English Books

A revolutionary pamphlet arguing plainly for independence, republican government, and political self-determination.

A deeply personal Bildungsroman of childhood, memory, work, love, friendship, and becoming a writer.

An ancient Chinese mathematics classic of algorithms, measurement, equations, proportions, and practical problems.

Shakespeare’s tragedy of mourning, delay, revenge, performance, thought, and corrupted power.

The first Sherlock Holmes novel, introducing deduction, Watson, London mystery, and a transatlantic revenge plot.

A river novel of freedom, friendship, conscience, satire, and the contradictions of America.

A decadent novel of beauty, corruption, influence, secrecy, and the soul hidden in a portrait.

A tragedy of young love caught between family hatred, speed, secrecy, chance, and fatal timing.

A revolutionary novel of sacrifice, doubles, vengeance, terror, and resurrection.

A warm but unsentimental novel of sisters, work, imagination, growing up, and choosing a life.

A compact Gothic tale of divided identity, repression, experiment, and moral horror.

A satirical voyage through strange societies that expose pride, politics, science, and human absurdity.

A richly woven novel of marriage, vocation, reform, provincial life, and moral consequence.

A moorland mystery where rational detection confronts legend, fear, inheritance, and a spectral hound.

Thoreau’s experiment in simple living, attention, nature, labor, solitude, and moral independence.

A storm-dark novel of passion, revenge, inheritance, violence, and haunted memory.

A powerful animal adventure about instinct, survival, violence, loyalty, and return to the wild.

Austen’s novel of sisters, feeling, restraint, money, marriage, and emotional education.

A swift adventure of pirates, maps, mutiny, courage, and the dangerous charm of Long John Silver.

A coming-of-age novel about ambition, shame, class illusion, love, and moral awakening.

A ghost story of memory, conscience, poverty, generosity, and the possibility of moral change.

An early Chinese anthology of songs about love, labor, ritual, war, marriage, and political complaint.

A dreamlike journey through nonsense, logic games, strange authority, and the instability of growing up.

A quiet novel of memory, missed intimacy, solitude, and the emotional life hidden behind reserve.