A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
By: Judith Flanders
3.49
Format: 412 pages, Kindle Edition
In A Place for Everything, historian Judith Flanders draws our attention to both the neglected ubiq…
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1. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
By: Yiyun Li
4.02
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
Brilliant and original, A Thousand Years of Good Prayersintroduces a remarkable new writer whose br… read more
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2. Home to Harmony (Harmony, #1)
By: Philip Gulley
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
Come home to Harmony, Indiana, a peaceful slice of small-town America, as Sam Gardner, Harmony-born… read more
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3. How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
By: Steven Johnson
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good… read more
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4. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
By: Colin Woodard
4.56
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red stat… read more
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5. Aliens & Anorexia
By: Chris Kraus
4.31
Format: 517 pages, Paperback
As the rope was tightening around my neck, an Alien made love to me. Belief is a technology for sof… read more
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6. Why Your Five-Year-Old Could Not Have Done That: Modern Art Explained
By: Susie Hodge
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Come on, you know you've thought it--while viewing a -masterpiece- of abstract art, you mutter, -A … read more
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7. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
By: Monica Murphy , Bill Wasik
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing, lively history of a fearsome and misunderstood virus that binds man and dog. The mos… read more
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8. The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
By: Dinaw Mengestu
4.10
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
A haunting and powerful first novel that views the streets of Washington, D.C. and Addis Ababa thro… read more
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9. Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
By: Simon Winchester
3.84
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergart… read more
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10. Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
By: Jenni Nuttall
3.82
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
An enlightening linguistic journey through a thousand years of feminist language--and what we can l… read more
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11. Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
By: Dennis Duncan
3.68
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Most of us give little thought to the back of the book—it’s just where you go to look things up. Bu… read more
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"[Citing "Alice in Wonderland"] the White Knight insists on singing Alice a song which he introduces as follows: 'The name of the song is called "Haddocks' Eyes".' 'Oh, that's the name of the song, is…"-Dennis Duncan, Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
12. The Age of Grievance
By: Frank Bruni
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful e… read more
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13. The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed
By: Wendy Lower
4.16
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A single photograph — an exceptionally rare “action shot” documenting the horrific final moment of … read more
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14. Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters
By: Anne Boyd Rioux
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
“[An] affectionate and perceptive tribute.”―Wendy Smith, Boston Globe In Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy , Anne … read more
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"And if boys enjoy books about aliens, which they certainly do, why not also books about girls?"-Anne Boyd Rioux, Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters
"As girls gravitate to more contemporary fare and away from Little Women , they are missing a lot. Today’s successors to Little Women seem to have overlooked two of the most important themes of Alcott…"-Anne Boyd Rioux, Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters
15. A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
By: Judith Flanders
3.49
Format: 412 pages, Kindle Edition
In A Place for Everything, historian Judith Flanders draws our attention to both the neglected ubiq… read more
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16. Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
By: Madhumita Murgia
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, reveal… read more
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17. Ancient Magic: A Practitioner's Guide to the Supernatural in Greece and Rome
By: Philip Matyszak
4.02
Format: 208 pages, ebook
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18. Rakesfall
By: Vajra Chandrasekera
3.39
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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19. Where Were You, Robert?
By: Hans Magnus Enzensberger
3.55
Format: 267 pages, Paperback
Fifteen-year-old Robert is a dreamer: one evening his eyes blur over and he literally disappears. R… read more
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20. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
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