The Oval World: A Global History of Rugby
By: Tony Collins
3.85
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
Rugby has always been a sport with as much drama off the field as on it. For every thrilling last-m…
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By: John Carlin
3.10
Format: 271 pages,
A thrilling, inspiring account of one of the greatest charm offensives in history--Nelson Mandela's… read more
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2. Rosemary's Baby
By: Ira Levin
3.56
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, an ordinary young couple, settle into a New York City apartment, unawar… read more
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3. Long Walk to Freedom
By: Nelson Mandela
3.78
Format: 479 pages, Paperback
The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Nelson Mandela i… read more
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4. The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830-1970
By: John Darwin
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empir… read more
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5. The Coming of the Third Reich
By: Richard J. Evans
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
From one of the world's most distinguished historians, a magisterial new reckoning with Hitler's ri… read more
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6. The Third Reich in Power (The History of the Third Reich, #2)
By: Richard J. Evans
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implaca… read more
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7. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
By: Serhii Plokhy
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more
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8. Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
By: Bill McKibben
4.04
Format: 156 pages,
Our old familiar globe is suddenly melting, drying, acidifying, flooding, and burning in ways that … read more
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9. Is This Anything?
By: Jerry Seinfeld
3.72
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The first book in twenty-five years from Jerry Seinfeld features his best work across five decades … read more
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10. The Body: A Guide for Occupants
By: Bill Bryson
4.32
Format: 450 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the se… read more
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11. The Ministry for the Future
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.88
Format: 563 pages, Hardcover
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more
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"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
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"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
12. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
By: Jeff Goodell
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more
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13. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
4.10
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impa… read more
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"I was struck, and not for the first time, by how much easier it is to ruin an ecosystem than to run one."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"If control is the problem, then, by the logic of the Anthropocene, still more control must be the solution."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"He’s a burly man with sparse white hair and a white beard who looks like Santa might look if Santa, in the off-season, carried a tackle box."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"Here I was, trying to finish a book about the world spinning out of control, only to find the world spinning so far out of control that I couldn't finish the book."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
14. Burnt Sugar
By: Avni Doshi
3.26
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Uma história de obsessões e traição. Uma história de amor envenenada, cujos protagonistas, ao contr… read more
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"Ma naps on the sofa, and for a moment I can imagine what she’ll look like when she dies, when her face slackens and the air abandons her lungs. Around her are objects, papers, photo frames filled wit…"-Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar
15. All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
4.45
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are har… read more
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16. Identity Crisis
By: Ben Elton
3.78
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
Why are we all so hostile? So quick to take offence? Truly we are living in the age of outrage. A s… read more
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"I threaten to kill lots of people. But it doesn’t actually mean that in a tweet.’ ‘Mean what?’ ‘Mean that you actually want to kill them. It’s more like “Oh, I disagree with you. Maybe you should thi…"-Ben Elton, Identity Crisis
17. Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
By: Mark O'Connell
3.73
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
"A fantastic book. It's harrowing, tender-hearted, and funny as hell. O'Connell proves himself to b… read more
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"The future is a source of fear not because we know what will happen, and that it will be terrible, but because we know so little, and have so little control. The apocalyptic sensibility, the apocalyp…"-Mark O'Connell, Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
18. The Oval World: A Global History of Rugby
By: Tony Collins
3.85
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
Rugby has always been a sport with as much drama off the field as on it. For every thrilling last-m… read more
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