The Tale of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman: The Arabic Epic of Dhat al-Himma
By: Melanie Magidow
3.69
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Published in English for the first time, and the only Arabic epic named for a woman, The Tale of Pr…
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1. The Vinland Sagas
By: Anonymous , Keneva Kunz , Gísli Sigurðsson , None
4.02
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
The Saga of the Greenlandersand Eirik the Red's Sagacontain the first ever descriptions of North Am… read more
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- classics
- mythology
2. Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
By: Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca , Cyclone Covey
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was the first European to cross the North American continent. This remar… read more
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- classics
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4. The Last of the Wine
By: Mary Renault
3.88
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
In The Last of the Wine, two young Athenians, Alexias and Lysis, compete in the palaestra, journey … read more
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- classics
- mythology
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- historical fiction
5. A Spaniard in the Works
By: John Lennon
4.17
Format: 78 pages, Hardcover
"It is fascinating of course to climb inside a Beatle's head to see what's going on there, but what… read more
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- poetry
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6. Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales
By: Angela Carter , Corinna Sargood
3.20
Format: 144 pages,
Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter's Book o… read more
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7. They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
By: Horace McCoy
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The marathon dance craze flourished during the 1930s, but the underside was a competition and viole… read more
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8. Texas
By: James A. Michener
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Spanning four and a half centuries, James A. Michener's monumental saga chronicles the epic history… read more
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- fiction
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9. The Prose Edda
By: Snorri Sturluson , Jesse L. Byock
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
'What was the beginning, or how did things start? What was there before?' The Prose Eddais the most… read more
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- literature
- poetry
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- mythology
10. The Doomed City
By: Dmitry Glukhovsky , Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Andrew Bromfield
4.18
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely considered the greatest of Russian science fiction masters, … read more
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11. Let's Go Play at the Adams'
By: Mendal W. Johnson
3.42
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Surely, it was only a game. In the orderly, pleasant world Barbara inhabited, nice children -- and … read more
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12. AIDS and Its Metaphors
By: Susan Sontag
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweekas "one of the … read more
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13. Three Trapped Tigers
By: Guillermo Cabrera Infante , Suzanne Jill Levine , Donald Gardner
3.83
Format: 35 pages, Paperback
Cabrera Infante's masterpiece, Three Trapped Tigers is one of the most playful books to reach the U… read more
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14. War's Unwomanly Face
By: None , Svetlana Alexievich
4.51
Format: 247 pages, Hardcover
This book is a confession, a document and a record of people's memory. More than 200 women speak in… read more
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"War kills time, precious human time."-None, War's Unwomanly Face
"My fearlessness came from an ignorance of life."-None, War's Unwomanly Face
"HOW DO THEY RECEIVE ME? They call me “little girl,"-None, War's Unwomanly Face
"What keeps us from remembering ? The unbearableness of the memories ..."-None, War's Unwomanly Face
15. The Case of the Animals Versus Man Before the King of the Jinn: An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistle 22
By: Richard McGregor , Lenn E. Goodman
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is a new English translation of a classic of medieval Islamic learning, which illuminates the … read more
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16. The Heroine's Journey: For Writers, Readers, and Fans of Pop Culture
By: Gail Carriger
4.46
Format: 210 pages, ebook
Tired of the hero’s journey? Frustrated that funny, romantic, and comforting stories aren’t taken … read more
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17. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
By: Steve Coll
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
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18. Duck Feet
By: Ely Percy
4.52
Format: 391 pages, Paperback
'Duck Feet' is a coming-of-age novel, set in the mid-noughties in Renfrew and Paisley, Scotland. D… read more
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19. Inanna (Sumerians, #1)
By: Emily H. Wilson
4.06
Format: 474 pages, Paperback
The fates of a young goddess, a warrior, and a mortal soldier collide in this enthralling and lyric… read more
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"No one at all sees Death, No one at all sees the face of Death, No one at all hears the voice of Death, Death so savage, who hacks men down."-Emily H. Wilson, Inanna (Sumerians, #1)
20. The Tale of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman: The Arabic Epic of Dhat al-Himma
By: Melanie Magidow
3.69
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Published in English for the first time, and the only Arabic epic named for a woman, The Tale of Pr… read more
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- feminism
- fiction
- historical fiction
- 12th century
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- audiobook
21. The Song of Roland and Other Poems of Charlemagne
By: Simon Gaunt
3.63
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Charles the king, our emperor great, Has been a full seven years in Spain.As far as the sea he conq… read more
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