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Love It or Hate It

These divisive books generate strong feelings

Columbus Metropolitan Library

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  • Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took…
    BookLondon ; New York : Penguin Books, 1995. — Fiction Bronte
  • Beginning in the 1950s Elena and Lila grow up in Naples, Italy, mirroring two different aspects of their nation.
    BookNew York : Europa Editions, 2012. — Fiction Ferrante
  • Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza, her distinguished husband, and a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years.
    BookNew York : Vintage, 2003, c1988. — FICTION GARCIA MARQUEZ GABRIEL
  • Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you…
    BookNew York, New York : Viking, 2020. — Fiction Haig
  • Babel

    or the Necessity of Violence : An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

    Kuang, R. F. (Rebecca F.),
    A Chinese boy orphaned by cholera and raised in Britain is trained to work at Oxford’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation, the world’s center for translation and magic through silver-working, where he must choose between competing…
    BookNew York, NY : Harper Voyager, [2022] — Fiction Kuang
  • The Booker Prize-winning author of Amsterdam creates a richly textured coming-of-age novel, set in 1935 England, that follows thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis, who witness an event involving her sister Cecilia and her childhood friend…
    BookNew York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2002. — FICTION MCE
  • After losing her parents, a young college graduate in New York City spends a year alienating the world under the influence of a crazy combination of drugs. By the author of Eileen.
    BookNew York : Penguin Press, 2018. — Fiction Moshfegh
  • A darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue from one of the leading writers of the twentieth century, the acclaimed author of Lolita.
    BookNew York : Vintage Books, 1989, c1962. — Fiction Nabokov
  • The unconventional secret childhood bond between a popular boy and a lonely, intensely private girl is tested by character reversals in their first year at a Dublin college that render one introspective and the other social, but…
    BookLondon ; New York : Hogarth, [2019] — Fiction Rooney
  • The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books.
    BookBoston : Little, Brown, 1951. — Fiction Salinger
  • Richard Papen, a relatively impoverished student at a New England college, falls in with an exclusive clique of rich, worldly Greek scholars and soon learns the dreadful secret that keeps them together.
    BookNew York : Vintage Contemporaries, 2004 — Fiction Tartt