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The power of language in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Luis Borges’ Fictions is a game of chance

Jorge Luis Borges

A Visit From the Goon Squad is a symphony of voices

Gogol’s Petersburg Tales belong to the collective imagination

The Hours | A novel overcoming time and space

Michael Cunningham

Teller’s Nothing | A brutal quest for the meaning of life

The Broom of the System is like the pendulum of a clock

David Foster Wallace

It | Stephen King’s consecration to fame

My Brilliant Friend has a unifying power

Love in the Time of Cholera marks the peak of the author’s ascendancy

Gabriel García Márquez

Camere Separate | The search for a balanced existence

Pier Vittorio Tondelli

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a tonic for low spirits

The Topeka School describes a polarized society

Musée des Beaux Arts | When Auden met Bruegel

Wystan Hugh Auden

Great Expectations | The path to becoming a gentleman

Charles Dickens

Could Have | Szymborska’s philosophy of wonder

Wisława Szymborska

1984 | Big Brother is watching you

The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories

Ernest Hemingway

One Hundred Years of Solitude | History in a family saga

Gabriel García Márquez

Post Office is like life itself: a mean, dirty, boring spot

Charles Bukowski

The Underground Railroad tells more than Black history

Colson Whitehead

A Private Affair overlaps a personal and a civil dilemma

Think not I am faithful to a vow! | Love according to Edna Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Cathedral tells the big and small relationship struggles

Vita, Morte e Miracoli di Bonfiglio Liborio

The Catcher in the Rye | Finding one’s place in the world

The New York Trilogy is a brilliant philosophical adventure

Between the World and Me | Opening a third way to fight

Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Master and Margarita| Mikhail Bulgakov’s troubled novel

Mikhail Bulgakov

Olive Kitteridge’s beauty resides in the periphery of things

Elizabeth Strout

Dangling Man is the portrait of a whole generation

Normal People | Relations rarely concern the two lovers only

Rayuela | Playing with the novel

Julio Cortázar

Invisible Cities | A love poem to the city

Lolita | A character taking on a life of its own

Vladimir Nabokov

Altri Libertini feels like a punch in the stomach

Pier Vittorio Tondelli

The Unbearable Lightness of Being exposes love’s dynamics

High Fidelity | The redemptive power of music and love

Life of Pi | A story that makes you suspend your disbelief

Underworld | A dual conception of history

The Road explores climate crisis and alienation

Cormac McCarthy

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | Beauty unfold

Fahrenheit 451 transcends the boundaries of science fiction

Tiffany McDaniel’s The summer that melted everything

Tiffany McDaniel

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