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Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady by Clarice Lispector (Penguin) — one of Lispector’s most celebrated stories in a beautiful Penguin Little Black Classic. A wealthy woman at a party slips into a reverie that becomes one of the most precise explorations of female interiority in twentieth-century fiction. An essential introduction to a writer who remains unlike anyone else. Published by Penguin.

Life for Sale by Yukio Mishima (Penguin Modern Classics) — a darkly comic, satirical novel in which a young man places an advertisement offering to live anyone else’s life for a price. Mishima at his most playful and his most philosophically serious about identity — proof of his extraordinary range. Newly available in English for the first time. Published by Penguin Modern Classics.

Philosophy in the Bedroom by the Marquis de Sade (Penguin) — the most philosophically explicit of de Sade’s works, presenting his radical libertine philosophy through a dialogic structure that combines argument and narrative. Essential for serious students of the European radical Enlightenment, the history of ideas, and the limits of philosophical reason. Published by Penguin.

The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade (Penguin Modern Classics) — written in the Bastille in 1785, one of the most notorious works in Western literary history. This Penguin Modern Classics edition presents the text with full scholarly apparatus for serious students of literature and philosophy. Trans. Will McMorran and Thomas Wynn.

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (Penguin Classics) — the great American novel. Captain Ahab’s monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale drives one of fiction’s most gripping narratives — simultaneously an account of nineteenth-century whaling, a study of obsession, and a philosophical inquiry into the limits of human knowledge. Written in prose of unmatched power. Essential world literature.

Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector (Penguin Modern Classics) — all eighty-six of her short stories in Katrina Dodson’s landmark translation. From early modernism to her late radical voice, these stories of domestic life and sudden revelation reveal the full scope of one of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary literary imaginations.

Homo Faber by Max Frisch (Penguin Modern Classics) — UNESCO engineer Walter Faber’s rationalist worldview is shattered when coincidences reveal a suppressed truth about his past. A gripping tragedy and parable about the limits of the technological mind, written in prose perfectly calibrated to its narrator. Trans. Michael Bullock.

The Forsyte Saga: Volume 3 by John Galsworthy (Penguin Modern Classics) — the final volume of the Nobel Prize-winning family chronicle. The Forsyte story reaches its conclusion in inter-war Britain with characteristic irony, compassion, and finely judged social observation.

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (Penguin Modern Classics) — one of the most affecting short novels in American literature. George and Lennie’s shared dream of their own land in Depression-era California is one of literature’s most moving visions of human solidarity — and its most devastating tragedies. A masterpiece of economy and emotional power.