The Book of Books: The Continuously Updated Book Guide to Recommended Reading, Including the Best Novels and Nonfiction, from the Classics and Best Sellers to the Newest Top Authors
By: Timothy Knight
3.38
Format: 488 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Seabiscuit: An American Legend
By: Laura Hillenbrand
4.22
Format: 457 pages, Mass Market Paperback
There's an alternate cover edition here Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular … read more
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"The weather was clear, the track fast War Admiral broke first and finished last."-Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend
"To pilot a racehorse is to ride a half-ton catapult. It is without question one of the most formidable feats in sport."-Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend
"He grasped for hope in Emerson's vision of natural polarities, in which all things are balanced by their opposites—darkness by light, cold by heat, loss by gain."-Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend
"There's more than one thing I can't do and there are a lot more things than that that you can't do or you wouldn't be in the newspaper business. You'd be a jockey and a scholar and a connoisseur of f…"-Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend
2. My Ántonia
By: Willa Cather
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant … read more
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3. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933
By: Anne Applebaum
3.32
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulagand the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtai… read more
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4. Check These Out: One Librarian's Catalog of the 200 Coolest, Best, and Most Important Books You'll Ever Read
By: Gina Sheridan
3.64
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Discover a librarian's secret stash of great reads! There you are, in the library, head tilted side… read more
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5. The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45
By: John Toland
3.43
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Ja… read more
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6. Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
By: Margot Lee Shetterly
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel… read more
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7. The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
By: Richard Preston
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
The bestselling landmark account of the first emergence of the Ebola virus.A highly infectious, dea… read more
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8. Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
By: Hampton Sides
3.17
Format: None pages,
On April 23, 1967, Prisoner #416J, an inmate at the notorious Missouri State Penitentiary, escaped … read more
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9. Our Bodies, Our Shelves: A Collection of Library Humor
By: Roz Warren
4.61
Format: 313 pages, Paperback
There are eight million stories at your local public library -- and not all of them are in the book… read more
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10. The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World
By: Kathryn Rathke , None
2.50
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Jane Austen published her first novel in 1811, but today she's more popular than ever. Film adaptat… read more
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11. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
By: Charles Mackay
4.18
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
First published in 1841, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is often cited a… read more
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12. Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
By: Richard Hofstadter
4.12
Format: 434 pages, Paperback
Anti-intellectualism in American Life was awarded the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction. It is a b… read more
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"To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury...."-Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
"A large segment of the public willingly resigns itself to political passivity in a world in which it cannot expect to make well-founded judgments."-Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
"The intellectual as ideologist, having had a leading role in purveying to the country each innovation and having frequently hastened the country into the acceptance of change, is naturally felt to ha…"-Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
"Tocqueville saw that the life of constant action and decision which was entailed by the democratic and businesslike character of American life put a premium upon rough and ready habits of mind, quick…"-Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
13. Summer Hours at the Robbers Library
By: Sue Halpern
3.61
Format: 384 pages, ebook
From journalist and author Sue Halpern comes a wry, observant look at contemporary life and its ref… read more
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"Trauma is not just one thing."-Sue Halpern, Summer Hours at the Robbers Library
"What you're thinking of as the end of the story now, is only the end of the chapter."-Sue Halpern, Summer Hours at the Robbers Library
"It is not to diffuse you that you were born of you your mother and father, it is to identify you...Walt Whitman"-Sue Halpern, Summer Hours at the Robbers Library
"I loved libraries, because that is where I found all of them, and that was where I could hand them off to others."-Sue Halpern, Summer Hours at the Robbers Library
14. Devil House
By: John Darnielle
3.22
Format: 403 pages, Hardcover
Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That's what his mother always told him. Now, he is a true… read more
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"The past is charming and safe when you're skittering around on its surface. It's a nice place to linger a moment before seeking the lower depths."-John Darnielle, Devil House
"I remember before I finally fell asleep feeling like there wasn't all that much to say about my life. I'd had several satisfying relationships, they hadn't amounted to much. I'd gotten better at my w…"-John Darnielle, Devil House
"What would my work be like if I had to keep returning to the same story every time, I wondered. If, instead of hunting down sad places where people's lives had been ruined, there was only the one pla…"-John Darnielle, Devil House
15. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
16. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
By: Clint Smith
4.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Poet and contributor to The Atlantic Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a… read more
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"How do you tell a story that has been told the wrong way for so long?"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in Notes on the State of Virginia ,"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Jefferson believed himself to be a benevolent slave owner, but his moral ideals came second to, and were always entangled with, his own economic interests and the interests of his family."-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"But not enough people spoke about the reasons so many black children grow up communities saturated with poverty and violence. Not enough people spoke about how these realities were the result of deci…"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
17. I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
By: Anne Bogel
4.02
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
For so many people, reading isn't just a hobby or a way to pass the time--it's a lifestyle. Our boo… read more
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"Just as I’m all the ages I have been, I’m all the readers I have been."-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
"For everyone who’s ever finished a book under the covers with a flashlight when they were supposed to be sleeping."-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
"A good book, when we return to it, will always have something new to say. It's not the same book, and we're not the same reader"-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
"With apologies to Kathleen Kelly, what I've come to learn is this: if my real life reminds me of something I read in a book , I'm reading well -- and I'm probably living well, too."-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
18. Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
By: Shaun Bythell
3.48
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A cantankerously funny view of books and the people who love them. It does take all kinds and throu… read more
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"It should go without saying that anyone who introduces themselves as 'a bit weird' is almost certainly not."-Shaun Bythell, Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
"This group derives an alternate sort of gratification from the fact that their niche obsession somehow differentiates them from other people, mistakenly assuming that it makes them more interesting."-Shaun Bythell, Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
"It's not as though there is anything wrong with being American, although perhaps in a land of immigrants the only way to differentiate yourself is to cling onto a piece of the land you left, even if …"-Shaun Bythell, Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
19. Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever
By: Jared Knott
4.01
Format: 457 pages, Kindle Edition
How often does it happen that a single tiny mistake causes an entire civilization to collapse? More… read more
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20. The Complete Book of Home Organization
By: Toni Hammersley
3.85
Format: 439 pages, Kindle Edition
Have you ever wished you had the time and tools to organize your house in a clutter-free, design-co… read more
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21. The Book of Great Books: A Guide to 100 World Classics
By: W. John Campbell
3.91
Format: 1439 pages, Kindle Edition
Dr. MAYA ANGELOU has said about this "Brilliant! Write on, John Campbell." High school and college… read more
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22. The Book of Books: The Continuously Updated Book Guide to Recommended Reading, Including the Best Novels and Nonfiction, from the Classics and Best Sellers to the Newest Top Authors
By: Timothy Knight
3.38
Format: 488 pages, Kindle Edition
TAKE THE LUCK OUT OF FINDING THAT “GREAT READ” Finding that elusive "great read" that keeps you … read more
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