You Don’t Know Lit

Water Margin by Shi Nai'an (14th century) vs The Adventures of Monkey (Journey to the West) by Wu Cheng'en translated Arthur Waley (16th century/1994)

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport (2016)

Getting Things Done by David Allen (2001)

Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi (1991) vs Accidental Tyrant: The Life of Kim Il-sung by Fyodor Tertitskiy (2025)

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. (Jerome David) Salinger (1951) vs The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (1999)

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, and Steven L. Hopp (2007)

Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky (2024) vs Golem XIV by Stanisław Lem (1978)

Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend by Rebecca Romney (2025) vs Journals and Letters by Frances Burney (1752-1840)

The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992) vs My Brilliant Friend (2011/2012) by Elena Ferrante

I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid (2016)