The First Tour de France: Sixty Cyclists and Nineteen Days of Daring on the Road to Paris
By: Peter Cossins
3.88
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
From its inception, the 1903 Tour de France was a colorful affair. Full of adventure, mishaps and a…
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1. The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (D.O.D.O., #1)
By: Neal Stephenson , Nicole Galland
3.86
Format: 752 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commer… read more
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"I love the scent of a man under pressure."-Neal Stephenson, The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (D.O.D.O., #1)
"They could not see what they could not imagine"-Neal Stephenson, The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (D.O.D.O., #1)
"the American obsession with putting ice cubes into everything."-Neal Stephenson, The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (D.O.D.O., #1)
"with the perky vigor of a man who had sat through one too many free webinars about the importance of networking."-Neal Stephenson, The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (D.O.D.O., #1)
2. French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France
By: Tim Moore
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Not only is it the world's largest and most watched sporting event, but also the most fearsome phys… read more
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- france
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- cycling
3. Napoleon: A Life
By: Andrew Roberts
4.23
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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- history
- france
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"I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon"-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"I have beaten the Russian and Austrian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little tired."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
4. The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
By: Kevin Fedarko
3.94
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From one of Outsidemagazine's "Literary All-Stars" comes the thrilling true tale of the fastest boa… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
By: Lawrence Wright
3.31
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-… read more
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6. Travels with My Donkey: One Man and His Ass on a Pilgrimage to Santiago
By: Tim Moore
3.80
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
Having no knowledge of Spanish and even less about the care and feeding of donkeys, Tim Moore, Brit… read more
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7. Etape: The untold stories of the Tour de France's defining stages
By: Richard Moore
2.74
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In ETAPE, critically acclaimed author Richard Moore will take readers on a virtual Tour de France, … read more
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- france
- sports
- cycling
8. The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs
By: Daniel Coyle , Tyler Hamilton
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDThe Secret Racei… read more
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9. Eat, Sleep, Ride
By: Paul Howard
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Armed with wit and humour, an internationally acclaimed cycling writer tackles the longest mountain… read more
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10. The Rider
By: Sam Garrett , Tim Krabbé
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
A literary sports classic, finally available in the U.S. Originally published in the Netherlands in… read more
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11. Ask a Pro: Everything You Should Be Scared to Know about Pro Cycling
By: Phil Gaimon
3.04
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
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12. Long Distance
By: Bill McKibben
3.30
Format: None pages, Paperback
The bestselling author of The End of Nature presents a provocative, unconventional book, now in pap… read more
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13. Slaying the Badger: LeMond, Hinault and the Greatest Ever Tour de France
By: Richard Moore
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Tour de France is sport's most compelling battle -- an annual cauldron of heroism and treachery… read more
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14. Paul: A Biography
By: N.T. Wright
4.34
Format: 480 pages, ebook
In this definitive biography, renowned Bible scholar, Anglican bishop, and bestselling author N. T.… read more
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15. The Last Ranger
By:
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Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
The best-selling author of The River returns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone Natio… read more
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16. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
17. Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was
By: Daniel Friebe
4.31
Format: 610 pages, Kindle Edition
Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was is the first biography of Jan Ullrich, arguably the most natu… read more
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18. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
By: Christina Thompson
4.24
Format: 365 pages, Hardcover
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intel… read more
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"Vision is not so much about just looking but knowing what to look for. It's experience."-Christina Thompson, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
19. Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future
By: Jean M. Twenge
4.05
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United Stat… read more
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- history
"John Della Volpe, the director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, spoke to hundreds of young people for his 2022 book, Fight: How Gen Z Is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to Sa…"-Jean M. Twenge, Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future
20. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
21. Murder Under a Red Moon (Bangalore Detectives Club, #2)
By: Harini Nagendra
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
The latest novel in the acclaimed Bangalore Detectives Club series finds amateur sleuth Kaveri Murt… read more
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22. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
By: Michael Lewis
3.99
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
“Brilliant. . . . Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncerta… read more
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"Regret was the ham in the back of the deli that caused people to switch from turkey to roast beef."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours"-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"The way it feels to me,' he said, 'is that there were certain ideas that I was put on this earth to think. And now I can think them."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
23. Salvage This World
By: Michael Farris Smith
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In Michael Farris Smith's latest "riveting" epic, a young woman returns home with her child to her … read more
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24. You Can’t Be Serious
By: Kal Penn
4.21
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In this refreshingly candid memoir, Kal Penn recounts why he rejected the advice of his aunties and… read more
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25. Antkind
By: Charlie Kaufman
3.71
Format: 720 pages, Kindle Edition
The bold and boundlessly original debut novel from the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Being John Mal… read more
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"Would that I could be a gay man. I would like myself better. But I am the most heterosexual of all my many acquaintances."-Charlie Kaufman, Antkind
"Comedy is a lie, too, of course. It’s a defense, an aggression. It is a thing created to separate, to say, “I am not like this."-Charlie Kaufman, Antkind
"I have often felt that I am being watched. That my life is being witnessed by unseen forces, that adjustments are made as these forces see fit, to thwart me, to humiliate me."-Charlie Kaufman, Antkind
"Not much of note in my waking life. People get sick, or don’t. People die, or don’t. I watch TV, or don’t. Sometimes I smoke without remembering lighting up. I continue to go to a deranged hypnotist …"-Charlie Kaufman, Antkind
26. Master of the Revels (D.O.D.O., #2)
By: Nicole Galland
3.75
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
In this brilliant sequel to The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.—an enthralling, history-bending adventure… read more
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27. The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport
By: Joshua Robinson
4.41
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
🎧Listening Length = 10 hours and 40 minutes NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Wall Street Journal rep… read more
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- sports
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- nonfiction
28. The Comeback: Greg LeMond, the True King of American Cycling, and a Legendary Tour de France
By: Daniel de Visé
4.36
Format: 514 pages, Kindle Edition
“Greg LeMond was Lance Armstrong before Lance Armstrong . . . the story of a true hero . . . This i… read more
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- sports
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29. Faster: The Obsession, Science and Luck Behind the World's Fastest Cyclists
By: Michael Hutchinson
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
For professional cyclists, going faster and winning are, of course, closely related. Yet surprising… read more
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"I lived in a world where, one way or another, everything was divided into things that might make me faster and things that might make me slower. Pretty much anything pleasant fell into the second cat…"-Michael Hutchinson, Faster: The Obsession, Science and Luck Behind the World's Fastest Cyclists
30. The First Tour de France: Sixty Cyclists and Nineteen Days of Daring on the Road to Paris
By: Peter Cossins
3.88
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
From its inception, the 1903 Tour de France was a colorful affair. Full of adventure, mishaps and a… read more
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31. The Great Bike Race: The classic, acclaimed book that introduced a nation to the Tour de France
By: Geoffrey Nicholson
4.14
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
REVIEWS This is unquestionably the finest book ever written on the subject of cycling, bar none. t… read more
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