Prohibition: A Concise History
By: W.J. Rorabaugh
3.74
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Americans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. Afte…
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1. Why?: Explaining the Holocaust
By: Peter Hayes , Peter Hayes
4.42
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Featured in the PBS documentary, "The US and the Holocaust" by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Bot… read more
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- history
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2. The Third Man
By: Graham Greene
3.79
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
Rollo Martins' usual line is the writing of cheap paperback Westerns under the name of Buck Dexter.… read more
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"I loved a man," she said. "I told you—a man doesn't alter because you find out more about him. He's still the same man."-Graham Greene, The Third Man
"Marlowe's devils wore squibs attached to their tails: evil was like Peter Pan—it carried with it the horrifying and horrible gift of eternal youth."-Graham Greene, The Third Man
"For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew."-Graham Greene, The Third Man
"tea. He watched her while she made it, made it, of course, all wrong: the water not on the boil, the teapot unheated, too few leaves. She said, "I never quite understand why English people like teas …"-Graham Greene, The Third Man
3. Alas, Babylon
By: Pat Frank
3.94
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United … read more
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4. The Beats: A Very Short Introduction
By: David Sterritt
3.70
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the writers of the Beat Generation revolutionized American liter… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
5. The Hellbound Heart
By: Clive Barker
4.07
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. … read more
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"She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence."-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart
"Allí el placer era dolor, y viceversa. Y él lo conocía tan bien que era como sentirse en casa."-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart
"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas"-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart
"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas."-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart
6. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
By: Carlo Ginzburg , John Tedeschi , Anne Tedeschi
3.57
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Cheese and the Worms is a study of the popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
7. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
By: Timothy Snyder
4.38
Format: 524 pages, Hardcover
Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Now we will live!"-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
8. A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1)
By: Chester Himes
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
A Rage in Harlemis a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling N… read more
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9. Brief Lives (The Sandman #7)
By: Neil Gaiman , Peter Straub , Jill Thompson , Vince Locke
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Dream's youngest sister, the loopy Delirium, convinces him to go on a quest for their missing broth… read more
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10. The Kindly Ones (The Sandman #9)
By: Neil Gaiman , Glyn Dillon , Dean Ormston , Charles Vess , Todd Klein , None , Teddy Kristiansen , Marc Hempel , D'Israeli , Kevin Nowlan , None
3.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Penultimate volume to the phenomenal Sandman series: distraught by the kidnapping and presumed … read more
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11. Jesus: A Very Short Introduction
By: Richard Bauckham
3.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
Award-winning religious scholar Richard Bauckham here explores the historical figure of Jesus, eval… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
12. Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction
By: Joseph M. Siracusa
4.36
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
Despite not having been used in anger since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear weapons are still the b… read more
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13. The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
By: Lisa McGirr
4.50
Format: 144 pages,
Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamor… read more
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14. Homage to Catalonia
By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more
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15. Plato: A Very Short Introduction
By: Julia Annas
3.86
Format: None pages, Paperback
This lively and accessible book focuses on the philosophy and argument of Plato's writings, drawing… read more
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16. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
By: Rachel Maddow
4.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
17. 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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- history
- nonfiction
"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
18. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
19. London Rules (Slough House, #5)
By: Mick Herron
4.34
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
The fifth entry in CWA Gold dagger-winning Slough House series.London Rules might not be written do… read more
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"hate crime pollutes the soul, but only the souls of those who commit it"-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
"you're all crazy," Flyte said. "we prefer the term"Alternatively sane"."-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
"Conspiracy theory is bloomed at the rate of one hundred and forty characters a second."-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
"He eyed her critically. "You look like all your birthdays came at once." "I look happy to you?" "No, old. Am I the only one round here speaks English?"-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
20. Slough House (Slough House, #7)
By: Mick Herron
4.41
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Brexit is in full swing. And due to mysterious accidents, the Slough Houses ranks continue to thin.… read more
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"Funny thing. When I hear the words "trust me", I get the feeling someone's pissing in my shoe."-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)
"Treat those you despise with humanity, especially if the reason you despise them is that they have none."-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)
"Most great ideas, or a lot of them anyway, were thought at the time to be rubbish, and you were reckoned an idiot for having them. This was true of stupid ideas too. Telling them apart was the tricky…"-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)
21. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
By: Tiya Miles
3.95
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
22. Bad Actors (Slough House, #8)
By: Mick Herron
4.37
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A governmental think-tank, whose remit is to curb the independence of the intelligence service, has… read more
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"Time, date, place, courtesy of social media. The old days, when you just rocked up to a car park near the stadium a few hours before kick-off, all of that was buried in history books and Channel 5 do…"-Mick Herron, Bad Actors (Slough House, #8)
23. The Problem of Pain
By: C.S. Lewis
4.13
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
For centuries people have been tormented by one question above all: If God is good and all-powerful… read more
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- nonfiction
"Man is to be understood only in his relation to God."-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
"Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God."-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
"Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them."-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
"Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him."-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
24. Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
By: Devon Price
4.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving in… read more
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"Therapy that is focused on battling “irrational beliefs,"-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"Refusing to perform neurotypicality is a revolutionary act of disability justice. It's also a radical act of self-love."-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"Much of what we call maturity is a silly pantomime of independence and unfeeling, not a real quality of unbreakable strength."-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"We have to keep other people at arm's length, because letting them see our hyperfixations, meltdowns, obsessions, and outbursts could mean losing their respect. But locking ourselves away means we ca…"-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
25. Shady Hollow (Shady Hollow, #1)
By: Juneau Black
3.80
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
The first book in the Shady Hollow series, in which we are introduced to the village of Shady Hollo… read more
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26. Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America
By: Barbara McQuade
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An urgent, comprehensive explanation of the ways disinformation is impacting democracy, and practic… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
27. Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era
By: Thomas C. Leonard
4.11
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
In "Illiberal Reformers," Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and refor… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
28. The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
By: Bryan Caplan
3.95
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Despite being immensely popular--and immensely lucrative—education is grossly overrated. In this ex… read more
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- nonfiction
"Once everyone can enrich their souls for free, government subsidies for enrichment forfeit their rationale. To object, 'But most people don't use the Internet for spiritual enrichment' is actually a …"-Bryan Caplan, The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
29. Drink Beer, Think Beer: Getting to the Bottom of Every Pint
By: John Holl
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From an award-winning journalist and beer expert, a thoughtful and witty guide to understanding and… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
30. Prohibition: A Concise History
By: W.J. Rorabaugh
3.74
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Americans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. Afte… read more
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31. Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
By: Mick Herron
4.30
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die. In Slough House, the … read more
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"The voice meant well, but should fuck off."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
"Deniability was next to godliness in Westminster's corridors, and godliness itself second only to an unassailable majority."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
"You built a life the way you’d build a wall, one brick on top of the other, but sooner or later, those first bricks were taken away."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
"it’d be like choosing between Jeremy Clarkson and Piers Morgan in a bare-knuckle death match. There ought to be a way both could lose."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
