Lost Science: Astonishing Tales of Forgotten Genius
By: Kitty Ferguson
3.90
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Following the successful Lost to Time comes this fascinating companion volume on lost science stori…
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1. Mortal Engines (Mortal Engines, #1)
By: Philip Reeve
3.76
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
"It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining tow… read more
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"And now he was dead, his soul fled down to the Sunless Country and his body lying cold in the cold mud, somewhere in the city's wake."-Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines (Mortal Engines, #1)
"It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea."-Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines (Mortal Engines, #1)
"How should I remember the child's name? It was fifteen, sixteen years ago and I have never liked babies; nasty creatures, leak at both ends and have no respect for ceramics."-Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines (Mortal Engines, #1)
2. The Refugees
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
3.87
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two g… read more
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"Her routine was as predictable as the rotation of the earth."-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees
"But what does one say to a ghost, except to ask why he was here? I was afraid of the answer, so instead I said, 'What took you so long?"-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees
"I had seen Star Wars a dozen times on video tape, and if anyone was so deprived as to have not watched it even once, then the country in which he lived surely needed a revolution."-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees
"Aren't you afraid of ghosts?" I asked. Over the line, in the silence, the static hissed. "You aren't afraid of the things you believe in," he said. This, too, I wrote in his memoir, even though I had…"-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees
3. The Shell Collector
By: Anthony Doerr
3.99
Format: 219 pages, Paperback
The exquisitely crafted stories in Anthony Doerr's acclaimed debut collection take readers from the… read more
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"Life can turn out a million ways. - Pg. 82"-Anthony Doerr, The Shell Collector
"Every second of every day has its own magic. - Pg. 163-4"-Anthony Doerr, The Shell Collector
"The world had become like an exhibit at Ward’s museum: pretty and nostalgic and watered down, something old and sealed off you weren’t allowed to touch. - Pg. 204"-Anthony Doerr, The Shell Collector
"He wants to tell her what he has learned about the miracles of light, the way a day's light fluxes in tides: pale and gleaming at dawn, the glare of noon, the gold of evening, the promise of twilight…"-Anthony Doerr, The Shell Collector
4. 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
5. Demons
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.30
Format: 733 pages, Paperback
Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a… read more
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"God is the pain of the fear of death"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
6. Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs: Soft Tissues and Hard Science
By: Phillip Manning
3.81
Format: 4 pages, Hardcover
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- history
- nonfiction
- science
7. Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
By: Mo Gawdat
2.00
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Mo Gawdat is a remarkable thinker and the Chief Business Officer at Google's [X], an elite team of … read more
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- nonfiction
8. Redshirts
By: John Scalzi
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of… read more
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"Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us."-John Scalzi, Redshirts
"We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole."-John Scalzi, Redshirts
"Who are you and what medications aren't you taking?" Finn said."-John Scalzi, Redshirts
"In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly."-John Scalzi, Redshirts
9. The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking #2)
By: Patrick Ness
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
We were in the square, in the square where I'd run, holding her, carrying her, telling her to stay … read more
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10. Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking #3)
By: Patrick Ness
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions. The indi… read more
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11. The Plague Dogs
By: Richard Adams
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Richard Adams, the author of Watership Down, creates a lyrical and engrossing tale, a remarkable jo… read more
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12. The Chinese Orange Mystery (Ellery Queen Detective, #8)
By: Ellery Queen
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
An unknown dead man is found in the office of a prosperous publisher. His clothes are on backward, … read more
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13. Uncentering the Earth: Copernicus and The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
By: William T. Vollmann
4.27
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
In 1543, the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus lay on his deathbed, reportedly holding his just… read more
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14. The Living Planet
By: David Attenborough
3.81
Format: 75 pages, Hardcover
(Also has Collins ISBN - 0002191393) Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants, animals and m… read more
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15. The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.13
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, under… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"The next day, my birthday, was one of the most charmed of my life."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent fifty years traveling the world, and in every posting he had sought out high…"-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
16. The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
By: Brian Merchant
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
We know the iPhone as the device that transformed our world, changing everything from how we talk t… read more
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17. Cold People
By: Tom Rob Smith
3.52
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for… read more
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18. This Is Your Mind on Plants
By: Michael Pollan
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs--opium, caffeine, … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- science
"[Taloma] offered prayers for us and for our troubled country and world. She invoked the spirit of the cactus in teaching us how to heal ourselves and how, once healed, we could better help to heal ot…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"The war on drugs is in truth a war on some drugs, their enemy status the result of historical accident, cultural prejudice, and institutional imperative. The taxonomy on behalf of which this war is b…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"How can you possibly expect to write anything when you can't concentrate? That's pretty much all writers do: take the blooming multiplicity of the world and our experience of it, literally concentrat…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"There's a parable here somewhere, about the difference between journalism and history. What might appear to be "the story" in the present moment may actually be a distraction from it, a shiny object …"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
19. Lone Wolf (Orphan X, #9)
By: Gregg Hurwitz
4.37
Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition
Once a black book government assassin known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak left the program, went deep und… read more
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20. Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far
By: Paul A. Offit
4.20
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Modern medicine has significantly advanced in the last few decades as more informed practices, thor… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- science
21. Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography
By: Billy Connolly
4.42
Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition
In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals … read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
"Blessed are those who yodel - for they shall never be troubled by offers of work."-Billy Connolly, Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography
22. The Last Orphan (Orphan X #8)
By: Gregg Hurwitz
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Evan Smoak returns in The Last Orphan , the next New York Times bestselling Orphan X thriller--when… read more
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"Don’t surround yourself with like-minded people. You’ll get limited or radicalized."-Gregg Hurwitz, The Last Orphan (Orphan X #8)
23. Strangers on a Train
By: Patricia Highsmith
3.73
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
" Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb…We will likely be reading Patricia Hig… read more
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"The word “marriage"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"I know that Southern redhead type,"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm."-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think?"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
24. Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
By: Lara Prior-Palmer
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk, this is the extraordinary debut memoir of a young woma… read more
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- nonfiction
"Sport is war in disguise."-Lara Prior-Palmer, Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
"Horse lovers have excessive feeling."-Lara Prior-Palmer, Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
"Horse smell is the same the world over"-Lara Prior-Palmer, Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
"Maybe home is just all that we leave behind."-Lara Prior-Palmer, Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
25. Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction
By: David Enrich
3.97
Format: 432 pages, ebook
New York Times finance editor David Enrich's explosive exposé of the most scandalous bank in the wo… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
26. Ghost Station
By: S.A. Barnes
3.57
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.… read more
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27. Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul
By: Brandy Schillace
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The “delightfully macabre” ( The New York Times ) true tale of a brilliant and eccentric surgeon… a… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- science
28. Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance
By: Ramie Targoff
3.91
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shak… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
29. The Book of Humans: A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War and the Evolution of Us
By: Adam Rutherford
3.83
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
We like to think of ourselves as exceptional beings, but is there really anything special about us … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- science
30. Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats
By: Maryn McKenna
4.20
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In this eye-opening expose, acclaimed health journalist and National Geographic contributor Maryn M… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- science
31. Lost Science: Astonishing Tales of Forgotten Genius
By: Kitty Ferguson
3.90
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Following the successful Lost to Time comes this fascinating companion volume on lost science stori… read more
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