On Giving Up
By: Adam Phillips
3.81
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on what we must give up to feel more alive…
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1. Aliss at the Fire
By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more t… read more
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2. Olhos d'Água
By: Conceição Evaristo
4.44
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Em Olhos d’água Conceição Evaristo ajusta o foco de seu interesse na população afro-brasileira abor… read more
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"O amor é um poço misterioso onde se acumulam águas-lágrimas?"-Conceição Evaristo, Olhos d'Água
"Maria queria tanto dizer ao filho que o pai havia mandado um abraço, um beijo, um carinho."-Conceição Evaristo, Olhos d'Água
"Lembrou-se então de que era uma mulher e não uma máquina desenfreada, louca, programada para corrercorrer."-Conceição Evaristo, Olhos d'Água
"E entendeu também qual seria a sua vida. É, ia ficar. Ia entrar-entrando sem saber quando e por que parar."-Conceição Evaristo, Olhos d'Água
3. All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
By: Becca Rothfeld
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed debut author's glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in culture in favor of… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
4. Great Expectations
By: Vinson Cunningham
3.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more
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"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
5. A gente mira no amor e acerta na solidão
By: Ana Suy
4.10
Format: 148 pages, Kindle Edition
Amor, solidão e psicanálise para os dias atuais. Podemos ler que o amor contém a solidão em seu… read more
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- psychoanalysis
- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
"Ao encontrar um amor, a gente não encontra a parte que nos faltava até então. A gente encontra a metade que fará falta a partir dali."-Ana Suy, A gente mira no amor e acerta na solidão
"Com frequência, pensamos que, no amor, encontraríamos a parte que supostamente nos falta, a parte que nos livraria da nossa própria falta, a parte que nos preencheria. No entanto, no amor, o que se e…"-Ana Suy, A gente mira no amor e acerta na solidão
"Vivemos um tempo em que queremos tudo para antes de ontem, em que vivemos o período de espera como crise de ansiedade. [...] sem fazer nascer intervalos, tudo que encontramos corre o risco de ser pur…"-Ana Suy, A gente mira no amor e acerta na solidão
6. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
7. A palavra que resta
By: Stênio Gardel
4.05
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Uma carta guardada por mais de cinquenta anos — e jamais lida. É essa a relíquia que Raimundo leva … read more
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8. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
9. O que é Meu
By: José Henrique Bortoluci
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Neste ensaio biográfico de rara sensibilidade, que já teve os direitos vendidos para dez editoras e… read more
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10. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
11. Napalm al cor
By: Pol Guasch
3.69
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
«De vegades penso que estic anotant el futur. Em dic que, davant de la incomprensió, en quedin les … read more
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"El sol gratina el terra". "Un vespre cítric"."-Pol Guasch, Napalm al cor
"Des d'aleshores viure es va convertir en sobreviure, que és la pitjor forma d'estar viu."-Pol Guasch, Napalm al cor
"Em dic que, davant de la incomprensió, en quedin les paraules. Algú, potser, les podrà entendre."-Pol Guasch, Napalm al cor
"Quan la tristesa es cansa i desapareix, la tristesa és, aleshores, el temps. I el pare duia el temps a dins."-Pol Guasch, Napalm al cor
12. The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
By: Byung-Chul Han
4.05
Format: 186 pages, Hardcover
Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century cris… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- essays
13. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
By: Sebastian Junger
3.92
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
14. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
By: Kyle Chayka
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
15. The Winner
By: Teddy Wayne
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“Be prepared to fully lose yourself in The Winner—a book I started and then simply couldn’t stop re… read more
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16. Limitarianism
By: Ingrid Robeyns
3.99
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
‘The best case I've read for putting an upper limit on the accumulation of wealth’ Richard Wilkinso… read more
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- nonfiction
17. Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
By: Kōhei Saitō
3.91
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary p… read more
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- nonfiction
18. On Giving Up
By: Adam Phillips
3.81
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on what we must give up to feel more alive… read more
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- essays
- self help
19. All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians
By: Phil Elwood
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A bridge-burning, riotous memoir by a top PR operative in Washington who exposes the secrets of the… read more
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20. Melhor não contar
By: Tatiana Salem Levy
4.22
Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition
Melhor não contar abre com uma cena iniciá aos dez anos, a protagonista relaxa numa piscina, na com… read more
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21. 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
