The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
By: Ji Xianlin
4.02
Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition
A harrowing account of a scholar’s imprisonment during China's Cultural Revolution, this monumental…
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1. The Death and Life of Great American Cities
By: Jane Jacobs
4.30
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arroganc… read more
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- politics
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"We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
2. Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.11
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
One thing that constantly disrupts the peace of life at Blandings is the constant incursion of impo… read more
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- 20th century
"... обнадеждена безнадеждност..."-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)
"Всяко нещо струва толкова, за колкото може да се купи."-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)
"... да се прокрадва крадешком и да се мотае мотешком..."-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)
"Госпожица Уилоуби не обичаше провинцията. Намираше я за провинциална."-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)
3. Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God
By: Timothy J. Keller
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author and renowned pastor explores the power of prayer. Christians … read more
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- nonfiction
4. A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World
By: Rana Mitter
3.90
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
In this powerful new look at modern China, Rana Mitter goes back to a pivotal moment in Chinese his… read more
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6. Blood Red Sunset: A Memoir of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
By: Howard Goldblatt , Ma Bo
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In a startlingly vivid, strangely objective, personal narrative, Ma Bo, who was denounced as an "ac… read more
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- history
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- nonfiction
- china
7. The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century
By: David Reynolds
4.36
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
One of the most violent conflicts in the history of civilization, World War I has been strangely fo… read more
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8. China in Ten Words
By: Yu Hua , Allan H. Barr
3.93
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
From one of China's most acclaimed writers, his first work of nonfiction to appear in English: a un… read more
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9. The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
By: Frank Dikötter
3.71
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
"The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a 'liberation.' In China the story of… read more
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10. Ten Years of Madness: Oral Histories of China's Cultural Revolution
By: Feng Jicai , None
2.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
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11. The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976
By: Frank Dikötter
3.88
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives from 1… read more
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12. 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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13. The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
By: Douglas Murray
4.19
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
The Strange Death of Europeis a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the ac… read more
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14. Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz
By: Olga Lengyel
3.91
Format: 385 pages, Paperback
Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time.… read more
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15. Troubled
By: Rob Henderson
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Oth… read more
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"Successful people tell the world they got lucky, then tell their loved ones about the importance of hard work and sacrifice. Critics of successful people tell the world those successful people got lu…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"People don't need motivation; they need self-discipline. Motivation is just a feeling. Self-discipline is: 'I'm going to do this regardless of how I feel.' Seldom do people relish doing something har…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"Mom's friends were worried that their son isn't talking as much as other six-year-olds. They, like many parents, were concerned with how "smart" their kid is. "Should we be reading to him more?" they…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"You should keep your expectations in line with reality. If you view the military as a job, you will be miserable. It's not a job, it's a lot more than that. As long as you wear that uniform, it is yo…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
16. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
17. Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide
By: Hawon Jung
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening firsthand account of the ongoing and trailblazing feminist movement in South Korea—o… read more
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- historical
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- asia
- nonfiction
18. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more
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- nonfiction
19. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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20. The Heart in Winter
By: Kevin Barry
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more
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"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter
21. The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday
By: Saad Z. Hossain
4.06
Format: 167 pages, Paperback
Cuando Melek Ahmar, uno de los siete Señores Djinn, despierta de su encierro milenario, apenas reco… read more
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- asia
"Gurung smiled. "I know just where to find many people needing decapitation. But first, a nap."-Saad Z. Hossain, The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday
"Vomit, piss, blood, and unlikely amounts of semen pooled on almost every level surface, accompanied by lewd graffiti and knife marks gouging the walls, as well as various fist-sized holes, burns, aci…"-Saad Z. Hossain, The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday
22. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
By: Tahir Hamut Izgil
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a f… read more
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"The Uyghur region was now a gigantic prison, blanketed with security forces and a biometric surveillance system unique in human history."-Tahir Hamut Izgil, Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
23. Golden Age
By: Wang Xiaobo
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Like Gary Shteyngart or Michel Houellebecq, Wang Xiaobo is a Chinese literary icon whose satire for… read more
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"Death was always at your back, an infinite darkness coming to swallow you. I felt miniscule. No matter what I did, I would still be just as miniscule. But so long as I could walk, I could outrun deat…"-Wang Xiaobo, Golden Age
24. The Moose Paradox
By: Antti Tuomainen
3.76
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
Insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen has finally restored order both to his life and to YouMeFun,… read more
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25. The Redemption of Time (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #4)
By: Baoshu
3.63
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Set in the universe of the New York Times bestselling Three-Body Problem trilogy, The Redemption of… read more
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26. Dirty Laundry: Why Adults with ADHD Are So Ashamed and What We Can Do to Help
By: Richard Pink
4.07
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
An empowering and witty guide to banishing shame and living your fullest life with ADHD—plus tips f… read more
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- memoir
"No one can hate themselves into a version of themselves that they like"-Richard Pink, Dirty Laundry: Why Adults with ADHD Are So Ashamed and What We Can Do to Help
27. The Mystery of Montague Morgan (Heathcliff Lennox, #7)
By: Karen Baugh Menuhin
4.46
Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition
Ladies man, dandy, charming rogue, thief. Montague Morgan has a buccaneering reputation and he does… read more
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28. The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
By: Yang Jisheng
4.01
Format: 768 pages, Hardcover
Yang Jisheng’s The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, i… read more
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- historical
- politics
- asia
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- china
"It was the fundamental appraisal that the world had transitioned from the 'age of war and revolution' to the 'age of peace and development' that allowed China to make a fresh start on its domestic an…"-Yang Jisheng, The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
"In China under the power market economic system, the ability to succeed in anything depends on relationships with key power-holders. The process of selling official positions and titles has formed a …"-Yang Jisheng, The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
"On February 28, 1972, the Sino-U.S. Shanghai Communiqué was issued. It said, 'The United States believes that the effort to reduce tensions is served by improving communication between countries that…"-Yang Jisheng, The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
"Minister of Public Security Xie Fuzhi approved an infantile demand by the Red Guards that traffic police replace their batons with Quotations of Chairman Mao, claiming that only Mao Zedong Thought co…"-Yang Jisheng, The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
29. The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
By: Ji Xianlin
4.02
Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition
A harrowing account of a scholar’s imprisonment during China's Cultural Revolution, this monumental… read more
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- 20th century
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30. F: Hu Feng's Prison Years
By: Mei Zhi
3.44
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
Hu Feng, the ‘counterrevolutionary’ leader of a banned literary school, spent twenty-five years in … read more
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