Shelfology Book Pairing

A Novel

by Sally Rooney

#1 INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK ONE OF TIME'S MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2021 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED, ESQUIRE, THE GUARDIAN, KIRKUS REVIEWS AND FINANCIAL TIMES “Beautiful World, Where Are You is Rooney’s best novel yet. Funny and smart, full of sex and love and people doing their best to connect.” —The New York Times Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they worry about sex and friendship and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?

(Timeless Classic Books)

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Originally entitled "A Tangled Skein", "A Study in Scarlet" is a mystery novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. This was the first introduction of Detective Sherlock Holmes to the world.Sherlock Holmes meets Dr. John H. Watson through an old acquaintance of his. The doctor had been injured and became severely ill while serving in India. He has now returned to London and he and Holmes become fast friends. They decide to room together and lease a house on Baker Street.Sherlock Holmes tell Watson about the current murder investigation he is working on. At the scene a woman's wedding ring has been found as well as two letters; one to the dead man and one to Joseph Stangerson from a Steamship Company, both are addressed to the American exchange. In one corner of the room the word "Rache" is written on the wall in blood.Holmes calls this case "A Study in Scarlet". He tells Watson "There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote this book in under three weeks at the age of 27. The was the first work of fiction ever to incorporation the use of a magnifying glass as an investigative tool.