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翻訳家・柴田元幸が長年愛読してきたアメリカ古典小説から選りすぐった、究極の「ザ・ベスト・オブ・ザ・ベスト」。アメリカ古典文学の途方もない豊かさを堪能できるアンソロジーを、同書の編訳を手がけた柴田元幸による朗読でお送りいたします。

The subject of Kokoro, which can be translated as 'the heart of things' or as 'feeling,' is the delicate matter of the contrast between the meanings the various parties of a relationship attach to it. In the course of this exploration, Soseki brilliantly describes different levels of friendship, family relationships, and the devices by which men attempt to escape from their fundamental loneliness. The novel sustains throughout its length something approaching poetry, and it is rich in understanding and insight.

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day Here is the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. In a novel where past and present confuse, she relives...

From the author of Native Moments comes a haunting and heartfelt portrait of life on the margins of the Florida Panhandle. In Panhandlers, Nic Schuck tells a raw and unflinching story of Hank Ackerman, a boy born into poverty in the forgotten lumber town of Sullivan, Florida. As Hank struggles to break free from a legacy of hardship and addiction, he learns that escape isn't just about leaving-it's about finding something worth running toward.

The Lost Omegas collection are three smutty quick listen. More smut than plot, these novellas are a hug full of found family and knots. Sit down with these packs and travel around Europe with our Omegas. From book 1: I never thought it was in a remote cabin that I'd meet fate . . . I need a win...

A heartwarming small-town tale of rediscovering joy in unexpected places. Starting over isn't easy, but sometimes it's exactly what we need. Newly divorced and determined to prove she can stand on her own, Joyce Hicks moves back to small-town Texas, leaving behind the life she has known for...

A down-and-out card counter gets the chance to turn his life around by taking down a ruthless Vegas casino boss in this raucous, big-hearted novel by the critically acclaimed author of Jade Lady Burning. Blackjack pro Ronnie “the Technician” Redfield, the “most feared card counter between...

In this final installment of the series, sassy Southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney is up against her biggest--and most personal--mystery yet. Still reeling from the discovery that her parents' deaths, decades ago, might not have been an accident, Private Investigator Sarah Booth...

Los doce cuentos que integran el libro de la escritora boliviana Giovanna Rivero, nos llevan una vez más al corazón de el misticismo gótico de ese país, el Caribe y Nueva York. En ellos vemos daños ecológicos, ritos y rituales, sociedades atrapadas en el desamparo, la deformidad y la enfermedad física y mental.

Emily Dickinson é considerada uma das maiores poetisas americanas de todos os tempos, e só teve grande parte da sua obra publicada postumamente. Levando uma vida reclusa, ela escreveu mais de mil poemas com metáforas surpreendentes, uso não convencional de pontuação e observações extraordinárias sobre muitos temas. Nesta seleção inédita, que contou com a participação de @mcarolbrx, o foco foi o amor - talvez o assunto que mais entusiasme seus leitores fiéis.

He was born with a curse and a gift— a gambler’s nerve, a killer’s aim, and a dying man’s calm. Before legend turned him into myth, John Henry “Doc” Holliday was a Southern dentist chasing fortune across a restless West. But when fate brought him to Tombstone, he stepped into a war that would stain the desert red and carve his name into history. Told with grit, grace, and the haunting beauty of the real frontier, Doc follows the man behind the myth—from Georgia to Dodge, from friendship to vengeance, from the clatter of saloons to the silence of Glenwood Springs.

A young woman makes a bargain with a shapeshifting demon who promises her power, if she will give up love--a painful price that sets her on a dark journey in this historical fantasy inspired by Taiwanese myth Eleventh century Taiwan. In a small village, far from the political conflicts of the...

Harry Crews’s savagely funny and gritty portrait of discipline, obsession, control, and power Shereel Dupont, formerly the secretary Dorothy Turnipseed, trains rigorously at the behest of her boss turned personal trainer Russell (“Muscle”) Morgan, sculpting her body into taut muscles and...

Classic short stories by a beloved virtuoso of language, craft, and madness from the American South “His writing was anarchic and wonderfully funny. He sounded like what you’d get if you stirred three heaping teaspoons of Thomas Pynchon and Terry Southern into a jar of Eudora Welty...

A hilarious and heartwarming New York Times bestselling novel—the basis for the acclaimed major motion picture! "There's rich, there's filthy rich, and then there's crazy rich ... A Pride and Prejudice-like send-up about an heir bringing his Chinese-American girlfriend home to meet his...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “[A] word-of-mouth smash hit.” —The New York Times One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why… His name is Theo. And he asks a lot more questions than he answers. Theo visits the...

One of the New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century In this New York Times bestseller, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan–the inspiration for the television series on Apple TV+. In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST ...

Ein universeller Roman über Genuss, Lebenskunst und die Geschichte einer weiblichen Befreiung. Für alle LeserInnen von Han Kangs "Vegetarierin", Sayaka Muratas "Ladenhüterin" und Mieko Kawakamis "Brüste und Eier". Rika, eine junge Journalistin in Tokio, recherchiert über die Serienmörderin Manako Kajii, die Männer mit ihren Kochkünsten verführt und anschließend umgebracht haben soll. Manako behauptet, sie verabscheut nichts mehr als "Margarine und Feministinnen" und hat eine ausgeprägte Leidenschaft für hemmungslosen Genuss und insbesondere Butter.

Look for The Land of Sweet Forever, a posthumous collection of newly discovered short stories and previously published essays and magazine pieces by Harper Lee, coming October 21, 2025. Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning...