The Look of the Book: Jackets, Covers, and Art at the Edges of Literature
By: Peter Mendelsund
3.92
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
Why do some book covers instantly grab your attention, while others never get a second glance? Fusi…
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1. March: Book Three (March, #3)
By: Nate Powell , John Lewis , Andrew Aydin
4.65
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award-winning and best-selling MARCH trilogy. Congressman… read more
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- nonfiction
2. The Queer Art of Failure
By: J. Jack Halberstam
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Queer Art of Failureis about finding alternatives--to conventional understandings of success in… read more
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- nonfiction
3. Ex-wife
By: Ursula Parrott
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
1929. The book begins: My husband left me four years ago. Why-I don't precisely understand, and nev… read more
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4. Through the Woods
By: Emily Carroll
3.94
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
'It came from the woods. Most strange things do.' Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow… read more
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"you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time... but the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once."-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods
"Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time... But the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to …"-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods
"But the worst kind of monster was the BURROWING KIND. The sort that crawled into you and made a home there. The sort you couldn't name, the sort you couldn't see. The monster that ate you alive from …"-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods
"I married my love in the springtime, but by summer he'd locked me away. He'd murdered me dead by the autumn, & by winter I was naught but decay. It's cold where I am and so lonely, but in loneliness …"-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods
5. Blue Nights
By: Joan Didion
4.75
Format: 2112 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly… read more
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6. Red Rackham's Treasure (Tintin, #12)
By: Hergé , Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper , Michael Turner
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
Convinced that Captain Haddock's ancestor, Sir Francis Haddock, used a series of clever clues to de… read more
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7. Devils in Daylight
By: Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , J. Keith Vincent
3.62
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
One morning, Takahashi, a writer who has just stayed up all night working, is interrupted by a phon… read more
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8. Thinking with Type
By: Ellen Lupton
3.44
Format: None pages, Paperback
The organization of letters on a blank sheet--or screen--is the most basic challenge facing anyone … read more
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9. The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
By: Garrett M. Graff
4.72
Format: 16 pages, Audiobook
15 hours, 54 minutes Read by a 45-person cast, with Holter Graham and the author Over the pas… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
"We met when we were only 16, at a high school dance. When he died, we were 50. I remember how I didn't want that day to end, terrible as it was. I didn't want to go to sleep because as long as I was …"-Garrett M. Graff, The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
10. Open Throat
By: Henry Hoke
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more
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- adult
11. The Infinity Particle
By: Wendy Xu
4.03
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this gorgeous graphic novel by Wendy Xu, co-creator of the award-winning Mooncakes, a young inve… read more
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12. The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose
By: Oprah Winfrey
3.97
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Everyone has a purpose. And, according to Oprah Winfrey, "Your real job in life is to figure out as… read more
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- nonfiction
"No matter how far away from yourself you may have strayed, there is always a path back. You already know who you are and how to fulfill your destiny. And your ruby slippers are ready to carry you hom…"-Oprah Winfrey, The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose
"Whatever your calling, it's already rooted within you, and those roots can be trampled or tugged at but never removed. They grow stronger only when tended, nurtured, and most important, shared with o…"-Oprah Winfrey, The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose
"Your life is always speaking to you in whispers, guiding you to your next right step. And in many situations, the whisper is also the first warning. It’s a quiet nudge from deep within saying, Hmmm, …"-Oprah Winfrey, The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose
13. Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations
By: Jonny Sun
4.10
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The wonderfully original author of Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too gives us a collection o… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
"I think a lot of pressure gets put on making things “for something"-Jonny Sun, Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations
"Maybe what I have—maybe a few texts a week, seeing someone once a year—maybe that's it. Maybe that's friendship enough."-Jonny Sun, Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations
"See you later cannot be promised, but Goodbye, again reminds us that we've done this before. And after the last time, at least, we both came back."-Jonny Sun, Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations
"I suppose sometimes the things in the room don't need to be different for a place to feel unfamiliar. Sometimes you are the thing that has changed."-Jonny Sun, Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations
14. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
15. Swipe Up for More!: Inside the Unfiltered Lives of Influencers
By: Stephanie McNeal
3.20
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An unfiltered, colorful romp through the IRL world of influencers that spills the tea on the multib… read more
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- nonfiction
16. Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets
By: Louise Willder
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
This is the outside story of books. From blurbs to titles, quotes to (checks jacket) cute animal de… read more
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- nonfiction
- literary criticism
- writing
- books about books
17. The Look of the Book: Jackets, Covers, and Art at the Edges of Literature
By: Peter Mendelsund
3.92
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
Why do some book covers instantly grab your attention, while others never get a second glance? Fusi… read more
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- art
- art design
- nonfiction
- design
- writing
- reference
- criticism
- adult
- books about books
- literary criticism
18. Sensory: Life on the Spectrum
By: Bex Ollerton
4.27
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A colorful and eclectic comics anthology exploring a wide range of autistic experiences—from diagno… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
19. Weird but Normal: Essays
By: Mia Mercado
3.50
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Birth control. Body hair removal cream. Boobs. It’s all weird, but also pretty normal. Navigatin… read more
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20. Curses
By: George Wylesol
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
“Sometimes I think I see things. Out of the corner of my eye, behind a door, I catch a glimpse of s… read more
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- art
21. Walk With Me: New York: Photographs
By: Susan Kaufman
4.56
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
From photographer Susan Kaufman, Walk With New York is an intimate celebration of the beauty and c… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
