The shelf
Every book on the shelf.
Independent, modern, hand-curated. Filter by genre or publisher. The shelf rotates every Tuesday.

Barnaby Rudge
Set in London during the Gordon Riots of 1780, the story centers on the simple-minded Barnaby and his mother.
$9.50

Our Mutual Friend
In Victorian London, a disputed inheritance draws together a boatman’s daughter, a lawyer, and several others linked to a fortune made from dust heaps.
$10.50

Hard Times
Charles Dickens's Hard Times is a concentrated industrial novel of education, class, labor, and emotional damage in the fact-driven world of Coketown.
$7.50

Bleak House
The novel examines the effects of a prolonged legal case in the Court of Chancery on a group of interconnected characters.
$11.50

Nicholas Nickleby
Nicholas Nickleby leaves home to find work after his father's death leaves the family in financial difficulty.
$9.50

David Copperfield
David Copperfield follows the experiences of its title character from childhood through education, employment, and personal relationships in Victorian England.
$10.50

Oliver Twist
Dickens’s fierce and unforgettable novel of poverty, criminal exploitation, and moral endurance in Victorian London.
$8.50

A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a timeless Christmas classic about Ebenezer Scrooge, redemption, memory, generosity, and the moral imagination of the holiday season.
$6.00

Mansfield Park
Austen’s morally exacting novel of family influence, social ambition, performance, and the quiet resilience of Fanny Price.
$8.00

Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen’s playful satire of Gothic fiction, following Catherine Morland from naïve fantasy toward sharper judgment.
$7.50

The Wind in the Willows
A beloved children’s classic of riverbank friendship, comic trouble, and pastoral adventure with Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad.
$7.50

White Fang
A fierce companion to The Call of the Wild, tracing a wolf-dog’s path from violence and fear toward trust and domestication.
$7.00

The Call of the Wild
Jack London’s iconic Yukon adventure follows Buck from domestic comfort into brutal struggle, instinct, and wilderness.
$6.50

The Prince
Machiavelli’s concise and unsettling guide to power, statecraft, fear, reputation, and political survival.
$6.50

The Republic
Plato’s enduring dialogue on justice, education, political order, and the shape of the good life.
$9.50

Les Misérables
Victor Hugo’s vast and humane masterpiece of justice, mercy, revolution, and the moral lives that unfold under historical pressure.
$13.50

The Art of War
The Art of War by Sun Tzu is the classic strategy text on planning, discipline, deception, leadership, and winning through intelligence rather than brute force.
$6.50

The Prophets
Robert Jones Jr.'s stunning debut about enslaved queer love on a plantation.
$17.99

The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa's posthumously published masterpiece of existential reflection, translated from Portuguese.
$18.50

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Audre Lorde's 'biomythography' blending poetry, history, and memoir about growing up Black and lesbian.
$15.95

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
Andrea Lawlor's shapeshifting novel about a queer chameleon in 1990s America.
$16.00

The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
Joël Dicker's twisty literary thriller about a famous writer accused of murder, translated from French.
$18.99

The Thirty Names of Night
Zeyn Joukhadar's lyrical novel about a trans boy connecting with his Syrian heritage through art.
$16.95

Orlando
Virginia Woolf's gender-bending fantasy novel about an Elizabethan nobleman who becomes a woman.
$14.00

A Small Place
Jamaica Kincaid's fierce essay about the legacy of colonialism in Antigua, translated into 15 languages.
$12.50

Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters' groundbreaking novel about trans womanhood, motherhood, and the complexities of chosen family.
$17.99

The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson's genre-defying memoir that blends critical theory with intimate storytelling about queer family-making.
$15.95

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong's poetic debut novel about a Vietnamese immigrant family, told as a letter from a son to his illiterate mother.
$17.00

Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin's timeless novel of love and identity in 1950s Paris, a cornerstone of queer literature.
$16.99

The Adventures of Pinocchio
A wooden puppet’s journey from mischievous marionette to real boy is a darkly enchanting tale of folly, transformation, and the cost of growing up.
$7.00

Grimms' Fairy Tales
A lantern-lit path through the dark woods of storytelling, where every rustling leaf hides a lesson and every cottage door creaks with consequence.
$8.50

The Jungle Book
A boy raised by wolves learns the laws of the jungle, navigating a world where danger and wonder are inseparable.
$7.00

Peter Pan
A boy who refuses to grow up leads children to a world of pirates, fairies, and endless adventure.
$7.00

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
<p>A cyclone carries Dorothy from Kansas to Oz, a land of technicolor wonders and peculiar companions.
$7.00

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
<p>A girl chases a pocket-watch-wielding rabbit into a realm where logic unravels like a ball of yarn.
$7.00

Civil Disobedience
In 'Civil Disobedience,' Thoreau’s impassioned essay challenges readers to question authority and act on conscience.
$5.50

Walden
Thoreau's 'Walden' is a quiet rebellion against the noise of civilization, a year spent in deliberate solitude by a pond where time bends to the rustle of leaves and
$5.00

Meditations
A Roman emperor's private reflections on power, mortality, and inner freedom.
$7.50

Beyond Good and Evil
Nietzsche’s 'Beyond Good and Evil' is a searing critique of morality, truth, and power that refuses to offer easy answers.
$5.00

Self-Reliance and Other Essays
Emerson’s 'Self-Reliance and Other Essays' is a clarion call to trust your instincts and defy conformity.
$5.00

The Divine Comedy
Dante’s epic pilgrimage through the afterlife remains a staggering work of imagination, where every sin and virtue takes vivid, often terrifying form.
$13.00

The Odyssey
<p>Odysseus’ decade-long voyage home from the Trojan War is a tale of cunning, endurance, and the unyielding pull of Ithaca.
$5.00

The Iliad
Homer’s epic tale of war, honor, and divine intervention unfolds with breathtaking intensity in Alexander Pope’s translation.
$5.00

Shakespeare's Sonnets
Shakespeare's Sonnets are love letters to the human condition—each verse a razor-sharp meditation on desire, mortality, and the ache of time.
$5.00

The Raven and Other Poems
Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Raven and Other Poems' is a shadowed journey through love, loss, and the macabre.
$5.00

Leaves of Grass
<p>Walt Whitman&#x27;s &#x27;Leaves of Grass&#x27; is a wild, uncontainable ode to life itself, a celebration of the individual and the infinite.
$5.00

Romeo and Juliet
Two star-crossed lovers ignite a forbidden passion that threatens to consume their warring families.
$5.00

Persuasion
Jane Austen’s final completed novel returns to love after loss, measuring regret, constancy, and second chances with extraordinary emotional poise.
$8.00

Anne of Green Gables
A red-haired orphan’s whimsy turns a staid farmhouse upside down in this tale of mishaps and marvels.
$5.00

Little Women
<p>Four sisters come of age in a world of scraped knees and secret ambitions, where the warmth of family cushions every fall.
$5.00

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer’s world is sunlit and sly, where fence-painting becomes a con and treasure hunts turn treacherous.
$5.00

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
A respected doctor’s dangerous experiments unleash his hidden self, a creature of pure appetite.
$5.00

Treasure Island
A boy’s adventure becomes a brutal education in deception when a pirate’s map leads to mutiny, buried gold, and the unforgettable Long John Silver.
$5.00






