Sailing Close to the Wind: Reminiscences
By: Dennis Skinner
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Memoirs of one of Britain’s most remarkable political figures Dennis Skinner, the famed Beast of Bo…
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1. The Man in the High Castle
By: Philip K. Dick
3.60
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assume… read more
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"Don’t you feel it?"-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
"Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find."-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
"Dreadful low-class jingoistic racist invectives, unworthy of me."-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
"We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine."-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
2. The Green Mile
By: Stephen King
4.20
Format: 42 pages,
At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, killers a… read more
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3. Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
As good a rifle company as any, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, US Army, kept getting tough … read more
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"We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace..."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying"-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
4. Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #2)
By: Stephen King
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Wake up, genius. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jim… read more
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5. Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession (Six Tudor Queens, #2)
By: Alison Weir
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsessionby bestselling historian Alison Weir, author of Katherine of Aragon:… read more
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6. One-Hit Wonder
By: Lisa Jewell
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
Shy and gawky, Ana has always daydreamed about living the life of her exotic half-sister, Bee, a po… read more
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7. The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins
By: John George Pearson
4.48
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
Reggie and Ronald Kray ruled London's gangland during the 1960s with a ruthlessness and viciousness… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
8. The War of the Worlds
By: H.G. Wells , Arthur C. Clarke
3.83
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the a… read more
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"We will peck them to death tomorrow, my dear."-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
"The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one"-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
"Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear."-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
"That's what we are now—just ants. Only——" "Yes," I said. "We're eatable ants."-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
9. Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen (Six Tudor Queens, #3)
By: Alison Weir
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Acclaimed author and historian Alison Weir continues her epic Six Tudor Queens series with this thi… read more
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10. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
11. The Sense of an Ending
By: Julian Barnes
4.05
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and … read more
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12. Thinner
By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman
3.77
Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
After an old gypsy woman is killed by his car, lawyer Billy Halleck is stricken with a flesh-wastin… read more
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"Purpurfargade ansiktet"-Stephen King, Thinner
"It's the people who aren't scared who die young."-Stephen King, Thinner
"Things hurt more when you were alone, that was all."-Stephen King, Thinner
"The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing."-Stephen King, Thinner
13. A Night to Remember
By: Walter Lord , Nathaniel Philbrick
3.67
Format: 208 pages,
The classic minute-by-minute account of the sinking of the Titanic, in a 50th anniversary edition w… read more
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14. Reluctantly Home
By: Imogen Clark
4.20
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of Where the Story Starts comes a tale about dealing with the past—and … read more
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15. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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- politics
- biography
- nonfiction
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
16. And Away...
By: Bob Mortimer
4.33
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more
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- nonfiction
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- memoir
"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."-Bob Mortimer, And Away...
17. 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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- nonfiction
"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
18. Poison for Breakfast
By: Lemony Snicket
3.86
Format: 158 pages, Hardcover
For more than twenty years, Lemony Snicket has led millions of young readers through a mysterious w… read more
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"Bye bye doggie."-Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast
"I am a loneliness savant."-Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast
"I can compare sadness to a car because both are quite capable of running me over."-Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast
"In a manner of speaking," I said, using one of my favorite ways of saying "No, you are wrong."-Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast
19. Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life
By: Miriam Margolyes
4.08
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
'Oh Miriam! risks the curse of the sequel, and pulls it off . . . A force of nature, a tour de farc… read more
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20. Anna of Kleve: The Princess in the Portrait (Six Tudor Queens, #4)
By: Alison Weir
4.05
Format: 499 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the little-known story of Henry VIII’s… read more
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"Never reveal your hand, Anna," he advised. "If my cap knew my mind, I would throw it into the fire." It was one of the most revealing things he had ever said to her."-Alison Weir, Anna of Kleve: The Princess in the Portrait (Six Tudor Queens, #4)
21. The Satsuma Complex
By: Bob Mortimer
3.68
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more
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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex
22. 52 Times Britain was a Bellend: The History You Didn’t Get Taught At School
By: James Felton
3.96
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
JAMES FELTON'S NEW BOOK "ASSHOLES" IS OUT NOW 'Scurrilous, scandalous and frequently disgusting. I… read more
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23. This Much is True
By: Miriam Margolyes
4.09
Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition
BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a … read more
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"...it is the vulnerabilities in people, rather more than their strengths, which allow us to love them."-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True
"And I was in love with him because, when he ended it, I can remember the feeling of being annihilated - a pure, wrenching grief and loss."-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True
24. Katheryn Howard: the Scandalous Queen (Six Tudor Queens, #5)
By: Alison Weir
4.09
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the tragic story of Henry VIII's fifth… read more
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25. The Auschwitz Photographer: The Forgotten Story of the WWII Prisoner Who Documented Thousands of Lost Souls
By: Luca Crippa
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The Nazis asked him to swear allegiance to Hitler, betraying his country, his friends, and everythi… read more
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26. Katharine Parr: The Sixth Wife (Six Tudor Queens, #6)
By: Alison Weir
4.23
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
Two husbands dead; a life marred by sadness. And now Katharine is in love for the first time in her… read more
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27. Being Britney
By: Jennifer Otter Bickerdike
3.42
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Part biography, part social history, Being Britney pieces together a collage of stories, interviews… read more
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28. Sailing Close to the Wind: Reminiscences
By: Dennis Skinner
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Memoirs of one of Britain’s most remarkable political figures Dennis Skinner, the famed Beast of Bo… read more
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- memoir
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