A History of Opera
By: Carolyn Abbate
4.16
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
“The best single volume ever written on the subject, such is its range, authority, and readability.…
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1. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman
4.15
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls … read more
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- cultural
- nonfiction
- history
"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
2. Our Mutual Friend
By: Charles Dickens
4.09
Format: 801 pages, Paperback
A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the in… read more
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"I really am a little afraid, my dear,"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
"Eugene, Eugene, Eugene, this is a bad business!"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
"Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
"Demon—with the highest respect for you—behold your work!"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
3. The Book of Disquiet
By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith
4.41
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alt… read more
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"My past is everything I failed to be."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
4. Exile (Forgotten Realms: The Dark Elf Trilogy, #2; Legend of Drizzt, #2)
By: R.A. Salvatore
4.23
Format: 343 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Drizzt Do'Urden has been exiled from his country and forced to wander the tunnel-mazes of the Under… read more
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"All of his life had been filled with crashing ends to promising beginnings."-R.A. Salvatore, Exile (Forgotten Realms: The Dark Elf Trilogy, #2; Legend of Drizzt, #2)
"Joy multiples when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life."-R.A. Salvatore, Exile (Forgotten Realms: The Dark Elf Trilogy, #2; Legend of Drizzt, #2)
"Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life."-R.A. Salvatore, Exile (Forgotten Realms: The Dark Elf Trilogy, #2; Legend of Drizzt, #2)
"I will kill you all!" Cried the unseen wizard. The next sound from within the tower was a low panther's growl, and then the wizard's voice rang out again, "I could be wrong!"-R.A. Salvatore, Exile (Forgotten Realms: The Dark Elf Trilogy, #2; Legend of Drizzt, #2)
5. Sarrasine
By: Honoré de Balzac
3.87
Format: 400 pages,
They lowered their voices and walked away in order to talk more at their ease on some retired couch… read more
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6. Los enamoramientos
By: Javier Marías
4.49
Format: None pages, Paperback
<> Asi comienza Los enamoramientos, la nueva novela de Javier Marias, consagrado como uno de los me… read more
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7. Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology
By: Helen Vendler
4.02
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
Written by a preeminent critic and legendary teacher, this text and anthology presents the incisive… read more
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- nonfiction
- reference
8. Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa
By: Haruki Murakami , Seiji Ozawa
3.70
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclai… read more
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- music
- art
- nonfiction
9. Henry VI, Part 1
By: William Shakespeare , Stephen Orgel , A.R. Braunmuller
2.50
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket.… read more
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- theatre
10. Richard III
By: William Shakespeare , John Jowett
3.37
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successful… read more
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- theatre
11. Henry V
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
4.00
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Henry Vis Shakespeare's most famous "war play"; it includes the storied English victory over the Fr… read more
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12. Germinal (Les Rougon-Macquart, #13)
By: Émile Zola , Roger Pearson
3.70
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
The thirteenth novel in Emile Zola's great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at … read more
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13. Fathers and Sons
By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more
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"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"Death's an old story, but new for each person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
14. The Pursuit of Love
By: Nancy Mitford
3.41
Format: None pages, Paperback
Few aristocratic English families of the twentieth century enjoyed the glamorous notoriety of the i… read more
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15. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
By: Naomi Klein
4.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… read more
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16. The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy
By: Bryan Magee
4.57
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Richard Wagner's devotees have ranged from the subtlest minds (Proust) to the most brutal (Hitler).… read more
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17. The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
By: Dan Jones
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A major new history of the knights Templar--holy warriors, bankers, priests, heretics--by the bests… read more
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18. Effi Briest
By: Theodor Fontane , Douglas Parmée
3.26
Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Telling the tragic tale of a socially advantageous but emotionally ruinous match, Theodor Fontane's… read more
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"Wir müssen verführerisch sein, sonst sind wir gar nichts."-Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest
"For they’re ’uman too, even if they are Chinese, so I suppose it’s just the same for them as it is for us."-Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest
"Warum sollte ich ihn nicht lieben? [...] Ich liebe alle, die´s gut mit mir meinen und gütig gegen mich sind und mich verwöhnen."-Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest
"Ich liebe dich ja… wie heißt es doch, wenn man einen Zweig abbricht und die Blätter abreißt? Von Herzen, mit Schmerzen, über alle Maßen."-Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest
19. The Magic Mountain
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods
4.13
Format: 706 pages, Paperback
In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more
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"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
20. The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
By: Anthony Trollope , David Skilton
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Warden centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in p… read more
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"It is much less difficult for the sufferer to be generous than for the oppressor."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"... In what I do I may appear to be interfering with you, and I hope you will forgive me for doing so."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"He never quarreled with his wife, but he never talked to her;--he never had time to talk, he was so taken up with speaking."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts!"-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
21. Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
By: Roger Crowley
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration i… read more
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22. Korku
By: Stefan Zweig , İlknur İgan
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rahat ve korunakli bir yasam suren saygin bir kadin, sekiz yillik evliliginden sikilmis, burjuva du… read more
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23. The Wintringham Mystery
By: Anthony Berkeley
3.66
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Republished for the first time in nearly 95 years, a classic winter country house mystery by the fo… read more
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"For a minute or two they remained in complete silence--the silence of people who know each other so well that words are merely an accessory rather than a necessity."-Anthony Berkeley, The Wintringham Mystery
24. The Spare Man
By: Mary Robinette Kowal
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Tesla Crane, a brilliant inventor and an heiress, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space li… read more
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25. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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- nonfiction
"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
26. The Final Curtain (Detective Kaga, #4)
By: Keigo Higashino
4.13
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Malice and Newcomer, a confounding murder in Tokyo is connected to the… read more
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27. Shanghailanders
By: Juli Min
3.51
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in tim… read more
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28. On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals
By: William Harvey
3.71
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
El Prof. Dr. J. J. Izquierdo nació en 1893, hizo los estudios preparatorios y de medicina, y obtuvo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Good God! how should the mitral valves prevent the regurgitation of air and not of blood?"-William Harvey, On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals
"Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown."-William Harvey, On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals
"The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which all growth depends, from which all power proceeds."-William Harvey, On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals
29. The Indispensable Composers: A Personal Guide
By: Anthony Tommasini
3.87
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
An exploration into the question of greatness from the Chief Classical Music Critic of the New York… read more
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- music
- art
- history
- classical music
- nonfiction
- reference
"I gained a sense of why Grieg was so touched by the wistful, elegiac folk music of Norway, and what he meant when he said self-effacingly that his music had a 'taste of cod' about it."-Anthony Tommasini, The Indispensable Composers: A Personal Guide
30. A History of Opera
By: Carolyn Abbate
4.16
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
“The best single volume ever written on the subject, such is its range, authority, and readability.… read more
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- music
- cultural
- art
- history
- classical music
- research
- theatre
- nonfiction
- reference
31. Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World
By: Kelly Clancy
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A wide-ranging intellectual history that reveals how important games have been to human progress, a… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The problem is not that a paper-clip-maximizing AI will arise in the future and turn the universe into paper clips. The maximizers are already here. Any consequences too subtle to measure--environmen…"-Kelly Clancy, Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World
