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Thirteen Reasons Why
by Jay Asher
Clay, a high school junior, arrives home after school to find a package addressed to him resting against the front door. He opens it to find a set of seven tapes, each side numbered one to thirteen...
Runner
by Robert Newton
In the year 1919, teenage Charlie Feehan dreams of a better life than the one his family lives in the Richmond slums of Melbourne. His father recently passed away, forcing Charlie to take on financ...
Vertigo
by Amanda Lohrey
Luke and Anna are a married couple living in a city in Australia. Their life isn’t terrible by any means, but both of them have begun to feel a sense of growing emptiness and dissatisfaction with t...
Thirteen Reasons Why
by Jay Asher
Clay, a high school junior, arrives home after school to find a package addressed to him resting against the front door. He opens it to find a set of seven tapes, each side numbered one to thirteen...
Runner
by Robert Newton
In the year 1919, teenage Charlie Feehan dreams of a better life than the one his family lives in the Richmond slums of Melbourne. His father recently passed away, forcing Charlie to take on financ...
Vertigo
by Amanda Lohrey
Luke and Anna are a married couple living in a city in Australia. Their life isn’t terrible by any means, but both of them have begun to feel a sense of growing emptiness and dissatisfaction with t...
Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu
Interior Chinatown takes the form of a screenplay to follow the story of Willis Wu, an Asian American actor of Taiwanese descent. He laments the one-dimensional, stereotypical roles he’s stuck play...
Thirteen Reasons Why
by Jay Asher
Clay, a high school junior, arrives home after school to find a package addressed to him resting against the front door. He opens it to find a set of seven tapes, each side numbered one to thirteen...
Runner
by Robert Newton
In the year 1919, teenage Charlie Feehan dreams of a better life than the one his family lives in the Richmond slums of Melbourne. His father recently passed away, forcing Charlie to take on financ...
Vertigo
by Amanda Lohrey
Luke and Anna are a married couple living in a city in Australia. Their life isn’t terrible by any means, but both of them have begun to feel a sense of growing emptiness and dissatisfaction with t...
Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu
Interior Chinatown takes the form of a screenplay to follow the story of Willis Wu, an Asian American actor of Taiwanese descent. He laments the one-dimensional, stereotypical roles he’s stuck play...
Fiela’s Child
by Dalene Matthee
In 19th-century South Africa, outside the Western Cape town of Knysna, a wood-beam maker named Elias van Rooyen lives in the Forest with his wife, Barta. One foggy day, they lose their child Lukas,...
The Little Stranger
by Sarah Waters
Dr. Faraday lives in Lidcote, England, where he spends his days tending to patients. One day, he is called out to Hundreds Hall, a once-grand manor home. Faraday went to Hundreds as a child for Emp...
Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu
Interior Chinatown takes the form of a screenplay to follow the story of Willis Wu, an Asian American actor of Taiwanese descent. He laments the one-dimensional, stereotypical roles he’s stuck play...
Fiela’s Child
by Dalene Matthee
In 19th-century South Africa, outside the Western Cape town of Knysna, a wood-beam maker named Elias van Rooyen lives in the Forest with his wife, Barta. One foggy day, they lose their child Lukas,...
The Little Stranger
by Sarah Waters
Dr. Faraday lives in Lidcote, England, where he spends his days tending to patients. One day, he is called out to Hundreds Hall, a once-grand manor home. Faraday went to Hundreds as a child for Emp...
Amos Fortune, Free Man
by Elizabeth Yates
Amos Fortune, Free Man is the fictionalized story of a real-life African prince who was sold into slavery. In the early spring of 1725, white hunters surround and overwhelm the village of the At-mu...
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
by Dario Fo
Accidental Death of an Anarchist is set in the Milan, Italy police headquarters. A few weeks ago, an anarchist suspect, who was illegally detained under suspicion of carrying out a major bombing at...
Across Five Aprils
by Irene Hunt
In April of 1861, nine-year-old Jethro Creighton helps his mother, Ellen, plant potatoes on their farm in southern Illinois. His father, Matt, cousin Eb, and brothers John, Bill, and Tom also work ...
Sharmaji
by Anjana Appachana
“Sharmaji” is set in and around an office in urban India where the protagonist, Sharma, works. Sharma arrives 45 minutes late for work; it is the 14th time he has been late this month. An argument ...
After Twenty Years
by O. Henry
Jimmy Wells and Bob are childhood best friends from New York City. Though they were like brothers in their youth, they gradually fell out of contact with one another. While Jimmy remained in New Yo...
The Dry
by Jane Harper
Australian financial crimes police officer Aaron Falk travels from Melbourne back to his original hometown of Kiewarra, a small farming community suffering from a prolonged drought. Falk’s childhoo...
A Memory
by Eudora Welty
“A Memory” is told from the perspective of an unnamed narrator who recalls memories from her childhood. The story opens on a beach near a lake one summer morning. The narrator has just taken a swim...
The Study of Poetry
by Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold wrote “The Study of Poetry” as an introduction to an 1880 anthology called The English Poets, and in it he refines his answers to what he considered the most important questions faci...
Foe
by J. M. Coetzee
It’s the early 1700s, and Susan Barton, an Englishwoman, has just been stranded on an island in the Atlantic Ocean. Though she at first believes the island to be deserted, Susan quickly encounters ...
Fiela’s Child
by Dalene Matthee
In 19th-century South Africa, outside the Western Cape town of Knysna, a wood-beam maker named Elias van Rooyen lives in the Forest with his wife, Barta. One foggy day, they lose their child Lukas,...
The Little Stranger
by Sarah Waters
Dr. Faraday lives in Lidcote, England, where he spends his days tending to patients. One day, he is called out to Hundreds Hall, a once-grand manor home. Faraday went to Hundreds as a child for Emp...
Amos Fortune, Free Man
by Elizabeth Yates
Amos Fortune, Free Man is the fictionalized story of a real-life African prince who was sold into slavery. In the early spring of 1725, white hunters surround and overwhelm the village of the At-mu...
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
by Dario Fo
Accidental Death of an Anarchist is set in the Milan, Italy police headquarters. A few weeks ago, an anarchist suspect, who was illegally detained under suspicion of carrying out a major bombing at...
Across Five Aprils
by Irene Hunt
In April of 1861, nine-year-old Jethro Creighton helps his mother, Ellen, plant potatoes on their farm in southern Illinois. His father, Matt, cousin Eb, and brothers John, Bill, and Tom also work ...
Sharmaji
by Anjana Appachana
“Sharmaji” is set in and around an office in urban India where the protagonist, Sharma, works. Sharma arrives 45 minutes late for work; it is the 14th time he has been late this month. An argument ...
After Twenty Years
by O. Henry
Jimmy Wells and Bob are childhood best friends from New York City. Though they were like brothers in their youth, they gradually fell out of contact with one another. While Jimmy remained in New Yo...
The Dry
by Jane Harper
Australian financial crimes police officer Aaron Falk travels from Melbourne back to his original hometown of Kiewarra, a small farming community suffering from a prolonged drought. Falk’s childhoo...
A Memory
by Eudora Welty
“A Memory” is told from the perspective of an unnamed narrator who recalls memories from her childhood. The story opens on a beach near a lake one summer morning. The narrator has just taken a swim...
The Study of Poetry
by Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold wrote “The Study of Poetry” as an introduction to an 1880 anthology called The English Poets, and in it he refines his answers to what he considered the most important questions faci...
Foe
by J. M. Coetzee
It’s the early 1700s, and Susan Barton, an Englishwoman, has just been stranded on an island in the Atlantic Ocean. Though she at first believes the island to be deserted, Susan quickly encounters ...
Amos Fortune, Free Man
by Elizabeth Yates
Amos Fortune, Free Man is the fictionalized story of a real-life African prince who was sold into slavery. In the early spring of 1725, white hunters surround and overwhelm the village of the At-mu...
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
by Dario Fo
Accidental Death of an Anarchist is set in the Milan, Italy police headquarters. A few weeks ago, an anarchist suspect, who was illegally detained under suspicion of carrying out a major bombing at...
Across Five Aprils
by Irene Hunt
In April of 1861, nine-year-old Jethro Creighton helps his mother, Ellen, plant potatoes on their farm in southern Illinois. His father, Matt, cousin Eb, and brothers John, Bill, and Tom also work ...
Sharmaji
by Anjana Appachana
“Sharmaji” is set in and around an office in urban India where the protagonist, Sharma, works. Sharma arrives 45 minutes late for work; it is the 14th time he has been late this month. An argument ...
After Twenty Years
by O. Henry
Jimmy Wells and Bob are childhood best friends from New York City. Though they were like brothers in their youth, they gradually fell out of contact with one another. While Jimmy remained in New Yo...
The Dry
by Jane Harper
Australian financial crimes police officer Aaron Falk travels from Melbourne back to his original hometown of Kiewarra, a small farming community suffering from a prolonged drought. Falk’s childhoo...
A Memory
by Eudora Welty
“A Memory” is told from the perspective of an unnamed narrator who recalls memories from her childhood. The story opens on a beach near a lake one summer morning. The narrator has just taken a swim...
The Study of Poetry
by Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold wrote “The Study of Poetry” as an introduction to an 1880 anthology called The English Poets, and in it he refines his answers to what he considered the most important questions faci...
Foe
by J. M. Coetzee
It’s the early 1700s, and Susan Barton, an Englishwoman, has just been stranded on an island in the Atlantic Ocean. Though she at first believes the island to be deserted, Susan quickly encounters ...
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