Father and Son: A Memoir
By: Jonathan Raban
3.72
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A poignant memoir of love, trauma, and recovery after a life-changing stroke, twinned to a powerful…
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1. The Memory Chalet
By: Tony Judt
3.40
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Memory Chaletis a memoir unlike any you have ever read before. Each essay charts some experienc… read more
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2. Vivian Apple Needs a Miracle (Vivian Apple, #2)
By: Katie Coyle
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Hardcover
"GET ANGRY. We should all be so pissed at the Church of America that we're willing to break our han… read more
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3. The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
By: Douglas Brunt
4.23
Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition
This instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"But the prevailing and indelible lesson, learned through traumatic personal experience, was his understanding of the family’s security. War and industrial innovation could destroy the life a family h…"-Douglas Brunt, The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
4. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.71
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more
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- biography
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5. The Matchmaker: A Spy in Berlin
By: Paul Vidich
3.72
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice In the vein of Graham Greene and John le Carré, The M… read more
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6. Independence Square (Arkady Renko, #10)
By: Martin Cruz Smith
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Detective Arkaday Renko risks his life when he heads to Ukraine shortly before the Russian invasion… read more
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7. The Road from Belhaven
By: Margot Livesey
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young wom… read more
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8. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
9. Social Justice Fallacies
By: Thomas Sowell
4.45
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this instant New York Times bestseller, renowned economist Thomas Sowell demolishes the myths th… read more
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- nonfiction
10. A Line in the Sand
By: Kevin Powers
3.88
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
In this “spellbinding and totally original thriller” (Philipp Meyer, author of The Son ) a lonely v… read more
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11. The Pole
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.69
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
A psychologically probing, compulsively readable novel about dogged love and the unpredictability o… read more
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12. Glory Be (Glory Broussard Mystery, #1)
By: Danielle Arceneaux
3.81
Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition
The first in a crime series set in the Louisiana bayou, introducing the uncensored amateur sleuth G… read more
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13. Loved and Missed
By: Susie Boyt
4.30
Format: None pages, None
Ruth is a woman who believes in and despairs of the curative power of love. Her daughter, Eleanor, … read more
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"I wanted it to be true so much it was true. Sometimes in life you have to let your heart and bones off the hook of yourself."-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
"I thought of him as a long-lost relation. A sailor coming into port- agitated, sweat on his brow- who needed somewhere calm to lay his head. He was good company. And it was hard for me to feel I was …"-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
"You ever wish that you’d . . . ’ I waited for more, but her question politely disintegrated. But then, although no more words were forthcoming, she tilted her head slightly and suddenly what she’d as…"-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
"Jean’s capacity to bounce back in life always impressed me. The way she held herself in high regard. It was a form of personal, almost bodily optimism, you could say. Integrity that went deep and was…"-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
14. This Strange Eventful History
By: Claire Messud
3.63
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more
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"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
15. The Sun Walks Down
By: Fiona McFarlane
3.74
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In September 1883, the South Australian town of Fairly huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-ye… read more
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16. Fi: A Memoir of My Son
By: Alexandra Fuller
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
17. Wandering through Life: A Memoir
By: Donna Leon
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Theinternationally bestselling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries tells herown adventurous life… read more
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- biography memoir
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18. Be Mine
By: Richard Ford
3.99
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the… read more
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19. Mao's America: A Survivor’s Warning
By: Xi Van Fleet
4.45
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution in China makes a passionate case that history is… read more
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- biography
- memoir
20. Never Give Up: A Prairie Family's Story (Random House Large Print)
By: Tom Brokaw
3.85
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
In this moving story, the New York Times bestselling author of The Greatest Generation chronicles t… read more
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21. Larry McMurtry: A Life
By: Tracy Daugherty
4.25
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry fr… read more
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22. Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
By: Drew Gilpin Faust
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in th… read more
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- biography memoir
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"I knew I had had no choice. I had had to fight with my mother in order to survive."-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
"In an increasingly serious world, these young women had never been asked or expected to be serious. (p. 13)"-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
"There is a clarity about how children see the world that the complexities of adult life often muddy. And there is a fervor children feel when they believe adults have misled them or disguised or hidd…"-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
23. November 1942: An Intimate History of the Turning Point of the Second World War
By: Peter Englund
4.25
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An intimate history of the most important month of World War II, as experienced by the people who l… read more
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24. The Catch (Slough House, #6.5)
By: Mick Herron
3.99
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Set in the same world as the Slough House series, this explosive novella by bestselling spy-master … read more
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25. Distant Sons
By: Tim Johnston
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
By the New York Times bestselling author of Descent and The Current, an absorbing new work of liter… read more
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26. Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
By: József Debreczeni
4.53
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
The first English language edition of a lost memoir by a Holocaust survivor, offering a shocking an… read more
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- biography
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27. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewind… read more
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28. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)
By: Kate Atkinson
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more
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29. Father and Son: A Memoir
By: Jonathan Raban
3.72
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A poignant memoir of love, trauma, and recovery after a life-changing stroke, twinned to a powerful… read more
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30. Final Verdict: The Holocaust on Trial in the 21st Century
By: Tobias Buck
4.21
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The gripping narrative of one of the last Nazi criminal trials in Germany—that of Bruno Dey, a 93-y… read more
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31. Guide Me Home (Highway 59, #3)
By: Attica Locke
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the final novel in the "timely and evocative" (NPR) Highway 59 trilogy, from Edgar Award-winning… read more
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