Books Catalog

Ice

Anna Kavan

Fiction

A nameless narrator searches for a pale girl in a frozen, apocalyptic landscape.

★★★★½

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Ottessa Moshfegh

Fiction

A young woman attempts to sleep for an entire year, aided by a cocktail of pharmaceuticals.

★★★★

Coventry: Essays

Rachel Cusk

Essays

A collection of essays exploring personal experiences and cultural observations.

★★★★½

All Fours

Miranda July

Fiction

A novel exploring human connection and relationships through July's distinctive lens.

★★★★½

Hot Milk

Deborah Levy

Fiction

A woman journeys to Spain with her ill mother, exploring dependence and liberation.

★★★½

Sweet Days of Discipline

Fleur Jaeggy

Fiction

A haunting novel of adolescence set in a Swiss boarding school.

★★★½

Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke

Letters

Correspondence offering profound advice on art, life, and creativity.

★★★★

The Wall

Marlen Haushofer

Fiction

A woman finds herself isolated by an invisible wall in a remote mountain hunting lodge.

★★★★★

Near to the Wild Heart

Clarice Lispector

Fiction

A stream-of-consciousness exploration of a woman's inner life.

★★★★★

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Joan Didion

Essays

Classic essays capturing the mood of America during the 1960s.

Unrated

Machinal

Sophie Treadwell

Drama

An expressionist play about a woman driven to murder her husband.

Unrated

By the Bog of Cats

Marina Carr

Drama

A play loosely based on Medea, set in the Irish midlands.

Unrated

The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams

Drama

A memory play about a dysfunctional family living in Depression-era St. Louis.

Unrated

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Wassily Kandinsky

Art