Conspiracies Declassified: The Skeptoid Guide to the Truth Behind the Theories
By: Brian Dunning
3.55
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A collection of the wildest conspiracies to ever exist, from mind control experiments to lizard peo…
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1. The Hero With a Thousand Faces
By: Joseph Campbell
3.79
Format: 32 pages,
The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis… read more
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2. Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder
By: Jerry Bledsoe
3.37
Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this powerful and riveting tale of three families connected by marriage and murder, of obsessive… read more
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3. The Last Colony (Old Man's War #3)
By: John Scalzi
3.91
Format: 434 pages,
Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant H… read more
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4. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
By: David Graeber
4.03
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more
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"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
5. Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1
By: James Tynion IV
4.16
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
When children begin to go missing in the town of Archer’s Peak, all hope seems lost until a mysteri… read more
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6. Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 2
By: James Tynion IV
4.26
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Erica Slaughter may have slain the monster terrorizing the small Wisconsin town of Archer’s Peak, b… read more
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7. Camp Damascus
By: Chuck Tingle
3.94
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more
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"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus
"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus
8. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)
By: Waubgeshig Rice
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more
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9. Men Who Hate Women
By: Laura Bates
4.34
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
The first comprehensive undercover look at the terrorist movement no one is talking about. Men W… read more
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"Incels use the metaphor of the red pill to describe the moment a man's blinkers fall away and he suddenly realizes that he has been lied to his whole life. The world that he has been forced to believ…"-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women
"When incels do occasionally crop up in news reports or conversations, they're so easily dismissed as a tiny fringe group of online weirdos. What you hear about them sounds so strange, so extreme, so …"-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women
10. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
11. The Apollo Murders (Apollo Murders, #1)
By: Chris Hadfield
3.92
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
An exceptional debut thriller and “exciting journey” into the dark heart of the Cold War and the sp… read more
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12. The Skeptics' Guide to the Future: What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow
By: Steven Novella
4.08
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling authors and hosts of "The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe," a high-tech roadma… read more
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- skepticism
- history
- science
13. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
By: Rob Harvilla
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more
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- history
"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
14. Ascension
By: Nicholas Binge
3.58
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of t… read more
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"There’s something that runs deeper than that – biological instinct, perhaps, that won’t let you go through with mutilating yourself."-Nicholas Binge, Ascension
"People like to think empathy means being able to imagine how you'd feel in a certain situation,' she said, head tilted, holding my gaze. 'But it really doesn't. It means being able to imagine how the…"-Nicholas Binge, Ascension
15. 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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16. The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
By: Steven Novella
4.40
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
An all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking in the popular "The Skeptics Guide to the Universe"… read more
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17. The City in the Middle of the Night
By: Charlie Jane Anders
3.50
Format: 366 pages, Hardcover
Would you give up everything to change the world? Humanity clings to life on January--a colonize… read more
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"Most people die for stupid reasons. The most anyone can hope for is to make some noises before that happens."-Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night
"I treat this decision the way I learned to treat my memory-panic. I stop, and I give myself space to feel all the worst emotions. Then I move forward."-Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night
"Part of how they make you obey is by making obedience seem peaceful, while resistance is violence. But really, either choice is about violence, one way or another."-Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night
"I can't do this thing anymore, where we live in a tiny space and pretend it's the whole world. People always have brand-new reasons for doing the same thing over and over."-Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night
18. Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
By: Jen Gunter
4.25
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Dr. Jen Gunter fights myths and fear-mongering with real science, inclusive facts, and shame-free a… read more
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- history
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"Reproducing a human is a massive biological effort. Energy-wise, it's on par with the limits of the most extreme sports, for example, running 5,000 km (3,000 miles) over 120 days or cycling the Tour …"-Jen Gunter, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
"When it comes to painful periods, there is an epidemic of undertreatment. Women's pain is undertreated in general, as compared to men's, but painful periods have historically been seen as a "woman th…"-Jen Gunter, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
"Unfortunately, instead of a world where those who bear the physical burdens of reproduction—whether they reproduce or not—have equal footing, we have the opposite. The Ancient Greeks, the originators…"-Jen Gunter, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
19. Am I Overthinking This?: Over-answering life’s questions in 101 charts
By: Michelle Rial
3.85
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
"Michelle Rial's illustrated book explores life's big questions (Am I eating too much cheese? Has a… read more
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20. OMFG, BEES!: Bees Are So Amazing and You're About to Find Out Why
By: Matt Kracht
4.36
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Are you ready for the ultimate bee book? With lighthearted watercolor and ink drawings, humorous qu… read more
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21. Conspiracies Declassified: The Skeptoid Guide to the Truth Behind the Theories
By: Brian Dunning
3.55
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A collection of the wildest conspiracies to ever exist, from mind control experiments to lizard peo… read more
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