👤 Oscar Wilde
📚 «The Picture of Dorian Gray»
✔️ Level: Intermediate
📌 Description:
Dorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty.
As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamorous world of selfish luxury, he apparently remains physically unchanged by the stresses of his corrupt lifestyle and untouched by age. But up in his attic, hidden behind a curtain, his portrait tells a different story.
#Intermediate
📚 «The Picture of Dorian Gray»
✔️ Level: Intermediate
📌 Description:
Dorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty.
As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamorous world of selfish luxury, he apparently remains physically unchanged by the stresses of his corrupt lifestyle and untouched by age. But up in his attic, hidden behind a curtain, his portrait tells a different story.
#Intermediate
👤 Andy Weir
📚 «The Martian»
✔️ Level: Advanced
📌 Description:
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first men to walk on the surface of Mars. Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first man to die there.It started with the dust storm that holed his suit and nearly killed him—and that forced his crew to leave him behind, sure he was already dead. Now he’s stranded millions of miles from the nearest human being, with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his food would be gone years ...
#Advanced
📚 «The Martian»
✔️ Level: Advanced
📌 Description:
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first men to walk on the surface of Mars. Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first man to die there.It started with the dust storm that holed his suit and nearly killed him—and that forced his crew to leave him behind, sure he was already dead. Now he’s stranded millions of miles from the nearest human being, with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his food would be gone years ...
#Advanced
👤 V.C.Andrews
📚 «Flowers in the Attic»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
This is the extraordinary novel that has captured millions in its spell! All across America - and around the world millions of readers have been captivated by this strange, dark, terrifying tole of passion and peril in the lives of four innocent children, locked away from the world by a selfish mother.
#Upper_Intermediate
📚 «Flowers in the Attic»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
This is the extraordinary novel that has captured millions in its spell! All across America - and around the world millions of readers have been captivated by this strange, dark, terrifying tole of passion and peril in the lives of four innocent children, locked away from the world by a selfish mother.
#Upper_Intermediate
👤 Neil Gaiman
📚 «The Ocean at the End of the Lane»
✔️ Level:Advanced
📌 Description:
A man returns to the site of his childhood home where, years before, he knew a girl named Lettie Hempstock who showed him the most marvelous, dangerous, and outrageous things, but when he gets there he learns that nothing is as he remembered.
#Advanced
📚 «The Ocean at the End of the Lane»
✔️ Level:Advanced
📌 Description:
A man returns to the site of his childhood home where, years before, he knew a girl named Lettie Hempstock who showed him the most marvelous, dangerous, and outrageous things, but when he gets there he learns that nothing is as he remembered.
#Advanced
👤 Donna Tartt
📚 «The Goldfinch»
✔️ Level:Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate.
#Upper_Intermediate
📚 «The Goldfinch»
✔️ Level:Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate.
#Upper_Intermediate
👤 Haruki Murakami
📚 «The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle»
✔️ Level:Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II.
#Upper_Intermediate
📚 «The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle»
✔️ Level:Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II.
#Upper_Intermediate
👤 Sylvia Nasar
📚 «A beautiful mind»
✔️ Level:Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
In this powerful and dramatic biography Sylvia Nasar vividly recreates the life of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with a Nobel Prize.
#Upper_Intermediate
📚 «A beautiful mind»
✔️ Level:Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
In this powerful and dramatic biography Sylvia Nasar vividly recreates the life of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with a Nobel Prize.
#Upper_Intermediate
👤 Sara Gruen
📚 «WATER FOR ELEPHANT»
✔️ Level:Advanced
📌 Description:
Orphaned and penniless at the height of the Depression, Jacob Jankowski escapes everything he knows by jumping on a passing trainand inadvertently runs away with the circus. So begins Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen’s darkly beautiful tale.
#Advanced
📚 «WATER FOR ELEPHANT»
✔️ Level:Advanced
📌 Description:
Orphaned and penniless at the height of the Depression, Jacob Jankowski escapes everything he knows by jumping on a passing trainand inadvertently runs away with the circus. So begins Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen’s darkly beautiful tale.
#Advanced
👤 Chuck Palahniuk
📚 «Invisible Monsters»
✔️ Level:Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
The narrator of the story is an unnamed disfigured woman who goes by multiple identities, notably Daisy St. Patience and Bubba Joan—identities that were given to her by Brandy Alexander, with whom she spends the majority of the book. The novel opens on the wedding day of Evie Cottrell, whose house is burning to the ground.
#Upper_Intermediate
📚 «Invisible Monsters»
✔️ Level:Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
The narrator of the story is an unnamed disfigured woman who goes by multiple identities, notably Daisy St. Patience and Bubba Joan—identities that were given to her by Brandy Alexander, with whom she spends the majority of the book. The novel opens on the wedding day of Evie Cottrell, whose house is burning to the ground.
#Upper_Intermediate
👤 Victoria Helen Stone
📚 «Jane Doe»
✔️ Level:Advanced
📌 Description:
Jane’s days at a Midwest insurance company are perfectly ordinary. She blends in well, unremarkably pretty in her floral-print dresses and extra efficient at her low-level job. She’s just the kind of woman middle manager Steven Hepsworth likes—meek, insecure, and willing to defer to a man. No one has any idea who Jane really is. Least of all Steven.
#Advanced
📚 «Jane Doe»
✔️ Level:Advanced
📌 Description:
Jane’s days at a Midwest insurance company are perfectly ordinary. She blends in well, unremarkably pretty in her floral-print dresses and extra efficient at her low-level job. She’s just the kind of woman middle manager Steven Hepsworth likes—meek, insecure, and willing to defer to a man. No one has any idea who Jane really is. Least of all Steven.
#Advanced
👤 Agatha Christie
📚 «THE MURDER AT THE VICARAGE»
✔️ Level:Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
In St. Mary Mead, no one is more despised than Colonel Protheroe. Even the local vicar has said that killing him would be doing a service to the townsfolk. So when Protheroe is found murdered in the same vicar's study, and two different people confess to the crime, it is time for the elderly spinster Jane Marple to exercise her detective abilities.
#Upper_Intermediate
📚 «THE MURDER AT THE VICARAGE»
✔️ Level:Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
In St. Mary Mead, no one is more despised than Colonel Protheroe. Even the local vicar has said that killing him would be doing a service to the townsfolk. So when Protheroe is found murdered in the same vicar's study, and two different people confess to the crime, it is time for the elderly spinster Jane Marple to exercise her detective abilities.
#Upper_Intermediate
👤 Susan Hill
📚 «The Woman in Black»
✔️ Level:Pre_Intermediate
📌 Description:
The Woman in Black is a 1983 horror novel by Susan Hill, written in the style of a traditional Gothic novel. The plot concerns a mysterious spectre that haunts a small English town, heralding the death of children.
#Pre_Intermediate
📚 «The Woman in Black»
✔️ Level:Pre_Intermediate
📌 Description:
The Woman in Black is a 1983 horror novel by Susan Hill, written in the style of a traditional Gothic novel. The plot concerns a mysterious spectre that haunts a small English town, heralding the death of children.
#Pre_Intermediate
👤 Neil Gaiman
📚 «The Graveyard book»
✔️ Level:Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.
#Upper_Intermediate
📚 «The Graveyard book»
✔️ Level:Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.
#Upper_Intermediate
👤 Naomi Novik
📚 «Spinning Silver»
✔️ Level:Advanced
📌 Description:
Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father’s too kind-hearted to collect his debts. They face poverty, until Miryem hardens her own heart and takes up his work in their village. Her success creates rumours she can turn silver into gold, which attract the fairy king of winter himself. He sets her an impossible challenge – and if she fails, she’ll die. Yet if she triumphs, it may mean a fate worse than death. And in her desperate efforts to succeed, Miryem unwittingly spins a web which draws in the unhappy daughter of a lord.
#Advanced
📚 «Spinning Silver»
✔️ Level:Advanced
📌 Description:
Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father’s too kind-hearted to collect his debts. They face poverty, until Miryem hardens her own heart and takes up his work in their village. Her success creates rumours she can turn silver into gold, which attract the fairy king of winter himself. He sets her an impossible challenge – and if she fails, she’ll die. Yet if she triumphs, it may mean a fate worse than death. And in her desperate efforts to succeed, Miryem unwittingly spins a web which draws in the unhappy daughter of a lord.
#Advanced
👤 Nicholas Sparks
📚 «Every Breath»
✔️ Level:Advanced
📌 Description:
Hope Anderson is at a crossroads. At thirty-six, she's been dating her boyfriend, an orthopedic surgeon, for six years. With no wedding plans in sight, and her father recently diagnosed with ALS, she decides to use a week at her family's cottage in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, to ready the house for sale and mull over some difficult decisions about her future.
#Advanced
📚 «Every Breath»
✔️ Level:Advanced
📌 Description:
Hope Anderson is at a crossroads. At thirty-six, she's been dating her boyfriend, an orthopedic surgeon, for six years. With no wedding plans in sight, and her father recently diagnosed with ALS, she decides to use a week at her family's cottage in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, to ready the house for sale and mull over some difficult decisions about her future.
#Advanced
👤 Georgia Byng
📚 «Molly Moon's Hypnotic Time-Travel Adventure»
✔️ Level:Pre_Intermediate
📌 Description:
In this third book in the wildly popular New York Times bestselling series, mesmerizing orphan Molly Moon and her fabulouspug, Petula, are off to India, where they discover a new twist in the potential power of hypnosis: time travel!
#Pre_Intermediate
📚 «Molly Moon's Hypnotic Time-Travel Adventure»
✔️ Level:Pre_Intermediate
📌 Description:
In this third book in the wildly popular New York Times bestselling series, mesmerizing orphan Molly Moon and her fabulouspug, Petula, are off to India, where they discover a new twist in the potential power of hypnosis: time travel!
#Pre_Intermediate
👤 Lauren Oliver
📚 «Delirium»
✔️ Level:Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
In an alternate United States, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government forces everyone who reaches eighteen to have a procedure called the Cure. Living with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in Portland, Maine, Lena Haloway is very much looking forward to being cured and living a safe, predictable life.
#Upper_Intermediate
📚 «Delirium»
✔️ Level:Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
In an alternate United States, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government forces everyone who reaches eighteen to have a procedure called the Cure. Living with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in Portland, Maine, Lena Haloway is very much looking forward to being cured and living a safe, predictable life.
#Upper_Intermediate