en-US Sat, 19 Sep 2026 04:48:36 -0700 60 144 41 https://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 63040 109 Victor Hugo 1843910071 Nastaran 0 currently-reading 4.03 1829
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How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?

This short novel was an artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction.
A thoroughly absorbing, and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation.]]> 86 Leo Tolstoy Nastaran 5 اگر دوست دارید بیشتر راجع به مرگ کتاب بخونید کتاب مواجهه با مرگ و به شدت پیشنهاد میکنم.]]> 4.13 1886
author: Leo Tolstoy
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من هیچوقت نتونستم زیاد با کتابای تولستوی ارتباط برقرار کنم، ولی این کتاب فرق داشت واقعا. وقتی داشتم این کتاب و میخوندم ترس ایوان ایلیچ تو دل منم افتاد و الان که تمومش‌ کردم، فقط دارم به این فکر میکنم که نکنه دارم درست زندگی نمیکنم.
اگر دوست دارید بیشتر راجع به مرگ کتاب بخونید کتاب مواجهه با مرگ و به شدت پیشنهاد میکنم.
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If you've ever felt stuck, overwhelmed, or frustrated with where you are, the problem isn't you. The problem is the power you give to other people. Two simple words—Let Them—will set you free. Free from the opinions, drama, and judgments of others. Free from the exhausting cycle of trying to manage everything and everyone around you. The Let Them Theory puts the power to create a life you love back in your hands—and this book will show you exactly how to do it.

In her latest groundbreaking book, The Let Them Theory, Mel Robbins—New York Times bestselling author and one of the world's most respected experts on motivation, confidence, and mindset—teaches you how to stop wasting energy on what you can't control and start focusing on what truly YOU. Your happiness. Your goals. Your life.

Using the same no-nonsense, science-backed approach that's made The Mel Robbins Podcast a global sensation, Robbins explains why The Let Them Theory is already loved by millions and how you can apply it in eight key areas of your life to make the biggest impact. Within a few pages, you'll realize how much energy and time you've been wasting trying to control the wrong things—at work, in relationships, and in pursuing your goals—and how this is keeping you from the happiness and success you deserve.

Written as an easy-to-understand guide, Robbins shares relatable stories from her own life, highlights key takeaways, relevant research and introduces you to world-renowned experts in psychology, neuroscience, relationships, happiness, and ancient wisdom who champion The Let Them Theory every step of the way.

Learn how

Stop wasting energy on things you can't control. Stop comparing yourself to other people. Break free from fear and self-doubt. Release the grip of people's expectations. Build the best friendships of your life. Create the love you deserve. Pursue what truly matters to you with confidence. Build resilience against everyday stressors and distractions. Define your own path to success, joy, and fulfillment. . . and so much more.

The Let Them Theory will forever change the way you think about relationships, control, and personal power. Whether you want to advance your career, motivate others to change, take creative risks, find deeper connections, build better habits, start a new chapter, or simply create more happiness in your life and relationships, this book gives you the mindset and tools to unlock your full potential.

Order your copy of The Let Them Theory now and discover how much power you truly have. It all begins with two simple words.]]> 311 Mel Robbins 1401971377 Nastaran 0 to-read 3.98 2024
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]]> 24583 244 Mark Twain Nastaran 0 to-read 3.92 1876
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]]> 18046027 130 Leonid Andreyev Nastaran 5 3.90 1910
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امروز واسه بار سوم این کتاب و خوندم. هربار وقتی میخوام چیزی درباره‌اش بگم مغزم قفل میکنه. یکی از فوق‌العاده ترین کتابایی بود که تو عمرم خونده بودم :)
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In this short story, Dostoyevsky masterfully depicts desperation, greed, manipulation and suicide.

Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881).

Dostoyevsky's works available in Penguin Classics are Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Double, The Gambler and Other Stories, The Grand Inquisitor, Notes From The Underground, Netochka Nezvanova, The House of The Dead, The Brothers Karamazov and The Village of Stepanchikovo.]]> 57 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0141397489 Nastaran 4 3.83 1876
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]]> 239509 336 Robin Norwood 0671733419 Nastaran 0 4.05 1985
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]]> 9547888 Is there a science to love?

In this groundbreaking book, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levine and psychologist Rachel S. F. Heller reveal how an understanding of attachment theory-the most advanced relationship science in existence today-can help us find and sustain love. Attachment theory forms the basis for many bestselling books on the parent/child relationship, but there has yet to be an accessible guide to what this fascinating science has to tell us about adult romantic relationships-until now.

Attachment theory owes its inception to British psychologist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby, who in the 1950s examined the tremendous impact that our early relationships with our parents or caregivers has on the people we become. Also central to attachment theory is the discovery that our need to be in a close relationship with one or more individuals is embedded in our genes.

In Attached, Levine and Heller trace how these evolutionary influences continue to shape who we are in our relationships today. According to attachment theory, every person behaves in relationships in one of three distinct ways:

*ANXIOUS people are often preoccupied with their relationships and tend to worry about their partner's ability to love them back.
*AVOIDANT people equate intimacy with a loss of independence and constantly try to minimize closeness.
*SECURE people feel comfortable with intimacy and are usually warm and loving.

Attached guides readers in determining what attachment style they and their mate (or potential mates) follow. It also offers readers a wealth of advice on how to navigate their relationships more wisely given their attachment style and that of their partner. An insightful look at the science behind love, Attached offers readers a road map for building stronger, more fulfilling connections.]]> 304 Amir Levine 1585428485 Nastaran 0 4.09 2010
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]]> 53330118
LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • “A masterpiece.”—Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of Grit • Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Adam Grant, and Daniel H. Pink’s Next Big Idea Club Winter 2021 Winning Selection

One of the best new books of the year—The Washington Post, BBC, USA Today, CNN Underscored, Shape, Behavioral Scientist, PopSugar • Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and Shelf Awareness starred reviews

Is talking to yourself normal? The truth is that we all have a voice in our head. When we talk to ourselves, we often hope to tap into our inner coach but find our inner critic instead. When we’re facing a tough task, our inner coach can buoy us up: Focus—you can do this. But, just as often, our inner critic sinks us entirely: I’m going to fail. They’ll all laugh at me. What’s the use?

In Chatter, acclaimed psychologist Ethan Kross explores the silent conversations we have with ourselves. Interweaving groundbreaking behavioral and brain research from his own lab with real-world case studies—from a pitcher who forgets how to pitch, to a Harvard undergrad negotiating her double life as a spy—Kross explains how these conversations shape our lives, work, and relationships. He warns that giving in to negative and disorienting self-talk—what he calls “chatter”—can tank our health, sink our moods, strain our social connections, and cause us to fold under pressure.

But the good news is that we’re already equipped with the tools we need to make our inner voice work in our favor. These tools are often hidden in plain sight—in the words we use to think about ourselves, the technologies we embrace, the diaries we keep in our drawers, the conversations we have with our loved ones, and the cultures we create in our schools and workplaces.

Brilliantly argued, expertly researched, and filled with compelling stories, Chatter gives us the power to change the most important conversation we have each day: the one we have with ourselves.]]> 272 Ethan Kross 0525575235 Nastaran 5 3.93 2021
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]]> 250675765 The Vet's Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridden wife and shy daughter Alice in a sinister London suburb. He works constantly, captive to a strange private fury, and treats his family with brutality and contempt. After his wife's death, the vet takes up with a crass, needling woman who tries to refashion Alice in her own image. And yet as Alice retreats ever deeper into a dream world, she discovers an extraordinary secret power of her own.

Harrowing and haunting, like an unexpected cross between Flannery O'Connor and Stephen King, The Vet's Daughter is a story of outraged innocence that culminates in a scene of appalling triumph.]]> 159 Barbara Comyns 0349019665 Nastaran 0 to-read 3.89 1959
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]]> 50430967 114 Jean Teulé Nastaran 0 to-read 3.82 2009
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]]> 1430 Alternative cover edition of ISBN 9780060589288

Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that “love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . . .” A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune.

Maria’s despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria has to choose between pursuing a path of darkness—sexual pleasure for its own sake—or risking everything to find her own “inner light” and the possibility of sacred sex, sex in the context of love.]]> 273 Paulo Coelho Nastaran 5 3.75 2003
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]]> 26862896 240 Hamed Abdel-Samad 3426276402 Nastaran 5 Wir Iraner versuchen immer wieder, die Welt vor den Gefahren des Islams zu warnen. Wir versuchen zu erklären, dass wir unter dieser Ideologie und dieser Grausamkeit gelebt haben. Schaut uns an und lasst nicht zu, dass euch dasselbe passiert. Lest dieses Buch, um die Wahrheit über den Islam zu erfahren.]]> 4.13 2015
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Und die ganze Welt, besonders die Linke, unterstützt den Islam und Muslime. Wer die Scharia verteidigt, verteidigt auch die Ansichten, die in diesem Buch vertreten werden.
Wir Iraner versuchen immer wieder, die Welt vor den Gefahren des Islams zu warnen. Wir versuchen zu erklären, dass wir unter dieser Ideologie und dieser Grausamkeit gelebt haben. Schaut uns an und lasst nicht zu, dass euch dasselbe passiert. Lest dieses Buch, um die Wahrheit über den Islam zu erfahren.
]]> 82531 470 Nikos Kazantzakis 0571066720 Nastaran 5 4.40
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این کتاب بعد از خوندنش باعث میشه بشینی فکر کنی که چقدر ما ایرانی ها هر رپز داریم به یه نوعی این داستان و زندگی میکنیم. ما کم ندیدیم از آدم هایی که ادعای مومن بودنشون میشه ولی در عمل خودخواهی و حماقتشون و منفعت طلبیشون و فقط به رخ میکشن. تو زندگی شخصی هم زیاد میبینیم از آدمایی که وقتی پای منفعت و خودشون وسط باشه به تمام چیزایی که ایمان و اعتقاد دارن پشت میکنن.
]]> 75638027 426 نسرین ستوده Nastaran 4 3.71
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زندگی شامل شکست‌ها، ضررها، پشیمانی ها و حتی مرگ می شود، به محض اینکه با تمام سختی هایی که زندگی به سمت شما پرت می کند (و یک عالمه سختی که به سمتتان پرت خواهد کرد) احساس راحتی کنید از لحاظ روحی یک جورایی سرسخت و شکست ناپذیر می‌شوید.

اینکه شما حاضرید برای چه چیزی بجنگید، تعیین می‌کند که شما چه کسی خواهید بود.]]> 335 Mark Manson Nastaran 0 3.74 2016
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]]> 18245295 21 Fyodor Dostoevsky Nastaran 0 to-read 3.53 1848
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]]> 329892 121 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0938618016 Nastaran 0 to-read 3.36 1847
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]]> 35122852 96 Fyodor Dostoevsky 9649971726 Nastaran 0 to-read 3.66 1862
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]]> 30063126
Дебютная работа Николаева Матвея заслуживает внимания. Диктор профессионально передал атмосферу аудиокниги. Без лишнего трагизма, но с необходимыми акцентами Николаев Матвей повествует о судьбе Васи Шумкова. Приятный голос, грамотные паузы Николаева Матвея и гениальный слог Федора Михайловича Достоевского способны подарить истинное удовольствие от классического произведения «Слабое сердце».]]> 73 Fyodor Dostoevsky Nastaran 0 to-read 3.47 1848
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]]> 17893 176 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0140444556 Nastaran 0 to-read 3.87 1849
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]]> 61439040
Alternate cover edition can be found here.]]> 368 George Orwell 0452284236 Nastaran 0 did-not-finish 4.23 1949
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]]> 2818247 80 Leo Tolstoy 1425478700 Nastaran 3 تولستوی خیلی کتابای بهتری واسه خوندن داره زیاد نتونستم با قلمش تو این کتاب ارتباط بگیرم]]> 3.50 1862
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ارزش داشت یک بار خونده بشه ولی فقط یک بار.
تولستوی خیلی کتابای بهتری واسه خوندن داره زیاد نتونستم با قلمش تو این کتاب ارتباط بگیرم
]]> 1581224 داستان همیشگی، داستان تقابل و اختلاف نسل‌هاست، تقابل بین دو شخصیت متعلق به دو نسل مختلف. گانچاروف در مورد این داستان می‌گوید: «هنگامی که روی داستان همیشگی کار می‌کردم طبعاً خود و بسیاری از امثال خود را در نظر داشتم، یعنی کسانی که در خانه و یا در دانشگاه تحصیلاتی کرده‌اند، در جایی عقب‌مانده، زیر پر و بال مادری مهربان زیسته‌اند و ناگهان از خانه و کاشانه و محیط روستایی کنده شده‌اند و سروکله‌شان در مرکز اصلی فعالیت، یعنی سن پترزبورگ، پیدا شده است. در این داستان نیز در برخوردهای برادرزادهٔ خیالباف که در خوشی و تن‌آسایی به ناز پرورده شده با عموی اهل عمل، هستهٔ جنینی همین موضوع را که بر زمینهٔ پرکارترین مکان‌ها یعنی سن‌پترزبورگ تازه در حال سر برآوردن بود، می‌توان مشاهده کرد. این موضوع پرتو ضعیف آن آگاهی است که کار- کار واقعی، نه کار معمول، «کار فعال» - برای مقابله با رخوت مسلط در سراسر روسیه لازم است. این مطلب در آینهٔ کوچک من به صورت زندگی کارمندی میانه‌حال، منعکس شد. بدون کمترین شک و شبهه‌ای همین چیزها، با همین روحیه و حال و هوا و شخصیت‌ها، لیکن در مقیاسی دیگر، در سایر حوزه‌های حیات روسیه، چه حوزه‌های فراتر و چه فروتر، جریان داشته است.]]> 512 Ivan Goncharov 9643636526 Nastaran 0 to-read 4.09 1847
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]]> 40796117 It’s been twenty-five years since I last murdered someone, or has it been twenty-six?
 
Diary of a Murderer captivates and provokes in equal measure, exploring what it means to be on the edge—between life and death, good and evil. In the titular novella, a former serial killer suffering from memory loss sets his sights on one final target: his daughter’s boyfriend, who he suspects is also a serial killer. In other stories we witness an affair between two childhood friends that questions the limits of loyalty and love; a family’s disintegration after a baby son is kidnapped and recovered years later; and a wild, erotic ride about pursuing creativity at the expense of everything else.
           ]]> 200 Young-ha Kim 1328545423 Nastaran 2 3.58 2019
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]]> 63907951 92 Amélie Nothomb 6222019978 Nastaran 4 3.87 2001
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]]> 242671690 118 جابر زارع 6220112865 Nastaran 0 to-read 1.87 2025
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]]> 2194909
Schnitzler’s talent as a dramatist shines through in this engrossing and shocking psychological study set in fin de siècle Vienna.]]> 128 Arthur Schnitzler 190128574X Nastaran 0 to-read 3.83 1892
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]]> 785262 248 W. Brad Johnson 1886230803 Nastaran 5 3.85 2007
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]]> 6969 The newest edition is here. Another alternate cover can be found here.

Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.]]> 474 Jane Austen Nastaran 0 to-read 4.05 1815
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]]> 2156

When Captain Wentworth returns, wealthy and successful, their paths cross again. Amidst the intricate social dynamics of Regency England, Anne must navigate her lingering feelings for him while grappling with the pressures of family, society, and her own sense of self-worth.


Austen’s masterful exploration of resilience, maturity, and enduring love makes Persuasion a deeply moving and timeless classic. With its sharp social commentary and compelling characters, this novel is a treasure for lovers of romance, wit, and literary brilliance.]]> 249 Jane Austen 0192802631 Nastaran 0 to-read 4.15 1817
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]]> 18405 1037 Margaret Mitchell 0446365386 Nastaran 0 to-read 4.30 1936
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]]> 52882322 پيدا کردني که به‌اندازه‌ي يک عمر طول مي‌کشد.
و تکه‌هايي که همه‌جا حضور دارند و فقط کافي است ما در مسيرشان قرار بگيريم، آن وقت اگر هشيار باشیم، شايد بخش‌هايي از خودمان را ببينيم. بخش‌هايي از خودمان را در رابطه‌ها و در آدم‌هايي که تجربه مي‌کنيم، در موقعيت‌هايي که قرار مي‌گيريم، در فيلم‌هايي که مي‌بينيم، در تاريخي که مرور مي‌کنيم و حتي در کوچه‌اي که هيچ عابري ندارد و باد درخت‌هايش را بدون حضورِ تماشاچيان نوازش مي‌کند. شايد زندگي همين است. ما زندگي را نه به‌صورت يک کل که به‌صورت جزئياتي روزمره مي‌بينيم. درواقع ما در «لحظه»اي از يک زمانِ اکنون هميشگي هستيم و شايد آن لحظه تمام همان چيزي است که «هدف» نام دارد؛ هدفي به نام زندگي کردن. برخورد کردن با تکه‌اي از زندگي و سپس پيدا کردن تکه‌اي ناهشيار از درونِ خودمان. شايد زندگي تلاشي براي منسجم‌شدن و پيدا کردن بخش‌هاي بيشتري از خودمان است ودر این تلاش مدام با اتفاقات زندگی مواجه می‌شویم. اين کتاب تکه‌هايي از يک کل منسجم است. کلي که هنوز تکميل‌نشده اما در مسير پيدا شدن و بيرون آمدن از ابهام است. شايد این کتاب بتواند بخش‌هايي از درونِ شما را بيدار کند و به پيدا شدن بخش‌هاي گمشده‌تان کمک کند.]]> 360 پونه مقیمی 6006454262 Nastaran 0 to-read 4.03
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With this pair of absurd, comic stories Gogol indulges his imagination and delights readers.

Contains 'The Nose' and 'The Carriage'.]]> 53 Nikolai Gogol 0141397527 Nastaran 0 to-read 3.75 1836
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]]> 115151 حاجی مراد
اسیر فرانسوی
داود گوژپشت
مادلن
آتش پرست
آبجی خانم
مرده خوارها
آب زندگی]]> 131 صادق هدایت 964351157X Nastaran 0 to-read 3.93 1930
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]]> 50270
It happened in the 'seventies in winter, on the day after St. Nicholas's Day. There was a fete in the parish and the innkeeper, Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov, a Second Guild merchant, being a church elder had to go to church, and had also to entertain his relatives and friends at home. But when the last of them had gone he at once began to prepare to drive over to see a neighbouring proprietor about a grove which he had been bargaining over for a long time. He was now in a hurry to start, lest buyers from the town might forestall him in making a profitable purchase.]]> 57 Leo Tolstoy 1421803674 Nastaran 0 to-read 4.05 1895
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]]> 21206786 How Much Land Does A Man Need? gives a delightful insight into old Russian values]]> 66 Leo Tolstoy Nastaran 0 to-read 4.14 1886
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]]> 25467816
Eines Tages beobachtet sie etwas Schockierendes. Kurz darauf liest sie in der Zeitung vom Verschwinden einer Frau – daneben ein Foto von »Jess«. Rachel meldet ihre Beobachtung der Polizei und verstrickt sich damit unentrinnbar in die folgenden Ereignisse...]]> 447 Paula Hawkins Nastaran 0 to-read 3.65 2015
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]]> 14290722 91 Nikolai Gogol 9688674249 Nastaran 1 3.81 1835
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برای من کتاب خیلی گیرا نبود و قبل از اینکه داستان درست شکل بگیره، سریع و آبکی تموم شد. انتظار داشتم نویسنده ماجرا رو بهتر جلو ببره، ولی تقریباً همه‌چیز رو گذاشته بود پای برداشت خواننده. به نظرم اگه نقدها و تفسیرهاش رو نخونی، فهمیدن منظور اصلی داستان خیلی سخته.
]]> 10975 366 William Faulkner Nastaran 0 did-not-finish 3.86 1929
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]]> 53639
The classic novel Zorba the Greek is the story of two men, their incredible friendship, and the importance of living life to the fullest. Zorba, a Greek working man, is a larger-than-life character, energetic and unpredictable. He accompanies the unnamed narrator to Crete to work in the narrator’s lignite mine, and the pair develops a singular relationship. The two men couldn’t be further apart: The narrator is cerebral, modest, and reserved; Zorba is unfettered, spirited, and beyond the reins of civility. Over the course of their journey, he becomes the narrator’s greatest friend and inspiration and helps him to appreciate the joy of living.

Zorba has been acclaimed as one of the most remarkable figures in literature; he is a character in the great tradition of Sinbad the Sailor, Falstaff, and Sancho Panza. He responds to all that life offers him with passion, whether he’s supervising laborers at a mine, confronting mad monks in a mountain monastery, embellishing the tales of his past adventures, or making love. Zorba the Greek explores the beauty and pain of existence, inviting readers to reevaluate the most important aspects of their lives and live to the fullest.]]> 335 Nikos Kazantzakis 0571203132 Nastaran 0 to-read 4.06 1946
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]]> 28475953 Villette, Charlotte Brontë reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette is Brontë's most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing even Jane Eyre in critical acclaim. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as she witnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome young Englishman, and Ginerva Fanshawe, a beautiful coquette. The first pain brings others, and with them comes the heartache Lucy has tried so long to escape. Yet in spite of adversity and disappointment, Lucy Snowe survives to recount the unstinting vision of a turbulent life's journey - a journey that is one of the most insightful fictional studies of a woman's consciousness in English literature.]]> 450 Charlotte Brontë 1519685653 Nastaran 0 to-read 3.74 1853
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]]> 205478817
This bold new translation by two brilliant poets offers a contemporary perspective on a timeless masterpiece of Daoist scripture, introducing Dao De Jing to a new audience while retaining the majesty of the Chinese original. Composed of eighty-one short poems written by the sage Laozi in 400 BC, Dao De Jing is one of the pillars of Chinese thought. Acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee and poet and scholar Yun Wang illuminate Dao De Jing as a unified work of art. This revelatory and faithful translation—presented alongside the original Chinese text—reveals its enduring teachings in their profound simplicity, subtlety, and balance.]]> 192 Lao Tzu 1324079169 Nastaran 0 to-read 4.38 -350
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]]> 485894 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes."

With it's startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."]]> 201 Franz Kafka 0553213695 Nastaran 5 3.92 1915
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]]> 1381 Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns
driven time and again off course, once he had plundered
the hallowed heights of Troy.

So begins Robert Fagles's magnificent translation of the Odyssey.

If The Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of the everyman's journey through life. During his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, Odysseus relies on his wit and wiles for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces.

In the myths and legends retold here, Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom. It's a version to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery.

Renowned classicist Bernard Knox's superb Introduction and textual commentary provide new insights and background information for the general reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Fagles's translation.]]> 541 Homer 0143039954 Nastaran 0 to-read 3.82 -800
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]]> 6849663 ترجمه محمد علی جدیری]]> 280 George Orwell 9645172276 Nastaran 0 to-read 3.34 1935
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]]> 12505 667 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0679642420 Nastaran 2 4.22 1869
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average rating: 4.22
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]]> 25489025
Celebrated by critics around the world, The Vegetarian is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.

A Best Book of the Year: BuzzFeed, Entertainment Weekly, Wall Street Journal, Time, Elle, The Economist, HuffPost, Slate, Bustle, The St. Louis Dispatch, Electric Literature, Publishers Weekly]]> 158 Han Kang 0553448188 Nastaran 4 3.63 2007
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]]> 521942 372 عبدالحسین زرین‌کوب 9645983339 Nastaran 0 to-read 3.97 1951
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]]> 19295 Do you feel discouraged with what you've accomplished in life?
Do you want greater self-esteem, productivity, and joy in daily living?

If so, you will benefit from this revolutionary way of brightening your moods without drugs or lengthy therapy. All you need is your own common sense and the easy-to-follow methods revealed in this book by one of the country's foremost authorities on mood and personal relationship problems.

In Ten Days to Self-esteem, Dr. David Burns presents innovative, clear, and compassionate methods that will help you identify the causes of your mood slumps and develop a more positive outlook on life. You will learn that

You feel the way you think: Negative feelings like guilt, anger, and depression do not result from the bad things that happen to you, but from the way you think about these events. This simple but revolutionary idea can change your life!

You can change the way you feel: You will discover why you get depressed and learn how to brighten your outlook when you're in a slump.

You can enjoy greater happiness, productivity, and intimacy—without drugs or lengthy therapy.

Can a self-help book do all this? Studies show that two thirds of depressed readers of Dr. Burns's classic bestseller, Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, experienced dramatic felief in just four weeks without psychotherapy or antidepressant medications. Three-year follow-up studies revealed that readers did not relapse but continued to enjoy their positive outlook. Ten Days to Self-esteem offers a powerful new tool that provides hope and healing in ten easy steps. The methods are based on common sense and are not difficult to apply. Research shows that they really work!

Feeling good feels wonderful. You owe it to yourself to feel good!]]> 336 David D. Burns 0688094554 Nastaran 0 to-read 3.96 1993
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]]> 27845690
The long-awaited and beguiling second novel from Alain de Botton that tracks the beautifully complicated arc of a romantic partnership, from the internationally bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life. De Botton's essay "Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person" (The New York Times, May 28, 2016), which draws from The Course of Love, was the #1 most emailed article for days.

We all know the headiness and excitement of the early days of love. But what comes after? In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married, they have children—but no long-term relationship is as simple as "happily ever after." The Course of Love is a novel that explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain love, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence. You experience, along with Rabih and Kirsten, the first flush of infatuation, the effortlessness of falling into romantic love, and the course of life thereafter. Interwoven with their story and its challenges is an overlay of philosophy—an annotation and a guide to what we are reading.

This is a Romantic novel in the true sense, one interested in exploring how love can survive and thrive in the long term. The result is a sensory experience—fictional, philosophical, psychological—that urges us to identify deeply with these characters and to reflect on his and her own experiences in love. Fresh, visceral, and utterly compelling, The Course of Love is a provocative and life-affirming novel for everyone who believes in love.]]> 240 Alain de Botton 0241145473 Nastaran 2 4.01 2016
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]]> 6334
And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed – even comforted – by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham's nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood – and about their lives now.]]> 288 Kazuo Ishiguro 1400078776 Nastaran 5 3.85 2005
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]]> 175040  
Surprisingly tender and rich in humor, this twentieth-century masterpiece brings to life priests and peasants, students and revolutionaries, simple girls and desperate women in a vivid drama of one man’s struggle for goodness in a world on the brink of war. Ranked with Orwell and Camus among writers who insisted upon linking the hope for social change with the values of political liberty, Silone is one of the major voices of our time, and Bread and Wine is his greatest novel. As Irving Howe notes in his Introduction, “ Bread and Wine will speak to anyone, of whatever age, who tries sincerely to reflect upon man’s fate in our century.” 
 
Translated by Eric Mosbacher, with an Introduction by Irving Howe and an Afterword by Barry Menikoff]]> 304 Ignazio Silone 0451529782 Nastaran 5 3.92 1937
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]]> 49455 Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) penned the darkly fascinating Notes from the Underground. Its nameless hero is a profoundly alienated individual in whose brooding self-analysis there is a search for the true and the good in a world of relative values and few absolutes. Moreover, the novel introduces themes — moral, religious, political and social — that dominated Dostoyevsky's later works. Notes from the Underground, then, aside from its own compelling qualities, offers readers an ideal introduction to the creative imagination, profundity and uncanny psychological penetration of one of the most influential novelists of the nineteenth century. Constance Garnett's authoritative translation is reprinted here, with a new introduction.]]> 136 Fyodor Dostoevsky 067973452X Nastaran 5 4.20 1864
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]]> 123805 In a specially adapted version for young readers by Lucia Monfried

Little Women is the lively and warm story of the MArch sisters...Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. They share their secrets and dreams, and help each other be strong when beloved Mother must leave to nurse Father, who is wounded in the Civil War. The passing years bring more adventures and romance—the first wedding, a broken heart, a trip to Europe—and the girls are young women. This book shows vividly the joys of growing up in a loving family.

Cover illustration by Al Leiner.

-from the back cover

]]> 238 Lucia Monfried 1577656938 Nastaran 2 4.34 1977
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]]> 78311985 Listening Length: 1 hour and 33 minutes

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and left, and finally he gets stuck at the end of a forest road. Soon it gets dark and starts to snow, but instead of going back to find help, he ventures, foolishly, into the dark forest. Inevitably, the man gets lost, and as he grows cold and tired, he encounters a glowing being amid the obscurity.]]> 48 Jon Fosse 1804270636 Nastaran 0 to-read 3.45 2023
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]]> 11455485 Satantango is proof that “the devil has all the good times.”

The story of Satantango, spread over a couple of days of endless rain, focuses on the dozen remaining inhabitants of an unnamed isolated hamlet: failures stuck in the middle of nowhere.

Schemes, crimes, infidelities, hopes of escape, and above all trust and its constant betrayal are Krasznahorkai’s meat. “At the center of Satantango,” George Szirtes has said, “is the eponymous drunken dance, referred to here sometimes as a tango and sometimes as a csardas. It takes place at the local inn where everyone is drunk. . . . Their world is rough and ready, lost somewhere between the comic and the tragic, in one small insignificant corner of the cosmos. Theirs is the dance of death.”

“You know,” Mrs. Schmidt, a pivotal character, tipsily confides, “dance is my one weakness.”]]> 274 László Krasznahorkai 0811217345 Nastaran 0 to-read 4.10 1985
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]]> 30091914 A riveting, poetic, and fearless portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice by the acclaimed author of The Vegetarian.

In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed.

The story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, denial, and the echoing agony of the massacre. From Dong-ho’s best friend, who meets his own fateful end, to an editor struggling against censorship; to a prisoner and a factory worker, both suffering from traumatic memories; and to Dong-ho's own grief-stricken mother, their collective heartbreak and acts of hope tell the tale of a brutalized people in search of a voice.

An award-winning, controversial bestseller, Human Acts is a timeless, pointillist portrait of a historic event with reverberations still being felt today, by turns tracing the harsh reality of oppression and the resounding, extraordinary poetry of humanity.]]> 218 Han Kang 1101906723 Nastaran 0 to-read 4.27 2014
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]]> 17290920
Muammar al-Gaddafi propagierte einen aufgeklärten Islamismus und die Gleichberechtigung der Frau, offiziell existierte unter Gaddafi keine Gewalt gegen Frauen – dabei, so wird nun bekannt, hielt der Diktator über Jahrzehnte unzählige Mädchen und Frauen im Keller seines Palastes gefangen, misshandelte und missbrauchte sie.
Die Journalistin Annick Cojean stößt auf dieses größte Tabu in der libyschen Gesellschaft nach Gaddafis In Tripolis trifft sie die junge Soraya, die den Mut hat, das Schweigen zu brechen. Sie erzählt der Journalistin ihre Lebensgeschichte. Als Fünfzehnjährige von Gaddafi ausgewählt und von seinen Schergen entführt, wurde sie jahrelang von dem Tyrannen gedemütigt und vergewaltigt. Doch auch Gaddafis Tod bedeutet für Soraya und ihre Leidensgenossinnen nicht das Ende ihrer Qualen – sie müssen weiterhin um ihr Leben fürchten, denn ihre Familien betrachten sie als entehrt. Und auch die libysche Gesellschaft verschließt noch immer die Augen vor dem wahren Ausmaß von Gaddafis Verbrechen und ist nicht bereit, die jungen Frauen als seine Opfer anzuerkennen und ihnen Rückhalt zu bieten.
Annick Cojean ist die erschütternde und zugleich hochpolitische Schilderung eines von Gewalt und emotionaler Zerstörung geprägten Lebens gelungen. Sie wurde für diese mutige journalistische Recherche mit dem Grand Prix de la Presse Internationale 2012 ausgezeichnet.

„Der Alptraum aus tausendundeiner Nacht.“ Le Point

„Eine brillante Spurensuche.“ L’Express

“Annick Cojean gelingt es, die entsetzliche Hilflosigkeit, die Einsamkeit und die Angst dieser jungen Mädchen spürbar werden zu lassen, die nicht nur Opfer ihres Diktators, sondern auch ihrer Gesellschaft sind.” Livres Hebdo

“Entführt, vergewaltigt, gedemütigt – das war das Schicksal zahlreicher Frauen, die Gaddafi zu Diensten stehen mussten. In einem erschütternden Bericht lässt Annick Cojean sie zu Wort kommen.“ Elle

„Annick Cojeans Buch spricht eine präzise und außergewöhnlich gefühlvolle Sprache, trägt schockierende Fakten und Zeugenaussagen zusammen, bietet jedoch auch einen Einblick in eine höchst brisante journalistische Recherche. Brillant.“ Paris Match

“Eine bemerkenswerte Reportage. Sie enthüllt ein ganzes System, das auf dem Einsatz der Vergewaltigung als Waffe des Terrors beruht.” Marie Claire]]> 287 Annick Cojean 0802121721 Nastaran 5 3.84
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]]> 158875813
Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new, unraveling country. How far will she go to save her family? And what—or who—is she willing to leave behind?

The winner of the Booker Prize 2023 and a critically acclaimed national bestseller, Prophet Song presents a terrifying and shocking vision of a country sliding into authoritarianism and a deeply human portrait of a mother’s fight to hold her family together.]]> 259 Paul Lynch Nastaran 0 to-read 4.00 2023
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]]> 502070 238 Malvina G. Vogel 1577658094 Nastaran 0 to-read 4.44 1994
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]]> 22738563 We Should All Be Feminists, a personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from her much-viewed TEDx talk of the same name—by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.

With humor and levity, here Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century—one rooted in inclusion and awareness. She shines a light not only on blatant discrimination, but also the more insidious, institutional behaviors that marginalize women around the world, in order to help readers of all walks of life better understand the often masked realities of sexual politics. Throughout, she draws extensively on her own experiences—in the U.S., in her native Nigeria, and abroad—offering an artfully nuanced explanation of why the gender divide is harmful for women and men, alike.

Argued in the same observant, witty and clever prose that has made Adichie a bestselling novelist, here is one remarkable author’s exploration of what it means to be a woman today—and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.]]> 52 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Nastaran 5 4.41 2012
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]]> 2999099 De ce sordide fait divers et de ce procès, Hugo va faire le plus violent et le plus passionné des réquisitoires. Contre la peine de mort d'abord, que cet ouvrier, ce damné de la terre ne méritait pas. Contre une société inhumaine ensuite.]]> 96 Victor Hugo 2080721216 Nastaran 0 to-read 3.78 1834
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]]> 4811496 چاپ سوم ۱۳۸۱]]> 185 J.D. Salinger Nastaran 0 to-read 3.73 1957
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]]> 7128767
Humiliated and ashamed, Jebel sets out on a quest to the faraway home of a legendary fire god to beg for inhuman powers so that he can become the most lethal of men. He must take with him a slave, named Tel Hesani, to be sacrificed to the god. It will be a dark and brutal journey filled with lynch mobs, suicide cults, terrible monsters, and worse, monstrous men. But to Jebel, the risk is worth it.

To retrieve his honor . . .

To wield unimaginable power . . .

To become . . .

The thin executioner


Inspired by the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , international bestselling master of horror Darren Shan takes readers on a thrilling, fast-paced journey into a nightmarish world where compassion and kindness are the greatest crimes of all.]]> 496 Darren Shan 0316078654 Nastaran 0 to-read 4.20 2010
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]]> 62039291
The first full biography in decades, Eig mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times.

Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.―and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself. He casts fresh light on the King family’s origins as well as MLK’s complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists. King reveals a minister wrestling with his own human frailties and dark moods, a citizen hunted by his own government, and a man determined to fight for justice even if it proved to be a fight to the death. As he follows MLK from the classroom to the pulpit to the streets of Birmingham, Selma, and Memphis, Eig dramatically re-creates the journey of a man who recast American race relations and became our only modern-day founding father―as well as the nation’s most mourned martyr.

In this landmark biography, Eig gives us an MLK for our a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history’s greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime.

Includes 8 pages of black-and-white photographs]]> 688 Jonathan Eig 0374279292 Nastaran 0 to-read 4.63 2023
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]]> 38501 288 Charles Bukowski 006117758X Nastaran 2 4.16 1982
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]]> 1462282 22 Fyodor Dostoevsky 141911042X Nastaran 0 to-read 3.22 1873
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]]> 53245170 بر باد رفته مارگارت میچل با ترجمه پرتو اشراق را نشر ناهید در دو جلد در سال 1383 منتشر کرده، این کتاب با ترجمه حسن شهبازی توسط انتشارات امیرکبیر و همچنین انتشارات نگاه به بازار کتاب عرضه شده، همین رمان را انتشارات دبیر نیز با ترجمه کیومرث پارسای ارائه کرده است]]> 742 Margaret Mitchell Nastaran 0 to-read 4.49
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]]> 31373633 A little book with a big heart!

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here comes an exquisitely moving portrait of an elderly man’s struggle to hold on to his most precious memories, and his family’s efforts to care for him even as they must find a way to let go.

With all the same charm of his bestselling full-length novels, here Fredrik Backman once again reveals his unrivaled understanding of human nature and deep compassion for people in difficult circumstances. This is a tiny gem with a message you’ll treasure for a lifetime.]]> 97 Fredrik Backman 1501160575 Nastaran 2 4.33 2015
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]]> 11297
A magnificent blending of the music, the mood, and the ethos that was the sixties with the story of one college student's romantic coming of age, Norwegian Wood brilliantly recaptures a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love.]]> 296 Haruki Murakami Nastaran 5 3.99 1987
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]]> 46227 "Fante was my god." —Charles Bukowski, in his introduction to Ask the Dust

Arturo Bandini, a young, struggling Italian-American writer living in a seedy hotel in 1930s Los Angeles, falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. The pair embark on a strange and strained love-hate relationship, which slowly, but inexorably, descends into the realm of madness.

Ask the Dust is one of the truly great, yet unsung, American novels of the twentieth century. A tough and unsentimental story with a soft and tender heart, it remains as fresh and affecting as the day it was written.]]> 165 John Fante 0060822554 Nastaran 0 to-read 4.16 1939
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]]> 15645
A groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante's masterpiece that includes a substantive Introduction, extensive notes, and appendixes that reproduce Dante's key sources and influences. Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. With this major new translation, Anthony Esolen has succeeded brilliantly in marrying sense with sound, poetry with meaning, capturing both the poem's line-by-line vigor and its allegorically and philosophically exacting structure, yielding an Inferno that will be as popular with general readers as with scholars, teachers, and students. For, as Dante insists, without a trace of sentimentality or intellectual compromise, even Hell is a work of divine art.

Esolen's edition also provides a critical ntroduction and endnotes, with appendices containing Dante's most important sources—from Virgil to Saint Thomas Aquinas and beyond —that deftly illuminate the religious universe the poet inhabited.

Verse Translation by Anthony Esolen
Illustrations by Gustave Doré]]> 490 Dante Alighieri 0812970063 Nastaran 0 to-read 4.03 1321
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]]> 15950494
And while he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. Shy, introspective, intelligent beyond his years yet socially awkward, he is a wallflower, caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it.

Charlie is attempting to navigate his way through uncharted territory: the world of first dates and mix tapes, family dramas and new friends; the world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite. But he can't stay on the sideline forever. Standing on the fringes of life offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a deeply affecting coming-of-age story that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller-coaster days known as growing up.]]> 231 Stephen Chbosky 147111614X Nastaran 0 to-read 4.08 1999
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]]> 406373 Faust reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract with Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seeks to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last forever. But if Faust does bid the moment stay, he falls to Mephistopheles and must serve him after death. In this first part of Goethe’s great work, the embittered thinker and Mephistopheles enter into their agreement, and soon Faust is living a rejuvenated life and winning the love of the beautiful Gretchen. But in this compelling tragedy of arrogance, unfulfilled desire, and self-delusion, Faust heads inexorably toward an infernal destruction.]]> 503 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 0385031149 Nastaran 0 to-read 3.90 1808
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]]> 243977 146 Heinrich Böll Nastaran 0 to-read 3.71 1974
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]]> 18254
The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the Artful Dodger, vicious burglar Bill Sikes, his dog Bull's Eye, and prostitute Nancy, all watched over by cunning master-thief Fagin. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.

This Penguin Classics edition of Oliver Twist is the first critical edition to faithfully reproduce the text as its earliest readers would have encountered it from its serialisation in Bentley's Miscellany, and includes an introduction by Philip Horne, a glossary of Victorian thieves' slang, a chronology of Dickens's life, a map of contemporary London and all of George Cruikshank's original illustrations.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 608 Charles Dickens Nastaran 0 to-read 3.88 1838
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]]> 52036 152 Hermann Hesse Nastaran 4 4.08 1922
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]]> 18528190
She ends on a serious note— because the ultimate problem is the silencing of women who have something to say, including those saying things like, “He’s trying to kill me!”

This book features that now-classic essay with six perfect complements, including an examination of the writer Virginia Woolf ’s embrace of mystery, of not knowing, of doubt and ambiguity, a highly original inquiry into marriage equality, and a terrifying survey of the scope of contemporary violence against women.]]> 130 Rebecca Solnit 1608463869 Nastaran 0 to-read 3.83 2014
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]]> 41104077
Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women​, diving into women’s lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor’s office, and more. Built on hundreds of studies in the US, the UK, and around the world, and written with energy, wit, and sparkling intelligence, this is a groundbreaking, unforgettable exposé that will change the way you look at the world.]]> 448 Caroline Criado Pérez 1419729071 Nastaran 0 to-read 4.34 2019
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]]> 17601
In The Will to Change, bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and shows men how to express the emotions that are a fundamental part of who they are—whatever their age, marital status, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. But toxic masculinity punishes those fundamental emotions, and it’s so deeply ingrained in our society that it’s hard for men to not comply—but hooks wants to help change that.

With trademark candor and fierce intelligence, hooks addresses the most common concerns of men, such as fear of intimacy and loss of their patriarchal place in society, in new and challenging ways. She believes men can find the way to spiritual unity by getting back in touch with the emotionally open part of themselves—and lay claim to the rich and rewarding inner lives that have historically been the exclusive province of women. A brave and astonishing work, The Will to Change is designed to help men reclaim the best part of themselves.]]> 208 bell hooks 0743456084 Nastaran 0 to-read 4.35 2003
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]]> 457264 746 Simone de Beauvoir 0679724516 Nastaran 0 to-read 4.17 1949
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]]> 17573685 562 Betty Friedan 0393346781 Nastaran 0 to-read 3.92 1963
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]]> 34607162 3 Franz Kafka Nastaran 5 3.05
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]]> 12728299 5 Franz Kafka Nastaran 2 3.21 2011
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]]> 15682 A Happy Death is a fascinating first sketch for The Outsider, but it can also be seen as a candid self-portrait, drawing on Camus's memories of his youth, travels, and early relationships. It is infused with lyrical descriptions of the sun-drenched Algiers of his childhood - the place where, eventually, Mersault is able to find peace and die 'without anger, without hatred, without regret'.]]> 144 Albert Camus Nastaran 0 to-read 3.87 1971
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]]> 45967 The Blind Owl is a haunting tale of loss and spiritual degradation. Replete with potent symbolism and terrifying surrealistic imagery, Sadegh Hedayat's masterpiece details a young man's despair after losing a mysterious lover. And as the author gradually drifts into frenzy and madness, the reader becomes caught in the sandstorm of Hedayat's bleak vision of the human condition. The Blind Owl, which has been translated into many foreign languages, has often been compared to the writing of Edgar Allan Poe.]]> 148 Sadegh Hedayat 0802131808 Nastaran 0 to-read 3.98 1937
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]]> 234376240 چاپ اول ۱۴۰۴]]> 190 نسیم مرعشی 6220113373 Nastaran 0 to-read 3.01 2025
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]]> 7624 182 William Golding 0140283331 Nastaran 0 to-read 3.71 1954
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]]> 5107 It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school...

Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters—shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends. The city is beautiful and terrible, in all its neon loneliness and seedy glamour, its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning.

The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic in coming-of-age literature- an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind.

J.D. Salinger's (1919–2010) classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in the 1950's and 60's it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read.]]> 277 J.D. Salinger 0316769177 Nastaran 0 to-read 3.81 1951
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]]> 2657 "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

"To Kill A Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film.]]> 323 Harper Lee 0060935464 Nastaran 0 to-read 4.26 1960
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]]> 22904 --penguinrandomhouse.com

Two Introductory parables: Before the law --
Imperial message --
Longer stories: Description of a struggle --
Wedding preparations in the country --
Judgment --
Metamorphosis --
In the penal colony --
Village schoolmaster (The giant mole) --
Blumfeld, and elderly bachelor --
Warden of the tomb --
Country doctor --
Hunter Gracchus --
Hunter Gracchus: A fragment --
Great Wall of China --
News of the building of the wall: A fragment --
Report to an academy --
Report to an academy: Two fragments --
Refusal --
Hunger artist --
Investigations of a dog --
Little woman --
The burrow --
Josephine the singer, or the mouse folk --
Children on a country road --
The trees --
Clothes --
Excursion into the mountains --
Rejection --
The street window --
The tradesman --
Absent-minded window-gazing --
The way home --
Passers-by --
On the tram --
Reflections for gentlemen-jockeys --
The wish to be a red Indian --
Unhappiness --
Bachelor's ill luck --
Unmasking a confidence trickster --
The sudden walk --
Resolutions --
A dream --
Up in the gallery --
A fratricide --
The next village --
A visit to a mine --
Jackals and Arabs --
The bridge --
The bucket rider --
The new advocate --
An old manuscript --
The knock at the manor gate --
Eleven sons --
My neighbor --
A crossbreed (A sport) --
The cares of a family man --
A common confusion --
The truth about Sancho Panza --
The silence of the sirens --
Prometheus --
The city coat of arms --
Poseidon --
Fellowship --
At night --
The problem of our laws --
The conscripton of troops --
The test --
The vulture --
The helmsman --
The top --
A little fable --
Home-coming --
First sorrow --
The departure --
Advocates --
The married couple --
Give it up! --
On parables.]]> 486 Franz Kafka Nastaran 0 to-read 4.37 1915
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]]> 4799 Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and people of a place, the cannery district of Monterey, California, which is populated by a mix of those down on their luck and those who choose for other reasons not to live "up the hill" in the more respectable area of town. The flow of the main plot is frequently interrupted by short vignettes that introduce us to various denizens of the Row, most of whom are not directly connected with the central story. These vignettes are often characterized by direct or indirect reference to extreme violence: suicides, corpses, and the cruelty of the natural world.

The "story" of Cannery Row follows the adventures of Mack and the boys, a group of unemployed yet resourceful men who inhabit a converted fish-meal shack on the edge of a vacant lot down on the Row.

Sweet Thursday is the sequel to Cannery Row.]]> 181 John Steinbeck 014200068X Nastaran 0 to-read 4.06 1943
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]]> 275 117 Marguerite Duras Nastaran 0 to-read 3.76 1984
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]]> 581552 The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces is a collection of short stories and recollections by Franz Kafka, with additional writings by Max Brod. First published in 1948 by Schocken Books, this volume includes all the works Kafka intended for publication, and published during his lifetime (the only exception in The Stoker which serves as a first chapter for the novel Amerika). It also includes critical pieces by Kafka, "The First Long Train Journey" by Kafka and Brod (which was initially intended to be the first chapter of a book), and an Epilogue by Brod. This collection was translated by Willa and Edwin Muir.]]> 52 Franz Kafka Nastaran 0 to-read 4.00 1918
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]]> 5308
A story of classic simplicity, based on a Mexican folk tale, The Pearl explores the secrets of man’s nature, greed, the darkest depths of evil, and the luminous possibilities of love.]]> 96 John Steinbeck 0142000698 Nastaran 0 to-read 3.56 1947
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]]> 18825628 89 Fyodor Dostoevsky 1482064987 Nastaran 0 to-read 3.47 1849
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]]> 329888 112 Fyodor Dostoevsky 088233588X Nastaran 0 to-read 3.64 1865
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]]> 18823 32 Fyodor Dostoevsky 1599869535 Nastaran 0 to-read 4.39 1879
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]]> 5700 The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a naive 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father’s wrongdoing and the desire to win his love. He travels to St. Petersburg to confront the father he barely knows, inspired by an inchoate dream of communion and armed with a mysterious document that he believes gives him power over others. This new English version by the most acclaimed of Dostoevsky’s translators is a masterpiece of pathos and high comedy.]]> 580 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0375719008 Nastaran 0 to-read 3.95 1875
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