War Diary
By: Yevgenia Belorusets
4.35
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A monumental, deeply penetrating document of life in Kyiv during the first forty-one days of the Ru…
Want to Read $ 9.99"The wounds keep getting bigger. But sometimes a little voice comes to whisper in my ear, constantly repeating: ‘They keep fighting, we keep fighting.’ Then the wounds heal faster."-Yevgenia Belorusets, War Diary
"This ability of the residents of Berdyansk to go on fighting, to approach the soldiers unarmed and shout the truth in their faces, even when the city has almost fallen into Putin’s hands - this promises a lot. It is hope itself."-Yevgenia Belorusets, War Diary
"There exists in this war a strange calculation, which obeys no clear logic, that devalues everyday life to the point of negation. In the eyes of those who order an attack on a peaceful city, life in this place has already ceased to exist long before the strike."-Yevgenia Belorusets, War Diary
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1. The Post-Office Girl
By: Stefan Zweig , Joel Rotenberg
4.09
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
The post-office girl is Christine, who looks after her ailing mother and toils in a provincial Au… read more
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"There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one."-Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl
"Kẻ nào quá sung sướng, kẻ ấy thường mất khả năng quan sát. Những người hạnh phúc là những nhà tâm lý học tồi. Chỉ có sự lo âu mới làm trí óc con người trở nên sắc sảo đến mức tối đa. Chỉ có cảm giác …"-Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl
"For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them up on the shelf in multicoloured rows: he watches over ea…"-Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl
2. Notes of a Crocodile
By: Qiu Miaojin , Bonnie Huie
3.83
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Set in the post-martial-law era of late 1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming-of-ag… read more
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"Unhealthy love is two people stoking a shared fantasy of desperate beauty, weaponizing passion and desire."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Secretly though, I did sort of enjoy being a fucked-up mess. Apart from that, I didn't have a whole lot going on."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Like death, college serves as a kind of escape hatch. But while death takes you straight to the morgue, college is a single rope dangling loose from the inescapable net of society."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Sweeping that other me into their arms, they led me in a dance within societal norms, along a trajectory based on a delusion. (Though I couldn't define what I was, I knew what I wasn't.)"-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
3. Katherine
By: Anchee Min
4.14
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
This novel, described by the San Francisco Chronicle Book Reviewas "nothing short of miraculous," i… read more
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4. The Man Who Loved Islands / L'uomo che amava le isole
By: D.H. Lawrence
4.15
Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition
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5. The Butcher Boy
By: Patrick McCabe
3.43
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
"I was thinking how right ma was -- Mrs. Nugent all smiles when she met us and how are you getting … read more
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6. Other Russias
By: Victoria Lomasko , Thomas Campbell
3.68
Format: 593 pages, Paperback
From a renowned graphic artist and activist, an incredible portrait of life in Russia today 'Victor… read more
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7. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
8. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.30
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more
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"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
9. Roman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more
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10. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
11. Eastbound
By: Maylis de Kerangal
3.97
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more
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12. Aquí no es Miami
By: Fernanda Melchor
4.17
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Las crónicas de Fernanda Melchor dan cuenta de la degradación humana en uno de sus aspectos más sór… read more
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"El estilo narrativo de Jorge me intrigaba: sabía entretejer el relato directo de lo sucedido con fragmentos de diálogo, con ademanes aferrados a su cuerpo, con sus propios pensamientos, los presentes…"-Fernanda Melchor, Aquí no es Miami
"Siempre me ha parecido inquietante la contigüidad que existe entre la crónica de sociales y la nota roja, no sólo porque estas dos secciones suelen aparecer juntas en los diarios del puerto (a menudo…"-Fernanda Melchor, Aquí no es Miami
13. Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
By: Jacob Mikanowski
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to min… read more
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14. The Silver Bone (The Kyiv Mysteries, #1)
By: Andrey Kurkov
3.43
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the Ukrainian Andrey Kurkov, a perplexing mystery from a world-renowned literary master that i… read more
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15. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
16. I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country
By: Elena Kostyuchenko
4.41
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An unprecedented and intimate portrait of Russia and a fearless cri de coeur for journalism in oppo… read more
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17. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
By: Anne de Marcken
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more
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"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
18. The Sorrows of Others
By: Ada Zhang
4.09
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Set in China and America, in the generations after the Cultural Revolution, The Sorrows of Others i… read more
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19. Mild Vertigo
By: Mieko Kanai
3.55
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and… read more
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20. War Diary
By: Yevgenia Belorusets
4.35
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A monumental, deeply penetrating document of life in Kyiv during the first forty-one days of the Ru… read more
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- history
- memoir
- politics
- war
- ukraine
- nonfiction
- ukrainian literature
"The wounds keep getting bigger. But sometimes a little voice comes to whisper in my ear, constantly repeating: ‘They keep fighting, we keep fighting.’ Then the wounds heal faster."-Yevgenia Belorusets, War Diary
"This ability of the residents of Berdyansk to go on fighting, to approach the soldiers unarmed and shout the truth in their faces, even when the city has almost fallen into Putin’s hands - this promi…"-Yevgenia Belorusets, War Diary
"There exists in this war a strange calculation, which obeys no clear logic, that devalues everyday life to the point of negation. In the eyes of those who order an attack on a peaceful city, life in …"-Yevgenia Belorusets, War Diary
21. Diary of an Invasion
By: Andrey Kurkov
4.19
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov's writings and broadcasts from Kyiv, is… read more
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22. A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine
By: Andrew Harding
4.33
Format: 140 pages, Kindle Edition
The Russians are invading. But the locals have a plan. It's March 2022 and Russian tanks are roa… read more
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23. The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
By: Simon Shuster
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Time correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the definitive account of the Russian invasion of Ukrain… read more
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24. Things to Come and Go
By: Bette Howland
3.60
Format: 165 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage and the memoir W-3, a trio of novel… read more
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25. The Deadline
By: Jill Lepore
4.30
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
TIME • 10 Best Books of August 2023 A book to be read and kept for posterity, The Deadline is th… read more
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26. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
By: Emily Nussbaum
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more
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27. Unschuld
By: Takis Würger
3.84
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Wenn alle Lügen. Und niemand unschuldig ist. Molly Carver bleiben fünfunddreißig Tage, um die Un… read more
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28. Ukraine 22: Ukrainian Writers Respond to War
By: Various
4.49
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A selection of Ukraine's leading writers convey the reality of life within Ukraine during the first… read more
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29. I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness
By: Daniel Allen Cox
3.57
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
*LONGLISTED FOR THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE DE MONTREAL* “I spent eighteen years in a group that taugh… read more
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30. Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
By: Robert Chapman
4.39
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
‘Groundbreaking … [provides] a deep history of the invention of the “normal” mind as one of the mo… read more
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31. Russian Colonialism 101
By: Maksym Eristavi
4.51
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
For years, Ukrainian journalist Maksym Eristavi has been mainstreaming the global awareness about t… read more
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