The Bibliophile's Compass

1886  Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson - UK Stevenson's famous exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil 1953 Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett - Ireland ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The story revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone—or something—named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree, inhabiting a drama spun of their own consciousness. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as mankind’s inexhaustible search for meaning. Beckett’s language pioneered an expressionistic minimalism that captured the existential post-World War II Europe. His play remains one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time. 2021 Want to know a secret? by Freida McFadden - US YouTube baking sensation April Masterson knows the secret to the perfect gooey brownies. Or how to make key lime squares that will melt in your mouth. But if you keep watching her offline, ...

1962  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee A bitter marriage unravels in Edward Albee's darkly humorous play—winner of the Tony Award for Best Play. 2011 All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami The novel follows Fuyuko Irie, a freelance proofreader in her mid-thirties who lives alone, over the course of about eight months. 2020 The Once and Future Witches  by  Alix E. Harrow In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in this powerful novel of magic, family, and the suffragette movement. Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel 2022 You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés enters the city of Tenochtitlan – today's Mexico City. Later that day, he will meet the emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages, two possible futures. 2025 The Picasso Heist by James Patterson  and Howard Roughan Everyone want...