A Tramp Across the Continent
By: Charles F. Lummis
3.83
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
When young Charles Lummis heard about a job in the small town of Los Angeles more than a century ag…
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1. Washington: A Life
By: Ron Chernow
4.16
Format: 904 pages, Hardcover
The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a brea… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Many mickles make a muckle."-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"Washington grew as a leader because he engaged in searching self- criticism. “I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors,"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this, because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults or remove the prejudices whic…"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"An essential difference between the American and French revolutions was that the American version allowed a search for many truths, while French zealots tried to impose a single sacred truth that all…"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
2. The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.95
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troubleso… read more
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"Parecía más muerto que muchos cadáveres"-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
3. Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
By: Steve Martin
3.88
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
In the midseventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concer… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"I did stand-up comedy for eighteen years."-Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
"...teaching is, after all, a form of show business."-Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
"How many people have never raised their hand before?"-Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
"Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent."-Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
4. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By: Eric Carle
4.33
Format: 26 pages, Board book
THE all-time classic story, from generation to generation, sold somewhere in the world every 30 sec… read more
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"On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcak…"-Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar
5. This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind
By: Ivan Doig
4.16
Format: 1342 pages, Paperback
Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens o… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
6. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By: Frederick Douglass
4.11
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
7. Swan Song
By: Robert McCammon
4.10
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, earth'… read more
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8. Desert Solitaire
By: Edward Abbey
4.00
Format: None pages,
When Desert Solitairewas first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude an… read more
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9. Horseman, Pass By
By: Larry McMurtry
4.30
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of LonesomeDovecomes the novel that became the basis for the… read more
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10. Joan of Arc
By: Mark Twain
3.81
Format: 263 pages,
"I like Joan of Arcbest of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides,… read more
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11. The Minpins
By: Patrick Benson , Roald Dahl
3.81
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
Come deep into the forest if you dare...but beware the Terrible Bloodsuckling Toothpluckling Stonec… read more
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12. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
By: Candice Millard
4.24
Format: None pages,
At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Dou… read more
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13. The Martian Chronicles
By: Ray Bradbury
3.97
Format: 480 pages,
The strange and wonderful tale of man's experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonis… read more
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14. Thunderstruck
By: Erik Larson
3.77
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
The interwoven stories of two men whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal cases o… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
15. Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
By: Max Brooks
3.91
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Gr… read more
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"Adversity introduces us to ourselves."-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
"I trust my nose, ears, eyes. But my brain…"-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
"People are the problem. Nature is your friend."-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
"They're not good or evil. They're just hungry."-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
16. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
By: Candice Millard
3.84
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirr… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- adventure
"..the charm of the scenery was perhaps enhanced by the reflection that my eyes might never look upon it again....Masses of brown-purple clouds covered the quarter of the heavens where the sun was abo…"-Candice Millard, River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
17. Vesper Flights
By: Helen Macdonald
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Animals don't exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"There's a special phenomenology to walking in woods in winter."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
"We call them murmurations, but the Danish term, sort sol , is better: black sun."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
"For even if we don't believe in miracles, they are there, and they are waiting for us to find them."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
"(P)ulling at your heart on purpose is a compulsion as particular and disconcerting as pressing on a healing bruise."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
18. The Girl in the Eagle's Talons (Millennium, #7)
By: Karin Smirnoff
3.40
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Lisbeth Salander returns, in a trailblazing new installment to the best-selling Millennium series. … read more
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19. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.87
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more
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"I would like to belong but I dont."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
20. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
21. Simon the Fiddler
By: Paulette Jiles
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
This story is set at the end of the Civil War, about an itinerant fiddle player, a ragtag band of m… read more
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22. Misjudged (Sam Johnstone, #1)
By: James Chandler
4.23
Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition
When a disabled veteran takes a new job as an attorney in a small Wyoming town, he is thrust into a… read more
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23. Island of the Blue Dolphins
By: Scott O'Dell
3.87
Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition
In the Pacific there is an island that looks like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, … read more
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- adventure
"They were black like a lizard's and very large and, like the eyes of a lizard, could sometimes look sleepy."-Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins
"Everyone in our tribe had two names, the real one which was secret and was seldom used, and one which was common, for if people use your secret name it becomes worn out and loses its magic."-Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins
"Below me Rontu was running along the cliffs barking at the screaming gulls. Pelicans were chattering as they finished the blue water. But suddenly I thought of Tutok, and the island seemed very quiet."-Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins
24. The Library Book
By: Susan Orlean
3.89
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the mo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"You read and read and read and read," she said, "and then what?"-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"German poet Heinrich Heine [warned], 'There where one burns books, one in the end burns men."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"Writing a book, just like building a library, is an act of sheer defiance. It is a declaration that you believe in the persistence of memory."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"The water dumped on the fire was now as much a problem as a solution. The librarians always worried more about floods than fire, and now they had both."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
25. Broadway Butterfly
By: Sara DiVello
3.98
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
New York in the Roaring Twenties—a riveting true-crime novel, based on one of the most notorious un… read more
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26. What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
By: Barbara Butcher
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at th… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts."-Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
27. Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865
By: Sarah Raymond Herndon
3.84
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
“Why are we here? Why have we left home, friends, relatives, associates, and loved ones, who have m… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
28. The Gentle Art of Tramping;With Introductory Essays and Excerpts on Walking - by Sydney Smith, William Hazlitt, Leslie Stephen, & John Burroughs
By: Stephen Graham
3.94
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
The Gentle Art of Tramping is a practical guide to long-distance walking and a philosophical accoun… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- walking
- adventure
"The richest people in life are the good listeners."-Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping;With Introductory Essays and Excerpts on Walking - by Sydney Smith, William Hazlitt, Leslie Stephen, & John Burroughs
"For tramping is the grammar of living. Few people learn the grammar - but it is worth while."-Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping;With Introductory Essays and Excerpts on Walking - by Sydney Smith, William Hazlitt, Leslie Stephen, & John Burroughs
"...Nature becomes your teacher, and from her you will learn what is beautiful and who you are and what is your special quest in life and whither you should go...You live on manna vouchsafed to you da…"-Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping;With Introductory Essays and Excerpts on Walking - by Sydney Smith, William Hazlitt, Leslie Stephen, & John Burroughs
29. Twenty Years Before the Mast
By: Charles Erskine
4.05
Format: 197 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1838 the able-bodied seaman Charles Erskine joined the exploring expedition of Charles Wilkes wh… read more
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- history
30. A Tramp Across the Continent
By: Charles F. Lummis
3.83
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
When young Charles Lummis heard about a job in the small town of Los Angeles more than a century ag… read more
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- history
- memoir
- the united states of america
- travel
- adventure
- nonfiction
- walking
31. Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
By: Mick Herron
4.28
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
Listening Length 10 hours and 50 minutes Slough House is the Intelligence Service outpost for f… read more
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"Lowell fell backwards as the world span out of control"-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
"Like most forms of corruption, it began with men in suits."-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
"belief was not actually about believing; belief was simply somewhere to shelve hope"-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
"You either cleaned up other people's messes or you didn't--and that was the class system for you, right there."-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
