5 must-read history books like Ancient Economy (Sather Classical Lectures) (Volume 43) by Moses I. Finley

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Ancient Economy (Sather Classical Lectures) (Volume 43)

By: Moses I. Finley

3.84

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

"Technical progress, economic growth, productivity, even efficiency have not been significant goals…

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1. The Histories

By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

Format: 716 pages, Paperback

David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
  • greece
"Hippocleides doesn't care."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"So much, then, for the fish."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."

-Herodotus, The Histories

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2. Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table

By: Robert Graves , Thomas Malory , Keith Baines

3.92

Format: 512 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Presents the story of King Arthur, his knights of the Round Table, the sword Excalibur, and his tra… read more

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  • classics
"Ah Gawaine, Gawaine, ye have betrayed me; for never shall my court be amended by you, but ye will never be sorry for me as I am for you"

-Robert Graves, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table

"Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross."

-Robert Graves, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table

"Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place. And men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the the Holy Cr…"

-Robert Graves, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table

"...and then the threw the sword as far into the water as he might; and there came an arm and a hand above the water and met it, and caught it, and so shook it thrice and brandished, and then vanished…"

-Robert Graves, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table

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3. Roadside Picnic

By: Theodore Sturgeon , Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Antonina W. Bouis , None

4.14

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger,… read more

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  • classics
"Keep your head high,"

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

"Los halagos son el bálsamo de los complejos."

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

"You need money so you don’t have to think about money."

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

"Щастие за всички даром и нека никой да не бъде пренебрегнат!"

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

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4. Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more

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  • classics
"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

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5. The Kreutzer Sonata

By: Doris Lessing , Leo Tolstoy , Isai Kamen

3.87

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partne… read more

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  • classics
"In a large city the unhappy feel their sadness less acutely."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

"Yes, man is much worse than the animal when he does not live like a man."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

"Удивительное дело, какая полная бывает иллюзия того, что красота есть добро."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

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6. Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Death has to happen. That's what bein' alive is all about. You're alive, and then you're dead. It … read more

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7. Underworld

By: Don DeLillo

4.81

Format: 539 pages, Paperback

While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russi… read more

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  • classics

8. Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution (The History of England, #3)

By: Peter Ackroyd

2.64

Format: 110 pages, Hardcover

Peter Ackroyd has been praised as one of the greatest living chroniclers of Britain and its people.… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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9. The Age of Empire, 1875-1914

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences & cultural life from the he… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
Cover of Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, None, None

10. Fathers and Sons

By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more

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  • classics
"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"Death's an old story, but new for each person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

11. Bloodchild and Other Stories

By: Octavia E. Butler

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable B… read more

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12. The Open Society and Its Enemies

By: None

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Written in political exile in New Zealand during the Second World War and published in two volumes … read more

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13. Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.93

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic… read more

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  • classics
"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"There I drank life because death was in the pool. That was the best of drinks save one."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

14. The Road to Serfdom

By: Friedrich A. Hayek

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road … read more

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15. Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)

By: Octavia E. Butler

4.16

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth—the last stage of th… read more

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"We couldn’t survive as a people if we were always confined to one ship or one world."

-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)

"A cancer growing in someone's body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you…"

-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)

"She held out, did not speak directly to her captors except to curse them. She offered no cooperation. There were moments when she did not know why she resisted. What would she be giving up if she ans…"

-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)

16. Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain

By: John Darwin

3.43

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

John Darwin's After Tamerlane, a sweeping six-hundred-year history of empires around the globe, mar… read more

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17. Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.78

Format: 197 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. Pity he's not very good at it. All he wants is h… read more

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"Where the hell did demons live, anyway?"

-Terry Pratchett, Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)

"Most of history is pretty appaling, when you look hard at it. Or even not very hard."

-Terry Pratchett, Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)

"Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken."

-Terry Pratchett, Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)

"Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind."

-Terry Pratchett, Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)

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18. The Republic

By: Plato , Desmond Lee

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more

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  • ancient
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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."

-Plato, The Republic

"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."

-Plato, The Republic

"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."

-Plato, The Republic

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

-Plato, The Republic

19. Paul and Palestinian Judaism

By: E.P. Sanders

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

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20. Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

By: C.S. Lewis

4.00

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Pla… read more

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  • classics
"Say a child’s prayer if you can’t say a man’s."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,"

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"About this time tomorrow, you will have done the impossible."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

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21. Ancient Economy (Sather Classical Lectures) (Volume 43)

By: Moses I. Finley

3.84

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

"Technical progress, economic growth, productivity, even efficiency have not been significant goals… read more

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11 must-read classics books like Ancient Economy (Sather Classical Lectures) (Volume 43) by Moses I. Finley

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The Histories

Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

Transform Your Habits

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Robert Graves , Thomas Malory , Keith Baines

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Roadside Picnic

Theodore Sturgeon , Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Antonina W. Bouis , None

4.14

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Lysistrata

Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

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Jonathan Lethem , G.K. Chesterton

2.67

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Phantastes

George MacDonald

3.48

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Andrew Peterson

4.33

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