A People's History of Modern Europe
By: William A. Pelz
3.84
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The origin of capitalism and modern industrialism—and, not unrelated, the birthplace of Marxism—mod…
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1. Nausea
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth
3.94
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In… read more
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"It was true, I had always realized it—I hadn’t any “right"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
2. The Feminine Mystique
By: Anna Quindlen , Betty Friedan , Gail Collins
3.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Landmark, groundbreaking, classic--these adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
3. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
By: Mary Beard
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
4. Bir Dinozorun Gezileri
By: Mîna Urgan
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Mina Urgan Bir Dinozorun Anilari'ni yazarken kitabinin bu kadar cok okunacagini hic beklemiyor, "Be… read more
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- nonfiction
5. Breakfast of Champions
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Breakfast of Champions,one of Kurt Vonnegut's most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore … read more
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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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"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. A Visitor's Guide To The Ancient Olympics
By: Neil Faulkner
4.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
What was it like to attend the Olympics in 388 B.C.? Would the experience resemble Olympic festival… read more
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- history
8. The Russian Revolution 1917-1932
By: Sheila Fitzpatrick
1.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
This provocative and eminently readable work looks at the many upheavals of the Russian Revolution … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- european history
9. Gardens of the Moon (The Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1)
By: Steven Erikson
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, bled dry by interminable warfare, bitter infighting, an… read more
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10. How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism
By: Alexander Anievas , None
3.79
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
Mainstream historical accounts of the development of capitalism describe a process which is fundame… read more
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11. Are Prisons Obsolete?
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.15
Format: None pages,
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more
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12. Regarding the Pain of Others
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual r… read more
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13. Silence
By: Shūsaku Endō , William Johnston
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
Beneath the light of the candle I am sitting with my hands on my knees, staring in front of me. And… read more
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14. The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
By: Daniel James Brown
3.59
Format: 464 pages,
In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Il… read more
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15. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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16. Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
By: Irvin D. Yalom
3.69
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
Written in Irv Yalom's inimitable story-telling style, Staring at the Sunis a profoundly encouragin… read more
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17. China: A History
By: John Keay
4.50
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
This narrative history of China takes in everything from the earliest times to the present day. The… read more
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18. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
By: Dave Eggers
4.04
Format: 538 pages,
'When you read his extraordinary memoir you don't laugh, then cry, then laugh again; you somehow ex… read more
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19. The Souls of Black Folk
By: W.E.B. Du Bois , None , None
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a s… read more
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20. The Fall
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more
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21. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
By: David Graeber
4.03
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more
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"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
22. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
By: Michael Pollan
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee coll… read more
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- nonfiction
"Memory is the enemy of wonder"-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
"For great many species today, “fitness"-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
"The bubble logic driving tulipomania has since acquired a name: “the greater fool theory."-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
"It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins."-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
23. Ring Shout
By: P. Djèlí Clark
3.99
Format: 185 pages, Hardcover
In America, demons wear white hoods. In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America,… read more
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"Who says all the fantasies with sword-wielding heroes and heroines have to be in Middle Earth, Westeros, or even our dreams of Africa past—“copper sun or scarlet sea?"-P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout
"There were two brothers, Truth and Lie. One day they get to playing, throwing cutlasses up into the air. Them cutlasses come down and fast as can be-swish!-chop each of their faces clean off! Truth b…"-P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout
24. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more
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- nonfiction
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
25. Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder
By: Gabor Maté
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Scattered Minds explodes the myth of attention deficit disorder as genetically based – and offers r… read more
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"Sick and weak are not useful entries in the dictionary of self-understanding."-Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder
"Given their automatic tuning out, ADD children forever find themselves being told to “pay attention"-Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder
26. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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- nonfiction
27. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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- nonfiction
28. The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.10
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious t… read more
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"Bel's got a crush on NY1's Pat Kiernan, so he watches news every morning on the TV in the common area."-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"You said it yourself: New York is rude. We'll give you the shirt off our backs and our last subway card swipe if you're lost, but step to us with wild accusations about things that aren't our fault a…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"He twitches through Times Square, resisting the urge to gawk like a tourist, groaning in native-New-Yorker frustration when the tourists get in his way—but in an eyeblink he's at Fourteenth Street, h…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"He moves to stand on a nearby subway grate, through which he can hear a 1 train idling on the platform below. He spreads his hands to feel the gentle waft of warm, funky-smelling subway air along his…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
29. A People's History of Modern Europe
By: William A. Pelz
3.84
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The origin of capitalism and modern industrialism—and, not unrelated, the birthplace of Marxism—mod… read more
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30. A History of the Grandparents I Never Had (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture)
By: Ivan Jablonka
4.23
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
Ivan Jablonka's grandparents' lives ended long before his began: although Matès and Idesa Jablonka … read more
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- nonfiction
31. Great Cities Through Travelers' Eyes
By: Peter Furtado
3.49
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
A wide-ranging anthology of travelers’ accounts in thirty-eight of the world’s most fascinating cit… read more
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