TBR 2024 Public
Created by Dennis Frank
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Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (Penguin Modern Classics)
4 stars
Baldwin's haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature. In …
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The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell (Perennial Classics) by Aldous Huxley
4 stars
The Doors of Perception is an autobiographical book written by Aldous Huxley. Published in 1954, it elaborates on his psychedelic …
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A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (Sf Masterworks)
4 stars
Highly unusual After the Holocaust novel. In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved in a monastery, as "sacred …
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The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
4 stars
The Haunting of Hill House book follows four strangers, all of whom come to Hill House, long-rumored to be haunted, …
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Shadows of Carcosa by Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Raymond Wilson Chambers, Amrbose Bierce, and 2 others
3 stars
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Stoner by John Williams, John Williams (NYRB Classics)
4 stars
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the …
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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
4 stars
A newly revised text for A Clockwork Orange’s 50th anniversary brings the work closest to its author’s intentions.
A Clockwork …
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My year of rest and relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
4 stars
It's early 2000 on New York City's Upper East Side, and the alienation of Moshfegh's unnamed young protagonist from others …
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The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (Hellraiser, #1)
4 stars
In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. For …
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CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders
4 stars
In six stories and the novella, Bounty, Saunders introduces readers to people struggling to survive in an increasingly haywire world. …
