11 must-read nonfiction books like The Difference Aesthetics Makes: On the Humanities “After Man” by Kandice Chuh

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The Difference Aesthetics Makes: On the Humanities “After Man”

By: Kandice Chuh

4.15

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In The Difference Aesthetics Makes cultural critic Kandice Chuh asks what the humanities might be a…

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1. The Politics of Aesthetics

By: Jacques Rancière , Gabriel Rockhill

3.92

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aestheti… read more

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2. The Racial Contract

By: Charles W. Mills

4.38

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory to extraordinary radical use. Wi… read more

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3. To the Lighthouse

By: Virginia Woolf

3.80

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more

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"I have had my vision."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"Well, we must wait for the future to show."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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4. The Cultural Politics of Emotion

By: Sara Ahmed

4.34

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In The Cultural Politics of the Emotions, Sara Ahmed develops a new methodology for reading "the em… read more

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5. Ugly Feelings

By: Sianne Ngai

4.20

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Envy, irritation, paranoia—in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these … read more

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6. Mrs. Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more

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"Life stand still here."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"To love makes one solitary."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What a lark! What a plunge!"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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7. The Wretched of the Earth

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more

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"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

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8. The Sympathizer

By: Viet Thanh Nguyen

3.83

Format: 28 pages, Hardcover

The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards, The Sympathizeris … read more

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9. The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism

By: Jodi A. Byrd

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1761 and again in 1768, European scientists raced around the world to observe the transit of Ven… read more

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10. Their Eyes Were Watching God

By: Zora Neale Hurston

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries … read more

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11. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America

By: Mae M. Ngai

4.11

Format: 559 pages, Paperback

This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and… read more

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12. Cruel Optimism

By: Lauren Berlant

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flour… read more

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13. The Canterbury Tales

By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval… read more

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14. Discourse on Colonialism

By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more

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15. A Farewell to Arms

By: Ernest Hemingway , نجف دریابندری

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the war to end all wars. He volunteered for ambulance serv… read more

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16. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane

3.64

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more

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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

17. Dictee

By: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dictee is the best-known work of the versatile and important Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyu… read more

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18. Howards End

By: E.M. Forster

3.96

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

A már életében klasszikusnak számító angol írónak ez volt a negyedik, a kritikusok szerint a legjob… read more

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"So never give in,"

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

"Tulips were a tray of jewels."

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

"Love and Truth, their warfare seems eternal."

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

"Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him."

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

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19. Passing

By: Nella Larsen

3.93

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netfl… read more

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"Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it"

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

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20. The Difference Aesthetics Makes: On the Humanities “After Man”

By: Kandice Chuh

4.15

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In The Difference Aesthetics Makes cultural critic Kandice Chuh asks what the humanities might be a… read more

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21. Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species (ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise)

By: Neel Ahuja

3.93

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja argues that U.S. imperial expansion has been shaped by the attempts o… read more

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22. Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II (Studies in United States Culture)

By: A. Naomi Paik

4.48

Format: 332 pages, Paperback

In this bold book, A. Naomi Paik grapples with the history of U.S. prison camps that have confined … read more

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11 Top 20th century books like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Seamus Deane

Transform Your Habits

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

3.80

Transform Your Habits

A Passage to India

E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass

3.68

Transform Your Habits

The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

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