Heaven's Breath: A Natural History of the Wind
By: Lyall Watson
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Wind and earth, time, life, body and mind.
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1. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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- classics
"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
2. A Poetry Handbook
By: Mary Oliver
4.22
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
"(...) A Poetry Handbook was written with writers of poetry most vividly in my mind; their needs an… read more
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- nonfiction
"A poem on the page speaks to the listening mind."-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook
"Invention hovers always a little above the rules."-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook
"The language of the poem is the language of particulars."-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook
"Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents"-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook
3. Pale Fire
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more
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- classics
4. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
By: Mary Beard
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more
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- nonfiction
- classics
- history
5. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard , Wayne Koestenbaum
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented … read more
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- classics
- nonfiction
- essays
6. Notes of a Native Son
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introdu… read more
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- nonfiction
- classics
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- essays
7. A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
By: Aldo Leopold
4.30
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Tho… read more
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- classics
- history
- natural history
- nonfiction
- essays
- environment
- nature
- science
"In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"The evolution of a land ethic is an intellectual as well as emotional process."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
8. The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
By: None , Edward E. Ericson Jr. , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4.32
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prison… read more
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- nonfiction
- classics
- history
"To taste the sea, all one needs is one gulp."-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
"One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny."-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
"Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand."-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
"Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty."-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
9. I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
By: Robert Graves
3.44
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54. Set in the… read more
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- classics
10. Playing With Fire (Inspector Banks, #14)
By: Peter Robinson
3.57
Format: None pages,
Fire. It violently destroys futures and pasts in a terrified heartbeat, devouring damning secrets w… read more
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11. The Glass Bead Game
By: Theodore Ziolkowski , Hermann Hesse , Richard Winston , Clara Winston
4.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, 'The Gla… read more
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12. JR
By: William Gaddis , Frederick R. Karl
3.61
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
J R is the long-awaited novel from William Gaddis, author of The Recognitions,that tremendous book … read more
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13. Sexus (The Rosy Crucifixion, #1)
By: Henry Miller
4.00
Format: 16 pages, Paperback
Praise for Henry Miller: 'American literature begins and ends with the meaning of what Miller has d… read more
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15. A Patchwork Planet
By: Anne Tyler
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
For the first time in mass market paperback, this novel introduces 30-year-old misfit Barnaby Gaitl… read more
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16. Blood and Guts in High School
By: Kathy Acker , None , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
Janey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a… read more
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18. The Crisis of the European Mind
By: Anthony Grafton , J. Lewis May , Paul Hazard
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
Paul Hazard was one of the master historians of the twentieth century, and The Crisis of the Europe… read more
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19. Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina (Claudius, #2)
By: Robert Graves , Seneca , Suetonius
4.30
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Robert Graves begins anew the tumultuous life of the Roman who became emperor in spite of himself. … read more
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20. Billy Budd, Sailor
By: Herman Melville
3.76
Format: 85 pages, Paperback
A handsome young sailor is unjustly accused of plotting mutiny in this timeless tale of the sea. read more
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21. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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22. 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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23. The Rabbit Factor
By: Antti Tuomainen
3.79
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
An insurance mathematician’s carefully ordered life is turned on its head when he unexpectedly lose… read more
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24. The Extinction of Irena Rey
By: Jennifer Croft
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more
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"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
25. A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
By: Andrew H. Knoll
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering… read more
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26. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
By: Judi Dench
4.56
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
27. Figuring
By: Maria Popova
4.34
Format: 578 pages, Hardcover
Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the i… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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"History is not what happened, but what survives the shipwrecks of judgment and chance."-Maria Popova, Figuring
"We can no more claim all credit for our achievement than deflect all blame for our impediments."-Maria Popova, Figuring
"Nobody knows what goes on between two hearts including, more often than not, the people in whose chests they beat."-Maria Popova, Figuring
"Life is infinitely more interesting when considered for the questions it raises rather than for the answers it bestows."-Maria Popova, Figuring
28. Swamplands: Tundra Beavers, Quaking Bogs, and the Improbable World of Peat
By: Edward Struzik
3.85
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In a world filled with breathtaking beauty, we have often overlooked the elusive charm and magic of… read more
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- history
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
29. Heaven's Breath: A Natural History of the Wind
By: Lyall Watson
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Wind and earth, time, life, body and mind. read more
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- south africa
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30. Motion Sickness (Masks)
By: Lynne Tillman
3.39
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
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"…the tongue, for instance, is privileged with information indifferent to words."-Lynne Tillman, Motion Sickness (Masks)
"The rain persists, an amniotic fluid, the perfect environment for reading in a room, a womb of one’s own."-Lynne Tillman, Motion Sickness (Masks)
"…but place is unimportant to a traveler, if that’s what I can be called. If it were important, people couldn’t bear to move on."-Lynne Tillman, Motion Sickness (Masks)
"... I want things plain. Or direct. When I read a book I’m suspicious of description. Too much embellishment or an excess of adjectives bothers me, as if the speaker or writer were attempting to over…"-Lynne Tillman, Motion Sickness (Masks)
