The Smithsonian Institution
By: Gore Vidal
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
It's 1939, and a teenage math genius is mysteriously summoned to the Smithsonian Institution, where…
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1. The Halloween Tree
By: Ray Bradbury
3.78
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
A fast-moving, eerie tale set on Halloween night... Eight costumed boys running to meet their fr… read more
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- science fiction
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"Because of this one brave, new-thinking man, summer lives in the winter cave."-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree
"When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die."-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree
"Night and day. Summer and winter, boys. Seedtime and harvest. Life and death. That's what Halloween is, all rolled up in one."-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree
"The day Joe Pipkin was born all the Orange Crush and Nehi soda bottles in the world fizzed over; and joyful bees swarmed countrysides to sting maiden ladies."-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree
2. Robinson Crusoe
By: Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three dec… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
"For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. "-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
"On a horse? I was married on a horse? Gillian looked like she could kill the groom"-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
"All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them."-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
"for me to think of such a voyage was the most preposterous thing that ever man in such circumstances could be guilty of."-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
3. Mother Night
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.23
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: Alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Mother Night is a darin… read more
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- american
- fiction
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"When you're dead you're dead."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
"It’s all I’ve seen, all I’ve been through,"-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
"Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
"The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
4. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
By: E.L. Konigsburg
3.76
Format: None pages,
When suburban Claudia Kincaid decides to run away, she knows she doesn't just want to run from some… read more
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- fiction
5. Vanity Fair
By: William Makepeace Thackeray , John Carey
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Edited by John Carey. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray… read more
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- fiction
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6. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
By: Atul Gawande , None
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medic… read more
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7. The Smithsonian Institution
By: Gore Vidal
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
It's 1939, and a teenage math genius is mysteriously summoned to the Smithsonian Institution, where… read more
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- historical fiction
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- fantasy
8. From Hell
By: Alan Moore , Eddie Campbell , Pete Mullins
4.19
Format: 576 pages, Paperback
"I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"It would seem we are to suffer an apocalypse of cockatoos - William Gull"-Alan Moore, From Hell
"I am not man so much as syndrome; as a voice that bellows in the human heart. I am rain. I cannot be contained"-Alan Moore, From Hell
"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."-Alan Moore, From Hell
"Where comes this dullness in your eyes? How has your century numbed you so? Shall man be given marvels only when he is beyond all wonder?"-Alan Moore, From Hell
9. Stone Butch Blues
By: Leslie Feinberg
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Gold… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
10. Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
By: Ambrose Bierce , Tom Quirk
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
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- fiction
11. Dragon Teeth
By: Michael Crichton
3.50
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
Michael Crichton's recently discovered novel--an adventure set in the Wild West during the golden a… read more
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- historical
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- historical fiction
12. The English Patient
By: Michael Ondaatje
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel tr… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
13. Libra
By: Don DeLillo
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K In this powerful, eer… read more
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14. Bone: The Complete Edition
By: Jeff Smith
3.04
Format: 40 pages,
An American graphic novel first! The complete 1300 page epic from start to finish in one deluxe tra… read more
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15. Love and Friendship
By: Jane Austen
4.14
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
This collection of the early works of Jane Austen uniquely displays the emerging talent of a brilli… read more
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16. The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession
By: David Grann
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed New Yorkerwriter and author of the breakout debut bestseller The Lost City of Z, David Gr… read more
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17. Erasure
By: Percival Everett
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more
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18. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Rats of NIMH, #1)
By: Robert C. O'Brien
3.83
Format: 35 pages, Paperback
Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, must move her family to their summer quarter… read more
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19. A Widow for One Year
By: John Irving
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richly comic as well as deeply disturbing, this is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotion… read more
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20. The Bonfire of the Vanities
By: Tom Wolfe
3.90
Format: 690 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780553381344.The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel… read more
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"Vulgar, but not as vulgar as Louis Vuitton, thought Sherman."-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
"Your self…is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread."-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
"He had the gaunt and haunted athletic look of those who stare daily down the bony gullet of the great god Aerobics."-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
"The only thing that had truly stuck in Sherman's mind about Christopher Marlowe, after nine years at Buckley, four years at St. Paul's, and four years at Yale, was that you were, in fact, supposed to…"-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
21. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
By: Hunter S. Thompson , Ralph Steadman
3.86
Format: 536 pages, Paperback
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegasis the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good … read more
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22. Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)
By: Orson Scott Card
3.78
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
Children of the Mind (1996) is the fourth novel of Orson Scott Card's popular Ender's Game series o… read more
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"I must rejoice that I am part of her, instead of resenting that I am not more of her."-Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)
"Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?"-Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)
"But then, I would rather be mocked for doing a good thing than to be respected, knowing I have done wrong."-Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)
"It was wrong of me to value my own pain so highly that I thought it gave me the right to inflict more on him."-Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)
23. Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)
By: Orson Scott Card
3.81
Format: 592 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the heart of a child named Gloriousl… read more
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- novels
- fantasy
- fiction
"Madness, and then illumination."-Orson Scott Card, Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)
"Human beings remain grubs all the lives."-Orson Scott Card, Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)
"It's intelligence that makes you unhappy."-Orson Scott Card, Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)
"Inside us there is a place that is our true self."-Orson Scott Card, Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)
24. Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.78
Format: 197 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. Pity he's not very good at it. All he wants is h… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"Where the hell did demons live, anyway?"-Terry Pratchett, Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)
"Most of history is pretty appaling, when you look hard at it. Or even not very hard."-Terry Pratchett, Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)
"Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken."-Terry Pratchett, Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)
"Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind."-Terry Pratchett, Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)
25. Portnoy's Complaint
By: Philip Roth , Luca Marinelli
3.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy, who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexualit… read more
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26. The Lost City of the Monkey God
By: Douglas Preston
3.93
Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition
A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering jour… read more
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- historical
27. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
By: Adam Hochschild
4.18
Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for … read more
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- historical
"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europe…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Today we are less likely to speak of humanitarianism, with its overtones of paternalistic generosity, and more likely to speak of human rights. The basic freedoms in life are not seen as gifts to be …"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europ…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
28. Swamplandia!
By: Karen Russell
3.27
Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition
The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline—think Buddenbrooks set in the Florida Evergla… read more
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- fantasy
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"the gravity of wound to fist"-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
"Stars slid away like rain, she was gone so long."-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
"Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children."-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
"The whistle dropped from the branch's spindly fingers like a black cocoon, a pendulum of secret music; the wind pushed sound soundlessly around."-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
29. Contact
By: Carl Sagan
4.15
Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and astronomer Carl Sagan imagines the greatest adventure of all—the … read more
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- science fiction
- novels
- fantasy
- fiction
"Our God Is Alive and Well. Sorry About Yours."-Carl Sagan, Contact
"Black holes collect problems faster than they collect matter."-Carl Sagan, Contact
"Why should God be so clear in the Bible and so obscure in the world?"-Carl Sagan, Contact
"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."-Carl Sagan, Contact
30. Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
By: Agustina Bazterrica
3.14
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winnin… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us."-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
"Outside the secure space of the circle, vulgarity accumulates. Ada loathes vulgarity because it's there that misery hides. She knows that misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral."-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
31. A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
By: Mark Dawidziak
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his my… read more
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"I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends will call it.' -- EDGAR ALLAN POE"-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
"The glow of the fireside poets failed to warm a world coping with the cold realities of a new century. Their light faded as we became less sure of comforting messages and more intrigued by Poe's trou…"-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
