The books, in order
- 1
Fiction · 15 min
Dom Casmurro
Machado de Assis
The book's most famous question has no answer hidden in any chapter, because the ambiguity is the author's deliberate construction.
- 2
Fiction · 15 min
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
Machado de Assis
Privilege is not the absence of mistakes, it is the absence of consequences for the very same mistakes.
- 3
Children's · 15 min
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
A busy adult can get through an entire day without once looking up at what really matters in their own life.
- 4
Biographies and Memoirs · 15 min
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
A notebook that began as private venting and was rewritten with a reader in mind ended up becoming a historical document verified decades later.
- 5
- 6
Fiction · 15 min
Barren Lives
Graciliano Ramos
Locked up by the yellow-uniformed soldier for no reason, Fabiano loses more than a day: he carries the rage of that humiliation for a very long time.
- 7
Fiction · 16 min
The Hour of the Star
Clarice Lispector
The book's narrator shows that telling another person's life is also a way of talking about yourself: by looking at Macabéa, he reveals his own guilt.
- 8
Fiction · 15 min
Tent of Miracles
Jorge Amado
Calling someone else's religion folklore is a polite way of saying it doesn't count as a religion.
- 9
Fiction · 15 min
Captains of the Sands
Jorge Amado
Neighborhood leadership usually grows out of necessity and lasts when the leader shares what they have and protects the group.
- 10
History · 15 min
1808: The Flight of the Emperor: How a Weak Prince, a Mad Queen, and a Corrupt Court Tricked Napoleon and Changed the New World
Laurentino Gomes
A political decision that looks bold from a distance is often born of months of hesitation and outside pressure, not pure courage.
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