Engleby
Sebastian Faulks
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Meet Mike Engleby, a second-year student at university. Despite the fact that Mike is obviously intelligent, and involved in many clubs, it is clear that something about Mike is not quite right. Wh
Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
评分 9.3分
Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving
Learned Optimism
Martin E. P. Seligman
评分 8.9分
Known as the father of the new science of positive psychology, Martin E.P. Seligman draws on more than twenty years of clinical research to demonstrate how optimism enchances the quality of life, and
If Not, Winter
Anne Carson
评分 9.1分
Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet a
Atomised
Michel Houellebecq
评分 8.7分
Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human so
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers, [美] 戴夫·艾格斯
评分 7.6分
Dave Eggers is a terrifically talented writer; don't hold his cleverness against him. What to make of a book called A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Based on a True Story? For starters, ther
Burr
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical c
Consilience
Edward Osborne Wilson
评分 8.0分
A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them. -- The Wall Street Journal One of our greatest living scientists--and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes fo
The China Reader
Schell, Orville (EDT)/ Shambaugh, David (EDT)
The Crossing
Cormac McCarthy
评分 8.8分
In The Crossing , Cormac McCarthy fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a cla
The Plague
Albert Camus
A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literatu
The Myth of Sisyphus
评分 9.4分
One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka
The Shawl
Cynthia Ozick
评分 8.6分
A devastating vision of the Holocaust and the unfillable emptiness it left in the lives of those who passed through it.
One Day
David Nicholls
Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew, casual acquaintances during their university years, spend graduation night together. It’s July 15, 1988, and their futures are up in the air. Dexter, the handsome, confi
Master of the Senate
Robert A. Caro
评分 9.7分
The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. Master of the Senate takes Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his t
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student da
G.
John Berger
评分 8.5分
Synopsis John Berger relates the story of “G.,” a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of the twentieth century. With profound compassion, Berger explores the
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
C.G. Jung
An autobiography put together from conversations, writings and lectures with Jung's cooperation, at the end of his life.
The Swimming-Pool Library
Alan Hollinghurst
评分 9.0分
霍林赫斯特在三十四歲出版的第一部作品《游泳池更衣室》（The Swimming-Pool Library，一九八八年出版）可以说是部披了同志小說外衣的歷史小說，有點像披了羊皮的狼。霍林赫斯特愛玩文字遊戲，連書名也不放過。《游泳池更衣室》通常直接按照英文書名譯為《游泳池圖書館》，但什麼是「游泳池圖書館」，以及「游泳池圖書館員」？太玄了吧？其實，解釋藏在書中第七章。主人翁在小時候就讀貴族中學（霍林赫斯
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
Lauren Hough
Searing and extremely personal essays from the heart of working-class America, shot through with the darkest elements the country can manifest--cults, homelessness, and hunger--while discovering li
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
God Help the Child
Toni Morrison
The Snowman
Jo Nesbo
In Spite of Myself
Christopher Plummer
A vibrant, exuberant self-portrait of one of today’s greatest living actors. Christopher Plummer’s magnificent book recounts the wild adventure that is his life, stretching fro
The Information
James Gleick
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become th
Treasure Islands
Nicholas Shaxson
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir’s masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a groundbreaking exploration of inequality a
Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov
Speak, Memory, first published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times, even as it offers incisive insights in
Half the Sky
Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. With Pulitzer
The Painted Veil
W. Somerset Maugham
Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townse
