My Old Home: A Novel of Exile
By: Orville Schell
4.27
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A uniquely experienced observer of China gives us a novel that recounts the familiar but still mesm…
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1. Lincoln in the Bardo
By: George Saunders
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transc… read more
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2. A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific
By: Hua Hsu
3.76
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Who gets to speak for China? During the interwar years, when American condescension toward barbarou… read more
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3. The Most Wanted Man in China: My Journey from Scientist to Enemy of the State
By: Fang Lizhi
3.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir by Fang Lizhi, the celebrated physicist whose clashes with the Chinese regi… read more
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4. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
5. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
6. 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)
7. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
8. The Nineties
By: Chuck Klosterman
3.87
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more
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"The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius."-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
9. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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- historical fiction
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
10. Stories from the Tenants Downstairs
By: Sidik Fofana
3.79
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
Set in a Harlem high rise, a stunning debut about a tight-knit cast of characters grappling with th… read more
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11. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By: David Grann
4.19
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more
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12. Sandy Hook
By: Elizabeth Williamson
4.29
Format: 482 pages, Hardcover
Based on hundreds of hours of research, interviews, and access to exclusive sources and materials, … read more
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13. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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14. The Night Ship
By: Jess Kidd
3.66
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Based on a true story, an epic historical novel from the award-winning author of Things in Jars tha… read more
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- historical fiction
15. I Cheerfully Refuse
By: Leif Enger
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more
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"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
16. 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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- historical fiction
17. Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China
By: Desmond Shum
3.91
Format: None pages, Audiobook
This “powerful and disturbing” (Bill Browder, author of Red Notice) New York Times bestseller is na… read more
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18. Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
By: Margaret Atwood
4.07
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
This brilliant selection of essays—funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient—seeks ans… read more
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"However, this does not make The Handmaid’s Tale a “feminist dystopia"-Margaret Atwood, Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
"Do you as a writer expand the meanings of words, or are you merely their tool? Is your own language programming you like a computer, or are you wielding it like Prospero’s magic charms, and is there …"-Margaret Atwood, Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
19. Golden Age
By: Wang Xiaobo
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Like Gary Shteyngart or Michel Houellebecq, Wang Xiaobo is a Chinese literary icon whose satire for… read more
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"Death was always at your back, an infinite darkness coming to swallow you. I felt miniscule. No matter what I did, I would still be just as miniscule. But so long as I could walk, I could outrun deat…"-Wang Xiaobo, Golden Age
20. Exordia
By: Seth Dickinson
3.78
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
“Anna, I came to Earth tracking a very old story, a story that goes back to the dawn of time. it’s … read more
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21. The Possession
By: Annie Ernaux
3.75
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE “The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can … read more
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"The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city, the whole world, with a person you have never met."-Annie Ernaux, The Possession
"Writing has been a way to save that which is no longer my reality – a sensation seizing me from head to foot, in the streets – but has become ''the possession,'’ a period of time, circumscribed and c…"-Annie Ernaux, The Possession
22. Mercury Pictures Presents
By: Anthony Marra
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's It… read more
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"Being broken delicately is what I call being whole."-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents
"Your father is the worst thing that's ever happened to me," her mother said. "He also happens to be the love of my life."-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents
"Artie had named the canary Charles Lindbergh, on account of it being an excellent aviator but otherwise a real piece of work."-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents
"Vincenzo told him he was naïve, but was it naïve to believe documentary photography could serve as an antidote to the propaganda poisoning the body politic?"-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents
23. The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature
By: Peter Wohlleben
3.74
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES A powerful return to the… read more
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"The ancient tie that binds us to nature is not and never has been severed. We have just ignored it for a while."-Peter Wohlleben, The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature
24. Land of Big Numbers: Stories
By: Te-Ping Chen
3.94
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
A debut collection from an extraordinary new talent that vividly gives voice to the men and women o… read more
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"They were fond of each other, and that was more than you could say about most marriages."-Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers: Stories
"He did not look like a man who could stomach life's indignities, whether it was a closed door or an uncomfortable, vertigo-inducing passage through a birth canal."-Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers: Stories
"She laughed a lot, and easily. It wasn't until we actually became friends that I realized she was often very sad. America is like that, I must say, free and easy until you know better."-Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers: Stories
"A great wasteland of sorrow was opening up in him, unfolding dozens of tiny shacks, terrible squatters setting up residence, banging their miniature liquor bottles against his chest, a hundred feet t…"-Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers: Stories
25. The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism
By: Keyu Jin
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A myth-dispelling, comprehensive guide to the Chinese economy and its path to ascendancy China's… read more
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26. The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China
By: Kevin Rudd
4.27
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is… read more
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27. A Map for the Missing
By: Belinda Huijuan Tang
4.01
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic, mesmerizing debut novel set against a rapidly changing post–Cultural Revolution China, A M… read more
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28. Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
By: Jing Tsu
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world… read more
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29. The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
By: Peter Hessler
4.36
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of River Town and Oracle Bones, an intimate excavation of life in one of … read more
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30. The Dean of Shandong: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University
By: Daniel A. Bell
3.26
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An inside view of Chinese academia and what it reveals about China’s political system On January… read more
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31. My Old Home: A Novel of Exile
By: Orville Schell
4.27
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A uniquely experienced observer of China gives us a novel that recounts the familiar but still mesm… read more
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