선집

위대한 지성과 강렬한 목소리들이 인간 경험의 모든 영역을 아우르는 이 정성스럽게 엄선된 컬렉션에 한데 모였습니다. 마음의 문제를 탐구하거나, 스포츠의 승리를 기념하거나, 심리적 깊이를 조명하는 이 사려 깊게 편집된 작품들은 독자들에게 삶의 가장 매력적인 주제에 대한 다채로운 관점의 모자이크를 선사합니다.

선집 도서 요약

Best American Essays 2018

저자: Hilton Als • 2018

The essay as weapon and refuge: twenty-seven writers on race, memory, and a nation on edge.

3.53

350

✍️ The Essay Form 🖋️ Personal Essays 💬 Cultural Criticism 🖤 Race In America 📰 Literary Journalism

Best American Essays 2018

The essay as weapon and refuge: twenty-seven writers on race, memory, and a nation on edge.

저자: Hilton Als 2018 336 페이지

3.53

350 개의 평점

✍️ The Essay Form 🖋️ Personal Essays 💬 Cultural Criticism 🖤 Race In America 📰 Literary Journalism

Bedtime Stories for Kids

저자: Uncle Amon • 2015

Before sleep: a leap among stars, a pirate stowaway, a magic gem, and a cardboard moon rocket.

3.82

22,000+

🛏️ Bedtime Stories 🎨 Imaginative Play 🌙 Dream Adventures ✨ Magical Companions 🐸 Talking Animals

Bedtime Stories for Kids

Before sleep: a leap among stars, a pirate stowaway, a magic gem, and a cardboard moon rocket.

저자: Uncle Amon 2015 25 페이지

3.82

22,000+ 개의 평점

🛏️ Bedtime Stories 🎨 Imaginative Play 🌙 Dream Adventures ✨ Magical Companions 🐸 Talking Animals

The Mammoth Book of True Hauntings

저자: Peter Haining • 2008

Ghosts don't only haunt crumbling castles: true accounts place them in flats, pubs, and jumbo jets.

3.55

329

👻 Ghost Stories 🔬 Paranormal Investigation 📍 Haunted Locations 📚 Psychical Research 💥 Poltergeist Phenomena

The Mammoth Book of True Hauntings

Ghosts don't only haunt crumbling castles: true accounts place them in flats, pubs, and jumbo jets.

저자: Peter Haining 2008 512 페이지

3.55

329 개의 평점

👻 Ghost Stories 🔬 Paranormal Investigation 📍 Haunted Locations 📚 Psychical Research 💥 Poltergeist Phenomena

Chicken Soup for the Soul

저자: Jack Canfield • 2009

The recession took their jobs, homes, and savings. 101 people share how they rebuilt anyway.

3.90

160

🏠 Uplifting Anthologies 💪 Overcoming Adversity 📖 Resilience Stories ☀️ Positive Thinking 🙏 Faith And Hope

Chicken Soup for the Soul

The recession took their jobs, homes, and savings. 101 people share how they rebuilt anyway.

저자: Jack Canfield 2009 414 페이지

3.90

160 개의 평점

🏠 Uplifting Anthologies 💪 Overcoming Adversity 📖 Resilience Stories ☀️ Positive Thinking 🙏 Faith And Hope

The Stone Reader

저자: Peter Catapano • 2015

From the New York Times: 133 philosophers debate mind, morals, God, and the good life.

3.83

453

🌍 Public Philosophy 🔬 Philosophy Of Science ⚖️ Moral Philosophy 🧠 Consciousness Studies 🧬 Evolutionary Ethics

The Stone Reader

From the New York Times: 133 philosophers debate mind, morals, God, and the good life.

저자: Peter Catapano 2015 816 페이지

3.83

453 개의 평점

🌍 Public Philosophy 🔬 Philosophy Of Science ⚖️ Moral Philosophy 🧠 Consciousness Studies 🧬 Evolutionary Ethics

The Tangleroot Palace

저자: Marjorie M. Liu • 2021

A princess flees a warlord into a cursed forest where a sleeping queen deals in dreams.

3.96

2,000+

🏰 Fairy Tale Retelling 👑 Reluctant Princess 🎭 Disguised Identity 🌳 Enchanted Forest 🫂 Found Family

The Tangleroot Palace

A princess flees a warlord into a cursed forest where a sleeping queen deals in dreams.

저자: Marjorie M. Liu 2021 239 페이지

3.96

2,000+ 개의 평점

🏰 Fairy Tale Retelling 👑 Reluctant Princess 🎭 Disguised Identity 🌳 Enchanted Forest 🫂 Found Family

The New York Times Book of Mathematics

저자: Gina Kolata • 2013

Seven riffle shuffles, three hundred years, and one question: is math discovered or invented?

3.62

159

🏛️ History Of Mathematics 📝 Scientific Essays 🤔 Philosophy Of Math 👤 Mathematicians 🏠 Everyday Math

The New York Times Book of Mathematics

Seven riffle shuffles, three hundred years, and one question: is math discovered or invented?

저자: Gina Kolata 2013 498 페이지

3.62

159 개의 평점

🏛️ History Of Mathematics 📝 Scientific Essays 🤔 Philosophy Of Math 👤 Mathematicians 🏠 Everyday Math

The Beast You Are

저자: Paul Tremblay • 2023

An animal village sacrifices a child each generation. Two survivors plot to stop the beast.

3.33

3,000+

🖋️ Literary Horror 🌾 Folk Horror 🌌 Cosmic Dread 🐾 Dark Fable 🗡️ Ritual Sacrifice

The Beast You Are

An animal village sacrifices a child each generation. Two survivors plot to stop the beast.

저자: Paul Tremblay 2023 352 페이지

3.33

3,000+ 개의 평점

🖋️ Literary Horror 🌾 Folk Horror 🌌 Cosmic Dread 🐾 Dark Fable 🗡️ Ritual Sacrifice

Buried Deep and Other Stories

저자: Naomi Novik • 2024

Exiled to the colonies, a defiant heiress dons a magical disguise and joins her pirate captors.

4.02

7,000+

🏰 Regency Fantasy 🏴‍☠️ Pirate Adventure 🎭 Gender Disguise 🤝 Reluctant Allies 👥 Found Family

Buried Deep and Other Stories

Exiled to the colonies, a defiant heiress dons a magical disguise and joins her pirate captors.

저자: Naomi Novik 2024 430 페이지

4.02

7,000+ 개의 평점

🏰 Regency Fantasy 🏴‍☠️ Pirate Adventure 🎭 Gender Disguise 🤝 Reluctant Allies 👥 Found Family

This I Believe

저자: Dan Gediman • 2011

When his daughter called him a geek and a loser, one father heard something else entirely.

4.14

👨‍👧 Fatherhood 📖 Parenting Memoirs 🕊️ Family Forgiveness 💪 Resilience 🧭 Values-Based Parenting

This I Believe

When his daughter called him a geek and a loser, one father heard something else entirely.

저자: Dan Gediman 2011 208 페이지

4.14

51 개의 평점

👨‍👧 Fatherhood 📖 Parenting Memoirs 🕊️ Family Forgiveness 💪 Resilience 🧭 Values-Based Parenting

Happily Ever After

저자: Kiera Cass • 2015

Untold stories from the contest: a forbidden romance, a queen's secret, and the guard's sacrifice.

4.03

81,000+

🌆 Dystopian Romance 👑 Royal Courtship 🤒 Hidden Illness 💔 Forbidden Love 🌹 Courtship Competition

Happily Ever After

Untold stories from the contest: a forbidden romance, a queen's secret, and the guard's sacrifice.

저자: Kiera Cass 2015 416 페이지

4.03

81,000+ 개의 평점

🌆 Dystopian Romance 👑 Royal Courtship 🤒 Hidden Illness 💔 Forbidden Love 🌹 Courtship Competition

Broken Throne

저자: Victoria Aveyard • 2019

The Silver crown shattered. Diaries and letters trace the fragile peace built from its wreckage.

3.79

49,000+

🏚️ Dystopian Fantasy 📖 Short Story Collection ✊ Revolution 👑 Reluctant Royalty 💫 Cross-Class Romance

Broken Throne

The Silver crown shattered. Diaries and letters trace the fragile peace built from its wreckage.

저자: Victoria Aveyard 2019 479 페이지

3.79

49,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Dystopian Fantasy 📖 Short Story Collection ✊ Revolution 👑 Reluctant Royalty 💫 Cross-Class Romance

From a Certain Point of View

저자: Elizabeth Schaefer • 2023

The Empire's fall, told by the droids, slaves, and schemers who lived it.

3.90

2,000+

🌌 Star Wars Anthology 🧩 Mosaic Narrative 🔥 Redemption Arc 👪 Found Family 🤖 Droid Sentience

From a Certain Point of View

The Empire's fall, told by the droids, slaves, and schemers who lived it.

저자: Elizabeth Schaefer 2023 573 페이지

3.90

2,000+ 개의 평점

🌌 Star Wars Anthology 🧩 Mosaic Narrative 🔥 Redemption Arc 👪 Found Family 🤖 Droid Sentience

Tales of the Greatcoats Vol. 1

저자: Sebastien de Castell • 2021

A dead king's magistrates wander a broken kingdom, fighting duels to keep justice alive.

4.27

500+

⚔️ Swashbuckling Adventure ⚖️ Legal Fantasy 🛡️ Trial By Combat 🕊️ Redemption Arc 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

Tales of the Greatcoats Vol. 1

A dead king's magistrates wander a broken kingdom, fighting duels to keep justice alive.

저자: Sebastien de Castell 2021 304 페이지

4.27

500+ 개의 평점

⚔️ Swashbuckling Adventure ⚖️ Legal Fantasy 🛡️ Trial By Combat 🕊️ Redemption Arc 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

The Best American Short Stories 2024

저자: Lauren Groff • 2024

Lauren Groff gathers twenty stories of the year: surreal, tender, and unafraid of the dark.

3.77

500+

🗣️ Diverse American Voices 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Literary Fiction ✨ Magical Realism 🌍 Immigrant Experience 🔄 Experimental Narrative

The Best American Short Stories 2024

Lauren Groff gathers twenty stories of the year: surreal, tender, and unafraid of the dark.

저자: Lauren Groff 2024 400 페이지

3.77

500+ 개의 평점

🗣️ Diverse American Voices 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Literary Fiction ✨ Magical Realism 🌍 Immigrant Experience 🔄 Experimental Narrative

Forward

저자: Blake Crouch • 2019

Six celebrated authors, one question: when technology overtakes us, what remains worth saving?

3.74

1,000+

📚 Speculative Anthology 🤖 Ai Consciousness ⚡ Creator Versus Creation 🧬 Genetic Engineering 🧫 Cloning Ethics

Forward

Six celebrated authors, one question: when technology overtakes us, what remains worth saving?

저자: Blake Crouch 2019 309 페이지

3.74

1,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Speculative Anthology 🤖 Ai Consciousness ⚡ Creator Versus Creation 🧬 Genetic Engineering 🧫 Cloning Ethics

Star Wars

저자: Kevin J. Anderson • 1996

Jabba the Hutt's underlings scheme for escape while a Jedi approaches to bring the palace down.

3.68

6,000+

🔫 Criminal Underworld 📚 Shared World Anthology 🎭 Minor Characters 👑 Palace Intrigue ⛓️ Enslaved Characters

Star Wars

Jabba the Hutt's underlings scheme for escape while a Jedi approaches to bring the palace down.

저자: Kevin J. Anderson 1996 448 페이지

3.68

6,000+ 개의 평점

🔫 Criminal Underworld 📚 Shared World Anthology 🎭 Minor Characters 👑 Palace Intrigue ⛓️ Enslaved Characters

The Traveler's Gate Chronicles

저자: Will Wight • 2015

Three Territories. One rule: master yourself or the realm will destroy you.

4.32

500+

🎭 Emotional Suppression 📚 Series Companion 👴 Mentor And Apprentice 🏹 Monster Hunting 🤔 Philosophical Fantasy

The Traveler's Gate Chronicles

Three Territories. One rule: master yourself or the realm will destroy you.

저자: Will Wight 2015 262 페이지

4.32

500+ 개의 평점

🎭 Emotional Suppression 📚 Series Companion 👴 Mentor And Apprentice 🏹 Monster Hunting 🤔 Philosophical Fantasy

Dawn of Mist

저자: Helen Scheuerer • 2020

Found family, forbidden love, deadly coming-of-age: before a mist that devours magic wakes.

4.26

356

🖤 Found Family 👯‍♀️ Sibling Rivalry 💕 Secret Romance 🎩 Class Divide ✨ Magic As Burden

Dawn of Mist

Found family, forbidden love, deadly coming-of-age: before a mist that devours magic wakes.

저자: Helen Scheuerer 2020 350 페이지

4.26

356 개의 평점

🖤 Found Family 👯‍♀️ Sibling Rivalry 💕 Secret Romance 🎩 Class Divide ✨ Magic As Burden

The Top of the Volcano

저자: Harlan Ellison • 2014

Eighteen stories where the rebels lose, the machines hate, and mercy is the end of everything.

4.12

268

🌀 New Wave Sf 📚 Literary Sf 🏚️ Apocalyptic Survival ✊ Dystopian Rebellion 🗣️ Fiercely Moral

The Top of the Volcano

Eighteen stories where the rebels lose, the machines hate, and mercy is the end of everything.

저자: Harlan Ellison 2014 536 페이지

4.12

268 개의 평점

🌀 New Wave Sf 📚 Literary Sf 🏚️ Apocalyptic Survival ✊ Dystopian Rebellion 🗣️ Fiercely Moral

Colección integral de Jane Austen

저자: Jane Austen • 1981

Seven women, one Regency world: love, pride, and the winding road to knowing your own heart.

4.57

34,000+

🏛️ Regency Romance 🎭 Comedy Of Manners 🔥 Enemies To Lovers 🕯️ Slow Burn Romance 💌 Second Chance Romance

Colección integral de Jane Austen

Seven women, one Regency world: love, pride, and the winding road to knowing your own heart.

저자: Jane Austen 1981 2561 페이지

4.57

34,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Regency Romance 🎭 Comedy Of Manners 🔥 Enemies To Lovers 🕯️ Slow Burn Romance 💌 Second Chance Romance

Revelations in Black

저자: Carl Jacobi • 1947

A book bound in black, a carved cane: Jacobi's antiques carry horrors that won't stay buried.

3.78

129

🌀 Weird Fiction 🏺 Cursed Objects 📚 Forbidden Knowledge 🕯️ Ancestral Curses 🌫️ Atmospheric Horror

Revelations in Black

A book bound in black, a carved cane: Jacobi's antiques carry horrors that won't stay buried.

저자: Carl Jacobi 1947 272 페이지

3.78

129 개의 평점

🌀 Weird Fiction 🏺 Cursed Objects 📚 Forbidden Knowledge 🕯️ Ancestral Curses 🌫️ Atmospheric Horror

Weird Black Girls

저자: Elwin Cotman • 2024

Being Black in America is already a horror story. These tales just make the subtext literal.

3.05

408

✨ Magical Realism 👁️ Surreal Horror 🔗 Generational Trauma 🌈 Queer Intimacy 🤝 Cross-Racial Dynamics

Weird Black Girls

Being Black in America is already a horror story. These tales just make the subtext literal.

저자: Elwin Cotman 2024 320 페이지

3.05

408 개의 평점

✨ Magical Realism 👁️ Surreal Horror 🔗 Generational Trauma 🌈 Queer Intimacy 🤝 Cross-Racial Dynamics

The Black Woman

저자: Toni Cade Bambara • 1970

The 1970 anthology that told white feminists they were bourgeois and Black Power it was sexist.

4.48

415

✊🏾 Black Feminism 🎯 Intersectional Feminism 🧨 Black Power 🩺 Reproductive Justice ⛓️ Anti-Capitalist Feminism

The Black Woman

The 1970 anthology that told white feminists they were bourgeois and Black Power it was sexist.

저자: Toni Cade Bambara 1970 352 페이지

4.48

415 개의 평점

✊🏾 Black Feminism 🎯 Intersectional Feminism 🧨 Black Power 🩺 Reproductive Justice ⛓️ Anti-Capitalist Feminism

Erotic Fantasies

저자: Suzy Ayers • 2014

An explicit anthology: wives, best friends, and strangers cross every line without apology.

3.46

2,000+

📚 Erotic Anthology ⛓️ Bdsm Dynamics 🧡 Friends To Lovers 🌸 Sexual Awakening 🔥 Forbidden Desire

Erotic Fantasies

An explicit anthology: wives, best friends, and strangers cross every line without apology.

저자: Suzy Ayers 2014 169 페이지

3.46

2,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Erotic Anthology ⛓️ Bdsm Dynamics 🧡 Friends To Lovers 🌸 Sexual Awakening 🔥 Forbidden Desire

If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light

저자: Kim Cho-yeop • 2019

Alien symbionts live in infant brains, teach empathy, then vanish. The homesickness is permanent.

4.05

1,000+

🇰🇷 Korean Science Fiction 📖 Speculative Short Fiction 🔧 Technological Alienation 🧬 Posthuman Identity 🌐 Utopian Critique

If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light

Alien symbionts live in infant brains, teach empathy, then vanish. The homesickness is permanent.

저자: Kim Cho-yeop 2019 192 페이지

4.05

1,000+ 개의 평점

🇰🇷 Korean Science Fiction 📖 Speculative Short Fiction 🔧 Technological Alienation 🧬 Posthuman Identity 🌐 Utopian Critique

The William Hope Hodgson Megapack

저자: William Hope Hodgson • 2014

Before Lovecraft, one writer filled the sea with cosmic terrors and the dark with ritual wards.

4.18

🌌 Cosmic Horror 🌊 Maritime Horror 👁️ Weird Fiction 🌀 Dimensional Rifts 🧫 Biological Horror

The William Hope Hodgson Megapack

Before Lovecraft, one writer filled the sea with cosmic terrors and the dark with ritual wards.

저자: William Hope Hodgson 2014 917 페이지

4.18

72 개의 평점

🌌 Cosmic Horror 🌊 Maritime Horror 👁️ Weird Fiction 🌀 Dimensional Rifts 🧫 Biological Horror

The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1 by Howard, Robert E.. (Del Rey,2007) [Paperback]

저자: Robert E. Howard • 2007

Cimmerian steel, cosmic dread, and frontier comedy: the essential Howard collected in one volume.

4.23

500+

🗡️ Sword And Sorcery 🌌 Cosmic Horror 🐙 Lovecraftian 📖 Pulp Adventure 👻 Ancient Evils

The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1 by Howard, Robert E.. (Del Rey,2007) [Paperback]

Cimmerian steel, cosmic dread, and frontier comedy: the essential Howard collected in one volume.

저자: Robert E. Howard 2007

4.23

500+ 개의 평점

🗡️ Sword And Sorcery 🌌 Cosmic Horror 🐙 Lovecraftian 📖 Pulp Adventure 👻 Ancient Evils

Tailored Realities

저자: Brandon Sanderson • 2025

From designer brains to body-jumping immortals, ten stories that ask what reality is worth.

4.04

6,000+

🚀 Speculative Fiction 📚 Short Story Collection 🖥️ Simulated Realities 🧬 Engineered Minds ♾️ Immortality And Empathy

Tailored Realities

From designer brains to body-jumping immortals, ten stories that ask what reality is worth.

저자: Brandon Sanderson 2025 428 페이지

4.04

6,000+ 개의 평점

🚀 Speculative Fiction 📚 Short Story Collection 🖥️ Simulated Realities 🧬 Engineered Minds ♾️ Immortality And Empathy

Strange Worlds of Lunacy

저자: Lyndon Perry • 2008

When laughter breaks magic curses and bureaucracy conquers aliens, fairy tales don't stand a chance.

4.67

🃏 Comic Fantasy 🧚 Fairy Tale Parody 🤪 Absurdist Fiction 📖 Meta Fiction ⏳ Time Travel Paradoxes

Strange Worlds of Lunacy

When laughter breaks magic curses and bureaucracy conquers aliens, fairy tales don't stand a chance.

저자: Lyndon Perry 2008 224 페이지

4.67

9 개의 평점

🃏 Comic Fantasy 🧚 Fairy Tale Parody 🤪 Absurdist Fiction 📖 Meta Fiction ⏳ Time Travel Paradoxes

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