The shelf
Every book on the shelf.
Independent, modern, hand-curated. Filter by genre or publisher. The shelf rotates every Tuesday.
Penrod
Booth Tarkington’s comic portrait of Midwestern boyhood follows Penrod Schofield through pranks, friendships, and social embarrassment.
$7.50
Creative Evolution
Henri Bergson’s major philosophical work rethinks life, mind, time, and change through a bold critique of mechanism and a dynamic account of evolution.
$8.00
The Hunter's Lodge Case
A compact Christie mystery in which testimony, timing, and apparent simplicity conceal the real shape of the crime.
$8.50
The Legacy of Greece: Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Sin
The Legacy of Greece: Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W.
$8.00
The History of the Peloponnesian War
The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is a foundational work of history and political realism on war, power, leadership, rhetoric, and civil conflict.
$8.00
The Plymouth Express Affair
A compact Christie railway mystery in which Poirot untangles wealth, motive, and timing with elegant economy.
$8.50
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne is a foundational science-fiction adventure filled with subterranean wonder, peril, discovery, and scientific imagination.
$8.00
India, Its Life and Thought
A historically revealing survey of Indian society and religion, best read today with attention to its missionary-colonial perspective.
$8.00
The Missing Will
A concise Christie mystery built on disappearance, inference, and the pleasure of watching a neat problem yield to careful logic.
$8.50
Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey
Ingersoll Lockwood sends little Baron Trump beneath the earth in a strange illustrated adventure full of secret passages, eccentric kingdoms, and late-nineteenth-century fantasy in
$7.50
The Gilded Age
Twain and Warner’s satirical novel exposes speculation, corruption, boosterism, and political performance in post–Civil War America.
$8.50
Apology
Plato’s compact defense of Socrates joins courtroom speech to enduring questions about philosophy and conscience.
$8.00
