Herzog [April 4, 2020] Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow's Herzog is part confessional, part exorcism, and a wholly unique achievement in postmodern fiction. Is Moses Herzog losing his mind? His formidable wife Madeleine has left him for his best friend, and Herzog is left alone with his whirl...
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie [April 4, 2020] Muriel Spark
Review
"A gloriously witty and polished vignette." -- -- Times Literary Supplement
"A perfect book." -- -- Chicago Tribune
"Admirably written, beautifully constructed, extremely amusing, and deeply serious." -- -- Saturday Review
"A gloriously wit...
The Catcher in the Rye [April 4, 2020] J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger wrote one of the most famous books ever written, The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger wrote many stories and, in 1941, after several rejections, Salinger finally cracked The New Yorker, with a story, "Slight Rebellion Off Madison," that w...
Nightmare Abbey [April 4, 2020] Thomas Love Peacock
Despite its ominously sounding title, Nightmare Abbey is a Gothic topical satire in which the author pokes light-hearted fun at the romantic movement in contemporary English literature, in particular its obsession with morbid subjects, misanthropy a...
Vanity Fair [April 4, 2020] William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. It was first published as a 19-volume monthly serial from 184...
Money: A Suicide Note [April 4, 2020] Martin Amis
London Trilogy [1]: One of Time's 100 best novels in the English language—by the acclaimed author ofLionel Asbo: State of England and London FieldsPart of Martin Amis's “London Trilogy,” along with the novel London Fields andThe Information, Money wa...
A bend in the river [April 4, 2020] V. S. Naipaul
EDITORIAL REVIEW:
'Brilliant and terrifying' - "Observer". I had to be the man who was doing well and more than well, the man whose drab shop concealed some bigger operation that made millions. I had to be the man who had planned it all, who had com...
Diary of a Nobody [April 4, 2020] George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith
The diary is that of a man who acknowledges that he is not a "Somebody" - Charles Pooter of 'The Laurels', Brickfield Terrace, Holloway, a clerk in the city of London - and it chronicles in hilarious detail the everyday life of the lower middle clas...
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance [March 28, 2020] Robert M. Pirsig
The extraordinary story of a man's quest for truth. It will change the way you think and feel about your life. "The cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'" "The study of the art of motorcycle maintainence is really a study of the art ...
Good Economics for Hard Times [March 28, 2020] Abhijit V. Banerjee , Esther Duflo
The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time...
Industrial Society and Its Future [March 28, 2020] Theodore John Kaczynski
In 1995, Kaczynski mailed several letters to media outlets outlining his goals and demanding that his 35,000-word essay Industrial Society and Its Future (dubbed the Unabomber Manifesto by the FBI)be printed verbatim by a major newspaper. He stated ...
Woke: A Guide to Social Justice [March 28, 2020] Titania McGrath
'The book everyone's talking about' The Times'Titania McGrath is a genius' Spectator'Just as Bridget Jones was the embodiment of the anxiety-ridden Nineties feminist, a creation whose diary entries encapsulated all our hopes, fears and failures, so T...
Think and Grow Rich [March 28, 2020] Napoleon Hill
This book contains money-making secrets that can change your life.
Think and Grow Rich, based on the author’s famed Law of Success, represents the distilled wisdom of distinguished men of great wealth and achievement.
Andrew Carnegie’s magic form...
India Calling [March 28, 2020] Anand Giridharadas
Reversing his parents' immigrant path, a young American-born writer returns to India and discovers an old country making itself newAnand Giridharadas sensed something was afoot as his plane from America prepared to land in Bombay. An elderly passenge...
The Art of War [March 28, 2020] Sun Tzu
Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct of military operations. These terse, aphoristic essays are unsurpassed in comprehensiveness and depth of understanding,...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [March 28, 2020] Arthur Conan Doyle
First published in 1892, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the first and greatest of the short story collections written by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring his famous detective. The twelve Sherlock Holmes adventures included in this anthology: A Sca...
The Fly [March 28, 2020] Katherine Mansfield
"The Fly", by Katherine Mansfield, deals with the aftermath of the loss of an only beloved son in the wake of World War I. Rife with symbolism, the short story leaves the listener with intriguing questions to ponder. "The Fly" is a wonderful example...
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism [March 28, 2020] Shoshana Zuboff
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior.Shoshana Zuboff's i...
Mulligan Stew [March 28, 2020] Gilbert Sorrentino
Widely regarded as Sorrentino's finest achievement, ?"Mulligan Stew"?takes as its subject the comic possibilities of the modern literary imagination. As avant-garde novelist Antony Lamont struggles to write a "new wave murder mystery," his frustratin...
Silence on the Wire [March 28, 2020] Michal Zalewski
Author Michal Zalewski is respected in the hacking and security communities for his\n intelligence, curiosity and creativity, and this book is truly unlike anything else.\n Silence on the Wire is no humdrum white paper or how-to manual for protecting...
Models of My Life [March 28, 2020] Herbert A. Simon
In this candid and witty autobiography, Nobel laureate Herbert A. Simon looks at his distinguished and varied career, continually asking himself whether (and how) what he learned as a scientist helps to explain other aspects of his life. A brilliant...
How To [March 28, 2020] Randall Munroe
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing ExplainerFor any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wro...
