Social Mobility and Its Enemies (Pelican Books)
By: Lee Elliot Major
4.02
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
What are the effects of decreasing social mobility? How does education help - and hinder - us in im…
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1. Wintersmith (Discworld, #35; Tiffany Aching, #3)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.25
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
Tiffany Aching is a trainee witch — now working for the seriously scary Miss Treason. But when Tiff… read more
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"...Roland de Chumsfanleigh (it wasn't his fault)."-Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith (Discworld, #35; Tiffany Aching, #3)
"Mrs. Earwig said the village women know what to do,"-Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith (Discworld, #35; Tiffany Aching, #3)
"Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese."-Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith (Discworld, #35; Tiffany Aching, #3)
"Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!"-Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith (Discworld, #35; Tiffany Aching, #3)
2. On Palestine
By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more
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"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
3. Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.41
Format: 394 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Moist von Lipwig was a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put… read more
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"Ahh! They're all just pins!"-Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)
"I commend my soul to any god that can find it."-Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)
"Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar."-Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)
"Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?"-Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)
4. The Face: Strangers on a Pier
By: Tash Aw
3.87
Format: 411 pages,
LA TimesBook Prize Finalist: The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose "Tash Aw's … read more
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- nonfiction
5. Fear and Trembling
By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian and religious author interested in human psy… read more
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- nonfiction
6. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
4.22
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
One of the most influential works of this century, this is a crucial exposition of existentialist t… read more
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- nonfiction
"Créer, c'est vivre deux fois."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
"Existence is illusory and it is eternal."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
"There is scarcely any passion without struggle."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
7. Paris Spleen
By: Charles Baudelaire , Louise Varèse
3.89
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of t… read more
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8. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
By: None
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Audio CD
How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of be… read more
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- nonfiction
9. Trumpet
By: Jackie Kay
3.87
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
In her starkly beautiful and wholly unexpected tale, Jackie Kay delves into the most intimate worki… read more
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10. Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.98
Format: None pages,
It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Roy… read more
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11. The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
By: Christopher Hitchens
4.12
Format: 543 pages, Paperback
Among his many books, perhaps none have sparked more outrage than The Missionary Position, Christop… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
12. Thud! (Discworld, #34; City Watch #7)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It w… read more
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13. Unseen Academicals (Discworld, #37; Rincewind #8)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.29
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Discworld lives on in Unseen Academicals, the latest novel from Terry Pratchett. Delivering the tra… read more
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14. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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15. Stoner
By: John Williams , John McGahern
4.34
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming famil… read more
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"Annesi, hayatını sabırla kabullenmişti, katlanmak zorunda olduğu uzun bir anmışçasına."-John Williams, Stoner
"Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve."-John Williams, Stoner
"But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before."-John Williams, Stoner
"While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time."-John Williams, Stoner
16. 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
- nonfiction
17. Victory City
By: Salman Rushdie
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Hidden in a clay pot. Sealed with wax. Buried at the heart of a ruined palace amidst the ashes of o… read more
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"History is a consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"History is the consequence not only of people’s actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"fHistory is the consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"In death do triumph and failure humbly meet. We learn far less from victory than from defeat."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
18. Conversations on Love
By: Natasha Lunn
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A celebration of love in all its forms, featuring conversations with: Philippa Perry on falling in … read more
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- nonfiction
"And I grew to understand that the grief I felt equalled the love. - Greg Wise"-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love
"The things I flew past in the race to get what I didn't have were actually the gifts all along."-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love
"I'm here for the good and the bad and everything in between". True friends see through any level of performance or denial or avoidance."-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love
"It's important when you've good news to tell the right people. People who understand the dream or have a dream of their own. Otherwise, you end up feeling deflated."-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love
19. Western Lane
By: Chetna Maroo
3.51
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more
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20. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
By: Kit Heyam
4.30
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity Today’s narratives about trans people … read more
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- nonfiction
"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
21. Cursed Bread
By: Sophie Mackintosh
3.28
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Man Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure comes an elegant and hypnotic new novel of o… read more
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"Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"The world is only ever one breach away from being unpeeled entirely, one tragedy, one glimpse behind the curtain."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I've been looked at in pity and in fear and I've learned that the only way to really be seen is through desire. To be looked at and found whole. Found alive."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I don't want a book, I don't want the trouble of it, he said. I don't want to get involved, I just want to watch what's going on. I know what's going to happen and then it happens, and I can go outsi…"-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
22. The Reluctant Fundamentalist
By: Mohsin Hamid
3.73
Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition
At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As d… read more
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- politics
"Glaring is something we men of Lahore take seriously..."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
"one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
"...like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony..."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
"She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
23. Nevada
By: Imogen Binnie
3.97
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more
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"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
24. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
By: Michael Lewis
3.99
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
“Brilliant. . . . Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncerta… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
- sociology
"Regret was the ham in the back of the deli that caused people to switch from turkey to roast beef."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours"-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"The way it feels to me,' he said, 'is that there were certain ideas that I was put on this earth to think. And now I can think them."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
25. Intimations
By: Zadie Smith
3.99
Format: 97 pages, Paperback
Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of loc… read more
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- nonfiction
"Strange inversions proliferate."-Zadie Smith, Intimations
"When in the presence of a child, get on the floor."-Zadie Smith, Intimations
"My children know the truth about me but still tolerate me, so far."-Zadie Smith, Intimations
"The enviable style of the young is little protection against catastrophe."-Zadie Smith, Intimations
26. Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over The UK
By: Simon Kuper
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel H… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
27. The Way of Nagomi: How to Find Peace & Harmony in Your Life
By: Ken Mogi
3.42
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
NAGOMI is the Japanese ideology that advocates embracing everything life throws at us so we can liv… read more
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28. New York City in 1979
By: Kathy Acker
3.11
Format: 47 pages, Paperback
"It is necessary to go to as many extremes as possible." A tale of art, sex, blood, junkies and … read more
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"Intense sexual desire is the best thing in the world."-Kathy Acker, New York City in 1979
"The two main girlfriends he has had wanted him to support them in the manner to which they certainly weren't accustomed even though he couldn't put his flabby hands on a penny."-Kathy Acker, New York City in 1979
"old people have to go to children's or most often to rest homes where they are shunted into wheelchairs and made as fast as possible into zombies cause it's easier to handle a zombie, if you have to …"-Kathy Acker, New York City in 1979
29. Porn: An Oral History
By: Polly Barton
3.34
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the a… read more
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- sociology
30. Social Mobility and Its Enemies (Pelican Books)
By: Lee Elliot Major
4.02
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
What are the effects of decreasing social mobility? How does education help - and hinder - us in im… read more
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- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
- social issues
- education
- sociology
31. The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged
By: Sam Friedman
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Politicians continually tell us that anyone can get ahead. But is that really true? This important,… read more
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- education
- nonfiction
- economics
- sociology
