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Romance
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy misread each other for most of a novel that invented the modern love story.
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Science Fiction
1984
by George Orwell
Winston Smith rewrites the past for a living, until he decides to keep one honest thought of his own.
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Literary Fiction
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
A small-town Alabama childhood, a courtroom, and a father who tries to explain both to his daughter.
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Fantasy
The Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien
A comfortable hobbit is talked into a dragon-sized adventure and turns out to be rather good at it.
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Historical Fiction
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
Narrated by Death, the story of a girl in Nazi Germany who steals books and reads them aloud in a basement.
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Nonfiction
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
A single-volume argument about how shared fictions let one human species run the planet.
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Biography & Memoir
Educated
by Tara Westover
A woman raised off-grid in Idaho, who first set foot in a classroom at seventeen and kept going to Cambridge.
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A short shelf of books we keep coming back to.
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Literary Fiction
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
A small-town Alabama childhood, a courtroom, and a father who tries to explain both to his daughter.
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Literary Fiction
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A bootlegger throws parties for a woman across the bay, and Nick Carraway watches the whole thing come apart.
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Nonfiction
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
A single-volume argument about how shared fictions let one human species run the planet.
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Nonfiction
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
The woman whose cells were taken without consent, and the family who learned about it decades later.
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Romance
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy misread each other for most of a novel that invented the modern love story.
- Featured
Fantasy
The Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien
A comfortable hobbit is talked into a dragon-sized adventure and turns out to be rather good at it.
Young Adult
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by J. K. Rowling
An eleven-year-old learns he is a wizard, and a generation learned to read on it.
Fiction
The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
A shepherd leaves Andalusia for the pyramids, following a dream he is told to trust.
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Biography & Memoir
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
by Stephen King
Half memoir, half toolkit, from a writer with strong views about adverbs.
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Adult, young adult, children's and all-ages reading, filtered by who tends to enjoy it most.
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- Reading Challenge Pick
Romance
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy misread each other for most of a novel that invented the modern love story.
- Featured
- Reading Challenge Pick
Science Fiction
1984
by George Orwell
Winston Smith rewrites the past for a living, until he decides to keep one honest thought of his own.
- Editor's Pick
Literary Fiction
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A bootlegger throws parties for a woman across the bay, and Nick Carraway watches the whole thing come apart.
Adult · Young Adult
- Featured
- Editor's Pick
- Reading Challenge Pick
Literary Fiction
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
A small-town Alabama childhood, a courtroom, and a father who tries to explain both to his daughter.
Fantasy
The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
One ring, one long walk, and the book that built modern fantasy around it.
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- Reading Challenge Pick
Historical Fiction
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
Narrated by Death, the story of a girl in Nazi Germany who steals books and reads them aloud in a basement.
All ages
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Fantasy
The Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien
A comfortable hobbit is talked into a dragon-sized adventure and turns out to be rather good at it.
Children · Young Adult
Young Adult
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by J. K. Rowling
An eleven-year-old learns he is a wizard, and a generation learned to read on it.
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Historical Fiction
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
A childhood betrayal in Kabul that takes a lifetime, and a return journey, to answer for.
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Fantasy
The Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern
A circus arrives without warning, opens at nightfall, and hosts a duel neither magician chose.
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Biography & Memoir
Educated
by Tara Westover
A woman raised off-grid in Idaho, who first set foot in a classroom at seventeen and kept going to Cambridge.
Self-Help
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Self-Help
Atomic Habits
by James Clear
Small changes, applied to systems rather than goals, compounded over time.
Self-Help
The Power of Habit
by Charles Duhigg
Why habits form, how the loop works, and what it takes to interrupt one.
Self-Help
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
by Stephen R. Covey
A character-first framework for effectiveness that predates most of the genre it created.
Self-Help
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
by Joseph Murphy
Self-Help
The Power of Positive Thinking
by Norman Vincent Peale
Self-Help
Inquiry into Life
by Sylvia S. Mader and Mader and MADER and Michael Windelspecht
Self-Help
The magic of believing
by Claude M. Bristol
Self-Help
The 48 Laws of Power
by Robert Greene
Self-Help
A child called "it"
by David J. Pelzer
Self-Help
Blink
by Malcolm Gladwell
Self-Help
Musicophilia
by Oliver Sacks
Self-Help
Big Magic
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Self-Help
Sexuality (Key Ideas)
by Jeffrey Weeks
Self-Help
12 Rules for Life
by Jordan B. Peterson
Self-Help
I Know This to Be True
by Geoff Blackwell and Ruth Hobday
Self-Help
Think Like a Monk
by Jay Shetty
Self-Help
A second chicken soup for the woman's soul
by Jack Canfield and Dave Barry and Jack Canfield and Marci Shimoff and Mark Victory Hansen and Jennifer Read Hawthorne and Mark Victor Hansen
Self-Help
Married women who love women
by Carren Strock
Self-Help
Feeling Is the Secret
by Neville Goddard
Self-Help
The Greatness Guide
by Robin S. Sharma
Self-Help
A life of one's own
by Marion Milner
Self-Help
Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media
by Mary-Lou Galician
Self-Help
The Freedom of Life
by Annie Payson Call
Self-Help
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
by Lori Gottlieb
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