Impossible Owls - Essays
The essays in Impossible Owls go beyond simply chronicling some of the modern world’s most uncanny, unbelievable, and spectacular oddities.
Read more →Home
A quiet studio for writing, visuals, and notes.
Molloy
the novelistic equivalent of abstract painting
Read more →Riding Toward Everywhere
Delves into the history and culture of train hopping. Excellent writing.
Read more →The Count of Monte Cristo
The story takes place in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean during the historical events of 1815–1839 - the era of the Bourbon Restoration through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France.
Read more →Underworld
The prologue of _Underworld_ is a fictionalized account of The Shot Heard 'Round the World, a home run by Bobby Thomson in 1951.
Read more →My Struggle, Book 2
Knausgaard reflects on his strained relationship with his father, who is depicted as a distant and mysterious figure. He delves into his insecurities …
Read more →The Time Machine
A classic science fiction novel by H.G. Wells published in 1895.
Read more →My Struggle, Book 1
The book is a deeply introspective and honest exploration of Knausgaard's personal life, relationships, and struggles.
Read more →A Brief History of Time
Hawking takes readers on a journey through the history of cosmology, from ancient Greek philosophers to modern scientific theories.
Read more →Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Piketty argues that the rate of return on capital tends to be higher than the rate of economic growth.
Read more →The Left Hand of Darkness
Genly Ai visits the planet of Gethen as an envoy of the Ekumen, a loose confederation of planets. Ai's mission is to persuade the nations of Gethen to join the Ekumen…
Read more →Indignation
Set in America in 1951, during the Korean War, _Indignation_ is narrated by Marcus Messner, a Jewish college student from Newark, NJ.
Read more →Infinite Jest
Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction…
Read more →Memories of My Melancholy Whores
The protagonist, who remains unnamed throughout the novel, is a solitary and introspective man who has never been in love.
Read more →Homage to Catalonia
Homage to Catalonia begins with Orwell's arrival in Barcelona in 1936, shortly after the outbreak of the civil war.
Read more →Invisible Cities
In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan sensed the end of his empire…
Read more →Cannery Row
The story revolves around the people living there, including Lee Chong, the local grocer. Doc, a marine biologist. And Mack, the leader of a group of derelicts.
Read more →Rhinoceros
Theater of the absurd. Throughout three acts, the inhabitants of a provincial French town turn into rhinoceroses.
Read more →The Rings of Saturn
Sebald weaves together topics and historical events, ranging from the decline of the herring industry to the hell of World War II and the Holocaust. He incorporates real figures, such as writer Sir Thomas Browne, into the narrative, blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction.
Read more →Voyage Around My Room
A somewhat privileged man confined to a room in a house as punishment for taking part in a duel. How to pass the hours? He takes a journey around his room, of course. As one does. And writes about it creatively, of course.
Read more →Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson
A comprehensive and influential account of the life of one of the most prominent figures in 18th-century English literature…
Read more →Night of Wenceslas
The Night of Wenceslas is the debut novel of British thriller and crime writer Lionel Davidson.
Read more →The Complete Short Prose of Beckett
Beckett expressed the anguish and isolation of the individual consciousness with a purity and minimalism that have altered the shape of world literature.
Read more →The Dharma Bums
The narrative is set against the backdrop of the Beat Generation's counter-cultural lifestyle and the exploration of Eastern philosophy.
Read more →The Quiet American
In Graham Greene's _The Quiet American_ it's 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule.
Read more →Miss Lonelyhearts
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West is set in New York during the Great Depression, a time of economic hardship and social upheaval.
Read more →The Dead
Final story in Joyce's collection of short stories, The Dubliners.
Read more →The Sun Also Rises
Jake Barnes, a journalist and World War I veteran narrates _The Sun Also Rises_.
Read more →Narcissus and Goldmund
…revolves around the complex and transformative friendship between two contrasting characters. Narcissus, an intellectual and monk, and Goldmund, a restless and artistic wanderer.
Read more →Trainspotting
The narrative of the novel _Trainspotting_ by Irvine Welsh is presented through a series of interconnected short stories, each focusing on different characters within the group.
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