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A Method, A Path

A Method, A Path: Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Poetry 2023

ByRowan Evans

1 Reader • 74 pages

A Tale for the Time Being

A Tale for the Time Being

ByRuth Ozeki(Narrator)

2013 • 291 Readers • 14h 43m • 4

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

ByOlga Tokarczuk,Antonia Lloyd-Jones(Translator)

2009 • 331 Readers • 290 pages • 3.8

The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary

The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary

ByRobert Alter(Translator/Editor)

2018 • 6 Readers • 3,132 pages

I Have the Right to Destroy Myself

I Have the Right to Destroy Myself

ByYoung-Ha Kim,Chi-Young Kim(Translator)

1995 • 21 Readers • 119 pages • 3.2

How I Became a Nun

How I Became a Nun

ByChris Andrews(Translator),César Aira

1993 • 9 Readers • 117 pages

Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine: Selected Verse and Prose Poems

Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine: Selected Verse and Prose Poems

ByCharles Baudelaire,Arthur Rimbaud,+5 more

1947 • 2 Readers

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

#1 of 2 in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

BySeth Grahame-Smith

2010 • 130 Readers • 336 pages • 3.4

East of Eden

ByJohn Steinbeck

1952 • 1,018 Readers • 601 pages • 4.5

The Hour of the Star

Hour of the Star

ByClarice Lispector,Giovanni Pontiero(Translator)

3 • 135 Readers • 100 pages • 4

El Señor Presidente (The President)

ByMiguel Ángel Asturias,Frances Partridge(Translator)

1946 • 18 Readers • 286 pages • 3.9

The Piano Teacher

The Piano Teacher

ByElfriede Jelinek,Joachim Neugroschel

1983 • 42 Readers • 297 pages • 3.6

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Down Second Avenue.

Down Second Avenue.

ByEzekiel. Mphahlele

1 Reader

Turkish Delight

Turkish Delight

ByJan Wolkers,Sam Garrett(Translator)

3 Readers

Valley of the Dolls

Valley of the Dolls

ByJacqueline Susann

1966 • 121 Readers • 467 pages • 4.1

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

ByDavid Foster Wallace

1999 • 53 Readers • 273 pages • 3.9

Elbow Room

ByJames Alan McPherson

1977 • 15 Readers • 288 pages • 4

Through The Sad Wood Our Corpses Will Hang

Through The Sad Wood Our Corpses Will Hang

ByAva Farmehri

1 Reader • 285 pages

The Dark Dark

BySamantha Hunt

2017 • 34 Readers • 257 pages • 3.6

Madness, Rack, and Honey

Madness, Rack, and Honey

ByMary Ruefle

2012 • 16 Readers • 352 pages • 5

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Picnic at Hanging Rock

ByJoan Lindsay

1967 • 96 Readers • 186 pages • 3.9

To Paradise

ByHanya Yanagihara

2022 • 238 Readers • 688 pages • 3.8

Beloved

#1 of 2 in Beloved Trilogy

ByToni Morrison

1987 • 702 Readers • 362 pages • 4

Jazz

2 Beloved Trilogy

ByToni Morrison

1992 • 93 Readers • 258 pages • 4

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Novel Folklore

Novel Folklore: On Sadegh Hedayat's The Blind Owl

ByJason Reza Jorjani

1 Reader

The Turn of the Screw

The Turn of the Screw

ByHenry James

1878 • 369 Readers • 118 pages • 3.3

Cloud Atlas

ByDavid Mitchell

2003 • 862 Readers • 509 pages • 3.9

The Ice Palace

ByTarjei Vesaas

1963 • 59 Readers • 170 pages • 3.7

Things Fall Apart

#1 of 3 in The African Trilogy

Things Fall Apart

ByChinua Achebe

1958 • 551 Readers • 185 pages • 3.6

The Vampire Lestat

#2 of 13 in The Vampire Chronicles

The Vampire Lestat

ByAnne Rice

1985 • 261 Readers • 550 pages • 3.9

Untold Night and Day

Untold Night and Day

ByBae Suah,Deborah Smith(Translator)

2020 • 72 Readers • 160 pages • 3.3

Butterfly Valley: A Requiem

Butterfly Valley: A Requiem

ByInger Christensen,Susanna Nied(Translator)

1991 • 3 Readers

The Flowers of Evil

The Flowers of Evil

ByCharles Baudelaire,James McGowan(Translator)

1857 • 146 Readers • 464 pages • 4.1

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

ByYukio Mishima

1956 • 103 Readers • 3.8

Black Iris

ByLeah Raeder

2015 • 41 Readers • 384 pages • 3.3

Winter

#2 of 2 in Seasonal

ByAli Smith

2017 • 47 Readers • 321 pages • 4.1

If Not, Winter

BySappho

2003 • 91 Readers • 397 pages • 4.5

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

ByWilliam Blake

1994 • 32 Readers • 52 pages • 3.8

Autobiography of Red

#1 of 2 in Red

Autobiography of Red

ByAnne Carson

1998 • 148 Readers • 149 pages • 4

Heaven and Hell

#1 of 3 in Heaven and Hell Trilogy

Heaven and Hell

ByJón Kalman Stefánsson

2007 • 26 Readers • 172 pages • 4.3

Another Country

Another Country

ByJames Baldwin

1962 • 156 Readers • 448 pages • 4.2

The Bloody Chamber

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

ByAngela Carter

1978 • 176 Readers • 164 pages • 3.7

Lie with Me

ByPhilippe Besson,Molly Ringwald(Translator)

2017 • 173 Readers • 176 pages • 4.2

Autumn

#1 of 3 in Seasonal Quartet

ByAli Smith

2016 • 127 Readers • 272 pages • 4

Prometheus Unbound

Prometheus Unbound

ByPercy Bysshe Shelley

1959 • 8 Readers • 914 pages • 5

A Preface to Paradise Lost

A Preface to Paradise Lost

ByC. S. Lewis

2005 • 5 Readers • 164 pages

Summer

#4 of 3 in Seasonal Quartet

ByAli Smith

2020 • 33 Readers • 400 pages • 4.5

Spring

#3 of 2 in Seasonal

ByAli Smith

2019 • 45 Readers • 336 pages • 4

Przeklęty królik

ByBora Chung,Marta Niewiadomska(Translator)

2023 • 274 Readers • 240 pages • 3.6

Know My Name

Know My Name: A Memoir

ByChanel Miller

2019 • 433 Readers • 319 pages • 4.7

Paradise Lost

Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies

ByJohn Milton

1667 • 430 Readers • 512 pages • 3.7

Little Man, What Now?

Little Man, What Now?

ByHans Fallada,Susan Bennett

1932 • 18 Readers • 352 pages • 4.5

A Visit from the Goon Squad

#1 of 3 in Goon Squad

A Visit from the Goon Squad

ByJennifer Egan

2010 • 411 Readers • 289 pages • 3.8

Pedro Páramo

ByJuan Rulfo,Margaret Sayers Peden(Translator)

1955 • 196 Readers • 144 pages • 3.9

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

ByEric LaRocca

2021 • 334 Readers • 120 pages • 3.2

One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude

ByGabriel García Márquez,Gregory Rabassa(Translator)

1967 • 1,424 Readers • 422 pages • 4.1

The Female Man

ByJoanna Russ

1975 • 40 Readers • 214 pages • 3

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

ByWashington Irving

1820 • 133 Readers • 24 pages • 3.3

Abigail

ByMagda Szabo

2020 • 14 Readers • 3

ByDoug Dorst

1949 • 312 Readers • 473 pages • 4

Mona

ByPola Oloixarac,Adam Morris(Translator)

2019 • 46 Readers • 176 pages • 3.4

Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

ByGuillermo del Toro,Cornelia Funke

2019 • 48 Readers • 320 pages • 4.1

The Milkman in the Night

The Milkman in the Night

ByAndrey Kurkov

2011 • 1 Reader • 480 pages

A Single Man

ByChristopher Isherwood

1964 • 103 Readers • 158 pages • 4.1

Camille: The Lady of the Camellias

Camille: The Lady of the Camellias

ByEdmund Gosse(Translator),Alexandre Dumas (Fils)

1848 • 6 Readers • 254 pages • 4

The Deep

ByRivers Solomon,Daveed Diggs,+2 more

2019 • 273 Readers • 166 pages • 3.7

Assata: An Autobiography

ByAssata Shakur

1987 • 81 Readers • 274 pages • 4.6

Home Fire

ByKamila Shamsie

2017 • 176 Readers • 290 pages • 4

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D.

#1 of 5 in Sherlock Holmes Pastiche by Nicholas Meyer

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D.

ByNicholas Meyer(editor)

1974 • 1 Reader

A Tale of Two Cities

Oxford Bookworms

A Tale of Two Cities

ByCharles Dickens

19 • 909 Readers • 544 pages • 3.6

Hurricane Season

Hurricane Season

ByFernanda Melchor

2017 • 122 Readers • 224 pages • 4.2

Madame

ByAntoni Libera,Agnieszka Kołakowska(Translator)

1998 • 7 Readers • 448 pages • 5

Satantango

ByLászló Krasznahorkai,George Szirtes(Translator)

1985 • 73 Readers • 274 pages • 4.4

Doña Bárbara

ByRómulo Gallegos,Nguyễn Đình Hiền(Translator),+1 more

1929 • 8 Readers • 474 pages • 5

The Blind Owl

BySadegh Hedayat,Naveed Noori(Translator)

1936 • 76 Readers • 130 pages • 3.2

A Curse of Roses

A Curse of Roses

ByDiana Pinguicha

2020 • 16 Readers • 352 pages • 4

Sum

ByDavid Eagleman

2009 • 119 Readers • 110 pages • 4

Evropsko proleće

Evropsko proleće

ByKaspar Colling Nielsen

2017 • 2 Readers • 371 pages • 5

The Pillars of the Earth

#1 of 4 in Kingsbridge

The Pillars of the Earth

ByKen Follett

1800 • 810 Readers • 1,008 pages • 4.1

Cocaine

ByPitigrilli

2016 • 2 Readers • 275 pages

Oaths and Omissions

#3 of 4 in Monsters & Muses

Oaths and Omissions

BySav R. Miller

2022 • 22 Readers • 375 pages • 3.7

Réinventer l'amour: Comment le patriarcat sabote les relations hétérosexuelles

Réinventer l'amour: Comment le patriarcat sabote les relations hétérosexuelles

ByMona Chollet

2021 • 7 Readers • 276 pages • 5

Wide Sargasso Sea

Wide Sargasso Sea

ByJean Rhys

1966 • 223 Readers • 189 pages • 3.4

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Reading Faulkner

Reading Faulkner Series

Reading Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury: Glossary and Commentary

ByStephen M. Ross,Noel Polk

1996 • 1 Reader

ByYevgeny Zamyatin,Bela Shayevich(translator)

1924 • 398 Readers • 256 pages • 3.7

Anno Dracula

#1 of 5 in Anno Dracula

ByKim Newman

1992 • 81 Readers • 380 pages • 3.8

I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

ByMaryse Condé,Richard Philcox(Translator)

1986 • 40 Readers • 258 pages • 3.5

A planine odjeknuše

A planine odjeknuše

ByKhaled Hosseini

2012 • 1 Reader • 437 pages

תת-עולם

ByDon DeLillo

1999 • 79 Readers • 838 pages • 3.7

The Summer that Melted Everything

The summer that melted everything

ByTiffany McDaniel

2016 • 58 Readers • 1 page • 4.3

An Olive Grove in Ends

An Olive Grove in Ends

ByMoses McKenzie

2022 • 7 Readers • 324 pages

Vile Bodies

ByEvelyn Waugh

1930 • 76 Readers • 320 pages • 3.8

Her Soul to Take

#1 of 3 in Souls Trilogy

Her Soul to Take

ByHarley Laroux

2021 • 144 Readers • 458 pages • 3.6

Lovely War

ByJulie Berry

2019 • 167 Readers • 480 pages • 4.1

Vladimir

ByJulia May Jonas

2022 • 99 Readers • 256 pages • 3.4

Live Oak, with Moss

Live Oak, with Moss

ByWalt Whitman

2019 • 3 Readers • 192 pages

The Manningtree Witches

The Manningtree Witches

ByA.K. Blakemore

2021 • 58 Readers • 321 pages • 2.8

A Sinister Assassin: Last Writings, Ivry-Sur-Seine, September 1947 to March 1948

A Sinister Assassin: Last Writings, Ivry-Sur-Seine, September 1947 to March 1948

ByAntonin Artaud

1948 • 1 Reader

In Her Jaws

ByRosamund Taylor

1 Reader • 80 pages

Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

ByBrom

2021 • 280 Readers • 320 pages • 4.4