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 larg
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, a
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
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers
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, t
Burr
Gore Vidal
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 historica
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
The China Reader
Schell, Orville (EDT)/ Shambaugh, David (EDT)
The Crossing
Cormac McCarthy
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
The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
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 Ka
The Plague
评分 8.8分
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 liter
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, co
Master of the Senate
Robert A. Caro
评分 9.6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: hi
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
G.
John Berger
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
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
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
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
尤瓦尔•赫拉利（Yuval Noah Harari） 畅销书《人类简史》《未来简史》作者，牛津大学历史学博士，耶路撒冷希伯来大学教授，全球瞩目的新锐历史学家。其关注的领域横跨历史学、人类学、生态学、基因学等，他从宏观角度切入的研究往往得到颇具新意而又耐人寻味的观点，引发全球广泛关注。
God Help the Child
Toni Morrison
托妮•莫里森，美国著名作家。1931年生于俄亥俄州，曾在兰登书屋担任高级编辑，后赴普林斯顿大学等校任教。代表作有《最蓝的眼睛》《所罗门之歌》《宠儿》《爵士乐》《爱》《恩惠》等，曾获普利策小说奖、美国书评家协会奖、美国国家图书奖等多项大奖。1993年获诺贝尔文学奖。
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 b
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 inequalit
Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov
Half the Sky
Nicholas D. Kristof
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. <
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 Tow
