- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
The novel is framed by two early morning scenes. At the beginning of the book, Mattie lingers in bed, reluctant to start her work in the coffeehouse. At the end, she’s the first one up, letting her mother sleep, watching the sunrise, and enjoying the last moments of stillness before another busy day in the coffeehouse. These closing lines of the book sum up Mattie’s dramatic transformation over the course of the novel. She’s gained strength and independence, but she’s suffered terribly and lost loved ones in the process. She’s realizing some of her dreams for the coffeehouse, but this…