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Novels, criticism, history and books to look at slowly. Begin with this selection, then browse the fifteen shelves of our shared Bookshop.
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Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Du Maurier’s psychological gothic novel remains absorbing, strange and genuinely unsettling.
Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Du Maurier’s psychological gothic novel remains absorbing, strange and genuinely unsettling.
Amor Towles
A Gentleman In Moscow
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A life confined to one hotel becomes a richly imagined world of friendship, manners and historical change.
Amor Towles
A Gentleman In Moscow
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A life confined to one hotel becomes a richly imagined world of friendship, manners and historical change.
James Danziger
Cecil Beaton: The Art of the Scrapbook
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A view into Cecil Beaton’s visual imagination through the material he saved, arranged and returned to. The scrapbook format reveals how photographs, clippings and personal references can become a working vocabulary for an artist.
James Danziger
Cecil Beaton: The Art of the Scrapbook
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A view into Cecil Beaton’s visual imagination through the material he saved, arranged and returned to. The scrapbook format reveals how photographs, clippings and personal references can become a working vocabulary for an artist.
Peter S. Beagle
The Last Unicorn
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Beagle brings wit and melancholy to a fairy tale that takes wonder seriously.
Peter S. Beagle
The Last Unicorn
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Beagle brings wit and melancholy to a fairy tale that takes wonder seriously.
Joan Didion
The White Album
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
These essays make fragmentation part of the form as Didion examines a shifting American culture.
Joan Didion
The White Album
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
These essays make fragmentation part of the form as Didion examines a shifting American culture.
Frances Hodgson Burnett · Illustrated by Tasha Tudor
The Secret Garden
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Burnett’s story of a neglected garden and renewed possibility is paired with Tasha Tudor’s illustrations.
Frances Hodgson Burnett · Illustrated by Tasha Tudor
The Secret Garden
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Burnett’s story of a neglected garden and renewed possibility is paired with Tasha Tudor’s illustrations.
Susan Sontag
Against Interpretation
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Criticism that asks us to look, listen and feel more closely. Sontag’s essays on cinema, literature and style make a lively companion to the rest of this edit—and leave room to argue with her.
Susan Sontag
Against Interpretation
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Criticism that asks us to look, listen and feel more closely. Sontag’s essays on cinema, literature and style make a lively companion to the rest of this edit—and leave room to argue with her.
The New York Review of Books
Print + Digital Subscription
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A subscription for people who still want criticism to be long enough to change their minds. The Review combines books, politics, history, science and the arts while giving subscribers access to an extraordinary archive reaching back to 1963.
The New York Review of Books
Print + Digital Subscription
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A subscription for people who still want criticism to be long enough to change their minds. The Review combines books, politics, history, science and the arts while giving subscribers access to an extraordinary archive reaching back to 1963.
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A butler’s reserve makes the novel’s account of duty, memory and missed possibilities all the more affecting.
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A butler’s reserve makes the novel’s account of duty, memory and missed possibilities all the more affecting.
A.S. Byatt
Possession
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Literary detection and a Victorian love story unfold together, with poetry woven into the mystery.
A.S. Byatt
Possession
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Literary detection and a Victorian love story unfold together, with poetry woven into the mystery.
Michael Ondaatje
The English Patient
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
An Italian villa holds four damaged lives in a novel shaped by memory, love and the aftermath of war.
Michael Ondaatje
The English Patient
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
An Italian villa holds four damaged lives in a novel shaped by memory, love and the aftermath of war.
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Austen’s precision about character and social ambition is matched here by the pleasure of a clothbound edition.
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Austen’s precision about character and social ambition is matched here by the pleasure of a clothbound edition.
Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A fiercely independent heroine gives this gothic story its moral force and lasting intimacy.
Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A fiercely independent heroine gives this gothic story its moral force and lasting intimacy.
Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Wharton makes the rituals of old New York reveal the cost of belonging to it.
Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Wharton makes the rituals of old New York reveal the cost of belonging to it.
Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A country house, a complicated family and the persistence of memory give Waugh’s novel its distinctive atmosphere.
Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A country house, a complicated family and the persistence of memory give Waugh’s novel its distinctive atmosphere.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Fitzgerald’s compressed portrait of longing and reinvention rewards attention to every sentence.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Fitzgerald’s compressed portrait of longing and reinvention rewards attention to every sentence.
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A complete imagined world, with languages, landscapes and friendships that give the journey its depth.
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A complete imagined world, with languages, landscapes and friendships that give the journey its depth.
Susanna Clarke
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Scholarship, footnotes and English social comedy make Clarke’s magical world feel astonishingly lived in.
Susanna Clarke
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Scholarship, footnotes and English social comedy make Clarke’s magical world feel astonishingly lived in.
T. H. White
The Once and Future King
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
White’s Arthurian world moves from enchantment to the difficult questions of power and responsibility.
T. H. White
The Once and Future King
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
White’s Arthurian world moves from enchantment to the difficult questions of power and responsibility.
Agatha Christie
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Christie makes a village murder into an unusually intricate exercise in observation and misdirection.
Agatha Christie
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Christie makes a village murder into an unusually intricate exercise in observation and misdirection.
Patricia Highsmith
The Talented Mr. Ripley
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Highsmith places the reader disconcertingly close to Ripley’s envy, ambition and invented identity.
Patricia Highsmith
The Talented Mr. Ripley
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Highsmith places the reader disconcertingly close to Ripley’s envy, ambition and invented identity.
Umberto Eco
The Name of the Rose
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A medieval abbey becomes both a murder scene and a labyrinth of books, ideas and competing interpretations.
Umberto Eco
The Name of the Rose
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A medieval abbey becomes both a murder scene and a labyrinth of books, ideas and competing interpretations.
Jane Austen
Persuasion
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Austen’s late romance gives second chances a quiet, unusually mature emotional weight.
Jane Austen
Persuasion
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Austen’s late romance gives second chances a quiet, unusually mature emotional weight.
Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Gaskell places a love story inside a searching account of work, class and industrial England.
Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Gaskell places a love story inside a searching account of work, class and industrial England.
E. M. Forster
A Room with a View
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Italy opens a window onto the conventions Forster’s heroine has been taught to accept.
E. M. Forster
A Room with a View
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Italy opens a window onto the conventions Forster’s heroine has been taught to accept.
L. M. Montgomery
The Blue Castle: The Original Manuscript
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Montgomery’s story of an unexpected second life is presented through the original manuscript edition.
L. M. Montgomery
The Blue Castle: The Original Manuscript
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Montgomery’s story of an unexpected second life is presented through the original manuscript edition.
Katharine Graham
Personal History
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Graham’s memoir brings private uncertainty and public responsibility into the same frame.
Katharine Graham
Personal History
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Graham’s memoir brings private uncertainty and public responsibility into the same frame.
Jeannette Walls
The Glass Castle, A Memoir
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Walls writes about a precarious childhood without losing sight of its contradictions.
Jeannette Walls
The Glass Castle, A Memoir
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Walls writes about a precarious childhood without losing sight of its contradictions.
Patti Smith
Just Kids
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Smith’s account of her early life with Robert Mapplethorpe is as much about artistic commitment as friendship.
Patti Smith
Just Kids
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Smith’s account of her early life with Robert Mapplethorpe is as much about artistic commitment as friendship.
Joan Didion
The Year of Magical Thinking
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Didion observes grief with the same exact attention she brought to the world around her.
Joan Didion
The Year of Magical Thinking
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Didion observes grief with the same exact attention she brought to the world around her.
Barbara W. Tuchman
The Guns of August
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Tuchman makes the opening of the First World War a study in decisions, assumptions and consequences.
Barbara W. Tuchman
The Guns of August
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Tuchman makes the opening of the First World War a study in decisions, assumptions and consequences.
Simon Schama
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Schama’s account of the French Revolution gives political upheaval a vivid human scale.
Simon Schama
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Schama’s account of the French Revolution gives political upheaval a vivid human scale.
Erik Larson
The Splendid and the Vile
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Larson brings the routines and pressures of wartime leadership into close focus.
Erik Larson
The Splendid and the Vile
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Larson brings the routines and pressures of wartime leadership into close focus.
E. H. Gombrich
The Story of Art
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
An expansive introduction to art that builds connections between images rather than treating them as isolated masterpieces.
E. H. Gombrich
The Story of Art
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
An expansive introduction to art that builds connections between images rather than treating them as isolated masterpieces.
John Berger
Ways of Seeing
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Berger asks us to notice how ownership, reproduction and convention shape the act of looking.
John Berger
Ways of Seeing
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Berger asks us to notice how ownership, reproduction and convention shape the act of looking.
Norman Rosenthal
David Hockney
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A substantial visual encounter with Hockney’s persistent interest in the possibilities of seeing.
Norman Rosenthal
David Hockney
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A substantial visual encounter with Hockney’s persistent interest in the possibilities of seeing.
Cecil Beaton
Cecil Beaton: The Royal Portraits
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Beaton’s royal portraits reveal the construction of ceremony, image and public identity.
Cecil Beaton
Cecil Beaton: The Royal Portraits
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Beaton’s royal portraits reveal the construction of ceremony, image and public identity.
Edith Wharton & Ogden Codman Jr.
The Decoration of Houses
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Wharton and Codman make an enduring argument for proportion and architectural coherence in domestic rooms.
Edith Wharton & Ogden Codman Jr.
The Decoration of Houses
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Wharton and Codman make an enduring argument for proportion and architectural coherence in domestic rooms.
Mary Miers
The English Country House From the Archives of Country Life
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Country Life’s photographic archive gives the English country house both scale and lived detail.
Mary Miers
The English Country House From the Archives of Country Life
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Country Life’s photographic archive gives the English country house both scale and lived detail.
Christiane Lemieux
The Finer Things
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Furniture, textiles and finishing details receive the close attention that makes a room worth looking at.
Christiane Lemieux
The Finer Things
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Furniture, textiles and finishing details receive the close attention that makes a room worth looking at.
Martina Mondadori Sartogo
Cabana Anthology
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Cabana’s densely layered interiors make a persuasive case for pattern, collecting and personal rooms.
Martina Mondadori Sartogo
Cabana Anthology
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Cabana’s densely layered interiors make a persuasive case for pattern, collecting and personal rooms.
Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle & Simone Beck
Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume I
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Child, Bertholle and Beck explain the underlying methods that make a recipe useful beyond a single meal.
Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle & Simone Beck
Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume I
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Child, Bertholle and Beck explain the underlying methods that make a recipe useful beyond a single meal.
Nan Shepherd
The Living Mountain
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Shepherd’s close attention to the Cairngorms makes landscape an experience rather than a backdrop.
Nan Shepherd
The Living Mountain
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Shepherd’s close attention to the Cairngorms makes landscape an experience rather than a backdrop.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Braiding Sweetgrass
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Kimmerer brings botanical knowledge and Indigenous traditions into a sustained consideration of reciprocity.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Braiding Sweetgrass
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Kimmerer brings botanical knowledge and Indigenous traditions into a sustained consideration of reciprocity.
Diana Vreeland
D.V.
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Vreeland’s own voice makes this a portrait of imagination as much as a fashion memoir.
Diana Vreeland
D.V.
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Vreeland’s own voice makes this a portrait of imagination as much as a fashion memoir.
Christian Dior
The Little Dictionary of Fashion
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Dior’s small reference book offers a revealing view of the language and conventions of mid-century style.
Christian Dior
The Little Dictionary of Fashion
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Dior’s small reference book offers a revealing view of the language and conventions of mid-century style.
Grace Coddington
Grace: A Memoir
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Coddington’s memoir opens up the work and imagination behind a life in fashion images.
Grace Coddington
Grace: A Memoir
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Coddington’s memoir opens up the work and imagination behind a life in fashion images.
Andrew Bolton
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
The exhibition catalogue gives McQueen’s construction and theatrical imagination room to be studied.
Andrew Bolton
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
The exhibition catalogue gives McQueen’s construction and theatrical imagination room to be studied.
Lisa Eldridge
Face Paint: The Story of Makeup
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Eldridge treats makeup as social history, following its materials, meanings and changing ideals.
Lisa Eldridge
Face Paint: The Story of Makeup
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Eldridge treats makeup as social history, following its materials, meanings and changing ideals.
Kevyn Aucoin
Making Faces
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Aucoin makes transformation visible through portraits and practical demonstrations of his makeup technique.
Kevyn Aucoin
Making Faces
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Aucoin makes transformation visible through portraits and practical demonstrations of his makeup technique.
Joan Didion
Slouching Towards Bethlehem Essays
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Didion’s early essays bring a precise, skeptical eye to the stories California tells about itself.
Joan Didion
Slouching Towards Bethlehem Essays
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Didion’s early essays bring a precise, skeptical eye to the stories California tells about itself.
A. A. Milne
Winnie-the-Pooh
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Milne’s small adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood remain wonderfully attentive to the logic of childhood.
A. A. Milne
Winnie-the-Pooh
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Milne’s small adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood remain wonderfully attentive to the logic of childhood.
Margery Williams
The Velveteen Rabbit
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A story about affection and becoming real, preserved here with the original 1922 illustrations.
Margery Williams
The Velveteen Rabbit
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A story about affection and becoming real, preserved here with the original 1922 illustrations.
Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Potter’s combination of small-scale adventure and exact observation gives Peter his lasting character.
Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Potter’s combination of small-scale adventure and exact observation gives Peter his lasting character.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Little Prince
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Saint-Exupéry’s illustrated fable lets simple encounters carry difficult questions about love and responsibility.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Little Prince
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Saint-Exupéry’s illustrated fable lets simple encounters carry difficult questions about love and responsibility.
Jane Austen
Emma — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A comedy of matchmaking, self-deception and village life. Penguin Classics clothbound hardcover, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith; edited with introduction and notes by Fiona Stafford. 512 pages. ISBN 9780141192475.
Jane Austen
Emma — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A comedy of matchmaking, self-deception and village life. Penguin Classics clothbound hardcover, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith; edited with introduction and notes by Fiona Stafford. 512 pages. ISBN 9780141192475.
Stendhal
The Red and the Black
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Ambition, class, and private desire in post-Napoleonic France. Penguin Classics, translated by Roger Gard. ISBN 9780140447644.
Stendhal
The Red and the Black
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Ambition, class, and private desire in post-Napoleonic France. Penguin Classics, translated by Roger Gard. ISBN 9780140447644.
Christina Rossetti
Poems — Everyman’s Pocket Poets
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Lyric and narrative poems, sonnet sequences, prayers and meditations in a compact Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets hardcover. 256 pages. ISBN 9780679429081.
Christina Rossetti
Poems — Everyman’s Pocket Poets
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Lyric and narrative poems, sonnet sequences, prayers and meditations in a compact Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets hardcover. 256 pages. ISBN 9780679429081.
Elizabeth von Arnim
The Enchanted April — NYRB Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Four women rent an Italian castle for April and discover renewed affection for life. NYRB Classics paperback, with introduction by Cathleen Schine. 376 pages. ISBN 9781590172254.
Elizabeth von Arnim
The Enchanted April — NYRB Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Four women rent an Italian castle for April and discover renewed affection for life. NYRB Classics paperback, with introduction by Cathleen Schine. 376 pages. ISBN 9781590172254.
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
The Buendía family and the imagined town of Macondo unfold through memory, repetition, and extraordinary events. Harper Perennial edition, translated by Gregory Rabassa. ISBN 9780060883287.
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
The Buendía family and the imagined town of Macondo unfold through memory, repetition, and extraordinary events. Harper Perennial edition, translated by Gregory Rabassa. ISBN 9780060883287.
Hans Christian Andersen
Fairy Tales — Puffin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Thumbelina, The Snow Queen and other familiar and lesser-known tales, retold by Naomi Lewis. Puffin Classics clothbound hardcover. 208 pages. ISBN 9780241425145.
Hans Christian Andersen
Fairy Tales — Puffin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Thumbelina, The Snow Queen and other familiar and lesser-known tales, retold by Naomi Lewis. Puffin Classics clothbound hardcover. 208 pages. ISBN 9780241425145.
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice — Puffin in Bloom Deluxe Hardcover
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Regency wit, social observation, and the slow undoing of first impressions. Puffin in Bloom deluxe hardcover, with Anna Bond cover art, gold foil, sprayed edges, illustrated endpapers, and a ribbon bookmark. ISBN 9798217042968.
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice — Puffin in Bloom Deluxe Hardcover
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Regency wit, social observation, and the slow undoing of first impressions. Puffin in Bloom deluxe hardcover, with Anna Bond cover art, gold foil, sprayed edges, illustrated endpapers, and a ribbon bookmark. ISBN 9798217042968.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Poems — Everyman’s Pocket Poets
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A selection including extracts from Idylls of the King, The Princess, In Memoriam and The Lotos-Eaters. Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets hardcover, edited by Peter Washington. 256 pages. ISBN 9781400041879.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Poems — Everyman’s Pocket Poets
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A selection including extracts from Idylls of the King, The Princess, In Memoriam and The Lotos-Eaters. Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets hardcover, edited by Peter Washington. 256 pages. ISBN 9781400041879.
Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
The Dashwood sisters balance feeling, judgment and the uncertainties of love. Penguin Classics clothbound hardcover, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. 448 pages. ISBN 9780141040370.
Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
The Dashwood sisters balance feeling, judgment and the uncertainties of love. Penguin Classics clothbound hardcover, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. 448 pages. ISBN 9780141040370.
Winifred Watson
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day — Persephone Classic
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A mistaken address sends a governess into a glamorous nightclub singer’s world for one extraordinary day. Persephone Classic paperback, with preface by Henrietta Twycross-Martin. 256 pages. ISBN 9781906462024.
Winifred Watson
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day — Persephone Classic
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A mistaken address sends a governess into a glamorous nightclub singer’s world for one extraordinary day. Persephone Classic paperback, with preface by Henrietta Twycross-Martin. 256 pages. ISBN 9781906462024.
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The Leopard — Everyman’s Library
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
An aristocratic Sicilian world confronts historical change. Everyman’s Library hardcover, translated by Archibald Colquhoun. ISBN 9780679407577.
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The Leopard — Everyman’s Library
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
An aristocratic Sicilian world confronts historical change. Everyman’s Library hardcover, translated by Archibald Colquhoun. ISBN 9780679407577.
Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth — Everyman’s Library
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Lily Bart moves through the glittering, exacting society of Gilded Age New York. Everyman’s Library hardcover, with an introduction by Pamela Knights. 400 pages. ISBN 9780679406679.
Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth — Everyman’s Library
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Lily Bart moves through the glittering, exacting society of Gilded Age New York. Everyman’s Library hardcover, with an introduction by Pamela Knights. 400 pages. ISBN 9780679406679.
Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A fierce Gothic novel of attachment, memory and the Yorkshire moors. Penguin Classics clothbound hardcover, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. ISBN 9780141040356.
Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A fierce Gothic novel of attachment, memory and the Yorkshire moors. Penguin Classics clothbound hardcover, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. ISBN 9780141040356.
Charles Dickens
Bleak House — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A sprawling Victorian novel of secrets, inheritance and a seemingly endless Chancery suit. Penguin Classics clothbound hardcover, with illustrations by Hablot K. Browne and cover design by Coralie Bickford-Smith. ISBN 9780141198354.
Charles Dickens
Bleak House — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A sprawling Victorian novel of secrets, inheritance and a seemingly endless Chancery suit. Penguin Classics clothbound hardcover, with illustrations by Hablot K. Browne and cover design by Coralie Bickford-Smith. ISBN 9780141198354.
Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady — Penguin Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Isabel Archer’s independence meets the complications of money, marriage and experience abroad. Penguin Classics paperback, with an introduction by Philip Horne. 768 pages. ISBN 9780141441269.
Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady — Penguin Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Isabel Archer’s independence meets the complications of money, marriage and experience abroad. Penguin Classics paperback, with an introduction by Philip Horne. 768 pages. ISBN 9780141441269.
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
The March sisters’ ambitions, adventures and family life in Civil War New England. Penguin Classics clothbound hardcover, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith; edited with introduction by Elaine Showalter. 544 pages. ISBN 9780141192413.
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
The March sisters’ ambitions, adventures and family life in Civil War New England. Penguin Classics clothbound hardcover, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith; edited with introduction by Elaine Showalter. 544 pages. ISBN 9780141192413.
George Eliot
Middlemarch — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A provincial world of marriages, ideals, reform, and intertwined destinies. Penguin Clothbound Classics hardcover, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. ISBN 9780141196893.
George Eliot
Middlemarch — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A provincial world of marriages, ideals, reform, and intertwined destinies. Penguin Clothbound Classics hardcover, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. ISBN 9780141196893.
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Pip’s expectations lead him through ambition, mystery and a painful education in character. Penguin Classics clothbound hardcover, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. ISBN 9780141040363.
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Pip’s expectations lead him through ambition, mystery and a painful education in character. Penguin Classics clothbound hardcover, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. ISBN 9780141040363.
Thomas Hardy
Far from the Madding Crowd — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Bathsheba Everdene’s rural world of courtship, farming and difficult choices. Penguin Classics clothbound hardcover, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. 480 pages. ISBN 9780241240274.
Thomas Hardy
Far from the Madding Crowd — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Bathsheba Everdene’s rural world of courtship, farming and difficult choices. Penguin Classics clothbound hardcover, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. 480 pages. ISBN 9780241240274.
Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Bath society, Gothic reading and Catherine Morland’s lively imagination. Penguin Classics clothbound hardcover, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith; edited with introduction and notes by Marilyn Butler. 320 pages. ISBN 9780141197715.
Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Bath society, Gothic reading and Catherine Morland’s lively imagination. Penguin Classics clothbound hardcover, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith; edited with introduction and notes by Marilyn Butler. 320 pages. ISBN 9780141197715.
Virginia Woolf
The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
One London day rendered through memory, consciousness, and social observation. W. W. Norton hardcover with Merve Emre’s annotations. ISBN 9781631496769.
Virginia Woolf
The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
One London day rendered through memory, consciousness, and social observation. W. W. Norton hardcover with Merve Emre’s annotations. ISBN 9781631496769.
Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native — Penguin Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Passion, restlessness and the pull of Egdon Heath in Hardy’s Wessex. Penguin Classics paperback. 496 pages. ISBN 9780140435184.
Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native — Penguin Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Passion, restlessness and the pull of Egdon Heath in Hardy’s Wessex. Penguin Classics paperback. 496 pages. ISBN 9780140435184.
Jane Austen
Mansfield Park — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Fanny Price observes the manners, loyalties and moral choices of a country-house household. Penguin Classics clothbound hardcover, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith; introduction and notes by Kathryn Sutherland. 560 pages. ISBN 9780141197708.
Jane Austen
Mansfield Park — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Fanny Price observes the manners, loyalties and moral choices of a country-house household. Penguin Classics clothbound hardcover, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith; introduction and notes by Kathryn Sutherland. 560 pages. ISBN 9780141197708.
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
London and Paris, private loyalty and sacrifice amid the French Revolution. Penguin Classics clothbound hardcover, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. ISBN 9780141196909.
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
London and Paris, private loyalty and sacrifice amid the French Revolution. Penguin Classics clothbound hardcover, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. ISBN 9780141196909.
Elena Ferrante
My Brilliant Friend
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Friendship, ambition, education, and the shaping force of a Naples neighborhood. Europa Editions, translated by Ann Goldstein. ISBN 9781609450786.
Elena Ferrante
My Brilliant Friend
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Friendship, ambition, education, and the shaping force of a Naples neighborhood. Europa Editions, translated by Ann Goldstein. ISBN 9781609450786.
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Ishmael’s whaling voyage and Captain Ahab’s consuming pursuit. Penguin Classics clothbound hardcover, based on the Northwestern-Newberry text, with introduction by Andrew Delbanco and commentary by Tom Quirk. 720 pages. ISBN 9780141199603.
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Ishmael’s whaling voyage and Captain Ahab’s consuming pursuit. Penguin Classics clothbound hardcover, based on the Northwestern-Newberry text, with introduction by Andrew Delbanco and commentary by Tom Quirk. 720 pages. ISBN 9780141199603.
Marcel Proust
Swann’s Way — Penguin Drop Caps
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Childhood, memory, desire, and the recovery of lost time. Lydia Davis’s translation in the Penguin Drop Caps edition designed by Jessica Hische. ISBN 9780143124696.
Marcel Proust
Swann’s Way — Penguin Drop Caps
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Childhood, memory, desire, and the recovery of lost time. Lydia Davis’s translation in the Penguin Drop Caps edition designed by Jessica Hische. ISBN 9780143124696.
Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
An audacious novel of reading, idealism, invention, and the stubbornness of reality. Penguin Classics, translated by John Rutherford. ISBN 9780142437230.
Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
An audacious novel of reading, idealism, invention, and the stubbornness of reality. Penguin Classics, translated by John Rutherford. ISBN 9780142437230.
Magda Szabó
The Door — NYRB Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
An unsettling relationship between a writer and her housekeeper explores privacy, trust, and power. NYRB Classics, translated by Len Rix. ISBN 9781590177716.
Magda Szabó
The Door — NYRB Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
An unsettling relationship between a writer and her housekeeper explores privacy, trust, and power. NYRB Classics, translated by Len Rix. ISBN 9781590177716.
Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary — Penguin Drop Caps
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Romantic fantasies meet provincial reality in Flaubert’s precision-crafted novel. Lydia Davis’s translation in the Penguin Drop Caps edition. ISBN 9780143123804.
Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary — Penguin Drop Caps
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Romantic fantasies meet provincial reality in Flaubert’s precision-crafted novel. Lydia Davis’s translation in the Penguin Drop Caps edition. ISBN 9780143123804.
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Private lives and historical upheaval on an immense human scale. Penguin clothbound edition, translated by Antony Briggs. ISBN 9780241265543.
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Private lives and historical upheaval on an immense human scale. Penguin clothbound edition, translated by Antony Briggs. ISBN 9780241265543.
Tove Jansson
The Summer Book — NYRB Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A grandmother and a child share an island summer in a novel of attention, humor, and quiet depth. NYRB Classics, translated by Thomas Teal. ISBN 9781590172681.
Tove Jansson
The Summer Book — NYRB Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A grandmother and a child share an island summer in a novel of attention, humor, and quiet depth. NYRB Classics, translated by Thomas Teal. ISBN 9781590172681.
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Love, family, self-deception, and the search for a meaningful life. Clothbound hardcover; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. ISBN 9780141199610.
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Love, family, self-deception, and the search for a meaningful life. Clothbound hardcover; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. ISBN 9780141199610.
Natalia Ginzburg
Family Lexicon — NYRB Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A family’s phrases, rituals, and memories become a record of twentieth-century Italian life. NYRB Classics, translated by Jenny McPhee. ISBN 9781590178386.
Natalia Ginzburg
Family Lexicon — NYRB Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A family’s phrases, rituals, and memories become a record of twentieth-century Italian life. NYRB Classics, translated by Jenny McPhee. ISBN 9781590178386.
Mikhail Bulgakov
The Master and Margarita
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
The devil arrives in Moscow in a novel joining satire, love, and metaphysical imagination. Vintage International; translated by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O’Connor. ISBN 9780679760801.
Mikhail Bulgakov
The Master and Margarita
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
The devil arrives in Moscow in a novel joining satire, love, and metaphysical imagination. Vintage International; translated by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O’Connor. ISBN 9780679760801.
Murasaki Shikibu
The Tale of Genji — Penguin Classics Deluxe
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Courtly life, longing, and impermanence in Heian Japan. Royall Tyler’s translation; Penguin Classics Deluxe edition with flaps and deckle-edged pages. ISBN 9780142437148.
Murasaki Shikibu
The Tale of Genji — Penguin Classics Deluxe
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Courtly life, longing, and impermanence in Heian Japan. Royall Tyler’s translation; Penguin Classics Deluxe edition with flaps and deckle-edged pages. ISBN 9780142437148.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment — Penguin Classics Deluxe
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Guilt, conscience, and the limits of a theory tested against human life. Oliver Ready’s translation, with cover art by Zohar Lazar. ISBN 9780143107637.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment — Penguin Classics Deluxe
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Guilt, conscience, and the limits of a theory tested against human life. Oliver Ready’s translation, with cover art by Zohar Lazar. ISBN 9780143107637.
Machado de Assis
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A dead aristocrat’s mischievous, digressive memoir dismantles vanity and social pretension. Penguin Classics, translated by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux. ISBN 9780143135036.
Machado de Assis
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A dead aristocrat’s mischievous, digressive memoir dismantles vanity and social pretension. Penguin Classics, translated by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux. ISBN 9780143135036.
Yasunari Kawabata
Snow Country
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
An elusive relationship unfolds in a remote Japanese hot-spring town. Vintage edition, translated by Edward G. Seidensticker. ISBN 9780679761044.
Yasunari Kawabata
Snow Country
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
An elusive relationship unfolds in a remote Japanese hot-spring town. Vintage edition, translated by Edward G. Seidensticker. ISBN 9780679761044.
Clarice Lispector
The Hour of the Star — Centenary Hardcover
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A brief, unsettling novel that questions the act of telling another person’s story. New Directions centenary hardcover, translated by Benjamin Moser. ISBN 9780811230049.
Clarice Lispector
The Hour of the Star — Centenary Hardcover
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A brief, unsettling novel that questions the act of telling another person’s story. New Directions centenary hardcover, translated by Benjamin Moser. ISBN 9780811230049.
Natsume Sōseki
Kokoro
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
An intimate novel of friendship, guilt, and the distance between generations. Penguin Classics, translated by Meredith McKinney. ISBN 9780143106036.
Natsume Sōseki
Kokoro
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
An intimate novel of friendship, guilt, and the distance between generations. Penguin Classics, translated by Meredith McKinney. ISBN 9780143106036.
Jorge Luis Borges
Ficciones
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Stories of labyrinths, mirrors, invented books, and the strange architecture of thought. Grove Press edition. ISBN 9780802130303.
Jorge Luis Borges
Ficciones
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Stories of labyrinths, mirrors, invented books, and the strange architecture of thought. Grove Press edition. ISBN 9780802130303.
Han Kang
The White Book
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A formally spare meditation on grief, life, and the many meanings of white. Hogarth paperback, translated by Deborah Smith. ISBN 9780525573074.
Han Kang
The White Book
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A formally spare meditation on grief, life, and the many meanings of white. Hogarth paperback, translated by Deborah Smith. ISBN 9780525573074.
Geetanjali Shree
Tomb of Sand
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
An elderly woman’s journey crosses borders of place, memory, language, and convention. HarperVia hardcover, translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell. ISBN 9780063299405.
Geetanjali Shree
Tomb of Sand
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
An elderly woman’s journey crosses borders of place, memory, language, and convention. HarperVia hardcover, translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell. ISBN 9780063299405.
Lu Xun
The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Stories that join satire, social observation, and the unsettled experience of Chinese modernity. Penguin Classics, translated by Julia Lovell. ISBN 9780140455489.
Lu Xun
The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Stories that join satire, social observation, and the unsettled experience of Chinese modernity. Penguin Classics, translated by Julia Lovell. ISBN 9780140455489.
Helen DeWitt
The Last Samurai
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A mother, an intellectually restless child, and an unconventional search for a father. An adventurous novel about knowledge and human possibility. New Directions paperback. ISBN 9780811225502.
Helen DeWitt
The Last Samurai
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A mother, an intellectually restless child, and an unconventional search for a father. An adventurous novel about knowledge and human possibility. New Directions paperback. ISBN 9780811225502.
James Baldwin
Giovanni’s Room
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Paris, desire, shame, and the consequences of refusing an honest life. Vintage International edition. ISBN 9780345806567.
James Baldwin
Giovanni’s Room
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Paris, desire, shame, and the consequences of refusing an honest life. Vintage International edition. ISBN 9780345806567.
William Shakespeare
Complete Works — RSC Second Edition
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
The plays and poems in the revised Royal Shakespeare Company edition, edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen. Modern Library. ISBN 9780593230312.
William Shakespeare
Complete Works — RSC Second Edition
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
The plays and poems in the revised Royal Shakespeare Company edition, edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen. Modern Library. ISBN 9780593230312.
John Keats
The Complete Poems
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Keats’s poems arranged by date of composition, with extensive notes and an introduction by John Barnard. Penguin Classics edition. ISBN 9780140422108.
John Keats
The Complete Poems
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Keats’s poems arranged by date of composition, with extensive notes and an introduction by John Barnard. Penguin Classics edition. ISBN 9780140422108.
W. B. Yeats
Poems — Everyman’s Pocket Poets
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Irish myth, desire, history, and the changing forms of a long poetic life. Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets edition. ISBN 9781857157116.
W. B. Yeats
Poems — Everyman’s Pocket Poets
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Irish myth, desire, history, and the changing forms of a long poetic life. Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets edition. ISBN 9781857157116.
William Wordsworth
Poems — Everyman’s Pocket Poets
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Lake District landscapes, lyrical ballads, sonnets and passages from The Prelude. Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets hardcover. 256 pages. ISBN 9780375712630.
William Wordsworth
Poems — Everyman’s Pocket Poets
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Lake District landscapes, lyrical ballads, sonnets and passages from The Prelude. Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets hardcover. 256 pages. ISBN 9780375712630.
Emily Dickinson
The Complete Poems
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
The collected poems in Thomas H. Johnson’s edition, spanning Dickinson’s compressed, unsettling, and luminous imagination. Little, Brown. ISBN 9780316184144.
Emily Dickinson
The Complete Poems
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
The collected poems in Thomas H. Johnson’s edition, spanning Dickinson’s compressed, unsettling, and luminous imagination. Little, Brown. ISBN 9780316184144.
William Blake
Poems — Everyman’s Pocket Poets
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A selection from Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, the manuscript book and the prophetic books. Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets hardcover. 288 pages. ISBN 9780375712555.
William Blake
Poems — Everyman’s Pocket Poets
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A selection from Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, the manuscript book and the prophetic books. Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets hardcover. 288 pages. ISBN 9780375712555.
Seamus Heaney
Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966–1996
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Heaney’s own selection from three decades of poems, bringing language, land, memory, and public life into relation. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9780374526788.
Seamus Heaney
Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966–1996
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Heaney’s own selection from three decades of poems, bringing language, land, memory, and public life into relation. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9780374526788.
Louise Glück
The Wild Iris
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A garden becomes the setting for poems about mortality, suffering, and renewal. Ecco edition. ISBN 9780880013345.
Louise Glück
The Wild Iris
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A garden becomes the setting for poems about mortality, suffering, and renewal. Ecco edition. ISBN 9780880013345.
Mary Oliver
Devotions
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Selected poems spanning Oliver’s attention to the natural world and the inward life. Penguin Press hardcover. ISBN 9780399563249.
Mary Oliver
Devotions
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Selected poems spanning Oliver’s attention to the natural world and the inward life. Penguin Press hardcover. ISBN 9780399563249.
Beowulf
Seamus Heaney’s Bilingual Edition
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
The Old English epic in Seamus Heaney’s verse translation, with the original text facing the English. W. W. Norton paperback. ISBN 9780393320978.
Beowulf
Seamus Heaney’s Bilingual Edition
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
The Old English epic in Seamus Heaney’s verse translation, with the original text facing the English. W. W. Norton paperback. ISBN 9780393320978.
Homer
The Iliad — Emily Wilson Translation
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
The human cost of war, rage, loyalty, and grief. Emily Wilson’s English verse translation; W. W. Norton paperback. ISBN 9781324076148.
Homer
The Iliad — Emily Wilson Translation
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
The human cost of war, rage, loyalty, and grief. Emily Wilson’s English verse translation; W. W. Norton paperback. ISBN 9781324076148.
Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise in Robin Kirkpatrick’s translation. Penguin Clothbound Classics hardcover. ISBN 9780141195872.
Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise in Robin Kirkpatrick’s translation. Penguin Clothbound Classics hardcover. ISBN 9780141195872.
Homer
The Odyssey — Emily Wilson Translation
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
The long voyage home, told in Emily Wilson’s English verse translation. W. W. Norton paperback. ISBN 9780393356250.
Homer
The Odyssey — Emily Wilson Translation
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
The long voyage home, told in Emily Wilson’s English verse translation. W. W. Norton paperback. ISBN 9780393356250.
Ovid
Metamorphoses — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Transformation, desire, and the restless movement of myth. Penguin clothbound edition, translated in verse by David Raeburn. ISBN 9780141394619.
Ovid
Metamorphoses — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Transformation, desire, and the restless movement of myth. Penguin clothbound edition, translated in verse by David Raeburn. ISBN 9780141394619.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Letters on solitude, creative work, and learning to live with unanswered questions. Penguin Classics, translated by Charlie Louth. ISBN 9780141192321.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Letters on solitude, creative work, and learning to live with unanswered questions. Penguin Classics, translated by Charlie Louth. ISBN 9780141192321.
Susanna Clarke
Piranesi
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A luminous, mysterious house of halls, statues, and tides becomes a meditation on solitude and knowledge. Bloomsbury paperback. ISBN 9781635577808.
Susanna Clarke
Piranesi
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A luminous, mysterious house of halls, statues, and tides becomes a meditation on solitude and knowledge. Bloomsbury paperback. ISBN 9781635577808.
Edith Hamilton
Mythology — 75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Greek and Roman mythology in Hamilton’s enduring retelling, with illustrations by Jim Tierney. Anniversary edition. ISBN 9780316438520.
Edith Hamilton
Mythology — 75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Greek and Roman mythology in Hamilton’s enduring retelling, with illustrations by Jim Tierney. Anniversary edition. ISBN 9780316438520.
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Books of Earthsea — Illustrated by Charles Vess
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
The complete Earthsea cycle in an illustrated omnibus, with more than fifty images by Charles Vess. Saga Press edition. ISBN 9781481465588.
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Books of Earthsea — Illustrated by Charles Vess
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
The complete Earthsea cycle in an illustrated omnibus, with more than fifty images by Charles Vess. Saga Press edition. ISBN 9781481465588.
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
The complete first edition of the tales, translated by Jack Zipes and illustrated by Andrea Dezsö. Princeton University Press hardcover. ISBN 9780691160597.
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
The complete first edition of the tales, translated by Jack Zipes and illustrated by Andrea Dezsö. Princeton University Press hardcover. ISBN 9780691160597.
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Scientific ambition, isolation, and responsibility in a foundational Gothic novel. Clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. ISBN 9780141393391.
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Scientific ambition, isolation, and responsibility in a foundational Gothic novel. Clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. ISBN 9780141393391.
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness — Penguin Galaxy
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
An emissary enters a world that unsettles assumptions about gender, loyalty, and human connection. Penguin Galaxy deluxe hardcover. ISBN 9780143111597.
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness — Penguin Galaxy
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
An emissary enters a world that unsettles assumptions about gender, loyalty, and human connection. Penguin Galaxy deluxe hardcover. ISBN 9780143111597.
Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Beauty, vanity, corruption, and the moral cost of an apparently unchanging face. Penguin Clothbound Classics edition. ISBN 9780141442464.
Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray — Penguin Clothbound Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Beauty, vanity, corruption, and the moral cost of an apparently unchanging face. Penguin Clothbound Classics edition. ISBN 9780141442464.
Angela Carter
The Bloody Chamber — Penguin Classics Deluxe
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Sensual, unsettling transformations of familiar fairy tales. Penguin Classics Deluxe edition with an introduction by Kelly Link. ISBN 9780143107613.
Angela Carter
The Bloody Chamber — Penguin Classics Deluxe
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Sensual, unsettling transformations of familiar fairy tales. Penguin Classics Deluxe edition with an introduction by Kelly Link. ISBN 9780143107613.
Ted Chiang
Stories of Your Life and Others
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Speculative stories that make questions of language, mathematics, time, and human choice emotionally immediate. Vintage edition. ISBN 9781101972120.
Ted Chiang
Stories of Your Life and Others
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Speculative stories that make questions of language, mathematics, time, and human choice emotionally immediate. Vintage edition. ISBN 9781101972120.
The Annotated Arabian Nights
Yasmine Seale & Paulo Lemos Horta
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
An illustrated, annotated edition of the great story cycle, translated by Yasmine Seale and edited by Paulo Lemos Horta. Liveright. ISBN 9781631493638.
The Annotated Arabian Nights
Yasmine Seale & Paulo Lemos Horta
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
An illustrated, annotated edition of the great story cycle, translated by Yasmine Seale and edited by Paulo Lemos Horta. Liveright. ISBN 9781631493638.
D. E. Stevenson
Miss Buncle’s Book — Persephone Classic
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Barbara Buncle writes a novel about her village, with consequences its residents would rather not recognize. Persephone Classic paperback, with preface by Aline Templeton. 352 pages. ISBN 9781906462574.
D. E. Stevenson
Miss Buncle’s Book — Persephone Classic
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Barbara Buncle writes a novel about her village, with consequences its residents would rather not recognize. Persephone Classic paperback, with preface by Aline Templeton. 352 pages. ISBN 9781906462574.
Stella Gibbons
Cold Comfort Farm — Penguin Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Flora Poste brings practical good sense to the melodramatic Starkadder household in this comic pastoral parody. Penguin Classics paperback. 256 pages. ISBN 9780143039594.
Stella Gibbons
Cold Comfort Farm — Penguin Classics
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Flora Poste brings practical good sense to the melodramatic Starkadder household in this comic pastoral parody. Penguin Classics paperback. 256 pages. ISBN 9780143039594.
Claire Tomalin
Jane Austen: A Life — Vintage
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A literary life to accompany the novels: Austen’s family, circumstances and development as a writer. Vintage paperback. 400 pages. ISBN 9780679766766.
Claire Tomalin
Jane Austen: A Life — Vintage
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
A literary life to accompany the novels: Austen’s family, circumstances and development as a writer. Vintage paperback. 400 pages. ISBN 9780679766766.
Susan Sontag
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Essays on art, criticism, style, and camp. A formative collection for thinking about how culture is encountered and understood. Picador reissue. ISBN 9781250374752.
Susan Sontag
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Essays on art, criticism, style, and camp. A formative collection for thinking about how culture is encountered and understood. Picador reissue. ISBN 9781250374752.
Claire Tomalin
Charles Dickens: A Life — Penguin Books
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Dickens’s working life, family, friendships and extraordinary literary career. Penguin Books paperback. 608 pages. ISBN 9780143122050.
Claire Tomalin
Charles Dickens: A Life — Penguin Books
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Dickens’s working life, family, friendships and extraordinary literary career. Penguin Books paperback. 608 pages. ISBN 9780143122050.
Virginia Woolf
A Room of One’s Own — Everyman’s Library
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Woolf’s essay on women, writing, intellectual freedom, and the material conditions of creative life. Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics hardcover. ISBN 9781101908501.
Virginia Woolf
A Room of One’s Own — Everyman’s Library
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Woolf’s essay on women, writing, intellectual freedom, and the material conditions of creative life. Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics hardcover. ISBN 9781101908501.
Marcus Aurelius
Meditations — Gregory Hays Translation
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Private reflections on conduct, duty, impermanence, and the discipline of attention. Modern Library, translated by Gregory Hays. ISBN 9780812968255.
Marcus Aurelius
Meditations — Gregory Hays Translation
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Private reflections on conduct, duty, impermanence, and the discipline of attention. Modern Library, translated by Gregory Hays. ISBN 9780812968255.
Michel de Montaigne
The Complete Essays
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
The essay as an exploration of judgment, habit, friendship, and the self. Penguin Classics, translated and edited by M. A. Screech. ISBN 9780140446043.
Michel de Montaigne
The Complete Essays
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
The essay as an exploration of judgment, habit, friendship, and the self. Penguin Classics, translated and edited by M. A. Screech. ISBN 9780140446043.
Confucius
The Analects — D. C. Lau Translation
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Teachings on learning, conduct, and ethical life, with introduction, glossary, and appendices. Penguin Classics, translated by D. C. Lau. ISBN 9780140443486.
Confucius
The Analects — D. C. Lau Translation
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Teachings on learning, conduct, and ethical life, with introduction, glossary, and appendices. Penguin Classics, translated by D. C. Lau. ISBN 9780140443486.
Andrea Wulf
The Invention of Nature
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Alexander von Humboldt’s life and the development of an interconnected understanding of nature. Vintage paperback. ISBN 9780345806291.
Andrea Wulf
The Invention of Nature
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Alexander von Humboldt’s life and the development of an interconnected understanding of nature. Vintage paperback. ISBN 9780345806291.
Mary Beard
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Ancient Rome examined through its people, institutions, myths, and changing ideas of citizenship. Liveright paperback. ISBN 9781631492228.
Mary Beard
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Ancient Rome examined through its people, institutions, myths, and changing ideas of citizenship. Liveright paperback. ISBN 9781631492228.
Richard Powers
The Overstory
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Interwoven human lives are drawn into the vast, slower life of trees. W. W. Norton paperback. ISBN 9780393356687.
Richard Powers
The Overstory
WHY IT MADE THE EDIT
Interwoven human lives are drawn into the vast, slower life of trees. W. W. Norton paperback. ISBN 9780393356687.
THE PURE EDIT · BY PURELY NURTURED
Occasional letters with thoughtful recommendations, seasonal discoveries, and stories worth your time. Usually monthly, with an extra only when there is something especially useful to share.
