Bartleby & Me: Reflections of an Old Scrivener
By: Gay Talese
3.84
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
Gay Talese revisits his pioneering career profiling the many “nobodies” who make New York so fascin…
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2. 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
3. The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony
By: Annabelle Tometich
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Rows of orange people sit handcuffed in a beige room. One of them is my mother. When journalist … read more
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4. 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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5. Brooklyn Crime Novel
By: Jonathan Lethem
3.52
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping story of community, crime, and gentrification, tracing over fifty years of life in one B… read more
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6. The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
By: Dwight Garner
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal … read more
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"There's no verb for traveling while hopping from swimming pool to swimming pool. Perhaps "cheevering" would suffice."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
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7. The Little Book of Aliens
By: Adam Frank
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“With wit and brio, Frank separates current nonsense about aliens from the serious and fascinating … read more
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8. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
By: Matt Singer
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more
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9. Wandering through Life: A Memoir
By: Donna Leon
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Theinternationally bestselling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries tells herown adventurous life… read more
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10. Larry McMurtry: A Life
By: Tracy Daugherty
4.25
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry fr… read more
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11. The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food―Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes
By: Mark Kurlansky
3.36
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times- bestselling author of Cod and Salt , a delectable look at the cultural, hi… read more
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12. The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism
By: Adam Nagourney
4.22
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping behind-the-scenes look at the last four turbulent decades of “the paper of record,” The … read more
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13. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more
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14. Ilium
By: Lea Carpenter
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Set in the dark world of international espionage, from London to Mallorca, Croatia, Paris, and Cap … read more
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15. The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press
By: Calvin Trillin
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, opinionated portrait of journalism and the people who make it, told through pieces c… read more
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16. The English Experience
By: Julie Schumacher
3.91
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
Jason Fitger may be the last faculty member the dean wants for the job, but he’s the only professor… read more
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17. My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me
By: Caleb Carr
4.33
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling author of The Alienist, Caleb Carr , tells the extraordinary story of Masha, … read more
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18. Bartleby & Me: Reflections of an Old Scrivener
By: Gay Talese
3.84
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
Gay Talese revisits his pioneering career profiling the many “nobodies” who make New York so fascin… read more
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19. The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
By: Michael Wolraich
3.77
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of how the murder of femme fatale Vivian Gordon in 1931 brought about the downfa… read more
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20. Una historia particular (Spanish Edition)
By: Manuel Vicent
4.00
Format: 156 pages, Kindle Edition
Un relato autobiográfico que es también la historia del siglo XX a través de la mirada inteligente,… read more
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21. Why We Love Football: A History in 100 Moments
By: Joe Posnanski
4.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A moving celebration of the history of American football from the New York Times bestselling author… read more
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