고전

시대를 초월한 지혜와 삶을 변화시키는 이야기가 세대를 거쳐 인류의 사상과 문화를 형성해 온 이 불멸의 작품들 속에 담겨 있습니다. 이 심오한 책들은 잊을 수 없는 인물들, 철학적 통찰, 그리고 오늘날의 독자들에게도 여전히 울림을 주는 보편적 진리를 통해 삶의 가장 깊은 질문들을 탐구합니다.

고전 도서 요약

Travels with Charley

저자: John Steinbeck • 1961

At 58, Steinbeck set out with his poodle to find the America his memory had lost.

4.08

100,000+

🛣️ American Road Trips 📖 Literary Travelogues 🏔️ Aging And Adventure 🐕 Canine Companions 🕰️ Nostalgia And Change

Travels with Charley

At 58, Steinbeck set out with his poodle to find the America his memory had lost.

저자: John Steinbeck 1961 214 페이지

4.08

100,000+ 개의 평점

🛣️ American Road Trips 📖 Literary Travelogues 🏔️ Aging And Adventure 🐕 Canine Companions 🕰️ Nostalgia And Change

Washington Square

저자: Henry James • 1880

A plain, shy heiress is courted by a charming man her father calls a fortune hunter.

3.71

26,000+

🧠 Psychological Realism 💰 Fortune Hunter 🌸 Quiet Heroine 🏠 Father-Daughter Conflict 😔 Melancholy

Washington Square

A plain, shy heiress is courted by a charming man her father calls a fortune hunter.

저자: Henry James 1880 240 페이지

3.71

26,000+ 개의 평점

🧠 Psychological Realism 💰 Fortune Hunter 🌸 Quiet Heroine 🏠 Father-Daughter Conflict 😔 Melancholy

صاحب الظل الطويل

저자: Jean Webster • 1912

An orphan writes letters to her anonymous benefactor, never guessing he is closer than she knows.

4.13

76,000+

📝 Epistolary Novel 🎓 College Life 🎭 Anonymous Benefactor 🏠 Orphan Protagonist 🕵️ Secret Identity

صاحب الظل الطويل

An orphan writes letters to her anonymous benefactor, never guessing he is closer than she knows.

저자: Jean Webster 1912 233 페이지

4.13

76,000+ 개의 평점

📝 Epistolary Novel 🎓 College Life 🎭 Anonymous Benefactor 🏠 Orphan Protagonist 🕵️ Secret Identity

A Little History of Literature

저자: John Sutherland • 2013

Myths, money, and modernism: how literature got from campfire tales to your e-reader.

3.82

2,000+

📚 Literary History 🗣️ Storytelling Traditions 🏛️ Western Canon ⚖️ Literature And Society ✍️ Author Studies

A Little History of Literature

Myths, money, and modernism: how literature got from campfire tales to your e-reader.

저자: John Sutherland 2013 276 페이지

3.82

2,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Literary History 🗣️ Storytelling Traditions 🏛️ Western Canon ⚖️ Literature And Society ✍️ Author Studies

The Godly Man's Picture

저자: Thomas Watson • 1987

A Puritan master lists the marks of genuine godliness, and hypocrisy fails every one of them.

4.46

500+

📜 Puritan Theology 🙏 Christian Devotion 🔥 Sanctification 🌱 Spiritual Formation 💒 Union With Christ

The Godly Man's Picture

A Puritan master lists the marks of genuine godliness, and hypocrisy fails every one of them.

저자: Thomas Watson 1987 256 페이지

4.46

500+ 개의 평점

📜 Puritan Theology 🙏 Christian Devotion 🔥 Sanctification 🌱 Spiritual Formation 💒 Union With Christ

The Naked Sun

저자: Isaac Asimov • 1958

On a world where meeting face-to-face is taboo, an Earth detective must solve a locked room murder.

4.20

64,000+

🔒 Locked Room Mystery 🤖 Human-Robot Partnership 🕵️ Outsider Detective 🏚️ Isolation Horror 🌅 Failed Utopia

The Naked Sun

On a world where meeting face-to-face is taboo, an Earth detective must solve a locked room murder.

저자: Isaac Asimov 1958 204 페이지

4.20

64,000+ 개의 평점

🔒 Locked Room Mystery 🤖 Human-Robot Partnership 🕵️ Outsider Detective 🏚️ Isolation Horror 🌅 Failed Utopia

The Pledge

저자: Friedrich Dürrenmatt • 1957

To comfort a murdered girl's mother, a detective makes a promise that consumes him.

3.90

11,000+

📚 Literary Crime Fiction 🔍 Obsessed Detective ⚖️ Mob Justice 🌑 Existential Despair 🕰️ Postwar Europe

The Pledge

To comfort a murdered girl's mother, a detective makes a promise that consumes him.

저자: Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1957 176 페이지

3.90

11,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Literary Crime Fiction 🔍 Obsessed Detective ⚖️ Mob Justice 🌑 Existential Despair 🕰️ Postwar Europe

Hobbes and Republican Liberty

저자: Quentin Skinner • 2004

Behind Hobbes's definition of liberty as motion lay a polemical assault on republican freedom.

3.83

🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 Intellectual History ✊ Non-Domination 🤝 Social Contract 🌳 State Of Nature

Hobbes and Republican Liberty

Behind Hobbes's definition of liberty as motion lay a polemical assault on republican freedom.

저자: Quentin Skinner 2004 268 페이지

3.83

78 개의 평점

🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 Intellectual History ✊ Non-Domination 🤝 Social Contract 🌳 State Of Nature

Last Exit to Brooklyn

저자: Hubert Selby Jr. • 1964

Drag queens and dockworkers in 1950s Brooklyn seek a tenderness their world is built to crush.

3.95

33,000+

🚬 Transgressive Fiction 🌃 1950s Brooklyn 🥀 Doomed Queer Longing 🔁 Cyclical Despair 💪 Toxic Masculinity

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Drag queens and dockworkers in 1950s Brooklyn seek a tenderness their world is built to crush.

저자: Hubert Selby Jr. 1964 290 페이지

3.95

33,000+ 개의 평점

🚬 Transgressive Fiction 🌃 1950s Brooklyn 🥀 Doomed Queer Longing 🔁 Cyclical Despair 💪 Toxic Masculinity

Mrs. McGinty's Dead

저자: Agatha Christie • 1952

Poirot comes out of retirement when a policeman's doubt has an awkward lodger facing the gallows.

3.86

41,000+

🕵️ Golden Age Mystery 🏘️ English Village 🎭 Hidden Identity ⚖️ Wrongly Accused 🔒 Family Secrets

Mrs. McGinty's Dead

Poirot comes out of retirement when a policeman's doubt has an awkward lodger facing the gallows.

저자: Agatha Christie 1952 244 페이지

3.86

41,000+ 개의 평점

🕵️ Golden Age Mystery 🏘️ English Village 🎭 Hidden Identity ⚖️ Wrongly Accused 🔒 Family Secrets

고양이 요람

저자: 커트 보네거트 주니어 • 1963

A writer researching Hiroshima finds the bomb-maker's kids with a speck that can freeze the earth.

4.15

400,000+

📜 Invented Religion ❄️ Accidental Apocalypse 🧪 Amoral Scientist 💀 Gallows Humor 🍌 Banana Republic

고양이 요람

A writer researching Hiroshima finds the bomb-maker's kids with a speck that can freeze the earth.

저자: 커트 보네거트 주니어 1963 306 페이지

4.15

400,000+ 개의 평점

📜 Invented Religion ❄️ Accidental Apocalypse 🧪 Amoral Scientist 💀 Gallows Humor 🍌 Banana Republic

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

저자: Walker Percy • 1961

A New Orleans stockbroker drifts through pleasure and routine, searching for a life that feels true.

3.64

31,000+

🎭 Southern Gothic 🤔 Existential Novel 🎬 Disaffected Narrator 🌊 Melancholy 🏙️ Mid-Century America

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

A New Orleans stockbroker drifts through pleasure and routine, searching for a life that feels true.

저자: Walker Percy 1961

3.64

31,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Southern Gothic 🤔 Existential Novel 🎬 Disaffected Narrator 🌊 Melancholy 🏙️ Mid-Century America

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

저자: Agatha Christie • 1940

His dentist dead and patients poisoned, Poirot hunts a killer who calls murder a public service.

3.78

46,000+

🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🎭 Identity Swap 👤 Double Life 🏛️ Political Conspiracy 🤔 Philosophical Mystery

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

His dentist dead and patients poisoned, Poirot hunts a killer who calls murder a public service.

저자: Agatha Christie 1940

3.78

46,000+ 개의 평점

🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🎭 Identity Swap 👤 Double Life 🏛️ Political Conspiracy 🤔 Philosophical Mystery

Wittgenstein’s Nephew

저자: Thomas Bernhard • 1982

A writer and his mad friend, the nephew of Wittgenstein, are confined to neighboring hospital wards.

4.02

7,000+

🖋️ Autofiction 🤝 Male Friendship 🧠 Madness And Genius 🏥 Chronic Illness 😈 Dark Humor

Wittgenstein’s Nephew

A writer and his mad friend, the nephew of Wittgenstein, are confined to neighboring hospital wards.

저자: Thomas Bernhard 1982 101 페이지

4.02

7,000+ 개의 평점

🖋️ Autofiction 🤝 Male Friendship 🧠 Madness And Genius 🏥 Chronic Illness 😈 Dark Humor

Les 9 princes d'ambre

저자: Roger Zelazny • 1970

An amnesiac prince escapes a hospital and learns his brother usurped the throne of Amber.

4.04

61,000+

🪐 Parallel Worlds 😶‍🌫️ Amnesiac Hero ⚔️ Usurped Throne 🏰 Court Intrigue 🕶️ Noir Fantasy

Les 9 princes d'ambre

An amnesiac prince escapes a hospital and learns his brother usurped the throne of Amber.

저자: Roger Zelazny 1970 201 페이지

4.04

61,000+ 개의 평점

🪐 Parallel Worlds 😶‍🌫️ Amnesiac Hero ⚔️ Usurped Throne 🏰 Court Intrigue 🕶️ Noir Fantasy

The Go-Between by Hartley, L. P. (2013) Hardcover

저자: L.P. Hartley • 1953

An aging man revisits the summer he became the secret messenger for a forbidden affair.

4.01

15,000+

🥀 Loss Of Innocence 💔 Forbidden Love 🎭 Class Divide 🧠 Memory And Trauma 🏡 Country House

The Go-Between by Hartley, L. P. (2013) Hardcover

An aging man revisits the summer he became the secret messenger for a forbidden affair.

저자: L.P. Hartley 1953

4.01

15,000+ 개의 평점

🥀 Loss Of Innocence 💔 Forbidden Love 🎭 Class Divide 🧠 Memory And Trauma 🏡 Country House

Pnin

저자: Vladimir Nabokov • 1957

Professor Pnin takes the wrong train, loves the wrong woman, and outlives the right country.

3.87

30,000+

🏫 Campus Novel 🧳 Exile Fiction 👨‍🏫 Awkward Professor 👨‍👦 Surrogate Father 🎭 Tragicomic

Pnin

Professor Pnin takes the wrong train, loves the wrong woman, and outlives the right country.

저자: Vladimir Nabokov 1957 184 페이지

3.87

30,000+ 개의 평점

🏫 Campus Novel 🧳 Exile Fiction 👨‍🏫 Awkward Professor 👨‍👦 Surrogate Father 🎭 Tragicomic

Peril at End House

저자: Agatha Christie • 1932

A bullet through an heiress's hat lures Poirot from retirement into a web of staged accidents.

4.02

85,000+

🕵️ Golden Age Mystery 🏡 Country House Mystery 📜 Inheritance Plot 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 🤝 Detective Duo

Peril at End House

A bullet through an heiress's hat lures Poirot from retirement into a web of staged accidents.

저자: Agatha Christie 1932 287 페이지

4.02

85,000+ 개의 평점

🕵️ Golden Age Mystery 🏡 Country House Mystery 📜 Inheritance Plot 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 🤝 Detective Duo

The End of the Affair

저자: Graham Greene • 1951

A jealous novelist in postwar London hires a detective to learn why his lover walked away.

3.90

72,000+

🕯️ Catholic Novel 💔 Literary Love Triangle 🔥 Obsessive Jealousy 💋 Adulterous Affair ✨ Spiritual Awakening

The End of the Affair

A jealous novelist in postwar London hires a detective to learn why his lover walked away.

저자: Graham Greene 1951 160 페이지

3.90

72,000+ 개의 평점

🕯️ Catholic Novel 💔 Literary Love Triangle 🔥 Obsessive Jealousy 💋 Adulterous Affair ✨ Spiritual Awakening

Crossing The River

저자: Caryl Phillips • 1993

A father sells his children into slavery; their voices echo across continents and centuries.

3.72

1,000+

🌍 Postcolonial Fiction 🌊 Diaspora Fiction 🗣️ Multiple Voices 💔 Intergenerational Trauma 💨 Family Separation

Crossing The River

A father sells his children into slavery; their voices echo across continents and centuries.

저자: Caryl Phillips 1993 237 페이지

3.72

1,000+ 개의 평점

🌍 Postcolonial Fiction 🌊 Diaspora Fiction 🗣️ Multiple Voices 💔 Intergenerational Trauma 💨 Family Separation

Hallowe'en Party

저자: Agatha Christie • 1969

A drowned girl, a Halloween party, a boast about murder: Poirot uncovers a village's buried crimes.

3.56

100,000+

🏘️ Village Mystery 🐺 Girl Who Cried Wolf 👁️ Child Witness 🤫 Small Town Secrets 🎃 Halloween Mystery

Hallowe'en Party

A drowned girl, a Halloween party, a boast about murder: Poirot uncovers a village's buried crimes.

저자: Agatha Christie 1969 336 페이지

3.56

100,000+ 개의 평점

🏘️ Village Mystery 🐺 Girl Who Cried Wolf 👁️ Child Witness 🤫 Small Town Secrets 🎃 Halloween Mystery

Marshlands

저자: André Gide • 1895

To write about a man at peace with stagnation, a writer must confront his own paralysis.

3.58

1,000+

📖 Novel Within A Novel 🤔 Philosophical Fiction ✒️ Writer Protagonist 🥀 Ennui 🗼 Belle Epoque Paris

Marshlands

To write about a man at peace with stagnation, a writer must confront his own paralysis.

저자: André Gide 1895 144 페이지

3.58

1,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Novel Within A Novel 🤔 Philosophical Fiction ✒️ Writer Protagonist 🥀 Ennui 🗼 Belle Epoque Paris

The Peregrine

저자: J.A. Baker • 2004

One man's decade of chasing peregrines to see an English estuary through their hunting eyes.

4.15

6,000+

🏕️ Nature Memoir 🦅 Avian Obsession 🌿 Lyrical Naturalism ⚔️ Predator And Prey 🌧️ Environmental Elegy

The Peregrine

One man's decade of chasing peregrines to see an English estuary through their hunting eyes.

저자: J.A. Baker 2004 191 페이지

4.15

6,000+ 개의 평점

🏕️ Nature Memoir 🦅 Avian Obsession 🌿 Lyrical Naturalism ⚔️ Predator And Prey 🌧️ Environmental Elegy

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

저자: August Wilson • 1988

A haunted man and his daughter seek a lost wife in a Pittsburgh boardinghouse.

3.96

3,000+

🚂 Great Migration 🕯️ African Spirituality 🔗 Lost And Found Kin ⛓️ Legacy Of Slavery 🏠 Found Family

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

A haunted man and his daughter seek a lost wife in a Pittsburgh boardinghouse.

저자: August Wilson 1988 94 페이지

3.96

3,000+ 개의 평점

🚂 Great Migration 🕯️ African Spirituality 🔗 Lost And Found Kin ⛓️ Legacy Of Slavery 🏠 Found Family

The First New Nation

저자: Seymour Martin Lipset • 1963

Before the developing world could fail, America figured out how to make a new nation survive.

4.13

🧱 Nation Building ⚖️ Comparative Politics 🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 🏛️ Political Legitimacy 🌍 Postcolonial Theory

The First New Nation

Before the developing world could fail, America figured out how to make a new nation survive.

저자: Seymour Martin Lipset 1963 424 페이지

4.13

16 개의 평점

🧱 Nation Building ⚖️ Comparative Politics 🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 🏛️ Political Legitimacy 🌍 Postcolonial Theory

The Cruel Sea

저자: Nicholas Monsarrat • 1951

On Atlantic convoy duty, a British corvette crew finds the sea more lethal than the war.

4.23

8,000+

🚢 Naval Warfare 🌊 Battle Of The Atlantic 🫡 Stoic Leadership 🤝 Comrades In Arms 😔 Survivor's Guilt

The Cruel Sea

On Atlantic convoy duty, a British corvette crew finds the sea more lethal than the war.

저자: Nicholas Monsarrat 1951 520 페이지

4.23

8,000+ 개의 평점

🚢 Naval Warfare 🌊 Battle Of The Atlantic 🫡 Stoic Leadership 🤝 Comrades In Arms 😔 Survivor's Guilt

Hickory Dickory Dock

저자: Agatha Christie • 1955

A student hostel's strange thefts conceal a killer. Only Hercule Poirot sees the pattern.

3.77

40,000+

🔒 Closed Circle Mystery 🔍 Master Detective 🇬🇧 Postwar London 🤥 Unreliable Confessions 📚 Golden Age Detective

Hickory Dickory Dock

A student hostel's strange thefts conceal a killer. Only Hercule Poirot sees the pattern.

저자: Agatha Christie 1955

3.77

40,000+ 개의 평점

🔒 Closed Circle Mystery 🔍 Master Detective 🇬🇧 Postwar London 🤥 Unreliable Confessions 📚 Golden Age Detective

The Third Girl by Agatha Christie

저자: Agatha Christie • 1966

When an heiress fears she committed murder, Poirot discovers someone is poisoning her mind.

3.69

39,000+

🌀 Gaslighting Mystery 🎭 Identity Swap 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 🧠 Unreliable Narrator 🏚️ Family Secrets

The Third Girl by Agatha Christie

When an heiress fears she committed murder, Poirot discovers someone is poisoning her mind.

저자: Agatha Christie 1966

3.69

39,000+ 개의 평점

🌀 Gaslighting Mystery 🎭 Identity Swap 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 🧠 Unreliable Narrator 🏚️ Family Secrets

Sabbath's Theater

저자: Philip Roth • 1995

After a lifetime of scandal and appetite, an aging puppeteer faces what he cannot outrun: grief.

3.89

12,000+

🌑 Transgressive Fiction 👴 Aging Libertine 🖤 Dark Comedy 🔥 Sexual Transgression 🌀 Compulsive Desire

Sabbath's Theater

After a lifetime of scandal and appetite, an aging puppeteer faces what he cannot outrun: grief.

저자: Philip Roth 1995 451 페이지

3.89

12,000+ 개의 평점

🌑 Transgressive Fiction 👴 Aging Libertine 🖤 Dark Comedy 🔥 Sexual Transgression 🌀 Compulsive Desire

The Hollow

저자: Agatha Christie • 1946

When a doctor is shot by the pool, his wife holds the gun and Poirot holds his doubts.

3.80

45,000+

🏠 Country House Mystery 🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🤫 Collective Cover-Up 🎨 Artist Protagonist 💔 Illicit Affair

The Hollow

When a doctor is shot by the pool, his wife holds the gun and Poirot holds his doubts.

저자: Agatha Christie 1946 384 페이지

3.80

45,000+ 개의 평점

🏠 Country House Mystery 🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🤫 Collective Cover-Up 🎨 Artist Protagonist 💔 Illicit Affair

Appointment in Samarra

저자: John O'Hara • 1934

One drunken insult at the country club: a Cadillac dealer learns his small town never forgets.

3.81

16,000+

🏘️ American Small Town 📋 Social Realism 📉 Downward Spiral 💰 Class Anxiety 💔 Marriage Under Strain

Appointment in Samarra

One drunken insult at the country club: a Cadillac dealer learns his small town never forgets.

저자: John O'Hara 1934 251 페이지

3.81

16,000+ 개의 평점

🏘️ American Small Town 📋 Social Realism 📉 Downward Spiral 💰 Class Anxiety 💔 Marriage Under Strain

Monkey

저자: Wu Cheng'en • 1592

After toppling heaven, a monkey king guards a monk through demon-filled China to earn his freedom.

4.04

8,000+

🪷 Buddhist Allegory 🐒 Trickster Hero ❤️ Found Family 🔄 Redemption Arc 😈 Irreverent Mythology

Monkey

After toppling heaven, a monkey king guards a monk through demon-filled China to earn his freedom.

저자: Wu Cheng'en 1592 306 페이지

4.04

8,000+ 개의 평점

🪷 Buddhist Allegory 🐒 Trickster Hero ❤️ Found Family 🔄 Redemption Arc 😈 Irreverent Mythology

Zami

저자: Audre Lorde • 1982

A near-sighted Black girl in 1950s Harlem discovers women, poetry, and a voice entirely her own.

4.40

24,000+

📖 Lyrical Memoir 🌍 Immigrant Mothers 🍸 Midcentury Lesbian Bars 🌴 Island Diaspora 💕 Sensual First Love

Zami

A near-sighted Black girl in 1950s Harlem discovers women, poetry, and a voice entirely her own.

저자: Audre Lorde 1982 256 페이지

4.40

24,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Lyrical Memoir 🌍 Immigrant Mothers 🍸 Midcentury Lesbian Bars 🌴 Island Diaspora 💕 Sensual First Love

Cat Among the Pigeons

저자: Agatha Christie • 1959

Hidden in a tennis racquet, a kingdom's jewels bring murder to an English boarding school.

3.86

52,000+

🏫 Boarding School Mystery 🕵️ Cold War Espionage 💎 Hidden Fortune 🎭 Double Life 🔍 Golden Age Mystery

Cat Among the Pigeons

Hidden in a tennis racquet, a kingdom's jewels bring murder to an English boarding school.

저자: Agatha Christie 1959 352 페이지

3.86

52,000+ 개의 평점

🏫 Boarding School Mystery 🕵️ Cold War Espionage 💎 Hidden Fortune 🎭 Double Life 🔍 Golden Age Mystery

Sleeping Murder

저자: Agatha Christie • 1976

A newlywed's perfect house awakens a buried memory: she witnessed a murder there as a child.

4.00

54,000+

🏘️ Village Mystery 🔍 Cold Case 🧠 Buried Memories 🏚️ Gothic House 🕵️ Amateur Sleuths

Sleeping Murder

A newlywed's perfect house awakens a buried memory: she witnessed a murder there as a child.

저자: Agatha Christie 1976 242 페이지

4.00

54,000+ 개의 평점

🏘️ Village Mystery 🔍 Cold Case 🧠 Buried Memories 🏚️ Gothic House 🕵️ Amateur Sleuths

A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life

저자: William Law • 1728

Six days of worldly living cannot be redeemed by one hour of Sunday prayers.

4.04

500+

⛪ Anglican Spirituality 🕯️ Holy Living 📿 Spiritual Discipline 🔍 Self-Examination 🤲 Intercessory Prayer

A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life

Six days of worldly living cannot be redeemed by one hour of Sunday prayers.

저자: William Law 1728 351 페이지

4.04

500+ 개의 평점

⛪ Anglican Spirituality 🕯️ Holy Living 📿 Spiritual Discipline 🔍 Self-Examination 🤲 Intercessory Prayer

El infinito en un junco

저자: Irene Vallejo • 2019

Papyrus rots. Libraries burn. The improbable survival story of the books you still read.

4.24

26,000+

📚 Book History 🏛️ Ancient Libraries ✍️ Writing Systems 🗣️ Orality And Literacy 📜 Textual Transmission

El infinito en un junco

Papyrus rots. Libraries burn. The improbable survival story of the books you still read.

저자: Irene Vallejo 2019 452 페이지

4.24

26,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Book History 🏛️ Ancient Libraries ✍️ Writing Systems 🗣️ Orality And Literacy 📜 Textual Transmission

Cards on the Table

저자: Agatha Christie • 1936

Poirot joins four killers for bridge. Their host is dead before the last card is dealt.

3.96

74,000+

🔍 Golden Age Mystery 🔒 Closed Circle Suspects 🧠 Psychological Detection 🎩 Eccentric Detective 📝 False Confession

Cards on the Table

Poirot joins four killers for bridge. Their host is dead before the last card is dealt.

저자: Agatha Christie 1936 324 페이지

3.96

74,000+ 개의 평점

🔍 Golden Age Mystery 🔒 Closed Circle Suspects 🧠 Psychological Detection 🎩 Eccentric Detective 📝 False Confession

Sad Cypress

저자: Agatha Christie • 1940

A broken engagement and a poisoned sandwich: a young woman stands trial for murder.

3.94

48,000+

🧐 Golden Age Mystery ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 💔 Love Triangle 📜 Inheritance Plot 🌳 Secret Parentage

Sad Cypress

A broken engagement and a poisoned sandwich: a young woman stands trial for murder.

저자: Agatha Christie 1940 336 페이지

3.94

48,000+ 개의 평점

🧐 Golden Age Mystery ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 💔 Love Triangle 📜 Inheritance Plot 🌳 Secret Parentage

A Caribbean Mystery

저자: Agatha Christie • 1964

Miss Marple's island vacation ends when a guest dies and his photo of a killer disappears.

3.86

54,000+

🕵️ Golden Age Mystery 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 🎭 Gaslighting Husband 🏝️ Caribbean Island 🏨 Resort Mystery

A Caribbean Mystery

Miss Marple's island vacation ends when a guest dies and his photo of a killer disappears.

저자: Agatha Christie 1964 224 페이지

3.86

54,000+ 개의 평점

🕵️ Golden Age Mystery 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 🎭 Gaslighting Husband 🏝️ Caribbean Island 🏨 Resort Mystery

Money

저자: Martin Amis • 1984

A film director's appetites and a slick producer pull him into a con in New York's 1980s.

3.70

26,000+

💰 Consumerist Satire 🪞 Metafiction 🤥 Unreliable Narrator 📉 Downward Spiral 💀 Black Comedy

Money

A film director's appetites and a slick producer pull him into a con in New York's 1980s.

저자: Martin Amis 1984 394 페이지

3.70

26,000+ 개의 평점

💰 Consumerist Satire 🪞 Metafiction 🤥 Unreliable Narrator 📉 Downward Spiral 💀 Black Comedy

Big Sur

저자: Jack Kerouac • 1962

A writer escapes his celebrity to a Big Sur cabin, where solitude unravels into madness.

3.83

38,000+

🥁 Beat Generation 📖 Autofiction 🎨 Tortured Artist 🍺 Alcoholic Spiral 🪤 Fame As Trap

Big Sur

A writer escapes his celebrity to a Big Sur cabin, where solitude unravels into madness.

저자: Jack Kerouac 1962 256 페이지

3.83

38,000+ 개의 평점

🥁 Beat Generation 📖 Autofiction 🎨 Tortured Artist 🍺 Alcoholic Spiral 🪤 Fame As Trap

Atlas Shrugged Part B

저자: Ayn Rand • 1957

A railroad VP hunts a vanished inventor as the state devours its creators and industry collapses.

4.37

3,000+

📚 Philosophical Fiction 🏚️ Dystopian Collapse 🎭 Political Allegory 💔 Forbidden Affair 🔺 Love Triangle

Atlas Shrugged Part B

A railroad VP hunts a vanished inventor as the state devours its creators and industry collapses.

저자: Ayn Rand 1957 15 페이지

4.37

3,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Philosophical Fiction 🏚️ Dystopian Collapse 🎭 Political Allegory 💔 Forbidden Affair 🔺 Love Triangle

Dead Man's Folly

저자: Agatha Christie • 1956

During a country house fête, a staged murder game gives cover to a real killer.

3.82

38,000+

🏡 Country House Mystery 🔍 Golden Age Detective 🎪 Deadly Party Game 🎭 False Identity 🏚️ Aristocratic Decline

Dead Man's Folly

During a country house fête, a staged murder game gives cover to a real killer.

저자: Agatha Christie 1956 6 페이지

3.82

38,000+ 개의 평점

🏡 Country House Mystery 🔍 Golden Age Detective 🎪 Deadly Party Game 🎭 False Identity 🏚️ Aristocratic Decline

Mr. Bridge

저자: Evan S. Connell • 1969

A Kansas City attorney orders his family's life with quiet precision, mistaking provision for love.

4.00

2,000+

📖 Character Study 🎩 Novel Of Manners 👔 Repressed Patriarch 💔 Unspoken Love 🌉 Generational Divide

Mr. Bridge

A Kansas City attorney orders his family's life with quiet precision, mistaking provision for love.

저자: Evan S. Connell 1969 367 페이지

4.00

2,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Character Study 🎩 Novel Of Manners 👔 Repressed Patriarch 💔 Unspoken Love 🌉 Generational Divide

The Daughter of Time

저자: Josephine Tey • 1951

A bedridden Scotland Yard inspector reopens the coldest case: Richard III and the vanished princes.

3.89

39,000+

🛋️ Armchair Detective 📜 Historical Cold Case 📖 Revisionist History ⚔️ Wars Of The Roses 🧩 Quiet Intellectual Puzzle

The Daughter of Time

A bedridden Scotland Yard inspector reopens the coldest case: Richard III and the vanished princes.

저자: Josephine Tey 1951 206 페이지

3.89

39,000+ 개의 평점

🛋️ Armchair Detective 📜 Historical Cold Case 📖 Revisionist History ⚔️ Wars Of The Roses 🧩 Quiet Intellectual Puzzle

Arcadia

저자: Tom Stoppard • 1993

A Regency prodigy glimpses chaos. Two centuries later, rival scholars in her house chase her truth.

4.13

24,000+

📚 Dual Timeline Narrative 🎭 Comedy Of Manners 🏛️ Country House Drama 🍎 Tutor And Prodigy 📝 Academic Rivals

Arcadia

A Regency prodigy glimpses chaos. Two centuries later, rival scholars in her house chase her truth.

저자: Tom Stoppard 1993 144 페이지

4.13

24,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Dual Timeline Narrative 🎭 Comedy Of Manners 🏛️ Country House Drama 🍎 Tutor And Prodigy 📝 Academic Rivals

The Sea, the Sea

저자: Iris Murdoch • 1978

A director retires to the coast and finds his lost love caged in a brutal marriage.

3.96

26,000+

🎭 Unreliable Narrator 💌 Lost Love Returns 💔 Obsessive Love 🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🪞 Self-Deception

The Sea, the Sea

A director retires to the coast and finds his lost love caged in a brutal marriage.

저자: Iris Murdoch 1978 528 페이지

3.96

26,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Unreliable Narrator 💌 Lost Love Returns 💔 Obsessive Love 🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🪞 Self-Deception

The Moving Finger

저자: Agatha Christie • 1942

Anonymous letters torment a quiet village, but the ensuing suicide is a smokescreen for murder.

3.85

59,000+

✍️ Poison Pen Letters 🏘️ Village Mystery 👁️ Outsider Narrator 🎭 Scapegoat 🖤 Hidden Resentment

The Moving Finger

Anonymous letters torment a quiet village, but the ensuing suicide is a smokescreen for murder.

저자: Agatha Christie 1942 299 페이지

3.85

59,000+ 개의 평점

✍️ Poison Pen Letters 🏘️ Village Mystery 👁️ Outsider Narrator 🎭 Scapegoat 🖤 Hidden Resentment

The Post-Office Girl

저자: Stefan Zweig • 1982

One week of borrowed luxury teaches a postal clerk that poverty is a slow death.

4.15

10,000+

📚 Post-War Literature 💰 Class Divide 😶 Quiet Desperation 📉 Downward Spiral 🔪 Crime Of Desperation

The Post-Office Girl

One week of borrowed luxury teaches a postal clerk that poverty is a slow death.

저자: Stefan Zweig 1982 257 페이지

4.15

10,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Post-War Literature 💰 Class Divide 😶 Quiet Desperation 📉 Downward Spiral 🔪 Crime Of Desperation

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