Affordable Books Under $15
When your TBR list is a mile long, it’s nice to know that you can find some great deals on amazing titles. From classics and thrillers to poetry and essay collections, there is something for everyone on our under $15 list. Because great reads shouldn’t have to break the bank!
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Add to BookshelfThe Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movement in the 1960s — and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. Described by The New York Times Book Review as “sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle … all presented in searing, brilliant prose,” The Fire Next Time stands as a classic of literature.
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The Clothing of Books
by Jhumpa Lahiri
In this deeply personal reflection, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri explores the art of the book jacket from the perspectives of both reader and writer. Probing the complex relationships between text and image, author and designer, and art and commerce, Lahiri delves into the role of the uniform; explains what book jackets and design have come to mean to her; and how, sometimes, “the covers become a part of me.”
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To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
A beautiful edition of the groundbreaking classic novel, with a new introduction by award-winning writer Susan Choi. To the Lighthouse enacts a moving allegory of the creative consciousness and its momentary triumphs over fleeting material life.
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to the African experience. Things Fall Apart explores one man’s futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political and religious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order.
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Men Without Women
by Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway had already made a mark on the literary world with his earliest stories, and his second collection shows him solidifying his mastery of the form. This early collection contains some of Hemingway’s most famous short stories, touching on many of his favorite subjects — bullfighting, prizefighting, infidelity, divorce, and death.
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Morning Haiku
by Sonia Sanchez
Sonia Sanchez’s collection of haiku celebrates the gifts of life and mourns the deaths of revered African American figures in the worlds of music, literature, art, and activism. With its touching portraits and by turns uplifting and heartbreaking lyrics, Morning Haiku contains some of Sanchez’s freshest, most poignant work.
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Intimations
by Zadie Smith
Written during the early months of lockdown, Intimations explores ideas and questions prompted by an unprecedented situation. Suffused with a profound intimacy and tenderness in response to these extraordinary times, Intimations is a slim, suggestive volume with a wide scope, in which Zadie Smith clears a generous space for thought, open enough for each reader to reflect on what has happened — and what should come next.
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What Happened to the Bennetts
by Lisa Scottoline
From #1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline comes a pulse-pounding new novel. Your family has been attacked, never again to be the same. Sometimes justice is a one-man show …
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Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo
by Sandra Cisneros
The celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street “is back with her first work of fiction in almost a decade, a story of memory and friendship [and] the experiences young women endure as immigrants worldwide” (AP). In this masterfully written dual-language edition, a long-forgotten letter sets off a charged encounter with the past.
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No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
by Greta Thunberg
The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation, including her historic address to the United Nations. Her book is a rallying cry for why we must all wake up and fight to protect the living planet, no matter how powerless we feel. Our future depends upon it.
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a childhood friend, a new mother who wanted to know how to raise her baby girl to be a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie’s letter of response: fifteen invaluable suggestions — direct, wryly funny, and perceptive — for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. Filled with compassionate guidance and advice, it gets right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century and starts a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.
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Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
Little Women has long been one of the most enduringly beloved classics of children’s literature, as popular with adults as it is with young readers. First published in 1868, and based on Louisa May Alcott’s own unusual family, the novel brought to life some of American literature’s most spirited female characters – and this edition has a fresh new cover to match the vibrancy of these heroines.
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Whose Body?
by Dorothy L. Sayers
A famous London financier vanishes from his bedroom, leaving no trace. Across town, a corpse is found in an architect’s bathtub, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez. The body is not that of the missing financier, so — whose body is it? Whose Body? is the first novel by one of the greatest mystery writers of the twentieth century, in which she introduced her popular amateur detective, Lord Peter Wimsey.
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One Step Too Far
by Lisa Gardner
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner, a chilling thriller about a young man gone missing in the wilderness of Wyoming … and the secrets uncovered by the desperate efforts to find him.
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