The Book of the Year 2019
By: James Harkin
4.39
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The Book of the Year is back, with yet another pro-rogues gallery of the most amazing, audacious an…
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1. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
By: Christopher Hitchens
3.96
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
God Is Not Great makes the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the maj… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Actually, the “leap of faith"-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
"The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey."-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
2. The Burning Page (The Invisible Library, #3)
By: Genevieve Cogman
4.05
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
The third title in Genevieve Cogman's clever and exciting The Invisible Library series, The Burning… read more
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- audiobook
"I may take a while to learn from my mistakes, but I get there eventually."-Genevieve Cogman, The Burning Page (The Invisible Library, #3)
"I have spent most of my life preferring books to people,’ Irene said sharply. ‘Just because I like a few specific people doesn’t change anything."-Genevieve Cogman, The Burning Page (The Invisible Library, #3)
" What fun, Irene thought grimly through the band of pain pressing on her temple, I now have a whole new standard for how bad things can get. Travel is so educational. "-Genevieve Cogman, The Burning Page (The Invisible Library, #3)
"This sense of possibility might not last, of course Nothing ever did. But she wasn’t going to spoil it by looking too far ahead. They were safe in the Library, and the Library would endure."-Genevieve Cogman, The Burning Page (The Invisible Library, #3)
3. The Elves and the Shoemaker
By: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm , Thea Kliros
3.87
Format: 54 pages, Board Book
An adaptation of the classic tale in which a poor old shoemaker becomes successful with the help of… read more
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4. How to be Champion: My Autobiography
By: Sarah Millican
4.18
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
Part autobiography, part self help, part confession, part celebration of being a common-or-garden w… read more
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- humor
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- comedy
- audiobook
5. By the Pricking of My Thumbs (Tommy and Tuppence, #4)
By: Agatha Christie
2.50
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
While visiting Tommy's Aunt Ada at Sunny Ridge Nursing Home, Tuppence encounters some odd residents… read more
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- audiobook
6. Death Comes to Pemberley
By: None
4.27
Format: 412 pages, Hardcover
The world is classic Jane Austen. The mystery is vintage P.D. James. The year is 1803, and Fitzwill… read more
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7. Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.00
Format: 64 pages,
'Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That's why they're called revol… read more
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8. The Masked City (The Invisible Library, #2)
By: Genevieve Cogman
4.20
Format: None pages,
Librarian-spy Irene is working undercover in an alternative London when her assistant Kai goes miss… read more
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9. Echo Boy
By: Matt Haig
3.68
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Audrey's father taught her that to stay human in the modern world, she had to build a moat around h… read more
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10. Peas & Queues: The Minefield of Modern Manners
By: Sandi Toksvig
3.70
Format: None pages, Hardcover
How do you get rid of unwanted guests? What do you do if there's a racket in the quiet carriage? Ho… read more
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11. I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.36
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
It starts with whispers. Then someone picks up a stone. Finally, the fires begin. When peo… read more
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- humor
- comedy
- audiobook
"And you know what? Books live. The pages remember!"-Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)
"Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things."-Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)
"Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze."-Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)
"Everybody needs a witch, but sometimes they just don't know it."-Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)
12. 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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- nonfiction
- comedy
- audiobook
"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
13. Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
By: Hannah Fry
4.12
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize and the 2018 Royal Society Investment Science Book P… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"you're not using the product; you are the product"-Hannah Fry, Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
"And how biased is too biased? At what point do you prioritize the victims of preventable crimes over the victims of the algorithm?"-Hannah Fry, Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
"He realized that – when whetted in the right way – people’s voracious appetite for an expert’s assessment of themselves could over-ride their desire for privacy. What’s more, they were often willing …"-Hannah Fry, Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
"Gary Marx, professor of sociology at MIT, put the dilemma well in an interview he gave to the Guardian: ‘The Soviet Union had remarkably little street crime when they were at their worst of their tot…"-Hannah Fry, Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
14. The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
By: Dan Carlin
3.91
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The creator of the wildly popular award-winning podcast Hardcore History looks at some of the apoca… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"But it's never wise to bet against any of the four horsemen long term. Their historical track record is horrifyingly good."-Dan Carlin, The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
"It may seem strange to suggest that high levels of illness might make human beings tougher, but the effect on a society of relatively regular and lethal epidemics and the mortality they cause certain…"-Dan Carlin, The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
"The human ripples of pain are still heartbreaking when made visible to us now. Our friend Agnolo the Fat wrote: “Father abandoned child, wife husband, one brother another; for this illness seemed to …"-Dan Carlin, The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
"History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up,' Voltaire reportedly said. The observation refers to the argument that fortunes of nations or civiliza…"-Dan Carlin, The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
15. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)
By: Richard Coles
3.32
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more
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16. A Death in the Parish (Canon Clement, #2)
By: Richard Coles
3.90
Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition
It's been a few months since murder tore apart the community of Champton apart. As Canon Daniel Cl… read more
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17. The Sanctuary
By: Andrew Hunter Murray
3.55
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
In a disintegrating and lawless near-future, a young man journeys north to a mysterious island owne… read more
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18. Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By
By: David Mitchell
3.68
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
David Mitchell’s 2014 bestseller Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse must really have made people… read more
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- comedy
- audiobook
19. My Thoughts Exactly
By: Lily Allen
3.97
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
So, this is me. Lily Allen. I am a mother, and I was a wife. I'm also a singer and a songwriter. I … read more
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- audiobook
20. Toksvig's Almanac 2021
By: Sandi Toksvig
4.30
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
From the cover: 'Toksvig's Almanac is intended merely as a starting point for your own discoveri… read more
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- reference
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- audiobook
21. The Last Day
By: Andrew Hunter Murray
3.68
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A visionary and powerful debut thriller set in a terrifyingly plausible dystopian near-future--with… read more
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22. Ayoade On Top
By: Richard Ayoade
3.84
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
At last, the definitive book about perhaps the best cabin crew dramedy ever filmed: View From the T… read more
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"We can't live in dreams any more that we can live in the clouds or under socialism."-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top
"Because to be moved by something made by someone who has done something bad would mean that a bad person possesses the capacity to connect to us; that they haven't, somehow, forfeited their humanity."-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top
"When I buy Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, the acquisitive part of me is buying it for the deluded part of me that thinks I’ll read it one day, while the archivist part of me keeps it on a shelf with …"-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top
"This shadowy, depersonalised, frankly militaristic ‘they’ (why should I call the pilot ‘captain’ – I didn’t join his army) is what makes commercial air travel so Orwellian. Say you want to take a nap…"-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top
23. A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering
By: Andrew Hunter Murray
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
One perfect house. One dead body. One bad day. There are thousands and thousands of decent homes… read more
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24. QI: The Third Book of General Ignorance: Qi: Quite Interesting (Qi: Book of General Ignorance 3)
By: John Lloyd
4.15
Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition
The Third Book of General Ignorance gathers together 180 questions, both new and previously feature… read more
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- comedy
25. The Hiker
By: M.J. Ford
3.65
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
In the wilderness it’s kill or be killed… MISSING When Gemma Kline is reported missing after se… read more
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26. Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum
By: Dean Kirby
4.23
Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition
“A record of how a city of great wealth ignored the desperate poverty at its very heart . . . It is… read more
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27. The Book of the Year 2019
By: James Harkin
4.39
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The Book of the Year is back, with yet another pro-rogues gallery of the most amazing, audacious an… read more
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28. Parenting Hell
By: Rob Beckett
4.25
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE MADNESS, ABSURDITY, AND UTTER CHAOS OF BEING A PARENT FROM THE… read more
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29. 222 QI Answers to Your Quite Ingenious Questions
By: QI Elves
4.20
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
Which lottery numbers should I pick? Is it true that we are made entirely of stardust? Can dogs t… read more
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