Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present
By: Steven D. Lubar
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Curators make many decisions when they build collections or design exhibitions, plotting a passage …
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1. A Tale for the Time Being
By: Ruth Ozeki
4.06
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and h… read more
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"Maketa,"-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
"Live. For Now. For the time being."-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
"True freedom comes from being unknown."-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
"Forget the clock. It has no power over time."-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
2. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
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- grad school
- nonfiction
- history
"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
3. The Wall
By: Shaun Whiteside , Marlen Haushofer
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
First published to acclaim in Germany, The Wall chronicles the life of the last surviving human on … read more
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"Even now I’m nothing but a thin skin covering a mountain of memories."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"My only teacher is as ignorant and untrained as I am, for my only teacher is myself."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"Never again shall I sit above the alpine roses in the midday sun, listening to the great silence."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
4. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
By: Caitlin Doughty
4.22
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty—a twenty-something with a degre… read more
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- nonfiction
"Your relationship to mortality is your own."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
"In spite of my fear of living, I chose not to die."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
"A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
"The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos online at three a.m."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
5. #GIRLBOSS
By: Sophia Amoruso
4.39
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In #GIRLBOSSvertelt Sophia Amoruso het verhaal van haar ongelooflijke succes. Ze laat zien hoe iede… read more
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- nonfiction
6. The Scorpio Races
By: Maggie Stiefvater
3.53
Format: 39 pages, Hardcover
It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their … read more
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7. Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum
By: Edward Tabor Linenthal
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since its first year in 1993, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has attracted more than 1… read more
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- grad school
- nonfiction
- history
8. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more
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- nonfiction
9. A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek
By: Ari Kelman
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the … read more
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- grad school
- nonfiction
- history
- read for school
10. The Art Forger
By: B.A. Shapiro
4.20
Format: 445 pages, Hardcover
On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today over $500 million were stolen from the Isabell… read more
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- art
11. The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
By: Mackenzi Lee
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Henry "Monty" Montague was born and bred to be a gentleman, but he was never one to be tamed. The f… read more
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12. History Is All You Left Me
By: Adam Silvera
3.85
Format: None pages, ebook
From the New York Times bestselling author of More Happy Than Not comes an explosive examination of… read more
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13. As I Lay Dying
By: William Faulkner
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more
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"vomiting the crying"-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"But peace is my heart: I know it is."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
14. Lost For Words
By: Stephanie Butland
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
You can trust a book to keep your secret . . . Loveday Cardew prefers books to people. If you look … read more
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15. Esperanza Rising
By: Pam Muñoz Ryan
4.29
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Esperanza thought she'd always live with her family on their ranch in Mexico--she'd always have fan… read more
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16. America's First Daughter
By: Stephanie Dray , Laura Kamoie
3.68
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
In a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources,… read more
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17. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more
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18. Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
By: Liza Mundy
4.00
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Hidden Figuresand The Girls of Atomic City, Code Girlsis the astonishing, untol… read more
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19. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
By: Caitlin Doughty
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with ten… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"My next drone folk album will be called "The Cremation Reforms of Octavius B. Frothingham"."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"What dignity translates to, more often than not, is silence, a forced poise, a rigid formality."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"All that surrounds us comes from death, every part of every city, and every part of every person."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"In death, corpses don't hold themselves together. They no longer have to play by the living's rules."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
20. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- natural history
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
21. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
By: Tiya Miles
3.95
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
22. The Crane Husband
By: Kelly Barnhill
3.88
Format: 118 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Kelly Barnhill brings her singular talents to The Crane Husband, a raw, powerf… read more
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"Your mother doesn't know these things,"-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband
"But Michael was only six. He should be worrying about learning how to tie his shoes, not about our mother’s checking account."-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband
"I was, as I said, only nine. But my mother often spoke to me as though I were a peer rather than a child and expected me to understand things for which I did not yet have context. I didn’t know then …"-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband
"My dad told me stories of weavers who stitched the world and spun fortunes and pulled on strings to change someone's fate. Was there a string I could pull to stop my father from dying? Was there a pa…"-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband
23. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies
By: Caitlin Doughty
4.13
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Everyone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortic… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"That's why all the questions in this book come from 100 percent ethically sourced, free-range, organic children."-Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies
"It’s normal to be curious about death. But as people grow up, they internalize this idea that wondering about death is “morbid"-Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies
"Sometimes death can be violent, sudden, and unbearably sad. But it’s also reality, and reality doesn’t change just because you don’t like it."-Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies
"I'm bringing body back. Returning corpses, but they're not intact. Kids, this is a Justin Timberlake reference. You're fine not knowing who that is."-Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies
24. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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25. What Strange Paradise
By: Omar El Akkad
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilap… read more
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"Today you are the only boy in the world and tomorrow it will be as though you never existed."-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"And what do you think the prerequisite for kindness is? Have you ever tried to be kind to someone better off than you?"-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"Farther out, the water sheds its sandy complexion and turns a turquoise of such clarity that the tourists’ sailboats seem to float atop their own shadows."-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"Because that's how we take the future from them," Walid said, animated now. "Look at Stockholm, look at Munich, look at New York-- who's picking up the garbage, cleaning the toilets? Who's doing the …"-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
26. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
By: Clint Smith
4.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Poet and contributor to The Atlantic Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"How do you tell a story that has been told the wrong way for so long?"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in Notes on the State of Virginia ,"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Jefferson believed himself to be a benevolent slave owner, but his moral ideals came second to, and were always entangled with, his own economic interests and the interests of his family."-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"But not enough people spoke about the reasons so many black children grow up communities saturated with poverty and violence. Not enough people spoke about how these realities were the result of deci…"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
27. The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
By: Janice P. Nimura
3.59
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
28. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
By: Lisa See
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seve… read more
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"Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river."-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
"The problem with living so long is that you see too many people pass before you."-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
"It took me me many years to realize that my perceptions at this time was completely wrong."-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
"You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman."-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
29. Joan
By: Katherine J. Chen
3.96
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Girl. Warrior. Heretic. Saint? A stunning secular reimagining of the epic life of Joan of Arc, in t… read more
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"What would I gain by being a man?" she says. "A cock, a deeper voice, hair across my chest. I would not become stronger. I am already strong." And, she thinks, I would inherit several weaknesses of m…"-Katherine J. Chen, Joan
"You must make your own map of the world. Search out your own piece of sky and patch of earth, your own awning to sleep under when it is raining and it feels the sun may never shine again, for there w…"-Katherine J. Chen, Joan
30. Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present
By: Steven D. Lubar
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Curators make many decisions when they build collections or design exhibitions, plotting a passage … read more
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- art
- art history
- history
- natural history
- read for school
- grad school
- museums
- nonfiction
- museology
