Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times
By: Aaron Sachs
4.11
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography A double portrait of two of Ame…
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1. The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)
By: Mary Doria Russell
3.77
Format: None pages,
In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico… read more
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2. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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- literature
"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
3. The Peregrine
By: J.A. Baker
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
From autumn to spring, J.A. Baker set out to track the daily comings and goings of a pair of peregr… read more
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4. The Winter's Tale
By: William Shakespeare
4.75
Format: 14 pages, Paperback
The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emph… read more
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5. Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
By: Nick Turse
4.21
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated inc… read more
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6. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1
By: Alan Moore , Kevin O'Neill
3.69
Format: 355 pages, Paperback
London, 1898. The Victorian Era draws to a close and the twentieth century approaches. It is a time… read more
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7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin
By: Kevin Eastman
4.41
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Who is the Last Ronin? In a future, battle-ravaged New York City, a lone surviving Turtle embarks o… read more
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8. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
9. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
10. The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
By: Ian Urbina
4.36
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are… read more
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- history
- nature
"Slavery is a harsh reality thatmour better angels would like to think ended two centuries ago, when many countries passed laws against such bondage withing their borders. But this sort of bondage is …"-Ian Urbina, The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
"This fantasy that it is possible to fish sustainably, legally, and using workers with contracts, making a living wage, and still deliver a five-ounce can of skipjack tuna for $2.50 that ends up on th…"-Ian Urbina, The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
11. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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12. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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- history
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
13. 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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- history
14. The Ministry for the Future
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.88
Format: 563 pages, Hardcover
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more
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"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
15. The Alternatives
By: Caoilinn Hughes
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more
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16. Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
By: Matthew Campbell
4.24
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“A triumph of investigative journalism.” —Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billio… read more
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17. Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin
By: Andre Dubus III
4.18
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Essays from the literary master and bestselling author of Townie on a life of challenges, contradic… read more
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18. Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times
By: Aaron Sachs
4.11
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography A double portrait of two of Ame… read more
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- biography
- literature
- nonfiction
- nature
- literary criticism
19. The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
By: Matthew Hollis
3.93
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
Renowned as one of the world’s greatest poems, The Waste Land has been said to describe the moral d… read more
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- biography
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- literary criticism
20. Navola
By: Paolo Bacigalupi
3.92
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times best-selling author of Wind-Up Girl and The Water Knife comes a sweeping li… read more
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21. The Red Caddy: Into the Unknown with Edward Abbey
By: Charles Bowden
4.06
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
A passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the bureaucratic and business forces t… read more
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