Skins of Columbus
By: Edgar Garcia
4.13
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Colonial violence is a sticky phenomenon, gumming up the associational matrices of our daily lives …
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1. Freshwater
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.02
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self… read more
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"It wasn’t me,"-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"The worst part of embodiment is being unseen."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"Sometimes, you recognize truth because it destroys you for a bit."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"The gods do not care. It is not them, after all, that will pay the cost."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
2. Play It As It Lays
By: Joan Didion , David Thomson
3.92
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of a… read more
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"The letter is still in my makeup box but I am careful not to read it unless I am drunk"-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is “nothing."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"Carter and Helene still believe in cause-effect. Carter and Helene also believe that people are either sane or insane."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"She could remember it all but none of it seemed to come to anything. She had a sense the dream had ended and she had slept on."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
3. The White Album
By: Joan Didion
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more
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"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"-Joan Didion, The White Album
4. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
5. King Lear
By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe
3.91
Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more
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"Fortune love you."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"She is herself a dowry."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"All dark and comfortless."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"Nothing can come of nothing."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
6. Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai
By: Shunryu Suzuki , None , Mel Weitsman , Michæl Wenger
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
When Shunryu Suzuki Roshi's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mindwas published in 1972, it was enthusiastically… read more
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7. Assata: An Autobiography
By: Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds
4.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to deat… read more
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8. The Woman Destroyed
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian
3.75
Format: None pages,
Una crisi coniugale o familiare costringe tre donne a mettere in discussione la propria vita e il p… read more
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9. Giovanni’s Room
By: James Baldwin
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Set in the contemporary Paris of American expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds h… read more
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"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
10. All About H. Hatterr
By: Anthony Burgess , G.V. Desani
3.37
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, All About H. Hatterris one of the most perfectly eccentric an… read more
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11. Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing
By: Hélène Cixous , Susan Sellers
3.08
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
"Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing" is a poetic, insightful, and ultimately moving exploration o… read more
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12. Notes from Underground
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None
4.17
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more
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"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
13. Mumbo Jumbo
By: Ishmael Reed
4.25
Format: 131 pages,
The Classic Freewheeling Look at Race Relations Through the Ages Mumbo Jumbois Ishmael Reed's brill… read more
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14. Beloved
By: Toni Morrison
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a … read more
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15. The Sunflower Cast a Spell To Save Us From The Void
By: Jackie Wang
3.83
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
In The Sunflower, Wang follows the sunflower’s many dream guises―its evolving symbolism in literatu… read more
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16. Tremor
By: Teju Cole
3.69
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violen… read more
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"I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car."-Teju Cole, Tremor
17. Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds (The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures)
By: Marisol de la Cadena
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Earth Beings is the fruit of Marisol de la Cadena's decade-long conversations with Mariano and Naza… read more
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18. Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
By: Victoria Chang
4.50
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations. For … read more
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"My mother did so much for me. What I returned to her were empty containers."-Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
"If you saw my poems today, I hope you could see that I heard you even though you couldn't hear me. I have tried to write shorter + shorter + denser + denser + louder + louder poems. They have become …"-Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
"What's the rush?", you said about publishing. I added: "Does the world need another competent book of poems?" Most times, we wouldn't answer our own questions because what did we know? We only knew t…"-Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
"Maybe I am staring into a piece of paper like it is a pond, hoping one day that what looks back is not my own reflection, but my great-grandmother's face. Maybe poetry is the distance between my face…"-Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
19. Sinkhole: A Legacy of Suicide
By: Juliet Patterson
3.92
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Finalist for the 2023 Minnesota Book Award A sublimely elegant, fractured reckoning with the legacy… read more
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20. I Have Lived Four Lives
By: Wilfred Buck
4.39
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
These stories encompass a range of hilarious and vivid recollections that revolve around visions an… read more
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21. Skins of Columbus
By: Edgar Garcia
4.13
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Colonial violence is a sticky phenomenon, gumming up the associational matrices of our daily lives … read more
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