God Save The Queen: the Strange Persistence of Monarchies
By: Dennis Altman
3.32
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
An avowed republican investigates the unexpected durability and potential benefits of constitutiona…
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1. Are We Getting Smarter?: Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century
By: James R. Flynn
3.61
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
The ‘Flynn effect' is a surprising finding, identified by James R. Flynn, that IQ test scores have … read more
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- nonfiction
2. Troilus and Cressida
By: William Shakespeare , Louis B. Wright , Virginia A. LaMar
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Arden Shakespeare is the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's plays. Now in its third… read more
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3. The Chrysalids
By: John Wyndham
3.93
Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A world paralysed by genetic mutation John Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of … read more
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"We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that."-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
"Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for"-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
"The living form defies evolution at its peril; if it does not adapt, it will be broken. The idea of completed man is the supreme vanity: the finished image is a sacrilegious myth."-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
"... the more complex they made their world, the less capable they were of dealing with it. They had no means of consensus. They learnt to co-operate constructively in small units; but only destructiv…"-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
4. The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss In the 1980… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You'll Ever Need
By: Scott Pape
4.47
Format: 310 pages,
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- nonfiction
6. Bluets
By: Maggie Nelson
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Chéri
By: Colette Gauthier-Villars
4.36
Format: 512 pages,
Lea de Lonval is an aging courtesan, a once famous beauty facing the end of her sexual career. She … read more
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8. Homage to Catalonia
By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more
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9. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
By: Reza Aslan
3.96
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of No god but Godcomes a fascinating, provocative, and … read more
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10. 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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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
11. 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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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"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
12. No One Is Talking About This
By: Patricia Lockwood
3.55
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
A book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a… read more
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"Couldn't he see her arms all full of the sapphires of the instant?"-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
"The Flat Earth Society announced it had members all over the globe."-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
"Every fiber in her being strained. She was trying to hate the police."-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
"What do you mean you've been spying on me, with this thing in my hand that is an eye?"-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
13. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
By: Dara Horn
4.36
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
14. The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil
By: Tina Brown
4.03
Format: 571 pages, Hardcover
The gripping inside story of the British royal family’s battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"What Diana’s younger son was thinking only he can tell us, and doubtless will."-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil
"Dacre's staff referred to his morning editorial meetings as the “Vagina Monologues,"-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil
"Until he lost his hair, Prince William was probably the biggest heartthrob to be heir to the throne since the pre-obese Henry VIII."-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil
"Philip had to apologize in 1999 after a walkabout at an Edinburgh electronics factory when he commented that a fuse box bursting with wires looked “as if it was put in by an Indian."-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil
15. Whereabouts
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.77
Format: 157 pages, Hardcover
Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her theme… read more
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"the routine purchases of a woman on her own,"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts
"My mother, by now, clings to life like a yellowing piece of Scotch tape in a scrapbook."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts
"wastes away like an old woman who was once a stunning beauty before shutting down completely."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts
"There’s no point discussing it given that she’s blind to the small pleasures my solitude affords me"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts
16. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
17. Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)
By: Stephen Fry
4.35
Format: 414 pages, Hardcover
The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty,… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"His reward is the eternal fame that is both priceless and worthless"-Stephen Fry, Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)
"Bij onze geboorte ligt ons lot al vast, en niemand heeft ooit het zijne kunnen ontlopen (Hektor)"-Stephen Fry, Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)
"Forget him. What is treasure? Or Briseis, or honor, or anything? Next to the life of the one I loved best and dearest? My beloved, my only Patroclus."-Stephen Fry, Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)
"Zelfs de onsterfelijke goden waren niet bij machte zich te verhouden tot, mee te leven met, nakomelingen te verwekken bij en het lot te bepalen van zo'n aanzwellende schare eerzuchtige, vernuftige en…"-Stephen Fry, Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)
18. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
By: Shon Faye
4.55
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
19. Courtiers: Intrigue, Ambition, and the Power Players Behind the House of Windsor
By: Valentine Low
3.64
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years study… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
20. The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
By: Rosemary Sullivan
3.83
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept... Using new technology, recently discovered doc… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The fact that Otto survived the horror of the concentration camps demonstrated his profound will to live."-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
"Fascism counts on people's credulity, on their craving to believe, on their fear that there is nothing to believe."-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
"While someone with the first person knowledge is still alive, while records are still available, while relatives of witnesses can come forward, the stories must be told."-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
"The Netherlands in 1940 was like a petri dish in which one can examine how people brought up in freedom react to catastrophe when it is brought to their door: It is a questions still worth asking tod…"-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
21. A New Name: Septology VI-VII
By: Jon Fosse
4.49
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more
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"God is so far away that no one can say anything about him and that’s why all ideas about God are wrong, and at the same time he is so close that we almost can’t notice him, because he is the foundati…"-Jon Fosse, A New Name: Septology VI-VII
22. Checkout 19
By: Claire-Louise Bennett
3.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people she meets--and dream… read more
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"Mimicry can be unkind, but at least it acknowledges that you’re there."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"Yet in my heart I was bereft, grieving – homesick for a place I had never seen. For a place that doesn't exist, yet I belonged there nonetheless. Ridiculous really. Ridiculous, yet so acute and abidi…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"…the impulse for transgression and a taste for abasement is not so difficult to locate and arouse. Because of course it is thrilling to be astutely defiled. To have every revered trait and inimitable…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"an unbearably tense and disorienting paradox that underscores everyday life in a working-class environment—on the one hand it’s an abrasive and in-your-face world, yet, at the same time, much of it s…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
23. The Jane Austen Remedy
By: Ruth Wilson
3.31
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An uplifting and delightfully bookish memoir about an 89-year-old woman who reclaims her life by re… read more
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"These conversations were exhilarating. They alerted me to the way shared reading could be a source of light in a dark world, forging friendships and creating like-minded communities."-Ruth Wilson, The Jane Austen Remedy
24. Shmutz
By: Felicia Berliner
3.52
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this witty, provocative, and unputdownable debut novel a young Hasidic woman on a quest to get m… read more
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25. Rest and Be Thankful
By: Emma Glass
3.52
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Laura is a nurse in a paediatric unit. On long, quiet shifts, she and her colleagues, clad in their… read more
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"Toxicity drips out of him and I'll pour more into him."-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful
"We are tethered. We share the same headache. We share the same wake. We stand in stillness. We stand in agony."-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful
"I don't need half-love, half-life, half is not enough. I can be whole with nothing. I came from nothing. I came from nowhere."-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful
"I will miss the lick you give your lips before you speak but I won't miss the words that follow and fall out of that wry wet mouth."-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful
26. The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need
By: Thomas Mayo
4.52
Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition
The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who hav… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
27. Tripping Over Myself: A Memoir of a Life in Comedy
By: Shaun Micallef
3.80
Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition
From Shaun Micallef, beloved host of ABC TV’s news satire Mad as Hell, comes Tripping Over Myself –… read more
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- nonfiction
28. Male Tears
By: Benjamin Myers
3.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In Male Tears, a debut collection of stories that brings together over fifteen years of work, Benja… read more
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"The collapse of what once was had been comprised of dozens of gestures, scores of things left unsaid and hundreds of resentments spread over the thousand days that all stacked up to create millions o…"-Benjamin Myers, Male Tears
29. The Paris Cooking School
By: Sophie Beaumont
3.58
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Life rarely serves up the perfect dish, but second chances are always on the menu There’s nothing … read more
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30. Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals
By: Jack Ashby
4.19
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Scientifically informed and funny, a firsthand account of Australia’s wonderfully unique mammals—an… read more
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- nonfiction
31. God Save The Queen: the Strange Persistence of Monarchies
By: Dennis Altman
3.32
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
An avowed republican investigates the unexpected durability and potential benefits of constitutiona… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- political science
