Spinoza: Freedom's Messiah (Jewish Lives)
By: Ian Buruma
4.10
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in…
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1. The World As I See It
By: Albert Einstein
3.88
Format: 0 pages,
"The World as I See It" is a treasury of the thoughts and life observations of one of the greatest … read more
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- philosophy
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
2. What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
By: Roger Penrose , Erwin Schrödinger
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What Is Life? is a 1944 non-fiction science book written for the lay reader by physicist Erwin Schr… read more
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3. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
By: Yascha Mounk
4.08
Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition
One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
4. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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- history
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
6. The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World
By: Sharon Brous
4.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From one of our country’s most prominent rabbis, an inspiring book about the power of community bas… read more
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- audiobook
7. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
8. Wild Houses
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more
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"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
9. Burma Sahib
By: Paul Theroux
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of The Mosquito Coast and The Bad Angel Brothers comes a riveting new… read more
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10. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
11. Whale Fall
By: Elizabeth O'Connor
3.87
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more
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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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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
13. Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew
By: Emmanuel Acho
4.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From two New York Times bestselling authors, a timely, disarmingly honest, and thought-provoking in… read more
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- nonfiction
- judaism
- history
- audiobook
14. The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder
By: Robert I. Sutton
3.85
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
Every organization is plagued by destructive friction—the forces that make it harder, more complica… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
By: Adam Shatz
4.24
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory biography of the writer-activist who inspired today’s movements for social and racial … read more
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- philosophy
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
16. All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art
By: Orlando Whitfield
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
DECEPTION IS A FINE ART. When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students d… read more
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- biography
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17. Revolusi. Indonesië en het ontstaan van de moderne wereld
By: David Van Reybrouck
4.54
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A true masterpiece of narrative history and the definitive story of the revolution that ignited the… read more
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- history
- audiobook
18. The Book of Elsewhere
By: Keanu Reeves
3.42
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic … read more
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19. To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People
By: Noah Feldman
4.24
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A leading thinker’s witty, wide-ranging journey to understanding what it means to be a Jew today. … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- judaism
- history
20. A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
By: Anthony Bale
3.76
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A captivating journey of the expansive world of medieval travel, from London to Constantinople to t… read more
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"travel opens the mind in unpredictable ways"-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
"Jerusalem is a city of unfinished projects."-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
"Travel forms communities, but not always harmoniously."-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
"Holy ground can look startlingly ordinary, especially when one’s standing on it."-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
21. Spinoza: Freedom's Messiah (Jewish Lives)
By: Ian Buruma
4.10
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation: Why Physicists Are Studying Human Consciousness and AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe
By: George Musser
4.10
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory exploration of why a "theory of everything" is likely to depend on a theory of mind. … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
23. The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider
By: Michiko Kakutani
3.18
Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition
An urgent examination of how disruptive politics, technology, and art are capsizing old assumptions… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
24. Maimonides: Faith in Reason (Jewish Lives)
By: Alberto Manguel
3.67
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of… read more
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- judaism
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- biography
- history
25. Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair (Jewish Lives)
By: Maurice Samuels
4.37
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself… read more
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- nonfiction
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26. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
27. The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld
By: Dan Slater
3.91
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The harrowing tale of an immigrant underworld, a secret vice squad, and the rise of organized crime… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. 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
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
29. Liberalism as a Way of Life
By: Alexandre Lefebvre
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Why liberalism is all you need to lead a good, fun, worthy, and rewarding life―and how you can beco… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life
By: Joshua Leifer
4.08
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From esteemed journalist Joshua Leifer, a definitive look at the history and future of American Jew… read more
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- nonfiction
- judaism
- history
- audiobook
31. This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World
By: Andrea di Robilant
3.97
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair ("A narrative of novelistic resonance...Aston… read more
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- history
