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Lonesome Dove

A Novel

by Larry McMurtry ...

An epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness.“My favorite book: there are so many that I would be afraid to say. Probably if I had to pick anything I’d say Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry.” —Stephen King“If I had to recommend one Great American Novel, Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove would be high on my list. It’s got everything I love ... Read more

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An epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness.“My favorite book: there are so many that I would be afraid to say. Probably if I had to pick anything I’d say Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry.” —Stephen King“If I had to recommend one Great American Novel, Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove would be high on my list. It’s got everything I love
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East of Eden

by John Steinbeck, Susan Shillinglaw ...

Soon to be a Netflix series starring Florence PughThe masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years—at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of GenesisA Penguin ClassicIn his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling ... Read more

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Soon to be a Netflix series starring Florence PughThe masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years—at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of GenesisA Penguin ClassicIn his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling
... Read more
THE MASTER AND MARGARITA

50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Mikhail Bulgakov ...

Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky ...

Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
**A 50th-anniversary Deluxe Edition of the incomparable 20th-century satirical masterpiece of censorship, political oppression, and fantasy, in a newly revised version of the acclaimed Pevear and Volokhonsky translationThe basis for the highest-grossing 18+ film in Russian history, coming to U.S. theaters at last in September 2026**Nothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and ... Read more

$9.99 USD

**A 50th-anniversary Deluxe Edition of the incomparable 20th-century satirical masterpiece of censorship, political oppression, and fantasy, in a newly revised version of the acclaimed Pevear and Volokhonsky translationThe basis for the highest-grossing 18+ film in Russian history, coming to U.S. theaters at last in September 2026**Nothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and
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Circe

by Madeline Miller ...

This #1 New York Times bestseller brilliantly reimagines the life of Circe, formidable sorceress of The Odyssey**, as she discovers her own power, forges her identity, and challenges the gods who seek to control her.****"[A] bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story." —**The New York TimesIn the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titan... ... Read more

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This #1 New York Times bestseller brilliantly reimagines the life of Circe, formidable sorceress of The Odyssey**, as she discovers her own power, forges her identity, and challenges the gods who seek to control her.****"[A] bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story." —**The New York TimesIn the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titan...
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East of Eden

by John Steinbeck ...

A sweeping American epic about family, sin, and the choice to choose good over evil Why readers call it Steinbeck’s masterpiece Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book” – the one he’d been preparing to write his entire life. Set in California’s fertile Salinas Valley at the turn of the 20th century, this powerful novel traces the intertwined lives of the Trask and ... Read more

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A sweeping American epic about family, sin, and the choice to choose good over evil Why readers call it Steinbeck’s masterpiece Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book” – the one he’d been preparing to write his entire life. Set in California’s fertile Salinas Valley at the turn of the 20th century, this powerful novel traces the intertwined lives of the Trask and
... Read more
Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov ...

Series series Vintage International
**The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. • With a new introduction by Claire Messud“The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind.”—The New Yorker**One of The Atlantic’s Great ... Read more

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**The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. • With a new introduction by Claire Messud“The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind.”—The New Yorker**One of The Atlantic’s Great
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Invisible Man (National Book Award Winner)

A Novel

by Ralph Ellison ...

Series series Vintage International
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this deeply compelling novel and epic milestone of American literature, a nameless narrator tells his story from the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be.One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsHe describes growing up in a Black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is ... Read more

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this deeply compelling novel and epic milestone of American literature, a nameless narrator tells his story from the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be.One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsHe describes growing up in a Black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is
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The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger ...

CELEBRATING 75 YEARS OF THE CATCHER IN THE RYE**, 1951 - 2026**The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature—and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books."If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where ... ... Read more

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CELEBRATING 75 YEARS OF THE CATCHER IN THE RYE**, 1951 - 2026**The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature—and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books."If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where ...
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Much Ado About Nothing: Book 6 of the Post Apocalyptic Space Shakespeare Series

by Ted Neill, William Shakespeare ...

Series Book 6 - The Post Apocalyptic Space Shakespeare
A billion years in the future, humanity is extinct.But Shakespeare remains.A machine civilization, so far advanced that it has the power to recreate lost civilizations, stumbles upon the works of the playwright, William Shakespeare.With only those plays to represent humanity, the machines must decide whether humanity is worth resurrecting or not.The only way to know the plays is to stage them ... Read more

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A billion years in the future, humanity is extinct.But Shakespeare remains.A machine civilization, so far advanced that it has the power to recreate lost civilizations, stumbles upon the works of the playwright, William Shakespeare.With only those plays to represent humanity, the machines must decide whether humanity is worth resurrecting or not.The only way to know the plays is to stage them
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Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...

Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky ...

Series series Vintage Classics
Hailed by Washington Post Book World as “the best [translation] currently available" when it was first published, this second edition of Crime and Punishment has been updated in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth. • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIMEWith the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Hailed by Washington Post Book World as “the best [translation] currently available" when it was first published, this second edition of Crime and Punishment has been updated in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth. • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIMEWith the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers
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Lord of the Flies

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by William Golding, E. M. Forster, Jennifer Buehler ...

Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
William Golding’s unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to Penguin Classics in a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois LowryAs provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding’s compelling story about a ... Read more

$12.99 USD

William Golding’s unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to Penguin Classics in a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois LowryAs provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding’s compelling story about a
... Read more
The Color of Magic

A Discworld Novel

by Terry Pratchett ...

Series Book 1 - Wizards
“A master of laugh-out-loud fiction . . . Pratchett has created an alternate universe full of trolls, dwarfs, wizards, and other fantasy elements, and he uses that universe to reflect our own culture with entertaining and gloriously funny results. . . . Nothing short of magical.” —Chicago TribuneIn this first novel in the internationally bestselling comedic fantasy Discworld series from legendary ... Read more

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“A master of laugh-out-loud fiction . . . Pratchett has created an alternate universe full of trolls, dwarfs, wizards, and other fantasy elements, and he uses that universe to reflect our own culture with entertaining and gloriously funny results. . . . Nothing short of magical.” —Chicago TribuneIn this first novel in the internationally bestselling comedic fantasy Discworld series from legendary
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The Last Unicorn

by Peter S. Beagle ...

**INCLUDES A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PATRICK ROTHFUSSExperience one of the most enduring classics of the twentieth century and the book that The Atlantic has called “one of the best fantasy novels ever.”**The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone......so she ventured out from the safety of the enchanted forest on a quest for others of her kind. Joined along the way by the bumbling ... Read more

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**INCLUDES A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PATRICK ROTHFUSSExperience one of the most enduring classics of the twentieth century and the book that The Atlantic has called “one of the best fantasy novels ever.”**The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone......so she ventured out from the safety of the enchanted forest on a quest for others of her kind. Joined along the way by the bumbling
... Read more
1984

by George Orwell ...

75th ANNIVERSARY EDITION“Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New YorkerIn 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger ... Read more

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75th ANNIVERSARY EDITION“Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New YorkerIn 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger
... Read more
The Stranger

by Albert Camus ...

Translated by Matthew Ward ...

Series series Vintage International
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • The masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus now in a striking American English translation. The Stranger remains vital for its unsettling insights into the impossibility of moral certainty in the face of violence.“Matthew Ward has done Camus and us a great service. The Stranger is now a different and better novel for its American readers; it is now our classic ... Read more

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • The masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus now in a striking American English translation. The Stranger remains vital for its unsettling insights into the impossibility of moral certainty in the face of violence.“Matthew Ward has done Camus and us a great service. The Stranger is now a different and better novel for its American readers; it is now our classic
... Read more
The Last Man

by Mary Shelley ...

**Mary Shelley's landmark novel that invented the human extinction genre and initiated climate fiction, imagining a world where newly-forged communities and reverence for nature rises from the ashes of a pandemic-ravaged society, now for the first time in Penguin Classics, with a foreword by Rebecca SolnitA Penguin Classic**Written while Mary Shelley was in a self-imposed lockdown after the loss ... Read more

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**Mary Shelley's landmark novel that invented the human extinction genre and initiated climate fiction, imagining a world where newly-forged communities and reverence for nature rises from the ashes of a pandemic-ravaged society, now for the first time in Penguin Classics, with a foreword by Rebecca SolnitA Penguin Classic**Written while Mary Shelley was in a self-imposed lockdown after the loss
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The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson ...

Dr Montague, a scientific investigator of ghostly phenomena, has chosen to live for several weeks at Hill House, by repute a place of horror that will brook no human habitation. To check and contribute to his observations, he selects three companions previously unknown to him; two girls, Theo and Eleanor, and Luke, a young man, who is heir to Hill House. What happens cannot, in fairness, be told. ... Read more

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Dr Montague, a scientific investigator of ghostly phenomena, has chosen to live for several weeks at Hill House, by repute a place of horror that will brook no human habitation. To check and contribute to his observations, he selects three companions previously unknown to him; two girls, Theo and Eleanor, and Luke, a young man, who is heir to Hill House. What happens cannot, in fairness, be told.
... Read more
The Complete Stories

by Franz Kafka ...

Series series The Schocken Kafka Library
**The complete stories of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial.“An important book, valuable in itself and absolutely fascinating. The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, symbolic, parabolic, grotesque, ritualistic, nasty, lucent, extremely personal, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comic, numinous, and prophetic.” —The New York Times* ... Read more

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**The complete stories of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial.“An important book, valuable in itself and absolutely fascinating. The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, symbolic, parabolic, grotesque, ritualistic, nasty, lucent, extremely personal, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comic, numinous, and prophetic.” —The New York Times*
... Read more
East of Eden

by John Steinbeck ...

A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover editionIn his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the ... Read more

$14.99 USD

A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover editionIn his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the
... Read more
Infinite Jest

by David Foster Wallace ...

The 30th anniversary edition of the virtuosic, wickedly comic modern classic about the pursuit of happiness in America, with a new foreword by Michelle Zauner, author of the New York Times bestselling sensation Crying in H Mart.“To my mind, there have been two great American novels in the past fifty years. Catch-22 is one; this is the other.” —Stephen King, Entertainment WeeklySet in an addicts’ ... Read more

$12.99 USD

The 30th anniversary edition of the virtuosic, wickedly comic modern classic about the pursuit of happiness in America, with a new foreword by Michelle Zauner, author of the New York Times bestselling sensation Crying in H Mart.“To my mind, there have been two great American novels in the past fifty years. Catch-22 is one; this is the other.” —Stephen King, Entertainment WeeklySet in an addicts’
... Read more
Chronicle of a Death Foretold

by Gabriel García Márquez ...

Translated by Gregory Rabassa ...

Series series Vintage International
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes the gripping story of the murder of a young aristocrat that puts an entire society—not just a pair of murderers—on trial.A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, ... Read more

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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes the gripping story of the murder of a young aristocrat that puts an entire society—not just a pair of murderers—on trial.A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees,
... Read more
Dracula

by Bram Stoker ...

Young, unsuspecting clerk Jonathan Harker finds himself sent to visit a mysterious client in Transylvania – Count Dracula. Harker’s perilous journey to Castle Dracula is only the beginning of his misfortunes, as although intrigued by the mysterious Count, he comes to realize that his host is a vampire and his stay there is not as a guest, but as a prisoner. Harker escapes, but the monster follows ... Read more

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Young, unsuspecting clerk Jonathan Harker finds himself sent to visit a mysterious client in Transylvania – Count Dracula. Harker’s perilous journey to Castle Dracula is only the beginning of his misfortunes, as although intrigued by the mysterious Count, he comes to realize that his host is a vampire and his stay there is not as a guest, but as a prisoner. Harker escapes, but the monster follows
... Read more
Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury ...

A prophetic classic about censorship, conformity, and the fight to remember. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, books are illegal and “firemen” are tasked with burning them. It’s a future built on speed, noise, and entertainment—where deep thought is dangerous and asking questions makes you an outsider. Yet the message at its core has only grown more urgent with time. Guy Montag lives by the rule: ... Read more

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A prophetic classic about censorship, conformity, and the fight to remember. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, books are illegal and “firemen” are tasked with burning them. It’s a future built on speed, noise, and entertainment—where deep thought is dangerous and asking questions makes you an outsider. Yet the message at its core has only grown more urgent with time. Guy Montag lives by the rule:
... Read more
Demon Copperhead

A Novel

by Barbara Kingsolver ...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONNew York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21**st** Century • An Oprah’s Book Club Selection • An Instant New York Times Bestseller • An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller • A #1 Washington Post Bestseller • A New York Times "Ten Best Books of the Year""Demo... ... Read more

$16.99 USD

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONNew York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21**st** Century • An Oprah’s Book Club Selection • An Instant New York Times Bestseller • An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller • A #1 Washington Post Bestseller • A New York Times "Ten Best Books of the Year""Demo...
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