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What do readers say about My Year of Rest and Relaxation?
contemporary literary fiction weird and misanthropic inventive and subtle mushy for nihilistic filthNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Amazon,Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible
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WHENEVER I WOKE UP, night or day, I’d shuffle through the bright marble foyer of my building and go up the block and around the corner where there was a bodega that never closed. I’d get two large cof...
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What do readers say about The Catcher in the Rye?
a character-driven story very amazing the eternal teenage classic coming-of-age taleThe "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.
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IF YOU REALLY WANT TO HEAR about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me...
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What do readers say about Girl, Interrupted?
smooth as butter living with depression hilarious and thought-provoking simplistic but powerfulIn 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years in the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as reno... More details on Girl, Interrupted
The worst was that she was always caught and dragged back, dirty, with wild eyes that had seen freedom. She would curse her captors, and even the tough old-timers had to laugh at the names she made up...
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What do readers say about No Longer Human?
loneliness and suicide sparse and moving words I like happy reads an existential novelNo longer human is one of the most famous novels of contemporary Japanese literature. His controversial and brilliant author, Osamu Dazai, incorporated numerous episodes of his turbulent life into the three notebooks that make up this novel and narra... More details on No Longer Human
I can’t even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. I was born in a village in the Northeast, and it wasn’t until I was quite big that I saw my first train. I climbed up and d...
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What do readers say about The Perks of Being a Wallflower?
it really reminded me of my youth wonderfully written relationships are imperfect and messy life is full of possibilitiesThe critically acclaimed debut novel from Stephen Chbosky follows observant "wallflower" Charlie as he charts a course through the strange world between adolescence and adulthood. First dates, family drama, and new friends. Sex, drugs, and The Rocky ... More details on The Perks of Being a Wallflower
I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn’t try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have. Please don’t try to figure out who she is because then...
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What do readers say about The Yellow Wallpaper?
sharp, modern, intense writing another creepy novel nineteenth century gothic fiction early feminist literatureTHE YELLOW WALL-PAPER is a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century tow... More details on The Yellow Wallpaper
If a physician of high standing, and one's own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—wha...
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What do readers say about Hangsaman?
creepy, tinged with supernatural no student disappears strange little book a disconcerting bookShirley Jackson's chilling second novel, based on her own experiences and an actual mysterious disappearance
Seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite longs to escape home for college. Her father is a domineering and egotistical writer who keeps a tight rein ... More details on Hangsaman
Mr. Arnold Waite—husband, parent, man of his word—invariably leaned back in his chair after his second cup of breakfast coffee and looked with some disbelief at his wife and two children. His chair wa...
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What do readers say about One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
overcoming society's rules an american classic an absolute classic a fantastic classicKen Kesey's bracing, inslightful novel about the meaning of madness and the value of self-reliance, and the inspiration for the new Netflix original series Ratched... More details on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
She dips a nod at me as she goes past. I let the mop push me back to the wall and smile and try to foul her equipment up as much as possible by not letting her see my eyes—they can’t tell so much abou...
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What do readers say about It's Kind of a Funny Story?
teenage depression and suicide deep and thought provoking laid back but professional relationships and managing depressionLike many ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner sees entry into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School as the ticket to his future. Determined to succeed at life-which means getting into the right high school to get into the rig... More details on It's Kind of a Funny Story
It’s so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That’s above and beyond everything else, and it’s not a mental complaint—it’s a physical thing, like it’s physically hard to open your mouth and ma...
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What do readers say about Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine?
her solitary life funny and strange dark, dry humor grief, loss, and loneliness#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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