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Olive Kitteridge’s beauty resides in the periphery of things

Elizabeth Strout

Underworld | A dual conception of history

Wuthering Heights | When love becomes an obsession

Society Within | The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

The Road Not Taken | A hymn to brave choices

A Visit From the Goon Squad is a symphony of voices

Girl, Woman, Other | Intersectional feminism in modern Britain

Bernardine Evaristo

The New York Trilogy is a brilliant philosophical adventure

The Underground Railroad tells more than Black history

Colson Whitehead

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

Milk and Honey | The revolution of Instapoets

Mrs Dalloway | Time, death and longevity

The Art of Praise | Fox by Mary Oliver

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

High Fidelity | The redemptive power of music and love

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

Olaudah Equiano

Pride and Prejudice | Where femininity builds masculinity

One Art | Losing is not the end of the world

Elizabeth Bishop

Exciting Times | A millennial novel about identity and idleness 

Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace’s maximalist novel

David Foster Wallace

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

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

Otessa Moshfegh

Normal People | Relations rarely concern the two lovers only

The Topeka School describes a polarized society

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

Margaret Atwood

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Raven | Poe’s study on paranoia

Edgar Allan Poe

Dangling Man is the portrait of a whole generation

Fahrenheit 451 transcends the boundaries of science fiction

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

1984 | Big Brother is watching you

Cathedral tells the big and small relationship struggles

The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories

Ernest Hemingway

Lolita | A character taking on a life of its own

Vladimir Nabokov

Anne Sexton and the hunger for creativity | The Red Shoes

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

Chelsea Monroe-Cassel

Little Women | An independence story against society’s expectations

Louisa May Alcott

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

Musée des Beaux Arts | When Auden met Bruegel

Wystan Hugh Auden

Love after Love by Derek Walcott | Feast on your life

Samuel Beckett’s Cascando | The agony of love

The Road explores climate crisis and alienation

Cormac McCarthy

Batter my heart | John Donne’s sacred poetry

American Psycho | The darkest side of society

Bret Easton Ellis

Ode to Invisibility | Ellen Bass and the torment of beauty

Wanting to Die | Anne Sexton’s lust for precipice

As I Lay Dying | A revolutionary literary style

William Faulkner

It | Stephen King’s consecration to fame

The Hours | A novel overcoming time and space

Michael Cunningham

Tiffany McDaniel’s The summer that melted everything

Tiffany McDaniel

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

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

Henry David Thoreau

Jane Eyre | An inner journey towards emancipation

Charlotte Bronte

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

Emily Dickinson

Great Expectations | The path to becoming a gentleman

Charles Dickens

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

On the Road | A delusional journey over America

Stoner | The story of an ordinary life

Flatland | A world limited to two dimensions

Edwin Abbott Abbott

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

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Foe | The problem with speaking on behalf of another

John M. Coetzee

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

Thomas Stearns Eliot

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

Charles Bukowski

A Myth of Devotion | Louise Glück on love and oppression

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

David Foster Wallace

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

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

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