Awful Archives: Conspiracy Theory, Rhetoric, and Acts of Evidence
By: Jenny Rice
4.16
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
How does evidence happen? And when evidence happens badly, how can we find a fitting response to th…
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. Invisible Man
By: Ralph Ellison
3.91
Format: 581 pages, Paperback
First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare… read more
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"When I discover who I am, I’ll be free."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"You're very insistent, but I'm very busy."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him"-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
3. The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology
By: Kenneth Burke
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"But the point of Burke's work, and the significance of his achievement, is not that he points out … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
4. Redwall (Redwall, #1)
By: Brian Jacques
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A quest to recover a legendary lost weapon by bumbling young apprentice monk, mouse Matthias. R… read more
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"I am that is, my sword shall wield for me."-Brian Jacques, Redwall (Redwall, #1)
"All work and no play makes Matthias a dull mouse."-Brian Jacques, Redwall (Redwall, #1)
"Err, sorry Father Abbot. I tripped y'see. Trod on my Abbot, Father Habit. Oh dear, I mean...."-Brian Jacques, Redwall (Redwall, #1)
"Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does have some magic. Personally, I think it's the warrior who wields it."-Brian Jacques, Redwall (Redwall, #1)
5. Ethan Frome
By: Edith Wharton
2.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his dif… read more
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6. An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments
By: Ali Almossawi , Alejandro Giraldo
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This book is aimed at newcomers to the field of logical reasoning, particularly those who, to borro… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
7. The Sound and the Fury
By: William Faulkner
3.86
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more
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"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
8. The God of Small Things
By: Arundhati Roy
3.96
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more
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"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
9. The King in Yellow
By: Robert W. Chambers
3.55
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
One of the leading examples of Victorian-gothic horror, The King in Yellow is a collection of ten i… read more
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"Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
"Strange in the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But Stranger still is Lost Carcosa."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
"I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth..."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
"No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
10. The Amityville Horror
By: Jay Anson
3.83
Format: 315 pages, Mass Market Paperback
28 Days of Terror in a House Possessed by Evil Spirits In December 1975, the Lutz family moved i… read more
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11. When the Emperor Was Divine
By: Julie Otsuka
3.29
Format: None pages,
Julie Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any… read more
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12. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Scott Pilgrim, #2)
By: Bryan Lee O'Malley
4.24
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Does Scott and Ramona's burgeoning relationship have a future? Isn't Scott still supposedly dating … read more
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"Ooh, go ahead and poke fun at my poor queenology, Canada boy."-Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Scott Pilgrim, #2)
"Ewww! New girlfriends only want to hear bad stuff about ex-girlfriends, dude, come on."-Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Scott Pilgrim, #2)
"Scott, you are the salt of the earth. Oh, I'm sorry, excuse me. I meant scum of the earth."-Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Scott Pilgrim, #2)
"Scott! If we had a band, we would be cool. Even if we sucked! We would transcend our class status or whatever, and become automatically cool."-Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Scott Pilgrim, #2)
13. Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
By: Barbara Ehrenreich
3.95
Format: None pages,
Americans are a "positive" people--cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well… read more
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14. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
By: Imani Perry
3.97
Format: 410 pages, Hardcover
An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"So I went deeper into an archive of historical memory, hoping to sort it out"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"Acting like you know everything and acting like you don't know how to be respectful will keep you ignorant. Be humble."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"And yes, slavery was abolished, Jim Crow is over, but the prisons, the persistence of poverty, are constant reminders of how the past made the present."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"What, by analogy, happens to the family of the university, or the town, or the state, or the Old Dominion, or the nation itself, given what has been built into its creation?"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
15. 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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- nonfiction
- history
"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
16. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
17. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- sociology
18. Clown in a Cornfield (Clown in a Cornfield, #1)
By: Adam Cesare
3.74
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
Quinn Maybrook just wants to make it until graduation. She might not make it to morning. Quinn a… read more
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19. Lapvona
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.53
Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition
In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds h… read more
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"But such was death - it had nothing to say."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"Blood was the wine of the spirit, was it not?"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"What scared her were other people and their immovable selfishness"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"But Jude's piety was a kind of violent urge and not the love and peace it ought to be"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
20. Nothing But Blackened Teeth
By: Cassandra Khaw
2.66
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in … read more
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"Every religion is a one-way relationship."-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
"The dead miss the sun. It's dark down there."-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
"Media’s all about the gospel of the lone wolf, but the truth is we’re all just sheep."-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
"apologies didn’t exonerate the sinner, only compelled graciousness from its recipient."-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
21. 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
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
"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
22. The Book of Magic (Practical Magic, #2)
By: Alice Hoffman
4.16
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Master storyteller Alice Hoffman brings us the conclusion of the Practical Magic series in a spellb… read more
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"Everything worthwhile is dangerous."-Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic (Practical Magic, #2)
"Language was everything. Trust was for fools. Love came and went. Words could be stolen."-Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic (Practical Magic, #2)
"Tonight the special was chicken pot pie, but most of the regulars were concentrating on whiskey."-Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic (Practical Magic, #2)
"Time is out there. Everything that ever happened is still happening. For instance, if I took your hand in mine."-Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic (Practical Magic, #2)
23. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
By: Amanda Montell
3.85
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultis… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
"Without language, there are no "cults"."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"Some say people who join cults are “lost."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"With words, we breathe reality into being."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"The nimble direct sales industry always finds a way to reinvent itself - the capitalist cockroach that just won't stop reincarnating."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
24. Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs
By: Greil Marcus
3.68
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penet… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
25. Hench (Hench, #1)
By: Natalie Zina Walschots
4.02
Format: 403 pages, Hardcover
Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a… read more
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"I wondered what it must be like to be so mediocre and so confident that the same time."-Natalie Zina Walschots, Hench (Hench, #1)
"But even if the label on your own feelings doesn't matter, wouldn't you want to know how you felt about you? He pulled me off an operating table and rebuilt my brain. He killed people to get to me. W…"-Natalie Zina Walschots, Hench (Hench, #1)
"No one wants to be a real hero; it’s too hard. My husband didn’t give a damn whether the work I was doing was noble as long as it appeared to be. When I killed someone then - something I did a lot mo…"-Natalie Zina Walschots, Hench (Hench, #1)
26. Leadership: In Turbulent Times
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.40
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of le… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
27. The Kingdom of Sweets
By: Erika Johansen
3.24
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author of the Queen of the Tearling series, Erika Johansen, journeys to a new kingdom i… read more
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"Names are only a lessening, child. They do not describe us. Before my real life began, I was enslaved, but I have left that time behind. In the years since, I have been called many things by many peo…"-Erika Johansen, The Kingdom of Sweets
28. Just Like Home
By: Sarah Gailey
3.35
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
“Come home.” Vera’s mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of… read more
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"Here is something that she controls, here is something that responds to her with the kind of frantic immediacy she always wanted from the world"-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home
"Tenderness was a foreign, forgotten thing that she hadn't encountered since before everything went wrong. She did not want it. Not now. Not from him."-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home
"Is one possible without the other? I think you have to know someone in order to truly love them, and you have to love someone in order to really hate them."-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home
"I think you have to know someone in order to truly love them, and you have to love someone in order to really hate them. There’s the thin hate we have for strangers. (...) And then there’s the thick,…"-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home
29. Rabbits (Rabbits, #1)
By: Terry Miles
3.64
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
Conspiracies abound in this surreal and yet all-too-real technothriller in which a deadly undergrou… read more
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"We each had our reasons for wanting the fantastical world promised by Rabbits to replace the flawed emotional narrative of our real lives."-Terry Miles, Rabbits (Rabbits, #1)
"The world felt smaller from that vantage point, and much easier to understand. Life was messy and complicated when you were in the middle of it, while it was rushing toward you from all angles, close…"-Terry Miles, Rabbits (Rabbits, #1)
30. Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
By: Kelly Weill
3.79
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Since 2015, there has been a spectacular boom in a centuries-old delusion: that the earth is flat. … read more
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- social science
- conspiracy theories
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
31. Awful Archives: Conspiracy Theory, Rhetoric, and Acts of Evidence
By: Jenny Rice
4.16
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
How does evidence happen? And when evidence happens badly, how can we find a fitting response to th… read more
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- academic
- philosophy
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- 21st century
- sociology
