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The Road Not Taken | A hymn to brave choices
Robert Frost
Poems
Wuthering Heights | When love becomes an obsession
Emily Brontë
Books
Ode to Invisibility | Ellen Bass and the torment of beauty
Ellen Bass
Poems
Cathedral tells the big and small relationship struggles
Raymond Carver
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Post Office is like life itself: a mean, dirty, boring spot
Charles Bukowski
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The Topeka School describes a polarized society
Ben Lerner
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Twenty-One Love Poems | No one’s fated or doomed to love anyone
Adrienne Rich
Poems
Fahrenheit 451 transcends the boundaries of science fiction
Ray Bradbury
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Ode to Psyche | John Keats’ tribute to the soul goddess
John Keats
Poems
Pride and Prejudice | Where femininity builds masculinity
Jane Austen
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Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace’s maximalist novel
David Foster Wallace
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The Broom of the System is like the pendulum of a clock
David Foster Wallace
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Dangling Man is the portrait of a whole generation
Saul Bellow
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Niviâna and Jetñil-Kijiner’s Rise | A Call to Action
Aka Niviâna
Poems
My Year of Rest and Relaxation | Getting some good American sleep
Otessa Moshfegh
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Samuel Beckett’s Cascando | The agony of love
Samuel Beckett
Poems
Society Within | The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
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The Night Circus | A duel between form and substance
Erin Morgenstern
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A Myth of Devotion | Louise Glück on love and oppression
Louise Glück
Poems
Here is the Beehive | Shattered lines for a shattered love
Sarah Crossan
Poems
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone | The boy who lived
Joanne K. Rowling
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The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories
Ernest Hemingway
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Anne Sexton and the hunger for creativity | The Red Shoes
Anne Sexton
Poems
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Equiano | The roots of racism
Olaudah Equiano
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Because I Could Not Stop For Death | Dickinson’s unusual carriage
Emily Dickinson
Poems
As I Lay Dying | A revolutionary literary style
William Faulkner
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One Art | Losing is not the end of the world
Elizabeth Bishop
Poems
The Hours | A novel overcoming time and space
Michael Cunningham
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Lolita | A character taking on a life of its own
Vladimir Nabokov
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Foe | The problem with speaking on behalf of another
John M. Coetzee
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The Song of Achilles | A love worth dying for
Madeline Miller
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The Underground Railroad tells more than Black history
Colson Whitehead
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The Art of Praise | Fox by Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver
Poems
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Suffering and learning
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poems
Think not I am faithful to a vow! | Love according to Edna Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Poems
Musée des Beaux Arts | When Auden met Bruegel
Wystan Hugh Auden
Poems
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Choose who you want to be
Joanne K. Rowling
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Not Waving, But Drowning | Smith about (not) seeing the pain
Stevie Smith
Poems
On the Road | A delusional journey over America
Jack Kerouac
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The Waste Land | A influences constellation in an ode to desolation
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Poems
Girl, Woman, Other | Intersectional feminism in modern Britain
Bernardine Evaristo
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Ozymandias by Percy Shelley | A sonnet of power and decay
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poems
Stoner | The story of an ordinary life
John Williams
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Finding a light in the darkness
Joanne K. Rowling
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Normal People | Relations rarely concern the two lovers only
Sally Rooney
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Between the World and Me | Opening a third way to fight
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Little Women | An independence story against society’s expectations
Louisa May Alcott
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The Road explores climate crisis and alienation
Cormac McCarthy
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Love after Love by Derek Walcott | Feast on your life
Derek Walcott
Poems
It | Stephen King’s consecration to fame
Stephen King
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Flatland | A world limited to two dimensions
Edwin Abbott Abbott
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Exciting Times | A millennial novel about identity and idleness
Naoise Dolan
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The Great Gatsby | Loving to excess in the Jazz Age
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
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The New York Trilogy is a brilliant philosophical adventure
Paul Auster
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Milk and Honey | The revolution of Instapoets
Rupi Kaur
Poems
High-Rise | Ballard’s dark, inner space
James Graham Ballard
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Mrs Dalloway | Time, death and longevity
Virginia Woolf
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The Girls | Not a report but a coming-of-age novel
Emma Cline
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Tiffany McDaniel’s The summer that melted everything
Tiffany McDaniel
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The Catcher in the Rye | Finding one’s place in the world
J.D. Salinger
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Batter my heart | John Donne’s sacred poetry
John Donne
Poems
“A success unexpected in common hours” | Walden; or, Life in the Woods
Henry David Thoreau
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High Fidelity | The redemptive power of music and love
Nick Hornby
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A Visit From the Goon Squad is a symphony of voices
Jennifer Egan
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The Raven | Poe’s study on paranoia
Edgar Allan Poe
Poems
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a tonic for low spirits
Douglas Adams
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Larkin’s Annus Mirabilis sings of the 1960s sexual revolution
Philip Larkin
Poems
Underworld | A dual conception of history
Don DeLillo
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Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory | Is love worth it?
Raphael Bob-Waksberg
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Wanting to Die | Anne Sexton’s lust for precipice
Anne Sexton
Poems
Olive Kitteridge’s beauty resides in the periphery of things
Elizabeth Strout
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Jane Eyre | An inner journey towards emancipation
Charlotte Bronte
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Life of Pi | A story that makes you suspend your disbelief
Yann Martel
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The Handmaid’s Tale | Nolite te bastardes carborundorum is a cry of power
Margaret Atwood
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Great Expectations | The path to becoming a gentleman
Charles Dickens
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The power of language in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
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American Psycho | The darkest side of society
Bret Easton Ellis
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A Farewell to Arms | A faithful testimony of wartime
Ernest Hemingway
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Beautiful World, Where Are You | The evolution of a writer
Sally Rooney
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A Feast of Ice and Fire | How an epic saga tastes
Chelsea Monroe-Cassel
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1984 | Big Brother is watching you
George Orwell
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