⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Through short stories, The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien recounts a semi-autobiographical account of the author’s...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 The Harvest Gypsies by John Steinbeck is a volume containing seven long-form articles that John Steinbeck wrote in 1936 about...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman tells the story of the meeting of a father and son for the first time in a long...

⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway tells the love story of Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, backdropped by World War...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg tells two stories at once. One is of Mrs. Threadgoode, an...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Sula by Toni Morrison tells the story of the friendship of Nel and Sula, two girls who meet as children in the small town of...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner recounts the harrowing journey the Bundren family takes across the Mississippi countryside...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Libraries in the Ancient World by Lionel Casson recounts the history of ancient libraries, all the way back to when “books”...

⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Exterminator! by William S. Burroughs contains 30 short stories on topics including science-fantasy wars, racism, corporate...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Letters by Kurt Vonnegut contains hundreds of letters the famous satire / science fiction writer Kurt Vonnegut wrote and...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, written and first performed in the late 1800s, shocked audiences with its feminist, yet...

⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 The play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, first performed in London’s St. James’ Theatre on February 14, 1895, is...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Magritte by Marcel Paquet explores the famous surrealist painter René Magritte’s life and art. It is divided into the...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain, beginning with an introduction and brief timeline of the famous writer’s life, contains...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 The Quantity Theory of Insanity by Will Self consists of six short stories. In 'The North London Book of the Dead,' the...

⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 The Elements of Style by William Strunk, as the introduction states, “aims to give in brief spaces the principle requirements of...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Uelsmann: Process and Perception by Jerry Uelsmann and John Ames contains photographs and commentary by Uelsmann along with...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon, as the cover states, details “10 things nobody told you about being creative.” The 10...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Rumi, Day by Day by Maryam Mafi is an anthology containing poems on topics including friendship, love, spirituality, and life...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin gives a voice to the civil rights movement as it was emerging in the early 1960s. It...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway is a memoir telling Hemingway’s experiences in Paris in the 1920s. Before much of his...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Death is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa tells a story set right in the heart of Syria’s cataclysmic civil war. In order to...

⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac tells the story of the relationship and breakup of Leo Percepied and Mardou Fox, two...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus contains six stories told from a variety of perspectives, all of which portray people...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose tells the story of twelve jurors, faced with the task of deciding the fate of a teenage...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder details “twenty lessons from the twentieth century” on tyranny and how to avoid its control....

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 In Praise of Wasting Time by Alan Lightman argues, as the title states, in favor of wasting time. He suggests that “wasting...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 The Nobel Lecture by Bob Dylan contains the speech Bob Dylan gave when, on October 13, 2016, he became the first American...

⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Forever by Pete Hamill tells the story of Cormac O’Connor, a man who is given immortality, with one small catch - he can never...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut, the author's first novel, details the life of Paul Proteus. Partly inspired by Vonnegut's...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Why I Write by George Orwell is a book containing four essays written at various times in the author’s life. The essays are...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Post Office by Charles Bukowksi tells the story of Henry Chinaski, a man who’s spent over 12 years working in the U.S. Postal...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Anxious People by Fredrik Backman tells the story of a failed bank robbery turned hostage situation when the would-be bank...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 The Poetry of Walt Whitman is a collection containing 49 poems by the famous poet. The poems range in length from 75 pages...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 The Testaments by Margaret Atwood is the sequel to the author's famed dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. Although this is...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng tells the story of the Lees, a Chinese American family living in small-town Ohio...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Against Happiness by Eric G. Wilson argues against the societal and especially American addiction to happiness. Wilson...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis (with Larry Sloman) is the autobiography of the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Unsolved Enigmas by Sam Pilger and Leo Moynihan contains 39 “incredible events that have puzzled the greatest minds,” as the...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview and Other Conversations edited by Sam Weller contains four of Bradbury’s final...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Look at the Birdie by Kurt Vonnegut contains 14 short stories, published posthumously, two years after Vonnegut’s death. The...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Two days ago I read The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. This book tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, a young girl...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin is a short book that contains hundreds of quotes and sayings...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 A Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut is Vonnegut’s final book written and published before he died. Rather than a novel,...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 To A God Unknown by John Steinbeck tells the story of Joseph Wayne, a man who embarks on a journey to California in order to...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut is a short book containing 21 fictional interviews given by the author to...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess is a classic dystopian novel narrated by the story's protagonist Alex. At first it...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 If This Isn’t Nice, What Is? contains 18 speeches given by Kurt Vonnegut, which are selected and introduced by his friend...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Blue Horses by Mary Oliver is a poetry collection that contains 38 poems by the poet, each with a unique style, structure,...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Best Remembered Poems, edited and annotated by Martin Gardner, is an extensive collection of poetry that contains poems from...