100 Books. 100 New Yorkers.

Spring 2027 · New York City

100 Books. 100 New Yorkers.

This spring, Casa Carlini is giving away 100 free books to 100 people across New York City through libraries, literacy groups, cultural centers, and other local partners. No purchase, no registration, no catch. These are the titles you might find.

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Classics

• The OdysseyHomer The original journey home: shipwrecks, monsters, and a hero who refuses to give up.
• Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen A sharp, funny comedy of manners about first impressions and second chances.
• Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy Love, society, and consequence in one of the greatest novels ever written.
• Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert Forbidden desire and provincial boredom in the novel that reinvented realism.
• Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky One terrible crime, one tormented conscience, and a gripping psychological chase.
• FrankensteinMary Shelley The creature wasn’t the monster. The book that invented science fiction.
• The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald The great New York novel of longing, money, and the American Dream.
• Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë An orphan, a secret, and a woman determined to live on her own terms.
• All Quiet on the Western FrontErich Maria Remarque Boys sent to war, told with a plainness that still hits hard a century later.
• The MetamorphosisFranz Kafka A man wakes up as an insect. A short, strange story you won’t forget.

History

• Operation Condor: The Pact That Terrorized a Continent A secret alliance of South American dictatorships, and the long fight to remember.
• Simply NapoleonJ. David Markham & Matthew D. Zarzeczny The Corsican soldier who crowned himself emperor and remade Europe.
• Common SenseThomas Paine The pamphlet that sparked a revolution. Readable in a single sitting.
• Simply Chinggis How a leader of scattered steppe nomads built the largest land empire in history.
• Simply Caesar The general who conquered an empire and changed the meaning of power.

Philosophy & Ideas

• MeditationsMarcus Aurelius An emperor’s private notes on staying calm and decent. Open it anywhere.
• The PrinceNiccolò Machiavelli The short, unsentimental handbook on power that is still argued over today.
• The A B C of RelativityBertrand Russell Einstein’s universe explained by a great philosopher, with no math required.
• Simply DescartesKurt Smith The philosopher who taught us to question everything, made clear.

Biography

• Simply ChekhovCarol Apollonio The writer who found whole lives in the smallest moments.
• Simply NabokovDana Dragunoiu The writer who turned language, memory, and obsession into art.
• Émile Zola: A BiographyAlan Strauss-Schom The novelist who accused a nation and changed the course of French history.
• Simply DarwinMichael Ruse The naturalist who changed forever how we understand life.

Contemporary & Memoir

• The Swallows of MontafiaAlan Strauss-Schom A historian’s memoir of a life devoted to the past, and an Italian village he loves.
• The Marilyn DiariesAubrey Malone An intimate, imagined voice for the woman the whole world thought it knew.
• Fearful in GazaAbdalhadi Alijla One family’s fight to survive and remember, beyond the headlines.