From classic fiction stories like Moby Dick and The Great Gatsby to fantasy novels like The Lord of the Rings, here are the best books everyone should read in his or her lifetime.
As France is nearing the end of the first Indochina War, an open-minded teenage boy finds himself torn between a rebellious urge to discover love, and the ever-present, almost dominating affection of his beloved mother. 30. Quante volte... quella notte ...
This book is one of the first science fiction stories of its kind. It seems almost cliche now for a science fiction story to include an alien invasion, but this was one of the first novels to explore that concept. The story uses many creative elements that seem ahead of its time, such...
Wotakoi is a refreshing romance manga for two reasons. The first is that its protagonists are adult office workers, not teenage high-schoolers. The second is that they are both closet nerds trying to pass for ordinary and diligent workers....
Comprised of four novels set in the fictional kingdom of Alagaësia,The Inheritance Cycleis a saga of the teenage Eragon’s quest to depose the evil King Galbatorix. With the help of his dragon Saphira, Eragon blazes a fiery path to heroism. These novels may be hefty, but they’re sti...
Like all of Raymond Chandler’s novels, the colorful characters and seedy, neon-lit atmosphere of 1940s Los Angeles overpower the complex plotting which intertwines two mysteries. In the first, a big homicidal lug named Moose Malloy hires Marlowe to find Velma, his former girlfriend. He hasn...
Elizabeth Taylor first became a teenage idol at M-G-M with Helen Rose designing her look, as Jean Louis did for Rita Hayworth as Gilda at Columbia. The above photo shows embroiderers working on a costume for Romeo and Juliet (1936) in the M-G-M wardrobe department. Note the hand-...
Lewis Grassic Gibbon, (the pseudonym of J Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935)) is best known for his trilogy of Scottish novels, A Scots Quair, the story of Chris Guthrie, a young woman growing in Scotland in the early twentieth century. He wrote a number of other novels though, including two ...
Life with a compulsive Groucho Marx impersonator might not be so bad, but after 13 years, it starts to wear thin. It’s a war of wills between a teenage girl and her father, and Hanukkah is battlefield. “Lydia The Tattooed Lady” was written by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg and pe...
Synopsis: Middle-aged alcoholic Gin (Toru Emori), teenage runaway Miyuki (Aya Okamoto) and former drag queen Hana (Yoshiaki Umegaki) are a trio... [More] Starring: Yoshiaki Umegaki, Aya Okamoto, Toru Emori Directed By: Satoshi Kon Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (2020) 91% 69% ...