The Midnight Library
…on a shelf somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe, there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality ()…
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A quiet studio for writing, visuals, and notes.
Bad Monkey
_Bad Monkey_ is a wacky romp of a satirical detective story.
Read more →Oh, William!
On every page of this novel we learn more about the quiet forces that hold us together. William uncovers a hitherto unknown relation…
Read more →Oranges
… a comprehensive exploration of the orange farming and processing business. The book offers a detailed and informative look at the history, science, and economics behind the cultivation, harvesting, and distribution of oranges.
Read more →Missing Person
Guy Roland is an amnesiac detective who has lost his memory ten years before the beginning of the story, which opens in 1965.
Read more →Both Flesh and Not
Apart from the essay on Roger Federer, the rest are Wallace hitting serves past the line.
Read more →Grey Bees
…dramatizes the conflict in Ukraine through the adventures of a beekeeper and his frenemy in what seems to be in the Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine.
Read more →A Confederate General from Big Sur
Before going their separate ways, narrator Jesse and his pal Lee Mellon converge, drink, and then go their separate ways.
Read more →Exhalation - Stories
Chiang's collection tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine.
Read more →The Promise
Set in South Africa, the story revolves around a family and their struggles with identity, secrets, and the legacy of apartheid.
Read more →Cloud Cuckoo Land
_Cloud Cuckoo Land_ is the story of five characters spanning eight centuries.
Read more →The Periodic Table
Primo Levi's _Periodic Table_ is a group of autobiographical episodes of the author's experiences as a Jewish-Italian doctoral-level chemist under the Fascist regime and afterward.
Read more →Ravelstein
The novel is a roman à clef written as a memoir. The narrator is in Paris with Abe Ravelstein, and Ravelstein, who is dying, asks the narrator to write a memoir about him after he dies.
Read more →The Magic Mountain
The novel's setting is an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps.
Read more →Republic
Divided into ten books, each book of The "Republic" addresses different aspects of the ideal state.
Read more →The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The novel is about a deaf man, John Singer, and the people he encounters in a depression-era town in Georgia.
Read more →Who Goes There?
The story revolves around a group of scientists in Antarctica, who discover an alien life form trapped in the ice.
Read more →A Walker in the City
Alfred Kazin's classic portrait of immigrant life in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Read more →Warlock
Tombstone, Arizona, during the 1880's is, in ways, our national Camelot
Read more →The Three Body Problem
The novel begins during the Cultural Revolution in China, where a young astrophysicist named Ye Wenjie witnesses her father's death at the hands of Red Guards.
Read more →Foucault's Pendulum
Foucault's Pendulum is Umberto Eco's novel of a few Milanese book editors who are bored with their work. To pass the time they cook up an elaborate hoax…
Read more →Motherless Brooklyn
The novel tells the story of Lionel Essrog, a private detective with Tourette's syndrome
Read more →The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
Bras Cubas is one of the weirdest books I've read in a while and it doesn't feel like it was written in the 19th century.
Read more →Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
As Sapolsky explains, most of us do not lie awake at night worrying about whether we have leprosy or malaria. Instead, the diseases we fear are illnesses brought on by the slow accumulation of damage.
Read more →A Confederacy of Dunces
A disastrous job interview and a confrontation with the police force Ignatius to find real work as a hotdog vendor.
Read more →A Canticle for Leibowitz
A post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller Jr., first published in 1959.
Read more →Uncle Vanya
Vanya is a middle-aged professor who feels disillusioned with his life and bitter about his wasted potential.
Read more →Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro sets _Klara and the Sun_ in a dystopian future when some children are genetically engineered for enhanced academic ability.
Read more →Black Rain
The novel is based on historical records of the devastation caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
Read more →City on the Edge of Forever
The initial Star Trek episode as intended and not the one aired.
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