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The Road Not Taken | A hymn to brave choices

Wuthering Heights | When love becomes an obsession

Ode to Invisibility | Ellen Bass and the torment of beauty

Cathedral tells the big and small relationship struggles

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

Charles Bukowski

The Topeka School describes a polarized society

Twenty-One Love Poems | No one’s fated or doomed to love anyone

Fahrenheit 451 transcends the boundaries of science fiction

Ode to Psyche | John Keats’ tribute to the soul goddess

Pride and Prejudice | Where femininity builds masculinity

Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace’s maximalist novel

David Foster Wallace

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

David Foster Wallace

Dangling Man is the portrait of a whole generation

Niviâna and Jetñil-Kijiner’s Rise | A Call to Action

My Year of Rest and Relaxation | Getting some good American sleep

Otessa Moshfegh

Samuel Beckett’s Cascando | The agony of love

Society Within | The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

The Night Circus | A duel between form and substance

Erin Morgenstern

A Myth of Devotion | Louise Glück on love and oppression

Here is the Beehive | Shattered lines for a shattered love

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone | The boy who lived

Joanne K. Rowling

The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories

Ernest Hemingway

Anne Sexton and the hunger for creativity | The Red Shoes

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Equiano | The roots of racism

Olaudah Equiano

Because I Could Not Stop For Death | Dickinson’s unusual carriage

Emily Dickinson

As I Lay Dying | A revolutionary literary style

William Faulkner

One Art | Losing is not the end of the world

Elizabeth Bishop

The Hours | A novel overcoming time and space

Michael Cunningham

Lolita | A character taking on a life of its own

Vladimir Nabokov

Foe | The problem with speaking on behalf of another

John M. Coetzee

The Song of Achilles | A love worth dying for

Madeline Miller

The Underground Railroad tells more than Black history

Colson Whitehead

The Art of Praise | Fox by Mary Oliver

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Suffering and learning

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Musée des Beaux Arts | When Auden met Bruegel

Wystan Hugh Auden

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Choose who you want to be

Joanne K. Rowling

Not Waving, But Drowning | Smith about (not) seeing the pain

On the Road | A delusional journey over America

The Waste Land | A influences constellation in an ode to desolation

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Girl, Woman, Other | Intersectional feminism in modern Britain

Bernardine Evaristo

Ozymandias by Percy Shelley | A sonnet of power and decay

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Stoner | The story of an ordinary life

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Finding a light in the darkness

Joanne K. Rowling

Normal People | Relations rarely concern the two lovers only

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

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Little Women | An independence story against society’s expectations

Louisa May Alcott

The Road explores climate crisis and alienation

Cormac McCarthy

Love after Love by Derek Walcott | Feast on your life

It | Stephen King’s consecration to fame

Flatland | A world limited to two dimensions

Edwin Abbott Abbott

Exciting Times | A millennial novel about identity and idleness 

The Great Gatsby | Loving to excess in the Jazz Age

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

The New York Trilogy is a brilliant philosophical adventure

Milk and Honey | The revolution of Instapoets

High-Rise | Ballard’s dark, inner space

James Graham Ballard

Mrs Dalloway | Time, death and longevity

The Girls | Not a report but a coming-of-age novel

Tiffany McDaniel’s The summer that melted everything

Tiffany McDaniel

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

Batter my heart | John Donne’s sacred poetry

“A success unexpected in common hours” | Walden; or, Life in the Woods

Henry David Thoreau

High Fidelity | The redemptive power of music and love

A Visit From the Goon Squad is a symphony of voices

The Raven | Poe’s study on paranoia

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Larkin’s Annus Mirabilis sings of the 1960s sexual revolution

Underworld | A dual conception of history

Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory | Is love worth it?

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Wanting to Die | Anne Sexton’s lust for precipice

Olive Kitteridge’s beauty resides in the periphery of things

Elizabeth Strout

Jane Eyre | An inner journey towards emancipation

Charlotte Bronte

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

The Handmaid’s Tale | Nolite te bastardes carborundorum is a cry of power

Margaret Atwood

Great Expectations | The path to becoming a gentleman

Charles Dickens

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

American Psycho | The darkest side of society

Bret Easton Ellis

A Farewell to Arms | A faithful testimony of wartime

Ernest Hemingway

Beautiful World, Where Are You | The evolution of a writer

A Feast of Ice and Fire | How an epic saga tastes

Chelsea Monroe-Cassel

1984 | Big Brother is watching you

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