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Barnaby Rudge

Barnaby Rudge

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

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The Old Curiosity Shop

The Old Curiosity Shop

$9.00

Our Mutual Friend

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

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.

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Bleak House

Bleak House

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

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Nicholas Nickleby

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

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

$10.50

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

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

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A Christmas Carol

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.

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Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park

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

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Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey

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

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The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows

A beloved children’s classic of riverbank friendship, comic trouble, and pastoral adventure with Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad.

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White Fang

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.

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The Call of the Wild

The Call of the Wild

Jack London’s iconic Yukon adventure follows Buck from domestic comfort into brutal struggle, instinct, and wilderness.

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The Prince

The Prince

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

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The Republic

The Republic

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

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Les Misérables

Les Misérables

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

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The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo

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The Art of War

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.

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The Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper

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The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

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The Prophets

The Prophets

Robert Jones Jr.'s stunning debut about enslaved queer love on a plantation.

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The Book of Disquiet

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

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

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

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

The Thirty Names of Night

Zeyn Joukhadar's lyrical novel about a trans boy connecting with his Syrian heritage through art.

$16.95

Orlando

Orlando

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

$14.00

A Small Place

A Small Place

Jamaica Kincaid's fierce essay about the legacy of colonialism in Antigua, translated into 15 languages.

$12.50

Detransition, Baby

Detransition, Baby

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

$17.99

The Argonauts

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

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

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

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.

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Grimms' Fairy Tales

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.

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The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book

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

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Peter Pan

Peter Pan

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

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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.

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Civil Disobedience

Civil Disobedience

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

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The Souls of Black Folk

The Souls of Black Folk

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Walden

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

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Meditations

Meditations

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

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Beyond Good and Evil

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.

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Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Self-Reliance and Other Essays

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

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The Divine Comedy

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.

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The Odyssey

The Odyssey

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

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The Iliad

The Iliad

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

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Shakespeare's Sonnets

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.

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The Raven and Other Poems

The Raven and Other Poems

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

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Leaves of Grass

Leaves of Grass

<p>Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' is a wild, uncontainable ode to life itself, a celebration of the individual and the infinite.

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Macbeth

Macbeth

A Scottish general’s ambition curdles into tyranny after a prophecy twists his fate.

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Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

Two star-crossed lovers ignite a forbidden passion that threatens to consume their warring families.

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Hamlet

Hamlet

A grieving prince spirals into doubt and delay after a ghostly accusation.

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Persuasion

Persuasion

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

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Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables

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

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Little Women

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.

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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

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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

A respected doctor’s dangerous experiments unleash his hidden self, a creature of pure appetite.

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Treasure Island

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.

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