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The Help
1,000 LA deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t.
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1984
1,500 LIn George Orwell’s 1984, Winston Smith wrestles with oppression in Oceania, a place where the Party scrutinizes human actions with ever-watchful Big Brother. Defying a ban on individuality, Winston dares to express his thoughts in a diary and pursues a relationship with Julia.
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Animal Farm
1,500 L‘A prophet who thought the unthinkable and spoke the unspeakable, even when it offended conventional thought’ Daily Express
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Black Swan
1,650 LThe Black Swan is a 2007 book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who is a former options trader. The book focuses on the extreme impact of rare and unpredictable outlier events—and the human tendency to find simplistic explanations for these events, retrospectively.
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Thinking Fast and Slow
2,450 LThere have been many good books on human rationality and irrationality, but only one masterpiece. That masterpiece is Thinking, Fast and Slow’ Financial Times
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Quiet
1,700 LPassionately argued, superbly researched, and filled with real stories, whether an introvert or extrovert, this book will change how you see human beings for good.
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Great Ideas Myth of Sisyphus
1,350 LThe Myth of Sisyphus transformed twentieth-century philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a world without religious meaning.
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Blink
1,800 LThe Power of Thinking Without Thinking is Malcolm Gladwell’s second book. It presents in popular science format research from psychology and behavioral economics on the adaptive unconscious: mental processes that work rapidly and automatically from relatively little information.
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Very Hungry Caterpillar
1,450 LThis is the classic edition of the bestselling story written for the very young. A newly hatched caterpillar eats his way through all kinds of food.
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The Republic
1,800 LPlato’s The Republic is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy.
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Candide or Optimism
1,000 LCandide, Voltaire’s best-known work, is an adventure story, a picaresque novel and a satire – all rolled into one.
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Old Man Goriot
1,300 LThis pessimistic case study of bourgeois society’s ills after the French Revolution tells the intertwined stories of Eugène de Rastignac, an ambitious but penniless young man, and old Goriot, a father who sacrifices everything for his children.
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Selected Poems
1,600 LThe essential poems of the inspirational thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, scholar and mystic.
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Brothers Karamazov
1,650 LThe Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons―the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young …
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The Divine Comedy
1,350 LThe plot of The Divine Comedy is simple: a man, generally assumed to be Dante himself, is miraculously enabled to undertake an ultramundane journey, which leads him to visit the souls in Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.
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The Politics
1,600 LThe aim of the Politics, Aristotle says, is to investigate, on the basis of the constitutions collected, what makes for good government and what makes for bad government and to identify the factors favourable or unfavourable to the preservation of a constitution.
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