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Dune
Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2017
Published in 1965, Dune is the breakthrough work of American author Frank Herbert and the first full-length novel in science fiction history to win bo…
Wind Rises at Purple Luo Gorge
Qidian · 2008
Wind Rises at Purple Luo Gorge is a long xianxia novel by Jing Kesou. Serialized on Qidian from January 8, 2004 to November 12, 2008, it runs to 84 ch…
Dead Lions: Slough House Series, Book 2
New Star Press · 2024
Dead Lions is the second book in Mick Herron's Slough House series and the novel that made the series' name, winning the 2013 CWA Gold Dagger. The sto…
Sword Emperor
Sword Emperor is a long Eastern fantasy novel by the web novelist Great Sage of the Bamboo Forest. Serialized on Qidian in 2014 and completed in Septe…
Arab Seafaring: From Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages
Luminaire Books · 2025
When people think of the "Age of Discovery," they usually think first of Zheng He's voyages and the European opening of new sea routes; yet before bot…
The Elegant Universe
Hunan Science & Technology Press · 2018
The Elegant Universe is the breakout work of theoretical physicist Brian R. Greene and remains one of the most widely read popular introductions to st…
Confessions of an Advertising Man
CITIC Press · 2008
Confessions of an Advertising Man is the book that made the name of David Ogilvy, legendary figure of modern advertising and co-founder of Ogilvy & Ma…
This Side of Paradise
CITIC Press · 2018
This Side of Paradise is F. Scott Fitzgerald's debut novel. Published in 1920 with the support of his editor Perkins, it was his true breakthrough; af…
The Overlooked and the Forgotten
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2017
The Overlooked and the Forgotten is the breakthrough work of Gay Talese, a leading figure of "New Journalism," collecting his early reportage and prof…
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
CITIC Press · 2014
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind is the breakout work of Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari, originally published in English under the same titl…
Questions of Water
Culture and Art Publishing House · 2011
Questions of Water is Jian Zhen's first book and the work that made her name. It collects more than thirty essays she wrote during her four years at u…
Classic 9-Volume Set
Nanhai Publication Company · 2022
This boxed set brings together nine representative works by Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata: Snow Country, The Izu Dancer, The Old Capital, Thousand …
The Language Instinct: The Mystery of Human Language Evolution
Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2015
The Language Instinct is the breakthrough work of cognitive psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker, originally published in 1994 under the title The …
The Legend of Ling Tian
The Legend of Ling Tian is a long fantasy web novel by Feng Ling Tianxia, serialized on Qidian and completed in 2010; it runs about 2.46 million chara…
The Lady of the Camellias
People's Literature Publishing House · 2015
The Lady of the Camellias is a novel by Alexandre Dumas fils published in 1848 and the work that made his name. It opens from the first-person perspec…
The Izu Dancer (Original Japanese Edition)
East China University of Science and Technology Press · 2025
Yasunari Kawabata is a world-renowned Japanese writer of the New Sensationist school. In 1968 he became the first Japanese laureate of the Nobel Prize…
The Rachel Papers
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2024
The Rachel Papers is Amis's breakthrough novel. Its publication won him the Somerset Maugham Award and made the twenty-four-year-old novelist an overn…
The Two-Sen Copper Coin
Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2023
The Edogawa Rampo Mystery Collection consists of four volumes: The Two-Sen Copper Coin, The D-Slope Murder Case, The Beast in the Shadows, and The Hum…