In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dali
By: Sue Roe
3.73
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
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1. The Oppermanns
By: Lion Feuchtwanger , Ruth Gruber , James Cleugh
4.42
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
First published in 1934 but fully imagining the future of Germany over the ensuing years, The Opper… read more
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- 20th century
2. The Histories
By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola
4.01
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Hippocleides doesn't care."-Herodotus, The Histories
"So much, then, for the fish."-Herodotus, The Histories
"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."-Herodotus, The Histories
"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."-Herodotus, The Histories
3. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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- france
- 20th century
"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
4. The Garden of Eden
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.70
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
The last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, published posthumously in 1986, charts the life of … read more
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- france
- 20th century
"Now we have done it. Now we really have done it."-Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."-Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
"I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you."-Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
"He wrote it exactly and the sinister part only showed as the light feathering of a smooth swell on a calm day marking the reef beneath."-Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
5. The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
By: Ross King
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
With a novelist's skill and the insight of an historian, bestselling author Ross King recalls a sem… read more
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- art
- art history
- biography
- history
- france
- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
By: Jack Vance
3.89
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Seekers of wisdom and beauty include lovely lost women, eccentric wizards and man-eating melancholy… read more
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- audiobook
"It is thus because it has always been thus. Is not this reason enough?"-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
"T'sais mounted her horse and set out for Earth, seeking love and beauty."-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
"To the furthest reach of my memory, Rogol Domedonfors ruled the city. He knew lore of all ages, secrets of fire and light, gravity and countergravity, the knowledge of superphysic numeration, metatha…"-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
"On the heights above the river Xzan, at the site of certain ancient ruins, Iucounu the Laughing Magician had built a manse to his private taste: an eccentric structure of steep gables, balconies, sky…"-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
7. Medieval Europe
By: Chris Wickham
3.72
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and h… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
8. Leviathan
By: Thomas Hobbes , Crawford Brough Macpherson
3.71
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short' Written during the chaos of the En… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Hell is truth seen too late."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
"LET THE GAY BEGI- I MEAN GAMES BEGIN!"-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
"The Conscience is a thousand witnesses."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
" Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
9. The Writing Life
By: Annie Dillard
3.26
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Annie Dillard has written eleven books, including the memoir of her parents, An American Childhood;… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- biography
10. Nadja
By: André Breton , Richard Howard
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Nadja, originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance eve… read more
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- art
- france
- 20th century
"I am the soul in limbo."-André Breton, Nadja
"Le coeur humain, beau comme un sismographe."-André Breton, Nadja
"Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all."-André Breton, Nadja
"...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours."-André Breton, Nadja
11. Life with Picasso
By: Françoise Gilot
4.09
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
Francoise Gilot was a young painter in Paris when she first met Picasso - he was sixty-two and she … read more
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- art
- art history
- biography
- history
- france
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"...since I realized that he (Picasso) lived in a self-enclosed world and that his solitude was therefore total, I wanted to explore my own solitude."-Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso
"And you, you’re an angel,’ he said, scornfully, ‘but an angel from a hot place. Since I’m the devil, that makes you one of my subjects. I think I’ll brand you."-Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso
"My grandmother's death had given me a heightened sense of individual solitude, of each one of us walking towards his own death, with no one able to help us or hold us back."-Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso
"As I was growing up, whenever anything frightened me in any degree, it fascinated me at the same time. I felt the need of going too far simply to prove to myself that I was capable of it."-Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso
12. The Leopard
By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Archibald Colquhoun
4.01
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, h… read more
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- 20th century
"While there’s death there’s hope"-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Cambiare tutto perché niente cambi."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"La eternidad amorosa dura pocos años."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Nothing could be decently hated except eternity."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
13. Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West
By: None
4.32
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary new appraisal of the Old West and the America it made The open range cattle era las… read more
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14. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
15. Bright Lights, Big City
By: Jay McInerney
3.80
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation,… read more
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- 20th century
"Under the spell of alcohol your differences recede."-Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City
"It's the Abstract Expressionist approach to publishing. Throw ink at paper. Hope for pattern to emerge."-Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City
"The level of the room keeps changing. All of the surfaces swell and recede with oceanic rhytm. You are not quite all right. You are somewhat wrong."-Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City
"You feel that if only you could make yourself sit down at a typewriter you could give shape to what seems merely a chain reaction of pointless disasters."-Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City
16. Exile and the Kingdom
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
3.46
Format: 32 pages,
These six stories, written at the height of Camus' artistic powers, all depict people at decisive, … read more
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17. The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art
By: None
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a… read more
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18. Beyond the Pleasure Principle
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free associat… read more
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19. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
By: Alice Munro
3.66
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In the her tenth collection (the title story of which is the basis for the new film Hateship Lovesh… read more
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20. Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
By: Ross King
3.26
Format: None pages,
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21. Van Gogh: The Life
By: Steven Naifeh
4.18
Format: 976 pages, Kindle Edition
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, who galvanized readers with their Pulitzer Prize–winning bio… read more
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- art history
- biography
- history
- france
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Me pregunto por qué los brillantes puntitos del cielo no nos resultan tan asequibles como los puntos negros que llenan el mapa de Francia. Cogemos un tren para ir de Tarascón a Ruán, pero para llegar…"-Steven Naifeh, Van Gogh: The Life
22. How to Raise an Antiracist
By: Ibram X. Kendi
4.41
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The book that every parent, caregiver, and teacher needs to raise the next generation of antiracist… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"To raise an antiracist is to raise a critical thinker. And to raise a critical thinker is to raise an antiracist."-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist
"Caregivers must model a critical home, a critical classroom, a critical community, for kids to defy and question everything that’s questionable."-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist
"Literacy is not an end. Literacy should be taught as a means to critical thinking. Knowledge isn't an end. Knowledge is a means to critical thinking. The smartest student is not the student who is th…"-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist
"Instead of calling these IB and AP courses "gifted" classes, I call them privileged classes. The students in the classes are privileged. Colleges give preferential treatment to students who take thes…"-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist
23. Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America
By: Hugh Eakin
4.36
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center… read more
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- art
- art history
- biography
- history
- france
- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond
By: Geezer Butler
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A rollicking, effusive, and candid memoir by the heavy metal musician and founding member of Black … read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Being in Black Sabbath felt like being an actor in a soap opera. It’s a minor miracle all four of the original lineup survived beyond the 1970s, let alone that we’re all still here. Along the way, we…"-Geezer Butler, Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond
"Writing was my godsend, my treatment, my way of digging myself out of a depressive hole. That’s not an outlet a lot of working-class kids had. But because I’d been exposed to books from an early age,…"-Geezer Butler, Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond
25. The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny
By: Ian Davidson
3.60
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A vital and illuminating look at this profoundly important (and often perplexing) historical moment… read more
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- france
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"I accuse you of marching towards supreme power. - said by Jean-Baptiste Louvet to Robespierre (1792)"-Ian Davidson, The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny
"Sir, did you not hear the orders of the King?" Bailly replied: "...It seems o me that the nation assembled cannot take orders."-Ian Davidson, The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny
"If I were to put a date on it, I would say that the French Revolution finally came to rest after almost exactly 180 years, on April 28, 1969, when President de Gaulle resigned in a huff and the Fifth…"-Ian Davidson, The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny
26. Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire
By: Bettany Hughes
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning hist… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
27. Hit So Hard: A Memoir
By: Patty Schemel
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A stunningly candid and inspiring memoir of recovery from addiction and the '90s, by Hole drummer P… read more
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- biography
- audiobook
28. Ride the Devil's Herd: Wyatt Earp's Epic Battle Against the West's Biggest Outlaw Gang
By: John Boessenecker
3.94
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A Pim County Public Library Southwest Books of the Year 2021 A True West Reader’s Choice for Best … read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
29. Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington
By: Joanna Moorhead
4.50
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An illustrated biography of the pioneering British artist and writer, tracing her life and work thr… read more
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- art
- art history
- biography
- history
- nonfiction
- 20th century
30. In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dali
By: Sue Roe
3.73
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
'She vividly charts the birth of surrealism . . . a tale rich in absurdity and outlandish character… read more
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- biography
- history
- france
- nonfiction
- 20th century
- audiobook
31. Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship (Icon Editions)
By: Jack D. Flam
4.08
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Matisse and Picasso achieved extraordinary prominence during their lifetimes. They have become cult… read more
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- art history
- biography
- history
- france
- nonfiction
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