The Book of All Books
By: Roberto Calasso
4.04
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A book that begins before Adam and ends after us. In this magisterial work by the Italian intellect…
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers
By: Janet Malcolm , Ian Frazier
3.41
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A National Book Critics Circle Finalist for Criticism A deeply Malcolmian volume on painters, photo… read more
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- nonfiction
3. The Possibility of an Island
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.80
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A worldwide phenomenon and the most important French novelist since Albert Camus, Michel Houellebec… read more
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- literature
- philosophy
"La solitude à deux est l'enfer consenti."-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island
"Si la sincérité, en elle-même, n'est rien, elle est la condition de tout."-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island
"Et l'amour, où tout est facile, Où tout est donné dans l'instant; Il existe au milieu du temps La possibilité d'une île."-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island
"The dream of all men is to meet little sluts who are innocent but ready for all forms of depravity—which is what, more or less, all teenage girls are."-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island
4. Un roman russe
By: Emmanuel Carrère
3.67
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
La folie et l'horreur ont obsédé ma vie. Les livres que j'ai écrits ne parlent de rien d'autre. Apr… read more
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5. Lone Star: A History Of Texas And The Texans
By: T.R. Fehrenbach
3.64
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Here is an up-to-the-moment history of the Lone Star State, together with an insider's look at the … read more
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7. All the Birds, Singing
By: Evie Wyld
4.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists, a stunningly insightful, emotionally powerful ne… read more
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8. The Captive Mind
By: Czesław Miłosz
3.64
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The Captive Mind begins with a discussion of the novel Insatiability by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz… read more
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9. Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom
By: Tom Holland
4.11
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
In AD 900, few would have guessed that the splintering kingdoms of Christendom were candidates for … read more
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10. The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics (Theoretical Minimum #1)
By: Leonard Susskind , George Hrabovsky
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
A Wall Street JournalBest Book of 2013 A world-class physicist and a citizen scientist combine forc… read more
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11. Old Masters: A Comedy
By: Thomas Bernhard , Ewald Osers
4.29
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to m… read more
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12. The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
By: William Egginton
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of … read more
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- history
13. 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
14. The Simple Art of Killing a Woman
By: Patrícia Melo
4.17
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
From best-selling Brazilian crime novelist Patrícia Melo comes a genre-defying tale of women in the… read more
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15. The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
By: Stuart A. Reid
4.40
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the US-sanctioned plot… read more
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16. God: An Anatomy
By: Francesca Stavrakopoulou
4.25
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing and revelatory history that re-presents God as he was originally envisioned by ancie… read more
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- history
- theology
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- mythology
"How could I not be distracted? Here was a deity just like those I’d visited in museums as a child—a god of ancient myths, fantastic stories and long-lost rituals; a god from the distant past, from a …"-Francesca Stavrakopoulou, God: An Anatomy
17. Reading Genesis
By: Marilynne Robinson
4.10
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book… read more
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18. Babysitter
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.26
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From one of America's most renowned storytellers comes a novel about love and deceit, and lust and … read more
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19. They Flew: A History of the Impossible
By: Carlos M.N. Eire
4.10
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning historian’s examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their… read more
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20. The Book of All Books
By: Roberto Calasso
4.04
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A book that begins before Adam and ends after us. In this magisterial work by the Italian intellect… read more
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- italy
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- biblical
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- italian literature
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21. A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
By: Jonn Elledge
4.39
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating and surprising history of the world told through the lines people have drawn on maps … read more
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