Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
By: Mark O'Connell
3.73
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
"A fantastic book. It's harrowing, tender-hearted, and funny as hell. O'Connell proves himself to b…
Want to Read $ 11.99"The future is a source of fear not because we know what will happen, and that it will be terrible, but because we know so little, and have so little control. The apocalyptic sensibility, the apocalyptic style, is seductive because it offers a way out of this situation: it vaults us over the epistemological chasm of the future, clear into a final destination, the end of all things. Out of the murk of time emerges the clear shape of a vision, a revelation, and you can see at last where the whole mess is headed. All of it--history, politics, struggle, life--is near to an end, and the relief is palpable."-Mark O'Connell, Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
"The future is a source of fear not because we know what will happen, and that it will be terrible, but because we know so little, and have so little control. The apocalyptic sensibility, the apocalyptic style, is seductive because it offers a way out of this situation: it vaults us over the epistemological chasm of the future, clear into a final destination, the end of all things. Out of the murk of time emerges the clear shape of a vision, a revelation, and you can see at last where the whole mess is headed. All of it--history, politics, struggle, life--is near to an end, and the relief is palpable."-Mark O'Connell, Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
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1. Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.23
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
“I often come to walk in these hills,” I said to the soldier…he was compact and short, not much tal… read more
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- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Aku ada buku, aku tak perlukan pakaian atau sepatu khusus untuk berjalan ke perbukitan."-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
"Ini bukan pertama kali kita kalah, tapi kini pemimpin kita meraikannya seolah kita menang. (Tentang Perjanjian Damai Oslo antara Israel-Palestin)"-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
"Religious practice in the Land of the Bible tends to encourage exclusivity and discrimination rather than love and magnanimity. There is no place like the Holy Land to make one cynical about religion."-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
"Meskipun aku suka sekali pohon ru, kuakui mereka seperti penjajah. Merekalah bukti betapa manusia telah menelantarkan bukit ini pada kuasa alam. Warna mereka hijau gelap, tak seperti pohon zaitun yan…"-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
2. How to Be Danish: A Journey to the Cultural Heart of Denmark
By: Patrick Kingsley
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
What links Sarah Lund and Lars von Trier? Or Carlsberg and Kierkegaard? Or even Shakespeare and Met… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
3. Wildwood: A Journey through Trees
By: Roger Deakin
3.30
Format: 107 pages, Hardcover
Here, published for the first time in the United States, is the last book by Roger Deakin, famed Br… read more
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- memoir
- travel
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- environment
- science
4. Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul
By: Jeremiah Moss
5.00
Format: 398 pages, Hardcover
"ESSENTIAL READING FOR FANS OF JANE JACOBS, JOSEPH MITCHELL, PATTI SMITH, LUC SANTE AND CHEAP PIERO… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. Artful
By: Ali Smith
4.16
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The incomparable Ali Smith melds the tale and the essay into a magical hybrid form, a song of prais… read more
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6. Eat the Buddha
By: Barbara Demick
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
The new book by award-winning journalist and National Book Award finalist Barbara Demick. read more
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7. Hey Nostradamus!
By: Douglas Coupland
3.99
Format: None pages,
Pregnant and secretly married, Cheryl Anway scribbles what becomes her last will and testament on a… read more
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8. The Coma
By: Alex Garland
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
After being attacked on the Underground, Carl awakens from a coma to a life that seems strange and … read more
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9. My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route
By: Sally Hayden
4.48
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The Western world has turned its back on migrants, leaving them to cope with one of the most devast… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
10. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- audiobook
"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
11. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
12. Exhibit
By: R.O. Kwon
3.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more
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- audiobook
13. Wild Houses
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more
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- audiobook
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
14. The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.94
Format: None pages, Audio CD
The “marvelous” (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot), New York Times bestselling story of how… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Today we are familiar with the funereal abbreviation “RIP"-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"Because of the open nature of polytheism, there was virtually no such thing as “conversion."-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"atheism was an exceedingly rare phenomenon in antiquity: very few people believed there were literally no gods. The word “atheism"-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"Ancient people, whether pagans, Jews, or Christians, did not neatly differentiate between the religious and the political. They would have had a hard time understanding the difference."-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
15. Outlandish: Walking Europe’s Unlikely Landscapes
By: Nick Hunt
3.94
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In Outlandish, acclaimed travel writer Nick Hunt takes us across landscapes that should not be ther… read more
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- travel
- climate change
- nonfiction
- science
16. A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe
By: Johannes Krause
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A radical retelling of humanity's restless, genetically mingled history based on the revolutionary … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
17. Ness
By: Robert Macfarlane
3.84
Format: 72 pages, Hardcover
Somewhere on a salt-and-shingle island, inside a ruined concrete structure known as The Green Chape… read more
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- environment
"Look — here they come, their eyes are hagstones & their words are shingle. They rise on the shore, rock-cored, flint beings, scattering chert to signal their passage, sending stones through time to f…"-Robert Macfarlane, Ness
"Look — here it comes, its bones are plastic, it builds itself from pallet slat & bottle top, rises from sift, is lashed & trussed with fishing line. It is drift: it has cuttlefish nails & sea-poppy h…"-Robert Macfarlane, Ness
18. Slonim Woods 9: A Memoir
By: Daniel Barban Levin
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An “extraordinary” (Nylon) firsthand account of the creation of a modern cult and the costs paid by… read more
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- memoir
- audiobook
19. On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
By: Maggie Nelson
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Nothing stays avant-garde forever; you have to keep moving."-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
"As we think, we might remember that it matters not only with whom and what we choose to think; it also matters what spirit we choose to think with."-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
"This is one of the things I’ve learned about happiness: when you feel it, it’s good to say so. That way, if and when you say later in depression or despair, “I’ve just never been happy,"-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
"The reparative turn, as applied to art, is in many ways a continuation of the orthopedic aesthetic, with the difference being that the twentieth-century model imagined the audience as numb, constrict…"-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
20. Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
By: Douglas Rushkoff
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. Five mys… read more
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- philosophy
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- science
"Their extreme wealth and privilege served only to make them obsessed with insulating themselves from the very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migration, global pand…"-Douglas Rushkoff, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
21. Bodies
By: Ian Winwood
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Money, freedom, adoring fans: professional musicians seem to have it all. But beneath the surface l… read more
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22. Someone You Know: Sixteen Unforgettable Canadian True Crime Stories
By: Catherine Fogarty
3.72
Format: 320 pages, ebook
Someone You Know takes you into dangerous territory--behind closed doors where family, friendship a… read more
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- audiobook
23. A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar
By: Harry Nicholas
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
‘On the bookshelves, there was plenty of stuff on being gay, and much needed, joyous accounts of wh… read more
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- memoir
24. Diario di un'apprendista astronauta
By: Samantha Cristoforetti
4.36
Format: 538 pages, Paperback
'Today I woke up on Earth. And I will fall asleep in space.' In space the sun rises and sets 16… read more
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- memoir
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"La scienza vive di domande. Non ha risposte, se non perfettibili. Con un lavorio lento e paziente, allarga la chiazza di luce che è la conoscenza, alleviando le sofferenze materiali dell'umanità, ren…"-Samantha Cristoforetti, Diario di un'apprendista astronauta
25. Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
By: Mark O'Connell
3.73
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
"A fantastic book. It's harrowing, tender-hearted, and funny as hell. O'Connell proves himself to b… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- travel
- humor
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- climate change
- environment
- science
"The future is a source of fear not because we know what will happen, and that it will be terrible, but because we know so little, and have so little control. The apocalyptic sensibility, the apocalyp…"-Mark O'Connell, Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
26. Swan Song
By: Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
3.70
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Over countless martini-soaked Manhattan lunches, they shared their deepest secrets and greatest fea… read more
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27. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
By: Ray Kurzweil
3.93
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- science
28. Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
By: Joel Golby
3.52
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
By the popular Vice contributor, a collection of full-throated appreciations, elaborate theories, a… read more
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- humor
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Instances of grief, I have found, are unique, two never coming in the same shape…"-Joel Golby, Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
"A lot of our fears are completely justifiable, and as a result we hold them close around us, like rosaries"-Joel Golby, Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
"There is never enough cheese on the cheese course. Bring your own bit of Brie if you have to. Put an entire Stilton in your handbag."-Joel Golby, Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
"America, you only get ten vacation days a year, but you also have a far healthier pancake culture inside of you, and I’m still weighing up whether that means you come out ahead or behind"-Joel Golby, Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
29. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
By: Nicola Twilley
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific my… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- science
30. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
By: Jesselyn Cook
4.45
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more
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- audiobook
31. The Favorites
By: Rosemary Hennigan
3.29
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
An outsider graduate student forges her way into an exclusive Law and Literature cohort and plots a… read more
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