All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything
By: Sasha Chapin
3.79
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Sasha Chapin is a victim of chess. Like countless amateurs before him--Albert Einstein, Humphrey Bo…
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1. Crossworld: One Man's Journey into America's Crossword Obsession
By: Marc Romano
3.14
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Sixty-four million people do it at least once a week. Nabokov wrote about it. Bill Clinton even did… read more
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2. Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall—From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
By: Frank Brady
3.94
Format: 402 pages, Hardcover
Endgame is acclaimed biographer Frank Brady’s decades-in-the-making tracing of the meteoric ascent—… read more
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3. The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl's Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster
By: Tim Crothers
3.76
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Based on a popular ESPN magazine article selected by Dave Eggers for The Best American Nonrequired … read more
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4. Play Winning Chess
By: Jeremy Silman , Yasser Seirawan
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Play Winning Chess is an introduction to the moves, strategies and philosophy of chess, with clear … read more
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5. Anathem
By: Neal Stephenson
4.17
Format: 937 pages, Hardcover
Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians,… read more
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"It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for."-Neal Stephenson, Anathem
"Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us."-Neal Stephenson, Anathem
"Topology is destiny,' he said, and put the drawers on. One leg at a time."-Neal Stephenson, Anathem
"Linguistics got me into this excellent mess––only physics can get me out."-Neal Stephenson, Anathem
6. Salt: A World History
By: Mark Kurlansky
4.11
Format: None pages,
From the Bestselling Author of Cod and The Basque History of the World In his fifth work of nonfict… read more
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7. The Ballad of Black Tom
By: Victor LaValle
3.85
Format: 149 pages, Paperback
People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles… read more
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"I wish I’d been more like my father,"-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"I'll take Cthulhu over you devils any day."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"A good hustler isn't curious. A good hustler only wants his pay."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"Because to watch would be to understand the play isn't being staged for us."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
8. Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games
By: Bruce Pandolfini , László Polgár
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The most complete collection of chess problems ever published, including 5,334 instructional situat… read more
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9. Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess
By: Fred Waitzkin
3.94
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
The compelling sage of three years in the life of a real American chess prodigy - now a Major Motio… read more
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10. The Wealthy Barber Returns
By: David Chilton
3.40
Format: 320 pages,
"If you've always thought of money as a dry and dusty subject, let Dave show you just how interesti… read more
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11. Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
By: Bobby Fischer , None , None
3.90
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
This book is essentially a teaching machine. The way a teaching machine works is: It asks you a que… read more
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12. Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
By: Apostolos Doxiadis , Christos H. Papadimitriou , Annie Di Donna , Alecos Papadatos
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
An innovative, dramatic graphic novel about the treacherous pursuit of the foundations of mathemati… read more
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13. The Immortal Game: A History of Chess, or How 32 Carved Pieces on a Board Illuminated Our Understanding of War, Art, Science and the Human Brain
By: David Shenk
3.97
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A surprising, charming, and ever-fascinating history of the seemingly simple game that has had a pr… read more
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14. King's Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game
By: Paul Hoffman
4.10
Format: 9 pages, Hardcover
As a young man, Paul Hoffman was a brilliant chess player . . . until the pressures of competition … read more
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15. The Wasp Factory
By: Iain Banks
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed B… read more
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16. A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
By: Anthony Bourdain
4.60
Format: 645 pages, Paperback
From the star of No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain's New York Times-bestselling chronicle of travel… read more
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17. The Adivasi Will Not Dance
By: Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
4.08
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
SHORTLISTED FOR THE HINDU PRIZE 2016 In this collection of stories, set in the fecund, mineral-rich… read more
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18. Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time
By: David Edmonds , John Eidinow
4.28
Format: 120 pages,
In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at… read more
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19. Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
By: Garry Kasparov , None
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Audio CD
Garry Kasparov's 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in… read more
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20. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
By: Kara Swisher
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more
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- audiobook
21. My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.54
Format: 405 pages, Hardcover
You won’t find a more hardcore eighties-slasher-film fan than high school senior Jade Daniels. And … read more
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"Some girls just don't know how to die."-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)
"Is it really winning if everybody dies?"-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)
"Horror's not a symptom, it's a love affair."-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)
"We all become history at some point or another, right?"-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)
22. Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
By: Steven H. Strogatz
4.30
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled … read more
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- history
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"For reasons nobody understands, the universe is deeply mathematical. Maybe God made it that way. Or maybe it’s the only way a universe with us in it could be, because nonmathematical universes can’t …"-Steven H. Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
"With the star up above and the blackness of space, I can't avoid feeling awe. How could we, Homo sapiens, an insignificant species on an insignificant planet adrift in a middleweight galaxy, have man…"-Steven H. Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
23. Lone Women
By: Victor LaValle
3.72
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past,… read more
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"A home is never finished, it’s only saved from decay."-Victor LaValle, Lone Women
"History is simple, but the past is complicated. I, for one, embrace the complications."-Victor LaValle, Lone Women
"As vast as the land could seem, it shrank in comparison to all that he—that anyone—kept within."-Victor LaValle, Lone Women
"Better to have a human cause for this horror. Something that could be understood by all, explained easily, brought to justice."-Victor LaValle, Lone Women
24. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
By: Zeke Faux
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more
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25. Horror Movie
By: Paul Tremblay
3.45
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more
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26. All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything
By: Sasha Chapin
3.79
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Sasha Chapin is a victim of chess. Like countless amateurs before him--Albert Einstein, Humphrey Bo… read more
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27. The Grandmaster: Magnus Carlsen and the Match That Made Chess Great Again
By: Brin-Jonathan Butler
3.42
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A firsthand account of the dramatic 2016 World Chess Championship between Norway's Magnus Carlsen a… read more
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28. Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the Greatest Female Players of All Time
By: Jennifer Shahade
4.12
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
For fans of The Queen's Gambit , this is the real life story of a female chess champion travelling … read more
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29. Perpetual Chess Improvement: Practical Chess Advice from World-Class Players and Dedicated Amateurs (New in Chess)
By: Ben Johnson
4.33
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In a world awash in educational chess content, knowing how to study the game most effectively can b… read more
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30. The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport
By: Joshua Robinson
4.41
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
🎧Listening Length = 10 hours and 40 minutes NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Wall Street Journal rep… read more
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31. The Bright Sword
By: Lev Grossman
4.06
Format: 673 pages, Hardcover
A gifted young knight named Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a spot on the Round Table, onl… read more
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"One day you will see that it is a mistake to love an empire, or a throne, or a crown, because those things cannot love. They can only die."-Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword
"God doesn't come when you snap your fingers, He comes when you're ready for Him." Nimue snapped her delicate fingers, producing a strikingly loud pop in the quiet. "That's the difference between a sp…"-Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword
