The Bibliophile's Compass

1860 | 📖 On Translating Homer by Matthew Arnold | United Kingdom | 104 pages | Literary Criticism / Poetry / Classics | Goodreads | 1916 | 📖 Bound East for Cardiff by Eugene O'Neill | United States | 48 pages | Plays / Drama / Classics | Goodreads | 2015 | 📖 Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving | United States | 464 pages | Fiction / Literary Fiction / Contemporary | Goodreads | 🎧 2015 | 📖 The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King | United States | 512 pages | Horror / Short Stories / Fiction | Goodreads | 🏆 | 🎧 2020 | 📖 The Best of Me by David Sedaris | United States | 387 pages | Humor / Essays / Memoir | Goodreads | 🎧 2026 | 📖 Ember and Vine Fiction: 15 Celebrated Short Stories of Courage, Heart, and Hope by Julie Cantrell | United States | 152 pages | Short Stories / Anthology / Fiction | Goodreads | @juliecantrell 2026 | 📖 Chimera Skin by Johnny Compton | United States | 264 pages | Horror / Fiction / Thriller | Goodreads | 📱 @comptonwrites 2026 | 📖 Web...

1921 | 📖 Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill | United States | 92 pages | Plays / Drama / Classics | Goodreads | 🏆 | 🎧 2020 | 📖 Em by Kim Thúy | Canada / Vietnam | 152 pages | Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / War | Goodreads | My Review | 🏆🏆 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | 🎧 2023 | 📖 Orbital by Samantha Harvey | United Kingdom | 224 pages | Literary Fiction / Science Fiction / Contemporary | Goodreads | My Review | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | 📚 2026 | 📖 A Murder Is Rehearsed by Marty Wingate | United States | 279 pages | Mystery / Cozy Mystery / Historical Fiction | Goodreads |

1604 | 📖 Othello by William Shakespeare | United Kingdom | 160 pages | Plays / Drama / Classics | Goodreads | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | 📚🎧 1611 | 📖 The Tempest by William Shakespeare | United Kingdom | 144 pages | Plays / Drama / Classics | Goodreads | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | 📚🎧 1904 | 📖 John Bull's Other Island by George Bernard Shaw | Ireland / United Kingdom | 80 pages | Plays / Drama / Classic Literature | Goodreads | 📱 1935 | 📖 Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot | United Kingdom | 148 pages | Plays / Drama / Poetry | Goodreads | 🎧🔴 1957 | 📖 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak | Russia / United States | 592 pages | Historical Fiction / Classics / Russian Literature | Goodreads | 🏆 | 🔴 1975 | 📖 The Assassins: A Book of Hours by Joyce Carol Oates | United States | 568 pages | Fiction / Literary Fiction / Contemporary | Goodreads | 1983 | 📖 The Rape of Shavi by Buchi Emecheta | United Kingdom | 180 pages | Fiction / Postcolonial Literature / Satire | Goodreads | My Review | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | 📚 1994 |...

Title : Ethan Brand Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne Publication Year : 1850 Rating : ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Genre : Short story, Gothic Fiction, Dark Romanticism, psychological allegory “Ethan Brand” follows a deeply Faustian pursuit of forbidden knowledge, although there is no formal contract with the Devil. No signatures, witnesses, or infernal paperwork are required. Brand simply sacrifices his humanity to his intellectual ambition, which turns out to be more efficient and considerably bleaker. For eighteen years, Ethan Brand wanders the world searching for the Unpardonable Sin. After studying other people, treating their suffering as material for his investigation, and generally conducting the least ethical research project imaginable, he discovers that the sin has been growing within himself all along. He defines it as: “The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God, and sacrificed everything to its own mighty claims!” The Unpardonable Sin...