The Collection
Books that ask something of you.
Every book on our shelves is chosen with intention. We carry the works that changed the conversation — and the ones still trying to. Below is a preview of what you'll find when we open.
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Literature
The novels and stories that changed what fiction could do.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Master and Margarita
Beloved
The Tin Drum
Middlemarch
Pedro Páramo
The Brothers Karamazov
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Nobel Laureates
A dedicated shelf for every Nobel Prize in Literature winner — the full arc of the award.
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Annie Ernaux
Jon Fosse
Olga Tokarczuk
Peter Handke
Herta Müller
Mo Yan
Toni Morrison
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Philosophy
From the pre-Socratics to the present. The questions that won't stay answered.
Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
Being and Time — Heidegger
The Republic — Plato
Thus Spoke Zarathustra — Nietzsche
Critique of Pure Reason — Kant
The Myth of Sisyphus — Camus
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The Beats
The writers who blew the doors off American literature.
On the Road — Kerouac
Howl — Ginsberg
Naked Lunch — Burroughs
Big Sur — Kerouac
Junky — Burroughs
Kaddish — Ginsberg
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Poetry
The shelf that earns its silence.
Leaves of Grass — Whitman
Ariel — Plath
The Waste Land — Eliot
Neruda: Selected Poems
Rumi: The Essential
Mary Oliver: Devotions
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Physics & Cosmology
The universe, explained as best we can manage.
A Brief History of Time — Hawking
The Elegant Universe — Greene
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
The Fabric of Reality — Deutsch
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics — Rovelli
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Metaphysics & Mysticism
The territory beyond the map.
The Perennial Philosophy — Huxley
The Tao Te Ching
I Ching
The Upanishads
Mysticism — Evelyn Underhill
The Secret Teachings of All Ages — Hall
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Religion & Spirituality
Every tradition, treated with equal seriousness.
The Bible
The Quran
The Bhagavad Gita
The Dhammapada
The Book of Job
The Cloud of Unknowing
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❧ The collection will grow. Special orders welcome from day one.