Top 10 Books To Read Before You Die
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The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables
- ASIN: 0374223238
- ISBN: 0374223238
- Brand: FARRAR STRAUS GIROUX
- Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Winner of the American Library in Paris Book Award, 2017Les Misérables is among the most popular and enduring novels ever written. Like Inspector Javert’s dogged pursuit of Jean Valjean, its appeal has never waned, but only grown broader in its one-hundred-and-fifty-year life. Whether we encounter Vic... [Read More]
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
- ASIN: B07MGS81WS
- Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.As part of the Treaty of Par... [Read More]
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The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader (Portable Library)
- ASIN: 0140151036
- ISBN: 9780140151039
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader magnificently represents the great voices of this era. It includes such masterworks of world literature as Pushkin's poem "The Bronze Horseman"; Gogol's "The Overcoat"; Turgenev's novel First Love; Chekhov's Uncle Vanya; Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych; and "The Grand Inquisitor" episode from Dostoye... [Read More]
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The Underground Railroad: A Novel
- ASIN: 0345804325
- ISBN: 0345804325
- Manufacturer: Anchor
#1 New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the National Book Award • Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction • Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize One of the Best books of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, HuffPost, Esquire, Min... [Read More]
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The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series ®)
- UPC: 046442843676
- ASIN: 0395843677
- ISBN: 0395843677
- Brand: Mariner Books
- Manufacturer: Mariner Books
Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the b... [Read More]
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Moloka'i: A Novel
- ASIN: B002H8ORMU
- Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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The Only Woman in the Room: A Novel
- UPC: 760789271694
- ASIN: 1492666866
- ISBN: 1492666866
- Manufacturer: Sourcebooks Landmark
The New York Times and USA Today Bestseller! She possessed a stunning beauty. She also possessed a stunning mind. Could the world handle both?Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband... [Read More]
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The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson: A Novel
- ASIN: 1501116363
- ISBN: 1501116363
- Brand: Washington Square Press
- Manufacturer: Washington Square Press
For fans of Cold Mountain and The Invention of Wings comes “a magnificent, immersive, breathtaking work of historical fiction” (Jennifer Chiaverini, New York Times bestselling author) that follows the epic journey of a slave-turned-Comanche warrior who travels from the brutality of a New Orleans sugar cane plantation to the indomitable frontier... [Read More]
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A Dangerous Fortune: A Novel
- ASIN: 0440217490
- ISBN: 9780440217497
- Brand: Island Books
- Manufacturer: Dell
A breathtaking thriller featuring "political and amorous intrigues, cold-blooded murder, and financial crises" (San Francisco Chronicle), from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Column of FireIn 1866, tragedy strikes the exclusive Windfield School when a young student drowns in a mysterious accident. His death and its aftermath initiate ... [Read More]
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Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
- ASIN: B00KQZY19A
- Manufacturer: Open Road Media
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Poe: Stories and Poems: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Gareth Hinds
- ASIN: 0763695092
- ISBN: 0763695092
- Manufacturer: Candlewick
In a thrilling adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s best-known works, acclaimed artist-adapter Gareth Hinds translates Poe's dark genius into graphic-novel format.It is true that I am nervous. But why will you say that I am mad?In “The Cask of Amontillado,” a man exacts revenge on a disloyal friend at carnival, luring him into catacombs below the ... [Read More]
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The 19th Wife: A Novel
- ASIN: 0812974158
- ISBN: 0812974158
- Brand: Ebershoff, David
- Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. A rich account of her family’s polygamous history is revealed, including how both she and her mother became plural w... [Read More]
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Unsheltered: A Novel
- ASIN: 0062684566
- ISBN: 0062684566
- Brand: Harper
- Manufacturer: Harper
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The Darwin Affair: A Novel
- ASIN: 1616206349
- ISBN: 1616206349
- Brand: Algonquin Books
- Manufacturer: Algonquin Books
“Intellectually stimulating and viscerally exciting, The Darwin Affair is breathtaking from start to stop.” —The Wall Street Journal Get ready for one of the most inventive and entertaining novels of 2019—an edge-of-your-seat Victorian-era thriller, where the controversial publication On the Origin of Species sets off a string of unspeakabl... [Read More]
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The Way of All Flesh (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
- ASIN: 0375752498
- ISBN: 0375752498
- Brand: Butler, Samuel
- Manufacturer: Modern Library
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeThe Way of All Flesh is one of the time-bombs of literature," said V. S. Pritchett. "One thinks of it lying in Samuel Butler's desk for thirty years, waiting to blow up the Victorian family and with it the whole great pillared and balustraded edifice of the Victorian novel." �... [Read More]
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Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club): (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
- ASIN: B0023EFB1O
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
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The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home: A Welcome to Night Vale Novel
- ASIN: 0062889001
- ISBN: 0062889001
- Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
From the New York Times bestselling authors of Welcome to Night Vale and It Devours! and the creators of the hit podcast, comes a new novel set in the world of Night Vale and beyond.In the town of Night Vale, there’s a faceless old woman who secretly lives in everyone’s home, but no one knows how she got there or where she came from...until now... [Read More]
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Herculine Barbin (Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth Century French Hermaphrodite)
- ASIN: 0394738624
- ISBN: 0394738624
- Brand: Barbin, Herculine
- Manufacturer: Vintage
With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine was designated female at birth. A pious girl in a Catholic orphanage, a bewildered adolescent enchanted by the ripening bodies of her classmates, a passionate love... [Read More]
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Cashelmara
- ASIN: B009DA5BZC
- Manufacturer: Open Road Media
The New York Times–bestselling saga: In nineteenth-century Ireland, a titled English family keeps an estate in an era of famine and violent conflict. When Edward de Salis travels to America after the death of his first wife, he is astonished to find himself falling in love with Marguerite, a young woman many years his junior. Full of hope for t... [Read More]
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Little Women (Puffin in Bloom)
- ASIN: 0147514010
- ISBN: 0147514010
- Brand: Puffin Books
- Manufacturer: Puffin Books
Louisa May Alcott's classic tale of four sisters in a deluxe hardcover edition, with beautiful cover illustrations by Anna Bond, the artist behind world-renowned stationery brand Rifle Paper Co.Grown-up Meg, tomboyish Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. The four March sisters couldn't be more different. But with their father away at war, and their... [Read More]
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