Shakespeare's Book: The Story Behind the First Folio and the Making of Shakespeare
By: Chris Laoutaris
3.84
Format: 557 pages, Kindle Edition
The never-before-told story of how the makers of The First Folio created Shakespeare as we know him…
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1. The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio
By: Emma Smith
4.26
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Shakespeare is synonymous with English literature. Well-loved the world over, his work endures for … read more
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2. A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
By: James Shapiro
4.08
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous pl… read more
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- history
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3. The Soldier's Art (A Dance to the Music of Time, #8)
By: Anthony Powell
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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"Lovell was an odd mixture of realism and romanticism; more specifically, he was, like quite a lot of people, romantic about being a realist."-Anthony Powell, The Soldier's Art (A Dance to the Music of Time, #8)
4. Our Mutual Friend
By: Charles Dickens
4.09
Format: 801 pages, Paperback
A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the in… read more
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"I really am a little afraid, my dear,"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
"Eugene, Eugene, Eugene, this is a bad business!"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
"Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
"Demon—with the highest respect for you—behold your work!"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
5. The Gilded Age
By: Mark Twain , Charles Dudley Warner
3.53
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Arguably the first major American novel to satirize the political milieu of Washington, D.C. and th… read more
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"If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile."-Mark Twain, The Gilded Age
"A woman's intuition is better than a man's. Nobody knows anything, really, you know, and a woman can guess a good deal nearer than a man."-Mark Twain, The Gilded Age
"No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law, and that the law officers are only the machinery for its exec…"-Mark Twain, The Gilded Age
"Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society w…"-Mark Twain, The Gilded Age
6. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
By: Stephen Greenblatt
3.87
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
Named One of Esquire 's 50 Best Biographies of All Time The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award… read more
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- literature
- history
- nonfiction
7. Napoleon: A Life
By: Andrew Roberts
4.23
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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- nonfiction
"I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon"-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"I have beaten the Russian and Austrian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little tired."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
8. Henry VIII
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.50
Format: None pages,
Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare a… read more
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9. Gormenghast (Gormenghast, #2)
By: Mervyn Peake
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
Titus Groan is seven years old. Lord and heir to the crumbling castle Gormenghast. A gothic labyrin… read more
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- literature
10. The Military Philosophers (A Dance to the Music of Time, #9)
By: Anthony Powell
2.33
Format: None pages,
A Dance to the Music of Time- his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over t… read more
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- literature
11. The Age of the Vikings
By: Anders Winroth
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth.… read more
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12. The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street
By: Charles Nicholl
4.67
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly drawn detective story with entirely new insights into Shakespeare's life In 1612, Wil… read more
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13. The Poetry of Robert Frost
By: Robert Frost , Edward Connery Lathem
3.66
Format: 325 pages, Paperback
The only comprehensive gathering of Frost's published poetry, this affordable volume offers the ent… read more
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14. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
By: Stephen Greenblatt
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work… read more
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15. The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
By: Humphrey Carpenter , J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
'...If you wanted to go on from the end of The Hobbit I think the ring would be your inevitable cho… read more
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16. Tales from the Perilous Realm
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Tom Shippey , Alan Lee
3.00
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
Never before published in a single volume, Tolkien's four novellas ("Farmer Giles of Ham, Leaf by N… read more
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17. Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe
By: John Guy
4.16
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
“A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . . Hunting the Falcon brilliantly shows how time, circumst… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
18. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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- nonfiction
"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
19. The Lost Cause
By: Cory Doctorow
3.65
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
It's thirty years from now and we're making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely.… read more
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20. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
By: Judi Dench
4.56
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more
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- nonfiction
"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
21. Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
By: Shannon Reed
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile and Thurber… read more
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"I think, therefore, I cry..."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"Life is so much better with books than without."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"But reading! That I could do. When I read, I felt smart."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"The act of reading makes me feel safe. Not the book itself--but the exercise of running my eyes over the words. The translation from symbol into meaning. The direct, pleasant diction of the voice ins…"-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
22. The Winter List (Damian Seeker #6)
By: S.G. MacLean
4.38
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
Summer, 1660. Cromwell is dead and Charles Stuart has been restored to the throne. Men who supporte… read more
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23. Service Model
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more
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24. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!
By: David Zucker
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more
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- nonfiction
25. Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future
By: Jean M. Twenge
4.05
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United Stat… read more
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- nonfiction
"John Della Volpe, the director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, spoke to hundreds of young people for his 2022 book, Fight: How Gen Z Is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to Sa…"-Jean M. Twenge, Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future
26. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
By: Ethan Mollick
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more
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27. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
By: Andy Greenberg
4.50
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrenc… read more
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- nonfiction
28. The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
By: Adam Smyth
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created them Books t… read more
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- history
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29. Shakespeare's Book: The Story Behind the First Folio and the Making of Shakespeare
By: Chris Laoutaris
3.84
Format: 557 pages, Kindle Edition
The never-before-told story of how the makers of The First Folio created Shakespeare as we know him… read more
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30. The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race
By: Farah Karim-Cooper
4.07
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
As we witness monuments of white Western history fall, many are asking how is Shakespeare still rel… read more
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- history
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31. In Perpetuity
By: Peter Hoey
3.35
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
It’s a surreal smuggling operation across the boundaries of life and death in the latest moody myst… read more
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