From the Book - First Scribner hardcover edition.
Introduction : notes of a common reader --
Agostino / Alberto Moravia --
Animal farm : a fairy story / George Orwell --
Another Brooklyn / Jacqueline Woodson --
The awakening / Kate Chopin --
The ballad of the sad cafe / Carson McCullers --
Big boy leaves home / Richard Wright --
Bonjour tristesse / Françoise Sagan --
Candide, or optimism / Voltaire --
Charlotte's web / E. B. White --
A clockwork orange / Anthony Burgess --
The country girls / Edna O'Brien --
Death in Venice / Thomas Mann --
Dept. of speculation / Jenny Offill --
The dry heart / Natalia Ginzburg --
Ethan Frome / Edith Wharton --
Evil under the sun / Agatha Christie --
The fifth child / Doris Lessing --
The ghost writer / Philip Roth --
The great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald --
The hour of the star / Clarice Lispector --
The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros --
If Beale Street could talk / James Baldwin --
If this is a man [survival in Auschwitz] / Primo Levi --
July's people / Nadine Gordimer --
The lathe of heaven / Ursula K. Le Guin --
Lord of the flies / William Golding --
The lost daughter / Elena Ferrante --
The lover / Marguerite Duras --
Lucy / Jamaica Kincaid --
Maus I : a survivor's tale : my father bleeds history / Art Spiegelman --
Middle passage / Charles Johnson --
Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf --
The hours / Michael Cunningham --
The nickel boys / Colson Whitehead --
No one writes to the colonel / Gabriel García Marquez --
The old man and the sea / Ernest Hemingway --
On Chesil Beach / Ian McEwan --
One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn --
Oranges are not the only fruit / Jeanette Winterson --
Pale horse, pale rider / Katherine Anne Porter --
A pale view of hills / Kazuo Ishiguro --
Passing / Nella Larsen --
The perfect nanny / Leïla Slimani --
A portrait of the artist as a young man / James Joyce --
The postman always rings twice / James M. Cain --
The prime of Miss Jean Brodie / Muriel Spark --
The red badge of courage / Stephen Crane --
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank redemption / Stephen King --
The sailor who fell from grace with the sea / Yukio Mishima --
The stranger / Albert Camus --
Surfacing / Margaret Atwood --
Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston --
Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe --
Tokyo Ueno Station / Yu Miri --
Waiting for the barbarians / J. M. Coetzee --
We have always lived in the castle / Shirley Jackson --
Wilde Sargasso sea / Jean Rhys --
Afterword : what's not here --
My favorite fifteen great short books --
Index of entries by date of publication --
Index of entries by author's last name --
Nobel prize in literature laureates in this book --
More great short books --
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