The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the English
By: Sarah Lyall
3.45
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
New York Times Bestseller “An exquisite, hilarious and devastating dissection.” ―Malcolm Gladwell …
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1. It Can't Happen Here
By: Sinclair Lewis , Christopher Hurt , Michael R. Meyer
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrow… read more
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"NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged."-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
"So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting."-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
"It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class."-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
"Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on."-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
2. From Stone Orchard
By: Timothy Findley
3.83
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
A gift from Stone Orchard: Timothy Findley's poignant collection of country-life writings.Timothy F… read more
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- nonfiction
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3. The Diana Chronicles
By: Tina Brown
4.00
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
Ten years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she "the people's princess," who e… read more
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- history
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- british literature
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4. Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting and Living with Books
By: Michael Dirda
3.50
Format: 92 pages, Hardcover
Michael Dirda has been hailed as "the best-read person in America" (The Paris Review) and "the best… read more
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- nonfiction
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5. The Loudest Voice in the Room: How Roger Ailes and Fox News Remade American Politics
By: Gabriel Sherman
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The astonishing inside story of Fox News, the most powerful media and political business in the wor… read more
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6. Crime at Christmas
By: C.H.B. Kitchin
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
A Christmas party in Hampstead is rudely interrupted by a violent death. Can the murderer be one of… read more
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7. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
By: Heather Cox Richardson
4.42
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more
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8. North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail
By: Scott Jurek
4.22
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the bestseller Eat and Run , a thrilling memoir about his grueling, exhilarating… read more
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"It was just numbers. I knew I could outrun numbers."-Scott Jurek, North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail
"AT legend has it that Pennsylvania hiking clubs and trail crews are proud of their state's nickname of Rocksylvania and don't remove rocks from the trail. In fact, some people claim they actually dum…"-Scott Jurek, North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail
9. The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
By: Michael Lewis
4.09
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy waite… read more
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"The problems that had been Obama's problems for the past eight years were about to become Trump's problems. But his people didn't seem to want to know about them."-Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
10. Mrs. Plansky's Revenge
By: Spencer Quinn
3.72
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Mrs. Loretta Plansky, a recent widow in her seventies, is settling into retirement in Florida while… read more
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11. Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
By: Oliver Darkshire
3.97
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd on Sackvill… read more
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"Early one morning, which is to say about five minutes before noon..."-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
"It's my belief that anyone worth knowing enjoys spending time in a bookshop."-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
"There is something about geriatric men which attracts them to dangerous ladders."-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
"Hell hath no fury, they say, like a man treated the same way as he treats women."-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
12. The Lost Wife
By: Susanna Moore
3.56
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Drawn partly from a true story, a searing, totally immersive novel about a devastating Native Ameri… read more
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13. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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- audiobook
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
14. The Dinner Lady Detectives (Dinner Lady Detectives, #1)
By: Hannah Hendy
3.27
Format: 290 pages, ebook
Murder is a dish best served ice cold... Margery and Clementine are enjoying a peaceful middle-a… read more
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- british literature
15. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
By: Sebastian Junger
3.92
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more
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- audiobook
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
16. The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy
By: Stuart Stevens
4.43
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“This is the first must-read of the 2024 election cycle if you want to understand the stakes.” –Nic… read more
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17. The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning
By: A.J. Jacobs
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically attempts to follow the origi… read more
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18. A Likely Story
By: Leigh McMullan Abramson
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The child of a famous American novelist discovers a shocking family secret that upends everything s… read more
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"People who publish are writers. No one says, 'I'm a lawyer' because they act out imaginary court scenes in their bedrooms."-Leigh McMullan Abramson, A Likely Story
"The flip side of her steady dependability was that she had no margin for error. If Claire forgot a birthday or was five minutes late, it was intolerable precisely because it happened so infrequently.…"-Leigh McMullan Abramson, A Likely Story
19. Great Short Books: A Year of Reading―Briefly
By: Kenneth C. Davis
3.84
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
This entertaining guide to some of the best short novels of all time, from a bestselling historian,… read more
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20. The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the English
By: Sarah Lyall
3.45
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
New York Times Bestseller “An exquisite, hilarious and devastating dissection.” ―Malcolm Gladwell … read more
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21. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
