The End of the End of History: Politics in the Twenty-First Century
By: Alex Hochuli
3.94
Format: None pages, None
The “End of History” is over. The idea that Western liberal democracy was the “final form of human …
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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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"...every social class has its own pathology..."-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)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-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. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
By: David Foster Wallace
4.15
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more
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- nonfiction
"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
3. The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
By: Jack Vance
3.89
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Seekers of wisdom and beauty include lovely lost women, eccentric wizards and man-eating melancholy… read more
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"It is thus because it has always been thus. Is not this reason enough?"-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
"T'sais mounted her horse and set out for Earth, seeking love and beauty."-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
"To the furthest reach of my memory, Rogol Domedonfors ruled the city. He knew lore of all ages, secrets of fire and light, gravity and countergravity, the knowledge of superphysic numeration, metatha…"-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
"On the heights above the river Xzan, at the site of certain ancient ruins, Iucounu the Laughing Magician had built a manse to his private taste: an eccentric structure of steep gables, balconies, sky…"-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
4. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
5. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
By: Christopher Clark
3.79
Format: None pages,
On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
6. The Peripheral
By: William Gibson
3.42
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The New York Timesbestselling author of such "high-tech dystopian thriller[s]"* as Neuromancer and … read more
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7. Ten Days that Shook the World
By: John Reed
4.20
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
This first-person chronicle by John Reed, a legendary journalist who was present at the flash point… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
8. All Tomorrow's Parties (Bridge, #3)
By: William Gibson
4.06
Format: None pages,
Although Colin Laney (from Gibson's earlier novel Idoru) lives in a cardboard box, he has the power… read more
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9. Virtual Light (Bridge, #1)
By: William Gibson
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
Berry Rydell, an ex-cop, signs on with IntenSecure Armed Response in Los Angeles. He finds himself … read more
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10. The Savage Detectives
By: Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in p… read more
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12. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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13. Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet
By: Julian Assange , Jacob Appelbaum , Andy Müller-Maguhn , None
3.72
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Cypherpunks are activists who advocate the widespread use of strong cryptography (writing in code) … read more
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14. Last Days
By: Adam L.G. Nevill
3.75
Format: 531 pages, Paperback
When guerrilla documentary maker, Kyle Freeman, is asked to shoot a film on the notorious cult know… read more
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"...there is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering."-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days
"Mobile phones ... they're not for communicating, they're for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me ."-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days
"I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history."-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days
"The destruction of Dan's Star Wars collectibles would have been mourned with more intensity by their owner than the burning of the library at Alexandria."-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days
15. Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa and Other Stories
By: غسان كنفاني , Barbara Harlow , Ghassan Kanafani , None
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Short stories describing the Palestinian experience of the Middle East conflict. Each involves a ch… read more
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16. The Magic Mountain
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods
4.13
Format: 706 pages, Paperback
In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more
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"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
17. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
18. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
19. Anéantir
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.84
Format: 734 pages, Hardcover
Ce roman de Michel Houellebecq nous projette à la fin du second mandat du président à travers un ré… read more
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"La prise de vues donnait une étrange impression de neutralité."-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir
"Les chrétiens ont du mal en général, avec l’absurde, ça n’entre pas vraiment dans leurs catégories."-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir
"Certains lundis de la toute fin novembre, ou du début de décembre, surtout lorsqu'on est célibataire, on a la sensation d'être dans le couloir de la mort. Les vacances d'été sont depuis longtemps oub…"-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir
20. Le Mage du Kremlin
By: Giuliano da Empoli
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
On l’appelait le « mage du Kremlin ». L’énigmatique Vadim Baranov fut metteur en scène puis product… read more
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21. Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures
By: Mark Fisher
4.29
Format: 211 pages, None
Edited with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this idiosyncratic collection of lecture notes and t… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
22. Herkunft
By: Saša Stanišić
4.17
Format: 365 pages, Hardcover
HERKUNFT ist ein Buch über den ersten Zufall unserer Biografie: irgendwo geboren werden. Und was da… read more
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"Träume sind etwas Lebendiges - und als solche vergänglich wie das Gedächtnis."-Saša Stanišić, Herkunft
"Zoki walks into the classroom, puts a piece of paper down on the teacher’s desk, and shouts: “Everyone write your name."-Saša Stanišić, Herkunft
"Otec tancoval a už nebol nazúrený, napokon to ani nejde dohromady, všetko ostatné sa dá robiť aj s hnevom, ale toto nie, nie objímanie."-Saša Stanišić, Herkunft
"Ich verstehe nicht, dass Herkunft Eigenschaften mit sich bringen soll, und verstehe nicht, dass manche bereit sind, in ihrem Namen in Schlachten zu ziehen."-Saša Stanišić, Herkunft
23. Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
By: Adam Tooze
3.84
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021'A complex … read more
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"What has made central bankers into the exemplar of modern crisis-fighting is the vacuum created by the evisceration of organized labor, the absence of inflationary pressure, and more broadly, the lac…"-Adam Tooze, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
"Despite the successful suppression campaign in February, the coronavirus crisis of 2020 could easily have been a major liability for Xi's regime. Instead, it became an occasion for what has been aptl…"-Adam Tooze, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
24. Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
By: Quinn Slobodian
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas… read more
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- history
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25. The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
By: Nicholas Mulder
3.87
Format: 434 pages, Hardcover
The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period a… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"The policy debate about sanctions has been repeated almost every decade since the [League of Nations] was created in the wake of World War I. At its core has been the perennial question: do economic …"-Nicholas Mulder, The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
26. Too Late to Awaken What Lies Ahead When There Is No Future?
By: Slavoj Žižek
3.93
Format: 169 pages, Hardcover
The most provocative philosopher of our times returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis … read more
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27. Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century
By: Helen Thompson
3.89
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Getting to grips with the overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises faced by Western… read more
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- history
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28. The End of the End of History: Politics in the Twenty-First Century
By: Alex Hochuli
3.94
Format: None pages, None
The “End of History” is over. The idea that Western liberal democracy was the “final form of human … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
29. Interregno: Iconografie del XXI secolo
By: Mattia Salvia
3.93
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
Governi nazionali che si combattono a suon di meme, colpi di Stato in diretta YouTube, diplomazia d… read more
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30. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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- history
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
