Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century
By: Kate Molleson
4.38
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundament…
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1. Austerlitz
By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more
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2. Beware of Pity
By: Stefan Zweig , Phyllis Blewitt , Trevor Blewitt
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Beware of… read more
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3. The Gardener's Year
By: Karel Čapek , Josef Čapek
4.04
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
It is seldom that a practical guide to gardening attains the level of a literary masterpiece, still… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Finn Family Moomintroll (The Moomins, #3)
By: Tove Jansson , Elizabeth Portch
3.42
Format: None pages,
It is spring in the valley and the Moomins are ready for adventure Moomintroll and his friends Snuf… read more
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5. Gli occhiali d'oro: Il romanzo di Ferrara
By: Giorgio Bassani
4.05
Format: None pages, Paperback
In una Ferrara ricca, affascinante ma oppressa dal fascismo, un giovane studente ebreo, voce narran… read more
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6. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
By: Donna J. Haraway
3.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway o… read more
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7. Água Viva
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler
4.29
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more
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"I always give names to things"-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
8. A God in Ruins
By: Kate Atkinson
1.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In Life After LifeUrsula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and agai… read more
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9. The Magic Mountain
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods
4.13
Format: 706 pages, Paperback
In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more
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"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
10. The Mountain and the Wall
By: Carol Apollonio , Alisa Ganieva
4.29
Format: 426 pages,
"Never before has Russian literature produced such an honest and complete picture of today's Caucas… read more
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11. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
12. Flights
By: Olga Tokarczuk
3.76
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on tra… read more
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"The truth is terrible: describing is destroying."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you’re looking at."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
13. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
14. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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- music
- audiobook
"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
15. Kick the Latch
By: Kathryn Scanlan
4.11
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Kathryn Scanlan’s Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman’s life at the racetrack—the … read more
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16. Cuddy
By: Benjamin Myers
4.33
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more
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- audiobook
"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy
17. 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
18. Girls Against God
By: Jenny Hval
3.05
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
At once a time-travelling horror story and a fugue-like feminist manifesto, this is a singular, gen… read more
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"No one asks me why I hate, no one uses that word, they call me grumpy, not even angry, but grumpy, six letters, something inconsequential and self-inflicted, something powerless, insignificant, somet…"-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God
"Maybe the only way an artist can escape capitalism and patriarchy today is to use art to disappear as an individual. The artists must completely wash away their person and self-expression, along with…"-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God
19. The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.60
Format: 5 pages, ebook
In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
20. Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present
By: J.R. Moores
3.92
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
From Black Sabbath to Big Black, a ride through the evolution, diversity, and influence of genre-de… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
21. The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
By: Eleanor Janega
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited h… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
22. Wanderers: A History of Women Walking
By: Kerri Andrews
3.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Offering a beguiling view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us through the different ways… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
23. Monolithic Undertow: In Search of Sonic Oblivion
By: Harry Sword
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Monolithic Undertow alights a crooked path across musical, religious, and subcultural frontiers, ex… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- history
"Think of a power cut and how it brings into focus the eerie quiet that befalls a house when the various mechanical drones that our brains are so adept at tuning out - the low hum of central heating, …"-Harry Sword, Monolithic Undertow: In Search of Sonic Oblivion
24. The Great Post Office Scandal: The fight to expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innocent people in jail
By: Nick Wallis
4.64
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
This “factual thriller” from the journalist Nick Wallis details a scandal which has been described … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
25. Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
By: Alex Ross
4.18
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer… read more
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- music
- cultural
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century
By: Kate Molleson
4.38
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundament… read more
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- music
- cultural
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. Schoenberg: Why He Matters
By: Harvey Sachs
3.92
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“[A]n immensely valuable source for anyone desiring an accessible overview of this endlessly contro… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
28. Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music
By: Henry Threadgill
4.36
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful medit… read more
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- nonfiction
29. Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World
By: Leah Broad
4.46
Format: 568 pages, Kindle Edition
The lives, loves, adventures and trailblazing musical careers of four extraordinary women from a st… read more
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- audiobook
30. Éliane Radigue: Intermediary Spaces
By: Julia Eckhardt
4.40
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
Éliane Radigue, born 1932, is considered one of the most innovative and influential contemporary co… read more
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- nonfiction
31. Women and the Piano: A History in 50 Lives
By: Susan Tomes
4.88
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Women are an essential part of the history of the piano—but how many women pianists can you name? … read more
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- history
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