The Disappearance of Émile Zola: Love, Literature, and the Dreyfus Case
By: Michael Rosen
3.50
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
It is the evening of July 18, 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Émile Zola is on the run. His c…
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1. 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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- literature
- france
"...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)
2. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
By: David McCullough
4.25
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
Published on the fortieth anniversary of its initial publication, this edition of the classic book … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- history
"One has the feeling that if you could pick it up and turn it over, you would see MADE IN AMERICA stamped on it."-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
"What I wanted-what I needed-was a story wherein the principal characters took on something big and admirable and difficult, and did it right."-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
"Nothing lasts forever. The most unforseen circumstances will swamp you and baffle the wisest calculations. Only vitality and plenty of it helps you. Washington A. Roebling quoted by"-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
"Everywhere about her, lesser men, witless, vulgar, corrupt, men of narrow ambition and the cheapest of values, were prospering as never before, grabbing up power, money, or just about anything else t…"-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
3. Thérèse Raquin
By: Émile Zola , Robin Buss
3.73
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
One of Zola's most famous realist novels, Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of… read more
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- literature
- 19th century
- france
"Quando non c’è più speranza nel futuro, il presente si colora di una spaventosa amarezza."-Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin
"Au fond une pensée unique les rongeait : ils s’irritaient contre leur crime, ils se désespéraient d’avoir a jamais troublé leur vie."-Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin
"Au fond une pensée unique les rongeait : ils s’irritaient contre leur crime, ils se désespéraient d’avoir à jamais troublé leur vie."-Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin
"They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist."-Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin
4. The Life to Come and Other Stories
By: E.M. Forster , Christopher Dilke
3.89
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
From the literary icon, author of Howard's End and A Passage to India, comes a posthumous collectio… read more
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- literature
- british literature
"When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I."-E.M. Forster, The Life to Come and Other Stories
5. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small … read more
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- historical
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become, however great he might wish to become, the truest…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she had a duty to propagate them; that …"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"Honour, in the Republic, had never been a goal in itself, only a means to an infinite end. And what was true of her citizens, naturally, was also true of Rome herself. For the generation that had liv…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"It was an article of faith to the Romans that they were the most morally upright people in the world. How else was the size of their empire to be explained? Yet they also knew that the Republic's gre…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
6. Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
By: Marina Abramović
4.56
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
“I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"Kelionėse išlieki jaunas, nes neturi kada senti."-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
"Pour atteindre un objectif, il faut tout donner jusqu'à ce qu'il ne vous reste rien. Alors, votre objectif se réalisera tout seul."-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
"Il arrive que ce que les morts laissent en partant nous apprenne sur eux des choses qu'ils ne nous auraient jamais dites de leur vivant."-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
"Il arrive qu'on fasse des pieds et des mains pour atteindre un objectif, mais il vous échappe parce que les lois cosmiques suivent une autre voie."-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
7. When We Were Orphans
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.54
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The maze of human memory--the ways in which we accommodate and alter it, deceive and deliver oursel… read more
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- literature
- historical
"أعرف أنه احيانًا يكون صعبًا وكأن العالم كله قد انهار من حولك"-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
"I was upset. But I'm not any more. You have to look forward in life."-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
"إن المجرم الحديث قد أصبح أكثر مهارة ، أكثر طموحا ، وأكثر جرأة ، والعلم قد وضع نظاما كاملا من الأدوات المعقدة تحت تصرفه"-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
"It's all right. I'm not upset. After all, they were just things . When you've lost your mother and your father, you can't care so much about things , can you?"-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
8. The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
By: Tom Reiss
4.48
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo - a stunning feat of historical… read more
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- history
- biography
- historical
- france
- nonfiction
9. A Moveable Feast
By: Ernest Hemingway
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more
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- literature
- nonfiction
- france
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10. Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.24
Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition
My name is Rex. I am a good dog. Rex is also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bris… read more
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"My name is Rex. I am a Good Dog."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)
"Sometimes it is hard because we have to make choices. I remember when having to make choices scared me more than anything else except Master being angry with me. Now I know that making choices is the…"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)
"There are still fierce pressure groups shouting about letting go of humanity, but they are the same groups who cry that Bioforms are less than human. One day the world will be ready to accept that hu…"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)
11. Gut Symmetries
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
Physics seems to have become the new language of love in the 1990s, and Jeanette Winterson is not t… read more
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- literature
12. An Officer and a Spy
By: Robert Harris
3.73
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This … read more
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13. The Cosmopolitans
By: Sarah Schulman
3.82
Format: None pages,
A modern retelling of Balzac's classic Cousin Bette by one of America's most prolific and significa… read more
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14. Zazie in the Metro
By: Barbara Wright , Raymond Queneau , Gilbert Adair
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with her uncle Gabriel. All sh… read more
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16. Practical Demonkeeping (Pine Cove, #1)
By: Christopher Moore
4.03
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Christopher Moore's ingenious debut novel, we meet one of the most memorably mismatched pairs in… read more
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17. The Muse
By: Jessie Burton
4.00
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller A picture hides a thousand words . . . On a hot July day in … read more
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18. In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art
By: Sue Roe
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A lively and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in b… read more
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19. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
By: Isabel Wilkerson
3.69
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chroni… read more
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20. poyums
By: Len Pennie
4.58
Format: 129 pages, Kindle Edition
And I have done more than just simply get by So much more than escape or survive Through the galv… read more
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- nonfiction
21. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
By: Jack Weatherford
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- biography
- history
"The first key to leadership is self-control."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to de…"-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
22. Mouthful of Birds
By: Samanta Schweblin
3.73
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, eerily unsettling story collection from a major international literary star. Unearth… read more
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23. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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- historical
- british literature
"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
24. A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City
By: Edward Chisholm
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An evocative portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris as seen through the eyes of a young w… read more
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25. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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- british literature
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
26. Filthy Animals
By: Brandon Taylor
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A group portrait of young adults enmeshed in desire and violence, a hotly charged, deeply satisfyin… read more
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27. Wandering Souls
By: Cecile Pin
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more
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- historical
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
28. The Old Woman with the Knife
By: Gu Byeong-mo
3.52
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The kinetic story of a sixty-five-year-old female assassin who faces an unexpected threat in the tw… read more
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29. Brouhaha
By: Ardal O'Hanlon
3.44
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Dove Connolly is dead. That’s not good for anyone in Tullyanna, never mind Dove. Now his best frien… read more
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30. Older Brother
By: Mahir Guven
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Older Brother is the poignant story of a Franco-Syrian family whose father and two sons try to inte… read more
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31. The Disappearance of Émile Zola: Love, Literature, and the Dreyfus Case
By: Michael Rosen
3.50
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
It is the evening of July 18, 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Émile Zola is on the run. His c… read more
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- biography
- history
- british literature
- literature
- historical
- politics
- 19th century
- nonfiction
- france
