12 Comforting Classics to Read This Year

A book for finding purpose and strength in times of great despair, the international best-seller is still just as relevant today as when it was first published.

“This is a book I reread a lot . . . it gives me hope . . . it gives me a sense of strength.”
—Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper 360/CNN

This seminal book, which has been called “one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought” by Carl Rogers and “one of the great books of our time” by Harold Kushner, has been translated into more than 50 languages and sold over 16 million copies.

Get Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback) by Viktor E. Frankl and other psychology books at Fully Booked online and at Fully Booked branches in the Philippines

A 50th-anniversary Deluxe Edition of the incomparable 20th-century masterpiece of satire and fantasy, in a newly revised version of the acclaimed Pevear and Volokhonsky translation
 
Nothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita. One spring afternoon, the Devil, trailing fire and chaos in his wake, weaves himself out of the shadows and into Moscow.
 
This newly revised translation, by the award-winning team of Pevear and Volokhonsky, is made from the complete and unabridged Russian text.

Get The Master and Margarita: 50th Anniversary Edition, Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition (Paperback) by Mikhail Bulgakov and other classics books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

The classic Anne of Green Gables; inspiration for the Netflix original series Anne With an E

Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.

Get Anne of Green Gables, Puffin in Bloom (Hardcover) by L.M. Montgomery and other children's classic books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

Get The Life Of A Stupid Man, Penguin Little Black Classics (Paperback) by Ryunosuke Akutagawa and other classic books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

Written more than 70 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...

Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching...

Get 1984, Signet Classics (Mass Market) by George Orwell and other classic books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

A curated collection of the very best adventures of Arsène Lupin, France’s most famous gentleman thief 

The poor and the innocent have nothing to fear from Lupin; often they profit from his spontaneous generosity. The rich and powerful, and the detective who tries to spoil his fun, however, must beware. They are the target of Lupin’s mischief. With plans that frequently evolve into elaborate plots, Lupin is a gentleman burglar turned detective, and the most entertaining criminal genius in literature.

Get Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief, Penguin Classics (Paperback) by Maurice Leblanc and other classics books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

The Penguin English Library Edition of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes ...'

Get Pride and Prejudice, Penguin English Library (Paperback) by Jane Austen and other classic fiction books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the art of the Japanese short story, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable practitioners writing today. Edited by acclaimed translator Jay Rubin, who has himself freshly translated some of the stories, and with an introduction by Haruki Murakami, this book is a revelation.

Get The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories (Hardcover) by Jay Rubin and other fiction books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

Three decades and more than one million copies later children still love hearing about the boy with the long name who fell down the well. Arlene Mosel and Blair Lent's classic re-creation of an ancient Chinese folktale has hooked legions of children, teachers, and parents, who return, generation after generation, to learn about the danger of having such an honorable name as Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo.

Get Tikki Tikki Tembo (Paperback) by Arlene Mosel and other children's classic books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

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Nella Larsen’s second novel, Passing, first published in 1929, is a fascinating exploration of race and identity set amidst the blossoming Harlem Renaissance.

Clare finds herself drawn to Irene’s sense of ease and security with her Black identity and longs for the community (and, increasingly, the woman) she lost. Irene is both riveted and repulsed by Clare and her dangerous secret, as Clare begins to insert herself—and her deception—into every part of Irene’s stable existence. Nearly a century later, Larsen’s brilliant examination of the various ways in which we all seek to “pass” is as timely as ever.

Get Passing (Mass Market) by Nella Larsen and other classic fiction books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

‘Oh dear,’ exclaimed Mrs May lightly, ‘don’t say they’re in this house too!’

Pod, Homily and Arrietty are a family of tiny people who live beneath the floorboards. Everything they have is borrowed from the ‘human beans’, who don’t even they exist. That is, until the fateful day when Arrietty makes friends with ‘the boy upstairs’…

Get The Borrowers, Puffin Book (Paperback) and other books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

A book for finding purpose and strength in times of great despair, the international best-seller is still just as relevant today as when it was first published.

“This is a book I reread a lot . . . it gives me hope . . . it gives me a sense of strength.”
—Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper 360/CNN

This seminal book, which has been called “one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought” by Carl Rogers and “one of the great books of our time” by Harold Kushner, has been translated into more than 50 languages and sold over 16 million copies.

Get Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback) by Viktor E. Frankl and other psychology books at Fully Booked online and at Fully Booked branches in the Philippines

A book for finding purpose and strength in times of great despair, the international best-seller is still just as relevant today as when it was first published.

“This is a book I reread a lot . . . it gives me hope . . . it gives me a sense of strength.”
—Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper 360/CNN

This seminal book, which has been called “one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought” by Carl Rogers and “one of the great books of our time” by Harold Kushner, has been translated into more than 50 languages and sold over 16 million copies.

Get Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback) by Viktor E. Frankl and other psychology books at Fully Booked online and at Fully Booked branches in the Philippines

When a pilot crash-lands in the Sahara Desert he meets a stranger - a little prince - who has arrived on Earth from an entirely different planet. By listening to the prince's stories and his questions about the world, it becomes clear to the pilot that truths about life can reveal themselves in the most unlikely of places.

Get The Little Prince: A Faithful Reproduction of the Children's Classic, Featuring the Original Artworks (Hardcover) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery and other classic intermediate books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.