Jewish Comedy: A Serious History
By: Jeremy Dauber
3.69
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award “Dauber deftly surveys the whole recorded history of J…
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1. The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
By: Peter Handke , None
3.18
Format: 133 pages, Paperback
The first of Peter Handke's novels to be published in English, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty … read more
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2. The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
By: Gretchen Bakke
3.87
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory look at our national power grid--how it developed, its current flaws, and how it must … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
3. Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
By: Peter Guralnick
4.16
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of th… read more
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- nonfiction
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- audiobook
4. Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s
By: Dan Epstein
4.33
Format: None pages,
The Bronx Is Burning meets Chuck Klosterman in this wild pop-culture history of baseball's most col… read more
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- history
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5. Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America
By: Steven J. Ross
3.91
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- history
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6. Sleep Donation
By: Karen Russell
3.09
Format: None pages, ebook
From the author of the New York Timesbestseller Swamplandia!, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, … read more
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7. Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up
By: Mary Beard
3.37
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chu… read more
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8. Call It Sleep
By: Alfred Kazin , Henry Roth , None
3.00
Format: 1118 pages, Paperback
When Henry Roth published Call It Sleep, his first novel, in 1934, it was greeted with critical acc… read more
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9. The Six Wives of Henry VIII
By: Alison Weir
4.50
Format: None pages,
'At last we have the truth about Henry VIII's wives. This book is as reliable and scholarly as it i… read more
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10. Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, A History
By: James Carroll
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
"A rare book that combines searing passion with a subject that has affected all of our lives."---Ch… read more
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11. The Case for Israel
By: Alan M. Dershowitz
3.73
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
The Case for Israel is an ardent defense of Israel's rights, supported by indisputable evidence. Pr… read more
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12. The Sundial
By: Shirley Jackson
4.18
Format: 411 pages, Paperback
Aunt Fanny knows when the world will end.... Aunt Fanny has always been somewhat peculiar. No one i… read more
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13. Jews Don't Count
By: David Baddiel
4.21
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight … read more
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- history
- jewish
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life-in Judaism (after Finally Choosing to Look There)
By: Sarah Hurwitz
4.44
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A renowned political speechwriter rediscovers Judaism, finding timeless wisdom and spiritual connec… read more
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- judaica
- audiobook
15. The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
By: Ricardo Nuila
4.38
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar
By: Cynthia Carr
4.27
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed biographer Cynthia Carr, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol su… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
17. The Girl Who Wasn't There
By: Arvind Ethan David
3.12
Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio
A window is but a piece of glass through which we view the world outside. It is not meant to distor… read more
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18. The Lyrics
By: Paul McCartney
4.59
Format: 960 pages, Hardcover
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Washington Post Notable Book Excerpted in The New Yorker A work of… read more
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- history
19. Led Zeppelin: The Biography
By: Bob Spitz
4.06
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the definitive New York Times bestselling history of the Beatles comes the autho… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
20. Casi: Una crónica del desamparo
By: Jorge Bustos
3.71
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
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21. On Juneteenth
By: Annette Gordon-Reed
4.18
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annet… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"History is always being revised, as new information, comes to light and when different people see known documents and have their own responses to them, shaped by their individual experiences."-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
"Origin stories matter, for individuals, groups of people, and for nations. They inform our sense of self; telling us what kind of people we believe we are, what kind of nation we believe in. They usu…"-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
"Why would White Texans be more obstreperous than other White southerners? It has been suggested that this was because, unlike other Southern states, Texas had not been defeated militarily. They had w…"-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
22. What This Comedian Said Will Shock You
By: Bill Maher
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, m… read more
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- history
- humor
- nonfiction
- comedy
- audiobook
23. Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
4.23
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Ours is the age of authoritarian rulers: self-proclaimed saviors of the nation who evade accountabi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Designed for instant impact and encouraging feelings of omnipotence, Twitter is the perfect tool for an impulsive, attention-addicted strongman."-Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
"Many strongmen, past and present, have used populist rhetoric that defines their nations as bound by faith, race, and ethnicity rather than by legal rights. For authoritarians, only some people are "…"-Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
24. So Many Steves: Afternoons with Steve Martin
By: Steve Martin
3.83
Format: 3 pages, Audiobook
Steve Martin is more candid than he’s ever been about his creative life in this engrossing audio-bi… read more
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- humor
- nonfiction
- comedy
- audiobook
25. Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses
By: Katie Spalding
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, whe… read more
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- humor
- history
- audiobook
26. The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
By: Seb Falk
3.68
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
An illuminating guide to the scientific and technological achievements of the Middle Ages through t… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
27. Assassins Anonymous
By: Rob Hart
3.96
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
In this clever, surprising, page-turner, the world’s most lethal assassin gives up the violent life… read more
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- audiobook
"The difference between humility and humiliation is willingness. Ultimately, it's not for them. It's for me."-Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous
28. Jewish Comedy: A Serious History
By: Jeremy Dauber
3.69
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award “Dauber deftly surveys the whole recorded history of J… read more
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- history
- comedy
- israel
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- humor
- religion
- nonfiction
- judaica
- audiobook
29. 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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- history
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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.
30. The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia
By: Grafton Tanner
3.78
Format: 319 pages, None
In The Hours Have Lost Their Clock, Grafton Tanner charts the rise of nostalgia in an era knocked o… read more
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- history
"We’re always consuming a past that isn’t completely our own, that isn’t a perfect representation of what really happened and that may never fully satisfy us. The question is: which pasts are we consu…"-Grafton Tanner, The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia
