The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane

Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as Tate can stick to the only two rules Miles has for her.

The Doll, Ismail Kadare

 Yet despite her youthful nature, she is not without her own enigmas. Most of all, she fears that her intellectual, radical son will exchange her for a superior mother when he becomes a famous writer.

Hollywood, Charles Bukowski

From iconic tortured artist/everyman Charles Bukowski, Hollywood is the fictionalization of his experience adapting his novel Barfly into a movie by the same name.

Botuesi: Faber and faber

Lord of the Flies, William Golding

By day, they discover fantastic wildlife and dazzling beaches, learning to survive; at night, they are haunted by nightmares of a primitive beast. Orphaned by society, it isn't long before their innocent childhood games devolve into a savage, murderous hunt ...

Botuesi: Penguin Books

Investigations of a Dog, Franz Kafka

How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a canine philosopher, Kafka explores the limits of knowledge.

Botuesi: Vintage

Three Elegies for Kosovo, Ismail Kadare

 In three short narratives, Kadare shows how legends of betrayal and defeat simmered in European civilisation for six hundred years, culminating in the agony of one tiny population at the end of the twentieth century.

How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division, Elif Shafak

Ours is the age of contagious anxiety. We feel overwhelmed by the events around us, by injustice, by suffering, by an endless feeling of crisis. So how can we nurture the parts of ourselves that hope, trust and believe in something better? And how can we stay sane in this age of division?

The File on H, Ismail Kadare

But the local Governor believes its an elaborate spying mission and arranges for his own spy to follow them.The two dedicated scholars realise only too late that they have stumbled over an ants' nest.

Botuesi: Penguin Books

One Of Us Is Lying, Karen M. McManus

Five students go to detention. Only four leave alive.Yale hopeful Bronwyn has never publicly broken a rule.

Botuesi: Penguin Books

The Outsider, Albert Camus

 When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers, his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the law. Yet he is as much a victim as a criminal.

I Remain in Darkness, Annie Ernaux

Acute and immediate, I Remain in Darkness is an unforgettable exploration of love, memory and the journey to loss.

Agamemnon’s Daughter, Ismail Kadare

Agamemnon's Daughter, written in Albania in the 1980s and smuggled into France a few pages at a time, reveals a world where fear is an instrument of power, but the individual survives despite the odds.From the winner of the first Man Booker International Prize comes a searing story of love denied, then shattered under the chilling wheels of the state.

Botuesi: Vintage

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

Their journey, at times rollickingly funny but always deadly serious in its potential consequences, takes them ever deeper into the slave-holding South, and our appreciation of their shared humanity grows as we watch them travel physically farther from yet morally closer to the freedom they both passionately seek.

Botuesi: Penguin Books

Of Mice and Man, John Steinbeck

 Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation.

Botuesi: Harper Perennial

The Woman Destroyed, Simone De Beauvoir

Finally, in ‘The Woman Destroyed’, Simone de Beauvoir tells the story of Monique, trying desperately to resurrect her life after her husband confesses to an affair with a younger woman.

Night Boat to Tangier, Kevin Barry

This nocturnal vigil will initiate an extraordinary journey back in time to excavate their shared history of violence, romance, mutual betrayals and serial exiles, rendered with the dark humor and the hardboiled Hibernian lyricism that have made Kevin Barry one of the most striking and admired fiction writers at work today.