All Books

Every book in the catalog, filterable by stage, topic, theme, geography, or perspective.

786 books

1984

George Orwell

1984 cover

Big Brother still watching your feed.

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2666

Roberto Bolaño

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Chile

Eight hundred pages on what the world ignores.

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A Black Women’s History of the United States

Daina Ramey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross

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America seen through eyes that built it.

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A Brief History of Seven Killings

Marlon James

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Jamaica

The night someone tried to kill Bob Marley.

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A Case of Exploding Mangoes

Mohammed Hanif

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Pakistan

Everyone wants to kill General Zia. Someone succeeds.

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A Chair for My Mother

Vera B. Williams

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They save every coin in a jar. For one perfect chair.

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A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess

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The state cured his violence. Now he can't choose anything.

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A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole

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A medieval scholar in New Orleans. At war with the 20th century.

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A Court of Thorns and Roses

Sarah J. Maas

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Survival instincts don't stop at the Wall.

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A Different Mirror

Ronald Takaki

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American history. All of it. Everyone who lived it.

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A Fever in the Heartland

Timothy Egan

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The KKK had millions of members in the 1920s. In the Midwest.

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A Fine Balance

Rohinton Mistry

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India

India's Emergency. Four people. The state decides who survives.

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A Golden Age

Tahmima Anam

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Bangladesh

Dhaka, 1971. A mother hides freedom fighters in her garden.

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A Grain of Wheat

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

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Kenya

Independence week. Everyone's keeping a secret.

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A House for Mr Biswas

VS Naipaul

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Trinidad

A man spends his whole life trying to own one room.

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A Long Walk to Water

Linda Sue Park

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East Africa

He walked across Sudan to survive. She walks for water every day.

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A Long Way Gone

Ishmael Beah

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Sierra Leone

What war does to a child, from the inside.

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A Man Called Ove

Fredrik Backman

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Sweden

A miserable man is interrupted from dying by his neighbors.

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A Man of the People

Chinua Achebe

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Nigeria

Nigerian farce. Written the year before the coup.

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A Modest Proposal

Jonathan Swift

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Eat the babies. Swift's ten-page masterclass in satire.

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A Moveable Feast

Ernest Hemmingway

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France

Broke and brilliant in Paris. It felt like enough.

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A People’s History of the United States

Howard Zinn

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The underdogs get the mic.

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A Room with a View

E.M. Forster

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Italy

Florence teaches her she's been living wrong.

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A Season in Hell / Illuminations

Arthur Rimbaud

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Wrote everything at nineteen. Walked away at twenty. Nothing wasted.

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