The shelf
Every book on the shelf.
Independent, modern, hand-curated. Filter by genre or publisher. The shelf rotates every Tuesday.
Aesop's Fables
Aesop's Fables is a timeless collection of moral tales whose talking animals, clever reversals, and concise lessons have shaped storytelling for centuries.
$8.50
Candide
Voltaire's Candide is a brisk Enlightenment satire that follows its battered hero across wars, disasters, and absurd philosophies while dismantling easy optimism.
$9.50
Camille
Alexandre Dumas fils turns an affair between a courtesan and a young bourgeois lover into a tragic novel of love, sacrifice, class judgment, and social performance.
$9.50
Tarrano the Conqueror
A fast-moving early science-fiction thriller about tyranny, resistance, and perilous escape in Ray Cummings’s imagined future.
$9.00
The Secret Adversary
An energetic early Christie adventure pairing suspense, conspiracy, and charm with the debut of Tommy and Tuppence.
$9.50
The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn: Including a new and circumstantial account of the battle of Long isla
The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn: Including a new and circumstantial account of the battle of Long isla by Henry Phelps Johnston.
$9.00
Sword and Pen: Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier
Sword and Pen: Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by John Algernon Owens.
$9.00
As You Like It
A witty Shakespearean comedy of exile, disguise, pastoral courtship, and reinvention in the Forest of Arden.
$9.50
