Lee Miller's War
By: Lee Miller
4.48
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The full range of Lee Miller's outstanding photographs from World War II, accompanied by her brilli…
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1. The White Album
By: Joan Didion
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"-Joan Didion, The White Album
2. The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.69
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more
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"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
3. Villette
By: Charlotte Brontë , A.S. Byatt , Μαρία Λαϊνά , Ignes Sodre
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Bronte's final novel … read more
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4. Here I Am: The Story of Tim Hetherington, War Photographer
By: Alan Huffman
3.76
Format: None pages,
Tim Hetherington (1970-2011) was one of the world's most distinguished and dedicated photojournalis… read more
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- history
- biography
- photography
- war
- nonfiction
5. After the Funeral (Hercule Poirot, #29)
By: Agatha Christie
3.78
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Hercule Poirot is called on to investigate the murder of a brother and sister in this classic from … read more
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6. The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #4)
By: Agatha Christie
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
The placid village of Lymstock seems the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his acci… read more
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7. Blue Lightning (Shetland Island, #4)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.34
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair … read more
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8. Lee Miller: A Life
By: Carolyn Burke
3.45
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Lee Miller's life embodied all the contradictions and complications of the twentieth century: a mod… read more
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9. A Girl's Story
By: Annie Ernaux
3.89
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernau… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Un été immense comme ils le sont tous jusqu'à vingt-cinq ans"-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
"Everywhere on earth, with every day that dawns, a woman stands surrounded by men ready to throw stones at her."-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
"At this very moment, out in the streets, the open spaces, on the metro, in lecture halls, and inside millions of heads, millions of novels are being written chapter by chapter, erased and revised, an…"-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
"Aucun autre projet d’écriture ne me paraît, non pas lumineux, ni nouveau, encore moins heureux, mais vital, capable de me faire vivre au-dessus du temps. Juste « profiter de la vie » est une perspect…"-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
10. Flights
By: Olga Tokarczuk
3.76
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on tra… read more
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"The truth is terrible: describing is destroying."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you’re looking at."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
11. The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.01
Format: 383 pages, Hardcover
Ann Cleeves― New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, b… read more
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12. Echtzeitalter
By: Tonio Schachinger
3.96
Format: 365 pages, Hardcover
Ein elitäres Wiener Internat, untergebracht in der ehemaligen Sommerresidenz der Habsburger, der Kl… read more
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13. Liberation Day
By: George Saunders
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more
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"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
14. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
15. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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- war
16. Brutes
By: Dizz Tate
3.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story a… read more
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"to be loved, was just to be watched"-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"We feel chased. It doesn't matter if it's only by our own shadows."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"and now I think that to humiliate a woman is the only way some men know how to love one."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"To be loved was just to be watched, or in my case, to imagine you are loved is to imagine you are watched all the time."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
17. The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope, #10)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.33
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebra… read more
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18. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way
By: Rebecca Wait
4.03
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy… read more
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19. The Story of Art Without Men
By: Katy Hessel
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before th… read more
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- art
- art history
- history
- nonfiction
20. Annette, ein Heldinnenepos
By: Anne Weber
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Was für ein Leben! Geboren 1923 in der Bretagne, aufgewachsen in einfachen Verhältnissen, schon als… read more
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"Annette liebt über alles diese Großmutter, die reich ist nicht an Gütern und gebildet nicht an Lektüren."-Anne Weber, Annette, ein Heldinnenepos
"Die Zukunft ist zum Glück meistens nur anwesend // als nächster Augenblick, und dieser Zukunftsaugenblick // erfordert Gegenwart, und zwar des Geistes."-Anne Weber, Annette, ein Heldinnenepos
"An Fallschirmen senken sich sachte wie im Schlaf Tausende Soldaten auf das Küstenland herab, Heuschreckensegen, auf den die meisten hier sehnlich gewartet haben."-Anne Weber, Annette, ein Heldinnenepos
"Sie lernt Wüstenbewohner- // gesten. Arabisch lernt sie auch, aber nach vielen // Mühen gibt sie es wieder auf, denn sie ist // unvergleichlich weniger begabt für Sprachen als fürs // Revolutionieren."-Anne Weber, Annette, ein Heldinnenepos
21. Lee Miller's War
By: Lee Miller
4.48
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The full range of Lee Miller's outstanding photographs from World War II, accompanied by her brilli… read more
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- art
- art history
- biography
- memoir
- history
- photography
- war
- world war ii
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
