Wind 18405 1037 Margaret Mitchell 0446365386 lucette 0 to-read, rory-gilmore 4.30 1936 Gone with the Wind
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]]> Brave New World 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 Machineâ€� (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 lucette 0 to-read, rory-gilmore 3.99 1932 Brave New World
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]]> Sense and Sensibility 14935 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141439662

'The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!'

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.

This edition includes explanatory notes, textual variants between the first and second editions, and Tony Tanner's introduction to the original Penguin Classic edition.]]> 409 Jane Austen 0141439661 lucette 0 4.10 1811 Sense and Sensibility
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]]> The Catcher in the Rye 5107 It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school...

Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters—shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends. The city is beautiful and terrible, in all its neon loneliness and seedy glamour, its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning.

The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic in coming-of-age literature- an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind.

J.D. Salinger's (1919�2010) classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in the 1950's and 60's it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read.]]> 277 J.D. Salinger 0316769177 lucette 0 3.81 1951 The Catcher in the Rye
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]]> Hamlet 1420 289 William Shakespeare 0521618746 lucette 0 4.02 1601 Hamlet
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]]> Alice in Wonderland 13023 This is an adaptation. For the editions of the original book, see here .

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.]]> 96 Jane Carruth 0517223627 lucette 0 4.03 1865 Alice in Wonderland
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]]> Frankenstein 18490 This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780141439471

'Now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart ...'

Obsessed with creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life with electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear. Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley near Byron's villa on Lake Geneva. It would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity.

Based on the third edition of 1831, this volume contains all the revisions Mary Shelley made to her story, as well as her 1831 introduction and Percy Bysshe Shelley's preface to the first edition. This revised edition includes as appendices a select collation of the texts of 1818 and 1831 together with 'A Fragment' by Lord Byron and Dr John Polidori's 'The Vampyre: A Tale'.]]> 288 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley lucette 0 rory-gilmore 3.77 1818 Frankenstein
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]]> Romeo and Juliet 18135 Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families disapprove; the Montagues and the Capulets are engaged in a blood feud.

In this death-filled setting, the movement from love at first sight to the lovers� final union in death seems almost inevitable. And yet, this play set in an extraordinary world has become the quintessential story of young love. In part because of its exquisite language, it is easy to respond as if it were about all young lovers.]]> 281 William Shakespeare 0743477111 lucette 0 3.74 1597 Romeo and Juliet
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]]> Fahrenheit 451 17470674
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books.

The classic dystopian novel of a post-literate future, Fahrenheit 451 stands alongside Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World as a prophetic account of Western civilization’s enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity.

Bradbury’s powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which, decades on from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.

--back cover]]> 227 Ray Bradbury 0007491565 lucette 0 4.01 1953 Fahrenheit 451
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]]> The Bell Jar 6514 294 Sylvia Plath 0571268862 lucette 0 4.05 1963 The Bell Jar
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]]> <![CDATA[The Perks of Being a Wallflower]]> 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 lucette 0 rory-gilmore, to-read 4.24 1999 The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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]]> The Diary of a Young Girl 48855
In 1942, with the Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, the Franks and another family lived cloistered in the “Secret Annexeâ€� of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and surprisingly humorous, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.
--back cover]]> 283 Anne Frank lucette 0 to-read 4.19 1947 The Diary of a Young Girl
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]]> <![CDATA[Little Women (Little Women, #1)]]> 1934 This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451529305.

Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their devotion to each other and their struggles to survive in New England during the Civil War.

It is no secret that Alcott based Little Women on her own early life. While her father, the freethinking reformer and abolitionist Bronson Alcott, hobnobbed with such eminent male authors as Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Louisa supported herself and her sisters with "woman’s work,â€� including sewing, doing laundry, and acting as a domestic servant. But she soon discovered she could make more money writing. Little Women brought her lasting fame and fortune, and far from being the "girl’s bookâ€� her publisher requested, it explores such timeless themes as love and death, war and peace, the conflict between personal ambition and family responsibilities, and the clash of cultures between Europe and America.

]]> 449 Louisa May Alcott lucette 0 4.16 1868 Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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]]> Wuthering Heights 6185 You can find the redesigned cover of this edition HERE.

At the centre of this novel is the passionate love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff - recounted with such emotional intensity that a plain tale of the Yorkshire moors acquires the depth and simplicity of ancient tragedy.

This best-selling Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1847 first edition of the novel. For the Fourth Edition, the editor has collated the 1847 text with several modern editions and has corrected a number of variants, including accidentals. The text is accompanied by entirely new explanatory annotations.

New to the fourth Edition are twelve of Emily Bronte's letters regarding the publication of the 1847 edition of Wuthering Heights as well as the evolution of the 1850 edition, prose and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and Edward Chitham's insightful and informative chronology of the creative process behind the beloved work.

Five major critical interpretations of Wuthering Heights are included, three of them new to the Fourth Edition. A Stuart Daley considers the importance of chronology in the novel. J. Hillis Miller examines Wuthering Heights's problems of genre and critical reputation. Sandra M. Gilbert assesses the role of Victorian Christianity plays in the novel, while Martha Nussbaum traces the novel's romanticism. Finally, Lin Haire-Sargeant scrutinizes the role of Heathcliff in film adaptations of Wuthering Heights.

A Chronology and updated Selected Bibliography are also included.]]> 464 Emily Brontë lucette 0 3.89 1847 Wuthering Heights
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]]> Pride and Prejudice 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 lucette 0 4.28 1813 Pride and Prejudice
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]]> The Great Gatsby 4671 The only edition of the beloved classic that is authorized by Fitzgerald’s family and from his lifelong publisher.

This edition is the enduring original text, updated with the author’s own revisions, a foreword by his granddaughter, and with a new introduction by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published by Scribner in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.]]> 180 F. Scott Fitzgerald 0743273567 lucette 4 3.93 1925 The Great Gatsby
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average rating: 3.93
book published: 1925
rating: 4
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]]> To Kill a Mockingbird 2657 "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

"To Kill A Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film.]]> 323 Harper Lee 0060935464 lucette 0 4.25 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird
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]]> The Picture of Dorian Gray 5297
In this celebrated work Wilde forged a devastating portrait of the effects of evil and debauchery on a young aesthete in late-19th-century England. Combining elements of the Gothic horror novel and decadent French fiction, the book centers on a striking premise: As Dorian Gray sinks into a life of crime and gross sensuality, his body retains perfect youth and vigor while his recently painted portrait grows day by day into a hideous record of evil, which he must keep hidden from the world. For over a century, this mesmerizing tale of horror and suspense has enjoyed wide popularity. It ranks as one of Wilde's most important creations and among the classic achievements of its kind.]]> 272 Oscar Wilde lucette 0 4.13 1890 The Picture of Dorian Gray
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]]> Jane Eyre 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 lucette 0 4.14 1847 Jane Eyre
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]]> 1984 61439040
Alternate cover edition can be found here.]]> 368 George Orwell 0452284236 lucette 0 4.21 1949 1984
author: George Orwell
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]]> Ghosts 50042494
A new relationship couldn't have come at a better time - her thirties have not been the liberating, uncomplicated experience she was sold. Everywhere she turns, she is reminded of time passing and opportunities dwindling. Friendships are fading, ex-boyfriends are moving on and, worse, everyone's moving to the suburbs. There's no solace to be found in her family, with a mum who's caught in a baffling mid-life makeover and a beloved dad who is vanishing in slow-motion into dementia.

Dolly Alderton's debut novel is funny and tender, filled with whip-smart observations about relationships, family, memory, and how we live now.]]> 352 Dolly Alderton 0241434548 lucette 0 to-read, to-buy 3.86 2020 Ghosts
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]]> <![CDATA[What I Talk About When I Talk About Running]]> 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 lucette 0 to-read, to-buy 3.87 2007 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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]]> In the Dream House 43317482 251 Carmen Maria Machado 1644450038 lucette 0 to-read, to-buy 4.41 2019 In the Dream House
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]]> The Book of Goose 171089697
'Sly, profound � Electrifying' Observer

‘Wonderfully strange and aliveâ€� Jon McGregor
A propulsive, seductive new novel about friendship, exploitation and intimacy from the prize-winning author of Where Reasons End

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

As children in a backwater town, they’d built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves â€� until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching AgnĂšs on an epic trajectory through fame, fortune, and terrible loss.

‘Beguiling â€� A shimmering, unsettling tale of exploitation and manipulationâ€� Daily Mail

‘Haunting and strange â€� Li has made her style her ownâ€� Tessa Hadley, Guardian

‘A dazzling, subtle, skilful knockoutâ€� Charlotte Mendelson, author of The Exhibitionist]]> 368 Yiyun Li 0008531854 lucette 0 to-read, to-buy 3.81 2022 The Book of Goose
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]]> Pure Colour 57693639 Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and an absurdly funny guide to the great (and terrible) things about being alive. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience, and she has reimagined what a book can hold.

Here we are, just living in the first draft of Creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart.

In this first draft of the world, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira’s chest like a portal—to what, she doesn’t know. When Mira is older, her beloved father dies, and his spirit passes into her. Together, they become a leaf on a tree. But photosynthesis gets boring, and being alive is a problem that cannot be solved, even by a leaf. Eventually, Mira must remember the human world she’s left behind, including Annie, and choose whether or not to return.]]> 224 Sheila Heti 0374603944 lucette 0 to-read, to-buy 3.46 2022 Pure Colour
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]]> Happy Hour 54173267 With the verve and bite of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and the whip-smart, wisecracking sensibility of a golden-age Hollywood heroine, Marlowe Granados’s stunning dĂ©but brilliantly captures a summer of striving in New York City.

Refreshing and wry in equal measure, Happy Hour is an intoxicating novel of youth well spent. Isa Epley is all of twenty-one years old, and already wise enough to understand that the purpose of life is the pursuit of pleasure. After a sojourn across the pond, she arrives in New York City for a summer of adventure with her best friend, one newly blond Gala Novak. They have little money, but that’s hardly going to stop them from having a good time.

In her diary, Isa describes a sweltering summer in the glittering city. By day, the girls sell clothes in a market stall, pinching pennies for their Bed-Stuy sublet and bodega lunches. By night, they weave from Brooklyn to the Upper East Side to the Hamptons among a rotating cast of celebrities, artists, Internet entrepreneurs, stuffy intellectuals, and bad-mannered grifters. Money runs ever tighter and the strain tests their friendship as they try to convert their social capital into something more lasting than their precarious gigs as au pairs, nightclub hostesses, paid audience members, and aspiring foot fetish models. Through it all, Isa’s bold, beguiling voice captures the precise thrill of cultivating a life of glamour and intrigue as she juggles paying her dues with skipping out on the bill.

Happy Hour announces a dazzling new talent in Marlowe Granados, whose exquisite wit recalls Anita Loos’s 1925 classic, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, updated to evoke a recent, golden period of hope and transformation—the summer of 2013. A cri de cƓur for party girls and anyone who has ever felt entitled to an adventure of their own, Happy Hour is an effervescent tonic for the ails of contemporary life.]]> 280 Marlowe Granados 1989919006 lucette 0 to-read, to-buy 3.46 2020 Happy Hour
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]]> Dark Days 36436060 'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded'

Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.]]> 50 James Baldwin 0241337542 lucette 0 to-read, to-buy 4.40 2018 Dark Days
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]]> White Nights 29610266
A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer.

One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.]]> 128 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0241252083 lucette 0 to-read, to-buy 4.02 1848 White Nights
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]]> Mr Salary 34234631 My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all.

Years ago, Sukie moved in with Nathan because her mother was dead and her father was difficult, and she had nowhere else to go. Now they are on the brink of the inevitable.

Sally Rooney is one of the most acclaimed young talents of recent years. With her minute attention to the power dynamics in everyday speech, she builds up sexual tension and throws a deceptively low-key glance at love and death.]]> 33 Sally Rooney 0571351956 lucette 0 to-read, to-buy 3.76 2016 Mr Salary
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]]> The Orange and Other Poems 200539015 My heart has made its mind up
And I'm afraid it's you.

The Orange and Other Poems provides the perfect introduction to Wendy Cope, one of Britain's wittiest, best-selling, and best-loved poets.

In poems that go from laugh-out-loud funny to deeply moving, Cope offers reflections on love and life. From the joy of falling—and being—in love to how to manage a painful break-up to cherishing the memories of people loved and lost, this is a collection to savour and share.]]> 53 Wendy Cope 057138952X lucette 0 to-read, to-buy 4.13 2023 The Orange and Other Poems
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