Moby Dick: America’s Epic
By: Timothy B. Shutt
3.44
Format: 4 pages, Audio CD
American writers have long sought to compose “the great American novel”, or “America’s epic”, Mark …
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1. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
By: Hannah Arendt
4.20
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more
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"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
2. Mrs. Dalloway
By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard
3.79
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more
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"Life stand still here."-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
"What a lark! What a plunge!"-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
"To love makes one solitary."-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
3. Stories of Your Life and Others
By: Ted Chiang
4.26
Format: 281 pages, ebook
What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we… read more
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"Pragmatism avails a savior far more than aestheticism."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"Living with you will be like aiming for a moving target; you'll always be further along than I expect."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"I remember when you'll be a month old, and I'll stumble out of bed to give you your 2:00 a.m. feeding."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don’t matter. There’s no technological shortcut."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
4. The Life of Thomas More
By: Peter Ackroyd
2.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Peter Ackroyd's The Life of Thomas Moreis a masterful reconstruction of the life and imagination of… read more
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5. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
By: Peter Biskind
4.12
Format: None pages,
This down-and-dirty romp through Hollywood in the 1970s introduces the young filmmakers--Coppola, S… read more
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6. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods , T.J. Reed
3.69
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a class… read more
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7. The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
By: Iain M. Banks
4.28
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
The Culture - a humanoid/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players. One of … read more
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"Escape is a commodity like anything else"-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"Escape is a commodity like anything else."-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"This is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player called “Gurgeh."-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"The ship told you a guilty system recognises no innocents. I’d say it does. It recognises the innocence of a young child, for example, and you saw how they treated that. In a sense it even recognises…"-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
8. The Age of Innocence
By: Edith Wharton , Maureen Howard
2.64
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocenceis Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of des… read more
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9. Why Read Moby-Dick?
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
3.75
Format: 131 pages, Hardcover
Moby-Dick is perhaps the greatest of the Great American Novels, yet its length and esoteric subject… read more
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"As Starbuck discovers, simply being a good guy with a positive worldview is not enough to stop a force of nature like Ahab, who feeds on the fears and hatreds in us all."-Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick?
"This is where Melville is perhaps the most profound in his portrait of Ahab as the demagogue and dictator. In the end, even the fiercest of tyrants is done in, not by his own sad, used-up self, but b…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick?
"To be in the presence of a great leader is to know a blighted soul who has managed to make the darkness work for him. Ishmael says it best: "For all men tragically great are made so through a certain…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick?
"To write timelessly about the here and now, a writer must approach the present indirectly. The story has to be about more than it at first seems. Shakespeare used the historical sources of his plays …"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick?
10. True Grit
By: Charles Portis
3.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more
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11. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
By: Harold Bloom
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Literary critic Harold Bloom's The Western Canonis more than a required reading list-it is a vision… read more
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12. The Wings of the Dove
By: Henry James , Amy Bloom , Pierre A. Walker
3.51
Format: 235 pages, Paperback
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Set amid the splendor of L… read more
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13. Fathers and Sons
By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more
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"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"Death's an old story, but new for each person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
14. Dark Harvest
By: Norman Partridge
4.02
Format: 982 pages,
Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and named one of the 100 Best Novels of 2006 by Publishers Weekly, … read more
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15. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
By: John Le Carré
4.06
Format: 381 pages, Paperback
A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, … read more
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"As a good Socialist, I'm going for the money."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"Good intelligence work, Control had always preached, was gradual and rested on a kind of gentleness."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"The monstrosity of this, reaching Smiley through a thickening wall of spiritual exhaustion, left him momentarily speechless."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
16. All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age
By: Hubert L. Dreyfus , Sean Dorrance Kelly
4.33
Format: None pages, ebook
An unrelenting flow of choices confronts us at nearly every moment of our lives, and yet our cultur… read more
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17. Stormy Weather
By: Carl Hiaasen
4.83
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER "Hysterically funny...Hiaasen at his satirical best." - USA Today Two hone… read more
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18. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
By: Stephen Greenblatt
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work… read more
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19. Hitchcock
By: Alfred Hitchcock , François Truffaut
4.29
Format: 144 pages,
Any book-length interview with Alfred Hitchcock is valuable, but considering that this volume's int… read more
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20. Moby-Dick or, The Whale
By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco
3.55
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more
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"Call me Ishmael."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
21. Cinema Speculation
By: Quentin Tarantino
4.06
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more
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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
22. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.00
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more
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"Here my last love had died."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"No one is ever holy without suffering."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"I had been there before; I knew all about it."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
23. The Philosophy of Modern Song
By: Bob Dylan
3.80
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Vol… read more
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"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song
24. 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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"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
25. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
By: Michael Schulman
4.09
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more
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26. Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy
By: Andrew Morton
3.57
Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition
Wallis in Love brings a fascinating new perspective on the 20th century's most controversial royal … read more
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27. The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
By: Jeff Sharlet
4.02
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An unmatched guide to the religious dimensions of American politics, Jeff Sharlet journeys into cor… read more
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28. The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies
By: Ben Fritz
4.02
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
The stunning metamorphosis of twenty-first-century Hollywood and what lies ahead for the art and co… read more
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29. The Hard Sell: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup
By: Evan Hughes
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The inside story of a band of entrepreneurial upstarts who made millions selling painkillers--until… read more
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30. Moby Dick: America’s Epic
By: Timothy B. Shutt
3.44
Format: 4 pages, Audio CD
American writers have long sought to compose “the great American novel”, or “America’s epic”, Mark … read more
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31. Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty
By: Maurice Chammah
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas—and what it tells us abo… read more
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