La Serenissima: The Story of Venice
By: Jonathan Keates
4.11
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A stunningly illustrated history of Venice, from its beginnings as 'La Serenissima' – 'the Most Ser…
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1. The Origin of Species
By: Charles Darwin
4.01
Format: 703 pages, Hardcover
Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends."-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
"...Showing that they descend from common parents, and consequently must be ranked as varieties."-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
"I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification."-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
"One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die."-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
2. Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Shaped the Modern World
By: Jane Gleeson-White
3.55
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Filled with colorful characters and history, Double Entry takes us from the ancient origins of acco… read more
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- italy
- history
- nonfiction
- european history
"As Francesco Datini of Prato did a century before, Pacioli advises merchants to incorporate explicit signs of Christianity into their books as a way of legitimising their profit-seeking activities. T…"-Jane Gleeson-White, Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Shaped the Modern World
"Through the way it values - or does not - the finite resources of our planet, double entry [accounting] now has the potential to make or break life on the earth. We can continue to ignore the free gi…"-Jane Gleeson-White, Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Shaped the Modern World
3. The Illuminations
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.86
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we le… read more
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4. Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
By: Anthony Doerr
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of The Shell Collector and About Grace comes an evocative memoir of t… read more
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- italy
- nonfiction
5. The Leopard
By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Archibald Colquhoun
4.01
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, h… read more
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- italy
"While there’s death there’s hope"-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Cambiare tutto perché niente cambi."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"La eternidad amorosa dura pocos años."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Nothing could be decently hated except eternity."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
6. Single & Single
By: John Le Carré
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A lawyer from the London finance house of Single & Singleis shot dead on a Turkish hillside by peop… read more
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7. A History of Venice
By: John Julius Norwich
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Traces the rise ot empire of this city from its 5th century beginnings all the way through until 17… read more
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8. A Short History of Byzantium
By: John Julius Norwich
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
"Norwich is always on the lookout for the small but revealing details. . . . All of this he recount… read more
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9. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
By: Anil Seth
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons wo… read more
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- nonfiction
10. The Blighted Stars (The Devoured Worlds, #1)
By: Megan E. O'Keefe
4.11
Format: 491 pages, Paperback
When a spy is stranded on a dead planet with her mortal enemy, she must first figure out how to sur… read more
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11. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)
By: Nghi Vo
4.24
Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition
The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more
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12. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
13. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
14. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
15. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun
By: Chris Broad
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more
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- nonfiction
16. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By: David Grann
4.19
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
17. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
By: Steve Coll
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
18. In Ascension
By: Martin MacInnes
3.79
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more
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"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
19. The Passenger
By: Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
3.95
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
Hailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing a… read more
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20. Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
By: Peter Ross
4.37
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
*Featuring a brand new chapter!* Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- european history
21. The Fractured Dark (The Devoured Worlds, #2)
By: Megan E. O'Keefe
4.21
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Dying planets, dangerous conspiracies, and secret romance abound in the second installment of the D… read more
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"A woman in possession of a bomb is in want of a reason to use it." "Oh god help us, she's been reading old shit again." Kuma said. "Hanging up now," Naira said. "Tell me if anything blows up that's n…"-Megan E. O'Keefe, The Fractured Dark (The Devoured Worlds, #2)
22. The Shepherd's Hut
By: Tim Winton
4.05
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
Tim Winton is Australia's most decorated and beloved novelist. Short-listed twice for the Booker Pr… read more
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"Liam Rector’s “Song Years"-Tim Winton, The Shepherd's Hut
"Peace, that’s all I’m after."-Tim Winton, The Shepherd's Hut
"God is what you do, not what you believe in."-Tim Winton, The Shepherd's Hut
"...discretion will generally keep a fella safe."-Tim Winton, The Shepherd's Hut
23. Psyche and Eros
By: Luna McNamara
3.78
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this utterly transporting reimagining of Greek mythology, the god of desire is cursed to fall fo… read more
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24. 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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- nonfiction
25. Cecily
By: Annie Garthwaite
4.11
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
"Rebellion?" The word is a spark. They can start a fire with it, or smother it in their fingertips… read more
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26. La Serenissima: The Story of Venice
By: Jonathan Keates
4.11
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A stunningly illustrated history of Venice, from its beginnings as 'La Serenissima' – 'the Most Ser… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- european history
27. La Nuit des béguines
By: Aline Kiner
3.72
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Paris, 1310, quartier du Marais. Au grand béguinage royal, elles sont des centaines de femmes à viv… read more
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28. Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
By: Mick Herron
4.28
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
Listening Length 10 hours and 50 minutes Slough House is the Intelligence Service outpost for f… read more
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"Lowell fell backwards as the world span out of control"-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
"Like most forms of corruption, it began with men in suits."-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
"belief was not actually about believing; belief was simply somewhere to shelve hope"-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
"You either cleaned up other people's messes or you didn't--and that was the class system for you, right there."-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
29. Monet: The Restless Vision
By: Jackie Wullschläger
4.56
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
This full, personal biography brings to life the unknown man behind the famous artist. Jackie Wulls… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Enzo Ferrari: The definitive biography of an icon
By: Luca Del Monte
4.14
Format: 785 pages, Kindle Edition
**DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK**Soon to be an AppleTV+ series, this is the definitive account of how… read more
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31. Napoleons Plunder and the Theft of Veroneses Feast
By: Saltzman Cynthia
4.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Napoleon's Plunder tells the remarkable story of Bonaparte's obsessive accrual of the spoils of war… read more
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- nonfiction
