Literary Collections
Explore our collection of literary books and timeless literary classics at our online bookstore, featuring the best in teenage literature, literary fiction, and modern literature. Discover must-read and best-selling titles, along with insightful criticism literature to enhance your reading experience.
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The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our BrainsNamed a Best Book of Summer 2025 by The Globe and Mail (Toronto), Publishers Weekly, and Book Riot The Observer (London)'s Summer Reads Select In this collection of medical tales "reminiscent of Oliver Sacks...the best of medical writing" (Abraham Verghese, author of The Covenant...
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Loving CorrectionsNew York Times-bestselling author adrienne maree brown knows we need each other more than ever and offers a practice for holding collective power, righting wrongs, and generating true belonging. Ethical, pondering, and wondrous, adrienne maree brown's Loving Corrections is a collection of love-based adjustments...
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Notes of a Native SonNamed one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by The Guardian and TIME The essays in James Baldwin's first nonfiction collection explore what it means to be Black in America and his own search for identityOriginally published in 1955, James Baldwin's...
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Sloppy: Or: Doing It All WrongFrom the James Beard Award-nominated author of Tacky, a boldly funny, warts-and-all tour of the bad habits that make Rax King who she is "Most writers are boring people. King, though, seems different: Bettie Page meets Carrie Bradshaw."--Washington Post With Rax King's trademark blend...
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BluetsSuppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . .A Guardian Book of the YearA lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the...
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I Want to Burn This Place Down: EssaysA debut essay collection by the inimitable cultural critic Maris Kreizman--an introspective, searing account of the life experiences that have pushed this former "good Democrat" even further to the political leftAt the heart of this funny, acerbic, and bravely honest book of essays is...
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Searches: Selfhood in the Digital AgeFrom the author of The Immortal King Rao, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a personal exploration of how technology companies have both fulfilled and exploited the human desire for understanding and connection A Most Anticipated Book from The New York Times and more! -...
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The People's Project: Poems, Essays, and Art for Looking ForwardA liberatory anthology of twenty-seven writers--a community in book form--charting paths ahead for action and care in the face of political uncertainty, curated by Maggie Smith and Saeed Jones. Inspired by Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith's conversations in the wake of the 2024 election,...
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The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at ColonusThe heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal family--Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus--are among the...
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Sister Outsider: Essays and SpeechesPresenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. "[Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware."--The New York Times In this charged...
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The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions40th anniversary reprinting of a beloved fable-manifesto from the 1970s queer counterculture. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions, written by Larry Mitchell with illustrations by Ned Asta, takes place in a brutal empire in decline, where the faggots and their friends are surviving...
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Essays After Eighty"Alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny."--New York Times "Deliciously readable . . . Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought his prose to a keen autumnal edge." -- Wall Street Journal His entire life, Donald Hall has dedicated himself to the...
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The OdysseyThe greatest of all epics, soon to be a film by Christopher Nolan! "This may be the best translation of The Odyssey yet."The Telegraph A magnificent feat of translation, hailed by classicists and poets alike as a "momentous achievement" "thrilling," "rich and rhythmical," "superb,"...
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The Book of DelightsAs Heard on NPR's This American Life: The New York Times bestselling book that celebrates ordinary delights in the world around us by one of America's most original and observant writers and the author of Inciting Joy, award-winning poet Ross Gay. Pre-order The Book...
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The White AlbumFirst published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era--including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall--through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan...
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Upstream: Selected EssaysOne of O, The Oprah Magazine's Ten Best Books of the Year The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. "There's hardly a page in my copy of Upstream that isn't folded down or underlined and scribbled on, so...
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The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A MemoirA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN APPLE BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH Singer-songwriter Neko Case paints a vivid portrait of an extraordinary life--one forged through a poverty-stricken childhood, obsessive desire, bursts of comedy, and indispensable friendships--reflecting on the way art, music, and a deep...
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Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko OnoBack in print for the first time in nearly thirty years, here is Yoko Ono's whimsical, delightful, subversive, startling book of instructions for art and for life. "Burn this book after you've read it." -- Yoko "A dream you dream alone may be a...
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Steve Martin Writes the Written Word: Collected Written Word Works by Steve MartinA USA Today Bestseller With an exclusive new introduction and some never-before-published pieces, a collection of greatest hits from one of the most beloved comedians of our time, Steve Martin, now starring in Hulu's Only Murders in the Building. Steve Martin Writes the Written...
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Things in Nature Merely GrowYiyun Li's remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James. "There is no good way to say this," Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book. "There is no good way to state these facts, which...
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