May We Borrow Your Language?
By: Philip Gooden
3.55
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The English language that is spoken by one billion people around the world is a linguistic mongrel,…
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1. Heart of a Dog
By: Mikhail Bulgakov , Mirra Ginsburg , Michail Bulgakov
4.10
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
This satirical novel tells the story of the surgical transformation of a dog into a man, and is an … read more
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"A dog's spirit dies hard."-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
"One can find time for everything if one is never in a hurry."-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
"Why bother to learn to read when you can smell meat a mile away?"-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
"İki ayağını bir pabuca sokmayan herkes, her şey için zaman bulabilir."-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
2. Summer
By: Edith Wharton
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton's "Summer" created a sensation when first p… read more
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3. The Moonstone
By: Wilkie Collins , Carolyn G. Heilbrun
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazi… read more
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4. The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
By: Mark Forsyth
4.48
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The Etymologicon springs from Mark Forsyth's Inky Fool blog on the strange connections between word… read more
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- nonfiction
- linguistics
- history
- language
5. Silas Marner
By: George Eliot
3.68
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwa… read more
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"Love once, love always"-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
6. With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
By: Kathryn Mannix
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Through stories from her own practice, a palliative care doctor takes the reader on a journey throu… read more
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- nonfiction
7. The Little Stranger
By: Sarah Waters
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Several sleepless nights are guaranteed."--Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly One postwar summer i… read more
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8. All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of the Wire®
By: Jonathan Abrams
5.00
Format: 36 pages, Hardcover
The definitive oral history of the iconic and beloved TV show The Wire, as told by the actors, writ… read more
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9. Untitled (Untitled Trilogy, #1)
By: Maggie Stiefvater
3.36
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Maggie Stiefvater just outlined three books "for a Ronan-centered trilogy". read more
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10. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
By: None , Keith Gessen
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award On April 2… read more
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11. Reading Lolita in Tehran
By: Azar Nafisi
4.20
Format: 172 pages,
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher n… read more
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12. The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
By: John Buchan
3.60
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life—un… read more
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"By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle."-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing"-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place."-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I have always fancied I had a kind of instinct about questions like thi…"-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
13. Jews Don't Count
By: David Baddiel
4.21
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
14. 100 Things We've Lost to the Internet
By: Pamela Paul
3.41
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed editor of The New York Times Book Review takes readers on a nostalgic tour of the pre… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
15. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
By: Matt Parker
4.11
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
An international bestseller The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"If a new system is implemented, humans can be very resourceful when finding new ways to make mistakes."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Even when the data has made it into a database, it is not safe... which brings us, finally, to Microsoft Excel."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Now you can safely reply and say that nothing in the Gregorian calendar can happen less frequently than once every four hundred years. JUST FOR FUN."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"It's times like this when the age of the universe becomes a useful unit of measurement: 64-bit Unix time will last until twenty-one times the age of the universe from now - until (assuming we don't m…"-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
16. The Secrets of Hartwood Hall
By: Katie Lumsden
3.67
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
A gripping and atmospheric debut that is at once a chilling gothic mystery and a love letter to Vic… read more
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"But I did not want the future he had planned for me. I did not want a future chosen by anyone but myself."-Katie Lumsden, The Secrets of Hartwood Hall
"I said nothing. Too many reasons, too many sins. But he was right. It did not feel wrong. It felt less wrong than anything had in a long time."-Katie Lumsden, The Secrets of Hartwood Hall
17. Women & Power: A Manifesto
By: Mary Beard
4.03
Format: 115 pages, Hardcover
At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly att… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
"Nuestro modelo cultural y mental de persona poderosa sigue siendo irrevocablemente masculino"-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
"I do wonder if, in some places, the presence of large numbers of women in parliament means that parliament is where the power is not."-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
"It was not all quite so simple, that real equality between women and men was still a thing of the future, and that there were causes for anger as well as for celebration."-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
"A verdade pura e dura é que as amazonas eram um mito grego masculino. (..) A ideia subjacente era que o dever dos homens consistia em salvar a civilização do domínio das mulheres."-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
18. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
By: Beth Macy
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction.… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
"The corporation feels no pain."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"You whack one [dealer], and the others just pop right up, like Whac-A-Mole"-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long and for truly no good law enforcement reason."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"But you can't put a corporation in jail; you just take their money, and it's not really their money anyway."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
19. The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
By: The Secret Barrister
3.90
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to the world of the Secret Barrister. These are the stories of life inside the courtroom. T… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
20. Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
By: Oliver Darkshire
3.97
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd on Sackvill… read more
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- nonfiction
"Early one morning, which is to say about five minutes before noon..."-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
"It's my belief that anyone worth knowing enjoys spending time in a bookshop."-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
"There is something about geriatric men which attracts them to dangerous ladders."-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
"Hell hath no fury, they say, like a man treated the same way as he treats women."-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
21. Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
By: Clare Hunter
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A globe-spanning history of sewing, embroidery, and the people who have used a needle and thread to… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Sewing is a way to mark our existence on cloth: patterning our place in the world, voicing our identity, sharing something of ourselves with others and leaving the indelible evidence of our presence …"-Clare Hunter, Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
22. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
23. 10 Things That Never Happened (Material World, #1)
By: Alexis Hall
3.91
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Fake amnesia. Real feelings? Real problems. Sam Becker loves―or, okay, likes―his job. Sure, man… read more
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"I don't think he'll be able to tell. Memory is peculiar. Worst comes to absolute worst, I'll just arrange to get whacked on the head again and say that's brought everything back." "That's not a thing…"-Alexis Hall, 10 Things That Never Happened (Material World, #1)
24. Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World
By: Danielle Friedman
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A captivating blend of reportage and personal narrative that explores the untold history of women's… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
25. Argylle
By: Elly Conway
3.28
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A luxury train speeding towards Moscow and a date with destiny. A CIA plane downed in the jungle… read more
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26. Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey
By: Florence Williams
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When her twenty-five-year marriage unexpectedly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects t… read more
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- nonfiction
"I didn’t yet realize it was okay to be broken, that it was even, perhaps, essential to becoming a more porous animal capable of far more real love than I had known was possible. It would still take s…"-Florence Williams, Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey
"These people showed a marked increase in connections between parts of the frontal cortex associated with self-concept and parts of the brain associated with processing sensory and motor information. …"-Florence Williams, Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey
27. Indestructible Object
By: Mary McCoy
3.67
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“Beautifully messy and real.” —Amy Spalding, bestselling author of We Used to Be Friends Perfect f… read more
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"Maybe humans aren't made to expereince love, I think. We never evolved the kind of telepathy it seems to require."-Mary McCoy, Indestructible Object
"But when you've loved someone, some version of it lasts. It keeps being important. It lives somewhere within you, and in that way, you carry the people you've loved along with you, not just in your m…"-Mary McCoy, Indestructible Object
"It's a love story about confessional poets and thwarted playwrights, about sad rock stars and tattoo artists who are fighting with their kids, about messy bisexuals and untidy queers and evangelical …"-Mary McCoy, Indestructible Object
28. The Day Tripper
By: James Goodhand
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
It’s 1995, and Alex Dean has it all: a spot at Cambridge University next year, the love of an amazi… read more
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"People who pursue money are those with nothing better to pursue."-James Goodhand, The Day Tripper
29. Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
By: Azar Nafisi
4.03
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"To be a victim is to abdicate responsibility, to in effect give up most of all on yourself."-Azar Nafisi, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
"Poetry was a way to combat the staid and formulaic language of politicians that opposed the flexible and dynamic language of poets and writers."-Azar Nafisi, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
"...it is not true that we all want the freedom of knowledge, because it comes at a high price. It comes with pain and loneliness; it demands commitment and responsibility."-Azar Nafisi, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
"In democratic societies, we do not normally resort to physical violence to muffle those with ideas, but we do use other forms of violence: prejudice, censorship, and slander."-Azar Nafisi, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
30. May We Borrow Your Language?
By: Philip Gooden
3.55
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The English language that is spoken by one billion people around the world is a linguistic mongrel,… read more
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- linguistics
- history
- language
- nonfiction
- sociology
31. The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir
By: Kelly Bishop
4.52
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“Come for the Gilmore Girls anecdotes, stay for the revealing truths about what it takes to build a… read more
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- nonfiction
