en-US Wed, 15 Jan 2025 23:19:10 -0800 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 2427541 608 F. Scott Fitzgerald 3257236948 ����������🫧🐜 0 currently-reading 3.53 1922
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]]> 59149 Beware of Pity, the only novel he published during his lifetime, uncovers the seed of selfishness within even the finest of feelings.

Hofmiller, an Austro-Hungarian cavalry officer stationed at the edge of the empire, is invited to a party at the home of a rich local landowner, a world away from the dreary routine of his barracks. The surroundings are glamorous, wine flows freely, and the exhilarated young Hofmiller asks his host's lovely daughter for a dance, only to discover that sickness has left her painfully crippled. It is a minor blunder, yet one that will go on to destroy his life, as pity and guilt gradually implicate him in a well-meaning but tragically wrongheaded plot to restore the unhappy invalid to health.]]> 353 Stefan Zweig ����������🫧🐜 0 to-read 4.28 1939
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]]> 3038002
Ein Haus an einem märkischen See ist das Zentrum, fünfzehn Lebensläufe, Geschichten, Schicksale von den Zwanzigerjahren bis heute ranken sich darum. Das Haus und seine Bewohner erleben die Weimarer Republik, das Dritte Reich, den Krieg und dessen Ende, die DDR, die Wende und die Zeit der Nachwende. Jedem einzelnen Schicksal gibt Jenny Erpenbeck eine eigene literarische Form, jedes entfaltet auf ganz eigene Weise seine Dramatik, seine Tragik, sein Glück. Alle zusammen bilden eine Art kollektives literarisches Gedächtnis des letzten Jahrhunderts, geformt in einer Literatur, die nicht nur großartige Sätze und Bilder zu bieten hat, sondern die auch Wunden reißt, verstört, beglückt, verunsichert und versöhnt.

Worin das Geheimnis dieser Geschichten besteht, woraus sich ihr Glanz, ihre Wucht und ihre eminente Dramatik entfalten, ist schwer zu sagen. Sicher aber ist eins: Mit diesem Buch ist Jenny Erpenbeck ihr Meisterstück gelungen.

»Immer, wenn Jenny Erpenbeck ihren scharfen Blick auf die Dinge richtet, verändern sie sich blitzartig. Die Oberfläche schmilzt. Darunter kommt zum Vorschein, was als subkutane Irritation die Figuren bewegt.« Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]]> 191 Jenny Erpenbeck 3821857730 ����������🫧🐜 3 3.13 2008
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average rating: 3.13
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rating: 3
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]]> 60797399
** Adapted into the Oscar-nominated film adaptation, An Cailín Ciúin / The Quiet Girl **

From the author of the Booker-shortlisted Small Things Like These, a heartbreaking, haunting story of childhood, loss and love by one of Ireland's most acclaimed writers.

'A real jewel.' Irish Independent

'A small miracle.' Sunday Times

'A thing of finely honed beauty.' Guardian

'Thrilling.' Richard Ford

'As good as Chekhov.' David Mitchell

]]> 90 Claire Keegan 0571379141 ����������🫧🐜 0 to-read 4.36 2010
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]]> 41057294
A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years in college, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. Then, as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other.

Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.]]> 273 Sally Rooney 1984822179 ����������🫧🐜 0 to-read 3.81 2018
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]]> 36664088 256 Joan Didion 0008284644 ����������🫧🐜 0 currently-reading 4.06 1968
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]]> 75715117 Selected as an Evening Standard 'one to watch in 2023'

It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she's always felt this way, and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn't appeal to her at all. Not even with handsome and doting Martin, her closest childhood friend.

Lucy begins to make sense of herself during a long hot summer, when a spark with her school friend Susannah escalates to an all-consuming infatuation, and, very quickly, to a desperate and devastating love.

Fearful of rejection from her small and conservative community, Lucy begins living a double life, hiding the most honest parts of herself in stolen moments with Susannah.

But with the end of school and the opportunity to leave Crossmore looming, Lucy must choose between two places, two people and two futures, each as terrifying as the other. But only one can offer her real happiness.

Sunburn is an astute and tender portrayal of first love, adolescent anxiety and the realities of growing up in a small town where tradition holds people tightly in its grasp.]]> 288 Chloe Michelle Howarth 0857308416 ����������🫧🐜 0 to-read 4.32 2023
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]]> 22628 offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see
what it looks like from the dance floor.

This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction: The Perks of Being A WALLFLOWER

This is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it puts him on a strange course through uncharted territory. The world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends. The world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that the perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite.

Through Charlie, Stephen Chbosky has created a deeply affecting coming-of-age story, a powerful novel that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller coaster days known as growing up.

(back cover)]]> 213 Stephen Chbosky ����������🫧🐜 0 to-read 4.24 1999
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]]> 46195086 I'm going to tell him to pick up his prayer mat and get out of my house.

When Parvez's son Ali starts clearing out his bedroom, Parvez assumes he's taking drugs and selling his possessions to pay for them. His fellow taxi drivers are triumphant: they knew something was wrong. Bettina, the prostitute Parvez regularly drives home, tells him what signs to look out for.

But nothing is physically different about Ali except that he is growing a beard - and praying five times a day. He condemns his father for drinking alcohol and eating bacon, and assures him that the Law of Islam will rule the world.

First published in March 1994, Hanif Kureishi's comedy of assimilation is both uproariously funny and so prescient it's barely funny at all.]]> 48 Hanif Kureishi 057135615X ����������🫧🐜 3 3.42 1998
author: Hanif Kureishi
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average rating: 3.42
book published: 1998
rating: 3
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]]> 36058979 319 Benoîte Groult 3426031132 ����������🫧🐜 0 3.35 1988
author: Benoîte Groult
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average rating: 3.35
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]]> 17333223
Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.

The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate.]]> 771 Donna Tartt 0316055433 ����������🫧🐜 0 to-read, on-hold 3.94 2013
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average rating: 3.94
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]]> 30557 Shooting an Elephant.

"Shooting an Elephant" is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd 'solely to avoid looking a fool'. The other masterly essays in this collection include classics such as "My Country Right or Left", "How the Poor Die" and "Such, Such were the Joys", his memoir of the horrors of public school, as well as discussions of Shakespeare, sleeping rough, boys' weeklies, and a spirited defence of English cooking. Opinionated, uncompromising, provocative, and hugely entertaining, all show Orwell's unique ability to get to the heart of any subject.]]> 368 George Orwell 0141187395 ����������🫧🐜 3 3.5 4.08 1936
author: George Orwell
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1936
rating: 3
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3.5
]]> 275 117 Marguerite Duras ����������🫧🐜 0 to-read 3.79 1984
author: Marguerite Duras
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average rating: 3.79
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]]> 10225972 72 Rainer Maria Rilke 3866474407 ����������🫧🐜 0 currently-reading 4.20 1929
author: Rainer Maria Rilke
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1929
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]]> 38462 here.

Baldwin's haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature. In a 1950s Paris swarming with expatriates and characterized by dangerous liaisons and hidden violence, an American finds himself unable to repress his impulses, despite his determination to live the conventional life he envisions for himself. After meeting and proposing to a young woman, he falls into a lengthy affair with an Italian bartender and is confounded and tortured by his sexual identity as he oscillates between the two.

Examining the mystery of love and passion in an intensely imagined narrative, Baldwin creates a moving and complex story of death and desire that is revelatory in its insight.]]> 159 James Baldwin ����������🫧🐜 5 4.31 1956
author: James Baldwin
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average rating: 4.31
book published: 1956
rating: 5
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]]> 40099418 Sunday Times dating columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod-Stewart themed house party, getting drunk, getting dumped, realising that Ivan from the corner shop is the only man you've ever been able to rely on, and finding that that your mates are always there at the end of every messy night out. It's a book about bad dates, good friends and - above all else - about recognising that you and you alone are enough.

Glittering with wit and insight, heart and humour, Dolly Alderton's powerful début weaves together personal stories, satirical observations, a series of lists, recipes, and other vignettes that will strike a chord of recognition with women of every age - while making you laugh until you fall over. Everything I know About Love is about the struggles of early adulthood in all its grubby, hopeful uncertainty.]]> 358 Dolly Alderton 0241982103 ����������🫧🐜 4 3.99 2018
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average rating: 3.99
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rating: 4
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]]> 39277832 214 Joan Didion 0007414986 ����������🫧🐜 5 3.91 1970
author: Joan Didion
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1970
rating: 5
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buch hat mich zerstört..weiß auch nicht was das jetzt sollte und wofür
]]> 60288771 20 Donna Tartt ����������🫧🐜 3 4.00 1995
author: Donna Tartt
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average rating: 4.00
book published: 1995
rating: 3
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]]> 51497 'He put the glass to his lips and drank at one gulp... his face became suddenly black and the features seemed to melt and alter'

Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with 'damnable young man' Edward hyde; the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer; and the final revelation of Hyde's true identity is a chilling exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil. The other stories in this volume also testify to Stevenson's inventiveness within the Gothic tradition: 'Olalla', a tale of vampirism and tainted family blood, and 'The Body Snatcher', a gruesome fictionalization of the exploits of the notorious Burke and Hare.

This edition contains a critical introduction by Robert Mighall, which discusses class, criminality and the significance of the story's London setting. It also includes an essay on the scientific contexts of the novel and the development of the idea of the Jekyll-and-Hyde personality.]]> 224 Robert Louis Stevenson 0141439734 ����������🫧🐜 3 3.92 1886
author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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average rating: 3.92
book published: 1886
rating: 3
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date added: 2023/12/31
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3,5 // wäre locker 5 sterne gewesen aber war irgendwie die ganze zeit nicht so anwesend als ich das gelesen habe
]]> 70897
Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's cult bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.]]> 629 Donna Tartt 0140167773 ����������🫧🐜 5 im-herbst-lesen 4.25 1992
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average rating: 4.25
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]]> 25268760 The Rainbow chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family of Nottinghamshire, and is a metaphysical inquiry into the possibilities into the uncompromising circumstances of industrial culture, which Lawrence continued in Women in Love. Throughout the novel the rainbow symbolises each character's search for self-fulfilment.

The novel concentrates on the passionate natures of the various Brangwens, in particular thos of Ursula who is of the third generation of the family. The frankness with which Lawrence treated sexuality caused the book to be seized by the police and banned shortly after publication in 1915.]]> 418 D.H. Lawrence ����������🫧🐜 0 to-read 3.95 1915
author: D.H. Lawrence
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average rating: 3.95
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]]> 29610266
A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer.

One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.]]> 128 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0241252083 ����������🫧🐜 4 4.02 1848
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
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average rating: 4.02
book published: 1848
rating: 4
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]]> 61340205 The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba �� the narrator of No Longer Human �� is convalescing after a failed suicide attempt. Friends and family visit him, and nurses and police drift in and out of his room. Against this dispiriting backdrop, Yozo and his visitors try to maintain a lighthearted, even clownish atmosphere: playing cards, smoking cigarettes, vying for attention, cracking jokes, and trying to make each other laugh. Dazai is known for delving into the darkest corners of human consciousness, but in The Flowers of Buffoonery he pokes fun at these same emotions: the follies and hardships of youth, of love, and of self-hatred and depression. A glimpse into the lives of a group of outsiders in prewar Japan, The Flowers of Buffoonery is a fresh and darkly humorous addition to Osamu Dazai’s masterful and intoxicating oeuvre.]]> 96 Osamu Dazai 0811234541 ����������🫧🐜 0 to-read 3.83 1935
author: Osamu Dazai
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average rating: 3.83
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]]> 39216527 A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imagery

Jo is in a strange new country for university, and having a more peculiar time than most. A house with no walls, a roommate with no boundaries, and a home that seems ever more alive. Jo’s sensitivity, and all her senses, become increasingly heightened and fraught, as the lines between bodies and plants, and dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh.

This debut novel from critically acclaimed artist and musician Jenny Hval, presents a heady and hyper-sensual portrayal of sexual awakening and queer desire. A complex, poetic and strange novel about bodies, sexuality and the female gender.]]> 160 Jenny Hval ����������🫧🐜 4 3.48 2009
author: Jenny Hval
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 3.48
book published: 2009
rating: 4
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]]> 28584403
The disturbing tale of a young man's obsession with the Sandman, stealer of eyes, which has inspired writers from Sigmund Freud to Neil Gaiman.

One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.]]> 53 E.T.A. Hoffmann 0241251508 ����������🫧🐜 4 3.55 1816
author: E.T.A. Hoffmann
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average rating: 3.55
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rating: 4
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]]> 12483882 Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the prevalent social structures of a lost time, as well as the struggle of the individual against "them" -- a theme that occupied Dazai's life both personally and professionally. This new translation preserves the playful language of the original and offers the reader a new window into the mind of one of the greatest Japanese authors of the 20th century.]]> 103 Osamu Dazai 1935548085 ����������🫧🐜 5 4.02
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]]> 36336078 Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, at first each feigns indifference. But during the restless summer weeks that follow, unrelenting buried currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire, intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them. What grows from the depths of their spirits is a romance of scarcely six weeks' duration and an experience that marks them for a lifetime. For what the two discover on the Riviera and during a sultry evening in Rome is the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy.

The psychological maneuvers that accompany attraction have seldom been more shrewdly captured than in André Aciman's frank, unsentimental, heartrending elegy to human passion. Call Me by Your Name is clear-eyed, bare-knuckled, and ultimately unforgettable.]]> 248 André Aciman 1786495252 ����������🫧🐜 3 im-sommer-lesen 4.08 2007
author: André Aciman
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 4.08
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rating: 3
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3.75 // fast 4 sterne wären da nicht sehr komische sehr deskriptive stellen gewesen..
]]> 102927 One of the most acclaimed novels of the 21st Century, from the Nobel Prize-winning author.

Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.]]> 282 Kazuo Ishiguro 057122413X ����������🫧🐜 0 to-read 3.86 2005
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average rating: 3.86
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]]> 25320232 81 Sylvia Plath 0571322727 ����������🫧🐜 3 4.01 1965
author: Sylvia Plath
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1965
rating: 3
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]]> 53285047 We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?

Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other Bunny, and seem to move and speak as one.

But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled Smut Salon, and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus Workshop where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.

The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.

Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Vogue, Electric Literature, and The New York Public Library]]> 305 Mona Awad 0525559752 ����������🫧🐜 4 3.43 2019
author: Mona Awad
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average rating: 3.43
book published: 2019
rating: 4
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]]> 17287820
A touching and sensitive portrayal of the lives of four young sisters during the American Civil War period, Little Women is most memorable for the striking character of the reckless and imaginative Jo. Equally well drawn are Meg, Beth and Amy, portraits based on the author's own sisters. Pretty Meg is the belle of the family, Beth is gentle and quiet, and twelve-year-old Amy tries hard to be dignified, but feels thwarted by the shape of her nose. Their wonderful mother, "Marmee," is based on Louisa Alcott's own beloved mother.

With their father, an army chaplain, away at the war, the four March sisters have to struggle to make ends meet. Louisa Alcott's vivid descriptions of their trials and tribulations, their rivalries and reconciliations, are unforgettable. Modern readers, like the generations before them, cannot help being drawn into their happy, if impoverished, home.]]> 192 Louisa May Alcott 1850040338 ����������🫧🐜 0 to-read 4.08 1868
author: Louisa May Alcott
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average rating: 4.08
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]]> 67238 166 N.H. Kleinbaum 0553282980 ����������🫧🐜 0 to-read, im-herbst-lesen 4.19 1988
author: N.H. Kleinbaum
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 4.19
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]]> 942177 91 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 379200027X ����������🫧🐜 5 4.37 1943
author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 4.37
book published: 1943
rating: 5
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]]> 1355343 386 F. Scott Fitzgerald 3257211198 ����������🫧🐜 4 3.54 1934
author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 3.54
book published: 1934
rating: 4
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]]> 1950368 251 Paul Watzlawick 3492243193 ����������🫧🐜 4 4.08 1976
author: Paul Watzlawick
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1976
rating: 4
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der letzte teil mit zeitreisen war eine reinste psychose
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This edition of the text contains notes, a glossary and an introduction.]]> 124 William Shakespeare 0140620796 ����������🫧🐜 0 to-read, im-herbst-lesen 3.91 1623
author: William Shakespeare
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]]> 480204 The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that revolves around the young, Swedish Christine Daaé. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is raised in the Paris Opera House with his dying promise of a protective angel of music to guide her. After a time at the opera house, she begins hearing a voice, who eventually teaches her how to sing beautifully. All goes well until Christine's childhood friend Raoul comes to visit his parents, who are patrons of the opera, and he sees Christine when she begins successfully singing on the stage. The voice, who is the deformed, murderous 'ghost' of the opera house named Erik, however, grows violent in his terrible jealousy, until Christine suddenly disappears. The phantom is in love, but it can only spell disaster.

Leroux's work, with characters ranging from the spoiled prima donna Carlotta to the mysterious Persian from Erik's past, has been immortalized by memorable adaptations. Despite this, it remains a remarkable piece of Gothic horror literature in and of itself, deeper and darker than any version that follows.]]> 360 Gaston Leroux 0060809248 ����������🫧🐜 0 to-read, im-herbst-lesen 3.98 1910
author: Gaston Leroux
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average rating: 3.98
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]]> 35031085 This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780143131847.

Mary Shelley's seminal novel of the scientist whose creation becomes a monster.

This edition is the original 1818 text, which preserves the hard-hitting and politically charged aspects of Shelley's original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice. This edition also includes a new introduction and suggestions for further reading by author and Shelley expert Charlotte Gordon, literary excerpts and reviews selected by Gordon and a chronology and essay by preeminent Shelley scholar Charles E. Robinson.]]> 260 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 0143131842 ����������🫧🐜 0 to-read, im-herbst-lesen 4.02 1818
author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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average rating: 4.02
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]]> 6411433 253 Oscar Wilde 0141442468 ����������🫧🐜 5 im-herbst-lesen 4.23 1890
author: Oscar Wilde
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 4.23
book published: 1890
rating: 5
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]]> 1097229 160 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ����������🫧🐜 1 3.33 1779
author: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 3.33
book published: 1779
rating: 1
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dnf // ich kann das alles nicht mehr
]]> 23568926
Paris in den 60er Jahren: Momo, gerade 13 Jahre alt, findet nach dem Tod seines Vaters in dem Ladenbesitzer Monsieur Ibrahim, dem "Araber an der Ecke", einen fürsorgenden Freund. Eine Geschichte vom Erwachsenwerden und vom Überwinden der Grenzen zwischen Kulturen und Religionen.]]> Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt ����������🫧🐜 4 3.27 2001
author: Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 3.27
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rating: 4
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]]> 774308 --back cover]]> 234 Sylvia Plath 0571226167 ����������🫧🐜 5 4.04 1963
author: Sylvia Plath
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1963
rating: 5
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]]> 48591650
Die junge Jerusha kann wunderbar schreiben, deshalb schickt ein reicher Gönner das Waisenkind aufs College. Er erwartet dafür jeden Monat einen Brief, in dem das Mädchen über ihre Fortschritte berichtet. Da ist Jerusha ganz in ihrem Element: freimütig und frech, voller Beobachtungsgabe und übersprudelnder Fantasie schildert sie dem ihr unbekannten Mann, den sie Daddy Langbein nennt, wie sie vorankommt und was sie bewegt. Und ihr Leben steckt voller Überraschungen!

Seit Generationen wird die temperamentvolle Heldin von heranwachsenden Mädchen geliebt.]]> 192 Jean Webster 3730605992 ����������🫧🐜 3 er kannte sie seit dem kinderheim, wusste dass er wie ein vater für sie is, schleicht sich dann in ihr leben als onkel von ner freundin, bringt sie dazu sich in ihn zu verlieben während er weiß dass sie nicht weiß wer er wirklich is und sie ist nicht ein bisschen sauer dass er es ihr die ganze zeit verheimlicht hat..]]> 4.25
author: Jean Webster
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eigentlich ganz süß so, aber bissi abgefuckt dass der typ der sie aus dem kinderheim geholt hat und sie sozusagen gesponsert hat damit sie aufs college gehen kann dann sagt sie soll ihm jeden monat briefe schreiben. sie schreibt ihm, nennt ihn daddy und er ist wie eine vaterfigur für sie. sie verliebt sich in den onkel einer schulfreundin von ihr?? turns out der onkel is der typ der sie aus dem kinderheim geholt hat und sie heiraten dann..hoppla
er kannte sie seit dem kinderheim, wusste dass er wie ein vater für sie is, schleicht sich dann in ihr leben als onkel von ner freundin, bringt sie dazu sich in ihn zu verlieben während er weiß dass sie nicht weiß wer er wirklich is und sie ist nicht ein bisschen sauer dass er es ihr die ganze zeit verheimlicht hat..
]]> 10956 250 Jeffrey Eugenides 0747560595 ����������🫧🐜 0 to-read 3.81 1993
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]]> 13480960 There is an alternate cover edition for this ISBN10 here.

Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's first novel, THE STRANGER (L'etranger), has had a profound impact on millions of American readers. Through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sundrenched Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd."]]> 123 Albert Camus ����������🫧🐜 4 4,5 3.91 1942
author: Albert Camus
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 3.91
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rating: 4
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4,5
]]> 48577621 0 Oscar Wilde 3311270037 ����������🫧🐜 4 3.95 1887
author: Oscar Wilde
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 3.95
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rating: 4
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]]> 2675811 Jane Eyre, which earned her lifelong notoriety as a moral revolutionary, Charlotte Brontë vowed to write a sweeping social chronicle that focused on "something real and unromantic as Monday morning." Set in the industrializing England of the Napoleonic wars and Luddite revolts of 1811-12, Shirley (1849) is the story of two contrasting heroines. One is the shy Caroline Helstone, who is trapped in the oppressive atmosphere of a Yorkshire rectory and whose bare life symbolizes the plight of single women in the nineteenth century. The other is the vivacious Shirley Keeldar, who inherits a local estate and whose wealth liberates her from convention.

A work that combines social commentary with the more private preoccupations of Jane Eyre, Shirley demonstrates the full range of Brontë's literary talent. "Shirley is a revolutionary novel," wrote Brontë biographer Lyndall Gordon. "Shirley follows Jane Eyre as a new exemplar but so much a forerunner of the feminist of the later twentieth century that it is hard to believe in her actual existence in 1811-12. She is a theoretic possibility: what a woman might be if she combined independence and means of her own with intellect. Charlotte Brontë imagined a new form of power, equal to that of men, in a confident young woman [whose] extraordinary freedom has accustomed her to think for herself....Shirley [is] Brontë's most feminist novel."]]> 666 Charlotte Brontë 0140620230 ����������🫧🐜 0 to-read 3.51 1849
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]]> 7597 One Hundred Years of Solitude remains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendiá family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad and alive with unforgettable men and women—brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul—this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction.]]> 429 Gabriel García Márquez ����������🫧🐜 5 4.08 1967
author: Gabriel García Márquez
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 4.08
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rating: 5
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]]> 56927764 From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami, comes a sharp and illuminating novel about a fourteen-year-old boy subjected to relentless bullying.

In Heaven, a fourteen-year old boy is tormented for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, he chooses to suffer in silence. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate, Kojima, who experiences similar treatment at the hands of her bullies. Providing each other with immeasurable consolation at a time in their lives when they need it most, the two young friends grow closer than ever. But what, ultimately, is the nature of a friendship when your shared bond is terror?

Unflinching yet tender, sharply observed, intimate and multi-layered, this simple yet profound novel stands as yet another dazzling testament to Mieko Kawakami’s uncontainable talent. There can be little doubt that it has cemented her reputation as one of the most important young authors at work today.]]> 167 Mieko Kawakami 1509898247 ����������🫧🐜 4 3.74 2009
author: Mieko Kawakami
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 3.74
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rating: 4
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]]> 1031892 (Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition to this ISBN can be found here)

"Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt". Schon der erste Satz aus Kafkas berühmter Erzählung vermittelt schlagartig die Irritation, die sich in das Verhältnis zur empirischen Wirklichkeit eingeschlichen hat, die die problematische Schnittstelle äußerer und innerer Realitäten bestimmt.]]> 88 Franz Kafka 3150099005 ����������🫧🐜 3 3.64 1915
author: Franz Kafka
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 3.64
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rating: 3
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]]> 3744438 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.'

Winston Smith works for the Ministry of truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent - even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101 . . .

Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime.]]> 334 George Orwell 0141036141 ����������🫧🐜 5 4.20 1949
author: George Orwell
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1949
rating: 5
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]]> 836230 208 Franz Kafka 3938484772 ����������🫧🐜 2 3.76 1925
author: Franz Kafka
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1925
rating: 2
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]]> 781557
Polly Milton never questions the way she is—until she goes to visit her cousins in the city. Her cousin Fanny looks too glamorous to be Polly’s age, and wouldn’t be caught dead playing in the snow. Will Polly ever learn to be like the other girls? And does she even want to? Sometimes being old-fashioned is right in style. A timeless story by the author of Little Women .]]> 368 Louisa May Alcott 0140374493 ����������🫧🐜 4 4.11 1870
author: Louisa May Alcott
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1870
rating: 4
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]]> 6474767 172 F. Scott Fitzgerald 0141037636 ����������🫧🐜 3 3.77 1925
author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1925
rating: 3
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]]> 581811 448 Jacqueline Susann 0802135196 ����������🫧🐜 0 to-read 3.96 1966
author: Jacqueline Susann
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average rating: 3.96
book published: 1966
rating: 0
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]]> 403642 107 Ivan Turgenev 0140443355 ����������🫧🐜 0 to-read 3.75 1860
author: Ivan Turgenev
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1860
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]]> 16173428 »Im achtzehnten Jahrhundert lebte in Frankreich ein Mann, der zu den genialisten und abschelichsten Gestalten dieser an genialen und abscheulichen Gestalten nicht armen Epoche gehörte.
Seine Geschichte soll hier erzählt werden...«

Die Geschichte eines Mörders und eine große Entdeckungsreise in das Reich der Düfte - die Geschichte eines Mörders, den nicht Haß, Liebe oder Verzweiflung trieben, sondern einzig seine Nase.
Junge Mädchen sind die Opfer seiner Leidenschaft.]]> 285 Patrick Süskind ����������🫧🐜 5 4.20 1985
author: Patrick Süskind
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1985
rating: 5
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]]> 3327199 From internationally renowned literary phenomenon Haruki Murakami comes this spellbinding novel set in Tokyo during the spooky hours between midnight and dawn.

Nineteen-year-old Mari is waiting out the night in an anonymous Denny’s when she meets a young man who insists he knows her older sister, thus setting her on an odyssey through the sleeping city. In the space of a single night, the lives of a diverse cast of Tokyo residents—models, prostitutes, mobsters, and musicians—collide in a world suspended between fantasy and reality. Utterly enchanting and infused with surrealism, After Dark is a thrilling account of the magical hours separating midnight from dawn.]]> 201 Haruki Murakami 0099520869 ����������🫧🐜 5 3.81 2004
author: Haruki Murakami
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2004
rating: 5
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]]> 55404546 Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of twenty-four hours, their lives will change forever.

Malibu: August, 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together, the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over—especially as the offspring of the legendary singer, Mick Riva.

The only person not looking forward to the party of the year is Nina herself, who never wanted to be the center of attention, and who has also just been very publicly abandoned by her pro tennis player husband. Oh, and maybe Hud—because it is long past time to confess something to the brother from whom he’s been inseparable since birth.

Jay, on the other hand, is counting the minutes until nightfall, when the girl he can’t stop thinking about promised she’ll be there.

And Kit has a couple secrets of her own—including a guest she invited without consulting anyone.

By midnight the party will be completely out of control. By morning, the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames. But before that first spark in the early hours before dawn, the alcohol will flow, the music will play, and the loves and secrets that shaped this family’s generations will all come bubbling to the surface.

Malibu Rising is a story about one unforgettable night in the life of a family: the night they each have to choose what they will keep from the people who made them... and what they will leave behind.]]> 369 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1524798657 ����������🫧🐜 0 to-read, im-sommer-lesen 4.02 2021
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]]> 1183167 Bonjour Tristesse scandalised 1950's France with its portrayal of teenager Cécile, a heroine who rejects conventional notions of love, marriage and family to choose her own sexual freedom.

Cécile leads a hedonistic, frivolous life with her father and his young mistresses. On holiday in the South of France, she is seduced by the sun, sand and her first lover. But when her father decides to remarry, their carefree existence becomes clouded by tragedy.]]> 113 Françoise Sagan 014103291X ����������🫧🐜 0 to-read, im-sommer-lesen 3.65 1954
author: Françoise Sagan
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average rating: 3.65
book published: 1954
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]]> 54019416
��Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass" is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many. Some of which came to me in their entirety, which I dictated and then typed out, and some that I worked laboriously picking apart each word to make the perfect poem. They are eclectic and honest and not trying to be anything other than what they are and for that reason I’m proud of them, especially because the spirit in which they were written was very authentic.�� —Lana Del Rey

Lana’s breathtaking first book solidifies her further as “the essential writer of her times�� (The Atlantic). This beautiful hardcover edition showcases Lana’s typewritten manuscript pages alongside her original photography. The result is an extraordinary poetic landscape that reflects the unguarded spirit of its creator.]]> 128 Lana Del Rey 1982167289 ����������🫧🐜 0 to-read, im-sommer-lesen 3.85 2020
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]]> 475267 Librarian note: Older cover edition of 9781860497926.

In 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 on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles--as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary.

Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.]]> 168 Susanna Kaysen ����������🫧🐜 3 3.75 1993
author: Susanna Kaysen
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average rating: 3.75
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rating: 3
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]]> 1132274 Homo faber ist eines der wichtigsten und meistgelesenen Bücher des 20. Jahrhunderts: Der Ingenieur Walter Faber glaubt an sein rationales Weltbild, das aber durch eine Liebesgeschichte nachhaltig zerbricht. Kein anderer zeitgenössischer Roman stellt derart ehrlich wie hintergründig die Frage nach der Identität des modernen Menschen.]]> 208 Max Frisch 3518368540 ����������🫧🐜 1 3.44 1957
author: Max Frisch
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 3.44
book published: 1957
rating: 1
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]]> 53180064 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781951213145.

Food critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does. Discerning, meticulous, and very, very smart, Dorothy's clear mastery of the culinary arts make it likely that she could, on any given night, whip up a more inspired dish than any one of the chefs she writes about.

Dorothy loves sex as much as she loves food, and while she has struggled to find a long-term partner that can keep up with her, she makes the best of her single life, frequently traveling from Manhattan to Italy for a taste of both. But there is something within Dorothy that's different from everyone else, and having suppressed it long enough, she starts to embrace what makes Dorothy uniquely, terrifyingly herself.

Recounting her life from a seemingly idyllic farm-to-table childhood, the heights of her career, to the moment she plunges an ice pick into a man's neck on Fire Island, Dorothy Daniels show us what happens when a woman finally embraces her superiority.

A satire of early foodieism, a critique of how gender is defined, and a showcase of virtuoso storytelling, Chelsea G. Summers' A Certain Hunger introduces us to the food world's most charming psychopath and an exciting new voice in fiction.]]> 240 Chelsea G. Summers ����������🫧🐜 0 to-read 3.77 2019
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average rating: 3.77
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]]> 19085739 250 Robert Seethaler 3036959092 ����������🫧🐜 4 3.59 2012
author: Robert Seethaler
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 3.59
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rating: 4
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]]> 523593 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9783257230451

»Claire Zachanassian, eine amerikanische Multimillionärin, kehrt in ihr Heimatdorf Güllen zurück, um sich zu rächen: Vor Jahrzehnten hat sie aus dem Dorf fliehen müssen, denn sie bekam ein Kind von Ill, ihrem Geliebten, und dieser Ill hat damals Zeugen bestochen, die beschworen, daß auch sie etwas mit Claire gehabt hätten. Sie bietet der Stadt eine Milliarde, wenn man ihr den noch lebenden Ill tot vor die Füße legt.«]]> 155 Friedrich Dürrenmatt ����������🫧🐜 3 3.54 1956
author: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 3.54
book published: 1956
rating: 3
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]]> 998006
Text aus Reclams Universal-Bibliothek mit Seitenzählung der gedruckten Ausgabe.
Über den Autor und weitere Mitwirkende
Franz Kafka wurde am 3. Juli 1883 als Sohn eines jüdischen Kaufmanns in Prag geboren. Von 1901 bis 1906 studierte er zunächst kurze Zeit Germanistik, dann Jura. Nach der Promotion zum Dr. jur. absolvierte er eine einjährige "Rechtspraxis", trat dann 1907 in die "Assicurazioni Generali" ein und ging 1908 als Jurist zur "Arbeiter-Unfall-Versicherungs-Anstalt", wo er bis zu seiner Pensionierung im Jahre 1922 blieb. Ende 1917 erlitt Franz Kafka einen Blutsturz, es war der Beginn einer Tuberkulose, an der er einige Jahre später, am 3. Juni 1924, starb.]]> 128 Franz Kafka 315009674X ����������🫧🐜 0 to-read 4.09 1919
author: Franz Kafka
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 4.09
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]]> 775346
The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents�� yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin’s sister Harriet - unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town’s rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family’s history of loss.]]> 624 Donna Tartt 1400031699 ����������🫧🐜 0 to-read 3.47 2002
author: Donna Tartt
name: ����������🫧🐜
average rating: 3.47
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]]> 99561 Before. Miles “Pudge�� Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps�� even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . .
After. Nothing is ever the same.]]> 221 John Green 1435249151 ����������🫧🐜 2 3.97 2005
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Our narrator should be happy, shouldn’t she? She’s young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?

My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.]]> 289 Ottessa Moshfegh 0525522131 ����������🫧🐜 2 3.62 2018
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]]> 40597810 Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now.

Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n�� roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.

Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.

Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.

The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.]]> 368 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1524798622 ����������🫧🐜 4 4.20 2019
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Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career.

Summoned to Evelyn’s luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the ��80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn’s story nears its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways.]]> 389 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1501139231 ����������🫧🐜 4 4.39 2017
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