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Prince Hamlet of Denmark, confronted by his murdered father's ghost, hesitates on the path of revenge — generating centuries of analysis about the nature of action, consciousness, and death.

The epic masterwork of fantasy literature. Frodo Baggins inherits the One Ring — the instrument of Sauron's power — and must carry it to the fires of Mount Doom to destroy it before the Dark Lord reclaims it and enslaves all of Middle-earth.

The definitive life of J. Robert Oppenheimer — the theoretical physicist who directed the Manhattan Project, witnessed the first atomic detonation at Trinity, and was subsequently destroyed by the McCarthyite security apparatus he had helped to empower. Twenty-five years in the making, it won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 8 million copies sold. Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results. No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving every day.

The deeply personal memoir of the former First Lady of the United States — from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to the White House and beyond.

The memoir of The Daily Show host Trevor Noah, born in apartheid South Africa to a Black mother and white father — an act that was literally a crime under apartheid law.

The definitive account of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty behind OxyContin, and their role in creating and perpetuating the opioid crisis.

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's harrowing account of surviving Auschwitz forms the foundation of logotherapy — the idea that the primary human drive is not pleasure but the pursuit of meaning. One of the most important psychological texts of the 20th century.

The book that taught America to cook French — Julia Child's comprehensive, demystifying guide to classical French technique for the home cook, with 524 recipes.

A sweeping portrait of English provincial society in the 1830s, centering on the idealistic Dorothea Brooke and the ambitious Dr. Lydgate as they pursue their aspirations and confront their disappointments.

Elie Wiesel's memoir of his experiences as a fifteen-year-old Jewish boy deported from Sighet, Transylvania to Auschwitz and then Buchenwald. One of the foundational documents of Holocaust testimony — a first-person account of the camps, the death marches, and the systematic destruction of faith, family, and identity.

Ryland Grace wakes up alone on a spacecraft millions of miles from Earth, with no memory of how he got there. As he pieces together the mission, he realises he may be humanity's last hope against a microscopic threat that is slowly extinguishing the Sun — and that he is not entirely alone.

James Beard Award-winning chef Samin Nosrat teaches the four fundamental elements that make food delicious — salt, fat, acid, and heat — and how to use them to cook confidently without recipes.

The story of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, told through the abduction and murder of Jean McConville and the lives of IRA members Dolours Price and Gerry Adams.

Nike founder Phil Knight's memoir of building one of the world's most iconic brands — from $50 borrowed from his father and a handshake deal for Japanese running shoes to a multi-billion dollar empire. Brutally honest and compulsively readable.

The diary kept by a Jewish teenager hiding in a secret annex in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands — the most widely read personal account of the Holocaust.

The comprehensive reference guide to flavor pairings and culinary creativity — which ingredients work together and why, used by professional chefs worldwide.

J. Kenji López-Alt's landmark culinary science book explains the science behind everyday cooking and provides hundreds of recipes built on tested, proven techniques.

A spectral hound haunts the Baskerville family across the Dartmoor moors, and when the new baronet arrives to claim his inheritance, Holmes sends Watson ahead while working in secret. Conan Doyle's masterpiece fuses gothic atmosphere with rigorous detective logic into the most complete and satisfying Holmes story.

Satan visits Stalinist Moscow, accompanied by a giant black cat, a hitman, and a naked witch — exposing Soviet bureaucracy's absurdities while a novelist's story of Pontius Pilate and Jesus unfolds within the novel.

Odysseus's ten-year voyage home from Troy to Ithaca — through the Cyclops's cave, Circe's island, the underworld, and the sirens — is Western literature's founding journey narrative.

The epic story of the Great Migration — the decades-long exodus of six million Black Americans from the Jim Crow South to the cities of the North and West.

Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork about racial injustice and moral growth in Depression-era Alabama, seen through the eyes of young Scout Finch.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, one of America's most consequential and underestimated presidents.