Lawrence's Staff Picks


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Book cover for "Anna Karenina"
Star rating for Anna Karenina
Average Rating:
3.4 stars
Description:

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way," writes Tolstoy in his literary masterpiece Anna Karenina. Commonly regarded as one of the greatest realist novels ever written, Tolstoy himself saw it as his first true novel. The novel was not well received by critics when first published, but Tolstoy's fellow Russian greats all considered it a great work of art.

Book cover for "Ficciones"
Star rating for Ficciones
Average Rating:
5 stars
Book cover for "The sirens of Titan"
Star rating for The sirens of Titan
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Malachi Constant, "the richest man in America," gives up his indulgent lifestyle to follow an urgent calling to probe the depths of space. He participates in a Martian invasion of Earth, mates with the wife of an astronaut adrift on the tides of time, and follows the lure of the "Sirens of Titan."