Japanese Rules : Japan and the Beautiful Game
By: Sebastian Moffett
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
Astute, and timely book that examines Japanese culture through football, updated since the 2002 Wor…
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1. Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
By: Jonathan Wilson
4.15
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
Soccer fans love to argue about the tactics a manager puts into play, and this fascinating study tr… read more
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- sports
- nonfiction
- football
"Many before have hailed the end of history; none have ever been right."-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
"Anti-intellectualism is one thing, but faith in wrongheaded pseudointellectualism is far worse."-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
"كان مينوتي شخصية رومانسية بشكل يفوق الوصف. كان نحيلا كقلم رصاص، ومدخنا شرها يتدل شعره على ياقته، أشيب السوالف، وله نظرة محدقة كصقر، بدا كما لو كان تجسيدا للبوهيمية الأرجنتينية، كان جناحأ أيسر ومفكرا،…"-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
2. The Man in the High Castle
By: Philip K. Dick
3.60
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assume… read more
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"Don’t you feel it?"-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
"Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find."-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
"Dreadful low-class jingoistic racist invectives, unworthy of me."-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
"We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine."-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
3. On the Road
By: Jack Kerouac
3.61
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years… read more
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"We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301)."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
4. The Death and Life of Australian Soccer
By: Joe Gorman
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
In The Death and Life of Australian Soccer, journalist and historian Joe Gorman explores the rise a… read more
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- sports
- nonfiction
- football
5. The Dirtiest Race in History: Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the Olympic 100m Final
By: Richard Moore
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The 1988 Seoul Olympics hosted what has been described as both "the dirtiest race of all time" and … read more
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- nonfiction
6. We
By: Yevgeny Zamyatin , Clarence Brown
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst exce… read more
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"Her smile was a bite, and I was its target."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"There is no final one; revolutions are infinite."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
7. Invisible Cities
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more
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8. The Soccer War
By: Ryszard Kapuściński , William Brand
4.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer Waris a remarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth… read more
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9. American War
By: Omar El Akkad
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one f… read more
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10. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
By: Hunter S. Thompson , Ralph Steadman
3.86
Format: 536 pages, Paperback
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegasis the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good … read more
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11. Kokoro
By: Natsume Sōseki , Edwin McClellan
3.77
Format: None pages,
Hailed by The New Yorker as "rich in understanding and insight,"Kokoro -- "the heart of things"-- i… read more
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12. Fever Pitch
By: Nick Hornby
3.44
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no pr… read more
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13. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Hardcover
In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more
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- nonfiction
"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
14. The Pachinko Parlour
By: Elisa Shua Dusapin
3.61
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and … read more
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- japan
"They made it illegal to speak Korean. You could be sentenced to death for speaking it. And do you know what your grandmother’s mother did to avoid being subjected to speaking Japanese at school? She …"-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour
"When Korea was divided, we were still nationals of a unified Korea. It was called Choson. At separation, the Japanese government gave us permission to keep our Korean identity, but we had to choose b…"-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour
15. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
By: Satoshi Yagisawa
3.65
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
The moving international sensation about new beginnings, human connection, and the joy of reading. … read more
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- japan
"It hurts to realize that it might be too late now for anything but regret."-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
"And here I am spending a sleepless night in a strange place. We might not be far from home, but I feel lonely."-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
"No es cuestión de ser expertos o novatos. Si lo plantea así, ni siquiera yo lo soy tanto. Lo importante es sentir emociones al toparse con un libro."-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
"In my dream, I was an android maid living in a city in the not-so- distant future. In that neighbourhood, all the buildings were made of used books."-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
16. The Memory Police
By: Yōko Ogawa
3.72
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, bird… read more
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- japan
"No one can erase the stories!"-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police
"Few people here have any need of novels"-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police
"It's the most beautiful disappearance ever."-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police
"I stood in the middle of that emptiness, feeling myself on the verge of being drawn into its terrible depth"-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police
17. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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- nonfiction
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
18. The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club
By: Simon Kuper
4.24
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
With rare and unrivaled access, bestselling coauthor of Soccernomics and longtime Financial Times j… read more
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- sports
- nonfiction
- football
19. Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World
By: Matt Alt
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that ca… read more
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- nonfiction
- japan
20. We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News
By: Eliot Higgins
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The page-turning inside account of the organization solving international mysteries and wielding th… read more
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21. Never
By: Ken Follett
4.09
Format: 802 pages, Hardcover
The new must-read epic from master storyteller Ken Follett: more than a thriller, it's an action-pa… read more
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"Como se suele decir: una mentira da media vuelta al mundo mientras la verdad aún se está calzando"-Ken Follett, Never
"When I was doing the research for Fall of Giants, I was shocked to realize that the First World War was a war that nobody wanted. No European leader on either side intended for it to happen. But the …"-Ken Follett, Never
22. The Defiant: A History of Football Against Fascism
By: Chris Lee
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The Defiant: A History of Football Against Fascism uncovers the role that footballers and fans have… read more
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- football
23. The Immortals: The Season My Milan Team Reinvented Football
By: Arrigo Sacchi
4.15
Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition
When Arrigo Sacchi’s Milan destroyed Steaua Bucharest 4-0 in the 1989 European Cup final, everythin… read more
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- football
24. Japanese Rules : Japan and the Beautiful Game
By: Sebastian Moffett
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
Astute, and timely book that examines Japanese culture through football, updated since the 2002 Wor… read more
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25. Blue & Gold Passion: A History of Boca Juniors
By: Daniel Williamson
4.13
Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition
Today, La Boca teems with tourists, drawn like moths to a flame for the sizzling steaks, street the… read more
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26. Blood on the Crossbar: The Dictatorship's World Cup
By: Rhys Richards
4.15
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
Blood on the The Dictatorship's World Cup is the story of the most controversial football World Cu… read more
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- football
27. Ultra Nippon: How Japan Reinvented Football
By: JONATHAN BIRCHALL
4.50
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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28. Red Wine & Arepas: How Football is Becoming Venezuela's Religion
By: Jordan Florit
4.60
Format: 524 pages, Paperback
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29. When Two Worlds Collide: The Intercontinental Cup Years
By: Daniel Williamson
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In 1960, at the start of a tumultuous decade that saw major global change, the Intercontinental Cup… read more
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- football
30. The Working Hands of a Goddess: The Tactics, Culture and Community Behind Gian Piero Gasperini’s Atalanta BC
By: Tom Underhill
4.13
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The Working Hands of a Goddess is the story of how Atalanta BC rose from the lower reaches of Serie… read more
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31. Power Players: Football in Propaganda, War and Revolution
By: Ronny Blaschke
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Power Football in Propaganda, War and Revolution takes a fascinating look at the ugly side of the … read more
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