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Welcome to Curia book club, where we explore the best in non-fiction and fiction. Here you will find books for children, teenagers, and adults. If you have a book you think others in the Curia community should read, please submit a recommendation and we will review and categorize it accordingly.

Curia Book Club.

Young woman with dark hair reading a book outdoors near a river, sitting on the grass under a tree on a sunny day.
Open book with text in a language that appears to be Slovak or Czech, placed on a round wooden table. Behind the book, a white ceramic cup with a decorative pattern is filled with coffee or tea, and a white ceramic vase with green leaves and small white flowers is also on the table. The background is dark with a piece of dark fabric or cloth.

Below you will find books that have been carefully hand selected by our Curia resident literary curators. These literature professionals curate, select, and recommend books based on themes, relevance, complexity, audience, and age appropriateness.

Children (8+)

Book cover titled "Holes" by Louis Sachar, featuring a desert landscape with a large hole and a shovel, and part of a child's face at the bottom.
Book cover titled "Holes" by Louis Sachar, featuring a desert landscape with a large hole and a shovel, and part of a child's face at the bottom.
Book cover of "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, featuring an illustration of the prince standing on a small planet with stars in the background.
Cover of the book 'A Wrinkle in Time' by Madeleine L'Engle, featuring illustrations of people, trees, and buildings in a colorful, whimsical style.
Cover of Charlotte's Web by E.B. White, illustrated by Garth Williams, featuring a girl with red hair and animals including a pig, sheep, and a goose, with spider webs in the background.
Book cover of "Wonder" by R.J. Palacio, depicting a face with no features, the word "wonder" written across the face's eye, and a quote from The Wall Street Journal at the top.
Cover of the book 'Hatchet' by Gary Paulsen featuring an illustrated young boy with a serious expression, a green landscape, and mountains in the background.
Book cover of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" by J.K. Rowling, featuring Harry Potter with glasses, Ron and Hermione, and Hagrid holding a lantern, with a castle in the background.
Book cover for 'The Lightning Thief' by Rick Riordan, depicting a boy holding a glowing sword, running through rough waters with stormy skies and lightning in the background.
Book cover of 'Matilda' by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Quentin Blake, showing a girl sitting at a desk surrounded by stacks of books.
Book cover for 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets' featuring Harry Potter with glasses and a wand, looking surprised or frightened, with a large green serpent and a fiery red and yellow phoenix in the background, set in a dark, magical environment.
Cover of a book titled 'Artemis Fowl' by Eoin Colfer, published by Scholastic, with gold and brown decorative design and symbols.
Book cover for 'Ereinion' by Christopher Paolini, featuring a detailed illustration of a blue dragon's head and neck with spiky scales, set against a dark background.
Book cover titled 'The Chronicles of Narnia' by C.S. Lewis, featuring a close-up image of a lion's face.
Book cover for 'Bridge to Terabithia' by Katherine Paterson. Features a silhouette of a boy and a girl on a swing hanging from a tree, with a dog nearby. The background depicts a colorful, dreamy sky with trees and a castle silhouette, under a night sky with white butterflies.
Book cover of 'The Phantom Tollbooth' by Norton Juster, illustrated by Jules Feiffer, featuring a boy and a large dog with a clock face on its side.
Book cover for 'The City of Ember' by Jeanne DuPrau, featuring a glowing light bulb with the word 'ember' written inside in cursive, and the subtitle 'Deluxe Edition' at the bottom.
Book cover for 'Toad Heaven' by Morris Gleitzman featuring three cartoon toads with human-like expressions and hands, sitting in front of a yellow background with rays, and a logo in the top right corner.
Book cover for 'A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning' by Lemony Snicket, featuring an illustration of a sinister-looking man with gray hair and a twisted face, holding a cigarette, with children and a woman in the background.

Teenagers (13+)

Silhouette of two men sitting by a body of water during sunset, with trees framing the scene.
Book cover of 'East of Eden' by John Steinbeck, part of the Steinbeck Centennial Edition, featuring a sketch of a fallen tree with a landscape in the background.
Cover of the book "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger featuring an illustration of a red-colored horse with a man riding it on a pink background.
Book cover of 'Franny and Zooey' by J.D. Salinger with a blue background and white text.
Book cover of "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom, 25th Anniversary Edition, featuring beige background with red border, and black and red text.
Cover of The Alchemist 25th anniversary edition by Paulo Coelho with a red and yellow color scheme, featuring a stylized sun and mountains, and two palm trees at the bottom corners.
Illustration of a person rowing a boat on a serene river surrounded by lush greenery, water lilies, and a glowing full moon in the sky, with the title 'Siddhartha' and author 'Hermann Hesse' at the top.
Book cover of George Orwell's "Animal Farm" featuring a red pig, a windmill, and decorative border elements with the Penguin logo
Cover of 'The Hunger Games' by Suzanne Collins featuring a golden bird with wings spread, holding an arrow in its beak, against a black background with geometric circles.
Book cover titled "Dune" by Frank Herbert, featuring an illustration of a desert landscape with wavy sand dunes, a small figure in a flowing cloak, and celestial bodies in the sky.
Book cover for 'Catching Fire' by Suzanne Collins, showing a hummingbird in front of a target with a red and orange background.
Cover of the book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams. Features a blue background with stars, a large hand making a thumbs-up gesture, a colorful planet, a green smiling cartoon planet sticking out its tongue, and a purple ringed planet. The title and author's name are in bold, yellow-and-white text.
Book cover for 'Legendborn' shows a portrait of a woman with dark curly hair, glowing blue eyes, and dark skin. She is reaching forward with her right hand, which is wrapped in glowing red energy. The background is dark with blue and red swirling energy, and the title 'LEGENDBORN' is prominently displayed in large, stylized font. The author's name, 'Tracy Deonn,' is at the bottom.
Stylized illustration of mountains with a large red sun, flying birds, and the text "The Hobbit" at the top and J.R.R. Tolkien's signature at the bottom.
Book cover of 'The Lord of the Rings' by J.R.R. Tolkien. It features a black background with a circular design. Inside the circle, the title is in large white letters. Surrounding the circle is red Elvish script, and below is a white signature of J.R.R. Tolkien. At the bottom, it states 'one-volume edition with the appendices' in red.
Book cover of 'The Giver' by Lois Lowry. The cover features a partial black-and-white photo of an elderly man's face with a long beard, and a gold medal badge. The background includes a silhouette of trees at sunset.
Book cover for 'The Kite Runner' by Khaled Hosseini, 20th anniversary edition, featuring a silhouette of a boy flying kites against a yellow background with clouds and a large red sun.
Cover of George Orwell's book '1984' featuring an eye, surveillance cameras, and a crowd of people in front of city buildings against a red background.

Adults (16+)

The cover of the book 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy featuring the author's name, title, and a quote about the book.
Book cover for 'Catch 22' by Joseph Heller, 50th Anniversary Edition, with a red background, large white and red title, and a silver dog tag with the number 22 hanging from a chain.
Book cover titled 'Fearn and Lathing in Las Vegas' by Hunter S. Thompson. The cover is yellow with the title in red handwritten-style text and the author's name in bold black uppercase letters. There is a sketch of a person in sunglasses, wearing a hat, lying back on a tire tube by a pool, with palm trees in the background.
Book cover titled 'Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius featuring a classical marble bust of Marcus Aurelius with a beard and curly hair.
Book cover with a sunset over a wheat field, titled "Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy, with an introduction by Marlon James.
Book cover for 'Crime and Punishment' by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, with a black and white geometric design.
Book cover titled "Everything Is Tuberculosis" by John Green, a bestseller about the history and persistence of tuberculosis infection, with a yellow background and a graphic illustration of a bacteria cell.
Book cover of Emily Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights' with a watercolor-style painting of two figures walking through a stormy, windswept landscape, with dark clouds and windblown trees.
Book cover titled 'William Faulkner: The Corrected Text' with an introduction by Jesmyn Ward. The cover features a photograph of a muddy dirt road surrounded by greenery.
A colorful painting of a sunset with orange and yellow sky, with a person standing on a rocky cliff overlooking clouds and mountain peaks.
Book cover of "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro with a blurred background featuring a person wearing a striped shirt and dark hair. Text indicates the book is shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and describes it as a novel with piercing questions about humanity.
Cover of the book titled 'The Treasure Hunters Club' by Tom Ryan, featuring a red background with ornate blue and white decorative borders, a skull at the top, and illustrations of a treasure map, a treasure chest, a camera, and a metal detector.
Cover of the book 'The Handmaid's Tale' by Margaret Atwood, featuring two women in red cloaks and white bonnets near a brick wall.
Book cover for 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen featuring a family at a holiday gathering.
The cover of the book titled 'Homer: The Iliad,' translated by Robert Fagles, part of the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, featuring a line art illustration of a person's profile in a classical style.
Painting of three men in a room, two are seated at a table writing or reading, and one is seated, looking down, with a book or papers. The scene is lit by natural light from a window in the background.
The image features the book cover of 'The Trial' by Franz Kafka, part of the Modern Classics series, with a black and white illustration of an eye on a dark background.
Book cover of "Notes from Underground" by Fyodor Dostoevsky with a black and white illustration of a man's face.

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