2006. Very Good. No markings. Adichie s second novel, and the one she published right before her now-famous Americanah, this book re-creates a pivotal moment in modern African history.
2016. Very Good. No markings. At the behest of Hugh Hefner, legendary stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce wrote his autobiography for Playboy. In it? Tales of arrests and obscenity, shock and awe.
2002. Very Good. No markings. At two different points in his life Huxley wrote two sides of the coin. First, his famous dystopian classic: Brave New World. Then, after a terminal diagnosis, his utopian dream: Island.
1964. Good. No markings. Light cover wear. Back cover has small stain. Chronically ill and naturally turned toward a life of study, Immanuel Kant likely spent more time with reason than in human company.
1997. Good. No markings. Lightly curled cover. From well known names in the Latin American canon to lesser known poet-nuns of the seventeenth century, Gonzalez s collection is impressive and complete.
2007. Very Good. No markings. Los Angeles Noir is one in a series of groundbreaking, place-based anthologies. Stories both hardscrabble and hopeful, from greats like Hector Tobar, Susan Straight and others.
2013. Very Good. No markings. Quite possibly Mary Shelley s best-known work after Frankenstein, this novel is another powerhouse… about the plights of women under the ever-looming, lecherous patriarch.
1964. Very Good. No markings. A perfectly eerie read for this fall season, this novel has it all. Spooky phone calls, affairs, paranoia and, of course, the remembrance of our own mortality.